At nine o 'clock at night, the investigators, who had been busy for a few days, were still discussing the case on the whiteboard.
"According to the video, the car drove into the old city the night before the robbery," Peng Xin was introducing the latest information to everyone. "The exact location of the car is unknown. We only know that it came from the south, so we can't track it anymore!
"The car should have stopped in that alley for the night. We have already investigated. Some residents said that they saw the car when they went to the toilet, but the car didn't attract much attention, so they didn't pay much attention to it!"
"That's weird! Did they … stay in the car for the night? Or did they go home to sleep, and came back before the robbery? "someone asked.
"There shouldn't be anyone in the car!" Peng Xin said. "It was very close to the toilet, and the car was very small. It wouldn't be easy for five people to stay overnight. Plus, according to the witness report, there didn't seem to be anyone in the car! "
"If that's the case, then we have to start from the video. Let the observers look carefully and see if they can find any suspicious targets!" Miao Ying ordered.
"Bureau Chief Luan has already transferred a lot of people from other departments to help!" Peng Xin continued, "Team Leader Miao, through further investigation, we have already confirmed the sixty-six suspects that appeared near the old city. Most of them are local residents.
"But there are still sixteen people whose identities are unknown, and we can't find them!" Peng Xin pointed at the phone and said, "I have already sent the video information of these sixteen people to the shared file! Everyone can take a look.
"We have asked the local residents carefully, but none of them know these sixteen people. Now, we have already checked with the missing persons department. Maybe, the suspect is among them! "
"Five out of sixteen, that should be a good chance, right?" Zhang Yaohui clapped his hands. After a night of hard work, his eyes were bloodshot.
"Don't say that too early!" Lan Bo shook his head. "The robbers are too cunning. If they find any surveillance blind spots, then our efforts will be in vain!"
"Lan Bo, don't say such discouraging words," Liu comforted him. "Nothing is impossible if you put your mind to it. I don't believe that these robbers are as capable as Magithieves. They won't be able to escape!"
"Look..." Peng Xin turned on the electronic screen next to her, and a map appeared on the screen. "This is the distribution map of the old city. The red marks are the routes that the police dogs have tracked. Zhao Yu could clearly see that the criminals had left in different directions in the old city. When they reached the crowded downtown area, the police dogs could no longer follow them!
"And the places where the smell disappeared were all recorded in the surveillance video. So, it's very likely that one of the remaining 16 people is a robber!"
"En!" Miao Ying nodded and turned to Zhang Jingfeng. "Old Zhang, you're an expert, so I'll leave the search for the suspect to you. You're familiar with the Missing Persons Department!"
Zhang Jingfeng nodded.
At this moment, Dafei suddenly rushed in from outside the door. Before he could stand still, he said anxiously, "Everyone, everyone, the latest news, the latest news! Tongchuan Bank is different from Qinshan Bank. Their surveillance footage is well preserved. We've already found the person who stored Shao Zhenjiang's body in the vault four years ago! "
Ah!?
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but be excited.
"It's on the USB flash drive!" Dafei quickly plugged the USB flash drive into the video player and played the video on the screen.
In the video, they could see a person who wasn't very tall, wearing a gray shirt, pulling a white suitcase into the bank lobby.
It was winter, and the person was wearing a gray down jacket. He didn't take off the jacket's hood, and just as the Qinshan Bank staff had said, not only was he wearing a pair of big sunglasses, but he was also wearing a mask.
From the video, it was hard to tell whether he was a man or a woman, as he looked a little bit androgynous.
From the video, they could see that he went to the front desk manager to handle the safe deposit box. Not only did he show his ID, but he also signed the registration form.
What was even more frightening was that while he was talking to the staff, he gestured to his suitcase, as if he was asking the staff if the bank's safe deposit box would be big enough to fit his suitcase!
The staff even went up to touch the suitcase a few times, until she nodded in agreement. Then, they walked to the bank's safe deposit box vault together.
"This suitcase …" Miao Ying had been studying the case. She quickly paused the video, then used her hand to gesture at the suitcase in the video, and said, "This suitcase seems to be bigger than the others, right?"
"That's right! That's right! " Li Beini quickly pointed at the data on the whiteboard and said, "The suitcase that stored Shao Zhenjiang's body was indeed bigger than the others!"
"Oh … I understand now!" Peng Xin said, "Among the five of them, Shao Zhenjiang's body was the biggest, so Qinshan Bank's safe deposit box wouldn't be able to fit him! That's why the murderer changed banks! "
"That's right, that's right!" Li Beini quickly pulled up the detailed information. "Tongchuan Bank's safe deposit box was bigger, and it was much more expensive!"
"Could the murderer carry such a heavy person?" Lan Bo asked.
"He could!" Zhang Yaohui said, "People starved to death. After severe dehydration, they would lose a lot of weight! Plus, it was a suitcase with a trolley! "
"This is the suspect's handwriting," Da Fei took out a document and said, "There's the suspect's signature on it. Also, four years ago, the staff was still working at Tongchuan Bank. She said that because it was rare for people to store such a big suitcase in the bank, she had an impression of it! "
"The staff said that the person's voice sounded like a man, and he didn't look too old. But, the ID was a woman's. So, she wanted to ask the person to take off his glasses and compare it with the ID. But the person insisted, saying that if he couldn't store it, then forget it! In the end, the staff saw that he had stored it for ten years, so she didn't insist, and opened an account for him. "
"So, the murderer should be a man!" Miao Ying creased her eyebrows and asked, "Da Fei, then … Did you get the video from the bank entrance? Can you see how the suspect got there? "
"I found it, I found it!" Da Fei said, "Unfortunately, the bank's external video storage is not that strict, so I can't find it anymore!"
"Then … Liang Huan," Miao Ying asked, "How's the investigation on the five victims? Did they have any contact? "
"Not yet," Liang Huan shook his head and said, "Other than Gong Xiuzhen and Duan Dacheng being husband and wife, there didn't seem to be anything in common. But, it's still too early to come to a conclusion, as everyone is still investigating! "
"So, does the murderer really kill people at random?" one of the agents asked.
"If so, it could be the principle of proximity!" Liu said seriously, "Gong Xiuzhen and her husband disappeared from Tongyang County, while the others disappeared from Qinshan. Does that mean that the murderer used to live in Tongyang County, then moved to Qinshan?"
"Yes! We have to sketch out the locations of the five people's disappearance, and see if we can figure anything out! " Miao Ying said, then glanced at Zhao Yu and said, "But, what Zhao Yu said is also very likely true!
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