conspiracy crime 2

Chapter 7
criminal investigation dossier
(positive volume)
Case Name: Zou Papi Murder Case
Case Number: A54190227120140309
Name of suspect: XXX
Case filing time: 2014.3.9
Closing time: 2014.3.18
Filing unit: Qingyang City Public Security Bureau
1
In the Qingyang City Public Security Bureau, there is a blind detective who is blind but solves crimes like a god.His name is Tang Tian, ​​and he was originally the deputy captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade. He became blind because he was stabbed in both eyes by gangsters during an arrest.

Although he was blind in both eyes, he was transparent in his heart. With his years of experience in handling cases and his extraordinary skills, he still helped the police solve many major cases.

Recently, a bizarre murder case occurred in Qingyang City. A man named Zou Hongcai was poisoned to death in full view, but no clues about the murderer could be found at the scene of the crime.

The deceased, Zou Hongcai, had just passed his thirties, and his family was well-off. He earned a lot of money by lending usury to collect debts from the King of Hades. Everyone secretly called him "Zou Papi".

On this day, it was Zou Hongcai's 30th birthday. Being always stingy, he didn't throw a big banquet for his guests. He just invited three close friends to Qingyang Hotel for dinner.

Zou Hongcai and three friends ate some fruit and watermelon in the private room, and when they were about to get up to pay the bill, they suddenly fell down on the sofa, foaming at the mouth, and convulsed all over. Died on the couch.

The police quickly arrived at the scene. The forensic doctor inspected Zou Hongcai's body and found that the body was purple in color and had a faint smell of bitter almonds from his mouth and nose. It was obvious that he died of potassium cyanide poisoning.

After ruling out the possibility of committing suicide by taking poison, the police determined that he was poisoned to death.

Before Zou Hongcai died of poison, he stayed in the private room for more than two hours before and after meals.

If he was really poisoned and murdered, then the place where the murderer poisoned must be in the private room.

Since that private room was reserved by Zou Hongcai, apart from a waitress who had entered and exited, only his three friends remained.

The waitress was a foreigner who had been working in the hotel for less than a week and didn't know Zou Hongcai at all, so the possibility of her poisoning the crime could be basically ruled out.

The remaining three friends who have been in the same room with Zou Hongcai have become the main suspects of the police.

Among the three friends, the oldest is called Lao Shuai, who is over [-] years old, and is the owner of Zhenxiang Rice Store, the other is Zhang Xueyou, who runs an underground gambling shop, and the youngest is Bao Yacan, who is a street worker. A gangster, often came forward to help Zou Hongcai collect the debts. People said that he was Zou Papi's lackey.

Hearing that he had become the main suspect of the police, Bao Yacan yelled at that time: "We also ate the food that Boss Zou ate, and we drank the wine that Boss Zou ate, and we also drank the wine that Boss Zou ate. Let’s eat the fruit together, if one of us poisoned others, why didn’t the others get poisoned? Besides, we have such a good relationship with Boss Zou, why did we murder him?”

These words really stopped the police.

The police carefully tested the leftovers on the table, tobacco, tea, wine, and all things that might have been poisoned, but found no signs of poisoning.

If Zou Hongcai was poisoned to death, why were there no traces of poisoning at the scene?Who is the murderer?How did he poison Zou Hongcai to death?

In response to these questions, the police conducted a detailed investigation, but did not find an answer.

Zou Papi's death became a mystery.

The person in charge of investigating Zou Hongcai's murder case was Tietou, the chief inspector of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Municipal Public Security Bureau.

Tietou used to be a detective under Tang Tian. After Tang Tian lost his eyesight, he helped him solve several important cases, so he was quickly promoted to be a detective.

Tietou admired and respected Tang Tian, ​​the old boss, and would always ask him for advice when encountering difficult cases.

After Tang Tian became blind, he has been living a semi-retired life, living alone in a small attic and rarely going out.

When Tietou went to ask Zou Papi for his advice because of Zou Bapi's murder case, he was leaning on the recliner and drinking tea while listening to the radio and humming Huagu opera.

After listening to Tietou's narration of the case, Tang Tian suddenly stood up from the reclining chair, leaned on his crutches and said, "Come on, take me to the scene!"

Although he is blind, he always likes to say the word "look".

He said that although his eyes were blind, he could still see. Others saw with their eyes, but he saw with his "heart".

Tie Tou led him to the Qingyang Hotel.

Although it has been three days, because the case has not progressed, the private room where the case occurred has been under the police blockade, and everything inside remains as it was at the time of the case. It was rancid and smelly, but people in the hotel dared not come in to clean it up without the permission of the police.

After Tang Tian entered the room, he fumbled here and there, walked around the room, and asked Tietou to find the hotel manager and the waitress who served that day.

Not long after, Tietou led the two women into the room.

The person in front, about 27 or [-] years old, is beautiful and well-dressed. It is the hotel manager Ding Jie.

Ding Jie was originally a waitress at Qingyang Hotel. Because of her dexterity and ability, she worked very well, and quickly rose from foreman, minister, and supervisor to the manager of the food and beverage department.It is said that she has won the favor of young master Zhang, the general manager of the hotel, and the two have already entered into a marriage contract.

Young Master Zhang is not only the owner of this hotel, but also the richest man in Qingyang. He owns more than ten properties including Qingyang Hotel.

Walking behind her was the waitress who had served in the private room that day.

2
Tang Tian first asked Ding Jie: "Do you know Zou Hongcai?"

Ding Jie nodded her head vigorously, and suddenly realized that the other party was blind and could not see her movements, so she hurriedly said, "I know him. He often eats at our hotel, and after a long time, we became acquainted."

Tang Tian raised his head and asked, "Does he often eat at your hotel? I heard he is a very stingy person."

Although Ding Jie was facing a blind man, she always felt that there seemed to be two invisible and sharp eyes behind those blind eyes, staring at her, even if she uttered half a lie, she would be seen through by the other party.

She pretended to smile lightly and said, "He is stingy to others, but he is quite generous to himself."

Tang Tian then asked: "Zou Hongcai came to the hotel for dinner that day, did he book the room himself?"

Ding Jie said, "Yes, it was ordered a week ago."

Tang Tian asked: "What do you think about his death?"

Ding Jie thought for a while and said, "He is a loan shark, and he must have offended many people. It is possible that someone wants to kill him to vent his anger."

Tang Tian nodded to her, and turned his face to the waitress again: "You were the one who served Zou Hongcai's dinner that day, right? According to your observation, did you find anything unusual at that time?"

The waitress was just a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, with a timid expression on her face, she shook her head and said, "I didn't find it."

Tang Tian said in a slow tone: "Please tell me the situation of Zou Hongcai and other five people entering the house for dinner that day, from beginning to end, the more detailed the better."

The waitress nodded and said, "Okay."

According to the waitress, at noon that day, Zou Hongcai arrived at the hotel first, and then the three friends he invited arrived one after another.

When the guests were eating, the waitress kept standing by and served, and did not find out that only Zou Hongcai ate a certain dish and the other guests did not put down their chopsticks.

The rice is pre-filled into a large basin, and she distributes it to each guest after it is served on the table.

The wine was Qingyang Yuye brought by Zou Hongcai, and everyone drank it.

What they drank was Longjing tea, which she brewed and poured for each guest.

According to the hotel's practice, guests who eat in private rooms will be given one or two kinds of fruit after the meal.

After Zou Hongcai and the others finished their meal, the waitress brought them another plate of apples.

The apples and the fruit knives for peeling apples are pre-washed by the waitress.

Ding Jie knew that Zou Hongcai was obsessed with cleanliness, and every time she came to eat, she was worried that the fruit presented by the hotel was not clean, so she had to peel it herself.She was worried that the waitress was a novice, and she was afraid that her hands and feet would be unwieldy, so she came over to check and confirmed that she had washed the fruit very clean before asking her to serve it.

As soon as the fruit plate was brought to the coffee table, Bao Yacan picked up a fruit knife and peeled an apple, and started to eat it by himself. Then Zou Hongcai also peeled an apple to eat by himself, and then Zhang Xueyou and the old handsome also peeled the apple by themselves. eat.

After they finished eating the apples, the waitress took out the peels and cores on the inner plate, washed the knife plate, and brought a big watermelon to them to relieve the heat.

Zou Hongcai cut the watermelon himself, and everyone ate two pieces.

After eating the watermelon, the five of them sat on the sofa and chatted for a while. The waitress was clearing the table when Zou Hongcai suddenly felt foamy, his whole body twitched, and he collapsed on the sofa.

After listening to Tang Tian, ​​he pursed his lips tightly and sat on the sofa to meditate.

Knowing that he had finished his question, Tietou waved his hand and told Ding Jie to leave quietly with the waitress.

Tang Tian frowned and thought for a while, then said: "If the waitress' description is accurate, then the problem is not on the dining table. Because the tea, wine and food that Zou Hongcai ate, other people also ate. If it was poisoning on the dining table, There's no reason to poison him alone while the others are safe."

Tietou asked, "Then where is the problem?"

"It's on the apple. The only thing Zou Hongcai didn't share with others during this dinner treat was the apple he ate."

Tietou said: "But those apples were cleaned by the waitress in advance, and the manager personally inspected them. Even if someone injected poison into the apples with a needle, Zou Hongcai just served the plate of apples casually. Picking up one of the apples and eating them, how could the murderer be sure that Zou Papi would eat the one he poisoned? Unless he poisoned all the apples on a plate, then Zou Hongcai would not be the only one who died of poisoning .”

Tang Tiandao: "You are right. The murderer cannot predict which apple Zou Hongcai will eat, so it is impossible to poison him in advance. I deduce that the murderer did it after Zou Hongcai picked up the apple and knew exactly which apple he was going to eat. poisoned him."

"How is this possible? Zou Hongcai picked up the apple from the fruit plate, peeled it with a knife, and ate it directly. No one else touched the apple he ate. How did he poison it?"

Tang Tian smiled slightly, but didn't answer, just asked him: "Are the fruit plate and fruit knife that were used that day still here?"

Tie Tou said: "It's still here, no one has touched it. But we have already inspected it, and there is no trace of poisoning on it." He said and handed him the glass fruit plate on the coffee table and the fruit knife in the fruit plate.

Tang Tian touched the fruit plate, there was nothing special, took the fruit knife again, and carefully touched it from the handle to the tip, but found no mechanism, took it under his nose and sniffed it, two thick eyebrows suddenly Wrinkled, he handed the knife to Tietou: "Smell, what does this knife smell like?"

Tietou sniffed it, and said inexplicably, "It doesn't smell like that."

Tang Tian said: "It seems that your nose still doesn't have my aura. I smell it. There is a faint smell of bitter almonds on it."

Tie Tou was stunned: "Bitter almonds? Isn't that the smell of potassium cyanide? It's impossible. We have tested it and there is no poison on it."

"This knife has been cleaned by the waitress after peeling apples and before cutting watermelons. You can't detect any poison on it afterwards, that's natural. It's just that the poison smeared on it has been washed, but the cyanide Potassium Potassium has a unique bitter almond smell, but it is attached to the knife and can't be lingered. Although my eyes can't see, my nose is more sensitive than yours, so I can smell it as soon as I smell it."

"You mean this fruit knife was smeared with poison. When you peel an apple with it, the poison will be on the apple. If you eat the apple, you will be poisoned, right?"

Tang Tian nodded and said, "I think it should be like this."

Tietou said: "That's strange. Zou Hongcai was not the first one to peel apples with this knife, nor the last one. Why was he poisoned when others were fine?"

Tang Tian picked up the fruit knife and sniffed it again, and suddenly asked, "Is Zou Hongcai left-handed?"

"Yes."

(End of this chapter)