Chapter 33: Chasing Cats
Coming out of the office, the two of them just bumped into Zhao Hongshan, who hurried back from the hospital, and looking at his sad look, Gu Song knew that Director Xie's situation was not optimistic.
It's really a disaster, Concubine Xiaoye's whereabouts haven't been found yet, and Director Xie fell down again so quickly. For a family who has just lost a child, this is tantamount to a worse blow, and it is heart-wrenching to think about.
However, Gu Song doesn't have time to express his feelings now, his task is to find the murderer and rescue Concubine Ye and the three children who disappeared before that. "Team Zhao, find someone familiar with the case to take us to the scene, I believe that the clues to solving the case are hidden in the place where the children lost their traces."
"No need to look for it, I'll take you there." Zhao Hongshan said briskly. Suddenly, he remembered something, and he couldn't help but feel a little guilty, "By the way, you two haven't had dinner yet, have you?" ”
Gu Song and Huo Yan glanced at each other, smiled awkwardly and said, "Team Zhao, did you hear my stomach growl?" ”
"Oh, not really." Zhao Hongshan smiled bitterly and said apologetically, "It's hard work for you two, let's eat something to pad your stomach for a while before continuing to work." ”
"I won't eat it." Huo Yan did not ask Gu Song's opinion, and directly rejected Zhao Hongshan's kindness. "It doesn't matter if we're hungry for one or two meals, the problem is that we can't afford to delay precious rescue time."
Gu Song thought to himself: This woman is really a workaholic, she can not eat, drink, or even sleep when handling a case, she looks like she has been beaten with chicken blood, and she has the same virtue as him and Xia Shi. The three of them got together and simply named it "Desperate Threesome".
Leaving the county public security bureau, Zhao Hongshan drove the car slowly, starting from the mahjong parlor of Li Xiaolan's house, and took Gu Song and Huo Yan to check the last place where several children were witnessed.
Along the way, Gu Song's thoughts also turned: "The murderer committed the second, third, and fourth crimes, and the selected targets were all students of the First Experimental Primary School, indicating that the place where he was looking for targets should be at the gate of the school." Why wasn't it the people in the school who committed the crime? Because the murderer will be very patient to follow and observe the target for a period of time before committing a crime, until he finds an opportunity to attack, and at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, when the murderer's activities are most frequent, the school's teachers and staff have basically not left work, so it is more likely that people outside the school will commit crimes.
"Why did the murderer go to the First Experimental Primary School to look for a target? First, because the children there are relatively concentrated, he can easily find prey that satisfies him; The second is that he is very familiar with the environment in that area, and there is a sense of psychological security and comfort, and it is likely that he lives or works nearby.
"So why did Li Xiaolan, the victim of the first case, who was not a student of the First Experimental Primary School, become the target of the murderer? The answer should be opportunity. In many serial homicide cases, the murderer's first crime has an element of chance in it. Perhaps it was Li Xiaolan's innocent and cute appearance that stimulated the murderer's nerves and aroused some kind of perverted desire in his heart, which led to his first crime. When he first tasted that 'sweetness', he could no longer restrain his behavior.
The murderer happened to pass by the mahjong parlor and saw Li Xiaolan playing alone outside, and abducted him by some kind of lure, but in broad daylight, he needed transportation to transfer the child. A car is a possibility, but in a follow-up case, the car is not very conducive to tracking the goal of walking home, and driving too slowly is easy to attract the attention and suspicion of passers-by. Rickshaw? The possibility is greater than that of a car, because it is low-key, more controllable, and the speed is controlled by your own foot power, and you can stop and watch at any time.
"The murderer's time of committing crimes is concentrated between 3 and 5 p.m., indicating that his working hours are relatively free, at least not the kind of 9-to-5 or very busy work. Of course, it is not ruled out that the murderer worked night shifts or was unemployed.
"No matter what means the murderer used to abduct those children, his appearance should not be fierce, and he is not terrible in the eyes of children. In order to facilitate the commission of the crime, he should have a separate residence, single or divorced. The murderer may have had other criminal records before committing these abductions, such as indecency, voyeurism, sexual harassment, etc......"
Gu Song suddenly stopped when he said this, Zhao Hongshan was listening to it, and looked at him curiously and asked, "The analysis is very good, why don't you say it?" ”
"I feel ......" Gu Song looked at the dark street outside the car window, and always felt that something in his head was about to pop out, but he was still a little bit less inspired.
At this time, Zhao Hongshan's car had already driven to the north entrance of Wumenqiao Market, and it was through this opening that Sister Hua took Concubine Ye to the market to buy vegetables.
"Let's go, let's get out of the car and take a look inside." Zhao Hongshan said and parked the car on the side of the road.
The farmer's market at night is surprisingly quiet, all the stallholders have already closed their stalls and gone home, and there is almost no lighting in the market, except for a few dim street lamps barely illuminating a small area at the entrance, and then you have to rely on flashlights to identify the stalls.
Zhao Hongshan is very familiar with the market environment, and he walks fast in front of him.
After a while, several people came to a stall with a pool and a glass fish tank. Zhao Hongshan said: "This afternoon, Sister Hua probably met her fellow countryman in the position where I was standing. Concubine Ye stood by her side at first, but then left her sight unknowingly and was exploited by the murderer. ”
Huo Yan raised his flashlight and looked around, and said thoughtfully: "The murderer must have followed them all the way here from the school gate, where to stand to observe them secretly, and when Concubine Ye left Sister Hua, he immediately followed." However, the market is so big, where did he attack Concubine Ye? And no witnesses noticed that Concubine Ye was taken away......"
"Wait." Gu Song suddenly had an idea, "I seem to know why Concubine Ye ran away from Sister Hua." ”
"Why?" Huo Yan and Zhao Hongshan asked in unison.
"Look over there." Gu Song nodded at the garbage heap not far away.
Huo Yan and Zhao Hongshan looked in that direction and saw an orange wild cat looking for food there.
"You mean......" Huo Yan understood what Gu Song meant, "But this is ...... solve the case for us" Before she could finish her words, the wild cat seemed to be frightened and ran away from the garbage heap towards a darker place.
Seeing this, Gu Song chased after him as fast as he could. By the time Huo Yan and Zhao Hongshan reacted, the person and the cat had completely disappeared into the darkness, as if they had been swallowed up by the night.