Chapter 143: Floating Corpse in the River 09: Is This a Ghost?
Chapter 9
With clues, the investigation can be done very quickly.
It's like the binding thread used in rice bags. Once you find the right way to open it, you can pull it all the way through.
Zhang Zhen looked unhappy after coming back from a phone call.
Everyone's heart sank.
Yue Fanglin asked: "Did the person run away?"
Zhang Zhen nodded, then shook his head.
Jing Jue: “What does this mean?”
"Yao Sifan flew to Malaysia from Jingyang Airport on April 9."
"April 9th?" Lu Changfeng frowned slightly.
Zhang Zhen nodded.
Jing Jue leaned on the table with his arms folded: "Tang Jinze and Qi Ruining died on April 11th, how is this possible?"
"Are you sure he didn't enter the country through other means? Or are you sure he appeared on camera?" Yue Fanglin tapped his hands on the armrest, feeling a little annoyed.
Zhang Zhen nodded: "The airport surveillance has surveillance footage of him leaving the country, and the flight attendant on that flight can also confirm that there were not many people on that flight that day."
"What the hell."
"It's really a ghost in broad daylight."
The suspect was caught on surveillance footage having left the country two days before the victim's death, so he had no time to commit the crime.
Then who was Yao Sifan that Yang Zheng and the others saw in the private room?
"Could it be Yao Sifan's twin brother?" Jing Jue made a bold guess.
Zhou Yu said: "He is a Malaysian Chinese. It is not easy for us to find out whether he has twin brothers."
"Now that we have an accurate portrait of him, I will first match it with our own population files. Maybe someone is impersonating him."
"Okay, do it as soon as possible." Yue Fanglin looked at Lu Changfeng, "No matter if this person is Yao Sifan or not, at least we have a clue. Let's first find out where he went after taking Tang Jinze and Qi Ruining away."
Lu Changfeng nodded.
The license plate number was very clear. After searching along the way, we saw the car that took Tang Jinze and Qi Ruining away in the surveillance cameras along the national highway leading to the reservoir.
The entire process of the crime becomes very clear.
The murderer gave the two men sleeping pills and took them to a reservoir dozens of kilometers away while they were unconscious. He threw them into the water, causing Tang Jinze to drown and be washed into a tributary by the current.
The two people in coma were unable to resist.
All the jurisdictions along the river have been notified to help search along the river to see if Qi Ruining's body can be found.
Theoretically, since Qi Ruining's body has not been found, he cannot be listed as dead, he can only be missing.
But from what we have learned, there is no reason why the murderer would only kill Tang Jinze and spare Qi Ruining.
The license plate number photographed was registered to a man named Yu Yuan, and Zhou Yu contacted the other party by phone.
According to Yu Yuan, the car was indeed under his name, but he lent it to Yao Sifan during this period.
Yao Sifan was his client, and he had an empty house, which Yao Siyuan planned to rent as an office. The two had been in contact for a long time, and had already agreed on a price and signed a contract.
It was inconvenient for Yao Sifan to move around the country without a car, so he lent his unused car to Yao Sifan.
The information didn't match up, so Zhou Yu asked him, "When did he return the car?"
Yu Yuan said: "A few days ago, on Wednesday or Thursday, he took my car for maintenance. The car beauty center returned the car and sent it to my company and handed it over to the front desk."
"You haven't seen him in person lately?"
Yu Yuan: "He told me last week that he was going back to Malaysia because something happened at home and he had to go back to deal with it."
"Did he say when he would be back?"
"That's not the case. We recently communicated online to finalize the contract."
After the call, several people gathered together to discuss.
Jing Jue said: "From the current situation, Yao Sifan did not have the time to commit the crime, but Yang Zheng and his team did see Yao Sifan. Someone is using Yao Sifan's identity to kill people. He sent the car to the car dealership. We will retrieve the surveillance footage from the car dealership and follow the surveillance footage. In theory, we can find this person."
Lu Changfeng nodded.
"The first thing to do is to find out which car dealership it is."
"Then let's go to Yu Yuan's company and check from the surveillance video what the man who delivered the car looks like. After contacting him, we can find out which car dealership he is from." Jing Jue stood up and wanted to take action.
Lu Changfeng stopped him: "There is an easier way."
Jing Jue asked: "What's a good idea?"
Lu Changfeng said, "Xiangyang is a second-tier city with a permanent population of less than 10 million. Once the maintenance details of all the cars in the city are pulled out, you can identify them by calling each store to verify. By the time you have gone through the trouble of looking up the identity of the person returning the car from the system, you have already made a trip to the store."
Jing Jue scratched his head: "Yeah, you still have a way."
After getting a list of all the auto maintenance and repair shops in Xiangyang, everyone called each one and made inquiries.
The dealership was locked in less than half an hour.
A group of people rushed over.
It is a car dealership open 24 hours a day, not far from the Huaiyang Reservoir.
According to the surveillance footage retrieved from the car dealership, at around 11:00 p.m. that evening, the other party drove the car to the dealership and asked the dealership to perform maintenance.
The few people on duty that night still had an impression of him. Because few people gave cash at that time, the other party insisted on paying in cash, so they went to the nearby store to exchange the money before giving it to him.
He wrapped himself tightly and didn't talk much.
The reason for giving cash is probably because you don’t want the police to find your information through payment information.
Lu Changfeng asked: "Did you find anything unusual with the car when you were washing it?"
The car washer shook his head: "There's nothing wrong with the car. He just asked us to clean it and fix the scratches. That's all."
Since he couldn't get anything out of the question, Lu Changfeng gave up the idea and focused his energy on investigating the other party's whereabouts.
This is the main road into the city, and there are a lot of surveillance cameras nearby.
By retrieving them one by one, you can always restore the other party's whereabouts.
But no one expected that even with such surveillance, the other party would still disappear from the surveillance.
The other person went out the door, turned right and entered the alley.
The alley is an old residential area with many roads and few surveillance cameras.
Looking at the old-style alleys that stretched in all directions, everyone was helpless and could only call the community police to help retrieve the surveillance footage.
There are more than 10,000 people living in this community, and some of the deep alleys are only open to traffic but not parking.
When the drone flew up, it looked like a maze.
After learning more about it, I realized that this is a resettlement site for several surrounding towns. In the early years, everyone built their own houses on a piece of land, and it became like this.
I copied all the surveillance that could be copied, filling up a whole box.
Jing Jue said gloomily, "I have to start watching the surveillance video endlessly again."
The thing he fears most is watching the surveillance camera, which can make his eyes go blind.
Zhou Yu tried to identify Yao Sifan through his facial information in the system, but failed to find a match.
He really couldn't figure out how the other party did this.
Could it be that Yao Sifan really knows how to clone himself?
The car was washed so clean that no fingerprints could be found.
The hotel where Yao Sifan stayed was so clean that it could not provide any useful information.
In the evening, Zhang Zhen received a call.
Qi Ruining's body was found in Zhenzhenwan, Ningzhou City.
As it drifted down the river, its face was unrecognizable and was identified through DNA comparison.
It just so happened that they collected the DNA of Qi Ruining's parents today and uploaded it to the database, which allowed them to match it.
After notifying Qi Ruining's parents, the group rushed to the Ningzhou City Chengnan Branch and saw Qi Ruining's body in the forensic room.
Qi Ruining had multiple injuries on his body, and preliminary judgment was that they were all caused by rocks in the river.
Qi Ruining's mother fainted from crying on the spot, and Qi's father was not much better.
The feeling when I actually saw my son's body was completely different from the vague guesses in my heart.
It took a long time to calm the two of them down.
The conclusion of the on-site autopsy was exactly the same as that of Tang Jinze's autopsy: he had taken an overdose of sleeping pills and drowned in the water while in a coma.
Qi's mother grabbed Lu Changfeng and asked him to find out the murderer who killed her son.
In this kind of situation, no one can be sure that the murderer can be caught. All we can do is try our best to find the murderer.
Lu Changfeng comforted Qi's mother: "Don't worry, we will do our best to find out the identity of the murderer and give you an explanation."
After comforting Qi's parents, it was already late, so the group stayed in a motel near the police station.
Jing Jue was so tired that he lay on the bed and didn't want to move. "I don't know if we can identify the murderer through surveillance."
Lu Changfeng said: "Of course."
He said to Jing Jue, "Don't be discouraged. Since she appeared in the surveillance footage, it's impossible for her to disappear without a trace. We can always find her out if we check her one by one."
Jing Jue nodded.
Yue Fanglin spoke slowly at the side: "The murderer planned the killing. We also checked the area where the murderer disappeared. It was like a maze, which made it easy for the murderer to hide."
"What do you want to say?" Lu Changfeng asked.
Yue Fanglin: "It shouldn't be that easy for us to find the murderer."
It’s not that Yue Fanglin wanted to undermine morale, but the murderer this time was too cunning.
Lu Changfeng was still full of confidence. "The murderer in Jiang Hua's case was very cunning in hiding. No matter what a person did, he would definitely leave traces in this world. If not, it means we haven't found the key to solving the case yet."
"There are no ghosts in this world. Someone must be playing tricks. I believe we can always catch this person."
Lu Changfeng turned to look at Zhou Yu: "Still no activity on the mailbox and forum?"
Zhou Yu nodded: "I've been keeping an eye on it. There are many posts about wives of gay men in the past posts on the forum. Most of them are helpless in the face of such situations."
Concealing one's sexual orientation does not fall under the amnesty for annulment of marriage.
According to surveys, the number of wives of gay men is as high as tens of millions.
Women who have been deceived into marriage or pregnancy should either divorce or remain in the status quo, consider themselves unlucky, and continue to maintain the family.
Even if you get compensation in a divorce, it cannot make up for the damage that has already been done.
Most wives of gay men are raped without their knowledge.
Faced with her husband's indifference after marriage, her self-confidence was hit and she lived a sexless marriage.
In some families, the man is not even seen at all.
Situations like Tang Jinze and his family's efforts to deceive Wu Xiuxiu are very common among wives of gay men.
Zhou Yu said, "I have calculated the man's height, weight, and gait. I'm going to see if I can find him through the Sky Eye system. I've also been doing facial comparisons. Yang Zheng and the others can't see anything wrong with this man, which means he is either Yao Sifan himself, or he looks so much like Yao Sifan that he can't be recognized."
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