Chapter 760: An Untimely Project

Regarding this murder case, after Ma Rongcheng's guidance, it seemed that it was just an ordinary suicide case, but there was a hidden second person behind it.

And this person also has the behavior of disguising shoe prints.

I have to say that the suspicion is very strong.

Now the purpose of the investigation is very clear, which is to dig out this person's identity information.

Under Chen Shu's division of labor, Zhu Yiba and Huang Mao stayed in the Criminal Investigation Brigade to check the video recordings copied from the hotel.

Since there are so many cameras in the hotel, even if the surveillance is only for a few days before and after the incident, the data is still extremely large, which is a task that tests endurance and carefulness.

Chen Shu, Chen Chuan and Jiang Hai followed trace expert Ma Rongcheng back to the hotel where the crime occurred and conducted a second investigation, hoping to find some different evidence.

The four of them came to the hotel, and while waiting for Ma Rongcheng to re-examine, Jiang Hai, who had been mentally exhausted in the forensic room, became listless, wandering around with his neck curled up, guessing that he would not be a technical person after graduating from the police academy. material.

Boss Chen Chuan sat unceremoniously on a recliner at the venue and watched the cartoon. At first he was not conscious of his loud voice, but he restrained himself after being glared at by Chen Shu.

Chen Shu first followed Ma Rongcheng in the room, preparing to secretly learn some on-site inspection techniques. During this period, he realized that he had passed the age of being open-minded and studious, so he went to wander elsewhere.

Standing outside the room was a staff member they brought from the hotel front desk as a witness to this re-inspection.

Generally speaking, for work such as outings to collect evidence or identification, the witnesses will be the police assistants, including subsequent signatures on documents, etc., who are responsible for everything.

However, since Chen Shu and others were police officers who came from other provinces for vacation, and Ma Rongcheng was an expert sent by the provincial department, neither party had any police assistants, so when they arrived at the hotel, they asked the staff on the first floor to help temporarily serve as witnesses.

If the regulations are strictly followed, then ordinary people in this category are the real witnesses.

However, in actual operation, due to the uncertainty in the behavior of witnesses, such as going home for dinner, going to work, or suddenly receiving a call and leaving in a hurry, the work of the police will be stalled or even restarted.

The situations mentioned above are quite good. Some witnesses are very active. After being invited by the police to be witnesses, whether they have a sense of gossip or a sense of responsibility, they become excited anyway and often move around the scene, inadvertently. Destroying evidence at the scene.

Therefore, the police handling the case are still more accustomed to letting the assisting police officers serve as witnesses.

Several places in the room were crowded with people. Chen Shu walked to the slightly empty window, opened it to get some air, and then poked his head out to look around the outside environment.

This is a room located on the third floor of the hotel. Although the number of floors is not high, since the first floor is used as a reception hall and the second floor is a banquet hall, the height of a single floor on the first and second floors is equivalent. high.

A hotel room on the third floor is roughly comparable to a private residential building on the fifth or sixth floor.

"At this height, it is generally impossible to climb in from the outside." Chen Shu looked at the bare wall. There were no water pipes for people to climb like ordinary high-rise buildings. It was definitely impossible to climb with bare hands.

The windows of the rooms on the left and right are quite far apart from each other, and it is impossible to climb across the smooth wall.

Chen Shu looked down and saw a remote grassland with nothing but a trail running from east to west. Beyond it was the hotel's not-so-high fence, and outside was a dilapidated alley.

Although it was close to noon at this time, there was no one downstairs, including the alley outside. Under the direct sunlight, except for the peeling paint on the wall and the cracks covered with weeds, no living thing could be seen.

There were a few windows on the other side of the alley, but the curtains were tightly drawn, with no gaps showing through. It was obvious that the people living in the houses did not want to have anything to do with this dilapidated alley.

Chen Shu shook his head mockingly. When he was the first group of people to enter the scene, the window was locked. It was impossible for anyone to come in from the outside, not to mention the condition of the outer wall. Even if he sent an orangutan here, You may not even be able to climb up.

"Officer Chen, please help pull the curtains." Ma Rongcheng, who began to inspect the shoe prints, said without raising his head.

"good."

Chen Shu, who didn't notice anything unusual, closed the curtains and the room immediately became dark.

Chen Shu analyzed the situation he had observed earlier: "Expert Ma, we can be said to be the first people to enter the scene at that time. The windows were closed and locked at that time, and the surveillance showed that since before the deceased moved in, Until the incident, no one else entered the room.

"Then the deceased was the only one in the room from beginning to end, and the probability of suicide is extremely high. But this is contradictory to our previous conclusion that there was a second person deliberately disguising shoe prints in the room, and the depth of the strangulation marks on the deceased's neck was consistent. It doesn’t look like it was caused by hanging.”

Chen Shu felt for a moment that he was a bit verbose, which made him look less confident in front of the experts. When he was taking a breath, he saw that the other person was not listening seriously, so he swallowed the rest of his words.

"The first batch? I remember that it was recorded in the record that the cleaning staff should be the first to discover the body." Ma Rongcheng lowered his head, and his hands were not slow, while playing with various photography that looked very professional at first sight. posture, while clicking the shutter repeatedly.

It only took a few seconds. Chen Shu thought silently.

Time passed slowly, and Ma Rongcheng finally successfully photographed and extracted the shoe prints one by one. He stood up, tapping his back while lamenting his old age.

At this time, as the room darkened, Ma Rongcheng easily found Chen Chuan, whose face was illuminated by the light of the mobile phone screen, sitting beside him and looking at his mobile phone seriously. On the screen was obviously a daily cartoon.

"Watching the video on the spot? It would be bad if the public saw it. If you want to rest, go to the car." After all, they were not colleagues from the same province. Although Ma Rongcheng was unhappy, he still expressed it tactfully.

Chen Chuan said without raising his head: "What rest? I'm working. Isn't this a murder in a closed room? I'm watching several cases about murder in a closed room in "Detective Conan" to see if I can get any inspiration."

Ma Rongcheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry. When he was about to continue to teach him a few more words, he found that Chen Shu was also standing behind Chen Chuan with a serious face, pinching his chin and nodding frequently, as if he had awakened.

This policeman from the coastal area is too unreliable. Ma Rongcheng thought so and continued to work on his job.

However, when taking photos of the shoe prints, he still admired the work of the criminal policeman from other provinces and the degree of preservation of the scene.

Unlike those rough and rough people in the police station, after they touched the scene, this "one scene" was like ten scenes, even if the emperor came, they couldn't re-examine it.

Unlike now, he is very sure that there is a second person, and the traces of disguised shoe prints are very obvious.

But even if there is a second person, it is not necessarily the murderer. There are too many coincidences in this world.

In the small room, Ma Rongcheng felt a little stuffy for a while, stood up and exhaled a long breath, but the anti-fraud series of cases investigated by the provincial department task force this year still emerged in his mind.

He shook his head, hoping that he could focus on the case at hand, instead of continuing to fantasize about the special case that was getting farther and farther away from him and was about to be solved.

No matter what, the credit definitely doesn't belong to a cow or horse like him.

However, it would be great if he could get lucky and stay in the provincial department.

Ma Rongcheng shook his head vigorously and refocused his attention.