Chapter 7: The Identity of the Dead
The case analysis meeting of the Chenglin County Hotel Homicide Case was held in the office of the Criminal Police Team of the Chenglin County Public Security Bureau.
The forensic department is actively conducting autopsies, the laboratory department is also very busy, and although the environment of the public security bureau in the county is not as good as that of the municipal public security bureau, the equipment here is also professional, and the staff of the laboratory department are also professional.
As long as the identity of the deceased is determined, the investigation can start from the social relations of the deceased, since the murderer and the deceased knew each other, it is very likely that they are neighbors or fellow villagers and villages.
The relationship between the villagers in a village is very complicated, and it is also a huge network of news, as long as what happens in the village, even the neighboring villages will spread.
Therefore, as long as the identity of the deceased is confirmed, the prospects of this case are very promising.
In the office of the criminal police team, Tang Wenbo presided over the meeting, and representatives of the forensic department, trace examination department, and laboratory department took turns to speak according to the current situation of the case.
There was nothing new to me about what they said, and they were also speculating based on the situation on the scene, and I had already thought of what they were speculating.
What I am most concerned about now is the identity of the deceased.
Next, when it came to the serious case team to speak, everyone also expressed their thoughts on the case based on their own thoughts and speculations.
At this moment, Li Meng, who was beside him, suddenly said: "Why are you so sure that the gun must have been brought by the murderer?" ”
This question took us all by surprise, and it was really something that none of us thought of and that we automatically ignored, so to speak.
Someone died in room 414, and the murderer fled, which makes it natural for us to attribute all the weapons in the room to the murderer.
"Is there still a possibility that the deceased actually made an appointment with the murderer to the scene, and then the deceased made a personal threat to the murderer, and the murderer killed the murderer in a hurry, resulting in a case of excessive defense?" Li Mengyou added.
In the office of the Interpol team, there was silence. Everyone has been a criminal police officer for many years, and they completely ignored this possibility.
But in any case, as long as the identity of the deceased is determined, all problems will be solved.
Fortunately, the criminal police team in Chenglin County was professional enough not to make us wait too long, and about two hours later, they investigated the identities of the two deceased through the appearance of the deceased and the belongings left at the scene.
The second deceased, Xie Tianjun, aged 42, was born in Yushugou, Chenglin County, and was a KTV owner in Chenglin County.
The first deceased, Dai Xiaowu, 21 years old, from Yushugou, Chenglin County, is currently out of school and unemployed, the body was found on the side of the bed, and was killed by blunt object hitting the temple on the head, the time of death was around 11 o'clock yesterday morning, and there were obvious signs of a fight on his body.
The difference in the time of death between Xie Tianjun and Dai Xiaowu is only one hour!
And the time of Dai Xiaowu's death was the time when the waitress went to the door of room 414 to inquire about the situation! From this, it can be seen that the person who spoke to the waitress is the murderer!
The homes of the two deceased are in Yushugou, Chenglin County, which is also in line with my previous rough judgment of where the two lived.
Now that the identity of the deceased has been confirmed, the next thing we need to do is to go to Elm Gully to investigate the situation.
Jiang Tingbai stayed behind to assist the laboratory department in doing the trace examination, Li Meng and I went to investigate Xie Tianjun's situation, and Lin Zifan and Xue Hang went to investigate Dai Xiaowu's situation.
Yushugou is not far from Chenglin County, Tang Wenbo took us there, about 20 minutes by car, we came to Yushugou.
The two investigation teams split up, and we followed the villagers' directions to Xie Tianjun's home.
Xie Tianjun's home is a bungalow compound, and the whole village is full of bungalows, but no one's yard is bigger than Xie Tianjun's.
When we reached the courtyard gate, a woman stood at the window of the house and looked out, and when she saw us entering, she hurried out and asked, "Who are you looking for?" ”
Her voice trembled a little, which surprised us a little. But after thinking about it, there was no one at home, and two strangers suddenly broke into the yard, and it was normal for people to be a little worried and afraid.
"Is this Xie Tianjun's home?" I stopped, kept a safe distance from the woman, and asked her.
"Yes! Is something wrong with my husband?! When the woman heard our question, she panicked and asked us directly.
This woman is Xie Tianjun's wife, she doesn't know our identity yet, and she doesn't know what we are here to do, how can she be so sure that something happened to Xie Tianjun?
This made me curious and alarmed.
"Can we come in and talk?" I took a few steps forward and looked at her earnestly.
The woman nodded hurriedly, and without even asking who we were and what we were here for, she eagerly invited us into the house.
Li Meng and I glanced at each other and followed the woman into the house.
She took us to the couch and asked eagerly, "Did something happen to my husband?!" ”
I frowned and asked her softly, "Why do you think something happened to your husband?" ”
The woman was stunned for a moment, and asked inexplicably, "Then ...... you are here?"
That's when she remembered that she didn't know who we were.
"We are from the Public Security Bureau, and we have come to learn from you about Xie Tianjun's situation." I nodded and showed her my ID.
After hearing that we were police officers from the Public Security Bureau, the woman became even more panicked and slowly sat down on the sofa, now she was even more convinced that something must have happened to her husband.
"Eldest sister, why do you keep asking Xie Tianjun if something happened?" Li Meng sat on the sofa and asked him very puzzled.
The woman swallowed hard and said anxiously, "Because he hasn't come back all night!" When I called him yesterday at noon, it wasn't my husband who answered the phone. ”
"Not your husband?!"
I immediately became alert, because Xie Tianjun had died yesterday morning, so the person who answered the phone was very likely to be the murderer!
The woman nodded vigorously and said to us: "Yes, the person who answered the phone is a man with a local accent, and he said that my husband is playing cards with him, and he will go to KTV tonight and will not go home."
I asked my husband to answer the phone, but he said that my husband had gone to the toilet and asked him to call me back when he came out of the toilet later......
I didn't think much of it at the time, and after about an hour I still didn't get a call, so I made another call, but the phone was turned off......"