Mystery Tracker 3

Pushing open the iron door, a gust of wind hits your face—this building has 18 floors, and the wind at the height is much stronger than the ground.The two waited for the wind to pass before they walked into the roof and looked around - this is an ordinary concrete roof with several solar heating panels on it, and more foam piled here and there. Boxes, some of these boxes are planted with vegetables, and some are planted with roses and other flowers, turning the entire rooftop into a plantation.

The location where Rong Xinying jumped off the building was on the northwest side of the rooftop. The two of them identified the location and walked over there.When I came closer, I saw that there was no railing here, only a step about 20 centimeters high.When they were almost in front of the steps, both of them stopped and began to explore the ground. Unfortunately, it seems that the place is often cleaned by people, and there is very little floating dust on the ground. The two of them observed for a long time, but neither until there are sufficiently clear shoe prints available for comparison.

"The location where the deceased jumped off the building has been found." Cui Mingyou's voice came from beside him.Cheng Jinsong turned his head and saw Comrade Cui was half-bending his body and squinting and pointing at a certain place on the steps——"There are traces of trampling."

Cheng Jinsong also imitated the old Cui's way of lowering his body, and then looked in the direction of his fingers. Sure enough, under the sunlight, he could see shallow shoe prints on the steps.This step is obviously not cleaned as often as other places, and there is still some dust accumulated.And it is thanks to this ash that it is possible to extract shoe prints here.

The best way to extract shoe prints from dust is electrostatic adsorption.The two of them took out the electrostatic adsorption instrument and spread a black electrostatic adsorption film on the steps.As the switch key is pressed, the dust on the steps is instantly absorbed onto the adsorption film.When it was opened again, there were already many off-white footprints on the pure black adsorption film just now.

Seeing these footprints, the two frowned again.In general, when judging whether it is suicide or homicide in a high-fall incident, the focus of the investigation is the fingerprints and shoe prints.If the deceased committed suicide, the deceased will have traces of the process of actively climbing the guardrail, and there are usually traces of pedaling at the starting point of the fall. However, what is strange now is that although the two of them found a place that is suspected to be traces of pedaling, the problem is In addition to the pedaling marks, there are messy shoe prints about half a meter long.Judging from the pattern, it seems to be the same shoe. "So the deceased must have hesitated for a while after climbing the steps." Cui Mingyou looked at the footprint analysis.

Cheng Jinsong also frowned.He asked, "Did the husband of the deceased say that she had depression?"

"I seem to have heard Xiao Hu say that just now." After Cui Mingyou finished speaking, he understood Cheng Jinsong's meaning, "Generally speaking, patients with depression are more determined to die. Undecided, hesitating for a while seems to be justified..."

Cheng Jinsong frowned more and more.He took out his mobile phone: "Shen Yan, the husband of the deceased is downstairs, right? Don't let him go, I have a question for him."

Cheng Jinsong inspected the colleagues on the roof, and Shen Yan was also questioning people on the second floor platform.

"Captain Shen, this is Manager Zhao, the person in charge of the property, and this is Director Zhang of the community." Officer Xiao Hu introduced to Shen Yan.

Shen Yan shook hands with the two of them respectively, and then said to the property manager: "Manager Zhao, I just saw that there is no surveillance at the entrance of the community and the courtyard, is it?"

"Yes." Manager Zhao nodded apologetically, "Captain Shen, this community is a resettlement community. Over the past few years, all the families with better conditions have bought houses and moved out one after another. The rest are not elderly people. They are temporary tenants who work part-time. There are six or seven buildings in this area, and there are not even [-]% paying the property fee. We don’t even pay enough for cleaning, and we really don’t have the money to install surveillance..."

Shen Yan didn't care to listen to his complaints, and asked again: "Is there any monitoring in the elevator?"

"This, no..."

Shen Yan frowned - there was no monitoring at all, if it was really a criminal case, it would be difficult to investigate.

Over there, the community director saw Shen Yan's serious expression, and tentatively asked, "Captain Shen, didn't the deceased commit suicide by jumping off a building? Still need to investigate and monitor?"

"For abnormal deaths, we all need to clarify the cause of death." Shen Yan didn't want to say more, and turned to look at Police Officer Xiao Hu, "Where is the husband of the deceased?"

"Over there." Xiao Hu pointed to the back.Shen Yan looked in the direction of his finger and saw a man covering his face and crying.

"Pang Zihao, right?" Shen Yan walked over, "The deceased Rong Xinying is your wife, isn't she?"

Pang Zihao raised his head - he was about 30 years old, tall and handsome.It's just that this person's eyes are very red and swollen at the moment, and he has obviously been crying for a long time.He choked up and nodded: "We, originally planned to get the certificate next month... who knows..."

As soon as Pang Zihao said a word, he was too sad to continue.Shen Yan noticed that he was holding a piece of paper in his hand, and asked, "What is that?"

"It's... Xinying's last letter to me..." Pang Zihao sobbed, and handed over the crumpled paper.On the paper are two lines of beautiful handwriting——

Zihao:

Sorry, I'm so tired.Maybe it's better for everyone if I die.I love you forever.

心颖

Shen Yan frowned.Rong Xinying's suicide note was indeed written like what a depressed patient would say.He was about to ask further questions before opening his mouth, but at this moment Cheng Jinsong hurried out from the building, came to Pang Zihao's side, and opened his mouth to ask, "Pang Zihao, didn't you say that your wife has depression?"

Hearing another voice asking himself, Pang Zihao raised his head.He looked at Cheng Jinsong, who was wearing a white coat, and nodded: "She has been suffering from insomnia for a while, and sometimes she would wake up from nightmares when she fell asleep. In the past month or so, she has had to take sleeping pills to fall asleep... ..."

"Having nightmares and insomnia?" Shen Yan frowned upon hearing this.

"Xinying...last year, she was harassed by a hooligan for a while." Pang Zihao said with a sob, "At that time, that person called and harassed Xinying all day long, and even sent some disgusting words, and then even started following her! Xinying was frightened by that person, and has suffered from insomnia since then. Later, I thought this was not an option, so I moved to City S with her. After coming here, her insomnia improved a lot. However, about two months ago, I went on a business trip for a while, and when I came back, I found that Xinying had started to suffer from insomnia again... I asked her if something happened to her, and she only said that it was because of the heavy work pressure, and told her I said I wanted to resign and quit. I didn’t think it was right, and when I asked her what happened, she wouldn’t say anything, so I suggested that we should go see a psychiatrist, but Xinying objected excitedly, saying that she would never go. , just buy some sleeping pills. I have been busy with work these few days, and seeing her so determined attitude, I want to take it easy and have a good chat with her after I finish my work. Who knew she would..."

After Pang Zihao finished speaking, he began to cry again.

Shen Yan handed the letter paper in his hand to Cheng Jinsong.Cheng Jinsong glanced at it, and whispered to Shen Yan: "We found on the roof upstairs that Rong Xinying had stayed on the roof for a long time before she died. She may not have jumped off the building voluntarily."

Shen Yan nodded.He looked at Pang Zihao and continued to ask, "When did you find this piece of paper?"

"This morning..."

"Rong Xinying went out last night, didn't you know?"

Pang Zihao shook his head heavily: "I fell asleep last night...Actually, I don't usually sleep like this. I don't know what happened last night. I suddenly felt very sleepy after eating the supper that Xinying made for me. , and then fell asleep... When I woke up this morning, I found that I was almost late, so I yelled at Xinying, but found that she was not at home, and the bed didn't seem to have slept. Then, I was on the table I found this piece of paper... I was trembling at the time, and then I heard the commotion downstairs..." Pang Zihao couldn't stop his sadness as he spoke, "When I came down and took a look, I found... yes, Xinying... ..."

Pang Zihao cried until he couldn't make a sound.Shen Yan frowned and looked at Cheng Jinsong - from Pang Zihao's description, he seemed to have been drugged last night.

Cheng Jinsong understood, and he said to Pang Zihao, "Pang Zihao, we need to take you for a blood test."

"Me? Blood test?" Pang Zihao raised his eyes and asked puzzledly, "Why?"

"According to your description last night, we suspect that you may have been given sleeping pills last night."

"Sleeping pills?" Pang Zihao's eyes turned from confusion to enlightenment, "You mean...Xinying drugged me so that I couldn't stop her from committing suicide?!" Pang Zihao broke down and cried, "Xinying, why are you so so stupid!!……"

"Captain Shen, the deceased's mobile phone has been found," Su Mohan walked over with an evidence bag, and said softly to Shen Yan, "It was thrown into a corner by the wall. I checked, and the screen has been broken. No chance."

Shen Yan nodded - he looked at the phone that had fallen into disrepair, and then at the equally horrific corpse, his brows frowned.

——Where did I meet her?

The home of Pang Zihao and Rong Xinying is located on the 16th floor. It is an ordinary two-bedroom apartment. It is not big, but it is very clean.On the balcony were men's clothes and shoes, probably washed by Rong Xinying for her boyfriend before she died.Cheng Jinsong went to the window and took a look. There were screens on several windows, and there were no traces of rubbing on the inside or outside of the screens.In other words, Rong Xinying didn't try to jump from the building at home, but went directly to the rooftop.

"What did you have for supper last night?" Cheng Jinsong asked.

"Across the water, scramble eggs with shallots." Pang Zihao replied.

Hearing this, Cheng Jinsong walked to the kitchen.Shen Yan and Pang Zihao also followed.The kitchen is also very clean, there is no leftover food in the refrigerator, the sink is also clean, only some onion skins and egg shells are in the trash can.

"You don't have anything left from last night's supper?" Cheng Jinsong looked at Pang Zihao.

Pang Zihao nodded: "I ate them all."

"Who washed that bowl?"

"Xinying did it. She doesn't like to keep the tableware, she always cleans the dishes after eating."

Cheng Jinsong frowned - without any leftover food or tableware, it was difficult to determine whether the sleeping pills were put in the supper.Moreover, the drain pipe in the kitchen is a straight pipe, and such a design is also difficult to retain drug residues.Still, he unscrewed the connection and collected some samples for examination.

After surveying the kitchen, the three of them went into the bedroom again.The layout of the bedroom is very simple, a bed, a wardrobe, and a semi-new but not old dressing table.There were two quilts on the bed, one side had signs of sleeping, and the other side was neatly folded; on the dressing table were six or seven cans of cosmetics, and a small medicine bottle. Pick it up and have a look, it is sleeping pills.

"This is the sleeping pill that Rong Xinying has been taking?"

"Yes."

Shen Yan handed the medicine bottle to Cheng Jinsong, who took out the evidence bag from the box and put the medicine inside.Then he went to the closet and opened the door.Men's and women's clothing in the closet accounted for half equally. Shen Yan noticed that Rong Xinying's clothes were mostly black, white and gray, and the styles were relatively simple and conservative.Suddenly, a black and white checkered skirt caught his attention.

"Did she wear this dress a few days ago?"

Pang Zihao didn't expect Shen Yan to ask such a question suddenly, he was taken aback for a moment before he nodded uncertainly: "It seems to be..."

"Has she been to Huijin Plastic Surgery Hospital?"

"Plastic surgery hospital?" Now it was Pang Zihao's turn to be surprised, "I didn't hear that Xinying said she wanted plastic surgery?"

Shen Yan finally remembered where he had met Rong Xinying.A week ago, he went to Huijin Plastic Surgery Hospital, and when he was waiting for the director, he saw Rong Xinying wearing this dress in the lobby on the first floor.And Rong Xinying was very vigilant at that time, Shen Yan just accidentally caught her, she immediately lowered her head and walked away quickly.

Seeing Shen Yan's expression, Cheng Jinsong knew that he must have remembered something.It's just that it's inconvenient to ask more on this occasion, so he continued to ask Pang Zihao: "Apart from insomnia, has Rong Xinying had any other unusual behavior recently?"

Pang Zihao recalled it carefully for a moment, and seemed to think of something: "I remember one day when I got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, I saw Xinying was on the phone in the living room. I asked her who called so late, and she said it was a colleague who had lost his love. , to find her to complain. At that time, I just thought it was too late for this person to call, so I didn't think much about it. But thinking about it now, her expression at that time seemed very nervous, not comforting. And I usually don't I heard she said who she has a good relationship with at work..."

Shen Yancheng and Jinsong looked at each other—received strange phone calls in the middle of the night, insomnia, suspicious, these really looked like being followed or threatened.

"Can you remember which night this happened?" Shen Yan asked

"This... I don't remember." Pang Zihao shook his head.

"You said that she was followed by someone at the beginning, what happened, and tell me in detail."