Chapter 20: The Little Old Man
Theoretically, the more dead people in the case, the more clues the police can get.
Today is November 3, and there are already three deceased people in this case, but we can get very few clues.
On the evening of November 1, He Xiangshan and Li Xuemei were killed in their own commissary, because the scene of the crime was a commissary, so the technical team extracted a large number of footprints and fingerprints at the scene, and through surveillance, the murderer was a dwarfism patient wearing a Halloween pumpkin costume, only about one meter tall.
Judging from the modified nail gun held by the deceased, the precise design of aiming the deceased at the heart, the composure in the process of killing, and the clean and neat killing method that only lasted less than half a minute, and finally the quick departure after the killing, the murderer will definitely not be a child.
But the murderer did not kill He Mingxuan, who was only five years old, there are two possibilities, the first is that the murderer did not want to kill He Mingxuan, and the second possibility is that the murderer did not find He Mingxuan at that time.
The police have been conducting visits and investigations, exploring the nail gun used by the murderer and the purchase channels of the Halloween pumpkin costume worn by the murderer.
But no matter where the investigation began, the police found a large number of shops selling nail guns and Halloween pumpkin costumes.
On the other hand, the police have searched for dwarfism patients throughout the city and investigated all the hospitals in the city, but there is still no critical progress.
The investigation has reached an impasse.
The Technical Investigation Bureau is reviewing a large number of surveillance footage from the commissary, but the surveillance facilities of the commissary can only be stored for a maximum of seven days, after which the content of the surveillance footage will be automatically overwritten.
Unfortunately, the police did not find any suspicious clues in the seven-day surveillance content, let alone any dwarfism patients.
We also investigated the social relations of the two deceased, and also found no relevant clues. To this day, we don't know how the two deceased formed a grudge against the dwarfism killer, or when the two deceased met the dwarfism.
At present, the clues that the police have are that the murderer is particularly familiar with this family, so he deliberately chose the same Halloween pumpkin costume as He Mingxuan, the five-year-old son of the two deceased, and after careful planning, he chose to commit the crime on Halloween.
In the early morning of November 2, Shen Yuan, who had gone to collect loan sharks, was killed on a meadow by the river.
The scene left a murderer's 37-yard footprints, and after comparison, the Trace Examination Department found no identical footprints at the crime scene of the commissary, all because the scene was too badly damaged.
After identifying the footprints on the grass by the river and reasoning about the murderer's stride, the trace examination department determined that the murderer was a dwarfism patient with a height of 1.1 meters and a weight of 35 kilograms.
Shen Yuan was a person engaged in usurious lending, and the murderer's motive for killing was Shen Yuan's debt collection and persecution, the murderer first shot Shen Yuan in the back, and then aimed at Shen Yuan's heart at close range.
The murder weapon is the same as the murder weapon that killed He Xiangshan and Li Xuemei in the commissary, it is a modified nail gun, and the nails used are also the same model.
This was confirmed in our questioning of Shen Yuan's two younger brothers, Gao Ying and Cui Hu, who said that after Shen Yuan left after eating that night, he went to find a little old man who was only one meter tall to collect debts.
At present, it has been determined that the murderer is a man, and he is older, about 1.1 meter tall and weighs about 35 kilograms, and is a dwarfism patient.
The murderer once borrowed money from Shen Yuan at high interest, which may be a loss in business, or it may be that his family is sick and urgently needs money.
The next step of the police investigation direction is set on the dwarfism patients who are doing business, and they are looking for clues about the dwarfism patients in major hospitals in Ningzhou City.
But the question is, the murderer killed Shen Yuan because of usurious loans, so what was the reason for killing He Xiangshan and Li Xuemei?
In the office of the serious crime team, everyone summarized and analyzed the clues currently in their possession.
"First of all, we need to be clear about how the murderer learned about He Mingxuan's costume on Halloween night, and the murderer's physical characteristics are almost the same as He Mingxuan's, which shows that the murderer knows He Xiangshan's family very well. Also, the murderer bought the same Halloween pumpkin costume as He Mingxuan, and the two most likely bought it in the same store. Lin Zifan spoke first, and he felt that the case should find a breakthrough in the Halloween pumpkin costume.
"My intuition tells me that this case must have something to do with He Mingxuan." Li Meng suddenly muttered.
Although there is a theoretical possibility that He Mingxuan is the murderer, through clues from multiple directions, He Mingxuan is not suspected of committing the crime and has no motive for murder.
First of all, He Mingxuan is only five years old, although He Xiangshan and Li Xuemei are his adoptive parents, it is impossible for a five-year-old child to complete such a shocking case.
Secondly, He Mingxuan is not the image of a little old man, he will not borrow usury, he doesn't know Shen Yuan at all, how can he kill people?
Third, He Mingxuan has always been by his grandmother and grandfather's side, and he has no time to commit crimes at all. Jiang Tingbai gave his own answer to Li Meng's question.
"I didn't say that He Mingxuan was the murderer, but I always felt that things were a little strange, first of all, the murderer only killed He Xiangshan and Li Xuemei, and did not kill He Mingxuan together. And when he killed, He Mingxuan happened to be absent......" Li Meng explained.
"Little dream, what do you think?" I knew that Li Meng hadn't finished speaking, so I asked her.
Li Meng settled down and replied seriously: "From the current point of view, the deceased in the two cases do not know each other, and the murderer's motive for killing is not the same. So what I'm thinking about is, will the murderer know He Mingxuan? ”
"Will He Mingxuan know a little old man with dwarfism?" Jiang Tingbai asked rhetorically.
"He Mingxuan was adopted by He Xiangshan from the orphanage last year, and he is not a dwarfism patient, if he is a dwarfism patient, will the orphanage not know?" Xue Hang also asked rhetorically.
Li dreamed about it, and she was convinced.
"Have you investigated He Mingxuan's situation in the orphanage?" I asked.
"Now that He Mingxuan and Li Xuemei are dead, we don't know which orphanage He Mingxuan adopted from at all, and we don't know his specific situation." Lin Zifan shrugged his shoulders and said lightly.
"Let's hope the murderer won't continue to commit crimes......"