criminal mentality

Chapter 37 The missing baby

Collecting an old woman's hair with hair follicles, and saying goodbye to the dying old man, Wen Mo and Yuan Xin returned to the Public Security Bureau with a note. Years of old human blood, unfortunately, it has been too long for DNA comparison.Another dead end.

Other police officers who visited the victims' families did not find much.The vast majority of victims disappeared in primeval jungles.No one saw the murderer commit the crime.

Today is destined to be an unforgettable day for Zhang Chenggong. His ex-wife Xia Cuilian has finally been found.Zhang Chenggong sat blankly in the living room, the cigarette butt in his hand burned his fingers before he came back to his senses. It's been 25 years, so long that he can hardly remember what his ex-wife looked like.The two had only been married for two years at that time, and their relationship was good, but his mother kept urging her to have a child, and she felt a little bit about Cuilian's nose was not her nose, and her eyes were not her eyes. He was also stupid at that time, he would not protect his wife and let her After suffering a lot of grievances, the day before she disappeared, his mother pointed at Sang and scolded Cuilian again, and it happened that Cuilian was always nauseated, dizzy, and in a bad mood, so she went back to her mother's house in a fit of anger.He thought it would be good for Cuilian to go back to her mother's house for a few days to relax, so he didn't chase after her.Three days later, when I went to pick up my daughter-in-law at the mother-in-law's family, the mother-in-law's family actually said that Cuilian had never returned.Now the success of the next Zhang is in a hurry, life is hard and you have to live on, the mother-in-law can't hide the daughter.As he said that, he was about to break in to find his wife.The daughter-in-law, brother and younger brother quit, and he lost a good living person, and he had the nerve to go home to ask for someone.The two almost fought.It was the village head of the daughter-in-law's natal family who came forward to mediate. The two parties sat down and explained it slowly. Zhang Chenggong broke out in a cold sweat: No one has seen my daughter-in-law since she left his home three days ago!The mother-in-law jumped on him with a loud voice, scratched and hit him, and kept yelling to return my daughter.Zhang Chenggong remained motionless and let his mother-in-law beat him. If he had stopped his daughter-in-law when she left, or sent her back, the daughter-in-law would not have disappeared.

The two villages are on both sides of the mountain. If you want to take the main road, you have to go around half the mountain, and you have to walk for 4 to 5 hours. The fastest way is to go straight through a forest.It takes an hour and a half.However, because there are always poisonous snakes in the mountains and forests, there are not many people walking on that road.Thinking about the day when the daughter-in-law went back to her natal home very late, it was almost noon, and if she wanted to get back to her natal home before the sun went down in the afternoon, she had to walk the mountain road. Did she get injured in the mountains?The young people from the two villages agreed to search along the road from one side of the mountain. They found a basket on a gentle slope in the col. Zhang Chenggong recognized at a glance that it was Xia Cuilian who took it away on the day she returned to her mother's house.However, everyone searched even a mouse hole several kilometers around the basket, but Xia Cuilian was never found.

This has been going on for more than 20 years. For a long time, Zhang Chenggong thought that he had put it down and didn't care anymore. For a long time, he remarried five years after his ex-wife disappeared, but when he learned that a large number of bones were found in the forest park, he rushed to recognize him immediately. corpse.After all, he owed her.

Xia Cuilian's natal family moved out of the city ten years later because of the pain of losing their daughter, but Zhang Chenggong has been living in the original home.So Wen Mo and Yuan Xin went directly to Zhang Chenggong.But just a face-to-face meeting made this man in his 40s burst into tears.

"We have confirmed that your wife Xia Cuilian is one of the victims of the case. Did you know that she was pregnant when she disappeared?"

Zhang Chenggong looked at Yuan Xin in shock, how could it be possible?The child he had been looking forward to all his life but never came, it turned out that he had lost it 25 years ago?He stammered and asked Yuan Xin: "Is it true? I went to the hospital to have a special examination. I was born with weak sperm and the chance of conception is low. The doctor also said that I might never have children. At that time, Cuilian. Are you really pregnant?." He desperately recalled that when Cuilian disappeared, it was the busy farming season, and he had no appetite for food for a few days, and felt sleepy all day long, and couldn't wake up.His mother thought that Cuilian was lazy and didn't want to work, and she kept talking about it, and no one thought about it.

"I really did a crime!!!" The middle-aged man fell to his knees and cried bitterly.

The more tragic thing than losing one relative is losing two relatives. Zhang Chenggong probably will never get out of this shadow.

The forensic autopsy report showed that Xia Cuilian's bones showed obvious signs of childbirth, but she died before the pelvis fully recovered, and the bones found by the police did not contain the bones of the baby.So will the baby survive?If he survived, would it be the murderer who raised him and trained him to be a cannibal, that is, the murderer himself who committed the crime now?Then the baby should be male, and he should be 24 years old now.The two decided to go back to Zhang Chaoyang's village and ask the villagers.

To their disappointment, no one in the village had seen Zhang Chaoyang's family have a child more than 20 years ago, let alone heard the cry of the child.However, the old man who raised sheep in the village sold his goat milk for a period of time more than 20 years ago. I don't know if he drank it himself or used it for other purposes.

Since there were no clues in the village, the two moved to the Civil Affairs Bureau. The Z Civil Affairs Bureau has two children's welfare homes. There are not many male abandoned babies who were sent to the welfare homes 24 years ago. There were only five of them, and all five of them were different. Somewhat disabled.

City Z Public Security Bureau took the list of all orphans provided by the Civil Affairs Bureau, and Wen Mo looked at the detailed information of these children line by line. Either the gender was wrong, the age was wrong, or the time when they were sent to the orphanage was wrong.

In this stack of documents, Wen Mo saw the names of Zhu Yiqun and Qian Jinjin without any surprise.These two children were both sent to a children's welfare home 15 years ago. Zhu Yiqun's parents died in a car accident, and both of the parents who came in for drug trafficking were shot.

Looking at the information in his hand, Wen Mo couldn't help but start to lose his mind: Is this mysteriously missing baby related to the current case?If so, where exactly is he?It wasn't raised by Zhang Chaoyang himself, and he wasn't sent to a children's welfare home. Could it be that he was directly given to someone else for adoption?If this is the case, there will be no written records, and the parties will be tight-lipped, but it will be hard to find.

Deep in Wenmo's heart, she always believed that even a pervert like Zhang Chaoyang would not attack a newborn baby. She firmly believed that this child living in this world is very likely to be the murderer.

(End of this chapter)