Chapter 48: The Detective's Reasoning
"I didn't listen to you say these flattering words when I told you about this case, I wanted to hear your inferences, where do you think the breakthrough in this case is? And who the real murderer is. Dr. Lim said.
"If Dr. Lin asks that, then I'll have to reason in front of you." Xu Tian said with a force that wanted to fan Doctor Lin.
"Then you say, and then I'll talk about my reasoning, and see which of us has a closer inference." Dr. Lim said.
"First of all, I think that the truck driver and the dancer who died in Dong'an City were just victims, because the murderer wanted to kill them. But I need to confirm that the dancer and the bride looked exactly the same. Xu Tian said.
"This can basically be confirmed, I have seen the case file, and there are pictures of dancing girls and brides." Teacher Jin said.
"Then this case is very conspicuous, and it has nothing to do with Zhinian Tai Sui, but at most, Zhi Nian Tai Sui just helped the murderer come up with the idea of a murder plan, and there must be a murderer behind the murder plan." Xu Tian said.
"Very good! However, the police have long deduced this kind of thing. Dr. Lim said.
Then the next question is how to find out the real murderer, the important part of the whole case is in the hospital where the truck driver videotaped, why did there be three direct murders in the hospital? The reason should be that the murderer wants everyone to know that the perpetrator is the dead bride, so I think the hospital case is also a link of the murderer's attempt to get out of the way, and the murderer's intention is not the hospital. Xu Tian said.
"There is reason and evidence, and the police have long concluded that the murderer's purpose is to slaughter the village, which is what the murderer wants to do the most." Dr. Lim said.
"That's right, but there are two important links before the slaughter of the village, one is the death of the bride, and the other is the collective protection of the villagers to kill the bride." Xu Tian said.
"This is also nonsense, you pick the important ones to say." Dr. Lim said.
"When these things are done, the murderer uses the truck driver to send the report letter to the police, and when the police enter the investigation, the slaughter of the village has been completed, and the setting of the whole case has also been completed, so the whole case is preparing for the slaughter of the village. All that's left is for us to unravel why there is evidence to identify the bride left at multiple crime scenes, there is no need to repeat it in the hospital, the truck driver and the dancer should have teamed up to help the murderer complete the plan, and the person who committed the murder in the hospital should be the bride disguised by the dancer, you have no objection to this, right? Xu Tian said.
"Of course, there is no objection, there is no other explanation other than the dancer pretending to be a bride." Teacher Jin said.
"The next thing is in Dong'an City, 1,500 kilometers away, after the truck driver sent the video and the report letter, the truck driver died first, but the dancer did not die at that time, I believe the police must have interrogated the dancer, right?" Xu Tian asked.
"This is an essential part of the process, and the dancers must be arraigned." Teacher Jin said.
"But the police didn't find any valuable clues, and finally released the dancer, but at that time, there was already a massacre in the village, and the dancer who was 1,500 kilometers away could not be the murderer, so the police did not pay attention to the dancer, which was also the reason why the dancer died three months later." Xu Tian said.
"I don't think it's the police's fault." Teacher Jin said.
"Of course I understand that the police are not wrong, because the dancing girl is indeed not the murderer, she is just a pawn that has been used, but it is inevitable that the dancing girl once committed murder with the truck driver in the hospital, but there is also a question in this, didn't the police think that the dancing girl was the murderer of the hospital when the police investigated this case?" Xu Tian asked.
"Of course I thought of it, but there is no evidence, and the police are helpless." Teacher Jin said.
"Very good, the police must have also investigated the driving route of the truck driver, as well as the situation of the truck, I think it is impossible for the dancer to follow the truck driver to the village, the dancer is likely to have rushed to the northeast township by herself, so it is necessary to investigate the information of the dancer." Xu Tian said.
"At that time, in 2002, the railway had not yet implemented the real-name system for train tickets, so it was difficult to verify this clue." Teacher Jin said.
"Then I think the dancer should also have other alibi, otherwise the police will never let her go." Xu Tian said.
"You're right, there are indeed other proofs, the dancer has been working in the days when the crime occurred, the police have inquired about her work unit, and also visited her colleagues, and finally her colleagues can prove that the dancer did stay in Dong'an City to work in those days." Teacher Jin said.
"There's a problem here, and the breakthrough is here." Xu Tian said.
"You're right! The dancer's colleagues are lying en masse, and that's where the problem arises. Teacher Jin suddenly realized.
"Who can get all of the dancer's colleagues to help her lie? There is also the fact that the dancing girl died on the stage, and the real murderer is already very obvious. Xu Tian said.
"The dancer's boss, only that person can make a colleague lie about the dancer." Dr. Lim said.
"And the dancer's boss is likely to have a very close relationship with the dancer, and that boss knows the dancer's past, and he knows the truck driver's affairs, as long as he listens to the trucker's usual delivery route from the dancer's mouth, he can know where he can pass by." Teacher Jin said.
"However, the place where the truck driver passed by happened to be the village where the dancer's boss needed to commit the crime, and the breakthrough of the whole case was opened." Xu Tian said.
"There was a record of the boss in the case file back then, a man who was five years older than the dancer, but his background had nothing to do with the Northeast! Wait a minute...... Could it be that ......" Teacher Jin suddenly figured out something.
"The question is to trace back to the bride, who is from a big family, why did she marry into a poor family in the village? Moreover, the groom's father is still a person who can be protected by the whole village, which means that the groom's father has a very good reputation in the village, at least he should be a person who has made a great contribution to the village, so the bride's parents will marry their daughter to their family. Xu Tian said.
"Why do you want your daughter to marry? There can only be one circumstance that can explain it. Teacher Jin said.
"Because the bride may not be innocent, the bride may have been in a relationship with someone else before, and the bride gave herself to that love object, and this kind of thing happened in the countryside at that time, and this is the reason nine times out of ten." Dr. Lim said.