Sanxian Palace, inside the Zhenwu Hall!
Chen Ting followed the trace inspection and came near the footprints of the suspected torturer.
The bright morning sunlight shone through the gaps in the old wooden windows and fell on the footprints.
The lines on it, as well as the dust, mud, grass clippings, etc., are clearly visible.
Chen Ting squatted beside the footprints, frowning slightly as he watched a trace examiner wearing white gloves and holding a small brush collecting particles from the footprints.
He recalled the punishment officer's performance in several previous cases:
“Although some of the conclusions drawn about the criminals are problematic.
But the basic conclusions, such as the fact that the criminals are extremely cautious, have strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities, and have a deep understanding of the police's investigative methods.
These conclusions should be correct.”
In other words!
The perpetrator was frightened because his sixth crime was discovered early, which led to him accidentally leaving footprints during this crime...
In Shen Ting's opinion, this explanation is not sufficient.
The torturer has the energy to tattoo words on the victim's forehead and time to arrange numbers with paper ashes, but forgets the more important thing, which is to deal with the crime scene?
Shen Ting felt that it was unlikely that the punisher would make such a low-level mistake.
"Then how did this shoe print come about?
Was it left there intentionally by the torturer? Is he trying to play a trick on the investigators?"
This, Shen Ting felt, was not very reliable.
Because what Xiong Beibei said is actually not wrong.
The Punisher suddenly killed several targets in succession and was obviously getting anxious.
If you leave your footprints behind at this time, aren't you afraid that the investigators will really find some clues from them?
If the footprints were fake, why would he go to so much trouble to change shoes and leave marks in so many places in Zhenwu Temple?
What's more, even a forged mark can be traced back.
"What is this punisher doing?"
For a moment, Shen Ting really couldn't understand what the punisher was going to do.
"To be honest, I haven't done a deep enough analysis of the Punisher.
There are still a series of contradictions about the punisher that have not been resolved."
If the criminal profiler truly creates a complete and thorough profile of the target, then all of the target's criminal behavior should be easily explained.
Shen Ting silently recalled the series of doubts he encountered during the previous dissection.
Especially the motive of the perpetrator.
When he first came into contact with this case, Shen Ting believed that the torturer wanted to use the killing methods in Taoist hell to promote the law of cause and effect and warn the world.
To this end, people who are controversial in public opinion and have not received adequate punishment for their mistakes were deliberately selected as targets, and videos were posted on the Internet.
This is enough to attract everyone's attention.
So at the beginning, the image of the punisher was basically complete and unified.
There are only some minor contradictions, such as killing ordinary people.
later!
As Guan Hongyu discovered the ashes and numbers at the crime scene, they represented the laws in the criminal law.
Shen Ting and the group members all felt a sense of disconnection.
The appearance of the law at the crime scene seems very discordant.
In addition, the torturer killed the target at multiple scenes and also killed the target's family.
Killing innocent people naturally constitutes the karma of killing.
This is obviously in conflict with the ideas that the punishers want to promote.
therefore!
Chen Ting further analyzed the situation and concluded that the perpetrators might be a gang or have split personality.
Later!
Tang Ren raised a question: Each major hell governs sixteen minor hells.
Why did the torturer choose a specific hellish punishment to kill people?
Instead of following common sense and choosing the method that is easiest to implement?
Combined with the previous profiling results, the group members believed that the perpetrators might actually be public security, procuratorial and judicial personnel.
For some reason, the murderer was bloodthirsty and chose to kill people using the same methods he encountered during the investigation.
The use of Taoist hell's killing methods may just be to cover up this point.
"But why would the Punisher use the punishment of Hell to hide his true method of killing?"
Just to mislead the investigation?
So that the police officers won’t be able to reversely target him based on these methods?
This is a very logical and natural reason.
However, Shen Ting still felt that it was not sufficient.
If it was just to cover up, the punisher was fully capable of doing it more perfectly—
Don't kill ordinary people!
No numbers representing the law are left!
In this case, even as a profiler, Shen Ting cannot realize the divisions and contradictions of the punisher himself.
"Why didn't the punishment officer make the case more perfect?"
As an investigator, Shen Ting felt that the torturer's modus operandi was not perfect, which was naturally very strange.
But combined with the criminal's crime process, Shen Ting did feel that this was a very mature, cunning and powerful murderer.
Normally, a murderer like this could handle the details more perfectly.
But he didn't...
This is very strange!
Shen Ting thought about it and ruled out one of the possibilities in his previous speculation.
Gang committing crime!
Because judging from the murder process in all cases, it does not seem like an organized crime committed by multiple people.
The punisher not only killed the core target, but also used the same logical method.
When killing innocent people, they always kill them with one blow.
From the method of murder to the handling of the crime scene, to the identical shoe prints left in the Zhenwu Temple this time, and so on.
The crimes committed by criminals are complex, but overall the process is very uniform and lacks the variability of group crimes.
so!
Chen Ting is more inclined to believe that the perpetrator committed the crime alone!
"If we rule out the possibility of a gang committing the crime, there is basically only one possibility."
Shen Ting frowned slightly.
The torturer probably has a split personality.
And it is a very special split personality...
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