criminal mentality

Chapter 318 Puzzles
The case 15 years ago started with a rainstorm.

The whole country was flooded that year, and Huangshi was no exception. Although there was not such a large amount of precipitation in the Yangtze River Basin that it was not necessary to build embankments for rescue, the super-heavy precipitation that year also brought disasters to Huangshi. No small trouble.

The most direct manifestation is that the sewage pipe network in a county under the jurisdiction of Huangshi was completely paralyzed. The sewage kept gushing out of the road. The deepest place could even submerge the roof of a car, and the first floor of the residential area in the county was completely flooded.

The government staff had to urgently transport supplies, and resettled all the affected people in higher hills. As the water level got higher and higher, more and more people were transferred. Overcrowded.

The water level is still rising, but there has been no rain in Huangshi for two days, and the water level in the urban area has not dropped.After waiting for a few more days, when all the homeless people began to complain, the Urban Construction Bureau had to send people to venture into the pipe network to see what was wrong.

Two workers in full armor went down the well. The place they chose to look at was a junction of the underground pipe network. It was designed to allow a huge flow of water per second, which could theoretically withstand floods that were rare in a thousand years. The precipitation in Huangshi this time is far from reaching the level that would never happen in a thousand years. The serious accumulation of water in the urban area can only be caused by a problem with the underground pipe network.

The two workers probably never imagined in their dreams that what awaited them underground would be such a scene: a body swollen and decomposed by the water, stuck in the barbed wire at the drain, blocking most of the drain, the corpse The face of the corpse was just facing them by the water, and the upper body of the corpse was so weakly floating back and forth following the rhythm of the water.

The two were so frightened that their legs were weak, and they swam back to the ground with both feet, and shouted at the people waiting beside them: "Dead man, there is a dead man below!"

This is just the beginning.In just half a day, six dead bodies were found at the junction of six underground pipe networks!
The tranquility of this small county was first broken by stagnant water, and now it was broken by a murder case. For a while, people were panicked. More than 20 dead bodies were lifted from the sewer.

Six corpses filled the morgue of the County Public Security Bureau, and the forensic doctor worked overtime for three consecutive days before completing the examination of the six corpses.These six bodies were not killed at the same time, the shortest time of death was 48 hours, and the longest time was more than two months.The limbs of the six deceased had signs of being bound, and all died of excessive blood loss caused by cutting their wrists.

If it hadn't been for the recent continuous rains that caused a lot of water to accumulate in the city, and some people went down to check, these people would probably never see the light of day again.

Because the corpse had been soaked in water for too long, the face of the corpse could no longer be recognized. The police encountered difficulties in finding the source of the corpse at first.Checked all the surrounding counties and districts, but there is no missing person who matches the deceased.These people seem to have jumped out of the cracks in the rocks!
When Li Xiangyue received the notice and came to Huangshi, it was already a month later.This is the first time he has handled a case independently since he became the director of the Criminal Psychology Research Office. It is conceivable how excited he is. He wholeheartedly hopes to achieve perfection, and participates with the mentality of letting everyone accept the new thing of psychological analysis as soon as possible. handle the case.

It is very wise for the murderer to choose to dump the body in the sewer.The water is flowing, and it is inevitable that these bodies will eventually be washed to the meeting point.

In doing so, the killer concealed his possible location in the first place.Criminal psychology believes that the murderer will especially avoid his usual range of activities when committing crimes, because when committing crimes within his own range of activities, it is easy to meet acquaintances, the possibility of unexpected incidents is much higher, and the possibility of exposing himself is much higher. also greatly improved.This is what we often say that rabbits don't eat grass beside their nests.Through the rules of the murderer's abandoned corpse, we can generally analyze his approximate scope of activities.But now the murderer uses the fluidity of the water in the pipe network to completely avoid the possibility of the police finding him through scope analysis.

Secondly, the first thing to pay attention to in urban construction is underground drainage. On one side, the underground drainage pipe network is laid very spacious. There is absolutely no need to send people down to inspect it unless there are special circumstances. Throwing people down is not conspicuous at all. In a word, if it wasn't for too much precipitation recently, it would be impossible for these corpses to see the light of day again.

Finally, and most importantly, there are countless manhole covers in the urban area, and most people don't pay attention to what kind of pipe network is laid under each manhole cover.These dead people were thrown into the sewer by the murderer without being found for two months, which shows that the murderer knew the sewage pipes well and knew where to throw them so that they would be less likely to be found.This is enough to reflect the identity of the murderer.Technicians who have access to the construction drawings of the underground pipe network, or workers involved in the construction, or staff responsible for post-management and maintenance, one of the three.

But this range is also very large. After a rough calculation, there are hundreds if not a thousand of these people, which will not achieve the purpose of narrowing down the range of suspects.

Li Xiangyue tried his best to analyze and analyze, but he did not analyze and understand the murderer's motive for committing the crime. The hands of the six deceased had many calluses. They didn't look like rich people. possibility.The deceased only had fatal wounds from the N knife on the wrist. Although the death of the deceased was a painful and slow process, this method of death is still too gentle and does not meet the characteristics of revenge killing. Six dead in two months, what do you think? It's not like killing someone for love.Then there is only the last one left: the murderer has psychological problems, and he killed these people to satisfy a certain psychological need.

After several days of analysis but failed to draw a clear conclusion, Li Xiangyue came under tremendous pressure from the local police. Almost everyone accused him of wasting precious time in solving the case. If the murderer became vigilant and fled , all the consequences will be borne by Li Xiangyue alone.

In the past, when Mr. Liu was standing in front of him, Li Xiangyue only paid attention to what was going on outside the window, and only read the file to analyze the case. Now he had to face it by himself, and he realized that Mr. Liu had done too much for him in the past. up.It can be said that there is no Mr. Liu, maybe Li Xiangyue at that time would only be reduced to an archivist, and he would never have a bright future. They have paid a lot to this day, and he must not let the reputation of the laboratory be ruined by him. inside.

There is pressure to be motivated. Li Xiangyue ignores the outside world's comments and devotes all his energy to the case. When he is busy, he can't even take care of eating and sleeping. In the meeting room, his eyes were red.His hard work was also noticed by others. Gradually, there were fewer discussions and more help.

At this moment, a new clue came from the Urban Construction Bureau.After sorting out several construction and reconstruction drawings of the underground pipe network, they found that the original pipe network did not have barbed wire to cover large garbage. These barbed wires were installed during the last reconstruction five years ago. The current workers of the Urban Construction Bureau know this. The presence of barbed wire fences.

The murderer definitely did not want these corpses to exist in the pipe network all the time. After all, it is not safe for a long time. As long as these corpses leave the pipe network, they will flow into the Shahe River far away along the sewage, and the Shahe River The area covered is very wide, and once the corpse is washed into the Shahe River, it will be difficult to find the source.But because of the existence of these barbed wire fences, the murderer's plan failed.

Adding this additional condition and searching for qualified murderers, the number of suspects dropped from a few hundred to a dozen.After finding the key points of the investigation, all the public security bureaus took action to keep a close watch on them.

Fortunately, they didn't have to wait long this time, and the behavior of a person under surveillance named Wang Yong was somewhat suspicious.This person was originally a temporary worker recruited by the Urban Construction Bureau. He was responsible for the maintenance of the sewers. Six years ago, he resigned and went back to his hometown in the countryside because of family problems. Why did he appear in the county again?Moreover, he would go to the hourly worker recruitment site twice a day, chat with people and then leave. It looked like he was looking for a job, not a job.

Subsequent investigations by the police confirmed this point. The two workers he approached said that Wang Yong asked them if they were looking for a job, and asked them a lot about their family situation. Hope to be dragged down by the family, neither of these two people meets his conditions.

Li Xiangyue suddenly understood why it was so difficult to find out the identities of the previous victims. If Wang Yong was really the murderer, he could explain it by asking this question: the victims he deliberately chose would not be there even if they disappeared. It aroused the vigilance of their family members in a short period of time.

According to the time interval between the killings of the previous victims, Wang Yong now urgently needs to find the next victim.But people who meet his conditions are not so easy to find.Those who are looking for hourly workers basically have their homes in the local area, and they must not be far away. How can an orphan who has no father, no mother, and no marriage be so easy to touch?

If there is no opportunity, then create an opportunity.The police decided to send someone undercover to see if Wang Yong would take the next step, showing off his fox tail.

Wang Yong took the bait the next day. He took the undercover police officer back to his home and tied him to the bed he had already prepared.

Wang Yong quickly explained the criminal facts of killing six people, but he never said why he committed the crime. Li Xiangyue didn't really give up until he was sentenced to death. He thought it was because he thought too much. Maybe Wang Yong was simply I just like to kill people.

However, what Wang Yong said before his death has been unforgettable for Li Xiangyue for 15 years. He always feels that Wang Yong knows far more than what he wants to say. Unfortunately, no matter what he knows, he has already followed His death has become a permanent mystery.

Now the Heshi case has indescribable similarities with the Wang Yong case. How could Li Xiangyue not want to know the answer he has been waiting for for 15 years?

(End of this chapter)