Chapter 635 Forty Years Ago

The next morning.

Robbery and murder department.

The deputy captain hummed a little tune and walked into the office of the first squadron, and saw two people sitting at his desk.

Luke and Chen Kelin.

"Good morning, captains." The deputy captain frowned his white eyebrows, "You two captains gathered together early in the morning, what happened?"

Luke said, "Nothing, I just want to find you to understand some situations."

"Wait, your tone makes me feel familiar." The deputy captain waved his hand and pouted, "Isn't this the communication language I often use with suspects?"

Luke smiled, "I'm not interested in suspects of your age.

The case we are investigating involves a homicide case forty years ago. I want to see if you still remember it?"

"A case forty years ago?" The deputy captain was slightly stunned, as if he was lost in memories.

Luke said, "Yes, the Silver Cross Case."

"Silver Cross Case?" The deputy captain muttered, "Give me a hint."

"The victim was a 17-year-old white youth named Schirmer Goss. He was tied up with his hands and feet and kneeled on the ground. Then he was strangled to death with a rope around his neck.

There was also a silver cross behind the body..."

"Wait, I remember..." The deputy captain interrupted Luke and continued, "The silver cross necklace is tied with a black rope, and the cross is made of plastic, which looks very cheap."

Luke nodded, "Yes."

The deputy captain asked, "It's been so long, if it's other cases, I may not remember them. , but this case left a deep impression on me. However, are there any connections between the two cases? "

"The technical team found a fingerprint at the scene of the murder of Garrian Coffey, which matched the fingerprint found at the scene of the Silver Cross case forty years ago. "

The deputy captain sighed, "We have never found a suspect that matches that fingerprint. I didn't expect that after decades, we would find new clues.

It's incredible. "

Chen Kelin asked, "How much do you remember about the clues of that case?"

The deputy captain shook his head, "Don't have too much hope. This case has been too long. I have to look at the file again to know."

Luke took out the file of the Silver Cross case and handed it to the deputy captain.

The deputy captain took over the somewhat old file and muttered to himself, "Forty years, I never thought I would be a policeman for so long."

The deputy captain took out his glasses from the drawer and began to look through the file.

Luke was not in a hurry. He made a cup of tea and waited quietly. He had read the case file last night, but not all clues of the case can be reflected in the case file. As the case handler of that year, the deputy captain would have a deeper understanding of the case.

The team members arrived at the office one after another, and everyone looked at the case file of the Silver Cross case in turn.

Jenny sighed, "The victim of the Silver Cross case was only seventeen years old. He should have had a great time and youth. It's a pity..."

Jackson echoed, "His parents must be heartbroken to see his body."

Xiao Hei nodded, "It's really regrettable. He was still so young..."

The deputy captain hummed, "You are regretful too early.

Back then, we investigated the background of Schirmer Goss. Although he was not yet an adult, he was an out-and-out bad boy. He drove fast, took drugs, bullied his classmates..."

Jenny sighed, "Who didn't do anything wrong when he was young? He can only do it when he grows up and matures. Understand what is right and what is wrong.

What I regret is that God did not give him a chance to correct himself. "

The deputy captain corrected, "It's not God, but the murderer who did not give him a chance."

Jenny frowned, "Deputy captain, why do you feel that you have some opinions about the deceased..."

The deputy captain said, "That's because I know him better than you. Even if he grows up, he will not get better. The biggest possibility is to go to jail."

Luke interrupted their conversation, "Deputy captain, tell us about this case."

"No problem, but the case has been a long time ago, and I can't remember much."

Chen Kelin said "That's more detailed than what's in the file."

"That's for sure." The deputy captain briefly flipped through the file again, then slowly said, "The victim of the Silver Cross case, Schirmer Goss, was killed on August 12, 1983, in the backyard of his house.

There were no witnesses, no surveillance, and no murder weapon.

The clues about the suspect came from two aspects. On the one hand, they visited the neighbors. Not long before the incident, they saw a suspicious figure appear near Schirmer Goss's house. No one could see the suspicious person's appearance, but judging from his body shape, he should be a man.

On the other hand, In addition, a suspicious fingerprint was found at the crime scene. This fingerprint did not match the fingerprints of Schirmer Goss's family and was likely left by the murderer.

Based on the above two points, we did a lot of investigation and found some suspicious people with motives, but they were all ruled out one by one. In the years after the case, I never gave up the investigation of the case, but there was no clue in the case and it eventually became an unsolved case. "

The deputy captain sighed again, "I really didn't expect that I could find clues to that fingerprint again after forty years."

Chen Kelin asked, "Deputy captain, do you think these two cases have anything in common?"

The deputy team thought for a while, "The deceased in the Silver Cross case came from a white middle-class family, which is very different from the Coffey family and has no connection. Except that both cases occurred in Los Angeles, I don't see any connection at the moment. ”

"Tell us about the suspects in the Silver Cross case." Luke wanted to know if the people involved in the two cases were related.

The deputy team member took off his glasses and said, "As I said before, the deceased Schilmer Gauss was an out-and-out bad boy. His relationships with others were very complicated. Although he was young, he offended many people. For our investigation back then, It adds a lot of difficulty.

After preliminary investigation, we identified two key suspects.

Sorry, it's been too long, I can't remember the name..." The deputy team opened the file again and searched.

"Yoang Morrison, he is a black father. His son went to the same school as Schilmer Goss. Shortly before the incident, Schirmer Goss took several classmates to kill Yoon Morrison. Yoon Morrison's son was afraid to go to school after his son blocked the toilet and beat him and peed on him.

This made Yoon Morrison very angry, and he went to the school to ask for an explanation, but that era was different from now, and the school did not give Yoon Morrison a satisfactory answer.

Yoon Morrison also found Schilmer Gauss's home more than once, and he also had conflicts with Schilmer Gauss's parents.

According to neighbors, on the day Schirmer Goss was murdered, Yoon Morrison also came to Schirmer Goss's neighborhood. He had the time to commit the crime and the motive for the crime.

He admitted to going to the neighborhood of Schirmer Gauss's home, but did not admit to entering Schirmer Gauss's home.

We found no evidence that he committed the crime, and his fingerprints did not match the fingerprints left by the suspected murderer found at the scene. "

Jackson said, "School violence."

Xiaohei added, "Obviously there's also racism."

The deputy team leader said, "You are right, it was difficult to deal with such things in those days."

Xiao Hei complained, "Actually, it's the same in this era."

Luke continued to ask, "Where is the other suspect?"

The deputy captain looked down at the file and replied, "Wang Shaokang, yes, a Chinese young man with a lot of personality. He should be less than twenty years old at the time.

Wang Shaokang's mother worked in a restaurant and got home around ten o'clock every night. One day, Wang Shaokang waited until after ten o'clock, but his mother still did not come home.

He was worried about his mother's safety and called to inquire, but no one answered the restaurant's phone, so he went to his mother's restaurant to look for her.

Halfway through, he found an injured person on the side of the road, covered in blood and seriously injured. It was his mother.

Before he could send his mother to the hospital, his mother died.

Later, after police identification, his mother died in a car accident, and the driver of the car was Schilmer Gauss. "

"Wait a minute." Xiao Hei spread his hands, "Since Schilmer Gauss killed Wang Shaokang's mother with his car, shouldn't he be in prison? Why did he die at home?"

"Here's the problem. Schilmer Goss was charged with driving and causing death. However, for various reasons, the sentence was very short, with three years of probation. The real punishment was only one hundred hours of community service and seven years of probation. Thousand dollars in damages.

As you can imagine, Wang Shaokang's family was furious.

We have learned about Wang Shaokang's surrounding relationships. He has said more than once that he will definitely avenge his mother. Since the law cannot give him justice, he will use his own means to obtain it.

He also had enough motive to kill. "Although the deputy captain said it vaguely, everyone could hear that the reason was race.

Xiao Hei sighed, “It was such a damn era.

I suddenly felt that it was not unacceptable for this guy to be killed. "

"Forty years have passed since this case. We didn't find the real culprit back then. Now many clues and evidence have disappeared over time. If we want to solve the case..." The deputy team shook his head, obviously not holding out much hope.

Matthew shrugged, "Technology is also developing..."

"What?" The deputy didn't hear clearly.

Matthew cleared his throat, "I said that although the longer time passes, the more difficult it is to solve the case, technology has been developing in the past forty years, and criminal investigation and identification technology are not comparable to those forty years ago.

With the help of modern technology, new clues to the case may be found. "

The deputy team member looked at the opponent for a while and said, "I hope so."

Luke concluded, "What you said makes sense. Forty years have passed since the case, and it is very difficult to solve it.

And technological development may also uncover new clues.

Therefore, we can change our thinking. Our re-investigation of the Silver Cross case is not to find the murderer of the Silver Cross case, let alone to find evidence to convict.

But by understanding the Silver Cross case and finding the similarities between this case and the murders of Garion Coffey and Blanche Crook.

Cases from forty years ago are not easy to investigate and convict, so let’s convict the murderers of Garion Coffey and Blanche Crook. After Luke finished speaking, he looked at everyone, "Captain Chen, what do you think?" "

"You can try it."

Luke arranged the task, "OK, let's investigate separately.

You lead the team to investigate Yoon Morrison, a suspect in the Silver Cross case.

I led people to investigate Wang Shaokang, the suspect in the Silver Cross case.

Deputy Captain, you participated in the investigation of the Silver Cross Key case, so I want you to contact the family of the deceased to see if they can provide some valuable clues. "

"At that time, the parents of the deceased were already in their forties." The deputy captain pointed his finger, "So, I advise you not to have too high expectations for two elderly people in their eighties.

And, are you sure you want to tell the two elderly people in their eighties about this news?

I don't know if they can bear it? "

Luke didn't want to cause trouble either, "Then you should talk to the other family members of the deceased first and decide for yourself according to the situation."

The deputy captain pouted, "Thank you for your trust in me. "