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Chapter 216 Confession? A losing proposition? Murder to silence a witness? Purpose?

The man wore a black woolen hat that almost completely covered his head, a white gauze mask, and a scarf, revealing only his eyes. He had single eyelids, with a lot of white showing in his eyes, and a hint of indescribable ferocity in his eyes.

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Before committing the crime, the two had also robbed a taxi. The taxi driver was stabbed three times, but he pretended to be dead and survived.

This is a portrait drawn by a profiling expert based on the taxi driver's description. Even if the taxi driver thinks it looks like the person, in a vast sea of ​​people, with only one pair of eyes, finding someone in an era without surveillance is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Another murderer…

Nan Shu saw an old ID photo.

Chai Xiong was born in 1987 and lives in Chailiang Village, Yucheng District, Hangzhou City. He is the only son in his family. He graduated from primary school and went out to make a living with the village hooligans when he was thirteen or fourteen years old. After that, he rarely returned home.

Twenty years after the murder, Chai Xiong suddenly called his cousin the next day. According to his cousin, Chai Xiong spoke strangely, as if he was making his final arrangements.

On the third day after the family annihilation, the police received a report that Chai Xiong's body and the stolen taxi had been discovered. Chai Xiong had drowned, and a 'confession' was found on the shore.

Nan Shu continued flipping through the pages.

The 'confession' in the photo is very short, containing only one sentence: I am guilty, I plead guilty, I atone for my sins.

Through identification of the body by the taxi driver and comparison of shoe prints at the scene, it was finally determined that Chai Xiong was indeed one of the murderers in the family annihilation case.

However, the other murderer remains at large, and apart from this portrait, there are no other clues.

The police officer in charge of the case at the time, Cheng Heping, the mentor of the South Team, had been paying close attention and trying to find some clues through Chai Xiong's network of connections, but he could not find anyone who resembled the portrait.

Another accomplice appeared out of nowhere, led Chai Xiong in a heist, and was then silenced, disappearing without a trace after Chai Xiong's death.

At the very end of the case file, Nan Shu did not see any news of police officers dying, and turned to look at Nan Punian.

Nan Punian had somehow acquired a piece of chewing gum in his hand, which he was gently rubbing with his fingertips, lost in thought. Noticing Nan Shu's gaze, he snapped out of his reverie and smiled at her: "Finished reading?"

"Um……"

Nan Shu moved her lips, but hesitated to speak.

Seeing her expression, Nan Punian immediately understood, "You want to ask how my teacher passed away?"

Nan Shu nodded.

"That was a different case, and it's already closed."

Nan Punian tore open the packaging, popped the chewing gum into his mouth, stared at a certain spot, and slowly said, "This case has become a thorn in the side of the teacher and the people who handled it back then."

The family of eight, with both the husband and wife being only children, is essentially facing extinction!

The case was extremely heinous and had a huge social impact. It attracted a lot of attention at the time, but it remained unsolved.

and so.

Even after so many years, Cheng Heping still can't forget it. In the dead of night, he often returns to twenty years ago, to that bloody and brutal scene, wanting to see if there are any clues that have been overlooked.

He had worn the case files rough from handling them, and his hair was turning grayer. Then, three years ago, he suddenly received a text message saying that if he wanted to know who the murderer in the case was, he should go to Yunlan Mountain alone.

Yunlan Mountain is located behind Chailiang Village.

Cheng Heping initially thought it was a prank, but the investigation revealed that the person who sent the text message was using a phone card that was not registered under their real name.

The second text message arrived, containing the contents of Chai Xiong's confession from back then. Cheng Heping immediately realized that the person who sent the text message must be the murderer from back then.

Cheng Heping took his gun and went to the appointment alone.

Upon hearing this, Nan Shu couldn't help but frown.

It is clear.

This was a trap, but Officer Cheng still fell into it. "Officer Cheng...didn't he notify anyone else?" Nan Shu asked cautiously.

"No."

Seeing the girl's cautious demeanor, Nan Punian smiled and said, "It's alright. I still don't understand why you would go on a date alone, but I always feel that things aren't that simple..."

As a veteran criminal investigator, Cheng Heping has rich experience in handling cases and is very perceptive. Most people can see that there is a problem, so how could he not see it?

That's the problem. Cheng Heping saw it, but he still went anyway.

"The next day, the villagers reported to the police that the teacher had been murdered. He had fallen from a height and rolled down the mountain. The murderer was a mental patient from Chailiang Village."

Nan Shu was taken aback.

Seeing that Nan Shu remained silent for a long time, Nan Punian thought she was frightened by the sacrifice of her master. He was about to say a few words of comfort and explain that although being a criminal police officer is a high-risk profession, it is not that dangerous when he heard her muttering softly.

"Murder...to silence?"

Nan Punian's body trembled violently.

"Xiao Shu, what did you just say?"

Nan Shu snapped out of her daze and looked at Nan Punian. "Murder to silence a witness? To make an example of someone?"

This is the idiom that popped into Nan Shu's mind subconsciously after listening to Nan Punian's description of the case.

After saying that, he realized what he had said, "Sorry, Captain Nan, I didn't mean it that way..."

"I know."

Nan Punian glanced at Nan Shu, then looked at the dossier.

His brows were furrowed so deeply they almost formed the character "川" (river).

"Xiao Shu, do you know how many unsolved cases there have been in Hangzhou alone over the past twenty years?"

Nan Punian suddenly asked.

Nan Shu shook her head.

“Thirty-two cases.” Nan Punian rubbed his fingertips. Most of them were limited by the backward criminal investigation methods at that time. With the construction of DNA identification and gene banks, as well as the networking of the national public security criminal investigation database, some cases were combined and investigated, and they were gradually solved.

Regarding the 3.15 case, some of the experts and criminal police officers who investigated it back then have retired, and some have left Hangzhou and been transferred to other places. Among those who have persisted in the investigation all these years, Nan Punian knows that his own teacher is one of them.

The reason why unsolved cases remain unsolved cases, apart from the limitations of the era, is also due to the methods used and the cunning of the murderers.

According to Cheng Heping's analysis, the other murderer had a strong sense of counter-surveillance and was very skilled. He was likely to have committed more than one case or practiced with other tools to be so proficient.

Cheng Heping had been investigating for twenty years, and if it weren't for that text message, this case might have truly become a cold case.

The murderer has completely integrated into normal life and has no need to jump out and provoke a veteran detective.

even.

Because of the other party's actions, Nan Punian, Cheng Heping's apprentice, once again set his sights on the case.

Not worth the candle.

these years.

Nan Punian initially thought it was a provocation from the murderer, a declaration of war against the police. But after hearing Nan Shu's words today, Nan Punian suddenly realized that he seemed to have overlooked another possibility.

Is it really a case of the other party suffering a net loss?

(End of this chapter)