Chapter 1196

"The clue of the art gallery belongs to a breakthrough discovery. The victim's paintings were consigned in the art gallery, so they must have left a series of relevant information. Most importantly, the art gallery should have appraised the consigned paintings, right? This saved the thief a lot of effort."

"Consigned paintings aren't necessarily authentic; it depends on what kind of art gallery it is. Our domestic art galleries, appraisal is appraisal, but they won't guarantee authenticity for you. Some paintings can't be guaranteed authentic."

"Then what's the point of the thief messing around? What's the point of getting a fake painting back?"

"Fake paintings that can make art galleries ambiguous are also worth a lot of money. The key is, what can thieves steal now? Ordinary people don't put much money in their homes, and there aren't many valuable household appliances. Only mobile phones sell well, and they are all placed at the bedside..."

"We like to steal gold jewelry over there."

"Zhang Daqian's paintings can sell for hundreds of thousands even at a 10% discount. It's more cost-effective than stealing jewelry. Gold is okay; jadeite and Hetian jade and the like don't sell for a good price."

"That depends on the level. Some bracelets are still quite easy to sell. We caught people last time through bracelets..."

In the auditorium, they talked about everything, just not logic and reasoning.

To be honest, there are very few people who still engage in reasoning and Sherlock Holmes in this day and age. If one must engage in it, it's also when other means don't work that one gives riddles a nice name.

As for now, just look at how fast Jiang Yuan slides through photos, and you'll know that the so-called other means are playing an amazing role.

Seeing this, Liu Jinghui only said: "Let's sort out this case. Forward analysis is actually relatively simple. The perpetrator first stole from the art gallery. After stealing some paintings from the art gallery, they also stole the art gallery's customer list. Then, they started choosing suitable targets through the customer list."

Liu Jinghui: "In this process, the perpetrator's screening of targets should be quite special. As far as it looks now, the perpetrator has the ability to pick locks but should not have the ability to open safes, so the final theft targets are all paintings, or at least victims whose paintings are partially not in the safe."

Liu Jinghui: "How the perpetrator determines the theft target can actually be considered as an investigation direction..."

At this time, Jiang Yuan stopped the footprint photos he was flipping through, turned his head, and said: "The perpetrator went in once first, felt they could steal it, and then came to steal it the second time."

"Can it be seen from the footprints?" Liu Jinghui was surprised.

"In two of the cases, the footprints were relatively clear, and it can be seen that the footprints overlapped. After the suspect's footprints were covered by the victim's footprints, they covered the victim's footprints again." After Jiang Yuan finished speaking, he specifically added: "The perpetrator entered and exited through the window every time, and the technique of opening the window is very skilled."

"Eh, the suspect entered and exited through the window?" This time it was Li Zeming's turn to be surprised. He opened his phone at the first opportunity to find the photos of the window.

Although he didn't personally participate in this case, after Jiang Yuan named this case, he still quickly read the case files and didn't see obvious traces of entering and exiting the room.

"It is in these two cases." Jiang Yuan turned to whisper a sentence to Wang Chuanxing, and he saw the picture pulled to the front; it was exactly the photo of the window lock taken in the previous case.

Jiang Yuan used the mouse to draw a red circle under the window lock on the spot with color and said: "It's not very obvious. He used an old-fashioned hook to pick the lock. He did it very meticulously, opened it very slowly and seriously, so the traces left were very small. And, I suspect that after he picked the lock on the first day, he would leave a gap for the second day, making it easier to enter the room on the second day."

"Doing it twice every time, really not afraid of trouble." A criminal police officer sitting below frowned, clearly having never encountered this kind of thing.

"There are those old hands who like to treat scouting like a drill." Another criminal police officer nearby said: "The first time, they look at the layout in the room, calculate the value of the objects in the room, and observe the routes of security and patrols, if there are any. The second time, they can enter at a suitable time according to the situation of the first time, and then quickly take things away according to the situation of the last time. It's also convenient to go out carrying big bags and small bags..."

"So complicated?"

"People used to steal things a lot, and they stole them meticulously. Especially those who committed crimes in groups, they would send someone to come and look in advance, and only then decide how many people to come the next day, whether to use a bicycle or a tricycle. At that time, people liked to steal electrical appliances very much. Televisions all had big butts and were heavy as hell; one person couldn't even move them... There are many benefits to running a trip in advance..."

Li Zeming finished looking at the corresponding pictures at this time, but looked at Jiang Yuan with some surprise and said: "So, the perpetrator didn't enter naturally? Our initial judgment..."

"The perpetrator entered the cattle farm naturally." Jiang Yuan interrupted Li Zeming's speculation and said directly: "Connecting with other thefts, the perpetrator should have taken the opportunity to enter the cattle farm during the day of the first day, and after leaving gaps for windows and the like, committed the theft on the night of the second day. Specifically, we can wait until we catch the person and ask during interrogation."

Liu Jinghui nodded slowly, also flipped through the previous case files, and said: "There are traces of lock-picking in homes and clubs where there isn't much reason to enter. The cattle farm is operated externally, so there is an opportunity to enter in advance."

"Possible."

"In that case, we previously investigated the people who entered and exited the cattle farm before the theft, and it seems none of them match the footprints at the scene."

"Maybe it's a crime committed by multiple people. We can compare with the investigated personnel of other cases." Liu Jinghui listened to their discussion and gave a small inference, but looked at Jiang Yuan helplessly and asked: "Can you determine the identity of the suspect here?"

Jiang Yuan coughed twice and said: "There are two suspects."

"Two people?"

"Um, through the footprints, we can confirm the age and height of the suspect, and then combined with the data in the database, we can confirm one of the male suspects, 50-year-old Li Zaicheng, an antique dealer, who was sentenced to 2 years 10 years ago for forgery."

Liu Jinghui smiled "knowingly." Since the identity of one suspect was determined, there was nothing to investigate about the identity of the other person, whether through call records and chat software, or through ticket information, accommodation information, etc. There are too many ways to investigate the companion of a suspect.

The police officers in the auditorium were also clear-minded and followed their hearts.

Although they knew it was very likely that Jiang Yuan had found the result, the result appeared so vividly, and everyone's passion dissipated by more than half.

At this time, they heard Jiang Yuan say: "The lock-picking method of the second suspect is relatively special. I checked the database and locked onto a 52-year-old male suspect, Yang Huaizhen, released from prison 3 years ago, who is good at hook lock-picking. The lock-picking method and characteristics are consistent."

Liu Jinghui turned his head: "No... you also used two clues to check this?"

"Just a matter of convenience." Jiang Yuan, Wei Shiyan sat up straight and shouted: "Wei Shiyan, talk about your analysis of the surveillance."

"Oh... okay!" Wei Shiyan agreed hurriedly, picked up his notebook, and began to speak. Although it was of no use, it was also an excellent training.

(End of chapter)