Chapter 29 I Want Your Tongue (V) Purpose of Murder
Because two murders occurred consecutively within two days, it attracted the attention of superiors, who asked Han Jianye's criminal police team to solve the case within a limited time.
At the tense case advancement meeting, Han Jianye put forward his analysis of the two murders: "I firmly believe that the murderer of these two murders is the same person.
There was no obvious conflict or acquaintance between the victims and the murderer. The only reason they were killed was that as single women living alone, they became the murderer's target.
Serial killers often have high IQs, distorted mentalities, and paranoid personalities. They kill to satisfy their own psychological or physical needs.
In these two cases, the only similarity between the victims was the same method of death, which seems to indicate that the murderer chose another target to try again after the first crime failed, which can also explain why Fan Linglong's tongue was cut off. ”
Su Wan raised a question: "Captain Han, do you think the murderer's target was really the tongue?"
Han Jianye replied: "That's my suspicion for now."
At this time, Liao Wei interrupted and said, "Could the murderer be a perverted collector? But in our past case records, we did not find that the murderer had the habit of collecting tongues. Could it be that the murderer cut off the tongues and cooked them to eat?"
Han Jianye turned his gaze to Ye Bai and noticed that he had remained silent. "Ye Bai, if you have any ideas, you might as well speak up and we can discuss them together."
Ye Bai looked around at his colleagues in the conference room. He did have some unique insights: "At first, I suspected that the murderer might be a resident of Wuliu Village. But as victims appeared in neighboring villages, I began to wonder how the murderer knew that they were all single women living alone? So the murderer should be a villager.
Because it takes a long time of observation to get to know them, I infer that the murderer did not choose his targets randomly but knew them. Perhaps the murderer has other targets in mind, but has not yet started.
There is no fixed pattern in the time and place of the murderer's crimes, but the targets he chooses are similar, that is, single women living alone who are not very defensive. ”
Han Jianye asked Ye Bai: "Why do you think the murderer cut off the victim's tongue?"
Ye Bai raised his head and met Han Jianye's eyes. He gave his analysis: "The murderer may have suffered some kind of stimulation in his childhood, which caused him to have prejudice and hostility towards single women. Or, as Liao Wei guessed, the murderer may be a pervert with a hobby of collecting tongues."
When the meeting ended, Qi Xiaolei and other investigators happened to return from outside, exhausted.
They brought new clues. Qi Xiaolei said: "We have verified that Guo Yingping left on a motorcycle outside a convenience store before she was killed. We are currently tracking the driver."
Han Jianye smoked quietly, his brows furrowed. He raised a question: "Guo Yingping did leave on a motorcycle, but why did her body appear in the unfinished building? It's still a long way from Wuliu Village to there."
Could it be that the motorcyclist is the murderer?
Han Jianye arranged for Liao Wei and Qi Xiaolei to follow up on the motorcycle driver.
Then he took Ye Bai to find Mai Shaozhen, who was still busy in the autopsy room.
"You came at the right time. I just discovered some key information." Mai Shaozhen looked up at Han Jianye and Ye Bai with a hint of excitement in his tone.
Han Jianye asked eagerly: "What discovery was it?"
Mai Shaozhen guided them to observe the severe lacerations on the victim's lips, especially the direction of the knife wounds. "If I'm not mistaken, the murderer should be left-handed."
This sentence made Han Jianye's pupils shrink instantly. He carefully observed the cuts on the deceased and indeed found a clue.
Because he was a person who could cut meat and cook, assuming he was the murderer, when cutting the victim's tongue, he might choose to chop off the mandible to facilitate the operation due to the victim's narrow mouth.
If he cut his tongue with a knife, then according to common sense, he should have started from the right side.
However, the deceased's tongue was cut in the direction of the left, as was the wound on his lip.
He thinks that when left-handed and right-handed people cut meat, the direction of cutting may be different due to their different dominant hands.
A normal left-handed person might hold the blade toward their left when cutting meat, while a right-handed person would hold it toward the right.
A left-handed person might cut from right to left, while a right-handed person might cut from left to right.
Based on these clues, the murderer is most likely left-handed.
At this time, Ye Bai asked Mai Shaozhen, "Sister Shaozhen, what about Guo Yingping? Is her knife mark also on the left?"
Mai Shaozhen directly brought Guo Yingping's photo to compare with Fan Linglong, "In fact, it was only after I looked at the root of the deceased's tongue that I concluded that the murderer might be left-handed."
Han Jianye said: "Whether it is true or not, this is also a breakthrough in finding the murderer."
Mai Shaozhen asked Han Jianye, "What are you going to do next?"
"What else can we do? There have been two murders, and the villagers are too scared to go out. Until the murderer is caught, we will send people to patrol the village in shifts every day."
Mai Shaozhen smiled and said, "Keep going, and try to solve the case as soon as possible. I will also re-sort the clothes left behind by the two deceased to see if we have missed any important clues."
After Han Jianye and Ye Bai left, the two went directly to Luoyang Village. Su Wan and his men had already arrived there first. They were going to ask the villagers if they had seen any suspicious people appear in the area last night.
Since the cowshed where the deceased was located was in an old housing area, there was no surveillance around, and it was raining heavily, even if the murderer had left any clues, they would probably have been washed away by the rain.
Ye Bai had a question in his mind, "Captain Han, you said it rained heavily last night, how did the murderer know that the deceased went to the cowshed?"
Han Jianye stopped in his tracks after hearing this. He turned to look at Ye Bai and said seriously, "Do you think the murderer had been waiting outside the deceased's house last night, waiting for an opportunity to strike? And the deceased happened to be worried about the cowshed, so he wore a raincoat and went to the cowshed alone, giving the murderer the opportunity to strike."
Ye Bai nodded with a heavy face, "That's what I think."
The two stood there, as if they had a tacit understanding that needed no words, and turned around and walked towards Fan Linglong's home.
Fan Linglong's house is a bungalow. The windows are all covered with stainless steel anti-theft nets. The only entrance and exit is the front door, and you can't get in unless you have a key.
Ye Bai stood under the eaves of the old house, opposite which was Fan Linglong's home. He wondered whether the murderer had been standing here last night, watching and looking for an opportunity to strike?
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