Chapter 21 What is spontaneous combustion
"Come to my office."
In the early morning, in the second floor public office area of the Western Conference, in the public office area on the weekend, Carl and Carl were still the core of the entire branch talking about the mountains. They talked about everything. From the stockings of black and white silk in the supermodel competition, the stockings of a woman would make her more sexual and sexy, to the avatar of a supermodel appeared on a popular software in Silicon Valley. When the wealthy people in Silicon Valley made many beautiful female college students become rich just by sticking out their butts... Everyone in the public office area of the police station was stunned by the two of them, especially when they were together, they were responsible for technical analysis on the weekend, Carl was responsible for the super-combination of dirty jokes and funny photos, and was a great match for the laughter and joy.
But at this time Preston shouted in a slight manner. When he looked up at the weekend, Carl reminded: "There is nothing wrong in your jurisdiction, right?"
"No." He was very confident about the situation in the jurisdiction over the weekend. After closing Arrieg's club, the cafe had already been 'lo-colored'. The entire cafe completely entered the closure stage. After the biggest cancer in the jurisdiction was removed, a stable day appeared. During this period, in addition to traffic accidents in the neighborhood and some neighborhood disputes were inevitable, their jurisdiction was the quietest in the entire wandering area. No matter what evil fire there was, Preston could not get it on his head.
When he walked into the office in a police uniform, he looked back on the weekend and saw everyone in the entire public office area staring at him, and then he closed the door.
“Private.”
This is why you don't like to deal with your leader on weekends. It's okay if you are restrained or not. He doesn't plan to flatter you anyway. The key is that the group of guys behind you stare at you, making you feel uncomfortable. If you are too close to your leader, rumors must have spread in the police station. He has not forgotten how Ewald and others were talking about Jimmy behind their back when they were working at Montek Police Station.
Preston's desk was very neat, the phone was pressed against the table, and the folders were spread flat on the left desk: "Sit." He reached out and gave in.
I was not polite on the weekend, nor did I go anywhere like Chekov. I normally pulled open my chair and sat down.
"Your luck is here."
Preston's words made Zhou Xu frown slightly. He explained: "The deputy director was very dissatisfied with the progress of the homicide department in the spontaneous combustion case. He planned to replace people. However, there were no suitable personnel in the entire police station, whether it was the Commercial Crime Investigation Department or the Anti-Medical and Anti-Drug Department. I plan to recommend you to go." After only staring at the weekend, Preston interrupted: "Don't be nervous, I have my reasons."
"You arrested Ted's son with your own hands, and Ted is the only object we suspect. You two have had contact on the streets. His next target is likely to be you... Plus you performed so well when you investigated the Cecil Hotel series of cases. Almost the entire police station knows that the Western Bureau has a master of solving cases. It is normal for you to be on the recommendation list. You should feel an accident if you can't get on."
"However, before that, I hope you can talk to me about your opinion on this case."
"Oh, by the way, don't be too happy too early. I'm just responsible for recommending it. As for whether you can send you to the Homicide Department to investigate this case, I can't guarantee it."
This is certainly not Preston’s idea!
Know this on weekends.
Preston didn't dare to fart when he stuffed Adam and Chekov into the wandering area. How dare he recommend himself to investigate the spontaneous combustion case at such a sensitive moment? Isn't this equivalent to standing at the door of the conference room of the five-person group to curse? Or shouting with great fanfare, "You five-person group has no vision, and the entire murder department's elite are not as good as a patrolman under my Preston."
He doesn't have the courage, and he can't be so stupid.
"Chow?" Preston reminded him while thinking about the weekend because Preston found him stunned.
He spoke on the weekend: "In fact, the method of committing the crime in this case is very ordinary, but he only has mastered the knowledge that ordinary people do not have."
Preston didn't interrupt him this time, but he quietly denied the weekend in his heart.
The Homicide Department is not a police station in a small town in Texas. The forensic department there can rank among the top three in the United States. Except for the forensic department in Connecticut and Las Vegas, the forensic personnel here are the best... Even these people can't find a way to commit crimes. How dare you say that the criminal's methods of committing crimes are ordinary in such an environment?
"Privately, the murderer just used a trick. In the Amanda case, the murderer made an appointment with the deceased to the beach and put his suit on the deceased. Then the deceased ignited spontaneously. When the murderer was arrested, there was a shell with his fingerprints around him." The language that had not been organized was spoken out according to the weekend's idea of solving the case. It was so messy that people couldn't understand the order before and after. Preston was dizzy when he heard it.
"This is where everyone focuses their eyes. The murderer, the dead, the clothes, and the shells completely blocked everyone's vision, resulting in only so many people who can't relax their vision, are taxi drivers. There is no problem with the taxi driver's confession, and the credibility of the taxi driver can prove this. So, he pointed his hand at Ted, and everyone began to look for the reason on Ted."
"Why no one thinks about the backrest of the chair in the taxi? Why no one thinks about the order of getting off the car with Ted and Amanda? Why not think about whether Amanda caught the taxi driver's eyes after getting off. At this time when his sight was shifting, Ted twitched on the backrest of the chair?"
Preston was attracted by the weekend. He seemed to see the other side of the case. The guy sitting opposite his desk seemed to have a completely different entry point in the case than other detectives. He could see the things displayed on the second level, and these things were often ignored by ordinary people or normal people.
"Zhou, do you mean Ted sets a fire?"
Preston asked questioningly: "But the fire department experts have determined that this is a spontaneous combustion case..."
"What is nature? Nature refers to the combustion phenomenon caused by combustible substances relying on self-heating or external heat to increase heat energy when there is no external fire source in the air. For example, sodium."
"Sodium is a metal element and an important part of the muscle and nerve tissues in the human body. It can react with water to form sodium hydroxide. It is very active in water and can release enough heat energy to produce hydrogen. If the heat energy is large enough, sodium can burn combustible materials. In 2002, Adele, from Belgium, picked up shells by the sea, and a spontaneous combustion incident occurred on the way home. Later, after investigation by experts at the fire scene, the shells picked up by Adele contained sodium. After investigation, the substance came from a group of young people on the beach who were releasing fireworks in the sky. The fireworks rushed into the sky and turned yellow, which means that sodium was working. This is the answer to the 2002 Adele spontaneous combustion incident."
Database.
Preston felt like he saw the database, and the database was intelligent, and could fully combine all the clues and cases that had happened before, and use a clue that seemed to be a messy method to draw a path that others could not see directly to the end.
But...After a little thought, Preston began to doubt again: "Zhou, what you said is a little reasonable, but you seem to have forgotten one thing. The forensic department has checked Ted's suit, and there is no chemical on it at all."
"Of course. As long as there is water on Ted's suit, it is enough. He also needs rubber gloves all the time. As the taxi driver's eyes followed Amanda from the car and applied sodium to the backrest of the car seat. This period must not be long, otherwise the sodium will oxidize. This can explain why Amanda shook the suit to the ground instantly when Ted put on a suit. It was not that she didn't understand politely at all, but when the water mark on the suit touched her skin, she felt cold!"
The explanation on the weekend was: "After this rude action, Amanda, who had not planned to continue dating Ted, naturally would not explain anything. Quick departure might be the best choice. So she returned to the car and sat habitually in the position just now. The process was very short, and Amanda's skin and clothes were wet with the water marks on Ted's body. Sodium and water had a chemical effect on the car, and the heating time was a little longer. This is why Amanda burned. Do you remember what the taxi driver said? Amanda said, "How come your chair backrest gets hot?" instead of 'God, my body is so hot that it seems to be burning'. This sentence is enough to prove that the source of fire does not come from the body. I believe this can be identified by the fire department experts."
"The experts of the fire department are not experts in the forensic department. They are responsible for the cause of the fire. So, isn't the combustion produced without the close of open fire? The forensic department is responsible for the forensic department forensics and Ted. They may have also conducted identification of the burning site, but it must have been after obtaining the identification report of the fire department's experts. With this authoritative report, the work of the appraisal department has become simple, just prove whether the fire department's experts have made mistakes. After all, it is not their strength to identify the fire site. Therefore, with the cooperation of the two working groups, the most important thing is completely ignored."
Preston didn't expect to be so bold on the weekend and dared to directly blame the forensic department!
"Zhou, you mean, it's not difficult to catch Ted?"
"I didn't say that." Zhouzhao shook his head, "I can figure out what happened with Amanda's death, but the two dead in the church stumped me."
"You mean..."
"Yes, Ted upgraded his method of committing the crime." The weekend admitted frankly: "I'm not sure about catching him yet."
Preston was confused again: "Didn't you just say that Amanda's case has been solved?"
After leaving the corner of his mouth over the weekend, he said, "That's all my speculation. I didn't have any contact with this case. All sources of information were listening to the Cavaliers when handing Arrieg to the Homicide Department for inquiries... What's more, any police forensic report will become the key point for the other party's lawyer to argue. In addition, there are fire department experts on-site appraisals with the title of "spontaneous combustion". Even if everything I said is true, it's too difficult to put Ted in prison. We didn't catch Ted's hand, and gave Ted the tools to deal with the crime and wet the clothes on the reef. All of this will become the standard line for his acquittal. Ted, playing chess with the Los Angeles Police Department's Homicide Department alone, it's obvious that we have lost the first game."
shock!
A patrolman can infer such a meticulous case and crime from the clues he heard. This is, this is...
Preston wrote this time, and he believed that Ted's son Robin was sent to prison by himself on the weekend because this guy had the ability!
"Zhou, I will definitely send you to the Homicide Department with all my strength."
"Thank you." After thanking the weekend, he silently stood up and left the sheriff's office. There was another question in his mind. His understanding of the case came from a conversation with the Knight. How did Preston know? The question he raised could not be written in the news report. I have read every news report on these days, and nothing involved the case. Almost all of them were mysterious speculations.
Chapter completed!