The serial killer task force suddenly began to hunt for the murderer in Sham Shui Po. The media flocked in and could enter the cordon, but this was not a robbery. The uniformed police couldn't find the murderer, so how could the media find him?
Unable to find the murderer, these reporters chased the uniformed police, causing the police to be annoyed. When they had free time, they called the Public Relations Department and asked them to restrain the media.
The phone in Mr. Guo's office was bombarded with calls, not only from people complaining about the media interfering with official business, but also from the media asking about the situation.
The incident happened suddenly, and Guo Yongyao knew nothing about it. He answered a few calls and simply stopped answering the phone. He turned around and gave his subordinates the task of finding out the truth.
"Who should I ask, Mr. Guo? Inspector Wang, the think tank leader of the task force? Or Inspector Zhang Feng, who is in charge of the case and the main force of the roundup mission of the West Kowloon Serious Crime Unit? Or should I call Mr. Huang directly?" The subordinate couldn't help but hesitate when he received the task.
There were too many people involved in this case, and he was a little confused about the identity of the "victim".
"I definitely can't call Mr. Huang!" Guo Yongyao frowned. If you encounter anything, just call the boss. The bosses don't have to do anything else every day.
As for who to call...
Guo Yongyao frowned and thought for a while, then suddenly an idea came to his mind, and he said decisively: "Call Yi Jiayi Shazhan! She has a mobile phone, and... I have a hunch that she must know about this critical action!"
Ten minutes later, the subordinate talked to Yi Jiayi about the whole thing and came back to report. At the end of
the conversation, he couldn't help but flatter Guo Sir:
"Boss, it's just as you expected. Yi Shazhan not only knows about this matter, but she was the one who initiated it."
"Haha, if you are a public relations person and you can't figure out who to call for such a small matter, you might as well do this supervisory job." Guo Yongyao couldn't hide his pride. After boasting about himself, he hurriedly called people to a meeting to decide which information to announce to the media and which information to keep...
After the meeting, he returned to the office and finally dared to answer the call from the media.
While communicating with the newspaper leader about the roundup, he casually flipped through the old newspapers on the table and unexpectedly found a copy of the Daily and Monthly from the computer case.
On the cover was a photo of Yi Jiayi taken when she was on duty as a clerk. The black-and-white photo was very blurry, but her delicate features could still be seen.
The words next to the photo were [Yau Ma Tei Lucky Star Policewoman], and he couldn't help but be a little absent-minded.
Has it only been less than a year? Why do I feel like it has been five or six years...
He pinched the word [Lucky Star] with his fingers and couldn't help laughing. Now it is no longer just [Lucky Star], it is [Savior]!
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The task force members are either searching or making phone calls.
Wang Jiewang arranged everything and immediately called Director Neil to report the progress of the work, saying that someone had seen the murderer and the task force had mobilized all the forces that could be mobilized to siege and capture the murderer.
Sir Neil was a little dazed. He was still thinking in his mind that he asked them to solve the case within 45 days, but they said they couldn't do it. What if Wang Jiewang told him that it would take another three months to catch the murderer, what should he do?
In the previous three months, the murderer killed 40 people and destroyed 7 families.
If it takes several more months to catch the murderer, will the citizens and the number one officer of the police force think, "You set the time like this, and you will abandon 40 more living citizens in the future?" The media might not say a good word...
Why... did they suddenly start the hunt?
When the task force was established, these guys said that they would not be able to solve the case in 45 days. Hasn't it only been three days?
"Did citizens call to report the murderer?" Sir Neil smacked his lips, nodded, and said into the phone again: "How could they identify the murderer so clearly?" "
In the portrait of the murderer reported by the task force, there is a blue and white insulated water bottle, a Phoenix brand bicycle with a brown seat and a spliced back seat, a height of 163cm, and wrinkles on his forehead... These specific and clear information played a big role." Wang Jiewang spoke one by one, his voice unconsciously gradually lowered.
"Not bad, the task force is very efficient. Are these portraits made by the Forensic Department in cooperation with you? Or are they analyzed by criminal psychologist Tannen?" Neil asked again.
For a moment, Wang Jiewang wanted to take all the credit, but he suppressed it in an instant. Although it was difficult, he still reported truthfully:
"...the bicycle was found by Yi Jiayi at the task force establishment meeting after she proposed the idea. I arranged to find the stolen bicycle. The other clues...were obtained when Sergeant Yi Jiayi and Inspector Fang Zhenyue came to the North New Territories and asked me to take Senior Forensic Chemist Qian Peirang to the crime scene for a re-investigation. Sergeant Yi Jiayi conducted a psychological analysis of the murderer and took Qian Peirang with her to investigate the scene bit by bit."
"The female sergeant from the West Kowloon Serious Crime Unit? The Yi Jiayi who was mentioned by both O-Journalist Chen Sir and CID Huang Sir at the commendation ceremony last year?" Neil thought about it and an image of a young but lively-eyed female police officer came to his mind.
"Yes, sir."
"All the credit goes to the West Kowloon Serious Crime Unit, Inspector Wang." Neil snorted. It seemed that the establishment of the task force was a good decision.
Wang Jiewang choked up and wanted to say, "If we are given some time, we will definitely be able to discover what Yi Shazhan discovered."
But then he changed his mind and thought that if Yi Jiayi was not there, the task force would do routine detective work and the process would probably be like this:
follow the murderer's tracks, continue to check the documents of citizens passing by, continue to search for a summary of boat thefts from Tai Po to Ma On Shan, and look for men around 170cm tall based on portraits... In this process, there will inevitably be many detours. Although it is very likely that the bicycle will be thought of as a means of transportation during the investigation, it is actually uncertain who will bring it up and when.
On the other hand, they tend to wait for the suspect information provided by the mainland. In the case of complete discredit, few people can be confident that they can really find the murderer's logic through imagination and follow the clues to the murderer. Then, based on the inference of the murderer's origin, looking for the murderer's identity is almost the only definite way out that everyone can choose.
The mainland said that it would provide one or two fugitives who are similar to the image of the murderer described by the Hong Kong police. But it will take time for the mainland to screen the list of fugitives based on the current situation of the Hong Kong serial murder case.
It will take at least a week to get this list and arrest the fugitives according to the list. Who knows if the murderer will commit crimes again during this period?
Moreover, the murderer information provided by the Hong Kong police to the mainland must include the murderer's height of about 170cm estimated by the Forensic Bureau based on his footprints. This means that the list of suspects fed back to Hong Kong by the mainland may not match the real murderer at all.
Wang Jiewang imagined what they would most likely do and face in the next few months without Yi Jiayi, a weird genius, and felt a wave of despair.
This is probably why many murderers were not caught by the special task force or the serious crime team in the end, but were caught by chance during certain anti-pornography activities and other cases.
In complex cases, there are too many interference factors, and it is not easy to do elimination and multiple-choice questions from the intricate information clues.
He also thought that the current period is the intensive period of serial killers... Time is life, and Yi Shazhan's super-high speed advantage is really precious.
Finally, he swallowed all the words he had used to "explain" and spoke out of his recognition and gratitude to Yi Jiayi:
"Yes, thanks to the participation of the excellent detectives from the West Kowloon Serious Crime Unit, otherwise we would not have made such rapid progress. Especially the fact that Yi Jiayi found those subtle but important clues in the dark was really rare."
"Okay... you are not bad either, the team is well integrated. Keep up the good work and try to catch the man as soon as possible. It is not enough to just find the bicycle and the thermos now, do you understand?" Neil said.
"Got it, sir!" Wang Jiewang said loudly.
After hanging up the phone, Wang Jiewang took a deep breath, walked out of the conference room, called Hugo and others, and immediately set off to Pine Street. With the identity and power of the think tank leader of the task force, I ensured that all work arrangements were smooth.
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Hundreds of people searched until nightfall, but the frustrating thing was that the murderer had not been found.
The murderer usually committed the crime at two or three in the morning, when the night was the quietest and people were sleeping the deepest. If the police force could not find the murderer tonight, he would most likely sneak into a unit, kill someone and then lie in wait.
The streets within the encirclement were the most densely populated streets in Sham Shui Po, and these communities also had the most residents.
It would probably take more than a week to check every household. If the murderer moved from one household to another household that had already been checked, the police would not check again because they had already checked that household. Wouldn't the murderer have escaped again?
It seemed that the police had trapped the murderer in a jar, but there was another possibility that the police had trapped the murderer in the park.
"Are there no other reliable calls to the police?" Wang Jiewang raised his head and asked the members of the task force.
"No." Fang Zhenyue raised his head and answered decisively.
The task force specially listed a team of people in the police station to handle the calls to the police. The latest information about the murderer wearing dark green clothes has been announced through the community as much as possible, but if citizens want to see the exact information through newspapers, the newspapers will have to be published tomorrow.
At this stage, some citizens know the latest portrait of the murderer, while some do not.
After screening the police calls, no phone as accurate and reliable as Ah Xiang's has appeared so far.
"The murderer may have disguised himself and hid in some secret place." Inspector Zhang Feng said.
"There are too many places to hide in Sham Shui Po. Even if we have X-ray vision, it will take several days to find the murderer in such a large area. What's more, the murderer probably won't stay in one place and not move." You Zhaohua continued. "
The area now enclosed by the cordon is already a very precise small circle, and it can't be reduced any further." Wang Jiewang frowned.
"Sir Wang, this is a form of the status of the resident units submitted by all the community management committees within the warning circle. It can only be relatively accurate, and the status of some residents may not be updated, but... this is all we can do for now." Tan Sanfu placed all the registration books he had collected and sorted out in the afternoon on the meeting table, piles after piles, which reminded Jiayi of the files that Sister Yin in the administrative office could never organize... "
So many?" Hugo's facial features twitched. Just looking through these things would take a group of people at least an hour, right? If we need to search door to door...
"We can go to people's homes to inquire, but we cannot conduct forced searches." Wang Jiewang also looked at the household registration forms. With so many residents, knocking on every door would be a huge workload...
"Here are the phone numbers of all the uncles and aunties in the community residents' committees who know the residents of that community better. If we need precise information, we have to bring them together for a meeting so that we can truly and systematically understand these communities." Sanfu said something that made everyone despair.
"If we can't catch the man tonight, a large number of residents will rush out of the cordon to go to work tomorrow morning. We will have to check every car and citizen's ID that leaves one by one. Not only will the workload be huge, but it will also greatly affect the normal lives of citizens." Delaying the citizens' time may very likely lead to bad incidents such as reporting and making trouble...
Wang Jiewang felt that he had begun to develop wrinkles, white hair, and even hair loss...
Just as everyone was discussing the current situation of the death sentence after sentence, Jiayi suddenly interrupted and said:
"The murderer not only has to hide now, but more importantly, he may also be hungry. If I were the murderer..."
Everyone stopped talking and looked at Jiayi.
I don't know when it started, but this young woman who was supposed to be the least influential person in this office suddenly became the focus of everyone's attention.
In fact, in the hearts of some people, she has become the backbone.
Wang Jiewang fixed his burning eyes on Jiayi, and in the few seconds when he waited for her to speak, he even straightened his back.
"While I'm hiding, I might consider sneaking into a target's home. On the one hand, I can avoid the police, and on the other hand, I can solve my own food problem." Jiayi's words pulled everyone out of the habitual thinking of discussing the current suspect situation.
"Yes, it's dark now... If we change to the murderer's thinking, it's a good time to sneak into the target's home." Sanfu, who was qualified to join the think tank meeting because he sorted out the household information, habitually spoke along the lines of the eleventh sister.
"Right!" Wang Jiewang was also distracted from his own thinking and began to think with the idea of "if I were the murderer".
Before thinking, another thought flashed through his mind: we old guys are too concerned about gains and losses, too afraid of being blamed, too entangled in responsibilities and difficulties, and are not as pure as young people who have no pressure in their minds and only have cases.
No wonder Yi Jiayi always thinks and understands things first, even if it is not difficult after thinking it through...
"Now everyone is not asleep, he may not have started to act yet." Hugo said.
"The murderer will surely lie in ambush now and wait for an opportunity to strike."
"Why don't we also send out a large number of plainclothes officers, lie in ambush and wait?"
"Choose a few good locations and requisition some windows of citizens."
After an efficient discussion among everyone in the office, they soon came up with an implementation strategy.
Wang Jiewang immediately began to arrange for groups and areas to conduct surveillance.
When Wang Sir's arrangement was about to be carried out, Hugo suddenly turned around and asked: "Wang Sir, if the murderer still wants to commit the crime, but everyone's house door has been loaded with heavy objects according to the police's reminder, the murderer may have failed in the past few days, so how can he improve his method of committing the crime?"
He also learned Yi Jiayi's logical method and made deductions from the murderer's perspective.
"If prying the door doesn't work, go through the window?" Wang Jiewang frowned slightly.
"It's very likely." Hugo hissed and said in a deep voice: "Sir Wang, maybe we can focus on keeping an eye on all the houses that don't have anti-theft windows installed."
"OK."
"Let the fingerprint team follow along. If necessary, they can compare the fingerprints on the windows to facilitate knocking on the door and searching the house." Fang Zhenyue Surong added.
"Yes." Wang Jiewang nodded immediately and made two more additions.
"Yes, sir."
All the teams got up and walked out of the police station into the night.
In the office, Yi Jiayi still tilted her head, staring blankly at the coffee cup in her hand.
She always felt that some important information was missed, but it was hard to catch it for a while...
I don't know who opened the window because the air was too stuffy indoors, and the night air, wrapped in moisture and car emissions, rushed in. Jiayi finally raised her head and looked out the window at the night view.
In her eyes, the car lights flashed, like the red eyes of a giant beast coming in formation. They patrolled the crowd, making shrill roars, and conveyed a curse-like message into the hearts of the uneasy citizens:
This night will not be peaceful, it will not be peaceful...