Criminal Minds Archives

Chapter 19
When a person's heart is filled with darkness, evil grows there.Those who are guilty are not those who commit crimes, but those who create darkness!
——Hugo

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On a summer night, the sky is gloomy, hot and windless, and the cicadas' chirping is shrill and piercing, revealing inexplicable mania.A few bursts of fireworks made a "swish" sound, pierce the stagnant night sky, and slammed into a row of small buildings standing on the side of the street.

In an instant, sparks flew everywhere, and countless terrifying "Fire Snakes" seemed to have been ambushing in the darkness. Just waiting for this order, they shot out from all directions and spread with lightning speed.

Shouts, cries for help, wailing, and even sirens approaching from far and wide resounded through the night.More and more people were attracted here, and they all showed expressions of shock and fear as they looked at the small building that was constantly being attacked by the fire...

However, the reaction of the people at the scene of the fire was very different. Facing such a fire scene, one person's eyes were extremely greedy and excited.Although what he was facing was only a picture displayed on a computer screen, it was enough to make the hot passion in his body reach its peak, until it burst out under the trembling of his body...

The first serial arson
Directorate General of Criminal Investigation, Serious Case Support Department.

Gu Feifei knocked on the door of the old leader Wu Guoqing's office, and when she heard a response from inside, she pushed the door open and walked in with Han Yin.Wu Guoqing was leaning over the top class desk looking at a file, when he raised his eyes and saw the two of them, he quickly took off his presbyopic glasses and got up to greet them.

Wu Guoqing shook Han Yin's hand vigorously, and said, "Rare guest, rare guest, when did you come?"

"Just arrived." Han Yin smiled.

"His school is on summer vacation, so he came to see me. As soon as he arrived, he wanted to visit you first." Gu Feifei chimed in with a sweet face, and put a gift bag in her hand on Wu Guoqing's desk. , "Knowing how you like it, I brought you two bottles of good wine."

"Come on, come here. What else do you bring? You are not allowed to see others like this in the future. Sit down, sit down!" Han Yinben is one of Wu Guoqing's admired juniors, and he has this relationship with Gu Feifei, so Wu Guoqing seems quite interested high.While giving up his seat, he turned around and took out a box of tea from the drawer of the executive desk, and said, "It's rare for you to come here, let me make a pot of good tea for you to drink."

"You talk, I'll come." Gu Feifei was very discerning, and said as she took the tea box from Wu Guoqing's hand.

After a while, the tea was brewed, and the old and the young drank the tea and chatted with each other.

Gu Feifei didn't want to get involved in the conversation between men. Seeing a stack of files on the desk of the senior class, she picked up a copy and flipped through it. She didn't expect to be attracted to it soon.After reading one by one, Gu Feifei's complexion gradually darkened, and she couldn't help but frown...

case one.Time: 2015:5pm on May 13, 11.Location: Xingfa Hotel, Yude Road, Linyi Street, Changfang District, Jianghua City.Facts of the case: The perpetrator poured gasoline on the entrance of the hotel and ignited it, causing a fire in the front living room of the hotel. Fortunately, the fire was small and no casualties occurred.

case two.Time: 2015 am on September 9, 8.Location: Great Wall Hotel, Caida Road, Daming Street, Linyuan District, Jianghua City.Facts of the case: The perpetrator sprayed gasoline around the main entrance of the hotel in a large area, causing a serious fire in the hotel, causing a guest to jump down from the third floor of the hotel with his whole body on fire in desperation, and was rushed to the hospital. , died a week later.

case three.Time: 2015:12 p.m. on December 14, 11.Location: Jinli Guest House, Minxing Road, Zhoushan Street, Wancheng District, Jianghua City.Facts of the case: The perpetrator threw multiple self-made petrol bombs at the hotel door and windows in succession, causing a large area of ​​fire and killing one guest.

案件四。时间：2016年3月9日晚10时30分许。江华市正阳区君里街道人宝路隆盛宾馆。案情：犯罪人向大门以及窗户连续投掷多枚自制汽油燃烧弹，引起宾馆大面积失火，导致两名住客身亡。

案件五。时间：2016年6月5日凌晨1时30分许。地点：江华市正阳区美林街道玉山路友好旅店。案情：犯罪人向大门以及窗户连续投掷多枚自制汽油燃烧弹，导致一名消防员在救援任务中不幸牺牲。

case six.Time: 2016:7 p.m. on July 2, 11.Location: Chengming Hotel, Caishi Road, Yingkui Street, Ganhua District, Jianghua City.The perpetrator threw multiple homemade petrol bombs at the door and windows in succession, killing one resident and injuring the other.

To sum up: the arson targets chosen by the perpetrators were all low-grade accommodation places, gasoline was used as the combustion accelerant, and the circumstances of the crimes were basically similar, so the six cases were investigated and dealt with together.On-site investigation: In the first case, except for a 2-liter plastic beverage bottle found near the crime scene (later determined to be a container used by the criminal to hold gasoline), no physical or personal evidence was found that could link the murderer .Although the relevant surveillance cameras captured the arson process, the criminal's face was deliberately covered, so it was difficult to discern his real appearance.

Gu Feifei closed the last file, was stunned for a while, couldn't help interrupting the two men who were chatting, and said: "The criminal set fire six times in a row, causing many people to be burned to death. It is no longer a simple case of arson. It's equivalent to a series of serious murders. Mr. Wu, leave this case to me?"

"Oh, yes, I was looking for you just now." Noticing Gu Feifei's questioning, Wu Guoqing responded with a serious face, "The case is indeed quite serious. It has continued from May last year until now, and the local police have been helpless. Nothing is known about the perpetrator."

"Judging from the time of committing the crime, the cooling-off period is getting shorter and shorter. Today is July 7, and it has been more than ten days since the last case. I am worried that there will be new cases soon." Gu Feifei said worriedly.

"Time is really tight, you should leave as soon as possible." Wu Guoqing put on a regretful expression, and said to Han Yin, "The timing is not right today. When the case is over, you come over, we two have a good drink and have a good chat."

"Definitely, definitely!" Han Yin said with a humble face and a smile.

Jianghua City is a famous tourist city. Right now it is the peak tourist season, and several flights cannot be booked, so the support team had to take the high-speed rail instead.

The high-speed train from Beijing to Jianghua runs for nearly 6 hours. Hanyin started his study mode when he got on the train. Nearly half of the journey time has passed. His whole attention has been devoted to the case file, and his sitting posture has not changed. Pass.

Gu Feifei unscrewed a bottle of mineral water and handed it over to him, wanting him to drink and rest for a while before reading.Unexpectedly, Han Yin didn't even raise her head, but just slightly raised her hand, rejecting her kindness.With a hot face and a cold butt, Gu Feifei's stubborn temper came up again. Of course, she was not really angry, but she just stubbornly stretched out the mineral water bottle directly in front of Han Yin's eyes.

It was only this time that Han Yin came to his senses. He looked up and saw Gu Feifei who was pretending to be serious. He quickly took the mineral water, pursed his lips and smiled and said, "Sorry, I'm too involved."

"Let's watch later." Gu Feifei also smiled and said softly.

"It's almost finished." Han Yin drank his saliva, closed the file and said.

"Do you have any ideas? In terms of type, what kind of arsonist do we encounter this time?" Gu Feifei is also impatient, and she never leaves the case.

Han Yin nodded, sorted out his thoughts a bit, and said, "There are two main types of serial arson cases caused by psychological distortion: the first type is called arsonism, and the criminals mainly target barren open spaces, garbage dumps, abandoned Buildings, etc., are relatively harmless; the second type is arson for the purpose of seeking a sense of control and accomplishment. This type of criminal has considerable lethality, and they don’t care whether arson will harm others. Harmful, most of the targets are places where people live and move, and they are extremely dangerous. And there is a progressive relationship between these two types. Some pyromaniacs will upgrade to crimes seeking a sense of control due to severe setbacks in their lives people."

"As for the current case, it is closer to the latter type, but what is more special is that the target of the criminal's arson is very clear - that is, hotels, guesthouses and other low-end accommodation places, which shows that this kind of place has a certain symbolic meaning. We must first What you do is unravel the meaning of the symbol to find the original stimulus for the perpetrator."

"In addition, there is another point to focus on. Perverted criminals who seek a sense of control as their core needs pay great attention to and enjoy the process of committing crimes. In particular, relevant psychologists' research has shown that arson and sexual stimulation are closely related. The key factor that makes the criminal want to stop, so this kind of criminal likes to witness the fire scene intuitively, so as to get the greatest excitement and satisfaction. That is to say, the criminal is likely to escape first after committing the crime, and then return to the scene in disguise Among the onlookers, 'appreciate' your own 'masterpiece'!"

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After getting off the high-speed rail, it was already evening when we arrived at the Jianghua City Public Security Bureau. The director of the Jianghua City Public Security Bureau personally came forward to receive the support team.After a simple dinner, a meeting was held overnight.At the meeting, Chen Haifeng, the captain of the criminal police detachment of Jianghua City and the leader of the series of arson cases, gave an in-depth and detailed introduction to the case and the progress of the investigation... The meeting lasted until midnight.

Back at the hotel, Gu Feifei referred to Han Yin's opinion and made corresponding arrangements for the next day's work: Ai Xiaomei's left-behind detachment was responsible for screening video materials and contacting work, and Gu Feifei went to the forensic department to confirm the forensic identification of the victims who died in the fire Information, Han Yin and Du Yingxiong will visit the scene of the crime separately with the assistance of the task force.

Section [-] On-Site Visit
As I said before, the low-end hotel has a certain symbolic meaning for the criminal, and whatever it symbolizes, it is a place where the criminal can't restrain his resentment and anger.And this kind of emotion must have something to do with some unpleasant experience he had in low-end hotels in the past, which means that his initial motivation for arson was relatively common profit motives such as revenge, venting anger, murder, and profit.It can be inferred from this that the target of the criminal's first crime may be highly targeted.In fact, judging from the facts of the case, the criminal had prepared gasoline as a combustion accelerant in advance, and it was obvious that he came prepared.Therefore, in Han Yin's view, for the first Xingfa hotel that was set on fire, in addition to the preliminary investigation, it is necessary to continue to dig deeper for clues.

Xingfa Hotel suffered the least loss in the whole case, but the wall at the facade was blackened, and after a little painting, it continued to operate.This hotel is located in an old residential area. The owners are a husband and wife who rented a two-story public building downstairs facing the street.The front door is not big, and the exterior decoration is also very simple. It seems that the overall grade of the hotel is relatively low.Surrounded by Internet cafes, restaurants, small supermarkets and vegetable markets, the location is relatively lively in the residential area.

After observing the surrounding environment for a while, Han Yin walked into the Xingfa Hotel accompanied by the detachment leader Chen Haifeng and a police officer from the task force.Both the boss and the proprietress were there, and after introducing their identities, Han Yin began to ask: "Did any of the residents have a dispute with you before the arson incident?"

"No." The male boss said without hesitation.

"Think about it carefully, the time does not need to be too limited, it can be extended for a while." Han Yin reminded.

"It seems... not at all." The boss and the boss lady looked at each other, and then said in unison.

"What about complaints? Are there any complaints against the hotel or other guests?" Han Yin continued to ask.

"Should have, but I can't remember exactly." The proprietress hesitated for a moment, then took the words, "Actually, there are complaints every day. Sometimes I think there is no hot water, sometimes I think the quilt smells musty, and sometimes I have this and that, anyway. People can always find faults, and we are used to it. If we can solve it, we will solve it;

"What about the guests? Is there any quarrel or unpleasantness? Or which guest makes you feel more angry?" Han Yin asked continuously.

"I didn't pay much attention, anyway, we haven't heard of it." The boss and the proprietress looked at each other again, shaking their heads in unison.

"According to our police records, there were a total of 12 residents here on the day of the incident, and two of them claimed that they heard the two of you arguing before the fire was recorded during the statement. Is this true? Why?" Obviously Han Yin last night I have done my homework and have a fairly thorough understanding of the relevant information.

"Hey, the two of us often have a small quarrel every two days and a big quarrel every three days. It's not a big deal." The male boss said carelessly, then turned his head and asked the proprietress, "Did we quarrel that day? Why didn't I remember it?"

"It's noisy, I remember, isn't it because you secretly took 100 yuan from the account to buy lottery tickets?" The proprietress said angrily.

"Yes, yes, yes, I remembered too." The male boss smiled awkwardly.

"I just mentioned complaints. Did any residents complain about the quarrel between the two of you that night?" Han Yin asked.

"That's really not the case." The male boss said innocently, "You don't think it's because the two of us quarreled and got annoyed, and we want to burn our own shop?"

"Don't worry, the nature of our work is like this, we have to consider any doubts." Han Yin comforted with a smile, and then fell into a short thought.

A few small problems are that Han Yin is gradually looking for reasons that may stimulate the criminals. Only by finding out the stimulating factors can the symbolic meaning of the low-end hotel be solved.But the boss's answer did not bring him any inspiration. Of course, maybe the murderer had nothing to do with Xingfa Hotel at all.However, Han Yin did not give up. He decided to change his mind: Like most serial killers, the criminal in this case set the fire for the first time in an unconscious state. A release and pleasure, thus becoming a common practice of serial crimes.

Han Yin raised his hand to push the mirror frame on the bridge of his nose, broke the silence, and asked, "Except for being set on fire this time, have you ever had a fire here before?"

"Oh, there was once, but it was the summer of the year before last, and it was an accident." The male boss said bluntly.

"Really? Tell me, what's going on?" Han Yin nodded vigorously, showing great interest in the boss's answer.

"I was also very impressed that time," the proprietress rushed to say, "It was around 1 o'clock in the middle of the night. I was playing with the computer at the bar, and when I was playing, I smelled a burning smell coming from upstairs. My husband woke up, and ran upstairs with a fire extinguisher, and then saw smoke coming out from the crack in the door of Room 203..."

"Actually, the fire didn't burn much. The main reason was that the sheets and the clothes of the residents were covered. I sprayed the fire extinguisher a few times and the fire went out, but the two residents were terrified." The male boss continued.

"Call out the registration record of that guest." Chen Haifeng, who had been silent for a long time, pointed to the computer on the reception desk.

After hearing what he said, the boss and the proprietress murmured for a while, probably remembering the date at that time, then the proprietress clacked on the computer keyboard, then turned the monitor to Han Yin and the others, and said, "Here, this is the The ID information registered by the two guests checked in at 8:22 p.m. on August 9 the year before last, and it caught fire a few hours later."

"This one is called Sun Peng, and the other is named Luo Zhe. Who lit the fire?" Chen Haifeng looked closer and asked casually while writing on the notepad.

"The one named Sun Peng, he has a very good attitude. He voluntarily admitted that it was caused by his own carelessness, and he even paid for the loss in the store, so we didn't pursue it any further." The male boss replied, and asked again with a puzzled look on his face. , "Is he related to our hotel being set on fire later?"

"We won't find out until we investigate. Just wait for the news." Chen Haifeng said with a sullen face, then tore off the page on the notepad where the ID card information was just recorded, and handed it to a police officer beside him, saying, " You go back to the team first, find out this guy named Sun Peng, and Teacher Han and I will go to the scene a few more times, and call me if there is any result..."

Chengming Hotel is close to the largest vegetable and fruit wholesale market in Jianghua City. It was transformed from an independent old residential building. The dark window frame was covered with broken wooden boards from the inside, and the two glass doors at the main entrance were also only two distorted plastic steel frames.

At this time, the shutter door at the gate was halfway drawn, and Du Yingxiong and a police officer from the special case team bent down and walked in. At a glance, they saw an old man lying on a rattan chair reading a newspaper in the middle of the hall.

Hearing the noise, the uncle sat up, looked at the two of them suspiciously, and asked tentatively, "Who are you...?"

"We are the police." Du Yingxiong showed his police officer ID and said.

"The villain who set the fire was caught?" Hearing that it was the police, the uncle hurriedly put the newspaper aside, stood up abruptly, and asked happily.

"Master, please don't get excited, the criminal has not been caught yet, so we specially invited experts from the General Administration to guide the handling of the case." The accompanying police officer pointed at Du Yingxiong and explained to the uncle.

"Master, what is your relationship with this hotel?" Du Yingxiong read the information and knew that the boss was a young man named Li Chengming.

"My nephew Cheng Ming opened the store. He and his wife have been busy with insurance claims these days. I'm the only one here to take care of it. Although the store was burned down, there are still a lot of valuable things there." Uncle He said with a little disappointment on his face.

"Then you have a good relationship with your nephew, right?" Now that they are all here, the trip can't be wasted, so Du Yingxiong can only talk to the uncle first, "Are you familiar with the situation in this store?"

"Oh, our store is basically full of our own family members. Cheng Ming is the boss, and his partner helps manage the accounts. There are also two hired waiters. I usually come to the store to help clean and look around the store. So I was there on the night when the fire broke out." The uncle sighed, and then he took the initiative to explain, "My younger brother and his wife passed away early, and Cheng Ming has been with me, like my own son. He has never found his heart after graduating from college. I have been unemployed for almost a year, and I am bored at home all day, and I also get angry. Last fall, I had a friend—the original owner of this store, who was anxious to use money to sublet the store. Just use the sum of money left by my brother after his death to set up this shop for Chengming, who would have thought that this kind of thing would happen after only half a year in business."

"Oh, that's it!" Seeing the uncle's uncomfortable face, Du Yingxiong didn't have the heart to continue asking. After looking around for a while, he turned and walked towards the stairs to one side.

"You want to go upstairs to have a look? The circuit is burnt out, and the upper part is black. I'll take you there." The uncle sensiblely picked up the emergency light on the reception desk, rushed to the front, and introduced as he went upstairs, "Our store has a total of 4 floors and 16 rooms. Most of the guests ran out that night. Only the guests on the top floors 501 and 503 moved slowly. As a result, one was burned and the other was suffocated to death."

"Isn't there a total of 4 floors? Why are there 501 and 503?" Du Yingxiong asked in wonder.

"Cheng Ming said that '4' is unlucky to do business. After we took over the hotel, we simply referred to the fourth floor as the fifth floor." The uncle explained.

The Chengming hotel arson case is the last case in the series of arson cases so far. The scene is relatively complete, which allows Du Yingxiong to feel the scene and atmosphere of the crime more intuitively and truly. It is very useful for analyzing crimes. The background information pointed to by human behavior characteristics is also more beneficial, which is why Du Yingxiong first chose Chengming Hotel for investigation.

In addition, although Han and India tend to think that the target of the criminal's initial arson is the most important, they also specially reminded that the possibility of intersections between the other arsonated hotels and the criminal should not be ignored.So next, Du Yingxiong also asked the uncle the same question as Han Yin mentioned in Xingfa Hotel, but the result also did not get valuable feedback.

However, during the questioning, Du Yingxiong noticed that the uncle's behavior was not as straightforward as before, and he seemed to be more cautious, especially when it came to the issues of the residents. When he responded, his eyes always flickered, and he seemed to have reservations.Du Yingxiong thought about it secretly, decided to directly address this issue, and said in a sincere tone: "Master, I think we should be more honest, so that it will help our police catch criminals faster."

"What should be said... I... I have said it all!" The uncle hesitated for a moment, and said falteringly.

"Master, if you behave like this, it will not only affect the efficiency of catching criminals, but we will also think that you are involved in this arson case." Seeing the uncle's reaction, Du Yingxiong felt that there was something wrong, so he deliberately said something have to be heavier.

"No, no, no, how is it possible, why should I burn my own shop?" The uncle shook his head vigorously and denied it, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Okay, let me say, but I beg you to let Cheng Ming go, He's miserable enough, don't deal with him, okay?"

"Tell me, what's the matter?" Du Yingxiong said patiently.

"The day before the hotel caught fire, a person with a foreign accent came to stay at the hotel. He said he had lost his ID card and was trying to find a way to reissue it. He begged us to let him stay first. Cheng Ming didn't think much about it at the time, so he agreed. But who knew that after the fire broke out, he left without saying goodbye, and didn’t even take the remaining deposit, so we felt that this person should not be a good person.” After the uncle stammered what happened, he hurriedly pleaded, “I know that your Public Security Bureau Now the matter of guest registration is more strictly grasped, violating the regulations will result in detention, that’s why Chengming and Chengming have kept this matter a secret, we know we are wrong, don’t detain Chengming, if you want to detain me, detain me.”

"Leave that aside, can you describe that person's appearance?" Du Yingxiong asked.

"Didn't you take our surveillance video after the fire? That person should be recorded in it. That person has a mustache and short hair. There is a conspicuous tear mole here." The uncle pointed his finger at his Said under the eyes.

Section III Summary Analysis

After dinner, in the meeting room of the detachment, the case was sorted out.

As usual, Gu Feifei was the first to introduce the autopsy and identification of physical evidence: "This series of arson cases resulted in the death of six indirect victims and one injury. I have read the corpses and autopsy reports of the deceased, and I can confirm that except one of them was caused by extensive burns. Except for the death of traumatic shock, the remaining five died of heat-induced respiratory syndrome caused by inhalation of a large amount of fire smoke and dust in the respiratory tract. In short, the victims all died of the fire, and no signs of homicide or burning were found. As for arson and explosives, it is a crime It is self-made by people, using beverage bottles, adding gasoline, stuffing the fuze, and finally synthesizing it into a powerful gasoline incendiary bomb.”

Then came Ai Xiaomi. She fiddled with the laptop in front of her a few times, and then a video image was displayed on the projection screen on the wall of the meeting room.Accompanied by the pictures, Ai Xiaomei said: "Currently we have the surveillance videos of the four crime scenes in the whole series of cases, both indoor and outdoor perspectives are available - the first Xingfa hotel that was set on fire did not install surveillance; the second The three Jinli guest houses that were set on fire, surveillance cameras and computers were burned in the fire. However, in the existing video, the criminal’s arson process has been clearly recorded. Here, this is what you see now—the criminal is holding a A cloth bag walked into the surveillance camera, then stopped in front of the hotel door, unhurriedly took out a homemade petrol bomb from the cloth bag, ignited it with a lighter, and threw it at the hotel door and the window facing the street. The whole process only took about 1 minute. After that, he walked out of the camera very calmly. As for the criminal, everyone saw him—wearing a gray long-peaked cap and a mask on his face, his appearance was unrecognizable, his height was roughly 1.70 meters to 1.72 meters, and he was of medium build, neither fat nor thin , the degree of identification is low, but it should be sure that it is a male."

Ai Xiaomei stopped talking, fiddled with the computer a few more times, and a technologically processed image was displayed on the projection screen, that is, two different scenes appeared in one screen.Immediately, Ai Xiaomei pressed the pause button, zoomed in on a certain point in the two different scenes, and then said: "According to Teacher Han's instructions, I watched the video many times, especially paying attention to the pictures of the onlookers in the video. The same onlooker was found in the videos of Case [-] and Case [-]. I deliberately selected these two scenes so that the man’s face can be seen clearly.”

"Although the costumes are different, I feel that the figure is very similar to the criminal who appeared in the previous video. It can't be a coincidence to watch the two crime scenes one after another?" Du Yingxiong said immediately.

"Enlarge the photo...Okay...it's ok, and then play the video..." Han Yin didn't answer, pointed to the projection screen and ordered Ai Xiaomei, then pointed to the projection screen and said, "In the enlarged photo just now, Have you noticed? There is a faint black line on the right side of this man's face, and looking at the two simultaneous screens, his hands are poking his right ear..."

"Is he using the modified walkie-talkie to monitor the information from the fire channel?" Gu Feifei said.

"Then I didn't run away, it must be the arsonist, otherwise who would pay so much attention to these two fires?" Ai Xiaomei said.

"Yes, although this person only showed up at two crime scenes, it is enough to make people suspicious. Can you print out the photo and send a police report to the police station?" Chen Haifeng, the captain of the detachment, looked at Han Yinhe in a consulting tone. Gu Feifei said.

"Yes." Gu Feifei nodded slightly, pointed at Du Yingxiong and said, "By the way, didn't you say that there is also a situation?"

"I visited Chengming Hotel, the last crime scene in the morning. According to the uncle of the shop owner, there was a guest who checked in without an ID card the day before the incident, but the guest disappeared after the fire. I asked Xiaomei to follow his description. According to the appearance characteristics of the hotel, the unknown person has been found in the surveillance video previously provided by the hotel. Compared with the photos, it is found that he is a wanted criminal on the Internet. The good news is that he was arrested in another city a week ago. We contacted the police in the city Get in touch, his confession after he arrived at the case has been confirmed, and he does not have the relevant time to commit the crime, so the information is useless.” Du Yingxiong paused, thought for a while, and then said, “But this information gave me a little inspiration. I have encountered many perverted serial killers, and almost everyone will continue to improve their modus operandi as their desires escalate, and this series of arson cases also shows the same behavioral characteristics: the criminal seems to have no idea what the arsonist wants to achieve from the beginning. It was rather vague, and the method of arson was very simple, but as the victim appeared in the second crime—especially the scene where the victim jumped from the hotel building with fire on his body, I believe it must have touched the criminal's heart deeply. Let him feel unprecedented excitement. So, he began to seek more powerful modus operandi, using homemade petrol bombs to cause greater damage, so as to obtain higher levels of satisfaction. We all know that this desire escalates to In the end, the criminal may intentionally seek to challenge the police; another thing, Mr. Han also said, this will be a serial crime that particularly focuses on the process of committing the crime, so is it possible that in a certain arson, the criminal pretended to be The guest is hidden in the hotel where the crime happened? Thus, the criminal not only participates in the case process to the greatest extent, but also forms a fool and provocation to the police!"

"The idea is good. It is worth carefully screening the information of the residents involved in the case. The task is entrusted to you, Xiaomei." Han Yin followed up and urged, "Be patient and don't make any omissions!"

It was nearly midnight again after the meeting.

Back in the hotel room, Han Yin made himself a cup of tea, then sat down at the desk, turned on the laptop, and tried to profile the background of the murderer while sorting out the relevant information of the case in his mind like a movie.

The great man said: There is no love without reason in the world, and there is no hate without reason.Of course, no one becomes a psychopathic serial arsonist for no reason.And arson has indirectly killed six innocent people, so Han Yin prefers to call it a serial killer now.

Childhood bedwetting, animal cruelty, and arson are known as MacDonald symptoms, the so-called triad of serial killers.Bedwetting is often associated with poor nervous system development, poor emotional control, and delayed mental development; cruelty to animals represents antisocial personality tendencies.So why is arson the original sin of a child?In fact, there are many ways to solve the injury problem, such as picking up a stone anywhere, wielding a stick and a shovel, or taking out a kitchen knife from the kitchen, but why do children use fire as an attack weapon?Because of his clumsy tongue, bad words, lack of ability to establish social relationships or distinguish right from wrong; moreover, because of his extremely introverted and cowardly personality, he lacks the courage to confront the target directly.Han Yin believes that the criminal they are looking for is such a person, and he had committed arson as a child.

Of course, not every child with a personality defect will become a serial killer in the future. In fact, it is a very rare phenomenon for a person to become a demon. Then why is the murderer in this case such an exception?Han Yin believes that it is because he has no friends who can really confide his heart, let alone a partner of the opposite sex.He may be a foreigner working alone in this city, and of course it is not ruled out that he is a local who commits the crime. In short, he lives alone and is ignored by everyone around him. He has a strong sense of loneliness and sexual repression that cannot be released in his heart. .The so-called loneliness is not a simple psychological feeling, it is actually a reflection of a closed mind; sexual repression is a helpless restriction on one's own physical desires.As time goes by, both of these are factors that can easily lead to morbid psychology and personality disorders, especially when he suffers from survival setbacks and emotional trauma, he is likely to seek a sense of psychological balance through extreme actions .

So why was May 2015, 5 chosen for the first arson?Why is Xingfa Hotel the first target?This latter question has been expressed by Han Yin before, but there is really no evidence to show that Xingfa Hotel and criminals have an intersection, so it needs to be further explored.But the previous timeline cannot be ignored, please remember May 13, 2015, it must be a day of special significance to criminals.

Jianghua City has five jurisdictions, with a total of [-] streets. From the geographical level of crime, the footprints of criminals can be said to be all over the streets in all districts of the city.Such a behavioral feature, coupled with his performance in the details of the crime, according to the type definition of the American FBI dichotomy, it is obvious that he belongs to the type of killer with organizational capabilities.However, as mentioned above, the criminal in this case has an extremely introverted and cowardly character, as well as the loneliness caused by the real situation, which will greatly reduce his recognition of self-worth, so he prefers to work in a place he is familiar with and has strong control over. Regional crimes, especially early ones.Then, the areas where the crimes occurred in Case [-] and Case [-] are worth noting. Han Yin thinks that one of them may be the area where the murderer lived or had daily activities.

Looking at the timeline of the entire serial arson case, the cycle is not fixed, but it is concentrated in the middle of the night or in the middle of the night, so Han Yin is more inclined to think that the criminal is a freelancer, and the regular job of nine to five will not let him have Such energy.In addition, the state stipulates that gasoline, the fuel used in arson, cannot be bought and sold at will. Han Yin speculated that the criminal should have a motor vehicle as a cover for him to buy gasoline, but the condition of the vehicle should not be very good, maybe it is just a motorcycle.

Section [-] Fire Heroes
Sun Peng who accidentally set the bed sheet on fire at the Xingfa Hotel in the early years was found.

Sun Peng is a local. The police officers of the special case team first found his parents by checking household registration information, and learned from his parents that he is now working for a local network technology service company.It was only the next day that Sun Peng was contacted. Hearing that he had just returned from a business trip, Han Yin and Chen Haifeng immediately rushed to the Internet company to meet with him.

Sun Peng is currently the deputy technical director of this company. He has his own independent office. He is a gentleman, of medium height and thin. He smells of perfume. Slightly thicker.He gave Han Yin and the accompanying police officers to the reception sofa, and sat back on the executive chair by himself.

After some mutual introductions and simple greetings, Han Yin introduced the topic and asked: "In the summer of 2014, to be precise, it should be late at night on August 2014, 8. You set fire to the Xingfa Hotel in this city. Do you remember the incident? Can you describe the whole incident in detail?"

"It's so serious, it's not arson at all!" Sun Peng shook his head, let out a short wry smile, and then explained, "That day, my colleagues and I went to do network engineering for a small company, and it was dinner time after we finished. My colleagues and I found a small restaurant nearby for dinner. It was the weekend, and we had nothing to do. We both drank two more glasses, and when we came out of the restaurant, we were almost drunk. Especially my colleague was so drunk that he could only drag Let’s go, and it was raining heavily outside, and I couldn’t get a taxi. I saw a small hotel across the road, so I dragged him there for a night. Later in the middle of the night, I woke up from peeing, so I went to Toilet. When I came back, my mind was a little sober, and I found that a lot of dirty things had been vomited on my clothes and pants, and the room was full of that sour smell. I lit a cigarette, trying to wash away the bad smell in the room. Unexpectedly, I fell asleep with a cigarette in my mouth, and ended up burning my clothes and bed in a daze. It was as simple as that, and I had already negotiated with the hotel owner properly After solving this matter, I wonder why your police are suddenly interested in this matter?" At the end, Sun Peng asked back.

"Did you often play with fire when you were a child?" Han Yin answered irrelevantly, staring straight at Sun Peng.

"No!" Sun Peng replied simply.

"Where were you around 7:2 p.m. on July 11?" Han Yin asked.

"Are you investigating a case? What case will involve me?" Sun Peng was puzzled, but there was not much emotional resistance. He took out his mobile phone and flipped through it, and then said, "My schedule records show that I If there is no entertainment, you should stay at home."

"Is there any evidence?" Han Yin continued to ask along the train of thought.

"I'm single and don't live with my parents. Who can I prove?" Sun Peng said impatiently.

"Okay, let's put this down first." Han Yin curled up his mouth and comforted him, then took out the small notepad he carried with him, glanced at it, and said, "Since you have a schedule record on your mobile phone, you can also check last year's 5 Where were you on the 13th of September, 9th of September, 8th of December, and March 12th and June 14th of this year."

"I don't know what the hell you guys are doing, what date are you here..."

"Last year on May 5th and September 13th..."

Although he was not very willing, Sun Peng flipped through the mobile phone schedule under the reminder of Han Yin, and said after a while: "I went to Hong Kong on a business trip on September 9 last year, and I was in Japan on March 8 this year. The company is here. There are businesses in both places, and the company can prove it to me. As for the rest of the days you mentioned, there is no record on the mobile phone, so I guess I should be at home, are you satisfied this time?"

"Yeah." Han Yin pursed his lips and smiled, nodded thoughtfully, then suddenly changed the subject and said, "Luo Zhe, is that the colleague who stayed with you at Xingfa Hotel that day?"

"Ah... that's right!" Sun Peng looked down at the phone and said in a long tone.

"Is he still working here?" Han Yin asked.

"I left my job early. It is said that I went to Shenzhen to explore the world." Sun Peng looked at his phone again, as if he was waiting for a call.

"Are you still in touch?" Han Yin asked.

"I haven't been in touch since I left the company." Sun Peng said.

"Then don't bother me, thank you for your cooperation." Han Yin suddenly ended the conversation, stood up, and extended his hand to Sun Peng to say goodbye.

"Oh, it's okay." Sun Peng leaned over immediately, shook Han Yin's hand, puffed his cheeks, and quickly held back, as if secretly relieved.

"How is it, Mr. Han, is this person suspicious?" Chen Haifeng, who hadn't said a word just now, asked impatiently as soon as he got into the car.

"You have also heard that in at least two cases, people have evidence of alibi, and have you noticed? Generally speaking, his feedback on our questions is very concise and crisp, which often means that what he said It's the truth. But..." Han Yin paused for a moment, thought for a while, and said, "In the process of describing the accidental arson at the beginning, he always replaced Luo Zhe's title with 'colleague', which seems to be consciously To avoid Luo Zhe's existence..."

"So you turned back the question and asked Luo Zhe, and Sun Peng seemed a little uncomfortable." Chen Haifeng hurriedly said.

"You can also see that when Luo Zhe was mentioned, he had a subconscious micro-reaction of visual blockade, indicating that our problems made him feel pressure." Han Yin said.

"But there is no evidence to show that the criminal was an accomplice, so the relationship between him and that Luo Zhe will not help our case, right?" Chen Haifeng shook his head disappointedly.

"From the current clues, this is the case. It's just that it has been so long. When mentioning the experience of Xingfa Hotel, Sun Peng said such a big set of rhetoric without thinking, isn't it a bit too smooth? It seems to have been arranged. So I have to trouble you to find that Luo Zhe for interrogation." Han Yin said politely.

At the same time, in the interrogation room of the detachment, a young man with a dark complexion was being interrogated by Gu Feifei and Du Yingxiong.

Not long after the assisted investigation report and criminal profiling report were released, the special case team received a feedback from the fire brigade that some firefighters identified the "bystander" the police were looking for, that is, the man under trial mentioned above.

The suspect is Su Jiasheng, a local, who used to be a contract firefighter and served in the Junli Squadron of the Zhengyang Fire Brigade.Two years ago, he was seriously injured in a fire rescue mission and could not continue to work on the front line of firefighting, so he resigned. Now he and his friends partnered to open an Internet cafe.

……

"I admit that I often listen to the fire station, and therefore rushed to many fire scenes in the first place, but I have absolutely no malice. As for the serial arson cases you want to investigate, I may have appeared at several crime scenes, but the arson and I have nothing to do with it." Without waiting for Gu Feifei and Du Yingxiong to ask, Su Jiasheng took the initiative to explain.

"So you are very concerned about the case we want to investigate?" Du Yingxiong asked next.

"Of course, newspapers report all day long, not only me, but who in our city doesn't pay attention?" Su Jiasheng replied frankly.

"You are no longer a firefighter, why do you still care so much about the rescue situation of the fire brigade?" Gu Feifei continued to ask.

"I said that I love this profession very much, do you believe it?" Su Jiasheng snorted softly and sighed, "I was recruited into the fire brigade at the age of 18. For eight years, I either fell tired on the training ground every day or was Various rescue missions are exhausting, but my heart is full of fulfillment and pride. Maybe the profession of firefighter means great risk in your eyes, but for me it carries my youth , self-esteem, honor and dreams. I used to think that I would never be separated from the profession of firefighters, so even if I left, I would sneak to the scene of the fire. I knew I couldn't do anything, but I just wanted to be with my comrades. Together, watching them put out one fire after another, I feel happy and proud of them from the bottom of my heart."

"Is this really the case?" Du Yingxiong glanced at the conspicuous scars on Su Jiasheng's hands, then raised his eyes and stared into his eyes with scrutiny and asked, "Before summoning you, we did some things to you on the periphery. According to the investigation, the last mission you performed in your firefighting career actually caused you a lot of damage. Not only did you suffer extensive burns on your torso and limbs, but also two of your closest comrades-in-arms were unfortunately sacrificed. Many people around you have reported that you have been in the hospital for more than half a year, and you have been refusing to accept this fact, right? I was thinking, those nights, when the sequelae of physical injuries tormented you and made you unable to sleep, when The tragic scene when your comrades died replayed in your mind, do you regret participating in that mission? Do you hate yourself as a firefighter?"

"So you think I'm the serial arsonist? I want to take revenge on the fire brigade, and I want to see the jokes of those firefighters?" Su Jiasheng sneered, and asked a series of questions in turn, "You are the police, will you be afraid of the vicious criminals? ?Even if they have knives and guns in their hands, so what? Will you choose to back down? No, right? Like you, if time goes back to the past, my comrades and I will still rush forward without fear Get into the fire because that's what we firefighters do!"

At the end of the story, a tear flashed in Su Jiasheng's eyes, which made the atmosphere in the room a little sad, but after only a short silence, Gu Feifei asked cautiously: "Let me tell you a few dates, recall when you were in Where and what are you doing. They are..."

After 9 o'clock in the evening, the lights in the detachment meeting room were still on.

People from all walks of life have been busy for a day, and the harvest is not too big: Ai Xiaomei has not found any suspects in the resident information; It indicated that he was not at the scene when the crime happened; the special case team confirmed his statement at Sun Peng’s company, but a colleague revealed that Sun Peng’s sexual orientation was different from ordinary people, and the special case team suspected that he might be staying in Xingfa with Luo Zhe There was sex that night at the hotel, so he was unnatural about Luo Zhe's question.As for Luo Zhe, he is 29 years old, a local, and he also studied in the local university. According to his household registration information, he is still living with his family. However, due to the demolition and renovation of the old building, the family is renting a house outside. Find a specific address.

"We must do our best to find this Luo Zhe." Han Yin concentrated his attention, and said to Chen Haifeng firmly, "Bring that Sun Peng to the team tomorrow."

"Arrest Sun Peng? Why?" Chen Haifeng asked in surprise.

"I suspect that it was not Sun Peng who lit the bed at Xingfa Hotel back then, but... Luo Zhe!" Han Yin emphasized with a long voice.

"Why do you think so?" Gu Feifei asked inexplicably.

"Cough, I understand Teacher Han's logic." Ai Xiaomei patted her forehead lightly, raised her voice and rushed to say, "Sun Peng is gay, but Luo Zhe may not be. Sun Peng might take advantage of Luo Zhe that night Drunk and raped him, Luo Zhe woke up and set fire to Sun Peng's clothes and bed in a fit of anger. Sun Peng was afraid that his evil deeds would be exposed, so he lied that he was the one who lit the fire. The pleasure of revenge in the arson has also become a way for him to deal with setbacks in the future."

"But this point of view is contradictory to the characteristics of the case." Du Yingxiong questioned, "From the perspective of criminal psychology, fire is almost the most difficult weapon to control. Criminals who have used it as a means of attack for a long time will not care about it." What kind of person is the victim, so in most serial arson cases, the criminal target is vague, especially in our current case. According to the logic just now, Sun Peng is a clear revenge for Luo Zhe Target, even if blind arson can be explained by empathy killing, there is no case where a group replaces an individual, right?"

"That's right, it is true in theory, but have you ever thought that if Luo Zhe is the murderer, his psychological addiction may not come from the psychological need to take revenge on Sun Peng?" Han Yin paused, and continued Explained, "I said earlier that the hotel is symbolic to the murderer, so what is the significance of the hotel to Luo Zhe? It is a blend of humiliation and pleasure. That is to say, Luo Zhe was in Xingfa Hotel The experience of being raped by Sun Peng made him extremely humiliated, but he still felt a kind of sexual pleasure in his heart. Sex is an instinctive need for human beings, and Luo Zhe is of course no exception, but when sex and humiliation are intertwined When they are together, the longing for sex will make him feel guilty from the bottom of his heart, and then he will desperately suppress his sexual desire. Over time, the anxiety and the formation of morbid psychology seem to be the introverted Luo Zhe. inescapable."

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In the conference room, you and I were talking lively, and there was a faint sound of a fire truck siren outside the window, and the faces of the few people who were originally relaxed immediately became dignified, as if they all had an ominous premonition.Sure enough, not long after, Chen Haifeng's cell phone rang...

Section [-] Burning Corpse Tragedy
The fire was not serious. When Han Yin, Gu Feifei and others arrived, there was no sign of the fire at all, and even the fire trucks had evacuated.

The site is located in the old factory area of ​​Jianghua City Hydraulic Machinery General Factory. Due to the overall relocation, the factory area has been abandoned for many years. Now it is overgrown with weeds and deserted. Now.There are several rows of dilapidated factory buildings on the east side of the path. The fire actually only concentrated in one of the factory buildings and did not spread.

Temporary lights were erected to illuminate the scene brightly.The factory building has an area of ​​nearly [-] square meters, and the roof height is equivalent to twice that of a normal house. The inside is empty, without any partitions in the middle, and only a few concrete pillars support the frame of the house.There is an obvious smell of burnt meat in the air, and the ground is left with black oil stains from the factory production in the early years, and there is no accumulated water caused by the high-pressure water gun fire as imagined.Roughly in the center of the factory building, on a square concrete pillar, leaned on a body like black charcoal.

To be more precise, the deceased was tied to the concrete pillar by a thick iron chain, and Han Yin counted it—the chain was wound five times in total.It is not difficult to judge from the body and organs that it is a male. His hair has been burned off, and his appearance is no longer recognizable. The pile of black ashes at the corpse's feet should be the remains of its clothes.What is even more frightening is that the upper right abdomen of the deceased was cut open, and under the action of the fire, a black hole was formed, and the liver inside was completely removed. Gu Feifei found the liver and put it in a place seven or eight meters away from the corpse. in the evidence bag.At the foot of the corpse, in addition to a few pools of mottled blood, there was also a large plastic bottle that had been scorched and deformed. You could smell the smell of gasoline inside just by smelling it. Same - gasoline.

After Chen Haifeng learned about a series of related situations, he rushed to Han Yin and Gu Feifei who were observing the corpse and said: "The reporter is a resident of the high-rise residential building opposite. At about 21:40, he went to the bathroom at home. , Seeing a flame bursting out of the factory building from the window, he called the fire alarm. As for the criminal, the reporter said that he did not see it. The fire brigade said that they arrived here at 21:58, when the fire was basically It had already been extinguished, leaving only smoking corpses. Because the structure of the house and building materials were not conducive to burning, the fire did not spread. Afterwards, they carefully surveyed the scene and withdrew the fire truck after confirming that there was no point of fire. The patrol police who arrived earlier questioned the onlookers, but did not get any effective clues. In addition, the iron chain lock on the factory gate was cut with a special tool, presumably the perpetrator came prepared.”

"The liver was removed with a sharp instrument, and the incision has a relatively obvious life reaction. It should be removed before death." Gu Feifei raised the evidence bag in her hand, and pointed to the mouth of the deceased with the other hand and said, "There is a The melted tape attachments indicate that the mouth of the deceased was sealed with tape when he was burned. There are also bloodstains left on the ground, which are of the splash type in terms of shape. So the problem I just mentioned is obvious, at least after cutting it open At the moment of the abdomen, the deceased was still alive, as for further information, we need to dissect the corpse to confirm."

"The murderer is ruthless enough. How much hatred is there to take revenge like this?" Chen Haifeng curled his lips and sighed, "It's hard to find out the identity of the deceased if he burns it like this. It's probably an acquaintance who committed the crime."

"Bound with iron chains, stripped naked, removed the liver from the living body, poured gasoline on the body and burned it..." Han Yin pondered for a while, and said, "If it was just for revenge and destruction of corpses and traces, it would not be so complicated and high-profile. I feel that the murderer killed There is a strong sense of ritual, and there should be quite a serious morbid psychology."

"It's also arson and murder with gasoline. Will the case we investigate be the same murderer?" Du Yingxiong walked around the scene a few times, and when he came back, he just heard the conversation of everyone, so he asked.

"It's hard to judge now. I said at the meeting before I came here that the previous series of arson cases were related to loneliness and sexual repression, and the way of committing crimes with ritual killings in front of me is usually driven by missions." Driven by psychology, I think it is my mission to get rid of a specific object, so from the level of criminal psychology, it is certain that it is not the same murderer." Han Yin raised his eyes and glanced around the people present, then changed the subject and said, "However, I have an intuition that the cases may be related. Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that criminals like to use gasoline to set fire to others in Jianghua?"

"I think it's better to be cautious and try to consider all possible possibilities. Right now Luo Zhe is the biggest suspect. Don't wait for tomorrow. Hurry up and find that Sun Peng now. Who can guarantee that this burned person Isn't it him? If we judge the grievances between Luo Zhe and Sun Peng accurately, then it cannot be ruled out that he set fire to the hotel earlier as a crime of empathy, and maybe it was all a warm-up for the final burning of Sun Peng!" Gu Feifei took Said in the posture of the group leader.

"Okay, I'll go in person." After Chen Haifeng finished speaking, he called several of his subordinates to leave together.

Chen Haifeng led the team to rush to Sun Peng's residence, and found that the boy was safe and sound, but he was awakened from his sleep by the heavy knock on the door.

For Sun Peng, the way the police summoned him in the middle of the night was completely different from Han Yin's way of contacting him during the day, which had already put him under great psychological pressure; Whether it was the awareness of prevention in the brain or the tenacity of the will, they were relatively weak, so after only a few rounds of interrogation, he honestly confessed the crime.He admitted that on the night of staying at Xingfa Hotel, he raped Luo Zhe, who was drunk and unable to resist.He did not set his clothes and bed on fire by accident, but because Luo Zhe was humiliated, he was so angry that he set the fire on purpose.

Sun Peng’s confession can be said to have confirmed part of Han Yin’s previous thinking—the rape incident at Xingfa Hotel, as an irritating factor, led to Luo Zhe’s first arson against the hotel.Of course, this is not enough to prove that Luo Zhe is the serial arsonist that the police want to arrest, so Han Yin wants to meet his mother to gain a deeper understanding of his growth experience and background, so as to further confirm it with the criminal profile his suspicions.

The next morning, Luo Zhe finally got news. To be precise, he only found his mother.

The police officers in the investigation team learned from his mother: Luo Zhe's father died of illness early in life, and his mother took him to start a family with a civil servant again. Luo Zhe didn't get along well with his stepfather, so he often didn't live at home.Luo Zhe actually returned to Jianghua from Shenzhen a long time ago, but he rented a house outside and only went home occasionally to visit. His mother did not know exactly where he lived.His mother also provided a mobile phone number, but when he dialed it, the other party's voice prompts that the phone has been turned off.

After receiving the feedback from the police officers of the task force in front, Han Yin and Chen Haifeng immediately visited Luo Zhe's mother. They first casually asked Luo Zhe to help investigate a small case and comforted her, and then turned to the topic: I would like to ask you, when Luo Zhe's father died?"

"The year his father left, Xiao Zhe was only 3 years old, and he still didn't understand anything." Recalling the sad things in the past, Luo Zhe's mother's eyes were slightly red, "At that time, I coaxed him that Dad was away. Listen to mom, don't cry or make trouble, and dad will come back to see him with a gift."

"At that time, you should still be at work, right? Who will take care of Luo Zhe?" Han Yin asked continuously.

"The old people on both sides are sick. I basically take care of the children alone. They are put in the factory nursery during the day. I will pick them up after work. When they are older, they go to and from school by themselves. I am too busy to take care of them. Him." Luo Zhe's mother said.

"Then is he quite introverted?" Han Yin asked.

"That's right. At that time we lived in the factory's compound. The children in the compound knew that he didn't have a father and always bullied him. Gradually, he stayed at home and didn't want to get in touch with those children. Especially when he confirmed from me that After seeing the fact that those children said his father was dead, the whole person is even less talkative." Luo Zhe's mother said.

"Luo Zhe must have had the experience of playing with fire and causing disaster when he was a child?" Han Yin asked.

"How do you know?" Luo Zhe's mother blinked in surprise, nodded vigorously and said, "That year when Xiao Zhe was in the fourth grade of elementary school, a neighbor in the family yard raised a laying hen, and one day the neighbor fetched eggs. It happened that Xiao Zhe had just passed the chicken coop, and the neighbors said that Xiao Zhe broke the egg, and scolded the child noisily. The child would not refute, but kept crying. The neighbor’s own child admitted that he broke the egg, and the matter was over. Unexpectedly, Xiao Zhe actually set a fire in the middle of the night and burned the chicken to death.”

The family is unhealthy; neglected by the mother; bullied and isolated by the children of the same age around; introverted; reticent; experienced arson when he was young.From the interrogation till now, Luo Zhe's childhood experience and personality traits are exactly the same as Han Yin's profile of the unknown criminal.Han Yin couldn't help being encouraged, and asked faster, "Do you really not know where Luo Zhe is renting?"

"I really don't know." Luo Zhe's mother shook her head a few times, and explained with some embarrassment and sadness, "This child and his stepfather have always been at odds, and both of them are very sensitive to what each other says. Xiao Zhe came back from Shenzhen That day, his stepfather casually asked him a few words about his situation in Shenzhen. He might have felt that the words contained ridicule and ridicule, so he quarreled with his stepfather, and then slammed the door and left. Once, and I came back for my birthday, and I never came back to this house. Cough, in fact, it’s also my wife’s fault, if the child can come back, it means that life outside is not satisfactory, so he just wants to ask more questions.”

"Did he have a particularly intense emotional reaction at the time?" Han Yin asked.

"Yes, I didn't stop it no matter what." Luo Zhe's mother said.

"Can you remember the exact date?" Han Yin asked again.

"Xiao Zhe told me when he came back from Shenzhen. Mothers are always very concerned about their children. Wait a minute, I will record it in the imperial calendar." Luo Zhe's mother got up while speaking, walked into the bedroom, Not long after he came out, he held an imperial calendar in his hand, flipped through it and handed it to Han Yin, and said, "Here, this is last year's imperial calendar. I wrote it down, and Xiao Zhe came back on May 5."

"May 5 last year?" Han Yin and Chen Haifeng, who accompanied the visit, repeated almost at the same time, and the latter asked, "How tall is Luo Zhe?"

"It's not too high, just over 1.7 meters." Luo Zhe's mother said.

The first time of the series of arson cases occurred on May 5 last year; the Xingfa Hotel was the scene of the first case, which happened to be the place where Luo Zhe was raped; Combining with Luo Zhe’s mother’s account just now, Luo Zhe’s childhood growth experience and personality traits, it should be relatively certain that Luo Zhe is the perpetrator of the series of arson cases .

After a short period of excitement, Han Yin regained his calm face and asked, "It can be seen that you still miss Luo Zhe very much, but you live in the same city and have no contact with each other, isn't it unreasonable?"

"I love and fear Xiao Zhe at the same time. When he lived in this house, he would either be eccentric all day long, or argue desperately with his stepfather. I don't object." Luo Zhe's mother said with a long sigh, "Actually, it's not like you imagined, he would call every now and then to care about my life, as I said just now, he even made a special trip on my birthday I’m back. As for me, knowing that he doesn’t have a lot of money, I’ll transfer some money to his card every month.”

"Then he didn't tell you whether he found a job or where he lived?" Han Yin asked unwillingly.

"He opened his own shop." Luo Zhe's mother looked up at Han Yin and Chen Haifeng, and then explained, "After the quarrel with my wife, two or three months later, Xiao Zhe called me and asked me for 2 yuan. Yuan. He majored in computer science at university, and said he wanted to open a small computer repair shop. Oh, so I remembered, he seemed to have mentioned which university he opened the shop near.”

"Near the university?" Han Yin muttered, then turned his head and lowered his voice to ask Chen Haifeng, "Is there any scene in our case near the university?"

"Yes!" Chen Haifeng leaned forward and whispered in Han Yin's ear, "The second case happened on Caida Road, where the University of Finance and Economics is located. Didn't you also point out that this location is worth noting in your profile?" ?"

"Well, this is exactly right." Han Yin nodded heavily, then turned around and asked Luo Zhe's mother, "Does Luo Zhe have a car?"

"He has had a scooter for many years, and he rode it away the night he came back from Shenzhen to quarrel with my wife," said Luo Zhe's mother.

If Han Yin and Chen Haifeng only confirmed Luo Zhe's suspicion of committing the crime from the level of criminal psychology, then Ai Xiaomei and Du Yingxiong have actually found evidence at this time. .

In fact, Ai Xiaomei has never given up on the surveillance video. Since it is presumed that the criminal will return to the scene to observe the fire, how can he not even be photographed?In particular, most crime scenes have surveillance cameras, even for outdoor monitoring. How did the murderer hide?So after finishing the scene of the Hydraulic Machinery General Factory, Ai Xiaomei pulled Du Yingxiong and decided to screen all the videos again.

Unknowingly, I stayed up all night until Han Yin and Chen Haifeng went out to visit, and they were still watching.At some point, Du Yingxiong couldn't resist taking a nap, and when he opened his eyes again, he saw Ai Xiaomei operating the computer keyboard, playing the same screen repeatedly on the screen.Du Yingxiong stared at it for a while, but found nothing unusual, rubbed his eyes vigorously, and said, "Oh, I can't watch it anymore, I'm dizzy, and this picture is shaking."

"No, it's not your dizziness. It was indeed the surveillance camera that was moving just now." Ai Xiaomi said in a deep voice.

"The camera is moving, what do you mean?" Du Yingxiong asked puzzled before he could react.

"It's actually just a slight movement, so I didn't notice it before. I think we've found a way for criminals to 'watch' the fire." Sure enough, within 3 minutes, Ai Xiaomi raised her arms high and jumped up from the chair, After going crazy for a while, I sat back and explained: "The criminal must have hacked into the computer terminals of each hotel through the Internet, so as to realize remote viewing or video recording, and even operate a movable camera."

"Oh, it's reliable. At least before the power supply and the network cable are cut off, the criminals can record the fire scene... Huh?" Du Yingxiong understood Ai Xiaomei's meaning, praised her, and then suddenly froze for some reason I stopped, pondered for a while, and said, "Speaking of this remote operation camera, I suddenly thought of a question, have you noticed that, except for the first hotel, the rest of the crime scene has outdoor surveillance, is this in itself a problem? Too weird?"

"You're saying it's impossible to be such a coincidence, right? Could it be that the same person installed outdoor surveillance for these hotels? That's the criminal we're looking for? That's even simpler, and there's no need to reverse trace the IP address." Ai Xiaomi said happily.

"It's very likely, hurry up, let's find the bosses to implement it." Du Yingxiong urged.

Chapter [-]: The Giver of Fire

Since the Xingfa hotel arson incident spread, many small hotel owners began to worry that their stores would suffer, so they installed surveillance cameras inside and outside the store to prevent sneak attacks by bad guys.

The hotels where the accident occurred were all installation companies found through a website that specializes in advertising service information in the same city.And they also very coincidentally found the same company - Xiangzhe Network Services Company.This company claims that its business items include: maintenance and sales of computer systems, software and hardware, accessories, as well as professional network wiring and surveillance camera installation...

In fact, it is not difficult to imagine that the title of Xiangzhe Company is obviously for the sake of showing off on the Internet, and there is actually only one person inside and outside, and that is Luo Zhe.He installed the same 360-degree movable wireless network surveillance camera for those hotels. This camera itself integrates a wireless receiving module, connects to a wireless router through Wi-Fi, and is also equipped with a special software installed on the computer. Mobile phone terminal, when the router is connected to the Internet, through the special software, you can remotely watch, record and even debug the monitoring screen in any place with a network.Luo Zhe took care of the installation project, so it was no problem to call the monitoring screen remotely.And when those few small hotel owners look back and think about it now, they will find that their hotels were set on fire almost a week after the surveillance cameras were installed.

The owner of a victimized hotel provided Du Yingxiong and Ai Xiaomei with the business card left by Luo Zhe, which contained his mobile phone number and company address. Passers-by gathered and rushed to the location of Luo Zhe's company.

The surrounding area of ​​colleges and universities has always been a place where businesses are active, and the rents of various stores are astonishingly expensive. Obviously, Luo Zhe couldn't afford to rent a front room, so he just rented a first-floor residence in an old residential area near the School of Finance and Economics.

When the police arrived according to the address on the business card, they saw the signboard of "Xianzhe Computer Repair" hanging on the wall at the entrance of the corridor, and there was a scooter parked in the corridor. According to the information provided by Luo Zhe's mother, it should be It was Roger's.In this way, it can be regarded as confirming Luo Zhe's foothold. As for whether Luo Zhe is in the residence, it is still difficult to judge, so Chen Haifeng first ordered the police to deploy around the area to prevent accidents from happening.

After the peripheral arrangement was in order, Chen Haifeng, Han Yin, Du Yingxiong and Ai Xiaomei walked into the corridor together, went up two steps, and came to the door of the room marked Room 101.The anti-theft door was closed, everyone moved to the sides, and Chen Haifeng tried to knock on the door.For a while, no one answered the door. Chen Haifeng put his ear to the door, but he didn't hear any sound from inside. He shook his head at the people on both sides, indicating that there should be no one in the room.

The current situation is: the mobile phone is turned off, the motorcycle is parked outside the building, and there is no one answering the door of the house... I can't help but make everyone wonder if something happened to Luo Zhe?Or absconded upon hearing the news?After discussing with Han Yin, Chen Haifeng decided to pry open the door without any further delay.

The anti-theft door is old-fashioned, and there is no difficulty in unlocking it. Du Yingxiong did it easily with just a few strokes.Open the door, and there is a layout of one bedroom and one living room inside. Facing the door is a small living room. A glass container is placed horizontally, and various electronic products and accessories are placed inside.There is a bathroom on the left near the door, and next to the bathroom is the bedroom.There is a workbench in the bedroom, on which are placed desktop computers, laptops, soldering tools, etc. On the side of the workbench near the window is Luo Zhe’s single bed for sleeping.

Du Yingxiong and Ai Xiaomei rushed to the workbench immediately, put on gloves, one turned on the desktop computer, the other turned on the power of the laptop, while Chen Haifeng and Han Yin looked around inside and outside the room.It should be said that the whole house was cleaned up fairly cleanly, without any abnormalities, and there were no traces of fighting. The travel bags and clothes were all there, and the phone charger plug was still plugged into the power supply. In a hurry, or just out for a walk...

"Come on, I found the video of the fire..." Du Yingxiong waved his hand, and Ai Xiaomei followed suit, "There is also a laptop, this kid has clearly marked the time of each fire video, It's too perverted!"

Hearing the two yelling, Han Yin was waiting to check, when the cell phone in his pocket rang.He took out his mobile phone, looked at the caller ID, it was Gu Feifei, and quickly picked it up: "Hey, are the autopsy results out?"

"Have you found Luo Zhe?" Gu Feifei asked back on the phone.

"I didn't find anyone, but I found the arson video, so I can be sure that he is suspected of committing the crime." Han Yin said.

"Come to the forensic department, there are things you are interested in." Gu Feifei said.

Department of Forensic Medicine, in front of the dissection table.

After staying up all night and all morning, Gu Feifei, with a pale face and slightly swollen eyes, pointed at the charcoal-like corpse, and introduced to Han Yin in a hoarse voice:

"Soot and charcoal powder only remained in the mouth and nose, the respiratory tract showed no signs of hyperthermia, no carbon monoxide was found in the heart blood poisoning test, but the sleeping pill ingredients far exceeded the toxic amount, and the cause of death was hemorrhagic shock caused by the severed abdominal aorta , has nothing to do with the fire. The food in the stomach and intestines of the deceased was basically in the form of chyme, and he should have died about 4 hours after the last meal. Conventional calculations—usually the dinner time is between 17:19 and 21:40, and the reporter claimed to have witnessed the fire. It was around [-]:[-]. Based on the digestion status of gastrointestinal food, it can be basically determined that the time of death was similar to the time when the corpse was burned. That is to say, the victim completely stopped breathing and was burned shortly after. The degree of burns on the upper body of the deceased was obviously heavier than that on the lower body , indicating that the upper body has more fuel, which is in line with the action pattern of pouring the accelerant downward from the head, and physical and chemical tests on the plastic bottles and ashes collected at the scene show that the accelerant is indeed gasoline."

Gu Feifei stopped suddenly as she spoke, turned around and walked towards the workbench by the wall. When she came back, she had an evidence box in her hand, and inside was a black steel nail stained with blood.She held up the evidence box to Han Yin's eyes, and continued: "This 2.5-inch concrete nail was taken from the left chest of the deceased, and it was nailed between the third and fourth true ribs. Obvious living reaction, nailed before death."

"Sure enough, it's a very specific killing ceremony." Han Yin frowned and said, "Is this series of actions bound by iron chains, naked, steel nails driven into the chest of living bodies, liver removed from living bodies, and corpses burned? Could this series of actions be some kind of religious ritual?" ceremony?"

"No, it's related to a fairy tale, guess what?" Gu Feifei pursed her lips and smiled, seeming to have a well-thought-out plan, and said sternly.

"Oh? So, you have found the root of the ritual?" Han Yin asked.

"Of course, you think I asked you to come here specifically to report the results of the autopsy?" Gu Feifei said.

"Then Teacher Gu, tell me this fairy tale?" Han Yin joked.

"You should have heard of Prometheus, right? What I want to talk about is the character in this Greek mythology." Gu Feifei coughed hard and cleared her throat, "In Greek mythology, Prometheus created human beings." , He bestows on mankind all that is useful to mankind and can make mankind good and happy. Similarly, mankind repays him with love and loyalty, so he is jealous of Zeus, the highest god in Greek mythology. As punishment, Zeus Refusing to give mankind the last thing they need to realize their civilization—fire. But Prometheus, through a tricky method, caused fire to descend on the world, and Zeus was furious, and ordered him to be given the most severe punishment.”

"Prometheus was taken to the Caucasus Mountains, naked and tied to the cliff by an iron chain that never broke. His knees could never bend, and he could never sleep. Except for him to suffer hunger, wind and sun, Zeus He also drove a nail into his chest. Besides, Zeus sent a vile eagle to peck at his liver every day...until he was rescued by Hercules..."

"Your story is that Prometheus brought the fire of mankind." Han Yin raised his hand and pushed the glasses frame on the bridge of his nose, thinking for a while and then said, "Then the murderer used ritualized killing methods to restore Zeus. The scene of punishing Prometheus shows that he deeply hates Prometheus for bringing fire to mankind, and furthermore, its core spiritual appeal is the hatred of fire."

"That is to say, the murderer suffered severe injuries, so what is the relationship between the victim and him?" Gu Feifei asked.

"Usually in ritualized murder cases, the murderer pays more attention to the expression of the ritual, and the choice of the victim mainly depends on meeting the conditions for explaining the ritual, and there is no need for close intersection." Han Yin hesitated, and said, "But as far as you According to the story just told, in fact Prometheus was rescued in the end, but our case is just the opposite. Imagine that the murderer hates the harm caused by fire, but uses fire to burn others, isn't that true? Does it mean to treat the body in the same way as the other person?"

"In this way, the victim himself is not a good person, may he have done something bad by arson?" Gu Feifei asked.

"How does the autopsy judge the victim's age?" Han Yin asked thoughtfully.

"From the surface of the pubic symphysis of the corpse, the parallel ridges have disappeared, the lower boundary line of the ventral border is obvious, and the upper boundary line has begun to form. From this, it can be inferred that the age is between 27 and 30 years old." Gu Feifei pointed to the pelvic area of ​​the corpse and explained explain.

"What about your height? Have you measured it?" Han Yin asked.

"The carbonized corpse may be shortened by several centimeters or even tens of centimeters, and the body weight will also be reduced by 5.00%. Therefore, the measurement of the corpse is of little significance for identification. The scientific method is to measure the long bones. I have calculated before that the height of the victim should be About 1.70 meters." Gu Feifei said.

"Hmm... Do you feel that Luo Zhe's height and age are similar to Luo Zhe?" Han Yin gave an "um" vigorously, pointing to the corpse on the dissection table and said, "Luo Zhe's suspicion of arson has been confirmed, and judging from the condition of his residence , It seems to have disappeared without any warning, I think this corpse may be Luo Zhe."

"Then ask the hero to bring over the toothbrush and comb from his rented house and do a DNA comparison!" Gu Feifei urged.

Chapter Seven: From Man to Demon
Another sleepless night.

In the morning of the next day, the results of the DNA test were released, and it was confirmed that the body burned in the Hydraulic Machinery General Factory was Luo Zhe. Then the question arises, is this a punishment for Luo Zhe's serial arson?How did the murderer know about Luo Zhe's crime?Who on earth hated Luo Zhe so much?

Of course, the last question should not escape from a certain scope-Luo Zhe committed six crimes, causing fires in six hotels, burning five residents to death, burning one person, and a firefighter died in the rescue, so from From the perspective of the motive of committing the crime, the operators of the victimized hotel and even the immediate family members and major social relations of the victims involved in the arson may become suspects.

At the case demonstration meeting, the support team and the special case team basically reached a consensus. The murderer who killed Luo Zhe must have overlapped with the series of arson cases.But generally speaking, the scope is still relatively large. Chen Haifeng hopes that Han Yin can concentrate the scope as much as possible by analyzing the evidence of the murderer's behavior during the crime, or give a special reminder.

In fact, if Chen Haifeng didn't propose it, Han Yin would say it himself.Because the ritualized method of killing has never been a whim, it is a delusion that is closely related to the murderer's life experience or setbacks and beliefs, and has been formed over time. Therefore, Han Yin believes that the murder of Luo Zhe The process of killing and the final burning of the corpse are two levels of behavior.Just like what he said to Gu Feifei earlier, the latter is a direct act of retaliation, while the former is an act of venting the long-standing depression.In other words, what Han Yin wants to point out is that the murderer's hatred of fire has a long history, and can even be traced back to adolescence or even childhood.Another point is that Han Yin believes that the murderer suffered from compulsive suspicion and fear, which is reflected in the action of the murderer tying Luo Zhe to the concrete pillar with iron chains—the iron chains were tied around the body 5 times.Normal people would not be so cumbersome, because Luo Zhe had already fallen into a deep coma under the effect of sleeping pills at that time, even if he was cautious, two or three laps were enough to bind him firmly.Under the influence of suspicion and fear, the murderer's way of thinking is like this-first of all, he thinks that it is not completely safe to tie three circles, and it is not safe to tie four circles, because the homonym of 3 is death, which means unlucky and compulsive. For people with skepticism and fear, 4 is a number that they are taboo to do in everything, and they have to cross it to feel at ease, so there are the last 4 laps, which is the so-called number obsessive-compulsive disorder.

"Digital obsessive-compulsive disorder?" As soon as Han Yin finished speaking, Du Yingxiong yelled impatiently, "I know who killed Luo Zhe, it was Li Chengming!"

"You mean the owner of Chengming Hotel?" Gu Feifei asked in a daze.

"Yes, it's him. This kid is quite mysterious. Including the first visit to the scene, and this time to implement the installation of surveillance cameras, I haven't seen him in person, only had contact with his uncle." Du The hero nodded vigorously, and then explained, "The point is the first visit. I was very impressed. His building has 4 floors. According to his uncle, it was Li Chengming who thought 4 was unlucky, so he changed the entire 4 floors. To mark the 5th floor, this should be the digital obsessive-compulsive disorder Mr. Han said?"

"Not necessarily. In fact, this kind of practice is not uncommon in the hotel industry." Chen Haifeng continued.

"It doesn't matter, at least it's a direction. Let's do a comprehensive and in-depth investigation around this Li Chengming first." Han Yin is obviously inclined to Du Yingxiong's statement.

"The household registration data shows that Li Chengming is not a local. He moved from Shishan City to Li Desong's household registration in this city when he was 13 years old." Ai Xiaomei was very discerning and searched out the relevant information from the computer in time.

"Yes, Li Desong is his uncle. It is said that Li Chengming's parents died in an accident in the early years, and he later adopted Li Chengming." Du Yingxiong added.

"The death of his parents is not related to the fire?" Gu Feifei asked at the right time.

"It's easy to handle. I'm now contacting my brothers in Shishan City to confirm whether there are any records of such cases." Chen Haifeng said.

……

About an hour later, Chen Haifeng returned to the meeting room, put a folder in front of Gu Feifei, and said, "You are really right, there is indeed such a case, here, this is the case information that was faxed just now. "

Gu Feifei quickly opened the file, and Han Yin and others came over and saw:
The case happened 14 years ago, when Li Chengming and his parents lived in a very old residential area in Dahu District, Shishan City.The cause of the case was that the old community was being redeveloped. Because they were not satisfied with the compensation conditions for the demolition, the Li family refused to move out. After a lot of twists and turns, only his family remained in the entire unit building.

After that, as people often see on the news, the whole building was cut off from water and electricity, some people shit and peed in the corridor, made all kinds of harsh noises in the middle of the night, made phone calls in different ways to insult and taunt, and so on.In short, all kinds of threats and harassment methods followed one after another, which caused a great psychological burden on the Li family.Especially Li Chengming's father, Li Demin, is a bus driver. He can't sleep well at night, and he is always overwhelmed with worries.Later, the company couldn't bear it anymore and had to suspend him.

He was harassed day and night, his job was about to disappear, and his wife was seriously ill at the same time. All kinds of torture and torture made Li Demin's mental load worse, until he suffered from severe depression and thought of suicide.At midnight one night, Li's father set fire to his house in an attempt to perish with his family, and finally led to the tragedy that both he and his wife were burned to death.Fortunately, the firefighters tried their best to rescue their only son Li Chengming.

After the fire broke out, the police in Shishan City conducted a meticulous survey and analysis of the scene, conducted in-depth visits and understanding of the social relations of the Li family and the conflicts with the demolition company, and finally restored the truth of the above-mentioned case.At the same time, although the demolition company was not directly involved in the self-immolation incident of Li's family, the Shishan police determined that it used illegal means to fuel the flames, and criminally pursued the relevant responsible persons...

Analyzing the behavioral evidence of Luo Zhe's case, and considering the suicide fire incident in the Li family in the early years, Li Chengming is suspected of committing the crime.The method of expressing spiritual demands by means of murder rituals is essentially a criminal marking behavior, and the core meaning of ritual marking behavior is that the murderer subconsciously needs to rationalize and sublime the individual killing behavior. The knowledge feedback mechanism is also the transformation from human to demon.Therefore, although there is no direct evidence at present, Han Yin still proposes to summon Li Chengming immediately, otherwise this kind of person will be a dangerous factor every minute in the society.However, Li Chengming disappeared!

The last person to see Li Chengming was his uncle Li Desong. It was late at night the day before yesterday, which was the night Luo Zhe was burned.According to Li Desong's recollection:
At around 10 o'clock the night before yesterday, Li Chengming returned to the hotel, feeling extremely excited, sweeping away the gloom of recent troubles.He was really unlucky during this period of time.First, the well-run hotel was burned for no reason; then the insurance company refused to pay the claim (he had bought a property damage insurance for the hotel before, but the insurance company refused to pay on the grounds that the purchase of insurance clauses did not include artificial arson. After negotiating many times back and forth, the other party still insisted not to settle the claim); then on the day when the insurance payment was completely hopeless, which was actually the day when Du Yingxiong first visited the Chengming Hotel, the girlfriend who was helping Li Chengming manage the accounts at the hotel actually brought The remaining sum of money in the account left without saying goodbye.Of course, she had already started planning to run away, but she had to fully confirm that Li Chengming was really at the end of his rope before finally implementing it.

At that time, Li Chengming seemed to be in a much better mood, and Li Desong was also happy, but for some reason, Li Chengming suddenly mentioned the matter of his parents being burned to death, and kept asking Li Desong how many people set fire to his house, and how did those people end up? Whether they are natives of Shishan, and what was the name of the demolition company back then.

Li Desong panicked immediately.It turned out that Li Desong did not tell Li Chengming the truth about the incident that year, and he always claimed that the demolition company hired a few hooligans to set his house on fire.His thoughts at that time were very simple, he was worried that Li Chengming hated his father, and he was also worried that the child would not be able to hold his head up because of such a crazy father.

Facing the questioning, Li Desong faltered and couldn't explain why. The more Li Chengming asked, the more anxious his tone became, and the more excited he became.Seeing his red-eyed look, Li Desong was afraid that he would go back to his hometown Shishan City and cause trouble, and he would be at a loss for a while, so he told the truth about the incident.Unexpectedly, Li Chengming became even more annoyed. He scolded Li Desong indiscriminately, then jumped into his car and accelerated the gas and drove away. He never returned home, and his cell phone was turned off. There was no news for almost two days.

The disappearance of Li Chengming also made Han Yin feel in danger.

Han Yin told everyone: When a person is born with the belief in revenge, he absolutely cannot accept the so-called reversal of the truth of the incident, but will become more determined to the facts he has long believed.Especially when he experienced the insurance company's refusal to pay, his girlfriend's betrayal, and his uncle's inconsistent rhetoric, he would no longer choose to believe anyone, and would only paranoidly think that everyone was cheating and betraying him.If it is said that his revenge target was a certain individual or a certain group before, then now he will revenge the whole society.Maybe Li Chengming will change from a mission killer to a massacre killer!
Chapter Eight Breaking the Cage
The whole city urgently searches for Li Chengming!

Places with dense crowds such as airports, stations, docks, shopping malls, hotels, and large plazas are the most important places to search and arrest.Plainclothes entered the venue, the security check was upgraded, and special police were stationed on the periphery to stand by at any time.At the same time, an in-depth and meticulous investigation was carried out on Li Chengming's social relations and social interactions.In particular, the police hoped to find out the whereabouts of his girlfriend before Li Chengming, otherwise, with his mental state, the girl would be in danger.

Soon, the news of the vehicle driven by Li Chengming came first.The car was found on a deep-water lake bridge in the eastern suburbs, and there was no clue of Li Chengming's whereabouts in the car.At one time, some people thought that he might commit suicide by jumping into the lake in fear of crime, but nearby villagers said that they had seen the car on the bridge in the middle of the night, and when the police checked the credit card information he carried with him through the bank, they found that at about 8:40 the next morning, The credit card had two withdrawal records on an ATM in the city, totaling 1 yuan. Surveillance cameras captured the cash withdrawer wearing a cap and mask. His physical features were very similar to Li Chengming.

From the point of view of time, when Li Chengming abandoned his car in the suburbs and then returned to the city to collect the crime with his face masked, the police had not yet listed him as a suspect, so it is unlikely that he fled in fear of crime, and it was more like a desperate attempt.The target of the car is too big. Once there is a sign of trouble, it is easy for the police to track it down, so he must be abandoned, at least to ensure that he will not be targeted before carrying out the massacre attack plan.

In a blink of an eye, the city-wide search and arrest has lasted for nearly 72 hours in a tense and intensive state. Li Chengming is still missing, and the police officers from all walks of life gradually fell into a period of confusion and sleepiness.And in the evening of this day, Ai Xiaomei, who was in charge of monitoring and tracking the mobile phone, suddenly found the GPS information of Li Chengming's mobile phone on the positioning system, that is to say, Li Chengming's phone was turned on.Immediately, Li Desong's cell phone rang, another person Ai Xiaomei monitored, and Li Chengming's voice came out from the monitor. He only said two words "take care", and then left the beeping sound of hanging up.However, the phone was not turned off, which was enough for Ai Xiaomei to capture accurate GPS location information.

The location of the mobile phone showed that Li Chengming was in a small hotel near the western suburbs of the city at this time. Du Yingxiong and Chen Haifeng immediately gathered their staff and rushed there.All the way soaring, he reached the target position in less than half an hour.Chen Haifeng showed a photo of Li Chengming. The hotel owner admitted that he checked in a few days ago. At that time, he claimed that he had lost his ID card and was willing to pay more for the room. The room has not been returned yet, but people seem to have gone out early in the morning.

Hearing what the boss said, Chen Haifeng pointed at himself, and pointed at the stairs, signaling that he would lead a few police officers to guard nearby, and asked Du Yingxiong to take other people to follow the boss upstairs to check the room where Li Chengming lived.

The boss opened the door with the key card, and the inside was messy.The quilts and pillows were all thrown on the dirty floor, the bed was covered with yellow square cardboard boxes, a mobile phone and a simple soldering tool were placed on the table next to it, and there were a few pinches of black powder that were very eye-catching.Du Yingxiong walked over, twisted the powder with his thumb and forefinger, put it under his nose and smelled it...

Almost at the same time, at the gate of the criminal police detachment, a gray van slowly stopped, the door opened, and a thin man got out of the car...

Like a reversal drama, the direction of the case is beyond everyone's imagination.

Du Yingxiong identified the black powder on the bedside table as gunpowder residue based on experience, and the yellow boxes piled up on the bed were used to hold alarm clocks from the appearance and printing. A police officer pointed out that there were a total of 9 boxes, all of which were empty. Yes, Du Yingxiong's heart suddenly rose to his throat - Li Chengming was making a homemade time bomb, and he actually made 9 of them!
Han Yin, who stayed in the detachment, received a call from Du Yingxiong and fully felt the seriousness of the situation. If nine bombs were detonated in the downtown area, the consequences would be immeasurable, and it could be said to be no less than a large-scale terrorist attack.Han Yin immediately asked Gu Feifei to contact the leadership of the city bureau. He must spare no effort and use all resources to find Li Chengming as soon as possible, so as to stop the bomb detonation from the root cause.Unexpectedly, when Gu Feifei just picked up the phone and hadn't dialed the number, a police officer from the special case team broke into the office with a gust of wind. After entering the door, he shouted with relief: "Li Chengming surrendered himself..."

In the interrogation room, Li Chengming was handcuffed and locked on the interrogation chair. His eyes were calm and calm, and he would occasionally turn his head to look at the electronic display screen on the side wall.

Outside the interrogation room, Han Yin, Gu Feifei, Ai Xiaomei, and the leaders of the Jianghua Municipal Bureau were watching him through the special one-way glass window.Everyone didn't understand why Han Yin didn't immediately start interrogating the situation so urgently, but left Li Chengming there alone.

Han Yin is not in a hurry, but he is too clear. At this moment, Li Chengming's personality has become so paranoid that he vows to be an enemy of the whole world. With the same rhetoric, he will be able to come to his senses, know his way back, and confess the location of the bomb.It didn't happen overnight that he became what he is now. It can be said that all personality disorders are "stubborn diseases", and it is necessary to find out the root cause to stimulate human nature in an instant.

Especially in this confrontation right now, the situation is serious and time is running out, so there is no room for loss.You can't go into battle blindly, you can't let Li Chengming gain the upper hand, and you can't give him the wrong stimulus, otherwise he will get lost and close himself even more, which means that it will be difficult to get real information from him.

Han Yin was anxious, Du Yingxiong and Chen Haifeng hurried from the small hotel outside the city and finally returned to the team.Of course, Chen Haifeng didn't understand what Han Yin was thinking, and asked for an immediate interrogation. Han Yin didn't stop him, but suggested that Du Yingxiong should be with him.In fact, he is also waiting for Chen Haifeng. He believes that Chen Haifeng can take the position of detachment captain, and his experience and ability are naturally not a problem. However, he has relatively little experience in dealing with criminals with psychological abnormalities. Han Yin intends to let Chen Haifeng and Du Yingxiong Make a buffer in the middle, and if the two of them can't open a breakthrough, they will go into battle by themselves.

"How long do you think we are?" Du Yingxiong walked to the door of the interrogation room and turned to ask Han Yin.

"Li Chengming just checked the time in it from time to time. The previous information shows that the fire his father set off 14 years ago was between 11:12 and 7 in the evening. Maybe he was waiting for the same time." Among the crowd Under the watchful eyes of Han Yin, he raised his wrist and looked at his watch, "It's a quarter past 5:[-], and I estimate there are still five hours at most before the bomb will detonate."

In the interrogation room, Du Yingxiong and Chen Haifeng sat down behind the interrogation table one after another. Li Chengming raised his eyes and glanced at the two of them.

In fact, in this interrogation, both sides of the confrontation are like mirrors in each other's minds, and the key is one-the location of the nine time bombs.So at the beginning, Chen Haifeng's question revolved around the bomb: "We found some gunpowder residue and the outer packaging of the alarm clock in the hotel where you stayed. Are you making a homemade time bomb?"

"Yes." Li Chengming answered concisely and simply.

"Made 9 pieces?" Chen Haifeng asked again.

"Yes, it's 9." Li Chengming repeated the number of bombs, expressing his certainty.

"What do you want to use them for?" Chen Haifeng gradually introduced the core of the question.

"I'm sorry, I don't want to say, you will know when the time comes." Li Chengming shrugged.

After only a few back and forth, the question froze. Chen Haifeng didn't care, he just wanted to test how Li Chengming would react to this core issue, and Li Chengming didn't make any cover up, just said bluntly, "I do make bombs." , but I won’t tell you the purpose”!This shows that the belief he upholds is very firm, and it is completely a posture of seeing death as home.

"Then tell me what you want to say." Du Yingxiong jumped out in a timely manner and asked, "Did you kill Luo Zhe?"

"I killed it." Li Chengming continued to say frankly.

"Because he burned down your store?"

"Correct."

"How do you know he did it?"

"Hmph, it's quite embarrassing to talk about it." Li Chengming sneered and said in a self-deprecating tone, "It's very simple. My girlfriend took a sum of money from my account and ran away. I wandered around the city to I didn't find her in the middle of the night. Later, I thought that she often used my laptop computer to access Weibo and QQ, and thought that there might be clues about her. Unfortunately, I dropped the computer before and couldn't turn it on. I I was anxious, so I thought of Luo Zhe who installed the surveillance probe for me. He once told me that I can contact him if I have any problems with the computer. I happened to have his business card in my hand, so I went directly to his store according to the address on it. gone."

"That night, he seemed to have eaten something unhygienic. He kept having stomach troubles. He repaired my computer and squatted in the toilet from time to time. Once he squatted for a long time, and I was a little bored. I opened it and put it on the table. I saw a still picture on the screen, and I clicked the play button, only to see a video of a fire. The more I watched, the more something went wrong, and it was clearly my shop that was burned in the video. Then I watched There were still several playback records on the player, all of which were marked with the time and the name of the hotel. I immediately understood that this kid is the criminal who burned so many of our hotels. He must be thinking about it before I came. The scene where he burned our shop!"

"Why didn't you do it then?" Du Yingxiong asked.

"The main reason is that I didn't prepare well. Another thing is, I didn't want him to die so easily, so I made all the preparations the next night before killing him." Li Chengming said.

"Where did you get the explosives?" Du Yingxiong turned the question back to the bomb.

"I bought it from an uncle of a friend of mine. He specialized in shooting guns in the western suburbs mine. We had dinner together a few times. He drank too much and mentioned the matter of reselling explosives in private." Li Chengming said, "That day I asked He said that a friend who contracted the road construction project did not apply for explosives for the time being, and wanted to buy some from him, and he readily agreed. Later, when I went to trade in the dark, I borrowed his van by the way, and he also generously agreed."

"The one you parked at our gate?" Du Yingxiong asked.

"Yes." Li Chengming said.

"You use it to transport bombs to various locations?" Du Yingxiong asked.

"Yes." Li Chengming said.

"Have you ever thought that if those bombs go off, the people who have nothing to do with you will be hurt?"

"So what, Luo Zhe and I, do those hotels have anything to do with Luo Zhe? Tell me, why does he want to destroy our lives?"

……

Time passed by every minute and every second, and more than an hour had passed without knowing it, and the interrogation room was still going back and forth. As long as the core of the question was touched, Li Chengming would unequivocally refuse to answer, and it was meaningless to continue like this.Just when Han Yin felt in a dilemma, a police officer came in to report that the 110 call center had just received a report that a citizen found a suspected explosive while sorting out debris in the corridor of the residential building where he lived. The crowd arrived at the scene to evacuate, and the special police EOD fighters were also on the road.

As soon as the police officers in the case handling team finished speaking, the leaders of the city bureau couldn't stay any longer, leaving Jiang Qingshan, the deputy director in charge of criminal investigation, to cooperate with the interrogation work, and the rest hurried to the scene of the crime.Not long after, further news came back, and it was confirmed that the discovery was a time bomb. The timer was made of an alarm clock, and the detonation time was set at 12 o'clock in the night. It can basically be confirmed that it is one of the nine time bombs made by Li Chengming. .

"Mr. Han, do all the bombs target civilian residential buildings?" Ai Xiaomei looked at Han Yin and asked.

"The pain that hit Li Chengming's heart the most was undoubtedly his father's burning of their own home, and now he is targeting those civilian residential buildings that are the same as his home. Is it a reflection of his psychological appeal?" Gu Feifei He also looked at Han Yin and said.

"Even if the target type is confirmed, the problem cannot be solved fundamentally. One is excluded, and there are eight more. How to locate so many open-style residential buildings in the city? Is it possible that I want to drive all the people in the city out of the building?" See Support The team still couldn't take any concrete action. The deputy director, Jiang Qingshan, was a little impatient, and his tone of voice was a little anxious.

"Don't worry, we will find a way. We will definitely find a way to narrow the scope." Gu Feifei can understand the mood of the deputy director. Even if the location of the bomb is confirmed, there is still time for detonation, time There are really not many more, so she comforted her mouth, and once again cast her expectant eyes on Han Yin.

And Han Yin's gaze has been watching Li Chengming in the interrogation room, as if he is using his eyes to see through his inner appeal. In fact, from the moment the police came in and reported that a bomb was found in the civilian building, Han Yin's brain turned on a high-speed operation mode ...

Although Han Yin often said that the so-called criminal psychological profiling is based on crime statistics and induction, and on the basis of big data, rigorous and reasonable analysis and deduction will be used to make the final profiling report.But he also has to admit that sometimes it takes a certain amount of creativity, using the inspiration of artistic creation to open up a thinking mode, and then understand the heart of the subject of the profile - as Gu Feifei said, Li Chengming's father set fire to try to get along with him. The death of his family members is the event that has the greatest impact on his young mind. What is his most direct stress response to this?Is it anger?Is it hatred?Why did the target choose the same private house as his home this time?Is it a repeat?He wanted the whole world to experience what he had experienced and experience his painful heart at that time?But why surrender yourself?Is it provocation, ridicule, or do you want the police to experience his psychological reaction at that time?But why leave 5 hours for the police? ... No, neither is right, it's guilt!Subconsciously, he hoped that the police would help him complete the rescue!
After being silent for a while, Han Yin finally looked away, took a deep breath, turned to look at Gu Feifei and said, "Have you ever been exposed to dramas that heal psychological trauma through emotional catharsis?"

Gu Feifei's eyes lit up when she heard the words, and she asked, "You mean psychological drama?"

……

"Come with me, both of you, hurry up!" The door of the interrogation room was pushed open, and the deputy director, Jiang Qingshan, hurriedly said a word to Du Yingxiong and Chen Haifeng in an unquestionable tone, and then hurried away.Du and Chen were a little puzzled by the sudden appearance. After looking at each other in blank dismay, they could only stand up and chase out of the interrogation room ignorantly.

Li Chengming was inexplicably left alone, and there seemed to be no other abnormal situation, but in the past 5 minutes, the electronic display on the wall suddenly turned off automatically, followed by the lights, and the room without glass on the door , suddenly pitch black.Immediately, there were noisy footsteps and screams in the corridor outside the door, and the sound of the fire truck siren could be faintly heard. At the same time, it seemed that a smoky smell was pouring in from the crack in the door.A few minutes later, the smoky smell in the interrogation room became stronger and stronger, but the noisy voices outside the door gradually faded away, and there was a "creaking" sound in the darkness. It was obvious that Li Chengming could no longer calm down, but was imprisoned by a professional interrogation chair. Locked tightly, no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't move.

Li Chengming couldn't help but start to panic. At this moment, someone shouted outside the door: "Is there anyone else? Is there anyone else?"

"There are people, there are people... There are people in the interrogation room..." Li Chengming quickly responded without being reserved.

With a bang, the door of the interrogation room was kicked open, and Han Yin stumbled in, covering his mouth and nose with one hand and holding a flashlight in the other. "Hey, someone has really been left behind and locked up. Listen to me, it's on fire outside. Don't panic, I'll get you the key!" Han Yin shone a flashlight on Li Chengming's face, and in the shortest possible language After explaining the situation clearly, he quickly ran out the door.

A few minutes later, Han Yin ran back panting heavily, first gave Li Chengming a towel that had been splashed with water, then took out a key from his pocket, and unlocked all the locks on the interrogation chair.Of course, just to be cautious, he took out another pair of handcuffs and handcuffed Li Chengming's hands.Han Yin dragged him out of the interrogation room, gasping for breath, and told him, "We are on the 8th floor, and the elevator is closed. I'll take you through the fire escape, cover your mouth and nose with a towel, and follow me carefully."

Thick smoke billowed in the corridor, blurred vision, and could not tell the direction.Li Chengming was fully aware of the real situation at this time. He followed Han Yin's footsteps to find the fire escape, but he clearly felt that Han Yin's footsteps gradually began to falter, perhaps because he had been exposed to thick smoke for too long, his brain began to Lack of oxygen.

He finally reached the exit of the fire exit, but Han Yin staggered and fell heavily to the ground, and the flashlight also fell down from the gap in the stairwell.Han Yin's first reaction was to stand up quickly, but he fell back hard. He sprained one foot, so he could only try to stand up with the other foot, holding on to the handle of the stairs, dragging his injured leg slowly. Move your body down.

Li Chengming next to him couldn't stand it anymore, and motioned for Han Yin to put his arm on his shoulder and help him down the stairs.Going down to the 6th floor like this, Han Yin's consciousness seemed to become more and more blurred, and his body was gradually losing strength, and he was basically dragged by Li Chengming, who was thin and thin.Han Yin patted Li Chengming's shoulder lightly, pushing him away with his last strength, and then collapsed on the stairs.Li Chengming leaned over to help him again, but Han Yin grabbed his handcuffs, took out the key with the other hand and inserted it into the lock tremblingly, and helped him unlock the handcuffs. "You... let's go... leave me alone, I can't do it... let's go together, neither of us can get out, hurry... let's go..." Han Yin said angrily.

Li Chengming froze, staring at Han Yin who was struggling to breathe in horror, as if he suddenly fell into a familiar scene. "It's on fire, Dad, Mom, run..." "Get up, Mom..." "Speak, Dad..." "I won't go, I want to save you..." "Hurry up..." "Hurry up ..." "I really can't move you, Dad..." "Dad, I'm sorry..." "Mom, I'm sorry..."

Suddenly, Li Chengming held his head with both hands, as if he had a splitting headache.After struggling for a long time, I put down my hands, shook my head vigorously, blinked my eyes vigorously, and murmured: "I...I can definitely take you out, I can definitely..."

While speaking, he suddenly picked up Han Yin on his back, stumbled and rushed downstairs in the dark, muttering incessantly: "I can definitely...I can definitely...I can..."

Finally went down to the first floor, exited the fire escape, and came to the lobby of the detachment office building.Li Chengming carried the Han seal on his back, and unconsciously quickened his pace. At some point, his eyes were filled with tears. "I can...I can..." He shouted nervously, running towards the light of the door...

In the compound of the criminal police detachment, the alarm lights on the police cars and fire trucks flashed silently, solemn and urgent.

Li Chengming collapsed on the ground, his whole body was soaked in sweat, his body was shaking, and tears poured out in big drops.Han Yin held his hands, with a sincere smile on his face, and said: "You did it, you saved me from the fire. Do you know? You never lacked courage and courage, but you were too When you are young, Mom and Dad know that you have tried your best, and they have never blamed you, so you don't have to feel guilty anymore..."

Li Chengming knelt down, held Han Yin's hands vigorously, and cried out...

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Psychodrama was pioneered by the psychologist Jacob Moreno. It is one of the important means of treating psychological trauma. It uses drama to reproduce people's inner traumatic events, allowing people to find and discover the shackles of the soul in the development of the drama, thereby Explore, release, perceive and share the inner self, and achieve a healing effect in emotional catharsis.

A fire 14 years ago made Li Chengming the only survivor in his family. He watched his parents burn to death, but he was powerless to save him. He blamed himself for this tragic result, and living became a kind of guilt, and hatred became the belief that supported him to live, and the deformed seeds in his heart were planted in this way.

If you can get God's favor, life will always go smoothly, and Li Chengming's life may be different.But this is unrealistic after all. How can a person not experience setbacks in his life, and when setbacks appear again and again, the evil seed in his heart will gradually germinate and bloom, and finally turn the fantasy of hatred into real action , Complete the transformation from human to demon.In particular, when he suddenly discovered that the only thing that supported him to survive was a lie, his spiritual world collapsed completely, so that he tried to emulate his father and perish with the whole world.

Relying on the accumulated experience in the field of applied criminal psychology for many years and the indescribable inspiration that flashed at that moment, Han Yin dissects the whole process of Li Chengming's psychological transformation, thus establishing the root of his psychological trauma.Of course, psychological profiling and healing are completely different things, so he thought of Gu Feifei, who has a double doctorate in forensic science and psychology.

Subsequently, with the strong cooperation of the training and exercise department of the fire brigade, a psychological drama and healing drama led by Gu Feifei officially started.Through such a complete process of warming up, performing (the reappearance of traumatic scenes), and sharing such a complete psychological drama, Li Chengming was instantly inspired to find the inner self blinded by hatred, so that the guilt buried in his heart for a long time could be completely vented, and he finally Suddenly he came to his senses and confessed all the places where the bombs were planted.

Let's go back and talk about the nature of Li Chengming's crime. This is essentially a typical case of evil breeding evil. It is very sad, but it does not deserve too much sympathy.As Han Yin often said, any crime is a life choice, and there is no reason to do so, let alone take it for granted.

Han and India hope that such cases can serve as a warning to the society, because there are indeed many cases in which victims become perpetrators in real life.What Han Yin wants to say is that starting with a tragedy does not mean that it will end in a tragedy. We should eliminate the seeds of crime in the bud, actively pay attention to the growth and guidance of the soul, and especially create a healthy environment for children and teenagers. Parents It is the responsibility of society as a whole.

(End of this chapter)