Chapter 203 The people in the murderer's village were completely terrified...
"How could he die? Who should I give this information to? Is there anyone among you who can review it?"
"Given this incident, will the land still be put up for bidding?"
"I know it's very frustrating because a murder has happened here, but this is also a serious matter, right? Can we take some time to go through the formalities?"
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At the entrance of the village committee building in this development village, many business people, still sweating profusely in their suits and ties under the scorching sun, were anxiously discussing with people from the village committee, holding briefcases.
The people on the village committee were overwhelmed with dealing with so many people, and they all looked worried.
"It's not that I'm not approving you, nor am I deliberately ignoring the process. Look, our village director is dead, and the police are still here investigating."
"Alas, our secretary isn't here either. He's on a business trip. We really can't handle the rest of the matter. Let's wait and see. Once we've finished this and the leader who's in charge returns, we'll definitely reply to everyone in a timely manner and ensure that we don't delay anyone's work."
"Please be patient and give us some time. We need to solve this murder case first."
Originally, these noisy people were still nagging, but after he said this, they were all stunned for a moment and stared at them with wide eyes.
Murder, murder?
Not an accident???
These are ordinary people, but not all of them have the opportunity to come into contact with a murder case. For a moment, they no longer remember the important things they should do and their attention is all diverted.
Until then someone coughed.
The accountant who was known for his poor mouth turned around and saw that the tall policeman had nothing to say. He immediately realized that he had said something that he shouldn't have said. It was so embarrassing.
But this group of people were like an eagle that had caught a rabbit, asking questions over and over again about what was going on, which made the accountant so anxious and distressed that he was in tears.
But the case is now under investigation and no one is sure who the murderer is. In order to prevent him from leaking more information and letting the murderer who may be hiding in the dark know, Deng Xingwang took people to ask these people to leave first.
After returning, he warned those who were the first to discover the crime scene not to leak any information to anyone else.
Yang Lun and others knew they had made a mistake and agreed together.
However, after seeing the situation here, Qiu Jiang asked those people why they came here.
As an accountant, Yang Lun knew the most, so he was the one to explain it.
"Well, there's still some land in our village that hasn't been sold. Now that this is a good place, everyone wants to come here to build buildings and do business. They came here just for the land on the west side of the village..."
Everyone knows this information, so it is not a leak. Yang Lun introduced it in great detail.
Qiu Jiang also roughly understood that nowadays, every inch of land here is worth a lot of money. Many businessmen have taken a fancy to the future development prospects here and want to seize a piece of it in the early stage. Whether it is for their own business or for preserving the value of assets in the future, it is an investment with very good prospects.
Therefore, their village has been quite busy these days. People send in bidding documents every day, and the leaders and staff who are mainly responsible for this matter are very busy.
Their village secretary had been visited too many times because of this matter. In order to avoid being called, he took the opportunity to slip away when he was on a business trip.
Their village director Dou Dehua couldn't leave. After all, in addition to keeping an eye on this matter, other matters in the village also needed someone to take charge, so he stayed to continue to deal with the follow-up matters.
“Who knew something like this would happen?”
Yang Lun got a headache when he thought about the murder in the village, not to mention that the person who died was their village director.
It's really a headache.
He had a headache, and suddenly something occurred to him. His eyes widened, and he blurted out, "Could it be someone…"
He stopped talking in time, covering his mouth and refusing to say the rest.
However, Qiu Jiang had already guessed what he was thinking. "Accountant Yang, I need you to provide some information about the companies or individuals participating in this bidding. Also, who knows the most about these people? We need to know if these people have had any recent contact with the deceased. Please provide as much information as possible."
As soon as Qiu Jiang said this, Yang Lun felt troubled and really didn't want to get involved in this matter. He regretted reminding her just now, but now he couldn't get rid of the blame and could only do what she said.
According to the list they provided, there are currently hundreds of companies that have submitted bids, and the competition is quite fierce.
The deceased and the village party secretary who was on a business trip held a considerable amount of autonomy in their hands. If they did not mind compliance with the regulations, they could actually influence who would eventually win the bid.
From this perspective, it is very likely that the deceased was killed because of this incident.
Maybe he was killed because of a conflict or quarrel.
As a result, these participating companies became their key targets of investigation.
However, hundreds of lists are indeed a huge amount of work to check, so we need to focus on finding the companies that have intersections with the deceased, and the most important thing is the part that was here yesterday.
The murderer is likely among them.
This greatly narrowed the scope of the investigation. After questioning the village committee, we actually found nine companies that had submitted bids yesterday. Five of them had direct contact with the deceased, and the other two just put down the bids and left, which was seen by many people. As for the last three companies, no one noticed when they left, and it was not certain whether they had met the deceased.
In addition, the time of death of the deceased has been confirmed to be between 10 o'clock and 12 o'clock last night. No one is sure whether the murderer is in these nine companies. Maybe someone else came to look for the deceased in the middle of the night.
In this case, the idea of shortening the range will be in vain.
"So our main target right now is those nine companies, or at least those seven. The difficulty is that the other companies can't be ruled out as suspects either. Our search area is still very large, and the task is very arduous."
In the large office of the third team of the Peng City Public Security Bureau, Qiu Jiang talked about the current progress and difficulties encountered.
Feng Wencheng, who had participated in the entire meeting, had a serious expression on his face. "This case is extremely serious and will severely impact the development and image of Peng City. You must be resolute and determined to overcome all difficulties and challenges and go all out. As for the wide scope of the search, I will have other departments fully cooperate with you."
"In short, we must investigate this matter as quickly as possible and bring the murderer to justice."
"yes--"
All members of the three teams participating in the meeting were present, and the atmosphere was full of enthusiasm.
The next day, under the coordination of Feng Wencheng, other criminal police teams also fully cooperated and joined in the investigation of these companies.
As for the third team, most of its main forces were placed in the development village to visit the village committee and some villagers to see if they could find any information that they were previously unfamiliar with.
Everyone was very busy. At the same time, the test results from the forensic and trace examination departments came out.
Without exception, there is no good news.
Firstly, the forensic doctor could only confirm the time of death of the deceased and that the deceased died from excessive bleeding after falling from the building after being hit, but no other useful information was found.
As for the trace inspection, just as everyone was pessimistic at the beginning, because the scene had been damaged by too many people, neither footprints nor fingerprints could provide them with much reference.
There was absolutely no progress.
As for the murder weapon vase, which they had high hopes for, many fingerprints were indeed extracted, but after comparing them with the fingerprints of all the people provided by the village committee, it was determined that the vast majority were left by people from the village committee.
There was indeed one that could not be matched, but everyone was certain that it must be their secretary's.
The reason is very simple. The vase is an antique. Their village spent a lot of money to put it upstairs as a decoration. Their secretary would wipe it eight hundred times a day and loves it so much that if someone is rude to the vase, he would be so angry that he would want to curse. Therefore, it is normal for his fingerprints to be on the vase.
"If the secretary came back and found out that this vase was broken and used as a murder weapon, he would definitely be so angry that he would pass out."
After obtaining this clue, the trace investigators compared this fingerprint with the fingerprint left on the previous document of the Development Village Secretary and confirmed that the fingerprint was his.
After two or three days of hard work, there has been almost no progress.
Seeing that there was no progress at all, everyone was extremely anxious. Under pressure from the city leaders, the bureau had no choice but to launch a large-scale investigation into all bidding companies in order to find the murderer as soon as possible.
After comparing the figures and appearances of more than a hundred people who came to the village, Qiu Jiang actually found the suspicious target in the shadow who had quarreled with the deceased on the second floor, picked up a vase and smashed it at the deceased, and pushed him down the stairs.
But after an intensive investigation, she had a feeling that the murderer was not them.
Since these people cooperated quite well with the investigation, and the companies they worked for were large in scale and had a great chance of winning this bidding, why did they use such a drastic method to kill the deceased?
In addition, they were all very anxious about the postponement of the bidding. If they really were the ones who killed the person, then their performance would be too perfect and no one would be able to find any flaws.
So she kept reviewing the situation of the black shadow that day, reviewing it back and forth countless times, and then she noticed a point that was difficult to notice.
That is, the murderer looked towards the first floor in panic after realizing that he had accidentally killed someone.
Now, after thinking about it over and over again, she felt that the person he was looking at might not be the deceased, but the broken vase.
She originally thought that he took away the mouth of the vase where his fingerprints were left in order to prevent his fingerprints from being discovered on the murder weapon, which was more like a sign of attachment and reluctance.
Because when he was running away and passing by the dead body, he didn't stop at all, but only quickened his pace in panic.
So... the reason why they couldn't find the murderer was not necessarily because the murderer was hiding cunningly among these more than 100 companies, but precisely because he was not here at all.
After realizing this, Qiu Jiang immediately asked the people in Kaifa Village to call their branch secretary back.
However, at this time, the people in the development village were also confused.
The reason is very simple. They had already notified the secretary when the incident happened, but the person has not returned until now.
But logically speaking, even though the place he was on business trip was far away, it wasn't so far that he couldn't come back in three days, right?
When they tried to contact him again, they found that their secretary was completely unreachable.
If that's the case, could the murderer be...
The villagers were completely terrified.
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