This matter not only piqued the curiosity of the adults, but also made the children put down their chopsticks and look over with curious expressions on their faces.
Influenced by the occupations of Huo's fourth uncle and Fourth Aunt Huo, the children in the Huo family had been exposed to such things since childhood.
Therefore, they didn't feel scared or terrified about the murder case.
Since the suspect had been caught, there was nothing for Huo's fourth uncle to hide.
He said with a sense of relief, "Caught!"
"Really?"
"Wow, that's really great!"
While everyone was happy, they couldn't help but sigh.
Including this time, there were a total of ten victims.
The average age of these people was around eighteen, the prime of their lives.
Among them were newly - wed women and high - school students.
They should have had a happy and stable future, but it was all ruined by this person.
Huo's fourth uncle's feelings at this moment were more complicated.
From the time the case occurred until now, it had been five years, one month, and nine days.
During this period, the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau had mobilized thousands of police officers, and 1216 units had assisted in the investigation.
A total of 5,862 statements had been taken.
Even so, this brute had managed to escape for five years.
During these five years, all the police officers handling the case hadn't had a good night's sleep.
Every time a new victim appeared, everyone would couldn't help but slap themselves.
It was not until today that this person was finally arrested.
At the moment when the suspect was caught, all the police officers' eyes turned red.
If they didn't have to take this person back to interrogate about the specific details of the crime, everyone would have wanted to beat this brute to death on the spot.
Thinking of this, Huo's fourth uncle stood up, using tea instead of wine.
"Eldest sister - in - law, thanks to your words that woke us up. Otherwise, as those involved in the case, we were still in a fog and didn't know how long we would have been stuck here."
"Moreover, I also want to thank..."
Since everyone present was family, Huo's fourth uncle could have directly mentioned the third wife.
But at the last moment, he seriously said the words "Comrade Jiang Si".
At this moment, she was not only the daughter - in - law of the Huo family and the wife of the third son, but also herself!
Moreover, Huo's fourth uncle had a faint feeling that her achievements in the future might be far more than this.
Huo's fourth uncle said, "If it weren't for her drawing the profile of the suspect and reminding us that the suspect had undergone nasal bone surgery, we wouldn't have been able to lock in the suspect so quickly."
"Here, on behalf of all the victims' families and all the handling officers, I'd like to say thank you to you!"
Mother Huo was completely bewildered at this time. She could understand why the fourth one was thanking her daughter - in - law, but what for her?
What did she say? She didn't say anything. It was Father Huo who made the phone call, right?
As she stood up, she quickly asked Father Huo beside her.
"Old Huo, what's going on? Didn't you and the third son come up with this idea?"
Father Huo smiled and said, "If it weren't for you saying that as long as this person was still in Beijing, there couldn't be no news about him, we wouldn't have thought in this direction."
"Also, thanks to your habit of keeping newspapers, the fourth one and the others were able to follow the clues and catch this person."
"So, what the fourth one said is perfectly right."
Jiang Si also nodded and said, "Mom, sometimes the most casual words can be the key factor in solving a case. This is really your credit."
"Really... Is it true?"
After being influenced by her daughter - in - law and Father Huo's words, Mother Huo was also a bit muddled.
Was she really that amazing?
However, it didn't really matter. As long as the culprit was caught, that would be fine.
After they sat down, Mother Huo asked the question that everyone was most concerned about.
"Fourth, tell us quickly. How did you catch this guy? And who on earth is he? What's his relationship with the first victim?"
Huo's fourth uncle didn't beat around the bush. He carefully explained the situation to everyone.
It turned out that the man was named Li Gennian. Like the victim's family, he worked at the Jingxi Mining Bureau.
However, one of them was in a management position at the general headquarters, while the other was a coal - face worker at a coal mine under the Beijing Mining Bureau. They didn't have much interaction in normal times.
It wasn't until six years ago that a serious mine accident occurred in a coal mine under the Jingxi Mining Bureau.
At that time, Li Gennian and his father were both working underground.
The moment the coal mine collapsed, his father pushed Li Gennian to a relatively safe position.
As a result, Li Gennian managed to survive.
After that, he was rushed to Peking Union Medical College Hospital in Beijing along with other injured people and had a nasal bone operation there.
This mine accident caused more than 300 people to be injured to varying degrees, and the total number of deaths was 46, including Li Gennian's father.
The accident caused quite a stir back then. It was said that the families of the deceased were dissatisfied with the compensation from the unit, and there were several physical conflicts between the two sides.
The father of the victim in the first case happened to be the person in charge of this mine - accident compensation case.
Actually, when the first case happened, the police suspected that the murderer was an acquaintance or someone who had a grudge against the victim's family.
So the first group of suspects they investigated were the families of the mine - accident victims.
However, Li Gennian's name was not among those who led the more intense protests back then.
Moreover, the families of the mine - accident victims were very emotional about this matter and refused to cooperate.
This also led the police officers to take many detours during the investigation.
Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but be a bit confused. Since they had investigated, why didn't they find this guy?
At this time, Fourth Aunt Huo explained.
"Because during their investigation, the murderer committed another crime, and not long after, the third murder case also took place."
In less than half a month, three young girls died tragically in Beijing.
It's no exaggeration to say that during that time, there were hardly any people on the streets after 5 p.m.
Even when going out to use the toilet, female comrades would always go in groups of three or five.
Under pressure from multiple parties, the public security department had no choice.
They had to recall the police force that was originally investigating the families of the mine - accident victims and then expand the search scope.
Huo's fourth uncle said, "Actually, from this moment on, our investigation direction had been completely led astray by the murderer."
"The murderer was afraid that we would find him, so he deliberately killed two innocent female comrades just to divert our attention."
Fourth Aunt Huo also added, "The first case was a revenge killing. The next two were to divert our attention. From the fourth case on, the murderer's mentality had started to change."
She was the one who conducted the autopsies for these cases at that time.
Fourth Aunt Huo still remembers clearly that when the two assistants she brought saw the victim for the first time, they both vomited out the bile in their stomachs.
Since then, these two people have never eaten any animal offal again and rarely touch meat dishes.
Because the subsequent cases were bloodier than the previous ones.
So at that time, all the investigators unanimously thought that this person might not be seeking revenge. Maybe he was just a simple psychopath.
This was also one of the reasons why the case had remained unsolved for so long.
If the direction was wrong from the very beginning, how could they find the murderer?
"Hey, something's not right!" Mother Huo asked in confusion. "Didn't you already know half a month ago that the murderer had had nasal bone surgery? Why didn't you check the triplicate forms at the hospitals?"
In this era, as long as someone was a formal employee of a unit, they didn't need to pay for medical treatment.
They just needed to go to the hospital with the triplicate form issued by their unit.
The receipt copy was kept by the patient, with which they could register, see a doctor, have examinations, and undergo surgery.
The stub copy was handed over to the unit's finance department for accounting purposes.
The settlement copy was kept by the hospital for archiving and subsequent settlement.
Moreover, the immediate family members of the employees could also use this triplicate form.
It's just that the reimbursement ratio was only 50%. For some Western medicines or X - ray examinations, the employee's family members had to pay out of their own pockets.
Logically speaking, as long as they checked at the hospitals and compared the information with the group of people who had had surgery after the mine accident back then, they could quickly identify the murderer, right?
In fact, half a month ago, the police officers had already retrieved the lists of people who had had nasal bone surgery in major hospitals in Beijing over the past ten years.
It's just that...
