Red Makeup Serial Murder Case (16)

Imagine an honest man who is always oppressed in marriage and life, doing such an incredible thing on a rainy day when no one is prepared. It is indeed possible. Meng Siqi was a little shocked, because Liang Chenghao's thoughts were indeed coupled with criminal motives.

However, this type of male image is not uncommon in daily life, and it is difficult to define the quality of a couple's relationship. Some couples who are in harmony with each other may actually be sleeping in the same bed but dreaming different dreams. Therefore, even if Liang Chenghao made these criminal profiles, he might not be able to find the suspect.

But Liang Chenghao's profile gave her a lot of inspiration.

The women were not violated because the murderer had a sexual dysfunction. However, people with sexual dysfunction are not without sexual desire. In fact, their sexual desire may be stronger. Therefore, the murderer developed an attachment to the attacking image of "flame". However, he was indeed inferior. His way of making up for his inferiority complex was to constantly paint red makeup symbolizing "flame" on the bodies of the female victims. This was the ritual behavior for the murderer to obtain sexual satisfaction.

These words undoubtedly made Meng Siqi feel enlightened. She began to understand why Lu He was so nice to Liang Ran. It was naturally because Liang Chenghao had helped and influenced him a lot.

"Lu He, if that's the case, then the Hongzhuang case could indeed be motivated by the same criminal motive."

In Meng Siqi's profile of the Red Makeup Case, she once believed that the murderer was a person who hated women, had received higher education, and had an extreme cleanliness fetish, but Liang Chenghao's profile of the Red Lacquer Case undoubtedly gave her new ideas.

"Yes, it is possible, but even if we can infer the motive of this crime, we cannot find the murderer. After all, as you can see, the Red Paint Case happened 24 years ago."

Yes, twenty-four years have passed, and there are still no clues. Even though Liang Chenghao was so talented and later became a professor at the Provincial University of Political Science and Law, he never solved the case in his lifetime. That may be his lifelong regret.

While driving, Lu He said slowly: "Siqi, actually Lele was adopted by Liang Ran."

"Adopted?"

"Yes, Lele is an orphan. He lost his parents when he was about one year old and was adopted by Liang Ran. The name Lele was given by Liang Ran. Because of Lele, Liang Ran and Shen Xiangming never had any more children."

Meng Siqi nodded slowly. It turned out that there was such a story behind this. No wonder Lu He cared so much about Liang Lao and Liang Ran, because such a family was indeed very touching.

In the next two days, the two returned to visit the place where Xin Yameng and Xie Wenjuan used to work and live.

Xin Yameng was a female worker in a paint factory. She was only 19 years old at the time and had worked in the factory for nearly two years. She died in the dormitory on a rainy afternoon. After her death, her clothes were opened, exposing her whole body, and her body was covered with red paint makeup.

Because Xin Yameng was originally a female worker in a paint factory, the criminal police captain Liu Maoping who investigated the case led people to conduct a large-scale investigation of the factory, but there was no progress.

This time, Meng Siqi and Lu He visited the workers who worked in the factory at that time again. One of them was Xin Yameng’s roommate Liu Yan, who was also the first eyewitness after Xin Yameng’s death.

In fact, Liu Yan had left a confession to the Municipal Bureau. Meng Siqi found her and wanted to add some details. This time he questioned her at Liu Yan's home.

Liu Yan was 20 years old at the time. Now, 24 years have passed and she is 44 years old. She still remembers the incident vividly.

Liu Yan said that Xin Yameng was a very cheerful girl, fair-skinned, kind-hearted, and there were people in the factory pursuing her.

Meng Siqi learned that among the people who pursued her, there were three people in the file who were later investigated, but they were not found to have committed the crime.

Liu Yan said: "Xin Yameng was not feeling well that day, so she took half a day off and rested alone in the dormitory. I returned to the dormitory after get off work, and I was scared at the time. I quickly ran out to call for help..."

At this point, Liu Yan seemed to have returned to the scene of the past, her eyes red. That was naturally the past that she could not bear to recall. The sister who had been with her day and night suddenly died in front of her in a strange way. She had not forgotten that scene for many years.

Meng Siqi asked: "During the period before Xin Yameng was murdered, did she tell you about some unhappy things or her feelings?"

Meng Siqi believes that Xin Yameng is a young girl. She may have all kinds of emotions and feelings, which may be revealed unintentionally, and these may hide some secrets.

At that time, Liu Maoping conducted extensive research on Xin Yameng's social relationships, including possible disputes and conflicts between her and the people around her, but Meng Siqi wanted to explore her past from another perspective, that of a young girl.

Liu Yan seemed to think carefully before she said, "No, I don't think so. Yameng is very cheerful. She spends all her time on work because she has a younger brother at home and needs money for his marriage. She works very hard. What she talks about most in the dormitory at night is that she wants to give the money home as soon as possible after making it."

"Do you think she is the kind of person who likes to keep secrets?" Meng Siqi felt that if Xin Yameng knew or interacted with people in society, she might not be willing to tell others, so this was also possible.

Liu Yan shook her head. "No, Yameng doesn't have any secrets. She works in the factory almost every day, eats and drinks there. Sometimes her brother comes to the factory to find her and ask her for money."

In fact, Liu Maoping also focused on investigating Xin Yameng's brother and his social relations that year, but to no avail.

In fact, Meng Siqi felt that he couldn't get any useful clues.

After bidding farewell to Liu Yan, the two went to Hope Primary School, where Xie Wenjuan once studied. However, just like Xin Yameng's situation, there were no useful clues, or what she wanted to know had already been known by Liu Maoping.

The investigation into the Red Lacquer Case 24 years ago had not made any progress. At Meng Siqi's suggestion, she and Lu He interrogated Xu Wangtu.

Xu Wangtu is Xie Wenjuan's husband, and Xie Wenjuan is the third victim of the red paint case. Meng Siqi has read the files and Xu Wangtu was questioned at the time. The records show that Xie Wenjuan only had one class that afternoon. At that time, Xu Wangtu had a job as an accountant in a supply and marketing cooperative. After he came home from get off work, he saw his wife lying on the ground with red paint on her body. He burst into tears and immediately informed the school and called the police.

In fact, Meng Siqi had doubts about Xu Wangtu. Jiang Sheng's confession said that Xu Wangtu had been physically abusive to the children when he was young, so the couple had a big quarrel, and Jiang Sheng, who was about six years old, accidentally heard the quarrel. Maybe he was shocked by these topics at the time, and the memory was still fresh, so he still remembered Xu Wangtu's character when he grew up.

Meng Siqi did suspect Xu Wangtu of murdering his wife, and the police also had suspicions about him at the time, but it was soon confirmed that he had an alibi for that afternoon. In addition, given the two previous red paint cases, Xu Wangtu's suspicion was completely ruled out.

When interrogating Xu Wangtu this time, Meng Siqi went straight to the point and asked him whether he had noticed any particularly suspicious people coming into contact with his wife during that period.

After staying in the detention center for a while, Xu Wangtu obviously looked much older, but he still maintained the taste of a school principal. His hairstyle still looked as if it had been specially trimmed, and his prison uniform was also very neat, without any feeling of being unkempt.

Xu Wangtu shook his head and denied it. He said, "It's been too long. I don't remember."

Yes, after 24 years, who would still remember some of the details of that time? Maybe Xu Wangtu still has a deep memory of his wife's death, but he may have forgotten about that incident long ago.

After learning more about the situation, Meng Siqi also learned some of Xu Wangtu's past. Xu Wangtu had been married twice. Xu Jianfei was the child of his ex-wife, and Xie Wenjuan was his second wife.

When his son Xu Jianfei was very young, Xu Wangtu and his ex-wife divorced, and little Xu Jianfei lived with his ex-wife.

Later, Xu Wangtu took a fancy to Xie Wenjuan, who had just entered the teaching profession. In his words, it was love at first sight. Xu Wangtu also knew poetry and calligraphy, and was a very idealistic person. At that time, Xie Wenjuan was young, literate and quiet. For Xu Wangtu, she was his true soulmate.

At that time, divorced men were not welcome, so Xu Wangtu kept writing love letters to Xie Wenjuan and it took him a lot of determination and energy to pursue her. The two were in a free love relationship.

The couple lived in harmony after marriage. Xu Wangtu said that he really liked children at that time and thought they were romantic elves.

However, as a teacher, Xie Wenjuan's strong nature gradually exposed. She had a strong personality and would beat and scold disobedient children. At that time, Xie Wenjuan would call the children to her unit room in the school to educate them, always scolding them and hitting the children's palms with a small bamboo stick.

Xu Wangtu felt that Xie Wenjuan was too harsh on the children, so he would coax them when he was around. Xu Wangtu said that he liked children, but only liked them. He felt romantic when he was with children, so he always protected them.

The quarrel was caused by Xu Wangtu's protection of the child and taking the child away, which made Xie Wenjuan very angry. She even scolded Xu Wangtu on the spot for touching the child, being a vulgar hooligan and breaking the law.

In Jiang Sheng's confession, he did mention what Xie Wenjuan said, "touching children is illegal," which shows that Xu Wangtu might not have lied.

At that time, Xu Wangtu might have liked children very much, not just ordinary love, which might be different from the revengeful mentality he felt when he accidentally killed the little girl Qian Shuyin twenty years later.

Xu Wangtu said that a big part of the reason why he likes children is because Xie Wenjuan has not had a child with him in two years of marriage, and because he owes little Xu Jianfei.

Xu Wangtu said that Xie Wenjuan was actually pregnant before her death, and he cried when he said this.

There was no mention of pregnancy in the file. Perhaps due to limited conditions at the time, the autopsy did not examine this aspect, or the forensic doctor felt that it was irrelevant to the case and did not write it down.

Xu Wangtu said that Xie Wenjuan's death and her newborn child made him depressed for a long time and left a root of illness, which also led to his wrong behavior due to anger and suppression when Xu Jianfei was slandered.

When Xu Jianfei was in junior high school, his biological mother, Xu Wangtu's ex-wife, was diagnosed with a terminal illness. It was Xu Wangtu who took the initiative to bring Xu Jianfei back and raise him.

Later, Xu Wangtu never married again because of his concern for raising Xu Jianfei and his longing for Xie Wenjuan.

In fact, Meng Siqi had been profiling Xu Wangtu's selfish feelings for his children before. Perhaps today's conversation solved her confusion.

After leaving the detention center, Meng Siqi was filled with mixed feelings.

Twenty-four years ago, Xie Wenjuan was murdered and the murderer was identified as a random killer. Judging from today's interrogation, she thinks Xie Wenjuan's death may have been an accident.

Because Xu Wangtu once said that Xie Wenjuan was very beautiful. She was a Chinese teacher and had a natural intellectual beauty. In that era, she should have attracted a lot of attention.

Combined with Professor Liang Chenghao's speculation, the murderer was most likely motivated by sexual impulse and sneaked into her room, committing a killing that was called a "ritualistic act."

It is very likely that the murderer was laughing sinisterly as he painted red paint on her naked body and was enjoying the whole process, satisfying his so-called sexual desire.

Xie Wenjuan was not the first victim. The first victim was Xin Yameng, a female worker in the paint factory. Considering that the first murder had a more accurate criminal motive, the investigation team led by Liu Maoping at the time focused on investigating Xin Yameng's social relations.

The second victim, Bao Xue, and the third victim, Xie Wenjuan, were probably random murders committed by the murderer after he had tasted that kind of feeling.

As to why the murderer stopped committing crimes after committing these three cases, it is very likely that the murderer encountered an accident or other force majeure reasons.

Meng Siqi glanced at Lu He, who was walking beside her with a lot on his mind. She also understood why Lu He had not found any clues in the past year. It was a mystery not only for Lu He, but also for her, and even for everyone involved in the Red Lacquer Case and the Red Makeup Case over the past 24 years.

"Siqi, are you okay?" Lu He seemed to see her mood and comforted her in a gentle tone.

Meng Siqi shook his head, but pursed his lips and smiled slightly.

She felt that as long as she continued to fight side by side with Lu He, no matter how complicated and profound the mystery was, the truth would eventually be revealed.

That day, when the two were analyzing the case in front of the crime board in the office, Chen Jierong walked in with a book in her hand.

The two turned around at the same time. Meng Siqi thought that Chen Jierong might have found something new in the autopsy. Her eyes quickly fell on the book, which seemed to be called "Hunting". She asked hurriedly, "Sister Rong, is there anything new?"

Chen Jierong shook her head. "No, it's not about the autopsy."

Chen Jierong walked up to the two of them and stood in front of them. Meng Siqi noticed a hint of worry between her brows. She rarely saw such emotion on Chen Jierong's face. Maybe she had something else to tell them.

"It's like this," Chen Jierong said with one hand in the pocket of her white uniform. Her posture was calm, but the worry between her brows could not be shaken off. "I know a friend named Zhong Yanbin... He is a blind date introduced by my mother, but I think there is something strange about him..."