Chapter 15 possibility

On Saturday afternoon, Sakurada visited Kuwayama's home. Sakurada brought souvenirs from Kyushu and his hometown of Okayama, and reported to him in Fukuoka.Saga investigated the situation of Sandofu, and the content was roughly the same as the letter, but the letter was concise and comprehensive. Sangshan gave Sakurada a book of materials.This is a copy of the case record of a young woman strangled to death in the Entsuji Temple in Chikushino, Nikaichi, Chikushi-gun, Fukuoka Prefecture, on the morning of April 7, 8 years ago.The material was reported to the Fukuoka District Prosecutor's Office by the police station where it belonged, and Kuwayama asked for a copy from the Fukuoka District Prosecutor's Office, which described the main points of the case.

"Victim's identity:——Tomoko Muraoka, 21 years old, from Mizue Ding, Saga City, staying at Makino Baneda's house. "Working unit: - foreign affairs officer of Shifei Food Processing Co., Ltd., Zhanqian Street, Saga City, with a working experience of two years and one month. "Native place: - XX Fandi Matsuba, Imari City, Saga Prefecture, kiln industry, eldest daughter of Taro Muraoka City. "Category of the victim: strangled to death with a straw rope. There were a few bruises on the external wounds, and there were no traces of adultery. She was dressed in Bragi, with a gold-plated kun watch in her hand, and there was a wallet in the handbag. More than 550 yen in cash, no signs of robbery. The clothes were stained with dirt, bamboo leaves and grass at the scene. It is estimated that the time of death was between 6:00 and 7:00 pm the day before.

"Murderer: - XX, Itozaki Village, Ryomatsuura County, Saga Prefecture, farmer, Kamata Shigeo, the second son of Kamata Tadaichi, aged ZI. "Because of schizophrenia, I was admitted to the Saga Mental Hospital in Ninbishan, Kanzaki County, Saga Prefecture two years ago. I left the ward on the night of April 5 and fled. "When Muraoka Yuko's body was found, Shigeo was sitting on the grass next to him and giggling. Due to insanity, he could not be interrogated. This person has been in a state of excitement for a week, and the hospital has also paid attention to it. Since he is a mentally ill patient, he will not be held criminally responsible. Liability, exempted from prosecution. Later, he was taken to the hospital again and died of myocardial infarction three years ago.

"Background of the case: ——The victim, Tomoko Muraoka, left work early at 2:00 pm on the 6th (Saturday), and then returned to the boarding house, where she disappeared. The Makino Banede who boarded her was her aunt (sister of biological father Ichitaro). "Tomoko's conduct: ——The company has reported it well. There is no rumor of having an affair with a man, but a year ago, she sometimes missed work or left early due to health and other reasons. Among her reasons, she also went to see patients. Her younger brother Fangji ( 18 years old) was hospitalized in Saga Mental Hospital due to depression. Kuji has recovered and works at home.

"Witnesses near the scene: ——Before the incident, no one saw Tomoko. The reason why Tomoko came to the scene alone is unknown." Seeing this, Sakurada looked at Kuwayama in puzzlement.Sangshan never told him about this matter, Sakurada naturally felt sudden. Sang Shan recalled the scene of the Buddha bathing meeting in the mountain temple eight years ago at the place where Loutian was reading the records, and the words of the deputy prosecutor echoed in his ears again: (Speaking of the lunatic under the cherry blossom tree, it is a bit romantic, but it is a pity for the young girl who was killed. The lunatic with the straw rope in his hand is hiding in the mountain behind the temple, and the unfortunate girl just passed by there. The murder happened After dark. It is said that she often goes to Kokubunji Temple alone. Kannon Temple. What a disaster!)

"I read the letter you wrote." Sangshan said a little embarrassedly, "I found out that Miyahan Michio, who lived under the pseudonym Sandoro, was working as a field worker at Mafu Insurance Company, and this murder case happened at the same time. " "...Oh, is that right? Hiro Sakurada responded, as if he didn't understand what Sangshan meant. "The last time I heard that Jiangtou remembered that Shan was also in Saga at that time, and I couldn't forget it all the time. This time, I know from your letter that he went from Arita to Wuqi, and the scope has narrowed."

"Well, Gongfan worked in the Arita pottery factory, isn't it not far from Imari? The girl who was strangled to death behind the temple in Erfu lived in Imari." Sakurada quickly opened the notebook as if waking up from a dream. "Well, there may be no contact, because it is still doubtful whether the victim and Gongfan knew each other at that time; however, the possibility that Gongji came into contact with the victim during the agency of Tosu Life Insurance Company is not impossible." "Why? Aren't Saga and Wuqi far away?" "It's the field staff of the insurance company!"

"I learned from the agency that Wuqi's field business covers up to Kanzaki in the west, and Saga belongs to the Saga branch." "Shenxia belongs to the scope of Wu Xi's agency, which is eye-catching!" "Don't you know? You said in your letter that among the clients of Gongfan, besides companies, agricultural associations, etc., there are also hospitals,..." "There is a hospital," Sakurada said just after he finished speaking, and suddenly remembered something, and couldn't help shouting, "Tomoko Muraoka often visits his younger brother who is hospitalized in the Saga Mental Hospital!"

"It's now" Sakurada looked up at the ceiling and said: "However, whether Gong Fan went to the mental hospital to contact the insurance business, this point was ignored during the investigation." "Since there are hospitals among the clients he contacts, the doctors and staff of the mental hospital are his sales targets." "The officialdom may have met Tomoko Muraoka who went to visit his younger brother when he went to the mental hospital to contact the insurance business." Sakurada seemed to be imagining. "It's a matter of possibility, it may be, it may not be."

Sang Shan expels the soot. "They do have a chance to get acquainted. Gongfan can talk to Okamura Yuko while waiting in the reception room; the two can go together when going to the hospital or returning..." "One more thing. According to the police investigation, Muraoka has often left early or absent from work to visit his younger brother since a year ago. If this is an excuse, then the two met a year ago. Miyafan went from Arita to Tosu at the same time. The Erkaichi case happened more than a year ago. According to your report..." "Yes." Sakurada nodded, "But, according to the report, the murderer of the girl was a lunatic who escaped from the mental hospital, and he was sitting next to the girl's body with a smile." He stared at Sangshan's face Say.

"Yeah, but it's not clear if it was a madman who killed Tomoko Muraoka. He was seen sitting next to the body, but no one saw him committing the murder. Of course, no confessions can be obtained from schizophrenic patients," he said It's all broken things." "Then, you think that the palace lover brought the girl there to kill her, and then marry the madman, don't you?" "However, it's a question of possibility. It would be great if the impossible can be excluded from the possibility." Sangshan said calmly. "Well, that's good of course, but..." Sakurada wanted to ask a question, but he didn't know where to ask, and he couldn't help saying, "How about putting a lunatic on the scene of the murder? If it was a premeditated crime, The palace must take the schizophrenic patients out of the ward. I think such severe schizophrenia must be locked in a single ward with iron bars. The palace must pick the door lock to take the patient away. Neither the doctor Can a palace fan who is not a staff member do this?" "Is this impossible?" "difficulty?" "That refers to a premeditated crime, and it is possible if it is used accidentally." "Accidental use?" "The lunatic ran away from the hospital the day before, and his whereabouts were unknown. The hospital and the local police searched everywhere. I happened to walk to the scene when they were conducting on-site inspections, and listened to the deputy prosecutor's introduction." "Oh, are you there?" Sakurada stared blankly. "I didn't tell you before, but when I went to Fukuoka eight years ago, I lived in Musashi Onsen, and it just happened to happen." "Oh!" Sakurada showed a look of sudden realization, as if he already understood why Sangshan couldn't forget that case.It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times. For a thing, experiencing the scene at that time in person is more impressive than listening to someone else's introduction.Sakurada realized something. "The deputy public prosecutor said that the escaped patient may have crossed Mount Ninbi, where the hospital is located, crossed the border of Saga Prefecture into Fukuoka Prefecture, and came to Mount Tenbai. Searches were carried out on the supposed escape route of the madman, but nothing was found. Maybe he went over the mountain and didn't find it. Later, when he hid in the back mountain of the temple, he killed the girl who walked in front of him. The lunatic didn't know what he had done, and he didn't run away. Before the female body was found the next morning Staying on the scene. It's not a coincidence that makes sense." Officer Sakurada didn't respond immediately.Prosecutor Sangshan's deduction is too accidental, which makes people feel too coincidental. However, there are many accidental plots in the cases that Sakurada has handled in the past.Taking that chance as inevitability, that is, as the criminal's planned investigation, the result is often not the case.There are many crimes in the world that rely on chance. This is not only known to the affairs officer from the cases he has direct contact with, but also often seen in the records of other cases. "Then..." Sakurada Affairs Officer said, "Why did Miyahan kill Muraoka Tomoko?" "Well, only he knows this, saying that Gong Fan is the murderer is just a hypothesis. … However, the reasons and motives for love killings still exist.We all know that there have been many such cases in the past. " "But...at this stage of development, Muraoka Yuko and Gongfan should also have some gossip." "That's because they hid it cleverly. However, it is incredible that the murderer in this case was arrested in a timely manner. He was caught on the spot, and the case was solved on the spot. Knowing that it was a lunatic who committed the murder, there is no need to collect information based on his confession." Evidence. The victim was killed just passing through the place where the lunatic was hiding, so there is no understanding of the victim's surrounding relationship. The police station did almost no investigation... If the victim's situation before his death had been carefully investigated at that time, maybe he would have found out her heterosexual relationship." "Even the name of the palace fan?" "Yes," Qin Shan lit the extinguished cigarette again, "how is it? Sakurada-kun, this is an absolutely true fact. One month after that incident, Gongfan resigned from the insurance company and left Kyushu. I also I compared your reports, and they matched exactly...Later, when Miyani came to Tokyo, he changed his surname to Sayama." "I have always believed that changing the surname of Gongfan is to bid farewell to the poor life of the past and welcome a new future. But considering the above-mentioned possibilities, I think it is necessary to re-understand." "How about starting to investigate the case at that time?" Sakurada clasped his arms together. "Investigate what happened eight years ago?" "Tell me, I want to go to Wuqi and Shenzaki to investigate again." "I'm afraid no important materials have been found. There is no direct evidence, and indirect evidence alone is useless." Tokyo and Fukuoka are not affiliated to each other in terms of jurisdiction. Of course, the Tokyo Higher Prosecutor's Office cannot command the Fukuoka District Prosecutor's Office;Moreover, the police station they belong to has dealt with it as a "closed case" and reported it to the District Prosecutor's Office, so they will not pursue the case further, and they will still feel unhappy that Officer Sakurada went to the local area to conduct an "investigation" without permission. .In short, nothing can be done about the case now. "However, I'm not reconciled to leaving it alone like this, and the knot in my heart is always inseparable." "Yeah, what should I do? Write another letter to the owner of the apartment in Tosu, where the officialdom boarded." "There may be hope." "In addition, ask the agency to find out whether they often went to the Saga Mental Hospital when they were field workers in the officialdom. If you ask these questions, the insurance agency agency may be willing to answer, and don't mention the case." "Try it. It's all my negligence. If I heard that the unit he contacted has a hospital, I would ask about the situation of the mental hospital. Then I don't have to bother." "It's not your fault, it's because I didn't tell you about Muraoka Kazuko's murder case in advance." The two were silent for a moment. "Now let's go back to Michio Sayama. As I wrote in the letter, I found no sign that he and Masako Hatano met in Hakata. The driver Etou and the maid at Hirao Sanzhuang said that Sayama would be a younger man." The women don't look like each other in appearance or age. What's going on here?" Sakurada seemed to be in a fog. "Well, I was also surprised when I read your letter. It is true that Masako went back to Fukuoka at 12, so I thought she must have gone after Sayama." Sangshan was also puzzled. "That young woman, about 25 years old, tall and peachy, with the demeanor of a female employee, who is it?" "I don't know, maybe it's a female customer who often goes to Renshan's beauty salon." "It's possible. Maybe one of the investors who opened a store in Qingshan is an artist?" "Maybe, we'll find out after a little investigation. In that case, it's not hard to imagine why Masako was killed." "I think so too. That is to say, Sayama has a new love, and Masako has become an obstacle. Because she is so entangled, he hates her so much, so he kills her, so he has the advantage of not paying back the debt. Masako deliberately chased her Hakata, he avoided seeing her, made her return in vain, and started a row with Sayama after he returned to Tokyo." "Hey, there is D Liutian's assistant in Zhushan, will he tell me?" "He's tight-lipped. But if the police investigate formally, maybe he'll say something." Since Sayama was neither a suspect nor an important reference person for killing Masako, the police department could not file a case for investigation.If the District Prosecutor's Office can negotiate with the Police Department, but the Higher Prosecutor's Office does not have this responsibility; to transfer the case to the District Prosecutor's Office, the materials are not strong enough. According to the old Criminal Procedure Law, the District Prosecutor's Office was responsible for directing the investigation work of the Procuratorate's office. However, the new Criminal Procedure Law stipulates that the police are responsible for the investigation, and the District Prosecutor's Office is responsible for the public trial.The procuratorial system is very dissatisfied with this, and there are very strong opinions for "restoring" the command of the investigation—— As soon as Sangshan arrived at the office, Loutian Affairs Officer called.The two met in the restaurant after lunch. "There is an echo from Tosu in Saga Prefecture." Sakurada whispered excitedly. There are some colleagues around, but they don't know what's going on even if they hear it "Sure enough, it is exactly as you said. According to an old employee of Tosu Life Insurance Company, among the units that Gong Shifu often contacts as a field worker, includes the Imbi Mountain Mental Hospital. He often makes business promotions to doctors and staff in the medical department. , the results are not small." After hearing Sakurada's return, although Qin Shan did not expect it, he was not as excited as Sakurada.In fact, it just feels like the thread is broken. "The male employee who introduced the situation said that because he had nothing to do with the hospital, he didn't know much about the official's actions. However, it was at the same time that the woman who was killed by the lunatic went to the hospital to help her younger brother." "What about the hospital?" "I called the hospital purser directly. Although it was eight years ago, he still remembered it because it was a big event. It is said that the madman's escape was completely negligent on the hospital side. The nurses hired in the mental hospital are all These strong boys are specially used to subdue and escort those crazy patients, because unlike ordinary hospitals, female nurses are not competent. The nurse in charge of that patient forgot to lock the door lock of the ward, madman He ran away at night, but no one found him. The next morning, when the patient was found missing, people panicked and reported to the police immediately." "During this time, did the nurse have any contact with the palace lover?" "It's hard for me to say the name of the palace fan, so I asked the nurse whether it was negligence or intentional for forgetting to lock it. He replied that the nurse had no doubts, and there was no sign of collusion with the outside world. It was purely negligence. The nurse herself was troubled by this. Many days. According to this answer, it is unlikely that Sayama planned to use a mentally ill person as a scapegoat. As you said, there is only a chance that a lunatic broke into the crime scene by chance." Last night, Sangshan took out the "Strange Documents" that he hadn't read for a long time.This is an internal reference material for the prosecution system.He remembered that there was a passage in it: "Thinking that prosecutors have always been trusted by the people as an investigative agency in the past, but now they have to give up investigation, I can't help but feel lonely..." Those who feel "lonely" are the so-called "old school of criminal procedure law".They promptly corrected the police's on-the-spot and empiricist investigation policies, which were prone to mistakes, guided the initial investigation work, and were responsible for the entire process from investigation to public trial.After the promulgation of the new Criminal Procedure Law, they just read the police investigation records and didn't pay much attention to the cases they accepted. They often did what the police said.This is the argument of the old school of criminal procedure. "There is still a so-called new school of criminal procedure within the prosecution system, which is opposed to the so-called old school of criminal procedure, which is its predecessor, in terms of the current state of the prosecution and the trends of the prosecution." — —It was like that at the time.However, as the old prosecutors retired one after another, the views of the old school of criminal procedure law gradually weakened, and the views of the new school of criminal procedure law gained the upper hand. Although the prosecutor "abandoned the investigation" because he was "busy with chores", Sangshan felt a kind of "loneliness".If the reason is reasonable, it can be accepted, but this kind of statement is really not convincing because he is busy with chores and has no time to investigate. The young prosecutor also emphasized the case for public trial professionalism: "Procuratorial work lacks knowledge and culture. Prosecutors generally don't work hard and lack research on their work. When they leave the court, they are different from the police." This in turn means that young prosecutors have a sense of superiority, which is the same as " The detachment of the "poorly educated" police draws the line. From this point of view, Sangul's thinking still belongs to the old school of criminal procedure law. The reason why Sangshan is so keen on investigation is that he not only has doubts about young prosecutors and judicial trainee prosecutors, but also distrusts the "principle of the integration of prosecutors and the organization in which subordinates obey their superiors".Here's the biggest problem --