"After being identified by the investigating officers at that time, he confirmed that the restored photo in our investigation notice was indeed of this massage girl, Zhou Lin. Besides Zhou Lin, there have been approximately three reports of missing women in Huang Xu city over the past few years, all alive but not seen, dead but no bodies found."

This news, for the people who had no leads, was like a ray of light in the fog, instantly exciting everyone.

Zhao Donglai was even more excited and said, "Immediately contact the police over there and ask them to send over Zhou Lin's detailed information, as well as the records of the report and interviews at the time of her disappearance."

"Also, inform the families of these missing women to come over when they have time for a DNA test."

The faces of these bodies are already unrecognizable, and can only be identified through DNA testing to determine if they belong to these missing persons.

Soon, all the information on Zhou Lin was sent over from there.

Zhou Lin, female, 25 years old, from Huang Xu city in An Yuan Province, married, with a son and daughter jointly raised with her husband.

Her husband, Xu Yuan, is a tower crane operator at a construction site, while Zhou Lin works as a technician at a foot massage parlor, and the two children are looked after by her in-laws.

Due to the considerable pressure of raising two children, the couple works very diligently, especially Zhou Lin, who works late into the night until two or three a.m. to earn commission by massaging more clients.

On the morning of March 25th this year, her mother-in-law, after sending the two kids to school and returning home, found that the food left on the dining table had not been touched.

Since Zhou Lin usually gets up in the morning to eat and then goes back to bed, the elderly woman thought she overslept and planned to wake her for breakfast and nap.

However, there was no response after knocking on the door; upon entering, she realized Zhou Lin had never returned home the night before.

Although there is a staff dormitory at her workplace, Zhou Lin had never stayed there, always returning home to rest no matter how late she worked.

Thus, her mother-in-law found it strange and intended to call her but was always prompted that the phone was turned off. So instead, she called her son.

Xu Yuan's construction site is quite far from home, so he usually stays at the site.

Upon receiving his mother's call, he initially didn't think much of it, simply called one of Zhou Lin's close colleagues, who then informed him that Zhou Lin had clocked out around one o'clock last night to go home.

Only then did Xu Yuan find the situation suspicious and hurried back to report to the police.

The police then conducted a detailed investigation along Zhou Lin's route from work to home and reviewed surveillance footage along the way. It was found that Zhou Lin was last seen passing through a traffic light intersection, and did not appear at the next one.

At that time, the police deduced that she must have been abducted between these two intersections.

But despite investigating thoroughly along that section, no useful clues were found.

This case was thus left unresolved.

"How is it, after reading these reports, do you have any thoughts?"

In the office, Zhao Donglai looked expectantly at Luo Fei.

"For a single woman returning late at night, the possibilities of abduction are too numerous; the perpetrator could be acting on impulse or have premeditated plans, and whether it's an acquaintance or a stranger is hard to determine."

Luo Fei analyzed by himself and continued, "Zhao, could you let us see the transcripts of Zhou Lin's family at that time?"

Zhao Donglai immediately opened another document, containing photos of the transcripts from Zhou Lin's family and colleagues sent by the police over there.

The first one is from Zhou Lin's husband, Xu Yuan.

When Zhou Lin went missing, the police initially suspected it might be an act of revenge by an acquaintance, and such questions were included in the transcript.

But Xu Yuan's responses denied this police assumption.

He said his wife, Zhou Lin, has a gentle and easygoing personality, rarely holds grudges against others, and there are no enemies in daily life, so this kind of situation should not exist.

And Zhou Lin's other relatives corroborated this point, ruling out enmity as a cause, compelling the police to suspect whether it was due to emotional entanglements or similar reasons.

Since Zhou Lin was extremely beautiful and still very young, she was always a popular technician at their salon. According to her colleagues, many customers specifically asked for her service whenever they came.

Afterwards, the police focused on Zhou Lin's private life, meticulously checking those who had close contact with her and her frequent customers.

But after a round of investigations, they found that Zhou Lin and Xu Yuan actually had a very good relationship, and her private life was above reproach.

Moreover, most of these regular customers had alibis or lacked motives to commit the crime on that night.

After carefully examining these transcripts, Luo Fei slowly spoke.

"So now, it seems we can basically confirm it should be a stranger crime, but we cannot entirely rule out that it was premeditated by the perpetrator."

"After all, Zhou Lin's work environment is somewhat special, and combined with what her mother-in-law said, she gets off work very late every night, and there is essentially only one fixed route from work to home."

"After a long period, being noticed by someone is not impossible, so now, starting from her disappearance location, we need to pull every possible surveillance from nearby roads to ascertain where the criminal suspect might have taken her, how she was abducted, or whether the suspect is local."

"Your analysis is quite reasonable, but such a simple problem must have been considered by the local police at that time. The fact that they eventually found nothing suggests that this method might not be feasible."

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