Case Number: 059
Case Alias: The Death-Touch
Client: Shen Wangshu
Gender: Female
Age: 31
Occupation: TV host
Family: Parents
Contact Address: Apartment XXXX, New Town, People's Celebration City
Phone Number: 188XXXXXXXX
Case Details:
December 3, 2009. The client's first visit. Audio file: 05920091203.wav.
"...Thank you."
"Ms. Shen, are you a host at the People's Celebration City TV station?"
"I host a program on the People's Celebration City News Channel. Not the midday or evening news, though. I host the two o'clock afternoon program, Media Review. We basically draw on news from other media outlets—newspapers, television... The stories also tend to focus on everyday life, like where traffic is backed up or which farmer has grown a super-sized watermelon..."
"Mm."
"Phew... This started a little over a month ago. I'm sure it was a month ago, on October 27. That day, the Central Broadcasting Station aired a local news report showing traffic violations caught on a road surveillance camera. They'd edited the footage as part of a public service campaign for Local Traffic Improvement Month, I think. My program picked up the story. While I was explaining it, I used the touch-screen TV. I paused the surveillance video and circled a pedestrian who'd crossed over the guardrail illegally."
"Was there no marking on the original footage?"
"No."
"All right. Please continue."
"There were four violations in that footage, by four different people. I marked two of them because the surveillance image was blurry and they were far away, so... that's basically what happened."
"Mm."
"Then, toward the end of October, while I was sorting through materials, I found a news report about a pedestrian who'd crossed over a guardrail illegally and been hit and killed. It happened in the Central Broadcasting area. I thought I could compare the two stories. My