Chapter 8: Murder in a Closed Room?
15
"No, from the beginning, it was a murder, a murder orchestrated to create an alibi. Avenging the hostages of the Hungry Gang transforms her from being a victim of hunger to being a murderer of her kidnappers. She first went to the police station to report the crime, and then agreed with the kidnappers on a ransom payment. Led to the police tracking the kidnappers, the murderer was very clever to expect that the police would install a bugging device on the ransom, and all the criminal police witnessed the gangster, that is, Jin B, carrying the 'hostage' to the back compartment in such a dark night, after that, the police would hear the gangster's conversation through the bugging, because the sound came out through the wiretap, it would inevitably be somewhat distorted, and the gangster processed the 'sound' in advance, so the police would determine that this was the conversation of the deceased before his death. In this way, all the criminal police officers in charge of tracking will become witnesses to prove that the deceased was alive at least when he first set off when he got into the car, that no one approached the van during the drive, and that the deceased was killed in the car only after opening the car. Only the police tracked down the murder in the locked room. β
"The murderer did this for two purposes. The first is that the murderer has been with the police during the period from the time she paid the ransom to the time when she found out that the kidnapper had been killed, that is, she misled the police into thinking that she did not have the time to commit the crime, and the second is that the murderer wanted to give the two 'kidnappers', Jin A and Jin B, an alibi of 'being at the scene'. The car was always moving, and even though they were closest to the deceased, the closed rear compartment made it impossible for them to enter the rear compartment to kill people, and besides, they did not have the opportunity to commit the crime. Because in the short twenty minutes between one of the dead being carried into the car and opening the door to find the deceased, they did not have enough time to complete the tedious steps of stuning the deceased, killing the deceased, and stripping the body of the deceased naked. In this way, the police ruled out the suspicion that Jin A and Jin B committed the crime. β
"That's right. If you do this, then this murder will become a secret room murder that cannot be solved. The medical examiner patted his head and said.
"Yes, we all remember that the female deceased was wearing a hospital gown before being carried into the car, and through the crack in the door of the carriage, I could vaguely see the male deceased wearing clothes, but after the bodies were found, the two deceased had been stripped naked after being stabbed in the heart, and their heads, hands and feet were cut off. In fact, there are only two real kidnappers," Cha Min scanned his sharp eyes over the bag of evidence on his deskβa box of recording disks found under the cab seat, a palm-sized miniature tape recorder, a socket, and two heated industrial soldering irons," and continued, "Kim A and Kim B were nothing more than 'actors' hired by the killer to make the murder in the locked room." β
"Oh!" Gao Shiyan waited for her ginkgo-like eyes, "You said so much, I finally understood one thing: the deceased was killed some time before Jin A and Jin B took the ransom, and the murderer created this series of phenomena to make us think that this was a secret room murder." Once it is believed that this is a murder in a closed room, the case will fall into a dead end, and the law will be solved. However, if the conversation we heard through the eavesdropper can be interpreted as the tape recorder playing the box of disks, then we clearly saw Wang Xing carrying a person with an able-bodied head and arms into the car, and we determined through the conversation that the person was Pei Xiuzhi disguised as a hostage. Anyway, there was a person with an able-bodied head who was carried into the car, but then we found only two broken bodies in the back compartment. Did the man evaporate? Or was it killed and broken? Gao Shiyan sighed, patted her head, and said, "Hey, why did my reasoning become a secret room murder again?" β
"Hehe, this is the most incredible place is also the smartest place for the murderer, but this has become a breakthrough in solving the case. The man did not evaporate, but melted. Che Min had something to say, and he deliberately sold Guanzi.
"Melted?" Gao Shiyan's eyes widened in surprise, and she almost shouted, and said confusedly, "What do you mean by that?" β
"The one who was carried up by Jin A was not Pei Xiuzhi who was disguised as a hostage, let alone a hostage, but a wax puppet! Similarly, the 'boss' in the suit I saw through the crack in the car door was also a wax puppet! β
"Ahh I get it all! The forensic doctor exclaimed exaggeratedly, "Those two bodies were originally in the back compartment!" β
"That's right! The shredded bodies of the boss and Bae so-ji were packed in the rear compartment before the ransom was collected. Che Min nodded and said.
"So, how did the gangster melt these two wax puppets?" Gao Shiyan still had an expression of disbelief.
"The secret is in the two soldering irons, the two small holes in the rear compartment that connect to the cab and the two small holes in the bottom of the rear compartment. It is common sense that wax melts at high temperatures. The moment I opened the rear door, I felt a strange hot air flow in the car, and the temperature in the car was obviously higher than outside, and it was this kind of high temperature that had an effect on the corpse, which pushed back the forensic doctor's estimate of death. In fact, this high temperature is the heat emitted by the soldering iron when working, in order to produce a high temperature enough for the wax puppet to melt quickly, the gangster first connected the soldering iron to the power supply in the cab, and then put it on the wax puppet through the small hole connected with the cab in the rear compartment, and the electric soldering iron heats the wax puppet to melt it, and the melted wax dripped to the outside through two small holes in the bottom of the rear compartment. After that, the gangsters can leave no trace as long as they calmly withdraw the soldering iron! After completely melting down and ensuring that the temperature of the rear compartment was lowered and not actually too long, the police suspected that the gangsters had opened the rear compartment nearly 30 minutes after driving for nearly 30 minutes and found the body, which was quite well grasped. Moreover, in order to keep the wax trail undetected, the gangsters chose to drive at night and on remote roads with few or no street lights, apparently, after some careful planning. β
"Oh my God! It's incredible! You're so talented! Gao Shiyan exclaimed exaggeratedly, her big ginkgo-like eyes flashed with adoration and strange light, and she couldn't wait to pop out of her eyes like a cartoon character with two big peach hearts and fly towards Cha Min.
"Well...... cough" Cha Min blushed, let out two dry coughs from his throat, dodged Gao Shiyan's gaze, and turned sideways embarrassedly.
"Smack!" The forensic doctor patted Che Min's shoulder, knocked over the vinegar jar in his heart, and spoke in a sour tone: "Come on, you, in front of your sister, the limelight has made you exhausted!" β
"Yo!" Gao Shiyan suddenly felt angry and funny, and proudly raised her eyebrows at the forensic doctor, and said, "Great forensic doctor, so to speak, what else do you have to say!" β
"Of course. The case is basically settled. I followed Che Min's words and reasoned downward. There is no doubt that the murderer must be Li Youli. This case has to start from the beginning. Remember? We went to the jewelry store that day to investigate the murder of Zheng Hefeng, and when the boss heard us say that Zheng Hefeng was missing, he in turn asked us who we were and what we were doing with all this matter. Also, he kept saying that he was deceived by a beautiful fashionable lady to take a diamond ring worth 800,000 yuan, and he looked very distressed, and he praised Zheng Hefeng for being brisk and capable, but later when Xiaoyan asked him why he didn't report the case, he changed his words and said that he blamed himself for his lack of heart, and he looked indifferent to Zheng Hefeng's disappearance. Why is that? β
"Why?" Gao Shiyan tilted her head and asked.
"Because of his weak heart, I am afraid that the police will find out the secret of his failure to report the case."
"So, what's the secret of him not reporting the crime?" Gao Shiyan then asked.
"There are two reasons for this. I carefully compared the diamond ring that was used as a ransom with the one I brought back from the jewelry store. On the surface, the two diamond rings are identical, and the layman simply can't tell the difference. In fact, the diamond ring as a ransom, that is, the diamond ring that was cheated away, is a little less dense, and the condition is not quite right, it is fake! β
"Fake?" Gao Shiyan shouted with wide eyes.
"That's right! The diamond ring that was deceived is fake, the boss is afraid that the police will track it down and see through the diamond ring is fake, once the news spreads: the jewelry store sells fake diamond rings to pit customers, his store's reputation is ruined, the signboard is smashed, and the financial resources are also broken, can he not be empty-hearted? The forensic doctor pouted proudly, "Actually, that female liar is Li Youli, but she never expected that in order to make up her husband's ransom, she actually deceived the kidnappers!" Moreover, the deceived diamond ring turned out to be a fake! It can be said that it is a defeat for both evil, deception and evil! The boss found out that the relatives who did not tie up the hostages, that is, after Li Youli did this, he was angry and tore up the ticket. As a result, a perfect plan for revenge for murder in a closed room was born in Li Youli's heart. The medical examiner swallowed and continued, "I haven't said the second reason why the boss didn't report the case. When we searched Zheng Hefeng's room, we found more than a dozen books on jewelry appraisal, and at that time I thought he was the boss's assistant, and the business needed it. However, this is precisely an important message that we have overlooked. β
"You mean, Zheng Hefeng has known that jewelry stores sell fake jewelry for a long time?" Gao Shiyan asked.
"Yes. Fakes in jewellery stores are so good that even connoisseurs may not be able to identify them. This Zheng Hefeng is a master jewelry appraiser, and he can't know the inside story of the jewelry store better than him. β