In the early morning of July 26, 2010, the Ordos grassland was still immersed in a thick sleep. In the moonlight, some restless figures were still stirring, trying to cover up their evil deeds with darkness.
At 5:00 a.m., the alarm bell rang, a man called in panic, saying that his financial room was stolen, the 900,000 yuan in the safe was missing, and Du Ruidong, deputy captain of the criminal police team after receiving the police, immediately rushed to the scene of the crime to investigate. The man who reported the crime is the owner of a coal mine, the coal mine is located in the suburbs, the scale is medium, there are nearly 300 workers on the mine, the business is usually very good, the coal trucks in and out of the mine are endless, the annual income is also very impressive, and the 900,000 stolen this time is ready to pay the workers the next day.
The stolen treasury was in disarray
The boss introduced the situation while taking Du Ruidong into the finance room. If it were not for the boss's leadership, outsiders really couldn't tell which of the offices in this row was the finance room, each room here looked similar from the outside, and there was no door number logo at all, and if it was not a person in the mine, it would be difficult for outsiders to identify.
The door of the finance room is intact, the door lock has no trace of prying, into the room, you can see 2 safes and a bed, of which the small safe has been pried open, the inside is empty, the crime tool crowbar is thrown next to it. The large safe was intact, and it seemed that the thieves had not bothered with it, not even traces of trying to pry it. Looking at the bed again, there were two complete shoe prints on the sheets, and the ventilation window glass on the wall next to it was also smashed, which seemed to be where the thieves entered and exited the scene.
Footprints on the sheets
After the initial investigation of the scene, Du Ruidong suspected that insiders were responsible for the crime.
There are three reasons for this:
One is that the thieves know that the coal mine will have a sum of cash in the finance room today;
Second, thieves can accurately find the location of the financial room without any external markings;
Third, after entering the finance room, the thief did not consider the large safe at all, but went straight to the small safe, how did he know that all the cash was in the small safe?
According to the boss, there is only one staff member in the finance room, and he is also a relative of his own. This person's name is Wang Hai, very familiar with financial work, for many years the mine's various expenses have been responsible for him, and Wang Hai also paid for two excavators at his own expense, leased to the mine, and could get a lot of rent every year. From the boss's description, it can be felt that he has great trust in Wang Hai, and this trust does not only come from relatives, but also because Wang Hai has never made a mistake in his years of work.
Wang Hai cooperated with the police investigation
Everything can not only look at the surface, and now the doubts are focused on the finance, the police immediately found Wang Hai to understand the situation on the day of the crime. Wang Hai said that the safe in the financial room usually does not have so much cash, but because the workers have to be paid the next day, and he works more on July 25, he did not have time to deposit the money in the bank. At 9 o'clock in the evening, he finally finished his work, his body was full of dust, he drove home to get some clothes to change, and when he arrived home, he was tired and sleepy, so he simply rested at home for one night, and did not return to the mine until the morning of the 26th, when the money had been lost.
Wang Hai's words were confirmed by his wife, but his suspicions could not be completely ruled out.
The police made two speculations that wang hai committed the crime:
First, if he committed the crime alone, then first he needs to find an opportunity to delay time, deliberately put the cash in the safe, and then wait for the workers to finish their work, break the window himself, fake it as someone entering the house and robbing, and then lock the door with the money and leave.
Second, if he still has accomplices, then he can pass on the news that the gold is stored in the small safe in advance, and then pretend to lock the door and leave, giving the accomplices the opportunity to enter the financial room to steal, so that he also has evidence of alibi, and he can retreat from the whole body and not be suspected.
Thinking of this, the police retrieved Wang Hai's call records in recent days, but did not find anything abnormal, and at the same time, Wang Hai's words to the mine owner made the case deadlocked.
A small safe that was pried open
Wang Hai said that what was lost that day was not 900,000, but 1.09 million, because the 190,000 excavator rent he had just received was also in a small safe, and he thought that after paying his salary the next day, he would settle the maintenance cost of the excavator to the workers, and he did not want to compete for such a disaster. The suspect changed his identity in an instant and became a victim, combined with the previous investigation of Wang Hai, Du Ruidong temporarily ruled out his suspicions.
At this time, the police officers who were investigating the perimeter provided a new clue: On the night of July 25, Wang Hai was not the last person to leave the financial room, and someone saw a person coming out of the financial room between 11 and 12 o'clock, and that person was also familiar to everyone, he was the deputy mine director Su Hongjun.
According to Su Hongjun, his room was next door to the finance room, but there was no TV in the room, so on the evening of the 25th he went to the finance room to watch TV. At that time, Wang Hai was also there, and after Wang Hai left at 9 o'clock, he continued to watch the TV series for a while, and at 11 o'clock he went back to his room to sleep.
Su Hongjun was in the finance room that night, why did Wang Hai never mention it? In the supplementary investigation, Wang Hai said that he forgot that the Soviet Red Army was also there that day, and that he was the deputy mine director, and did not suspect him at all. The suspicious point seems to have returned to Wang Hai, but there is really no evidence to prove it, and Du Ruidong had no choice but to start with the Soviet Red Army.
Su Hongjun is a deputy mine director and a relative of Wang Hai, but the difference with Wang Hai is that Su Hongjun holds shares in the mine, and he can get dividends from the profits of the coal mine every year, which also makes his family very well-off. After investigation, the Soviet Red Army did not have the motive to commit the crime, nor did it contact any suspicious persons, and the loss of property in the mine did not do much benefit to him as a deputy mine director. Two people directly related to the finance room have ruled out the suspicion, and it seems that if you want to crack the case, you can only start from the scene.
Back at the scene, crowbars scattered on the ground caught the attention of the police. The case-handling personnel found that even if there is a crowbar, it is not easy to open the safe, the upper arm of the thief must be extremely powerful, and this force can only be possessed by a small number of people even among men, which shows that if the thief is not a "habitual offender", he has mastered certain skills, he is a "practicing family", and the upper arm has undergone lasting training.
Two crowbars abandoned at the scene
Unfortunately, the police failed to extract valuable fingerprints from safes and crowbars, which thieves were most likely to have direct contact with, and shoe prints on bed sheets were worth studying. The police extracted the shoe prints, and after analysis, it was concluded that the two shoe prints came from different people, so at least two people climbed the window that night to enter the financial room, and then fled through the window after winning the hand. Seeing that the case involved footprints, and there were no other reliable clues at present, Du Ruidong had to invite footprint tracking experts to solve the case together. Footprint tracking expert Buhe has been studying footprints for decades, and he can infer the height, posture and even age of suspects based on what they look like.
Police found the suspect's footprints
After obtaining the footprint sample, Bu He judged that the two suspects who entered the room were men based on information such as the shape of the footprint, the depth of the landing, and the degree of wear of the sole, one of whom was about 167 in height and about 30 years old; the other was 170 in height and about 36 years old. The expected height of the two thieves is below 170, but the window of the finance room is relatively high, so that the two need to step on the bed to be able to arrive, so according to common sense, when the two enter the finance room, there should also be something to step up. In the observation of the surrounding environment of the crime scene, Bu He found that the footprints on the ground outside the back window of the finance room suddenly increased, and the two new shoe print patterns were very obvious. It turned out that the people who came to the finance room in the early morning were not 2 people but 4 people, and the other 2 people had been watching the wind outside the window of the finance room, and acted as a "ladder" for the accomplices to climb the wall and break the window. After winning, the four fled to the north of the crime scene, leaving another flaw on the hillside.
It is conceivable that the four thieves were in a very anxious state at that time, and they were eager to leave the scene, which can be seen from the footprints left on the ground: the footprints were shallow in front of and behind, the distance between the two feet was large, and the footprints were almost parallel, which was very in line with the footprints left by people when they fled at a rapid speed.
With a pattern of four footprints, Buhe found evidence of the suspect's entry into the scene in the southwest of the mine, but at the same time, he also had a question in his mind. Generally speaking, the thieves are going back and forth, but this time the four people ran in another direction after committing the crime.
With doubts in his mind, Buhe continued to track the suspect's escape route, trying to find more clues in the direction the footprints led, but at this moment, he was disappointed to find that after the footprints reached a certain hillside, they mixed with the herders' flocks and could no longer be found. Bu He carefully surveyed the surrounding ground, but could not find the clue again, at that moment, Bu He's disappointment and loneliness surged into his heart, for many years in the industry, he had successfully cracked many cases with footprint tracking, and this theft case also had eyebrows because of the footprints, he did not believe that the footprints he had tracked for so long would disappear because a herdsman mistakenly hit and drove the sheep through this place, the four thieves must have left other flaws, but where are the new clues?
The afterglow of the setting sun sprinkles on the Ordos prairie, and the orange-red sunset adds a fiery heat to the turquoise grass. In Bu He's eyes, there was also a fire, but it was not the shadow of the sunset, but the unwillingness to find evidence, and the urgency of recovering the stolen money. At this time, a figure flashed in the cloth and in his mind, yes, it was him! If he is willing to go out of the mountain, then all the problems in front of him will be solved.
The Mongolian robe, the sheep whip, the cloth and the man said were none other than this seventy-year-old man, who looked like an ordinary herdsman, but his gaze was more dazzling, as if all the details that came into view would be discovered by him. The old man's name is Dolji, and he is Buhe's master and a public security officer who has retired for many years. As a young man, Dorgy worked as a herder and hunter, and at that time he most often studied the footprints of foxes, which was not only a necessity for life, but also a pleasure.
Dolgi and Bu and Nashun
Foxes have always been known for their cunning, when fleeing, it will also deliberately hide its tracks, and Dorji is based on the footprints left by the fox inadvertently to judge its state and escape direction, and then find its own "prey", the so-called "even cunning fox can not fight a good hunter", which is exactly the truth. Many years ago, after Dolgi taught his step-tracking technique to Buhe, he gradually retreated to the second line, allowing his apprentices to take this mastery to solve more cases and find more traces of evil.
Hearing that the apprentice was in trouble, Dorgy immediately came to his aid. After studying the place where the footprints disappeared for a while, Dorji said that both humans and prey will subconsciously choose a relatively flat place when escaping, and there is exactly a suitable area in the southwest direction here, so the direction in which the thieves escape is southwest. Seeing that the master proposed a clear direction, Bu he did not dare to delay, and immediately looked southwest with the master, and soon found an anomaly: on a dirt slope, the position of a stone was obviously moved, and the size of the stone was relatively large, even if the sheep passed, it would not be kicked over, but if someone passed, this phenomenon could be explained.
The overturned stone
In order to confirm the conjecture, Dorgy looked in the direction of the stone movement, and sure enough, he found the suspects: different patterns of shoe prints, almost parallel footprints, the characteristics of the deeper pedaling of the forefoot... Everything proves that this is where the suspects fled. The reappearance of the footprint gave Buhe great confidence, and he followed the direction of the footprints to the side of a highway, at which point the suspect's footprints had completely disappeared, which according to calculations, should be four o'clock in the morning on July 26. Four adult men, with 1.09 million in cash, on the side of the road at four o'clock in the morning, where will they go and what will they do?
At this time, it has been a full six days since the crime, and in these six days, Du Ruidong's hanging heart has never been put down: where will the suspect run, and how much money will be left in their hands? Under pressure, the police could not take a moment to rest, and only wanted to arrest the suspect as soon as possible. Looking at the case materials, Du Ruidong suddenly thought that at four o'clock in the morning, the sky was already dark, and it would not be long before the sun would rise, and at that time, four men walking on the road with a large bag were too conspicuous. Therefore, for the four, the most likely thing to do is to find a means of transportation as soon as possible to help the four escape. Considering that in the early hours of the morning, the number of private cars and construction vehicles on the road was very small, the police focused their investigation on taxis, and soon made important discoveries.
According to a taxi driver surnamed Ding, he passed near the stolen coal mine at about 4 a.m. on the 26th, and saw four men waving to stop the car on a dirt slope on the side of the road. Seeing that there was business coming, Master Ding immediately pulled over and stopped, and the four people got on the bus and said that they were going to the bus station. Early in the morning to go to the bus station to take a ride, it seems reasonable, Master Ding did not think much about it and pulled four people all the way to the station, and the suspect has since entered the surveillance range.
Four suspects under surveillance got out of the car here
From burglary to wild running, the figures of the four thieves finally appeared in the sight of the police, seeing the shadows of the four people in the surveillance display, Du Ruidong could not help but give a thumbs up to Bu He: These four figures, posture and other characteristics are very similar to Bu He's original depiction, footprint tracking experts, God!
However, the appearance of the suspect did not excite Du Ruidong for too long, and under surveillance, they actually disappeared.
Since the appearance of the four suspects, the police have been keeping a close eye on the surveillance, not sparing a single detail. Surveillance showed that the four people got off the bus near the bus station, entered the bushes on the side of the road for about 1 minute, and when they came out, they were separated in two, two of them set off from the west gate of the station, stopped a taxi, and drove to the north of the station; while the other two walked to the south square of the station, one of them also carried a backpack, which was the lost 1.09 million cash. After checking the train schedule, the police had a new question: the earliest bus from the station every day was around six o'clock in the morning, since there was no car to sit in, why did these four people choose to go to the bus station at this point in time, and why did they act separately?
In order to grasp the movements of the two groups of suspects, the police rushed to the station to retrieve surveillance, but were told that due to equipment failure, there was no surveillance video of the day. There is no time to be disappointed, it is now 7 days since the crime, and with each additional day, the possibility of this money being recovered is a little less. Since the suspects who entered the station could not be found, they started with the two people who left by taxi, as long as they found the whereabouts of these two people, they did not worry that the other two would not be caught. Tracked along the way, the taxi, which took two suspects, ended up parked about 100 meters from the train station. Because the section here is a high-altitude probe, the picture is blurred, coupled with the flashing lights of the vehicles, it is even more difficult to identify the figure of the suspect, it is not an exaggeration to say that the only thing that can be determined on the screen is the outline of the car, and if the police look carefully, the shadow of the suspect can not be found.
Surveillance footage taken by a probe at a height
Obviously there is a picture but can not see clearly, the suspect is under the eyelids but can not see, facing the display, the police officers are very anxious, and even watched the video of the taxi stopping and driving away hundreds of times. Perhaps the kung fu pays off, or perhaps the criminal behavior will eventually be tried justly, after repeated study of the video, the careful police officers found a strange phenomenon from the car lights that affected the monitoring effect: after the target vehicle pulled over, the rear vehicle suddenly turned on the headlights when overtaking, and there was a noticeable deceleration action; after about a few seconds, the target vehicle had not yet left, and there was a car in the opposite lane, and when the two cars were close to the parallel position, the incoming car suddenly turned on the brake lights. A deceleration maneuver was also done. The drivers of the two vehicles invariably attracted the attention of the police, and the police officers boldly speculated that the driver did this because he saw two suspects coming off the target vehicle crossing the road here, which caused them to slow down and avoid.
With suspicion, the police came to the intersection where the suspect got off the car under surveillance and found a gas station nearby. By retrieving the surveillance footage in the gas station, the traces of the two suspects were determined, and the hotel where the two lived was locked. Fortunately, the information of the travelers in the hotel was more detailed, and the information of the four suspects was finally fully exposed to the police.
After investigation, the four people are from Zhaotong, Yunnan, namely: Liu Zhenggao, Chen Guoqiang, Yuan Shouwan and Yuan Shouguo. According to the data, Chen Guoqiang is currently at large for stealing the safe, while Yuan Shouwan has a previous conviction for stealing the safe. Looking at the materials, Du Ruidong couldn't help but have a new question: How did the four Yunnan people know that the Ordos Coal Mine, located thousands of miles away, had stored millions of cash in the safe in the financial room, and were there still people in the mine who colluded with them inside and outside? The answer will only be revealed when the thieves are caught.
In August 2010, four suspects were arrested one after another, and after interrogation, the four confessed to the facts of the crime and explained the last suspicious point of the case. It turned out that the four had always had the idea of stealing coal mines, but they were suffering from no suitable targets and opportunities.
In July 2010, the four people came to Ordos City, ready to find a point in the mining area, accidentally hit and bumped into the mine where the crime occurred, and accidentally found that there was no one on duty in the financial room, so they wanted to try their luck. After breaking the window into the room, considering that it is difficult to open the large safe, several people simply locked the target on the small safe, and did not expect that there was really money inside, or 1.09 million! After winning, due to unfamiliarity with the terrain, the four people got lost, turned a large circle before intercepting the taxi on the road, rushed back to the hotel to check out, and then took a taxi from the path to escape Ordos, began a life of squandering stolen money, by the time they were arrested, the four had spent more than 400,000 yuan.
The days of profligacy are always short, and after the arrest, the four are greeted by legal sanctions. This case seems to be made up of one coincidence after another, but in fact it is the inevitable result of people's evil thoughts and step by step towards the abyss. Edmund Rocca, the father of forensics, once said: Whoever walks will leave a trace.
Those inconspicuous small details in daily life, such as a hair, a fingerprint, a footprint, if they appear at the crime scene, can become an important clue for the police, and they are also the "tracker" for criminals to be arrested. Since sin exists, its traces will not be erased, and if you think of heaven or hell, you will not stretch out your hand, but you will be caught!