Chapter 8: The Scene of the Old Crime

Xu Tian spread the photos of Hongmei's death scene on the table one by one, and the scenes inside and within ten meters of the house immediately appeared in Xu Tian's mind. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

It was a hut of about 40 square meters, there was only one earthen kang in the house, a stove for cooking rice, and a storage cabinet.

The corners of Hongmei's mouth were bleeding, her face was pale, her eyes were wide open, and the dents on her head were clearly visible.

Hongmei was wearing the coat found in the well, there was a broken medicine bowl on the ground, and a small pot of boiling medicine was placed on the stove, and there was a photo of the drug residue in the pot.

"The dagger in the chest didn't hit." Xu Tian said to Officer Zhang next to him.

"The dagger was found outside the house, and it matched the scar on Hongmei's chest, and it was a fatal wound." Officer Zhang recalled.

"You didn't say that in the morning, just said that a dagger was stuck in Hongmei's chest."

"I also remembered when I saw the photo, after all, twenty years have passed, but Hongmei was indeed injured by the dagger found outside the house."

"There is no room for mistakes in solving the case, I looked at the case record, the door of the house was open at that time, and the dagger was three meters away from the house, can we imagine that Hongmei threw the dagger out of the door herself?"

"It's unlikely, it stands to reason that people who are on the verge of death don't have that courage, and the dagger's wound is fatal, it must be someone other than Hongmei who took the dagger out."

"No fingerprints?"

"It was wiped, and no one's fingerprints were checked."

"Where did the two children go?"

"The boy was taken away by the old village chief before the crime, and according to the old village chief, it was Hongmei who entrusted the child to him, and the girl was later sent to the city orphanage, and I heard that she was later adopted."

"The two children were eleven years old and the other was eight years old, and it stands to reason that they should have remembered, and if we could find those two children, we might be able to ask something."

"If you take a look at the records of those people who came into contact with Hongmei that day, you may be able to see some clues."

Officer Zhang showed Xu Tian the transcript of that year, and the first line was the transcript of Grandma Xu's interrogation.

According to Grandma Xu's description, Grandma Xu went to change the dressing for Hongmei at the time of the crime, and since Hongmei was rescued by Grandma Xu, she suffered from gynecological diseases because of the poor sanitary conditions when she gave birth to the girl.

Grandma Xu arrived at Hongmei's house at about ten o'clock in the morning that day, during which the two children were kicked out by Hongmei, because Hongmei felt that her time was running out and wanted to entrust the future to Grandma Xu.

It is recorded in the transcript that Grandma Xu did not agree to Hongmei's request, but then called the old village chief, followed by the transcript of the old village chief.

The old village chief promised to send the boy to a distant relative's house, but the girl did not say a word.

There is also an inquiry about Xu Fugui below, Xu Fugui's confession was that he saw that Hongmei was dead after he went, Xu Fugui fled because he was afraid of panic, in addition to the little girl's testimony, the villagers who came later could also testify against Xu Fugui, so Xu Fugui was not convicted.

"Such a simple transcript is simply extremely irresponsible for the case, is this record recorded by you? Isn't there anything wrong with that? ”

"Don't worry, the most important transcript is the little girl in the back."

Xu Tian flipped through the back page, it was indeed the little girl's transcript, and the first sentence was exactly the same as in the tape.

"Today, the ghost mother-in-law came to change my mother's dressing, it was so scary, my brother and I didn't dare to go back to the house."

"At noon, Grandpa Paper came, and he was going to take my brother away, and my mother and I cried."

"Uncle Sugar ran out of the house in the afternoon, and Mom died, woo woo ......"

"My mother told me not to cry, to hide the burning stick, and not to extinguish the stove."

"Everybody's here, mom is hiding."

Xu Tian opened his eyes wide and carefully searched for the burning stick in the photo, but there was nowhere to go.

"There were no burning sticks, didn't you look for them back then?"

"Of course I found it, and it was determined that the burning stick should be the murder weapon that hit the dent on Hongmei's head, the little girl said that she hid it, and we also asked, and the little girl also pointed out the location where the burning stick was hidden, but the burning stick was not found."

"Where are you hiding?"

"In the locker, the photos were also taken, and there were no burning sticks."

Xu Tian found the photo of the locker on the table, and there was indeed no burning stick in it, but there were a lot of miscellaneous items.

Inside the locker there was an old-fashioned telescope, an old-fashioned flashlight, a palm-sized sewing kit, and nothing else was enough to kill a person.

"Have you checked all three?"

"It's all checked, there are no fingerprints from outsiders, and there is no damage."

"Can you still find the two children who were sent out back then?"

"I'm afraid it's difficult, Vanilla and her mother came to the town police station a few years ago to inquire, and we also asked the old village chief, but the couple who adopted the boy can no longer be contacted, and it is impossible to contact the family who adopted the girl, the network twenty years ago is not as developed as it is now, only paper archives are archived, because the orphanage has been relocated twice, and several staff members have been changed, besides, the adoption of a child is supposed to help others keep secrets, and there are no clues at all."

"What about the coat? Find out whose it is? ”

"Hongmei's husband's, this coat has been kept by Hongmei, and all the evidence was taken back by Vanilla and her mother a year after the crime."

"In other words, this coat has always been at Vanilla's house?"

"It should be true, but it can't be so sure, Vanilla's mother died the year before last, and Vanilla has been studying outside and rarely comes back, maybe their house will be burglarized."

"What happened to Hongmei's body in the end?"

"I was cremated at the county crematorium, and the old village chief and the police in charge of the case in the county helped deal with it, and then the ashes were brought back by the old village chief and buried on the mountain."

Xu Tian closed his eyes tightly, at this time Xu Tian wanted to lie on the bed and think, if he was lying on the bed, Xu Tian's reasoning ability would increase a lot, this was a habit that Xu Tian had developed.

"Things sound smooth, but there are too many unnatural places, and what happened 28 years ago was definitely not that simple, and it is impossible to explain it in any way; The scene of Hongmei's death seems to have been deliberately discovered, why did all the villagers go out? And just after Hongmei died, is this really a coincidence? Then there is the testimony of the little girl, which looks like a child talking nonsense, but I don't think so, the testimony of the little girl must have her meaning; Then there is the little boy, from beginning to end this little boy is like he has disappeared, there is no other record in the transcript except that he was taken away by the old village chief, why is there only the testimony of the little girl? Finally, the person who sent me the tape, that person must have known everything about that year, and I think that the murder of that year and Xu Fugui's death must be inextricably linked. ”