Tiger Police

Chapter 68 Murder Case
Hu Pingtao didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Director, what are you talking about! We have nothing to do with that matter."

Liao Qiuyin smiled and asked, "Do you have any photos? Show me."

It just so happened that Su Xiaolin posted a location on WeChat. It was a nice restaurant with a few photos of herself and the dishes, along with an explanation, "My colleagues and I had lunch here at noon".

Liao Qiu glanced at Hu Pingtao's cell phone, his eyes suddenly enlarged, and he was full of praise: "It's very beautiful! No wonder you don't like Director Luo's daughter."

Hu Pingtao felt that the more he explained, the darker he became, so he simply took back his phone and sat in a chair, too lazy to respond.

Liao Qiu thought to himself: "It seems that this girl likes you very much, and she even wants to report to you where she goes to eat. Xiaohu, you have to do this, so that she will be obedient to you. In the future, she will ask for instructions early and report later, saying If you don’t dare to go east and west, if you hold the family’s financial power firmly in your hands, then you will be consummated.”

Hu Pingtao couldn't help laughing: "Director, you seem to be talking about sister-in-law, right?"

Liao Qiu was at a loss for words, squinted at him, spewed out deep resentment from his nostrils, speeded up, and drove towards the police station.

……

Less than 10 minutes after returning to the office, I received a police call from 110: a homicide occurred in Jinchang Community.

Liao Qiu rushed to the scene with Hu Pingtao and others.

Jinchang Community is an old community with more than 20 buildings, all with six floors.There is no fence built around the community, and the green belt is also an old-fashioned cement flower bed.Construction began in the 80s of the last century. There are only temporary buildings for parking bicycles in the community, and there are no parking spaces for cars.

The 21st floor has been cordoned off with black and yellow tape. Liao Qiu arranged for people to be on duty nearby, and non-residents of the building were not allowed to enter.From the fifth floor below, there is also a built-in line, and no one is allowed to set foot without permission.

When Hu Pingtao walked into Room [-], through the open bedroom door connected to the living room, he saw the female corpse lying on the bed.

The deceased was named Zhang Hongxia, 29 years old, and worked in a private company.

There were obvious strangle marks on the neck, a blue denim women's coat was scattered on the bed, the pillows and quilt were pushed out, but there were no ropes or anything like that.

Liao Qiu had rich experience, and he whispered to Hu Pingtao who was standing beside him, "It was a homicide, and the murderer probably took the murder weapon away."

Hu Pingtao nodded slightly: "Director, it's not our turn to take care of this case, let's report it to the criminal police team first!"

"It has been reported." Liao Qiu said: "We are temporarily responsible for maintaining order and ensuring that the scene is not damaged. When I called before, Wang Xiongjie said that you must be there."

Hu Pingtao wondered: "Why? I'm not from the criminal police team?"

"He's taken a fancy to you." Liao Qiu half-jokingly said, "You're lucky. Lei Yue and Wang Xiongjie both treat you differently. How about this? I still have something to do in the institute. I'll go there first. Wait for Wang Xiongjie to come Now, you follow him. The office will not arrange work for you these days, and try to solve this case as soon as possible, just like the drug trafficking case last time, give our office a good face and come back."

……

After Liao Qiu left, Hu Pingtao chose a relatively open location and carefully observed the murder scene.

When he was downstairs, he deliberately wiped the soles of his shoes with a paper towel, went up to the sixth floor, and wiped it again before entering the room.

Wearing gloves, the movements are slow and the walking range is not large.

During the training at the police academy, the instructor repeatedly explained: the investigation of the scene of the crime must be done carefully, and a fixed walking route must be drawn in the area to avoid damaging the scene to collect evidence as much as possible.

Taking the common two-bedroom, one-living room type as an example, the walking routes of the inspection personnel are repeated. "Y" shape, or "T" shape.Without special requirements, or under the premise that a certain corner must be sampled, everyone must follow a fixed trajectory and route.If you encounter a demanding superior leading a team, even the footprints of each person must overlap to the greatest extent.

More than ten minutes later, Wang Xiongjie came with the criminal police team.

"You came early!" He greeted Hu Pingtao with a smile, and then scanned the room: "Any clues?"

Hu Pingtao shook his head: "I just came a little earlier than you, Brother Wang, and I'm not a god. If you can find the murderer just by looking around, why do you need the police?"

"Hey! You kid, I haven't seen you for a few days, and you have learned to play with me!" Wang Xiongjie beat Hu Pingtao with words, turned sideways, and said to a police officer standing next to him: "Xiao Zhang, turn around and send me the list. Change it and put him in your group."

He immediately turned around and patted Hu Pingtao on the shoulder: "Let me introduce to you, this is Hu Pingtao from the Eryuan Road Police Station. He is temporarily seconded to our criminal police team. This is Xiao Zhang, Zhang Wenxuan, who just arrived last month newcomer."

The two shook hands politely.

Zhang Wenxuan is a young man with a weak appearance. When he spoke, his thick Adam's apple moved up and down: "Add a WeChat!"

With that said, he took out his phone and clicked on the page.

Hu Pingtao took the initiative to scan the other party's QR code business card, and sent a smiling face over there. Zhang Wenxuan clicked through, but there was no reply. He only nodded to him, then turned and left.

Wang Xiongjie took all of this into consideration, and said in a low voice: "Xiao Zhang has a cold face and a warm heart, and he doesn't talk much at ordinary times. Let's talk about the case! Come early and tell us your opinion."

Hu Pingtao was not pretentious, turned around and pointed to the open door, and said seriously: "There is no sign of prying the door lock, it should be committed by an acquaintance."

"The items in the room are neatly arranged. Walking all the way from the door, the shoe cabinets, dining tables, cabinets, and objects on the chairs were not knocked down or scattered. I looked around the room, whether in the bedroom or the bathroom, There were no signs of the fight."

Looking at the forensic doctor who was squatting beside the bed to examine the corpse, Wang Xiongjie was suddenly puzzled, turned around and asked Hu Pingtao, "Who reported the case?"

Regardless of the scene environment or the current state of the deceased, it shows that the murderer has sufficient time to commit the crime, and can even use "calmly" to describe the entire murder process.

This means that when the murderer leaves, the door will be closed and the entire room will remain sealed.

In other words, if the body is not decomposed and smelly, and the neighbors around cannot detect the problem, it is impossible for someone to report the crime.

But as far as the current situation is concerned, although the details of the forensic examination are yet to be determined, the death of the female corpse on the bed should not be too long.

"It was reported by the property management of the community." Hu Pingtao said: "They clean the corridors of the community at noon every day. The cleaning staff said that she was cleaning from the downstairs to the top. When she reached the sixth floor, she found that the room in Room [-] The door is ajar."

"Call the police when a door is opened? Isn't the vigilance of the cleaning staff high?" Wang Xiongjie questioned this.

"Brother Wang, you have to be patient, listen to me!" Hu Pingtao explained: "The property management company has regulations: During the cleaning process, if the door of the resident is found to be open, you must knock on the door and ask. If there is no response , went into the house to check, and got in touch with the resident in time. At that time, the cleaning staff knocked on the door of [-], but no one answered, so she pushed the door in and found the head of the household lying on the bed. Terrified, I ran out to call someone, and then called the police.”

Wang Xiongjie looked dignified and nodded slowly: "Call Liao Qiu later and ask him to send me a copy of the detailed transcript."

The alarm was handled by the police station, and the property management of the community and the cleaning staff who cleaned the corridor at that time had taken it back to the police station for a record.

Hu Pingtao continued: "I just looked around casually. This case is very strange. There is no trace of tampering in the house. The murderer is obviously not seeking money."

"Interesting..." The house is not big. Standing in Wang Xiongjie's position, you can see the face of the deceased: "This woman has a good figure and looks good. Since theft or robbery and murder can be ruled out with a high probability, why the deceased Keep the clothes on your body intact? It seems that it is not for the sake of sex..."

Hu Pingtao didn't respond.

He had discovered this doubt before, but whether the deceased had been violated before his death had to wait for the results of the forensic examination.

Half an hour later, the forensic doctor stood up from the bed.He walked up to Wang Xiongjie, took off his mask, and greeted Hu Pingtao with a smile: "Xiaohu, long time no see."

His name is Ding Jian, a middle-aged man in his 30s.He is very fat, and looks like he would pant when he walks, but he can pass the physical fitness assessment of the public security system every year and pass the standard.

Hu Pingtao was seconded by the anti-narcotics brigade before, and stayed in the sub-bureau for a while. Because of Wang Xiongjie, he got acquainted with the criminal police team.

Ding Jian, like Wang Xiongjie, likes to joke.

"Little Tiger, let's have dinner together tonight! I'll order you a fried pork liver." Ding Jian's fat face became rounder under the squeeze of a smile.It was something he used to say after the autopsy, to everyone.

Hu Pingtao always had a strong desire to vomit when he heard such jokes from him before.

The training at the police academy had worked out very well, and he now had a strong immunity to it.Hu Pingtao nodded and smiled and replied: "Thank you, Brother Ding. But how can a liver alone be enough? You are too stingy, let's have another intestine!"

The smile on Ding Jian's face disappeared, and he curled his lips: "I haven't seen you in a few months, you are not funny at all."

Wang Xiongjie asked: "Fatty Ding, tell me about the results of the preliminary examination."

Speaking of work, Ding Jian became particularly serious: "The deceased was an adult woman, and the cause of death was strangulation and suffocation by external force. The time of death was between midnight and two o'clock yesterday. There were no signs of struggle on the deceased's body. There are residues of sleeping pills, and the detailed results will not come out until further examination after going back."

He then added: "This woman is already pregnant. I estimate that she is about three to four months old. Her pelvis is large, her abdomen is not very protruding, and she can't see it through the clothes."

Wang Xiongjie looked serious: "When the report from the on-site investigation team comes out, let's transport the body away! Fatty Ding, hurry up and do an autopsy. It's different if you have a fetus. The family of the deceased... oh..."

He shook his head, and there was no more to say here.

Homicide cases are different from ordinary theft cases, and have a great social impact, and words such as "female deceased" and "pregnant woman" are extremely sensitive. Once they become topics on the Internet, they will quickly ferment and cause various disputes, which is extremely unfavorable to the police's detection.

Hu Pingtao asked: "Brother Ding, can you see the murder weapon used by the murderer?"

There are many kinds of strangulation marks.

Iron wire, rope, cloth strips, plastic bags... In short, any soft and resilient material can be used.Taking rope as an example, the strangulation marks of thick hemp rope and braided thin rope are very different, which can be judged by naked eyes.

The subject of Hu Pingtao's training at the police academy included traceology.But after careful comparison, he still couldn't see where the strangle marks on the neck of the female corpse came from.

Certainly not thick hemp rope or thin wire.Stretch marks are somewhere in between, with no hemp leftovers and no skin breakage from fine wire or electrical wires being twisted tightly.Hu Pingtao believed that the murder weapon should be something like a fiber belt, but he searched the scene carefully, but could not find any evidence.

In contrast, forensic doctor Ding Jian has much richer experience.He raised his hand and scratched Hu Pingtao's nose, and said with a proud "hehe" smile: "I thought you knew everything, but it seems that you are not omniscient! Come on, sing "Conquer" to my brother , I'll tell you."

Hu Pingtao knew that Ding Jian had no malicious intentions, so he put on a bitter face: "Brother Ding, just tell me! I will treat you to dinner later, and you can order whatever dishes you like."

Wang Xiongjie interjected with great interest: "How can eating be done without me?"

He immediately changed the subject and looked directly at Ding Jian: "Okay, Fatty Ding, stop playing, tell Xiaohu what you know, and then hurry back to do the autopsy. If it takes time, see if I can't kill you!"

Ding Jian smiled and took out a plastic bag from the pocket of his white coat, pinched the corner with his fingertips, and shook it in front of Hu Pingtao's eyes: "I found this on the chest of the deceased."

That's a very tiny, very short fiber.

Hu Pingtao got close to the place, looked at it for nearly 2 minutes, and asked suspiciously: "This is... stockings?"

Ding Jian snapped his fingers, with a look of approval on his face: "You have a good eye. This is core-spun silk or Lycra fiber. In short, this is a part that has come off from a stocking. Its biggest feature is that it can be easily Stretched, it quickly returns to its original shape after being released, but it is extremely tough. This is only my preliminary judgment, and the specific results will not come out until further testing."

Half an hour later, the body was carried out of the room and transported away.

Hu Pingtao walked around the rooms in sequence, and finally came to the kitchen.

The buildings in Jinchang Community are all north-south.The kitchen faces the road, and the entrance of the unit faces inward. According to the pattern of vertical three horizontal ones, every seven buildings form a "kou".

The kitchen is also neatly furnished, with all pots and pans, oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar in the cabinet, more than a dozen eggs, seasonal vegetables, two bowls of unfinished leftovers, and a small amount of lard in the refrigerator.

Looking at the open refrigerator, Wang Xiongjie said to himself: "This is a woman who cooks and eats at home."

This sentence is not without purpose.

(End of this chapter)