Chapter 8 Chapter 8: Cases where the murderer cannot be found

"What? Murakoshi hasn't come back yet?" After receiving the call from the investigator, the Nasu Police Department stood up from his seat in astonishment. "He didn't go to work today. I went to the place where he lives - Nakano, and the people there said he didn't come back after going out yesterday morning." Hatakeyama called back from the surveillance scene, his voice a little nervous. Murakoshi had been in the company until he got off work yesterday, since he didn't go back to his residence after get off work, he must have gone somewhere else. It stands to reason that a single young man who occasionally does not return to his residence for one night is not worth making a fuss about.But just when the trick of "tuning the machine" was exposed and the proof that Murakoshi had no time to commit the crime was about to collapse, even if his whereabouts were unknown for one night, it was enough to worry people.

"How's the situation in his room? Does it look like he's traveling somewhere?" Nasu Police Department asked again. If Murakoshi travels somewhere for a few days, he should take his clothes and travel gear with him.But even if he took something, Hatakeyama might not know it. "The furnishings in the house didn't look messy, and I didn't take away the camera or anything. I asked the apartment manager, and he said that Murakoshi didn't look like he was on a business trip when he left yesterday morning." After understanding, I learned that the company where Murakoshi works did not suddenly send him on a business trip, that is to say, he temporarily stayed there overnight after get off work yesterday.

"Where's his car?" "It broke down a few days ago, and it's being repaired at the repair shop!" "Didn't he tell the administrator where he was going?" "No. The administrator is only responsible for collecting rent, and does not ask about the private life of the occupants at all." "Is there no one to call him?" "The telephones in each house are directly connected to the outside world, even if there is a telephone administrator, they don't know about it." Hatakeyama explained to Nasu.He felt that Nasu had treated Murakoshi's residence as an apartment for ordinary citizens, and there, the administrator was also responsible for answering the phone.

"Oh, I see. You've worked hard, just wait there for a while. I'm going to Murakoshi's company right now." Nasu put down the microphone and looked at his watch.It's just after 11 o'clock, and those single men who are drunk and find a place to sleep are likely to come to work at this time with their hair straightened and their eyes dim. Last night, the investigative headquarters had a meeting. At the meeting, Shimoda analyzed Murakoshi's scam, and other detectives talked about the re-investigation and verification of Ishii. The meeting ended very late.This morning, the investigative headquarters sent someone to secretly visit Murakoshi's residence, and only then did he know that he didn't come back last night.At the same time, the headquarters sent someone to their company and found that although it was time for work, he hadn't come yet.

It is impossible for him to know the progress of the investigative headquarters, and even if he knows, there is no need to run away immediately. Time passed by, and Murakoshi neither came to work nor heard from him. It is said that he is a serious employee in the company and has never been late. Nasu felt something was wrong, he had had similar experiences before.When he came to the Tokyo branch of Zhongtai Xingye in Shentai, Caochang and Hexi, who came first, were already waiting there. "come yet?" "No." The two shook their heads. At first, Caochang and Hexi thought it was nothing special, but with the passage of time and the deepening of the investigation, they gradually felt that the situation was serious.

"Hey, what have you learned?" "Murakoshi left the company around 6 o'clock last night. His company's working hours are from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm, and he got off work on time." "Did he behave abnormally when he was off work?" "Nothing unusual, it's just—" "Just what?" "Seems happier than usual." "Happy?" "The people in the office asked him if he was going to the appointment, and he said it's up to you, and then he went out excitedly." "Excited?" Nasu squinted his eyes and touched his chin with his hand, "Murakoshi is excited to go to the appointment, who is the other party?"

"It's Kadowaki Mikiko!" "Maybe there are others, but right now he is most passionately in love with Mikiko." "Kunii died, Yumiba left, and Murakashi seems to have been in frequent contact with Mikiko Kadowaki recently." "Hang up Mikiko and ask her if she was with Murakoshi last night. The other party is a girl, so be careful with your wording when you ask." "Understood." He Xi went to hang up the phone. In fact, they should have hung up the phone and asked Mikiko, but Nasu and the others did need such a period of time to speculate that Mikiko, who had fallen in love with Kuni, spent the night with Murako soon after Kuni's death.It is only recently that Mikiko and Murakoshi have become close, because there is no rival.

Moreover, the pure impression Mikiko left on them also prevented them from speculating on cohabitation.They don't think Mikiko is like a girl who lives with a man rashly before marriage. She thinks that a girl's intimate behavior with a loved one before marriage cannot be connected with a dirty physical relationship. However, the detectives think that Murakoshi's sudden disappearance last night must have been to a corrupt nightlife, and the woman must be Mikiko.They have regarded Murakoshi as a murder suspect. After a while, Hexi came back after hanging up the phone. "Mikiko said she didn't know. She said her father went on a trip yesterday, and she stayed at a relative's house last night. It didn't sound like a lie. I'll call her relatives to check later."

"Now girls' words are untrustworthy. I'm afraid no girl is ashamed to say that she slept with a man at night. Let's say she doesn't know. However, if Murakashi dated her last night, since Miki If the son has gone home, then it is time for him to come to work." "Are you running away?" Cao Chang asked worriedly. "If it's running away, why bother to be so excited? If you want to run away, why wait until after get off work?" "That's true." "Go and ask his colleagues in the company where Murakoshi often goes, and see if he is there." Nasu gave instructions.The criminal police from Caochang, Hexi and the investigation headquarters began to search for Murakoshi separately.

Their search turned up nothing, no one knew where Murakoshi was, and Murakoshi didn't call anyone.Nasu felt more and more that his disappearance was an ominous sign. When it comes to Kawasaki City, most people think it is a "pollution" city.In fact, the nuisance only occurred in the southeastern part of the city facing Tokyo Bay.The terrain of Kawasaki City gradually narrows from southeast to northwest along the Tama River, and the Tama Hills in the northwest are undulating and rich in green resources.The scenery here is beautiful, the sky is clear most days of the year, the river is clear, and the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant.This beautiful natural scenery makes it hard to believe that this is Kawasaki.Especially if you walk here in early summer, it will change people's perception of Kawasaki, and you will linger and forget to return.

Three elements are needed to make a beautiful landscape—water, trees, and mountains, and the absence of any one of them will diminish the charm of the natural scenery.Kawasaki's Northwest region has all three of these factors. In late spring and early summer, standing on the hills here, you can see the creeks and winding streets in the depressions as far as you can see.The mountain ridges on the opposite side of the depression are emerald green, dotted with late-blooming cherry blossoms and deep yellow forsythia.On sunny days, the sky is blue and clear, and the mountain ridges in the distance are covered by light clouds and mist. The streets here are elegant and quiet, there are few cars, and the roads are very winding. The houses on the hillsides on both sides of the road are hidden in the miscellaneous forests, and you can hear birds singing along the road.When you hear the barking of dogs, you are in a wide-open area where wealthy people have concentrated on small homes with an urban flavor. In Ikuta District, Kawasaki City, one kilometer from the middle of Ikuta Station and Yomiuri-mae Station on the Oda Expressway, there is a cemetery called Chunqiuen. Shunqiuen is the highest in Ikuta District. Standing at Shunqiuen, you can have a panoramic view of the nearby Tama Hills. The Chunqiuyuan cemetery was built after the mound was leveled with bulldozers.Some of the places that have been pushed and shoveled have become "cliffs". When it rains, the "cliffs" will collapse, and some become grinning earth walls. The nearby residents fearfully call it the "Great Wall".The natural scenery has been destroyed, and it is full of holes and wounds, which is distressing. There is also a scarred cliff on the northernmost side of Spring and Autumn Garden. It is located on the edge of the cemetery. At least it escaped the bulldozers, but it also looks like a freak of nature that has been ruthlessly ravaged by machinery.Locals know it wasn't man-made, and though it may seem crumbling, it has withstood nature's erosion.Fortunately, the cliff was so steep that greedy entrepreneurs had to give up the idea of ​​building a cemetery on it, so it survived next to the artificial cemetery.The waterhole below it where children used to play, catch tadpoles, carp and loaches survived. "Let's go to the monster pit." A little naughty said to the friends.This group of children was fishing for small fish in the water hole under the cliff. They surrounded the water in the ditch with soil and stones, and then washed the water out, and then went to catch crucian carp and loaches struggling in the thin mud.This method of "exhausting the river to catch fish" was also thought up by the children themselves.If the adults see children blocking the drains, they will give them a severe meal.But often banned games are more interesting. There were five or six children who came to catch fish today, and they all became clay figurines, but they didn't catch a single one.The sun was shining directly overhead, making people uncomfortable, and the lack of wind in the puddle made people feel stuffy and hot.The children planned to find a cool place to take shelter, but the little rascal said that they were going to the monster pit, just to cool off.The monster pit that the children said was a shelter dug by nearby residents in the middle of the cliff during World War II.These trenches have never been filled and are now a great place for children to play. The refuge trench is U-shaped, and a short straight trench is dug outside the cliff first, and then extends from both sides to the inside.There are a total of ten or so U-shaped pits here. The children call them monster pits and regard them as the best places to play.But recently, couples who are in love have also spotted this place, using it as a place for trysts, and throwing many nonsense things in the pit.The parents of the children thought it was not good for the children to see those things, so they did not let the children play there.But for children, the more forbidden places are, the more attractive they are. "Okay, let's go!" "Let's go!" Tired of catching fish, the children all agreed with Little Rascal's suggestion. The children's favorite place to go is the largest U-shaped hole.This hole is very big, and it is dark inside, with a mysterious atmosphere. It is also the most proud place for young men and women, and there are many messy things they have left behind. The children's pupils shrank under the dazzling sunlight, and they couldn't adapt to the darkness in the cave for a while. The first child who rushed in was tripped by something. "Hey, who's lying there!" "Maybe it's about love." The children ran out of the cave, stood at the entrance of the cave, and looked inside tremblingly.The precocious ones in this group of children know the meaning of a man and a woman "lying" inside.Their fearful eyes were also mixed with strong curiosity. "Why didn't anyone come out!" The children snooped around for a while, but nothing happened. "Is anyone really sleeping in it?" a child asked suspiciously. "Really! I really hit something soft." The child who rushed to the front retorted angrily. The children's demeanor is much calmer. "Is it a dead dog or a dead cat?" "No, it does look like a person." "How about we go in and see?" Children, you drag me, I drag you, and walk into the cave with fear.Today's children are particularly sensitive to the influence of TV programs.Since they met a person who was "lying on the ground and was stepped on by someone and didn't get up", it was easy to make them have terrible associations.Although they were all terrified, curiosity prevailed, and besides, no one was ashamed to show timidity in front of their partners. "people!" "It's a man!" After figuring out that it was a human being lying there, the children stood there in the corner of the cave as if under a spell. "Is he dead!" Someone boldly said this sentence.This sentence broke the spell, and the fear that had been barely controlled just now reached its peak, and the children yelled and ran out in a hurry. The children's parents reported the children's discovery to the police station in front of Ikuta Station on the Oda Expressway.After receiving the report, the police station immediately reported to the rice field department, and at the same time sent people to Chunqiuyuan to protect the scene.The Rice Field Department notified the Criminal Investigation Section of the county police station to ask the criminal police and forensic doctors who were investigating the incident to come to the scene immediately, although it is not yet known whether it was a homicide or a suicide. After a while, the police came.The arrival of the police immediately made this depression, which is full of summer and full of peaceful atmosphere, look solemn and solemn. After looking at the body, the forensic doctor and criminal police confirmed that it was not a suicide. There was a laceration on the back of the deceased's head caused by a blunt instrument.Although they checked with the faint light of a flashlight, they could tell at a glance that the scar was not cut with a sharp weapon.Strips of epidermal exfoliation along the edge of the scar are characteristic of blunt force cuts.There is a crack in the skull at the scar, which was caused by the weapon hitting the bone that was not protected by subcutaneous fat or muscle.The murder weapon may be a wooden stick, an iron rod or the back of a hatchet, but no murder weapon was found at the scene, and there were no hard objects such as stones or concrete blocks that could break through the skin where the deceased lay. After the case was confirmed as a murder case, the already tense atmosphere at the scene became more tense. The results of the on-site investigation were sent to the Criminal Investigation Department of the county police station, and the First Investigation Section will be ordered to handle the case. The perpetrator did not take steps to conceal the identity of the victim.From the business card and passbook on the deceased, it was known that he was Junya Muraoshi, an employee of the Tokyo Kanda Branch of Zhongtai Industrial Company. The deceased's fatal injuries were skull fractures and brain damage.There were four wounds in total, as if the murderer took advantage of the unpreparedness and hit him several times in succession with a stick or something like that.That is to say, when the victim was hit by the first or second blow and fell forward, the murderer supported him with one hand, and hit him several times with the other hand, killing him on the spot.The Mengzi of the deceased's watch was broken, and the hands stopped at 11:57.There was no hard object that could break the glass where the deceased fell down. It is estimated that the victim was shattered when he resisted the stick with his hand, or the perpetrator shattered it intentionally. An autopsy was carried out on the corpse that day, and it was determined that the victim had been dead for 12 to 17 hours, which means that the deceased was killed between 11:00 on the night of May 26 and 4:00 on the morning of the 27th, and the hands of the watch indicated the time of the crime. .It has been proved by scientific methods that even if the perpetrator made a fake on the watch, it is almost the same as the actual time of committing the crime. There is a straight road near the site where two cars can drive side by side. It is a fork off the No. 246 State-owned Road from Ikuta Station.The perpetrator could have driven to the vicinity of the scene.It is still unclear whether the perpetrator killed the person in Tokyo and then transported the body to the scene, or if he lured the victim to the scene with sweet words and killed him.For the perpetrator, it is easier to start the crime near the trench, but the reason for luring the other party to come here in the middle of the night is not easy to fabricate. Unfortunately, there have been continuous sunny days in recent days, and the area around the site is very dry, making it difficult to find valuable footprints.The First Investigation Division of the County Police Bureau and the local police station worked together to search carefully, and found nothing left behind.There are some footprints in the depression near the road, but this is a road often taken by local residents, and it is impossible to determine which footprints are left by criminals. The Rice Field Department did not obtain any evidence about the perpetrator.When the investigative headquarters at the Inada Bureau learned that the victim was an important suspect in the murder case that occurred in a high-end apartment in Akasaka, Tokyo at the end of February, they felt that the matter was even more important. The murder of a major suspect in an unsolved homicide shows that the case is no small matter.Anyone can easily deduce that this murder is the second case committed by the real perpetrator of the first case to silence the insider. "It is likely to be a serial crime." The Rice Field Bureau and the Akasaka Bureau began to communicate frequently in order to solve the case. After receiving the notice that Murakoshi was killed, all members of the investigation headquarters of the Akasaka Bureau were stunned.The disappearance of Cun Yue made them feel bad, and after receiving the specific news of Cun Yue, they were at a loss. "Who killed Murakoshi?" Yamaji muttered while looking at the ceiling.Yamaji's words represented the doubts of all members of the headquarters, which directly made them think: "Who killed Kuni?" They once regarded Yuba as the suspect of killing Kuni, and later suspected Murakoshi.After seeing through Murakoshi's trick, the headquarters believes that the possibility of him committing the crime is extremely high.At this moment, he suddenly disappeared.Although no real evidence of Murakoshi's conviction has been found yet, and he can only be called a "major suspect" for the time being, the members of the headquarters have already regarded him as a criminal. Murakashi is dead, but who is the murderer?The members of the headquarters first thought of bow field.However, Yumiba has just been released from the Kunii case. Even if he killed Murakoshi who knew the truth in order to conceal the crime of killing Kuni, why wait until his suspicion is cleared before doing it? Maybe Yumiba killed Murakoshi for some other reason?Even so, it is inexplicable that a person who has just been cleared of murder is going to kill again. Cun Yue was killed, but the perpetrator could not be found. —A fugitive? —— Here's a clue.However, deceiving a person to commit crimes under a cliff (or in a car) near a cemetery far away from others is generally not done by fugitives. The police department analyzed the case, and they decided to investigate the whereabouts of Yumiba Hisahiko on the night of May 26 first no matter what.This work is jointly undertaken by the Akasaka Bureau and the Inada Bureau. Yumiba quit his job at Teikyu, no, he was actually fired by Teikyu.At the same time that he was ruled out of the murder of Kuni, his name was erased from the company roster.Not long after his release, he was kicked out of the single dormitory in Diji, and his whereabouts have been unknown since then. Yumiba's hometown is in Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture. It takes an hour and a half by express train from the station near Inaya Station.The Rice Field Bureau sent criminal police to Maebashi to investigate, and they felt that it would be faster to send someone by themselves than to entrust the local police station. Gongchang has never returned to Qianqiao, nor has he been hidden by his family. According to his neighbors, they have not seen Gongchang in the past year. The locals knew that Gongchang had been detained as a murder suspect.Later, Gong Changpi was acquitted, and the privacy of his private life was exposed at the same time.Although Maebashi City is the seat of the county government, it is an uncivilized city, and people here are generally curious about other people's private lives.Therefore, if Gongchang returns to his hometown, the locals will definitely know. Gongchang didn't go back to his hometown, and he didn't tell his family where he lives now.The detective who came to investigate thought: "Although he was ruled out as a suspect in the murder case, his improper relationship with his boss's wife was exposed, so he was fired by the company. The guy who once let the people in his hometown know how he made a fortune, what happened? I'm afraid I don't have the face to go back to see the folks by now." The news about the bow field ends here. One day, news about Gongchang suddenly came: he had been detained by the police station recently, and it was said that he was turned over to the police for disturbing social order. What happened was this: After Yumiba finished drinking at a hotel in Shinjuku, he wanted to bring a hotel hostess who liked him into the hotel for the night, but was rejected by the hotel.He became enraged, beat up the hotel clerk, and smashed the glass of the reception desk at the main entrance by drinking. The hotel staff turned him over to the police station and accused him of beating people and destroying property.It happened around 11 o'clock in the evening on May 26. Yuuchang was at the police station from 11pm on May 26 until the next morning.When he woke up in the morning, he felt very ashamed and asked to go to the hotel to apologize and was willing to compensate for the loss of the hotel. The hotel forgave him.The local police station believed that Gongchang's fault was insignificant, and he had already pleaded guilty, so he was enlightened; at 3 pm on the 27th, he was released. The hostess and waiter of the hotel testified that the time when Gongchang played drunk at the hotel and was turned over to the police was at 11:00 pm on the 26th, and he had been sitting in the shop drinking since 8:00.Junya Murakoshi was murdered between 11:00 p.m. on the 26th and 4:00 a.m. on the 27th. Judging from the broken Mengzi's watch, it was almost the early morning of the 27th.Obviously, it was impossible for Gongchang to commit crimes and kill people during this period of time. Almost at the same time when it was learned that there was no possibility of committing a crime in Yumiba, new news came from the investigation team of Murakoshi's family.Ironically, it is reported that Murakoshi's younger sister, who had been Yumiba's lover, died on a trip to the mountains with Yumiba when she was left alone in the snow by Yumiba. After Kuni was killed, the police investigated Murakoshi's family, but at that time they did not investigate the victim's family, but investigated Murakoshi's family as a murder suspect.At that time, the focus of the investigation was on the relationship between Murakashi and Kuni, but the relationship between Yumiba and Murakashi's sister was omitted. Although the relationship between Yumiba and Murakashi's sister is clear now, it does not convict Yumiba because of this.In terms of motivation, it should be that Muraoshi hates the bow field.However, it is also possible that Murakashi threatened Yuba with the death of his sister, and Yuba killed Murakashi to eliminate hidden dangers.However, the police station in Shinjuku has proved that Yumiba had no time to commit the crime, so it is certain that Yumiba did not kill Murakoshi. Gongchang currently lives in a cheap hotel in Banqiao, and he is depressed and depressed every day. He is completely different from him when he was in the emergency.Now the people from the investigative headquarters have completely ruled out Gongchang from the list of suspects, but for the sake of prudence, they still found him according to the address on the case file to check the situation. Gong Chang said to the people who came to investigate: "There is nothing more cruel and ruthless than our company in today's society. When you think you are useful, you will praise you and make you work for him. If you are no longer needed, you will be kicked as a waste. Open. Said that I did something improper. I was only seduced by the minister's wife, and the initiative was the woman. That incident had nothing to do with the murder case, but they put me away for damaging the company's reputation... That's all. "The reason why the police suspect me is because of my enthusiasm for work. The police are also unreasonable enough. You disregard people's reputation and credit, forcefully lock up innocent people, and don't hesitate to pay 1,000 yuan in criminal compensation per day. I couldn't bear the behavior of the police and was determined to spend all the money, so I drank and made trouble, and it would be easier if I could enter the detention center." Yumiba chattered incoherently.His youthful and promising staff demeanor was gone, replaced by the decadence and debauchery of a life loser.