Animal Detective

Chapter 105 The Xiao Hong Case

Back at the door and window shop, the dog cage had already been welded.

Then the boss saw the tiger-striped dog following behind Shen Xin and blurted out, "Damn it."

"Hey handsome, it's this dog!"

He pointed at the tiger stripe, his face filled with disbelief: "How did you find it, and even bring it back?"

The tiger-striped animal followed Shen Xin at a distance that was neither too close nor too far, as if it had been subdued by Shen Xin.

The key thing he knew was that this tiger stripe was fierce and aggressive, and it traveled in groups, so taming it seemed like an impossible task.

"lucky."

Shen Xin didn't explain further, and asked the boss to use a tricycle to deliver the five welded dog cages to the nearby branch office guardhouse.

"Are you a policeman?"

The boss then realized what was happening and looked at the black leopard, saying, "So this is a police dog? No wonder."

He said that Tiger Stripe was so powerful, how could it have been subdued? It turned out that the thug had met its natural enemy.

Shen Xin smiled but didn't explain, telling the boss to issue the invoice first.

It's perfectly normal that the black panther was able to suppress the tiger stripe.

The two dogs are quite different in size.

Black Panther Shen Xin has already weighed it; it weighs a full 67 kilograms.

As for this tigon, it should have some wolfhound genes, but wolfhounds only weigh around 50 kilograms.

He only has some wolfhound blood, and his body is even more slender. Plus, he's a stray and thin, so he probably weighs only about 40 kilograms.

Given the weight difference, it's perfectly normal that he couldn't beat Black Panther.

But Shen Xin still felt that he had the potential to be trained as a riot control dog because he was very smart and his fighting even had a certain degree of skill.

Therefore, it may be surprisingly effective when dealing with criminals.

Of course, even if they can't be trained to be riot control dogs, they can be trained in other ways.

Being smart makes it easier to gain favor and facilitates training.

Even if we don't manage to train them in the end, it's not too late to deal with it then.

Since they were stray dogs that I adopted, there was no cost involved.

Shen Xin asked the owner to send cages, while he took the two dogs to a nearby livestock station for treatment.

Pet hospitals are a bit expensive.

There just so happens to be a livestock station nearby, where they can also treat cats and dogs at incredibly low prices.

The key advantage is the ease of issuing invoices.

When we arrived at the livestock station, it was just as they were closing up shop.

They only agreed to help after learning that Shen Xin was a policeman.

The doctor was a middle-aged man in his forties. While treating the tiger's bite wound, he asked the police, somewhat puzzled, if they still cared about stray dogs and just sent them to a shelter.

“This one looks like a police dog,” he said, looking at the black panther.

The black panther wasn't seriously injured, except for a bite on its left foreleg.

To gain favor, Shen Xin personally bandaged the black leopard under the guidance of the middle-aged veterinarian.

It's simple, and you don't need to clean the wound. Just apply some anti-inflammatory powder and bandage it with gauze.

After taking action, it worked! My favorability rating increased to 5 levels.

Tiger Stripe was probably in pain from treating his wound, and he even bared his teeth at the doctor.

"Shut up!"

Shen Xin immediately reprimanded him.

The tiger-striped creature tucked its tail between its legs and immediately became docile.

"Wow, this dog is quite afraid of you," the middle-aged veterinarian exclaimed in surprise.

He knew that stray dogs had bad tempers.

After quickly treating the wound, skipping the IV drip and giving him a shot, and issuing the invoice, Shen Xin took the two dogs back to the branch office.

Behind the branch office, there is a small training ground where people can train regularly.

Next to the playground are two storage rooms for training equipment. Lü Youwei specially cleared out one of them to serve as a kennel for the police dogs.

There's a lawn right next to it, which will make it convenient for the police dogs to train later.

After putting the two dogs in cages, Shen Xin left work.

back home.

Since Sun Zhao had spoken, Shen Xin couldn't very well side with outsiders.

I searched for blood on Xianyu (a second-hand marketplace app).

This breed of dog is said to have the most sensitive sense of smell and is excellent at tracking.

On the criminal investigation team's side, they definitely need police dogs for physical evidence searches and suspect tracking.

Unfortunately, it seems that there are relatively few people in China who keep this type of dog.

If no one is willing to raise them, then naturally the breeders won't introduce them.

However, there are two kennels in the neighboring city of Matsuura that breed pedigree dogs. Shen Xin contacted them, and they quoted tens of thousands of yuan.

Money wasn't a big deal, the main problem was the long training time for puppies. Shen Xin asked them if they had any adult dogs that had been culled.

Sure enough, like many professional kennels, they don't want their breeding dogs' bloodline to flow outside.

All the puppies they sell are spayed/neutered before they are born.

On Xianyu (a Chinese online marketplace), there aren't many unneutered adult dogs. Even if there are, they're mostly small breeds like Bichons, Poodles, or even Corgis.

Then I guess I'll just have to wander around the dog market.

The dog market is full of both good and bad products, and a rare gem like Black Panther is truly hard to come by.

"Why don't you just post it online?"

Shen Xin and Ding Yuwei's desks faced each other. Seeing that Shen Xin was not in high spirits and looked worried, Ding Yuwei gave him an idea.

She raised her hand and said, "Just write a call for dog lovers to recommend potential police dogs. Maybe, like Black Panther's owner, they'll even give them to you to raise."

"Don't make trouble."

Shen Xin waved his hand, saying that doing it this way would make it seem like they were trying to take advantage of the people, which was inappropriate.

"By the way, what are you looking at?" Shen Xin asked.

It feels like I've been watching this for a long time.

Ding Yuwei hasn't had much to do these past two days.

Liu Laibin's case is nearing its end.

Based on the existing clues, the matter has been investigated to a near certain extent.

In particular, the whereabouts of the two million has been basically clarified.

Shi Yanhua has also been notified.

Unlike Wu Zhicun, who thanked the police with banners and plaques after the cold case was solved, she did not do the same.

According to Zhao Tianxing, after she was notified that the case had been solved, her first question was not who the murderer was, but whether the money had been recovered.

Of course, Shi Yanhua was also startled when she learned that the murderers were Li Weiqin and his group.

As the boss's wife, she had a lot of dealings with Li Weiqin and his group.

However, she still cares more about money.

Upon learning that the money had been donated to a fund to help abducted children, he began to curse and yell at them to return it.

Later, she learned that Guo Chunping had left behind a house and cash, worth about one million yuan, and asked her to issue a letter of understanding, which she resolutely refused.

He said he was willing to sign a letter of understanding, but the house and savings were far from enough; he wanted Li Weiqin and the others to compensate him.

Just yesterday, he even brought Tingting to the branch office to cause trouble.

Fortunately, the case has now been solved.

Previously, the branch office was in the wrong, so they had no choice but to accept it.

Now that the case is solved, they can't blame the police station for the money anymore; they have to go to Li Weiqin's lawyer.

Anyway, once the case is closed and transferred to the procuratorate, the specific court ruling and whether Shi Yanhua forgives him are no longer matters for the criminal investigation team to worry about.

Shen Xin guessed that Shi Yanhua would definitely issue this letter of understanding.

She wants money, and if she refuses to issue a letter of forgiveness, she won't get a single penny in the end.

“It’s the case file, the case of truck driver Xiao Hong,” Ding Yuwei said, waving the file around.

Shen Xin immediately perked up.

Training dogs is a leisurely pastime and a way to relax, but solving cases is Shen Xin's real passion, so he immediately asked Ding Yuwei if she had made any discoveries.

Shen Xin had reviewed the case file.

It can be said that it meets all the elements that make a case a cold case.

On February 16, 2011, which was the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, Xiao Hong was transporting goods along National Highway 319.

He was driving a 6.8-meter-high truck carrying a load of cardboard. At 8:51 p.m. that evening, he passed through Yaojiali Village, ate at a roadside fast food restaurant, and called his wife.

This is the last time I will contact my family.

His truck was eventually found parked on the side of the national highway between Dazhang Village and Guanzhuang Village.

On a busy national highway, if you park your truck on the side of the road, passing cars and pedestrians may not even notice you.

Xiao Hong's wife couldn't contact him, so she called the delivery company. The company thought Xiao Hong had run away with the goods, so they called the police.

The alarm was received on the evening of the 17th.

Based on the limited amount of surveillance footage, the traffic police determined the last location of the truck, then patrolled the area and quickly found Xiao Hong's truck.

Only then did they discover that Xiao Hong had died inside the car.

There were no surveillance cameras in the vicinity of this case.

No usable biological clues were left at the scene.

The estimated time of death is around midnight on the 16th, and there are no eyewitnesses.

Police determined it to be a robbery and murder, and conducted a large-scale investigation and interviews with drivers in two nearby villages and a freight station near the national highway.

Nothing came of it.

As time went on, it was eventually listed as an unsolved case and shelved.

(End of this chapter)