Chapter 12: The Strange Case of the Bell Tower (6)
Under Li Mazi's confession and the interrogation of the public security officers in turn, Xiang Bo's psychological defense finally collapsed. He finally confessed that the theft and smashing of Qin Wenyuan's home was instructed by Jin Shigeng, the secretary general of the Wansen Group, for the purpose of stealing Qin Wenyuan's laptop and destroying the desktop computer, and the stolen laptop had been handed over to Jin Shigeng that night. However, why did it do it, Xiang Bo said that he did not know.
After Lao Lu learned of this situation, he immediately dispatched the police, and at about 11 o'clock in the evening of the same day, he controlled Jin Shigeng at the Tianxia Huadu Entertainment Club.
I only found out about this the next day, and I learned that the stolen laptop had been formatted and burned, and that there was no evidence related to the case found in the desktop computer that the technician had restored.
The lack of physical evidence, coupled with Jin Shigeng's insistence that it was his own personal enmity with Qin Wenyuan, was to destroy some of the files in the computer. He said that even if he was sentenced to prison, he would still say that, and in his case, this is the fact of the crime.
I know it's never going to be that simple. But the clue of the computer has been broken, and the theft case has been closed on the surface, but the big tiger behind it has not been found out, because his financial resources and power have made someone cover for him. This makes the case extremely tricky, the police will definitely not investigate a person with status because of my speculation, it seems that I can only grasp this last point, that is, to start from the direction of the killer.
This morning, there was no progress in the case, and I wanted to go directly to the Wansen Group to investigate several times, but considering Lao Lu's scruples, I still broke this idea, so I went to the technical department of the criminal investigation team to repeatedly study the surveillance video of the crime scene, hoping to find out the missing clues, but the results were not great, and my mood seemed a little bored.
Tang Zhenguo is the opposite, from seeing him last night to today, his face is filled with a sense of happiness and joy, it seems that he and his daughter had a good day yesterday.
At noon, Tang Zhenguo and I chose a fast food restaurant to eat, and Tang Zhenguo still maintained his pleasure. You can imagine what kind of picture a middle-aged tough guy in his forties has a silly smile on his dark face at all times.
After the meal, he also took the initiative to pay the bill, saying that he was grateful to me for giving him a day off.
So, I finally couldn't help it and asked him, "How much fun did you have with your daughter yesterday, and how did this joy last so long?" ”
Tang Zhenguo laughed and said: "I didn't play much, but I contacted a hospital in Chongqing yesterday, saying that it could cure my daughter's vocal cord atrophy, I checked it on the Internet, and the hospital is indeed an authority in this regard, it seems that my daughter's strange disease has been saved." Hey, finally the willows are bright and the clouds are clear. ”
"Your daughter...... Well, another village, may your daughter recover soon. "Tang Zhenguo's daughter has this strange disease, it is indeed beyond my expectations, I wanted to ask, but it is not very appropriate to think about it, so I said a polite word according to his meaning.
But as soon as these words came out of my mouth, I suddenly thought of a new breakthrough in the case as if the poet had triggered an inspiration.
I said loudly and in a cheerful tone: "Zhenguo, the willows are bright, the willows are bright, hurry up, follow me to the Xishan Bell Tower." ”
Tang Zhenguo was also unambiguous and said, "Okay, my name is Didi." ”
I hummed a few times and dialed Lao Lu's mobile phone. Maybe I had already walked to the side of the noisy road, or maybe I was a little too excited, I said loudly into my mobile phone: "Lao Lu, you hurry up to the district monitoring center and call up the monitoring around the Xishan Bell Tower." I'll go to the Xishan Bell Tower right away, and if you cooperate with me, I can guess where the killer set off and transported the body to the bottom of the Xishan Bell Tower. ”
Coming to the bottom of the bell tower, Tang Zhenguo and I moved away from the bell tower step by step according to the trajectory of the murderer on the night of the crime, and with my memory, we walked to a flower bed, because I clearly remember that this is the first position where the murderer appeared from the surveillance video with the body on his back.
So I dialed the phone again, and Lao Lu's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Ouyang, I'm looking at you." ”
I said, "I'm going to disappear into the surveillance footage right away, and if I show up on any screen, you tell me and I'll change the course of action." ”
"Good!" Lao Lu replied simply on the phone.
So we continued to walk towards the flower bed, and Lao Lu said on the phone that he couldn't see us anymore.
Bypassing the flower platform, it is a garden path, walking through the garden path, coming to the exit of the underground parking lot of the gymnasium, at this time Tang Zhenguo said: "Look, there are surveillance cameras in front. At the same time, Lao Lu said on the phone: "I saw you." ”
So we retreated back, but there was a flower bed on one side and a rock wall in Xishan Park on the other, and there seemed to be no way out to avoid surveillance.
I looked around and found that it was impossible to pass through the flower beds, because the flower beds were along the street, and from the point of view of the route, they had to come from the sidewalks in the distance, and there was a surveillance coverage area, and the murderer could not have chosen this road.
Then the only possibility is to come down from the rock face of Nishiyama Park. The rock wall is not very high, and it is relatively easy for a strong person to climb it. So Tang Zhenguo and I climbed the rock wall one after the other. While climbing the rock wall, I noticed marks left by someone scraping the mud on the soles of my shoes at the corners under the rock wall.
Along the rock wall all the way forward, under this rock wall is a lane at the back of the gymnasium, although it is covered with surveillance, but the rock wall is above the surveillance, it cannot be photographed.
There are obvious footprints in the mud on the side of the rock wall, the footprints are left by the same person, and they are the footprints of the back and forth, and the footprints of the people who go to the bell tower are obviously deeper than the footprints that leave the bell tower, which indicates that the weight of this person when he went was heavier than when he returned. This is very consistent with the murderer's back corpse.
At this time, I saw some mud marks on the rock wall, and it seemed that the murderer had gone down from here, so we also jumped from here to the lane below, and asked Lao Lu if he could see me, and Lao Lu said that he couldn't see me.
Now I am sure that this is the blind spot of monitoring, and it can be seen from the car parked next to it that the murderer's car should have been parked in this location on the night of the crime. In order to prove this, I walked a few meters forward, Lao Lu said that he could see me, and walked back a few meters, and Lao Lu also saw me in the surveillance, so on the night of the crime, the murderer's car must have been parked in this blind spot.
Another point is the moss and dirt left on the deceased's body, which was left by the murderer when he got the body on the rock wall. As for the method of getting the body up the rock wall, it should be very simple, that is, tie the body with a rope, and the murderer first climbs the rock wall, and then drags the body up. Although this method is clumsy, it is the most direct and effective method for people who are physically strong and strong as an ox. This method should leave strangulation marks on the body, which can later be attested to the medical examiner.
Now, the murderer's method of transporting the corpse has been cracked by me, so it will be much easier to find the vehicle that transports the corpse. Because the time of the crime was in the early hours of the morning, there were obviously not many cars entering and exiting from this secluded lane, as long as the vehicles in and out captured by the surveillance video during that time period were investigated, the car carrying the body could be found. If the car is found, then it is not far from finding the murderer.
Immediately, I told Lao Lu about this idea, and Lao Lu immediately arranged an investigation of the time period of the crime, which vehicles were in line with the lanes where they were located, and there were entry and exit shooting records. But three days later, the results were disappointing, and we didn't find the suspicious car.
At one o'clock in the morning, there was a knocking sound in the living room of 2046B Beishan Road, which was the sound of me struggling to hit the wooden stake when I was irritable and couldn't sleep. Tang Zhenguo sat on the sofa next to him and smoked a cigarette, and the smoke had already filled the entire room.
"There is no reason, there is no reason, the corpse truck cannot disappear out of thin air." I snatched the cigarette from Tang Zhenguo's hand, sat on the sofa, took a few puffs and said.
Tang Zhenguo slowly ordered another one, and did not answer my words.
I snuffed out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, then stood up straight and said loudly: "Footprints, traces of rock walls, blind spots of surveillance, all of these are consistent with the killer's trajectory that night, but how could the corpse truck disappear out of thin air?" What went wrong? What went wrong? Ah...... "I became a little hysterical.
Tang Zhenguo snuffed out the remaining half of the cigarette, flicked his fingers, and accurately flicked it into the ashtray two meters away from him, then yawned and got up and said: "You think slowly, I'm going to sleep, stop hitting wooden stakes, it's very noisy." ”
I ignored him, stood straight with my fists clenched, and stared intently at the wooden stake in front of me, and I felt the power of my anxiety, confusion, and anger shatter the wooden stake with a single punch.
However, I didn't get the punch for a while, because my brain was still racing, concentrating and scattering all the fragments of the crime scene, and finally, I came up with a seemingly impossible possibility.
"Bang!" The punch was heavy and painful, but the pain stimulated my mind, and I was even more convinced of the possibility, and I desperately needed to prove it, even though it was past one o'clock in the morning.
I kicked open the door of Tang Zhenguo's bedroom and shouted loudly to Tang Zhenguo, who was hiding under the covers: "Get up, get up!" ”
Tang Zhenguo turned over, a pair of red eyes looked at me viciously, I felt the muscles of his whole body were beating, maybe in the next second, his fist would swing towards me, but I had already thought of seventeen ways to deal with this iron fist, but in the end these methods were not used, because he finally just lit a cigarette, and then asked, "What for?" ”
"Come with me to the Xishan Bell Tower again, this time I will definitely be able to prove the murderer's method of transporting the corpse, definitely!" I said eagerly.
"Let's go!" Tang Zhenguo took a cigarette in his mouth and put on his leather jacket.
The night was quiet and cold, and the dim street lamps seemed very lonely in the night.
It's just that in this impetuous city, night taxis are not rare, and we easily hailed a taxi and hurried to the Xishan Bell Tower.
After getting out of the car, I strode up, or I could say that I ran, to the parking spot of the corpse transport vehicle that I had judged before, that is, the monitoring blind spot in the lane behind the gymnasium.
Turning on the flashlight on my phone, a confident smile appeared on my face, and then I said to Tang Zhenguo: "Zhenguo, the corpse truck has been found." ”
"You mean the white Chang'an van?"
"Yes. Do you see that? ”
"Three days ago, the car was parked here." He also turned on his mobile phone flashlight, illuminated the vehicles in front and behind, and continued: "If I remember correctly, these cars are different from three days ago, except for this van, which has not been driven in the past three days. ”
I said, "You're not mistaken. The reason why we couldn't find the corpse truck was because the corpse truck never left after it stopped. And this Chang'an car, which has been parked here for three days and has not moved, proves this possibility. ”
Tang Zhenguo said: "But it is also possible that the owner has not used the car in the past few days, so he parked here." ”
I affirmed: "This car also appeared in the surveillance, and it also matched the time of the crime, but it only had a video of entering the lane, but not a video of driving out of the lane, which led us to ignore it in the investigation." One of the easiest and most effective ways to prove that this is a corpse truck is to open the doors and inspect the inside. ”