Chapter 615: Morbid Crisis (IV)
Reminiscent of the props used to mask the smell, the next task for the two was to determine which cleaning company Central Bank hired and what kind of detergent the cleaning company used.
The cleaning company is a good judge. Their blue uniforms say it all. Lex is operating the keyboard next to him, and then said: "Luther Manor has also hired this company before. Their full name is Metropolitan Snow Mountain Cleaning." Ltd., is also the largest cleaning company in the metropolis, with more than 1,800 employees..."
"Here, this is their information. I hacked into their internal database and retrieved their recent business information. According to this information, Central Bank booked a glass curtain wall on March 18. Cleaning service.”
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Bruce came to the screen and looked at the information displayed above. The order information showed that Metropolis Center Bank had made an appointment for a glass curtain wall cleaning service. There were 50 employees involved in this service, excluding technicians and drivers. Cleaning There are 43 workers in total, all male.
The information showed that they sent a total of three vehicles, each with four large tool boxes. One of the tool boxes contained all the cleaning agents, but the specific brand was not shown.
After checking their purchase order, Lex continued to operate on the computer screen. He said: "The raw material of Palo brand detergent, the logo is a blue bear head, so it is also called Blue Bear detergent, used by Snow Mountain Company This cleaner has been around for over ten years.”
"There is no finished product for the cleaning agent specially used for cleaning glass curtain walls. You need to purchase the raw materials for the cleaning agent and prepare the mixture yourself. I am checking the specific information of their purchase..."
After operating the computer again, Lex said: "Their formula is confidential, but the approximate chemical formula can be found. Judging from the ingredients, it must have a smell, but it is not sure whether it can cover up the smell of blood. "
Bruce glanced at the ingredients on the screen and said, "These ingredients will definitely smell when mixed. There are many chemical factories under the Wayne family, and some of them produce detergent raw materials, but if the sealing of the bottle is It’s better, the smell won’t come out.”
"This is easy to solve. Just make some accidents, let a few bottles break, and then let the smell stay on the truck, or simply sprinkle detergent on fabrics such as mops or rags in advance, and the smell will disappear. Keep it for a long time, put it in the same truck, and it can be used as a cover when transporting it,” said Lex.
Bruce glanced at him with a look that said, "Why are you so skilled?" Lex responded without any hesitation, meaning "each other."
The two watched all the surveillance videos again and began to analyze which toolbox was the toolbox where the body was hidden. Once this toolbox is found, they can identify the person who moved the toolbox, and then he is most likely to be the person carrying the toolbox. murderer.
Among the eight large toolboxes in total, two of them were not sealed and contained relatively few things. There were pictures of the contents of the boxes, so it can be ruled out that the remaining six toolboxes were completely sealed and looked exactly the same. .
There are a lot of missing areas in the surveillance system in the Central Bank. Half of the very important lobby on the first floor is a blind spot. What’s even more frightening is that there is no surveillance in the elevator on the first floor. In other words, after these boxes are moved to the elevator, which box will It was completely impossible to tell which elevator I got on and where I went.
Bruce and Lex discussed for 20 minutes and repeatedly calculated the boxes and routes. In the end, they could only narrow down the suspicious boxes to three, and all of these three boxes had not been photographed being moved. Scenes, and no usage scenes were photographed.
Finally, when watching the surveillance footage frame by frame, they finally discovered that a certain frame of one box was different from the others.
Surveillance footage showed a cleaner pushing one of the boxes through a corridor when he was suddenly stopped by a woman.
The surveillance footage only captured the feet of the two people and the bottom of the box. It did not capture their faces, nor did they record their conversation. There was nothing unusual about the cleaner or the box, but the woman's feet were wearing shoes, different from those of bank employees.
Lex found a promotional video of Central Bank on the Internet. All the female employees here are dressed the same. They all wear professional suits, and even the shoes are the same. However, the shoes worn by the woman in the picture are not the same. Not the gray round-toe heels worn by bank clerks, but black pointed-toe heels.
And relying on the style of this shoe, Lex found the brand of this pair of shoes. It was a new product of Prada for the season. The price was very high and it needed to be booked in advance. In other words, ordinary female bank employees could not afford these shoes. A pair of shoes. Anyone who can wear these shoes must be rich or noble.
Following this clue, Bruce and Lex deduced that this woman should not be a bank employee, but the boss who came to handle business.
So, Lex began to inquire about the bank's large-value business that day, and then he discovered that since the end of February, Central Bank had been following up on a large-value transaction, and the two parties to the transaction were Palo Chemical Raw Materials Production Co., Ltd. and Snow Mountain Cleaning Co., Ltd., among which Palo Company has a large loan, which was personally approved by the president.
The cold light of the computer shone on Lex's face, reflecting the red hair on his forehead into a strange purple. After looking at it intently for a long time, he straightened up, then looked at Bruce and said, "Now there is good news. and bad news."
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"Bad news first," Bruce said, interrupting Lex.
"The good news is that I found out the identity of this woman. He is the boss of Palo Company. He came to the bank building today to discuss business with the bank president."
"But the president has been killed, so her business should not have been negotiated." Bruce said: "She should have seen one of the tool boxes, and their conversation lasted more than 30 seconds. If there is anything abnormal about the tool box, she should be able to Notice, can I contact her now?"
"That's the bad news." Lex turned around and looked at the screen and said, "She is the second victim."
Lex turned around and pressed the button, and a picture appeared directly on the screen. It was a middle-aged woman with light makeup, but both Bruce and Lex had seen another picture of her on the news. It looks like the chest and abdomen were cut open, the ears were cut off, and then signal receivers were plugged into the ears.
Bruce paused suddenly, and then said: "The murderer is guiding our line of sight."
He turned around. Looking into each other's eyes, both saw the same message in each other's eyes.
"Professor Schiller said..." Lex began to pace in place, he said: "A real serial murderer will deliberately leave various clues to guide the investigators' eyes and let the investigators go." Notice, what he wants the investigators to pay attention to..."
"What does he want us to pay attention to?" Bruce asked a question, but he wasn't asking, because later. He asked himself and answered: "The first victim is the president of the bank, the second victim is the boss of Palo Company, and there is a business being negotiated between the two of them..."
"What exactly is this deal between the bank, Palo Company, and Snow Mountain Company? Why did the murderer kill the leaders of both parties?" Lex narrowed his eyes and asked: "The murderer is guiding us Focus on what’s behind this deal, so should we focus on this part?”
"Professor Schiller also said that the murderer leads the investigators' attention not without purpose. They often want to let the investigators discover his motives and reveal some facts. It may be some grievances, or it may be just his. Tragedy and hatred, or just the killer's understanding of something," Bruce said as he recalled.
"In other words, there is probably a hidden secret behind this transaction?" Lex stopped pacing and stood there and started thinking.
"Generally speaking, ordinary murderers will use various methods to eliminate clues and prevent investigators from discovering them as much as possible."
"But serial murderers are just the opposite. They will deliberately leave various clues to guide investigators. Therefore, when investigating serial murders, following his lead is not necessarily a bad thing. It may allow us to discover "Bruce said, he turned around and walked towards the door, saying as he walked:
"I'm going to the bank, Snow Mountain Company and Palo Company to investigate and see if there are any problems in these three places, and you..." Bruce turned back at the door and paused, then said: "You continue to contact the police and find out To get the information on the second case, and keep an eye on the boss of Xueshan Company, he is likely to become the third victim..."
After that, Bruce left, and Lex reopened an interface that displayed the results of the police investigation. The only useful information in it was the timeline provided by the witnesses.
The last person to witness the appearance of the bank president was the guard near the villa area where he lived.
At 6 pm on April 2, the bank president drove his car back to his residence. His family was not in the city, so he lived alone, and he never came out again. On April 3, The body appeared on the street in front of the bank gate.
There are no cameras near the street where the villa area is located, and the patrol guards did not provide any clues about suspicious persons. No one even found suspicious situations in the two nearby blocks. Therefore, this clue was cut off. Therefore, Bruce and Lai Only then will he focus on what happened in the bank building.
Soon, Lex got the timeline information about the second victim from the police, but something very strange appeared in it.
According to police information, the last witness who saw the female boss said that he saw her near the president's office on the 16th floor at 1 p.m., and no one saw her again after that. .
However, the footage from the surveillance equipment that Lex and Bruce had just seen showed that at 1:10 in the afternoon, the female boss stopped the cleaner in a corridor.
In other words, the cleaner who pushed the box was the last witness, and all the cleaners' testimonies did not mention this.
In other words, Bruce and Lex's inference is probably correct. The murderer blended into this group of cleaners and killed the second victim on the spot after dumping the body of the first victim.
Lex lowered his head and looked at the data transmitted by the police, which showed that the second victim's body was found on the street in front of the Palo Corporation building.