Once, I wanted to be a good person-Chapter 516 - 116. Ten hours to crack a decade-long cold case! (Vote for us with thousands of words in Monthly Tickets!)
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Seeing the one-eyed Buddha tattoo in the picture, Fang Ze roughly understood.
Indeed... It was that same eye again, the same style of pattern.
It seemed very likely that his guess was correct. The Rejuvenation Society's symbol and the "gluttonous housewife" case were not coincidental; instead, there was indeed a connection.
If previously Fang Ze still had some doubts about the connection between these cases, now he was almost 90% certain.
With that thought, he flipped the dossier back to the first page and started to examine it carefully.
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This case was simple yet complex.
Simple because, at its core, it was a serial killer case that had been ongoing for 10 years.
Complex because... the suspect, the man in the photo just now, had a somewhat special identity.
He was the son of a Municipal Councilor at the Governing Hall...
And his method of murdering was very peculiar, making it nearly impossible to find evidence to convict him...
The first case happened ten years ago, from the present.
The victim was the wife of a mid-level official at the Investigation Bureau.
When this wife was found, she was hanging from a tree at the edge of the Greenwater Forest.
Because this case involved an official from the Investigation Bureau, the bureau had to recuse itself, so the Security Bureau took over the investigation.
At first, the Security Bureau didn't take it very seriously, merely sending an investigation team to the scene for an inspection.
After an initial examination, it was established that the cause of death for the wife was hanging, asphyxiation.
There were no Traces of anyone else having been at the scene.
The victim's clothes were intact without any signs of disturbance; even her shoes and stockings were clean.
There were no signs of struggle, tearing, nor use of Awakening Abilities at the scene.
There were also no signs of any abuse on her body.
The investigation team searched the victim's house, which was tidied up neatly, everything in its place, conveying a sense of ritual. There was even a suicide note left on the table.
After interviewing some of the wife's neighbors and friends, the team learned that she had been in a severe depression lately, often distracted, exhibiting symptoms of light-headedness and world-weariness.
So, the team preliminarily concluded that this was a straightforward suicide.
However, when the investigative report was submitted for review to Bearded Liu, who had just been promoted to Deputy Section Chief, he rejected it and suggested that the investigation team had almost worked a wrongful case!
In the returned report, Bearded Liu pointed out that the case was likely not a suicide, but a murder.
The reason he provided was that while it would make sense for the victim to go to Greenwater Forest to commit suicide—as she might have wanted to end her life in a place she loved—the forest ground was muddy.
Although there was some mud on the soles of the victim's shoes, it was only on the surface.
The shoe heels, sides of the shoes, and socks were all pristine without a trace of mud.
Normally, when walking, the act of lifting your foot includes a backward sweeping motion that would disturb the mud and dirty the backs of the shoes and socks.
This was even more likely to happen in a place like Greenwater Forest, where the ground is covered with mud.
Hence, the cleanliness of the shoe heels, sides, and socks indicated that the victim did not walk to Greenwater Forest by herself.
Someone had killed or drugged her, taken her to Greenwater Forest to hang her, and then used the shoes to create footprints to simulate a suicide.
This discovery immediately overturned the original conclusion of the case!
But... even though they had spotted the murderer's slip-up and recognized it as a murder, unfortunately, the Security Bureau didn't find any more clues in the subsequent investigation.
At first, they suspected that the truth behind the case might have been that the official from the Investigation Bureau killed his wife!
But after conducting various investigations, including the use of Mind Category Abilities, the Security Bureau found no evidence to support this theory.
Therefore, the case was temporarily shelved as an unsolved case within the archives of the Security Bureau.
The turning point happened in the following year.
The next year, the wife of a wealthy businessman in Emerald City committed suicide by slitting her wrists.
This time, the wife died in her home's bathtub.
The scene was still immaculately clean, with no traces of a second person, no signs of struggle, tearing, or use of the Power of Laws.
Compared to the previous case, this one was almost identical except for the change in location and method of suicide.
Even more, because the suicide was at home, there wasn't even any evidence from the mud.
However, having learned from the previous case, this time, despite the lack of anomalies, the Security Bureau did not simply conclude it was a suicide; they specifically requested Bearded Liu to inspect the case.
One must admit, Bearded Liu had talent.
During his investigation of the deceased woman's home, he indeed found evidence that could rule out suicide: an exquisitely wrapped gift box.
Inside the box was a set of men's sportswear. The purchase date was just two days prior.
But the size didn't match that of the wealthy businessman.
This suggested that the deceased woman might have been unfaithful, and the clothing was meant for her lover.
And how could a woman who had recently been shopping for her lover's clothes suddenly commit suicide?
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