Unbelievable! The Blond Rookie Is the Chief Detective - Chapter 9

This place was originally intended to be used for building new buildings. The construction sheds were set up and the ground was dug, but the developer stopped the project because of the poor market conditions.

Only abandoned sheds remained, which later became a garbage dump, where nearby residents often dumped their trash.

The deceased was a woman in her fifties who had her throat slit.

The police officers who arrived first set up a cordon around the area, while the technical staff were already investigating the scene.

Small groups of people around were peering out.

Su Xiaoxiao and Ye Jiuzhou put on shoe covers and gloves, pulled back the cordon, and went inside.

Police officer Qin Guan came to greet him.

“Who discovered the body? Has the identity of the deceased been confirmed?” Ye Jiuzhou asked.

“It’s confirmed. The deceased is named Sun Hongxia, 54 years old, and lives in the alley in front. We’ve already sent someone to call her husband over,” Qin Guan explained. “The person who discovered the body is Grandpa Liu. He came here to take out the trash this morning and tripped over it. When he got up, he found a dead body, which terrified him.”

When we arrived at the scene, we learned that the deceased was named Sun Hongxia, whom we all knew; she was Mr. Liu’s neighbor.

Mr. Liu said that he heard his neighbors arguing last night, crying and making a scene. Later, he heard the door open, and it seemed that the man had kicked the woman out. The woman cried at the door for a while.

Who knew he would die in the morning?

Has the deceased’s husband arrived?

“I’ve already sent someone to look for them.”

Su Xiaoxiao walked to the body. Sun Hongxia died in the same way as Lin Yue, her throat was slit. The difference was that her legs were intact and not broken, and the method of slitting her throat seemed to be a little different from Lin Yue’s.

She stared at the body for a while before standing up and looking around. The body was lying near a pile of garbage, and a little further ahead was an abandoned shed.

If the deceased was evicted from their home last night, it was snowing at the time.

This area is considered a working-class neighborhood in Wutong City, and the people living here are mostly from poor families.

The houses here are old and basically still retain the style of the 1990s. Those who could afford it have moved out long ago, and those who remain are people who have no other choice but to stay.

After being kicked out, Sun Hongxia was probably unwilling to spend money to stay in a hotel and could not find any relatives or friends to rely on, so she thought of going to the workers’ shed to make do for the night.

Who knew something bad would happen?

After inspecting the scene and interviewing local residents, the whole morning was spent working on the site. By the time they returned to the municipal bureau, it was already noon.

The other team members who went out to investigate have also returned.

When they heard that someone had died again, everyone was stunned. In just a few days, three people had already died.

While everyone was present, Ye Jiuzhou gave a brief introduction to the deceased’s circumstances.

“The autopsy report is not yet available, but based on the scene alone, the deceased Sun Hongxia and Lin Yue died in the same way, both having their throats slit. It is not yet possible to confirm whether they were the same murderer.”

The situation in these three cases is more complicated than we initially thought.

Comrade Xiao Su said last time that Lin Yue might know the murderer and even have a grudge against him, which is why the murderer broke her leg and put her in a strange position.

However, after Sun Hongxia died, she simply lay on the ground as before, and the murderer did not tamper with her body.

If it was the same murderer, then the claim of a grudge might not hold true.

I am more inclined to believe that the murderer committed random killings. He always chose to kill on snowy days because snow can effectively conceal his tracks, and the targets he chose did not have any similarities.

The first victim, Lin Yue, was a company employee, and the second victim, Sun Hongxia, was a part-time cleaner. These two women had no connection whatsoever, from their age and occupation to their social circles.

It just so happened that she went out alone on a snowy day and was encountered by the murderer.

Comrade Xiao Su, what do you think?

Su Xiaoxiao had been thinking about this question ever since she returned, and now that Ye Jiuzhou had called on her, she stood up.

“What Captain Ye said makes sense. We can’t rule out that possibility. There’s another possibility that we can’t rule out either, which is copycat murder.”

Many people know about Lin Yue’s murder. It’s quite possible that someone might imitate the killer’s methods. I saw it at the scene; it was the same method used to slit Sun Hongxia’s throat, but the way Sun Hongxia was killed was not as swift as the way Lin Yue was killed.

However, this is easy to identify. Once the forensic report is released, we will know whether the murder weapon and the method are the same.

However, I think there is one thing they have in common: the expression of the deceased Sun Hongxia was the same as Lin Yue’s, more astonishment than fear. She should also know the murderer, and like Lin Yue, she did not expect the murderer to kill her.

If it’s the same killer, it means the killer knew both of them, which would significantly narrow down our investigation.

However, Ye Jiuzhou was not at ease at all. The connection between the first two cases had not yet been found out, and now a third case had emerged.

They have conducted a preliminary investigation and concluded that it is unlikely that Lin Yue and Sun Hongxia have any connection.

Lin Yue is a homebody and rarely goes out except for commuting to and from get off work, while Sun Hongxia does not have a formal job and sometimes works as a part-time cleaner, cooking and cleaning for others.

Sun Hongxia is old enough to be Lin Yue’s mother; what could possibly have in common between two people like that?

If it turns out to be the same murderer, it will be even more troublesome.

Ye Jiuzhou felt his head hurt even more.

Wan Yan broke the silence.

“Since all these possibilities exist, we should investigate them all. We cannot let any clue slip by. We will decide whether to merge the cases after the forensic report is released.”

Wan Yan’s statement was accepted by most people, including Su Xiaoxiao; now, no clue could be overlooked.

No one objected to Wan Yan’s proposal; the only question was how to divide the tasks.

At this moment, Xia came in and said that Sun Hongxia’s husband, Wu Xuejun, had been found.

Wu Xuejun was a gambling addict, lazy and gluttonous, and spent all his time playing mahjong.

They’re happy when they win and complain when they lose, but unfortunately, they lose most of the time.

Sun Hongxia tried to persuade him many times to stop gambling and find something to do, but the gambling addict couldn’t resist.

He gets itchy if he doesn’t play mahjong for a day. He gambles away all the money Sun Hongxia earns from her job. If Sun Hongxia dares not pay him, he beats her up.

Sun Hongxia used to work as a live-in nanny, which included room and board and earned her more money, and she was also able to avoid Wu Xuejun.

However, when Wu Xuejun ran out of money, he would go to his employers’ homes to ask for money, regardless of the occasion or time. If his employers said something to him, he would not only curse and swear, but also hit them, and no one could stop him.

After this happened several times, no one dared to hire Sun Hongxia as a live-in nanny anymore, so they had no choice but to work as hourly workers.

They asked Wu Xuejun why he had kicked Sun Hongxia out that night in the heavy snow, but to their surprise, Wu Xuejun gave them an absurd reason.