Chapter 65 train station murder

A series of sudden hangings in public places caused the police to fall into a state of incapacity for criminal investigation due to extreme shock. Every day, the police station holds a case seminar, but few people speak at the meeting.Even if it is said, there is only a series of doubts. The first was a public hanging in a movie theater, in which a female audience member was strangled to death during a movie screening.All spectators watched as she was lifted into the air, strangled and then allowed to fall.No one saw the murderer during the whole process, and no murder weapon similar to a rope was found at the scene.

The second case is the hanging death of the female subordinate of the bald director. However, because the bald director pretended to be unconscious, and the murder scene was not in a public area, the police listed the case of Hua Zhu, a female Internet cafe player, as the second case.This case was also under the public eye, but it cleverly took advantage of the player's indifference to the things around him when he was immersed in the game. He hanged Hua Zhu to death in front of everyone, and no one noticed. The third case is the hanging in the park mentioned here, and this case is even more extreme.A woman was hanged to death in a crowded park, and her body was lifted to a high place. Although the witnesses were surprised, they mistakenly thought that nothing happened because the rest of the people did not respond. There is no way to trace the murderer.

In the context of this sort of case, someone proposed the concept of murder in a public blind spot.This point of view holds that the murderer is an expert who has insight into the psychology of groups. He has carefully studied the psychology of groups in public places and mastered a method of killing people by using the blind spots of group psychology.The murderer swims in crowded places, like a fish swimming in water, he is right in front of you, but you can't see him, because your sight will selectively ignore him.His choice of victims is also random.Because there is nothing in common among the victims of the movie theater, the victims of the Internet cafes, and the victims of the park.They were just killed by the murderer in the same way, that's all.

Continuing to infer from this logic, a person who is ignored by everyone at the scene of a murder must be a person who does not seem to be a murderer anyway.Even if you saw him killing people with your own eyes, you wouldn't think so.In fact, in these three cases, everyone saw the perpetrator, but everyone deleted the image from their sight.why?Because your brain refuses to accept the reality that this person is a murderer. In this way, it is necessary to paint a portrait of the murderer. He stands in front of you and kills, but you stubbornly refuse to admit it. So, what kind of person should he be?

The murderer must be an ordinary-looking, featureless person.If the appearance is too outstanding, such as a handsome man or a beautiful woman, or if there is a special temperament on the body, it will attract people's attention.Of course, the murderer can't be ugly, in short, any characteristic will make him unable to hide as he wishes. In addition, there must be something beside the murderer that firmly attracts the public's attention, allowing him to take this opportunity to calmly choose the victim, kill him and then leave calmly.And in this process, because your attention is attracted by what you think is more important, you have no time to take care of it.

At that time, the police believed in the working meeting: the tense plot in the movie theater, the obsession of players in the Internet cafe, and the promotional activities of the merchants in the park, all constituted the inevitable attraction to the public.And when the murderer appears before the audience who are addicted to the plot, before the players who are addicted to video games, or before the stage of the promotion of the park merchants, they will not attract attention. In addition, the murderer must also create a blind spot for the witnesses' thinking. Without this, the case will not stand.

The audience in the movie is lifted to a high place by ropes, the female gamer in an Internet cafe is lifted to a high place, and the female tourist in a park is lifted to a high place.In these three operations, the murderer must have been by the side of the deceased. If he was not there, it would be impossible to explain the strange incident of the three victims being suspended in the air.The murderer is standing in front of the victim, and the witnesses are blind, there is only one possibility: the murderer is seen as having to be there, he manages to make himself part of the environment, so the witnesses face the witnesses and see nothing. see.

So the key to this case is to solve the mystery of the murderer's invisibility. How does one stand in public without being noticed?There are many ways to do this, and the murderer is obviously an expert in this area. As the police try to crack this psychological puzzle, a fourth (actually fifth) murder comes a week later.The place where the incident took place was the train station with the most dense crowds.At that time, thousands of passengers were crowded in front of the ticket gate, and many passengers were carrying huge luggage as tall as a person, blocking the sight of the crowd behind.The radio constantly reported the number of trains approaching the station, and the noisy human voice drowned out people's hearing, making people's minds numb and stiff.

In this powerful atmosphere that destroys human perception, the raised body of a female passenger suddenly focused the sights of the passengers.The passengers behind were horrified to see the pale face, protruding eyes and purple tongue of the woman hanging out of her mouth. Too many people saw this scene, but then the witnesses were pushed and shoved by the people next to them, and hit by the huge woven bag carried on the shoulders of the passengers in front.The more you want to see the woman rising into the sky clearly, the more you can't see clearly, because as long as you walk slowly and concentrate, you will be hit by the gravity of the flow of people behind: "Hurry up, hurry up, why are you dawdling!"

All I could do was put away my surprise and quickly followed the flow of people into the station. Someone swears that he saw the woman's feet dangling in the air, and clearly saw the woman wearing a pair of branded sneakers on her bare feet.But many more passengers deny it.These two completely different statements will affect the direction of criminal case tracing. If the woman's feet are not completely suspended, then she is likely to be lifted high by the murderer.After everyone saw this masterpiece of murder, the murderer lost his body, checked the ticket and left the station, and the police tried to track him down.

And if the woman's feet are completely suspended, then in this case, it will be difficult to investigate the people around the woman, and an invisible murderer must be set up beside her.The murderer pulled the rope around the woman's neck and pulled the woman high into the air.But you can't see where the murderer is, because he is cleverly hidden in your blind spot, and you can only feel the silent and cold laughter of the murderer.It seems to be mocking the incompetence and helplessness of the police. After the murder of a woman in the public area of ​​the train station, when the police arrived at the scene, they could no longer find an immediate witness.All the witnesses are on the train, they have left. However, did the murderer also leave with this train?The police are pessimistic about this.It was in this case, which openly challenged police capabilities, that the concept of mass murder emerged to replace the hypothesis of public blind-spot killing.