Attending ex-girlfriend's wedding, arresting the groom's officer on the spot

After doing it several times, Lu Chuan seemed to have found the feeling, and he punched the air with his right hand holding the pen holder.

But when he tried it, he felt something was wrong. Lu Chuan put the pen holder on his left hand and repeated the previous action.

After trying several times in a row, Lu Chuan's eyes lit up!
He then said: "If the murderer was holding the stone in his right hand, then it is very likely that he hit the victim on the right side of the back of the head, that is, the top of the head above the left eye."

"At the same time, the intrusion damage he caused should be from right to left, not from left to right."

The forensic doctor understood: "Director Lu, you mean the murderer is... left-handed?"

Ah!
"Left-handed people are more likely to be left-handed."

In this way, Lu Chuan was able to make two important judgments based solely on the scars on the deceased's skull: that the other party was left-handed and was about 1 meters tall.

Moreover, a murderer of this height is most likely a man, as women rarely have such a height.

As a result, although there are no clues pointing to the suspect now, the identity of the deceased has not been determined.

However, it has been determined that the murderer is 1 meters tall, probably a male, left-handed, and very familiar with the victim. In this way, if the identity of the victim is confirmed, it is very likely that the suspect can be quickly identified by checking the victim's interpersonal relationships.

But things went counterproductive.

Two days passed, and Wang Zhaokai and dozens of others were investigating, but they did not find anyone similar to the victim in the national missing persons database.

In the conference room.

"All the missing females in the past three years have been matched, but none have been found."

Wang Zhaokai has basically not slept these days.

It is actually very simple and boring to identify victims through the missing persons information system.

The first is to check based on height, the second is to check based on the clothes the victim was wearing when he disappeared, and the third is the age of the missing person.

Logically speaking, it should be relatively easy to identify the victim in this case. The characteristics of the victim's clothing are very obvious, and their height is also known. In addition, since the victim is female, their gender has also been determined.

But it was not found.

Wang Zhaokai continued to report: "There are only two possibilities. The first is that the time of death of the victim was not within three years and the time we searched was too short."

There are a lot of people in the missing persons database. Lu Chuan gave them a time limit of three years. Wang Zhaokai then retrieved all the female missing persons who met the age range required within three years.

But the comparison was not successful.

"There is also a possibility that the victim is not in the missing persons database."

This kind of situation is not uncommon, but there are quite a few such cases. Lu Chuan and his team have handled a case like this before.

Some people are orphans, and some have not been in contact with their families for years, so naturally no one will report their disappearance.

For some others, the missing information is incomplete.

For example, there is some information in the missing persons database, which is just brief information such as name, height and gender.

Most of these cases are reported from other places.

Because the family members who report the case do not know what the missing person was wearing when he or she disappeared, and even the time of reporting the missing person in a different place is often quite delayed, sometimes one or two months, and sometimes even half a year or a year.

"Director Lu, do you want to investigate further?"

Lu Chuan frowned.

Of course we have to check.

However, the number of missing persons is relatively large, and a comprehensive investigation will certainly take a long time.

However, if there are no other directional clues, it is impossible to determine when the victim died, or when he was reported missing, and we can only investigate year by year.

Lu Chuan didn't expect that the identity of the victim was not determined immediately. He was too optimistic.

In cases involving skeletal remains, confirming the identity of the body is inherently the most difficult.

And the current situation is that Lu Chuan has made a lot of discoveries. Maybe after confirming the identity, he can find the suspect by checking the interpersonal relationships.

"Well, let's check it out first. If it doesn't work, we can check it out year after year..."

This is the only solution, the longer it takes, the better.

"Also, I have basically finished investigating the skeleton, and..."

Ok?
When Lu Chuan said this, he suddenly paused.

He wanted to tell everyone about the suspect's physical characteristics, but when he got to this point, he remembered something.

That is the leg bone of the deceased.

When the entire skeleton was excavated, it was well preserved. However, during the underwater investigation, Lu Chuan remembered that the deceased's leg bones were displaced and inserted into the chest cavity.

Why were the deceased's leg bones displaced?
Generally speaking, even if a corpse has become a skeleton, the bones that are most tightly connected are probably those between the femur and the spine.

However, the deceased's thigh bone was displaced, and there were no obvious scars on it, which means that the displacement was not caused by the leg bone being cut off before death.

"Zhao Kai, I remember you told me yesterday why it was so important? That reservoir seems to have been abandoned for a long time, right?"

Wang Zhaokai didn't know why Lu Chuan suddenly asked this.

But he still nodded and said, "Yes, the reservoir is privately owned. We found the reservoir owner as soon as possible and conducted a visit to the owner's home."

"There is only an old lady in her 70s at home. According to her, the reservoir was abandoned after her husband passed away. After her husband passed away, the family stopped farming and the reservoir was never used again."

"What time? When did the old man's spouse die?"

Lu Chuan asked.

"Nine years ago. Yes, nine years ago."

Nine years ago?
Lu Chuan suddenly realized.

No wonder the sandals in the market are so old-fashioned!

Aren’t those all-plastic sandals popular when Lu Chuan was in high school?

"We got the time of death wrong by a huge margin."

Lu Chuan quickly explained to everyone: "Xiao Wang, play the video of the ribs taken by the instrument."

Soon, the screen showed a video of the skeleton underwater.

"Look here, remember that the right thigh bone of the corpse has been inserted into the chest cavity?"

Lu Chuan paused the video.

"We didn't know why the right thigh bone of the corpse was dislocated at the time. The fundamental reason was that the leg bone was dislocated due to the impact of the water flow when the reservoir was in use."

Lu Chuan just thought of this.

The reservoir is a closed one and basically no one has touched it over the years, otherwise the body would have been discovered long ago.

Therefore, for a reservoir that has never been touched by anyone, the remains of corpses should remain in a fixed state, and the only possible change is when the reservoir was in use.

Therefore, the deceased died nine years ago, not three years ago! (End of this chapter)