Rebirth 2014: I, the King of Criminal Investigation

Chapter 727: Taking Small Advantages and Suffering Big Losses

What a coincidence?

Yu Dazhang could tell at a glance that there was something wrong here.

There were so many people on the yacht, yet Yan Yuting's entire family died. It just doesn't seem right.

Even if it was a coincidence, they shouldn't have died so completely.

Yan Yuting and her husband, along with their child, her parents-in-law, and her own parents—a total of seven people—all perished in the tragedy.

Of the entire yacht, only seven of them died.

Even if only one or two survive, it can be described as a coincidence.

"They're quite willing to spend money."

Yu Dazhang looked at the document and said:

“They even brought both sets of parents on the trip. Given their family’s financial situation, they shouldn’t be that generous.”

"And it's an overseas trip, which is a considerable expense."

He felt that this did not align with the values ​​of Yan Yuting's family.

Generally speaking, it's not common for couples to travel with both sets of parents, unless the family is particularly well-off. More often, it's a family of three traveling together.

Moreover, traveling abroad would involve even higher expenses.

If Yan Yuting's family were well-off, they wouldn't have resorted to such a blatant act of extortion. Therefore, the idea of ​​her traveling abroad is inherently unreasonable.

"I had someone contact the local police station, and they have already sent people over to investigate the situation."

Team Leader Xu responded:

“Their family went on vacation last year, which wasn’t a long time, so we should be able to find out some information about them.”

Having the local police station cooperate with the investigation is a common investigative method, which can improve efficiency and save police resources and time.

He had barely finished speaking when the office door was pushed open from the outside, and a police officer walked in and reported to Captain Xu:

"The police station replied. One of the families they had a close relationship with, according to this neighbor, seemed to have won some kind of prize."

"Because it has been almost a year, the neighbor doesn't remember very clearly, only that it seems that the whole family has to participate."

He paused for a moment and continued:

"The prize was a free trip, and they even bragged about it to their neighbors, but they didn't say exactly how they won it."

As expected, it was greed that caused all this trouble... As soon as Yu Dazhang heard that it was a free trip, he immediately made a judgment.

There is no free lunch in the world.

It is clear that Yan Yuting and her family were tricked into going abroad.

The other party was certain that this family would benefit from the lottery, so they used winning the lottery as bait, with the aim of luring the entire family of seven together to travel abroad.

This saves so much trouble; we don't have to search for them one by one, we can just take them all down at once.

When an accident happens abroad, it is naturally investigated and handled by the local police. According to the information, it was ultimately treated as an accident.

"Should we investigate how they won the lottery?" Captain Xu asked.

He also realized that something was wrong with this "free tour"; it was clearly a trap.

"no need."

Yu Dazhang waved his hand:

"There's no way to verify the truth now, so there's no point in investigating it."

Yan Yuting and her family of seven perished abroad, and even with their investigation, the case remains unsolved.

Moreover, the other party doesn't need to contact this family at all; they only need to spend money on them in advance.

Since they've already set up this scheme, there must be a complete plan.

Yu Dazhang thought the information ended there, but he discovered there was a second page.

After turning the page, he saw another murder case, but this time it happened in the country.

In June 2014, Yan Yuting's sister-in-law's family suffered food poisoning, and all three members of the family died despite rescue efforts.

According to forensic examination, the poison ingested by this family was called "Amatoxins," which can damage liver cells, and the family did indeed die from liver failure.

Poisonous mushrooms?
Yu Dazhang remembered that when he was in police academy, his instructors had talked about this kind of poisonous mushroom and even explained how to identify it.

However, this poison will not kill people immediately. After ingestion, there will be a period of vomiting and diarrhea, followed by a false recovery period.

Logically, there should have been enough time for rescue, but this family still couldn't be saved. This indicates that they didn't go to the hospital when they experienced symptoms, but instead endured the pain for a while, thus missing the optimal time for rescue.

Yu Dazhang shook his head.

No need to think about it too much, it must have been done by someone.

What a coincidence! Yan Yuting's family was wiped out overseas in May, and her sister-in-law's family followed suit in June.

It's worth mentioning that this food poisoning incident was actually treated as an accident.

This shows that the other party's methods were quite extraordinary, managing to evade both the police investigation and the forensic doctor.

They died too cleanly... Yu Dazhang pinched his brow in annoyance.

It can be said that all those who falsely accused Gu Dingwen are dead, and even the children of both families were not spared.

If this matter is related to Gu Dingwen, then he really has no way back.

This explains why he dared to commit such a serious crime, because the crime he committed was serious enough to warrant a shooting penalty.

"That's quite a wild approach..." Yu Dazhang muttered to himself.

Even if Gu Dingwen was involved in the deaths of these two families, he certainly didn't do it.

The reason is simple: he doesn't have that ability.

Luring people abroad and staging a shipwreck is something that not everyone can do.

It is highly likely that the other party carried out the act by hiring a hitman.

Are there still assassins these days?

Of course there are.

The profession of assassin has existed since ancient times and will continue to exist.

You get what you pay for; as long as you can afford it, someone will provide the corresponding service.

It is well known that crematoriums in every city handle a certain number of unidentified corpses, and the larger the city, the more unidentified corpses there are.

The number of missing persons each year is also quite large.

What comes to mind when you put these two together?
Isn't it supposed to be that every murder case must be solved?

We need to file a case for that.

Many people die without an identity, making it impossible to determine whether they were murdered. If no one claims their body, the crematorium will issue a notice and dispose of it directly.

After reading the information, Yu Dazhang frowned even more deeply.

All signs indicate that Gu Dingwen seems to have been the victim of a carefully orchestrated scheme.

Yu Dazhang dared not assert that his deduction was 100% correct, but he was quite confident in the general direction.

Of course, to truly establish this conclusion, we need to find solid evidence.

After closing the document, he quietly pondered, recalling every detail in it, trying to find some key breakthroughs.

After a while, he shook his head helplessly.

Following the trail is no longer an option; Gu Dingwen's hideouts across the country have all been shut down, and he must be on edge by now.

He will remain hidden for the time being and will not make any further moves.

Will he flee abroad?
The moment the idea popped into Yu Dazhang's head, the answer appeared.

Not in the short term.

Gu Dingwen has been going on for so long, and many of the trafficked women must have become pregnant. If he runs away at this point, the surrogacy will become a scam.

He must have been hoping for the best, thinking that as long as he kept his distance, the police wouldn't be able to find him.

Moreover, the longer he hides, the more he benefits.

Payment for surrogacy also follows a timeline, starting from embryo transfer, then one month into pregnancy, three months, and so on.

Payment is made at each stage, until delivery, at which point the final payment is made.

They just ran away like that; no one would be willing to accept that.

In that case, there's only one way to find him... Yu Dazhang stood up and looked at Captain Xu, saying:

"Make arrangements, I need to see Zhang Jiangke."

(End of this chapter)