Dongxihu District Criminal Investigation Brigade.
Li Hu and Qin Feng stood in front of the computer, watching the staff of the brother police station inquire about the recent missing persons.
"This, this is it!"
Seeing the photos of the missing people flashing past one by one, Qin Feng, who has photographic memory skills, quickly pointed to one of them and said in surprise.
The photo stopped on the head of a woman whose face was somewhat similar to the corpse.
The staff clicks on the specific report information.
Name: Li Fangfang
Age: 41 years old
Address: No. 12, Xiangfu Second Street, Dongxihu District
Reporter: Wan Wenqing (son)
Reporting time: 2012.6.15
Note: The missing person went out on the night of the 13th and never returned home. After questioning all relatives and friends to no avail, his son Wan Wenqing came to the police station to call the police.
The two were overjoyed when they saw the report information.
The identification of the body represents significant progress in the case.
At this moment, Li Hu's phone rang.
When I picked it up, it turned out that the latest test results from the forensic department had arrived.
After examination, the detailed time of death of the body was around six o'clock in the morning on the 14th.
The cause of death was indeed mechanical asphyxia.
After understanding this, the two drove non-stop to the reporter's home.
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No. 12, Xiangfu Second Street.
Show their IDs and indicate your intention.
Seeing the picture of the corpse provided by Li Hu, Wan Wenqing, who was only fifteen years old, burst into tears.
"My condolences, now I need you to cooperate with the police in recalling the details before your mother disappeared."
"So that we can solve the case faster."
Li Hu comforted.
He has been a criminal police officer for many years, and he has seen too many such separations between life and death.
At this time, he can only do his best to solve the case as soon as possible and vindicate the deceased.
"First of all, let me ask, did your mother have any bad relations with others during her lifetime?"
"No, my mother is a kind person and has a wide range of friends. The neighbors all get along very harmoniously." Wan Wenqing affirmed,
"On the day of disappearance, my mother took a phone call and left."
"She is very popular and often goes out to play cards at night. I thought she was going out to play cards, so I wasn't too worried."
Hearing this, Li Hu and Qin Feng looked at each other, obviously doubting whether the caller was the murderer.
Wan Wenqing was still describing in a sad tone:
"But the next morning, I found that she hadn't come back yet, so I felt something was wrong!"
"Because no matter how much she loves to play cards, she will always rush back to cook with me in the morning."
Speaking of this, the fifteen-year-old boy burst into tears again.
Handing out a tissue to calm Wan Wenjun's mood, Li Hu asked:
"What about your dad?"
Wan Wenqing replied: "Dad is doing civil engineering at a construction site in another place, and he won't be able to return home for several months."
"Then has he been home recently?" Li Hu asked.
The young man shook his head blankly and replied: "No, dad has been busy with construction projects recently and has been homeless for almost two months."
Li Hu nodded, then changed the subject and asked, "Is there anything unusual about your mother before and after she disappeared?"
Wan Wenqing thought hard for a moment, then seemed to remember something and replied:
"On the 14th, didn't I find that my mother didn't come back?"
"I called, but no one answered the phone."
"Later, around eight o'clock, my mother called."
"I hurriedly answered the phone, but after asking several questions, no one answered the phone."
"And then very quickly, the call was hung up."
"When I called again, it said the phone was turned off."
Although he looked sad, his speaking speed was quite gentle.
It's just that when Li Hu and Qin Feng heard these words, they couldn't help but feel panic in their hearts! !
According to forensic examination, the specific time of death of the deceased was around 6 a.m. on the 14th! !
At eight o'clock when the call came in, Li Fangfang should have died! !
But it happened that the deceased's son received a call from the deceased at this time? ! !
Forcibly suppressing his surprise, and seeing that he could no longer ask for any information, Li Hu asked a film police officer to follow Wan Wenqing to the Jiangxia District Criminal Investigation Team to identify the body.
He and Qin Feng hurriedly walked out of the door of the person who reported the crime.
The first time he got in the car, Li Hu, who had not yet started the vehicle, discussed with Qin Feng: "At eight o'clock that morning, the deceased was obviously dead. Could there be a call from a ghost?"
As a criminal police officer, of course he was joking.
Hearing this, Qin Feng thought for a moment, then shook his head with a heavy expression:
"It's not necessarily impossible to call."
"Captain, try to take your place with me------"
He squinted his eyes slightly and said in a very calm tone:
"Is it possible that the murderer accidentally touched the callback button on the deceased's cell phone while tying the body into a box? Then he heard the young man's voice on the other end of the phone and was frightened to the point of confusion."
"But after about ten seconds, he reacted, went up to hang up the phone, and turned it off completely."
Hearing this, Li Hu nodded in realization:
"It's really possible!"
Qin Feng thoughtfully raised doubts:
"However, the murderer's cruel methods and his demonstrative method of sending the body by mail do not suggest it was a crime of passion."
"I think it was a premeditated murder."
"But taking the initiative to expose the body has become suspicious again."
When Li Hu heard this, he boldly speculated:
"Is it possible that there is more than one murderer? Or that the murderer was ordered by others."
"And the person who instigated him didn't worry about being discovered at all, so he told the murderer to boldly mail the package?"
"But in fact, the person who killed him was not a veteran, so he left so many clues?"
Qin Feng shook his head and analyzed from the murderer's perspective:
"This case is full of loopholes. I prefer that the murderer committed the crime alone."
"Otherwise, if the two of them had discussed it when disposing of the body, they would not have left so many traces at the scene so hastily."
"It's okay for one person to be stupid, but for two people to be stupid together, it's really like a dragon and a phoenix working together."
"The probability is too small."
Li Hu glanced at Qin Feng with some appreciation, nodded and said:
"Young people have active minds."
"We, the older generation of police officers, are indeed too prone to misunderstandings."
"Let's go. Next, let's check Li Fangfang's call records."
As he spoke, he stepped on the accelerator and drove towards the police station again.
Soon, half an hour later.
According to Li Fangfang’s ID card, call records of the communication company were retrieved.
The two quickly located the caller - Ma Wancai.
According to the household registration information, this person is 42 years old and came to Jiangcheng from Hunan Province to work ten years ago.
The residential address is also specified in detail.
Just when the two began to suspect this person, Tang Wenqing, who was investigating at the police station near the freight station, also called.
"Team Li, we just discovered a man whose body shape and walking posture look like a man sending mail at the freight station through surveillance in a nearby neighborhood!"
"And through the neighborhood surveillance, we saw that he was a hawker selling kitchen knives along the street!"
"Thinking about the fact that there was a thick kitchen knife inside the carton, we suspected that it was this person!"
Hearing that the suspect was identified so quickly, Li Hu asked happily: "Then have you visited and investigated the area where he set up his stall?"
On the other end of the phone, Tang Wenqing replied somewhat discouraged:
"I asked, he didn't sell kitchen knives there this afternoon."
"But I heard from the vendors around me that this guy is still mute and can't speak at all."
"I haven't heard him say a word since he came to this street to sell kitchen knives ten years ago."
"In addition, the owner of the freight station clearly stated that the delivery person spoke substandard Mandarin. I suspect that this person may just be similar in appearance."
Li Hu was the voiceover, and Qin Feng also heard the news reported by Tang Wenqing.
"Captain Li, stop it after checking this. This guy is definitely not a suspect."
"How about we spend more time investigating the tricycle driver?"
Qin Feng, who had been listening, found the breakthrough point in the case after thinking for a moment.
"No, Brother Tang, we can't waste any more time searching for a needle in a haystack! I will now send you the address of this person's rental house. Let's go and visit his rental house." Qin Feng heard this and after inference, I thought of an impossible possibility, so I quickly tried to dissuade him.
Li Hu looked at Qin Feng's firm eyes and motioned to several people to wait for them to come and join them, and then act together...
