Chapter 125 Eight Years Old Case
Zhou Yi was shocked by what Qian Hongxing's driver said.
What shocked him was not that Qian Hongxing's son was kidnapped.
But it is the name of the kidnapped child.
Money comes.
The name was quite recognizable, so it left a deep impression on him.
He had seen the files on the kidnapping case, which was an incomplete cold case.
The reason why it is incomplete is that after this case happened, it was not solved at the time and became an unsolved case.
But eight years later, the case was reopened and eventually solved.
The victim of this case, a seven-year-old boy named Qian Lailai, was not rescued after paying the ransom. His body was found ten days after being kidnapped.
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Zhou Yi seemed to be back in the archive room again, surrounded by case files.
He opened one of them.
It was April or February 1997. Qian Lailai, the seven-year-old son of Qian Hongxing, the owner of Hongxing Food, was taken by his nanny to play in the park next to the community after school.
In a blink of an eye, Qian Lailai disappeared, and the nanny searched the entire park but couldn't find the child.
He could only run back home to tell Mrs. Qian, who immediately called her husband and asked the community security to look for someone nearby.
In the end, the person was not found, only the shoe that Qian Lailai was wearing was found.
There was a note in the shoe, with the words written on the front: Qian Lailai is in my hands, don’t call the police, otherwise you will never see him again.
There is an address written on the back: Under the tree in front of Guandi Temple on Jinxiu Street.
Qian Hongxing understood that his son had been kidnapped, and for his son's safety, he decided not to call the police.
Following the address on the note, Qian Hongxing ran to the Guandi Temple on Jinxiu Street and found the second note under a stone under a tree.
The second note read: "Qian Lailai is safe and sound. Please prepare 50,000 yuan in old banknotes, wrap them in brown paper, and tie them securely with string. Deliver them to the Gangcun stop sign at 6:00 tomorrow morning on Route 7."
Qian Hongxing immediately prepared 50,000 yuan. This was not a big deal for him at all. As long as his son could come back safely, any amount of money would be worth it.
But Qian Hongxing's wife couldn't stand the torment of waiting and finally secretly called the police.
Kidnapping is a criminal case, and the command center immediately reported the case to the Qingshan Branch.
When the police from the Criminal Investigation Brigade of Qingshan Branch knocked on the door of Qian Hongxing's villa, Qian Hongxing was extremely agitated. He felt that they were going to kill his son, and refused to cooperate, hoping that they would leave immediately.
Finally, after the criminal police from Qingshan Branch and Qian Hongxing's wife took turns to persuade him, Qian Hongxing finally agreed to cooperate.
The Qingshan Branch immediately made arrangements. First, they checked whether there were any witnesses in the park when Qian Lailai disappeared. Second, they made arrangements on the No. 7 bus, even replacing the driver with a disguised criminal police officer. The area within a one-kilometer radius of Gangcun Station was full of police eyes.
They waited until the next morning when Qian Hongxing went to pay the ransom and arrested him on the spot.
But the result was contrary to expectations. Qian Hongxing waited at the bus stop for a whole day, but the kidnappers did not show up.
It was not until after nine o'clock that evening that the phone rang in Qian Hongxing's villa.
On the phone, an obviously disguised voice told Qian Hongxing to find a new note under the sign of Gangcun Bus Stop on Line 7 at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning.
After the other party finished speaking, he immediately hung up.
The police checked the telephone company's lines and found that the call was made from a public pay telephone booth at an intersection.
The police took out all the coins in the phone booth and tried to find fingerprints on them.
But in the end, only sixty-two fingerprints were extracted from the thirty-two coins.
In other words, there were no fingerprints left on one of the coins.
This is quite ironic because it means that the kidnappers have extremely strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities and wore gloves when inserting the coins.
Therefore, the Qingshan Branch decided to continue to stake out the vicinity of Gangcun Station and make sure to catch the other party in the act when they came to leave the note.
But the result was that a group of people squatted there all night, but no one came.
The next morning, before six o'clock, Qian Hongxing, who had not slept all night, ran to the bottom of the bus stop and rummaged around.
I actually found a note wrapped in a plastic bag in the grass behind the bus stop.
All the police officers of Qingshan Branch were stunned. They had been squatting there for a whole night and didn't even miss the shadow of a cat. How did the kidnapper throw the note here?
And the content of the note surprised them even more.
Because there were two sentences written on the note.
The first sentence is, go behind the newsstand opposite Guangming Middle School and find the next note.
The second sentence is, tell everyone else not to follow, otherwise I will kill you.
This frightened the Qingshan police station. When did the kidnappers find out that Qian Hongxing had called the police? Is the hostage Qian Lailai still alive?
They just couldn't figure out how the kidnappers did all this.
Another team that tracked Qian Lailai's activities in the 24 hours before his disappearance also found no valuable clues.
This directly led to Qian Hongxing's resistance to the police, believing that the current situation was caused by the police's poor handling of the case.
Faced with the emotionally agitated Qian Hongxing, the police could only promise not to deploy defenses near Guangming Middle School to avoid being discovered by the kidnappers, angering them and then harming the hostages.
Qian Hongxing went to Guangming Middle School alone and found the fourth note behind the newsstand.
The note required Qian Hongxing to take the money and rush to Qingshan Long-distance Bus Station immediately, holding up the note, and someone would come to find him.
In addition to this sentence, there are two more sentences written below.
——If it’s public.
——Are you worried about the money? Or the children?
Qian Hongxing was stunned when he saw these two sentences. This meant that the kidnappers had already made up their minds to kill him, which was why they warned him like this.
He didn't care about the mere fifty thousand dollars. All he wanted was his son to return safely.
Since there was no police following Qian Hongxing at the time, the police did not know what was written on the note.
When the police realized something was wrong and called Qian Hongxing's mobile phone, Qian Hongxing was already on his way to the long-distance bus station.
But after he arrived at the long-distance bus station, he waited for a whole day, but still no one came to withdraw the money.
Qian Hongxing, feeling anxious and annoyed, had no choice but to go home and inform the police of the situation.
At this time, it had been more than two days since Qian Lailai was kidnapped, and the golden rescue time for kidnapping cases was twenty-four hours.
This means that Qian Lailai's situation is extremely dangerous.
The police were always in a passive state. The kidnapper seemed to be playing with the police and Qian Hongxing like a cat playing with a mouse.
At nine o'clock that evening, the phone at Qian Hongxing's house rang again.
It was that disguised voice again, and it was that public pay phone booth where not even a fingerprint was found afterwards.
On the phone, the kidnappers asked Qian Hongxing to go to the next location to find the fifth note.
But this time the location was not in Hongcheng.
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