"Staggered Killing"

"Hey, cops? It's 10 p.m. on April 9th and I'm being chased by a guy with long hair, wearing a mask, can't see my face clearly, left-handed, weapon is a kitchen knife, about the same height as me, he's been following me for days and now he's finally going to attack me!! If you find out that I was killed when this recording was made, you must find him!! ”

Police Officer A looked at the body hanging from the door frame and then stopped the recording playing on the deceased's mobile phone.

"Did he kill the dead?"

Police officer B leaned over and asked, "How was the scene?" ”

Police officer C walked over with the notebook in his hand.

"The deceased's name is Xiao D, a bank clerk, the time of death was around half past ten yesterday evening, there were two blunt blows to the head and a knife wound to the abdomen, but no murder weapon was found near the scene for the time being."

"The neck was severely strangled, and the strangulation was preliminarily determined to be fatal. In addition to this, there were signs of ropes on the hands, and strange scratches were found on the wooden floors in both the living room and the doorway, but the one inside the house was heavier and the one outside the door was lighter. It should all be left by the kitchen knife in the recording, and the fallen stool does have the footprints of the deceased, which can be used as a trample, but the location is a bit far away. ”

"Where's that kitchen knife in the recording?"

"No kitchen knives were found in the kitchen of the deceased's home, but three kitchen knives were found in a nearby sewer, all of the same style."

"Three?"

Police officer A gave the phone to police officer C and asked him to listen to the recording.

"According to the description of Xiao D's wife, Xiao E, Xiao D is addicted to reasoning games, and may have been followed recently, and his nerves are a little broken, plus he was chased and killed again in the recording, it is not ruled out that he deliberately misled us to reason before committing suicide, and let us catch the possibility of the stalker."

"But we can't rule out that this is the murderer's maze."

The three policemen looked at each other.

In the afternoon, the three police officers found a total of three suspects.

They are:

The deceased's wife, Little E: "Yes. It was the case I reported, I got up this morning and saw my husband hang himself on the door frame of the living room, I was so scared that I couldn't stand up, and then I found that my husband's mobile phone screen was still on, I went over and looked at it to see that it was a recording, and then I listened to it, and my husband said that someone was going to kill him, so I called the police, little F? Is it that colleague of my husband? Well, yes, I heard that because of my husband, he owes a lot of money outside. ”

"Ten o'clock last night? I had already slept at 10 o'clock because I was pregnant and the doctor said I needed more rest, so I didn't dare to stay up late. But I've been having a bit of insomnia lately, my husband bought me some sleeping pills, and I've been taking sleeping pills every day lately, and I'm sleeping so hard that I don't know what happened in the living room at night. ”

(Later, the police interrogated the doctor in Xiao E's mouth: the doctor said that when the test results came out, he happened to hear the male owner scolding the hostess for cheating, saying that the child was the hostess's lover, so he wanted to kill the child, but the hostess said that he didn't agree to anything.) However, later the doctor saw the hostess come to the hospital alone, and he was curious to check the records, and found that the hostess seemed to have had a miscarriage two weeks ago, due to an overdose of sleeping pills. ）

The deceased's colleague Xiao F: "Why did Little D come home so late?" Ah, our company held a celebration banquet yesterday, yes, the last break was that I came back with Xiao D, he said that in recent days, he always felt that someone was following behind, and he suspected that it was the little gangster who had a fight with him last time, so he asked me to accompany him back to be brave, hmm... It was supposed to be about half past nine, but we parted halfway through because my house was in that direction, and it was not easy to walk behind the intersection. ”

"Ten o'clock? I should have arrived home, you can ask my wife, I drank a little too much last night and I can't remember clearly. ”

(After that, the police interrogated Xiao F's wife, but Xiao F's wife said that Xiao F went home at 9:40, but Xiao F was drunk at the time, and kept complaining to her that she couldn't pay off the debt, and said that she was sorry for her, and finally locked herself in the study, and shouted to ask his wife to make him a supper, and after about 30 minutes, his wife made a supper and asked Xiao F to come out to eat but was refused, so she persuaded Xiao F for about five minutes.) ）

Little G, a thug nearby: "Little D? Yes, I went to collect protection money yesterday morning and bumped into that kid shopping with his wife, I was so angry, this guy, since he is married, he dares to provoke my sister, of course I want to teach him a lesson! Then I fought him hard, and although I did get punished later, I didn't regret it. What? …… No, I didn't hear any quarrels around there, what? Where is his house?? ”

"Ten o'clock? I was playing games at a nearby Internet café at ten o'clock last night, and I played for about two hours, and you can go to the Internet café trash can to see if I threw my ticket there. ”

(Later, the police went to find the network manager of the Internet café, and the network manager did remember that the gangsters had come, but the Internet café surveillance was being repaired that night, and the computer's account records showed that it started at about 9:20, and the computer had been playing games, and there were indeed gangsters' fingerprints on the mouse and keyboard.) However, according to the network administrator's answer, when he went to the toilet at 10:20 a.m., he saw that the computer was on the screen but there was no one in the seat. In addition, Xiao G seemed to be the first time to come to this Internet café yesterday, and he had been playing games in another distant Internet café before, and after understanding, Xiao G had a job as a network administrator in the middle of the night in an Internet café, and he deliberately asked for leave yesterday. ）

……

In the evening, three police officers gathered in the archives to discuss the case.

Police officer B hugged his head and worried: "I have a headache, the three of them have long hair and are about the same height as the deceased." ”

Police officer A asked, "But the left-handers are only the deceased's colleague Little F, right?" He was very suspicious, and asked his wife to cook, but he didn't eat it when it was ready. Moreover, it only takes fourteen minutes for him to get to the deceased's house when he runs, and his wife can only prove that he is not present at 10 o'clock, and from 9:40 to 10:10, which is enough time for him to go back and forth. ”

"No, you can't just count the time back and forth." Police Officer B suddenly remembered something and exclaimed, "That's right! Remember the mouse position of the gangster that the webmaster said? On the left! He's lying! He can actually use both his left and right hands! Why lie? And he is a network administrator but he has to go so far to play games, and he leaves early after driving the machine for two hours, I think he is even more suspicious. ”

"Okay, you two stop for a moment, and I'll talk about the results of the investigation that just came out."

Police officer C looked at A and B, and said solemnly: "The recording has confirmed that it is the voice of the deceased, and the technician has analyzed the time of the sound recording, which is exactly the same as what is said in the recording." ”

"The mobile phone is indeed the deceased, but it only has the fingerprints of the deceased and the deceased's wife, and the fingerprints of the gangster and the footprints of the colleague were found on the floor outside the door, which are very new, and they should have been from last night. There were also kitchen knives in the sewers, but all three knives only had the deceased's fingerprints on them, and all three knives had detected blood reactions, the tips of the knives matched the scratches on the floor, the handle of the knives was consistent with one of the blunt wounds on the deceased's head, and the other wound was the ashtray in the deceased's study. ”

"As for the key to the room, it was in the deceased's pocket, and there were only the deceased's fingerprints on the key."

"But the wife of the deceased said that the door was locked in the morning." Police officer A was puzzled: "Is it possible that it was a murder in a closed room?" ”

"But the wife of the deceased also said that her key had been lost and that the key had been reassigned after that."

"What about lost time?" Police officer B asked.

"Three days ago, she was picked up by a left-hander with long hair and a mask, and she went to inquire but was denied by the man."

"Remember that clearly?"

Police Officer C looked at the message that had just been sent on the phone screen, mysteriously turned his gaze to the other two police officers, and laughed.

Police officer A, police officer B looked at police officer C strangely: "Do you know who the murderer is?" ”

Police officer C held up his mobile phone, and the message on the screen lit up: "The latest news, there is a residue of drug powder in the throat of the deceased, and a small amount of drug reaction has also been detected in the blood, and it is ......"

"Both are sleeping pills."