Chapter 842 - 783: Screening
Tao Lu arrived a bit later, with a gloomy expression. As he entered, seeing that Huang Qiangmin and Jiang Yuan had already arrived, he nodded and explained, "There was traffic on the way. Any findings?"
Huang Qiangmin shook his head slightly, "Jiang Yuan is still looking."
Jiang Yuan lifted his head, "Most of the evidence, including fingerprints, DNA evidence, footprints, etc., was already collected by the CSI earlier. Currently, there are no matches."
Cases like this were the most common in criminal police work. Cases without any evidence were rare, especially homicides, as the forces mobilized were substantial enough to gather a lot of information. For a murderer to remain hidden under such circumstances was extremely difficult.
Even hiding is not useful, just like the home burglary case the Image Investigation team had just worked on. Looking for the owner of a phone that was turned off at 10 p.m. and turned on at 4 a.m., asking why they entered an unfamiliar area with their phone off at that time?
In contrast, cases like the current one, which left evidence but had no matching information in the police database, were a bit more troubling.
If the case involved acquaintances, tracing the victim’s network of relationships would likely solve it, but that would be just an ordinary premeditated murder case – not an excellent investigation, but just ordinary. Most premeditated murder cases were just at this level.
Many people never scored full marks in their studies, never occupied the heights of intelligence from childhood, had to take civil service exams several times, and couldn’t even respond fluently in interviews in front of a group of middle managers, let alone display any quick-wittedness. Yet, when it came to murder, they suddenly felt they had infallible plans and could fight against the whole system, crushing the intelligence of hundreds with the help of valuable professional equipment and software, making countless seasoned experts stumble over it, and reflecting on their career devastation.
—It’s similar to stock traders who believe they can make money.
Of course, there are always those who are lucky, who hit the jackpot by fluke.