Baole City Investigation Bureau!
In the conference room!
Whether it was the local investigators, members of Jiang Daoqing's team, or even the members of the task force, they all looked shocked.
The hotspot area circled by Zhang Song is just a low-probability area in Team Leader Shen’s geographical profile report?
“Why is there such a big difference?”
"This shouldn't be the case!"
"There must be something seriously wrong with someone's geographical profile."
“Although the types of sites involved in this case are single, the errors that may occur are relatively large.
But the locations we circled are so different, isn't that too outrageous?"
…
Song Huaimin thought for a moment: "Since Team Leader Shen has circled the suspicious area, we naturally have to explore it."
The officers immediately took action.
On the way, the crime-solving group started discussing.
Kiko: "Now we have a rough idea of the area to search, right?"
Hannibal: "You can search it.
but!
As far as I know, the locations identified in crime geographic profiling are usually near the suspect's daily activity area.
For example, residential areas, workplaces, temporary bases, etc.
It's unlikely to happen in the wild, right?"
Jigsaw: “The key is!
The core task now is to find the place where the bodies were dumped.
But the location circled by the group owner seems to have nothing to do with where the body was dumped.
Typically, serial killers don't focus on dumping bodies and look for victims around them."
Kira Yoshikage: "My previous idea was to look for the place where the body was dumped outside the area where the suspects were active that the group leader had identified.
The choice of where to dump corpses usually follows the distance attenuation principle, buffer zone effect, rational choice theory, etc.
But the desolate mountains and wilderness are most likely not where the murderer lives and works.
Unless, the murderer is searching for the target centered on the place where the body was dumped.
But this is rare, and this search may be risky."
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Looking at the message, Shen Ting nodded slightly.
When he identified the northwestern foothills of the Taihang Mountains as a hotspot, he was actually unsure.
But there is no way!
According to the theory of criminal geographic profiling, the high-probability location that was finally identified was there.
“There should be something within the area I’ve circled.
But what exactly it is is not certain.
However, it must be related to the case.
In this case, the suspect must abide by the most basic principle of secrecy."
So, no matter what, high-probability areas must be searched.
Moreover, the three-person body-searching team's keen intuition about the crime scene will have the opportunity to come into play.
…
In the deep night, a team of police cars arrived at the outskirts of Taihang Mountain circled by Shen Ting.
It was too late, so everyone could only stay temporarily.
Early the next morning!
The crowing of chickens from a village not far away could be heard from both near and far.
When Chen Ting led his men to the gathering place, almost all the police officers from Baole City and Teacher Jiang Daoqing's team had gathered.
“Team Leader Shen, you were the one who circled the suspect’s activity area.
How to search is up to you, right?"
Song Huaimin said.
Shen Ting had a plan in place and spoke directly:
“This is easy.
There is no need to search all hot spots.
I'll do a rough check first, circle out suspicious areas, and then divide into groups to search within them."
"good!"
"no problem!"
“Just do as Team Leader Shen says!”
…
Shen Ting led the team into the forest to search.
The weather this year is abnormal. Since the beginning of autumn, there has been unusually heavy rain.
Taihang Mountains are famous for their steepness.
The muddy soil and sparse raindrops greatly slowed down the progress of the investigation.
Even drones will have blurry lenses due to rain.
Nearly nine hours later, around three o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, Shen Ting, under the guidance of the three-person corpse search team, circled four suspicious areas.
Shen Ting originally thought that the Riddler, as a master criminal, would also give advice!
However, this guy is quite aloof and he doesn't respond when asked for his opinion.
He also made some sarcastic remarks about the corpse-searching trio's behavior of giving advice.
Shen Ting was too lazy to care about him. If he continued to be like this, he would just kick him out of the group chat.
"Director Song, have you gathered all the search personnel?
I circled four areas in total.
Let them divide into four groups and start the search!"
“We’ve already gathered.
Many police officers from surrounding counties and cities came to help, and we also screened a group of qualified and well-qualified civilian search organizations.
There are still enough people.”
Song Huaimin immediately made arrangements to group the search personnel.
About half an hour later, each team arrived at their respective areas and began searching.
"I don't know if we can really find the place where the body was dumped, or the murderer's lair."
“Of course you can!
Isn't Team Leader Shen most famous for being able to pinpoint the murderer's activity area within a certain range? "
"Yes, search carefully!
In previous cases, it seems many police officers received commendations for finding bodies or crime scenes within the area designated by Team Leader Shen!
“Not necessarily!
If we can confirm that Taihang Mountains is indeed the murderer's activity area and find some clues, there will be no problem.
But this time the situation is a little special.
The Taihang Mountains are not a definite clue involved in the case.
Instead, it was Team Leader Shen who deduced the location of the case based on geographical profiling.
I feel like the possibility of an accident is quite high!"
“I feel the risk, too.
The difference between the high-probability areas circled by Team Leader Shen and Zhang Song is quite large.
Zhang Song's criminal geography profiling skills are also quite good.
So I feel that the difference is not caused by the difference in the level of criminal geographical profiling between the two people.
It is caused by the single location of the case.
The areas circled by both of them may not be very accurate."
“That’s true!
If something goes wrong in the area delineated by the geographic profile.
Then our current search is actually meaningless."
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