This matter must be considered again.
The more he thought about it, the more Leng Xiaobing felt there was something wrong with it.
Regardless of whether Shen Haiyang is the murderer or not, there are loopholes in the logic.
If Shen Haiyang was not the murderer, why did he run?
If Shen Haiyang was the murderer, why did he use a public phone to call his home?
Reasoning is like building a house with building blocks. Once there is a problem in a certain link, no matter how high the building blocks are, they will all collapse in an instant.
Looking at all the details of the Haizhou case, they all illustrate the fact that the murderer is not only calm, but also extremely thoughtful.
That day, the murderer walked towards Leng Xiaobing step by step with his gun pointed at him.
Not only that, the murderer also put the gun on his forehead, seemingly begging for death, but Leng Xiaobing concluded that the murderer must have discovered that the gun's safety was not turned on.
Otherwise, the murderer would never be so calm.
In fact, there was another point that Leng Xiaobing couldn't figure out, and that was that the 'murderer' clearly had the opportunity and time to kill him.
Why didn't the murderer kill him?
If the murderer was afraid of killing the police, he later killed Brother Lan.
This reason is obviously untenable.
After thinking about it, Leng Xiaobing subconsciously rubbed the temples on both sides of his forehead.
He seemed to have caught something, but also seemed to have caught nothing.
It's like a ball of yarn rolled together and you can't find the end.
Buzz!
Buzz!
At this moment, Leng Xiaobing felt a vibration in his thigh.
The phone rang, I took out my phone and looked at it.
Caller: Xia Mu.
"Hello?"
"Are you back in the bureau?"
"Okay, just wait for me in the office, I'll be right away."
After hanging up the phone, Leng Xiaobing checked in at the archives management office and borrowed the two files filled with phone numbers.
He was going to tell this clue to 'Xia Mu'.
That kid has a good brain, and there's no telling what he might think differently.
Walking to the office, Leng Xiaobing saw 'Xia Mu' fiddling with a map as soon as the door opened.
It was a map of Lao Haizhou City, and 'Xia Mu' was holding a red pen in his hand and kept marking on the map.
Leng Xiaobing was familiar with several marked places, including the cotton spinning factory family courtyard, the single dormitory of the machine tool factory, the Yidian family courtyard, and the printing factory family courtyard.
In addition, there is a red road map on the map.
Printing Factory Family Courtyard, Chaoyang Road, Spring Square, Chengguan Middle School, Urban Management Community, Qianjin Non-staple Food Factory, Hongguang Road... Datong Bridge.
This line is winding and not a pure straight line. Combined with the marked locations and curves, it looks very much like a bus route map.
Seeing this scene, Leng Xiaobing said in surprise.
"Xiamu, did you find any new clues?"
Li Jie smiled, shook his head and said, "Not yet, but I think we can follow this idea and check it out."
As he spoke, Li Jie stretched out his hand and pointed at several crime locations.
"Team Leng, look at the locations of these crimes. They are actually not very far away."
After saying that, Li Jie drew a circle with a red pen.
"Look, they are all in this circle."
"According to common sense, the murderer's activity range should be around here,"
"Killing involves only three words: love, hatred and wealth. The victims in the Haizhou case are all beautiful women, and the victims did not lose any property."
"It can be seen that the murderer was either motivated by love or hatred."
"Whether it's love or hatred, it shows that the murderer and the victim have a common social circle, but through investigation, there is no intersection in the social circles of the five victims."
"I've seen your work notes. The scope of the investigation defined by the police back then was very broad, but I don't think it was broad enough."
"At that time, we only investigated acquaintances. From another perspective, what if the victim and the murderer were not very close?"
"Is it possible that the murderer and the five victims all knew each other, but their relationship was limited to acquaintances?"
Leng Xiaobing pondered for a moment, then smiled and scolded: "Well, Xia Mu, if you have any ideas, just tell me, don't play tricks on me here."
Li Jie chuckled: "Captain Leng, I really can't hide anything from you."
In fact, he just deliberately acted like he was being clever. He deliberately let Leng Xiaobing see that he was being clever.
"Team Leng, you met the murderer back then and discovered some details that were not discovered before."
"For example, the camera used by the murderer was very professional. He took pictures of the victims for commemoration and to satisfy his perverted desires."
"Around 2000, taking pictures was not as easy as it is now. All you needed was a mobile phone."
"At that time, if you wanted to take good photos, you had to use a professional camera. Professional cameras were expensive, and you had to learn how to do it."
“When ordinary people buy cameras, they tend to buy point-and-shoot cameras.”
Team Leng nodded when he heard this, and then gave Li Jie a look, indicating that he would continue.
“So, what kind of person buys a professional camera?”
"One is a photography enthusiast who earns a good income, and the other is a photographer who relies on photography to make a living."
“Both types of people had the ability to develop photos themselves.”
Hearing this, Leng Xiaobing probably realized what Li Jie meant.
The circle of photography enthusiasts is so large that it is impossible to find out.
The latter is different. Although the number of photographers is not small, as long as they are willing to check, they can always check them one by one.
Thinking of this, Leng Xiaobing sighed slightly in his heart.
He lamented that if 'Xiamu' had been born more than ten years earlier, if the current 'Xiamu' had been in the Haizhou case task force, perhaps this case would have been solved long ago.
Seventeen years have passed, and it is simply an impossible task to find all the photographers in Haizhou City.
Seventeen years is too long.
While deep in thought, Leng Xiaobing suddenly noticed the red mark on the map out of the corner of his eye.
Then, an idea flashed in his mind.
'Xiamu', this kid, definitely doesn't do wasted work. The circle he drew and the bus route map happened to overlap.
This guy is great!
The difficulty of investigating the whole city is completely different from that of investigating a certain area.
Seeing Leng Xiaobing's eyes falling on the map, Li Jie smiled slightly and thought to himself.
'As expected of the police star of Haizhou City, he understood his intention so quickly. '
"Team Leng, let's start investigating this area first."
Li Jie pointed at the map. The area he circled happened to include Hongguang Road, and there happened to be a photo studio called "Hongguang Road Photo Studio" on Hongguang Road.
"OK."
Leng Xiaobing nodded and patted his head randomly.
"I almost forgot, I also made a new discovery here."
"You take a look at these two phone numbers first."
