Chapter 108: Suspicion

"A hair was found in the deceased's mouth. From the hair quality, it should have belonged to a female." Old Zheng said.

"Ah?! What do you mean, how can it still have belonged to?" Hu Jinquan asked hurriedly.

Zheng Guogiang rolled his eyes at him, as if to say why his reaction was so slow: "This hair strand indeed belongs to a female, but this is a processed hair. In other words, it came from a wig!"

Hu Jinquan smacked his lips, nodded, and took the file bag: "Thanks, Old Zheng! I know! Hmph, this case will soon be cleared up! Let's go, let's go, we have to take action immediately!"

Saying this, he pulled Old Zheng back to the criminal police brigade office and gathered everyone for a case analysis meeting.

Hu Jinquan told everyone about Old Zheng's test results, and divided the criminal police participating in the investigation of this case into several groups: one group to investigate Hou Hongbo's social relations, especially who he had conflicts with recently; the second group to investigate the social relations of the taxi driver Gong Zheng; the third group to search for wig sales points in the city and check sales records; the fourth group to check the source of the text message received by Hou Hongbo's mobile phone that night.

After several groups of people started the investigation from all aspects, Hu Jinquan thought that the matter of how the murderer appeared on the ditch embankment without leaving a trace had not been figured out, so he pulled Old Zheng and criminal police officer Xiao Fang to the crime scene again.

The surveillance near the crime scene had already been checked, from the two hours before Hou Hongbo's accident to the surveillance at the scene after they went out.

Why did they look at this time period? According to Hu Jinquan, this flood drainage ditch was next to the chemical plant family quarters on one side and the main road on the other. Although there were many Populus euphratica trees planted on both sides of the ditch, it was now the cold winter season, and only bare branches were left on the trees. If someone stayed near the ditch embankment for a long time, it would definitely be clear at a glance, so he inferred that the murderer knew Hou Hongbo was eating supper out at night, analyzed his inevitable path home, and chose to take action here, which could just create the illusion that he was drunk and fell into the water ditch and drowned.

And checking the scene after they went out was based on the habit of most criminals to watch after committing a crime.

This check made his head big. The flood drainage ditch, which was unobstructed in the picture, had not found anyone appearing before Hou Hongbo's accident!

Hu Jinquan had never figured out what method the murderer used to appear at the scene without leaving a trace. So, he pulled the meticulous Old Zheng and came to the edge of the flood drainage ditch again. Several people carefully investigated again along the place where Hou Hongbo's corpse was found.

Suddenly Old Zheng pointed to a piece of moss on the edge of the ditch: "Old Hu, look, this piece of moss has obvious traces of being rubbed!"

Hu Jinquan leaned over to look upon hearing this: "It really is, was this there last night?"

Old Zheng looked carefully at the rubbing traces on the moss: "This is not a rubbing trace that just appeared, it should have been left last night!"

"Oh?" Hu Jinquan said: "Could it be that the murderer really came from the water? By the way!" Hu Jinquan suddenly shouted: "I know! I know! It must be like this!"

Old Zheng still looked at him with a straight face, and only said after he finished shouting: "What did you think of?"

"Go, go back, look at the surveillance again!"

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The surveillance had already been copied. Hu Jinquan and several others gathered in front of the computer. Hu Jinquan pointed to the flood drainage ditch screen that appeared on the screen: "Look, the surveillance only captured the green isolation belt and the ditch embankment. The scene on the water surface of the flood drainage ditch couldn't be seen at all!"

Everyone looked, and indeed, everyone focused on the ditch embankment. The water surface was not without consideration, but they felt it was impossible to come from the water, but now it seemed that this was a huge oversight!

"The opposite bank of the flood drainage ditch is the chemical plant family quarters. There is no surveillance there, but the ditch embankment is narrow, and if an adult appears, it is also easy to be noticed."

"We are now checking the blind spot of the surveillance from the upstream of the flood drainage ditch. If my inference is not wrong, the murderer should be a man disguised as a woman, tall and strong, and he has a water transport tool like a kayak." Hu Jinquan analyzed.

"Hu Ge, I can understand that the murderer is a man disguised as a woman, but if he is a tall and strong man, wouldn't Hou Hongbo see it at a glance?" Criminal police officer Xiao Fang asked.

"Hmph, hmph!" Hu Jinquan hummed twice and said confidently: "The water surface of the flood drainage ditch is more than one meter lower than the ditch embankment, and there are no street lights here at night. It can only be illuminated by the lights on the road 10 meters away, so the vision is not good. Plus the deceased was in a drunken state at the time, he didn't distinguish that the woman was a man at all."

"Of course, there is another important factor in this, which is that the text message sent to the deceased greatly tempted the deceased, making the deceased fall into the water face down in a state of lust, and when he rushed toward the beauty he thought was there, he stepped into the air. And when he rushed toward the other party, he touched the other party's wig. Unintentionally, or maybe the deceased opened his mouth wide in excitement and inhaled the perfume smell from the other party, leading to a hair being inhaled into his mouth."

"So from a certain angle, the deceased was indeed falling into the water by himself, but according to the taxi driver, the deceased only got out of the car for 5 or 6 minutes before he went down to find the deceased. I don't deny the truth of this sentence. He wouldn't lie here, because as an old driver, he clearly knew that the place where the deceased got out of the car would be captured by surveillance, so what he said was the truth. But why did I ask people to check the situation of this driver? The reason is that he was lying later!"

Hu Jinquan looked at the crowd listening to his reasoning seriously, and couldn't help but feel a bit proud. Now as long as they found out who had a grudge against Hou Hongbo recently and who sent him a text message at that time last night, the murderer would basically surface. And that driver, Hu Jinquan believed, must also have something to do with this Hou Hongbo!

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At this time, at Wanguo Hotel, Huang Li saw that it had passed noon today, and she didn't see that batch of "special" guests coming again. She let out a long sigh of relief and remembered the words of her boss Zhang Xiaoya, thinking: Could it be? But she immediately dismissed this idea!

At this time, she saw the front office manager running in with a look of panic: "General Manager Huang, a few police officers are looking for you! The plainclothes kind!"

Huang Li remembered the idea she had just had, and her heart skipped a beat. Before she could speak, she saw two people walking in with serious expressions. ===== CHAPTER 109 =====