Chapter 18 Chapter Sixteen The Absent People

Riko Sunagawa confirmed the identity of Nobuo Sunagawa who died on 2025.So, what is the origin of the other three people who claim to be Nobuo Sunagawa's mother Dumei, wife Riko, and son Yi? Regarding this point, President Hayakawa was also very surprised. Nobuo Sunagawa is Nobuo Sunagawa, I know him!When I wanted to find someone to do that, I thought, isn't Sunagawa worrying about money?So I leave it to him to do it.He said his family could help too, so I also met his wife.The woman who claimed to be his wife also said that there is a weak mother-in-law in the family who needs money very much, and she will do well.He also said that his son was busy with his own work and didn't come home very often, but there was no problem.At that time, who would doubt that Sha Chuan's wife was not a real wife?And even the mother is a fake, I don't know where to pick up a strange old woman?Even the son is an outsider?If anyone doubts, I'd like to see him.When making the lease, I asked him to bring the household registration book, and he brought it right away.I just feel that Shengu City is far away, but what we do is not a proper profession, so there is nothing to be picky about.Of course, we can't say that we are gangsters, it's just that for some reason, we don't do jobs that require proof of identity.In fact, Sha Chuan is very serious.I have always been suspicious, never asked him, I just thought he might have failed in business, hid debts everywhere, or because he was a good person, he foolishly acted as a joint and several guarantor for others, and in the end, he had no choice but to run around when others collapsed road.I don't know the situation of his family, I just want to help those who say they have no place to live!

After confirming the identity of Nobuo Sunagawa, the search headquarters announced the physical characteristics of the other three people and asked the public to provide information.During the same period, several weekly magazines published portraits of the three men.But this is not a portrait officially released by the search department, but a weekly reporter who interviewed the neighbors in Xidong and drew them based on their descriptions.Now it seems that these three people painted nothing alike.The woman pushing the wheelchair looks like Shizuko Koito instead.The unreliability of eyewitness testimony is evident.

However, at this time, for the residents of Senju North American Haoxincheng Community, there is a more troublesome problem than finding out the true identities of the three people.That's how to stop the media onslaught on the community. As mentioned earlier, there are conflicting internal opinions on whether the Senju North America Haoxincheng community is open to the outside world.The barriers to the community are sometimes open and sometimes closed.In order to prevent reporters from interviewing and taking pictures in the community day and night, after the murder, the community adopted a policy of temporarily closing down.

However, there are still households or individuals who accept individual interviews.Invited members of the media are treated as guests and are free to walk around and take pictures in the community, which has caused serious opposition within the community. After a horrific case, those who live near the scene are drawn to the national spotlight, whether they like it or not.The homicide on 2025 was not a serial homicide committed by robbers or ferocious young people, but a rare case involving foreclosure and occupants. Even if the murderer was not caught, the psychological burden on the community residents would not be too great.But being in the spotlight 24/7 still has unintended side effects on everyday life.

There are strangers wandering around in the community, and children in the community cannot play in the green space with peace of mind, causing dissatisfaction among mothers. These dissatisfaction is concentrated on the residents who randomly invite the media, but the interviewees also have their reasons, such as wishing for an early Solve the case and do some resident duties However, the tense opponents of interviews have the following argument. The wife of so-and-so blahs nonsense on TV. The family said they heard screams, but there was no such thing! The state of gossip behind this makes this super high-rise apartment building community with spacious green space and advanced equipment not a pleasant place to live.

This situation also had an impact on the identification of the three persons.Because of the statements of residents in the Haoxincheng community of Senju North America, which has the most clues, the truth itself develops in the direction of self-propagating fiction. In this regard, there are really too many to count.The identification of the trio has become the biggest topic of discussion in the council of the household management committee.Let's look at two examples. One is the situation where the No. 2025 buyer, Ishida Naosumi, appeared.After the media reported his name but he himself disappeared without a trace, testimonies of witnessing him or contacting him before the murder spread everywhere in the North America Haoxincheng community in Senju.

Much of the testimony was weak. Obviously Xidong is right in front of him, but he asked the kid playing on the lawn which one is Xidong?What a weirdo! When I came back in the middle of the night, I saw a white car parked on a no-car community walkway, with a man sitting in the driver's seat, I think it was Naosumi Ishida. There was a suspicious man talking loudly on his mobile phone in the underground parking lot in the middle of the night. I guess it was Ishida Naosumi. These testimonies received by the Search Headquarters, checked one by one and then discarded, suddenly became richer and more exciting after it was found out that the four members of the Sunagawa family at No. 2025 were Nobuo Sunagawa and three unidentified people.

I heard the woman killed on 2025. I thought it was Riko Sunagawa, but it didn't seem like she was whispering to a man who looked like Naosumi Ishida at the garbage dump in the middle of the night. I don't know what they were talking about, but they looked very intimate. The wife and son of No. 2025 are not real mother and son, are they?That's right, I saw them coming out of the hotel behind the station together.Everyone used to say that they were mother and son. If I said it, no one would believe it, so I kept silent. Now it is much easier to say it. They are a triangle relationship!I saw Nobuo Sunagawa and the young people from No. 2025 arguing in front of the elevator, and Naosumi Ishida was trying to stop the fight.Yes, my eyesight is very good.when?Just a week before the murder!

Among these testimonies, some were later confirmed to be true, and some were confirmed by Ishida Naosumi himself.But there have also been unfounded misunderstandings and, if not intentional, clearly fabricated and fanciful speculations.What is particularly problematic is the testimony of the housewife who said that she saw mother and child in No. 2025 coming out of the hotel behind the station together. Let's call this housewife Mrs. A for the time being. If her eyewitness story is true, it may be an important clue to understand the relationship between the four people in 2025 and to find out the identities of the other three victims.Therefore, the search department was very interested, and went to Mrs. A's residence several times to listen to more detailed testimony.

Mrs. A's house is in the east building. Her husband is an office worker and has a son in elementary school.She is a full-time housewife and usually stays at home, but sometimes she helps out at a mail-order company for imported cosmetics run by a friend.Witnessing the two coming out of the hotel was on her way home from her friend's company. Mrs. A's memory is very clear and her conversation is fluent.But how people living in the east building can distinguish the faces of the residents of No. 2025 in the west building at a glance is a bit doubtful.However, the hotel's name, location, architectural style and other details she said were consistent with the facts.

Some people in the search department questioned that Mrs. A had a very clear memory of the hotel she happened to pass by, and this situation deserves careful study.When was her sighting?Does she pass near the hotel frequently?On the other hand, does she often go in and out of Hotel Street? Mrs. A's testimony has already spread throughout the community. It may have been leaked by the interviewer, or she may have disclosed it to her neighbors.Among the people who heard it, there were some who had the same doubts as the criminal police of the search headquarters. For the search department, what is important is whether the content of Mrs. A's testimony is correct?They don't need to judge Mrs. A's personal behavior.But for Mrs. A and her family, the situation is just the opposite. Mr. A heard rumors about the behavior of his wife, and complained to the council that this was a malicious obstruction of the search and improper persecution of the residents who assisted in the search.At this time, the opposition between the faction that assists the interviewers (or the faction that welcomes them) and the faction that refuses to interview becomes more and more serious. The complaints made by Mr. A and his wife to the council can be included in the extension of this conflict. The management board is also troubled.It is an exaggeration to say that the fact that the two parties are opposing each other hinders the search. If Mrs. A's eyewitness account was fabricated, it would be an exaggeration.From the standpoint of the committee, there is no obligation to stand up and stop the rumors about Mrs. A's words and deeds. Mrs. A's eyewitness story was also relayed by some private TV stations, leading to more claims that the four members of the 2025 family were actually unrelated and had an unusual relationship. After Mrs. A's frequent interviews, there were testimonies among the residents of the East Building that they saw the middle-aged woman and the young man who lived together in No. 2025 behave similarly to men and women. Regarding this matter, the only thing that the Search Headquarters is worried about is that these messy messages will discourage people who really know the identities of the three people, especially their family members, from coming forward.When the identities of the three people returned to blank paper, the police also began to re-examine the missing cases reported in the metropolitan area.Although the search headquarters also received a lot of inquiries, but when the news of the four people's unimaginable complicated relationship between men and women rushed around, their real family members might choose to remain silent because they were jealous of the eyes of the world. A week after the search headquarters confirmed the identity of Nobuo Sunagawa, they released information such as the height, weight and estimated age of the other three.At that time, no photos of them were found, so the portraits were released.The headquarters set up a dedicated window and a dedicated telephone line, calling on the public to actively provide clues.At this time, based on the relics of No. 2025, the indoor situation, and the testimonies of President Hayakawa and Koito and his wife, we tried to explain as much as possible the living conditions of the family of four with Nobuo Sunagawa as the head of the household.All of this is done out of concern for the feelings of real family members who may come forward.The result somewhat neutralized the influence of those irresponsible speculations and speculations (perhaps delusional fabrications), but it still took more than two months. Before addressing another example of a murder case in which testimony is so complicated that it distorts it, it's worth going back to memory. On the night of the murder, two calls were made from Senju North America Haoxincheng.One of the calls was made by Sano, the manager of the west building, who asked Fange, the wife of Shimazaki, the manager of the middle building, to call 110. Nine minutes earlier, a woman reported that someone was injured and fell to the ground in a fight. Several people beat one person. I saw someone fleeing the scene.She only reported the name of Qianjia North America Haoxincheng, but did not say her name and address. Where is this call from?Unable to find out.It seems to be reported by mobile phone.It was very windy and stormy that night, and it was hard to imagine anyone staying in the community's green garden.If the call was not a prank, but was based on some factual basis, then the woman was probably a resident of Senju North America Haoxincheng, and she might have been indoors when she made the call.Because the police in the reception room said that her voice was very low and could not be heard clearly, but it was not mixed with the sound of wind and rain. However, what actually happened was so different from what the woman reported that it almost made people think it might be a deliberate prank.If this was intentional, what was the purpose?Is it to disturb the scene and hinder the preliminary search?This possibility is not impossible. Therefore, the search headquarters locked the woman.In order to confirm that the call to report the case might not be random, but just misrecognized the facts, the police asked Sano, the administrator, and Yoshio Sato, the resident who first discovered the body on the ground, to help them reproduce what happened that night as accurately as possible. There was a nine-minute gap between the woman and Shimazaki Fange's calls.The search department speculated that when Sano and Sato surrounded the young man's body to examine it, called Shimazaki, and Yoshio Sato's son Hiroshi also came down to watch the scene, the series of actions looked like several people quarreling around one person from a distance.In other words, before Sano and the others got the facts and reported them one by one, a woman who saw them from a distance (probably from a high place) mistook the facts and reported the crime before them. Yoshio Sato knew that someone had fallen from the upper floor and went downstairs to check alone. Mrs. Sato called the administrator Sano at the same time. The two men met under the West Building and saw the young man's body.This whole process takes about five minutes. It was windy and rainy that night, and according to Sano, it was very difficult to walk two or three steps. In that bad weather, they took the time to grasp the situation and ran around in panic over the corpse in front of them. From a distance, it was difficult to tell whether they were busy with the aftermath?Or panic because of a homicide? The police conducted an experiment to reproduce the actions of that night, and found that the rooms that could see Sano and Yoshio Sato walking around the corpse were the rooms facing west above the tenth floor of the east building; while the view below the ninth floor would be blocked by trees.After targeting these households and inspecting them one by one, the woman who reported the crime was quickly found.She is a 22-year-old office worker who lives alone in No. 1320, East Building. We will temporarily call her Miss B. Miss B immediately admitted to the police that she had reported the case.At that time, she didn't know about the murder case on 2025, thinking that the case she reported had nothing to do with that murder case. With her consent, the police asked Sano and the others to reproduce the actions of that night again. After overlooking the scene from the window of her room, they learned that the speculation of the search headquarters was correct. Miss B misunderstood the situation. But she insisted that a man fled the scene.She said that the man ran out from the gate of the west building and ran towards the community entrance fence on the west side. That night, Sano, the administrator of the west building, ran to the entrance fence on the west side of the community to check whether the ambulance had arrived.At the same time, Shimazaki, the administrator of the middle building, also ran to check the fence at the east entrance. However, the escaped man in Miss B's memory does not seem to be Sano, because she said: After thinking about it carefully, I found that when the man escaped, the others seemed to be gathered under the west building. So, who did Miss B see?The most likely one is the suspicious middle-aged man Naosumi Ishida captured by the surveillance video camera in the elevator in the west building.If it was him, there would be nothing unreasonable in running to the west exit closest to him. The question about Miss B's testimony has been temporarily resolved.But when the identities of the three people in No. 2025 returned to blank paper, she again raised questions. When I carefully recalled the situation that night, I seemed to see another person running away. After Ms. B notified the police, the police questioned her again. I saw a figure running towards the west entrance, it looked like a woman, bent forward as if holding something. She said the ambulance had arrived at the east entrance when she saw the figure and the siren was clearly heard. I originally thought that the figure of the woman had nothing to do with it, it might be someone who heard the commotion and went to watch the excitement.But after they reproduced the actions of that night, I thought about it, and felt that the woman's shadow was very strange If the female figure mentioned by Ms. B is a real person, then on the night of the murder, another person may have left the scene after Ishida Naosumi.This is reminiscent of the testimony of Mieko Kasai who passed the door of No. 2025 that night and saw someone walking through the half-open door. I did see a figure flashing in the room, and I also felt the breath of someone inside.But the police didn't pursue it carefully, as if they didn't want to pay attention to it, so I also wondered if I made a mistake, although I couldn't let go of it. In fact, the search headquarters did not ignore Kasai Mieko's eyewitness testimony.During the period before and after the murder, in the images captured by the surveillance cameras in all the elevators in the West Building, besides Ishida Naosumi, there was another person who was not a resident of the West Building.But the police did not disclose this information to the outside world, and of course they did not inform Mieko Kasai. Regarding Ishida Naosumi, apart from the image of him being wounded and running away, the image of him taking the elevator up to the 20th floor has also been confirmed.According to video and records, Ishida Naosumi took the elevator up to the 20th floor, and took the same elevator down 38 minutes later.During this period, there were three other people captured by the elevator surveillance video, including Mieko Kasai, all of whom were residents of the West Building. But Naosumi Ishida took the elevator up to the 20th floor, and about fifteen minutes later, a young woman with a baby in her arms also took the elevator up to the 20th floor from the first floor.She obviously came from outside, and the umbrella in her hand and the wet shoulders of the coat can be clearly seen in the video of the surveillance camera. But the surveillance cameras did not capture the image of the woman with the baby coming down the stairs.Did she stay in a certain room on the twentieth floor?Or take the stairs down? Search the headquarters to enlarge the photo of the young woman and ask the residents on the twentieth floor.Everyone agreed that she was not a resident of this floor, and that she had never been seen entering or exiting this floor before the murder case, and no resident had a young woman with a baby visit that night. A young woman with a baby does not visit Westtown on a stormy night just out of curiosity or a whim.The other residents on the twentieth floor have no impression of her, so it is very likely that she will visit No. 2025.Is she related to the murder case?She left no image when she left, but it aroused suspicion.Did this woman, who was calmer than Ishida Naosumi when she left No. 2025, think that there are surveillance cameras in the elevator, so she avoided the elevator and took the stairs? According to this situation, two models can be deduced. 1 Naosumi Ishida to No. 2025. 2 Young woman to number 2025. 3 The young woman takes the stairs back (escape). 4 Ishida took the elevator and escaped.Not long ago, Takeshi Sha Chuan fell to his death from a building. Ⅰ Naosumi Ishida to 2025. Ⅱ Young woman arrives at number 2025. Ⅲ Ishida was wounded and took the elevator to escape. IV The young woman follows Ishida and takes the stairs to leave (escape).So, is she leaving 2025 first?Or did Takeshi Sunagawa fall from the balcony ahead?This is a very delicate timing issue. Assuming that the female figure witnessed by Ms. B is this unidentified young woman, then the second mode is the most likely.The woman with the baby came later than Ishida, and also left later than Ishida, because Kasai Mieko went up to the 20th floor and heard the siren of the ambulance before Ishida took the elevator downstairs. As a result, the relationship between Takeshi Sunagawa's fall and the young woman suddenly became a problem. The female figure that Ms. B saw was bent forward, as if holding something, which was also consistent with the posture of holding a baby. However, at this time, the media's attention was only focused on Ishida Naosumi alone.Thinking about his relationship with No. 2025, this is also a reasonable phenomenon. He has doubtful background factors.Moreover, it was hard to imagine what the young woman with the baby had to do with the victim, just as it was hard to imagine the reason why she had to visit a certain West Wing resident at midnight during a storm like that. Inside the search department, there are differences of opinion on whether to announce the existence of this woman.Because the possibility of her being the person involved in the murder case is quite high.In the end, the prudent school of thought that we should investigate Ishida's surroundings in detail, confirm whether this woman is related to Ishida, and most importantly find Ishida Naosumi first has the upper hand.Their mood was probably greatly affected by the baby in this woman's arms.On the surface, Ishida is the only important person involved in the murder case, and Mieko Kasai felt displeased that her testimony was ignored because of this reason. Moreover, there are ambiguous parts in Miss B's testimony. Is Miss B really talking about what she saw with her own eyes that night? When the criminal police visited the residents of the East Building, they frequently heard other residents criticizing Ms. B. Those words were fabricated for the sake of fame! It's weird for a single young woman to live alone in a house like that.She seems to be the mistress of the president of a film company!Some people also say that she is a female star or the president's secretary or something. Indeed, Miss B's financial status is very well off, and there is also a middle-aged man who often visits her residence.The financial company in the city center where she applied for a job has her position, and it is indeed the secretary of the president.Her family is in Gifu City, and her father runs a clothing company, which gives her a lot of living expenses, so she can live in luxury.The owner of No. 1320, Dongdong Building where she lives is her father. Originally, after eliminating the personal prejudice against Miss B, there was no need to doubt her testimony.But the day after the search headquarters announced the information about the three people on 2025, Miss B accepted an exclusive interview with an evening newspaper. Ms. B tearfully told this reporter that she once had a relationship with the young man No. 2025 who died in the green area of ​​the Xidong Atrium. The man also told her: I will be killed one day and have something to do with me. I'm going to get into trouble, so whatever happens, you have to pretend you don't know me. This interview certainly attracted attention.This testimony, which was not mentioned at all during the police investigation, shocked the search headquarters, and hurriedly contacted Ms. B.But she disappeared, and even her family didn't know her whereabouts. Although the neighbors have various criticisms of her, I don't believe them. Said Shigeru Sasaki, administrator of the East Building. This is my first time as a building manager, and I am not used to it in many places.I used to be a teacher, I taught high school kids, sensitive age guys.Girls like her, who say girls are probably faux pas and should be said to be gossips, I wouldn't be surprised by anything they say.They are just childish and want the attention of the adults around them.Others are happy when they hold it, but there are people who instigate it.If you coax them together, you will take it seriously and say something that is not at all. It was Hideo Takano, the president of Chuangying Brokerage Company, who arranged for Miss B to meet with the Evening News reporter.Before the 2025 homicide, he was also the one who entered and left Miss B's residence.In other words, he and Miss B had a very close personal relationship. We don't know whether Ms. B was instigated as Sasaki Shigeru said, but the person who planned this series of testimonies to the media was indeed President Takano. A week after Miss B made an emotional confession to the Evening News, he also appeared on a private TV news variety show accompanied by him, just like a manager accompanying an artist under his banner. What are you doing!My wife couldn't stop laughing and she had the attitude of a celebrity.Seeing President Takano's face, he knew that he was indeed Miss B's man.I wonder how her parents feel?But she thinks it's fine. Later, Chuangying made a TV series based on the 2025 murder case. After it was broadcast nationwide, it was sued because the plot was suspected of plagiarizing the early works of a certain mystery writer. As for the commotion caused by Miss B., it is hardly worth talking about.After she appeared, the search headquarters was finally able to directly confirm the content of her testimony, including the contradictory stories about her dating the young man No. 2025 and the other party's disclosure of her own danger, all of which had no credibility.Because this one-man show was too clumsy, it was doubted for a while that she saw the testimony of someone fleeing the scene.She herself sacrificed precious privacy for nothing. But when a big event with a sensational topic occurs, someone like Miss B will definitely appear.She is a typical, not an exception.The testimonies that echoed Ms. B's statement appeared in the Senju North American Haoxincheng community for a while, which also confirmed this point. We can understand that for people with ordinary lives, the murder of a family of four does have a certain strange appeal.Watching the fire from the other side is fun for anyone.It's ugly, but it's true.However, where does the impulse to participate in events rather than fabricate stories come from? Fabricated stories spread everywhere, and those who resonated around, inflated other stories.As a result, people who were not there are actually there, and conversations that have not been talked about are told.Even if you want to close the door, isolate the outside world, and resolutely protect the atmosphere and environment you expect, you still can't defeat the phantom, and you can't drive the phantom away.Most of the eyewitness testimony about Ishida Naosumi and the middle-aged woman No. 2025 is this kind of phantom.At the moment these testimonies are spoken, they are all true to the speaker.People who weren't there were there.While the identities of those three people are still unknown, people's attempt to keep the murder of a family of four as a topic of their own lives has produced countless unfounded memories and speculations about what happened at that time when I think about it now, Come to think of it, recall the memories of the person I saw at that time.The ghost of the story can't go around like this.