Chapter 206: Dividing People

Crimes committed by strangers are harder to solve than crimes committed by acquaintances.

Crimes committed by acquaintances can be checked one by one along the address book, and comparisons can be made based on interpersonal relationships; crimes committed by strangers have too many accidental factors.

After being a police officer for a long time, one knows that speculating on a person's behavior is actually a very thankless task. And normal people are also very difficult to predict the behavior of criminals.

Just like the case before them, logically speaking, it should have been done by the deceased's husband.

He had the most reason to kill and the most reason to take the child away. But during the time the victim died, the deceased's husband had just finished eating skewers and was patting his belly and sleeping soundly.

He didn't have to bear any responsibility at all; his cheating wife died, and he didn't have to split the money—the only problem was that the child was lost, so this man's relationship network was also investigated fiercely.

Including the man's parents and brothers, all were key points for police screening.

Unfortunately, there wasn't a single clue. However, to say that this proved the man's family was innocent and clean wasn't very certain either.

Back when the Japanese came to the village to search for food, there were still things they couldn't find. Even such large wounded soldiers could be hidden; from this, it can be inferred that the villagers' technique for hiding things can be very superb.

And if it were changed to a crime committed by a stranger, it would be even harder.

Furthermore, crimes committed by strangers also have points that cannot be explained.

Hou Lejia asked: "If it was a crime committed by a stranger, what did he take the child for?"

"I don't know." Jiang Yuan was too lazy to even guess.

There could be many reasons for taking the child away, but the evidence he had now was only bloodstains, and what he could rely on was only bloodstain analysis.

As for why the stranger took the child?

Maybe because he wanted to sell her. Maybe he was purely a pervert. Maybe he was infertile himself and lacked a child. If Liu Jinghui were called over, maybe there could be a more accurate analysis...

Hou Lejia's eyebrows were wrinkled like the skin of a pug.

Changing the investigation direction not only wasted the previous two days of work, but the biggest problem was the worry that the case couldn't be solved.

As an old criminal police officer, when Hou Lejia saw such a case, what he thought of was a crime committed by an acquaintance.

If it wasn't the husband, it was the lover, or the husband's relatives, or the lover's wife or mistress...

This was still a rural area; put it 10 years ago, and you couldn't find anyone in the whole village who wasn't an acquaintance.

Now, although there were factories, there were several gates between the factories and the village, and each had surveillance watching; although it wasn't very safe, the main reasons were the same: there was no motive, and the victim had no reason to open the door.

Jiang Yuan looked at Hou Lejia's entanglement, shook his head secretly, walked to the door again, and said: "Actually, from here, you can see that the victim was retreating step by step."

"What?" Hou Lejia was still weighing the pros and cons, and his thoughts were pulled away by Jiang Yuan again.

Jiang Yuan simulated the action and said:

"Looking at the direction of the bloodstains, the murderer's knife might have been resting on the victim's neck, or it might have been stabbing like this, so the victim retreated step by step. Look here, there are even footprints..."

"If it were a crime committed by an acquaintance, it would mean the victim knew the murderer; then opening the door would be opening the door, and not opening it would be not opening it. Why, after opening the door, did she retreat step by step instead?"

"So I believe the victim likely heard some noise in the middle of the night, then took the initiative to open the door to look, but was subdued instead, and finally killed."

Hou Lejia also listened, then turned to look at his team's crime scene investigator and asked: "What do you think? About the direction of the bloodstains and so on?"

The crime scene investigators present were all those who had followed Jiang Yuan to do the scavenger elder case a while ago.

Such a case, for ordinary criminal police, was something you did once and remembered for a lifetime.

It wasn't to say that they could only do a case of this difficulty once in their lives. But for a case of such difficulty, the correct way and angle of solving it might be special, unique, and worth bragging about for a lifetime.

Just like bloodstain analysis; 30 years ago, one could still encounter many application scenarios. But in this day and age, in today's environment, the situation was different.

Jiang Yuan's bloodstain analysis was too powerful, so much so that a case like the scavenger elder, which was originally almost impossible to solve directly, was cracked in a short time.

The crime scene investigators present, including the normal LV2-level crime scene investigator and the LV0.6 Hou Xiaoyong, could only play dumb at this moment.

Bloodstain analysis was something a crime scene investigator should know, but if you said it was a required course for crime scene investigators, that was the level of a university required course—I roughly know such a thing exists, and I also know where to find more information, but if your exam questions are out of scope, don't blame me for getting a zero.

Jiang Yuan casually did a scene reconstruction, which was based on LV5 level; Hou Lejia let the Longli County crime scene investigators "feel", but everyone felt they didn't want to "feel".

Jiang Yuan couldn't say that three sentences would make the Longli County Criminal Police Brigade Captain spend 180,000 in case-handling funds for him.

Therefore, Jiang Yuan added information while looking and said:

"The murderer's killing process was relatively rough, but the initial slashing motion was relatively direct. By the way, the murderer used a relatively small dagger, which doesn't look like it was prepared for killing. Either he had never killed anyone, or he had no experience in hacking people."

"Looking at the bloodstains in the bedroom, the crime should have escalated again; the murderer started using stabbing methods, but by this time, his movements were relatively hesitant. Look at the blood here... it can be seen that the murderer actually relaxed his control over the victim at this time, giving the victim a chance to move and escape."

"This also looks more like a crime committed by a stranger, rather than a crime committed by an acquaintance. From my understanding, the murderer mainly focused on intimidating the victim in the initial stage, and it was a very direct, harmful intimidation. When it came to killing in the end, he became hesitant instead... The victim's personality should be relatively hot-tempered and fierce, right?"

Hou Lejia was still immersed in the scene described by Jiang Yuan; he was an old criminal police officer and could also fill in many pictures in his mind.

Hou Xiaoyong said honestly: "I heard from the villagers that the victim should be the fierce woman type..."

"Ahem." Wu Wu Fa Yi Ye was careless, but still sensible, interrupted Hou Xiaoyong's words and said: "The deceased, Wang Huizhi, a local, 28 years old this year. 165cm tall, 70kg, sturdy physique, spoke and acted relatively tough, had a big temper, and often had conflicts with villagers, especially after having a child, she had some relatively extreme behaviors."

"Extreme behaviors?"

"Uh, she threw the child's diapers into her brother-in-law's house, and also threw bags of feces at the neighbor's house next door; she said it was the child's, but the neighbor suspected it was hers. The electricity in the village often tripped, and several neighbors had a lot of complaints because of this... In most conflicts, Wang Huizhi was relatively able to take advantage..."

Wu Wu Fa Yi Ye explained Wang Huizhi's fierce personality in a disguised way, and then added: "It was also because of Wang Huizhi's personality that we thought the probability of a crime committed by an acquaintance in the village would be relatively high."

"If it wasn't a family member, could Blackie sniff it out?" Jiang Yuan suddenly thought he was sold at a dog price.

If it was a crime committed by an acquaintance in the village, this degree of bloodstains would easily leave a smell, and ordinary bathing wouldn't wash it clean.

Hou Lejia said in a deep voice: "Blackie came two days ago, sniffed the village, and sniffed the factory, but there were no results."

"If it was a crime committed by their family, the smell might be confused." Wu Wu Fa Yi Ye said, then added: "Of course, the cannery also has an impact on Blackie's sense of smell."

"I think we can divide some manpower to check the recidivists of theft." Jiang Yuan originally didn't want to directly propose an investigation plan, after all, he was in another county.

But Hou Lejia had been hesitant, which made Jiang Yuan feel a bit unhappy.

If he only checked recidivists, he wouldn't need to turn the whole team around; transferring one squadron of manpower would be more than enough.

For ordinary theft cases, or burglary, they might not even get a third of a squadron.

For a newly occurred homicide case, the diversion of a squadron of manpower was really nothing.

Hou Lejia was indeed poked in his small thoughts, but still somewhat hesitant: "Only check recidivists?"

"The murderer didn't leave a single skin flake or hair; this is a very professional burglar, and he was likely caught before." Jiang Yuan already had a lot of experience in catching thieves.

Most thieves don't have a high level of education. In other words, they rarely learn the knowledge of being a thief by reading books, newspapers, or videos. Most thieves are educated by the social academy and prison university, and they improve themselves through repeated imprisonment.

It can be said that if a thief hasn't been caught, it's very difficult for him to be comprehensive; he doesn't understand, and he doesn't care.

"What about the scope?" Hou Lejia asked: "Mainly around San'an Village?"

"Not necessarily locals; it could also be a wandering criminal." Jiang Yuan then thought of the cases he had done in the past two days and said: "You can check the surrounding burglary cases to see if there is surveillance, footprints, or other evidence brought over; thieves don't just do one case." ===== CHAPTER 207 =====