Chapter 14 Chapter two

On October 15th, a week after the disappearance of Shirley Dougay. After testing, I found that Shirley inherited half of her DNA from her parents, and the blood stains in the car did contain 50% of Melvin's genetic markers. It must be Shirley's blood. Through the investigation of blood samples, I made a new discovery. The blood stains in the car did not come from Shirley Dugay alone. Could there be another victim here?Of course, it could also be the perpetrator's blood. "It's really strange. No one came to report her missing, so of course we can't arouse our suspicion. Shirley didn't see her for a long time. She didn't tell anyone where she was going or when she would come back. Her father said Shirley She's a small, four-foot-nine-inch person who weighs less than a hundred pounds, so she looks very, very frail, and I don't know much else," Werther told me in his office.

"Did her father tell you this?" I asked. "Yes, the old man didn't say anything after he said this. I feel that he seems to know who the murderer who hurt his daughter is. But he is still hesitating, he is thinking, and he still doesn't know whether he should put his own Doubt it.” Werther sighed and said, “Now that this case has attracted public attention, I think there should be other clues soon.” Witte was right, and over the next few days, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police launched a massive search on Prince Edward Island.Here, I need to introduce the origin of this Mounted Police. It was established more than a century ago. At that time, it was just a temporary attempt to establish rural policing in the Northwest Territories of Canada.Canada did not have a large police force in the early colonial period. When Canada was founded in 1867, even in big cities such as Montreal and Toronto, there were very few police officers.There was only a small police force charged with enforcing federal law.In small towns and rural areas, there are almost no police officers, and the courts appoint temporary police officers and soldiers to act as law enforcement officers.In 1870, the Canadian government bought a large piece of land north of the US border from the Great Lakes to the Rocky Mountains, and felt that a law enforcement agency should be set up in this sparsely populated and vast area to better deal with local Indians. security affairs.As a result, the government decided to form a garrison to maintain order there.The garrison was established in 1873. We call it the Northwest Mounted Police. It was originally planned to disband the team after the land issue was resolved peacefully. At that time, the garrison only recruited 150 people, but later it grew to 300 people. At that time, the Northwest Mounted police patrolled Canada's Northwest Territories on horseback, wearing the now famous red tunic.

The RCMP inspected every place and drain in Prince Edward Island, and they did find something, though it didn't make Werther very happy, because I saw him push open the gate of the police station with a straight face in the morning. "That's an undeserved oversight," Werther said aloud as soon as he saw me. I hurriedly brought Vitra into the office and made him a cup of coffee by the way, only then did I know why he was so depressed early in the morning.It appears that at the scene that day, they let go of some important evidence, because yesterday the RCMP found a shovel half a mile from Shirley's car during their second search of the crime scene.It was a small American-made Sog tri-folding sapper shovel, and you can find it for sale anywhere in Prince Edward Island.It is light and convenient to carry, and the useful three-fold allows it to fold the entire shovel into a length of 17 cm, which can be easily put into a backpack or put in a car.It can be of great help in every aspect, whether in outdoor camping adventures or in household labor construction.There is also a nail pry on the back of the shovel, which can be folded and fixed as a fast digging tool. It is very convenient to use with a shovel to dig hard objects.

"It has two long black hairs on it," I said to Werther.I know this because the RCMP sent over with the shovel before Werther got to the station, and I happened to be the first one there. Werther smiled awkwardly, then changed the subject and said, "Fortunately, they didn't mess around after discovering the shovel, because there were fingerprints and smells on the object that looked like a murder weapon. But the shovel looks relatively new, we should Conduct an investigation on the shops on the island..." "Prince Edward Island has 2,100 square miles. It is impossible for us to conduct inquiries in such a large area. We can only conduct inquiries within a range of 40 miles. Of course, there will also be special circumstances, or It is not absolute to say that clues will be found at forty miles away." I interrupted Werther.

In the next few days, the detectives took the shovel to the villages around the scene to investigate and question, hoping to get some clues.They also invited Shirley's father, Melvin, to identify it, but he couldn't say where he had seen such a shovel. He only said that this shovel seemed to be used by soldiers, because there is no war here. Therefore, it is rare to see someone using such a shovel. We also vividly remember that the last war in Canadian history was in October 1939, when Canada declared war seven days after Britain declared war on Germany.By June 1940, the situation in World War II had deteriorated to the extreme. At that time, France had surrendered and the United States had not yet entered the war.At that time, only the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries continued to resist Nazi Germany's occupation of Europe.Therefore, under the leadership of Mackenzie, Canada implemented the mobilization of the whole people, and made great contributions and sacrifices in all aspects to defeat fascism.

Back to the case, if the criminal brought the shovel and deliberately threw it on the scene, or in other words, if the damage characteristics of the corpse we found during the investigation were not completely consistent with the murder weapon, should we still have it? Pay attention to find other murder weapons separately?But now that the shovel has two long black hairs on it, we are at least encouraged by this new discovery, which is unusual in any case. However, in any case, the evidence before us is not enough, we have to work hard to search for the evidence we need and Shirley's whereabouts.All the methods at hand, everything I can think of, have been used.

That day, at the case discussion meeting, someone proposed to use psychics to find Shirley. I was dumbfounded at this proposal, and was about to refute, but to my surprise, Werther and most of the agents agreed, and they laughed at my opinion, which is simply absurd. "Then what else do you have to do?" Werther asked me. "In any case, we can't treat crimes with an idealistic attitude, right?" I said frankly, meeting Werther's gaze.I know what spirituality is, but that doesn't mean I agree with it. Psychology, as a term and category, is mainly a discipline that studies some spiritual phenomena that occur in human life beyond the routine and cannot be explained by scientific knowledge, also known as the study of the mind.Psychology began to appear in Britain and the United States in the late 19th century, and later became popular in Europe. Since the 1930s, the outside world generally called it "parapsychology".

One of the main ideas of psychology is that human beings have an underlying ability to perceive the world without going through normal sensory channels.Psychology generally divides its research objects into two types. One is the supernormal phenomenon in the cognition of living organisms, which we call "extrasensory perception".The other is the phenomenon in which organisms act on matter without a physical medium, and we call it "psychic action". Extrasensory perception refers to the ability to obtain certain external information without the help of normal sensory channels. Any known medium can transmit one person's thoughts and ideas to another person in a distant place, such as thinking transmission.The latter refers to the special ability to perceive events or things that cannot be seen, such as being able to know what is happening at a distance or distinguishing the color of the skin.

If you need to explain psychology in detail, you must first understand psychic phenomena. It has a long history, but studying psychology as a discipline has only a history of nearly a hundred years in human history.Let us focus first on the period when the science of psychology was in its infancy. It was in the 40s of the 18th century. At that time, the world's science was developing rapidly, and Darwin's theory of evolution had penetrated into the depths of people's hearts. At this time, spiritualism appeared.Now it seems that this view in the early years is a challenge to the point of view that only uses matter to explain people and the mind.In 1848, the three Fox sisters in the village of Hathway, New York, USA, had "information sensing" with the souls of the dead of the family through some physical phenomena such as knocking on furniture, which caused a lot of controversy at the time. A huge sensation, although the view on this event is still controversial, but, after all, it has promoted people's attention and practice on the study of paranormal phenomena, which means the birth of psychology, that is, parapsychology .

In the 1850s, several psychic organizations had been established one after another, one of which was a psychic investigation society at the University of Cambridge, which was sometimes called the "ghost society".This was largely due to their focus on spontaneous and supernatural experiences at the time. Thirty years later, on February 20, 1882, Britain established the world's first Society for the Study of the Mind. At that time, Henry Sidgwick, a well-known philosopher, served as the first chairman of the Society for the Study of the Mind. Later, in 1885, a similar institution was established in the United States, and they were also called the "Spiritual Research Society".Subsequently, most countries in Europe have successively established such societies.Later, spiritual research has shifted from qualitative research, such as evidence of witchcraft and automatic cases, to quantitative research.A "Parapsychological Institute" was established at Duke University in North Carolina, USA. J. B. Laing created a series of parapsychological terms in his book "Supersensory Perception" in 1934. And statistical techniques are also applied to the study of the mind.He wrote a book that not only attracted the scientific community, but also attracted the attention of the general public.

During World War II, both Hitler and Goebbels used psychics to encourage astrologers to use astrology to predict the outcome of the war in their favor, and they also wanted to create public opinion for fascist rule.However, their perverse approach has been strongly protested by spiritual scholars. In spite of this, more and more people pay attention to psychology in the West.In 1957, the international professional organization "International Parapsychological Association" was established in the United States. In 1969, the society had become an affiliated society of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and more and more universities began to propose research directions and research topics in psychology. According to incomplete statistics, by the early 1970s, more than 240 psychic research institutes and societies had been established in more than 30 countries around the world, many of which were unified and led by the "International Parapsychological Association" based in New York. .Some countries also specialize in publishing magazines, publishing special academic papers on psychology and publishing news on psychology seminars.It is noteworthy that in 1968, India also awarded the first psychic researcher with the degree of "Master of Parapsychology".The Soviet Union also attached great importance to psychic research. According to an article by American scholar A. Otto in 1980, in the Soviet Union, there were more than 20 government-sponsored psychic research institutes and research centers engaged in specialized research. The Soviet Union called this special The phenomenon of telepathy is "brain wave sensing". They always believe that the human brain can transmit information like a radio station. They recognize the existing phenomenon, and choose people with average intelligence as test subjects and train them. I spent an evening reviewing the history of psychology, which I had actually dabbled in in college.But when it comes to letting it solve the case, I still don't want to believe it, and I don't want to rely on it. However, Werther and other colleagues obviously didn't see it that way. A few days later, when I was busy in the laboratory, Werther came in with some surprise to tell me the news. "We got in touch with the Canadian Psychiatric Society and they did telepathy for us. They said Shirley had been killed and was buried in a shallow grave near the water or pine trees." "Really? So where exactly is that place? Do you need to ask them to do another favor, just use mind sensing to let Shirley's body walk back by itself?" I said with a sarcasm, in fact At this time, I was in a bad mood. Werther could hear the teasing in my words, so he could only smile awkwardly, and then walked away resentfully.I went on working, taking the psychic suggestion that Shirley was in a shallow grave near a water or pine tree as a joke.Even if this were true, in Prince Edward Island, we would have to drive 6 hours to circle this green gem, which is surrounded by the sea. Charlotte is the capital of the island and has a population of about 60,000.So, which river and under which tree will Shirley's body be hidden?Werther is very poor, and he is really overwhelmed by this case, that's what I think.