Detective: From the Police Academy

Chapter 298: Fifteen Years of Dust

"Fifteen years ago, in 94, a serial rape and murder case occurred. In addition to our county, the case also occurred in Pingyang County. There were five female victims in total, four of whom were killed and one is still alive. However, this victim had some mental problems...

A few days ago, a suspect named Zhang Xiaolong was arrested for organizing prostitution. From his confession, we found an important clue to the case..."

Zhang Xiaolong's confession was placed on top of the information. Luo Rui glanced at his master. Zheng Rong had burning eyes and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

He obviously took the case very seriously.

So Luo Rui asked: "Master, do you know this case?"

Zheng Rong was waiting for this sentence, he nodded quickly: "I still remember the girl's name, her name is Huang Yan, she is a worker in the textile factory, 22 years old, unmarried.

She was murdered in the early morning of January 95, 1, in a shed below the factory dormitory building.

At that time, I was a police officer at Jianqiao Police Station. The person who reported the case was a roommate of Huang Yan's dormitory, and the person who found the body was the security guard at the factory.

When we arrived, we found Huang Yan naked, with her hands and feet tied with ropes and a corn cob stuffed in her mouth. She had been raped before her death, and corn cobs had been stuffed into her lower body. Not only that, her private parts had also been cut off by a sharp blade.

This case was extremely cruel and had a very bad impact at the time. The police force in the station was limited, so we cooperated with the county criminal police brigade to investigate. At first, it was classified as a murder of love or revenge, but we checked Huang Yan's interpersonal relationships and found no clues.

A year later, because the murderer could not be found, the case was filed away.”

Speaking of this, Zheng Rong sighed. "The conditions were limited at the time. Unlike now, we have cameras. DNA testing had to be done in the province, so it was difficult to identify suspects."

Luo Rui pondered and said, "Did you find any physical evidence? For example, semen, footprints, hair, etc.?"

Zheng Rong shook his head: "The murderer only left footprints, size 41 cotton-soled shoes, but no semen or hair."

Jiang Gang sat aside, stroking his chin, and analyzed: "I have read the case file. Because it happened on January 95, 1, the four cases that followed are collectively referred to as the [22 Major Serial Murder Case].

In addition to Huang Yan, a year later, on the night of January 96, 1, a salesperson in a department store was also murdered on her way home after having a midnight snack.

Her name was Yu Jiali. She was killed in a remote alley. She was dragged into an abandoned house and raped by the murderer. Her hands and feet were tied, and corn cobs were stuffed in her mouth. The same was done to her lower body, but her breasts were not cut off.

The cause of death for these two victims was a knife stabbed into the throat..."

Jiang Gang put his index and middle fingers together and pressed the artery on the left side of his neck: "Right here, one cut and the blood will come out immediately. Both victims died tragically..."

"Wait..." Luo Rui stopped him from continuing and asked, "In other words, this is a perverted serial murder case? And the timing and modus operandi are regular?"

Jiang Gang and Zheng Rong looked at each other, one shook his head and the other nodded.

Jiang Gang said: "It's hard to say, because the last two victims were killed at different times..."

Zheng Rong immediately retorted: "How are they different? The third and fourth victims were killed in the winter of 97 and 98. Although not on January 1, the season is the same. Moreover, the fifth victim was attacked on the same day as the first two victims, which was January 22, 2000!"
This is very telling. This murderer has a certain pattern in his crimes!"

"January 1?" Luo Rui frowned and asked, "Is there anything special about this time?"

Chu Yang immediately turned on his computer and searched the Internet: "Nothing special, it's not a big day."

Lin Chen rested his elbows on the table, his palms supporting his cheeks, and analyzed: "For us, it is definitely not a special day, but it may have a different meaning to the murderer..."

Her big eyes moved around, and her brain was working rapidly...

Jiang Gang saw that her brows were furrowed, her lips were puffed up, her chin was round, and there was a dimple on her face. He blinked and pushed Luo Rui's shoulder: "Is this the person from the provincial department?"

Luo Rui narrowed his eyes: "Why? Do you like it?"

"Don't talk nonsense."

Jiang Gang coughed twice quickly, his face turned red, he lowered his head, and rubbed his knees with the palms of his hands.

He was sitting next to Luo Rui's desk, and Lin Chen's desk was right next to it.

Jiang Gang has only been working for a few years, and his arrogance has not yet been worn off.

Luo Rui took a closer look and found that Jiang Gang had a tall and straight figure, at least 1.75 meters, with a nice nose and eyes. Except for his dark skin and myopia, he had no other flaws.

"If you are interested in him, I can help you talk to him. Anyway, you two are about the same age, and both are top students, so you should be able to get along well." Luo Rui joked.

Jiang Gang shrank back, like an old virgin, unable to sit or lie still.

"Don't talk nonsense..."

"I figured it out!" Lin Chen exclaimed and slammed the table: "January 1nd is very likely the murderer's birthday!"

"Oh?" Zheng Rong asked immediately, "How did you come up with this?"

Zheng Rong was very concerned about this case and was frowning in thought during this period.

Lin Chen stood up, walked to the whiteboard, picked up a marker, and wrote something on it.

She was wearing a uniform and had a ponytail, which made her figure look very three-dimensional.

Jiang Gang stared at her back, his face turned redder and redder. His heart felt hot, like a bunch of ants crawling on a piece of honey.

At this point, the members of the criminal team all looked at the whiteboard.

Not long after, Lin Chen turned around and pointed at the contents on the whiteboard with a marker.

“First of all, the crime was committed on January 1, which I guessed was the murderer’s birthday. This is also based on criminal psychology and may not be reliable.

However, if these victims are regarded as gifts, then it is possible that the murderer committed the crime on his birthday, but this is just a rough suspicion.

But based on this case, I thought of the following points, and I think I can roughly portray the outline of the murderer.

First, the murderer is most likely unmarried and has a strong and perverted fetish for women.

Second, the murderer had sexual dysfunction, which means that during the process of violating the victim, he did not leave any...the reason for leaving semen.

Third, the murderer is most likely a rural person. He always carries corn cobs with him every time he commits a crime. This thing is not often available in the city. Even if he buys corn from the vegetable market, he will not care too much about the corn cobs.

Only people living in rural areas harvest corn and remove the kernels every year, leaving corn cobs piled everywhere.

This kind of thing is generally used by rural people as firewood for cooking.

Corn cobs, as an important prop in this serial murder case, have strong symbolic value..."

"Symbolic?" Tian Guanghan stroked his stubble, his eyes clear, "What does it symbolize?"

Lin Chen blushed, suspecting that he was teasing her, but the other person's expression seemed stupid.

Luo Rui immediately coughed: "This... what does it symbolize? Let's not talk about it for now. Lin Chen, please continue..."

"Okay!" Lin Chen breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Luo Rui gratefully, and said, "The third point I speculated just confirms the first point. To sum up, the murderer is unmarried and young, probably between 18 and 30 years old, has sexual dysfunction, and has an inexplicable craze and worship for corn cobs!"

Hearing her analysis, Jiang Gang couldn't help but applaud.

But no one reacted. He smiled awkwardly and immediately withdrew his hand.

Lin Chen licked his lips and looked at Luo Rui with anticipation.

Not long ago, a major murder case occurred in Linjiang City. Because the murderer had already been identified, her ability to handle the case was not reflected. Now, this old case, which is also a perverted murder case, is just the right time for her to apply the knowledge she has learned.

The reason why she came to a remote place like Shahe County was to follow Luo Rui, to contact these murderers on the front line, and to use the knowledge she had learned to try to solve the case.

Of course, she was not sure that she could succeed, but the experience she would accumulate in the future would allow her to reverse what she had learned, verify and correct each other, and find her own ability to solve cases.

Seeing her expectant expression, Luo Rui curled up a smile, then stretched out his hand and clapped gently.

Seeing him like this, others also started to applaud.

Lin Chen breathed a sigh of relief, and his stiff shoulders relaxed.

Not everyone can join the criminal team. She has only been there for a few days and is naturally very happy to be recognized by everyone.

Jiang Gang praised enthusiastically: "Lin Chen, you are awesome. You are indeed a top student from the provincial department. Are you using criminal psychology profiling?"

Lin Chen nodded: "Yes, this is what I studied at the Public Security University."

Upon hearing the name of the school, Chu Yang, Fang Yonghui and Su Mingyuan all showed envious expressions.

The Public Security University is much more awesome than their Criminal Police College.

No wonder he can work in the provincial department right after graduation. He is really a child of destiny.

Luo Rui was also a little envious. What he regretted most was that he spent too little time in school. Although he spent a lot of money to hire professors from various disciplines and made up a lot of knowledge before the public security joint examination, he always felt that something was missing.

While everyone was envious, only Zheng Rong had a serious look on his face.

"Um, Officer Lin..."

Lin Chen quickly waved his hand: "Uncle Zheng, you are the team leader's master, just call me Xiao Lin."

"Okay, Xiaolin, how did you determine the murderer's age?"

"That's right. The age when men have strong desires for women is during their teenage years. In fact, if it weren't a serial murder case, I might have pushed the murderer's age back. If all five cases were committed by the same person,

Then the physical strength expended by the murderer must be enormous, and only adult males have this strength.

For example, in the first case Uncle Zheng mentioned, Huang Yan was killed in a shed below the dormitory in the early hours of the morning. It was impossible for Huang Yan to go to the shed alone at this time, so she must have been coerced by the murderer.

What kind of man would a woman surrender to? It must be a tall and strong adult man. She would feel dangerous and unable to resist, so she would allow the murderer to commit atrocities. "

Zheng Rong nodded. He only half believed this speculation: "Then how did you determine that the murderer was not over 30 years old? As far as I know, the sexual dysfunction you just talked about is probably more common in middle-aged men."

"curious!"

"What? Curious?" Zheng Rong blinked.

Others were also confused.

Lin Chen gritted his teeth and sighed, "After killing the victims, the murderer did unspeakable things to their bodies. Obviously, the murderer was very curious about the female body structure.

Such people are not too old, which is what I call extremely perverted. "

After she finished speaking, the scene suddenly became quiet.

The criminal team has never encountered a murderer who is so cruel to women.

Jiang Gang rarely sees similar cases in the homicide cases he prosecutes as a prosecutor.

There have been such serial murders in previous domestic cases, but most of them were irregular, had no obvious characteristics, and were not publicized as widely as those in foreign countries.

Perverted murderers, such as the Zodiac murder case abroad and the Hwaseong murder case in South Korea.

Zheng Rong's last bit of doubt disappeared, and he could not help nodding: "Your analysis makes sense. If there were top students like you back then, we might have caught the murderer long ago. When the first case happened, we just thought it was a revenge killing or a murder of love. At that time, we screened all the criminals with previous criminal records in the county, including the male workers in the textile factory where Huang Yan worked. We also interrogated them, but in the end, we found nothing."

Lin Chen pursed her lips, she felt deeply touched by Zheng Rong's regret.

Every veteran detective has an old case in his heart that he can't let go of. Even if those thick files are covered with thick dust, there will still be people who remember them.

At this time, Luo Rui clapped his hands and said, "Okay, whether this case can be investigated or reopened is not something we can decide. I have to go to Director Li and Director Lu to see what the two leaders say. Everyone is free now, so hurry up and finish the work accumulated this week. We will arrest the people ourselves and be responsible for collecting evidence ourselves, so that Jiang Crocodile won't cause us any trouble."

Upon hearing this, everyone suddenly became dispirited and complained bitterly.

Although it is satisfying to arrest a suspect, it is very cumbersome to collect evidence. Not only do you have to go out and visit suspects, but you also have to write documents, carefully check the suspect's confession, and ensure the authenticity of the physical evidence. No matter which link has a problem, the prosecutor's office will send it back and ask you to reinvestigate.

Sometimes, you just want the procuratorate to let you go, and avoid causing too much trouble, right?

But if someone really wants to give it to you directly, if there is a mistake in the court, the other party will have to bear the responsibility together with you.

Therefore, the police officers handling the case in the county bureau building did not like Jiang Gang very much.

During the week-long special operation, the criminal team arrested 108 suspects.

Of course, this was not an arrest they made personally, but the result of a joint action with the cooperation of the police officers from the local police station.

Among them, 66 theft cases were sent to the subordinate police stations for handling.

The other 42 cases included more serious criminal cases such as arson and rape, which are really a headache.

Luo Rui and his team spent a whole day handling these cases. Among them, 21 cases where the suspects had already confessed and the files were handed over to the people brought by Jiang Gang for the prosecutors to review. After finding no problems, they prepared to prosecute in court.

In the remaining cases, some suspects pleaded guilty but the physical evidence was incomplete; others had complete physical evidence but the suspects refused to plead guilty.

This requires Zheng Rong's interrogation team to pry open these people's mouths.

Before Zheng Rong left, he pulled Luo Rui to a corner of the office.

"What's wrong? Master?"

"Luo Rui, actually, in the [122 Major Case] ​​fifteen years ago, a suspect was arrested in 97."

"Ah?" Luo Rui frowned and asked in surprise, "Did they catch the wrong person?"

"Listen to me, the third case happened on the hill behind Pingyang County Middle School. It was Christmas Eve. The girl who was killed was very young. The Pingyang County police collected a footprint at the scene. It was also a size 41 footprint, but it was not from a cotton-soled shoe. The owner of the footprint was the son of the county magistrate."

Zheng Rong had a worried look on his face, as if he was unwilling to give in.

"What was the situation at the crime scene like?" Luo Rui was afraid that he didn't understand, so he added: "Were there any corn cobs?"

Zheng Rong nodded: "Yes!"

"this person……"

“This person was later released…”

"Did he plead guilty?"

Zheng Rong shook his head: "I don't know about this. I heard about this from my old comrades in Pingyang County. The two cases in Shahe County happened in 95 and 96. Since 97, the women who were killed were all in Pingyang County, so these five cases were pushed onto the same murderer."

"Do you suspect that the crimes in 97 and 98 were copycat crimes? Or that the murderer was someone else?"

Zheng Rong shook his head: "Then I don't know. When the case happened, the city formed a special case team. I was just a local police officer at the time, so I don't know how they investigated. Anyway, the final result was that the murderer could not be found. The case has been sealed for fifteen years.

I tell you, if you really reopen this case and find the real murderer, then you are the one from Haidong Province..."

Zheng Rong raised his thumbs up: "Even more powerful than that green ghost Chen Hao!"

Luo Rui curled his lips. His master was actually still playing tricks on him. He just wanted to restart the investigation with his own hands.

But at this moment, he suddenly thought of something: "You mentioned Chen Hao, was he also involved in the investigation of this case at that time?"

Zheng Rong nodded: "Yes, he was a police officer in the Criminal Police Brigade at the time, and he didn't have any official position."

"I understand." Luo Rui responded.

……

Night fell, but the county bureau building was still brightly lit.

Luo Rui glanced at his exhausted subordinates, clapped his hands, and encouraged them, "It's eight o'clock now. Let's get off work at ten. Let's all go have a midnight snack. I'll treat you."

Tian Guanghan curled his lips and said, "Team Leader, you haven't even treated us to your promotion banquet yet, so a midnight snack doesn't count."

"Of course it doesn't count, but we can't be too high-profile. The county town is so small and there's nothing good to eat. When we have a holiday one day, you can all go to my villa by the sea and have a good meal."

Luo Rui was fooling people, he was not stupid. The name Luo Yanwang was widely known in the world. If he didn't care about his image and ate and drank lavishly outside, and was caught by some unscrupulous media, it would not just be a case of putting the blame on others.

The further we advance, the more dangerous it becomes.

Lin Chen covered his mouth with his hands, yawned, and asked, "Team Leader, have you looked for Director Lu regarding the [122 Major Serial Murder Case] ​​fifteen years ago?"

"Why are you in such a hurry? Haven't you seen how busy I have been all day?" Luo Rui snorted, "I'll go right away, okay?"

"Well, I'll wait for your good news." Lin Chen took out his mobile phone and answered excitedly.

……

……

Luo Rui knocked on Lu Kangming's office. After hearing the echo, he pushed the door open and walked in.

Lu Kangming sat behind his desk, looking very energetic, as if he had suddenly become several years younger.

This special operation was a complete success, killing three birds with one stone and gaining a lot.

Firstly, the county had a government, and the leaders were satisfied.

Secondly, the public security environment has improved visibly, and the people applauded.

Third, everyone is wealthy and has sufficient funds.

However, Luo Rui's reputation seems to be a bit bad...

Lu Kangming smiled and said, "What's wrong? It's so late, do you have anything else to talk to me about?"

Luo Rui nodded and handed the confession in his hand to the other party.

After Lu Kangming took it, he looked at it carefully. The more he looked, the more solemn his expression became.

Until the words [122 Major Murder Case] ​​appeared in his eyes, his breathing stopped.

"This...this is..."

"This is the clue my master got from a suspect named Zhang Xiaolong when he was interrogating him."

"Oh my god!" Lu Kangming exhaled, and said in disbelief: "Luo Rui, do you know? In the past fifteen years, when every director first took office, in addition to checking the financial situation of the county bureau, he spent the most time in the archives room.

Three years ago, when I first came to Shahe County, it was no exception!

The files of the [122 Major Serial Murder Case] ​​were placed on the 3th row of shelves in Area D15, with a total of five cartons. Every time I went there, I would spend a long time looking at these evidences.

I have always thought that if this case could be solved during my term, I would have no regrets in my life!"

Luo Rui frowned. He didn't quite understand why Lu Kangming was so moved.

Could he also be the police officer who handled the case back then?

Luo Rui asked: "Should we reopen this case?"

Lu Kangming stood up, and after a long pause, he replied: "This case has a very bad impact. Although a special case team was formed at the beginning, there was little media coverage, so the outside world is not very clear about it.

If we want to reopen the case, we have to report it to higher authorities, and the team that might be in charge of the case may not be us.”

"What do you mean?"

"Let's investigate first. If we can find any definite clues, it won't be too late to report it!"

"But there are three other cases that happened in Pingyang County, and there is a living victim who is also in Pingyang County..."

Lu Kangming held out his hand and interrupted him: "You go investigate first. I will discuss this with Lu Huzi from Pingyang County. [122] is also a thorn in their side. If we can solve it together, he will agree even if we ask them to exchange three police cars and the only police dog for it."

"Okay, then I will start the investigation tomorrow." Luo Rui nodded. He knew that Lu Kangming was definitely preparing to take advantage of Lu Huzi.

After Luo Rui left and was about to go downstairs, his cell phone rang.

He answered the phone: "Hello, Chen Hao?"

"Luo Rui, read the news, international news!"

Luo Rui blinked, confused.

After returning to the office, he walked to the TV, found the remote control, turned on the TV, and tuned to the international news.

The screen showed a street in a community in Canada.

There was a cordon in front of a villa and several police cars were parked on the street.

A foreigner in police uniform was standing at the door. He faced the reporters and spoke a string of English words into the microphone.

The subtitles at the bottom of the screen translated English into Chinese.

[In the early hours of the morning, a man of X nationality was killed at home with five knife wounds. The culprit was also a man of X nationality. After the murder, the culprit fled. According to the description of the deceased's neighbors, the man was obese, nearsighted, and about 1.76 meters tall.

After receiving the alarm, our police station arrived at the scene as quickly as possible. During the process of arresting the criminal, due to language barriers and the criminal's resistance to law enforcement, the criminal was shot dead by our police officers...】

At this moment, the body of the gangster appeared in the picture, and he was lying on his back on a street.

He was holding a dagger in his hand, his clothes on the chest were pierced by bullets, and blood was all over the floor.

His glasses were broken, and his intact right eye was open, as if looking at the white clouds in the sky.

The sun shines on him, and his face is filled with a bright smile...

Chen Bai's wish has come true...

Luo Rui's heart tightened...

(End of this chapter)