Chapter 7 2. Public security officers prepare to be "Lu Zhishen" once

When it comes to the arrest of "old hooligans" by the militia, the views of the public security officers are half admiration and half regret. Admire him, he was excellent at choosing the location to set up an ambush. It should be said that the speculation at that time about where the "old hooligan" might commit crimes next was very accurate.At this time, the "old hooligan" was not as cunning as he was later. At one of the points set up by the workers' militia, he went to commit the crime that night-that's why he hit the net.Later, the police set up an ambush again, but this kid didn't come so happily.It is a pity that the militiamen have not received public security training after all, and the arrest failed.To use the current video game parlance, this is equivalent to adding experience points to the opponent.Police officers are to criminals, just like hunters are to wild animals, which are natural enemies.The problem is that if you keep giving him experience points, the beast will become a monster after a long time of training, and he will know what people know, and he will also know what people don't know, then the hunter will be in trouble.

At that time, the workers' militia was ordered to set up an ambush, but something went wrong.Because those who commanded the operations were from the military and paid attention to the concept of secrecy, first, the ambush personnel did not enter the village, but set up an ambush outside the village; Their village arrested "old hooligans" (afterwards, an ambush was set up and every villager was notified).As a result, the "old hooligan" went to a certain village to commit a crime. He entered the village at dusk, before the militiamen were in place, and committed crimes in the middle of the night. The militiamen stood guard for him in the field outside the village until he finished committing the crime and ran away. The victim was shocked. , Shouting, the militiamen suddenly realized that something happened in the village.

However, after all, it was a paramilitary force. When they found out that something had happened, the militiamen immediately turned on their flashlights, lit their torches, and began chasing and searching around the village.The headquarters also immediately mobilized the militiamen who set up ambushes in several other villages to run towards the village, block the passages in all directions, and arrest the "old hooligans". It took only a few minutes from when he finished committing the crime to when the victim shouted, how far could the "old hooligan" run?Militiamen began a dragnet search in the surrounding fields.In the dark night, people continue to find the target, but despite mobilizing personnel to chase and intercept, they have not been caught.The arrests were in full swing outside, but the staff in the headquarters gradually frowned. They saw that the small flag representing the prisoner was planted at the east of the village, at the west of the village, at the south of the village, at the north of the village, and across the river. After a while, they returned to the village, and the range continued to expand, and some targets were even found in two or three places at the same time.

Hearing this narration, my feeling is that three or four Messis appeared on the football field at the same time, and all of them moved erratically. The headquarters obviously felt that they had lost control over the arrest, and they were afraid that there would be no harvest tonight.As expected, it was busy until dawn, and nothing was achieved.The commander in charge of the operation stood at the entrance of the village and looked around, and he couldn't help taking a breath: I saw that this small village was surrounded by fields and flat rivers, and there was not even a hiding place like a rolling pan. There were hundreds of militiamen in this place. After searching all night, it can be said that even a rabbit was found, but the "old hooligan" was completely gone.

The headquarters concluded that this person had either escaped through the gaps in the net before the militiamen closed the siege, or he ran past the siege and interception every time after contacting the militiamen at night, and finally broke through.This kid ran too fast.The commander was deeply frustrated after the failure. In desperation, the militiamen had no choice but to report the failure of the arrest, and the annoyed superiors realized that solving the case should be a matter of the public security department after all.Thirteen were entrusted with important tasks.Two hours after the militiamen withdrew, Chang Zhankui, the leader of the 13th Branch, and several scouts rushed to the scene of the crime in a Laga 69 jeep.

Judging from this situation, I speculate that the Thirteenth Branch has already been paying attention to this case (according to the normal procedure before the "Cultural Revolution", all major murders, rapes, and bombings were all handled by the Thirteenth Branch) and have quietly done it. Prepare.It's just that the superiors don't speak, and it's not easy for them to intervene, so they can arrive at the scene in a very short time as soon as they get the order.Perhaps, there is also the meaning of wanting to have a professional "blitzkrieg" to win the breath of the public security system.

Needless to say, professionals are different. It took only a few minutes to arrive at the scene, and the Thirteenth Office figured out the whereabouts of the "old hooligan" last night. How did he escape from the encirclement of the militiamen? The answer: he didn't run at all. There were several piles of sorghum stalks behind the victim's room, where the investigators quickly found traces where the perpetrator had been hiding. "Scud" confessed after being arrested: that time, as soon as he left the scene after committing the crime, the victim screamed, and there was a lot of people around him, and he couldn't run at all.Unable to run, the person turned his head and crashed into the victim's straw pile, and slept in it.When I woke up the next morning, I saw that there was no one around, and it was convenient before I hurried to work.

The militiamen lacked experience in handling criminal cases, did not search the scene, and just chased them out with nets. The problem of "darkness under the lights" appeared.What is embarrassing is that according to the internal temperature of the excrement left by the criminal, this person was still hiding in the straw pile until more than an hour before the scouts arrived! Only one step away! As for the targets discovered and tracked by the militia at night, it is basically clear: the headquarters ordered other village militias to come to support, and a large number of people who did not belong to each other concentrated in the same search area, and it was easy to appear in the dark night. condition of the target.The transfer of personnel caused by this misunderstanding has caused new misunderstandings.A large number of people increases chaos, which is why the excellent commanders of the ancient armies of all countries in the world were very cautious in organizing night battles. The militiamen played hide-and-seek with themselves all night long.

After forming a report on the situation that day, the case was officially handed over to the Thirteenth Office for investigation. At that time, the Thirteen Offices had strong professional capabilities, and soon summarized the characteristics of the "old hooligans": Judging from the incidents, the areas where the "old hooligans" committed crimes were mainly concentrated in the local rural areas.Most of the houses in the local rural areas are separate courtyards, with a slight distance from each other, and the criminals have a larger space when committing crimes.Investigators also discovered an architectural feature of local homes that provided convenience to the perpetrators.According to the local customs, the upper part of the windows of the house is pasted with paper, and the lower part is made of glass. There is no habit of hanging curtains and locking doors.Therefore, it is easy for the perpetrator to step on the spot and observe the target's activities to confirm whether there is a man in his home.Although the local area is a rural area, most of the young and middle-aged men work in factories in the suburbs of Beijing, such as the Chaoyang Coking Plant. Many of them need to work night shifts, and there are only women and children at home.The perpetrators attacked mainly single young women with children.The locals generally live in the east house, and the perpetrator opened the window from the unoccupied room on the west side, took off his clothes in the kitchen, covered his face with only a black gauze, and entered the women's house to commit crimes.When committing a crime, they usually put the knife on the child's neck first and say: "I am an old hooligan, let me play for a while, or I will kill your child."

This person committed crimes quite crazily, and the victim was violated by him three or four times in a row (it is said that a trace expert who participated in the investigation at the time said that he had "atavistic phenomena").After committing the crime, he retreated to the main room, put on his clothes and fled.Sometimes, he also attacked single women or the dormitories of several female educated youths, etc., and stole property. However, the police also found that this case is quite scratchy, that is, the time interval between the crimes committed by the perpetrators is irregular.Sometimes, when the police concentrated their force on the investigation, he committed crimes against the wind, and sometimes, he remained silent for a long time.This is completely different from the situation that some habitual offenders find it hard to bear not to commit crimes for a period of time and commit crimes, or are satisfied after committing a crime and do not commit crimes for a long time.

Why doesn't this grandson have any rules in committing crimes?The veterans of the Thirteen Branches, who have rich experience in solving cases, are also at a loss about this. This strange law is not understood until the perpetrator is arrested and brought to justice. It turned out that the premise of this person's committing the crime was to quarrel with his wife. So-called "old hooligans" and their wives are having sex problems, but not every man with this problem gets it to the point of going out and committing crimes.The point is that every time he quarrels with his wife, he becomes very impulsive.And his impulsive way was not running around with kitchen knives all over the yard, but going out to commit crimes.So, it would happen that he quarreled with his wife in the afternoon, went to commit a crime at night, and returned home in the middle of the night, his wife was still angry and quarreled again, and he went out to commit a crime again. Knowing that this was the reason why he committed the crime, the police probably wanted to hang themselves.For the policemen who were searching for the law of his crime, the first feeling was that this kid was provoking the dictatorship. In fact, he really didn't mean that, it's just that there are no rules for couples fighting! In fact, the police did include him among the suspects during the case. Some plainclothes policemen watched near his house and witnessed the fight between the two of them.But who would have thought that a couple quarreling over something like dirty socks would lead to a rape case? ! Speaking of which, since he has been listed as a suspect, why hasn't he been arrested yet?In fact, the police were very close to the perpetrator, but the logical irrationality prevented the police from taking the last step.This is related to the misleading he gave the police.First of all, it should be explained that in the process of police investigation, he was far more than one person included in the list of suspects.The police are constantly eliminating and looking for new suspects in their work. The general direction is to try to gradually narrow the scope of suspects.During this process, he was put on the periphery. At that time, the "old hooligans" committed crimes, and one of the characteristics was that they often stole.However, the peasants at that time were quite poor, and in the eyes of today's thieves, there was nothing valuable enough to steal. The "old hooligan" theft belongs to the type of stealing regardless of what he has, and once committed a crime and stole a bag of 70 catties of rice from someone.Because it has been determined that the perpetrator walks every time he commits a crime and does not use transportation. So, how far can you go with 70 catties of rice?The police analyzed it and drew a three-kilometer circle, thinking that the suspects in this circle were obviously more likely to commit the crime. Unfortunately, the criminal's home is more than ten miles away from the scene of the crime, which means the distance is more than ten kilometers.Who would walk ten kilometers with 70 catties of rice on their backs?Shouldn't you be exhausted?He joked that carrying 70 catties of rice and walking ten kilometers would not be enough for the fare. That's exactly what this guy did!One is physical strength, the other is thinking, this person is very different. In this way, although he was not excluded from the list of suspects, but the doubts were not focused on him (there is another reason, which will be mentioned later). The "old hooligan" has a different way of thinking, which makes the police extremely headache.For example, after the 13th Office took over the case, it reminded local residents to take precautions.However, after several months, this person has not committed a crime (during this period, his family was harmonious and there were no quarrels).After all, the common people are not the army, and they still have to live their lives. After a little relaxation, he came again.For another example, when he went to a certain village to commit a crime, the police arrived immediately to investigate the case, check clues, and analyze where he might go next time.Unexpectedly, just two days after the police left, he came to the same village where he committed the crime last time, attacking the same victim.The policemen come again, and this analysis shows that this kid is too courageous to turn his head back. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the protection of the victims before. Indeed, there are too few rape cases that dare to turn back.However, he dared to!As a result, while the police were still busy looking up the addresses of all the previous victims, another report came—it was the same victim, and he went again for the third time. This incident made the police furious: We just left, how dare he go a third time? !This also made the police feel a great apology to the victims, and there is really a sigh of "what do the common people feed you for". No wonder the police thought he was provoking the dictatorship. At this time, a special case happened: a female director of a certain village was attacked by an "old gangster", but the moment he entered the door, she felt startled, and decisively pushed the door to her death. Hooligans" failed to commit crimes.This is the first time he has attempted a crime in police records. The police came to investigate immediately.The home of the female director lived far away from other neighbors, and her husband worked night shift. The criminal broke in through the window on one side of the house, took off her clothes by the large stove commonly used in the main house in the country, and then tried to enter the bedroom to commit crimes.Everything is in line with the method used by the "old hooligan".After being blocked from the door, he tried to enter through the window, but was blocked again, so he stood outside the window, teased with words, and claimed that this time it would not work, and he would come again.Even though she was a woman director, the victim was so frightened that she almost had a nervous breakdown. After the investigation, the police held a meeting.At the meeting, someone raised a point of view, thinking that the "old rascal" said he would come again, not just talking about it, and he might really come again.Considering the criminal's rampant habit of committing crimes, this view was supported by team leader Chang Zhankui.Therefore, the police decided to set up an ambush at the woman director's house and wait for the rabbit. There is a section in "The little overlord makes trouble in Peach Blossom Village", Zhou Tong, the king of the mountain, wants to marry the daughter of the old owner of Peach Blossom Village by force. Lu Zhishen, the flower monk, sees the injustice and draws his sword to help.As a result, Zhou Tong, who was happily entering the bridal chamber, was severely beaten by Lu Zhi, who was hiding inside, and almost died. This time, the police officers are going to be Lu Zhishen. The problem was that the female director was so frightened that she almost collapsed, she refused to stay here no matter what, and insisted on going back to her mother's house, let alone cooperating in solving the case.However, judging from the previous law of committing crimes, before committing crimes, the perpetrator must carefully observe the situation around the target, and do not act until it is confirmed that it is safe. If there is no goal, there is no point in setting an ambush at all. Chang Zhankui had a solution. He asked a handsome scout to pretend to be the female director.The scout put on the same costume as the female director and hid in the woods outside the village in advance.The female director pretended to go to the village to carry firewood, but when she came back, she had already dropped the bag.The scout was very alert and played flawlessly.When interrogating the "old rascal" afterwards, he said that he had peeped several times that day, but he didn't see any flaws. In the middle of the night, the village has fallen into sleep, and the headwoman's house has also turned off the lights. It seems that everything is as usual. In fact, the scout was waiting in the house with a gun, and Chang Zhankui and others also ambushed in various corners of the village.Just after midnight, veteran scout Chang Zhankui suddenly discovered with his night eyes that a person slowly emerged from behind a dirt slope outside the village, and began to move towards the edge of the village by virtue of the terrain and features... For the first time, the police had contact with the "old rascal". Relying on his long-term experience in detection work, team leader Chang judged at a glance: This person is a major suspect. This is because, in the eyes of the police, the difference between the behavior of criminals and ordinary people is as obvious and simple as we distinguish between men and women (of course, sometimes it is not so easy to say).At that time, the Wang Brigade, a veteran Beijing anti-pickup team, went to Shenzhen, a newly established city, to introduce his experience. In order to explain the problem, Lao Wang came to a practical performance.The Shenzhen police followed Lao Wang to the station to catch the thief. The process was the same as fishing a fish from a bucket. Some local policemen exclaimed that it was as if the thief was raised by him. At that time, it was common practice to raise "second wives" there, so the Shenzhen police sighed. . Lao Wang made it clear in one sentence: When the car comes, everyone else looks at the car, but he only looks at people. He is not a thief, so who is a thief?This is the so-called "hang phase". Judging from Sombra's secretive actions, this person fits the police's speculation on the criminal's behavior pattern.So…… Go up and catch it?Or wait for him to enter the house to commit crimes and catch him? This does not need to be answered by the police, it is estimated that anyone can answer it.Not to mention that his position was too far away from the police, and he was the one who got used to it. Lu Zhishen had no reason to go out of the village to drag Zhou Tong in. At that time, the communication conditions were not as good as they are now, but the police who had already entered the position according to the predetermined plan were all ready to attack. The black figure hid and entered, getting closer and closer to the village, and stopped behind a grain and haystack outside the village, obviously making the last observation.The result of the observation seemed to make him very satisfied, so he jumped out of the haystack and went straight to the house of the female director. It only takes a minute or two to close the net!However, at this moment, an unexpected situation happened—the black figure stopped suddenly, and stared blankly at the woman director's house for a while, as if thinking about something.Chang Zhankui's heart sank, and his intuition told him that something must be wrong.It was too late to say it, and then it was too fast, I saw that black shadow suddenly turned around and ran away.Chang Zhankui immediately sent out an action signal, and the policemen turned on their flashlights and started chasing him while shouting. "I'm sure we won't be able to catch it," recalled a police officer who participated in the investigation of the case. "The distance is too far, the boy ran like a puff of smoke, and there was still fog around him." Sure enough, after an hour of tracking, the black figure quietly disappeared into the surrounding fields.Anxious, Chang Zhankui turned around and ordered a thorough investigation to see what was going on and what had alarmed the kid. As a result of the inspection, it turned out that the scout posing as the female director exposed the target.This scout has good grappling skills, good looks, and looks like whatever he pretends to be. He has played an important role in the detection of many cases and is considered a treasure in the team. This time the ambush has been quite satisfactory.However, she had a fatal flaw that made the whole ambush come to naught—this handsome investigator was extremely "manly" when it came to cigarette addiction.So, squatting in the house until midnight, unable to bear the craving for cigarettes, I finally took out a cigarette by chance and took two puffs quietly.And the perpetrator touched it just at this moment.When someone was found smoking in the house, the perpetrator felt wrong at the time.In those days, local women rarely smoked, and the female director usually did not smoke.Then, why is the flame of cigarette butts coming out of this room? No, it's the police!Thinking of this, he turned around and ran away. Relying on his familiarity with the terrain, he was actually able to escape at the nick of time. The scout who smoked and exposed the target was disciplined for a "serious breach of discipline".It was actually lucky to be punished, because the development of the case quickly gave the police an impression: there are ghosts inside us!This is because, apart from setting up an ambush this time, this person has never slipped through the trap of the police.One time could be a coincidence, but time and time again, he never went to the place where the forensic experts calculated that he would go to commit the crime, but it also happened that several surrounding villages were ambushed, and he chose to commit the crime in the only village that was not in ambush. wait for things. The police set up an ambush in Village A, but he didn't go to Village A, but committed crimes in Village B next to Village A, and the police just withdrew from Village A, and he went to commit crimes the next day. It also happened.He always seemed to be able to predict the deployment of the police. In 1974, while the public security department was increasing its efforts to solve crimes, the crimes committed by "old hooligans" reached a peak! The public security system in our country does not have the habit of superstitious belief in fox fairies and ghosts. The only explanation is that there are inner ghosts. All of a sudden, whether it is between the public security personnel, or between the local staff who assist in solving the case, there is a vague estrangement and vigilance.Insiders have also been monitored without naming names.They are all veterans and have been around for a long time. It is difficult for this kind of surveillance to escape the other party's eyes. In a word, it affects unity.While solving the case, he himself became a suspect. This feeling is too uncomfortable.The police didn't realize this matter until the perpetrator was arrested and related to his occupation. In desperation, the police adopted the most "stupid" but also the most patient-testing method of both sides - squatting. In 1996, Feng Gong had a movie called "Squatting and Watching". In order to catch the "old hooligans", the public security officers set up dozens of constantly changing guard points around Shibalidian, and continued to find a needle in a haystack. In fact, when the squatting action was taken, there was a saying that the police officers in charge of solving the case had a strange idea when they were investigating the "insider ghost": the "people" were tipping off the suspects at any time!Indeed, whenever an ambush is set up, the people in the village must be notified. As long as the people in the village know, the "old rascal" will know!But the local staff members who cooperate each time are not the same. It cannot be that the local cadres in the entire Chaoyang District and Tong County are in the same group as the "old hooligans", right? !What's more, on several occasions the police deliberately ignored the local staff and directly dealt with the common people, but the result was still the same. Could it be said that the common people in the entire Chaoyang District and Tong County belonged to the "old hooligans"?Maybe the "old hooligan" is a kind of local snake?But how could the local snake be informed of the situation in any village within a radius of more than ten miles at any time? Although incomprehensible, the investigators found that if it was limited to the information within the police, the perpetrator did not seem to be able to grasp it.Therefore, this kind of squatting on a large scale but mainly relying on the internal control of police personnel may catch criminals off guard. The "dumb way" did work.Not long after the squatting operation started, investigator Xiao Yumin ran into the "old hooligan" at close range.It was also late at night, and Xiao Yumin, who was squatting on guard, found a figure carrying a large bag passing by in a hurry in the field.The distance between the two sides was less than ten meters. Xiao Yumin was born in an armored soldier. He was brave and brave. He tried to capture him alive. He ordered him to stop while chasing him closely.But after rushing for a while, the two sides became farther and farther away - here is a harvested rice field, with ridges, rice stubble, and so many obstacles, Xiao Yumin, who can run 100 meters in 11 seconds, just can't run. But the other party is walking like flying like a ghost!Seeing that he couldn't catch up, Xiao Yumin, who drew his gun to shoot, stepped into a field mouse hole and dislocated his ankle immediately. The severe pain made his shooting lose his aim, and the target disappeared into the night again. After investigation, it was found that the abandoned backpack was an item stolen from a victim's home. Afterwards, the police and the target encountered each other three or four times, and he escaped each time.When the news came out, the common people gave the "old hooligan" another nickname, "Scud". I asked Lao Sun: "Don't our scouts often hunt down criminals? Why can't we catch up with him?" Lao Sun said: "This has something to do with the environment of Shibalidian Township at that time." Lao Sun graduated from the Public Security School in 1973 and participated in the investigation of the "Scud" case in Shibalidian in 1974.He personally participated in setting up an ambush at the home of the women's director, and he still remembered that the location was in Tong County.It is difficult to talk about other specific circumstances. Although so many years have passed, everyone is still alive, so the privacy of the parties must be protected.In this regard, the police did a good job in this case. To this day, most of the victims of the "Scud" crimes are only kept in the archives of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, and no one outside knows. Lao Sun recalled that the Shuangqiao area at that time was very different from today.At that time, there was only one bus line No. 312 to Tong County passing through this place, and the surrounding area was very desolate.But desolation also has its advantages, that is, the homesteads of ordinary people are generally relatively large, and although they are poor, they live in spaciousness. "Fortune comes with misfortune, and misfortune rests with blessing." This kind of scattered living environment also provides "Scud" with convenient conditions for committing crimes.Because there are many rice fields in the area and the humidity is high, it often fogs up at night and in the morning during spring and autumn.The first time Lao Sun went to the scene was in April 1974. A Laga 69 car could not drive on the double bridge, because it was surrounded by fog, and the driver could not see the road ahead at all.The local paddy and dry fields are mixed, and the ridges of rice fields are densely covered. There are piles of wheat straw or firewood not far away, and irrigation canals are scattered among them from time to time.At that time, there were not many pesticides used, and mulberry shrubs grew on the ridges dividing the fields. When Lao Sun and the others were lurking and squatting, they could often see loaches, crabs, water snakes, and voles. Among them, there were many holes that scouts hated. master. Take a look at the housing prices in Chaoyang today. Can you still find voles and crabs in this place? In such an environment to hunt down criminals, there are too many obstacles and it is easy to lose track of them.What's more terrible is that this "scud" never walks on the right path while running, and always crosses the field path obliquely.If you chase him along the avenue, you will get twice the result with half the effort. If you run with him, you can’t see your feet clearly at night, and you will fall in three steps, and in two steps, and then you will look up and he will disappear.After finally seeing a shadow, I jumped on it and saw that it was a pile of firewood—this barren mountain, can it be a pillar if it is not firewood?The scouts recalled that the man's running speed was not as fast as the legend said, the key was that he was very familiar with the local terrain.Generally, farmers in paddy fields leave their own trails, and others have no way of knowing, but this "scud" knows it like the palm of his hand!