Chapter 12 Death of an Internet Celebrity 06 Most likely the murderer took it away
Chapter 6
"Of course, we can't rule out this possibility."
Lu Changfeng was the first to walk out of the study and went to the bedroom where Jiang Hua died to check the situation.
The trace inspection conducted a detailed investigation in the bedroom and found that the overall style was highly consistent, without any particularly eye-catching bright colors. The tones and types of clothes in the closet were also very uniform.
Everything is in its place.
Yue Fanglin went straight to the bathroom mirror to check the Judge's mark.
After Lu Changfeng finished looking at the wardrobe, he went into the bathroom and saw Yue Fanglin staring at the mirror. He asked, "What did you see?"
Yue Fanglin shook his head.
Lu Changfeng stood beside Yue Fanglin and looked at the marks on the mirror with him.
"The things on the bathroom sink are neatly arranged. Jiang Hua was wearing sportswear when he died. He must have just returned from the gym." Lu Changfeng tried to analyze the situation at the time based on the information he had.
Yue Fanglin nodded in agreement: "Go on."
Lu Changfeng: "After working out, you will usually take a shower to make yourself feel refreshed. Jiang Hua has extremely high standards for everything around him and does not tolerate any mistakes. I don't think Jiang Hua would tolerate this logo appearing on his mirror after seeing it. It is very likely that this logo was painted on it after Jiang Hua died, was about to die, or was already dead."
Jing Jue raised his own question: "What if he had already been poisoned when he entered the bedroom and had never entered the bathroom?"
Lu Changfeng really appreciated Jing Jue's point that he raised questions as soon as they arose. He explained, "Let's assume that Jiang Hua was poisoned by oleander outside and died of the poison after returning home. When Jiang Hua entered the bedroom, he was already poisoned enough to go into the bathroom and see the mark. This makes sense in theory. However, there is a lot of uncertainty about the mark being there first and Jiang Hua dying later. The mark left by the judge after committing the crime is their fixed mark. We were sent to investigate this case because of this mark, which the judge intended to show us. Jiang Hua did not get poisoned immediately after returning home but went into the bathroom, so the mark would most likely be erased, which does not conform to the judge's intention of drawing this mark."
After Lu Changfeng explained it this way, Jing Jue could understand.
Lu Changfeng said: "From the circumstances of the death and various signs at the scene, it is clear that the mark was drawn after Jiang Hua's death. The focus of the investigation should be on who entered Jiang Hua's home after he returned home and where Jiang Hua was poisoned."
Yue Fanglin said: "The forensic doctor said that the level of oleandrin toxin in Jiang Hua's body was very high. The time from poisoning to the onset of the poison was very short, which just shortened the scope of our investigation. As long as we restore Jiang Hua's whereabouts before and after the incident and conduct a dragnet investigation of all the people who had contact with him, we can narrow the scope."
Lu Changfeng looked at the time. It was now past eight o'clock in the evening, which was exactly the time when Jiang Hua went to the gym to exercise.
"Let's go to the gym."
"That's exactly what I meant."
Led by the community security, several people came to the gym in the community.
There are quite a lot of people in the gym during this period of time.
Lu Changfeng was observing all the way and there were surveillance cameras along the way. The surveillance in the gym was quite dense. Except for the locker room and the toilet, all other places were covered in all directions.
Yue Fanglin showed his police ID to the front desk, indicating that they were there to conduct an investigation.
The front desk notified the gym equipment instructions.
This gym has a great environment and serves elite people.
They watched Jiang Hua's exercise status that night. Jiang Hua in the surveillance did not seem to have any discomfort and his overall condition was very good.
The equipment trainer said: "Mr. Jiang is an old customer of our gym. He has been a member of our gym for five years. He comes to our gym three or four days a week to exercise for an hour after 8 pm. I have worked here for more than two years and I am familiar with Mr. Jiang. He is very familiar with the fitness equipment here. When he left the night before yesterday, he was in very good condition, no different from before."
"Do you have a luggage storage area here?" Lu Changfeng asked.
The equipment instructor said: "Yes, we provide functional drinks in the annual membership lounge and locker room. Members have their own lockers to store clothes or valuables."
He asked the front desk to check Jiang Hua's locker number and used the master card to open Jiang Hua's storage locker, but the locker was empty.
All drinks provided in the lounge are bottled and sealed, there are many choices, and there are surveillance cameras in the lounge.
Lu Changfeng said, "Can you show us this surveillance footage? Also, give us a copy of the surveillance footage from your gym over the past week. We'll take it back to the bureau and review it."
"Okay, I'll arrange it right away."
Lu Changfeng handed the USB flash drive to the equipment supervisor.
Through surveillance video, they restored Jiang Hua's movement trajectory in the gym that night.
He arrived at the gym at 8:25 p.m., went to the lounge to put down his belongings, and then came to the fitness area at 8:27 p.m. to greet people he knew and started his fitness plan for the day.
It lasted until 9:30 in the evening. He returned to the lounge, picked up his things and left, disappearing from the gym's surveillance at 9:32.
During this period, he just went to the water dispenser to get a glass of drinking water. It is obviously impossible for the murderer to poison the drinking water.
During the more than one hour in the gym, Jiang Hua was fine.
It only takes five minutes to walk from Jiang Hua’s home to the gym.
Lu Changfeng recorded the time.
He sent a message to Zhou Yu, asking him to help check the exact time when Jiang Hua arrived home, accurate to the minute and second.
Zhou Yu quickly sent the specific time. Zhou Yu arrived home at 9:40 in the evening.
It takes eight minutes to walk home from the gym. I might have met someone and chatted with them on the way, or I might have been delayed by other things.
Lu Changfeng gave an exact time period and asked them to check the surveillance along the way starting from 9:32 to see who Jiang Hua had contacted during these eight minutes on the road and whether he had eaten or drunk anything.
Yue Fanglin found that there were quite a lot of people walking their dogs in the neighborhood at night, so he planned to go and ask them about the situation, hoping that someone had seen any suspicious people.
Lu Changfeng took Jing Jue and walked along the road from the gym to Jiang Hua's home again, making sure that Jiang Hua was under surveillance throughout the entire process, and then went back to meet up with Yue Fanglin.
"You usually talk a lot, but why did you become silent today while handling a case? I haven't heard you say a few words the whole day." Lu Changfeng asked Jing Jue.
Jing Jue was taking notes seriously. He stopped talking when Lu Changfeng spoke to him. "I'm afraid I'll disrupt your thinking on solving the case. The case is the most important."
Lu Changfeng stretched out his hand and motioned for Jing Jue to give him the notebook, "Let me see what you wrote down."
Jing Jue handed it to Lu Changfeng.
The contents of the notes are mostly about the reasoning of Lu Changfeng and Yue Fanglin, as well as some of Jing Jue’s own questions and thoughts.
The case analysis and summary is quite serious.
Lu Changfeng also gave him: "That's a good summary. If you have this determination, you will definitely be able to stand on your own and become a very outstanding criminal policeman in the future."
Jing Jue took it and closed it, his eyes sparkling with anticipation for the future, "I also believe in myself. Under the guidance of you and Captain Yue, one day I will be able to become an independent criminal police officer."
Lu Changfeng touched Jing Jue's head as usual and got pricked by his hair. Then he realized what he had done.
Jing Jue grew up beside him. Before, Jing Jue was not as tall as him, and he always liked to touch Jing Jue's head.
"Why do you keep your hair cut?"
Lu Changfeng remembered that Jing Jue used to take good care of his hair, and his hair felt very good at that time.
Jing Jue touched his hedgehog-like buzz cut and said, "Police grooming regulations prohibit long hair, so I just shaved my head. A buzz cut is also easy to take care of."
Lu Changfeng nodded. Yue Fanglin, who was not far ahead, waved to them. The two of them sped up to meet up with Yue Fanglin.
"How is it, have you found anything?" Lu Changfeng asked Yue Fanglin.
Yue Fanglin shook his head: "Everyone said they hadn't seen any suspicious people."
It is normal that this needle-in-a-haystack approach has not made any progress.
A message popped up on Lu Changfeng's phone at this moment. He clicked it and saw it was a new message from Zhou Yu.
Zhou Yu said that he had watched all the surveillance videos on this road, frame by frame. Jiang Hua did not chat with anyone on the road. He just wasted some time waiting for the elevator, so it took him a little longer to get home.
That also ruled out the possibility that he was drugged on his way home from the gym.
Lu Changfeng and Yue Fanglin said, "It seems that Jiang Hua was poisoned in his own home. Now we just have to wait for the forensic doctor to prepare a toxicology test report on the food and water samples taken from Jiang Hua's home."
Yue Fanglin nodded and said pessimistically: "The murderer came prepared. After poisoning Jiang Hua, it was easy for him to take away the poisonous items for disposal. I think it is almost impossible to find anything from the food and water they sampled at the scene. The murderer should have taken away another mobile phone of the deceased. I think he was afraid that we would discover the secrets in the phone."
Lu Changfeng thought so too. After looking around, he realized there was nothing else he needed to investigate. "Then let's go back to the bureau. There's nothing else to investigate for now."
Back at the bureau, everyone exchanged the latest developments in the conference room.
Judging from the communication results from Jiang Hua's parents, Jiang Hua can be said to be well-rounded in moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor aspects, and is as perfect as a human machine without any flaws.
Such a perfect person could never be the target of the judge. Judging from the characteristics of the cases the judge had committed in the past, all the dead were guilty.
If they can find Jiang Hua's crime, perhaps the truth of this case can be revealed.
"The deceased's phone cannot be found. It is highly likely that the murderer has taken it. This problem will be solved soon. We have already retrieved the background records of his account." Lin Huan said: "Tomorrow we will continue to go out and investigate and expand the scope of the investigation."
Xiao Jia said: "I have contacted Jiang Hua's middle school and high school. I will continue to contact them tomorrow to see if Jiang Hua did anything bad in middle school and high school. It may be difficult to investigate because it has been a long time. I will do my best."
The clock on the wall showed that it was already ten forty-three.
Lin Huan said, "Let's stop here for today. This case will not be resolved in a day or two. Your serious crime team has come all the way from Yancheng. I'll have someone take you to the guesthouse to rest. Only after a good rest can you have the energy to continue investigating the case."
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