Chapter 962 Behind the Murder Case
Su Tong is the only relatively clear insider discovered during the investigation of Hassan's murder case. Perhaps only he knows the true purpose of Hassan's trip to Port Victory. That is most likely the real reason for Hassan's murder - of course , and may now be the reason for his murder.
Although there is currently no conclusive evidence to merge the Sutong case and the Hassan case, the members of the task force subconsciously believe that the two cases are closely related. However, there are obvious differences in the modus operandi of the two cases, which is the main reason why the task force is temporarily unable to draw a conclusion.
"Maybe it's because the murderer didn't have enough time to slowly plan a killing method with fewer flaws this time." Fu Li raised a relatively high possibility: "We actually only have one day to post the reward notice to collect clues. Assuming that the murderer also saw this notice, he must have known that Hassan was dead and that the police had already discovered his body. Doesn’t our concealment method show that the police are stepping up their investigation into the cause of Hassan’s death? Shopkeeper Su and Hassan? We have met, and he may be an important insider, so the murderer must shut up Shopkeeper Su completely to avoid exposing himself. He probably also knows that we will find Shopkeeper Su soon, but it is impossible to go to the business district. I wanted to do it in a place where there were many people coming and going, so I rushed to shopkeeper Su’s house and lurked there, and when he came back, I took advantage of him and took advantage of him.”
Now it seems that the reward notice has the effect of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it saves the task force the time and manpower required for large-scale investigations and directly and accurately obtains key information. On the other hand, it is also very useful. It may be that the murderer who secretly observed the situation was aware of the police's intentions, so he could kill Su Tong, an important insider, before the police did. Judging from the current results, this measure seems to have done more harm than good in the end, and instead brought the investigation of the case to a deadlock.
Zhang Qianzhi said: "We will wait until the autopsy report is available tomorrow to discuss the cause of Su Tong's death, but there is something we must do right now."
Fu Li said: "What's the matter?"
"There may be other employees in Nanyang Pavilion who know about Hassan. We need to protect them all now!" Zhang Qianzhi suggested: "Go and check the employee list immediately, and then gather these people together overnight. ”
"I'll check the list." Lin Nan volunteered to take over the task.
Since there was more than one witness outside the incident of Hassan going to Nanyang Pavilion to meet Su Tong, it is very likely that there were other employees in the store who also witnessed what happened that day. If the mastermind behind the scenes wants to completely cut off the If there are clues, then everyone present at the time will most likely become the target of his attack. Su Tong is already a step behind, and the task force cannot let the mastermind continue to succeed.
However, there is another point that Zhang Qianzhi did not directly explain, that is, the employees in the Nanyang Pavilion store were a blind spot in the previous investigation process. They knew Hassan's purpose of going to Nanyang Pavilion and could accurately grasp Su Tong's itinerary. This is simply A perfect persona. However, if the employees were arrested directly, there would be a risk of alerting the enemy again, so Zhang Qianzhi chose a more tactful statement. Anyway, get all the people back first, and then slowly interrogate and verify them.
When Lin Nan went to the Ministry of Commerce in Fort Victory to retrieve the list of Nanyang Pavilion employees, Zhang Qianzhi and Fu Li began to investigate Su Tong's social connections at the scene. Although the task force basically determined that the matter was related to the Hassan case, it still had to rule out other possibilities first.
Su Tong was originally from Zhaoqing Prefecture, Guangdong. He was originally a subordinate of a major shareholder of Qiong Lianfa. After he was transferred to Sanya to take up a post, he did not join Haihan himself. Almost all of his family members are in their place of origin. Except for an old slave, no one has followed him to Sanya. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is working hard outside alone. There are only two main social relationships in the local area. One is colleagues and subordinate employees of Nanyang Pavilion, and the other is some customers. For example, Hassan may be one of them. But Su Tong didn't have much contact with the neighbors where he lived. After all, the nature of his job meant leaving early and coming back late, and the circle he came into contact with was also very different from the workers here, so he really didn't have much in common.
The task force basically stayed up all night, and the three of them led their teams back and forth throughout Victory Port. At dawn, the task force gathered again at the Shengli Port Police Station to hold a meeting to report the progress of the case.
First, Fu Li reported the preliminary conclusion of the autopsy. He had been staring at the corpse in the morgue late last night. At this time, his two eyes were also bloodshot due to excessive fatigue, and they became red and scary. The results of the examination were basically consistent with what they saw at the scene. The deceased's fatal injury was caused by a heavy object hitting the back of the head. Based on the injuries, he speculated that the murder weapon would probably be a hard object such as a hammer or hammer. According to Su Tong's servant, there were no such tools in the house, and it seemed likely that the murder weapon was brought by the murderer himself. In other words, this was a premeditated murder.
Then there was the subpoena investigation of other Nanyang Pavilion employees that Zhang Qianzhi and Lin Nan were responsible for. At this link, the case finally took a turn - in addition to Su Tong, the people who were in the store on the day Hassan went to Nanyang Pavilion were also There is an employee named Li Qin, but the task force failed to find him at his residence last night. All other employees affiliated with Nanyang Pavilion have been summoned to the case and are still being questioned separately.
"I have a hunch that this person was either silenced like Hassan and Su Tong, or he was related to the death of these two people and escaped overnight!" Zhang Qianzhi made a bold guess: "I I don’t believe there can be so many coincidences in the same case. Maybe Li Qin’s sudden disappearance will allow us to find out the truth of the case.”
At this time, someone said a few words next to Lin Nan. After hearing this, Lin Nan raised his hand to indicate, and then took over Zhang Qianzhi's words: "The employees of Nanyang Pavilion reported that Li Qin is good at carpentry, and there are usually some things inside and outside the store. He was responsible for all the repairs. In addition, our people found a tool box in the Nanyang Pavilion shop. It had an axe, a chisel, and a saw, but it was missing a hammer.”
"I went to kill someone with an iron hammer. Since I have decided to escape, I probably won't make a special trip to return the iron hammer." Fu Li immediately added: "I think we can issue an order to arrest this person. Oh, this is two lives! ”
"He may not be the one who killed Hassan." Lin Nan shook his head and disagreed with Fu Li's speculation: "The killing methods used in the two cases are quite different. And we also investigated Li Qin's work schedule. On the day Hassan was killed, Li Qin worked in the shop until the street lights were turned on, and by that time Hassan and the mysterious man had already met at Zuixianlou.”
"So the person Hassan met in Zuixian Tower was not Li Qin?" This turn of events was a little beyond Fu Li's expectation.
"Judging from the evidence currently available, it shouldn't be him. But the facts of the two cases are very coherent. I also think there may be more than one murderer." Zhang Qianzhi agreed with Lin Nan's speculation: "But if Hassan is... The person I met in Zuixianlou is an accomplice of Li Qin, so everything can be explained.”
"As long as we catch the person, everything will be revealed." Fu Li stood up and said, "Let's notify each other separately and start blocking the port area!"
It seems that we are only one step away from the truth. In order to prevent the suspect from escaping, the port area must be the first place where a card must be set up. There were no ships leaving Port of Victory last night and this morning, and the railway line with Sanya Port was also suspended. If this person is alive, he should still be in the Port of Victory area. The next thing the task force needs to do is to use the power at hand to investigate this area. At the same time, the case was also reported to the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Security respectively. Serial murder cases with unclear motives like this are still quite rare in the Sanya area in the past two years. The subsequent investigation and interception must have the authority granted by the above, and the project Only in this way can various local units cooperate.
As a result, the Victory Port area fell into a state of turmoil that was rare in recent times. Even the militiamen were mobilized to set up checkpoints at various intersections to check people entering and exiting the port area. Nanyang Pavilion is also temporarily closed, waiting for Qiong Lianfa's internal rectification.
On February 1st, after two days of large-scale pursuit and arrest operations, something was finally gained. In the canyon passage between Tiandu Industrial Zone and Tielugang, the militiamen affiliated with Fushandong captured a suspicious person who was trying to escape to Tielugang. After identification, it was determined that this person was the person the task force was arresting. The target is Li Qin, an employee of Nanyang Pavilion. Because of the salt field in Tieliang Port, foreign salt-carrying ships often come in and out of the port area. The local prevention of foreigners is not like the one-by-one inspection in Victory Port. It can indeed be regarded as an escape route. But Li Qin probably didn't expect that Fushandong, which had moved from the interior and settled in this canyon passage a few years ago, would actually become a stumbling block for him, blocking the escape route out of Sanya at the last moment.
The following interrogation work was also what Haihan's security agency was best at. After Li Qin persisted for two hours, his mouth was pried open by the interrogators, and he admitted that he had killed Su Tong, and successively recruited The inside story shocked the task force.
Li Qin came to Sanya from Guangdong as an immigrant in 1632, and became a naturalized citizen of Haihan at the end of that year. But before that, he was not a genuine native of Guangdong, but a second-generation Chinese born in Manila. He was first recruited and trained by the Manila authorities, then secretly went to Guangdong, where he went to the Haihan Immigration Camp as a refugee, and then came to Sanya to perform a latent mission. After obtaining naturalization, he quickly got the opportunity to work in Nanyang Pavilion, and gradually turned it into an information exchange station.
"So the shopkeeper Su Tong is also your accomplice?"
"No, he is just a businessman who is greedy for money."
"What is the purpose of Hassan coming to Nanyang Pavilion?"
"Send the message through Nanyang Pavilion and make an appointment with Duda."
"Who is Duda?"
"It was my boss. He was the one who killed Hassan."
"What is Duda's local identity?"
"I don't know...I've only seen him in Nanyang Pavilion..."
As the interrogation progressed, the truth of the case was unearthed bit by bit. Persian businessman Hassan was a messenger who secretly delivered intelligence to the Spanish. This time he came to Sanya and also brought a secret message from the Manila authorities. He also met with Duda, an intelligence agent lurking in the local area, through Nanyang Pavilion. But for some reason, Duda took measures to silence Hassan and tried to disguise it as an accident to evade tracing. Of course, this trick didn't work. In the end, the Haihan police discovered the flaw because of the clues left behind.
When Duda discovered that the police were using a reward notice to investigate the murder of Hassan, the first thing he thought of was Nanyang Pavilion, which might expose his hidden dangers. As long as the police find Nanyang Pavilion and inquire about it, it will not be difficult to find out what happened to Hassan coming here to meet him. So he immediately informed Li Qin and asked him to solve the hidden danger of Su Tong as soon as possible. This Li Qin didn't have as many tricks as Du Da, but he knew the situation at Su Tong's home, so he moved into the yard before Su Tong arrived home, and then killed him from behind with an iron hammer while he was not prepared.
After Li Qin did this, he also knew that he was likely to be suspected. He had originally planned to escape by boat after dawn. As long as he left Sanya, he could go elsewhere. But he never imagined that as soon as he killed Su Tong and left, the task force investigating the case would arrive at the scene of the incident and deploy measures to hunt down the murderer overnight. As a result, Li Qin's original escape plan turned into a burst soap bubble, and he could only find another way to leave Sanya.
In the end, Li Qin's idea was to go through the canyon from Tiandu to Tieliang Port and see if he could take a salt ship there to leave. Although Li Qin knew that there was a shortcut between Tiandu and Tielugang, he did not know that ordinary people were not allowed to pass through this passage. Only specialized material transportation teams could pass through here with their certificates, and those living in the canyon The people of Fushandongli were responsible for guarding this place. A person like Li Qin who was trying to pass through the local area without knowing why was naturally blocked. In a panic, the Li people's militia quickly noticed that something was wrong, so they detained him and reported it to the Tiandu police.
But Li Qin didn't know much about his immediate boss, a man codenamed Duda. Apart from his general appearance, he didn't even know what the other person's public identity was in Sanya, let alone where he settled. As for their past contacts, the other party came to Nanyang Pavilion on his own initiative according to a certain schedule. It was Duda who gave him instructions, but he did not know Duda's daily movements.
"First find someone to draw a picture, and then notify all units to assist in the investigation." After receiving the notification, Ren Liang gave instructions to the task force: "As long as this person is still in Sanya, we must dig him out!"
(End of chapter)