Eye of Sin

Chapter 691 Venting Anger
The landlord's attitude made Ning Shuyi and Huo Yan feel helpless, but there was nothing they could do but to agree.

Zhao Dabao stayed to see if there was anyone who needed help at the scene, and asked Ning Shuyi and Huo Yan to take the landlord back to have his portrait painted first. Then the two of them took the landlord, who kept grumbling and urging, back to the bureau.

"By the way, do you have some paint stored in this house?" Ning Shuyi asked halfway.

"Paint? No..." The landlord was stunned, then he remembered something and quickly changed his words, "Oh, you know what, there is!
If you hadn't asked, I would have forgotten about it!

My brother-in-law opened an escape room shop a while ago. In order to save some money during the renovation, he did all the work like painting himself. But I don’t know if he was cheated or he didn’t do the math well, but he bought too much paint and had a lot of it left over. He was useless and had no place to put it.

It just so happened that the dilapidated house I owned was not occupied, so they said they wanted to put it there, and I agreed.

What's going on? Is there something else in that paint that's causing the trouble?"

"No, I was just asking casually." Ning Shuyi shook his head.

The landlord's answer had already answered her previous questions. The paint was indeed not prepared by the murderer, but was made from local materials.

Then the act of throwing paint is just a "flash of inspiration" in the murderer's process of committing the crime, and cannot be counted in the behavioral logic of motive and preparation for the crime.

Soon the two men brought the landlord back to the bureau, found a portrait technician, and handed the landlord over to the other party.

The landlord's memory was indeed a little fuzzy, but fortunately the technician was skilled and good at giving inspiration. After a few questions, the landlord was able to recall some details. Although these details were provided by the landlord himself, the effect of piecing them together did not seem right to him.

The landlord was still not satisfied with the adjustments he made and said he didn't have time, the bureau was waiting and he also needed to sober up, he had been quite frightened today and might not be able to remember anything for a while.

There was really no point in forcing him to stay, so Ning Shuyi and Huo Yan had no choice but to exchange contact information with him and send him back.

When I returned to the office, Zhao Dabao and the others had just come back and were smelling of paint. I got some spare clothes and took a shower to get rid of the smell.

Luo Wei and the others had also returned. Seeing Ning Shuyi and Huo Yan, they asked, "You guys just returned too? Is it difficult? Why do Zhao Dabao and the others smell so bad?"

Huo Yan nodded, introduced the situation at the scene, and asked: "You came back so late, is there anything difficult to deal with?"

"No, the scene on our side is very simple!" Lowe waved his hand, "On the surface, it looks like a person was sleeping in his car, but it turned out that the engine was not turned off, and the windows and doors were closed, so he was poisoned by carbon monoxide.

But now there is a question that his cell phone and other things in the car are gone.

So for now we cannot be sure whether the person died while sleeping in the car, or whether someone wants us to think so.

We still have to see what the autopsy report says, whether anyone used sedatives or something like that."

At night, the autopsy reports from both sides came out one after another. The autopsy report from Lowe's team confirmed that the deceased had indeed died of carbon monoxide poisoning, which was consistent with their conclusions from the on-site analysis.

A small amount of sedative residue was found in the body of the deceased, which was consistent with Lowe and others' speculation.

So the investigation work of that group over there started naturally.

Ning Shuyi and his team had some difficulties.

The woman's body was cleaned out, but other problems arose. The first was that the deceased had many external injuries on her face. From the appearance of the wounds, the forensic doctor determined that the wounds were caused by someone using a sharp object such as a fruit knife after the victim's death. Because the victim was already dead at the time, the wounds did not show the various reactions that would be present when the victim was alive.

Although these wounds were inflicted after death and may not have caused more pain to the deceased during the death process, they still inevitably increased the difficulty of identifying the deceased's appearance.

In addition, the fingertips of the deceased's ten fingers had very severe burns, making it impossible for the forensic experts to successfully obtain the deceased's fingerprints.

This makes it much more difficult to identify the deceased.

What can be concluded at present is that based on the deceased's bone age, it can be inferred that her age was approximately between 22 and 26 years old. There was a blunt force trauma on the back of her head, but this was not the cause of death. The cause of death was suffocation due to being strangled by the neck.

Before the victim was killed, she had had sex with someone. As to whether this sex was voluntary or forced, there is no way to draw a conclusion for the time being. Firstly, there were no scars left by struggle, and secondly, the other party with whom she had sex should have been prepared, so there was no body fluid left in the victim's body that could be regarded as evidence.

So now there are two speculations. One is that the deceased voluntarily had sex with the other party. The two people had some kind of familiar and intimate relationship. After the two people had sex, the murderer knocked her unconscious when she was not prepared, and then strangled her to death.

Another possibility is that the murderer did not have a close relationship with the deceased, and he knocked the deceased unconscious when he was not prepared, then raped him, and then strangled him to death after he succeeded.

"This..." Zhao Dabao looked at the freshly-released autopsy report with some difficulty, a little confused, "Which possibility do you think is more likely?"

"It's hard to say right now." Ning Shuyi had no way to draw a conclusion, "Both possibilities are logically consistent.

I can only assume that the fingerprints on the victim's fingers were destroyed by the murderer through burning in order to make it more difficult to confirm the identity in subsequent investigations.

As for why the face was scratched like that, it was simply to make it more difficult to identify the face. This is not quite certain. After all, blunt objects that could be used as tools could still be found in the rental house.

If the purpose of disfiguring the deceased was to hide his identity, then those few cuts were obviously not enough. There are more thorough methods of dealing with the problem. Although a few cuts did have some effect, it was not significant. So I am more inclined to believe that the murderer did it to vent his anger.

Under this assumption, the first possibility is that the deceased and the murderer had a relatively close relationship, but the woman may have done something to betray her feelings and was caught by the man, or the woman wanted to break up, causing the man to hate her out of love.

Under the pretext of one last tender moment or mending the rift in their relationship, he had actually already decided to kill her. When the two were intimate and defenseless, he suddenly knocked the woman unconscious and then strangled her to death.

The second possibility is that the murderer and the deceased were not close enough to have a natural relationship. The murderer used some excuse to trick the deceased to the crime scene, then attacked her, had sex with her while she was unconscious, and then killed her.