Rebirth 2014: I, the King of Criminal Investigation

Chapter 35 The First Crime Scene
After cutting off the beginning and the end, we are finally entering the core stage... Yu Dazhang raised his eyebrows and continued to ask:
"Have you checked with her parents?"

"I asked them in detail when they came to the police station to report the case." The police officer said slowly:
"It was a rare day that Zhang Yan got out of school early, so the two of them decided to make something delicious for their daughter."

"They went to the market at 2pm and returned home around 3pm."

"After I finished cooking, I didn't wait for my daughter to come home, so I called her and found that her phone was turned off."

"It was not until nine o'clock in the evening that they finally determined that their daughter had been in trouble and came to the police station to report the incident."

Yu Dazhang savored his words carefully while his brain worked rapidly.

Could it be that Zhang Yan was really kidnapped at her doorstep?
Otherwise, why didn't her parents see her?

As Yu Dazhang was thinking, he recalled the scene in the surveillance video.

The video shows that Zhang Yan disappeared around the corner at 2:12 p.m.

She can travel the rest of the way home in two minutes.

If she did go home, even if it was for less than an hour, she would call her parents to let them know when she left again.

The problem occurred between 2:12 and 3:00 p.m.

Yu Dazhang's brows furrowed more and more, as if something was looming in front of him.

Close...

Right in front of you, right in front of you!
He suppressed his inner excitement and looked at the policeman beside him:
"Nothing else to say?"

"That's what they said at the time." The police officer said this with a thoughtful look on his face, as if he was trying hard to recall.

After a while...

"I remember now, they came again later!"

Yu Dazhang was afraid of interrupting his thoughts, so he didn't ask any questions, but just looked at him quietly.

"That was three days after Zhang Yan disappeared," the police officer said as he recalled:
"The purpose of their visit was to tell me... Zhang Yan returned home that afternoon."

Seeing him stop, Lu Zhongxin beside him couldn't help but ask:
"How can they be sure that Zhang Yan has been back?"

Yu Dazhang immediately reached out and patted his master, signaling him not to interrupt the police officer's thoughts.

When listening to someone explain what happened, it is best to wait until they have finished speaking before asking questions.

If you interrupt or interrupt the other person in the middle of a conversation, it is easy for the other person to forget what you were going to say next.

I even forgot what I said.

I believe everyone has heard a saying...Hey, where was I just now?

Familiar?
That's because it happens all the time.

Fortunately, the policeman is only in his twenties, at an age where he is diligent in his work and has a good memory.

He just paused for a moment and then said quickly:
"According to Zhang Yan's mother, she went to her daughter's room to clean the morning of Zhang Yan's disappearance."

"She also has the habit of cleaning the house for her daughter, so she remembers clearly the placement of everything in Zhang Yan's room."

"After Zhang Yan disappeared, she didn't clean the house for several days because she was worried and scared."

"But on the third day, she missed her daughter so much that she went into Zhang Yan's room and wanted to see her daughter's photo."

"It turned out that things in Zhang Yan's room had been moved, and there were indentations on the quilt on the bed, as if someone had rested their head on it."

"So Zhang Yan's mother concluded that her daughter must have come back."

That’s right...After listening to it, Yu Dazhang immediately came to a new conclusion.

Just as the police described, Zhang Yan must have returned home.

After a short stay at home, she left home and went somewhere else...

wrong!

Yu Dazhang suddenly remembered a sentence in the police’s description.

There are pressure marks on the folded quilt!
This means that Zhang Yan wants to rest when she gets home. In this case, she will not take the initiative to go out in the short term.

And there is...

Even if she went out, how did she avoid all surveillance and leave the community?
Or...how did the murderer move her?
"I understand!" Yu Dazhang suddenly stood up and looked at Lu Zhongxin with shining eyes:
"Master, I know where the first crime scene is!"

The three people in the room were stunned by Yu Dazhang's sudden action. Lu Zhongxin looked at his apprentice in confusion:

"Where is it?"

"Hurry, hurry up, let's go to Zhang Yan's house." Yu Dazhang urged as he walked out:

"I'll tell you in detail on the way."

Seeing that the policeman didn't follow him, Yu Dazhang waved to him again:
"You are familiar with the address, please come with us."

On the road.

Lu Zhongxin was driving the car and glanced at Yu Dazhang beside him:
"I can talk now."

Without waiting for an answer, when I turned around, I saw Yu Dazhang staring straight ahead with his eyes wide open.

"I'm asking you a question!" Lu Zhongxin raised his voice.

"Oh, wait." Yu Dazhang came back to his senses and turned to look at Qian Cheng in the back seat:

"Brother Qian, contact the technical department now and bring the survey tools to Zhang Yan's house."

"Okay." Qian Cheng agreed, then felt something was wrong, frowned and asked:
"You mean, Zhang Yan's house is the first crime scene?"

This idea is a bit too bold... Qian Cheng couldn't help but mutter in his heart.

Is it possible for a human to imagine that she was killed in her own home and her body was removed?
How did the murderer get into the house in broad daylight?
Why didn’t Zhang Yan even ask for help?

Why didn’t Zhang Yan’s parents notice anything unusual afterwards?

It doesn’t make sense!

What the three people in the car didn't expect was that Yu Dazhang said directly and affirmatively:
"You're right."

Qian Cheng was shocked and quickly denied:

"When did I guess? It was you who said it."

This might be a trap, and he doesn't dare to admit it.

"Let's contact him first." Yu Dazhang said calmly.

From his tone, it seemed like he was really confident.

After contacting the technical department, Qian Cheng put down the phone and looked at Yu Dazhang in front of him:
"The section chief and his men will be here soon. You must not make any mistakes."

He is also a member of the task force. If something goes wrong this time, he will also be embarrassed.

Yu Dazhang ignored Qian Cheng's complaints and said calmly:
"Since I can confirm that Zhang Yan has returned home, my inference cannot be wrong."

"There are indentations on the quilt, which means Zhang Yan has been lying on the bed. She has no plans to go out in the near future."

"Plus she left home without telling her parents."

"These two points are enough to show that she left home passively."

The three people in the car listened to Yu Dazhang's analysis in silence, and did not dare to say anything because they really had no say.

These details are what they didn't take into account, but are also the easiest to overlook.

"You say..." Yu Dazhang thought for a moment and asked:

"Why did Zhang Yan's parents only find out that Zhang Yan had returned home three days later?"

The car fell into silence.

After a while, Lu Zhongxin said:

"Didn't I say it before? Her parents didn't bother to clean the house during those three days, so they didn't notice that anything in their daughter's room had been moved."

Yu Dazhang did not refute, but remained quiet.

Lu Zhongxin waited for a while, feeling uncomfortable all over, and couldn't help but shouted:

"That's what you said!"

Yu Dazhang sighed:
"Master, we should jump out of the existing framework and look at this matter objectively. We can't be led by other people's ideas."

(End of this chapter)