You're supposed to be a security officer, what case are you solving?

Chapter 13: The Victim's Movements!

Yang Jinwen shook his head: "That's not right."

"What's wrong with it?" Maozi replied, looking at Zheng Kang: "Uncle Zheng, you're a veteran detective, do you think my analysis makes sense?"

Zheng Kang threw his cigarette butt into the muddy road: "What a load of rubbish! First, there's not a single trampling mark on the corn stalks on either side; second, if someone was killed here, how could the murderer take the body away?"

"The killer had a car..."

Cat looked at the two-meter-wide muddy road and changed his tune: "No, the murderer must have a motorcycle. Didn't Yang Jinwen say this morning that the murderer dumped the body parts in the reeds of Yanzi River? He must have a means of transportation."

Moreover, there was a heavy rain yesterday, and it's still raining today, so the marks have already been erased.

At this moment, Yang Jinwen pointed to a shed in the distance on the right, where a peasant woman wearing tall rubber boots was standing at the door.

"It didn't rain on the day Huang Cuicui was murdered, and the weather was hot during the day and slightly cool in the afternoon; this place is in the midst of the sun during the day."

The corn on both sides is tasseling and cannot be left unattended.

Go over there and ask if any farmers were working in the fields after 6 PM on May 30th.

Cat looked reluctant and held up two fingers: "First, you shouldn't call me 'Cat,' you should call me senior brother; second, you're new here, you should be the one running errands."

Yang Jinwen smiled and said, "The burden of proof lies with the person making the claim. Senior brother, if Huang Cuicui was really murdered here, then you've found the scene of her crime—a great achievement!"

The cat's eyes lit up, and ignoring the muddy ridges, it ran towards the shed in the distance.

Yang Jinwen didn't wait for him and continued walking forward.

Zheng Kang quickened his pace, avoiding the blond-haired man behind him, and asked in a low voice, "Xiao Yang, your analysis makes sense, but Maozi's analysis is also correct. Shouldn't we investigate this area more thoroughly?"

Zheng Kang wanted to maintain stability, so he focused on meticulous case handling.

If Yang Jinwen hadn't had the advantage of being reborn, he naturally wouldn't have been so careless.

However, the special task force had investigated Huang Cuicui's life trajectory many times in the previous life, and the cornfield had long been ruled out.

Yang Jinwen thought for a moment and replied, "Master, it's not dark yet at seven o'clock in the evening, and besides corn, there are other vegetable fields here."

This vegetable patch is supplied to the market. From the afternoon to the evening of May 30th, it was definitely under someone's supervision; there must have been eyewitnesses.

Sure enough, when they reached the end of the road, Maozi came running up, panting, and followed Zheng Kang without saying a word.

Zheng Kang turned to look at him: "How's the situation?"

Cat shook his head: "On May 30th, starting at 5 pm, five or six people were fertilizing the corn stalks in this cornfield. They were busy until 8 pm, and they didn't finish work until it got dark."

"Have they seen the victim, Huang Cuicui?"

"I didn't ask."

"You idiot! You didn't even ask that?" Zheng Kang stopped and shouted to Yang Jinwen, who was walking ahead, "Don't go any further, come with me to get the evidence!"

Yang Jinwen turned around and said, "Master, I'd like to look around the area."

"Alright, look for eyewitnesses in the surrounding area, but don't go too far."

Zheng Kang wanted to explode in anger. This apprentice was impossible to manage. If it weren't for his connection with Lu Shaohua, he would have already given him a thorough dressing-down.

Zheng Kang took the cat back and prepared to collect statements.

Yang Jinwen led the blond-haired man forward. Ahead was a steep slope; beyond it lay the cotton mill primary school. The blond-haired man took two steps to catch up and said, "Officer..."

Yang Jinwen glanced at him and said, "Don't call me that. We're not officials. Just call me 'Police Officer'."

Huang Mao nodded and asked cautiously, "Officer, I want to ask how my sister was murdered? When the police from the local police station informed us, they didn't mention any specific details about my sister."

Yang Jinwen shook his head: "I can't answer that for you. You'll know once the murderer is found and the case is closed."

"By the way, does your sister usually walk fast?"

Without hesitation, Huang Mao replied, "My sister is an impatient person. She walks very fast and is very proactive. She's also been talking about going home to cook dinner for my brother-in-law. She shouldn't be delayed on the way."

"She left your house at seven o'clock sharp?"

"Yes, my dad goes to the factory for his night shift at seven o'clock. She and my dad came downstairs together at that time."

In her previous life, the task force simulated Huang Cuicui's route home.

We set off precisely at seven o'clock from the cotton mill workers' dormitory, following her footsteps, and also incorporating eyewitness testimonies.

The collected testimonies and simulation results suggest that Huang Cuicui was likely murdered somewhere within one kilometer of her residence.

On the one hand, it was already dark. Unlike Yang Jinwen's previous life, in 97, the streets were still brightly lit at seven or eight o'clock in the evening.

At this time, there are very few streetlights, and no office workers are staying up late to work overtime. The slightly more bustling areas are in the city center.

On the other hand, the crime scene was relatively remote, and the roads and building structures were relatively complex, making it easier for the perpetrator to hide and escape.

This leads to two different conjectures.

First, if the location where Huang Cuicui was murdered and the dismemberment scene are the same place, then the murderer must have lived near this road.

Because dismemberment is a very noisy activity, if the murderer did not live nearby, he probably would not have dared to dismember the body in an unfamiliar environment.

Second, the location of the murder and the dismemberment scene are inconsistent. This suggests that after killing Huang Cuicui, the murderer immediately used a vehicle to take her body away and then dismembered her elsewhere, either at home or elsewhere.

The task force in the previous life generally believed it was the second scenario. The reason was that the occurrence of the latter two cases ruled out the possibility that the murderer was lying in wait near his home to commit the murder.

The reason is simple: the three female victims were murdered in different locations, and the killer's methods of committing the crimes were also different.

The perpetrator could not have committed the murder within the residence!
In addition, there is a more important reason.

This hypothesis was proposed by Yang Jinwen at the time: "The murderer is like a demon lurking in the steel jungle, randomly searching for his prey, just like a dog thief."

After finding an easy target, a lone woman, he killed her, then took the body away and dismembered it in a horrific manner!
As for why the murderer took the body, it is speculated that the murderer wanted to remove the victim's internal organs. Why would the murderer need a woman's internal organs?

No one dared to speculate further on this question, as no one dared to speak recklessly without catching the murderer and obtaining concrete evidence.

Yang Jinwen recalled the deductions from the cases in his previous life and combined various conjectures. The only place and time that fit the elements of the murderer's crime was the old town, just one kilometer away!
This is Huang Cuicui's only way home. It's sparsely populated, and the alleyways are winding and twisting, making it easy for the murderer to target Huang Cuicui.

Moreover, the brick and mud walls in the old town area are mostly low-rise houses built before the G20, which will be demolished and rebuilt within the next month.

If this is the location where Huang Cuicui was murdered, all clues will disappear.

This was also the most troublesome aspect for the task force at the time...

(End of this chapter)