fog city detective

Chapter 576
Liang Xi said: "The only answer: the crossbow bolt was not at the wall, someone moved the crossbow bolt to the wall. That is to say, if we find the correct landing point of the crossbow bolt, we can find the shooter through the description of the eyewitnesses at that time."

Romeo: "Acquaintances commit the crime." The person who moves the crossbow in the chaos can't be too close to the eldest son, and can't be too strange to everyone.

Liang Xi nodded: "The people who were in the castle at that time were either the eldest son's family members, or the castle's employees and servants."

Romeo asked: "Why is it a crossbow?" This sentence is a question in tone, which means that Romeo has an answer, and the question is to guide Liang Xi to consider the details.

Liang Xi was stunned: "Fuck! Could it be that you are buying a murderer? This time I will not buy a professional killer, this time I will buy an internal killer. The crossbow is easy to use, easy to train, and will not attract attention after disassembly."

Even, 1:1.Romeo asked again: "How should we find the landing point of the crossbow now?" The tone of this sentence is doubtful.

Liang Xidao: "We have to think about it. If I were a killer, I would like the crossbow to fly away. I would like to fly wherever I like. Anyway, no one knows the trajectory of the crossbow after it lands. This may be the reason for choosing the needle-type crossbow. , what is needed is its penetration. But if the crossbow arrow is to hit the eldest son and then fly away, the murderer should stand at the position of the fan handle, which is where the crossbow arrow landed. This position is too conspicuous."

Romeo said: "The murderer should have chosen the left and right sides of the fan. In this way, there are many shooting points available, but shooting from the left and right, the crossbow arrows cannot fly away from the castle. The murderer knows that the police can guess the murderer based on the location of the crossbow arrows and the position of the eldest son. So the murderer took advantage of the chaos to pick up the crossbow bolts and threw them against the wall."

Liang Xi nodded: "This is my opinion."

Romeo said: "Ivan."

"I'm here."

Romeo took out his notebook to draw graphics, first drew a fan, and circled the areas on the left and right sides of the fan: "I need human hands to search these two areas inch by inch, in order to find the real landing point of the crossbow bolt. If the crossbow bolt hits any object, It will leave a little bit of an unusual mark."

Speaking of this, Romeo looked up at the sky: "Oops, it's going to rain." Rain may not destroy the traces, but rain may not destroy the traces.

Liang Xi looked up at the rain cloud for a few seconds, licked his finger and then raised it to measure the wind speed: "20 minutes, hurry up, gather everyone."

Aiwen took the walkie-talkie and switched to the wireless communication channel of the on-site personnel: "Please all the forensic personnel to the scene of the crime, we only have 20 minutes. Immediately, please come here immediately."

The forensic team leader is very experienced. You can see why Aiwen is in such a hurry by looking at the sky. He greeted two teams. One group went to the trunk of the car to get a raincloth to form a canopy, and also carried a shovel to drain the rainwater. The other group went to the crime scene to obey the dispatch .

Time is running out, and everyone has raised their spirits. After finding the goal, everything becomes simple.It is important to ask the right questions, but it is also important to say the right answers.If there is no answer, there is no direction, and no matter how hard you work, you will not find a sense of value.

"Here." An aunt greeted, Liang Xi and others went over, and the person who delivered the raincloth followed.

This refers to the left side of the fan shape, which is about 12 meters away from the position where the eldest son fell to the ground.Here is a flower garden, surrounded by a small white fence with five square meters of land, and each unit is planted with different flowers of the season.The bottom of the white fence is dry loose soil, not level.At the bottom of a fence, there is an artificial trace of rubbing back and forth with a foot.Judging from the scene, someone stepped on the soil and rubbed it back and forth with the soles of their shoes.

No one found anything suspicious in the evidence collection before, but after explaining that the target he was looking for was the first place where the murder weapon fell, and the area was circled, it became very suspicious here.Gardeners will prune the flowers, and others will approach the fence and trample on the dirt to enjoy the flowers.But no one is going to be rubbing the dirt at the bottom of the fence with the soles of their feet unless they're stepping on dog shit.

The aunt took a wet cotton swab and stirred it in the soil for a while.The person next to him used his coat to create a dark environment.The aunt then dripped a solution on the cotton, and saw that the originally white cotton turned blue. The aunt said with a little excitement: "Suspected of human blood." The luminol test can distinguish human, chicken, and dog blood .

The forensic team leader ordered: "Set up a canopy, take pictures, take samples, and get the infrared imaging device." The infrared imaging technology, like Luminol, is a sharp tool for finding blood, and the working principles of the two are different.Compared with luminol, infrared imaging technology is more cumbersome.

Liang Xi stood at the fence, and Ai Wen stood at the position where the eldest son fell down. Liang Xi called Romeo to move to a position about 20 meters away from Ai Wen.There was a big tree planted in the area where Romeo ended up, and there was a small ditch two meters away from the big tree for drainage and flood discharge. Hardwood shrubs 70 cm high were planted on both sides of the small ditch.A shrub that is difficult for humans to walk through.A 1.5 meters long stone bridge is set up beside the big tree, people can walk through the small ditch through the stone bridge, and walk to the artillery emplacement on the cliff of the castle.

Judging from the rising position of the sun, combined with the time at that time, this area was relatively dark when the crime occurred.It is a relatively suitable sniper point.The forensic personnel quickly found the place where the suspected murderer was squatting. The grass in this position has obviously been pressed for a long time recently. Compared with the surrounding grass, it has not fully recovered by itself.

While speaking, the raindrops dripped, and the rain intensified accordingly.While the forensic team leader greeted the canopy, he took off his coat to cover the area. A forensic officer pulled his coat and unfolded it, bending over and using his body to protect the scene as much as possible.

Faced with such a touching work scene, Aiwen was stunned for a while, but the heartless Liang Xi and Romeo were discussing another issue: "We are in trouble."

Liang Xi looked at the scene picture on his mobile phone and asked, "Manslaughter?"

It is basically certain that the crossbow arrow was shot at the eldest son from here, but the problem is that the earl is still between the murderer and the eldest son.Judging from the position where the earl and the eldest son were practicing Tai Chi at that time, this is definitely not a suitable position to shoot the eldest son, but it is a suitable position to shoot the earl.

Tai Chi movements are slow, and there are traces to follow. Why did the crossbow arrow not hit the earl, but hit the eldest son?

Romeo looked at the phone, and the raindrops kept hitting the screen. While wiping it, he said: "There is no record of the earl's behavior at that time in the transcript."

Liang Xidao: "Ask the eldest son's wife. Their family sits and eats by the flower garden. As a daughter-in-law, she should be worried about the conflicts between her husband and father-in-law, so she will pay more attention to them. The first possibility is that they sleep normally. In Tai Chi, the murderer was either poor in accuracy or poor in mental quality. The second possibility is that the Earl suddenly stopped practicing. Or the Earl was tired from practicing and walked forward to the edge to see the scenery. The third possibility is, The eldest son paused to correct the Count's movements."

The rain was too loud, and Ivan only heard half of it when he came over, and asked, "What should we do now?"

Romeo said in Ivan's ear: "Some people always underestimate blood. Inform your boss and keep all the people in the manor indoors."

Ai Wen asked: "Don't you just take off your shoes?"

"If the murderer persists, we need to show a court order. He has enough time to destroy the evidence. Don't let him think about the soles of his shoes." Romeo turned his head: "Liang Xi, think of a reason."

Liang Xi asked, "Where are they now?"

"In the hotel." Ai Wen replied: "The hotel under the Earl's name, the castle must not be unsealed today, and more than [-] people must have a residence. Moreover, the Brighton Police Department has limited manpower, and the transcript may not be completed yet. "

Liang Xi said: "You send someone to the hospital to invite the eldest son's wife to the hotel, notify everyone that the eldest son's wife has something to announce, and ask everyone to gather in one place. Then you collect the shoes with the court order."

Are the shoes useful?If it were the leather shoes with smooth soles worn by Liang Xi today, it is very likely that no blood could be found.If it's a textured shoe, there's a good chance you can find blood.A little bit of blood gets mixed in the soil, and when it touches the shoe, it transfers to the shoe.A murder scene has been washed many times and trampled by countless people. Two months later, blood can still be found through the luminol plus infrared imaging device.One chemistry, one optics, there is always one suitable for you.

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The eldest son's wife came from a famous family. Even though she was worried about her husband's life, she still followed the detective's arrangement and asked the housekeeper to inform everyone to stay in the hotel. She would announce something important later, so she successfully delayed the time and let the police get warrant.In the big conference room of the hotel, she asked everyone to hand in their shoes, and then asked everyone to rest in their rooms, and expressed her deep apology for disturbing everyone and causing inconvenience to everyone.After the end, she rushed to the hospital again. Just after receiving a call from the hospital, the eldest son had come out of the operating room and was transferred to the intensive care unit, temporarily out of danger.

At this time, the gardener George who lived in room 503 felt faintly uneasy. Although he didn't know what the problem was, he was still uneasy. In desperation, he could only go back to the room.

Just as I sat down to calm my mind, the hotel internal phone rang: "Hello."

Electronic voice: "You are finished."

"who are you?"

"It doesn't matter who I am. If you follow my arrangement, not only will your charges be mitigated, but you will also get a sum of money."

George asked, "Why should I trust you?"

Electronic voice: "You have no other choice."

10 minutes later, George was taken away by police detectives. Although there is no DNA report yet, it has been proved that there are blood stains on the soles of George's shoes.There are bloodstains that can be quibbled, assuming the DNA report proves that the bloodstains belong to the eldest son, then all previous sophistry will become evidence in court.

Liang Xi stayed in the observation room, and Romeo and the local police detectives were in charge of interrogating George. Romeo opened the file in front of him, and slowly read George's resume in front of George: "You have worked in the Earl's house for more than 15 years." There are blood stains on the soles of individual shoes.However, according to transcript inquiries, it is tentatively determined that the two men's shoes were stained with blood when they assisted in lifting the eldest son.George is a gardener. He is 20 meters away and has to deal with crossbow arrows. His mental quality is not strong enough, so he has no time to fish in troubled waters.

"Yes."

Romeo saw that George's right thumb kept rubbing his index finger, knowing that he was very nervous, and said: "We know you did it, you must not be able to handle it, why don't you save everyone's time."

"I do not know what you're talking about."

"After confirming that you are the murderer, we checked the records. After the eldest son was attacked, he took a helicopter to the hospital accompanied by his wife. The earl took his own car to the hospital. Seeing that the two principals have left, you volunteered to drive the car with The eldest son's children went to the hospital to visit their father." Romeo said: "At this point, we know that you threw the crossbow on the way to the hospital. We asked the eldest son's children, and they said that you stopped at a certain location and said that you needed to pee. Walked into a sparse forest and disappeared for about 3 minutes. The search team is looking for the murder weapon, if you think you can survive, we can have a cup of tea together."

Romeo observed George's expression and said, "You are highly educated, you should be very clear that your attitude will affect your sentencing."

"Well, I did it."

Romeo frowned and looked sideways at the observation room, Liang Xi was also a little surprised.After entering the interrogation room, you can find that George is really an ordinary person. He is nervous, pretending to be calm, trying to figure out how to interrogate the police, and forcing himself to calm down.There were so many things to think about that he even forgot about etiquette, hand and face movements and expressions.

But normal people should not plead guilty so quickly, people have a fluke mentality.There are several bushes from Earl's Castle to the hospital.Even if there was only one bush, George would deny it, because he must have wiped off his fingerprints.Homicide is a first-class felony. Murder must be psychologically prepared to be arrested. How could Romeo confess after a few words in a leisurely manner?You must know that George did not know that the eldest son was out of danger.

One possibility of rushing to plead guilty is that he had other thoughts.

Romeo started talking to George, who was very cooperative, explaining where he was shooting.He also told Romeo that he had spent hours practicing shooting in the undergrowth.But George tried to avoid two questions, the first question: why kill the eldest son?Second question: Where did the crossbow come from?

Romeo changed his gentle attitude, his face became serious, he began to exert emotional pressure, added more accents to his words, and kept his eyes on George.After 10 minutes George explained the situation.

After working in the earl's house for 15 years, George inevitably showed some old-fashioned work attitudes.The earl has a gentle personality and doesn't care too much about it, but the earl's eldest son has always criticized him.Until last month, because of George's negligence at work, he didn't put away the tools at lunch, causing a young maid to step on the tools and hurt her foot.The eldest son of the earl asked the driver to take the maid to the hospital. Soon after, the eldest son’s butler had a private meeting with George. The butler asked George to come up with a decent reason for resignation and submit a letter of resignation. The earl’s family would give George corresponding monetary compensation according to the working hours.

(End of this chapter)