Chapter 138: Peeling Off the Cocoon

At the scene of the crime, the clothes worn by the four deceased were all brought by the murderer.

Through the live broadcast video, Chen Yan and others discovered that the murderer brought a total of two bags of things.

A bag is a plastic bag of wax-sealed food containing a steak.

After placing the food, the murderer discarded the plastic bag in the trash can in the kitchen of Zhao Dezhi's home.

Chen Yan immediately arranged a special team to investigate the source of the plastic bags.

Unfortunately, nothing was gained.

There is also a bag with four outfits.

But in the video, the murderer was not revealed what bag he used to carry the clothes.

Afterwards, nothing else was found at the crime scene.

In order to pursue the visual effect of the doll display scene, the murderer had every piece of clothing on the deceased ironed.

Not a single wrinkle.

At the same time, the labels on the clothes were also torn off by the murderer.

However, after investigation, Chen Yan found that the four pieces of clothing were of good quality and should be branded clothing.

The price shouldn't be cheap.

Especially the dress on Ding Suxi.

The front and rear openings are very fashionable.

There are very few clothing stores selling this kind of clothes.

Most are leasing or custom-made.

As for Ding Suxi's dress, it is three-dimensionally cut, well-fitting, neat and clean, and more likely to be customized.

Of course, if it's a rental, that's even better.

It will be easier to find the rental source.

The person in charge of the third group of work is Qi Yuansheng, another deputy captain of the Hulu City Detective Team: "Report to all leaders."

"Through comparison, we confirmed the brands of the four pieces of clothing."

Qi Yuansheng submitted a report to Chen Yan: "Two of the suits are from domestic first-tier clothing brands and are sold in only one specialty store in Hulu City."

"Through sales records, we have found the person who purchased the clothes at that time."

Qi Yuansheng paused: "But..."

"The person who bought the clothes said that he bought these two clothes last year. He bought two sets at that time and sent them to the dry cleaners for cleaning in February this year, but they were lost."

"We went to the dry cleaning shop and confirmed that it was the other party's negligence and failure to carefully check the customer's information that led to the loss of clothes."

"At that time, the dry cleaners had already compensated the other party for their losses."

"Is there any video of that time at the dry cleaning shop?"

Qi Yuansheng shook his head: "I've already watched the video."

"There is a video installed at the door of the dry cleaning store, but the video content is covered periodically every month."

"The suit was lost half a year ago, and there is no relevant video record."

Chen Yan nodded, this should be the murderer's deliberate move.

In other words, the murderer may have started planning this matter half a year ago: "Looking for a portrait artist to see if he can draw the appearance of the person pretending to be wearing a suit based on the description of the dry cleaner employee."

Qi Yuansheng nodded: "We have already started following up."

"Because these two suits were relatively expensive, the clerk at the time was negligent and gave the suit to the other party as long as he had the other party's phone number."

"So, she paid the related expenses herself."

"Although half a year has passed, the store clerk is very impressed."

"However, according to the store clerk's recollection, the other party was wearing a sweatshirt, a hood on his head, a mask, and sunglasses."

"The clerk at the time didn't see the other person's face clearly..."

Come prepared!

This is the normal routine.

How can you be honest about stealing clothes?

However, you think that if you cover yourself up, everything will be fine.

"This is an important clue."

Chen Yan began to arrange the work.

"First, the other party defrauded the trust of the dry cleaning staff and took away two sets of suits by reporting the owner's phone number."

"So, here's the problem."

"If this person is the murderer, how did he know the owner's phone number?"

"Also, how did this person know that the owner washes clothes in this dry cleaning shop?"

Chen Yan tapped the table with one hand, his rhythmic voice carrying the thoughts of many detectives.

"know!"

Huang Guojun said in a deep voice.

"The person who takes the lost suit should know the owner of the suit."

"Moreover, there is a high probability that the relationship is relatively close. He knows the owner's mobile phone number, which means that he most likely knows the other person."

"But, he also knows that the other party washes clothes at that dry cleaners!"

"This is not information that ordinary people can get."

The more he spoke, the brighter Huang Guojun's eyes became: "If...I mean is it possible?"

"We already know the owner of the suit, and he knows the murderer."

"Judging from the situation at the scene and the clues we have obtained so far, the murderer also knew Zhao Mingwei, Ding Suxi, and even Zhao Dezhi and Lin Xiuying."

"Team Leader Chen!" Huang Guojun stood up excitedly: "Thoroughly check the mobile phone address books of the four deceased and the owner of the suit."

"Find out the same phone numbers and contacts in the other party's mobile phone!"

"Then we may be able to locate the murderer!"

Everyone here is an old detective.

As soon as Chen Yan said it and Huang Guojun explained it, everyone understood what was going on.

Cross locked!

Since the murderer knew the victim, he also knew the phone number of the original owner of the suit, and he also knew that the victim washed clothes at a dry cleaners!

Then, cross paths with everyone they know and find commonalities.

Could the murderer be within this range?

meeting!

of course!

Moreover, this work is easy to troubleshoot.

The mobile phone records of the four victims have long been compiled.

You only need to export the mobile phone records of the owner of the lost suit and compare the data to find the problem.

Two hours later.

Hulu City Detective Team.

Yang Rui sat in the interrogation room.

Yang Rui is a painter.

Of course, not very famous.

"At that time... I don't remember telling anyone else about my suit cleaning."

"Even my wife, I didn't tell her..."

Chen Yan's face was solemn.

Of course Yang Rui had a deep memory of the lost suit.

According to Yang Rui's memory, he accidentally soiled his suit while attending an art exhibition.

It happened that the suit at home was also dirty, so we had it dry cleaned together.

The phone numbers in Yang Rui's mobile phone have also been compared with the mobile phone address books of Ding Suxi's four deceased persons.

turn out……

No common contact!

This result exceeded everyone's expectations.

Judging from the clues currently available, this is almost impossible.

If the murderer didn't know Yang Rui, how did he know Yang Rui's phone number?

And how do you know which dry cleaner Yang Rui washes his clothes at?

By luck?

Randomly chosen?

Give me a break.

Father and son Zhao Dezhi and Zhao Mingwei are similar in height and body shape.

Wear clothes of the same size.

The size of Yang Rui's clothes is the same as that of Zhao Dezhi and his son.

Therefore, the other party must have a plan.

It cannot be a random selection.

However, Qi Yuansheng and the others had already investigated Yang Rui's address book.

Including all call records and WeChat friends.

No common contacts among Yang Rui, Ding Suxi and other four people were found.

I thought it was an important clue, but it was interrupted again.

Obviously, the murderer had anticipated this step in advance.

Therefore, there are no loopholes left at all.

Too.

A person who can perfectly reproduce Ding Suxi and Zhao Dezhi's left-handedness on the doll scene shows that he is as meticulous as his hair.

How could such an important clue be left behind?

After leaving the interrogation room, Chen Yan looked at Qi Yuansheng beside him: "Ding Suxi's evening gown and Lin Xiuying's cheongsam, are there any clues?"

Qi Yuansheng nodded: "We just found some clues."

Click.

In the conference room, a photo was projected on the screen.

"This is a group photo taken by everyone at the engagement party of Zhao Mingwei and Ding Suxi a year ago."

Qi Yuansheng enlarged the photo: "Lin Xiuying was wearing a cheongsam at that time."

"Ding Suxi is wearing an evening dress."

"Comparing the clothes of the deceased at the crime scene, we found that the clothes worn by the two deceased were not only the same style."

"Also, the texture of the clothes is the same..."

"It should be the same dress!"

The same thing?

Are the clothes on Lin Xiuying and Ding Suxi the same as the clothes they wore at the engagement ceremony?

Chen Yan's eyes showed a hint of joy.

"Have you found the source of the clothes?"