Serious Case Tracking

Chapter 8

In the next two days, the investigation of the case was carried out intensively, but they failed to find any clues that were crucial to solving the case.

The villagers of Majong Village can be divided into two parts. Some of the young villagers have gone to the city to work, and even many of them have settled down in the city. The other part is the elderly villagers. Their daily work is to go to the mahjong factory. Going to work, doing some farm work in the fields in their free time, self-sufficiency, of course, playing a few rounds of mahjong occasionally, and some daily necessities are pulled back by the truck that transports mahjong out of the village, so they are happy and carefree. To be honest, this kind of life is really exciting.

And during the investigation, I also learned that they are quite satisfied with their current life. They don’t have to go out early and return home late like people in the city. The money they earn has to consider repaying the mortgage, and the cost of food, clothing, housing and transportation is also high, and the air is not good. Well, exhaust pollution is everywhere.On the contrary, in the village, life is guaranteed, there is no shortage of food, clothing, housing and transportation, and some living conditions are not worse than those in the city, not to mention the air, which is many times fresher than in the city.

In such a state of life, there is really no reason for one of them to commit murder, let alone their benefactor.

And Wei Qiuyuan's four children have also settled down a lot in the past two days. They sent their wives and children back to the city, while they stayed in the village looking for clues about "the sparrow returning to the nest". A must visit place.

The relationship between Wei Dongsheng, Wei Yannan, Wei Xiluo, and Wei Beigui is not very good, after all, they are half-brothers, and Wei Xiluo and Wei Beigui's mother, Feng Yao, has inherited 10% of the mahjong factory shares, although the money is not A lot, but in case no one of them can solve the secret of "Bird Homing" within a year, the 10% of the shares can still maintain daily expenses, so this also makes Wei Dongsheng and Wei Yannan very dissatisfied. As a result, the relationship between the two became even more tense. I believe that no matter which party gets the inheritance, it will definitely not be cheaper for the other party.

Wei Dongsheng once said before that as long as his father dies and gets the inheritance, not only can he pay off the usury, but he can also lie in bed and count money for the rest of his life. Although his statement is enough to represent the inner thoughts of the other three people, but only based on this point It's not enough to prove that one of them will be the murderer.

The investigation of the case is still going on, but it seems to be at a standstill. The murderer seems to be a demon in the night, who came quietly in the dark night, and disappeared without a trace through the dark night.

Although the case was at an impasse for a while, the murderer did not seem to stop committing crimes. On the fourth morning after Wei Qiuyuan's murder, the phone rang loudly and woke up Meng Shaohui, who was resting on the sofa. Dongsheng was found dead in the study of the Sparrow Temple in Sparrow Village.

The news woke Meng Shaohui from his half-dream and half-awake state. He didn't bother to wash his face, and immediately drove to Sparrow Village. He was silent all the way, and his mind was full of the secret of "Bird's Return to Nest" besides the murder.

Maybe Wei Qiuyuan's murder was not a simple murder case, it might just be the beginning of a serial murder case, and the murderer's target is probably Wei Qiuyuan's inheritance, so Wei Dongsheng's death was a brother-in-law murder, or was he killed by a certain villager Woolen cloth?Was the death of the father and son the same murderer?If so, there seems to be another contradiction in it, and that is the murderer's method of killing Wei Qiuyuan, which is obviously a vendetta?Is it really a trick deliberately set up by the murderer to confuse the police investigation?

It has to be said that so far, Meng Shaohui's mind has been completely confused by the case.

When Meng Shaohui arrived at the temple of the murder scene, the investigators who arrived earlier had already cordoned off the surrounding area, and the investigators were also busy asking the surrounding villagers about the situation.

The scene of the crime was located in the study room on the right side of the Que Temple courtyard. One of the bookshelves fell to the ground, and the books on the shelves were scattered all over the place. Wei Dongsheng's body was pressed down by the bookshelves on his back, and there were crowds of people around his body. It is blood that has coagulated.

"Who found the body first?" Meng Shaohui asked the police officer beside him impatiently.

"Wei Xiluo and Wei Beigui discovered it first. They said they came here in the morning to look for clues to the 'Birds Returning to the Nest'. After entering the door, they found the study door was open. They walked in, only to find that Wei Dongsheng died here."

"Is there any preliminary autopsy result?" Meng Shaohui asked the forensic doctor after squatting beside the corpse to check the condition of the corpse.

"The time of death was about 10 hours, it should be between 11 and 12 o'clock last night. The cause of death should be that the aorta in the neck was cut by a sharp weapon, resulting in excessive blood loss and death. The murder weapon should be a sharp object such as a dagger, but No similar objects were found at the scene, and the specific circumstances need to be further tested to draw conclusions."

"Between 11 and 12 o'clock? What would the deceased do here at that time? If it was to find the secret of 'bird homing', there is no need to come so late! Wouldn't it be better to come during the day? What's more, this is not a book If you want to read a book here, you can take it home and read it.” Meng Shaohui thought about it.

"In addition, a group of bloody shoe prints were found near the corpse. It should be left by the murderer who was stained with blood when he stayed next to the corpse. It is estimated that it was to confirm whether the deceased was dead. We will extract it back for detailed inspection, but from the shoe prints Given the size, the killer could have been a woman."

"female?"

The forensic doctor's answer surprised Meng Shaohui a lot. He thought that this case and Wei Qiuyuan's murder were probably committed by the same murderer, but now it seems that there is already a discrepancy in the murderer's gender. Murder?
"Team Meng, since the incident happened late at night, the villagers are basically asleep, and there are no witnesses."

"Well, are the belongings of the deceased lost? Also, have you visited his home?" Meng Shaohui asked.

"The deceased's wallet is still in his pocket, and the money, bank cards and various documents are there. As for the deceased's home, we have also checked, and there is no trace of tampering, but there is one thing that is very strange, we can't find it anywhere. to the cell phone of the deceased."

"Can't find your phone?" Meng Shaohui frowned.

"Yes, and we called back according to the mobile phone number provided by the family of the deceased, and it is in a shutdown state."

"Wei Dongsheng appeared at a time when he shouldn't have appeared here. Could it be that the murderer lured him here? The murderer took the mobile phone after the crime to destroy the evidence? Immediately send someone to retrieve the phone call list of the deceased before the crime. Check all incoming and outgoing phone numbers before the incident to see if there is anything suspicious." Meng Shaohui ordered.

As for the questioning of the villagers and the Wei family, it can be said that it was a waste of time. All the people seemed to have made an agreement, and all the answers were that they were sleeping at the time of the crime. They didn't know that the murder had happened. Suspicious people, let alone anyone who knows, and the Temple of Birds is located in a remote corner of the village, and there are no villagers living around, so no one will notice what happened here in the middle of the night.

It has to be said that the murderer took advantage of the time and location. If it was in the city, let alone 11 o'clock, the streets might not be quiet even at 2 o'clock in the morning, but in Sparrow Village, the villagers here basically arrived at night. The lights were turned off after 10 o'clock, and the two murders happened after 10 o'clock. There were no witnesses at all, and the clues that could be investigated at the scene were basically zero.

After returning to the police station, the forensic doctor did not send the autopsy report until late at night. It can be said that Meng Shaohui placed high hopes on this report, and this is the only key to finding clues from it so far.

The deceased, Wei Dongsheng, was injured by a bookshelf, resulting in multiple soft tissue contusions on his body, but all of them were minor and not fatal. The cause of death was that the aorta in the neck and the trachea were severed by a sharp weapon, causing massive bleeding, and the blood was sucked from the severed end of the trachea into the deep part of the bronchi. and lungs, both hemorrhagic shock and aspiration asphyxia, a combination of several factors led to death.

Some fibrous tissue was found in the nails of the deceased, but no skin tissue was found in it, and these fibrous tissues are very common and are often found in items such as clothes and gloves.In addition, the same fibrous tissue as in the nails of the deceased was also found on the upward side of the fallen bookshelf at the crime scene.

The bloody shoe prints found at the scene, after identification, were left by a type of tourist shoe, size 36, worn by a female, about 1.60 meters tall and weighing about 45 kilograms.The footprints left by it when it left the crime scene were clear, and the steps were evenly spaced.It can be seen that his actions were very calm when he left the scene.

"Is the murderer really a woman? This is fundamentally different from Wei Qiuyuan's previous murder case. But there is one thing that is the same. Judging from the footprints left at the scene, the two murderers of the two murder cases were very nervous when they left the scene." Calm down, and there is no sign of fleeing in a hurry." After Meng Shaohui read the autopsy report, he tried to find some commonalities between the two murders, "After killing the person and leaving the crime scene calmly, the only possibility is that the murderer knew well With the situation in the village, there is no need to worry about being discovered when committing murder at that time, so there is no need to escape. From this point of view, the possibility of the murderer being an outsider from the village is very low, so can the two murders be combined? The murderer of a man and a woman, do they know each other? And why did they choose the people from the Wei family?"

Just thinking of this, Meng Shaohui's thoughts were interrupted by the investigator in charge of investigating Wei Dongsheng's mobile phone number.

"Meng team found that Wei Dongsheng's mobile phone had a call-in record before the incident. The time was 11:31, but the call time was very short, only a dozen seconds. From the time point of view, Wei Dongsheng was killed. The time is very close." The investigator handed me two phone lists.

"Then have you found any information about the call-in number?"

"The number that called Wei Dongsheng's mobile phone was newly opened for use the day before the incident. There are only two usage records, one is a text message and the other is a phone call. The number dialed is Wei Dongsheng's mobile phone, and the text message is from It was sent on the afternoon of the day when the incident happened, and it was also sent to Wei Dongsheng's mobile phone, but the details of the text message could not be found. However, after Wei Dongsheng's death, this number has been shut down. As for the user of this number, it is temporarily impossible to check It is because some numbers of communication companies are sold by dealers, and buying numbers from dealers does not require any registration at all, but we can trace through the dealers of the numbers.”

"Well, on the one hand, send someone to keep watching the mobile phone number, and track it immediately once it is turned on; on the other hand, follow the lead of the number dealer to see if you can find the person who bought the number."

(End of this chapter)