Serious Crime Unit 1

Chapter 122 The mystery of falling from a building (5)
Beixin Road is lined with dozens of seafood restaurants. Li Huan's stomach contents include lobster and high-end abalone. He should be eating Yexiao at a high-end restaurant, which is easier to find.Jiang Yiming called Yang Meihong and asked her which restaurant on Beixin Road Li Huan liked to eat at.Yang Meihong said with certainty: Li Huan likes to eat abalone from Neptune Palace Seafood Restaurant the most.

Jiang Yiming and Wu Jiang walked out of the traffic police squadron and came to the Haiwanggong Restaurant on Beixin Road. This restaurant is divided into two floors, with 60 private rooms on each floor. The hall is spacious, bright and magnificent, and there is an endless stream of diners, no less than a four-star hotel. With the help of the floor manager, they found room 218 that Li Huan booked that night.

They walked into room 218. The manager asked them to sit down, asked the waiter to bring them tea, and then used the intercom to call the waiters who were Li Huan and Mr. Yang at the time. Two minutes later, a pretty-looking waitress came to them. She asked: "Excuse me, gentlemen, do you need me to help you with anything?"

Jiang Yiming turned on his cell phone, pulled up the photos of Li Huan before his death and said, "We are from the Municipal Public Security Bureau and we are investigating an important case. You must answer our questions truthfully."

She nodded.

"Do you know this person?" Jiang Yiming asked.

"We know him. He is a regular customer here. We all call him Boss Li."

"On the night of June 6th, who was Li Huan eating Yexiao with in this room?"

"I seem to be having dinner with a middle-aged man named Yang. Mr. Yang has only been here twice, so I'm not familiar with him."

"Is there no one else?"

"No, just the two of them."

"Have you been standing around serving?"

"No, I am responsible for serving customers in four rooms. As long as other guests press the service light, I must go to other rooms to serve."

At this time, Jiang Yiming's cell phone dinged softly. Jiang Yiming opened it and saw that it was Lu Yingying who had sent him Mr. Yang's portrait from the computer. Jiang Yiming replied to Lu Yingying with a thank you expression, and then called up Mr. Yang. Showed the portrait to the waiter: "Did Li Huan have dinner with this person at that time?"

"Yes, there are seven or eight figures."

"Did you hear what they said? How many bottles of wine did they eat in total, and what kind of wine did they drink?"

"I don't remember much. They seemed to be talking about business matters. They drank Wuliangye. They drank two bottles in total. Boss Li seemed unhappy and drank very fast. Later, Boss Li seemed to be drunk. , after Mr. Yang paid the order, he helped Boss Li leave."

Because Mr. Yang used a credit card to make the purchase, his signature on the payment receipt was: Yang Delong.

The crime team found the identity of Yang Delong through bank customer information. It turned out that Yang Delong was a furniture dealer in Bei City. He had recently purchased furniture from Li Huan. He had known Li Huan for less than two months. However, because they both loved drinking, There were a lot of topics to talk about, so we felt like old friends at first sight.

Jiang Yiming and Xiao Ke rushed to Beishi and found Yang Delong. Yang Delong truthfully explained the whole process of drinking with Li Huan that night and then sending him home.What he said was similar to what the waiter and security guard said.Jiang Yiming asked: "Did you know that Li Huan jumped to his death?"

"I know, I read the newspaper, because I have been very busy recently and I don't have time to express my condolences to him."

"Did you discover that Li Huan had suicidal thoughts at that time?"

"At that time, he said that he was very annoyed recently and didn't want to live anymore. I just treated him as a drunken joke and didn't care at all. Alas, I didn't expect that he really..."

"Did you ever say why you wanted to commit suicide?"

"I didn't say anything specific. I just said that women are a curse. He must have been entangled by a woman." "Oh? After you helped Li Huan upstairs, did you go to his balcony?"

"Let me think about it... Oh, I have been there, because after I tried so hard to get Li Huan to his house half-carried and half-supported, I was covered in sweat. After I put Li Huan on the sofa in his living room, I walked to the balcony. The wind blew for a while and then I left."

After Jiang Yiming extracted Yang Delong's saliva and footprints, he returned to the criminal police team. After comparing DNA, he found that the sweat stains left on the balcony of Li Huan's house belonged to Yang Delong, and the unfamiliar footprints also belonged to Yang Delong.All this proves that Li Huan died by falling from the building, rather than committing suicide.

This suspected homicide case is more likely to be suicide. Wu Jiang wants to explain their investigation results to Yang Meihong. Jiang Yiming said that they should wait for a while.Jiang Yiming's sixth sense told him: Maybe this was a perfect murder, but there was no evidence to support it. If this was a murder, the murderer was too clever.

6. Strange footprints

Jiang Yiming convened a meeting with members of the crime team to re-analyze the four footprints left at the scene. Because the living room and bedroom of Li Huan's house were paved with wooden boards, the extracted footprints were very blurry, especially those of Yang Meihong and Li Jun. It was so faint that it could not be extracted, because Yang Meihong and Li Huan were wearing slippers for indoor use. Ten years ago, this kind of footprints printed on the floor boards would have been impossible to extract. Fortunately, today's exploration technology has made great progress.

The footprints of Yang Delong and Li Huan are relatively clear, because neither of them took off their shoes when Yang Delong helped Li Huan in. Therefore, the footprints of two types of leather shoes were left on the scene, one was a size 42 Crocodile brand leather shoe; the other was a size 41 The rich bird leather shoes belong to Li Huan and Yang Delong respectively.

Wu Jiang turned on the Sony projector, and four kinds of footprints appeared on the screen. They had seen these footprints more than a dozen times, but they didn't see any problems. Others didn't seem to pay attention to it, because except Jiang Yiming, everyone else agreed that Li Huan committed suicide by jumping off the building.

However, Jiang Yiming continued to suspect homicide. Jiang Yiming is such a person: once there is something that makes him suspicious, he must persevere to investigate to the end. He will not be relieved until the truth is revealed. Perhaps it is because of this quality that he stands out and becomes the leader. The captain of the Municipal Criminal Police Corps and the leader of the No. 1 Serious Case Team. The Municipal Criminal Police Brigade’s Serious Crime Team is divided into 1 to 6 teams. Generally, the No. 1 Serious Case Team is responsible for investigating major and important cases.

Today, Jiang Yiming invited Xie Lei, a footprint expert from the Ministry of Public Security. He sat next to Jiang Yiming. Xie Lei is about to retire. His life is a legend. He has observed the footprints of tens of thousands of criminal suspects and can analyze the footprints. The owner’s height, weight, gender, living habits, area of ​​growth, occupation, education level, and even the brand of cigarettes he smokes and the brand of wine he drinks are as magical as seeing the suspect in person, because major cases have been solved repeatedly. , was awarded the first-class hero model by the Ministry of Public Security.

Xie Lei was short and lean, with a pair of eyes as sharp as those of an owl, shining brightly. At this time, he was staring intently at a set of footprints on the screen. As he watched, he suddenly said to Wu Jiang: "Officer Wu , please stop." Wu Jiang pressed the pause button on the remote control, and the screen was fixed on the footprint numbered 04. The footprints extracted at Li Huan's house were numbered: 01, 02, 03, and 04, which were Yang Meihong and Li Huan respectively. Jun, Yang Delong and Li Huan.Jiang Yiming turned his head and looked at Xie Lei in confusion. Xie Lei said, "Did you notice any difference between the footprints of No. 04 in front of us and the footprints in front of us?" Xie Lei looked at Jiang Yiming and asked.

Jiang Yiming said: "I didn't see it."

"But in my eyes, the front and back of the No. 04 footprint are different. The contact surface of the front footprint is nearly 1 centimeter different from the contact surface of the rear footprint. The contact points of the front and back are also different. We all know: the same pair The clarity or depth of the footprints are different when shoes are worn on a 50kg person and on an 80kg person, which can be seen even on a hard floor. Also, the footprints of the left foot and the right foot of No. 04 are in front of me. The footprints are completely different. They don't seem to be human footprints, but more like a robot walking in the room wearing Li Huan's shoes..."

"How is this possible? Mr. Xie, are you mistaken? Isn't this too weird?" Wu Jiang felt incredible.

"If you don't believe it, just rewind the slides, look at them carefully for a while, and make comparisons. I believe you can see it too."

Wu Jiang put the projector back and compared it repeatedly. As expected, there were slight differences between the footprints in the front and the footprints in the back. Although Wu Jiang had been a criminal police officer for 30 years, he still couldn't tell. If it weren't for Xie Lei's Hint, no one saw it.

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"Excuse me. I don't have a sharp eye. It's just my 40 years as a police officer and my countless footprints that have given me my unique eyesight."

"Mr. Xie, do you think someone ordered a robot to put on Li Huan's shoes and murder Li Huan?" Wu Jiang asked.

"Xiao Wu, it's not as sci-fi as you think. Judging from my experience: there should be someone walking around the house wearing Li Huan's shoes, and this person's right foot may be a prosthetic leg, so this kind of footprints are formed. As for him, I'm not sure whether he is the murderer of Li Huan, because there are witnesses who saw Li Huan jump off the building." After Xie Lei finished speaking, he took out a cigarette. Jiang Yiming, with his quick eyes and quick hands, lit the cigarette for him. Xie Lei nodded and expressed his gratitude.

"Why does this person wear Li Huan's shoes and walk around the house? Let's think about it. We follow the policy of bold speculation and careful argumentation. It doesn't matter if we are wrong." Jiang Yiming glanced at everyone's face, encouraging them.

"This person may be a friend of Li Huan. Maybe Li Huan called him to take care of Li Huan. After he entered the house, he found that Li Huan was drunk and unconscious. Because he was disabled and envied Li Huan's status and achievements very much, he took off his clothes. She took off Li Huan's shoes and walked around the house happily, just like the ancient generals who envied the emperor wearing homemade dragon robes at home..." Lu Yingying said.

(End of this chapter)