Chapter 223: Savings Bank Robbery
Zhou Yi carried the last pile of things he bought back home and closed the door.
Looking at the miscellaneous things on the ground, he nodded with satisfaction, then rolled up his sleeves and started to work.
Zhou Yi's house is a one-bedroom and one-living room house of less than 50 square meters. He used to sleep in a room partitioned off from the living room. It was just a room with a single bed and a small desk, and it was full.
My father had said before that when they moved back to the old house, they could tear down this partition so that the living room would look much bigger and brighter.
Zhou Yi felt that it was unnecessary and it was fine to keep it. He had lived there for so many years and had long been accustomed to it.
Now that he has figured out the purpose of this compartment, he wants to convert it into a secret archive room.
He moved the small bed and desk out of the compartment, cleaned it up, and then used an electric drill to tinker with it and mounted the whiteboard he had bought on the wall.
Then a huge map of Hongcheng and a large calendar were nailed to the partition wall on the other side.
This is just the first step. The real key lies in the wires, light tubes, and hidden sandwich panels.
He worked until noon and finally finished it. After cleaning, he moved the desk back in and left only the single bed in the living room.
Zhou Yi closed the door of the compartment and the room was dark.
He turned on the switch next to the door and the incandescent light above his head came on.
He picked up a newly bought pen from the table and wrote two words on the whiteboard on the wall.
But the pen tip slid past, and not a single word was left on the whiteboard.
Then, he stood on tiptoe and touched the ceiling above his head. There was a small buckle on the edge of the ceiling. He twisted the buckle and the ceiling came loose.
But it did not fall completely because there were steel wire ropes inside the two sides of the ceiling.
There was a switch on the inside of the ceiling panel, and Zhou Yi turned it on with a click.
The ultraviolet lamp hidden in the ceiling mezzanine lit up, and because the movable ceiling panel formed an angled gap, the ultraviolet light just shone onto the whiteboard on the wall.
In an instant, two words appeared on the whiteboard.
Unsolved case.
Zhou Yi nodded with satisfaction, done.
Then he locked the compartment again.
He had been thinking about how to sort out the memories of his previous life.
Because since his rebirth, he has almost always triggered some cases due to various coincidences. Although it has only been a month, except for Lu Xiaoshuang's incident, the others were almost all triggered passively.
But Hongcheng is so small that major murders cannot be so frequent. Moreover, many cases that are not serious enough are still being handled by the lower-level police stations.
However, since he lived with his parents before, he had no way to organize and record these things.
So later on, he kicked his second uncle out of the house, which was not only to clean up the house for the Zhou family, but also to create conditions for himself.
The premise of this condition is that you live alone, without being disturbed or discovered by anyone.
But despite this, he still took the cautious approach and added some mechanisms to the compartment.
Under normal circumstances, even if someone walked in, they would just treat it as a small study.
Zhou Yi would record all the text messages on the whiteboard and notebook with an invisible pen, so that no one would notice them when the lights were on.
Only by opening the mechanism of the ceiling mezzanine above the head can it be revealed with an ultraviolet lamp, thus ensuring safety.
Moreover, he only allowed the ultraviolet lamp to shine on the whiteboard on the wall because long-term exposure to ultraviolet light is harmful to the human body, and he didn't want to hurt himself.
What he is still lacking is that kind of small ultraviolet lamp equipment. He hasn't found a suitable one yet. He will go and buy it when he has time.
After finishing all this, Zhou Yi began to calm down and sort out his memories of the case files from his previous life.
First, he divided the case data into two dimensions: Hongcheng and the entire province.
However, he has no plans to sort out all the cases in the province for the time being, except for a few major cases that will involve Hongcheng in the future, such as the Huang Jinbao gangster case.
Because he is now an ordinary criminal policeman in the Criminal Investigation Detachment of Hongcheng City Bureau, he is not yet capable of handling cases in the entire province.
Hongcheng's case is naturally the focus, because it is within his current authority.
Hongcheng’s cases can be divided into three categories.
The first category consisted of cases that occurred before 1997 and had already been solved. He didn't plan to review these cases. Although there might be some wrongful convictions like Wang Hongna's, unless there were special circumstances, he wouldn't be like a reckless person and demand a thorough review of all the cases. That would only cause unnecessary trouble and even make him a thorn in the side.
The second category is homicides that are about to occur and can be solved quickly. In principle, homicide cases are generally reported to the Municipal Bureau, but whether the Third Brigade is responsible depends on the nature of the case.
The third category involved murders that were about to occur but remained unsolved, or were only solved many years later due to advances in criminal investigation techniques and technology. These were known as cold cases, also known within the police as backlogs. These were the most important of the key cases, and he would gradually organize all the archival materials he had.
Cases like Lu Xiaoshuang's are the worst unsolved cases.
The case of Qian Lailai being kidnapped by Sun Kun was an unsolved case that was not solved at the time and was only solved many years later.
But when it comes to the second and third types of cases, Zhou Yi actually has always had a huge conflict in his heart.
That is, what should you do after you know the time and place of the incident.
Especially those cases that have been solved.
In many cases, not only is the murderer unknown, but in some cases, the initial crime scene cannot even be confirmed. The forensic doctor can only determine an approximate time of death through an autopsy, such as the upcoming massive dismemberment case.
But for those cases that have been solved, even if the investigation takes time and process, for Zhou Yi who later looked at the files, the time, place and murderer of the case were all clear and accurate. If he had been on guard in advance when the case happened, he could have prevented the murder from happening.
It’s okay once or twice, but if it happens more than once, how can I explain it?
Especially since many cases happen in the middle of the night. How do you explain why you run to the crime scene to save people without sleeping?
And in terms of energy and work, he couldn't do it.
If you know it but don’t help, you will feel guilty.
But if you want to save it, you have to take a lot of risks.
The situation in the Du Xiaolin case could only be explained by coincidence, but he could not explain another case.
Even if the chain of evidence can prove that he has nothing to do with it, the sensitivity of his identity can easily lead to other problems.
The most serious thing might be that the bureau would have some doubts about him and transfer him away from the front line.
Thinking of this, Zhou Yi could only sigh helplessly.
"Zhou Yi, you're not a god, you can't save everyone. Just leave it to fate." Zhou Yi muttered to himself, and Lu Xiaoshuang's smile appeared in his mind. "Those you meet are destined to be with you. You should save them, and the rest is up to fate."
He shook his head helplessly. Although this was not what he wanted, this was the reality.
For example, if he happened to meet Cheng Jiaojiao's friend, the girl named Han Jiajia, it means that he should be responsible for this matter.
However, Han Jiajia’s parents’ case did not happen immediately, but on June 14th, two months later.
Zhou Yi himself doesn’t know whether it’s useful now.
And it was also an unsolved case and the murderer was never found.
Never mind, I'll talk to Han Jiajia later, maybe I can find out something in advance.
Zhou Yi thought about it and wrote a few words on the whiteboard with an invisible pen: June 14th Linbei Road Savings Bank robbery and murder case.
Then, Zhou Yi recalled all the details when he was reading the case files in his previous life, and wrote them down on the whiteboard one by one, including the identity information and family situation of the victim, the various investigations conducted by the police at the time, the situation of the on-site investigation, and so on.
On June 14, 1997, police discovered two murdered bodies in the duty room on the upper floor of a state-owned savings bank on Linbei Road in Qingshan District.
The person who called the police was an employee of the savings bank because it was working hours but the director of the savings bank, Han Weimin, had not opened the door.
Because there was account sorting work to be done the day before, Director Han Weimin and his wife Zhang Guilan, who also worked at the savings bank, stayed in the office to work overtime.
This is actually a very normal thing, because there is a large amount of cash flowing in the savings bank every day, so according to regulations, there must be someone on duty every day. Therefore, there is a lounge upstairs in the savings bank, and everyone takes turns on duty.
But the door was not opened that morning and no matter how they called out, there was no response, so the vigilant employees realized that something might have happened and called the police.
When the police arrived, they found that the rear window glass of the savings bank had been removed and the anti-theft iron bars installed on the window had been violently bent.
They immediately forced their way into the savings bank and found two bodies lying in a pool of blood in the lounge upstairs.
After identification by the employees, they were found to be Director Han Weimin and his wife.
The police later discovered that 36,000 yuan in cash was missing from the savings bank. The safe was not damaged, but was opened with the key that Han Weimin was responsible for keeping.
The case soon fell into the hands of the Third Brigade. Based on the scene and the autopsy results, Wu Yongcheng inferred that the murderer must have held Zhang Guilan hostage, forced Han Weimin to open the safe, took away the cash, and then killed Han Weimin and Zhang Guilan.
The Third Brigade first launched an investigation into the social relations of the two deceased and successively identified several suspicious targets, but in the end they were all ruled out for various reasons.
The crime scene had been deliberately cleaned by the robbers, and the police only found half a fingerprint. Due to the lack of clear clues, the investigation of the case came to a standstill and eventually became an unsolved case.
Han Weimin and Zhang Guilan’s daughter is Han Jiajia.
Moreover, two years after the incident, Han Jiajia committed suicide by hanging due to depression.
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