I'm not a super cop

Chapter 21 The Body on the Roadside

The crime took place in an urban-rural fringe area. The local police station received a report from the villagers. After arriving at the scene, it was preliminarily determined that it was murder and the body was dumped.

Due to the manpower and technical limitations of the police station, it was immediately reported to the Municipal Bureau.

Such a vicious case suddenly appeared in today's peaceful social environment, and the leaders of the city bureau paid great attention to it. They immediately decided to send special investigators, led by Captain Lei Kang, to the scene of the incident to solve the case as soon as possible.

After confirming that all the personnel had arrived, they took Xue Qingxia and Yu Yu, two forensic doctors, and the group hurried to the scene with their equipment in the car.

The incident happened next to a provincial road, surrounded by a large area of ​​farmland, and there was only one village next to it.

I heard that someone died, and there were a lot of people watching by the road. It could be seen that the enthusiasm was very high. Obviously, it was another good opportunity to watch the excitement.

When everyone arrived, colleagues at the police station were evacuating the crowd.

After breaking through the crowd and entering the scene, I could vaguely hear the whispers of the surrounding people.

"Have you heard what Aunt Jiang said? Oh, that person died a miserable death. It is said that his hands were tied, and then he was dragged behind the car, and he was dragged to death on the road!"

"Hiss—this sounds like it hurts! Look at my palms sweating from fear!"

Everyone took the masks and shoe covers, and Director Peng of the police station saw someone coming from the station, and hurried over: "Brigade Lei, you guys came fast enough!"

"Human life is at stake."

Lei Kang glanced around and said directly, "How is the scene?"

Director Peng shook his head and said, "When we rushed over, the place was already surrounded by people. Except for the corpse, no one moved, and the surrounding traces can basically be judged to be trampled."

The muscles on Lei Kang's cheeks twitched, and he said calmly, "Have you asked the reporter?"

Director Peng said: "I have already asked. The person who reported the case is Jiang Guiying, a villager from Jiang Village next door. He got up early in the morning to break corn. It turned out to be a corpse."

"Has the identity of the deceased been confirmed?" Lei Kang asked.

Director Peng said, "It's not too late yet."

"Row."

Lei Kang frowned, and ordered: "Look at the deceased first."

Xiao Ran followed into the cordon, and saw the dead body in the grass beside the road.

The deceased was wearing a blue-black coat on his upper body and blue-black trousers on his lower body. The clothes were severely damaged, and a lot of blood and mud could be seen on them, and there was a small amount of visible oil stains on the upper body.

Xue Qingxia and Yu Yu had already squatted down by the side of the road wearing gloves, and began to do a preliminary autopsy: "The deceased had an open skull fracture, about two-thirds of the entire head was missing, and only a small amount of brain tissue remained, and the base of the skull can be seen directly. The right shoulder, right hip joint, and right lower extremity were severely worn. About one-half of the right hip bone tissue was worn away, a large area of ​​the right abdominal cavity was missing, and the internal organs of the abdominal cavity were exposed, and about half of the right calcaneus was worn."

Rather than saying it was a corpse, it would be better to say it was a mutilated corpse, with only the back of the head remaining, and the flesh on the chest was almost worn away.

If the deceased was really not dragged to death like this, how much pain would it be!

However, forensic doctor Xue obviously has no association with these things. In the eyes of the forensic doctor, the corpse is no different from the little rabbits and frogs used to practice in the dissection room.

Xue Qingxia took the magnifying glass from Yu Yu, carefully observed the deceased's worn hip bone, calcaneus, and skull section, and said without any emotion: "Judging from the bone tissue, the deceased should be between 60 and 70 years old. The damage to the corpse is basically in the same plain, which overlaps heavily with the road surface, and the direction of friction is consistent with the direction of force on the ground. The scratches in the direction of the friction surface are striped, indicating that the body position of the deceased is almost unchanged when rubbing against the ground."

"In other words, the deceased was indeed dragged to death on the ground?"

The reporter, Aunt Jiang, might really be possessed by Sherlock Holmes, and she actually let her talk.

The captain of the first team, Shao Yong, was speechless: "Who is so vicious, and treats an old man so hard!"

Xue Qingxia shook her head: "It's just a preliminary judgment. The specific cause of death will have to wait for further autopsy to draw an accurate conclusion."

Lei Kang asked: "Can the time of death be determined?"

"The deceased's head was severely missing, and the cornea could not be viewed, but the muscles no longer contracted, and the plaques fused into large areas and began to develop at a high speed. According to preliminary judgments, the time of death should be around 12 hours, that is, around 7 to 8 o'clock last night." Xue Qingxia said.

"Cai Wang, immediately contact the traffic police team and ask them to investigate any suspicious vehicles or individuals passing this road between 7 and 8 o'clock last night."

Lei Kang said with a serious face: "Everyone deal with the scene as soon as possible, so as not to cause traffic jams. In addition, Shao Yong, you take Qin Zihe, Song Zhiyi and comrades from the police station to visit the surrounding area to see if there are any missing persons. Now the first thing to do is to find the source of the corpse , to understand the deceased’s relationship before his death, and to determine the cause of death of the deceased.”

"clear."

With an order, everyone got busy, and Xiao Ran and Zhang Lei surveyed the area they were in charge of together.

The scene at this time was quite difficult for the technicians. They searched all over the place with a camera, not to mention traces, and it would be considered good to find an open space without footprints.

Of course, except for the cigarette butts that can weigh a few catties after tidying up on the ground.

Zhang Lei walked through the area assigned to him with a look of death, and said with a straight face: "There is not even a single hair."

"It's normal, this is not the first scene." Xiao Ran said.

"For sure, there is a little blood under the corpse. There must be a lot of bleeding from such a serious injury. Where did his blood go? Moreover, the skull was fractured and two-thirds of it was missing. Where did the skull and brain tissue go?"

Zhang Lei nodded and said: "Didn't Team Lei and Director Peng go to the police station to mobilize the surrounding people to find the first scene? There should be news... Hey, how do you judge how this person died? Is it really like what the aunt said? , was dragged here by the back of the car with tied hands and feet?"

"It's hard to say if he was dragged here by a car, but his hands and feet must not be bound." Xiao Ran said.

Zhang Lei asked curiously, "How do you know?"

"You didn't look at the corpse. If it was dragged after being bound, there must be a clear groove in one of the three parts of the wrist, neck and ankle."

Xiao Ran touched the tip of his nose and said, "The force of dragging a human body on the ground is very large. With such force, even with pads, there will be very obvious subcutaneous bleeding... and the title of the deceased also shows that the upper limbs are not bound. , and if the lower limbs were to be bound, the deceased's ankles must have been off the ground, but his calcaneus was also worn away."

"That means the deceased was not pulled here by a rope or something."

Zhang Lei was a little confused, "Then how did he make it all the way?"

Xiao Ran frowned: "Have you pushed the burden?"

(End of this chapter)