Genius Detective - Chapter 456

Chapter 456

Chapter 456: Gun Murder Case

Volume 30: Ghost Gun[1]

On July 26th, Chen Shi arrived at the bureau early in the morning . A few days had passed since the gun mailing case . The last gun with a silencer was still missing . The task force was temporarily disbanded . The work that had accumulated before was piled up like mountains . The police who were working non-stop  the past few days all envied Chen Shi who didn’t have to do anything once the case was over .

Chen Shi went to Lin Qiupu's office and asked, "Did you check what I’ve asked you to check?"

Lin Qiupu, who was on the phone, made a gesture to indicate that Chen Shi should wait . After ending the call with a few simple sentences, he crossed his arms . "You’re getting more and more arrogant . Do you know how busy I have been these two days?"

"Who cares about that? Did you check it or not?"

"I have . Zhou Tiannan's private assets haven’t increased . Ji Xingyao isn’t in the city anymore . The interrogation will be carried out by the public security bureaus of the other cities . I read the fax sent over in the morning . She didn't know the background details of the person she hired, and she isn’t clear what they look like either . The two parties made the transaction in a dark alley . "

Chen Shi was disappointed . In fact, he had already expected this result . If Zhou Tiannan wasn’t cautious, his identity would have been exposed long ago .

It seems that it would be a long journey before they could arrest him and his people and bring them to justice .

Chen Shi turned to leave, and Lin Qiupu asked, "Where are you going?"

"Going home to rest . I’ve been exhausted over the past two days and I’m both physically and mentally drained right now . ”

"You should help me with some of the work . When we were tracing the missing guns, there were several more murders in the city . You must be interested in them . "

"No . Let me rest on such a hot day!"

When Chen Shi turned around and left, Lin Qiupu received another call . He suddenly stood up and chased after him . "Hey, stop there . There’s been a shooting!"

Chen Shi turned around in surprise .  Has the last gun appeared?!

Lin Qiupu didn’t have a lot of staff available at the moment, so he asked Chen Shi, Lin Dongxue, Xu Xiaodong and Peng Sijue to go over together . The crime had occurred in a high-end residential area . In the morning, an old man who was doing his morning exercises found that a household had left their lights on . When he looked inside, a man was laying in a pool of blood . He frantically ran to his local police station who then called it in .

Seeing the criminal police show up, the local police officers who were at the scene breathed a sigh of relief . They could finally hand over the case . Chen Shi asked, "What is the identity of the deceased?"

"I just checked the ID card with the station . This man is called Song Yuwen . He’s 30 years old and a local . His occupation is a dentist and his family background should be pretty decent . . . " The police looked around the house . To be able to buy such a big house at a young age, they could tell that his income must be quite high .  

Chen Shi pondered, "Would a dentist have conflicts with anyone?"

The deceased was lying on the wooden floor, with three bloodstains on his body . His head was facing the door . Peng Sijue put down the toolbox and used tweezers to pry open the wound of the deceased for examination . The wound was a round hole outlined with blackened burns . “He was shot to death . ”

"Three shots were fired . If it was a normal gun, it would have alarmed the neighbors last night . It must have been a gun with a silencer . Maybe it was the missing gun . "

"We’ll have to wait until we see the bullet before we can confirm it . "

"Xiaodong and Dongxue, you two should interview the nearby residents to understand the situation . "

The local police also left as well . Chen Shi and Peng Sijue were the only ones left in the room . Chen Shi checked the pupils of the body and asked, "The time of death was about six hours ago?"

"No . " Peng Sijue took a look at the remote control of the air conditioner on the table . "The air conditioner is set on a timer . The air conditioner should have been on when the victim died . The indoor temperature was 20 degrees . The time must be pushed back two to three hours . "

"That's around eleven then . "

"We have to wait and test the liver and anal temperatures to determine it properly . "

"The owner set the timer on the air conditioner, indicating that he was ready to go to bed . Seeing that he was wearing pajamas, the time seems about right?” Chen Shi took out his cell phone and told Lin Dongxue  the time of death . He told her to question the property managers as well .

Chen Shi stood up and looked around . There were two cups on the table . The tea inside had already cooled down . The deceased was facing the door, wearing pajamas and slippers . The perpetrator was obviously an acquaintance, and an acquaintance that the deceased would welcome in late at night .

Could it be a woman? He pondered .

Then he picked up the TV remote control and turned on the set-top box . The last viewing time was 11:00 last night . The deceased should have been alive at that time . Someone came to visit, so he turned off the TV . That made more sense .

He opened the refrigerator and the refrigerator was empty . It seemed like the deceased normally didn’t  cook . But there was an exquisite box inside . Chen Shi opened it and it turned out to hold a bouquet of pink roses .

"Look at this! Could the murderer be a woman?"

Peng Sijue shook his head . "You’re jumping to conclusions . The flowers and the murder case may not be connected . Since it was placed in the refrigerator, it means that he was ready to leave it there for two days before giving it away . ”

Chen Shi smiled . "I was just saying it casually . By the way, are there any flower gifting holidays coming soon?"

"Are there?"

When he looked at the calendar on his mobile phone, it turned out that it was Qixi Festival[2] two days later . It’s unknown when it started, but Qixi Festival had become China’s Valentine’s Day . Chen Shi wondered whether he should buy a small gift for Lin Dongxue .

Chen Shi inspected both the inside and outside of the house and collected all the evidence that he thought would be valuable . On the kitchen floor, he saw a bullet hole in the tile and rubbed it with his fingers . The size of the bullet hole was very close to the size of the bullets that the Russian Makarov pistol holds .

The kitchen was clean and tidy and there were no traces of struggle . It was also quite far from the living room . It was unknown why there was a bullet hole there .

When Chen Shi went to the bathroom and lifted up the toilet lid, he suddenly realized everything . There was a mobile phone soaking in the toilet . The phone was already shattered by a bullet . The murderer should have put the mobile phone there and shot at it, shattering the tile . Then the murderer chucked the broken phone into the toilet .

Chen Shi picked up the phone, but it was so damaged that it was probably impossible to repair it . Just in case, he also collected some water from the toilet to see if the murderer had used it before .

Peng Sijue found a set of shoe prints in the living room which were left by a pair of size 37 high heels . It seemed that the murderer was likely to be a woman . There were only one set of fingerprints on the door frame, table, and walls . Judging from the size, they belonged to the victim . It was possible to commit the murder with a gun without leaving fingerprints .

The two exchanged their findings . Chen Shi looked at the corpse on the ground . "The deceased's appearance is fairly standard, and he’s a well-paid bachelor . It’s not surprising that there will be friends of the opposite sex visiting late at night . . . By the way, since the murderer is an acquaintance, how did she come in?"

Peng Sijue immediately understood his words . "The doorbell!"

The two went outside the door and collected evidence at the doorbell . They were able to find a small fingerprint .

This time, the murderer used a gun with a silencer, and much of the information couldn’t be seen . But Chen Shi thought of the last case . Most of the recipients selected by Zhou Tiannan were bitter and full of resentment .

He should have been quite confident that this woman would commit murder if she got her hands on a gun to have sent her a pistol .

In other words, the motivation must be very profound . It was definitely not a spontaneous murder .

At this time, Xu Xiaodong and Lin Dongxue returned . Xu Xiaodong said, "Neighbors reported that this young man's parents operated a dentist's clinic . His father bought this house for him after he started working . There’s also a white BMW in the parking lot below which belongs to him . It seems that his family background is pretty good . "

"What about interpersonal relationships?"

"The people I questioned all said that he had a docile personality and that it was impossible for him to have any enemies . At the moment, he isn’t in a relationship either . He basically just goes to work from 9 to 5 every day . This is all that the neighbors know . "

Chen Shi looked at Lin Dongxue, "What about your side?"

"I’ll tell you some bad news . The surveillance footage last night was deleted by someone . "

1 . A ghost gun is a firearm made by an individual, without serial numbers or other identifying markings .  

2 .   The festival originated from the romantic legend of two lovers, Zhinü and Niulang, AKA the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd . The tale of The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl has been celebrated in the Qixi Festival since the Han dynasty . It’s the one day each year in which they can be together .