criminal profiling

The mail sent to the bureau is somewhat different from the mail sent to Meng Yan’s residence—the latter only has ears wrapped in newspapers, while the former has a few more lines:

Death, is it scary?No, death is not terrible, it does not frighten me, but it frightens you stupid lambs.People are mortal, and instead of being afraid of going to hell while alive, I would send them to heaven.

When Zhuang Sheng came to the bureau the next day, he fell silent when he saw the letter.

Although the imitator copied the letter sending process, the content is obviously original.This may represent the will of the imitator himself.

Shi Ke told Zhuang Sheng to send the received ears and noses for inspection, and it was confirmed that they belonged to the deceased in the second case.

"Nose and ears? Two parts?" Zhuang Sheng frowned slightly upon hearing this.Did the impersonator modify the fact that historical Rippers only sent one victim at a time?

Shi Ke paused, hesitated for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "The only thing sent to the bureau is the nose and ears—it was sent to Brother Meng." When Brother Meng handed the things to him, He only told Zhuang Sheng not to tell Zhuang Sheng that it was sent to him, but he didn't say that he couldn't even mention the matter of ears.

So—he doesn't count as violating Er Ge Meng's intentions, does he?

Zhuang Sheng paused after hearing this, remembering that time Meng Yan went downstairs last night.He lowered his eyes, and his eyes became darker.

Seeing that Zhuang Sheng didn't speak after listening, Shi Ke couldn't figure out what he was thinking after listening, so he couldn't help feeling a little uneasy.At the same time, I couldn't help muttering in my heart, I don't know what the hell these two people are doing, what are they doing so covertly, I have seen the dismembered corpses, are you afraid of an ear?He was eating instant noodles, didn't he just spit a few times when he saw that nose?

Those who work in their line of work will inevitably see some disgusting scenes, and get used to vomiting.

"Are there any new developments regarding the witnesses?" Zhuang Sheng asked suddenly.Shi Ke saw that he was not obsessed with who the ear was sent to, so he breathed a sigh of relief, but when he mentioned the progress of the case, he couldn't help but slumped his shoulders and sighed:

"There are no other witnesses, and there is no surveillance nearby. That homeless man is still crazy, and what he said is inconsequential, which is of no value at all." Shi Ke paused at this point, looking at Zhuang Sheng as if remembering something, slightly asked suspiciously:

"Last time you said you asked something, and the tramp said 'they', does it have any special meaning? It's not like the murderer was a group of people when he committed the crime, right?"

Zhuang Sheng shook his head simply, "I don't know."

Shi Ke glared at Zhuang Sheng, black lines all over his face, is he playing with him?I really can't see that Xiaozhuang also has a talent for joking.

Zhuang Sheng seemed to know what Shi Ke was thinking, and explained earnestly: "I don't know the special meaning of that 'they' yet, but I believe that there must be something in the homeless man. If we can solve this mystery, the case will definitely be solved." Significant progress can be made.”

Shi Ke silently looked at him twice, without speaking.Take the words of a madman as some important mystery.

——Hehe, as long as you are happy.

-

Patrols were stepped up along Zhijing Street, but to the dismay of the police, another case occurred the next night.It was a pregnant woman who died. She and her husband drove through Zhijing Street that night. The man drank some alcohol, so it was the pregnant wife who drove.

The man was so drunk that he pestered his wife to make out, and the wife had to stop the car to appease him.Afterwards, the man had to go to the bathroom again, and his wife helped him stumble out of the car, looking for a toilet everywhere.

When the husband finished using the toilet, he lay on the floor of the public toilet and fell asleep unconsciously.Later, he was woken up from the cold and drunk, but after waking up, he couldn't find his wife, and no one answered the phone.Then he found his wife's mobile phone on the ground near the toilet, and he panicked all of a sudden.

While looking for his pregnant wife everywhere, the husband ran into a nearby policeman. As soon as he told the story, the policeman immediately told all the surrounding policemen on the walkie-talkie to mobilize everyone to look for it together.

Not long after, they found the body of the pregnant woman in a remote back alley not far from the public toilet.

After seeing his wife's tragic situation, the husband rushed over madly, rolling and crawling. He fell down several times within a distance of more than ten steps, but he didn't care at all when he saw blood on his forehead.

He threw himself on his bloody wife, who had a big hole cut open in her abdomen, and let out a shrill and desperate cry.While crying, he grabbed the ground with his head. If the police officers present hadn't stopped him, he would have been crushing himself to death.

This night, many people heard the tragic wailing sound, like a lone goose lost in the flock, or a desperate beast.People listened to it, and didn't feel like crying.

When Zhuang Sheng arrived, the scene remained almost unchanged.After the husband of the deceased vented his anger, his whole soul seemed to be pulled away, and he sat on the ground blankly, without any response to whoever went—holding a bloody thing in his hand, wrapped in the clothes of the deceased .

The policeman, who knew what it was, intentionally or unintentionally stayed away from the man who was sitting blankly, but the chill in his heart couldn't go away.

Zhuang Sheng stared at it for a moment, pursed his lips hard, then turned his eyes away and landed on the female corpse on the ground.

The scene was very similar to the previous one, with the same disembowelment and throat cutting and face digging—only this time, the face of the deceased was more severely damaged, almost all the five features were dug out, and many knives were drawn on the face.

The entire abdominal cavity was completely hollowed out, and internal organs were thrown everywhere.The intestines were pulled out and hung on the shoulders, circled around the neck twice, and stuffed one end into the mouth that was split to the base of the ears.The uterus was taken out and thrown on the ground—empty.

Zhuang Sheng saw waves of chills running down his spine, his whole body was cold, but he didn't look away at all until he finished observing all the details and remembered them in his heart.

The severed ears and noses were scattered on the ground next to the corpse, but the murderer did not take them away.This time, he took something else.

"The eyes and heart are gone." Shi Ke's voice was dry and hoarse. It was unknown whether it was because he was called up in the middle of the night and lacked sleep, or for some other reason.He just finished talking with the patrolman who found the body, and now he wants to light a cigarette and calm down.

Shi Ke took out a cigarette and handed it to Zhuang Sheng, who silently shook his head.Shi Ke turned his hand upside down, put the cigarette into his mouth, lit it with a lighter, took a deep breath, and slowly exhaled a circle of white smoke.

"The deceased was four months pregnant. It was the father-in-law's birthday, so the son-in-law drank a few more drinks with his father-in-law. He was going to stay at the father-in-law's house for one night. The man was afraid that he would be late for work the next day, so he asked his wife to drive the car." Hurrying back—he doesn’t remember much about the convenience of getting off the car halfway.” His voice became even hoarse from the smoke, but Shi Ke said to take a puff, a cigarette soon bottomed out, and his voice became even hoarse .

"The murderer threw the viscera everywhere, took out the fetus from the womb, and put it on the ground with the dead man's clothes, and covered half of the clothes." Shi Ke said and pointed to the ground, "It's just placed on the ground." Here, deliberately avoid blood stains. The blood on the clothes is all stained by the fetus itself."

"...The murderer changed his behavior pattern and the killing escalated, which means that the fetus or child has special meaning to him." Zhuang Sheng swallowed to make his voice less dry, "His excessive killing of the dead has exceeded the scope of imitation, so Something must have stimulated him. The deceased was not within the scope of the original victim, and choosing her was not in the plan. It may be that the deceased who appeared at that time stimulated the murderer, making him give up imitating completely and attack her instead.

"The difference in the way of treating the mother and the fetus shows that they are two different symbols. The fetus may symbolize the murderer himself at a certain stage of helplessness; the pregnant woman may remind him of someone he hates. He was powerless back then. Fight back, and now take revenge on this replacement."

Shi Ke was silent for a while after hearing this, and asked: "If he hates pregnant women so much, why didn't he just target pregnant women? Instead, he imitated other killers before, and the first one to kill was a prostitute. Could it be that the last time Was the case deliberately done to confuse the police investigation?"

Something flashed through Zhuang Sheng's mind, but he missed it too quickly.

"Judging from the last time the murderer committed a crime, he would not be the first time to kill. All killers hone their skills through continuous killing, and finally reach maturity, such as Jack the Ripper. And what this imitator showed, no matter Whether it was the burglary, murder, dismemberment, or the murder and disembowelment at night, it didn’t look like the first crime.”

Shi Ke frowned when he heard this, "The murderer who broke into the house and dismembered, and the murderer who murdered and disemboweled, are you sure they are the same person?" After asking Zhuang Sheng, he said immediately, "There are two people in the same area. The possibility of imitation crimes is really very small, and in these two - three cases, it can be seen that the murderer should have a certain level of surgery, even if he has never been a doctor, he must have received special training."

After hearing what Shi Ke said, Zhuang Sheng was silent for a moment, and muttered to himself with lowered eyes.

"Murderer, is the murderer really alone?"

-

In the dimly lit room, only oil lamps illuminated it.A person huddled in a corner of the sofa, trembling with his head in his hands, and kept muttering something in his mouth.

"You shouldn't have killed her, you shouldn't have killed her, didn't you agree to only kill prostitutes? That woman, that woman is not at all..." He suddenly raised his head, revealing a face that was too pale, his eyes widened and covered with blood Red thread, eyes staring in horror at the dark shadows in the corner.

"No! It's not me! I didn't, I didn't want to kill her, it was you, it was you!" He moaned more and more painfully, his voice full of pain, "If you didn't follow the rules, it would bring us harm. Trouble. You can't go out anymore, yes, you can't go out anymore."

The voice gradually calmed down, and the person on the sofa slowly raised his head. The painful expression on his face had disappeared. He was staring straight ahead, showing a pale smile.One word at a time, he opened his mouth very slowly and said:

"Yeah, don't show up again recently, that's fine."