One morning 20 years ago, the Qingfeng City Intermediate People's Court publicly pronounced the first-instance verdict in the case of the defendant Wang Dahai's illegal possession of firearms, armed robbery, intentional homicide, and civil lawsuit attached to the forced female involvement.

Defendant Wang Dahai, defendant defense lawyer Wan Fei, plaintiff An An and An An's parents, Xiao Gang's parents, An An's lawyer, juror Wu Junhao, and witness Zhu Yang appeared in court.

Wan Fei acted as Wang Dahai's defense lawyer, defending him for misdemeanors (as opposed to the felonies charged by the public prosecution) and minor crimes (sentencing defense).

After the trial, the court pronounced a verdict that the defendant Wang Dahai was guilty of illegal possession of firearms, armed robbery, manslaughter, and attempted crime of forcing a woman, and was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, deprivation of political rights for life, and confiscation of all personal property.

Plaintiff An An and his immediate family members expressed their dissatisfaction with Wang Dahai's death sentence with a two-year reprieve, and demanded that the death sentence be carried out immediately, so they appealed to the court.

Then, in the course of the second instance, the court re-convicted Wang Dahai of the crimes he committed: illegal possession of firearms, armed robbery, intentional homicide, and forced women, and upheld the original verdict in sentencing.

Plaintiff An An's lawyer said that the reason why the defendant Wang Dahai was sentenced to a suspended death sentence instead of the death penalty had a lot to do with the witness's retraction of his confession and the defendant's lawyer Wan Fei's defense of misdemeanors.

Twenty years later, all the people who helped Wang Dahai defend that year have died, including the presiding judge Liu Changchun, lawyer Wan Fei, and Wang Dahai himself.

The murderer's next and final target is directed at the witness Zhu Yang.

If the murderer kills Zhu Yang again, then he will complete his "just trial plan".

Thinking of this, I immediately dialed Xue Hang's phone, and in two days, I believe that he has found the witness Zhu Yang.

"Team Qin, I have found Zhu Yang, we are now living in Zhu Yang's house, and we will protect him 24 hours a day, Zhu Yang is very cooperative, he does not go out every day, and all the material procurement is done by us personally. At the same time, we have contacted the Lifang Municipal Public Security Bureau, and will dispatch the police to respond when we encounter an emergency. ”

After listening to Xue Hang's situation on the phone, I finally put my mind at ease and instructed seriously: "Xue Hang, the lawyer who defended Wang Dahai's misdemeanor back then was also killed, and now the witness Zhu Yang is the last piece of the puzzle for the murderer to carry out justice, you must ensure his safety, and at the same time, you must also pay attention to your personal safety, beware of the murderer's surprise attack, the murderer has mature anesthetic methods, you must be careful, no matter when, you are not allowed to act alone!" ”

"Don't worry, Team Qin." On the phone, Xue Hang said seriously.

I nodded, and then said: "In this case of the lawyer's murder, we extracted the fingerprints of the suspected murderer at the scene, and there were also major discoveries in the autopsy process, we are not far from locking the murderer. ”

I told Xue Hang the latest progress to reassure him.

"Okay Qin team, let's contact you at any time twenty-four hours a day."

I just hung up the phone here, and the forensic department brought good news again.

In the forensic department, the forensic doctor who performed the autopsy on Wan Fei said to me: "I found a large number of unknown drug ingredients in the body of the deceased Wan Fei, and the dose this time is obviously much larger than the previous two cases, I don't know if the murderer used a larger dose this time, or because of the short time of death, the medicine in the body was not completely metabolized." ”

I picked up Wan Fei's autopsy report, which stated that the time of death was between 8 and 9 o'clock this morning, and the cause of death was consistent with the forensic doctor's judgment at the scene: the deceased was anesthetized by an unknown agent, his tongue was cut off while he was conscious, and while he lost too much blood, some blood and fluid choked into his trachea, resulting in suffocation and death.

"Still can't you test the specific composition of the anesthetic?" I asked the forensic doctor.

The medical examiner listened to me, took a deep breath and shook his head. Later, he handed me a test report and said, "The specific composition of the drug is still unclear, this is a new type of drug, and there is no reference material at present." But after comparing it with the tranquilizer you brought back from the psychiatric hospital, I found that the two are more than 90% similar, and I can be sure that the two are the same series of drugs. As for the remaining 10 percent, it is possible that they are used differently, or that they are upgraded alternatives to tranquilizers. ”

I looked at the lab report and thought to myself: the same ingredient, the anesthetic used by the murderer should be another model of tranquilizer, and the two most likely came from the same pharmaceutical factory. At present, the only manufacturer that produces this medicine and supplies it to psychiatric hospitals is Wu Junhao's pharmaceutical company!

I brought the news back to the serious crime team, and soon, Su Yumei also walked into the case analysis room, and she had just personally led the team to collect fingerprints on Wu Junhao.

"How? Do fingerprints match? When I saw her enter the door, I immediately asked.

Su Yumei shook her head: "The fingerprints don't match, Wu Junhao is not the murderer, and the fingerprints are not from the deceased Wan Fei, they must have been left by the murderer." ”

At present, Wu Junhao is suspected of committing a major crime, but because there is no direct evidence, he cannot be criminally detained, and the police can only closely monitor him.

Then, Su Yumei added: "We have sent someone to monitor Wu Junhao 24 hours a day, and once there is evidence to confirm, we can arrest him immediately." ”

"Except for the fingerprints left at the scene, are there no other clues?" Li Meng asked.

Su Yumei shook her head and said in a low voice: "No, it is an old urban area, or a residential area, the monitoring is not complete at all, there is only one fingerprint at the scene, and there are no footprints." ”

"Compared with the previous two cases, there were no fingerprints left, but this time there was a fingerprint, can you be sure that it is the murderer?" Jiang Tingbai asked.

"The fingerprints were extracted from the handle of the iron bookcase in the corner of Wan Fei's desk, which was a private bookcase of Wan Fei, which was full of all personal belongings, as well as law books and pennants that were not commonly used, and no one else would move them except Wan Fei." Su Yumei said in a deep voice.

Lin Zifan thought for a while and asked, "Why did the murderer open the bookcase when he was killing?" What was he looking for? ”

Su Yumei spread her hands, and she was also surprised by this question: "There are obvious rummaging marks in the cabinet, but I don't know what I lost." It's full of books and pennants, and there's nothing special. ”

I thought about it for a while, and said lightly: "Maybe the murderer is looking for something special." ”