Case 20: Chapter 1: Serial Disappearances
If you were asked to build a new world, what would you do?
Is it to build a candy world full of chocolate? Or is it about building a peaceful world free from strife? Or build a troubled world, build a powerful empire, and unify the world?
Everyone has their own idea about this issue, and if it were me, I would build a world without crime.
The end of the year is approaching, and everywhere is full of New Year's flavor, there is still half a month to go is New Year's Day, and there is another month to be the traditional Lunar New Year.
At this time of year, it is the time when crime is rampant, especially pickpockets, who also want to make another good fortune to go home for the New Year.
Therefore, there is the phrase "the end of the year is about to be difficult and peaceful".
The Ningzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, the Criminal Police Team, the Public Security Section and the Special Police Team have all stepped up their duties to ensure a peaceful New Year for everyone.
And our serious crime team is not idle, and has received an important task......
In the cold winter, heavy snow falls.
As long as you hear these eight words, you will have the beautiful scenery of heavy snow fluttering in your mind, but for Ningzhou City, it has not been a decent heavy snow for nearly ten years.
As the saying goes, spring sleepiness, autumn lack of summer nap, winter and March when you can't wake up.
I was napping in the office of the Serious Crime Team when I was suddenly woken up by a shout from Li Meng.
"It's snowing! It's snowing! ”
"What winter doesn't snow?" I raised my eyelids slightly, looked at Li Meng, who was standing in front of the window and enjoying the snow, muttered a word, and continued to nap.
"Don't sleep, let's go out and see the snow!"
Li dreamed that I woke up, and hurriedly ran to my side, shaking my shoulders vigorously.
"My aunt, what's so nice about the snow......" At this time, I was sleepy, and I just wanted to change my position and continue to sleep.
Li Meng was a little angry and looked at me angrily.
"Sister Li Meng, let's go, I'll accompany you to see the snow!" Jiang Tingbai, who was on the side, suddenly beckoned to her and said very enthusiastically.
"Who wants you to accompany you......" Li Meng glanced back at him and continued to shake my shoulder.
"Hahaha, I'm embarrassed for you, aren't you embarrassed?!" After hearing this, Lin Zifan laughed.
Jiang Tingbai let out a long sigh and shrugged helplessly: "Embarrassing, very embarrassing." ”
"If you don't go, if you don't go, I'll go by myself!" Li Meng saw that my eyes were still closed, and yelled in my ear.
Hearing this, I subconsciously shuddered, because this sentence means that I am not far from being beaten......
"Go! Go now! I hurriedly stood up, rubbed my face, and said seriously.
I accompanied Li Meng to the playground behind the office building, where the snow was still falling and a thick layer had been piled up on the ground. For the snow that melted in Ningzhou City in previous years, this can indeed be regarded as heavy snow.
Li Meng stood on the playground, watching the snowflakes fall lightly from the sky, like countless snow spirits dancing in the air, they laughed so happily, as if to announce to people that this winter is no longer sad.
I put my hands in my pockets and looked at Li Meng's happy back, and the corners of my mouth couldn't help but give birth to a smile.
Li Meng is a southern girl, but I can't see the slightest tenderness and birdishness in her, but more of the boldness and atmosphere of a northern girl.
Li Meng stopped there, looking at the snow motionlessly.
I stood behind her, looking at her with a smile on my face, silently accompanying her.
After a while, my mobile phone rang, and it was Lin Zifan calling: "Team Qin, Shen Ju is here, there is a meeting." ”
"Got it, I'll go back."
In the office of the Serious Crime Unit, the tense atmosphere makes the already cold winter even colder.
"As the New Year approaches, the Ministry of Public Security has decided that public security organs across the country will carry out in-depth special operations to tackle the backlog of homicide cases, and set up a special case team for unsolved cases that have been squeezed in recent years, codenamed 'Operation Hurricane'."
The boss Shen Ruoshan settled down and said to us seriously.
To put it bluntly, this special operation means that special case groups have been set up to reorganize and investigate some unsolved cases that have been temporarily shelved, and to make in-depth analysis by using modern criminal investigation technology.
And each of these unsolved cases is a major homicide case, and they are all cases that have accumulated for many years, and even the criminal police who have been responsible for solving them for so many years have changed batch after batch. The clues are also trivial and complicated, and it is very difficult to investigate.
"After the discussion of the Public Security Department, a case was handed over to the serious crime team." Shen Ruoshan said in a deep voice.
After listening to him, all of us took a deep breath, and the difficulty of handing over the case to our serious crime team can be imagined.
"This is the case file, take a look at it." After Shen Ruoshan finished speaking, he pointed to the case file on the table next to him, which was more than half a person high.
Sweeping his gaze, there are more than a dozen of these files, and if the number of files in a case can reach so many, it means that there are enough clues.
If there were so many clues, then the case would have been solved a long time ago.
Therefore, these dozen files are not one case, but many cases.
According to the police habit, every file is a case, so this is a serial murder case involving more than a dozen lives......
The boss, Shen Ruoshan, was still the same, did not give us more information, and after handing over the case file to us, he turned around and left.
Maybe in his eyes, we are already mature criminal policemen and can go through the files by ourselves.
This is a special operation issued by the Ministry of Public Security to deal with the backlog of unsolved cases, and we dare not slack off, and immediately go through the file of this case involving multiple victims.
There are eighteen copies of the dossier, each with a different name.
This means that there have been at least 18 victims in this case.
But the more we flipped, the more we felt that something was wrong.
Because this is not one case at all, but eighteen cases.
And none of these eighteen cases were homicides.
All of them are cases of missing persons.
The 18 cases of missing persons spanned more than two years, and the places of disappearance were all in Jianglin City, but not all of the missing persons were locals in Jianglin City.
Half of them came to Jianglin City from other places, or have been working in Jianglin City for a long time.
The 18 missing persons have nothing in common, they have a wide range of ages, different genders, different areas of work and life, and no interaction with each other, or even know each other.
The only thing they have in common is that they all vanished without warning......
"Jianglin City ......"
I suddenly muttered, because I have been to this city, and I also know the criminal police captain of the Jianglin City Public Security Bureau, his name is Lei Ji, nicknamed Thor, and we also had a competition in the case of the sunken corpse in the lake.
Moreover, Ling Gufeng is also in Jianglin City.