Chapter 34
The cases of Qiu Yue, Feng Xumei and Xu Candong have been merged, and a special task force has been set up with Chang Ting as the team leader.
Several team members are working overtime day and night, and their main job at present is to monitor the surveillance.
Although there were many forked roads around the crime scene, it happened in the late night, so there were relatively few cars and pedestrians.
My colleagues were almost blinded by watching the surveillance footage, and finally they identified several suspicious people and some suspicious vehicles.
Chang Ting came to the computer. Zhou Zhengzheng played the intercepted videos to him one by one.
"Because the surveillance camera at the crime scene was destroyed, the screening area was expanded to a radius of one kilometer. The time when these pedestrians and vehicles entered and left the area coincided with the time of the crime."
Dozens of videos are arranged on the screen.
Chang Ting asked, "Can you see the license plate clearly?"
"able."
Chang Ting nodded: "Find the owner of the car according to the license plate, verify the identity of each person and find out the reason for their stay to see if it is related to the case."
Zhou Zhengzheng responded and continued, "The more troublesome ones are electric bikes and pedestrians. Electric bikes are now required to have license plates according to new regulations, but our city hasn't fully implemented it yet. Most of them don't have license plates, and once they wear helmets and masks, they are difficult to identify.
The faces of the few pedestrians who weren't riding bikes were also blurry in the photos, making it difficult to confirm their identities. We could only expand the scope of the surveillance footage to track their origins and destinations."
Chang Ting sat down and flipped through the videos one by one, asking, "Are Qin Xiuzhu and Chen He among them?"
“Not found yet.”
Chang Ting felt a little relieved. After a moment's thought, he suggested, "The gasoline container found at the scene was a 19-liter bucket. So the murderer might have brought this bucket with him when he went to the scene."
Zhou Zhengzheng's eyes lit up. "Right! Why didn't I think of that!" She watched several clips of the video over and over again. "This way, we can eliminate unaccompanied electric bikes and pedestrians, and the workload is reduced by half! You're worthy of being my master!"
Chang Ting shook his head and said, "It cannot be completely ruled out, but the suspicion has been reduced."
Zhou Zhengzheng opened his bloodshot eyes wide: "Why?"
"Because the surveillance coverage area is too large. If the killer had hidden buckets of oil near the crime scene beforehand, wouldn't he have been able to come and go empty-handed?"
Zhou Zhengzheng wilted. "That's right. Whether you have a bucket or not, we have to check it."
"There are other possibilities. For example, the killer lives in the area, or hides in the area after committing the crime, and then leaves the next day when there are more people passing by. In this case, he may not even be included in the targeted group."
Zhou Zhengzheng stared at the fluorescent light in silence, the word "despair" written in his empty eyes.
Chang Ting watched the video again and asked, "Didn't you notice the maintenance worker in the blue-gray overalls?"
Zhou Zhengzheng was almost exhausted. "No. I paid close attention. I didn't see anyone dressed as a maintenance worker among those who came in and out, or those who only came in but never left."
Chang Ting frowned. Was he overthinking it? Was the repairman just a passerby?
Zhou Zhengzheng cursed with a bitter face: "Those merchants who destroyed the surveillance must be severely punished! They are killing us!"
Chang Ting rubbed his tired face and said, "Let's check the ones we've targeted first. Print out the images and distribute them to the task force. Let's go and visit them separately."
Zhou Zhengzheng printed out the images, ran around distributing them, and finally stuffed one into Chang Ting's hand.
Chang Ting was slumped in his chair, his mind full of thoughts, and he looked up at her.
She bravely glared back, "There's only one left after the average split. No one would be happy if I gave it to them. I know you're a busy team leader, so giving you only one is already a special favor to the leader."
"Okay, okay, okay."
Chang Ting waved her away, looking down at the paper in his hand. It was the silhouette of a pedestrian. Although the image was printed in high definition, it was still completely black.
He pulled up the video from his computer.
The camera only captured the man for a few seconds. The night scene was blurry and the angle wasn't great, so only a silhouette was captured.
Judging from his figure, he is a man, about 180 cm tall, with a well-proportioned body, wearing a black shirt, black pants, black sneakers, and a black baseball cap.
The little bit of his face that was exposed was also dark, probably because he was wearing a black mask.
Good guy, fully armed.
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