No.14 Disciple: Death Puzzle

Chapter 1 Dilemma
The next day, at nine thirty three in the morning.Xijing City Public Security Bureau, Interrogation Room of the Criminal Investigation Brigade.The man wearing glasses had a pale face, dry cheeks, drooping eyelids behind the lenses, and a cold attitude.Sitting with his hands handcuffed at one end of a metal table, he looked mockingly at the opposite policeman with his head down.

Luo Gang, the captain of the criminal investigation team, was sitting at the other end of the metal table.Looking at the suspect in front of him, Luo Gang pretended to be calm, but his heart was already surging.

At this time, all the attention of Xijing City was focused on the Criminal Investigation Brigade, and the detection of the case was imminent.After all, the rainy night serial murder case has brought panic to the citizens of Xijing City. If the murderer has surrendered and the case has not progressed, it will undoubtedly make the public doubt the detection ability of the public security department.At the same time, due to concerns that the rainy night serial murder case will continue to ferment in the society, the higher-level public security department attaches great importance to the case.

In Luo Gang's career as a criminal police officer, he has seen many suspects who surrendered after committing murder.But the behavior of the suspect who surrendered in front of him really caught the entire criminal investigation team by surprise.

The case has to start more than a month ago.For more than a month, serial murders have occurred in Xijing City.

The first case happened on a rainy night in late spring and early summer, when the rain in late spring was cold and cold.A young couple had an argument and were entangled in a narrow alley.In order to shake off the boy's hand pulling her arm, the girl struggled to break free and suddenly tripped over something under her feet.The moment the car lights flickered, she saw clearly that it was the dead body of a man wearing a raincoat and stabbed in the abdomen.

The police arrived at the scene quickly. According to the forensic examination, the victim was a male in his 30s. The knife in his abdomen was a fatal wound, and the death time did not exceed half an hour.The most incredible thing is that the corpse's head was covered with underwear, and this underwear belonged to the deceased himself.According to the autopsy report, there were no scratches on the buttocks of the corpse.Therefore, the underwear on the head of the deceased was not taken off by the murderer after his death, but was coerced by the murderer before his death.

The corpse was fully clothed except for the underpants on the head.The property of the deceased was not taken away, which shows that the murderer did not kill for money.There was no directional evidence left at the scene, and it was raining when the murder occurred. Even if there was evidence, it would have been washed away by the rain.

A week later, another case occurred.A couple who came to Xijing City to do small business were brutally murdered in their rented house.At the time of the crime, the husband was taking a shower in the bathroom, and the wife was sitting in front of the dressing table in the bedroom after taking a bath to take care of her skin.The murderer climbed from the fence on the first floor to the balcony on the second floor and killed her husband first in the bathroom.Then, he came to the bedroom from the bathroom and killed his wife.As in the previous case, the two deceased were stabbed in the abdomen and their underwear was put on their heads.Since the case happened in the middle of the night, the neighbors did not hear any abnormal sounds, no fingerprints or hairs were left at the scene, and the shoe prints were wiped clean by the murderer.

No property was lost in the deceased's home, and the 3 yuan cash in the male deceased's purse, which was used to purchase goods the next day, was not lost.The female deceased showed no signs of being sexually assaulted, which shows that the murderer did not do it for money, let alone for sex.

Two cases, three lives.The same information was left at the scene to prove that it was the same murderer.Just when the entire Criminal Investigation Brigade was feeling helpless about these two cases, two similar cases occurred in succession.

In the third case, an aunt who had retired for many years went home alone after dancing in the square, and was killed in the bushes by the murderer who followed her while passing through the park.The deceased had his underwear on his head, otherwise he was dressed neatly, and was stabbed in the abdomen.Although none of the belongings on her body were lost, the aunt was afraid of the cold, and a silk scarf tied around her neck to protect against the evening wind disappeared.The fourth case was the last time the murderer committed the crime.That night, a female white-collar worker of a certain company ran alone at night after get off work. The female white-collar worker was careful, and the night running routes she chose were all near residential areas and streets with lights. Community walls.That night, the murderer lurked behind the garbage bins and piles of debris under the wall, robbed the female white-collar worker, and forced her to come to a dark corner under the wall to kill her.The deceased also had his underwear on his head.

Since the first case happened on a rainy night, this series of cases is called "Rainy Night Serial Murder".Just as the police were at a loss, the murderer suddenly surrendered.

At [-]:[-] pm yesterday, the suspect Guo Keji brought the silk scarf worn by the deceased in the third case to the Municipal Public Security Bureau and surrendered himself.At the same time, reporters from various media outlets in Xijing City waited in front of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, and captured suspect Guo Keji's surrender process.According to what I learned afterwards, these media outlets all received anonymous clue emails the night before, saying that at [-]:[-] p.m. the next day, there would be important news clues about the rainy night serial murder case in front of the Xijing City Public Security Bureau.

The criminal suspect, Guo Keji, male, 35 years old, single, employee of a real estate company, confessed to the fact of committing the crime.The police immediately launched an investigation into the suspect Guo Keji's work unit, rented apartment, and interpersonal relationship. The investigation found that the suspect Guo Keji was from other places, his parents died early, he was low-key, had few friends, and simple social relationships.During the interrogation, the suspect never mentioned the motive of committing the crime. As for the key to solving the case-the murder weapon, he even played tricks.

Yesterday afternoon, the suspect Guo Keji confessed that he discarded the murder weapon at the garbage disposal site in Xijing City.So the police immediately took Guo Keji to the garbage disposal site and asked him to identify the location of the discarded murder weapon, but after arriving at the scene, Guo Keji immediately changed his mind and said: "The garbage is all the same, how can I remember where it was thrown? You just rummage through it." Look for it, I'm sure you'll find it."

So the police launched a blanket search in the garbage dump to find the murder weapon discarded by the suspect.However, after a night of searching, the murder weapon could not be found in the stinking garbage dump.

In the early hours of the morning, the suspect Guo Keji confessed again, saying that he had discarded the murder weapon in an unknown river.The police took the suspect to the unnamed river again to identify him, but Guo Keji's words were still the same, he forgot where exactly, the river was all the same, he only remembered that he sank the murder weapon into the bottom of the river.After several hours of salvage and search, there was still no trace of the murder weapon.

According to the police's investigation, near the garbage disposal site and this unnamed river, there were indeed eyewitnesses who said they saw the suspect Guo Keji appearing the morning before.

Luo Gang has already realized that the suspect in front of him is different from the ones he has contested before, and there seems to be an extremely complicated reason for his surrender.

"Captain Luo," Guo Keji finally said, "Maybe I'm not the murderer at all?"Luo Gang frowned slightly, but did not answer. "I think, you must have investigated me, and you must know that I don't know these victims at all, let alone have any problems. Why should I kill them?" "The silk scarf you brought when you surrendered, It was worn by the deceased in the third case, and the blood of the deceased was found on the silk scarf..." "Maybe, I picked it up in the trash can?" "If I'm not the murderer, what should I do, Captain Luo?" As he spoke, Guo Keji raised his hand slightly and shook the handcuffs in front of his face.Guo Keji directly poked at the predicament in front of him, and there was no direct evidence related to him left at all the crime scenes.Although the silk scarf stained with the victim's blood was brought by Guo Keji when he surrendered, it did not directly prove that he was the murderer.Moreover, the cunning Guo Ke himself has not revealed any details related to the case since his arrest—details that only the murderer and the police know.

The higher-ups have already spoken, and the rainy night serial murder case has caused panic. At this time, the suspect Guo Keji surrendered himself under the attention of the media. All eyes in Xijing City are fixed on the criminal investigation team.If the case cannot be solved within three days, no matter what the final result is, the adverse effects it brings will be no different from failure.

"Captain Luo, whether I am a murderer or not depends entirely on my mouth?" Facing Guo Keji's aggressive attitude, Luo Gang was at a disadvantage no matter what he answered.What Guo Keji said is correct, if no evidence directly related to him can be found, if he retracts his confession, all the hard work of this day and night will be in vain.And the Criminal Investigation Brigade being played around by the suspects will also become a disgrace to the police and a laughing stock of the public.

Luo Gang couldn't wait any longer, he got up calmly and walked out of the interrogation room. "Captain Luo, if I'm really the murderer, why would I retract my confession? Now that my confession has been retracted, why should I turn myself in?" Guo Keji looked at Luo Gang's back and sneered.

After Luo Gang came to the corridor, he quickly took out his mobile phone and dialed a number: "Xiao Zhuo, has anyone been found?"

(End of this chapter)