Chapter 45 Chapter Forty-Four

After thinking for a long time, Gao Dong thought of the third possibility. Although the footprints on the hillside are Shao Xiaobing's shoes, is it possible that another person wore Shao Xiaobing's shoes, walked to the edge with Shao Xiaobing on his back, and threw him down? This possibility is not very high, because Shao Xiaobing is a fat man, and his weight is about 160 jin by visual inspection. If you carry such a big fat man to the edge of the hillside, you have to throw him down. Once he struggles, he may kill you. It was dragged down. If Shao Xiaobing didn't have the ability to struggle and resist at that time, it meant that he was either drugged or tied up with a rope.

The possibility of being drugged has been ruled out, because the autopsy results showed no poisoning in the body. If he was tied up with a rope, Shao Xiaobing's wrist would have some bruises. Lao Chen judged that he had touched the cliff wall when he fell into the air. Of course, Gao Dong thought it might be the marks left by the rope, because the body was broken. Some things cannot be drawn accurately. If Shao Xiaobing was tied up with ropes, then the murderer had to tie his hands and feet tightly so that he could not struggle.My legs and feet were all tied up so I couldn't carry him, I had to hug or carry him.It was impossible to carry him, the fat man was too thick to carry him.Holding him is even more unreliable. There should be few people in the world who can hold a 160-jin behemoth in their hands, right?

So could it be that the two murderers carried Shao Xiaobing over together? There was only one person's footprint on the hillside, which meant that there was only one person when dealing with Shao Xiaobing.The hillside is muddy, and the footprints cannot be cleaned up, and there are no traces of cleaning the scene. By the way, maybe two murderers, one wore Shao Xiaobing shoes, and the other bought a pair of shoes of the exact same brand and size? But how did the murderer know what shoes Shao Xiaobing was wearing and how big his feet were? Gao Dong asked Chen forensic doctor to show him the photos taken on the hillside. Chen forensic doctor took out several huge high-precision photos the size of X-ray films. Gao Dong carefully looked at the footprints inside and found that the shading of the shoes was completely the same.

Even if two pairs of the same shoes are old and new, it is difficult to make the shading of the shoes exactly the same.So the possibility of two murderers also does not exist. It is really puzzling, puzzling! Gao Dong lay down in the office chair, raised his head and closed his eyes, analyzing the known clues so far. The known clues are: Shao Xiaobing must have fallen from the hillside; he was not injured before; there was only one person's footprint on the hillside; the place where Shao Xiaobing fell to his death was the first scene, and the position of the body has never been moved.

These known conditions prove that the possibility of another person throwing him down, or pushing him down, or killing him first and then moving his body here does not exist. If there were no previous cases of Wang Baoguo and Hu Haiping, this situation can be judged 100% as suicide by jumping off a cliff. But with the successive murders in front of him, the suicide this time seemed all the more unbelievable. Gao Dong raised his head, pressed his temple hard, and looked at the photos of the scene again. In the photo, there are many footprints at the scene, which are very messy, and the footprints have walked back and forth many times.

"Strange." Gao Dong clicked his lips. "Boss, what's the matter?" "Look at the footprints on the ground, it shows that Shao Xiaobing has walked back and forth many times. Why did he walk around if he wanted to commit suicide?" Chen Fayi didn't take this issue seriously: "When a person commits suicide, he will be afraid. At that time, he should be fighting ideologically, whether to jump or not, so he walked around." "At first, I thought about whether someone would force Shao Xiaobing to commit suicide, such as pointing a gun at him and threatening him to jump, but seeing footprints walking around, it is obviously impossible to be forced to jump." Gao Dong continued He said, "But there is still a doubt, have you ever thought that he is going to commit suicide, why did he choose this place?"

"what do you mean……" "He jumps from the balcony of his own house to a height of 20 meters. He is guaranteed to die. Why choose here?" "Well... Boss, what you said makes sense." Gao Dong said: "Shao Xiaobing's death, judging from your forensic identification, was a suicide. But there were two homicides before, so from a reasonable judgment, it should not be a suicide. Then let's assume it was a murder for now. Think about it, the murderer asked Shao Xiaobing to commit suicide here instead of at his house, why?" Forensic Chen thought for a while, and said: "If there is really a murderer's plan to make Shao Xiaobing 'suicide', Shao Xiaobing jumped off the building in his own house, and the sound of jumping from the building to the ground was very loud, which would immediately alarm many people around, including the security of the community. The murderer was afraid that he would be killed. Grasp."

Gao Dong waved his hand and said, "Okay, my analogy is wrong. Even if Shao Xiaobing commits suicide at home, the murderer is easy to be caught, so why didn't the murderer find a construction site or something without people, why did he run to this remote beach Come?" "Hmm... I probably can't find a construction site with no one there." Gao Dong smiled helplessly: "Old Chen, you missed the point of my question this time. What I want to say is that the most important thing for our police investigation is to commit suicide by jumping off a building in other places and jumping off a cliff here. Where is the difference?"

Chen Fayi thought for a long time, but still shook his head: "Where is it?" Gao Dong poked his finger at the photo on the table: "Footprints! Let me ask you, Old Chen, what made you believe that Shao Xiaobing's death was a suicide, and there was no other murderer? The place of death was the first scene, and the cause of death was falling to death." , the deceased had no other injuries and no signs of poisoning. These are all true, but based on this information alone, can you be so convinced that he committed suicide? Maybe he was subdued and pushed down first? And let you do it The most important factor for making a judgment is that there are only footprints of Shao Xiaobing alone on the hillside. If the death is replaced by other places, firstly, it is not easy to preserve footprints on ordinary cement floors; It is impossible to determine whether it was suicide or murder."

Gao Dong continued: "The place where this case was picked is wet mud on the hillside, and the footprints are clear. It seems that someone deliberately disclosed information to us, letting us know that there is only one person's footprints on the hillside, let us know I believe that Shao Xiaobing was not forced to jump off a cliff, nor was he thrown down, but he committed suicide." Forensic Chen thought for a while and said, "Boss, what you said is reasonable, but we currently don't have any evidence to support your assumption that Shao Xiaobing was 'suicided'."

Gao Dong let out a breath, and arranged all the photos on the table in order, which is equivalent to restoring the location of all the footprints on the hillside, and took a closer look. He thought of another way to judge whether Shao Xiaobing "suicide" or "suicide". If Shao Xiaobing was "suicided", then these footprints walking around are not Shao Xiaobing's, but the murderer's. No matter how the murderer walked back and forth, the last time the murderer must have left the cliff and walked down the hillside.The murderer walked from the hillside to the cliff with one set of footprints, and leaving the cliff was the second set of footprints.No matter how many times it is repeated, as long as the murderer leaves the cliff at the end, the number of rows of footprints must be an even number. On the contrary, if Shao Xiaobing really committed suicide, then no matter how he walked around, the last footprint must have led to the cliff, that is to say, the footprint is an odd line. Gao Dong widened his glasses and carefully counted whether the number of footprints in the photo was odd or even. The result disappointed him, because he found that many footprints walked in circles, and it was impossible to judge how many times they went back and forth. Could it be that the murderer also thought of this link and guessed that the police would even use the number of footprints to determine whether there was another murderer in Shao Xiaobing's death? Gao Dong felt shuddering instantly, if the murderer even considered this point, could such a murderer still leave a hole? He hurriedly asked: "Apart from these footprints on the edge of the cliff, are there any other places on the hillside that have been photographed for evidence?" "It's done. The footprints show that Shao Ju—maybe the murderer. He also went up and down the mountain many times." "How many times did you go up and down the mountain?" Chen Fayi frowned and said, "I can't judge." He took out a photo to Gao Dong. It was some footprints on the hillside. In the photo, there were many footprints, some were far apart, and some were very close together.There is no way to tell which footprints were left by the same climb up the mountain.Naturally, there is no way to know how many times the murderer went up and down the mountain. I feel like I walked on purpose to show the police.Gao Dong thought angrily in his heart, so he could only turn around and say, "By the way, what did you say were suspicious at first?" "I went to Shao Ju's house to check, and there were traces of a mop mopping the ground that day." Gao Dong narrowed his eyes slightly: "That is to say, it is possible that after the murderer came to Shao Xiaobing's house, he did something in his house, and then cleaned up the traces?" "It's possible, but it's also possible that his family just mopped the floor that day, and the mop was placed in the bathroom, and there were no footprints on the floor except Shao Ju and his wife." Gao Dong said "hmm": "It may be that the murderer put the mop back to its original position after mopping the floor to deal with the scene, changed into Shao Xiaobing's slippers and went back outside, so we can't find out whether there is a third person." footprint." "There is another important clue. The sofa in Shao Ju's home lacked a cushion. There are several holes in the sofa base under the cushion next to each other. I judge that it was pierced with a tool such as a dagger. So I guess it is possible. There was a fight at home, but I searched and searched and found no other traces of blood and other fights. Of course, it may have been cleaned up, but basically nothing was damaged. The neighbors said that they only heard the sound of a plate being overturned that night. It shows that the fighting will not be violent and lasts for a short time." Gao Dong remained silent. Shao Xiaobing went home that day, there was also a strange noise in the house, the sofa was pierced with a dagger, and a sofa cushion was lost. What is the connection between these clues? On the surface, it is possible that Shao Xiaobing and his wife were subdued at home, but the first scene was at the beach. Shao Xiaobing did fall to his death from the hillside, and there was no trauma before. In short, very strange. Gao Dong pursed his lips, and had no choice but to say: "This case is very complicated. Although the conclusion of the appraisal is suicide, I believe it is murder. But I don't have any basis, and I can't overturn the conclusion of suicide for the time being. You have to do one more thing here , Randomly pick a few more footprints near the cliff, let the footprint experts from the provincial department calculate the height and weight of all the footprints, and judge whether these footprints belong to Shao Xiaobing himself." "But even if Shao Xiaobing did not commit suicide, but was 'suicide' directed by a murderer, if the footprints on the edge of the cliff belonged to the murderer instead of Shao Xiaobing, how did Shao Xiaobing fall?" Gao Dong lowered his head and said, "Check here first. If the footprints are not Shao Xiaobing's, I can't figure out how he fell down for the time being." "Okay, then I'll contact the experts right away."