criminal profiling

After returning to the police station, Zhuang Sheng reported his thoughts to Kong Dongning.Unlike Shi Ke who looked at Zhuang Sheng with colored glasses and was full of doubts about his speculation, Kong Dongning tended to believe Zhuang Sheng.

Kong Dongning called everyone to discuss the case and asked Zhuang Sheng to express his opinion to everyone.

"I think the murderer of the two murders is the same person, and there are five more murders."

Zhuang Sheng's first sentence was like a stone thrown into a quiet lake, causing waves among the police officers sitting below.

"What evidence do you have?"

Like Shi Ke's reaction when he heard it for the first time, other police officers also raised this question with Zhuang Sheng.

"Let's take a look at some pictures first." Zhuang Sheng didn't answer directly, but used a projector to release a picture.

Under the gray tones, a group of naked people moved forward one after another. They walked into the blazing fire in front of them. They were burned by the blazing fire and people struggled painfully, but no one tried to escape.

The screen switched, and some people who were too thin were lying on the ground, with trees full of fruits and flowing oasis above their heads. They stretched their arms but they couldn't reach the fruits.

"This is the scene described in the seventh and sixth layers of purgatory in Dante's "Divine Comedy". The seven original sins of mankind, lust, gluttony, greed, laziness, anger, jealousy, arrogance, Dante sorted them according to the severity of crimes , repent and wash away sins in different purgatory layers.”

"Wait, you're saying that the murderer regards himself as God and kills to punish their crimes?" Someone questioned, in a rather surprised tone.It's not all about doubting Zhuang Sheng's conjecture, but there is also a sense of ridiculous absurdity in it. It seems that Zhuang Sheng's conjecture is whimsical.

This is understandable, because among the people here, except for Zhuang Sheng, I am afraid that no one has read the book "Divine Comedy", and may not even know the name Dante—even if they did, they would not describe it. It is too unrealistic for them to be connected with murder.

On the contrary, a famous young criminal policeman once watched the movie "The Seven Deadly Sins". On the one hand, he felt that what Zhuang Sheng said made sense, and on the other hand, he wondered if he had watched too many movies.

In the face of everyone's doubts, Zhuang Sheng's face remained unchanged, his tone remained calm, and he continued to speak in an orderly manner.

"The seven deadly sins originate from the teachings of Catholicism, and those who commit one of them will be punished accordingly. The lustful person will be suffocated to death in the flames; the gluttonous person will be forced to eat to death. The murderer combines the teachings of Catholicism with Dante's. Combine the "Divine Comedy" and punish the victims he chooses." Zhuang Sheng looked at Shi Ke and asked him:

"Who do you suspect is the suspect of the No.1 deceased?"

Shi Keding stared at Zhuang Sheng for a while before slowly answering: "Her husband."

"Why doubt him?"

"After our investigation, we found that the deceased Zhang Shiyu had an affair, and had more than one affair partner. Her husband knew that his wife was cheating but did not divorce her, but he had a fight over it and then separated..."

"The murderer is not the husband of the deceased." Before Shi Ke finished speaking, Zhuang Sheng interrupted him. Although his voice was not high, his tone was very firm.

"Why do you say that?!"

It was not Shi Ke who asked the question, but another police officer who found out about Zhang Shiyu's affair and is now looking to collect evidence of Zhang Shiyu's husband committing a crime.After working so hard for so many days, now that Zhuang Sheng simply denies it, he is naturally dissatisfied.

Zhuang Sheng glanced at him calmly and without any personal emotion.

"The deceased and her husband have been separated for two months. In the relationship between husband and wife, the anger value is the highest when one party is found cheating. Zhang Shiyu's husband quarreled with her when he first found out that his wife was cheating, which shows that he was angry. At this time, he chose The best way to vent is verbal attacks. If Zhang Shiyu's cheating behavior does not stop, and the two are still under the same roof, facing the source of stimulation, the anger will escalate, and maybe there will be murder in the end.

"However, the husband of the deceased chose to move out, which is a signal of escaping and giving up. Especially after the separation, he soon had his own lover, which was another form of venting and revenge. By this time, the deceased had The husband's anger has basically been vented, even if there is still dissatisfaction, it is not enough for him to do something like murder that requires a huge price."

Zhuang Sheng paused for a moment when he said this, and looked at the policeman.

"You asked the husband of the deceased. After knowing that his wife was murdered, I think his first reaction should be surprise, and then he showed a look of gloating. He might even suspect that the murderer was one of the victims of the deceased's affair. ’ or something like that.”

The police officer was completely stunned, because the situation at that time was exactly the same as what Zhuang Sheng said.Hearing the news of his wife's death, the man was very surprised. After he realized it, he laughed as if he had learned some good news, and said, "I knew that she would end up like this, she would die at the hands of those men sooner or later. "

The couple who had an affair were initially suspected by the police, but it was later discovered that they all had alibi at the time of the crime, but failed to produce clear alibi. Only the husband of the deceased was identified as the key suspect.

The questioning voice dropped, and Zhuang Sheng continued the interrupted analysis.

"Zhang Shiyu cheated and committed the crime of lust; while Jiang Wei drank alcohol and committed the crime of gluttony. This is one of the reasons why the murderer chose them and killed them in different ways."

Zhuang Sheng switched pictures again, and a group of people prostrated themselves on the ground, kissing the ground. They were lying on the road with five bodies, as if their bodies had grown together with the ground, and they couldn't even raise their heads.

"The third deadly crime, greed, shall be punished by frying." When Zhuang Sheng said this, the people present suddenly felt their hearts tremble inexplicably, and they heard the newcomer expert use some Said in an indifferent tone.

"If the murderer does follow the order of The Divine Comedy, then we'll soon have a third body, a body thrown into oil and tortured to death."

After the dissolution, Kong Dongning called Zhuang Sheng to the office, and asked him straight to the point: "Xiao Zhuang, since you already know the murderer's modus operandi, can you guess who the murderer is?"

Zhuang Sheng pondered for a moment when he heard the words, and shook his head at him, "Captain Kong, the murderer is very cautious. He stayed in the victim's house for so many days, but he left no clues. However, he strictly followed the "Divine Comedy" It can be seen that there is a certain degree of obsessive-compulsive disorder, and he should be a person who pays great attention to details and has similar obsessive-compulsive behaviors in life."

Kong Dongning pondered for a while, his brows were so frowned that he could pinch a fly to death, "So, if we want to find any useful clues, we can only wait for the murderer to commit crimes next time, and the next corpse will appear?"

Zhuang Sheng paused for a moment, with a solemn expression: "I'm afraid that's the case." After a long silence, he continued, "Continuing to commit crimes will make the murderer more and more confident, and at the same time, he will expose more. The current two murder cases cannot To determine whether there is a personal relationship between the murderer and the deceased, we need to find out the connection between the deceased, which is the key for the murderer to find them."

Kong Dongning nodded and remained silent.

A general murder case would start with the social relationship of the deceased, and conduct investigations one by one, which is a very trivial and complicated task.When you see on TV that you can cross-contrast and pick out the required information from a huge database with a click of the mouse, it is all fabricated by the screenwriter.In reality, even country M, which has the highest degree of informatization, can't do that.

All the people available to the police force have been cast out to dig out as much information as possible about the deceased.Before the case is solved, I don't know which one is useful, so no matter how insignificant it is, it cannot be ignored.

Zhuang Sheng stayed at the police station until very late. After returning to the dormitory, he didn't rest immediately.

Just returned to China yesterday, before the jet lag was reversed, he devoted himself to handling the case intensely. Zhuang Sheng's body was already very tired, but his spirit was faintly excited. It was the kind of excitement that he deliberately suppressed and could not suppress.

The dormitory has not been tidied up, and it seems a little empty. Zhuang Sheng's personal belongings are not many, and he will add more slowly when he has time.Zhuang Sheng sat quietly at the desk for a while, opened the black-covered book on the desk, and picked up a photo from the pages.

In the photo are a teenager and a child.The child looked at the camera timidly with big and bright eyes like a frightened little animal, while the teenager pressed the child's shoulders and held him in his arms, with a bright smile on his face.

Zhuang Sheng stared blankly at the smiling face, and didn't move for a long time, time was frozen, even his body seemed to be frozen.The light in the room was dim, and it seemed to exude a strong warmth.I don't know how long passed, Zhuang Sheng moved, he raised his hand to caress the smiling face, his expression seemed nostalgic, sad, his lips moved slightly, as if he was calling for something, but there was no sound in the room.

The next day, Zhuang Sheng was woken up by the phone call. His mind was drowsy, and he turned his head to look at the alarm clock beside the bed. It was 6:37.

After grabbing the phone, Zhuang Sheng sat up from the bed. He rubbed his temples, stepped on the ground with his bare feet, walked to the window and opened the curtain.

On the phone, Kong Dongning's voice was serious and heavy:

"Xiaozhuang, the third body was found." After a pause, as if to ease some emotions, Kong Dongning continued in a low voice, "The body was discarded in a place where the garbage was piled up, and it was discovered by the sanitation workers in the morning— —the dead, fried."

Zhuang Sheng remained silent. Although the corpse that appeared again confirmed his guess, he was not at all happy.

Kong Dongning didn't seem to know what to say, he sighed deeply, and just told Zhuang Sheng the address and asked him to go there as soon as possible.At the end, Kong Dongning murmured, not knowing whether he was talking to himself or to Zhuang Sheng:

"Perhaps, we should ask that person to help."