Chapter 71 It’s better to go back

Chapter 71 It’s better to go back

Traveler Bridge is on the east side of Qinghe City.

The river here is not wide, but it is quite beautiful. The straight beam bridge is open to traffic and pedestrians. There are river and mountain views nearby. It is a good place to relax in Qinghe City.

When Liu Wenkai and others arrived, it was already 10 o'clock in the evening. The bright street lights reflected the bridge deck, which seemed to lead to an unknown place on a rainy day.

The mountains in the distance are green and green. You can't see the height or the vertical and horizontal directions. There are still only the lights on, slightly showing the outline of some mountains.

Liu Wenkai is the captain of the Second Squadron of the Ningtai County Criminal Police Brigade, and the First and Second Squadrons of the Ningtai County Criminal Police Brigade are usually responsible for solving serious crimes.

As an experienced criminal police captain in his 40s, Liu Wenkai's daily life is to deal with various complex cases.

He drove the car across the Travelers Bridge and then drove back, completing the basic observation.

There were only two people in the car, Liu Wenkai and Zhang Enze. Liu Wenkai said unabashedly: "Both sides are not prosperous areas. Find a place to jump, and it is likely that no one will see it."

"You can't see it even if someone pushes it down." Zhang Enze said.

Liu Wenkai nodded, then sighed and said: "If it was a homicide and then the body was dismembered, the first scene would not be here. There is no condition for dismemberment. After all, it is a place where people come and go, and it is not convenient."

"So, if Zhou Lei can be found in the surveillance two or three days ago, we can make a preliminary judgment that he committed suicide." Zhang Enze regained his thoughts.

"Absolutely." Liu Wenkai clapped his fingers and said: "The deceased Zhou Lei had no money, no savings, no house, no debts. Looking at it now, he has no relatives or friends, no fixed job, and his girlfriend broke up. So basically, This excludes common murder motives such as murder for wealth, murder for love, and vendetta.”

Zhang Enze's cheeks dropped when he heard this. He looked at the rain outside the window and said, "It's quite miserable."

Liu Wenkai gave a muffled "Yes", lit a cigarette, looked to the other side, and said: "Sometimes when I think about it, it's quite boring."

Zhang Enze didn't say anything again until he finished smoking, then he opened a window, threw the cigarette butt out, and said again: "How do you explain dismemberment?"

"There are boats on the river, they must be driven by propellers." Liu Wenkai said wistfully: "It's nothing new. The boats on the Taihe River are all rushing back and forth on several rivers. If they encounter a corpse, they may not Call the police."

"Then go find the surveillance camera." Zhang Enze didn't talk about looking for a boat. If it is a homicide, then for the sake of the completeness of the case, it is normal to use various means to ask all the boats that have passed through the Taihe River in the past few days. But if it is a suicide, this is an abnormal death case. Think about it again. It is not so easy to invest police resources in large quantities and for a long time.

Liu Wenkai silently took out his mobile phone and gave Huang Qiangmin a report. Then he drove to a hotel near Qiaotou in the rain and asked his boss to see the surveillance video.

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Ningtai County.

When the news from the front came back, Jiang Yuan was quite surprised. He went back to the funeral parlor, pulled out the body, and checked it again.

The broken section of the waist of the corpse is relatively flat as a whole, but if you look closely, the muscle bundles are of different lengths, and the skin flap at the broken end can still be seen, and the cutting object is not very sharp.

Jiang Yuan was inexperienced and could not directly and accurately deduce the extent of the tools from the broken state of the corpse.

However, now based on the news from the front line, the explanation of the paddle makes sense.

Especially in the remaining vertebrae, the uneven bone cross-sections suggest that there are more components of blunt pain. This also matches the cutting pattern of the paddle.

Of course, it is impossible to deduce the possibility that the oar was the only murder weapon just by analyzing the cross section. However, the knowledge of forensic anthropology will not rule out the possibility that the paddle was used as a dismemberment tool.

Jiang Yuan checked twice in a row, then breathed a sigh of relief, changed his gloves again, took a bunch of photos again, and then slowly collected the corpses.

Rinse all the dissecting table and floor with water, and then soak them in bleach solution. The same goes for the dissection instruments that have just been used, but they need to be soaked for a longer time.

When the anatomy room was tidied up and Jiang Yuan washed his hands again, Wu Jun strolled in with his hands behind his back and a mask on.

"How is it?" Wu Jun asked with a smile.

"That makes sense." Jiang Yuan brushed his hands and asked, "Can't you find the remaining bodies? How should you find them?"

"I called the cities and counties upstream and downstream and asked them if they had received the remaining half. There is no news yet. However, if it was suicide, the body should not be lost." Wu Jun paused. Then he said: "If it is really gone, then we need to re-examine the cause of death."

Jiang Yuan nodded slowly. Indeed, if it was a suicide and the body was broken by the oars, the first half of the body should appear. Especially with the recent heavy rains, the bodies will never disappear out of thin air.

Of course, you can also look at it from another angle. It is possible that continuous heavy rains washed half of the corpses into the jurisdiction of Ningtai County, while the upper half of the corpses may still be somewhere else.

But as long as no one deliberately hides it, it should still appear within a few days - in this set of inferences, the only way to hide the body is the ship that smashed the body. However, half of the body had already been thrown away, and there seemed to be no use in hiding the other half.

"Okay, don't think about it. From my experience, some things don't appear according to reason or probability. Especially in homicide cases, no matter what reason you talk about or what high probability you talk about, it's useless. The murder itself It's just a small probability." When Wu Jun said this, he paused again and said, "Wait for another two days and see what happens."

Everyone had to work overtime in the rain because the murder case had to be solved quickly and they were all scrambling for the golden 72 hours.

Now that it has basically been proven that it is not a homicide, there is no point in worrying about it.

Jiang Yuan had done all he could do, and could only clean up the anatomy room and return to the criminal police brigade.

The next day, a criminal police officer returned with the video of the day of the incident.

Jiang Yuan and Wu Jun went to the video office to watch.

The surveillance video has been sorted out. The technician in the video office simply pulled out the screenshots and images and easily locked onto Zhou Lei in the video.

Young, 170 centimeters tall and 130 pounds in weight, Zhou Lei when he was alive. You can see him getting out of the taxi, walking very slowly to the edge of the bridge, wandering, then returning to the edge of the bridge to stop, and finally walking towards the center of the bridge step by step until he was out of surveillance.

In this way, suicide is basically confirmed.

The next day, news finally came that the upper half of the body was found on a reed island several kilometers away.

Jiang Yuan and Wu Jun took the body back.

The corpse at this time was so corroded that it was impossible to look directly at it. It's hard to imagine what it looked like just a few days ago.

This time, after a simple superficial examination of the corpse, the abdominal cavity was opened first.

The huge left and right lungs almost bounced up from the chest, and the indentations of the ribs could still be seen on the surface of the lungs.

Jiang Yuan pressed it with his finger, and there was just a finger mark. Then he pressed it with his palm, and it felt like he was kneading dough.

"Water emphysema." Jiang Yuan made a simple judgment.

Wu Jun nodded. This is an important feature of drowning. It is caused by the deceased's desperate breathing before death, causing the drowning liquid, mucus and air to turn into foam, and finally be inhaled into the alveoli.

Drowning usually takes more than 6 minutes and is very painful and long, as evidenced by hydroemphysema.

Jiang Yuan made another incision on his lungs, and a large amount of foamy drowning fluid gurgled out. Fortunately, the corpse itself was rotten and the stench was strong enough to almost perfectly cover up the smell of drowning.

At this time, a shiny dumpling also rolled into Jiang Yuan's hand:

Zhou Lei's legacy - swimming (dog paddle style) (LV4) - In the small river in the village, Zhou Lei learned to swim from his friends and was very good at it. He even used his swimming skills to save another person. A little friend. After entering the city, he found that the swimming method he was best at had become the target of ridicule, so he was no longer willing to swim. At the last moment of his life, facing the turbulent river, Zhou Lei could choose to fight hard, but think about it, why bother, why not go back. Why not, go see grandma.

Jiang Yuan sighed deeply.

Forensics always see too late and can change too little. But they are no different from ordinary people. It is said that the people of Qin have no time to mourn themselves, so that future generations will mourn for them; future generations will grieve and ignore it, which will also cause future generations to mourn for future generations again.