Chapter 1000: Special Case

Yu Li Xiang carried a briefcase of case files and walked quickly into the conference room where the "Jiang Yuan Cold Case Special Team" was located.

This conference room is on the top floor and is only used when the Criminal Investigation Detachment forms a larger special investigation team. Yu Li Xiang has also participated in such special investigation teams several times, and the memories are still fresh.

In the conference room, there were people talking on the phone, having small meetings, clacking keyboards, drinking milk tea, and spinning pens while tapping on tables, feeling quite chaotic.

The police officer at the door glanced at Yu Li Xiang's police uniform and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

Yu Li Xiang hurriedly said, "I am Yu Li Xiang from the 712 Special Investigation Team, here to find Team Leader Jiang Yuan."

"In the very back." The police officer pointed and sat back in his seat.

The access control for entering and exiting the Criminal Investigation Detachment itself is very strict, and there are no complicated procedures like checking IDs inside; just swipe the card to open the door.

Yu Li Xiang took a deep breath, stepped forward, and found Jiang Yuan's seat.

"Team Leader Jiang!" Yu Li Xiang recognized Jiang Yuan at a glance. This person's fame is at its peak; in the last few days, everyone has been spreading the news about Jiang Yuan's three lines converging.

Although in Jiang Yuan's view, he just followed normal operations and pushed the case forward in a plain and simple way, in the eyes of the plain and simple police officers, Jiang Yuan releasing three lines and all three lines hitting the mark was also very commendable.

In fact, releasing three lines and then, due to various reasons, having all three lines fail to advance is the most common investigation mode.

Constantly pulling out threads and constantly having them break is the daily routine of criminal police investigations.

Moreover, it is precisely because Jiang Yuan's investigation plan was very plain and simple that everyone's understanding was exceptionally thorough.

Just like Yu Li Xiang, at this moment, he can also immediately recall the sketch Jiang Yuan drew and the mobilization of a large number of police forces to determine the location where the body entered the water through diatoms.

Similar operations, he could also do if he sought out experts, but to want to do it this well—the key is, if you spend a lot of money to bring in experts and you can't keep up with the follow-up, that would be too difficult to explain.

Yu Li Xiang is a relatively young criminal police officer; if calculated by his entry into the job, it's only been a little over 10 years. In a unit like the Criminal Investigation Detachment, at this age, even if he is already a detachment captain, it is very difficult to have the opportunity to be responsible for a major case.

And the reason he can lead the 712 Special Investigation Team is that the 712 Special Investigation Team was initially only responsible for investigating a child disappearance case. It was Yu Li Xiang who, during the investigation, successively discovered that besides the Cuigang County under Qingshi City's jurisdiction having child disappearances, there were also child disappearances in the counties and towns of neighboring cities, which then led to merging the cases and forming the current large special investigation team.

But Yu Li Xiang also clearly felt that his ability was not equal to his ambition.

This is not only because the process of case investigation encountered countless difficulties, but there is also a large amount of personnel management work that Yu Li Xiang is not very good at. Besides this, the pressure brought by the families of the missing children is what makes Yu Li Xiang the most anxious.

Because of this, Yu Li Xiang started applying for Jiang Yuan to intervene in this case a week ago.

Now that it has been approved, Yu Li Xiang is even a bit impatient.

"Detachment Captain Yu, sit down first. I'll finish looking at this fingerprint because I've already promised someone. We might not have time to look at it after our special investigation starts, so I'll do it first." Jiang Yuan said while clicking on the computer screen.

"You do it first, I'm not in a hurry." Yu Li Xiang's eyes glanced over and saw Jiang Yuan's phone lit up, talking to "Director Wan Baoming."

Yu Li Xiang sifted through his mind and realized that Director Wan Baoming should be the director of the Criminal Science and Technology Center of the Changyang Municipal Bureau.

For criminal police officers in prefecture-level cities like them, the Criminal Science and Technology Center in the provincial capital is also a place they often deal with. Samples they can't handle and tests they can't get done are often sent there to be done.

And Yu Li Xiang doesn't even need to look at Jiang Yuan's chat content to guess that it must be that Wan Baoming has encountered a difficult problem.

Yu Li Xiang couldn't help but imagine in his mind the feeling of being able to produce results that provincial capital experts couldn't; he didn't know what kind of case it was.

"Our case, what step is it at now?" Jiang Yuan matched the fingerprint, fed the result back to Wan Baoming, said a few words on WeChat, and then turned to Yu Li Xiang.

Yu Li Xiang hurriedly stood up and stood at attention, saying: "We are currently mainly starting from the suspect's means of transport and method of transportation."

Jiang Yuan nodded: "Any results?"

Yu Li Xiang said decisively: "Not a single result."

"Hmm..." Jiang Yuan didn't expect to get such a resounding negative result.

"All five cases occurred in townships, with no surveillance conditions." Yu Li Xiang stood straight and said: "The criminals all chose young children under 5 years old. Among the five young children, four were left-behind children, and the other one was usually taken by the mother, but just happened to return to the old hometown and was looked after by the grandmother, and was unfortunately abducted."

"In other words, the criminals specifically screened the caregivers? Prioritizing left-behind children, or children taken by the elderly?" Jiang Yuan started to gradually enter the role.

"Yes, we think so too." Yu Li Xiang continued: "Because in the several villages involved in the case, there were basically only elderly people, so finding eyewitnesses didn't go smoothly. They were all elderly, their eyesight wasn't good, and their thinking was relatively slow..."

"What about checkpoints and such? Did they capture any corresponding photos?"

"No." Yu Li Xiang paused and then said: "Through understanding with the parents and young children of the attempted case, we believe that the criminals are very likely driving a gray van to commit the crime. There should be two people in the car, one responsible for driving and one responsible for abduction, and the speed is very fast."

"How was the attempted case caused?"

Yu Li Xiang showed the case files he brought to Jiang Yuan and said: "At that time, the criminal got out of the car and told the child playing in front of the door that uncle had some chocolate he wanted to give you, and then wanted to hold the child's hand. At that time, the child's grandmother just happened to come out, and with a loud shout, scared the person away."

"Did the grandmother not see the criminal and the vehicle?"

"She saw them, but her eyesight wasn't good; she only knew it was a gray van and didn't see the suspect's face clearly." Yu Li Xiang said, looking at Jiang Yuan, seeing that he seemed quite easy to talk to, so he said: "I think this last attempted case should have alerted the enemy. The criminals originally committed crimes at a frequency of one case every one to two weeks. After the attempted case, they haven't committed any more crimes for over a month."

Jiang Yuan had also read the files in the computer system, recalled, and said: "The criminals are hitting and running, committing one crime per county?"

"Five cases, plus the attempted case, a total of six cases, belonging to 6 different counties, 4 different cities, and two different provinces. Moreover, the crime scenes are all very remote townships." Yu Li Xiang said this, slightly raised his chin, and said: "I accidentally heard during the case handling that there were people on the street selling children, and the price was relatively low, and they were all three or four-year-old children. After I became suspicious and went to investigate, I discovered the similarities in these cases."

Jiang Yuan nodded slowly, but at this time asked: "What kind of help do you think is needed to solve this case?"

"Me?" Yu Li Xiang pointed to his own nose in surprise.

"Correct."

"I..." Yu Li Xiang couldn't say he hadn't thought about this question. After a moment, he said dejectedly: "I feel it's very difficult for me to solve this case; there are no clues and evidence is lacking."

"Is that so." Jiang Yuan immediately had a new understanding of the difficulty of the case. In fact, a criminal police officer with 10 years of experience, who can stand out in a major city like the Qinghe Municipal Criminal Investigation Detachment and be a detachment captain responsible for a special investigation team, has a level of criminal investigation that is only stronger than his, not weaker.

If the two were compared to armies, Yu Li Xiang is at least a battle-hardened elite of a relatively strong ancient dynasty, and the kind with relatively good innate conditions, similar to something like the Tang Dynasty's Mo Dao team. Jiang Yuan, in terms of strength and training, cannot compete with him; he just has more high-end technical weapons, at most just an armored regiment.

But no matter what type of army, marching or searching for enemies, or resisting the environment, they will still face similar problems.

"If you don't mind, I'd like to invite criminal police officers from several other counties to discuss it together?" Jiang Yuan proposed a slightly super-high question.

Yu Li Xiang hurriedly said: "I don't mind. I don't mind!"

How could he mind? He just couldn't do this point before.

Jiang Yuan thought for a moment and then said: "If it involves two provinces, it wouldn't be appropriate for me to come forward. Let's ask the provincial department to coordinate."

After saying that, Jiang Yuan flipped through his phone.

Yu Li Xiang suddenly felt a bit sorry for himself; this resource is simply not on the same level! ===== CHAPTER 1001 =====