Volume 8: The Stones Are the Swords] Chapter 20: The Misleading Reasoning-

Chapter 20: Misleading Reasoning

"Let's summarize the current situation." Dick said in the lead.

This is the morning of June 22. In the police station, Dick, Sezel, George and Paper Man sat together to discuss the latest progress in the intimidation case.

Generally, Dick will speak first in this situation. His experience and case handling ability are the best in the Paris Police Station. He led the reasoning and avoided many detours and everyone's ideas will be clearer.

"The morning before yesterday, Mr. Dadan found a letter from a thief in his mailbox. This intimidator may be a person or an organization, and it is not yet certain. Let's call him a 'inmate' for the time being.

There are no stamps or addresses on the envelope, which means that the letter is not delivered by mail, but is sent by the prisoner himself, or that he sent some irrelevant person to put the letter in.

According to Mr. Dadan's description, he checked the mailbox when he got off work on the 19th, and there was no letter in it at that time. Therefore, the time when the threat letter was sent should be locked from 7:00 pm on the 19th to the morning of the next day.

There is a camera in the lobby on the ground floor of the apartment, but the picture taken is not very clear. According to the preliminary investigation of the video, in the time period I just mentioned, there were only three people who had contacted Mr. Dadan's mailbox. The first guy appeared at around 9 o'clock in the evening. He followed other residents into the building and stuffed advertising leaflets in every household's mailbox. At first I doubted whether this guy had used the Sai advertisement as a cover to quietly put in the threat message; but later, the second person appeared, and this guy was very suspicious... He appeared in the early morning. Judging from the surveillance video, he entered the apartment gate with a normal method, which was to use the magnetic stripe ornament hanging on the key. Of course, it was not difficult to get this thing. As far as I know, the electronic doors of this type of apartment building are very simple, and they are even less secure than traditional locks. You can get that kind of door by looking for a few card dealers who forged phone cards on the street.

The second person walked into the lobby of the apartment wearing a dark hooded hood and covered half of his face with a hood. Due to the dim light, the camera can basically determine his height and gender. This person seemed to know the location of the surveillance probe and blocked the mailbox and his hands as much as possible. He stayed in the picture for a short time, but he was standing in front of Mr. Dadan's mailbox. The threatening letter was sent by this person, which may be more than 90%.

As for the third person, it was the postman who came in early in the morning to deliver the letter, so it can basically be ruled out."

George added at this time: "By the way, from the video, the figure of the second person is very close to the man I met opposite the police station the evening before yesterday."

Dick continued: "I guess the possibility of the two being the same person is very high. The route of the three people who came from the street was tracked through the probe on the street. Only the second person could not trace it. Looking back from the street at the door of the apartment, you can see that the person walked out of an alley. There was no surveillance probe in the alley, but there was no picture of him walking into the alley on the street on the other end of the alley, so he could not continue to push his route backwards."

"Maybe he is going up the roof, climbing fire ladders, or sewers, or walking on the road without surveillance probes," said George.

Dick said: "Anyway, it is certain that the person who sent the intimidation letter has a very strong anti-reconnaissance ability and is very careful to hide his whereabouts. Generally, prisoners may pay attention to problems that are only when they run away. He has noticed on the way to the crime site. Even if you go to find a policeman to do this, you may not be better than him." He paused for a moment and said: "Let's talk about that letter and that 'head'."

The "head" here does not refer to the head of a creature in the true sense, but to a human head wood carving, that is, the package Galas received shortly after he started working yesterday. When he opened it, he was scared. This time he was no longer in the mood to do some inspection in the unit, so he directly asked for leave and rushed to the police station with the box. At this point, the case was overstated, and Dick, George and Paper Man also took the opportunity to formally intervene. The intimidation letter, the orange core, and the wood carving were all taken to the evidence department for detailed inspection.

Dick's statement continued: "The envelope is very common, but the yellowed letter paper... According to the identification, it was actually paper from the late nineteenth century; and the intimidator did not use printing or cutting newspaper impurities to write the letter, so he chose to use a pen to write it.

This prisoner likes to use the old method. Every step he takes is imitating the organization established more than two hundred years ago - the KKKK, and imitating the oldest set of things. Paper, handwriting, orange cores are all the messages he gives us, as if he traveled directly from the 19th century to the 22nd century."

"But what's the point?" George lit another cigarette.

"Good question," Dick said: "In my opinion, the 'threater' in this case is not an organization, and they are far from the size of the past KKKK. In the dark, there is probably only one person, and at most no more than five people. There may be a pretty smart guy among them, but not too smart either.

Eighty-most of these intimidators are just a group of ordinary people who are not living well, full of resentment, and have a certain tendency to racial discrimination. They are not the KKKKKK party at all, but they are just trying to disguise themselves as that, hum... they are so crazy that they can't be defeated by the tiger.

The KKKKKKKK in the 19th century was not an extreme racist massacre, but an impression of others after evolution. From the current perspective, it was a group of southern diehards who were unwilling to fail after the war, imposing political views on others by violent means. They wanted to limit the civil rights obtained by liberated blacks, drive away the migrant northerners and Republicans, and hoped to restore their past lives through rogue politics."

The paper man sneered: "It sounds like they want to be nobles."

Dick also laughed: "This is a bit too far. I mean, the prisoners in this case are just imitating and are not very clever. He thought that buying an old book at a certain old book stall, tearing down a piece of white paper from the 19th century, doing some articles on handwriting, and putting some orange cores in the envelope, would do it very much like that. In fact, this is simply a superfluous way. Judging from the content of the letter, this racist practice is more like the things that the KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

Well... let's go back to George's issue, what's the point of doing this?

There are generally two types of prisoners who design and lay out clever plans, do many obscure details, and provide evidence to the police. The first is nothing more than to become famous. It is obvious that the case in front of us is done by the first type of person.

We have analyzed and have also seen that this person has strong ability to move and anti-reconnaissance, and can almost be leaked in details. He put all the information and evidence he wants to convey before our police. Even if he is discovered by the police in an accident, he can successfully escape.

Is it difficult to kill Galas for such a person? The answer is definitely no. He doesn't have to send any intimidation letters at all. The letter is also very funny. The real KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

But why didn't he do it directly? Why did he personally confirm from the police station that Mr. Dadan came to us to report the case?

It's very simple. He wants us to intervene, want to play games with the police, want to be reported and chased by the media like those well-known criminals in history, and even mentioned it many years later, and even wrote it in textbooks."

"Wait..." Sezel finally couldn't help but interrupt and said, "I only have one question. Suppose this person is just for the sake of becoming famous, but don't these guys who play games with the police for the sake of becoming famous all start with killing people?

But he hasn't killed anyone yet, just intimidation. Even if this prisoner is arrested and imprisoned tomorrow, what is the point of intimidation? The court can only assign a rookie lawyer to him, and it is impossible to escalate the case into attempted murder or something? How many years can he be sentenced to such a crime? Three years or five years? If the prisoner has no criminal record, he might be probationary and parole."

"It's very contradictory. I feel that if we pay attention to the case, it will be his will." George spitted out smoke rings and said half-jokingly: "But using conventional means to deal with it seems that we don't take the lives of the Galas Dadan couple seriously."

Paper Hero said at this time: "It is enough to pay attention to the investigation and keep a low profile to the outside world, just like our attitude towards serial murders. I have never seen the media make the case hot."

Dick said: "Yes, ensuring the safety of citizens is the first priority. It is definitely wrong to sacrifice civilians in order not to let the prisoners do their best."

George shrugged and asked without hesitation: "I'm very curious, what's the situation with the second type of person you just mentioned?"

Dick replied: "It is the kind of person who regards crime as a life goal or an art form to execute it. In order to complete his ideal case, it doesn't matter if he dies. This kind of person is a madman. Of course, this second type of person usually starts with a murder case, serial killing as a process, and starts a game with the police. In the end, there are those who commit suicide, surrender, those who are shot dead, and those who are free from justice. Basically, everyone has become a person who has been infatuated for thousands of years. Anyway, the intimidator we are at hand should not belong to this second type."

Paper Hero said: "Let's go ahead and talk about the evidence."

Dick nodded and thought: "The prisoner's residual saliva cannot be found on the orange core, and there is no fingerprint on the letter. At present, the other party has not left any useful evidence.

As for that head... I looked at all the surveillance videos between the building where Mr. Dadan's office was located at the entrance of the Louvre. It can be basically confirmed that the man who pretended to be a courier was the same guy as the person who delivered the letter early the morning before yesterday, and the person George met opposite the police station the evening before yesterday. This also proved my inference that the other party had only one person.

He was very brave and dared to appear in places like the Louvre where the surveillance probes were numerous. In addition, I have to say that impersonating a courier may be one of the easiest disguise. Nowadays, most people have a fixed mindset, as if a person is wearing a dark suit and a baseball cap similar to the color of the clothes, it doesn't matter what logo it is on. Holding a mailing bag with a list in his hand with this dress will definitely deliver the courier. No one will ask the courier to ask for the ID to check it out. Even the Louvre doorman is no exception, and he will sign a random letter on the sloppy list and collect the mailing bag.

So our intimidator went to Mr. Dadan's workplace to deliver the parcel, and it was successful.

He should have simply put on makeup, lowered the brim of the hat, put on gloves, and still did not leave us any facial features or fingerprints." He said that, he picked up a stack of files at hand, looked at the photos and text and said: "The head in the package is carved from wood, purely handmade, carved into a face similar to Dadan, painted with black paint, the eyes of the wood carving were chiseled, and a white pointed head hood was also covered, which was the kind that the three KKK party had put on the head in the past, in a triangle, and there were two holes in the eye position. The hood on the wood carving just exposed the broken eyes of the wood carving."

After putting down the information, Dick continued: "It seems that our prisoner can also have a craftsmanship of carving. Judging from the current situation, this is also an important clue to find out his identity."

Sezel said: "Can the prisoner be a street artist or a down-and-out artist who is not well-known, and he can't stand the academic school like Dadan who has high salaries?"

George stood up and moved the sprained leg yesterday: "Then we need to investigate. The source of the orange core, the source of the letter paper, and the whereabouts of the prisoner are all clues of breaking." He snatched out the cigarette butts: "I'll look at the carved clues to check... wood, paint, and clothes he pretended to be a courier. Everything must have a source, and there are still places to buy."

The paper man said: "By the way, where are Galas Dadan now?"

"He has already taken a long vacation and should be driving his wife back to his parents' home. His wife's parents live outside the city. Mr. Dadan insists on seeing his wife personally. He will feel relieved when he watches her enter the house." Sezel said: "Don't worry, I sent a police officer to drive them. If there is any situation, he will report to me. After sending his wife, Mr. Dadan will come back to cooperate with all our actions."

Before he finished speaking, Sezel's cell phone rang. He picked it up and had not answered it yet. He just saw the number and his expression changed...
Chapter completed!