Death sentence turned into acquittal? Who told him to be a detective!

Chapter 2 Passionate Murder and Murder!

When a snail crawls, it leaves a trail of mucus on the ground, creating a crystalline path in its wake.

A snail-like person emerged in Hanhai City.

The deceased crawled several meters on the ground, leaving a trail of bright red blood.

As he crawled, his severed intestines spilled out of his stomach and were dragged along, slowly moving as he struggled to crawl, leaving his crawling tracks.

Just like a snail.

June 2nd.

After Xu Liang reported the case, the Criminal Investigation Brigade of Hongfu District, Hanhai City, was in an uproar at 00:40.

Captain Chen Changchun made phone calls overnight, waking up the sleeping criminal police officers one by one.

At 1:30 a.m., the crime scene, which is in front of the Conscience Law Firm, was surrounded by yellow and black police tape.

Countless police officers cordoned off the surrounding area in the dark.

At 4:30, the body was carried away and sent to the funeral home for preservation.

morning.

Half past five.

"The deceased was named Chen Wei, 20 years old, male, 1.75 meters tall, with a junior high school diploma."

"No murder weapon was found at the scene. At the stabbing site 30 meters away, there were a few bloody footprints, which were different from the victim's footprints and were in the opposite direction."

"Preliminary assessment indicates that the footprints belong to the murderer."

"The victim was stabbed in an alley 30 meters from where the body was found. After being stabbed, he ran to the location of his death. During this time, the running caused him to bleed faster. He then collapsed and crawled, resulting in three more injuries. He eventually died from excessive blood loss."

"In addition, the victim had multiple wounds on his face, and the murderer inserted the weapon into the victim's temple, which is suspected to have been caused after death."

As dawn broke, a gray haze hung overhead, and the crisp, cool air invigorated the senses.

Chen Changchun, the captain of the criminal investigation team, took a deep drag on his cigarette.

His gaze swept over the scattered, somewhat dusty figures of passersby on the roadside, finally settling on the criminal police officer standing nearby.

"Have you been able to contact the family?" Chen Changchun asked.

"The family reported the incident to the police this morning. The operator identified the body on the spot and the body has now been identified at the police station. The family is currently in a very bad emotional state."

"I can't breathe," said Detective Sun Jin, shaking his head.

Upon hearing this, Chen Changchun understood. Having obtained the basic information, he then said:
Has the case been classified yet?

Sun Jin shook his head and said:

"It's too early to conduct interviews, and we haven't been able to investigate the deceased's relatives and social circles yet."

"The murder was not captured on CCTV. The CCTV footage only shows the period before the incident, when the victim voluntarily entered the alley, was attacked in the alley, ran out, and then died."

"Based solely on information from the crime scene, the motive for the murder and the cause of death are unknown, and the nature of the crime has not yet been determined."

Chen Changchun nodded.

It's still early. The report was filed at 1:00, the manpower was mobilized at 1:30, the scene was investigated and evidence was collected at 3:30, the body was disposed of at 4:00, and it's only 5:00 now.

It was still 5 a.m., a time when everyone except the criminal police was asleep and couldn't conduct any interviews.

"Keep a close eye on the visits, and don't forget about the families either."

"You know how important it is to determine the nature of the case, so I won't say more, the sooner the better!"

Chen Changchun spoke, and Sun Jin nodded and noted it down.

"By the way, where is my apprentice?" Chen Changchun suddenly asked, looking around but not seeing his apprentice.

“I think it’s with the person who reported the case,” Sun Jin replied.

The person who reported the crime?
Chen Changchun paused for a moment, then said:

Where is the person who reported the crime?

"A breakfast stall not far away."

"Take me to him."

Breakfast stall.

"Have I seen you somewhere?"

"Have it?"

"There's none?"

Meanwhile, at a breakfast stall thirty meters from the crime scene.

Sitting on a small stool, Xu Liang, who was eating breakfast, looked up and glanced at the policeman standing beside him.

"What do you call it?"

"Wang Chao, trainee police officer."

"It was Wang Chao, the trainee police officer, who spoke first."

He is 1.9 meters tall, with above-average looks and short, buzz-cut hair. What makes him most memorable is his robust physique and well-developed pectoral muscles.

At this moment, the other party held a notebook in his hand, looking at Xu Liang with suspicion, as if he had seen him somewhere before.

Xu Liang glanced at him and said, "Officer Wang has nicely developed pectoral muscles."

Wang Chao's lips curled up slightly, his two large pectoral muscles twitched, but he still kept a straight face.

"Have vision!"

"But I've come to see you on a serious matter."

"Did you see or hear anything during the time of the incident? Were there any suspicious persons at the scene?"

Xu Liang casually ate a piece of biscuit. "Didn't you give a statement at the police station before?"

"Do it again," Wang Chao said.

"Row."

Xu Liang nodded, paused slightly, and then said, "However, my answer is still the same as the written record."

"The deceased died between 10 and 11 p.m. I discovered the body an hour after death, around midnight."

"I didn't see anyone else at the crime scene except for me. Of course, it's also possible that someone saw it but left without calling the police."

"We didn't see any suspicious figures or anything like that, so we don't know who the killer is."

"I didn't hear any fighting, talking, or other human noises before the incident."

"Aside from the foul odor emanating from the deceased, there were no other unusual or noticeable smells at the scene."

After hearing this string of words, trainee police officer Wang Chao was stunned for a moment, and then quickly began to write it down.

"Slow down, I'm starting to fall behind!"

Xu Liang was taken aback, then looked at the other person speechlessly.

"A contract worker hired from outside the company? Just started?"

"Don't worry about it!"

Wang Chao's face hardened, then he suddenly said:

"By the way, where did you talk about just now?"

"Speaking of taste..."

Xu Liang responded, but he didn't intend to waste any more time on this issue.

He glanced at the intern from head to toe, then suddenly put down his chopsticks, smacked his lips, and said:

"Never mind, you came to me to get the case classified, right?"

“That’s right.” Wang Chao nodded.

Xu Liang choked for a moment, not expecting the other party to be so honest, but still spoke up:
"From my perspective, it's both a crime of passion and murder."

"why?"

Wang Chao became curious and put down the notebook in his hand.

A crime of passion is a murder committed in the heat of the moment when emotions run high and one acts impulsively.

It is common for people to have a verbal argument and then, in a moment of madness, grab a knife and chop the other person up.

Murder is the targeted and planned killing of someone.

"How can it have both at the same time?" Wang Chao asked in confusion.

"Yes, but it's more of a crime of passion. Or rather, a very special case of a crime of passion."

Xu Liang pulled out a tissue to wipe the grease from his mouth and continued:
Do you know what the core characteristics of a crime of passion are?

Wang Chao shook his head.

“The core characteristic of crimes of passion is: a short period of emotional loss of control.”

Xu Liang began to speak:

“The characteristic of murder is that it is a purposeful and planned killing of a person, and the motive is often hidden.”

"But whatever the motive, murder requires thought to plan, and thinking requires calmness. As long as one is not dominated by emotions, most people will leave themselves a way out."

"Therefore, the characteristics of murder are usually: clues are hidden, the body is hidden, it is not easy to detect the crime, and the murderer's whereabouts disappear."

Done.

Xu Liang looked up at the crime scene not far away, where a group of police officers were located.

"And what about this case?"

Wang Chao said thoughtfully, "The body was on the main road, and the method of murder was rather brutal." All murders strive to be the perfect crime.

But the truly perfect crime is
Stay out of the police's sight!
That means no case will be filed!

for example.

You committed murder, staged a cleverly planned crime scene, and then the police arrived to outwit you; or you committed murder, but the police had no idea someone had died.
Between the two cases, which one do you think you're more likely to get arrested in?
Therefore, there is another layer to the essential purpose of planning a murder.

To prevent the crime from happening!

Even if the crime is discovered, it must be made to appear as if it were a natural or accidental death rather than a murder!

Correspondingly, if one encounters cases of hiding, destroying, covering up, or dumping a body, most of these are murder cases, while a few are crimes of passion.

This case is different. As soon as it gets light, not to mention 3 or 4 a.m., but at the latest 6 a.m., if the case doesn't happen, Xu Liang would dare to kneel down and kowtow to the murderer twice!
"Judging from the scene, I'm guessing it's you police."

"The surveillance footage will likely determine that the two parties knew each other, and the case will be classified as a murder."

"And it will be assumed that the deceased was killed by someone close to them, and the suspect will likely be found within their social circle!"

Xu Liang suddenly spoke up, revealing the three standard procedures that the police always use when faced with a murder.

"But let me ask you this: the core of murder is killing the target. Did the murderer kill the person?"

Killed?

Of course we'd kill them!

Several clear knife marks were still embedded in his temple, suggesting that his brain had also been damaged.

"He didn't kill them completely."

“I saw the scene when the police were calling. The murderer did not kill the victim directly. After stabbing him once, the victim ran 30 meters and then crawled on the ground for a few more meters.”

Xu Liang shook his head, "Ultimately, the wound was injured a second or even third time, which led to death. The temple wound appeared on the deceased's body after death."

"If you were a murderer, after you stabbed someone and they saw your face, would you chase after them as they ran away? You would almost always."

But the murderer did not give chase!

"Even judging from the footprints, he left, and he was running away in the opposite direction!"

"To be honest, if he hadn't returned to the scene of the death twice..."

"I'm even certain that he can't be sure whether the deceased is actually dead or not!"

Xu Liang spoke with certainty.

The murderer returned to the scene a second time.

The deceased suffered severe head trauma. It would be impossible for a normal person to move around with such injuries, let alone escape from the alley.

Furthermore, the footprints of the murderer fleeing in the opposite direction in the alley, as well as the amount of bleeding from the victim's wounds, are sufficient to prove that the murderer did not pursue the victim but fled when the victim was killed.

Therefore, it can be inferred indirectly that the facial trauma occurred after death.

Based on the summary information...

The case then proceeded as follows: the crime began—the victim was murdered—both the perpetrator and the victim fled—the victim died—the perpetrator returned to the scene and subjected the body to further harm.

During this process, the perpetrator didn't even know if the target was dead after the first attack, giving the victim ample time to call the police. If this was a murder plan...
How young must the other party have to be to come up with such a plan?

Was it fear after taking action?

wrong.

Most people simply lack the courage to take action or not.

Once they start, there's no turning back; people become ruthless, one after another, to the point of burning their boats!

For example, when it comes to the most common issue of unpaid wages, people either remain completely still like ninja turtles, or if they do take action, there's a 90% chance of death or the extermination of the entire family!

The murderer violated this principle.

Wang Chao was stunned.

He never expected the other party to be able to analyze so much.

A flood of information rushed into his not-so-advanced CPU, causing his mind to malfunction for a moment before he came to his senses.

"So that's a crime of passion?" Wang Chao's eyes lit up.

"Yes, but it wasn't a purely passionate murder."

Xu Liang shook his head. "As I just said, the core of a crime of passion is the loss of emotional control."

"Emotional loss of control is when a certain emotion surges to a certain level, exceeding the limit that reason can control, causing the emotion to take over the body."

Does the information available on-site support this theory?

You can try to recall it.

In most cases of crimes of passion, are there many bystanders around?
Yes, the characteristic of crimes of passion is that they are out of control, standing out like a crane among chickens in a crowd, often characterized by loud voices and abnormal or extreme behavior.

But what about the crime scene?

There are people living on both sides of the alley.

Stabbing someone to death without even waking up people sleeping just a few meters away—does that count as losing control of one's emotions?

"It doesn't seem like it."

Wang Chao hesitated and shook his head. The other person's thinking was very quick, and he was quite willing to follow along.

"That's why I said it wasn't entirely pure, but overall it still falls under the category of crimes of passion."

"Besides, why do you think the murderer returned to the crime scene a second time?"

Xu Liang smiled and began to eat the steamed buns with his chopsticks.

People need food to survive. Even though the shop is surrounded by police now, we still need to eat our fill.

"why!?"

Wang Chao was a little anxious.

"Why is it considered a crime of passion when everything is so quiet?"

"And isn't returning to the scene to confirm whether the deceased is truly dead?!"

Extreme silence and murder in passion are almost completely opposite in meaning, yet they can be combined?
This is completely contradictory!

Moreover, the murderer returned. Besides confirming whether the victim was dead or not, what else did he do? Or what could he have done?
Xu Liang said, "A rope is never just one end that is a head; the other end is also a head."

He ate his steamed bun while keeping the intern in suspense, amusing the trainee police officer.

"If it's not this side, it must be that side."

A rope?
Both ends?

What does it mean?
Wang Chao was completely confused.

Seeing that the other person was deep in thought.

Without saying a word, Xu Liang tiptoed away.

He also had an appointment with a client!
I don't have time to waste with this intern!
Wang Chao, however, remained rooted to the spot for quite some time before coming to his senses.

After a long while, just as he looked up to ask a question...

But they found that the person had disappeared, and the person in front of them had changed to the owner of the steamed bun shop.

"Where are the people? Where did they go?"

Wang Chao was stunned.

The boss ignored him, simply standing expressionless in front of him with his hands outstretched.

"Give me money."

"What money?" Wang Chao was even more confused.

"His meal money."

The boss pointed to the chair that Xu Liang had been sitting in.

He said I could just give him the consultation fee to cover my meal expenses, and I didn't need to give it to him.

Consulting fee?
Wang Chao was stunned, and then his face darkened.

He now remembered that the other party was a lawyer.

A lawyer may be late, but his consultation fee will never be late!
However, Wang Chao still gave it to him.

He felt it was worth it; after hearing what they just said, he even wanted to ask them a few more questions!
"Here's your change: six yuan and fifty cents," the shopkeeper said.

Wang Chao reached out and took it.

He glanced at the unfinished sesame seed cake Xu Liang had eaten, smacked his lips, and without any hesitation, pinched it with his hand and stuffed it into his mouth.

As he ate, he pondered what Xu Liang had said earlier.

A voice suddenly rang out from behind.

"I know you're a bit naive and don't like working in the office, so I brought you here to learn how your captain investigates cases."

Wang Chao snapped out of his daze and turned to look behind him.

Two middle-aged policemen were slowly walking towards him.

"But everyone else is busy right now."

Chen Changchun frowned, looking at the sesame seed cake in the other person's hand, his tone full of dissatisfaction.

"What's with you leisurely eating breakfast all by yourself?"

　This is a fictional world, unrelated to reality. The unreasonable procedures in some judicial departments are precisely because they cannot be written into reality; it's a fictional world.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)