Chapter 36 Parking Monitoring
Tuesday, October 10th.

With a legitimate “search warrant”, Akasaka got the parking surveillance memory of Ms. Hayashida, but…

“Director, the storage record is only kept for one month… The record for September 9rd was deleted yesterday and is currently being restored in the forensic department of the class.” Akasaka reported helplessly.

“What does the forensic department say?” Bai Shi asked.

“Half and half.” Akasaka recounted the story truthfully.

In terms of the technical capabilities of forensic personnel, the local police stations are of course no match for the Metropolitan Police Department…

The huge Beika Police Department does not even have a dedicated forensic doctor. It only has a “Forensic Identification Department” under the Criminal Division, which is mainly responsible for collecting traces at the scene and “inspecting” corpses. As for electronic information, there is only one person who graduated from Beika University less than two years ago with a degree in a related major and has received several unified trainings from the Metropolitan Police Department.

Bai Shi remembered that his ability was only N, and he could only sigh in his heart…

Is your Mihua University considered a university?
However, there is no more suitable police officer in the entire police station who can do this job.

“If there is still no result before leaving get off work, just bring the equipment to me.” Bai Shi reminded.

Bai Shi doesn’t have any skills in this area, but…

If it really doesn’t work, Shiraishi can ask his old colleagues from Investigation Section 1 and the Scientific Investigation Bureau to make an exception and help!
The court session will resume on Friday, and both “training subordinates” and “solving the case” are important.

……

Fortunately, Bai Shi was not asked to use favors.

Before leaving get off work, the Criminal Division reported a “breakthrough” – the parking surveillance records had been restored!
So Shiraishi held a meeting on the case after get off work.

All the officers involved, including several patrol officers involved, were called over.

Aoki was also playing excerpts of the surveillance footage on the projector.

“This is the time of the incident, the parking automatic monitoring record… First, when Ms. Lin Tian got out of the car, there was a record because the car door was scratched…”

This parking monitoring system does not record all the time, but will only turn on when there are dynamic objects approaching!
The first segment was when Ms. Hayashida got off the bus at 12:32, and everyone took notes.

In the second paragraph, everyone saw a little girl, who was struggling to squeeze through the gap…

“Well, this is an informant from the police station, so don’t remember her.” Bai Shi added – she didn’t “take” anything that day, she just “visited” an empty house that had been empty for years…

In the third paragraph, it was already 13:18…Ms. Hayashida passed by the car again and left the apartment.

“It is indeed the same as Mrs. Hayashida’s confession.”

“But we can’t be sure that Lin Tian is still alive at this time.”

“Yes, the crime happened between 1:00 and 2:30 p.m.”

……

“What happens next is the most important.” Aoki said at this time.

The fourth paragraph…

“what!”

“That bastard…”

“The time is one fifty-seven!”

“We’ve got him now.”

……

Yes, the person recorded in the fourth segment is very obvious…it’s Tsubokura wearing a hat and all black!

Even though he was wearing a hat, he was still clearly visible when the car was photographed so close. In any case, it can be confirmed that this guy’s alibi was fake!
but……

The postures of Shiraishi and Teng who was standing beside them suddenly changed. Shiraishi, who was originally sitting in the middle facing the projection, changed from placing his hands naturally on the table in front of his abdomen to leaning back with his hands on his chest.

And Teng, who was standing behind the table, took a step forward and put his hands on the table, as if he wanted to see more clearly…

“Wait… Inspector Aoki, can you play it a little longer?” Fuji spoke at this time, interrupting the sounds of “opening champagne” around them.

The colleagues in the Criminal Division also knew Fuji, so they didn’t say much at this time, and Aoki just poured it again.

Just as they were passing by a shot where their faces could not be seen, Teng suddenly said, “Stop…”

“He… wore gloves?” Teng said after a pause.

“Yes, it’s very suspicious!” Yamada said confidently at the side.

Indeed, it was only September, and the hat and gloves were indeed suspicious, but…

“Suspicious? What’s more suspicious is that there are his fingerprints on the murder weapon, the kitchen knife, right?” Teng asked back.

The other detectives also reacted at this time…

My attention was just attracted by the “falsification of alibi”. Now I think there is indeed a problem here!
How could a murderer wear gloves before entering the crime scene, but…take them off when stabbing someone?
As everyone was whispering and discussing the possibilities, Bai Shi continued, “What’s the next one to be photographed?”

Aoki continued playing at this time…

14:05, Tsubokura left in a hurry, with his gloves still on his hands!

Fuji was even more silent at this time, and Shiraishi said directly: “Next paragraph.”

At 14:43, Ms. Lin Tian came back from outside and unlocked the car directly…Once the car lock was opened, the surveillance stopped.

Seeing this scene, several voices of doubt were heard.

“This is in stark contradiction to what Ms. Hayashida said,” Aoki had to say.

Ms. Hayashida previously stated that before the murder occurred, she went to a supermarket on the next street that sold a wider variety of spices. When she came back, the murder had already occurred, but she did not call the police because she was afraid.

Yuan and Yamada checked the surveillance cameras of the small supermarket and indeed captured Ms. Hayashida paying at that time.

but……

When Ms. Lin Tian came back just now, she didn’t go upstairs at all, but left directly!

“It’s unlikely that she went to the supermarket to buy something and then left directly. She might have returned to the scene once through the main entrance, confirmed the victim’s death, and then went back through the main entrance to the back alley to get the car and leave.” Aoki said at this time.

“Well, and in this case, even if the real murderer is Tsubokura, we cannot be sure that she was not at the scene when the crime occurred, or even…” Akagi did not finish his words, but others already understood – it is even possible that Tsubokura was the one who “went late”!

“What time did you see the supermarket video of Ms. Hayashida?” Shiraishi asked Yuan to confirm.

“13:49.” Yuan looked at the police notes.

“That supermarket, as I remember, was about 1.2 kilometers away from the crime scene. The checkout time was consistent with the time it took to walk to the supermarket and then shop inside, a total of 31 minutes. However… from the time she completed the checkout to the time she returned, it took more than 50 minutes, which was a bit too slow. During that time, she might have known about the victim’s death.” Teng was calculating the time.

In other words, during this period, Ms. Hayashida returned to the crime scene once, but she was not photographed!

“Could it be that she has the means to monitor remotely?” Yamada speculated with his imagination running wild.

“Impossible. No police officer on the scene would be so careless. That was a crime scene… How could they not even find surveillance cameras or eavesdropping devices?” Akasaka glared at him.

“But…if she returned to the scene and saw the body without knowing it in advance, why didn’t she take a secluded alley on her way back? Didn’t she want to be seen?” Yamada puzzled and raised the question.

Class monitor Akasaka glanced at him from the side. Our class is responsible for the investigation of “Tsubokura is not the real murderer”, right? Why are you always thinking about “Tsubokura murder”?

(End of this chapter)