Serious Crime Unit 1

Chapter 1182 Death of Actress (3)
He squatted down and picked up Lu Hong's right hand, and checked the fingerprints on her five fingers one by one. He found that the fingerprints on the pistol were the same as her thumb, index finger, and middle finger, indicating that Lu Hong shot himself. However, something strange The only thing is: there should be other people's fingerprints on the gun, such as the fingerprints of the prop manager. If there are no fingerprints of the manager, it means that the fingerprints were deliberately wiped off, or the manager wore invisible gloves.This was most likely a murder.The murderer replaced the prop gun with a real gun, but Lu Hong had no idea.

Zhou Ting took out an evidence bag from his trouser pocket, put the pistol in it, and then went to check the wound on Lu Hong's temple. He found that there was only a wound where the bullet had entered, but no exit wound, which meant that the bullet was still in Lu Hong's brain. Here, you can compare bullet marks.If the bullet was shot from the left temple and we don’t know where it landed, we can’t compare the bullet marks.

This kind of on-site investigation is actually very simple, because you know the specific time of death of the deceased and why he died. Then you just need to find the murderer.

Zhou Ting called Huang Zhong aside and asked him about Lu Hong's situation.Huang Zhong said that Lu Hong is from this city. After graduating from the Provincial Drama School, he was hired by Tuoye Film and Television Company and began to act as a supporting role. When the company was going to film "Love in the Blue Sea" early last year, he was selected by director Liu Qiu to star. He is 26 years old and is a very dedicated actor.

At this time, Jiang Yiming led the No. 1 crime team.

When it got dark, Xiao Ke took out the survey light from the survey box and illuminated the scene brightly. Everyone started to survey the site. It took less than 20 minutes to complete the survey because the site was destroyed by everyone and there was nothing worth surveying. .

The most important thing is the pistol and the body, which must be brought back to the team for careful inspection before the results can be obtained.In addition to Luo Jin, everyone was divided into three groups and briefly questioned the 18 crew members. The most important question was whether Lu Hong could commit suicide?Everyone thinks that Lu Hong is unlikely to commit suicide because she has just become a starring role and is very proud of herself.

After the inquiry, Jiang Yiming asked everyone to collect the team and go home. The body collectors carried the corpses to the dock and transported them back to the Municipal Bureau Forensic Medicine Center to prepare for the second pair of corpses to be dissected.

On the third day, the autopsy results and various examinations came out.Luo Jin said: "The deceased Lu Hong was hit by a bullet from a revolver. The impact of the bullet caused a fracture of the temporal bone. It then penetrated the brain tissue and stayed above the left temporal bone, thus causing the deceased to die instantly with almost no pain."

"Did the bullet come from the revolver?" Jiang Yiming asked. This question needs to be clarified. If there is no bullet in the revolver and the murderer hides in the grass near the scene and shoots Lu Hong, then the murderer can Get away with it.

"I compared the bullet marks and found that the bullet was fired from Lu Hong's revolver, and there was ammonium nitrate residue on her right hand." Wu Jiang replied.

"Besides Lu Hong's fingerprints, are there no other fingerprints on the revolver?"

"Yes, it's very strange that there are no other people's fingerprints on the pistol. I think the fingerprints were wiped off intentionally. The most suspected of them is the prop manager. I heard director Liu Qiu say that the revolver was given to him by the prop manager. Lu Hong's, why aren't there his fingerprints on it? Did he deliberately hide his fingerprints?" Xiao Ke asked.

"According to 18 crew members, Lu Hong had no reason to commit suicide. This may be a clever murder case. I heard that Bruce Lee was also murdered after a prop gun was replaced with a real gun. I think it is very likely that he committed suicide. ." Zhou Ting said.

"Is Lu Hong suffering from a terminal illness?" Jiang Yiming asked Luo Jin.

"Dong Dawei and I performed a pathological analysis on Lu Hong and found that she was not terminally ill. However, there were some small red spots on her body, which were caused by pollen allergy. Spring is here, and there are many flowers on Sansha Island. There are rape flowers, cannas, primroses, etc. in bloom, so people with pollen allergies are very likely to suffer from pollen allergies."

"Yingying, after watching the video of the last scene of "Love in the Blue Sea", did you find anything unusual?"

"No, it's very normal. Lu Hong raised his gun and shot himself to death." Lu Yingying answered.

"What do you think of this?"

"I think it was a homicide. We must investigate clearly and give an explanation to the family of the deceased. Lu Hong's father was a vegetable farmer in the suburbs. They only had one daughter. They spent their whole life cultivating her into an actress that everyone admired. Unexpectedly, She died unexpectedly, and when her mother came to identify her body, she fainted on the spot. Fortunately, I rescued her in time and is still hospitalized," Luo Jin said.

Everyone also tends to commit suicide.So Jiang Yiming agreed to open an investigation, mainly to find out where the gun came from; secondly, to find out who replaced the prop gun with a real gun.And this gun is an imitation revolver. If the imitation gun workshops are not destroyed and the people who make the pistols are arrested and brought to justice, it will bring great safety risks to society.

Jiang Yiming and Zhou Ting went to find the prop manager to explain.Xie Li is 31 years old, relatively short in stature, and has a short position.He was originally a walk-on, with irregular work and very depressed. Later, because of his hard work, Huang Zhong took a fancy to him and hired him to be a prop manager and do some chores.

He has a dark face, a flat nose, and a short beard. He looks a bit wretched, but his eyes are sharp and his speech is very standard. He is wearing a wrinkled black suit and a pair of brown leather shoes, and he looks nondescript.

He sat in the dormitory of Tuoye Film and Television Company and accepted Jiang Yiming's questioning: "Xie Li, we are from the criminal police team of the city bureau. We want to know the situation from you. Please cooperate. You must tell the truth, otherwise, it will be very detrimental to you."

"Well, I will say whatever I have to say. Every citizen has the obligation to cooperate with the police in handling cases." He nodded, and then swallowed a sip of water.

"Did you give the revolver to Lu Hong?" "Yes." He looked at the window sill and said, because at this time a swallow flew over and stayed on the window sill, chirping "chirp, chirp, chirp" , it seems that Xie Li is not nervous, otherwise he would not be in the mood to appreciate the swallow's murmur.

"When did you give the pistol to Lu Hong?"

"It's not a pistol, it's a prop pistol... About half an hour before filming, that is, around 3:20 pm on March 5, I handed the prop pistol to Lu Hong because the heroine committed suicide on the beach in the afterglow of the sunset. The sunset is the most beautiful around 6 p.m., so the director decided to start filming at 6 p.m.”

"When you handed the pistol to Lu Hong, were you wearing gloves?"

"Why are you wearing gloves? I'm not wearing gloves. I'm only wearing a mask because it's the government's epidemic prevention requirement." He didn't understand.

"But, I didn't find your fingerprints on the pistol. What's going on?" Jiang Yiming suspected that he was lying and stared at him closely.

"It's impossible. Did you make a mistake? There must be my fingerprints on the prop pistol."

"We are very professional criminal police. How could we get such a key piece of physical evidence like fingerprints wrong? After you handed the pistol to Lu Hong, where did she put the pistol?"

"Put it in a red satchel. She was still carrying that little satchel when she died."

"I heard from the director that you were not at the scene when Lu Hong was filming. Where did you go?"

"I was in a small truck. Because there was no road at the scene, only a small road, the car could only be parked about 600 meters away from the scene. I was afraid that the props would be stolen, so I kept guard in the car. I put those Treat props as your own furniture.”

"I heard that you once had a quarrel with Lu Hong, right?"

"No...no, I'm just a small prop manager. How dare I quarrel with the female lead? Don't I want to hang out? I cherish this job very much. Although the monthly salary is only 3500 yuan, my wife and children They all live on my salary because my wife has kidney disease and cannot go to work, and the child is only 10 months old." The swallow flew away, and he looked back.

"But an actor named Tu Shi said that he saw Lu Hong insulting you and slapped you. Why don't you admit it?" Jiang Yiming's eyes became sharp and his voice became stern.

"I'm sorry, I don't want to mention this... Actually, I was not wrong. What happened at the time was this: Lu Hong asked me to lend her a prop pistol to take home for two days. According to the company's requirements, others are not allowed to bring the prop pistol without any reason. She went back, so she was rejected by me. For some reason, she actually called me a lackey of the producer and scolded me for being as short as Wu Dalun. Sooner or later, I will be poisoned by my wife! This is completely against my personality. It was an insult, so I scolded her back, but she actually raised her hand and slapped me in the face. I tried not to fight back, because if I hit back, I would most likely be fired."

"What did you scold her back then?"

"I said that she became the leading actress because of her beauty, not her acting skills. When she heard it, she felt that there was something in what I said, implying that she became the leading actor because of her affair with someone, so she slapped me... …Actually, it was just a momentary angry statement.”

"Has Lu Hong always had such a bad temper?" Jiang Yiming felt strange. Lu Hong was five years younger than Xie Li and had a higher education. How could he bully others casually like an uneducated shrew?
"I have been working with her for two years. Although I rarely have the opportunity to get along with her, she used to be very polite to everyone. I don't know why, but recently her temper suddenly became very bad. Not only did she We had an argument with me and two other colleagues, and we thought she might have become arrogant because of the starring role."

"Do you think it's true that she has an affair with a powerful person?"

"No, I don't know. I was just angry at her."

"How many years have you been in this business?"

"After graduating from high school, I started to work in the city's film and television city, until now."

(End of this chapter)