85. The pistol used in the crime was found
"Didn't she say she was going to the dunes?"
"Yes, if I hear that she wants to go to the sand dunes, I will definitely stop her severely."
"So when you separated at the station, did she want to go to the dunes?"
"I don't know. Even if she had this idea in her mind, she knew that she would be blocked if she said it, so she might not have said it on purpose. She only told me that she was going to dine at her favorite restaurant, and then go to a famous local restaurant. Check out the tea sets in the china shop.”
No such tea set was found near the body. It is possible that the prisoner took away the bag with him and ran away, or it is possible that he changed his plan to buy tea sets from the beginning and ended up wandering in the sand dunes on a moonlit night.
"Well, that's enough for now. When are you going back to Nanguang City?"
When the doctor was asked this question, a confused expression appeared on his round face.
I will ask He Chun's brother to come over for the cremation of the body, so I think I will have to stay here for at least two or three days.
"Would you change hotels?"
"I can't say for sure. It depends on the arrival of Brother He Chun. If there is a change, I will definitely inform you."
"good."
"Can I ask the question instead?" Xiao Long said politely.
"sure."
"Do the police have any clues?"
"At the moment we think it may have been done by gangsters who live around here."
That evening an autopsy was performed in the anatomy classroom of Kanazawa Medical College. He Chun's white corpse was lying on the autopsy table. The forensic doctor cut open the body with a scalpel and stated his opinions in a skilled and calm voice. The assistant beside him was taking notes on the table a little far away from him.
It can be seen from the results that the time of the murder was between seven and ten o'clock last night, and the murder weapon was a small pistol. This was a close-range shot. One of the rounds hit the neck and penetrated, and the next two hit the left lung and abdomen. Any shot can be fatal. But the murderer fired two more shots. Maybe the prisoner hated her so much that even if he killed her, he would still not be able to forgive his hatred, or he was extremely afraid that the victim would come back from the dead.
The investigation started on the 10th the next day. Because of the low pressure front running through the area, the day started to be windy and thundery from early in the morning. Tian Chunda and his assistants started looking at some pawn shops to investigate whether the handbag held by the victim had been mortgaged.
"It is said that her amulet contains ancient gold coins. The valuables held by the victim are probably this amulet. Someone may use the ancient coins as collateral. I hope you can help pay attention." The criminal police said to the people at the pawn shop.
Other detectives mainly investigate two targets. One is to determine the victim's actions after being separated from the doctor at Kanazawa Station until he was shot and killed in the sand dunes; the other is to find witnesses to track down the suspect.
After investigation, it was found that He Chun separated from Xiao Long at Kanazawa Station at about 6:30. Maybe I took a taxi or a city bus to Happy Street, showed up at Xianglinfang around seven o'clock, and ordered pudding and coffee at the "Moonlight" cafe. She was alone, with no one accompanying her.
The place where He Chun had dinner was at the "Xilai" Hotel on Dongfang Street, slightly north of Xianglinfang. She paid a hundred yuan note, and the clerk was still impressed. She was alone at this time. It was later speculated that she might have taken a bus back to Kanazawa Station and then transferred to a long-distance bus to go to the beach. Or maybe take a taxi from Dongfang Street and go straight to the beach. Therefore, the investigation direction devoted all its efforts to transportation.
At night, there are almost no passengers taking long-distance buses to the beach. Usually long-distance buses are running with empty carriages.
Other detectives went to check the taxi company, but found nothing.
There are also criminal police looking for the prisoner's escape route or witnesses. About one kilometer back from the sand dune where the discovery was made is the terminal of the long-distance bus, which is about thirty minutes away from the train station and eight kilometers away from Kanazawa Station. It is speculated that the means of transportation used by the prisoners when escaping include taxis and hitchhiking.
However, the investigation that took two days came to nothing. Both the bus attendant and the taxi driver denied that they had ever driven suspicious people from the beach to Kanazawa during that time. Hopes placed on witnesses were also dashed.
On the other hand, the criminal police went around questioning undesirable elements gathered among the fishermen or in the city, but they did not get any strong information. The investigation reached a deadlock.
A piece of information inspired the detective again. On September 9th, the day after He Chun was murdered on the beach, a small pistol made in Russia was found in the mailbox at Nanguang Station that morning.
What concerned the criminal police was that when they found the pistol, the smell of gunpowder was still very strong. In addition to proving that it had just been fired, the blood type attached to it was AB type, and three of the six bullets had been fired, and there were still three left. , all these conditions are consistent with all the conditions for killing He Chun; He Chun's blood type is also AB. The murderer may have contaminated the gun with her blood while checking whether He Chun was dead.
Comparing the bullet marks on the deceased's body with the pistol bullet marks found in the mail box, it was found that the two were the same. Therefore, it was speculated that the prisoner got on the train and fled to Nanguang immediately after the murder. Captain Tian Chunda ordered that one of the bullets be immediately sent to the Provincial Institute of Criminal Investigation Science and entrusted them with comparative identification.
Tian Chunda also ordered people with criminal records in Nanguang City to find people who had recently resold Russian pistols.
On the afternoon of the next day, the 18th, a call came from the Nanguang City Public Security Bureau with news: the bullets taken out of the corpse were completely consistent with the pistol bullet marks found in the mailbox of Nanguang Station.
Captain Tian Chunda sent Detective Hao Dong to Nanguang Station to investigate.
Hao Dong met the mailbox manager at Nanguang Station and said to him with a smile: "I want to know the time when the pistol was put into the mailbox."
If the time when the gun was dropped into the mailbox could be known, then the arriving train would also be known. It is even possible to determine the time when the criminal committed the crime in Kanazawa. The detective is looking forward to this.
"I probably put it in the mailbox between seven o'clock and nine-thirty. The second time I opened the mailbox was at seven o'clock, and the third time was at nine-thirty. Because there was no pistol when I opened the mailbox at seven o'clock. It was already in the mailbox when I opened it at nine-thirty. At nine o'clock, the criminal police came to the station with police dogs to search for drugs. The gunman may have been worried that the gun would be discovered, so he threw it into the mailbox in a hurry," the manager said.
"That's right." Hao Dong took a notebook and recorded it.
"To make it clearer, the first time the mailbox is opened is at five o'clock. That means the mailbox will be opened about once every two hours. I am responsible for the express mailbox, so I have to open it so frequently."
"I understand. But when you said seven o'clock and nine-thirty, to be precise, it's seven o'clock and nine-thirty, right?"
"That's right. If you look at the mailbox, you'll see the opening time written on the side. It says six-fifty and nine-thirty-five, but of course there may be a three or four minute difference every day."
"Of course. By the way, you didn't find the pistol when you fired it for the first time. Are you sure?"
"Well, I'm very sure. Because when I collect mail, I will collect every single one, so if something dangerous like that is in it, there's no way I wouldn't have discovered it."
Since the time when the murder weapon was thrown was between 6:55 and 9:35, it is estimated that the prisoner got off the train arriving at Nanguang Station between these two hours and forty minutes.
Hao Dong reported the investigation status to Tian Chunda by phone. Tian Chunda said: "I want to investigate what time the prisoner took the train from Kanazawa."
Tian Chunda took out the train timetable from his handbag and looked for trains that met the conditions. The criminal killed He Chun on the night of the 8th, and then rushed to Kanazawa Station to take the train to Nanguang. This train arrived at Nanguang Station between 7:00 and 9:30 the next morning. Tian Chunda's eyes seemed to be stuck in the watch, tracing the small fonts, and finally found the only suitable train.
This drive departed from Kanazawa at 20 o'clock and arrived at the final destination at Nanko Station at 7 o'clock the next morning. Prisoner
Tian Chunda used his sleep-deprived eyes to carefully check the small numbers on the timetable. In the end, the only way to put the murder weapon into the mailbox at the critical moment was by taking this bus.
