I've always liked to say, 'A knife on the head of the word, but money is the first of all evils.'" Because most of the cases in the world are caused by these two things. I'm making fun of myself here, I use the word 'human world', obviously to say that the scope is narrow, I think in the fairy world, the ghost world, or the demon world, the sins they commit there may be more or less related to these two things. Of course, I'm not talking about the gods and goddesses in this novel. But don't look at me as I'm always serious, in fact, when I talk nonsense, it's no one's.

But the case I'm going to talk about next is not nonsense.

I still remember that it was a winter, this winter was extremely cold, and it was still snowing in the southwestern city of Wanzhou. Although it is not a rare sight to see snow in the city, it is also appropriate to say that it is rare to see it in ten years.

It was in this cold winter that Lao Lu called me out with a phone call. But I wasn't shivering because I was in good shape, and I was wearing wool pants, and more importantly, there was a bloodbath. Whenever there is a bloody case, my blood boils, how can a hot-blooded person feel cold?

By the time I arrived at the scene of the crime, I could no longer feel my hands and feet, and my face seemed to be gone.

It seems that I have three conditions that make me not afraid of the cold, and I still can't resist the forces of nature.

The scene of the crime was in an open residential building, and before going upstairs, I saw a surveillance probe in front of the community. I think this camera will definitely help a lot.

First of all, I have to explain that this residential building is a small high-rise, only five floors, but this kind of small high-rise is a relatively old-fashioned commercial house, so there is no elevator installed.

The place where the crime occurred was on the second floor, so whether there was an elevator or not had little impact. But a body like me, even on the fifth floor, is a hairy vegetable for me, and I don't have to breathe.

The crime scene was in 201, and when I entered the house, I found that the whole house was very messy. The shoe cabinet was open, the shoes were thrown to the floor, the TV cabinet and the drawer below were opened, and things were thrown out indiscriminately, and the living room alone was a mess.

But this mess didn't lure me into burglary, just imagine what burglar would go through the shoe closet and the drawers in the living room. So the first thing I had was a fake scene.

I believe in my analytical skills and observational skills.

Then look at the bedroom, the bedroom is even more messy, as long as the cabinets and drawers that can be opened, they are opened, and clothes and sundries are thrown everywhere. But the funny thing is that the jewelry box of the dressing table is still quietly there. As soon as the jewelry box is opened, there is everything you need for gold necklaces and gemstone rings.

Did you meet a stupid thief? Apparently not, this situation makes me even more convinced that the scene is fake.

Look at the second bedroom, where the body was found, and it was stuffed into a closet in the second bedroom.

And the drawer cabinet or something in the second bedroom was also opened, and things were thrown all over the place.

And most of the pill boxes and bottles on the floor are there, so what thief would have nothing to do with turning the drawer with the medicine upside down? So important things are said three times, the scene is faked.

I was not in a hurry to examine the body, the first was that the forensic doctor must have examined it, and the second was that I wanted to hear Lao Lu's description of the case.

So I asked Lao Lu, "Who called the police?" ”

Lao Lu said: "The male owner of this house, Mr. Liu. ”

I nodded and said, "Oh, isn't that the man outside the door who looks miserable and anxious?" ”

Lao Lu nodded.

I sneered and said, "Did he call the police to say that there was a burglary in his house, not that someone died?" Oh, by the way, I see that there are wedding photos hanging on the wall of the living room, is the deceased Mr. Liu's wife? ”

The surprised expression on Lao Lu's face only appeared for a second, and then he said, "That's right." Mr. Liu reported to the police that his home had been burglarized, and when the police investigating the scene, they found that a person had died in the closet. ”

I often surprise Lao Lu, so he seems to be getting used to it, and the look of surprise stays on his face for a shorter and shorter time.

All right. I have now made a preliminary conclusion in my heart that Mr. Liu outside is the murderer.

But I'm sure I can't say it now, because I don't have any evidence, it's all just my guesses, and when I have all the evidence, I'll naturally identify the murderer.

I looked at the time, and it was 10:29 a.m.

Then I examined the body again and speculated that the time of death of the body was between 8 and 9 pm yesterday night.

This time period of death is very strange, which stupid thief would choose burglary during this time period? Theft is usually done in the middle of the night, in the dead of night. It's common sense, oh, it's common sense for thieves.

Then once again, it turns out that the mess at the scene is a fake theft scene. I seem to have said it four times.

The deceased was a female, aged around 30, and the cause of death was suffocation by choking with both hands. But before the killer choked him, the deceased suffered a blunt blow to the head. There are three blows, one in front of the right forehead and two near the right temple.

These three attacks show that the killer was a left-hander.

Actually, I don't like this kind of characteristic murderer, which will make it easier to detect and ruin my interest.

I examined the head wound and made a strange discovery. It's just that the force of the blow is not large, and it doesn't look like a man did it.

This discovery made me frown, if it wasn't a man, then the murderer was not the deceased's husband, Mr. Liu.

Wait, it may also be that Mr. Liu's arm strength is not enough. But I feel that this inference is a bit far-fetched.

Looking at the deceased's attire, the deceased did not change into home clothes, but wore leather pants and a down jacket, and did not remove makeup.

Well, that's weird too. From the dazzling array of cosmetics and skin care products on this woman's dressing table, it can be understood that this woman is very concerned about appearance, so she must wear makeup often. And women who often wear makeup know how to protect their fragile skin, and the first time they go home, they generally remove makeup.

The deceased did not remove his makeup or change into his home clothes, could it be that he was attacked just after returning home?

However, I also have the inference that the deceased was going to meet with someone at home. Of course, this person will not be the husband of the deceased, so the suspicion of the deceased's husband, Mr. Liu, has become smaller?

The doors and windows of the crime scene are intact, which indicates that the murderer entered the crime scene peacefully. Coupled with the dress of the deceased, it is clear that the murderer is an acquaintance. Then this case is committed by an acquaintance.

I found a footprint in front of the shoe cabinet in the living room. The footprint was small, wearing a size 36 shoe, I thought it was the deceased's footprint, but I found out that the deceased was a size 37 shoe. And I compared all the women's shoes, and there were no shoe prints of such sneakers.

The size 36 shoe print is most likely a woman's footprint. Could it really be that the murderer was a woman?

I looked closely at the shoe print and felt that something was wrong, but I couldn't say why. I'm sorry, but I'm not at the point where I'm perfecting my footprint research. But I'm sure the footprint experts will see the hints of this shoe print.

So I asked the on-site investigators to collect the shoe prints in their original form.

I found blood on the couch in the living room, and there were also visible blood stains on the side of the thick, clean crystal glass ashtray. I compared the ashtray with the wound of the deceased, and it seems that the blunt force wound on the deceased's head was caused by this ashtray.

That's basically the scene of the crime, I immediately went downstairs and asked Lao Lu to get the monitoring at the property in the community. Because this is an open street frontage community, and there is no surveillance coverage around it, only the downstairs monitor can see the people entering the building.

After extracting the surveillance video, it is time to analyze the situation in the footage.

The matter was left to the detectives, and I began to investigate the background and emotional relationship between the deceased and her husband.

The female deceased's name is Xiong Liyun, 29 years old this year, a professional singer of the art troupe, and it is said that she is still well-known in the circle. It has a wide range of social relations and a large social circle.

The husband of the deceased Xiong Liyun is named Liu Weitao, 31 years old this year, and is the owner of a hardware store.

The two have been married for more than a year and have no children, and according to neighbors, the relationship between the two husband and wife is very good, and they are often in and out of pairs.

I went to the deceased's unit to learn about the situation, and learned that Xiong Liyun was kind and cheerful, and she was a lively woman, and it was impossible to say that she had a grudge against anyone.

I also investigated Liu Weitao to see if he had an extramarital affair or something. However, the results of the investigation showed that Liu Weitao did not have any problems.

Moreover, on the night of the incident, Liu Weitao went to Yunyang to talk about the hardware business, and the businessman who contacted Liu Weitao confirmed this situation. Moreover, there was surveillance video in the teahouse where they were talking about business, and the surveillance video showed that Liu Weitao appeared in the teahouse at eight o'clock in the evening.

In this way, Liu Weitao has a perfect alibi. Am I wrong in my previous speculations?

However, I did not let Liu Weitao go easily, because even if he was not the murderer of his wife, he may be the mastermind behind it. However, I have been entangled in Liu Weitao as the murderer of Xiong Liyun, but I can't find his motive for the crime, which is also a very worrying thing.

Suspicion of Liu Weitao is put aside for the time being. The investigation continues to move towards areas where progress can be made.

The retrieved 36-yard shoe prints were handed over to the footprint experts for identification.

The footprint expert gave me a result that I didn't expect at all. But it also confirmed that my suspicion of this shoe print was correct.

This size 36 women's sneaker shoe print was actually left by a man with a size 40 foot. He deliberately put on women's sneakers and left footprints in the house to confuse the public. And the footprint experts concluded that this person was between 165 cm and 168 cm tall, agile, and even knew some fist and kick kung fu.

I very much agree with the fact that I am agile and can do kung fu. This shows that the murderer can control the force of his blow very well, so as to disguise his identity, so that the police can conclude from the wounds of the deceased that it was a woman.

Cunning opponents.

Once the killer is confirmed, the killer must be found. Of course, the most direct way is to find this mysterious murderer from the surveillance video.

The technical department then analyzed the surveillance video brought back, while the investigators of the criminal investigation team began to check everyone who appeared in the surveillance video. But the result of the check was a big disappointment, because not a single person in the surveillance video was investigated, all the residents of that building, and there was perfect alibi.

This makes me feel very strange, because I have inspected this building on the spot and found that this building only has such a unique entrance, why did I not photograph the murderer?

When I encounter a bottleneck in a case, I always go to the scene of the case to check on the spot, is there something I missed?

I had the technical section connect to the video surveillance, and at the same time I had two detectives go to the location of the video and let them enter the residential building from different directions.

Sure enough, I found the problem in it.

It turns out that one of the outer walls of the building is protruding, just blocking the far left of the surveillance, and if you walk against the wall, you will enter the video blind spot, so that you can't see whether anyone has entered the residential building.

Then it is certain that the murderer is the residential building that entered by using this blind spot of surveillance.

This can prove that the murderer is extremely aware of the environment of the community. This also shows that the murder was carefully planned.

Who was so carefully planning this case, and what was the purpose of the crime?

The whole case is at an impasse.

Of course, even if it is deadlocked, the case still has to be carried out step by step.

During an investigation of the mother of the deceased Xiong Liyun, I learned such a thing from the mouth of the mother bear.

It was the first month after Xiong Liyun and Liu Weitao got married. Xiong Liyun bought 100,000 yuan of life accident insurance from the insurance company. The amount of compensation for the insurance is $400,000.

This situation made my eyes shine, because the police investigated the financial situation of Liu Weitao and Xiong Liyun, and their incomes in Chongqing can only be regarded as average, or even lower-average. How can you take out such a high amount of life accident insurance for no reason?

And this life accident insurance only bought one, and her husband Liu Weitao did not buy it.

It stands to reason that Liu Weitao, who often goes to other places to talk about business, should buy this accident insurance, instead of buying Xiong Liyun, who works and lives at home, and is with the troupe even if he goes out to perform.

There must be something strange about this.

With this question in mind, we went to the insurance company and checked out the accident insurance. Sure enough, the beneficiary of the accident insurance was only Liu Weitao.

Although I have some doubts about this, it is a bit too much to kill my beautiful wife just for 400,000 yuan.

Lao Lu and the members of the criminal investigation team also felt the same.

However, I raised the possibility that Xiong Liyun's accident insurance may be more than this. If there are more than one and the amount of compensation is huge, maybe Liu Weitao may kill his wife and cheat the insurance.

Based on this line of thinking, the investigators visited a number of insurance companies.

Sure enough, we found two more life accident insurance for Xiong Liyun, and the compensation amount of the three-point life accident insurance added up to 2.1 million. And the beneficiaries are all Liu Weitao. It's just that Xiong Liyun's death is still a mystery case, so the insurance company refused to pay compensation to Liu Weitao on the grounds that the case was not closed and the compensation could not be issued.

Obviously, even the insurance company suspects that the murderer of Xiong Liyun is her husband Liu Weitao.

The amount of 2.1 million is somewhat attractive. Therefore, the focus of our investigation is now all focused on Liu Weitao.

In the administrative office, the smoke was filled, and Lao Lu had a short analysis meeting before conducting a comprehensive investigation of Liu Weitao.

At the meeting, Lao Lu circled Liu Weitao as the first suspect, and asked the investigators to express their opinions and provide investigation ideas.

Lao Lu first said: "The biggest beneficiary of Xiong Liyun's death is Liu Weitao, so Liu Weitao's suspicion is the greatest. If Liu Weitao wants to get that money, then there is only one possibility that can be realized, and that is that Xiong Liyun must die unexpectedly. To be clear, it is not death due to illness, but accidental death. ”

I nodded and said, "Lao Lu, you are right, now Liu Weitao has a very clear motive for killing. But he has a perfect alibi, and the real murderer has no clue, so it can be said that the case planned by Liu Weitao is very cautious. ”

Lao Lu asked, "Isn't there a flaw?" ”

I lit a cigarette and said, "Whatever the box, it will have a key to open it." It's just that some keys are hidden deeply, and some keys are hidden shallowly. Of course, the key to Xiong Liyun's case is deeply hidden. ”

Lao Lu asked a little anxiously, "Can you fish out this key that is hidden deeply?" ”

I said, "To get this key, you have to peel back the cocoon, one step at a time." ”

Lao Lu said: "It seems that you have a countermeasure, tell me what you think." ”

I said, "To solve this case, we now have to start with three things. First, the showdown with Liu Weitao caused psychological pressure on him and exposed his own flaws. Second, since Liu Weitao was able to send someone to help him kill his wife, then this person must be his relatives and friends, and perhaps we have investigated this person before. However, no matter how good relatives and friends are, it is still a little difficult for him to kill. So the person we are looking for must have taken Liu Weitao's benefit fee, so we can check Liu Yuntao's recent capital flow to see if we can find the transfer of large funds. And this person must be in poor economic condition and belongs to the idle people. Of course, we can't ignore the footprint expert's assessment of the person's characteristics. The third is to find out the perpetrator. How to find it? I have a proposal, which is to check the wedding book of Xiong Liyun and Liu Weitao, and I estimate that the name of the murderer is in the love book. Through the human book, one by one, the people who match the characteristics of the murderer given by the footprint expert may be able to catch the murderer. ”

Lao Lu immediately made a decision and began to implement the tasks I mentioned.

First of all, we summoned Liu Weitao. Liu Weitao appeared very calm during the summons. The questions that were asked to me were all answered fluently.

Of course, this kind of response is a reflection of the plan he has made. For example, I asked him, what did you do on the night of the crime, where and when? He was able to say it very accurately, even down to the minute. This has to make me suspect that he has planned it before.

When I mentioned the insurance compensation, I could see that Liu Weitao's face had changed a little, and there was a slight tremor in his upper body.

Looks like I'm asking the point.

At this time, Liu Weitao began to make up nonsense about the issue of compensation. said that this was a kind of love for her wife, but according to the criminal police, Liu Weitao's account has not had a large amount of money in and out in the past year, and it is more than 10,000 yuan at most. This more than 10,000 yuan is also estimated to be the payment for his hardware business and purchase.

However, in Xiong Liyun's account in the past year, a large amount of money has been transferred out, and it is obvious that those accident insurances were bought by Xiong Liyun with her own money. Where can this talk about Liu Weitao's love for Xiong Liyun?

But now we don't have conclusive evidence to arrest Liu Weitao. After the summons ended, he could only watch him leave the police station in a grand manner, but Lao Lu asked that Liu Weitao could not leave Wanzhou until the case was concluded.

Of course, the investigation of Liu Weitao's capital flow also shows that he has not paid anyone recently. So buying a murderer doesn't exist in the current situation.

The last is to investigate Xiong Liyun and Liu Weitao's love book. The work was carried out for a week, and although it was arduous, it finally came to fruition.

A man named Fu Johnson is very similar to the characteristics of the murderer given by the footprint experts. And it is understood that this person once studied martial arts in Henan and participated in some small sanda events. It's just that I'm in my 40s now, I don't have any serious work, I'm idle all day long, and my biggest entertainment is playing mahjong and even gambling.

Lao Lu immediately made a decision and arrested me for gambling Fu Johnson.

Fu Johnson said as soon as he was arrested, don't tell my son, I will explain everything.

The police kept their promise and did not announce the news of Fu Johnson's arrest.

Fu Johnson then explained all the process of committing the crime.

It turned out that Liu Weitao and Fu Johnson were distant relatives, but when Fu Johnson was financially strained, Liu Weitao funded him, so Fu Johnson was very grateful to Liu Weitao.

Of course, Liu Weitao also knew that Fu Johnson had some skills. One day, Liu Weitao found Fu Johnson and asked him to help kill Xiong Liyun, and give him 200,000 yuan after the matter was completed.

Fu Johnson didn't say a word, and agreed to be angry with his buddies and the 200,000.

After that, Liu Weitao planned that on the night of the crime, he would go to other places to discuss business, but he would leave a bank card for Xiong Liyun at home, saying that it was for his friends to do business, and someone would come to pick it up at night.

In this way, Fu Johnson played the role of the businessman, successfully entered Xiong Liyun's house, and killed her.

Of course, the details of the crime were also explained. The blind spot of surveillance, the falsification of the theft scene, the control of the killing, and the wearing of women's sneakers before entering the house, all of which were arranged by Liu Weitao.

It can be seen that Liu Weitao was thoughtful and cruel, and ruthlessly killed his wife in order to deceive the insurance.

In the face of ironclad evidence, Liu Weitao had nothing to hide.

Later, when interrogating Liu Weitao, Lao Lu asked Liu Weitao a question: "What is your real purpose in killing your wife?" This was an obvious problem, but Lao Lu still didn't believe that Liu Weitao would brutally kill his beloved wife for the sake of insurance money, hoping to get some reasons for helplessness.

Liu Weitao was expressionless, wiped his cheeks with both hands, and said one word in a deep voice: "Money!" ”