Chapter 4 Chapter 2 "The Whore Killer"

Changtian City, with a permanent population of more than 1 million, is the prefecture-level city with the smallest population in Dongliao Province.Over the years, due to the limited geographical location and resources, urban construction and economy have been in a state of slow development and backwardness. Compared with some surrounding cities that are developing rapidly and changing rapidly, this small town seems to be a forgotten corner, revealing the vicissitudes of life. feel. Gu Feifei and his party arrived in the evening, and regardless of the fatigue of the journey, they immediately held a meeting with the special case team to listen to the case briefing and the latest investigation progress.

The case happened in the early morning of April 7 (Sunday). A taxi driver found a female body when he was clearing his hand at an alley, and immediately called the police. The deceased, Tang Qian, was 26 years old, a lady sitting in a karaoke hall.The autopsy report showed that there was a dragging injury on the leg and a severe fracture of the cheekbone on the right side of the face. The time of death was one hour before the body was found.Judging from the right-to-left circular knife edge on the neck, the murderer committed the crime from behind and was left-handed.The short skirt of the deceased was torn to the waist, the lower abdomen was cut open with a sharp instrument, the large intestine was pulled to the right shoulder, and the uterus and two kidneys were cut away.Judging from the wound and blood flow, it was a postmortem incision. The murder weapon can be determined to be a serrated single-edged knife about 30 cm long. The hard object that hit the cheekbone was confirmed to come from a round blunt instrument after repeated tests. No evidence of the murderer was found in all the evidence...

Corresponding to the backward urban development, the social atmosphere of Changtian City is relatively conservative and closed, with simple folk customs and good public security. Such a brutal murder case can be said to be rare in decades.Immediately after the incident, the Municipal Public Security Bureau set up a task force named "4.7" case. The chief of the bureau personally served as the team leader, and the deputy team leader was Wu Bin, the captain of the criminal police. Wu Bin then introduced the entire investigation thinking after the establishment of the task force: "In view of the fact that the murderer did not take any property with him when he fled the crime scene, the motive of robbery was first ruled out; and after analyzing the behavioral characteristics of the murderer who cut up the corpse after the murder, the task force believed that it was an act of venting anger, so it was judged that the case may be A love murder or vendetta murder case, so a large number of police forces were deployed to investigate the social relationship of the deceased, but so far no valuable clues have been found. At present, the case has caused a very bad impact on this city. There are many rumors in the society, and the atmosphere of panic is getting stronger ..."

When Wu Bin said this, Gu Feifei, who had been listening for a long time, suddenly interrupted: "According to the rules, shouldn't the media avoid cases that affect stability?" "It has nothing to do with the mainstream media, and the news came from the Internet with relatively loose supervision." Wu Bin explained in detail, "About a week after the incident, a post suddenly appeared on the forum of a portal website in this city. The person who posted the post claimed to be ' The murderer of the 4.7' case. We have no doubt that this post was made by the murderer, because he described the tragedy of the deceased in detail in the post, which is information that we have never released to the public. What worries us even more is that the murderer wrote in the post Threatened to continue to kill, which is why we asked for support."

"Have you traced the source of the post?" Gu Feifei asked. "After checking, the post was sent from a computer in an Internet cafe near the murder scene, but no one could provide the information of the person who posted it," Wu Bin said. "Aren't Internet cafes all monitored?" Gu Feifei asked again. "It's broken." Wu Bin replied. "Broken? How could it be such a coincidence?" Ai Xiaomei asked after her. "Actually, it's not a coincidence. People who often go to Internet cafes know that the cameras in some Internet cafes are basically just decorations. The bosses either turn them off or deliberately break them, because there are many minors surfing the Internet in Internet cafes. They are afraid Leave evidence." Wu Bin explained.

... At the end of the meeting, Wu Bin tried to talk to the colleagues in the support team, but Gu Feifei declined on the grounds that she had eaten on the plane, and she urged Wu Bin to go to the scene of the crime for on-the-spot investigation. The crime took place under the jurisdiction of Yushan Sub-district, located in the west district of the city, where low-income earners and migrants live most densely in Changtian City.Looking around, the neighborhood is a desolate scene.The low and dilapidated buildings, the rough streets, and the overgrown square made Gu Feifei and others who had just arrived from the big city feel as if they had traveled back to the 1970s and 1980s—this place is a veritable slum.

The scene of the crime was at the entrance of an alley, surrounded by dozens of narrow bungalows that looked like square boxes. The row of houses next to the street were various stores, most of which seemed to be closed down, with crooked signboards and abandoned interiors. with.The alley intersects with a main road that can pass four cars at the same time. The scenery on the other side of the road is completely different.Through the glass window, under the flashing neon lights, some scantily clad girls can be vaguely seen walking inside, and the deceased in the case was once one of them. Gu Feifei was standing at the entrance of the alley and looking around, when suddenly a familiar figure walked out from the depths of the alley, which really surprised her - she hadn't seen him for a long time, he didn't change much, but he was a little thinner, and the bridge of his nose It was still the pair of black thick-rimmed glasses, and his signature gentle smile was on his face as always, and the indifference and gentleness revealed in the slightly melancholy eyes looked so familiar.

right!What Gu Feifei saw was Han Yin!I thought he would arrive the next day, but I didn't expect to meet him at the scene of the crime.It turned out that after Han Yin and Gu Feifei talked on the phone, they immediately contacted the leader to coordinate the work, and then rushed to the airport to catch the nearest flight.The journey was very smooth, the planes took off and landed on time, and on the contrary, they arrived in Nagata a while earlier than Gu Feifei and others who were delayed at the airport due to temporary air traffic control.After he got off the plane, he called Gu Feifei's cell phone and found that she was turned off. Guessing that she might still be on the plane, he simply took a taxi to the scene of the crime.

Gu Feifei, who is arrogant and unruly, meets Han Yin, who is introverted and calm, and it is doomed that it will be difficult for them to express their true emotions at any time, especially in front of everyone.So when we reunited after a long absence, there was only a momentary gaze and a simple handshake. Gu Feifei introduced Han Yin to the team members and Wu Bin, greeted each other for a while, and then started the crime simulation.During the simulation, Gu Feifei introduced to Han Yin the specific identity of the deceased and the circumstances of the suspected murderer's postings on the Internet.

In this case, based on the results of the autopsy and the location of the scene, the scene of the crime can be easily restored: the deceased was walking on the side of the street, followed by the murderer. The murderer was hit on the right cheek and passed out; the murderer then dragged him to the entrance of the alley and cut his throat, cut up the corpse when he completely stopped breathing, and finally fled the scene with the severed organs... However, such a seemingly simple restoration process revealed complex case characteristics: 1. The murderer had sufficient time, but did not commit sexual assault on the deceased; 2. The method of committing the crime was to use lightning strikes to make the deceased incapacitated, and then cut the throat; 3. The location of the crime was chosen without concealment; Fifth, there is a tendency to take away the organs of the deceased as spoils of war.

After listening to Han Yin's summary of the characteristics of the murderer, Wu Bin asked anxiously: "So, how should we interpret these characteristics?" "Yes, yes! Teacher Han, what did you analyze?" Ai Xiaomei and Du Yingxiong couldn't help but echo in unison. It seems that these two children have long forgotten Gu Feifei's advice. Seeing Gu Feifei staring fiercely, Han Yin smiled perfunctorily, lest she get angry in front of Wu Bin, and then said: "First, from the method of committing the crime, two points can be interpreted: the 'lightning attack' indicates that the murderer is a stranger to the deceased, and cutting the throat looks a bit like a ritual - the murderer can use a blunt instrument to directly smash the deceased to death , but it took a process, showing that cutting his throat was an act he had to resort to in the murder. "Secondly, the murderer used round blunt weapons and knives respectively in the crime, and except for the dismemberment scene, there were no splashes of blood around, indicating that the murderer had also prepared containers for the murder weapon and organs in advance, so we can see It can be seen that this is a well-premeditated crime. "Third, the bloodstains show that the first corpse was dismembered at the entrance of the alley, and I just walked a little deeper into the alley, and found that there were no fingers to be seen inside, and few people passed by, so why didn't the murderer go deep in the hidden alley?" Instead of disposing of the corpse, why not choose an alley that might be witnessed? There may also be two reasons for this: one is that the murderer was in a state of madness at the time, which means that he may have some kind of mental illness; the other point is that it is possible It was also a ritual behavior, which he did on purpose. "Fourth, based on the lack of rape, corpse abuse, and organ collection, the murderer should be a pervert. Such cruel killings may be to satisfy his perverted sexual fantasies. "Fifth, the murderer revealed his identity through the Internet, the purpose is obviously to attract attention, to show that he is an unremarkable person in reality, and he gains a sense of identity by provoking the police. This behavior is characterized in the 'history' of abnormal crimes. superior……" In fact, what Han Yin wanted to say was "very common in the history of perverted crimes", but when he said the word "history", a picture suddenly flashed in his mind, and then he stopped talking and pointed his index finger Pushing the glasses, staring blankly into the distance... Han Yin's conversation stopped abruptly, and Wu Bin, who didn't know what to say, naturally urged him to continue talking, but he was about to express something, but was stopped by Gu Feifei raising his hand - she was too familiar with Han Yin's gesture, when When it appeared, it often meant that he had found a key clue, and she didn't want Wu Bin to interrupt his train of thought. "Captain Wu, let's come here first today, and we will discuss some situations tomorrow." After a long silence, Han Yin said to Wu Bin lightly, and then walked towards the police car without any explanation.Although the crowd was a little puzzled by Monk Zhang Er, they had no choice but to keep up. Wu Bin sent several people to the guest house, distributed the room keys to each of them, and left. The four lived on the same floor, and the rooms were next to each other. Han Yin opened the door, shook his head, motioned to everyone, and said, "Come to my room, all of you." Entering the room, Han Yin went straight to the writing desk, unloaded the backpack, took out the laptop from inside, started it, and then opened the self-built "Case Database" to browse. Waiting silently for him to answer the question. In fact, Han Yin had a sense of deja vu when he first saw the case materials, as if he had seen the same modus operandi in some previous case, but he couldn't remember it for a while.When talking about the history of abnormal crimes at the scene, he suddenly realized that this was a "imitation crime", but at that time he felt that it was necessary to check the details of the case carefully before announcing it to everyone. After swiping the mouse silently for a while, Han Yin turned around and said to Ai Xiaomei: "Xiaomei, the reason why you want to be a criminal policeman in the support team is not influenced by some film and television dramas and crime novels?" "Ah, Mr. Han, you are so godly, how did you know?" Ai Xiaomei said in surprise, "I really like reading crime novels, especially those about serial killers." "Let me talk about a few characteristics. Think about where you have seen them." Han Yin smiled and continued, "This is a serial murder case that happened more than a hundred years ago, and the place where the crime took place is a famous local slum ; The murderer chose to commit the crimes on Saturday and Sunday evening or early morning; the victims were all prostitutes; the murderer was a left-handed man; Throats were also dissected and organs were taken away; and in the middle of the series of crimes, letters were sent to newspapers to provoke." As soon as Han Yin finished speaking, Ai Xiaomei was thinking hard, Gu Feifei frowned, and blurted out: "You should be talking about the serial murder of prostitutes that happened near Whitechapel in London's East End in 1888, right?" "That's right! Isn't our case a replica of the 'Whitechapel Murder'? Could it be that the murderer is a fan of 'Jack the Ripper'?" Under Gu Feifei's call, Ai Xiaomei suddenly realized, and then said excitedly. Han Yin nodded and said: "There is such a possibility. Although 'Jack the Ripper' is not the 'first serial killer' in the true sense, he is indeed the first serial killer to be noticed by Western society and the whole world. It can be said that He is synonymous with serial killers. In some anti-social personality groups, he is a hall-level criminal, and he has many fans today." "If it's an imitation crime, and the murderer's criminal behavior is only carried out in the way of 'Jack the Ripper', not his own unique state, then we analyze his behavioral characteristics, is it worthless?" Du Yingxiong interjected. "No, of course it is valuable. The so-called traces must be left behind, any behavior has its specific information, even if it is imitation, some may be superficial, while others will go deep into the bone marrow, from which we can infer the murderer's IQ and logical thinking level." Han Yin went on to explain, "In this case, no matter the time, place, method or even the criminal marking behavior, the murderer's imitation of 'Jack the Ripper' can be said to be exactly the same. Any omissions. This shows that the murderer is a person with mature thinking, rigorous personality, and meticulous actions, and his age should be over 30 years old. "In addition, since it is a copycat crime and the murderer deliberately pursues accurate details, it means that the location of the crime, especially the identity of the victim, is specific—it must be a 'prostitute' living in a 'slum area'. It can be inferred that the murderer may have He stepped on the spot repeatedly, and he must have observed the deceased at a close distance. He knew the identity of the deceased, the approximate time when she got off work, where she lived, and the route she would take to get home. He might even have patronized the deceased, but Not a regular customer. "As for the motive of the crime, there are two possibilities: first, the murderer is a fan of 'Jack the Ripper', eager to gain popularity like an idol; Insulted, or infected with sexually transmitted diseases due to prostitutes, etc. When he wanted to punish them, he decided to adopt the method of the most famous and cruel prostitute killer 'Jack the Ripper'. In short, what we are dealing with is probably a 'The Whore Killer'." Before Han Yin finished speaking, Du Yingxiong hurriedly interjected: "I think the murderer is not as rigorous as we imagined, right? 'Jack the Ripper' mainly operates near the Whitechapel, and there is no place near the place where the '4.7' case took place." Churches, and the former is sending letters to newspapers, while the latter is posting through the Internet.” Without waiting for Han Yin's explanation, Gu Feifei continued: "These two points just prove that the murderer has a very mature thinking and has done a lot of research on the case of 'Jack the Ripper'. He didn't send a letter to the newspaper because he Because he knows very well that with our current system, it is impossible for newspapers to make his letter public, so that he cannot get the attention he expected; and the so-called 'Whitechapel' refers to the East End of London, the Tower of London and An area on the north side of the Port of London, near Whitechapel Street, does not refer to a church." "Oh, so that's the case!" Du Yingxiong nodded vigorously, laughed twice, and said, "Sister Gu, you and Teacher Han really have a good understanding." "It's a match made in heaven! Hehe!" Ai Xiaomei continued. "What nonsense, is it itchy?" Gu Feifei gave her a hard look. "Let's stop here today, it's getting late, everyone hurry back to rest, let's have a further discussion with Wu Bin tomorrow morning." Han Yin ended the conversation in good time in order to resolve the embarrassment between himself and Gu Feifei. At this time, Han Yin thought that he had a clear understanding of the case, but he didn't know that the so-called "prostitute killer" was just the tip of the iceberg, and he would encounter even more mysterious and dangerous murders next!