Chapter 84 84 This criminal suspect has incredible luck...
The flight only takes more than an hour, but it takes most of the day to drive. Guan Xia and her friends set off in the morning and did not arrive in Quming City until the evening.
After a simple dinner, they got back in the car. By the time they drove to the police station in Daqu County, it was completely dark.
Perhaps they had negotiated in advance, and although it was already past the working hours, as soon as their car stopped, Guan Xia saw a very tall and burly middle-aged man with two people walking over and greeting Xu Nian with a smile.
After a brief handshake and a few pleasantries, the middle-aged man said, "I know everyone's anxious to solve the case, and so are we, so I won't waste any more pleasantries. Let's have a good reunion after the case is solved, and we won't leave until we're drunk."
Following the middle-aged man into the office on the second floor, everyone sat down casually around the conference table. Then a young policeman in uniform, who looked like he had just graduated, walked in with a stack of information.
After handing out a copy to each person, the middle-aged man said, "Everyone, take a look first. After you've finished reading, we'll discuss the next direction of investigation."
Guan Xia had been waiting for this sentence, and immediately lowered his head to read it carefully.
Compared to the information Wang Yu gave her before, this one was much more detailed.
The body of the deceased was found at around 10 a.m. on August 14, 2013. When the Daqu County Criminal Police Brigade arrived at the scene after receiving the alarm, they found that the crime scene had been damaged to a certain extent. Because the villagers who found the body were inexperienced, and the head of the body was covered by a piece of clothing with no blood, the villagers did not realize it was a corpse. They walked forward and lifted the clothes, then collapsed to the ground due to the visual shock. They rolled and crawled back for a distance before remembering to call the police.
Through on-site investigation, the Criminal Police Brigade determined that this was the first crime scene. In addition to severe facial damage, the deceased had also suffered a heavy blow to the back of the head with a hard object. The luggage bag he carried with him was opened and looted. There was no valuable property except some clothes and toiletries. There was no ID card or driver's license to identify the deceased. Judging from the mobile phone charger left at the scene, the deceased had a mobile phone, but it was also missing. The Criminal Police Brigade speculated that the murderer must have taken and discarded the victim in order to conceal the identity of the deceased after attacking him. In addition, the face of the deceased was covered with clothes when the body was found. It can be inferred that this case was committed by an acquaintance, and covering the face of the deceased with clothes was most likely out of guilt.
Through the autopsy, the forensic doctor determined that the deceased was a male, aged between 53 and 55 years old, and died around 7 a.m. on August 14. The cause of death was continuous blows to the head by a hard object. The Criminal Police Brigade found sharp stones containing the deceased's blood at the scene. In addition, the technical team also extracted blood from the zipper of the luggage bag carried by the deceased. Through DNA comparison, it was found that the blood was not consistent with the deceased. The preliminary inference was that the murderer was accidentally scratched by the zipper while searching for property.
In addition to the murderer's DNA sample, the Criminal Police Brigade also found two relatively clear footprints of the suspected murderer near the body of the deceased, which were more valuable in solving the case. Experts judged from the footprints that the murderer should be a male, about 1.7 meters tall, and between 15 and 20 years old. In the subsequent inspection of physical evidence, the Criminal Police Technical Team of Daqu County also extracted a relatively complete blood fingerprint from the inner pocket of the luggage bag.
Seeing this, Guan Xia couldn't help but sigh that this criminal suspect named Zhou Yiyang was really lucky. His method of committing the crime was so crude. Although he knew to cover up the identity of the deceased and had some anti-detection ability, he left DNA and fingerprints at the crime scene that were completely irrefutable evidence, which was almost equivalent to nothing. If he hadn't run away from home and all his relatives who met the screening criteria were looking for him outside, and he had returned without being discovered, he would have been arrested at that time.
While Guan Xia was sighing, she felt someone poking her. She turned around and saw it was Pang Le. Because the environment was too quiet and everyone was too serious, Pang Le was embarrassed to speak, but her winking expressions and the frantic sliding of her fingers on some words showed that she must be in the same mood as Guan Xia at this moment. They both felt that this criminal suspect was really lucky, as he had been able to get away with it for so many years.
After communicating with Pang Le with his eyes for a while, Guan Xia continued to watch.
What happened next was similar to what Wang Yu had told them yesterday. The Daqu County Criminal Police Brigade first compared the hard evidence they found with the database. When that proved fruitless, they conducted a large-scale investigation within Daqu County. When that also proved fruitless and nothing was found in the video surveillance, they collected biological samples from certain people in the village near the crime scene. As Wang Yu had said, the age limit was 14 to 60 years old, which actually covered all the suspects. However, he was still running away from home, and his grandfather and younger brother who stayed at home happened to be outside the screening range. He thus escaped legal sanctions by accident.
Guan Xia and Pang Le finished reading it, and the others also finished reading it and were discussing it in a low voice.
Seeing this, Pang Le dared to speak again. He lowered his voice and whispered in Guan Xia's ear, "This case is really amazing. The previous cases had few clues and ended up in a backlog. This case is the opposite. There are so many clues, even DNA and fingerprints, but the person has never been found. If you hadn't seen the photo of the deceased's body this time and remembered something, would the suspect named Zhou Yiyang never have been found?"
Guan Xia thought about it carefully, and after a moment, he whispered, "Not necessarily. He's not alone. If any of his blood relatives commit any crime, even petty theft or a fight, he might be implicated."
"So, he really should kowtow to his relatives," Pang Le said. "Thanks to their obedience to the law, he was able to finish high school and college. But his luck has obviously run out. I remember Wang Yu said before that he still has a girlfriend. Fortunately, they are not married and have no children. Otherwise, if he were caught, the rest of his children's lives would be ruined."
Recalling the information of the criminal suspect introduced by Wang Yu, Guan Xia suddenly felt that he was lucky but not that lucky. He was 26 years old this year, which was the prime of his life, but he would soon spend the rest of his life in prison. He didn't know what his expression and mood would be when the police arrested him. He would eventually pay the price for the crimes he committed when he was young, and he didn't know whether he would regret it.
Guan Xia thought that he must go to the interrogation after catching the person, and then he heard the middle-aged man say: "Everyone has finished reading it, so let me tell you what directions our police force has conducted in investigating this case. First of all, after receiving your call from Yongquan City yesterday, we found an excuse to go to the suspect's home and collected biological samples from the suspect. The technical team is testing it, and the results will be out later. We also contacted the police officers of the local police station who were responsible for the case of the suspect running away from home in 2013. According to them, they confirmed through visits and surveillance videos that the suspect first rushed from Daqu County to Quming City after running away from home, and then bought a ticket to Linshan City directly at the bus station in Quming City. He stayed in Linshan City for nearly a month until he was found on August 24. We speculated that the deceased should be from Linshan City. Captain Yu of our Criminal Police Brigade has already taken a squadron to Linshan City to investigate the identity information of the deceased, but no results have been received yet."
"As for the suspect," the middle-aged man said, "Team Yu has already assigned Team Three to secretly monitor him. We'll apprehend him as soon as the test results come out. As for other supplementary evidence, we can slowly look for it."
It can be heard that the entire Daqu County Criminal Police Brigade is eager to arrest the suspect. Although there is not enough evidence to form a chain of evidence in the case, they do not want the suspect to go unpunished for a day.
After the middle-aged man finished speaking, Xu Nian said, "Captain Tan, we discussed the case on the way here, and now we have a hypothesis. Based on eyewitnesses, and the time when our Pingjiang District Police Station's expert Guan Xia saw the suspect and the deceased appear at the Chengbei Bus Station in Quming City, as well as the time of the deceased's death, we infer that the suspect and the deceased most likely did not take any transportation from the Chengbei Bus Station to Songxiang Village, but walked."
"On foot?" The middle-aged man frowned. "We didn't find any trace of the deceased in the surveillance footage at the time, and we couldn't find any trace of the deceased during our investigations. In addition, the footprint expert judged the friction marks on the soles of the deceased's shoes. We did suspect that the deceased might have chosen to walk instead of taking public transportation. However, 11 years ago, the surveillance coverage in our county was very low. There were no surveillance cameras on the small paths that were accessible to people but not to cars. Plus, there were very few pedestrians on those paths, so we ultimately couldn't confirm it."
Hearing this, Guan Xia couldn't help but sigh in his heart again, it really is the right time and the right place.
In the following discussion, Guan Xia and Pang Le did not participate, but just listened attentively.
Due to the limited criminal investigation conditions in Daqu County 11 years ago, and the fact that a large number of personnel had already thoroughly investigated the entire Daqu County and several surrounding villages, there was no value in reopening the backlog case. Therefore, everyone agreed to use the location where Guan Xia discovered the deceased and the suspect, the Quming City North Bus Station, as a breakthrough point, hoping to find evidence that the suspect had returned to Quming City before the crime and traveled with the deceased.
Xu Nian and his colleagues have doubts about this. After all, 11 years have passed since the case occurred. According to the Regulations on the Management of Surveillance Video, surveillance videos in public places with very large passenger flow, such as passenger stations and main roads, must be kept for a maximum of 10 years. This case has just exceeded the preservation period.
The middle-aged man, Captain Tan, explained, "In 2013, many people in Quming City were still accustomed to using cash when going out. This led to a lot of petty thefts, and even robberies in some remote areas. So, although the surveillance footage has expired, many local police stations and even branch criminal police teams still have some surveillance footage because of some thefts, burglaries, and robberies. Yesterday, our Captain Yu reported to the higher authorities and borrowed the surveillance footage from the relevant units, but because it takes time to search and coordinate, we have to wait two days."
Upon hearing the news, Guan Xia and Xu Nian all breathed a sigh of relief. They were not afraid of waiting, as long as there was something to investigate.
After agreeing to contact them if there was any new progress, Guan Xia and his team left the Daqu County Criminal Police Brigade.
As soon as he got in the car, Pang Le couldn't help but say happily, "Before I came here, I thought that we wouldn't be able to confirm the identity of the deceased, and that this case would be difficult to investigate. Now it seems to be going smoothly."
Pang Le paused and continued, "And that Captain Tan just now, his attitude was very good, different from some of the criminal investigation novels I've read before. I thought we would be left out, but he turned out to be so enthusiastic."
Wang Yu couldn't help laughing when he heard this. "We're here to help them solve the case, so of course they'll be enthusiastic, not to mention we've brought such an important clue. Not to mention them, I've already anticipated this. No matter where I go to investigate a case in the future, I'll probably see enthusiastic smiling faces."
After Wang Yu finished speaking, he turned to look at Guan Xia and continued, "This is all thanks to Guan Xia. Guan Xia's discoveries really made the case much easier."
Listening to Wang Yu's praise, Guan Xia silently thanked the system in her heart, thanking it for its low-presence aura that protected her and allowed so many victims to be vindicated.
I didn’t take it seriously before, but after these cases, Guan Xia has become more and more aware of the importance of the system. I just don’t know if this system can be upgraded. It would be even better if it can be changed from passive to active.
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