In addition to the fact that the body could not be found and the missing person who matched the description, there were also many doubts about the case.
For example, the suspect Nong Zhifa claimed in his memoirs that in September 1999, he attacked a female victim outside a cinema in Chaohai City and knocked her out.
Then, he dragged the victim into the wild, raped her, and buried her on the spot.
According to the records, the woman was 1.7 meters tall, wearing a brown trench coat and red high heels, and there was a plum-shaped birthmark on her private part.
Later, Wang Can searched through the original missing person records, but did not find the missing person who matched the description.
Strangely, after searching and comparing, he found that the crime described by Nong Zhifa was very similar to a missing person case in the southwest district of Haifeng City.
In this case, a 23-year-old karaoke waiter, Nie, disappeared after work, and her whereabouts were still unknown. Nie's clothes were almost exactly the same as Nong Zhifa's description.
Moreover, the woman's family members confirmed that there was indeed a plum-shaped birthmark on her private part.
However, Nie disappeared in August 1999, a month earlier than Nong Zhifa's description.
Moreover, Haifeng City was 170 kilometers away from Chaohai City. Wang Can had to suspect that Nong Zhifa might have remembered the wrong time and place.
Nie, who disappeared in Haifeng City, was the victim described in Nong Zhifa's "Memoirs of a Murderer."
As a result, the location of the buried body became even more mysterious, and there was no way to find it now.
In addition, through questioning the prison guards and cellmates of Nong Zhifa's prison, there were also many doubts.
These people claimed that Nong Zhifa's mental state had been unstable after he was imprisoned. He was sometimes irritable, sometimes docile, and sometimes murmured to himself. It seemed that he had some mental problems.
It was said that in the later years, his personality became more and more eccentric, so he had no friends in prison, and people did not know much about him.
In addition, there was another important doubt, which was also the most direct doubt, which was also troubling Wang Can. That was the problem of Nong Zhifa's trajectory.
According to the "Memoirs of a Murderer," all the crimes committed by the suspect were committed between 1993 and 2000, and the murderer had brutally killed 13 victims in seven years.
However, after days of investigation, the police found that Nong Zhifa's trajectory during the crime seemed to be different from the memoirs.
Nong Zhifa's experience was more bumpy. He had worked as a laborer and did small business. He had been to many places, and his activities were mainly in the southeast coastal area.
At first glance, his trajectory and the memoir of a murderer were relatively mild, but if one were to compare them carefully, they would find that many times and places did not match up at all.
Among them, the most obvious was in 1996. In 1996, Nong Zhifa went to Halongjiang to do a breeding business for a year. Later, he lost money and returned to his hometown, Yaoming.
However, in his memoir of murder, he claimed that he had killed three people in 1996, and these three cases were all committed in the southeast coastal area.
As such, there was a clear difference between the two.
Did he secretly return home while he was in the Northeast, or was there another reason?
However, because of the long period of time, it was difficult to verify the matter. So after investigating for so long, Officer Wang still didn't get a clear result.
Other than that, Nong Zhifa's personality and his life experience were also somewhat different from the murderer in the memoir.
Therefore, after investigating the case for such a long time, Officer Wang was so exhausted that he was about to get sick.
When he saw that Zhao Yu had rushed over from Hong Kong to help, he was overjoyed, as if he had seen his savior. He didn't dare to delay for even a second, so he told Zhao Yu everything about the investigation of the case.
After Zhao Yu understood the case, he also felt a little complicated and didn't know what to feel.
Before this, he had always felt that the case was a little abnormal. Now that he saw the case, he was both excited and worried.
He was excited because he had another difficult case to investigate, but he was worried because this case was different from any previous case. Many of the previous methods of investigation could not be used at all.
Moreover, because of the long period of time and the large number of victims, it was tantamount to a huge and arduous project to investigate carefully. He didn't know how long it would take to thoroughly investigate the case.
However, in any case, Zhao Yu quickly devoted himself to the investigation of the Memoir of a Murderer. He led his team and studied the case with Officer Wang, looking for a breakthrough.
As a result, on the third day of the research, they finally found a bright spot.
It turned out that among the five murder cases that had been verified, there was one that caught Zhao Yu's attention.
According to the memoir, Nong Zhi claimed that he had raped and killed a woman in the toilet of the Chaohai National Sanatorium on a certain day in 1995.
Later, after Officer Wang's investigation, the authenticity of the case had been confirmed. Such a case had indeed happened that year.
The victim was an employee of the sanatorium. She had gone to the outdoor toilet in the middle of the night, but she had been attacked and brutally killed by a gangster.
After the murder, the murderer did not dispose of the body, but dumped it in the toilet. Although the subsequent investigation found many suspects, they were all ruled out. The case had not been solved yet.
Nong Zhi wrote in his memoir that he was guarding a construction site in Chaohai at that time. He was bored at night and wanted to find a woman to relieve his boredom, so he wandered around looking for a target.
At that time, the walls of the sanatorium were simple and crude iron fences. Through the iron fences, he saw a woman using a flashlight to go to the toilet. So, he climbed over the fence and followed her in. Then, he committed this cruel crime …
Originally, according to his usual practice, he would find a way to dispose of the body, but the woman was so heavy that he could hardly carry her.
So, he had to dump her in the toilet.
The description of the victim and the crime in the memoir was consistent with the police records. So, Officer Wang concluded that the case was true, and the murderer should be Nong Zhifa.
If it had been someone else, Nong Zhifa would not have known so much about it.
The reason why Zhao Yu focused on this case was that he had found in the police records that the police had not only found the footprints of the suspected murderer in the toilet and the yard, but they had also found a rare eyewitness to the case!
Coincidentally, at that time, there was a patient named Liu Cheng living in the sanatorium. His room was facing the outdoor toilet.
After the incident, Liu Cheng told the nurse that he had seen the murdered female employee walk into the toilet that night. He had also seen the suspect follow the female employee into the toilet. He had even seen the suspect's appearance!
However, because Liu Cheng was a mental patient, the hospital did not pay too much attention to him at that time. They just told the criminal police who were handling the case.
As a result, through the interrogation of the criminal police, Liu Cheng was able to accurately tell them where the suspect had climbed over the iron fence, which surprised everyone.
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