Notes From A Criminal Investigation Chapter 6

After investigation, it was found that Tu Sun's eldest brother had indeed hosted a banquet for 50 people that day, and the banquet was held at Yongfa Restaurant, not far from Yongfa Electric Machine. There were 14 tables of wine in the restaurant hall. As a friend of Tu Sun, it was reasonable for Tyler to come and drink.

At this point, the case could actually have been closed.

However, Tyler, a released prisoner who appeared in the video, was indeed suspicious, and Owen was unwilling to not touch him. He explained the reasons to Ding Hao and requested that Tyler be investigated and questioned before the case was transferred to the procuratorate.

Ding Hao also felt that Tu Sun must have an accomplice, and agreed to let Li Chao and Owen look for Tyler. If there were no new clues, the case would be closed.

As usual, Owen drove the police car. Li Chao sat in the passenger seat, leaning back comfortably. He turned his head to look at Owen and asked, "Why are you so interested in Tyler?"

Owen said: "Tu Sun is a local thief. He may be good at breaking into a house, but he is a bit off the mark to do this crime cleanly. Tyler and Tu Sun have been in jail together, so it is very likely that they committed the crime together."

Li Chao shook his head and said, "I am an old criminal policeman who has been in the police force for many years. My intuition tells me that you are very interested in Tyler. There is no reason, it's just intuition. Your expression, tone, body language and many other aspects tell me this."

"Tyler and I were schoolmates. He was involved in a motorcycle theft case in high school and was sentenced, which caused a sensation at the time. I am a trainee criminal policeman with a passionate heart, so of course I am very motivated to solve the case." Owen is a trainee police officer and is not willing to talk about the Leo case easily at this time.

Li Chao curled his lips to show his disbelief. At this moment, the cell phone in his arms rang. It was a no-name brand, and the sound was as loud as a landline on speakerphone. Hu Xiu complained on the phone and ordered Li Chao to go home as soon as possible. Li Chao didn't care that Owen was beside him, and he just obeyed.

After hanging up the phone, Li Chao forgot the topic just now, put on the airs of a master, and taught: "Don't laugh secretly. Criminal police are too busy to take care of their families. They rely on their wives to support them inside and outside the house. We have a lot of guilt for our families, so we can only obey the discipline. This is not fear, but love."

Owen said: "I understand, I really understand."

Li Chao thought his apprentice was just being perfunctory and said, "You've only been in the business for a few days, you don't understand Sl*t. Wait until you get married and don't go home or answer the phone for a few days, then you'll know how powerful it is."

As we were talking, the car drove to Tyler's company, which had a strange name, Jiangzhou Leiren Business Company. Tyler was about 1.7 meters tall, very thin, quiet and handsome.

After checking Li Chao's ID, Tyler politely took him to the luxurious reception room, which was well air-conditioned and had a pretty girl sitting behind the tea set to serve the guests.

The guest sat down, Tyler looked at Owen and asked, "Graduated?"

Owen said: "I haven't graduated yet. I'm doing internship in the Second Squadron."

"It's hard to predict one's fate. Owen's grades in school were much worse than mine. I'm not bragging, being involved in society didn't affect my studies and my grades were pretty good. Who knew Owen would be admitted to Shannan Political Science and Law. I was released from the labor team and went to a community college." Tyler, who had undergone labor reform, has completely shed his student's immaturity, and his eyes are gloomy unlike his peers.

After finishing his opening remarks, Li Chao's mouth corners drooped, his expression was cold and serious, and he did not have the slightly funny expression in front of his colleagues at all.

During the conversation, Tyler remained calm and sincere, and admitted the following two points: first, he and Tu Sun worked together and had a good relationship; second, he and Tu Sun had gone to drink near Yongfa Shopping Center.

An hour later, Li Chao and Owen left the company. After getting in the car, Li Chao asked, "How do you feel?"

Owen said: "All the details match."

"This is the only way to deal with the case. You are going to write a closing report. A closing report is very useful for rookies like you. It is not only to complete the task, but also to train your thinking. As a criminal investigation student, you should understand the characters, time, place, cause, process and result of the whole case."

"I understand. Thank you, Master." Owen learned a lot of book knowledge in the Criminal Investigation Department. There is a big gap between knowledge and practice, so he really needs an old criminal police like Li Chao to lead the way.

"Thank you for nothing. I'm your master, and I still have to fulfill this responsibility." Li Chao said self-deprecatingly, "I'm going to go home to see your sister-in-law and kneel on the washboard. It's still the best to be a single male criminal policeman like you, without any worries."

"Master, although everything Tyler said is consistent, I still think there is something wrong with him. Tusun is not capable of designing such a perfect scam. This scam looks simple, but it is actually very clever."

"Criminal police are not omnipotent. Many cases cannot be solved. You must be mentally prepared for this, otherwise you will have psychological problems sooner or later. When you are a criminal police, you cannot be too sensitive. Being too sensitive will exhaust you and even cause emotional and mental problems. Of course, you cannot be forgetful or indifferent. You have to find a balance in the middle."

"Tyler must be inside the window, looking at us with a sneer." Owen closed his eyes and imagined Tyler standing at the window. In his mind, Tyler was still a suspect of murder. His so-called alibi actually had flaws.

"Not that amazing, right?" Li Chao stuck his head out of the car window and saw Tyler standing by the window. He said, "Captain Ding said you are a pervert. You are indeed a bit perverted. The ancestors really gave you the job of a criminal police officer."

Tyler looked down at the police car by the window, a scornful smile on his face. He wrote down Owen's number on his phone and repeated it silently several times. Owen is the cat and he is the mouse. The cat and the mouse can be enemies, or friends, or half enemies and half friends.

The Yongfa Shopping Center case was indeed related to Tyler. At that time, Tyler and Tu Sun were drinking tea in a teahouse after dinner, and the window of the teahouse just faced the Yongfa Shopping Center. Tu Sun had just been released from prison and complained that his family was too poor to have a TV, refrigerator or other household appliances. Tyler pointed to the Yongfa warehouse and said: "That is a pick-up point, you can pick up the goods at any time."

Tyler started stealing when he was very young. The first time was in junior high school, when he used his young age and small stature to act as a lookout. The third theft took place at Yongfa Electric. As a lookout, he visited the area many times and was very familiar with the situation around Yongfa Electric.

After he was released from prison, he changed from a simple theft player to a player with ten skills. After acquiring more skills, he despised theft and thought that theft was only suitable for people like Tusun. He tried to build his own Jianghu, and with Jianghu, everything followed.

When he was in prison, an older brother taught him the experience of using a fuse: all cases must have a fuse, and the key point for this fuse to work is that the subordinates must plead guilty when committing a crime, so that the case can be interrupted here.

This big brother was once famous in the underworld. He even got rid of a guy who bit his teeth in prison. The big brother was also hit on the head for this. This incident shocked Tyler. Now, he always follows Guan Laoye as his call in dealing with people, being loyal and generous, and has gathered a group of "like-minded" brothers.

All the brothers who are close to each other know what Tyler has said repeatedly: Whoever commits a crime must bear the responsibility individually, and if you dare to drag your brothers into it, not only will you lose your life, but your parents and brothers will also be implicated.

Tu Sun and Tyler were close, and he knew that Tyler was gentle on the surface, but actually cruel and ruthless. After being caught by the police this time, Tu Sun kept recalling the bloody case that Tyler had mentioned, and did not mention Tyler at all.

The police car drove away and disappeared into the crowd. Tyler slowly lit a cigarette for himself, and his thoughts returned to the past.

Leo was a school star, or the school belle in today's terms. She was pure and beautiful, like Little Dragon Girl, and won the favor of countless male classmates. Tyler started to travel the world at a very young age, and was considered an outlier among students. No matter how outlier he was, he was still a teenager, and naturally admired beautiful girls. He not only wrote love letters, but also gave flowers to her in person many times to express his love.

During the several years in prison, Tyler hid in bed to masturbate, still fantasizing about Leo.

Thinking of the past, Tyler felt bad. He didn't want to continue to be gloomy, so he forced himself to focus on Owen. Owen was a playboy in his first year of high school, not worth mentioning. After studying at the University of Political Science and Law, Owen's temperament changed a lot, his eyes were calm, and piercing like a knife.

Owen sent Li Chao home, turned the car around and drove to the location of the latest murder. He parked the car a little further away from the crime scene and drove to a Jianghu restaurant. When he handcuffed Tu Sun, he had some impression of the Jianghu restaurant not far away and thought the decoration was pretty good. He entered the Jianghu restaurant and ordered spicy fish and spicy chicken, which tasted really good.

Owen and the waitress soon started chatting together.

Speaking of the murder, the waitress lowered her voice and said, "I heard that he died from a blow to the head, r@ped first and then killed. No, he was killed first and then r@ped. It's so horrible and disgusting."

Owen asked again: "How old is the girl?"

The waitress said, "It's so tragic. The person who died was called Chen Lingfei. She was pretty. She was a teacher who had just started working. After this incident, I will never dare to work the night shift again."

Owen asked about the basic situation of the girl in a chatty way, such as her hair color, her clothing habits, whether she was a local of Jiangzhou, etc. He unknowingly asked the waitress many details. He is now only a trainee criminal policeman in the second squadron and is not qualified to deal with serious cases investigated by the detachment's serious crime brigade. The more important reason for asking about these things indirectly is to find clues about Leo's fall into the water.

The deceased was a young woman, which was the biggest similarity with Leo. Since there were similarities, he wanted to know more about the situation.

Owen recalled what Marcus had said when Leo fell into the water. The scene was still vivid in his mind, and the colors and sounds had not changed at all, as if it had just happened. The memory had not faded, which made him suffer more pain.

Jiangzhou has accumulated five murder cases with no clues in recent years, and Marcus has been under great pressure. When Owen met Marcus a few years ago, Marcus was still a criminal police captain with a straight figure. Seven years have passed in the blink of an eye, and Marcus has obviously aged, with gray hair and a slightly hunched back.

The burden on the shoulders of the city's criminal police detachment chief is as heavy as a mountain. Outsiders only see the criminal police detachment chief's majestic appearance, but it is difficult to see the criminal police detachment chief's frustrated expression when he cannot solve a case.

At this moment, Marcus was sitting opposite an older criminal policeman.

Old Jiang, the deputy director of criminal investigation who had been retired for two years, twisted open his thermos cup, took a sip of wolfberry water, and said, "There are no useful clues in several cases, which in itself shows one thing, these cases were committed by one person, which is why they were done so cleanly and efficiently."

"Alas, the Chen Lingfei case might become a backlog case again. If that's the case, I have no face to sit in the position of criminal police detachment leader and I have to give up the position." Marcus leaned his head on the chair, feeling exhausted.

There was no clear direction for the investigation of these six murders, and they did not meet the conditions for linking and combining cases. Lao Jiang had been a criminal policeman for his entire life, commanding the investigation and solving of countless cases, some of which were well-known major cases in China. As he was approaching retirement, he encountered these seemingly unsophisticated cases that he could not find a breakthrough in, which left him with deep regrets in his criminal police career and made him feel uneasy all the time.

For Jiangzhou, a city with a population of nearly five million, six unsolved murders over twelve years is not a big deal. Society continues to develop as usual, life goes on, and the only ones who are still concerned about the case are the immediate family members of the victims and the investigators.

Lao Jiang threw a cigarette to Marcus and said, "Don't be discouraged, old buddy. Only in this position can you keep an eye on these unsolved murder cases. You criminal police chiefs are getting old and will gradually retire to the second line. Then the unsolved cases may become frozen cases and will be buried in the files forever. No one will take care of them anymore. How good is the trainee criminal police you are keeping an eye on?"

Marcus had been stuck in the Chen Lingfei case these days and had no time to "investigate" Owen. After Lao Jiang reminded him, he called the technical team. After asking about the situation, he took a deep puff of cigarette and said, "Students who graduated from the Criminal Investigation Department are indeed different. There is indeed a Tusun fingerprint on the cigarette but.t provided by Owen, which is completely consistent with the Tusun fingerprint in the fingerprint database."

Lao Jiang said, "There are also idiots among the graduates of the Criminal Investigation Department. I can only say that this young man is born to be a criminal policeman. Lao Zhu, do you really want to create an opportunity for him to take over and investigate those backlogged cases?"

Marcus said: "Owen is Hou Guolong's only son. In order to find out the truth about Leo's drowning, he was admitted to the Criminal Investigation Department of the Political Science and Law University and has not given up in six years. If you want to solve these backlog cases, you must have such a stubborn temper. Moreover, he graduated from the Criminal Investigation Department of the Political Science and Law University. Judging from Xiao Ding's feedback, he has strong professional ability."

Owen went to the Criminal Police Detachment for an internship. Except for a very few people like Marcus and Lao Jiang, no one else knew his hidden identity as the prince of the Guolong Group.

"In that case, plan early. After he has trained for two or three years and is familiar with all aspects of the situation, find a way to let him handle the backlog of cases." Lao Jiang patted his head and said, "Your idea is good, but under the current system, it is a bit difficult for a young person to handle these backlog cases and need support from the whole system. Do you have any specific measures?"

Marcus smiled bitterly and said, "There is no solution. It is 80% a fantasy to let Owen handle the backlog of cases."

Time flies, and Owen successfully completed his internship.

After the internship, the Second Squadron held a farewell party for him. Every year, trainee police officers come to the squadron. When trainee police officers leave, Ding Hao just says a few words of encouragement. Owen, the "pervert", soon became a pioneer in handling cases and a model worker in the Second Squadron. The members of the Second Squadron always forget that the "pervert" is just a trainee police officer, and when they see him off, they all treat him as a real comrade-in-arms.

In the summer of 2008, Owen graduated from university and joined the Jiangzhou Criminal Police Detachment as an ordinary criminal policeman. Owen and his classmate Chen Haodang also joined the Criminal Police Detachment. Owen worked in the Second Brigade, while Chen Haodang worked in the Criminal Police Detachment Office.

Owen initially wanted to join the police force in a low-key manner, hide the halo of his father, and concentrate on handling cases.

Hou Guolong, a famous entrepreneur in Shannan, was born in Jiangzhou. There are many stories about him circulating among the people. After a long time, they have become a legend of wealth. All police officers know Hou Guolong's name. Owen did not bring his file when he came for internship. When he was officially assigned, he had to enter the Public Security Bureau with his file. Keeping a low profile was a luxury, and shielding was even more of a fantasy. On the day he came to the Second Brigade of the Criminal Police Team, many teammates asked if his father was Hou Guolong. After getting a positive answer, another curious teammate asked: "Since you are Hou Guolong's son, why do you want to be a criminal policeman?" The subtext is "sick in the brain."

Director Guan Peng called Marcus and said, "Old Zhu, the new Owen is Hou Guolong's son. He was previously an intern in the Second Squadron."

Marcus pretended to be dumb and said, "The Political Department should know this best. When Owen was doing internship, the Political Department only provided a list. There are so many people with the surname Hou in Jiangzhou. How do I know that he is Hou Guolong's son? Is he really Hou Guolong's son?"

When Li Chao learned that Owen's father was Hou Guolong, he got angry on the phone, expressed his anger at his apprentice's previous "deceptive behavior" and demanded compensation for mental damage.

Owen knew that he couldn't explain the real reason to everyone, so he didn't explain anything at all, just saying that he liked being a criminal policeman. Isn't that okay? He also gave the same answer when he invited Ding Hao and Li Chao to dinner.

He could answer like this at work, but he couldn't lie to his father. On the day of reporting to the Jiangzhou Criminal Police Detachment, Hou Guolong turned down all activities, prepared meals at home, and faced his son alone.

"Guolong Group is already a modern enterprise. If you really want to control the enterprise, you must invest time. If you spend your most precious time in the criminal police team, who will inherit the family business in the future? Your father is an old-fashioned person. I am worried and unwilling to hand over the enterprise that he worked hard to build to others." Hou Guolong poured a glass of wine for his son, drank it, and tried to persuade his son to go back. He knew that this was a Don Quixote-style effort, but he was unwilling to give it up without trying hard.

Owen said: "Maybe I am paranoid. Once I catch the murderer of Leo, I will immediately resign and return to Guolong Group."

"If the criminal police's judgment was correct, if Leo's death was an accident, you would definitely not be able to catch the murderer, because there is no murderer. So, does it mean that you will be a criminal police forever? If this happens, is your paranoia still meaningful? Unless you really like being a criminal police, that's another matter. Life is short, and the most important decisions are often made inadvertently, just like when I resigned without telling your mother, and after resigning, our lives actually underwent a major change. The same is true for you now. The decisions you make now will affect the direction of your life."

Hou Guolong knew his son's temper, and completely put aside his father's airs and the authority of the helmsman of Guolong Group, and talked to his son as an equal as a friend. The views he put forward were all his insights into life, each of which was simple and contained his understanding of life.

"Dad, thank you for saying this. This is all I can think of for now. I am still young and have the capital to start over."

For Owen, life is divided into two parts. The first part is the life before Leo was killed, and the second part is the life after Leo was killed. The two parts of life seem to be continuous and indistinguishable, but Owen himself knows that when he saw Leo's body soaked in water, his life has undergone a permanent and substantial change. From then on, he is no longer the Owen of the past, but a Owen with trauma. The trauma is deep inside, not obvious at first, but as time goes on, the trauma begins to sprout like a small tree and gradually grows into a towering tree.

If the murderer is not found, Owen's soul will have nowhere to rest.

As to whether Leo's case was really an accident, Owen stubbornly refused to consider it and firmly believed in his own judgment.

His mother, Li Yongmei, once said that what he did was a gamble in life, and asked him if it was worth it for a woman who had not yet married him. Owen didn't know whether it was worth it, but just followed his heart and threw himself into a detective work that might not exist.

Hou Guolong really couldn't understand his son's choice. According to his thinking, there are many ways to get the Public Security Bureau to arrest Leo, and he doesn't need to show up in person. After he failed to persuade his son again, he felt worse than losing a big business partner.

As a man of action, Hou Guolong quickly came out of his frustration and called Lucas.

"Owen's brain is completely rusted. He can't tell good from bad and can't grasp the key points. You have to find a way to make Owen sit on the bench in the criminal police team."

"Boss, if that's the case, why don't we just not let Owen join the criminal police team?"

"If he can't join the criminal police team, he will guess that we are playing tricks. Let him sit on the bench, break his fantasy of criminal police, and finally give up. More importantly, sitting on the bench does not require him to go to the front line, which can always reduce some danger."

"Boss, I understand. This is not illegal, nor does it violate policy. It's just that parents care about their children, so it's easy to get it done through backdoors."

Lucas is the agent of Guolong Group in Jiangzhou. He has extensive connections and is very familiar with handling such matters and is very adept at it.