Serious Case Tracking

Chapter 52 Looking for Traces
Just like Meng Shaohui's analysis, after four hours of searching, near noon, he finally found the mysterious taxi with a license plate in the underground parking lot of a shopping mall a hundred meters away from Xu Yan's home. Xu Yan's backpack was also found, which made the investigators feel sorry for Xu Yan. She would be able to get home in another 100 meters, but now she will never go back.

Meng Shaohui saw the record of this licensed taxi entering the parking lot on the night of the incident in the surveillance video of the security room of the shopping mall. From the perspective of time, it can be said to coincide with the time of Xu Yan's death. According to the situation reported by the security guard, At that time, there was only the driver in the car, and Xu Yan was not seen. Meng Shaohui thought that Xu Yan was dead at that time, and the murderer might have hidden the body in the trunk.Because this is the parking lot of a shopping mall, there are no residents upstairs, so if the murderer wants to transfer the body, there must be another car parked here. In the subsequent video, this is indeed confirmed, but because the driver He cunningly parked the car in a blind spot in the parking lot where the surveillance probe couldn't take pictures, so he couldn't see the driver's appearance clearly. He could only see the driver walking towards the rear of the taxi with his head down after getting off the taxi, but What he did there is not clear, after about 3 minutes, he switched to another white Bora with the license plate number 4528, drove out of the parking lot, and the taxi was abandoned there.According to the memory of the security guard who was in charge of charging at the exit of the parking lot, the driver was wearing a peaked cap at the time, and the windows were not completely rolled down when paying the toll, so he didn't know the driver's appearance.

The driver's suspicious and cunning behavior made Meng Shaohui feel helpless.On the one hand, by destroying the corpse, the police could not find any clues on the corpse; on the other hand, in places that might be investigated by the police, they made sufficient preparations so that they would not be exposed.Moreover, Meng Shaohui knew very well that the license plate of the murderer's Bora car must also be fake, but just in case, he still asked the investigators to investigate.

Although clues were lost on the murderer's appearance and whereabouts, they were found in Xu Yan's backpack in the taxi.Xu Yan's belongings, various documents, and some daily necessities are in the backpack, which also proves that the murderer did not kill by robbery.The most special thing is a few leaflets, and the content is all from major plastic surgery hospitals. This reminds Meng Shaohui of the results of the forensic autopsy. The murderer is a person who has a certain understanding of human anatomy. Could it be that the murderer is a Plastic surgery doctor?But what about motivation?Could it be that he committed the murder because he performed plastic surgery for Xu Yan and failed to cover his eyes and ears?At this stage, such an explanation seems to make sense, at least it can explain why the murderer cut off the head of the deceased. Did Xu Yan have plastic surgery on her face?But with so many leaflets, which doctor is suspicious?

Meng Shaohui didn't continue to think about it, but immediately re-arranged the direction of the investigation at the scene. On the one hand, he asked the forensics personnel to carefully inspect the car to see if they could find any clues; Case.And he himself led the team to investigate the license plate taxi. After checking the engine number from the traffic police department, he learned that this license plate taxi was not a commercial vehicle before, but a private car. According to this article According to clues, Meng Shaohui found the original owner of this car, and learned that because of the new car, the owner sold the obsolete Santana 2000 to a small auto repair shop in the suburbs, because the owner there was the owner of the car. friend.So Meng Shaohui rushed to the suburbs without stopping.

According to the owner of the car, Meng Shaohui easily found the small auto repair shop on the outskirts of the city. In the yard of the auto repair shop, various auto parts were scattered in a mess, and some scrapped cars On the left side of the yard, there are many vehicles scrapped due to traffic accidents. On the right side of the yard, there are several relatively new cars, obviously refurbished from old cars. There are even a few of them painted in the color of the taxi.

Because Meng Shaohui and several scouts were all in casual clothes, the owner of the auto repair shop thought they had a business visit, so he greeted them enthusiastically: "Bosses, what car do you fancy? Choose whatever you want, I promise the price is reasonable, You have chosen the right car when you come to me, you can go out and drive my refurbished second-hand car for three to five years to ensure that there will be no problems."

"You even have taxis here!" Meng Shaohui said.

"It's not just a taxi. If you want, I can also put on a taxi plate for you. You can start business directly from my door." The boss boasted.

"So this car and license plate were also bought from you!" Meng Shaohui took out a photo of a taxi and handed it to the boss.

The boss glanced at the photo, then at Meng Shaohui and the others, and immediately turned around to run, but just as he took a step, he was blocked by several investigators.

"I want to run after seeing the photos, are you guilty?" Meng Shaohui said.

"No, no, I don't know the car in this photo, so why should I feel guilty?" The boss waved his hands in defense.

"Didn't you ask me just now if I want to buy a taxi from your place? You also said that you can put on a taxi license plate for me, so that I can do business when I go out?" Meng Shaohui asked coldly.

"Then I'm in business. I always say that when there are customers coming to the door. How can I really have that kind of ability!" The boss said pretending to be wronged.

"Captain Meng, I found these license plates from a drawer in his office." An investigator handed several taxi license plates to Meng Shaohui.

"If you are incompetent, what are these license plates? Don't tell me they are real license plates!" Meng Shaohui waved the license plates in front of the boss.

"This, this is someone else put it in my place, it has nothing to do with me!" The boss shirked.

"Listen to me. I'm not from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, nor from the traffic police department. I'm from the Municipal Criminal Investigation Brigade. Now I suspect that the licensed taxi in the photo I showed you just now is related to a vicious murder case, and we I learned from the original owner of that car that the car was sold to you. If you don’t explain the situation clearly, then I’m not here to chat with you, but to take the car to you as an accomplice of the suspect. If you take it back to the bureau for interrogation, then it will not be as easy to talk to as it is now, you can decide for yourself." Meng Shaohui took out his ID seriously.

Meng Shaohui's words really shocked the boss, and he hurriedly begged: "Don't, don't! The most I can do is to refurbish some old cars and sell them to make some money. I admit that I did sell a few fake taxis. You If you punish me, I admit it, but I didn't kill anyone! Even if you lend me ten guts, I wouldn't dare to do that!"

"Don't give me a sloppy eye and say, did you buy the car and license plate in the photo from you?" Meng Shaohui snapped.

"Yes, yes." The boss hurriedly replied.

"Do you remember what it looks like to buy a car?"

"Let me think about it, let me think about it." The boss lowered his head and pondered for a moment, "I still have a little memory, it was about a month ago, when a man came in that evening, he said he wanted to buy a car for business operations. , I picked one of the fake taxis that I had already painted, and asked me to put a license plate on it. This man was very straightforward. Not only did he not try the car, he bought it without even asking for the price. But I really didn't see him clearly, I remember he was wearing a black peaked cap with the brim pushed down and a pair of sunglasses."

"You dare to sell him a car without seeing the other person's appearance clearly?" Meng Shaohui asked.

"Officer, that guy is so straightforward. I haven't met one this year. As long as he gives money, it doesn't matter what he looks like. Moreover, he came to me to buy fake taxis just to engage in illegal operations. Then It's understandable that you don't want me to see the appearance." The boss explained.

"Then what physical features does he have?"

"Well, he is about 1.7 meters five! He is thin. He seemed to be wearing a black leather jacket when he came here. I really don't know about other aspects. Officer, what I said is the truth! I really didn't I'm not an accomplice in murder! Don't catch a good guy by mistake!" the boss begged bitterly.

(End of this chapter)