Chapter 22
The weather has been dry recently and there has been no rain. The soil is dry and hard, making it difficult to leave footprints. But the soil near the tree roots is softer. The man probably didn't pay attention when he was following, and stepped on me.
The forest became quiet, and when Yan Yong was around, no one noticed the noise. Now that he was running, the other man's breathing could be clearly heard.
Chen Pu squatted and turned his head.
Li Qingyao stood behind him, wearing the same gloves and foot covers, with his arms folded across his chest, staring down at the footprint.
A breeze blew gently through the forest as the two of them stood and squatted, motionless. He looked at her, but her gaze was like a vernier caliper, and it definitely didn't touch him at all.
Chen Pu patted his hands that were covered in mud, lowered his head and smiled, then stood up, stepped aside, and said, "Come here and see it more clearly."
Li Qingyao didn't laugh at all. He took a step forward as he was told, squatted down, and used his hands and feet like him to get closer to look at the footprints. He said, "The length is indeed similar to the bloody footprints."
Chen Pu said "hmm" behind her.
She stood up and stepped aside. There was a distance of one meter between the two of them, and they just stood there, waiting for Yan Yong to bring people.
Chen Pu spoke first: "What I said just now is that we should put ourselves in the other person's shoes, reconstruct the course of the crime in our minds, and sort out all the details and logic. Did you hear me?"││
She also said "hmm".
"Then... tell me about it?" He immediately added, "Newcomers need to practice and think a lot. A good detective will automatically have an image in his mind when he arrives at the scene."
Li Qingyao lowered his eyes, carefully removing the leaves and dirt from his gloves, and answered, "Before committing the crime, the murderer must have visited the place several times to understand the villa owner's living habits, identity and financial resources, and to master the surveillance and network cable locations. So we not only need to check the surveillance on the day of the crime, but also check the surveillance for ten days before that.
The crime must have occurred late at night, when the deceased and everyone around him were fast asleep.
The murderer first destroyed the peripheral network cable to render the surveillance ineffective, and then destroyed the window on the first floor. Since he came in from outside, his soles would have left traces of mud and gravel on the ground, but we didn't notice any - so he took off his shoes or wore shoe covers.
He first went to the kitchen to look for the murder weapon, then went straight to the master bedroom and restrained the deceased with a cuff. His movements must have been very gentle so as not to wake the deceased, which was relatively easy to do. He then woke up the deceased, put a dagger against the deceased's neck, beat the deceased, and forced the deceased to tell him the password to the safe. It is very likely that he had stabbed the deceased once or twice at this time, leaving him unable to call for help.
After obtaining the password, he opened the safe, took out the property, and then killed the deceased. He stabbed the victim six times in total, with different depths and angles of attack, which showed that he was not very skilled in killing.
Judging from the amount of bleeding and the wounds at the scene, the murderer must have had a lot of blood on his body. But apart from the bedside in the master bedroom, we did not find any blood stains anywhere else. Therefore, after killing the person, the murderer carefully changed his clothes and then fled downstairs with the valuables. He must have carried a bag.
He took off his bloody shoe covers next to the windowsill, so there were two small pools of blood next to the wall. There were no bloody palm prints or fingerprints left in the entire house; the murderer must have worn gloves.
Therefore, this is a murderer who is well-planned, meticulous, has strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities, and is ruthless. From the beginning, he had no intention of keeping the dead alive. ”
Chen Pu raised his eyebrows and looked at her. The case seems relatively simple at the moment, but for a newcomer, it is rare to take all aspects into consideration and sort it out so smoothly and meticulously in such a short time. However, this is not surprising when it happens to Li Congming.
Chen Pu coughed lightly, and just as he was about to compliment her reluctantly, she turned around and said calmly, "Captain Chen, if you have nothing else to do, I'll go take care of something else first."
At this time, Yan Yong also came over with the camera crew. Chen Pu glanced at Li Qingyao's back and turned to talk to them.
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Not long after, the victim's family arrived.
According to the cleaning lady, she used to come to clean regularly once a week, or when Luo Hongmin came to the villa and needed her to work on a part-time basis, she would come. Sometimes Mrs. Luo would bring a live-in nanny from the city to cook and clean.
Early this morning, the cleaning lady arrived at the villa and spent half a day cleaning the yard. As soon as she entered the house, she smelled a foul odor coming from upstairs. She went upstairs to look for it and was scared to death. The aunt was very legally conscious. She first called the police and then called Mrs. Luo, but Mrs. Luo didn't answer the phone. She then called their daughter, and only then did she notify the family.
At this moment, Chen Pu had returned to the master bedroom on the second floor to investigate. Hearing that the victim's family was in the living room, he took off his gloves, thought for a moment and said, "The family members are all women. Li Qingyao, come with me."
Li Qingyao answered yes, took off his gloves, and followed him downstairs.
In addition to a police officer, there were three other people standing in the living room, two women and one man. Both women were crying, and the man stood silently by, neither comforting them nor getting close to them.
Hearing someone coming down the stairs, the three of them looked up.
Li Qingyao was stunned when he saw Xiang Siling, whose eyes were red and looked pitiful.
When he saw the beautiful middle-aged woman next to her who was also wearing jewels, although she looked very different from before, Li Qingyao recognized her at a glance. She was Xiang Siling's mother, Li Meiling, who accused Luo Huaizheng of murder.
Luo Huaizheng, wearing a silver-gray shirt and black trousers, very thin and straight, was also standing downstairs. He put one hand in his trouser pocket, raised his head, and saw Li Qingyao at a glance. His eyes moved slightly, deep and unfathomable.
The police officer said: "These two are the victim's wife Li Meiling and daughter Xiang Siling. This gentleman is Luo Huaizheng, a friend of Xiang Siling, who came with her."
If Chen Pu had not remembered where he had seen Luo Hongmin before. When the two equally outstanding faces of Luo Huaizheng and Xiang Siling came into his sight, he remembered them all at once.
The photos of Luo Huaizheng and Xiang Siling are all in the big box where he keeps his documents.
Luo Hongmin is also there.
It’s just that at that time, Luo Hongmin had very distant and unimportant relationship with the Luo Huaizheng case. He was just an indirect figure in the background and was collected by him, so he didn’t have a deep impression of him and didn’t match him up with the person at the first time.
The house that the Xiang family of three rented at that time belonged to Luo Hongmin. He owned more than 50 properties at the time, most of which were rented out. The Xiang family is just the most ordinary one among them.
Now seven years have passed, and it turns out that this rich man married the widowed Li Meiling and became Xiang Siling's stepfather.
Chen Pu glanced at Li Qingyao and saw that she was standing still at the stairs. He whispered, "Follow me." Then he showed a heavy expression on his face and walked over to them and said, "I am Chen Pu, the criminal police officer in charge of the investigation of this case. Please accept my condolences."
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