civil forensic

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 people leave. There are river and mountain views nearby. It is a good leisure place in Qinghe City.

When Liu Wenkai and others arrived, it was already 10 o'clock in the evening, and the lit street lights reflected the bridge deck, as if leading to an unknown place in rainy days.

The distant mountains are verdant and green, and the height and the vertical and horizontal directions cannot be seen clearly. There are still only lights on, showing the outline of some mountains slightly.

Liu Wenkai is the captain of the No. [-] Squadron of the Ningtai County Criminal Police Brigade, and the No. [-] and No. [-] Squadrons of the Ningtai County Criminal Police Brigade are responsible for solving serious cases on a daily basis.

As an experienced criminal police captain in his 40s, Liu Wenkai's daily life revolves around various complicated cases.

He drove over the Traveler's Bridge, and then drove back, and he had completed his basic observations.

There were only Liu Wenkai and Zhang Enze in the car, and Liu Wenkai said unabashedly: "Both sides are not bustling areas, so find a place to jump off, and it's likely that no one will see you."

"You can't see it even if you push it down." Zhang Enze said.

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

"So, if Zhou Lei can be found in the surveillance two or three days ago, we can preliminarily judge that he committed suicide." Zhang Enze regained his train of thought.

"It's about the same." Liu Wenkai broke his fingers and said: "The deceased Zhou Lei was penniless, had no savings, no house, and no debts. Looking at it now, he has no relatives and friends, no fixed job, and his girlfriend broke up. Just rule out common murder motives such as financial killing, love killing, and vendetta killing."

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

Liu Wenkai let out a muffled "En", puffed a cigarette, looked to the other side, and said, "Sometimes it's boring to think about it."

Zhang Enze didn't say anything more. He didn't open a window until the cigarette was finished, threw the cigarette butt out, and said, "How do you explain the dismemberment?"

"There are boats on the river, probably because of the propellers." Liu Wenkai said wearily: "It's nothing new. The boats on the Taihe River are all rushing back and forth in several rivers. If they encounter a corpse, they may not Call the police."

"Then go find a surveillance camera." Zhang Enze didn't talk about finding a boat.If it is a homicide, then for the sake of the integrity of the case, it is normal to ask all the boats that have passed through the Taihe River in recent days through various means, but if it is suicide, this is an abnormal death case. It is not so easy to invest in large quantities of police force for a long time.

Liu Wenkai took out his mobile phone without saying a word, first made a report to Huang Qiangmin, and then drove the car to a restaurant near the bridge under the rain, and asked the boss to watch the surveillance video.

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Ningtai County.

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

The broken part of the waist of the corpse is relatively flat overall, 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 cuts are not very sharp.

Jiang Yuan was inexperienced, so he couldn't directly and accurately infer the extent of the tool from the broken state of the corpse.

However, according to the news from the front line, the explanation of the oars also makes sense.

Especially in the remaining vertebrae, the irregular bone cross section indicates that there are many blunt orthopedic components.This also matches the cutting pattern of the paddle.

Of course, only through the analysis of the section, it is impossible to infer that the oar is the only possibility of the murder weapon.However, the knowledge of forensic anthropology does not rule out the possibility that paddles were used as tools for dismembering corpses.

Jiang Yuan checked twice in a row before letting out a sigh of relief, changed his gloves again, took a bunch of photos again, and then slowly cleaned up the corpses.

Rinse the dissecting table and the ground with water, and then soak them in bleach.The same goes for freshly used dissecting instruments, they just need to soak longer.

When the anatomy room was cleaned 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.

"Does it make sense." Jiang Yuan brushed his hands, and then asked: "Can't find the rest of the body? How should I find it?"

"I called the upstream and downstream cities and counties 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, He added: "If it really didn't drop, then we have to re-examine the cause of death."

Jiang Yuan nodded slowly.Indeed, if it was suicide and the body was broken by the oars, then the first half of the body should have appeared.Especially in the recent continuous rainstorms, the corpses 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 in other places.

But as long as no one deliberately hides it, it should still appear within a few days-in this set of inferences, the only thing that can hide the body is the ship that smashed the body.However, half of the corpse has already been lost, and it seems useless to hide the upper half of the corpse.

"Okay, don't think about it. From my experience, some things don't appear according to reason or probability. Especially for murder cases, it doesn't matter what reason you talk about, what high probability you talk about. The murder itself It's a matter of small probability." Wu Jun paused again when he said this, and said, "Wait for another two days and see the situation."

Everyone had to work overtime in the rain, because the murder case had to be solved quickly, and everyone was fighting for the golden 72 hours.

Now that it's basically proven that it's not a murder case, there's no point in worrying about it.

Jiang Yuan did everything he could, but he could only clean up the dissection room and return to the criminal police brigade.

The next day, the criminal police came back with the video of the day when the incident happened.

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

The surveillance video has already been sorted out. The technicians in the video office simply called up screenshots and images, and easily locked Zhou Lei in the video.

Young, 170 cm tall and 130 catties in weight, Zhou Lei when he was alive.It can be seen that he got off the taxi, walked to the bridge with extremely slow steps, wandered, then returned to the bridge to stop, and finally walked towards the center of the bridge step by step until he escaped the monitoring.

In this way, suicide is basically confirmed.

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

Together with Wu Jun, Jiang Yuan took the corpse back.

At this time, the corpse was so corroded that it was impossible to look directly at it.It's unimaginable what it looked like a few days ago.

This time, after a simple autopsy, the chest cavity was opened first.

The huge left and right lungs almost seem to rebound, puffing up from the chest cavity, and the indentation of the ribs can still be seen on the surface of the lungs.

Jiang Yuan pressed it with his fingers, it was a finger mark, and pressed it down with his palm, it felt like 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 desperate breathing of the deceased before death, which causes the drowning fluid, mucus and air to become foam, and is finally inhaled into the alveoli.

The time of drowning usually exceeds 6 minutes, which is very painful and long, and water emphysema is one of the proofs.

Jiang Yuan made another cut in the lung, and a large amount of foamy drowning liquid flowed out.Fortunately, the corpse itself was decomposed, and the stench was strong enough to cover up the smell of drowning almost perfectly.

At this time, a shiny dumpling also rolled into Jiang Yuan's hands:
Zhou Lei's legacy - swimming (dog planing style) (LV4) - In the small river in the village, Zhou Lei learned to swim with his friends, and he was very good at it. He even used his swimming skills to save another a small partner.After entering the city, he found that his best swimming method had become the target of people's ridicule, so he no longer wanted to swim.And at the last moment of his life, facing the raging river, Zhou Lei can choose to fight hard, but think about it, why bother, it is better to go back.Why don't you go see grandma.

Jiang Yuan sighed deeply.

Forensic medicine always sees too late and can change too little.But it is the same as ordinary people. The so-called Qin people have no time to mourn for themselves, but later generations mourn;

(End of this chapter)