Chapter 6 Chapter 6: The Woman in the Car Was Killed
This is a north-south road at the junction of Motoyogi-cho and Nishihara 1-chome in Shibuya Ward.
Areas with the word "Yuan" on their place names generally have a long history.At present, the preserved old mansions and Western-style houses can still vaguely see the pre-war appearance of the area.While modern apartment and company dormitory buildings sprung up after the war, the buildings survived in the cracks.Among them, the Vietnamese embassy is located in the area.
Today, this road has become a good place for free parking in Tokyo.Originally, there was less traffic in this area and the environment was very quiet. Nishihara and Yogi-cho built a children's park and a dormitory building for the banking system here respectively.In the children's park, the trees are lush and lush, and the dense leaves just block the hot sun for the road.Usually, many taxi drivers often drive here for lunch break.
In recent years, as the number of on-street parking lots in Tokyo has dwindled, this is one of the few good places to park.
At around 3 a.m. on July 18, Dao Ose, a staff member who works in a large canteen nearby, drove to the roadside parking lot.Because there are too many cars in the parking lot of the canteen, Ose usually parks his car here.
Although the off-duty time is 11:30 in the evening, there was too much traffic on the eve of off-duty, so Ose waited until after 1:00 in the morning before leaving the cafeteria, and finally arrived here so late.
Often at this time, there are only some regular customers left in the vehicles on the roadside parking lot, and most taxis have already set foot on their way home.
Occasionally, three or two couples will drive here together, hiding in the car and enjoying the "separate two-person world".If you peek in close to the swaying body of the car, the passionate sex scenes of men and women will definitely make you blush.
Once he has seen this scene, the young Ose who currently does not have a girlfriend will definitely find it difficult to sleep, and it will directly affect the work of the next day.
That night, after Ose parked the car, he found that next to his second-hand car, there was a red luxury double-cab car, which seemed to have never been seen before.
Out of curiosity, Ose walked towards the red car.It was obvious at first glance that this car was not a regular visitor here at all.Maybe the inside of the car is "a separate world for two people", Ose speculates.
However, unexpectedly, there was only one person in the red car!
A young woman was leaning back to sleep in the driver's seat.Although people sometimes sleep in this position, it is extremely rare for a young woman to sleep alone in a car late at night.
Even in the daytime, this area is a remote place with less personal traffic, and it is inevitable that there will be the possibility of sudden attacks by gangsters.
Due to the dim light in the early hours of the morning, Ose could only roughly see a beautiful woman with long hair covering her face inside the car.The woman appeared to be in a deep sleep and defenseless.At this moment, even if he is not a person with bad intentions, facing such a beautiful woman, it may be difficult to resist, and lust may burst out inadvertently.
Of course, Ose did not ignore it.Although he privately believed that he had nothing to do with the woman, but if he let it go, he was worried that she would be targeted by a pervert.Of course, he had no intention of infringing, but he must not let the woman fall into the wrong hands.
With this mentality, Ose lightly knocked on the window of the red car.However, the woman in the car did not respond.
"Hey, it's not safe for you to sleep here!" Ose shouted into the car while knocking on the window.Strangely, there was still no movement in the car, and Ose gradually lost his composure.
Although there are usually very rude customers at work, no one has ever been rude like this.
Just as Ose was about to raise his fist and slam the car window, a taxi drove up from the downhill road.With the help of the flashing headlights, Ose finally saw the woman's cheeks covered by the messy hair in the car.After a moment of observation, my intuition showed that it was definitely not a living face.
After trying his best to stabilize his emotions, Ose quickly ran towards the uphill road of the road.He is very familiar with the geographical environment of this area, and there is a public telephone on the side of the uphill ramp.
After receiving the report, the police quickly rushed to the scene of the crime and reported it to the General Office as a homicide.The victim was a young woman in her twenties, with obvious marks on her neck where she had been strangled with a rope.Judging from the residual temperature of the body, the woman had only been dead for an hour or two.
The driver's certificate carried by the deceased showed that the woman's name was Shoko Hosiya, 24 years old, unemployed, and currently living in Room 703, the Royal High-end Apartment in Dashan Town, the district.
Shocked to learn of the murder of Shoko Hosoya, Sugawara Detective of the Yoyogi Police Station realized that what he had been worried about all along had happened.
At about 4 o'clock in the morning, the Yoyogi Police Station was notified of the above case.After the criminal police on duty arrived at the scene of the crime, they contacted Sugawara, who had already returned home, on the basis that it was determined to be a homicide.Under normal circumstances, as long as there is a homicide case in the area under its jurisdiction, all the police officers in the entire police station will be dispatched.What's more, the woman was also a suspect in the murder case of Tsumura that happened in the jurisdiction a few days ago.The police officers in the district police station were all shocked by this.
At dawn, Sugawara drove to the crime scene.Of course, Serizawa was indispensable among the police officers who searched at the scene.
"After all, he was murdered." Serizawa ran forward and whispered to Sugawara.
In this regard, Sugawara did not respond in time.
"I'm afraid this is still related to the case of Tsumura. Maybe it was murder."
"Although it cannot be confirmed at present, it is also possible that it was done by someone who was afraid of the woman's leak."
"You mean that the woman knew too much of the truth, and the murderer wanted to use this to silence her? But, in this way, wouldn't it expose his involvement in Tsumura's murder?"
"Trying to cover it up! Perhaps the murderer is aware of the critical situation and has reached an imminent situation."
If the above conjectures are true, to some extent, the last interrogation and investigation by the criminal police was the fuse that prompted the murderer to strike ahead of time.
After a while, members of the police station in charge of the area, the mobile search team, the first search section of the general office, and the appraisal section all arrived one after another, and started a formal investigation and evidence collection of the corpse and the crime scene.
There were obvious traces of the rope being strangled around the neck of the deceased, but the rope used by the murderer was not found in the car.Based on this, the police concluded that the murderer may have taken him away before leaving.
There was still congestion on the dark purple face of the deceased. After opening his eyes, he found that there were obvious bleeding spots on the eyelids and conjunctiva of the eyes. This is a typical symptom of being strangled by a rope.The expression of the deceased was extremely painful, but it can also be seen that the woman was a beautiful woman before her death.
The placket of the deceased was slightly rolled up, looking a little messy.However, after preliminary investigation, no traces of wounds or beatings were found on other parts of the deceased, and there was no sign of resistance or struggle before death.Usually, once the victim's neck is blackmailed with a string, he will often grab and dance at the murderer with both hands while struggling desperately to resist.In this way, some fiber fragments of the murderer's clothes will be left in the nails of the deceased.However, there were no foreign objects in the woman's nails.
The deceased's underwear was intact and there was no sign of rape.A square diamond ring was worn on the middle finger of his left hand, and a platinum necklace was hung around his neck. Both pieces of jewelry were high-end items.On the car seat next to the deceased was a crocodile leather handbag imported from Paris, which contained cosmetics, handkerchiefs and an Italian brand wallet containing 120,000 in cash.
In addition, there is also a photo of the deceased taken in front of an official residence in the bag, but the date and location of the photo are unknown.
In view of the above circumstances, the police analysis believes that this is by no means a homicide of the nature of robbery and theft.
Once the rope is wrapped around the neck and pulled back hard, the blood supply in the human body will be cut off instantly, and the whole person will be in a coma immediately.It is of course easy to kill people while they are unconscious, but it is not easy to wrap the rope around the victim's neck before.
If the victim is aware of it in advance, he will definitely resist with all his strength, and sometimes call for help.And to put the rope around the neck of the victim while he was negligent, it must be close to the victim's body.
Since the deceased was strangled to death in the car, it is also possible that the deceased was killed by a passenger who was on the way.However, judging from the completeness of the deceased's property and the absence of violence, the murderer is most likely an acquaintance of the deceased.
"It is not easy to put a noose around the neck of the victim who is driving, because during this period, even the murderer himself knows where the car will go if he loses control, and the consequences are bound to be very dangerous. .So, I think the murderer should have used the gap between chatting with the victim after parking the car to rush down the killer."
Some criminal police put forward the above views.In this regard, some people have put forward a different point of view:
"If the victim died in the driver's seat, she would not be able to drive at all. Maybe the murderer moved the body of the deceased into the car after the murder."
"If the murderer moved the body afterwards, the place where the deceased was found may not be the scene of the crime. The murderer may have driven the victim to the parking lot after committing the crime elsewhere."
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Everyone expressed their views, and the discussion was extremely intense.It is also understood that the red private car of the victim was a double-row sports car sold by N Company.
The interior decoration of the sports car is bright and warm, and it is obvious at a glance that the owner is a young woman.
The owner of the car must have never dreamed that the sports car that used to be a good place to fall in love and have sex with men and women turned out to be the place where he died.
After further investigation, it was learned that the gear of the car was switched to a low gear and the handbrake was also pulled.The police also conducted a detailed search of the car's dashboard, under the seat, car luggage cabinet and toolbox, but did not find any valuable clues.
Serizawa couldn't help thinking of what taxi drivers used to say in the past, some customers would always drop business cards, change, shoehorns and other small things in the gap between the seat and the backrest.Therefore, Serizawa carefully inspected the above-mentioned places.
Suddenly, Serizawa's eyes glowed with joy, and the fingers inserted into the gap seemed to have caught something.After taking it out, it was discovered that it was a cigarette butt, and the cigarette had been smoked to the bottom.
"This kind of smoking is quite rare recently." Sugawara interjected, looking at the cigarette butt in Serizawa's hand.
"There were no lighters or matches in the victim's bag and sports car."
"If the butt wasn't smoked by the victim..." As he said, Sugawara's eyes sparkled with excitement.Serizawa took the cigarette butt to the tip of her nose and sniffed it: "It doesn't seem like an ordinary cigarette."
"Could it be..." Sugawara muttered.The cigarette butt is rolled with commercially available filter cigarette paper.
"Probably marijuana leaf."
Marijuana leaves were found in Shoko Hosoya's sports car, which inevitably makes people think that there is a certain connection between this case and the Tsumura case.
Since the stimulant was found in Tsumura's residence, the police focused on drugs to solve the case.Regarding Tsumura's position in the secret drug trafficking organization, although no one knows at present, it is said that the rules of the drug trade are quite strict. Violators will be sentenced to death within the organization.
In order to find out why Tsumura was killed, the police used drugs as clues to launch a search, but then Sugawara put forward the theory of "falling objects from a height and killing people", which made the police open up a new way of investigation.The discovery of marijuana leaves led to the death of Shoko Hosoya who also entered the police's investigation of drug-related cases.As a result, the police's investigation of the Tsumura case had to return to the original angle.There are indications that perhaps the murderer is indeed related to drugs.
If the cigarette butt is indeed not smoked by the victim, it may be something left by the person who took the sports car with the victim or the murderer.Because from the appearance, the cigarette butt seems to have been smoked not long ago.Subsequently, the identification section of the police put the cigarette butts found by Serizawa in a plastic bag for safekeeping.
In the past, the parking lot had less traffic and was relatively quiet, but after learning of the murder, the nearby housewives brought their children to watch the fun after seeing off the man, and a large group of booing guys followed. , Curiosity mixed with a little panic.
Today seems to be another sweltering summer morning, and the high-rise buildings in the sub-center area of Shinjuku have long been hidden in the beautiful glow.The morning in the metropolis is still full of vitality, unaffected by the murders.
In the afternoon of the same day, the autopsy results confirmed that the victim was strangled to death by the murderer with a rope such as a fine hemp rope. The time of death was between 0:00 and 2:00 on the 18th. Had sex.In addition, the forensic medical certificate also included the following statement: The deceased was four months pregnant.
On the day of the incident, the Yoyogi Police Station quickly established a search headquarters.For a large police station in a metropolis, it is not surprising that two homicide investigation headquarters were set up in the same police station at the same time, but it is extremely rare for the victims in the two cases to be related in some way.
Normally, the time period from 10 am to noon is the "vacuum time period" of the tryst hotel. The guests who came the night before have left, and the next batch of guests have not yet arrived. This period happens to be the hotel's "vacuum time period". When housekeeping staff change shifts.
But once the weekend comes, guests will come to the hotel in an endless stream, and the so-called "vacuum time period" is out of the question.
At this moment, Sekie Miyamae, a waiter at the Dream of the Red Chamber Hotel in Kabukicho, Shinjuku, is yawning in front of the front desk while watching the morning show on TV listlessly.From late last night to early this morning, guests kept checking in, so that Guan Zhi in front of the palace didn't even have a chance to get a ton.The shift will be handed over soon, and Gongqian suddenly feels much better. I am afraid that even if he returns home at this moment, he may not be able to fall asleep.
Today, Dream of Red Mansions has also introduced the computer management system that is quite popular in tryst hotels nowadays. Compared with the past, the workload of hotel attendants has become much easier.
As long as you look at the computer screen, you can clearly grasp the entry and exit of the guests.After clicking the mouse, you can know which guest room has guests, which room is empty, which room is doing sanitation, and so on.In addition, room rates have now been changed to computer settlement.
However, the only service desk in the Dream of Red Mansions Hotel is a computerized management model.Because many guests said that once the hotel fully implements computerized management, it will inevitably completely cut off the communication between guests and waiters. And boring.
Therefore, couples who want to find release and pleasure in sex are more willing to go to some old-fashioned hotels to have fun than fully automated modern tryst hotels.
It is precisely in consideration of the hobbies and habits of these customers that Dream of Red Mansions has not fully implemented a fully automatic management model, and has successfully realized complementary advantages on the basis of both efficiency and fun.
In the rendezvous hotel, you can have a panoramic view of the entanglement between men and women in the world and all kinds of life.
After careful observation, Guan Zhi found that half of the guests staying in the hotel were in extramarital sexual relations, 30% were prostitutes, and 20% were lovers who looked like couples.In the Shinjuku area, prostitution can be said to be a common practice.Usually, 30 to 40% of the guests who come to the Dream of Red Mansions Hotel bring their lovers to open rooms for fun.
The stay time of guests in Dream of Red Mansions Hotel is generally relatively short, with an average of one hour and thirty-six minutes (this is also the result of computer statistics).Even so, that's sixteen minutes longer than the national average stay at tryst hotels (one hour and twenty minutes).
In fact, the friendship between men and women is a complex that includes sex, and it is the highest form of taking lovers to a hotel to have an affair and enjoy themselves, while modern men and women often just go to bed for the purpose of having sex.
Guan Zhi often sighs: If the modern relationship between men and women is only based on borrowing sex organs from each other, then these people will lose most of the fun in life.However, the guests staying in the tryst hotel turned a deaf ear to this. They have always claimed that as long as they are happy, why should they care about the form of intercourse between men and women?Groups of men and women came one after another, and after venting their sexual desires, they left contentedly.
Although one hour and thirty-six minutes is short, it seems to condense the whole life.Politics, economy, industry, art, crime, history and many other knowledge, the joys and sorrows of the world are all blended in it, and perhaps nothing can surpass this short hour and thirty-six minutes!Guan Zhi secretly sighed.
Just like Monkey King, no matter how powerful he is, he still cannot escape from the giant palm of the Tathagata Buddha. Most of the connotations of human society have been frozen in this hour and thirty-six minutes.Although Guan Zhi is unable to make an exact analysis of this, the above feelings have been around for a long time.
One day, if the media comes to interview, Guan Zhi feels that he will express the above sentiments.Unfortunately, no reporter has interviewed the staff of the tryst hotel so far.
For a long time, Guan Zhi insisted that the previous media reports on dating hotels and motels were full of secular prejudices and failed to really touch the core content of the industry.
Guan Zhi always felt that, to some extent, the prosperity of tryst hotels reflected a peaceful and peaceful social era.
It was after men and women met and had sex that human beings were able to reproduce from generation to generation and last for a long time.If we want to use moral and legal standards to regulate and limit this, it is nothing more than human beings choking their own necks.In short, love is irrational, and it would be too much to restrict and regulate the basic limits of human nature.In fact, this should not be regulated by external constraints, but by the reasonable self-restraint of the individual.
If forces such as politics and morality come out at an inopportune time to regulate things that should be self-restrained, then this society will be completely messed up.Besides, what need was there of self-restraint when that short hour and thirty-six minutes would have troubled no one at all?
Of course, only during the vacuum time before noon, Guan Zhi has time to rest and think wildly by himself.When the hotel business is busy, she can only sit in front of the computer screen and allocate rooms for people non-stop.
Dream of Red Mansions is relatively small, with a total of 28 rooms. In this regard, it cannot be compared with those super-large urban hotels with hundreds or even thousands of rooms.It is understood that as long as there are 50 rooms in this industry, it can be regarded as a large hotel.In each guest room in Dream of the Red Chamber, there are generally three batches of guests per night on average, and sometimes even up to six batches.
If the front desk attendant accidentally makes a mistake when allocating the guest room, it will cause two couples to enter the same room by mistake, or the embarrassing situation that the guest has entered the room before the cleaning work is completed.In this regard, it is also significantly different from urban hotels that receive a group of tenants a day.
Usually, during the hotel's vacuum period, the waiter will always hand over the things that the guests lost in the guest room to the front desk, and the items left by the guests are often various, such as women's clothing accessories, women's Underwear, small items (manuals, wallets, glasses cases, watches, umbrellas), etc.In addition, there are always drinks and food left in the refrigerator in the guest room. Perhaps this is not because the guest forgot to eat it, but on purpose.
However, that morning, after the waiter cleaned the room, he found an unexpected missing item.
When Yoko Tabe from the guest room department walked towards the front desk with a confused face, she seemed to be holding something in her arms.
"Miss Gongqian, what should I do? The tenant in room X lost such a strange thing."
"What exactly is left behind?"
Before Ye Zi could answer, a "meow" came from her arms.
"Oh, what a cute kitten!"
In an instant, a white kitten poked its head out from Tabei Yoko's arms.
"When I was cleaning the guest room just now, I suddenly found something moving in the blanket on the bed, which shocked me a lot."
"It's the first time that customers have lost small animals. What a beautiful kitten!"
"How to deal with it?" Tabe asked Guan Zhi's opinion in embarrassment.
"This question is more troublesome."
"Maybe the customer will come back to claim it."
Usually, however, guests don't come back to pick up things once they've lost them at a tryst hotel.
"I'm afraid it's inconvenient to hand over a living animal to the police, right? I think the guests will definitely come back and get it."
"But what to do before the guests come?"
"I'll keep it for you first." Gongqian secretly made up her mind that if no one came back to claim it, then she would adopt the kitten herself.For experienced Miyamae, although there have been examples of housewives bringing children to hotels in the past, it is the first time that someone brings pets and forgets to take them away.
Maybe it's not lost here, but the guest did it on purpose.Probably due to a sudden accident, the owner could no longer keep the kitten, and was reluctant to throw it away, so he left it in the guest room when he left.
Just as Guan Zhi was contemplating, the kitten suddenly jumped out of Tabei's arms and quickly ran into the main service desk.
"Oh, cute little cat, come here quickly." Unexpectedly, the kitten ignored Guan Zhi, went straight to the TV, and sat down.
"Oh, this cat actually likes to watch TV." Surprised, Tabei couldn't help sighing.
"It looks like a modern cat. I just heard about it in the past, but today it's an eye-opener." Guan Zhi couldn't help feeling emotional, and looked at the kitten more and more curiously.The kitten is staring at the TV screen, and I don’t know if it can understand it, but judging from its focused expression, it seems that it can really understand the content on the TV screen.
At this moment, the morning news is being broadcast on TV: In the early hours of this morning, a murder occurred in a roadside parking lot in Shibuya District. A young woman was murdered in a car.While the host was broadcasting, the screen also showed a close-up of the deceased's face.At the same time, the kitten suddenly let out a loud "meow".In an instant, Guan Zhi seemed to be hit by an electric current, pointing at the screen and exclaiming: "Ah, ah, it turned out to be her!"
"What's going on?" Tabe Well Yezi was dumbfounded in astonishment.
"Not long ago, didn't our hotel have a male guest who died in the abdomen? The female deceased in the TV was the female companion brought by the male guest at that time!"
"Ah? Is this really the case?" Just as Ye Zi was watching intently, the TV screen had switched back to the host's picture.
"It's absolutely true! It's definitely that woman! I still remember the woman's face shape and hairstyle at that time."
"Yeah, but I don't have much of an impression..."
"Now, this female companion is also dead. Is this predestined?"
"Is there any relationship between the two?"
"By the way, the police came here to investigate the woman's whereabouts after the incident. It is said that the woman seemed to have taken an important item from the male companion."
"I also remembered it. The dead male tenant seems to have lost a manual. I remember that the police questioned me severely about this, thinking that we were hiding and not handing it over, and it was just because of this. It was very unpleasant at the time."
"Yes, that's the man."
The TV announcer reported that the police have listed it as a homicide and launched a related investigation.
"Maybe the woman was killed because she took the manual."
"No way?" Guan Zhi replied hesitantly.As Tabei Yezi said, after the sudden death of the male tenant last time, the police conducted an interrogation and investigation on all the employees of the Dream of Red Mansions Hotel regarding the missing manual.
Although Guan Zhi was not in the room department of the hotel, the police still asked her if the waiter handed over all the lost things of the guests to the front desk afterward.Guan Zhi replied clearly that the items handed in by the waiter did not contain what the police were looking for.The police were very dissatisfied with this, and then cleaned up the lost items of the guests kept by the main station one by one.
Did the murderer really kill this time to snatch the manual?This crucial message was never mentioned on TV.
Of course, maybe the police are not aware of the above-mentioned relationship at all, which is completely reasonable.Because the Shinjuku Police Station is responsible for investigating the sudden death of a male passenger, and the Shibuya Police Station is responsible for the murder case in a roadside parking lot in Shibuya Ward.
Although Guan Zhi is not very clear about the jurisdiction of the police in various regions, she knows that the police stations in different regions may not have close contact with each other.Moreover, the sudden death of the male guest was not a homicide case, so even if his female companion was murdered in Shibuya, it would be difficult for people to immediately link the two cases.
"Hey, Miss Gongqian, what are you going to do?" Suddenly, Ye Zi's question interrupted Guan Zhi's contemplation.
"Ok……"
"If the above situation is reported to the hotel owner, he will definitely let us keep it secret."
"No, absolutely report to the police."
Generally speaking, tryst hotel owners have never cooperated with the police.Because the honest police always believe that the tryst hotel is just a place to provide sex, and it can only provide convenience for people to vent their sexual desires.In addition, even some police officers have radically compared tryst hotels to crime dens, belittling them as worthless.For this reason, hotel owners especially hate dealing with the police.
"If we report to the police, the police will definitely come to investigate and collect evidence. In this way, we may be fired by the boss."
"Then it's better for us to keep silent?"
"However, why was that woman killed? If it was because of that manual that she was killed, the two of us are also inseparable."
At the same time, Ye Zi also thought of this stake.After a while, Guan Zhi finally made up his mind.
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