Chapter 681: Corpses rotting in the rain

Chapter 681: Corpses rotting in the rain

The clouds in the sky are bright red.

The gathering dark clouds squeezed their position desperately, but they could only spin around the edges.

Some gray dark clouds kept throwing themselves at the red clouds, and then some of them were taken away, and then they retreated dejectedly.

Sometimes, some gray clouds will be spit out by the red clouds, floating wiltingly beside the large dark clouds, unable to blend in, unable to separate, and weak in themselves.

Tao Lu blew out a big mouthful of smoke, as if he wanted to help the dark clouds, and his whole body was full of discomfort.

Huang Qiangmin was tired and sighed and said, "Tao Zhi, why don't you go back to the office to rest first? I'll call you when the results are obtained?"

"I won't be able to rest well when I go back, so I might as well stay here." Tao Lu didn't want to leave. He was waiting for the results of Jiang Yuan's case selection. If he left now, what would happen if Jiang Yuan also got off work?

Huang Qiangmin made another cup of tea for Tao Lu, took a sip of water himself, and then said, "Jiang Yuan is serious. When he was in Ningtai, do you know how he picked cases?"

"How to choose?" Tao Lu was indeed interested. "In order." Huang Qiangmin laughed.

"In order?" Tao Lu didn't understand.

"Just take out a stack of files and solve the cases in order." Huang Qiangmin curled his lips and said, "You don't know that at that time, everyone in our county was running around. Arresting people everywhere, the county bureau's procuratorate and If the courts are too busy, and some territories can be changed, they will be sent to Qinghe City, etc. The whole city is busy!"

Tao Lu's eyes lit up when he heard this. What kind of fairy policeman was this? He must have come out of CCTV.

Huang Qiangmin continued: "Jiang Yuan is carefully selecting cases now. He is probably afraid that a big case will not be solved, and he is also afraid that the case he picked is not important enough, so he is a little entangled."

When he said this, Tao Lu not only felt comfortable, but even felt a little grateful - Jiang Yuan was really thinking about himself.

Who would specifically pick such a major case except for him?

Solving a crime is not a TV show. If you take a case but cannot solve it, it will be very troublesome. In fact, the current case system has a lifelong responsibility system. Even when you retire, someone might come to your door with a notebook and ask you about that year. case situation. And when you think of an important piece of evidence, that's when the assassin is about to arrive.

For ordinary criminal police officers, a murder case is a murder case. The detection of major cases is certainly worthy of bragging, but taking the initiative to pursue major cases really requires a big heart.

In fact, those who can solve the backlog of ordinary murder cases are already the elite among the elite.

Tao Lu lit another cigarette, handed another one to Huang Qiangmin, and said with a smile: "Don't be in a hurry, take your time, I can wait."

Huang Qiangmin smiled and nodded, and started chatting with Tao Lu again. Soon, Cui Qishan, Xiao Si and Li Jiang, who came to the task force to handle formalities, joined in the chat, and the atmosphere in the smoking area became gloomy again.

It was getting dark.

The lights in the office were dazzling.

When Tao Lu was smoking and feeling a little nauseous, he saw a super tall black figure walking out of the office.

Tao Lu immediately poked the cigarette butt deep into the flowerpot.

"Tao Zhi." Jiang Yuan called politely, and then said: "I picked a case, you take a look."

Tao Lu naturally took the file, calmed down, and couldn't help but smile. He was a little worried about gains and losses, a criminal investigation detachment who would make mistakes whenever he did something, and whose heart would stop when he heard the phone ring in the middle of the night. Long, really whoever wants to do it can do it.

After doing this for a while to mentally build up his mind, Tao Lu took a closer look at the file.

Although it was said to be a major case, Tao Lu was still shocked by the contents of the file: "The case of corpses rotting in the rain?"

As we all know, crimes committed on rainy days are more difficult to investigate. There are several key points here. For example, evidence is easily washed away by rain, and the efficiency of cameras and other equipment will also be reduced. In addition, when it rains, there are relatively fewer pedestrians and poor visibility, making it difficult to find witnesses.

Anyone who has studied a little bit of criminology will basically understand this principle. Cases such as the Rainy Night Butcher in Hong Kong were all carried out under the cover of rainy days.

It is natural that there are always some criminals who choose similar methods to commit crimes because they think they are getting their own way. But among them, there are actually not many who can make it through the backlog.

"The Case of the Rotting Corpse in the Rain" is one of them.

The victim was found on a deserted road. The path leads to an abandoned quarry. There are no cars or people passing by now. It was the nearby villagers who passed by occasionally and smelled the stench. When they went to look, they discovered the giant body.

After the criminal police team arrived, the first thing they noticed was that the area around the body had been carefully cleaned. Based on the forensic identification of the time of death, it was determined that it was raining during the two days when the body was dumped.

But if it were just like this, the case would not be named "in the rain". Instead, in the next more than two months, two similar cases were discovered in succession.

The body was dumped in the wild, and it rained before and after the time of death. The forensic doctors in the capital were very strong, and there was no problem in determining the time of death on a certain day. After the identities of the victims were successively confirmed, there were similarities: all three of them were wanderers traveling with tourists.

The unification of the three cases, coupled with the fact that each corpse and the area around the dumped body was carefully cleaned, and the victims were all serial killers' favorite sex workers, made the "raining" time point more prominent. .

Knowing how to take advantage of the weather and choose vulnerable victims, this obviously professional murderer will naturally receive special attention.

The murderer's actions also showed that his murder was planned and not impulsive.

It is actually very difficult for a normal person to have three enemies that still need to be killed after careful consideration.

Therefore, this kind of murderer essentially commits crimes for the purpose of killing, not for profit. Such speculation naturally attracted a large number of police personnel from the criminal police detachment. Especially after the third case occurred, Tao Lu not only mobilized his troops, but also Please use foreign aid from ministries and commissions and from other places.

But they failed to solve the case.

Fortunately, after the three cases, no similar cases occurred in the next half year, which made Tao Lu and others think that the murderer had disappeared.

However, the fourth case resurfaced just three years ago. It’s the same wandering warbler who accompanies tourists, the same dumping of corpses in the wild, the same dumping of corpses on rainy days and the careful cleaning of crime scenes.

Then, the murderer went into hiding again.

Tao Lu never expected that Jiang Yuan would choose this case, and couldn't help but said: "It is true that the case you chose is a serious case, but is it too difficult?"

His eyes glanced at Huang Qiangmin. Didn't you say that Jiang Yuan was choosing a serious case that was easy to detect and valuable? How did it become such a difficult and serious case?

Huang Qiangmin could understand Tao Lu's eyes, coughed twice, and first used his words to argue: "Let's just say, among the serious cases in the backlog, are any of them easy to detect? They are all serious cases that have not been solved, and it is not necessarily possible. Big cases are more difficult than small cases, right?

"The resources invested in major cases may be a hundred or a thousand times that of small cases!" Tao Lu said: "The case of corpses rotting in the rain was also reviewed by heavyweight technical experts from ministries and commissions. If it is true..."

"How long have the technical experts been watching?" Jiang Yuan did not ask who it was, and interrupted Tao Lu impolitely without waiting for Tao Lu to finish speaking.

Tao Lu recalled it with some surprise, and said: "I must have watched it for more than an hour, and then gave us more than an hour of technical analysis."

"More than an hour is just enough to read the dossier and photos. If you look at the photos for a longer time, you will have to skip through the dossier." Jiang Yuan is too familiar with the working mode of technical experts, because he This is how it works too. For most cases that come to us, it is considered a great honor to be able to devote more than an hour to them.

Technical experts provide appropriate technical guidance or counseling based on existing conditions. This is similar to a teacher giving a lecture to a student. It focuses on inspiration and support. It is impossible for them to directly help you solve the case - this service can only be provided by Huang Qiangmin. style.

Therefore, technical experts must be their own. Even if they are at a lower level, the work they do in a few hours or days is not necessarily worse than that of technical experts. Of course, if you are strong enough and can get guidance from high-level technical experts, the effect will definitely be better.

Jiang Yuan's rank is already high enough, and may even be better than the technical experts Tao Lu found.

However, most people have not yet clearly understood this.

Tao Lu hesitated for a moment, and then said: "It's up to you to decide the agreed case, and naturally it's up to you to decide. Did you see something about that?"

"I'm still suspicious for the moment, but" Jiang Yuan took the file, paused and said, "The third case is most likely a copycat crime!"

"Imitate? What?" Tao Lu was shocked. The amount of information in this was too great.

You don’t have to be a serial killer to know that to commit imitation crimes, you must first know the details and methods of the person being imitated. However, domestic and foreign countries are different. Cases of serial killers like this are not solved before or even after they are solved. The situation will definitely be announced to the public, and the announcement will be a general matter, and will rarely involve details.

So, if the third case was a copycat crime, how did the murderer learn the details?

Tao Lu was horrified when he thought about it!

Thinking further, if the third case is a copycat crime, what is the fourth case?

Jiang Yuan opened the file directly at this time and said: "Many details of the third case were in place. When I first read it, I didn't immediately notice the difference. However, when I saw the autopsy photos of the two murderers, The difference is huge. Although both daggers are used, the weight and shape of the daggers, the state and hardness of the blade are different, and the way the user applies force is even different. In this way, even if the stabbing positions are similar, they can still be distinguished. The murderer is not one person."

Jiang Yuan's trace tool identification level has reached LV6. When used at a crime scene, it can be seen what kind of tools and methods were used to create various traces. This skill is currently mainly mastered by trace inspectors. .

In the forensic pathology mastered by forensic doctors, although it is also necessary to infer the tool that caused the injury, this alone is not as good as the identification of trace tools.

In fact, Jiang Yuan's forensic pathology has reached level 4, and he can still be called a technical expert even in the capital.

Tao Lu didn't understand technology, but he understood what Jiang Yuan said, thought for a moment, and asked the last question: "Could he be an accomplice?"

"It's not ruled out, but it's not like it. Moreover, the same murder weapon and technique were used in the fourth case, which is quite special." Jiang Yuan moved his slightly stiff neck and said, "I think this discovery is enough to restart the process." The case is over.”

Tao Lu nodded confusedly and shocked.

Huang Qiangmin's mouth couldn't help but reveal a 6-degree smile. What he likes to see most now is when the criminal police captains from other cities look at his Jiangyuan in shock and stupidity.

"As expected of a big city, the cases are more fancy than those in our small county." Huang Qiangmin kept smiling.