The oldest children abducted in the truck were seven or eight years old. They were unable to become active as soon as the truck stopped because they were cold and hungry, and were given sleeping pills by gangsters who were afraid of their troubles. After being guided by their respective descriptions, the police quickly found the real addresses of most of the children among them. Combined with the eyewitness testimonies of some gas station employees along the road, they traced the route of the truck and sent the children home one by one.
The "murderer" who appeared in the main hypothesis of the police, that is, the expected accomplice of the murdered trafficker, has yet to be found. On the day of the incident, the police sent a small team that was not dealing with child trafficking issues to search along the highway. They even went to a suburban village a few hundred meters away to ask if there were any strangers who were acting sneakily, but found nothing.
Of course, those families who directly sold their children were dealt with in a targeted manner based on the actual situation. After all, relatives who were able to sell their children must also bear legal responsibility. The parts of the parents who were deprived of custody were either given to well-meaning relatives with good credit and financial conditions, or sent to orphanages to await adoption.
This is the main way to deal with trafficking cases. Lu Yao is also quite familiar with these procedures because there are indeed many related cases. But she cared about something else.
Generally speaking, trafficking incidents also have certain regularity. Although human traffickers abduct children from all over the world or buy children from poor families, the areas where these children come from are usually concentrated within a specific area.
If the homes from which these children were taken were roughly regarded as scattered points on a map, grouped into a circular pattern, this circle would be concentrated in the villages on the edge of the town, including dozens of villages that have not yet been transformed.
"We don't know whether Yu Xuanyi is related to this case, and if so, we don't know what the specific connection is." Lu Yao frowned and made a conclusion, "But this is indeed the only thing we have now. Clues about Yu Xuanyi's origin can be discovered because the time points are right and some elements are basically the same. There is only one problem..."
Liu Che took over her words.
"It's just that there were no obvious external injuries on the other children in the car. Although this was not described in detail in the document, all the questioning processes were basically completed the next day, which means that these children themselves were not actually harmed by the 'murder weapon' of the truck. The impact of hitting someone.”
In other words, the evidence related to the car accident and the multiple bruises on Yu Xuanyi's body still does not exist.
But this still did not affect Lu Yao's continued investigation based on this clue.
"But the problem is, the trafficker is dead, and I have also read all the crime report records in the area where dozens of children live," Lu Yao sighed, "the report records in these small villages are already there. Not many, there are only one or two involved in the disappearance of children. I checked my eyes and none of them matched. Trouble - "
It wasn't like she was helpless.
When this happens, it is actually not necessarily the same as the police station in the city not having files. At that time, you had to walk several miles in rural areas to get to a place that could be called a police station. The files were inherently incomplete, and the chance of submitting information like Dean Zhang Yuan was not 100%.
Besides, there is another possibility. If a missing child was not abducted by traffickers, but was sold by his parents and relatives, there would be no possibility of calling the police.
At that time, most children had to wait until they reached adulthood to register their identity. Unless they were from a family with a wide range of friends, it was difficult for a preschool child to have contact with the outside world. If her parents had evil intentions, it would be almost impossible for her to disappear from this world. Have it at your fingertips.
"Those villages either merged or established their own village committees." Liu Che also contacted some people, "I sent photos of Yu Xuanyi when she was a child, and asked some people who can manage things to see if there are any in the village. The old man knows that such a child was lost seventeen years ago."
He also specifically warned everyone who answered the phone that the child disappeared probably before going to school, and it was not necessarily a high-profile incident. It was an era when there were barriers to information, and everyone's conversations were not that "macro". Especially in small villages and courtyards, most of them stayed at which high-end equipment was bought by a house, or a new piece of clothing was bought by that house. On the little things.
The disappearance of a child may not be reported to the police station by the gossiping public, but it will always cause some extraordinary waves.
"...Besides, Yu Xuanyi was quite good-looking when she was a child." Lu Yao said to himself, "As long as one or two people notice it, it shouldn't be a big... The disappearance of a living person has not caused any discussion at all. .”
She is considered to be someone who has experienced this kind of bonus. When she was a child, she had a cute and easy-to-pin face, but she attracted the attention of many older girls and younger wives in her own store. According to her own father, even selling electronic products is more market-oriented for men. business, when she was around, she also attracted a lot of women with other purposes.
Appearance is always something that attracts attention, and the cubs of animals often attract attention because of their harmlessness and even their natural purity.
The two are superimposed, especially for a large number of girls who are overflowing with motherhood. Good-looking little guys are beyond the scope of gender attraction. It is difficult for both men and women to be "unknown" in a small village.
"I think it's still a bit uncertain." Liu Che didn't often back down, but the only solution to find a needle in a haystack still made him very worried, so he decided to give his young and energetic temporary partner a vaccination first, "Even if there is no news We can also think of another way. After all, the span of time is seventeen years, and most of the memories should have faded. Not to mention that the people from the village committee have to find them one by one. In fact, I am a little worried that they will not They would think that we policemen are here to settle scores and deliberately did not bring it up."
But he actually said that this was an important case and he couldn't bear the responsibility for delaying the case. He hoped that the person responsible would complete the task as much as possible to ensure that important clues would not be missed.
Just as Lu Yao was about to say something, he saw Liu Che's cell phone screen flash again.
Liu Che quickly picked up the phone, said a few words, and negotiated some more. Lu Yao smacked his lips, watching his expression change slightly and listening to the content.
After hanging up the phone, Lu Yao held back his laughter.
Soon, she finally couldn't help but joke:
"Brother Liu, why don't you take a bite of milk in advance every time something like this happens, and be more pious. I think it seems to be quite useful."
