Mystery Tracker 3

Chapter 121 Analysis

China, City S.

Criminal investigation team meeting room.

"Everyone, we are holding this meeting today to summarize the results of the investigation on Tao Tao during this period." Shen Yan started with a simple sentence, "As you all know, we contacted Tao Tao's ex-wife Du Xinying some time ago. I got some important information from her, Team Cheng, please give us a brief introduction of the situation that day."

Cheng Jinsong nodded, and told everyone about the online meeting and inquiry with Du Xinying a few days ago, and concluded: "Du Xinying's words can let us clarify the following facts: first, Tao Tao has the place and time of committing the crime; Tao Tao should have had a close relationship with a woman before the incident, but disappeared after the incident, which is in line with the time characteristics of the victim; and Tao Tao lied during the police interrogation. Combined with Tao Tao's occupation and work location, All this shows that Tao Tao is highly suspected of committing the crime."

"One more detail is very important," Jiang Li added in an interface, "When we took people to set up an ambush at the gate of S University, Tao Tao was in a shopping mall opposite S University. The surveillance video captured him, and the time was the same as ours. The timing of the arrests coincided."

Shen Yan nodded and said: "So, based on all these, we can already confirm that Tao Tao is an important suspect in the dismemberment case back then. So what we need to do next is to find conclusive evidence of Tao Tao's crime."

"According to Du Xinying's recollection, combined with the map of City S, we found the location of Tao Tao's old house," Fang Liyuan continued.He showed an old photo and introduced: "This is a group of family buildings built by a certain university many years ago. They are all designed with a single family. Later, because the school was split and merged, these small buildings were sold to the local government. We have confirmed with Du Xinying that what Tao Tao owns is Building No. 4 here. Unfortunately, this residential area has been demolished in the urban reconstruction seven years ago. We have obtained nearly 20 buildings from the Real Estate Bureau. According to the transaction records of the past few years, it was found that Tao Tao’s house was only sold in the fifth year after he went abroad. The owner who took over was a couple. They smashed things, that's why they bought the place. We asked the couple, and they said they didn't find anything suspicious in the house. But it was five or six years ago when they bought the house. According to Tao's meticulousness, he should have cleaned it up long ago."

The place where the crime happened is actually the key clue that can best lock the murderer.But the passage of time completely cut off this clue, which undoubtedly greatly increased the difficulty of solving the case.However, the matter has already happened, and no matter how regretful it is, it will not help, so Shen Yan looked at Cheng Haiyang and Qin Kai, and asked, "What are the findings about Tao Tao's investigation?"

"We checked Tao Tao's entry and exit records in recent years," Qin Kai replied, "and found that he basically came to China once or twice a year in recent years, for the purpose of attending meetings or participating in operations, etc. Among them, China There are mostly a few cities in the north, such as our city, H city, and the imperial capital, etc. Jiang Li and I contacted colleagues in these cities to inquire about it, and found a very interesting thing, that is, Tao Tao has a quirk. Every time he attends various meetings, he never stays in the hotel arranged by the meeting party, but must stay in another five-star hotel. Even if sometimes the hotel arranged for the meeting itself is a five-star hotel, he I will definitely choose another one. According to a staff member who has dealt with him, Tao Tao said that his wife will come over—I don’t know anything else, at least when he stayed in our city last time, the monitoring But no picture of his wife."

"Moreover, every time he stays in the hotel, he has a record of logging in to the extranet using the Internet." Cheng Haiyang added.

"Speaking of the Internet, I also have a small discovery here," Shen Hao said, "Du Xinying said before when I was acquainted with Du Xinying about the situation, Tao Tao is very narcissistic and likes to read mystery novels. This reminds me of a thing Do you still remember what screen name was used by the behind-the-scenes messenger in the imitation crime some time ago?"

"C-artist." Cheng Jinsong answered first.

"Yes." Shen Hao nodded, "We didn't know what this C meant at the time, but later I saw such a sentence in a mystery novel."

As Shen Hao spoke, he called up a picture, which was the cover of a novel, and there was a sentence: "Criminals are creative artists, while detectives are critics."

"This is a famous quote from GK Chesterton's famous novel "The Detective Collection of Father Brown," Shen Hao pointed to the picture introduction, "so I guess that C is the abbreviation of the word Crime."

"Criminal artist," Cui Mingyou clicked his tongue, "this guy is really narcissistic."

"According to Tao Tao's ex-wife, Tao Tao is a very narcissistic person." Shen Yan said, "It is said that he will collect all the reports about him as newspaper clippings."

"Judging from the imitation case at the beginning of the year, the murderer is also very proud of the case he committed. The reason why he bet with the two boys Ma Haoyu and Sun Xikai is also for showing off. And he came to our city specially to see the result , does not rule out the purpose of revisiting old dreams." Cheng Jinsong said as he remembered something, "But if he was really proud of the original case, it is said that he would not have endured it for 20 years before starting to show off. It is very likely that he is still somewhere. Said about it."

"Yes," Shen Hao nodded, "So I also checked the discussion on this case on the Internet, but I haven't seen any speeches suspected of Tao Tao. Considering that Tao Tao's last speech was on the dark web, I'm Liberty East' also made a post, but no worthwhile replies so far."

"Tao Tao was almost caught by us last time, and he will definitely be more careful in the future." Shen Yan said while looking down at the note in his hand.Judging from the current situation, all they have is indirect evidence, and there is no direct evidence to link Tao Tao with the dismemberment case.However, 20 years have passed and the place where the crime happened is no longer there. How else can they lock the suspect?

I'm afraid, we still have to start with people.

After clarifying his thoughts, Shen Yan asked, "Have you checked Tao Tao's current family situation and work unit situation?"

"I've checked." This time it was Tang Qing who said, "Tao Tao's current wife is Amanda Kim, 35 years old, a Korean-American. They have two daughters, one is 12 years old and the other is 8 years old. They are both studying in Korea. "

"In terms of work, Tao Tao is mainly a university professor now, and he also has his own beauty clinic." Su Mohan said, "From the website, you can find information about Tao Tao's teaching courses at the university and some employees of his beauty clinic. gone."

Su Mohan said, and handed Shen Yan a stack of papers.Shen Yan took it and flipped through a few pages. Suddenly, he saw a familiar face in the photo of the relevant personnel.

"Is this person Tao Tao's assistant we met in Beijing?" He pointed to the person in the photo and confirmed with Cheng Jinsong.Cheng Jinsong leaned over to take a look, then nodded in confirmation: "It's him."

Shen Yan looked at the information about this young man next to the photo, but there was only one HenanWu written on it.Shen Yan frowned slightly, he raised the photo and asked Su Mohan: "What else did you find out about this person?"

Su Mohan shook his head: "Only this person's name is written on the website, nothing else is written."

"HenanWu? Wu Henan?" Suddenly, Qin Kai thought of something, "Hey, this person is Tao Tao's assistant. Tao Tao brought him to the meeting several times. I saw this name several times in the meeting registration. .”

Shen Yan's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Has the organizer of the meeting registered any other information about this person?"

"There should be, I can ask."

"Why, what's wrong with this person?" Fang Liyuan asked Shen Yan at the side.Shen Yan nodded: "I met this person when we went to Beijing to meet Tao Tao last time. He is Tao Tao's assistant and is in charge of Tao Tao's itinerary, so he must know Tao Tao very well. Moreover, this The accent sounds like a northerner, if we can find his relatives and take the opportunity to contact him, maybe we can get some information about Tao Tao from him."

"But, will this scare the snake?" Cheng Haiyang was a little worried.

Shen Yan understood Cheng Haiyang's concerns, and said: "So we need to contact his parents first, first understand Wu Henan's character and his relationship with Tao Tao, and then plan how to get in touch with him."

This is indeed a good way, everyone nodded unanimously, and Qin Kai said loudly: "I will find someone to check his information in a while!"

Qin Kai acted quickly and efficiently. Within 10 minutes after the meeting ended, he had already obtained all of Wu Henan's information - not only his mobile phone number, but also his ID number and passport number.With these two documents, the police quickly found out his relevant information. Shen Yan did hear correctly. This Wu Henan is from City C of this province, and his parents are still living in City C.After learning this information, Shen Yan immediately contacted the police in City C, and soon the police in City C reported the situation of Wu Henan's family. Wu Henan's family lived in a prefecture-level city under C City, and his father was the vice principal of a school for the deaf. , the mother is an ordinary junior high school teacher.Neither has any criminal records.Considering the occupation and education level of the two parents, everyone in the serious crime team felt that it was possible to contact Wu Henan's parents.So Shen Yan took someone to visit City C in person, and asked Wu Henan's parents about the basic situation of Wu Henan's studies.According to Wu's father and Wu's mother, Wu Henan applied for a master's degree at a university in South Korea after graduating from university 4 years ago, and Tao Tao was his advisor at that time.After studying with Tao Tao for three years and obtaining a master's degree, he continued to follow Tao Tao to study for a doctorate.And he has been Tao Tao's assistant for more than two years. It is said that he is mainly responsible for the homework correction of Tao Tao's subjects and his various itinerary arrangements.

"They are also very annoying in South Korea. The supervisor's graduate students are like free labor for the supervisor. The child said that he not only has to take care of the supervisor's work, but also asks him to do many things at home."

"In other words, Wu Henan knows his mentor well, including members of his mentor's family?"

"The little man said he knew them all." Wu Henan's father nodded, and then asked, "Comrade policeman, what are you trying to do by inquiring about these things? Does the little man have any questions about his teacher?"

"We just want to know something from him." Shen Yan said, "Can you contact your son for us, we have some questions to ask him."