"Silent Testimony" - Forensic Qin Ming Series Of Novels Part II (6)

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The Second Silent Testimony

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Chapter 11: The Ghosts of the Ancient Courtyard

Everyone who studies the history of human catastrophe can be sure that most of the world's misfortunes come from ignorance.

--Aier Maintenance

"Master?" Dabao said in surprise, "I haven't been out with you for a long time." ”

Although every case we went out to investigate would be brought back to the master for comments, and then learn some investigation skills through the comments, we never went out with the master to investigate the scene and experience from the scene to be happy.

Because the number of forensic doctors in the provincial department is limited, Master and we often have to act separately, and the opportunity to go out to investigate the scene together is really rare. On this day, however, Master was already sitting precariously in the co-pilot's seat, waiting for us.

"The scene where many people are killed, I definitely have to go." Master had a serious face, "In the middle of the year, there was such a vicious case, which is too hateful." Listen, we can't let criminals go unpunished and pass the fifteenth day of the first month. ”

On the eighth day of the Chinese New Year, on the first day of work, I, Dabao, and Lin Tao received instructions from the command center of the department and set off at seven o'clock in the morning to Qingyang County to investigate a case in which a family of three was killed.

"Listen to the command center, it killed three," I said, "is it a couple and a child?" ”

Since the murder of Xiao Qinghua, who I was familiar with during my internship, the most important thing I could not see was the killing of the child. Before they could appreciate the beauty of the world, they were forcibly taken away from their lives, which was really resentful.

Master shook his head and said, "The specific situation is not clear, the site is in a closed state, and the local trace inspection department is opening the on-site passage." After the police entered the house, they found that it was an old woman and a young woman who died. According to reports, there should be a three-year-old girl in this family, but the police have not found it, and it is currently missing. ”

Killing people for the purpose of child trafficking? Not so outrageous! I broke out in a cold sweat.

"Hopefully the little girl ran away on her own," Dabao said with his head bowed, "and can survive." ”

"I hope so." Master sighed.

In order to match the cold wind outside the window, the window is constantly fogging, and the effect of blowing with air conditioning is not obvious. From time to time, I wiped the beads of fog attached to the window with my hands, squinting my eyes and struggling to drive on the frozen national highway. To ensure everyone's safety, we must rush to the scene as soon as possible, after all, the special case team is still waiting for us. This way, driving is really tiring.

Qingyang County is a developed county under the jurisdiction of the provincial city and the closest county to the provincial capital in the province. With the pace of urban-rural integration, the county seat of Qingyang County has gradually been connected with the urban area of the provincial capital. It took us only half an hour to reach the county seat in this icy situation, and then it took an hour to cross the icy, slippery country road and reach the outside of the village on site.

I jumped out of the car, looked at the police car that was completely covered in mud under the window, and said, "Fortunately, this off-road car is driving, if we change Poussin, our windows will have to be pasted." ”

"The front can't drive in," the policeman who led the way also jumped out of the car, saying, "It's all dirt roads, potholes, and everywhere is ice, and it is estimated that it will not come out." Why not bother with the leader and go in. ”

Master opened the car door, and while bending down to wrap the hem of his police pants with the mouth of his socks, he said, "So biased, this kind of day, who came here to commit a crime?" ”

The master is the master, and he has not yet entered the scene, and has already drawn a scope for the investigation.

It was too cold and there were not many onlookers.

The site is a lonely house surrounded by farmland and ponds hundreds of meters away. This house is a monumental stop, but it is not dilapidated. The cyan brick cracks were covered with moss, the outer walls were crawling with withered climbing tigers, and the white snow was sporadically covered before it could melt.

Master led us around the ancient house one foot deep and one foot shallow, pushing and shoving the windows of the house from time to time.

"The windows are all locked, so could it be that the murderer entered through the door?" Dabao said.

"There are climbing tigers outside the wall of the scene, if you climb over the wall, will it leave traces?" Master turned to Lin Tao and asked.

Lin Tao nodded: "Such a high wall, if you climb up, there will inevitably be pedals on the wall, then there will definitely be traces of entrance." ”

"The host investigator is coming, let's ask about the situation." I said to Master.

Master nodded and struggled to move from a mud pit at the back of the house mixed with mud and ice to the gate of the scene. Outside the gate, there were some firecracker debris, which were swept together to become an area where survey equipment could be placed. I squatted down, grabbed a handful of firecracker crumbs and looked at it, as if I could still feel the atmosphere of the New Year, as if I could still hear the laughter outside the gate of this ancient house a few days ago.

"This house is home to three generations of grandchildren and four people." The investigator said, "The old man Gu Xianglan is more than sixty years old this year, widowed for many years, and has only one daughter named Zhu Feng, who is twenty-nine years old this year." Although Gu Xianglan has always been a widow, but because the old Zhu family is from a merchant background and the family is well-off, four years ago, Lao Gu recruited a door-to-door son-in-law for Zhu Feng, called Sun Haiou, who is an orphan. ”

"Door-to-door son-in-law?" I was surprised and said, "Is there still this saying?" ”

The scout smiled and said, "Yes, it is that the child should take the woman's surname." ”

"Well," I said, "be old-fashioned." ”

Master waved his hand and asked me not to interrupt the investigator to introduce the case. I quickly closed my voice.

"Sun Haiou and Zhu Feng gave birth to a little girl three years ago." The investigator then introduced the case, "Named Zhu Lingli." As the name suggests, this little girl is naturally beautiful, lively and intelligent, and is deeply loved by the villagers in the village. At six o'clock this morning, a villager came to Zhu Feng to buy something in the town as agreed, knocked on the door for half a day without knocking, so he went to the window of the West Wing to look inside, saw Gu Xianglan dead in his bed, and there was blood near his head, and then reported the case. ”

After speaking, the investigator pointed to the window of the West Wing, which was located on the side of the gate of the courtyard.

"Did Sun Haiou not obey his daughter's and mother's surname, so he killed his mother-in-law and wife and ran away with the child?" I couldn't help interjecting.

The investigator smiled and said, "The preliminary investigation of the scene did not find any signs of overturning." The lock of the gate is also good, there is no trace of prying, the windows are locked, even the outer wall we have looked at it again, there is no obvious climbing trace. ”

"You mean," Master touched his chin, "first, this is like a vendetta case, and second, the murderer entered the scene peacefully?" ”

"Not only that," said the investigator, "but our forensic doctor conducted a simple household check on Gu Xianglan's body and determined that Gu Xianglan was killed while she was asleep." ”

"What does this mean?" Lin Tao asked.

"The East Wing where Gu Xianglan lives is closest to the door, and if the murderer knocked on the door and entered the room, it should be Gu Xianglan who got up first to open the door." The investigator said, "So the current suspicion is that the murderer entered the door with the key." ”

"You can see that you have a key point now." Master's solemn expression eased up a little, "So, what is the relationship between Sun Haiou and Zhu Feng?" How was Sun Seagull's activity yesterday? ”

"Very suspicious." The investigator swallowed his spit and said, "According to the villagers, two months ago, the relationship between Sun Haiou and the Zhu family suddenly became bad, and Sun Haiou immediately went out to work and never saw him come back." ”

"The time of the crime is excluded?" I asked.

The investigator smiled mysteriously, shook his head, and whispered, "We have inquired about Sun Haiou's ID card, and Sun Haiou took a train back to the provincial city from Shanghai yesterday!" ”

"What about the others?" Master asked.

"I haven't seen it yet." The investigator said, "This is the most suspicious place, he is back, where can he go without going home?" In addition, two adults died, but the little girl disappeared, what does this mean? ”

"What time does the train arrive in the provincial city?" Master then asked.

"One o'clock in the morning." The investigator said.

"It takes more than an hour for the provincial city railway station to get here, right?" Dabao said, "Then he will be able to get home at two o'clock in the morning." ”

"Is there an investigation into the activities of the deceased last night?" Master pinched his finger to calculate the time and asked.

"Last night the village chief's son got married," said the investigator, "and the family of three went to the village chief's house to eat happy wine." It was about seven o'clock in the evening to eat, and then the cave house or something, and left the village chief's house at nine o'clock. ”

"Does the deceased have any other enemies?" Master asked.

The scout shook his head.

"It works well." Master nodded approvingly and said, "We haven't had a autopsy yet, and your case is almost solved." ”

The investigator scratched his head in embarrassment and said, "Isn't this causality obvious?" ”

"Anyway, we still have to see the scene." Master said, "Extract as much evidence as possible and turn the case into a death case." ”

Walking into the gate of the ancient courtyard, I found that this courtyard that was not wide from the outside was actually quite spacious. The main house and the east and west wings are arranged in a "U" shape, and in the middle is a large courtyard. There were some clutter piled up around the yard, but it was still very clean and tidy at first glance.

"Usually, Zhu Feng takes Zhu Lingli to live in the main house." The scout said as he drew, "The East Wing is where the guests come, and the hut next to the East Wing is the kitchen." Gu Xianglan lived in the West Wing, and on one side of the West Wing was a toilet. ”

"What do their families usually live on?" I asked.

"Their family has an orchard," said the scout, "and the annual income is very large, and it is said that their family has several gold bars handed down from their ancestors. ”

In the middle of the courtyard, there should be a corpse lying down. In order to prevent the contamination of the body from the outside world and avoid onlookers from peeking at the body from outside the gate, the investigators covered the body with a plastic sheet. There were splatters of blood and flaky trails of blood around the body, with some blood footprints and blood barefoot footprints, which were obvious marks of fighting.

Master walked over to the corpse and lifted a corner of the plastic sheet.

I looked under the plastic sheet, and the deceased was lying on the ground, with his face sideways, a young woman, petite in stature, covered with blood on her long hair, covering her face haphazardly, unable to see her eyebrows.

She wore white cotton pajamas with blood stains on the cuffs and neckline of her pajamas.

Lin Tao took out a footprint ruler, measured the clearest shoe print on the ground, and said, "In this way, the murderer is probably wearing shoes of size forty."

"Forty yards?" I said, "Adult, don't you look tall?" ”

Lin Tao nodded.

Master turned to the scout behind him and asked, "As far as you know, how is Sun Haiou's figure?" ”

"Not very tall," said the scout, flipping through his notebook, "about less than a meter seven, right?" The type with a large waist and a round waist, which is relatively strong. ”

"From the point of view of markings," Lin Tao said, "the shoe size is similar, but I feel that these shoe prints are relatively shallow, not like those left by heavy weight people." However, this cannot be used as a basis, the material of the shoes, the posture when leaving the footprints, and the factors on the ground. ”

"I'm not thinking about this," Master squatted on the ground and thought about it, and said, "You see Zhu Feng, who is a meter and a half tall, and the heaviest weight is eight or ninety pounds." Can such a physique fight with the big waist and round sun seagull for so long? ”

I followed Master's finger to look at the dripping blood and fighting marks on the ground in the courtyard and said, "It is also true that such a large area, so much bleeding, the deceased should have lost too much blood before he fell down." ”

"If Sun Haiou wants to kill Zhu Feng, do you think it takes so much effort?" Master asked the scout.

Dabao crouched to the side, pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and said, "After all, they are husband and wife, maybe they can't bear to do it." ”

"He has already killed a person," said Master, "as the saying goes, a person who kills a person with a red eye will not be soft on killing people in a row." He had already killed Gu Xianglan, what else could he not bear to do? ”

"General Manager Chen," said the investigator, "on what basis are you sure that the murderer killed Gu Xianglan first?" Master smiled and pointed in the direction of the West Wing.

The investigators were spraying the floor of the courtyard from the West Wing to Zhu Feng's body with Luminol spray, and one by one the submerged blood footprints gradually appeared.

"In addition to some blood footprints near Zhu Feng's body, there are also some submerged blood footprints." Lin Tao walked through the courtyard along the occult blood footprints and said, "The submerged blood footprints came out of the West Wing, from dark to light, to Zhu Feng's corpse, and then there were many backs and forths in the courtyard, crosses, and finally disappeared."

"Is it because I walked around the ground too much and the blood was wiped off?" I asked.

Lin Tao nodded: "There is not much blood stained on the sole of the murderer's shoe, and walking around twice on the cement road with great friction in the courtyard, it is basically impossible to find and track anymore." ”

"Got it?" Master pulled back the topic, "The blood footprint came out of the West Wing, and then I didn't see it again." Therefore, the murderer should have killed Gu Xianglan first, with blood on his feet, and then came to the courtyard to kill Zhu Feng. ”

The scout nodded.

I took over the conversation and said, "The murderer killed Zhu Feng, why do you have to stay and wander in the courtyard?" ”

Master shook his head: "From the perspective of criminal psychology, after killing someone, there are people in any emotion, and your question can only be asked after catching the criminal." ”

"So, General Manager Chen's opinion is that we began to suspect that Sun Haiou was wrong?" The investigators were a little worried.

Master shook his head, "No, this is a suspicious point at best." Through your preliminary investigation, Sun Haiou still has major suspicions. ”

After Master finished speaking, he looked at the fighting marks in the courtyard again, straightened up and patted the dust on his gloves, and said, "Go, go to the West Wing room to have a look." ”

It is a hard-working household. The room was clean and tidy and spotlessly clean, except that the industrious old man was now lying on the bed, motionless, and the blood was dripping down his right hand to the ground.

In the room there is a row of combination cabinets, which are clean and tidy without any signs of turning. There is a single bed on the opposite side of the combination cabinet, the head of the bed and the side of the bed are against the wall, and at the head of the bed is a well-made mahogany nightstand, which should be somewhat historical.

Gu Xianglan lay on the bed, her head, face and neck blurred with blood and flesh. I took a closer look, somewhat horrified. Gu Xianglan's face had been cut off by sharp weapons, and even the facial features could not be distinguished clearly. There was also a huge wound in the neck, and the wound had multiple flaps, which should have been caused by repeated slashes by the murderer.

The walls at the head of the bed and the bedside table were covered with splattered blood, and it was obvious that the bed was the first scene to kill Gu Xianglan.

Master took Gu Xianglan's hands and said to the forensic doctor Wang of the Provincial City City Public Security Bureau next to him: "There was no resistance to the injury on the deceased's hand, and even there was no rubbing-like blood on the bed due to the movement of the body. ”

"Is the anus temperature measured?" Dabao asked.

Forensic Wang nodded, "Measured, but the difference in body temperature between the two corpses is particularly large." ”

Master said, "Yes, Zhu Feng's body is outdoors, while Gu Xianglan's is indoors." The warming effect of this room is very good, and the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor is so large that it will naturally seriously affect the degree of body temperature drop, which also brings great difficulties to the judgment of the time of death. ”

"So, there's no way to be precise." Doctor Wang said, "Probably between twelve o'clock last night and three o'clock in the morning this morning." ”

"Sun Seagull has a time to commit crimes." Dabao said.

Master did not answer, crouched on the ground and looked at the door of the bedside table, waved to Lin Tao, and said, "You see, what are the marks on the cabinet door?" ”

Lin Tao illuminated the door of the bedside table with a multi-band light source and said, "Mr. Chen is right, this should be a blood glove print." ”

"Blood glove print?" I said, "Why did Sun Haiou wear gloves when he came to his house to kill people?" ”

"Isn't it surprising to wear gloves in winter?" Lin Tao said.

"Then why did he turn over the bedside table after killing someone?" I say.

"This impression area is small and the color is light," Lin Tao said, "it cannot be ruled out that I accidentally touched the bedside table." ”

"No." Master had now opened the door to the bedside table and looked into the cabinet.

"Did Master find anything?" I hurried over and asked.

Master said, "If you look closely at the inside of the bedside table, is there anything wrong with it?" ”

I crouched down on the bedside table and looked into the cupboard. The cabinet was neatly packed with ledgers, medications, and miscellaneous items, without any signs of being turned over. I noticed that there was a drawer on the top of the nightstand, so I carefully opened the drawer. There were some albums in the drawer, nothing unusual.

"No problem." I said, "There's no sign of any flipping, it's not a case of embezzlement." ”

Master shook his head and said, "You don't see the right point. ”

After speaking, Master shined the introspection lamp on the inside of the bedside table door, pointed with his finger, and said, "Didn't you notice what this is?" ”

I took out my magnifying glass and looked at Master's fingers, startled: "It's a splash of blood!" ”

"It scares me." Dabao said, "So, isn't it normal to splatter blood?" What's the fuss? ”

Master and I looked at Dabao together.

Dabao thought about it for a moment and suddenly realized, "Yes, why did this splatter of blood run inside the cabinet door?" ”

Lin Tao nodded at the side, which was an important discovery.

"There is only one possibility," said Master, holding up a finger, "that when the murderer was slashing gu xianglan, the door of the nightstand was open. ”

"Obviously, no one is going to sleep with the bedside table door open." I said, "Well, it is very likely that the murderer woke up the deceased when he opened the nightstand and slashed and killed the deceased." ”

"Could it be that in the process of slashing the killer, he accidentally opened the cabinet door?" Lin Tao asked.

I pulled on the door a few times and said, "No, the door is hinged and will close automatically unless it is fully opened." It is estimated that the time is long, the hinge is rusty, and the closing force of the cabinet door is not small, and it does not take a little effort to open it. ”

Lin Tao also tried a few times and said, "Well, it must be the murderer who opened the cabinet door, then killed people, and then pushed the cabinet door shut with bloody gloves." ”

"Are you saying that this case was turned into robbery and murder?" Dabao's face was shocked.

"Could it be that Sun Haiou is secretly looking for something?" Master said, "In terms of trace detection, can we rule out that the murderer turned over the scene and then restored it?" ”

Lin Tao whispered to the trace inspector of the Qingyang County Public Security Bureau, looked up at the master and said, "It can be ruled out that the murderer turned over the scene after killing." Because we dealt with the boxes, cabinets, and cabinets on the spot, the murderer certainly did not touch anything after the gloves were bloodied. ”

Master looked down and thought for a moment and said, "This scene is like the scene where theft is transformed into robbery and murder, but it is not like the scene of murder because of revenge." However, in the early stage of investigation, the suspicion of Sun Haiou is indeed too big. Alas, I couldn't figure it out either. ”

"General Manager Chen," Lin Tao said, "I also went to see the East Wing and the Main House just now, and I can be sure that the murderer has not entered." ”

"So what do we do next?" Dabao asked.

"Arrange for someone to transport the body to the funeral home first," said Master, "and then comprehensively analyze the body after reading it." ”

"Then we are now..." said the scout with a sigh of relief. I heard that it may be a case of embezzlement, and the investigators have some big heads, because if it is determined that the crime was committed as a crime of embezzlement, and the key traces of physical evidence cannot be extracted at the scene, it will bring great difficulty to the investigation.

"Sun Haiou is still a major suspect." The master said, "First go and find him, and then say, also, the little girl must find it." If Sun Haiou ran away with the little girl, it is estimated that it is not difficult to find them. In addition, Lin Tao stayed here, on the one hand, he continued to study the form of blood, on the other hand, he continued to look for a look to see if he could find fingerprints or something. ”

Lin Tao nodded and said, "Okay, but I guess the hope is very small, after all, the murderer is wearing gloves." ”

Master took off his gloves, patted Lin Tao's shoulder, and then turned to me and said, "Let's go, the road is not good, go as soon as possible, the task force is still waiting for our feedback." ”

I nodded and followed Master back into the courtyard.

I looked around the courtyard again unassuredly, and the debris around the courtyard was still so staggered and quietly stayed in the corner. Suddenly, I noticed an inconspicuous water tank in the corner next to the toilet.

Master stood in the courtyard with his waist crossed, also looking around at the debris around the courtyard. At this water tank, Master and I's eyes were fixed at the same time.

There is a circle of snow on the edge of the water tank, but by the small half circle outside, the snow is gone, which is a fresh rubbing mark.

Master and I walked to the edge of the water tank and looked into the water tank, which was about one meter and two meters high.

We were furious.

Because we saw a pair of children's feet.

The deceased was indeed Zhu Lingli, the three-year-old girl who was born beautiful and clever.

When we see the child's corpse, we can't help but feel a pain in our hearts. The child's whole body was immersed in that vat of cold water, and his skin was already frozen red and stiff. A pair of beautiful big eyes rolled round, as if still immersed in the shock of this sudden disaster.

After the little girl was salvaged, she was placed on a paved plastic sheet. Dressed in long-sleeved cotton underwear, naked on her lower body and feet, her hair wet, she lay quietly on the ground.

Soon, the little girl's pajama pants were also salvaged out of the water tank.

"Could it be," I couldn't bear to wonder how the perverted murderer had tortured the little girl, as if to comfort himself, "when he fell into the water, his pants fell off on his own?" ”

"Do you think it's possible?" Master frowned, "There must have been a process of rape or indecency." ”

Master looked at the little girl's corpse and found no injury except for a circle of subcutaneous bleeding around her ankles.

"The murderer grabbed the child's feet and threw the child upside down into the water tank." Master said, "The specific cause of death needs to be determined after an autopsy." ”

"Sun Haiou has always loved his daughter very much." The investigator was a little overwhelmed and said, "As you all said before, the murderer and Zhu Feng have equal fighting strength, there is a rummaging through the bedside table at the scene, plus now that Zhu Lingli has been killed, this is less and less like Sun Haiou's doing." ”

Neither of us spoke. Obviously, the death of the little girl touched the nerves of everyone's pity and caused the crowd to be indignant.

"This water tank is so hidden, the first time we looked at the scene, we really didn't notice." The director of the forensic technology office of the Qingyang County Public Security Bureau explained.

Master waved his hand and said, "Go to the funeral home, the case is harder than expected." ”

"What kind of person will the murderer be?" I sat in the car and said sullenly, "The means of killing the little girl are too cruel, there is no compassion at all, is it still a person?" ”

Master said, "There are two possibilities, one is an extremely perverted person, and the other is a person who doesn't understand anything." ”

"Master thinks, is it possible that Sun Haiou did it?" I then asked.

"It can't be ruled out at this time." Master said, "Because of you, I don't know what kind of person Sun Haiou is." Men who have been oppressed for a long time and cannot lift their heads can do anything after breaking through the psychological limits. ”

I nodded. Looking up, the gate of the Qingyang County Funeral Home has come into view.

Autopsy, let's start with the body of Gu Xianglan.

Gu Xianglan was wearing a cotton sweater, cotton sweater pants, and was covered in blood. A total of twenty-one knives were slashed on the corpse, seventeen of which were in the head and face and four in the neck. She had a collapsing fracture of her skull, shattered brain tissue, and died instantly. After her death, the killer also slashed her four times in the neck, resulting in a complete rupture of the trachea, esophagus, and jugular arteries and veins, and the head barely connected to the trunk against the cervical spine. She died of severe head injury.

Master put away the tape measure in his hand and said, "You see, what is the tool?" ”

Dabao said, "Single-edged chopper, is that okay?" ”

I nodded and said, "Bone injuries are more serious, this is a heavy weight, sharp edge of the metal cutter." After saying that, I unconsciously remembered the case of broken corpses a few years ago, using a very heavy bone chopping knife.

Master said, "You see, there are so many wounds in the head, face and neck of the deceased, although they are all connected together, but if you look closely, you can clearly see the length of each knife." I just measured it, and the longest knife is eight centimeters long. Have you ever seen a kitchen knife-like tool with a blade of only eight centimeters? Moreover, from the morphology of the fracture, the blade of the tool is relatively thick, while the blade of the kitchen knife is relatively uniform. ”

I was stunned and said, "Oh, axe. ”

Master nodded and said, "Yes, the tool that causes injury is an axe." ”

"What kind of person is so cruel?" I frowned and said, "It's too vicious to cut like this." ”

Master was examining the gastrointestinal contents of Gu Xianglan and did not answer my question, asking, "Before, they said that the deceased was going to drink happy wine at what time?" ”

I rolled my eyes and said, "It seems to be seven o'clock." ”

"If that's the case," master said, stretching out his hand and calculating, "rule out the possibility of Sun Haiou committing the crime." "I know that Master is a very strict person, if there is no exact basis, he will not draw conclusions casually, Master has a unique method in calculating the time of death, even accurate to plus or minus an hour.

"Master means to say," I asked, "in time, excluding Sun Seagull?" ”

"Well," said Master, nodding, "according to our new method, the exact time of death of the deceased should be between eleven o'clock in the evening and one o'clock in the morning." At this time, Sun Haiou was still on the train. ”

Suddenly, the host investigator ran to the dissection room sweating profusely and said, "General Manager Chen, Sun Haiou has been caught." "

Master didn't raise his head and said, "Let it go, a minute ago we ruled out the possibility of his crime." ”

The investigator said, "We also want to report this problem to you, just now, Sun Haiou walked toward his home with a big wave and was caught at the entrance of the village." After learning that the family was dead, from the expression, I was very sad and surprised. We don't feel like he did it either. ”

Master nodded, "That's right. There was no sign of finding an axe at the scene, and we analyzed whether the murderer entered the scene with a small axe, combined with the signs of turning over the bedside table, and considered a case in which theft turned into robbery and murder. ”

The investigator scratched his head and said embarrassedly, "So what do we do next?" If it is a rogue crime, it is more difficult. So far, there has been no good news from the scene, except for the featureless footprints, no other valuable traces and physical evidence have been found. ”

"Don't worry," Master raised his hand, "if any case is so simple, what do you want us to do?" ”

Excluding key suspects and determining the nature of the case has made our hearts even more unsure. Coupled with looking at the body of this cute little girl on the dissection table, everyone has an unspeakable discomfort in their hearts.

The little girl did suffer sexual abuse. Based on the damage to the little girl's perineum, we judge that the murderer molested the little girl after her death.

As for the cause of the little girl's death, after our autopsy, we had no idea. The little girl had obvious signs of suffocation throughout her body, and there was no damage to her neck, mouth and nose. She did have some foamy fluid in her airway, but there were no symptoms of pulmonary edema, and the stomach contents were not full of drowning fluids like ordinary drowning people, but were dry, similar to the stomach contents of guxianglan.

"Exclude mechanical asphyxiation caused by strangling her neck or covering her nose and mouth," Dabao said, "but without the typical characteristics of drowning, is this related to her head-down into the water?" ”

"Haven't you heard of dry drowning?" Master glanced at Dabao and said, "Head down into the water is a typical drowning, there will also be characteristics of drowning, dry drowning is different." The principle of dry drowning is that after cold water enters the respiratory tract, it stimulates the larynx, resulting in glottis spasm, thereby blocking the respiratory tract and causing suffocation death. In this way, less water will enter the body. Such atypical drowning usually occurs in winter. ”

"That," said Dabao, sticking out his tongue, "I've heard of it, I haven't seen it." ”

In other words, the murderer just turned the little girl cold and threw her head down into the water. Then, he took off the little girl's pants and molested her? "I couldn't bear to rebuild the scene in my head.

Master nodded.

"Is this man a bad brain?" Dabao gritted his teeth and said.

Master pointed to Dabao and said, "This time you may really be right, I just looked at the injury to Zhu Feng's back, and this kind of analysis of yours may really exist." ”

"Mentally ill people committing crimes?" I stepped aside, lifted Zhu Feng's pajamas, and found that there were still many strange wounds on her back.

"It can only be said that the murderer's mind is not sound." Master said, "One is a person who is prone to mania, and the other is a child. The premise of the mentally ill person's crime is that there is no pertinence, and in this case, the murderer has a clear purpose, that is, for money, so that the crime with a clear utilitarian nature can be excluded from the mentally ill person's crime. ”

Dabao and I carried Zhu Feng's body to the dissection table and washed the blood on the corpse with gauze.

"The deceased's hands were cut in multiple places, which were resistance wounds." As I measured the wound, I said, "There are multiple cuts on the head and face, and the deepest wound is a linear fracture of the skull below the wound." ”

"Her damage was much lighter than gu xianglan's," Dabao said, "mainly because of blood loss." ”

Master said, "That's nature. Gu Xianglan was in a supine state when it was slashed, and there was a bed cushion under the head, so the damage caused by the slashing would be much more serious. Zhu Feng was injured in the process of fighting with the murderer, because the body was in a state of motion, and the strength of the slash would be buffered off by most of it, so the damage was much more minor. ”

"Master, no restraint wounds have been found on the corpse." I looked closely at the subcutaneous tissue at the joints of the deceased and said.

The master propped his hands on the edge of the dissection table, bowed his head, and said, "Yes, this confirms the previous point that the murderer's restraining ability is limited, and his physical strength is equal to that of the deceased." ”

"Equal to the physical strength of a delicate woman," Dabao said, "the murderer can't be a woman too, right?" ”

Master glanced at Dabao again, "Why do women want to molest little girls?" ”

Dabao opened his mouth and swallowed back what he wanted to say.

"Combined with Master's previous analysis," I said, "could this case have been done by a child?" ”

"Children wear size forty shoes?" The investigator interjected.

"Don't rule it out." Master said, "There was once a serial murderer who wore shoes of size thirty-seven, so many experts inferred the size of the murderer in the early stages, they all thought it was a thin man of less than one meter and six meters, and as a result, after solving the case, he was a small foot of one meter and eighty feet." The magnitude of individual differences often surprises us. ”

"Especially these injuries." I wiped Zhu Feng's back clean with gauze, revealing more than thirty small wounds less than a centimeter long arranged in parallel.

The small wound is blunt at one end and sharper at the other, and the wound cavity shows a distinct inverted triangle. On the back of Zhu Feng's pajamas, there are also corresponding wounds of similar shape.

"This..." I was about to speak, but Master raised his hand to stop me.

Master cut open Zhu Feng's back skin, separating her back muscles layer by layer, and some dark red bleeding appeared between the deep muscles.

"Now it's obvious," said Master, "that these wounds are near-death injuries. Injuries to the deep muscles of the back are crush injuries. ”

"The murderer, after cutting the deceased down, rode again at her waist," I said, "and then gently poked the deceased in the back with the tip of the axe?" Is this true? ”

Master smiled and nodded with satisfaction, "Yes." So, if you analyze it from the perspective of criminal psychology, what kind of mentality is the murderer in at this time? ”

I looked down and thought about it, and there was no answer.

"Are you showing off his victory in this fight?" Dabao broke the silence.

Master said, "This time Dabao's answer was successful, plus ten points." This further shows that the murderer is a mentally unsound person. ”

Dabao's face was proud and self-satisfied.

"Listen to Mr. Chen," said the investigator, "the murderer should be a child?" This is related to the scope of investigation, can Chen always be sure? ”

Master shook his head and said, "I'm not sure, so I'm going to go and see the scene again." For such a long time, the entrance to the scene of the criminals has not been found, which is very undeserved.

After lunch, we returned to the scene and saw Lin Tao, who was still busy.

"Mr. Chen, we have made new discoveries." Lin Tao saw us walk into the scene and raised his eyebrows.

"I said," Master said with a smile, "after such a long time, there should be some good news." ”

Lin Tao led us to the bathroom on the side of the West Wing and said, "According to the direction of the occult blood footprints, after the murderer killed three people, he went out through the gate and then closed the door casually." As for his entrance, we have been wondering, ruling out the possibility that the murderer has the key, and this is the only place where he can enter the scene. ”

We looked up and there was a small window on the wall of the bathroom.

"So small?" I said, "Who can get in?" ”

"Yes," Lin Tao said, "we began to wonder, if one head came in, there was no support point below, it was bound to fall head down and be injured." If the murderer had come in from here, he would have to crouch on the windowsill, then curl up and sneak in and jump into the house. So we conducted a careful survey on the windowsill and on the ground. ”

"You've found a basis for determining this, haven't you?" Master's eyes were filled with anticipation.

Lin Tao smiled and nodded, saying, "Yes, we found muddy water footprints that were consistent with the blood footprints of the center site on the windowsill outside the window, and on the bathroom floor." ”

"Yes," said Master, "this is the entrance!" But have you conducted reconnaissance experiments where tall people can get in through such a small window? ”

"Done," Lin Tao said, "the reconnaissance experiment showed that a skinny man of one meter and six meters could not get in." ”

"A man of only a meter and a half?" Master said, "Then the biggest possibility is that children are children." ”

Lin Tao nodded.

"General Manager Chen, how old is this little child when you say that?" The scout scratched his head and said sheepishly, "Energy it?" ”

"Mentally unsound, under sixteen." The master paused and added, "Sexual ignorance, over thirteen years old." ”

"So, can you judge whether it was an acquaintance who committed the crime or the gangster who committed the crime?" The investigator still had an embarrassed expression, "After all, many of the members of some gangs that are now rogue thieves are children of thirteen or fourteen years old." Therefore, this issue is very critical and involves the direction of the overall investigation. ”

Master looked down and thought for a moment and said, "At present, there is no definite basis. However, since the murderer did not turn over anything else, but only turned over the nightstand, indicating that his target was the bedside table. There is a high probability of having a goal, acquaintance. ”

"The killer first flipped the bedside table, woke up the victim and then killed someone," I said, "it is also possible that after killing someone, because they were afraid that others would hear the movement or other reasons, they did not flip the rest of the scene." ”

Master nodded approvingly, "Well, it is true that this possibility as you said cannot be ruled out." Let's take a closer look at the murderer's target, the nightstand. ”

Looking at this redwood bedside table again, I found that it was really finely made. There were tight seams all around, but there was not a single trace of a nail.

Master opened the cabinet door, looked around, opened the drawer again, and looked through it carefully.

"Do you think there's something wrong with this drawer?" Master turned to me.

I looked at it, and there was nothing unusual in the drawer except for a few albums neatly stacked. I shook my head in confusion.

Master said, "You see that this drawer is quite thick, and as a result, it is full of two albums, and this thickness is not very reliable, right?" ”

I squeezed the drawer, looked it up and down, and said, "Yeah, this is a little weird." "I tried to get out of the drawer, trying to take it down.

Master shook his head and said, "The back of the drawer in this kind of cabinet is fixed and cannot be taken down." ”

After speaking, Master knocked along the drawer and said excitedly, "The drawer is hollow." ”

"You mean there's a mezzanine?" I moved the album out and knocked on the inside of the drawer, making a muffled "thumping" sound, and as a rule of thumb, there was indeed a mezzanine underneath this drawer.

Master slowly touched the area around the drawer with his hand, then smiled mysteriously and said, "I have found the mechanism." ”

As soon as the words fell, there was a "snap", and the bottom of the drawer actually cracked from the middle.

I was moved for half a day, and the first time I saw this kind of ancient switch and secret door, it was so interesting. Lift the cracked panel door at the bottom of the drawer to reveal the dark layer of the drawer.

In the dark layer were a few passbooks.

"This should be the place where Gu Xianglan kept cash and passbooks," Master said, "what are your thoughts now?" ”

I flipped through a few passbooks signed by Zhu Feng, and there were really a lot of deposits. I said, "The murderer's goal is clear, for the money in this dark layer." But who knows that there is such a dark layer in the nightstand of Gu Xianglan? Surely very familiar people! ”

"Isn't this Gu Xianglan afraid that others will take her bedside table away?" Dabao diverged from the topic.

Master smiled and said, "You hug and watch." ”

Dabao came over, hugged the bedside table, made a lot of effort, and said, "Yo, I really can't hold it." The objects of the past are honesty, all of which are solid mahogany. ”

"But," I said, "did the murderer succeed?" ”

Master nodded and said, "It should have been successful, so I didn't flip anywhere else." With this basis, we can boldly speculate that the murderer is very familiar with the scene. ”

"Sun Haiou's suspicions have been ruled out," I said, "if someone else's child committed the crime, then how did he know the place where Gu Xianglan hid the money?" The place is also too secluded. ”

"I don't know." Master said, "Maybe it's because Gu Xianglan didn't fortify this child, so she opened this organ in front of him." ”

Master fiddled with this exquisitely crafted bedside table mechanism a few more times, turned to the investigator and said, "Acquaintance, no, it should be said that he is a very familiar person, a boy of thirteen to sixteen years old." He is about one and a half meters tall and thin. There are conditions for obtaining a small axe, and after committing a crime, there should be blood clothes, and suddenly become rich. So many conditions, it is not difficult to check, right? ”

The investigator's eyes lit up with excitement and he shook his head.

"So, solve the case tomorrow morning, OK?" Master said.

The scout raised his wrist and looked at his watch and said, "Okay, then I'll hold on tight." ”

"Well," said Master, "you go and investigate first, and we'll investigate the scene over here." ”

"Still want to investigate?" I rubbed my sore waist. From coming out early in the morning, I have not rested until now.

"Of course," said Master, "so far, apart from the analysis of inferences, no physical evidence has been found that can prove the crime, and such a case has not been sprayed to death by the lawyer when it goes to court?" ”

I nodded helplessly.

Lin Tao said: "However, according to the results of our investigation, the murderer has been wearing gloves, and the possibility of leaving fingerprints is almost non-existent." ”

Master said, "I also know that it is very difficult, but I can't give up the investigation for granted, after all, it is our duty to find evidence." ”

According to Master's instructions, we extracted the blood stains from the scene in stages in anticipation of the murderer being injured in the course of the crime, leaving behind his sinful blood. Lin Tao took a group of people and brushed their fingerprints little by little along the trajectory of the murderer. Master stole the laziness, crouched outside the scene of the vigilance belt, smoked a cigarette and chatted with the head of the criminal police detachment of the provincial city city public security bureau.

Almost two hours later, when I could no longer bear the soreness in my waist, I heard Lin Tao's exclamation.

Master threw away his cigarette butt, put on his gloves again, walked into the scene, and said, "Calm, calm, don't make a fuss." ”

"Mr. Chen was really right," Lin Tao, wearing a mask, pointed to a place on the bathroom wall that he had blackened with silver powder, and said, "There are actually lines!" ”

"Didn't you say you wore gloves?" Master squinted his eyes.

"It's a thumbprint." Lin Tao quickly made a judgment and said, "There are glove prints around the fingerprints." ”

Master turned his head to look at Lin Tao, then turned his head to look at me, and finally fixed his gaze on the fingerprint and said, "Understood, the gloves are broken." ”

Lin Tao nodded and said, "According to the logical analysis, it should be like this." ”

"Are you sure it's related to this case?" Master said.

"Yes." Lin Tao affirmed, "Some of the blood glove marks found at the scene are exactly the same as the glove marks of this fingerprint Zhou Xiang." By coincidence, when the murderer jumped down from the small window, his fingers pressed the tiles on the wall through the broken abyss. ”

"Good!" Master happily pounded the wall and said, "With this thing, the verdict is just around the corner."

Lin Tao was not proud of his discovery, and still modestly said: "If it were not for General Manager Chen's supervision, we would be ready to give up looking for fingerprints." Really as Mr. Chen said, until the last moment, we must not give up. Anything that is not possible, it can happen. ”

Master nodded approvingly and said, "Close the team and rest." Let them immediately send this sample of on-site fingerprints to the investigation department, and as a basis for investigation, we will go back and wait for the good news of the investigation department tomorrow! ”

Because of the holiday season and the excessive fatigue of the first day of work, when I returned to the hotel, I fell back to sleep and slept until the next morning, when the winter sun warmly shined on my face through the window. I picked up the mobile phone next to me and looked at it, it was almost nine o'clock, I quickly got up, too late to wash, and ran to the task force.

Master was already sitting in the task force office, black-faced.

"I'm really sorry," said the host investigator, "after the preliminary investigation, Gu Xianglan was very hospitable, charitable, well-connected, and especially fond of children." Seventeen young boys of the age range who often went to her house to play and probably knew that the nightstand was hiding money, we found a total of seventeen. ”

"How can there be so much?" Master said, "Aren't there fingerprints?" Good troubleshooting, right? ”

The investigator had an embarrassed expression on his face and said, "Because we are all children, our investigation work has been greatly disturbed." The villagers were very resistant to our request to take the child's fingerprints, and the school principal in the village came forward and said that it would be reflected to the county education bureau, saying that our behavior would cause a shadow on the child's psychology. ”

Master groaned, and while looking at the autopsy photos in the laptop, he said: "It is not unreasonable to say, it is indeed inappropriate to extract the fingerprints of children on a large scale." I also didn't expect there to be so many people. ”

Lin Tao put down the phone and said: "Just received the call, the fingerprints on the gold bars are the same as the fingerprints in the bathroom we extracted." ”

"Gold bars?" I asked blankly.

Master frowned, looked at me and said, "Who wants you to sleep late, didn't the front listen?" ”

I narrowed my eyes at Dabao, thinking that you got up by yourself, don't know how to call me?

Dabao quickly took over the stubble: "This morning, a villager found a small bag containing several gold bars in the garbage dump in the village. There was blood on the gold bar, so the case was quickly reported. ”

"Oh," I said, "it was the murderer's parents who were afraid we would find out, so they threw away the swag." ”

Master nodded and said, "With the fingerprint on the gold bar as a reference, this fingerprint must have been left by the murderer." ”

"However," said the investigator, fearing that Master would ask them to forcibly take fingerprints, "it is very difficult for us to take fingerprints." ”

"Are there left-handed children out of seventeen?" Master's words suddenly turned.

The investigator flipped through the notebook and said, "There's one." This little kid, Gui Yuanfeng, just turned fourteen a month ago and is in the sixth grade of elementary school. He was the most honest of the seventeen children, the best to learn, and also the favorite of Gu Xianglan, and was often called to Gu Xianglan's house for dinner. ”

"Then, it's always okay to take his fingerprints and compare them?" Master said.

"Why?" The investigator looked confused, "We think he's the one least like the murderer." Master smiled and said, "Look at the damage caused by Gu Xianglan and Zhu Feng." ”

I leaned over to look at the picture, and after Master's little dial, I figured it out in an instant. I said, "Got it. Gu Xianglan's posture is to face the north wall, the left hand is lying on the back of the east wall when lying on the bed was killed, the murderer stands on the right hand side of Gu Xianglan, Gu Xianglan has a bedside table on the side of the head, so if the murderer holds an axe in his right hand, the cut wound should be vertical or oblique, and the wounds of Gu Xianglan are horizontal, and only the murderer can do it with an axe in his left hand. ”

"I get it too." Dabao said, "The wound on Zhu Feng's back was formed by the murderer riding across her waist with an axe, and the wounds were arranged in parallel, but all of them were skewed to the left. If you are holding an axe in your right hand, it should be deflected to the right. ”

Master nodded with satisfaction and said to the scout, "Do you understand?" ”

The investigator seemed to understand and said, "Anyway, let's try it again." ”

This is a key inference, and it is because of this inference that the case was successfully solved.

When investigators secretly searched Gui Yuanfeng's home, they found traces of burning objects in the courtyard, took a part of the ashes, and made DNA typing of the two dead. This should have been the ashes left by the murderer's father when he burned the bloody coat.

After the fingerprint comparison between the on-site fingerprint and Gui Yuanfeng's fingerprint, the same is determined.

The case became an ironclad case.

When interrogating minors, a guardian should be present. Because Gui Yuanfeng's parents were also detained on suspicion of harboring, Gui Yuanfeng's class teacher accompanied Gui Yuanfeng to interrogation.

When Master led us into the interrogation room, the little boy with the clear eyebrows in front of us was confessing to his crime.

"My dad gambled and owed people a lot of money," Xiao Gui wiped his tears, saying, "My mother cried at home every day, and I wanted to help them." ”

"How do you know that there is a dark compartment in guxianglan's nightstand, and there are gold bars in the dark compartment?" The investigator asked.

"When I was in elementary school, I went to play with Aunt Zhu and saw Grandma Gu taking money on the nightstand." Xiao Gui said, "At that time, I wanted Grandma Gu to perform the mechanism again, but Grandma Gu mysteriously didn't let me see it." ”

I nodded subconsciously, thinking to myself, it is no wonder that for a seven- or eight-year-old child, there is no need to fortify. It's just that this Gu Xianglan never thought that this seven- or eight-year-old boy could actually record this matter six or seven years later.

"Why are you killing people?" The investigator said.

"Because I just put the gold in my pocket, Grandma Gu woke up." Xiao Gui said, "She knows me, and I can only hack her to death with an axe." Later, I wanted to run away, so I went to the courtyard and saw Aunt Zhu running out of the house, probably hearing the sound of me cutting people, so I also went to cut her. I didn't expect her strength to be so strong, and I fought with her for a while before she fell to the ground. Later, I stabbed her with an axe and asked her if she was satisfied. ”

I looked at Master and thought, This psychology is correct again, real cow.

"How many knives did you cut her?" The investigator asked.

"I don't know, it was so dark that I could only see a shadow." Xiao Gui said.

"Then why did you kill Zhu Lingli?" She's just a three-year-old! I couldn't help asking.

Xiao Gui looked up at me, and then at the investigator, meaning to ask him if he needed to answer my question.

The scout nodded.

Xiao Gui said: "She has been crouching in the courtyard crying, I am afraid that others will hear, there is no way." ”

"No way?" My teeth were clenched by my own bite, "So you still molested her?" ”

Xiao Gui looked confused, obviously not understanding what I meant by "obscenity".

"Did you take off the little girl's pants?" The scout asked, "What did you do?" ”

Xiao Gui immediately blushed when he heard this, slowly lowered his head, and murmured, "I just want to see what is different between girls and boys." ”

Master obviously couldn't listen anymore, patted me on the shoulder, and motioned for us to leave together.

"Alas," Dabao straightened up, sighed, and muttered, "What kind of education is this?" ”

Master also shook his head helplessly.

Xiao Gui saw that we were leaving and hurriedly said, "Uncle, wait. ”

Master turned his head back and looked at him questioningly.

"All I have to say, school will start tomorrow, can I go to school?" Xiao Gui asked.

Chapter 12: The Ghost of the Graveyard

It is not necessary to attribute the production of evil to the supernatural factor, and human beings themselves are sufficient to carry out every evil act.

—Joseph Conrad

If it wasn't for this livelihood, Shen San would definitely not go to that kind of ghost place in the middle of the night.

Jiling Mountain was a cemetery before the founding of New China. After the baptism of war, this uninhabited place with a radius of ten kilometers has now been completely abandoned, leaving only lonely graves scattered on the western slopes.

Wanxia Village is the closest small mountain village to Jiling Mountain, located in the embrace of the majestic Dabie Mountain. It is said that in the early days of the founding of New China, countless spiritual stories about Jiling Mountain were circulated here. Some people say that there were children who went there to fly kites and felt caught by something, and as a result, a black five-claw mark appeared on the back of their necks that never retreated; others said that in July and a half of the year before the founding of New China, they could see the green glow on the top of Jiling Mountain.

The greatest power of ghost theology lies in its spreading power, which is both wide and fast: and the more it is spread, the more it is peaceful, as if it were witnessed by one's own eyes. Even though Jiling Mountain is located on the side of the main road leading from the county town to Wanxia Village, no one has taught Zideng for decades that this legendary mountain is home to countless lonely ghosts, and even if you pass by, you don't dare to face it, afraid of "ghost upper body". Therefore, the grave mountain was completely reduced to a barren mountain.

After learning that Jiling Mountain buried a qing dynasty official and nobleman, Shen San, who had been preparing tombs for a living, packed his bags and decided to go to Jiling Mountain to explore. Maybe I can find the tomb, but I can't say, I can also find some antiques.

It was spring and flowers were blooming, but the deep mountains were still like ice cellars, and even the first snow after the Spring Festival fell.

Just after the snow closed the mountain, Shen San got off the bus at the foot of Jiling Mountain after a day of tossing and turning, in the doubtful and fearful eyes of a Passenger of a Medium-class Bus.

From the roadside along the foot of Jiling Mountain to the western slope of the mountain, it is already nightfall. I don't know if it was because of the cold or fear, Shen San's whole body shivered. He secretly told himself not to be afraid, what scene had he not seen?

After all, he was not familiar with the land, and the barren grass on Jiling Mountain had grown to more than one person tall, affecting the line of sight, so after more than two hours of circling the cemetery, Shen San still did not find a grave like a "high-ranking official and nobleman", and even his miner's lamp began to flicker because of insufficient electricity. Shen San took off his backpack, took out a spare battery from the bag, and was preparing to change it, when he suddenly heard a "whooshing" sound from the north slope of the mountain, which frightened his legs into weakness.

At this time, will anyone come to this ghost place? Shen Sanqiang suppressed the violent shaking of his hands, changed into the miner's lamp battery, and shone towards the place where the sound was emitted, shouting: "What person?" What for? ”

On the northern slope of the mountain five hundred meters away, a white shadow of a human figure flashed, floating in mid-air, gradually disappearing. With the dissipation of the white shadow, the wild grass shook violently, and then there was a hoarse sound.

Such a strange scene completely broke through Shen San's psychological bottom line, and Shen San threw away the miner's lamp, knelt on the ground, and shouted at the back of his head: "The great god spares his life, the great god spares his life!" ”

The hoarse cry seemed to fade away, and Shen San straightened up and found himself unharmed. Before the shock could be removed, Shen San fumbled to find his own miner's lamp and shone towards the strange area. The moon was dark and windy, and there was no movement at all.

After all, after decades of working in the tomb robbery industry, Shen San fixed his mind, had the courage to cut off the barren grass and walk towards the north slope of the mountain.

There is no one, and there are no ghosts.

On the northern slope of the mountain, there is a large area of barren grass that seems to have been artificially overwhelmed. Where the mine light line passes, you can see some small parts that are of unknown use. In the center of the part was a burned-out explosive device.

"At this time, it's one o'clock in the morning today. Shen San did not touch the device, because there was no signal in the mountain, he walked for more than two hours on foot, only to find the mobile phone signal, and then reported the case. Captain Zhao said, "We arrived at the scene at five o'clock in the morning, and after preliminary confirmation, it was indeed an explosive device." ”

All the people in the car were attracted by Captain Zhao's colorful descriptions. After a few seconds of cold, I was the first to reply: "The tomb robber will certainly not mistake the explosive device." What we are most concerned about now is, what are those hoarse cries? ”

"Isn't there really a ghost?" Lin Tao was rarely naïve.

"Talk about science!" Dabao said, "That, don't look at what we do." However, Captain Zhao, don't you know it too? ”

Captain Zhao smiled mysteriously, "You guess? ”

"Don't sell it," I haven't come out of this suspected ghost story for a while, "say it quickly!" ”

"Actually, it's the sound of the car starting, and the sound of the car pressing over the grass." Captain Zhao said, "Through the on-site investigation, we found fresh tire prints, and it can be seen from the tire prints that the tire wear is relatively severe, and it should be an operating vehicle." ”

"Does it make sense?" Lin Tao said, "Didn't you say that Jiling Mountain is next to the county road?" Can prefectural roads pass without cars? ”

Captain Zhao shook his head and said, "No, the eastern slope of Jiling Mountain is on the road, and the north slope is not on the road, and the car generally does not drive to that position." ”

"This is not urgent," I waved my hand, "how do you know that it must be the sound of a car starting?" ”

"Because I just received a text message, the car has been found." Captain Zhao looked over his mobile phone and said, "In the direction of Jiling Mountain, in a pond one kilometer from the county town, a sunken taxi was found. According to the degree of immersion of the car's seat cushions, it is preliminarily concluded that the vehicle entered the water at three o'clock in the morning this morning. That is to say, the time of entering the water was about two hours after Shen San heard the sound, and two hours was just enough to drive from Jiling Mountain to the county seat. ”

"Hmm. In highly stressful situations, it is indeed possible to hear the corresponding voice according to their own imagination. I nodded, agreeing with Captain Zhao's judgment.

A colleague once received a fraudulent phone call, saying that his son had been kidnapped, so that he was not allowed to hang up the phone and directly remit the money to a certain account. Then, a poignant "Daddy, save me" sounded in the background. I happened to meet a person who understood, communicated with him in a timely manner by writing, and then called his son to confirm that there was nothing wrong with the incident, so that he was not deceived. In that case, the colleague instinctively thought that the background tone was his son's voice.

"So there's a corpse in the taxi?" I asked.

Captain Zhao frowned and said, "There is no body, it is an empty car." ”

"Ghost car?" Lin Tao was confused again.

I patted Lin Tao's head: "You're watching too many ghost movies, right?" Obviously, someone is destroying the evidence. ”

Lin Tao patted his chest with trepidation: "It scares me." Fortunately, it was discovered early, and there should be some evidence that can be extracted. ”

"That," Dabao asked in a daze, "there is no corpse, so what are we going to do?" ”

Captain Zhao was born to be a storyteller, and when Dabao asked this question, he began to talk again.

After the local public security organ received the alarm, it immediately rushed to the scene, at this time the sky was not yet light, minpu was afraid of detonating the device and causing casualties, so they had to keep until dawn in the cold wind. After dawn, the detonation police and the police dog team arrived one after another to prevent this case of waiting on the side of the road to prepare for terrorist activities.

The detonation police quickly confirmed that it was a time bomb with little technical content, which could shatter tempered glass, but not necessarily kill people. Moreover, it was a bomb being tested, and the timer was not connected. During the test, because the device was not completely enclosed, it changed from "firecracker" to "thorn flower".

Who would drive to this place to test a bomb? This is an issue that the civilian police have been considering. Maybe it's just a prank, everyone comforts themselves like this.

But the meritorious detonation dog was restless, and kept barking at a rocky pit about two hundred meters away from the explosive device.

The trainer thought that his dog was smoking, because the detonation dog could not bark after finding the bomb, and the bomb was equipped with a voice control device. After smelling the bomb, the detonator dog will sit down and indicate that there is a bomb. But today, the dog barked incessantly, which caught the attention of the police station chief.

After excavating this rocky pit, a corpse was found!

"Wouldn't someone come here to bury the body and experiment with the bomb by the way?" I asked.

Captain Zhao shook his head and said, "The time of death cannot be set." ”

"Can't settle down?" I looked puzzled, "Why can't it be decided?" At least it can be estimated that about a few days have passed, right? ”

Captain Zhao continued to shake his huge head: "It can't be estimated for about a few days, because the body has been sprinkled with salt." ”

This technique of sprinkling salt on the corpse is the first time I have seen it in so many years since I was in the police.

It may be that some criminals, in order to prevent the corpse from decaying, use the method of curing salted meat to marinate the corpse, thinking that the corpse will not decay, will not attract wild beasts, and naturally will not be discovered. In fact, the premise of curing bacon is to dry, if you do not dry it, sprinkle salt and bury it, the moisture in the corpse is still enough to supply the breeding of those rotten bacteria, and the body will still decay. But after all, there are external factors that interfere with the process of decay of the body, so it brings certain difficulties to the judgment of the time of death. Fortunately, we have the method taught by Master, as long as we find out the source of the body, find out when he ate before he disappeared, and what kind of food he ate, we can accurately calculate the time of his death.

"Is the body badly corrupted?" I asked.

"There is almost no corruption." Captain Zhao said, "Even the corrupt vein net on the corpse has not appeared." ”

The rotting vein network is a necessary stage before the corpse decays and appears corpse green, and the veins will be clearly visible on the skin, showing a network. In late winter and early spring, as it is now, it takes three to four days for the body to be placed in the open for a rotten vein net. If it is in the deep cold of the mountains, it will be longer.

"What about the cornea?" I asked.

"This," Captain Zhao was not a forensic doctor after all, he scratched his head and said, "I don't know." ”

The time of death can also be inferred from the degree of cloudiness of the cornea, but because the time cannot be determined accurately, it is rarely used by primary forensic doctors.

There are stories to listen to, the time is passing quickly, unconsciously, it is noon, our car has also driven into the county.

"In fact, I don't know the specific situation, after finding the body in the morning, I quickly drove to the provincial city to pick you up," Captain Zhao said, "it all depends on their text messages to report to me." ”

I smiled and said, "Why don't we go near and then far away, let's go and see the taxi salvaged out next to the county town, and leave Lin Tao there by the way, and then we will go to the scene of the body." ”

"If you are blistered, can it still be valuable?" Dabao said worriedly.

"If you don't go to see it, how do you know?" I knocked dabao's head.

After a while, several police cars and a large crowd of onlookers appeared in front of me, and I knew that the place to salvage the taxi had arrived.

"You know what? It's a ghost car, no one drives it. ”

"It is said that this car came out of Jiling Mountain."

"I heard that as soon as this car started, it was like a ghost screaming, which scared people to death."

"What news are you, telling you that the person driving this car is a female ghost dressed in white?"

Listening to ghost stories about various versions of the taxi along the way, I carried my search box and walked into the security belt with Lin Tao and Dabao.

In fact, it is an ordinary Geely taxi. The only difference was that it was soaking wet and dripping water on the shore.

Lin Tao put on his gloves, circled along the car, looked into the cab and said, "Nothing unusual." The key is in the car, but it is closed, it should be parked, push the car into the water. ”

"Can fingerprints be mentioned on the butt of the car?" I hurriedly used the survey light to illuminate the trunk cover of the car.

Lin Tao shook his head: "Fingerprints are hopeless, after all, it has been soaked for so long." ”

"That!" Dabao stuttered a little as soon as he got excited, "Look fast, look fast, look fast!" ”

"What?" I walked toward Dabao.

Dabao said, "There is blood in the car!" ”

Lin Taola and I opened the car door to observe the blood in the car. The blood stains are mainly distributed in the co-pilot's position, and there are large splashes of blood on the inside of the door frame on the right side, and there are flaky stains on the seat pillows, and the blood stains are also flowing down in a strip, forming a pool of blood on the cushion.

"The amount of blood lost is not small." I said, "Looking at the spray-like bloodstain, small and long, it means that the speed of blood spatter is very fast, which is not achieved by ordinary arterial blood spraying." ”

Captain Zhao said, "Oh, the initial examination of the body is a gunshot wound." ”

"So, the white smoke that Shen San saw came out of the gun?" Dabao asked.

I shook my head: "How is that possible?" Soon after the white smoke came out, Shen San scared the murderer away, so where did the murderer have time to bury the body? I think the white smoke was formed when the bomb didn't explode; and the body should have been buried before that. When Shen San arrived at the scene, no taxis or people were found, that is to say, the body may have been buried here the day before, and the murderer came here specifically to test the bomb. ”

Captain Zhao nodded in approval.

"How does this imprint look so familiar?" Lin Tao said suddenly.

At the junction of the seat and the backrest of the co-pilot's cushion, there is a circular blood-stained imprint about one centimeter in diameter, and the center of the imprint faintly looks like a circle of wheat ears and a shield.

"Lean, police uniform!" Dabao shouted.

"Indeed," said Captain Zhao, "the corpse's pants are the same as ours, and this imprint should be left by the buttons on the pants." ”

"Not necessarily." I said, "Whatever the police uniform is changed to now, the other uniforms will be changed." What security, urban management, supervision, etc., clothes can be fake, let alone a button. ”

"However, combined with gunshot wounds, it is very likely that the police are." Lin Tao sipped his mouth and said.

"The deceased died in the co-pilot, was it during the taxi to take out a gun and commit suicide?" Dabao said.

I gave Dabao a blank look: "Have you ever seen a person who committed suicide in a taxi, and then committed suicide and was buried by the taxi driver and did not report the crime?" ”

"This taxi driver is suspected of committing a major crime," Mr. Lin said, "and his motive for committing the crime may have been to grab a gun." ”

I shined light on the window and said, "But if the taxi driver shot and killed someone, why is there no blood on the window and no bullet hole in the window?" Judging from the blood stains distributed by the window, the bullet should have penetrated the dead man's head, and there was no trace of replacement in the window. ”

"Stupid," Lin Tao glanced at me, "I opened the window and hit it." ”

I looked at the car window again and said, "Yes, the blood stains are distributed around the window hoard, all around, it seems that it is only possible to open the window and shoot." But then it was troublesome, and the warhead could not be found. ”

"But the shell should still be in the car," Mr. Lin said, "so that you can quickly check the characteristics of the bullet and find out which gun committed the crime." ”

"Well," said Captain Zhao, "I am going to make arrangements now, on the one hand, to find the information of this taxi driver, and on the other hand, to find the source of the corpse of this deceased who may be a policeman." ”

"And DNA testing." I said, "The blood in the car, the DNA of the deceased, must be done quickly." Lin Tao stayed and looked carefully at whether there were any clues and physical evidence on the car, and the most important thing was to find the shell casing. Dabao and I went to the scene of the corpse, and there were still a few hours left on the mountain road. ”

After a bit of a box lunch in the car, and a nap for a while, with a violent jolt, we arrived at this legendary and terrifying Jiling Mountain.

I raised my wrist and looked at my watch, because there was a little snow in the middle of the way, the winding road was slippery, and the car drove a little slower, and it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.

"It's been more than four hours," I said, "and the DNA results should be pretty much the same, right?" ”

"The result from ten minutes ago," captain Zhao said, "is the blood on the car of the deceased." ”

"Well, killed in the co-pilot." I said, "Now there is a high suspicion that this taxi driver grabbed the gun and killed the person." However, this driver is really not smart, sinking his car in the pond like that, and we can't find it in the drought? If you find a car, can you still find no one? ”

"Oh," Captain Zhao laughed dryly, "I think he was frightened by Shen San at Jiling Mountain, so he abandoned the car and absconded." Now we are already searching for this driver with all our might.

"Did you find out his information?" I asked.

"Isn't that easy to check?" Zhao Da brigade said, "Go to the taxi company and go through the information." The driver's name was Qi Xian, thirty-two years old, orphaned, unmarried. A person comes and goes alone every day, and he doesn't talk much. Own operating license, own car. He usually drives day shifts or night shifts casually, and the spirit is good to drive together in the day shift and night shifts, in short, he does not give the car to others to drive. Others know that he has no relatives and no reason, but they don't know what he usually does after work to make a living. ”

"What is a livelihood?" Dabao half leaned back on his seat and said indignantly, "It's a gun and a cannon again, this is a rebellion." ”

"How's his activity lately?" I asked.

"No one has seen him for half a month," Captain Zhao said, "and I don't clock in to the company." He is usually popular, so no one cares. The last time I saw him was a noodle shop owner at the entrance of the taxi company, who said that Qi Xian had eaten a bowl of noodles here half a month ago. ”

"In the past half a month, I guess I'm doing bombs." Dabao said.

On the northern slope of Jiling Mountain, two groups of police are surrounded. A wave of people who were still analyzing the characteristics of the bombs and the characteristics of the bomb parts, looking at their expressions, were at a loss.

Another group of people gathered around a corpse.

The body was fresh, wearing a brown jacket, a black sweater with the word "police" on the chest and black police pants, and an open holster at the left waist. According to the local Chinese forensic doctor, he searched the pockets of the corpse's clothes and found nothing but a bunch of keys.

"Even without id documents, his attire tells us he's a cop." I put on my gloves, looked over the opacity of the deceased's cornea, moved his shoulder joints again, and said, "Looking at such a corrupt situation, the corpse is relieved, which should have been the first two days." ”

"Well," said the Chinese forensic doctor, nodding, "it may be that the murderer came to bury the body the first night and tested the bomb the next day." ”

I shrugged my nose as I approached the corpse and said, "Strange, this corpse is not decaying, why can I still smell a foul smell?" ”

The Forensic Doctor also sniffed in the air and said, "Okay?" It seems that my nose does not have your spirit. Is it because the body is sprinkled with salt, so it has a strange smell? ”

I shook my head and didn't speak again, using hemostatic forceps to clamp the skin tissue around the wound in the deceased's head to observe.

"There was a circular wound on the left side of the deceased's face with muzzle marks around it, which should have been shot in contact

"Shoot the entrance," I said, "there is a starburst wound on the right side of the decadence, which should be the exit of the bullet. The shot was indeed fired from the left side of the deceased, in the driver's seat. ”

"So, where's your funeral home?" Dabao rubbed his hands and stomped his feet and said, "It's too cold here." ”

The Chinese forensic doctor said: "We are in the burial area here, there is no funeral home. ”

"What about the dissection room?" Dabao is still not dead hearted.

I looked up at Dabao and said, "To be a forensic doctor, you have to be able to withstand the heat, the east, the smell, and the dirt." Is there no funeral home where is the dissection room? Is it difficult to build an autopsy room in the Public Security Bureau? ”

"Then where do you dissect the corpse?" Dabao looked puzzled.

"We usually examine the body at the scene." The forensic doctor smiled sheepishly and said, "Then bury it on the spot." ”

"Is this the case in summer and winter?" Dabao had a look of reverence on his face.

Doctor Hua nodded, "We are used to it." ”

"Don't waste your time, it will be dark in just over two hours," I said, "and dissect the body quickly." ”

Dabao looked around and saw that there was no crowd of onlookers, so he relaxed his mind, opened the survey box, and took out the dissection tools.

We placed the body on a large piece of plastic sheet and crouched down around it, ready to begin the examination. The Forensic Doctor Hua took out a few shoe covers and said, "Put the shoes on, squatting and drying like this, it is inevitable that blood will burst onto the shoes." ”

It was so cold that we had to work for a while, so we stood up and stomped our feet to prevent our feet from being frozen. As a person in the micro-fat world, squatting for ten minutes is painful, let alone squatting for several hours.

We shaved the dead man's hair, cut the scalp of the dead man, and then the three of us cooperated and laboriously sawed the skull of the dead man by hand.

The power of the bullet does not lie in its penetration, but in its high-speed rotation, which will form a momentary post-bullet cavity around the ballistic trajectory that is more than ten times the diameter of the bullet. This cavity strongly squeezes the soft tissue around the ballistic trajectory, and then recovers, such a shock will cause some of the more soft and brittle physical organs to rupture and bleed, causing more than ten times more lethality than the bullet penetration.

Affected by the effect of the cavity after the instantaneous bullet, the brain tissue around the trajectory of the deceased's brain has been completely convulsed, and the sub-omental cavity and the brain parenchyma have been massively hemorrhage. The brain stem of the deceased has also been affected, and the fine weaving form of the bulbous position has disappeared, becoming a bag of "tofu residue".

"The deceased dies quickly after being shot," I said, "and the brainstem is in the deep layers of the brain tissue, and once the brainstem is damaged, the central nervous system is damaged, and the respiratory and circulatory functions are immediately lost." ”

After carefully stitching the head of the deceased, I changed the blade and prepared to continue dissecting the chest and abdominal cavity of the deceased.

"This," said the Chinese forensic doctor, "should the chest and abdominal cavity also be opened to see?" ”

With a puzzled look on my face, I looked at the Chinese forensic doctor and said, "What do you mean?" Don't you usually open it to see? ”

"No," said the Chinese forensic doctor sheepishly, "it's too cold, and I'm afraid you can't stand it." ”

"If you can't stand it any longer, you have to see," I said, casually scratching the chest and abdomen of the deceased, "maybe I can find something." ”

I was really right. After the scalpel cut through the deceased's stomach, a smell of alcohol came to the nose. I quickly stood up, raised my elbow and rubbed my nose.

"Yes," I said, "what a good discovery." ”

"What was found?" Hua forensic doctor said.

"I've been drinking." I said, "That would explain why this cop was so easy to get someone to steal a gun and then get a headshot." Because of excessive alcohol consumption, he fell asleep in the taxi and was easily handed over the gun. Alas, one cannot live by one's own sins, the five prohibitions are not observed, and one drinks wine and carries a gun, which is self-digging a grave. ”

"But," said the Chinese forensic doctor, "this man's gun holster is hidden under his coat, how does the average taxi driver know that he has a gun?" ”

I shook my head, also puzzled, and said, "Even if you fall asleep in the car, the taxi driver should not be able to see it." Maybe the taxi driver knows this cop and knows he has a gun? ”

Everyone is looking down and thinking.

After analyzing the contents of the deceased's stomach, I said: "The deceased drank alcohol, ate enough, and should have been killed five hours after the last meal." That is to say, if the deceased had eaten at six or seven o'clock at the normal time, he would have been killed at eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening. In the middle of these few hours, what did the deceased do? ”

"It must have been a second drink." The Chinese forensic doctor said, "If the deceased had been drinking alcohol at dinner, then after five hours, the taste of alcohol in the stomach would not have been so heavy." Only maybe I went for a drink again after dinner. ”

"It's really more popular than the dead," Dabao said, "our dinner is estimated to be another noodle, and the second session should be instant noodles." ”

I used hemostatic forceps to pick out a small particle in the stomach of the deceased, put it on the glove and pinched it, saying, "The Forensic Doctor Hua guessed correctly." This thing is a pistachio, and there can be no pistachios for dinner. So, it's likely to go drinking K songs. ”

"Anyway, the death of the deceased was two days ago," Dabao said, "once the source of the body is found, these circumstances will be easy to investigate." Or shall we start sewing? ”

I nodded and said, "You sew." ”

I struggled to straighten up and stomp my feet desperately, one pair of feet as if they had gone completely numb. I took off my dissection gown, walked over to the stone pit where the body had been exhumed, and crouched to watch.

Dabao and Hua forensic doctors sewed up the body, walked over to me and said, "Otherwise, let's go back to the county seat?"

I shook my head and said, "When I dissected the corpse, I always felt that I could smell a foul smell, not from this corpse." I just walked to the side of this pit and felt that the smell seemed to be more obvious. ”

Dabao sucked in his nose and said, "Don't say it yet, I seem to smell it too." "Also," I said, "is this mountain a mountain of stone or a mountain of earth?" ”

The Chinese forensic doctor called the village chief, who had been nearby as a witness to the on-site investigation, and the village chief said, "This side is all magma layers, and under the magma layer is soil." ”

"We saw that the pit where the body was buried was surrounded by small pieces of stone, even the bottom of the pit." I picked up a stone and smashed it into the bottom of the pit and said, "But the body is covered with stones and soil." Where did this soil come from? ”

"You mean there's something at the bottom of the pit?" Dabao narrowed his eyes and said, "Someone dug a pit that dug into the soil layer, so the depth of this pit should not be only so shallow, but also deeper?" ”

I nodded.

Dabao was anxious, and immediately picked up a shovel from the side and said, "I'll dig and see." ”

I stopped Dabao and said, "If there is a bomb below, you dig it up, and we're all doomed." ”

I called a colleague from the bomb disposal team, probed it with a metal detector, determined that the bottom of the pit was not a bomb, and then began to dig the pit with Dabao and Hua Forensic.

After a few shovels, we found something. As the odor became more and more pronounced, a green human hand was revealed in the soil at the bottom of the pit.

Several of us exclaimed in surprise, and the village chief next to us squatted down in fright and covered his eyes.

"I suppose," I said, "that's definitely not a coincidence. ”

"It's not a coincidence, it's not a coincidence," said the village chief, covering his eyes, "that no one will be buried here, and the cemetery is on the western slope of Shanxi." ”

Our exclamations drew in another group of colleagues from the bomb disposal team, all of whom picked up shovels and worked together to exhum a moderately corrupt body.

I shook the corpse's clothes, shaking off the dust on them, revealing a dress that resembled work clothes.

While wiping away the dust on the corpse's face, I looked for captain Zhao to ask for a picture of the suspect, the taxi driver Qi Xian, looked at it and said, "What else is Qi Xian, Qi Xian is lying here." ”

"This corpse is Qi Xian?" Captain Zhao quickly walked over and compared the photos.

"Well, what kind of person is this criminal," Dabao said, "kill both of them?" ”

"No," I shook my head, "looking at the level of corruption, Qi Xian has been dead for about half a month, and the policeman has only been dead for two days." ”

"That is to say, Qi Xian died first, and it was not Qi Xian who killed the police?" Captain Zhao said.

"Yes," I said, "I reckon it should be a case of first robbing a taxi driver and then posing as a taxi driver and then impersonating a taxi driver to rob and kill a policeman." ”

Captain Zhao let out an "Oh" sound, and his eyes were full of confusion. The case instantly entered an impasse again, the clues were broken, and it was not known where to start.

At this time, night has fallen, and it is impossible to see the other party's eyebrows clearly from three meters away. The forensic doctor looked at the sky and said, "But what should I do now?" I mean what to do with the body? ”

"What else can I do?" I spread my hands and said, "Put on your dissection suit and keep drying." ”

"However," said the forensic doctor with a look of embarrassment, "there must be more than ten degrees Celsius at night in this mountain, and we will squat here for a few hours, I am afraid that we will not be able to stand it." Moreover, there are wild beasts in the mountains.

As soon as he finished speaking, it was as if he heard the howl of a beast in the mountains in the distance.

I smiled and said, "What if not?" Let the corpse lie here for another night, or will you use a police car to pull the body back to the county seat? ”

The Forensic Doctor shook his head, obviously neither way could be said.

I said, "That's it." Since there is no way, there is only overnight work. Besides, with so many people, would the beast dare to come? It was also sent to us for a late night snack. ”

Together with Dabao, I carried the body to the side of the survey car with a plastic sheet, and then asked Captain Zhao to climb to the roof of the car and set up the survey light on the roof. With the roar of the on-board generator, the survey light emitted two snowy rays.

"You see," I clapped my hands, and said, "this new survey car is an ox, and this is simply a searchlight, better than the light in the daytime." ”

"Hurry up," captain Zhao said, "the oil in the car, in addition to what is needed to go back, can only support this generator for three hours." ”

"Three hours is enough." I pointed to a few police cars next to the survey cars and said, "Trouble leave two people and one car waiting for us for a while, so we can also have one more mobile refueling truck, just in case." ”

"Maybe you can help us have a late night snack." Dabao added.

Qi Xian was strangled to death by others, and his whole body was sprinkled with salt.

We found signs of suffocation from Qi Xian's eyelid conjunctiva, nails, lips and other parts, and we can determine that Qi Xian died of mechanical asphyxiation. After cutting Qi Xian's neck, it was found that there was a deep cord groove in the skin of the neck, which was horizontal and hollowed out at the back of the neck, indicating that the murderer strangled the neck of the deceased with a ribbon object on the back seat. The trench is wider than the general strangled trench, and it looks like the object of the murder is not a rope, but a soft band. There is a large amount of epidermal peeling around the suogou, which not only proves that this is a pre-life injury, but also confirms that the deceased had undergone a fierce struggle before dying.

The putrid smell of the corpse is mixed with the smell of coarse salt, making it difficult to suppress the tumbling in the stomach in the cold air.

"How can this murderer have fun sprinkling salt on a corpse?" Dabao said, "It seems to be a person who likes to eat cured meat, but he doesn't know how to make cured meat." ”

I didn't answer, but in my heart I agreed with Dabao's deduction. I opened the skull cavity, chest energy and abdomen of the deceased in turn, and found that the deceased's internal organs were bruised, and there were obvious bleeding points, and the temporal bone rock was bleeding, which also confirmed that the deceased died of strangulation before death.

"That, that," Dabao opened his mouth, and a white breath came out, "almost?" I really didn't expect it to be so cold at night in the mountains. Freeze me to death! ”

The Hua forensic doctor stitched the last stitch with his frozen hand and said, "Qi... Work together! Put the body in the pit and cover it with plastic film. I have already contacted the funeral home in the city tomorrow and someone will pull the body back to be frozen. Wait for the family of the deceased to claim it before deciding whether to be cremated or buried. ”

"Are the people from the city's funeral parlor coming?" I raised my sleeve to wipe the snot that kept flowing out, but because the autopsy suit was plastic, there was really no way to wipe it clean, and the snot dried up and solidified on the lips, and I couldn't even say anything. I said, "That's really good, come all the way here." ”

"Che, when are you Lei Feng in the new era?" Hua Forensic Doctor said dismissively, "The bureau paid a lot of money, and the director personally went to ask them, and finally agreed to come during the day." You say that they all serve the people, so why is the gap between people so big? ”

I smiled, picked up Qi Xian's hands, and looked at the bright light of the survey lamp.

"That, you're still here... What else are you looking at? Dabao inhaled and huddled together and stomped his feet beside me.

"I'm thinking," I said, wiping my nose, "that even if the person who grabbed the taxi was caught, it wouldn't be confirmed that the person killed Qi Xian, after all, the taxi had been destroyed." ”

"Why can't it be proven?" The Forensic Doctor Hua said, "If the murderer hid the policeman's gun, it is good evidence." He used the taxi to hijack the police, so he would have a gun. Where did his taxi come from? Only the robbery of the taxi driver can come. ”

"What if he said the taxi was picked up?" I said, "After all, there is no way to prove that Qi Xian was killed in the car, only that the police were killed in the car." ”

Isn't that? Hua forensic doctor said.

"As soon as the lawyer intervenes, it is difficult to say anything, so we have to solidify the evidence chain." I was still looking at Xian's hands.

"The bureau sent a text message," said Captain Zhao, who had been accompanying us and jumping around us like a rabbit, "the explosive load may extract the killer's DNA, because there is a part that may have punctured the murderer's finger." ”

"Then why didn't you say it earlier?" Dabao said, "I'm freezing to death." ”

I said, "DNA only proves that the murderer came here, that he was experimenting with bombs, that he drove the taxi involved and left the scene, that he killed the taxi driver." ”

"I think it can be proven." Dabao said, "It can't be someone else who killed Qi Xian, buried him here, and then discarded the car, and then the murderer used the taxi to rob and kill the police, and also buried in the same pit, right?" The point is that they all sprinkle salt on the corpses, and this method is also unique. Could there be such a coincidence in the world? ”

"The lawyer will say yes." I said, "Don't talk nonsense, cut off the nails of the deceased and go for a micro physical examination." ”

The Forensic Doctor Hua also looked over at Qi Xian's hand and said, "Did you find anything?" ”

I nodded, "There's some stuffy stuff in my fingernails." The deceased had a fierce struggle before death, and there was no binding injury to his hands, so out of instinct, the deceased would use his hands to grasp the rope buckle that strangled his neck. If there is a plush substance on the buckle, it can be the same as the identification inside the nails of the deceased. ”

Simply burying the body, I slowly removed my autopsy suit. I found that Dabao, who had always talked a lot, was already cold, and he was standing next to me with a pale face. Dabao's snot had been frozen into ice and hung on the tip of his nose, as if his nose had grown.

I broke the ice at the tip of Dabao's nose and said, "You, are you all right?" ”

Dabao shook his head, turned his head and ran into the air-conditioned, warm survey car without saying a word, constantly rubbing his hands.

The next morning, Dabao recovered, but I had a serious cold.

On the way to the task force, Dabao has been laughing at my fat body, and even this little wind chill can't resist. I gave him a blank look and said I didn't know whose nose had grown last night.

Lin Tao was waiting for us in the task force with an excited face.

"Qi Xian died of mechanical asphyxiation, the murderer violently abused from behind, and the murder weapon may be a band with fuzz on it." I said, "That cop should have gone to drink K-song again after dinner, drank too much, fell asleep in a taxi, and was killed by the killer after stealing the gun." ”

"Where should I start now?" The director of the county public security bureau was dispatched by the provincial department to handle a special case, so the main special case meeting was held by the deputy county chief in charge of public security. As soon as he entered the room, he put on an arrogant face and slowly swept everyone over.

"It's easy," Captain Zhao said, seemingly unkind to this deputy county magistrate who did not understand public security business, "and when the source of this policeman's body was found, everything was solved." We've checked, and this policeman is certainly not from our county bureau. ”

"How to solve it?" The deputy county magistrate heard captain Zhao's unspoken meaning, "Even if you find someone, can you find out which taxi he took in the end?" ”

"We have our way." Captain Zhao was a little underwhelmed.

"The corpse source will soon be able to have results," Lin Tao broke the awkward atmosphere, saying, "We not only found the DNA of the third male in addition to the two dead people in the taxi, but also found the shell casing." According to the shell analysis, this gun was built on the file and was the gun of the neighboring Shanbei Province Public Security. The specific gun has been checked, and it is estimated that the results will be available in a while. ”

"Nice!" The deputy county magistrate raised his eyebrows and said, "But Dongqiao County, the closest county in shanbei, is also more than three hundred kilometers away from us!" Did this policeman come to us to corrupt us, or did the murderer go to Dongqiao County to commit crimes? ”

Lin Tao shrugged his shoulders and said, "If you find the source of the corpse, you should know it." ”

"This third person's DNA stains were found on the steering wheel and belong to the same person as the blood stains adhered to the explosives." The director of the technical team of the county public security bureau said, "This should be the blood of the murderer." In addition, the trace physical evidence in the fingernails of the deceased given to us by Section Chief Qin should be wool substances after examination. ”

A young policewoman from the intelligence section of the county bureau suddenly pushed open the door of the task force, ventured in, and found that everyone was looking at her doubtfully, and her face immediately turned red.

"How come there are no rules at all?" Captain Zhao said.

"There is... Yes...... There is progress. The policewoman said breathlessly.

"What's the hurry?" Captain Zhao said, "There is something to say." ”

The policewoman swallowed her spit and said, "The source of the body was found, and it was Feng Qiang, director of the Chengguan Police Station of the Dongqiao County Public Security Bureau." ”

"Has he had a business trip lately?" Captain Zhao was most concerned about the location of the crime.

"Sure not, I was in Dongqiao County before I disappeared, and I disappeared after going to KTV with a few local bosses two days ago." The policewoman said.

"It seems that this murderer is not simple, pulling the body for hundreds of kilometers to bury." Captain Zhao said.

I took a sip of water and said, "Not surprising. Many criminals find familiar places to bury their bodies so they can find the sense of security they need. ”

"Can you find something out of the city surveillance?" The deputy county magistrate was eager to show his achievements in developing urban surveillance.

"These tasks have been done long ago," Captain Zhao said, "the camera performance is poor, and it is impossible to see the license plate number at night." ”

The county magistrate opened his mouth and finally did not make a sound.

"Our team has rushed to the East Bridge and there may be some clues in the surveillance of KTV." The policewoman added, "The working group asked the task force, do you still want to go to people?" ”

Captain Zhao looked at me and asked for my opinion.

I shook my head and said, "Since the criminal is familiar with the geography on our side, and he first hijacked the taxi driver on our side to get the vehicle, it means that he should be on our side." So, I think it's better for us to stay and wait for news. Once a suspect is available, it is also possible to search his home. ”

Captain Zhao nodded in agreement, the deputy county magistrate announced the adjournment of the meeting, and everyone put away their notebooks and returned to their posts, anxiously waiting for the working group that rushed to Dongqiao County to send back the good news.

I sat in front of the computer in the hotel and looked through the pictures of the case. Suddenly, the circular police badge imprint on the taxi seat aroused my strong interest. I zoomed in on the picture and looked it upside down, always feeling a hint of familiarity.

Suddenly, a bright light flashed in the brain of the cold, and I couldn't wait to plug in the U disk and open the whole case information of the "Yuntai case".

I stared at the computer screen and flipped through the photos of several cases of the "Yuntai case" in front of my eyes. My Billion Miles always feels as if I have seen a similar circular imprint there, is it difficult to become the day when the "Yuntai Case" is broken today?

After three hours of motionlessness, I finally found the picture in my head.

This is a photo of the scene of the rape of the female student after the murder of the female student three years ago, and there is a fresh buttock print next to the victim female student, which is excluded by the comparison of the traces at the scene. The buttocks print by dry does not have any specific characteristics, so it has not been taken seriously. When I first looked at the photos of this case, I vaguely felt that there was an imprint on the edge of the hip print, but I did not go to the picture processing, so I only left an impression.

I called in the image processing professional of the county bureau public security, and in less than an hour, I processed the edge of the hip print of this picture ten times clearer. That's the imprint of a police uniform button!

I was so happy that I was a little confused, I groped out my mobile phone and dialed the phone of the Huang Detachment: "Brother Master, Brother Master, I found a major clue in the 'Yuntai case'!" Absolutely significant clues! ”

The Yellow Detachment was in a meeting and lowered its voice and asked, "What clue?" ”

"I found an imprint that could tell if the killer was someone wearing police pants." I say.

"Police?" Huang Detachment asked in surprise.

"Not necessarily, it may also be a security guard, a city manager or something," I said, "and it is possible for any profession that wears a uniform that imitates a police uniform." ”

Huang Detachment was quiet for a moment, then said, "What's the use of that?" We don't have any clue now, no matter what profession he has, as long as there is a suspicion, he will pull it to do DNA testing. In addition, do you dare to say that except for the profession of wearing uniforms, there is no need to check? ”

In the words of the Huang Detachment, I lost my voice. Indeed, what if the murderer had any relatives and friends who were related to the profession, and the extra pants were worn for him? In short, it should be premised on DNA testing.

I said, "That's what I said, so keep touching it, but I think it's important to look for it." ”

"Got it." The Huang detachment hung up the phone.

I lay on my back on the bed and looked at the ceiling. When will this demon be able to subdue the Fa?

At dinner time, I walked downstairs to the restaurant for a buffet. Just two sips, the phone rang, and I had a hunch that it was good news!

"Did you eat it?" Captain Zhao asked.

"Well, I'm eating." I shoved something into my mouth, and I knew I was about to rush to the task force.

"There was a major breakthrough in the case, and the task force held an emergency meeting ten minutes later."

The case did make a major breakthrough, which made me lament the efficiency of the investigators.

Through the retrieval of surveillance video from Yinghuang KTV in Dongqiao County, it was found that three days ago, that is, the night of Feng Qiang's death, he had some disputes with a strange man.

From the surveillance video footage, it can be seen that Feng Qiang and a strange man are pulling a DJ princess, and a group of waiters are pulling the bias frame, which is obviously biased towards Feng Qiang. The strange man kicked Feng Qiang, who obviously drank too much and immediately fell to the ground. Then, Feng Qiang got up from the ground, pulled out a pistol from his waist, and pointed at the strange man's head. In the end, it was the strange man who knelt down and compromised and left the KTV.

"In fact, video surveillance has been seen very clearly." Captain Zhao said, "From the investigation, I learned that Feng Qiang went to KTV with several businessmen that night and asked a certain DJ princess to accompany the wine, and at this time the princess was accompanying this strange man." So Feng Qiang went to the strange man's private room to rob people, and the following dispute occurred. ”

"This strange man is consuming alone?" I asked.

Captain Zhao nodded and said, "He's alone." ”

"Wouldn't it be the princess's lover?" I asked.

"This princess denies it, and we're reviewing it." Captain Zhao said.

"This is a cop, it's a bully." Dabao's face was contemptuous, "Death is more than worthy." ”

"In short," Captain Zhao said, "the man in the video is suspected of committing a major crime." We have taken clear positive pictures of him from surveillance and are currently checking his identity, and if he is from our county, we can be sure that the murderer is him. ”

"This investigation is not so easy, right?" Can you find it? There seemed to be some contempt in the deputy county magistrate's tone.

Captain Zhao didn't say a word.

I was also irritated by the deputy county magistrate's gesture, and I said, "I think we'll be able to find out the whereabouts of this man soon." ”

Everyone, including Captain Zhao, looked at me in surprise.

I paused. After sorting out his train of thought, he said: "The murderer's choice of Feng Qiang can be said to be accidental, there is no target, but the choice of Qi Xian must be targeted. ”

"Why do you say that?" Captain Zhao was also thinking.

I said, "You think, the murderer killed Qi Xian for nearly half a month before he went to Dongqiao to kill Feng Qiang." If Qi Xian has a family member, and the family member will report the crime immediately after Qi Xian and his taxi disappear, then does this murderer dare to drive the stolen taxi between the county town or between the county seat and Dongqiao County? ”

"Yes," captain Zhao said, "if Qi Xian had family members, we would have received a report that the traffic police department would have found this taxi without any disguise." ”

"In other words," I said, "the murderer should know very well about Qi Xian," and he knew that even if Qi Xian disappeared, no family or friends would go looking for him, so he dared to drive around in his car like this." ”

"Understood," Dabao interrupted me, "you mean that the murderer may not know Feng Qiang, but he must know Qi Xian, and he knows Qi Xian's situation very well." ”

I nodded and said, "Qi Xian is an otaku and generally doesn't deal with people, so the most likely place for him to know others is the noodle restaurant where he goes to dinner every day." ”

"Great idea!" Captain Zhao glanced at the deputy county magistrate, held his head high, and said, "We only need to show this photo to the noodle shop owner, maybe there will be a clue, are you right?" ”

I didn't answer, I looked at the deputy county magistrate who was drinking tea with his head down, and thought to himself, Do you dare to look down on our criminal police in the future?

"And, don't forget," Dabao was afraid that we would ignore his discovery, "this murderer is probably a man who likes to eat cured meat, but does not make it." Sprinkling salt on corpses is a rare method. ”

Things went more smoothly than expected, and the noodle shop owner only took one look and recognized the person in the photo as Ge Mengmeng, who lived in the neighborhood next to the taxi company.

We searched Ge Mengmeng's residence by the way, and not only found the raw materials and tools for making bombs, but also secretly obtained Ge Mengmeng's DNA.

Most importantly, we found a map on Ge Mengmeng's desk. This is a full map of Dongqiao County, and several places are circled with red pen on the map.

"Fortunately, we solved the case in time!" Captain Zhao exclaimed, "This guy is going to rob the bank!" ”

I thought I would witness a shootout, but unfortunately the reality wasn't as exciting as it was in the movies. That night, the investigators took advantage of Ge Mengmeng's deep sleep at home to quietly open the door of his home and capture him in his own bed. Ge Mengmeng was snoring happily even at the moment before he was handcuffed.

Ge Mengmeng, a native of Dongqiao County, came to work in the county five years ago, but accidentally contracted a drug addiction.

Once infected with drug addiction, it was like being connected to a never-ending vampire machine, and the savings of several years were quickly used up, and Ge Mengmeng could only move crooked ideas.

He took some textbook methods and slowly collected the various materials and tools needed to make bombs. At the same time, he hijacks Qi Xian, whom he knows in the noodle shop, and robs his taxi as a means of transportation to rob a bank.

After making the bomb, he drove to various banks in Dongqiao County to step on the spot. In the process of stepping on the point, a sudden burst of desire, so he decided to go to the less formal KTV to find some fun.

Unexpectedly, he encountered the ground snake, Feng Qiang.

On the surface, Ge Mengmeng fell to his knees and begged for forgiveness, but no one knew how happy Ge Mengmeng was at this time. He felt that God was helping him, that he was going to rob the bank, and that he needed a gun in addition to a bomb that could shatter bulletproof glass.

Ge Mengmeng came out of the KTV and drove the hijacked taxi to hide at the door. Until he saw Feng Qiang staggering out, he quickly put on his big ear hat and drove the taxi to Feng Qiang's side.

Feng Qiang got into the thief's car without noticing it, and slept in the thief's car. Of course, he ended his life in his own dream.

As Dabao said, Ge Mengmeng is indeed a meatless person, and the sausages and cured meat in the noodle restaurant are the delicacies he must order every meal. Before he buried the body, he sprinkled the body with salt blocks, that is, to make the body like a sausage and ham not decay and not be discovered. As long as he survives until the day when he succeeds in robbing the bank, no one will be able to catch him.

If it weren't for the tomb robber Shen San's ghost who sent the gods to meet Ge Mengmeng, this addict's plan would have continued. He would redevelop the bomb, and the police in Dongqiao County would look for the missing director and the director's gun like a headless fly.

"I think so," Lin Tao said on the way back, "Qi Xian is really quite tragic, honestly a man, it was hard to know a friend, and he was actually killed by this friend."

I smiled and said, "I'm not careful to make friends." I am also a careless friend, why don't you two go to the driver's license test? ”

"That director is even more hateful," Dabao said, "no wonder the police have a bad reputation, it's all these scum that affect our image." The image we accumulated by breaking a hundred cases was destroyed by their one overlord meal. ”

"At what day, all the policemen will not be happy," I sighed, said, "all the police can really do one thing for the people, this society will be really stable." Don't complain, let's be ourselves! ”