stjorthotic Chapter 1041 3 corpses
Chapter 1041 3 corpses
Chapter 1041 Three Corpses
Forward area.
The banks of the Taiwan River.
The green grass sways with the waves.
The wind blew the grass low, and the rotten white corpse trembled from time to time under the sunlight. When I walked closer, I found that it was the maggots hiding.
"The person has been dead for more than 10 days." Jiang Yuan arrived at the scene, observed the appearance of the body, and came to a conclusion immediately.
"The time of death is not far from the previous two bodies." Shen Feihong, captain of the Qinghe City Criminal Police Detachment, was waiting for Jiang Yuan at the scene.
In fact, he was half of Jiang Yuan's superior. But because of Huang Qiangmin in between, Shen Feihong was always polite.
However, the Criminal Police Brigade is the most front-line unit after all. There were three consecutive murders with certain similarities. Shen Feihong did not need anyone to remind him. He immediately linked them together.
"Indeed." Jiang Yuan nodded slowly, then he opened the body and looked at the conditions of several broken ends.
The broken ends with rotting flesh were not as obvious as pure bones, so one had to look at them for a little longer. Jiang Yuan squatted beside the corpse, and his legs and feet soon felt numb.
The soft mud on the river bank not only makes it easy to leave traces, but also makes life more difficult for the police.
The body's head had been cut off, as had all ten fingers and toes.
Jiang Yuan looked at them one by one, spending quite a while before turning around and shouting, "Come, two people, lift me up, my feet are numb."
Mu Zhiyang, who had been staying far away in order not to disturb the scene, hurried over and, together with a trace inspector next to him, carried Jiang Yuan from the corpse to Shen Feihong at the back.
Jiang Yuan was tall and had long legs, and was being carried by two people. The contrast was so strong that Shen Feihong couldn't help but smile.
In a flash, Shen Feihong realized that he was at a crime scene and quickly lowered his head and put on a mask.
"How is it?" Shen Feihong looked at Jiang Yuan expectantly.
Jiang Yuan stretched his arms and legs and said, "It is confirmed that it was done by the same person and cut with the same knife."
"Wow...killing three people in a row?" Shen Feihong thought of a lot of things at once.
"About one person is killed every three days." Jiang Yuan replied.
Shen Feihong was stunned: "What do you mean?"
"As of today, the three bodies died 12 days, 15 days, and 18 days ago, exactly three days apart." Jiang Yuan also gave as much information as possible.
However, the level of information Jiang Yuan provided was far beyond Shen Feihong's expectations.
As an experienced criminal policeman, Shen Feihong was more surprised when he looked at Jiang Yuan than when he saw a corpse. For a moment, Shen Feihong even suspected that Jiang Yuan had killed the man.
The time given is so accurate!
Fortunately, there is always someone around Jiang Yuan every day.
Shen Feihong's mind raced, and he immediately thought of the same knife that Jiang Yuan had mentioned earlier, and asked again: "Same murderer, why didn't he change the knife?"
Killing people makes the knife blunt, which is a truth that many modern people do not understand. Just like the old storytelling or martial arts novels, they always like to give the protagonist a magic weapon, otherwise, it would be difficult for him to kill from one street to the other.
Jiang Yuan was also concerned about this matter. He nodded and said, "The blade used should be a sharp blade similar to a chef's knife, which has been sharpened. There are test wounds near the victim's wound. Logically speaking, the victim should have been controlled, then killed, and accurately dismembered."
"Chef? But there are almost no chefs who use chef's knives in Qinghe." Shen Feihong thought as he spoke. He thought quickly and spoke even faster: "Why is it in Qinghe? There are usually no major cases in Qinghe City, let alone a guy who killed three people in one breath. He is a serial killer..."
Jiang Yuan has handled many cases in Qinghe City, but his contacts with Shen Feihong were mainly in a superior-subordinate relationship. But now, listening to Shen Feihong's words, he couldn't help but whispered, "Jianyuan Pharmaceutical."
Shen Feihong was suddenly speechless.
Jianyuan Pharmaceutical is a big drug lord who has committed countless crimes. If you count them separately, they are worth thousands of death sentences. Jianyuan Pharmaceutical used to be a pillar enterprise in Qinghe City.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with saying that Qinghe City had a good security environment in the past. It is just like if there is a nest of snakes in your house, it is normal that there are no rats in the room.
"Shen Zhi, I will transport the body back to Ningtai County and handle the case together?" Jiang Yuan asked Shen Feihong.
Shen Feihong nodded without thinking: "Pull it back. Do you want to maintain the scene?"
"After collecting the body, I will conduct an on-site investigation." Jiang Yuan said as he changed into gloves and other items.
Logically speaking, Ningtai County is a county under the jurisdiction of Qinghe City. If there are homicides in both places, the normal practice is for Qinghe City Bureau to upgrade its management and let the Qinghe City Criminal Police Detachment solve and manage the cases. However, there is no fixed number for this. Some prefecture-level cities mainly provide guidance, and almost all front-line business is handed over to district and county police, so naturally there is no jurisdiction issue.
In Qinghe City, the Criminal Police Brigade is doing business, but it would be a bit boring to take away the cases that Jiang Yuan is in charge of. Apart from other things, the cases that the trace inspection in Qinghe City is currently handling still require fingerprints to be sent to Jiang Yuan for comparison from time to time.
Wang Lan, Miao Ruixiang, Jiang Yuan, and two criminal police officers worked together to put the body into a body bag.
The body without a head was significantly lighter. Taking into account the decomposition factor, Jiang Yuan estimated that the weight of the female victim should be less than 100 kilograms. Of course, this estimate is not very accurate, because there is no scientific conclusion on how heavy a human head is, or even how much it weighs on average.
No one, including the medical examiners, would get a large number of corpses and remove the heads to weigh them evenly. Because weighing them would be useless, as people were more concerned about the fresh weight of the heads, and most of the corpses that the medical examiners could get were severely dehydrated.
There is a saying in the medical community that the head weighs seven and a half kilograms, but the origin of this saying remains a mystery.
Jiang Yuan watched the body being loaded into the car, and then began to investigate the scene bit by bit.
He did not go to the scene of the first two bodies. The scene of the first body was handled by the local criminal police, and the second body... there were only five fingers in total, so it was not a scene at all.
As for here...
Jiang Yuan walked around in his rubber shoes and just sighed: "The body rushed up."
Those who rush up are the second or even the third scene, and the amount of information here is much less than that of the first scene.
Jiang Yuan looked and thought at the same time, and it took him less than 20 minutes to walk out of the cordon.
"How is it?" Shen Feihong asked expectantly.
"Let's call Chief Liu over. He will definitely like this case." Jiang Yuan said, and then said, "As for body number three, I plan to try forensic botany to determine the exact location where the body fell into the water first."
Shen Feihong's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said hurriedly: "Forensic botany should be able to accurately determine the victim's fall into the water, right? If the time of death is relatively certain, and we check the surveillance or technical investigation... the murderer will definitely not expect that we can accurately determine the place where the victim fell into the water..."
The same technique, when used in case number 2 with five severed fingers, did not work very well. The murderer had obviously paid extra attention to hiding himself.
In contrast, the technique of using forensic botany to determine the point of falling into the water is a flaw that the murderer would find difficult to realize.
In this sense, forensic botany is like a new weapon on the battlefield, and opponents have to pay a price to understand and avoid it.
Shen Feihong felt that there was a chance, his thoughts raced, and he spoke quickly: "In this case, the murderer killed three people in a short period of time, and all of them used very professional methods. We really need to pay special attention to it. Using new technologies and new methods is a very good idea..."
"For comparison, we need to take samples every 50 meters upstream of Taihe River along the site where the body was found..." Jiang Yuan repeated what he had said to the leaders of Qingshi City.
It is Jiang Yuan’s established plan to create a database of relevant plants in Taihe River. It is just a matter of sooner or later.
Shen Feihong felt a chill in his heart when he heard this.
Jianyuan Pharmaceutical is gone, and the Qinghe Municipal Bureau is already going through hard times...
"Let's call Qiao Shengli." Jiang Yuan turned to Wang Chuanxing and said, as if he had tacitly agreed that Shen Feihong would agree.
Of course, if this project is to be carried out, Shen Feihong's consent is necessary. Even if Shen Feihong agrees, it will be useless because the director or even a small meeting must be held to decide.
But how could Shen Feihong refuse?
"Didn't the previous fingerprints reveal the identity of a victim? Will there be any results if we continue investigating that victim?" Shen Feihong changed his train of thought as quickly as possible.
Jiang Yuan pondered and said, "We are also investigating the victim's interpersonal relationships and his movements on that day, but there is no result yet. Currently, we only know the identity of one of the three victims. If we can find the identity of another person, we can do a cross-comparison and look for correlations..."
Shen Feihong: "Generally speaking, it's like this..."
At this time, Huang Qiangmin came over and said in a penetrating tone: "Shen Zhi, Taihe's database must be built sooner or later. The sooner it is built, the sooner it can be enjoyed."
"Will it cost less to build it later?" Shen Feihong said helplessly.
"It would have been built later only if there had been no murder." Huang Qiangmin spread his hands.
(End of this chapter)