Chapter 23: The Disappearance of Children
Newborns must sleep with their parents, otherwise they don't know what to expect.
A woman comes to the child's room in the middle of the night, only to find the crib empty. The window was wide open, leaving only a threatening letter.
When police arrived at the scene, the kidnapped was his four-month-old son, and the robbers said in the letter that he would call within six hours to demand a ransom.
In addition to the kidnapped youngest son, the couple has two other children. The eldest son has reached adulthood, and the second son has just turned three.
The mother told the police that she had gotten up at half-past four to breastfeed her little son, but when she arrived in the nursery, she found that the child was missing. And there was a ladder outside the window, and the robbers must have come in from there.
Xiao He found that there were intact cobwebs on the windows, but the robbers left the window with the baby in their arms, and the cobwebs should have been destroyed.
Lao Ji smelled a fishy smell on the carpet, and the inspection found that there were blood stains on it. The dogs quickly found the child's body, which was carefully placed in front of a stone monument on the golf course.
Lao Ji held the child thoughtfully, if the robber was for money, then why did he kill the child? If the child died accidentally, then why not dispose of the body, but carefully place it in front of the stone tablet, he had the worst guess in his heart.
But now that the evidence is insufficient, he can only hold back his anger and continue the investigation.
The autopsy found that the youngest son had been suffocated to death, with capillaries in his throat and a broken sternum, which was certain that the child's death was not an accident. The police examined the robber's threatening letter and compared the material of the paper with the ink and found that the threatening letter was printed by the printer of his father's company.
The couple wanted to recover their youngest son's body and hold a funeral for him, but the police did not allow it, and the body was important physical evidence before the case was closed, and the current evidence was very unfavorable to the couple.
The alleged robbers had never called, and his father was furious, believing that the police had wronged them because they could not find evidence, but he was immediately slapped in the face.
Xiao He brought new evidence, and a blood test found that the blood stains in the baby's room belonged to the eldest son.
The eldest son explained that the blood stains were caused by him breaking the glass while playing. The police also learned that the couple had attended a party on the night of the incident, and that only the eldest son was taking care of the two younger brothers, but the couple swore that when they returned home, the younger son was still alive.
The police searched the couple's home again, and Lao Ji found a pair of stockings stained with green paint, and Sister Xi found an empty blanket bag.
Lao Ji remembered that the artificial turf of the golf course contained plant dyes, and the comparison found that the dyes on the stockings were the dyes of the artificial grass, and the blankets that wrapped the younger son were also the couple's family.
But the mother explained that the blanket may have been stolen by the robbers, and the paint on the stockings only showed that she had been to the golf course, and could not prove that she had killed her younger son.
The mother was released, but police officers found a detail that the mother was reluctant to hold her son. The mother seemed to dislike the child very much, and the police had a new clue, and the medical examiner determined that the time of death of the youngest son was nine o'clock in the evening, and the capillaries in the throat were a non-flammable substance.
When Ji returned to the couple's house, he found a pair of insulated gloves that matched the color of the capillaries found by the forensic doctor. Combined with all the clues, Lao Ji already had a complete guess.
The police officers in the police station reasoned about the whole process of the crime, first the youngest son was covered to death with heat-insulated gloves, and then the father was responsible for covering up the truth and committing perjury, and went to the company to print threatening letters. The mother disposed of the body, wrapped her youngest son in a blanket and placed him on the golf course. The time of death deduced by the medical examiner was 9 p.m., when there were only three sons in the family.
Before Lao Ji finished speaking, the mother confessed to the crime, she came home and saw her youngest son crying, which made her upset, so she covered her youngest son's mouth with a glove, but suddenly she used too much force and covered her son to death, and the family kept a secret and committed perjury together in order to protect her.
As soon as Lao Ji came out of the interrogation room, he was stopped by Xiao He, who said that his mother was not the murderer, and he had a new clue, which was a recording.
In the recording, the eldest son shouted, "What did you do, what did you do, second brother?"
The eldest son said it all, when there were only three of them in the family, but his girlfriend suddenly called, which distracted him. After the phone call, he found that his younger son was not breathing, and the heat-insulating gloves were on his second son's hands.
He was young and ignorant and didn't realize that this kind of play would kill his younger brother, and his brother wanted to call the police immediately, but in a panic, he broke the phone, and then his brother did CPR to save his younger son, but it was too late, and he also broke his sternum because of improper operation.
The family did all this to protect the second son, they didn't want the second son to grow up with the title of murderer, the gossip around him would definitely affect his life, for the healthy growth of the child, the mother would rather go to prison instead of her son than expose the truth.
The truth was revealed, the mother was released, and Sister Xi finally understood why her mother refused to hold her second son.
According to the law, three-year-old children do not have to bear criminal responsibility, and Sister Xi also promised not to make the case public, and they will keep this secret together...
End of this chapter