Chapter 104 104 But first I tortured myself and then I was patient and enjoyed myself...
Through Captain Yang's brief description of the case, Xu Nian keenly grasped a special moment in time.
"19 years..." Xu Nian hesitated. "The first murderer committed four crimes, the last of which was the September 13th case in 2019. As far as I know, the second murderer killed Zhong Chenghong on December 27th, 2019. Since then, both murderers have disappeared for five years, and the second murderer only recently emerged to kill again. Is there any connection between them?"
Guan Xia really hadn't noticed this, but now that Xu Nian mentioned it, she realized that it was indeed a coincidence, which made people start to wonder if there was some kind of hidden connection between the two cases.
Captain Yang nodded and said, "We suspected this as well, but after investigating the social connections of the two deceased, we found no commonalities. We speculated that perhaps the two murderers had some connection."
Guan Xia frowned as she listened, subconsciously wondering if the two murderers had reached some kind of cooperation. But as soon as this thought arose, it was suppressed.
Guan Xia reacted the next second. If they really reached a cooperation, given the cunningness of the first murderer and the cruelty of the second murderer, it would be impossible for there to be no movement in the next five years. Could it be that it was not cooperation, but a killing of each other?
Guan Xia was lost in thought when Xu Nian asked, "Are the two murderers' methods of selecting their victims completely different?"
Captain Yang sighed and nodded. "More than just different, the disparity is enormous. The first killer killed four men, all between 35 and 50 years old, with wives, children, and elderly parents. The second killer's four victims were a completely random mix: men and women, young and old. The only thing they had in common was probably their good financial situation."
Pang Le touched his chin and asked, "What about the four victims killed by the first murderer? How are their financial situations?"
Captain Yang turned to look at Pang Le and replied, "Compared to the four victims killed by the second murderer, they are just an ordinary family. Even if they have some money, that is, a car and a house, but they also have a mortgage. However..."
Captain Yang paused and continued, "However, based on what we have found, we suspect the murders of the four victims are most likely related to their children. Their children were the motive for the first murderer's murder."
Is it related to the child? Guan Xia subconsciously frowned even more tightly, somewhat confused as to how it could be related to the child.
Guan Xia subconsciously thought of some movies and TV shows she had seen. Could it be that these children had perpetrated school violence against the murderer's child, causing the child to die from torture? So the child's relatives were furious and killed him?
Everyone frowned and looked at Captain Yang with questioning eyes.
Captain Yang said, "From your expressions, I can tell you're thinking about school violence. That's what we initially speculated, but after quickly checking and visiting the children of the deceased, we ruled out that possibility. The four deceased children were all boys, but their ages varied quite a bit. The youngest was 6, and the oldest was 12. They didn't go to the same school district, and they didn't know each other. But the only thing they had in common was that all four were very naughty. None of them were mischievous, but rather they acted with pure malice and caused certain harm. For example, the first deceased's child, because he didn't want to do his homework, secretly set fire to the classmate's curtains while playing at a classmate's house, hoping to use the fire to burn his homework books. The fire got out of control, causing severe burns to two classmates."
Guan Xia gasped when she heard this. This kid was more than just a bad boy, he set fire on purpose. He sounded like a born potential criminal. What normal child would set fire to a classmate's house just because he didn't want to do his homework?
Wang Yu asked, "What about the three people who died afterwards?"
Captain Yang said, "The second deceased's child had myopia and strabismus because he loved watching TV since he was young. He wore glasses when he was only 9 years old and in the third grade. His parents kept comparing him to the child next door, so he stabbed the child's right eye with a pencil."
Guan Xia: ...She didn’t know what expression to make.
Captain Yang continued, "The third deceased's child pushed a classmate downstairs during a fight, causing spinal nerve damage that could not be fully healed despite treatment, ultimately resulting in high-level paraplegia. The fourth deceased's child was also the oldest, 12 years old. He had already learned to rob at such a young age. During the fight, he hit the victim on the head, causing him to lose consciousness. In a panic, he abandoned the victim and ran away without calling the police. Passersby discovered him and took him to the hospital, but he missed the best time to receive treatment, resulting in the victim's persistent vegetative state, commonly known as a state of illness."
Listening to Captain Yang's words, Guan Xia suddenly remembered what Xu Nian said when everyone was discussing the case in the hotel last night. He couldn't remember the specific content, but the general idea was that this method of committing the crime carried a certain degree of venting anger and judgment.
Now it seems that Xu Nian's judgment was very accurate. The first murderer was indeed venting his anger on behalf of the victims and relatives who were harmed by the deceased's child. He was also judging them, judging them as fathers, why they could not set an example and properly restrain their children, which led to such tragic consequences.
Guan Xia also had a new guess through the actions of these four children and the four deaths. He wondered if the murderer had also been a victim of an incident in which these children caused serious consequences, which triggered his resonance and led to the killing.
Following this line of thought, there is also a reasonable explanation for why the murderer chose a public place with a large flow of people and deliberately dumped the body to cause panic among the people. This is most likely an attempt to deter others.
Guan Xia's mind raced, and just as she was about to start a discussion with everyone, Team Yang suddenly appeared in front of her. With a warm smile, he extended his hand and said, "You must be Expert Guan Xia, right? Welcome to Jianyang City. You've worked so hard."
Guan Xia had to swallow the words that were on the tip of her tongue, and tried hard to use the few social words she knew to greet Captain Yang.
Fortunately, Captain Yang was not one to be polite. After a few simple words and shaking hands with the others, he glanced at the time and said, "It's already this late. Xiao Yan should have come to his senses. Let's go up and take a look."
As he spoke, Captain Yang took two steps at a time and jumped up the stairs very nimbly, and the others followed him up.
Because they did not bring enough shoe covers, except for Captain Yang, no one else actually entered the crime scene. After turning the corner of the stairs, they stopped at the edge of the second floor.
As soon as she stopped, Guan Xia saw a slender girl with short hair that reached her ears. She looked very well-behaved and was standing in the corner of the room on the second floor. She was staring at the place in the middle that was marked with a border, which was obviously the location of the deceased's body.
The girl was so absorbed in her thoughts that she didn't even notice the footsteps of so many people coming up the stairs until Captain Yang called her.
As if she hadn't expected so many people to come, the girl looked at them in surprise before looking at Captain Yang and nodding, "Captain Yang."
"Xiao Yan, have you found anything?" Team Yang asked gently.
Guan Xia noticed that Captain Yang's tone at this moment was much softer than when he spoke to them just now, as if a louder voice would scare the girl in front of him.
The girl called Xiao Yan glanced at the white outline of the body again and said calmly, "Just like the previous three cases, before the victim died from excessive blood loss, the murderer sat here, on that stool, smoking a cigarette while watching the victim struggle until death."
Following Xiao Yan's gaze, Guan Xia stared at the human figure and the large pool of solidified blood next to it.
"The murderer was enjoying it," Xiao Yan continued. "Look at the position of the body. From this angle, facing the head, you can clearly see the deceased's eyes. He was enjoying the deceased's fear and despair."
Guan Xia looked at where Xiao Yan was standing, and then looked at where the body was placed. Although there was only the outline of a head, through Xiao Yan's description, he was able to completely construct the scene in his mind.
Guan Xia only imagined it for a few seconds before she subconsciously shuddered.
If the first murderer can be inferred from the existing clues to have an obvious motive for murder, then the second murderer is obviously killing randomly, or is simply out of hatred for the rich, which is why he kidnapped people and did not kill them directly, but tortured them first and then patiently and enjoyably waited for the victim to die.
"Another pervert," Pang Le, who probably couldn't hold it in any longer, leaned close to Guan Xia and whispered, "What's that word called? Oh, right, antisocial personality? This murderer must be a antisocial personality, right? Otherwise, how could any normal person suddenly have such excellent psychological qualities? Not only did he disembowel someone and take out their internal organs, but he also had the leisure to smoke while waiting for the person to die."
Pang Le paused as he thought of something, then added, "Oh no, if they just cut open the victim's stomach and took out the internal organs, the person would have died immediately without having to wait. It seems the murderer cut the victim's throat first, and then cut open the stomach and took out the internal organs after the person died. Hiss, it's even more perverted. This process sounds like slaughtering a pig."
Pang Le almost muttered the last sentence to himself, but Guan Xia still heard it because they were too close.
Subconsciously recalling the photo of Zhong Xiaoyu's uncle's corpse that he had seen last night, his expression suddenly became a little strange. I have to say, it really did look a bit like him.
While the two were talking, everyone else was quiet. Xiao Yan walked slowly towards them while thinking.
In order to make room for Xiao Yan, the others had to squeeze to the sides. Guan Xia retreated repeatedly until she was almost stuck to the wall, and her view was a little blocked.
Just as she was looking for a gap to squeeze in, Guan Xia felt someone grabbing her arm. She looked up and found it was Xu Nian. He easily pulled her to the front and then stood back against the wall.
Guan Xia looked up at the giant beside him, drooling with envy, and stared at Xiao Yan.
Xiao Yan adjusted his body movements, slightly bent his waist, and pushed his feet hard on the ground. He walked forward as if he was carrying a person, until he reached the outline of the body. Then he made the motion of throwing a heavy object, and said, "Based on my judgment of the traces at the scene, the murderer must have carried the body to this position like I just did, with the head in front and the feet behind. He was most likely in a coma, which is why the head of the deceased is facing that corner."
Xiao Yan straightened up, glanced at where he had been standing, and then took a few steps to the side. He stood sideways, looking down at the outline of the head of the corpse from above. He continued, "Judging from the footprints left at the scene, the murderer must have stood in this position for a long time before slitting the victim's throat. He then walked to the corner and sat on a stool, smoking a cigarette while watching the victim die."
Xiao Yan said, "Before coming here, I visited the technical team and specifically took a look at the ashes they collected from the murderer's cigarettes. I also did some testing. In that corner, the murderer smoked four or five cigarettes in total. The forensic autopsy determined that the victim died very quickly, only a few minutes, with such a large amount of bleeding. To smoke so many cigarettes in such a short period of time suggests the murderer must have been a heavy smoker. He was also much more cautious than in the previous three cases. Before leaving, he not only took all the cigarette butts away but also cleaned up the scene."
Guan Xia took a look at the messy footprints on the second floor. She had previously thought that the person who reported the case had accidentally destroyed them in a panic, but it turned out that the murderer had calmly cleaned up the scene after committing the crime.
Zhong Xiaoyu suddenly asked, "Who found the body and reported it? Why did they appear in such a remote place?"
Captain Yang said, "A few elementary school students had agreed to run away from home. One of them suddenly had an idea and remembered this unfinished villa complex. They ran in and hid there for three days. They were playing hide-and-seek when they discovered the body. Their phone and watch were dead, so the group ran to the nearby police station to report it."
Running away from home again. Guan Xia's heart skipped a beat when she heard these four words. Ever since the Daqu County case, whenever she heard about running away from home, she would subconsciously think of a homicide.
Pang Le complained, "Kids these days are really capable. When I was in school, I only dared to run away from home outside the neighborhood where I lived. This guy is almost running away from Jianyang City."
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