Chapter 427 Arson Case
Not long ago, the Metropolitan Police.
Conan has not been in Tokyo for the past two days, and the search class, especially the third department of "Forcible Criminal Search-Murderer Search" where Sato Miwako is located, finally ushered in a short period of peace.
At this moment, the Metropolitan Police Miss Miwako Sato was sitting comfortably in her seat, enjoying her afternoon tea.
Sitting in front of her was her close friend, the head of the Forensic Department's Autopsy Department, Asai Shigemi.
Among them, Miwako Sato is still wearing her simple professional skirt.
Although she was wearing a skirt and her two fair and slender legs were exposed, one look at her unadorned short hair and her determined cheeks always gave people a sense of heroic masculinity.
In contrast, although Asai Narimi in front of her was dressed in men's clothing, she had a soft appearance, gentle eyes, and long hair in a playful ponytail. She looked more like a fragile young girl.
The two of them sit together, and they really have a different kind of "good match" feeling.
The male police officers passing by all looked at him secretly.
Miwako Sato and Narumi Asai were unaware of this, and just chatted about their current situation in a natural manner. ,
"Asai, you seem to have been very busy these past two days?"
"Yeah, isn't there a serial arsonist who sets fires everywhere in the city recently?"
"Mr. Lin is not in Tokyo either. I am responsible for the on-site investigation work."
"Oh that guy who was on the news?"
What did Miwako Sato think of:
"I heard that that guy has set off three fires in the city in a row. The noise caused is quite big."
"Are you in charge of the on-site investigation of this case?"
"How's it going? Have you found any clues now?"
Arson cases are generally classified into the 1st and 2nd departments of the 7th Criminal Investigation and Fire Criminal Investigation Section of the 1st Investigation Section. These two departments are responsible for investigating arson and fire cases.
The third department of rapists that Miwako Sato belongs to is only responsible for homicide cases, so she doesn't know much about the investigation of this case.
Asai Narumi participated in the case as a technical officer of the forensics department.
But her answer was a bit discouraging:
"Well, what progress can this make?"
"I'm a medical examiner, but there's not even a body in this case."
"And the murderer didn't even leave any fingerprints or footprints when he committed the crime, and the three scenes were completely destroyed by fire. No matter how good our forensics department's investigation work was, we couldn't find any useful clues."
Asai Narumi poured out the bitter water helplessly, and then sighed:
"However, this case is not completely without progress."
"Based on the other party's pattern of randomly and continuously setting fires in urban areas, we judge that his motive may be pure revenge against society."
"Judging from the locations of multiple fire points at the three sites, he may have been mentally disturbed."
"Oh?" Sato Miwako became interested: "How can we judge this?"
"Because of the location of the fire."
"A person with normal thinking and clarity of mind who sets a fire will generally choose a location with more combustion-supporting materials to light the fire."
"But the way the murderer set the fire was by randomly pouring gasoline on the scene, and the location of the fire was very random. It seemed that the location of the fire could not be planned rationally at all."
"Especially in the three times he committed crimes, the one where he set a fire in the park:"
"Obviously there are woods next to the scene, and the weather has been hot recently. Just pouring gasoline into the woods can cause a huge fire."
"But the fact is that the arson in the park was the smallest of the three arson cases."
"The fire didn't burn the woods at all, it just burned a patch of grass."
"And we also detected a large amount of residual gasoline substances in the soil at the fire site."
"This shows that the murderer dumped most of the gasoline he brought on that small piece of grass, lit the fire and left."
"This is undoubtedly a meaningless waste."
A man ran to set a fire, but he didn't even think about how to make the fire bigger. Instead, he poured gasoline on the ground, lit the fire and ran away.
In addition, the murderer set fire three times in a row with unknown meaning, harming others but not himself.
These behaviors are difficult to understand in ordinary people's eyes.
"So we judged that he might have some mental problem."
"After all, those who are so extreme that they want to take revenge on society are prone to mental problems themselves."
Asai Narumi gave the basis for his judgment:
"So now we are mainly focused on investigating those mentally ill patients with violent and destructive tendencies who have recently been treated in major hospitals in Tokyo."
"but."
"Oh." Sato Miwako sighed: "I understand."
"This prisoner is not that easy to find."
The murderer is mentally ill, which is currently only speculation by the police.
I don’t know if it’s accurate or not.
Not to mention, even if the calculation is really accurate, the murderer, a mental patient, may not have been to the hospital for treatment recently.
Tokyo has a population of tens of millions, and there are many mentally ill people.
Even if the murderer really left a treatment record in the hospital, it would be an almost impossible task to identify the possible suspects among so many patients and then identify the murderer among the suspects.
"Try your luck, this is the only way."
Asai Chengmi shrugged helplessly.
"Good luck."
Sato Miwako's tone was somewhat sympathetic:
"It's a pity that this arson case has nothing to do with human life and is not under the control of our third department."
"Otherwise, I would like to help you investigate this case."
The words just fell
An emergency call came in.
Miwako Sato answered the phone, and her expression suddenly became very strange.
"What's wrong?" Asai Narumi was a little curious.
"This case is now handed over to our third department."
Miwako Sato paused for a moment, and her expression became solemn:
"The murderer just set another fire in the city."
"Set another fire?"
"Damn, this is already the fourth time."
Asai Chengmi clenched her fists tightly, but soon felt something was wrong:
"Wait a minute. How come this case was handed over to you to forcefully commit the third crime?"
"Aren't you only responsible for investigating murder cases?"
"yes."
"This time is different from the previous three times."
"A body was found at the arson scene, which may be related to the murderer who set the arson."
"In other words, this case is already related to human life and is no longer a simple arson case."
Miwako Sato briefly explained the situation.
Then she couldn't wait to ask:
"Where's Manager Lin?"
"Has he returned to Tokyo now?"
Administrator Lin is now the backbone of the Metropolitan Police Department.
Whenever a difficult case arises, everyone will be the first to think of this great master who can take him away.
"I'll call and ask."
"He went to Karuizawa yesterday and should have returned to Tokyo by now."
Asai Narumi quickly took out his mobile phone and dialed Lin Xinyi's number with ease.
The call was answered quickly.
Miwako Sato was also waiting expectantly.
Then Narumi Asai heard a feeble gasp from the phone that was painful and unbearable:
"Huhu."
"Ahem." Lin Xinyi's voice was extremely tired: "Asai, what's the matter?"
"Uh" Hearing the strange noise over there, Asai Narumi didn't know how to speak.
"Lin, Mr. Lin!"
"Open the door"
Mao Lilan's desperate cry also came over:
"I'm dying, let me in"
"Asshole——" Uncle Maori's yelling followed:
"You brat, you're just vomiting. Why are you occupying the bathroom?"
"Hurry up and open the door for me!"
"etc."
"vomit--"
After a moment, the door lock opened with a click.
"Asshole, finally you know the door is open."
"Wahahahaha, I, Kogoro Mori, am going to be saved——"
"Hey, Xiaolan! What are you doing? Do you want to disobey your father?"
"Dad, don't blame me."
"Now is not the time to take care of the relationship between father and daughter!"
"No--"
Despair, despair, still despair.
This shouting lingered for three days, leisurely and endlessly.
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Asai Narumi put down the phone:
"Sato, this case"
"Only we can check."