criminal profiling

Shi Ke saw that Zhuang Sheng was lying on the place where the body parts were lying—although the body parts had been taken away, the blood on the carpet was still there, but Zhuang Sheng didn't seem to care at all, lying there flat, with his hands folded on his abdomen , peacefully as if going to sleep.

Rubbing the goose bumps on his arms, Shi Ke asked without words: "Xiao Zhuang, who did you say the murderer put the corpse like that for? I haven't seen such a brutal way of killing for many years." gone."

Zhuang Sheng didn't seem to hear Shi Ke's words. He calmly opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling. Then his eyes moved slowly and looked directly at the vanity mirror in front of him.After watching for a while, he suddenly took a step back.

Shi Ke was confused, but at least he knew that Zhuang Sheng could not be disturbed at this time, so he controlled the desire to speak and closed his mouth.Zhuang Sheng was lying on the ground to put the corpse, so he walked around the room to see if he could find more clues.

Apart from the bedrooms, everything else was clean and unspoiled.It seems that the murderer limited his activities to the bedroom. The host was shot to death, and the body fell under the window, naked.

The dismembered body was the hostess of the house, her body was covered with traces of abuse, and there were obvious pinch marks on her neck.Cracks in the lower body showed that he had been violently assaulted before his death.There was blood all over the bed and the carpet in the room. Judging from the scene, it was the blood of the hostess.The murderer dismembered the hostess directly in the bedroom, and then arranged the body parts into the two English letters "Hi".The splattered blood soaked the entire quilt, so there wasn't as much blood on the floor.

No murder weapon was found at the scene, that is, the tool used by the murderer to dismember the deceased, so it is inferred that the murderer brought it himself, and took it away after the murder.

The smell of blood was pungent in the house.After the murderer left, the door was left open. Through the crack, the neighbors smelled the strong smell of blood in the house and the music that was still playing, and they became suspicious.When I went in to check, I found that the two people in the house had been killed, so I called the police.

The scene in the bedroom at that time had too much impact on the neighbor, and now he is so frightened that he is lying in the hospital and has not yet come out.It is estimated that there will be a long period of time in the future without a psychiatrist.

Shi Ke was looking around when a message flooded into his phone, he clicked on it, and there were only two short words under the bloody photo:

"What about him?"

Shi Ke didn't even need to think about it, and automatically and spontaneously replaced this "he" with someone.He glanced in a certain direction, raised his phone, took another photo, and clicked send.Then he added a sentence of his own emotion:

"Are you guys doing profiling, and the way you handle the case is so strange?" He was lucky enough to have seen the process of Meng Yan's detection of the case, so Shi Ke was not puzzled by Zhuang Sheng's behavior at the scene, and he could probably guess that he was lying on the ground. do what.

As always, the message sent in the past has not received a reply, and Shi Ke is no longer surprised.If one day Meng Yan replied to him without mentioning a certain person, he would definitely suspect that Meng Yan had been dropped.

When Shi Ke put away his phone and looked back, he found that Zhuang Sheng had got up from the ground at some point, standing there staring at the bloody pentagram on the mirror, motionless.

"See what's coming?" Shi Ke walked over and asked.In the whole murder case, apart from being extremely bloody, cruel, cold-blooded, violent and perverted, it was the five-pointed star on the mirror that made Shi Ke most puzzled.

He is very clear about the meaning of the upright five-pointed star, but for the upside-down one, Shi Ke said that he has not studied it before and does not understand it.

"After the murderer finished dismembering the corpse, he deliberately placed the two letters in front of the mirror, and lay down with the corpse to see the marks left on the mirror. After that, he stood up, walked a little farther, and with the corpse and Keep a straight line in the mirror and admire the masterpiece you have created."

Zhuang Sheng walked around while talking, his voice sounded objective and calm, without any personal emotion when describing the murderer's brutal behavior.

Shi Ke imagined that scene, and couldn't help feeling a chill.

"The murderer who can do all this must be a lunatic with mental problems."

Zhuang Sheng glanced at him indifferently, and there was no emotion in that glance, "Even a madman is a calm madman."

Shi Ke frowned, "Is the lunatic still calm?"

Zhuang Sheng has always been able to answer professional questions, "It's divided." He pointed to the wine glass on the cabinet in the room and the half bottle of red wine left, "Just like the wine glass on the dining table, there is no liquid left in the glass. put them neatly together, it can be seen that they were all drunk by the murderer."

Shi Ke quickly reached out his hand to stop him and said, "Wait, how do you know that there is still wine in the glass, and it was drunk by the murderer?"

Zhuang Sheng glanced at him again, and said: "The arrangement of the cups and plates on the dining table is the same as the arrangement of wine bottles and cups in the room. This arrangement is inconsistent with the overall style of the room, so it should not be placed by the host himself. It's the murderer's work."

"...Wait a little longer." Shi Ke said with a little difficulty, "What method, why didn't I see it, at most the table was cleaned up quite cleanly."

This time Zhuang Sheng gave him an appreciative look.

"That's right, the murderer had certain cleanliness and obsessive behaviors. There was so much blood in the bedroom, but the living room wasn't stained at all. During the dismemberment, it was impossible for the murderer not to be splashed with the blood of the deceased. Changed clothes. In addition, he will tidy up all the things that the murderer has touched, and the spacing of each item is the same, and the owner of this house is not very fond of tidying up, and the things are rather messy." Pause Pause, he added, "And in that case, the victim shouldn't have bothered to clean up these things."

Scott: "..."

Although I was praised, I was not happy at all.

And, that situation - thinking of the nakedness of the two victims and the suspicious marks on their bodies, Scott became even more silent.

Zhuang Sheng remained calm, and continued to figure out the murderer's behavior and psychology at the scene.

"The murderer has narcissistic tendencies. He not only takes pleasure in sadism, but also shows off by displaying the corpse. Leaving his own mark is a declaration and a provocation."

The more Shi Ke heard it, the more he frowned, wasn't it just a provocation?Killed the two dead in such a cruel way, and left marks after committing the crime.Especially the "Hi" composed of corpse parts is simply a naked mockery of their investigators!

but--

"What the hell does that five-pointed star mean?"

"It's not a five-pointed star." Zhuang Sheng shook his head, "It's an inverted five-pointed star, which represents black magic in Western culture and is generally used as a symbol of the devil Satan."

Shi Ke was stunned, "The West? Satan? Could it be that the murderer was a foreigner?"

Zhuang Sheng glanced at him lightly, and his tone was very flat, "Those who believe in God are not necessarily priests, and those who worship Buddha are not necessarily monks. Drawing an upside-down pentagram does not mean that the murderer must be a foreigner. What's more-" —" Zhuang Sheng paused at this point, lowered his voice with downcast eyes.

"The characteristics of this kind of crime are indeed very consistent with a foreign murderer."

Shi Ke's eyes lit up when he heard this, "Who is it?"

Zhuang Sheng looked up at him.

"Richard Ramirez, the chief disciple of the demon, is dead."

Scooter was startled.

"So, is this copycat killing?"

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Zhuang Sheng worked late and didn't get off work. He contacted his former colleagues and wanted to check the information about Ramirez.The more I look at it, the more I find that the traits left by the murderer are similar to it.Even some details that were not disclosed to the public back then are very consistent.

Richard Ramirez, one of the most notorious murderers in history.The characteristic of the crime is to sneak into the room and kill the man inside, while the women and children will be violently violated.Then kill, dismember, and finally leave an inverted pentagram mark.

The homicide that happened this time is basically consistent with it, except for the behaviors such as placing words with corpse parts and tidying up the tableware after eating.

Because he didn't go home very late, Meng Yan went to the police station to pick him up and took him back by force.

Sitting at the dining table, drinking the pork rib soup stewed by Meng Yan himself, Zhuang Sheng was still in a daze, holding up the spoon after a sip of the soup, not putting it down for a long time.

Meng Yan looked at Zhuang Sheng for a while, sighed silently, and reached out to take his spoon away.Zhuang Sheng finally had a reaction, and looked at him in a daze, with confusion appearing in his eyes.

"Shengsheng, although the murder case is out of our control, we can still control our lives. Do you want to turn your life into a case?"

Zhuang Sheng blinked, as if he didn't understand what he meant.

Meng Yan filled Zhuang Sheng's soup bowl and put the spoon back into his hands, "No matter how brutal the murderer is, he always looks like an ordinary person, and maybe he lives like an ordinary person." He looked up at Zhuang Sheng "They are demons, but they are also mortals. You may not even notice him when they pass by us."

Zhuang Sheng's eyes gradually came to his senses. He looked at Meng Yanlian and blinked several times. His tone was uncertain and concealed a hint of joy, "Are you going to teach me to investigate the case?"

Meng Yan looked at him quietly for a while, sighing in his heart, but his face was extremely gentle and calm, "Since you would rather endure your psychological fear and choose to go this way, how can I hold you back."

Zhuang Sheng understood what he meant, and subconsciously shook his head to deny it, but Meng Yan stopped him with his eyes.

"Whether it's recovery or pretending nothing happened, can I not see it? Shengsheng, you and I just left for eight years, instead of completely erasing you from my memory. What are you thinking in your heart, do you think I will really see you?" Do not you know?"

Hearing Zhuang Sheng who was a little moved in front, when Meng Yan asked the last sentence, he almost wanted to blurt it out.

"What is I thinking in my heart, have you really understood it all these years?"

But he held back.

Now that the two have returned to the old way of getting along, Zhuang Sheng didn't want to destroy the warmth that was lost and regained for him before he was sure.

Suppressing the impulse in his heart, Zhuang Sheng remembered the question that had been circling in his heart all the time. He couldn't express it because of various reasons before, but now he just took the opportunity to ask it.

He put down the spoon in his hand, looked up at Meng Yan earnestly, and asked clearly word by word:

"So what about you, have you recovered from your psychological trauma? After more than a year of recuperation, you still haven't chosen to resume your job. Does it mean that you haven't fully recovered yet?"