According to the records, the incident went like this:
The murderer entered Yu Zhigen's house that night and brutally murdered Yu Zhigen, leaving his body on the sofa. After the murder, the murderer tore off a piece of sandpaper and used the victim's blood to write on the wall. He even splashed the blood everywhere, creating a gory scene. Then, he closed the door and left, disappearing into the rainy night.
At the time, the neighbors did not hear anything. Firstly, the murderer might have closed the door when he killed Yu Zhigen; secondly, it was raining outside; thirdly, Yu Zhigen might have been killed with a single stab and did not even have the time to scream.
The murderer's method of killing was cruel and the scene was bloody, but the entire process was very careful. There were no fingerprints or shoe prints left at the scene. It was obvious that he was well prepared and did not do it on the spur of the moment.
Furthermore, Yu Zhigen was heavily in debt and had nothing to show for it. The possibility of him killing someone for money was almost zero.
If it was not debt collection, revenge, or money robbery, then … what else could it be?
According to the report, Yu Zhigen's door lock did not show any signs of being broken into. The police suspected that either the victim opened the door himself, or the murderer had the key to his house!
If it was the former, then the victim and the murderer knew each other, and this was a crime committed by an acquaintance! Because of this, the police had investigated the handwriting of many people related to the victim and compared it to the bloody handwriting on the wall. But because the handwriting was messy, the comparison was not very effective.
If it was the latter, then the case was obviously complicated. Why did the murderer have the key to his house? Did the murderer steal it beforehand, or did someone intentionally give it to him?
Thinking about this, he could not help but think of the victim's wife, Lin Meifeng! Because only Yu Zhigen and Lin Meifeng had the key to their house, if the murderer's key came from Lin Meifeng, then could Lin Meifeng be related to the murderer?
According to the report, Lin Meifeng was often beaten by Yu Zhigen. She had asked for a divorce many times and tried to run away, but the overbearing Yu Zhigen had beaten her all the way to her parents' house, and even broke his father-in-law's leg! He had even threatened Lin Meifeng that if she dared to divorce, he would kill her entire family.
Lin Meifeng had no choice but to accept the humiliation. But in the end, the heartless Yu Zhigen had beaten Lin Meifeng to the point that she had a miscarriage and lost the child!
Such hatred was enough to make Lin Meifeng want to kill someone!
However, this was the motive, but the evidence completely contradicted it.
The records showed that on the night of Yu Zhigen's murder, Lin Meifeng's cousin had coincidentally given birth. Lin Meifeng stayed at the hospital for the entire night. Many people could testify to this.
The next day, when Lin Meifeng returned home and opened the door, she found out that her husband had been murdered. She was so frightened that she broke down on the spot. It was the neighbors who helped call the police.
From that day onwards, Lin Meifeng suffered from severe depression and stayed in the psychiatric hospital for almost half a year. Eventually, she was forced to leave because she could not afford the medical fees.
After that, with the help of her family and friends, Lin Meifeng was hospitalized several times for treatment. During this period, she even attempted suicide several times. Her emotional state had always been unstable.
Just as Zhang Jingfeng and Liang Huan had found out, Lin Meifeng didn't have a job, her looks were average, she lived in seclusion, and Yu Zhigen kept a close eye on her. It was hard for her to have any extramarital affairs. Besides, if she really had a lover, she wouldn't have ended up in the hospital after Yu Zhigen's death.
Lin Meifeng's family was also penniless, so the idea of hiring a hitman was even more ridiculous.
Initially, the police had also investigated Lin Meifeng's relatives. Could it be that one of Lin Meifeng's relatives had killed Yu Zhigen out of anger after seeing Lin Meifeng getting beaten up every day?
But Lin Meifeng's parents were old, and her only brother was still in prison. Her other relatives rarely interacted, so this line of investigation had not been made.
Looking at the information, Zhao Yu once again entered his own train of thought.
He took out his notebook and wrote and drew on it, recording down his analysis one by one. Although the information was limited, Zhao Yu still followed his own train of thought and found some clues that had been overlooked in the past.
First of all, Zhao Yu had seen many scenes of people chopping people with knives. The people being chopped usually had a straight cut. But the victim's wound in the photo was clearly an exclamation mark, which was different from a normal cut.
Through Zhao Yu's continuous thinking, he finally figured out the reason. It turned out that when the victim was chopped, the position was very low, and the killer was standing high up. When the knife was chopped, the force was directed downwards, which caused the top of the wound to be heavier, forming an exclamation mark.
From the photo, it could be seen that there were many overturned wine bottles piled up beside the victim.
The autopsy report also said that the victim's alcohol level was over the limit, which meant that he had drunk a lot that night. When he died, he must have been in a state of severe drunkenness.
In addition, the victim had been stabbed more than forty times, but there were no marks on his back. Plus, the victim had died on the sofa, so Zhao Yu was more inclined to believe that the killer had snuck in to kill him.
The killer most likely had the keys to their house, and had snuck in. The killer had seen Yu Zhigen lying on the sofa drunk, and had slashed at his face. That was why the knife had hit his front, and not his back. The killer was standing, so the force was directed downwards, which was why the exclamation mark was formed.
But even though Zhao Yu had found some new clues, the whole case was still a mystery.
Why did the killer want to kill Yu Zhigen, and what was his motive?
Why did he have to stab so many times, and make the scene so bloody?
Why did he have to write those superfluous bloody words on the wall?
Who was the killer?
For some reason, ever since he had seen the information on the Slaughter Case, Zhao Yu had always thought that there was something wrong with the victim's wife!
Even though he did not want Lin Meifeng to be the killer, and Lin Meifeng had so much evidence, Zhao Yu could not let go of this thought.
Especially after he had personally seen Lin Meifeng this morning, he felt that Lin Meifeng's melancholy eyes seemed to be hiding some secret.
At that moment, Zhao Yu suddenly thought of the lyrics that the hooligans had sung in the hotpot restaurant: "Follow your feelings …"
"Tsk tsk …"
"Follow my feelings?
Could it be that this sentence … was purposely given to me by the Miracle System?
If I want to solve the case, I have to follow my feelings?
My feeling is that the Slaughter Case has something to do with Lin Meifeng?
Could it be … this Lin Meifeng is really the killer?
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