Chapter 001: Finger prints on the wall of the well
Do you still remember the case of the eye-gouging boy that caused a sensation across the country a few years ago, this case was called a Chinese-style unsolved case by the majority of netizens, and some netizens said at the time that the police took the dead person to blame.
In fact, what the majority of netizens saw in this case was only the tip of the iceberg, and the truth was not as everyone imagined. The reason why I dare to say this is because the unsolved case investigation team I belong to quickly took over the case.
The so-called unsolved crime investigation team is somewhat similar to the general serious crime team. However, the serious crime team is in charge of all kinds of major and important cases, and we are in charge of unsolved cases in the whole province that even they can't solve. Only those who have been characterized as unsolved cases by the serious crime team will be reported to our unsolved case investigation team.
Although the case of gouging out the eyes of the boy was not a major criminal case, it was a case that caused a sensation throughout the country that year, and it had a great social impact. Therefore, as soon as the case was classified as unsolved and reported, the provincial department immediately asked us to solve the case within a week.
At that time, I was just a stunned young man, and I had just graduated from the police academy for less than half a year. This unsolved case was also the first case I participated in solving after graduation, so I still remember it vividly after two years.
At that time, our unsolved case investigation team only sent a total of three people to this mission, one was Ge Lao, who was in his fifties. He is the old man of our unsolved case investigation team, and he is also an investigation expert, forensic expert, and trace expert in the province, and it can almost be said that he is a living dictionary in the field of criminal investigation.
There is also a person named Zhang Yihan, 24 years old, two years older than me, and a very beautiful senior sister. Typical lordosis and long legs, a rare beautiful police flower. But she's a well-known female guy in our system, and she's fierce, and I'm afraid of her. Because she is part of our brigade, she always likes to scold me when we go to work together.
Before the three of us arrived at the scene of the crime, we had already thoroughly studied the information reported below. Therefore, as soon as we arrived at the scene of the crime, we did not even go to the public security bureau, so we went straight to the scene of the crime.
The first crime scene we went to was the place where the child's eye was gouged out.
It's a pity that because more than ten days have passed, there are too many people who have been to the scene, and the destruction of the scene is too strict, and the valuable clues we have found are very limited.
However, our unsolved case investigation team generally rarely relies on the scene of the crime, after all, the cases we handle are only taken over after they are characterized as unsolved cases. Some cases are even a few years ago, and we go to the scene of the crime just to try our luck and see if we can find some clues that ordinary criminal police can't pay attention to.
And we went to the scene of the crime where the child's eyes were gouged out this time, in fact, the main purpose was to analyze the psychological activities of the murderer at that time. Specifically, it is to look at the topography of the crime scene and analyze why the murderer brought the child here to gouge out his eyes? Where was he going to go after gouging out his eyes? After gouging out the eyeballs, why did they throw them into the grass not far from the place where the crime was committed?
After such an analysis, we can get a lot of clues that are useful to us. For example, after we stayed at the scene for a while, we can basically conclude that the previous hypothesis that someone had guessed that the killer was a human trafficker was not valid.
The reason is simple, the child's eyes are gouged out by the branches that break randomly around them. If it is an organ trafficker, they will never gouge out their eyes with branches. Could it be that this trafficker can't even afford a scalpel that can be bought for a few dollars on Taobao or a fruit knife that is sold everywhere?
Furthermore, if it was an organ trafficker, why should he lose the eyeballs that he had worked so hard to get? Since everyone else can run away, would it be possible to run away with an eyeball and increase his weight? Obviously, neither of the above points makes sense.
After leaving the scene of the child's accident, we immediately rushed to the well in the courtyard of the Guo family, where his aunt committed suicide. In fact, we had already set the direction of the investigation of this case on the way here. According to the various information we know, the victim's aunt was indeed a timid and honest person, and it is said that she still loved the victim very much, and did not have any mental illness during her lifetime.
In addition, the victim's family has always had a good relationship with his uncle and aunt's family, and there is no conflict at all, so there is no motive to harm others. There is also a very important piece of corroboration, according to local villagers, the victim's aunt fainted blood. How could a bloodied person cut out a pair of eyes with a twig?
These clues can fully prove that the victim's aunt did not commit suicide, but homicide. In other words, our main task this time is not to find out who gouged out the child's eyes, but to find out who killed the child's aunt?
In fact, the main reason why this case was characterized as an unsolved case was because of the death of the victim's aunt. Otherwise, there are countless cases that need to be handled by our unsolved case investigation team, just a matter of a child being gouged out of his eyeballs, how can the provincial department let our unsolved case investigation team solve the case within a time limit.
The main purpose of the spokesman of our provincial department to take the death of the child's aunt as an answer is to confuse the public and make the real murderer relax his vigilance, so that we can do our best to arrest the murderer.
When we came to the child's aunt's house, we asked Xiao Li, a police officer from a local police station, to take us there. As soon as we entered the courtyard, we saw a well covered with canvas not far from the door. There are a lot of bricks pressed around the canvas, and there is a thick door panel pressed on the wellhead, and it is worth noting that there is a large stone of hundreds of catties on the door panel.
After lifting the stones and other objects, the well revealed its true face of Lushan. The diameter of the wellhead is only about one meter, and several red bricks are used around it to form a full circle, about 20 centimeters high.
It was late afternoon and the courtyard was empty. According to the policeman who accompanied us, after the death of the child's aunt, his uncle has been with him in the hospital, so the courtyard is no longer occupied.
We walked around the house for about an hour and a half, and it was dark. Xiao Li, the local policeman, kept urging us to come over tomorrow after dark, but Lao Ge and Senior Sister Zhang Yihan didn't speak, and I didn't dare to say anything as a rookie.
Later, when Xiao Li saw that we ignored him, he said coldly: Several leaders, this, this courtyard is often haunted
For his words, the three of us all laughed. Our unsolved case investigation team has cracked many cases involving ghosts and gods, and in the end it was found that they were all alarmist and false, and no one would believe this kind of nonsense.
Xiao Li saw that we didn't believe his words, and continued: It's true, everyone here knows that this yard is very evil, and many people in the village commit suicide and jump into this well, and sometimes you can hear someone in the yard shouting for help, and some women crying, crying so badly
Brother, you are also a policeman, why do you still believe this? I'm a little disdainful of Xiao Li.
However, hearing Xiao Li's words, senior sister Zhang Yihan suddenly became interested, and saw her smile at me: Xiaolin, I think what Xiao Li said is a very important clue, there is probably a problem with this well, you go to the well to take a look
Hearing Zhang Yihan say that, Xiao Li and I were dumbfounded. Both of us looked at Zhang Yihan with a sinister smile on his face like monsters.
Zhang Yihan saw that I was a little unhappy, and his face changed suddenly: Do you want to go, if you don't go, get out tomorrow! This senior sister is like this, she does look a little bad for the country and the people, but in our entire provincial public security department, few people who know her dare to provoke her.
I know that Zhang Yihan is not joking with me, if I don't go down obediently, I will really be kicked back by her tomorrow. I glared at Xiao Li fiercely, it's not this kid talking nonsense, how could my senior sister tell me to go down the well in the dark now. However, I didn't dare to say anything, so I hurriedly prepared ropes and portable headlamps and other related tools to prepare for going down the mine.
I fastened the rope to the trunk of a tree in the yard and slid down the rope towards the well. Just as my head was about to slide down the well, I accidentally caught a glimpse of Xiao Li looking at me with a strange look, as if he was very scared.
At that time, I still scorned in my heart that the kid was so timid, but as soon as my head hit the well, I immediately felt a cold chill. Especially behind it, I suddenly felt a little chilly, which made me think of what Xiao Li said before that this yard was often haunted.
Originally, I didn't believe in that kind of thing, but at the moment I was alone in this dark well, and the fact that someone had just died in this well a few days ago made me a little scared.
Turning his head to look, the upper part of the well wall was quite dry, but the further down it went, the wetter it became. I just wanted to get out of this place as quickly as possible, so I slid down until I was close to the water.
The well is not very deep, with a distance of less than ten meters from the ground to the bottom of the well.
Of course, I knew what Zhang Yihan was asking me to come down to check, so I immediately looked around the bottom of the well.
Sure enough, I soon made some discoveries. I found deep nail marks on the walls of the wells around me, and in some places even some blood. This alone can once again confirm that the child's aunt was killed by him, not by suicide. If it was suicide, she would never struggle desperately after throwing herself into the well and scratch out such deep finger prints on the wall of the well.
No, when we studied the results of the forensic examination after the death of the child's aunt, it didn't seem to mention anything wrong with the nails?
Although I was a little puzzled, I didn't have time to think about it at the time, so I quickly reported the situation to the above: Senior sister, there are some deep scratches on the wall of the well, which should be left by the deceased before his death.
Is it? Zhang Yihan squatted at the mouth of the well and said coldly: Take a few photos with your mobile phone
I knew I only needed to take two more photos to get the job done, so I quickly freed up one hand to reach for my phone. But just as I was touching my phone, the other hand that grabbed the rope suddenly slipped a little. As soon as I was nervous, I quickly reached out to grab the phone, but the hand holding the rope slipped again, and then I fell into the well with a thud.
The well was so deep that I didn't even touch the bottom of the well after I fell into the water, and the sudden change frightened me to quickly plop a few times and surface.
However, just as I surfaced, I suddenly felt something fluffy on the back of my neck.
Turning my head slightly, I noticed that there was suddenly a figure in the water behind me. I could feel it was a long-haired woman, her back to me, and the fluffy mass I had felt before was her hair floating in the water