It all started fifteen years ago.
From a police perspective, this was an unprecedented provocation. But for the masses, even in that era when information was relatively scarce, this was an earth-shattering event. Like thunder, it became an unnamed symbol in word of mouth.
Dawn, as a name that couldn't be more cliché, has been tainted with another meaning.
Not because of anything else, but because those four murder cases were all "works" with such influence as "the right time, the right place, the right people and the right people".
According to the order in which the police received reports, a total of four incidents occurred in the first year. Although I couldn't tell the order at the first time, I still sorted it temporarily based on the order of discovery.
For the first time, the crime scene was quite far from the city. At that time, only a few people in each village had telephones, and the contents of the alarm calls received by the local police station were chaotic and even consisted of sentences cobbled together by three or four people, who all insisted on their own opinions.
The deceased was a local male villager. In fact, as a victim, he is different from all other "outstanding" victims.
Before his death, he was relatively unremarkable. Because unlike most farmers in the village who work in the fields, he almost never leaves home and only has a few drinking buddies - but they can't chat with them. Perhaps the only thing that can highlight his presence is his beautiful wife and young child.
People's impression of him is more like a decoration in a family, rather than a pillar in the usual sense. People often see him shouting on the street with a red face, talking empty words all day long, and then returning home shaking his head. The only thing that can be called a specialty may be a face with regular features, but also because he is immersed in decadence. He was transformed by enjoying wine and meat.
The strange thing is that the wife in this family has been so docile, virtuous, and obedient from beginning to end, which makes many gossiping villagers puzzled - how could the beautiful village beauty in the past be so resigned and resigned?
On the contrary, after his death, not only was his death unforgettable, but the reasons behind it were also made public.
He died on the street, where most people walked in the village.
His face was pale and his posture was straight. He seemed to be lying in a coffin, with his whole body covered by a shallow layer of straw.
The early morning light was not yet dazzling. A young man was walking on the road leading his cattle and sheep to the market. He looked back and did not pay attention to his feet. He almost tripped over the ankle of a corpse.
The light was dim, and you had to get very close to see the subtle differences in skin color. There were no obvious wounds in the upward direction.
Because of this, the young man thought at first that a drunk man had overslept and fell to the ground with a hangover. This is a common thing. If a child from another family throws some straw on the head in a prank, it will look like this. He was just thinking about sweeping away the straw and calling someone up, when he was suddenly dazzled by the morning light and realized that there was a mystery hidden in the straw on the ground.
There are some crooked lines on the ground covered by straw, which seem to be some kind of symbols. The color is red with a bit of black in it. It doesn't look like human clothes, and it's still far away from the human body - it's more like graffiti drawn with paint.
While he was wondering if the children of the people who had recently built a new house were here to cause mischief, because that was the only place where there was paint, he first swept away the scrawled writing out of curiosity.
The word "dawn" comes into view, and there is a long bar in front of it, which seems to be a dash, but the person who drew the line may have a shaky hand. If it were not added in front of the name, it would be more like a long and narrow wavy line.
Realizing that there seemed to be something on it, he touched it again and saw only a few large characters. The handwriting was also crooked. It seemed that the person who wrote it was not used to this way of writing, but the direction was still clear.
"Walking for heaven".
People from the local police station were soon called to the scene. Because the communication among the villagers was too mixed, they even thought it was just an ordinary accident or fight at first. People from the local police station even contacted the branch when they realized something was wrong. The detective confirmed that this was a vicious murder case.
The fatal injury was behind the skull, which was one of the reasons why the market-goers did not immediately discover that it was a corpse. The level of forensic medicine at that time was still relatively limited. Even if the body was sent back to the branch's forensic institution for investigation at the first time, it could only be concluded about the approximate time range of death and the cause of death - the wounds were mixed with glass fragments, and the deceased It should be the back of the head that was smashed by a glass bottle, but the main location of the bottle is unknown.
The crime scene was not on the street, but in the deceased's own home. The wife of the deceased claimed that her husband was nowhere to be seen when he returned to his room that night, and that she and her children slept peacefully in another room. The initial direction of the investigation was to find people in the village who had a grudge against him, but when the deceased and the villagers didn't even interact much, how could there be any so-called grudge?
Even so, the focus quickly settled on a certain person.
The deceased's wife. When a woman in the village was questioned, she said that when she was washing clothes by the river in the evening, she had seen her cleaning the blood on her arms. At that time, there happened to be no female police officers among the police officers who came after a long journey, so the wife of the leader of the village committee checked her body and found that this normally gentle wife was covered in scars caused by domestic violence.
But just a few days before the incident, this lady was still laughing and chatting with the nearby peasant women. Others pity her for working so hard, but her husband has accomplished nothing. The couple and their children are living off her dowry, which is really not decent. But these rare and heartfelt persuasion only received her silence and a perfunctory smile, as if the matter had nothing to do with her.
It was several days before the investigation progressed to this point. The most common inference is, of course, that the lady had been holding back for many years and finally took revenge. But after the police came to the door, this conclusion was overturned.
Because there was no evidence, several police officers who were temporarily staying at the deceased's home decided to interrogate the deceased's son first, and then try to get more facts from the lady who had remained silent - even if she was not the murderer, what happened to her I'm afraid this is also the basic reason why revenge messages of this nature appear. The police officer determined that even though the wife remained silent about the atrocities and even pretended to be peaceful to the outside world, she must be hiding some secrets.
But that night, new news came from another city.
That was the second case that was discovered, and it was the preview that really kicked off everything. That was a murder case that happened in the same county. The reason why they can be connected is because they have the same signature.
"dawn".
The deceased's name was Li Mingde, a middle-aged man over fifty years old who died from a fall.
The scene of the crime was strewn with fragments of window glass from nearby buildings. But among these messy fragments, the local police found fragments that did not belong to the window, with different textures and thicknesses, as well as obviously older blood stains on the glass.
Following the signature clues, the two cases were officially linked together.
But what is different from the first case is that the amount of information attached to this case is much larger, far more than the simple blood letters before. It was a piece of paper torn from a notebook, with long paragraphs of text written on it with a pen. Not only did he elaborate on the reasons for killing Li Mingde, he also ended with a provocative sentence.
"I'm very disappointed. I thought someone would come faster, but I didn't expect that I overestimated your ability. From this point of view, the place I picked should be more interesting."
This was the beginning of fifteen years of grudges, the beginning of everything.
