Chapter 61: town in the mist 5
"Are we going to the first girl's house, or go straight to Ma Dewen?" Lin Mutao stepped forward, wrapping her uniform jacket tightly.
She is now traveling with Shijiu to the home of Madwen, who is a neighbor with the first victim's family.
Shijiu slowed down so that Lin Mutao could follow, he thought for a moment and said, "Let's go directly to Madwen's house." It is Madwen, if you go to them, you will be easily influenced by them.
The first victim's family was a single-family villa with a small garden on the first floor. The Madwen's house is a small villa next to it. The exact same exterior wall seems to be the product of the developer, and the structural layout of their houses is the same. There is only a path separating the two small villas.
Shijiu walked up and rang the doorbell at the door of Madwen's house. After a few rings, the door opened a small crack. The people in the door saw the uniforms on the two people standing at the door, and immediately closed the door. "Bang-" closed with a bang.
An angry voice came from behind the door: "Police? What are you looking for? I didn't do anything bad!"
Shi Jiu knocked on the door and said politely, "We want to ask you about the train tunnel case in January of the year before last."
"What's the matter with me in that case? I know, I said it all at the police station before!" Madewen still stood behind the door and refused to open it.
I didn't expect Ma Dewen to be so uncooperative, Shijiu and Lin Mutao looked at each other helplessly, and continued to persuade through the door: "Mr. Ma, we are the police who are re-investigating this case, We need to find out more about you. We know the rumors of some people in the town. In order to make these guesses disappear, shouldn't you cooperate with us to find out the real culprit, and make yourself innocent? "
"Mr. Ma..."
The door opened with a creak, and Madwen glanced at them and said, "Come in."
Only then did Lin Mutao see Ma Dewen's appearance clearly. She was in her early thirties, with a thin body and a pair of glasses on her face, looking very gentle. But there was a hint of helplessness and anger on his white face.
Lin Mutao and Shijiu followed behind Ma Dewen, crossing a small courtyard. There is a wooden kennel at the entrance of the small villa. A Labrador puppy is lying lazily in front of the kennel. When a stranger comes in, he does not bark and continues to lick his paws.
Lin Mutao asked, "Mr. Ma, do you still have dogs?"
Ma Dewen glanced at the Labrador, pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and explained, "Well. It's been an old dog for a few years."
The three of them walked into the living room, and as soon as they sat down, Ma Dewen said unceremoniously, "Hurry up with whatever you want to ask, I still have work to do."
Shijiu raised his wrist, looked at the time on his watch, and asked, "It's four o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Ma still has to go to work? Night shift?"
Madwin: "I'm a freelancer, I'm a novelist."
Shijiu and Lin Mutao nodded suddenly. No wonder there are all kinds of books on Madwen's living room table, in addition to some dictionaries, there are also some horror novels and crime novels. There's even a black cover novel with Devil's Sacrifice on it.
See Shijiu and Lin Mutao's eyes have been focused on the books on the table, Ma Dewen stood up and folded the books into a pile and placed them on the ground beside the sofa. He asked, "What materials are needed to write a novel. In other words, you two don't want to come over to chat, right? Just ask if you want to ask."
Not like the anger he was at the door before, Ma Dewen's face has calmed down a lot now, and his long and narrow eyes are hidden behind the glasses to look at the two policemen in front of him calmly.
Shijiu asked: "I heard that the victim's parents found your footprints in the corner of the garden one day after the girl disappeared? Are those footprints yours?"
Ma Dewen nodded: "It is indeed my footprints. But the girl was not taken away by me."
"Then why are your footprints in the girl's garden?"
Ma Dewen raised the corners of his lips and smiled to himself, "It's really weird, but what I'm saying now is true. My dog kept barking that night, clamoring for me to play with him. I played Frisbee with it in the garden."
"But my technique is not good, and I accidentally threw the Frisbee into the garden of the little girl's house. It was very late at that time, and I was embarrassed to ring the doorbell to disturb their house, so I I plan to climb over the wall myself and get the Frisbee back."
"The footprints should have been accidentally left by me over the wall. But I really just went to get the Frisbee and didn't kidnap the little girl."
Lin Mutao quickly wrote down what he said in the notebook, raised her head and asked, "Your home is the same as the little girl's home, right? Let us see your footprints at that time. Where are you staying?"
Ma Dewen hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded.
They followed Ma Dewen out of the house again. The small yard surrounds the villa, which is equivalent to the word "hui". They circled the villa for half a circle, and Madvin pointed to a corner of the wall and said, "There is a small flowerbed on this side of their house, and it is filled with dirt, so I left my footprints in this place when I climbed over the wall. ." Then he pointed to a place not far away and said, "My Frisbee was dropped here at the time, so if I climb this wall, I must pass through their flowerbed."
Lin Mutao nodded, indeed.
She raised her head, but found that standing here, she could clearly see the back of the cottage. Because Madvin's home has floor-to-ceiling windows, he can see his room through the windows.
The decoration of the villa is unified by the developer, so the little girl's house also uses floor-to-ceiling windows. If Ma Dewen climbed over the wall and entered the garden, he could immediately see this room of the little girl's house.
Lin Mutao raised her wrist, pointed to the floor-to-ceiling window and asked, "Do you know who slept in this room at the victim's house?"
Ma Dewen said mockingly: "I know. This room in their house happens to be the room where the little girl sleeps."
"Two police comrades, do you suspect that I came over the wall, saw the sleeping little girl, and then took her away with a bad mind?"
"But comrades police, have you ever thought that when people sleep, they will draw the curtains, and I can't see anything at all?"
"And that footprint can only prove that I have been to their garden, but not that I have entered the girl's room."
Lin Mutao didn't expect her guesses to be said by Ma Dewen and refuted with reason.
She scratched her head and asked, "Then do you remember what time it was when you went to pick up the Frisbee?"
Madwin frowned and recalled: "I remember when my dog barked, it was ten thirty in the evening, and then I played Frisbee with it. So it was ten thirty when I picked up the Frisbee. After that, I don't know the exact time."
"Okay." Lin Mutao lowered her head and wrote down this time in her notebook.
Shijiu then asked: "I heard that the little girl likes to come to your house. After that happened, she never came again, and she was afraid of you. Emotions?"
Ma Dewen laughed: "She came to my house before to read a book and play with my dog. I didn't do anything to her. How do I know why that little girl is afraid of me? What? You should ask the little girl."
Well, really no more questions.
Shijiu said goodbye to Madwin.
They walked half a circle again and returned to the main entrance of the small villa. They opened the iron gate of the garden and prepared to leave, and Madvin stood by and watched the two of them.
At this moment, the Labrador, who had been lounging all the time, suddenly stood up and barked, then stopped abruptly.
Lin Mutao and Shijiu looked back strangely and saw Ma Dewen gently comforting the dog, "It's alright, it's alright, they're gone." But his right hand was pinching the dog's neck On, the dog was pulled into the air by him, its limbs twitched and struggled, and there was no way to continue to make a sound.
It turns out that the dog's barking stopped because of Madvin.
Ma Dewen also seemed to have noticed the sight of the two of them, turned his head to look at them, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised.
The iron gate of the garden was slowly closed, and the smaller and smaller cracks could only allow them to see the reflection of the Madewin glasses...
It was so far away from Madwen's house that Lin Mutao couldn't help trembling.
Lin Mutao: "Jiu, I have to say, Ma Dewen looks very evil."
Compared with Li Junhu, who is obviously a loser in life, Ma Dewen is smart, calm, and likes to take the initiative in dialogue, and he has read many crime books...
Shijiu nodded, he looked at Lin Mutao and said, "The judgment of psychopathology now mainly relies on the dialogue of 20 questions. From these dialogues, psychopathology can be divided into four characteristics ."
Lin Mutao was immediately interested, "Which four characteristics?"
"The first characteristic is that he has a high self-esteem and a strong sense of self-worth, but lacks realistic long-term goals. Although it is not known whether Ma Dewen has long-term goals, he is proud to say that he is a novel When he was at home, he could see that he was a man with a high self-esteem."
"The second characteristic is superficial charm, but only the most superficial emotional response, lacking the complex and delicate emotions of normal people."
"The third characteristic, no moral sense, no empathy."
"The fourth characteristic is impulsiveness, poor self-control, pursuit of a lot of sensory stimulation, and abuse of others."
Lin Mutao thoughtfully replied: "Although Ma Dewen is not the type that clearly fits these four characteristics, he does lack empathy for the murder of the little girl... and although he has not A history of abusing others, but he abused dogs..."
He used the method of strangling the dog's neck to stop the dog's howling. Would such a person really play Frisbee with the dog in the middle of the night?
“General animal cruelty is a precursor to murder by a murderer…”
When Lin Mutao and Shijiu were analyzing the suspect, Du Ziteng, who worked hard to play Du Xiaohua in Heping Primary School, also found some small problems.
The author has this to say:
Four characteristics of psychopaths, from the original: Myrrh Garden (2022.1.19)
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Seeing that some babies are guessing the murderer in the comment area, in order to prevent accidental spoilers, I will not reply.