What kind of horror stories send shivers down one’s spine?
Sister Shen is a Huang police officer, or what the public calls a “Huang police officer.”.
The story began with an illegal video she saw at work.
Sister Shen said she saw the dead in that video.
(1) a few years ago, the squadron received a report to investigate an illegal video website.
That website is very covert, the content on the surface is legal and compliant, but after the user pays to recharge, the backstage will push obscene videos to the user. After watching the suspected illegal videos one by one,
Sister Shen and several other police officers from Jianhuang suddenly told me that in one of the videos she saw, there was a girl who didn’t look like a living person.
“I didn’t believe it at first.” Could it be that the female victim was drugged?
Sister Shen shook her head and described the content of the video to me: The video was about seven minutes long. It was shot by a man with his mobile phone. The video environment was suspected to be the bedroom at home. It was definitely not a hotel, because when the man involved moved the camera of his mobile phone, he took pictures of many furniture and electrical appliances that the hotel did not have. There was also a poster of One Piece on the wall. The man
involved used the rear camera of his mobile phone, did not show his face, and only inevitably photographed his belly and lower body.
Because the range of movement was too large, the mobile phone was not held steadily. In the process of moving, two shots of the woman’s face were taken. The total length of the two shots was only about one second, but it was this second that attracted Shen Jie’s attention.
Shen Jie told me that in the seven-minute video, the women involved had no reaction at all, and the possibility of drunkenness could be ruled out by experience. If they were drugged, their mouths would be open during the assault, and they would snore or gasp unevenly.
I’ve watched a lot of videos of female victims being drugged, and I’m all too familiar with the reaction of the female victims. I always feel that the girl in that video is not even breathing.
Sister Shen said. The
woman’s brief appearance made Shen suspicious, so she watched the video dozens of times, and the more she watched it, the more she felt something was wrong.
The girl seemed to be stiff and unresponsive.
I also de-noised the sound of the video. Really, I only heard the moans of the photographer. The girl really had no sound at all.
That image has been reflected in Shen Jie’s mind all the time. She said that from that day on, whenever she closed her eyes, she had nightmares about the man who shot the video, with a dead man under him.
I have been in contact with Sister Shen for so many years, and I trust her business ability and experience.
Handling cases does depend on evidence, but the first intuition and experience of the police are equally important.
Not afraid of ten thousand, just in case, but also out of the selfishness of helping Shen Jie get out of the psychological shadow as soon as possible, I made a decision after careful consideration.
I applied to the detachment to review the video.
(2) The video was uploaded to the website seven days ago. Comrades in the
technical department have reduced the noise of the sound source. We can hear the panting of the photographer very clearly. The voice of the man involved is very rough, and his mouth bursts with foul language from time to time. Although the woman involved has no response, the man involved is still very excited. My colleague Lin Hui
and I have seen the bodies of many of the victims, and having heard Sister Shen’s description beforehand, we also subconsciously feel that the girl’s body is somewhat stiff, especially in the joints of her limbs, which are slightly “unable to bend.”.
“Rigor mortis” — that’s the word that immediately came to mind.
Other forensic experts also believe that the woman in the video is indeed different from other female victims they have seen who were stunned, but they are still not sure whether the woman involved is dead or not. After the
sound source was reduced, we did not hear the breathing of the women involved, but the reason for this situation is probably also related to the defects of the mobile phone used in the shooting.
Due to the short exposure shot, the comrades of the technical department of the squadron have taken a screenshot of the exposure shot in advance, and have made it slightly clearer through image technology. We can see that the woman involved has medium and long hair, which is relatively comely. In the screenshot, her eyes are closed and her lips are closed.
Take the video and pictures back to the forensic lab of the detachment and let the forensic doctor have a look.
I propose. Lei, the director of the
forensic laboratory, laughed when he heard that we had sent videos and photos, saying that he had never judged whether a person was dead or alive based on images for so many years.
That night, I received a phone call from Director Lei, who told me heavily, “The girl in the video is probably dead.”.
(3) I returned to the detachment overnight for a meeting. Director
Lei told us that the characteristics of lividity could not be observed, but through the degree of body stiffness, it was boldly speculated that when the photographer shot the video, the woman involved had been dead for more than 12 hours and less than 24 hours. No hemorrhagic wounds were observed in the
video and no ligature marks were found on the neck, so the cause of death could not be determined, but the skin color of the woman’s mouth and nose was slightly different from that of other parts of the face. That
is, she could have been smothered.
Suffocation is also a common case of suffocation death, in which the victim is usually covered by a soft object, resulting in suffocation death. Sometimes there are crescent-shaped marks or abrasions on both cheeks of
the smothered body, which are left by the force of the perpetrator, that is, the marks left by the nails. Obviously, in the video and screenshots, we have not observed such features.
In addition, due to the action of force, the body that is smothered to death will occasionally leave a pale area on the mouth and nose. Director
Lei gave such a conjecture based on the difference in skin color between the mouth and nose.
The team made several requests to us: First, the speculation that the woman involved had died was not a conclusion, but only a verbal clue. Therefore, the news could not be announced to the public for the time being. Second, the detachment took over the investigation of the case involving the website in an all-round way. It must arrest the criminal suspect who set up the website, uploaded and disseminated the video within three days; Third, find out the identity information of the women involved and their families, so as to screen whether the women suspected of death were intentionally killed, and if so, lock in the criminal suspect as soon as possible, that is, the identity of the men involved in the video.
With the intervention of the technical department of the detachment, the encryption method of the website was cracked the next day. Colleagues in the
technical department said that the comment function of the website is under construction and has not been opened for the time being.
It is speculated that the criminal suspect may land in the background of the website at any time to improve this function, so the comrades of the technical department secretly implanted the positioning program into the background of the website after cracking one encryption lock after another.
That afternoon, the criminal suspect landed backstage as expected.
But the suspect seemed to find out that there was a problem in the background at the first time and immediately withdrew from the landing, but he still underestimated the strength of the public security technical department.
The location program ignored the foreign servers and virtual dynamic IP used by the criminal suspect and sent us a very detailed address directly, showing that it was in another city.
That evening, we and the Criminal Investigation Brigade of that city jointly deployed an operation to capture the criminal suspect in a residential building and bring him back to the detachment. When Lin Hui and
I saw the criminal suspect, we felt that this case was probably not that simple, because the criminal suspect was very thin, 1.7 meters tall, and only less than 60 kilograms by visual observation. This feature was completely inconsistent with the big belly of the video photographer.
criminal suspect Wu Mou, junior high school education, computer technology is all learned in Internet cafes a few years ago when they were webmasters.
Wu told himself that at the beginning of the year, he was so obsessed that he thought of building an illegal website to sell obscene videos for profit.
From building websites, publicizing and draining, uploading videos and collecting stolen money, he did it all by himself.
Lin Hui threw the video screenshot of the woman directly in front of Wu Mou and asked him if he knew the girl.
Wu looked at it for a long time and shook his head. You uploaded all the
videos. This woman is a girl in your video. How can you not know her?
Lin Hui is very stern.
But Wu still shook his head: “I uploaded the videos, yes, but those videos were all made by me through various channels.”.
Wu said that most of the more than 400 illegal videos on the website were bought from other people at a low price, and some were downloaded from other illegal websites.
Wu gave us the addresses of some websites, many of which had been destroyed by local police. Lin Hui immediately asked people to search for illegal websites that had not been destroyed, and also asked people to contact local police to see if they could find the earliest source of the video.
As for those who sell illegal videos to Wu, Wu has long deleted the contact information, and this line is basically broken.
Everyone has been working for two days, and there is no progress. Although the screenshots of the
woman’s face have been clearly processed, the features of her eyebrows and eyes are still not very obvious. We have no way to compare the appropriate faces in the database through the screenshots.
On the other hand, the comrades in the team also focused on the information of missing persons registered in various places, but unfortunately there were also targets for finding suspected women involved. We can’t even be sure who the
victim is, and for a while, the detection of the case has hit a bottleneck.
(4) This case is very special, because there is no conclusive evidence to prove whether the woman involved is dead or not, and the detachment does not know whether this case should be filed or not, and if so, whether it should be filed as a case of intentional homicide.
Heard that the case also spread to the provincial department, the provincial department gave the same guidance as the detachment first conveyed to us, first find out who the woman involved is, and then consider the latter.
Lin Hui joked at the time, “Isn’t this nonsense? In this case, isn’t the most difficult thing to determine who the girl is?”?
We can’t post a screenshot of her face on the Internet and let everyone identify it, can we?
Of course not.
If the girl is not dead, how can her privacy be protected when she is exposed on the Internet?
Even if really dead, without the consent of the family to do so, what if the family is unrelenting?
As he frowned, Lin Hui complained, “It’s just a seven-minute video in bed, and I can’t even be 100% sure where it is. How can I check it?”? On the contrary,
Lin Hui’s complaint reminded me that if I couldn’t find someone directly, I would look for the place where the video was filmed.
I immediately pulled Lin Hui to sit in front of the computer and opened the video again, but this time I opened the original video without noise reduction processing, and turned the sound to the maximum.
I handed the headphones to Lin Hui and watched the video together, listening to the sound in the video.
By the end of the day, we had watched the video more than a hundred times, slowed down, speeded up, and tried all kinds of methods. This time, when we watched the original video, we also did not find any new clues from the picture. However, when I heard the sound, I suddenly had a familiar and strange feeling.
The original video is indeed very noisy, and the sounds that can be roughly distinguished are: the laughter and shouts of the crowd, the sound of advertisements in shops, and the sound of car horns. After
watching it once, Lin Hui took off his headphones, saying that the noise almost broke his eardrums. To be sure,
at least, the video was shot in a very busy place.
I said.
Lin Hui also put his pet phrase on the lips: “This is the reason, but there are so many provinces in the country, so many cities in each province, not to mention big cities, even a small county and township, all have these voices.”.
“I shook my head.” No, did you just hear the sound of “Dang Dang Dang”?
Lin Hui rolled his eyes and couldn’t help laughing. Do you know what’Dang Dang Dang Dang ‘is? How many times have you seen
Stephen Chow’s a Chinese Odyssey? Are we going to sing onlyyou
next?
I simply drove Lin Hui away and continued to listen to the voice in the video alone.
This time, I was more sure that in the sixth minute of the video, there was a slow and even sound of “Dang Dang Dang” in the noise. The inexplicable familiarity in
my heart came from this voice, but for a moment, I couldn’t say what was going on.
I went to the technical department again and asked the comrades there if there was any way to separate the sound in the video, to separate the sound of the car, the sound of the store’s stereo advertising, and the sound of the car’s whistle, and to clarify it by the way. I also specifically told them to extract the sixth minute of “Dang Dang Dang” separately.
At the end of the day, the comrades in the technical department asked me to go back and wait for news, saying that they were going to work overtime to deal with my request. After several days of
busy work, I finally found time to go to Sister Shen’s home.
Shen Jie’s husband opened the door for me, holding back his emotions and politely beckoning me in. He lit a cigarette and went out.
Sister Shen sat on the sofa crying, and I knew that the couple had a quarrel.
Sister Shen told me that she and her husband might divorce.
It turns out that over the years, Shen Jie’s husband has more than once asked Shen Jie to apply for a transfer from the post of Jianhuang. It’s not that he doesn’t support the very necessary work of the public security department. The reason is probably that only adults can understand: Shen Jie sometimes has to watch hundreds of films a day. Over time, she gradually becomes indifferent to intimate behavior, and even begins to reject it.
No wonder they haven’t considered having children after so many years of marriage.
Shen Jie’s husband also held his breath in his heart. This time, Shen Jie had a psychological shadow because she saw the body being humiliated in the film review work. She was haggard all day long, and finally she could not hold her breath. The Comrade from the
technical department called me and said that my request had been done.
I had to rush back to the detachment, sit down in front of the computer and put on my headphones. The comrades in the
technical department extracted the sound in the video separately. I listened to the whistle first, and there was nothing strange about it.
Immediately afterwards, I listened to the advertisement sent out by the stereo, which was the advertisement of the oppo mobile phone in those years, endorsed by a certain star.
I checked the advertisement on the Internet, and it was released at the beginning of that year.
This information is very important.
That illegal video was uploaded to the illegal website a week before Shen Jie reviewed the film. This is true, but no one can guarantee when the video was shot. What I fear most is that it was shot many years ago. It took many years to be discovered by us because it was uploaded to the illegal website. After a long
time, it is more difficult to solve the case.
Then I listened to the voice of the crowd, and I listened to this voice several times, because I tried to catch some dialects.
Because of the noisy environment and the distance, the voice of the crowd was not recorded very clearly. I had to give up. As a result, in the last few seconds of the video, I heard a dialect curse with the characteristics of the southwest region.
All of a sudden, I understood what the sound of “Dang Dang Dang” was.
My university was in Southwest University of Political Science and Law. At that time, every weekend or New Year’s Eve, my classmates and I would go to the bustling Jiefangbei to play.
This string of slow and even “Dang Dang Dang” sounds like the chimes of the Jiefangbei Bell Tower on the hour! I immediately called the detachment leader, and a lot of policemen who had been in bed rushed back to the detachment without stopping. The detachment leader immediately contacted the Yuzhong District Branch of the local public security Bureau to assist in the investigation. The team also booked air tickets for Lin Hui and me. When we
arrived at our destination, it was already past zero.
We went to Yuzhong Branch Criminal Investigation Detachment for a simple meeting and gave them a screenshot of the victim’s face, but after the other party inquired, we failed to find the girl in the missing person information.
At this point, the case has made significant progress, but I do not know why, my heart is still very unstable, always feel that there will be any changes.
(5) Early the next morning, we followed the police of Yuzhong detachment to the residential building near Jiefangbei.
The area was very busy, and there were many residential buildings. We all went out in casual clothes, disguised as the staff of the neighborhood committee, and went door to door in the name of checking and registering the aging degree of the houses, in order to find an environment similar to that in the video.
Because of the sound of mobile phone advertisements in the video, we focused on screening out several residential buildings with mobile phone shops nearby. More than
30 police officers were busy from early morning to evening, and finally we were informed that some police officers had found the suspected crime site. Lin Hui and
I followed the leading police and immediately went to the house. We were received by a middle school girl who had just returned home from class. Lin Hui and
I walked into one of the bedrooms, looked carefully, and found that the bed and floor tiles were exactly the same as in the video, and even the poster of One Piece on the wall was exactly the same as in the video. Just then
, the middle school girl’s father came back, a fat man with a mouthful of beard. When Lin Hui and
I saw the shirt that was about to burst on the fat man’s stomach, we rushed to him and pushed him to the ground.
The fat man struggled, his daughter cried, and the scene was very chaotic. While controlling the fat man,
Lin Hui winked at me, “Boy, you’ve made a great contribution this time.”.
However, after handcuffing the fat man to the detachment, as soon as he was interrogated, Lin Hui and I were severely hit in the face. The
fat man and his daughter are just tenants of the house. They just moved here the day before yesterday. Moreover, the fat man’s voice is totally different from that of the illegal video photographer who used foul language because of excitement. The reason why
fat people are fat is just a coincidence. Lin Hui and
I were scolded by the detachment leader for a long time.
Later, we found the landlord of the house and asked about the tenant information since the beginning of the year.
The landlord is a businessman, very busy, there are many sets of real estate under his name, the rental work is fully entrusted to the intermediary company, he is not clear about the details.
So we went to the intermediary company. After
going to many places, we finally found out the identities of the men and women involved. The
man involved, Zhou Mou, 30 years old, burly and fat, and the woman involved, Wang Mou, 26 years old, slender and beautiful.
They were all from other places. At the beginning of the year, they rented the landlord’s house together.
According to the staff who took them to see the house at the beginning, they should be lovers and behave intimately.
Almost a month ago, Zhou Mou and Wang Mou returned the rent, but the procedures for returning the rent were handled by telephone. When the intermediary went to collect the house, no one was seen, but the luggage was empty.
The Yuzhong detachment immediately found out the telephone numbers of Zhou and Wang.
I first tried to dial the phone of Wang Mou, a woman.
After all, Director Lei and our suspicions were speculated without seeing the body. In the sense of investigation and law, it is not 100% confirmed that Wang Mou is dead.
Moreover, before everything is determined, we can not contact Zhou Mou rashly, so as not to frighten the snake.
I made several phone calls in succession, but Wang didn’t answer.
Lin Hui was worried: “Isn’t that obvious?”?
The man must be dead! I feel strange: “Her phone can get through, did not answer, not off, if the person died, who will always charge her mobile phone ah?”?
Just as I was talking, the phone called back. My heart missed a beat and I answered it immediately.
Hello?
Who is it?
It is the voice of a woman.
I tried to ask, “Is this Wang XX?”?
“The other end of the phone replied,” Yes, who are you?
I pretended to be a salesman, and after talking, the other end of the phone hung up impatiently.
In order to confirm that the person who answered the phone was really Wang, we found the contact information of Wang’s parents in his hometown. In the name of the census, I asked the most crucial question: “Will Wang XX go home in the near future?”?
She just called me yesterday to tell me that she won’t be back for the Chinese New Year this year. After
hanging up the phone, Lin Hui patted the back of his head and said, It’s been a long time, but it turned out to be a mistake.
In my opinion, I have to tell Wang XX later that his boyfriend is a scum man. He took their private video and sent it out.
That night, we were ready to go back, but sitting in the terminal waiting for the plane, I always felt strange. Before
boarding the plane, I really couldn’t hold back. I asked Lin Hui to go back first, and I went to do something.
I returned to the Yuzhong detachment and asked them to investigate the use records of Wang’s bank card and payment software for nearly a year. At noon
the next day, the comrades of the detachment gave me some sorted out forms.
This year, Wang’s credit card and bank card have not stopped using, the latest credit card, just yesterday, was swiped while shopping in the supermarket.
Seeing this, I breathed a sigh of relief and blamed myself for thinking too much, but when I saw Wang Mou’s payment software usage record, I couldn’t laugh any more.
Records show that Wang had been using WeChat payment and Alipay before February, but never used it again after February.
I immediately called the detachment leader and asked him to say hello to the Yuzhong detachment and send someone to arrest Wang’s boyfriend Zhou with me.
Perhaps the detachment leader had never seen me so suspicious of a person and agreed.
Before the action, we tried to call Zhou Mou, but no one answered, and when we called again, he had turned off his mobile phone.
I guess that for two days in a row, strange numbers called Wang Mou and Zhou Mou’s mobile phones one after another, which made him suspicious. According to the signal base station and GPS positioning connected by Zhou before he shut down, the
technical department locked his last location, which was a cafe, but when we arrived, there was no Zhou there.
We checked the surveillance. In the
surveillance video, Zhou waited for coffee alone at the counter. After his cell phone rang, he looked at the screen of his cell phone for a long time and did not answer it. Finally, he made a shutdown action and ran out of the cafe without even taking the coffee he had bought.
After that, the arrest process went smoothly.
Under the law, it is not easy to escape.
It is worth mentioning that Zhou Mou’s criminal motive. After he
was caught, he confessed to the crime.
Zhou Mou and Wang Mou are indeed lovers, and they work together from the countryside to the city.
Wang mainly works in nightclubs. According to Zhou, when he went to nightclubs several times late at night to pick up Wang, he saw Wang pulling and pulling with male customers. They quarreled many times
because of this, until a late night at the end of January, Wang simply did not go home.
Zhou Mou suspected that Wang Mou went out with other men for the night, felt resentful, and eventually smothered Wang Mou in the rental house.
Abnormal possessiveness made Zhou Mou forcibly have a relationship with the corpse after Wang Mou’s death, and recorded the video.
The video was originally for his own viewing, until a month ago, Zhou Mou lost his job, so he sold the video everywhere for money, one of the buyers was Wu Mou, who built an illegal website. After
Wang was killed, Zhou dismembered the body and spent many days burying the limbs in the nine districts of the main city in the middle of the night.
Later, in order to conceal the fact that Wang Mou had died, Zhou Mou did a lot of operations, such as using Wang Mou’s credit card and savings card every three or five times.
Originally, Wang Mou’s WeChat payment and Alipay were also within his consideration, but he only knew Wang Mou’s bank card password, did not know the payment password of the payment software, and could not use the face recognition in payment, so he had to give up.
For example, in order to create the illusion that Wang Mou is still alive, he also downloaded a lot of voice-changing software in Wang Mou’s mobile phone, found the closest voice-changing package to Wang Mou’s voice, and contacted Wang Mou’s parents every week to report safety. After the end of the
case, Shen Jie still worked in the post of Jianhuang, did not transfer from the post, but occasionally went to see a psychologist.
Her husband did not choose to divorce her in the end, but continued to support her. Over the
years, Sister Shen has been able to mention that experience calmly. I just met Shen and his wife
last week, and their child is one month old.
Therefore, ah, we should sincerely thank the police officers in these special posts. They really sacrificed their bodies and minds and paid for the masses. Of course, we should also thank their relatives for their support and understanding.
I still remember that afternoon, before leaving the interrogation room, criminal suspect Zhou Mou cried his heart out.
He said that he later learned that Wang did not return that night, in order to earn money to buy him an anniversary gift, and the customer breathed two bottles of liquor, drunk on the spot, was taken home by female colleagues to rest.
. Focus on not getting lost ~
