Yesterday, the Orange Daily was an unscrupulous media because Joe's reports about Chen Xiaomi were overwhelming, causing great trouble to lawyer Chen who had just crawled out of the quagmire.
Chen Xiaomi had to start his vacation again at the suggestion of his boss.
Jiayi asked Nie Weiyan to help find all the articles of Joe in the Orange Daily. As a result, Nie Weiyan immediately called back to the newspaper and talked to the editor-in-chief. West Kowloon detective Yi Jiayi wanted the newspaper to assist in the investigation of the case and find all the articles of Joe.
Jiayi thought she was just helping to look through all the sample reports of the Orange Daily in the past year, but she didn't expect the Orange Daily to make such a big fuss.
The entire newspaper office, from the boss to the literate janitor, all volunteered to work overtime, gathered in the large public office, moved out all the newspapers in the warehouse for a year, and searched for the content of Joe's newspaper one by one.
The boss divided the work reasonably, and each person was assigned a newspaper of a certain period of time to screen all controversial cases.
This was the largest collective overtime in the Orange Daily in the past few years. It was hard to say whether it was to avenge colleagues, to support the cause of justice, or just because the idol, Detective Yi Jiayi, spoke up.
After getting feedback from Nie Weiyan, Jiayi had to take Liang Shule, sit in Nie Weiyan's co-pilot, and go to the Orange Daily with reporter Nie after the work at the corpse dumping site came to an end.
I accepted the editor-in-chief's application and took a few photos of her working with everyone in the editorial department.
Nie Weiyan went to write a report on today's case in order to catch up with tomorrow morning's report, while everyone else was looking for it.
Some of the people who worked overtime were older and their eyesight was not as good as that of young people, so they took out magnifying glasses to look. The boss was comparing computer typesetting data and manuscript collection data to assist in screening, and from time to time he summarized everyone's work and handed it over to Yi Jiayi.
During this process, a young editor accidentally discovered that in a newspaper last year, Joe actually reported the murder of Miao Liqun's wife.
He immediately handed the newspaper to Jiayi, "Yishazhan, look, it turns out that Joe wrote an article about this serial case last year."
Jiayi took it and saw the bold title: [Female lawyer wields the butcher's knife: How did an incompetent lawyer get promoted to an independent lawyer? And how did she prevent the truth from ever coming to light?]
Frowning slightly and taking a quick look at the article, Jiayi raised her head, nodded to the editor who found the report, and said with a smile, "Thank you."
"You're welcome." The editor smiled, his face suddenly flushed, and he turned around and ran away.
Yeah! The female detective from West Kowloon spoke to me. She was so polite and had a nice voice. She even smiled at me. She was so pretty~
A few hours later, Nie Weiyan finally finished the manuscript and handed it to the editor at 10:00 a.m.
The overtime work at the newspaper finally came to an end. Jiayi and Liang Shule received a large stack of old newspapers sorted out by everyone.
When leaving the newspaper, Nie Weiyan caught up with them, "Let me take you there."
"We are going back to the police station. Where do you live?" Jiayi raised her eyebrows, afraid that it might not be convenient.
Nie Weiyan smiled and reported the name of the community and the street at the entrance of the community. It was convenient.
But when Jiayi heard the name of the community, she frowned, "Did you live there 6 months ago?"
"Of course, I have lived there for several years." Nie Weiyan didn't quite understand Yi Jiayi's question.
"..." Jiayi did not answer, but she exchanged glances with Liang Shule.
Nie Weiyan lives in the same community where Yao Qingtian lived six months ago.
"Then please take us there." Yi Jiayi did not refuse.
On the way back to the police station, she received a call from Fang Zhenyue:
"Brother Daguangming has confirmed that the victim Joe's home is the scene of the first murder. There are traces of prying at the door, and the murderer sneaked into Joe's home in the same way as he sneaked into Miao Liqun's home.
"No other fingerprints were found in Joe's home, but there was half a footprint in the kitchen. Although there was no shoe print either, indicating that the murderer wore shoe covers or something like that, but judging from the size... it is basically the same as the shoe size of the suspect Yao Qingtian we selected before. "
When the police were tracking Yao Qingtian, they secretly collected Yao Qingtian's footprints, and the size was basically consistent with the footprints left by the murderer.
Brother Da Guangming also did a weight habit analysis of the footprints, and came to a conclusion that was basically consistent with the murderer - although the most powerful evidence is still lacking, it can also serve as a supporting evidence.
It's just that now because the police have been tracking Yao Qingtian, they have become Yao Qingtian's most favorable time witnesses, and Yao Qingtian's suspicion will be erased.
However, the clues collected by Joe's family are not much different from those collected by Miao Liqun's family. Brother Da Guangming judged that the murderer is likely to be the same person.
"Now everyone suspects that our initial direction was wrong. It is very likely that the murderer is just a person with a similar body shape to Yao Qingtian. "Fang Zhenyue said.
Jiayi took a deep breath, "Brother Yue, before we completely deny Yao Qingtian's identity as a suspect, can we interrogate him once?"
"...Okay." Fang Zhenyue was silent for two seconds, but still responded decisively.
He still trusted Yi Jiayi.
Although in the absence of strong evidence, the police have no right to extract DNA carriers (including hair with follicles, □□, blood, etc.) without the suspect's willingness. Moreover, even if he is interrogated, he has no right to be detained for 48 hours. As long as Yao Qingtian denies it during the interrogation, the police will still have to release him immediately.
But he still promised her.
Others may be powerless, but Yi Jiayi may not.
"The investigation here is basically completed, and many clues and photos have to be analyzed back, but there is a problem." Fang Zhenyue said again.
"What is it? "
"Joe's camera is not at home." Fang Zhenyue said, "Brother Da Guangming has looked in many places but couldn't find it. The security guards in the community have also been asked, but none of them has picked up the camera, and they don't remember whether Joe brought the camera home the night before."
"Wait a minute." Jiayi put down the mobile phone and turned to ask Nie Weiyan: "Did you notice whether Joe's camera was at the newspaper office today?"
"I didn't notice, but Joe couldn't have left the camera at the newspaper office." Nie Weiyan looked at the road ahead and answered firmly.
"Why do you say that?"
"For those of us in this line of work, cameras are like our eyes and our hands. Some people even put their cameras by the bed when they sleep at night. It's not an exaggeration to bury it in the quilt, so why didn't they carry it with them, but left it at the newspaper office? "Nie Weiyan answered confidently.
"I understand. Thank you." Jiayi said, then picked up the mobile phone and conveyed Nie Weiyan's words to Brother Yue.
"Then the camera is likely to have been taken away by the murderer." Fang Zhenyue speculated.
"It seems that the murderer has never been found to have taken away money or something before." Yi Jiayi frowned slightly. What would the murderer do with the camera?
"Going back to the police station? Or going home?" Fang Zhenyue heard the sound of a car engine on the other end of the phone, and his voice was a little heavy.
"Going back to the police station, where is Brother Yue? Going back to the police station?" Jiayi's voice was a little tired, but when she mentioned going back to work overtime, there was actually a hint of excitement in her voice.
Fang Zhenyue could sense the excitement. He was such a workaholic. The corners of his mouth curled up slightly again. "Yes, I'm going back to the police station with Brother Da Guangming and the others. We'll see you later." "
See you later, Brother Yue." Jiayi tilted her head slightly, and the smile on her face unconsciously widened when she hung up the phone.
Nie Weiyan turned to look at her at the red light and caught this fleeting smile.
The majestic Yi Shazhan would also show his sweet side when the night was shrouded, even if it was only for a moment.
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The reports on the second day were all about the dismemberment case at the Foguang Street Playground without any suspense.
Most of the photos used in the report pages were photos of Yi Jiayi holding a map and pointing out the situation, or photos of Yi Jiayi leading a team to a new corpse dumping site.
These photos were taken from different angles, like a photo exhibition for police officers, titled "Hong Kong Police Style Exhibition" - one of them was even taken from the sky, with Yi Jiayi standing in the middle, and the other detectives surrounding her.
Newspaper competitors came to analyze this photo, and finally concluded that the photographer had worked hard to climb to the top of a very, very tall tree to take this photo, which was praised by everyone as the "winning photo" with the best angle award at the photo exhibition.
Most of these reports were written with titles like [Mysterious body dumping site, solved in seconds by a detective], [Female detective Gu Pan secretly discovered the murderer's secret of burying the body], [Lynching killer commits another tragedy, the victim is a reporter], etc., but there were also some strange titles such as [Feng Shui to find the body], [Hong Kong police metaphysical investigation], [Several uses of Feng Shui and physiognomy in investigation], which were all written in a very logical way, which was amazing.
The sales of major newspapers on this day were off the charts, and each newspaper had a very different angle, which was a scene of a hundred flowers competing for the spotlight.
The most special one was the report by Nie Weiyan, the chief editor of the Orange Daily:
[A tiger appeared in Hong Kong, roaring in the mountains, unparalleled in majesty]
How could there be a tiger in Hong Kong?
It was impossible.
The more bizarre things are, the more they attract people's attention, so they buy newspapers one after another.
When I picked up the newspaper and read it, I felt that reporter Nie's writing skills were explosive. He described a story that seemed both real and fantasy in his elegant writing.
It said that there were evil spirits in Hong Kong, confusing humans to kill each other, making the city and the mountains and forests full of smoke and miasma. Later, some citizens saw tiger-like creatures in the mountains and forests, so they gathered a group of citizens to chase the tiger.
Some saw the tiger's mighty body, some saw the tiger's shining claws, and some saw the tiger's long tail that could chop trees. Everyone thought they had seen the most majestic part of the tiger, but when the tiger chased the evil spirits and suddenly appeared, the citizens were shocked again, ah! This is what a tiger looks like! More powerful, sharper, smarter and stronger than imagined!
At this time, the most powerful wise man in the city suddenly discovered an incredible situation:
this majestic tiger is still in its infancy, it is still growing, and will grow taller and stronger in the future.
So, the citizens are no longer afraid, they cooperate with the tiger to eliminate demons and defend the road, and track the whereabouts of evil spirits together.
The article stops here, and a few edited and long-distance photos of the murderer Miao Liqun who dumped the corpse are listed below, followed by several murderer profiles and precautions:
[The murderer is about 172m tall, male, thin and strong, and will break into the victim's home to commit the crime. They may find victims who have violated the law but have not been punished through newspapers, TV reports, and news or gossip spread by word of mouth among neighbors...】
【Please lock your door at night and use something that makes a sound to hit the door. The murderer always breaks into empty houses at night. There are traces of the murderer's behavior, so it is not scary. Just be careful】
【The murderer is good at using poison. Please do not eat food or drink from strangers. If you leave your glass in a bar, please do not drink it again...】
Finally, the tiger is still searching for and catching evil spirits in Hong Kong day and night. Please do not panic or spread rumors. Let's work together to maintain Hong Kong's law and order.
After reading this article, many citizens who understand smiled in tacit understanding.
At this point, Yik Ka Yee Sha Zhan has a new nickname, "Tiger of West Kowloon", and even the superiors in the police force have begun to call her "CID Tiger General"!
And yesterday, Superintendent Liu, who received a mission from Superintendent Wong and came to Group B to boost the morale of the team, couldn't help but frown as soon as he entered the door of Group B's office and saw everyone busy under the command of Yik Ka Yee and Fang Zhenyue. He felt the embarrassment of being a hero without a place to use his skills:
the morale of the other party was super high, and the detectives wanted to scream with excitement when they were working!
Why did they need him to encourage them?
Superintendent Wong also said that Group B must have no clue now and was more confused.
Who is he talking about?
Anyway, it must not be CID Group B!
Look at how Yi Jiayi writes on the whiteboard, issuing tasks one by one. Where is there no direction?
There is a lot of direction!
"I still think Yao Qingtian is suspicious. He was in the same community as Nie Weiyan six months ago. Reporter Nie once said that Yao Qingtian was very interested in many things reported in the newspaper. When I met him in the community, I took the initiative to get close to him and seriously discussed topics such as the ethics and quality of media people, and the social responsibility of spreading the truth. And at that time, Yao Qingtian was very interested in many social news and case news published in the Qingcheng Daily." Jiayi also listed the clues and evidence provided by the forensic officer, Da Guangming and the detectives who followed Yao Qingtian:
"Yao Qingtian only bought the Orange Daily every day. When Liang Shule followed Yao Qingtian, he found out that Yao Qingtian would probably look for Nie Weiyan's reports in the Orange Daily first, based on the way Yao Qingtian flipped through the newspapers after buying them, and the first page of articles he read. And the page Yao Qingtian would stop at after flipping through the newspapers every day was indeed the one written by Nie Weiyan.
"And in the Orange Daily report last year, not only did Joe spread rumors about the murder of Miao Liqun's wife, but Nie Weiyan also wrote an article titled "Justice is Hard to Express, the Murderer Is at Large", which described his view that Miao Liqun was the real murderer behind the murder.
"Yao Qingtian might have been thinking about this matter at that time."
Jiayi wrote on the whiteboard again:
"The cat murder happened at the time when Yao Qingtian was expelled from school.
"Afterwards, Yao Qingtian moved to the community where lawyer Chen Xiaomi lived. While reading Nie Weiyan's articles, he often went to watch the trial. I discussed this with Brother Yue and consulted with criminal psychologist Tannen. The murderer was likely looking for victims through these two behaviors.
"People who broke the law but were not brought to justice as reported in newspapers, defendants who were not convicted in court."
Jiayi paused with her marker and continued:
"The size of Yao Qingtian's feet is consistent with the murderer;
"The blood type registered in the hospital is consistent;
"The facial features, posture and hairstyle are very close to the blurry photo of the murderer;
"The height, figure, etc. are consistent with the profile;
"The time of the crime is;
"In addition, the expert Tannen communicated with Yao Qingtian's former colleagues and teachers, and the profile portrait of Yao Qingtian also came to the conclusion that 'Yao Qingtian must be punished to the point of being biased', which almost completely overlaps with the murderer in the case.
"Brother Yue also believes that if a person enters the police's field of vision during the investigation and becomes a suspect, and all the information is consistent with the murderer, then he is often the murderer - there are not so many reversals in the real world, it's just that we haven't found the evidence yet.
"Although Yao Qingtian had a 'perfect alibi' in Joe's murder, after discussing all night last night, we also had some guesses:
"1. When the PTU police and we took turns to follow Yao Qingtian, many of his worlds were shown at home. But at our distance, we couldn't see clearly whether it was really him sitting at the desk or just an inflatable doll. Even if we use telescopes, the windows of Yao Qingtian's house are covered with a thick gauze all year round, which greatly interferes with our vision.
"2. The building where Yao Qingtian lives is crowded with people, and there are many strangers coming and going every day. Now we suspect that Yao Qingtian may have disguised himself and entered the building, hiding it from our eyes. After all, it is winter now, and everyone wears a lot of thick clothes. It is not easy to be discovered if a man dresses up as a woman or a man dresses up as a fat old man. What's more, Yao Qingtian is thin and not very tall, so he needs to disguise himself.
"3. Or the murderer figured out the time of our shift change, waited in the gap between our tracking team's shift change, and took the opportunity to slip away..."
Everyone was taking notes one by one, and Superintendent Liu, who was standing at the door, listened attentively with his arms folded. Not only was he convinced by Yi Jiayi, he even had something to say as an excuse for Yi Jiayi, which was that when there were no other clues, the police could conduct a secondary screening and tracking based on past clues. This was how many cases were solved - often the absence of new clues meant that there was actually nothing wrong with the past clues. No matter how incredible it was, it was very likely that the police had not yet discovered the murderer's tracks.
"Besides, we don't have any new suspects now, so we should continue to track Yao Qingtian. At least before we can confirm whether Yao Qingtian's 'perfect time witness' is really perfect, we should follow Yao Qingtian for a while." Jiayi said, and explained to everyone: "Of course, at the same time, I will not blindly identify Yao Qingtian only, but will also work hard to find new breakthroughs."
"I understand, Sister Eleven!" Wang Liu Jiaming responded loudly.
Jiayi nodded and immediately began to issue instructions, continuing to investigate what needed to be investigated and following up on all doubts. At the same time, from the perspective of "Yao Qingtian may have already discovered the police's attention to him" and "the murderer himself was extremely cautious about his surroundings because of his guilty conscience. He may not have really discovered the police following him, but he also assumed that the police must be paying attention to him, so he took extreme anti-detection measures." He simply changed his strategy and no longer just followed and monitored, but directly interrogated Yao Qingtian.
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On the other hand, lawyer Chen Xiaomi was forced to take a vacation and had nothing to do at home, so he simply recharged himself.
After reading the law code for two days, she held today's major newspapers and thought for a long time. Suddenly, she picked up the phone and called the detective: "Please help me again."
"Who are you going to follow again, Miss Chen? I have been questioned by the police and warned not to embarrass me." The detective's voice was bitter.
"Can you help me find someone?" Chen Xiaomi shook the Orange Daily in front of her. She had heard the police mention Yao Qingtian before. Although the police also mentioned several other names when they deceived her, now facing the blurred photos in the newspaper, the more she looked at it, the more she felt that it looked like Yao Qingtian.
So when the police deceived her, the other names mentioned were probably a trick, and Yao Qingtian was the real suspect of the police.
At that time, the police were tracking and monitoring her and all her communication channels. They were not afraid that she would meet with Yao Qingtian if she was the real mastermind. Moreover, she had already been widely reported in the newspapers. If she was exposed as the real murderer, she would definitely not risk contacting Yao Qingtian again.
Therefore, the 'Yao Qingtian' mentioned by the police at that time was probably the real suspect!
"Who are you investigating, Miss Chen?" asked the detective.
"Yao Qingtian, my neighbor, seemed to be a mathematics teacher in a school in Sham Shui Po before. Now he should be a tutor." Chen Xiaomi recalled all the news she knew about Yao Qingtian and told them one by one.
At the same time, some new emotions surged in her heart, completely sweeping away the haze she had been in for the past two days.