85. The pistol of the crime was discovered

"Didn't she say she was going to the dunes?"

"Yes, if I hear that she wants to go to the dunes, I will stop her severely."

"And when you parted at the station, did she want to go to the dunes?"

"I don't know. Even if she had this thought in her heart, she knew that she would be stopped if she said it, so she probably deliberately didn't say it. She only told me that she was going to eat at her favorite restaurant and then go to a famous local porcelain shop to see the tea set. ”

No such tea set was found near the body. Although it is possible that he was taken away by the prisoner along with his handbag and escaped, it is also possible that he changed his plan to buy a tea vessel in the first place, and wandered the dunes on a moonlit night.

"Well, that's all for now. When are you going back to Nanguang City? ”

When the doctor was asked this, a puzzled expression appeared on his round face.

I'll ask He Chun's brother to come over and have his body cremated, so I think I'll have to stay here for at least two or three days.

"Will you change hotels?"

"I can't say, it depends on the arrival of Brother He Chun. If it is replaced, I will definitely notify you. ”

"Okay."

"Can you ask me a different question?" Xiao Long said politely.

"Absolutely."

"Do you have any clue from the police?"

"At the moment we think it might have been done by the hooligans who live in the neighborhood."

The autopsy was performed that night in the anatomy classroom of Kanazawa Medical College. He Chun's white body lay on the dissecting table, the forensic scalpel slitting open the body and making a statement in a skillful and calm voice, while the assistant next to him took notes on the table a little far away from him.

From the results, it can be seen that the time of the murder was between 7 and 10 o'clock last night, and the murder weapon was a small pistol. It was an close-range shot, with one shot through the neck and two into the left lung and abdomen. Any shot can be fatal. But the murderer continued to fire two more shots, maybe the prisoner hated her so much that even if he killed her, he still couldn't understand his hatred, and then he was extremely afraid that the victim would come back from the dead.

The investigation began on the 10th of the next day. Because the front of the depression runs through the area, it was windy and thunderstormy from the early morning. Tian Chunda and his assistants started with a number of pawnshops to investigate whether the handbag held by the victim had been mortgaged.

It is said that her amulet contains ancient gold coins, and the valuables held by the victim are probably this amulet, and maybe someone will use the ancient money as collateral. I hope you can help pay attention. The detective said to the pawnshop.

The other detectives focused on two main targets. One is to determine the victim's actions after being separated from the doctor at Kanazawa Station until he was shot in the dunes; The other is to find eyewitnesses in order to track down the suspects.

After investigation, it was learned that He Chun was separated from Xiao Long at Kanazawa Station at about half past six. You may have taken a taxi or a city bus to Joy Street, appeared at Xianglin Fang at about 7 o'clock, and ordered pudding and coffee at the café "Moonlight". She was the only one, and there were no companions.

He Chun's dinner is at the "Xilai" restaurant located a little north of Xianglin Fang, Dongfang Street. She paid a hundred yen bill, and the clerk still had an impression. She was the only one at this time. It was then speculated that she might take a bus back to Kanazawa Station and then a coach to the beach. Or you could take a taxi from Oriental Avenue to the beach. Therefore, the direction of reconnaissance was fully invested in the means of transportation.

At night, there are almost no passengers who take the coach to the beach, and the coach is usually running with empty cars.

Other detectives visited the taxi company, but found nothing.

There are also criminal police who look for escape routes or witnesses of prisoners. About a kilometer back from the sand dunes where the discovery site was made, the bus terminus is about 30 minutes from the train station, and 8 kilometers from Kanazawa Station. It is speculated that the means of transportation used by the prisoners to flee were taxis and hitchhikers.

However, the investigation took two days to no avail. Both bus attendants and taxi drivers denied that suspicious people had been transported from the beach to Kanazawa during that time. Hopes placed on witnesses have also been dashed.

On the other hand, the criminal police went around interrogating the bad people gathered among the fishermen or in the city, but they did not get strong information. This brought the investigation to an impasse.

Another piece of information made the criminal police excited. On September 9, the day after He Chun was killed on the beach, a small pistol, made in Russia, was found in the mailbox inside Nanguang Station that morning.

What made the criminal police concerned was that when the pistol was found, the smell of gunpowder was still very strong, in addition to proving that it had just been fired, the blood type attached to it was AB type, and three of the six rounds of bullets had been fired, and there were still three rounds left, all of which were consistent with all the conditions for killing He Chun; He Chun's blood type is also AB type. The killer may have had a gun stained with Hechun's blood when he was checking if she was dead.

Comparing the bullets on the deceased's body with the pistol bullet marks found in the mailbox, it was revealed that the two were identical, so it was assumed that the prisoner immediately boarded the train and fled to Nam Kwang after committing the murder. Captain Tian Chunda ordered that one of the bullets be immediately sent to the Criminal Investigation Science Research Institute of the Provincial Department and entrusted them with a comparative evaluation.

Tian Chunda also ordered people with criminal records in Nanguang City to look for people who had recently resold Russian pistols.

On the afternoon of the 18th of the next day, the Nanguang City Public Security Bureau called and sent a message: The bullets taken from the corpse were completely consistent with the pistol bullet marks found in the mailbox in Nanguang Station.

Captain Tian Chunda sent Hao Dong criminal police to Nanguang Station to investigate.

Hao Dong met the mailbox manager of Nanguang Station and said to him with a smile: "I want to know the time when the pistol was put into the mailbox." ”

If you can know when the guns are thrown into the mailbox, then the arriving train will also be clear. It is even possible to determine the time when the prisoner committed the murder in Kanazawa, and the criminal police are looking forward to it.

"I guess it was dropped into the mailbox between seven and half past nine. The second time I opened the mailbox was at seven o'clock, and the third time it was half past nine. Because there was no pistol when the mailbox was opened at seven o'clock, and it was already in the mailbox when it was opened at half past nine. At nine o'clock, the criminal police came to the station with a police dog to search for drugs, and the gunman was probably worried that the gun would be found, so he hurriedly threw it into the mailbox. Said the manager.

"That's right." Hao Dong took a small notebook and recorded.

"To make it clearer, the first time the mailbox was opened was five o'clock. That is, the mailbox will be opened once every two hours. I'm in charge of the fast credit mailbox, so I have to open it so often. ”

"I see. But when you say seven o'clock and half past nine, to be precise, it is seven o'clock and half past nine on the hour, right? ”

"That's right. All you have to do is look at the mailbox and you'll see the time it was opened written on the side. It says 6:50 and 9:35, but of course there may be a difference of three or four minutes a day. ”

"Of course. By the way, you didn't find a pistol when you fired it the first time, are you sure? ”

"Well, pretty sure. Because I take all the mail when I receive it, I can't go through it without discovering that dangerous thing. ”

Since the time when the murder weapon was put in was between 6:55 and 9:35, it is estimated that the prisoner got off the train arriving at Namko Station between these two hours and 40 minutes.

Hao Dong reported the investigation to Tian Chunda by telephone. Tian Chunda said: "I wanted to investigate the prisoner by train from Kanazawa. ”

Tian Chunda took out the train timetable from his handbag and looked for eligible trains. The prisoner killed He Chun on the night of the 8th, and then rushed to Kanazawa Station to catch a train up to Nanko. The train arrives at Namguang Station between 7 and 9:30 the next morning. Tian Chunda's eyes seemed to be stuck in the table, chasing the small font, and finally found the only train that matched.

The trip departs Kanazawa at 20 a.m. and arrives at Nanko Station at 7 a.m. the next morning. Prisoner X must have wanted to infiltrate the six million people of this big city so that he could escape the police.

Tian Chunda used his sleep-deprived eyes to carefully check the small numbers on the timetable. As a result, the only one who was able to put the murder weapon into the mailbox at the critical time was to take this bus.