Serious Crime Unit 1

Chapter 61 Devil’s Eye (1)
Early summer is the rainy season.

It was a rare rainy day and the sky was clear. After dinner, nearby residents came to the Yangtze River Bridge to enjoy the cool air and chat. Couples also came here to fall in love, which together with the golden waves under the bridge formed a beautiful scenery.

No one would have thought that in this quiet and warm evening, an extremely discordant and terrifying note would appear, suddenly breaking the tranquility——

Due to the continuous rain, the river water surged. The light green river surface rose much higher than usual and became much more rapid.There are many debris floating on the river.At this time, a long object was slowly floating towards the Yangtze River Bridge from upstream.

The dusk was not very dark at this time, so many people saw this strange floating object and wondered what it could be.As the floating object got closer, people first saw two feet wearing white socks, and then gradually saw clearly that it was a female corpse wearing a green dress, arms stretched upward, lower limbs slightly apart, and face turned upward. !

A scream rang out, attracting more people to watch.People talked a lot, and someone immediately called 110.

After receiving the alarm, Chang Jiang Yiming, the No. 1 Major Crime Team of the Municipal Criminal Police Team, quickly brought Wu Jiang, Zuo Li, Xiao Ke and Luo Jin, members of the Major Crime Team, to the scene. Forensic doctor Luo Jin immediately conducted an examination of the female body that had been salvaged ashore. conducted preliminary inspection.

The deceased woman was between 23 and 25 years old, 1.63 meters tall and weighed about 45 kilograms. Her face had been swollen by river water and her original appearance could not be seen.There was nothing on the deceased that could prove his identity, and there were no obvious signs of a struggle.

Luo Jin said to Jiang Yiming with great certainty: "Captain Jiang, it seems that this body has been soaked in the water for three or four days."

"How do you think the deceased died?" Jiang Yiming asked.

"There are no obvious signs of struggle, like suicide or accident. But there is no identification on her body, so it may be homicide. To make a more accurate judgment, we need to wait for the autopsy results."

They then transported the body to the Forensic Examination Center for examination, freezing, and storage.The body cannot be cremated until the case is solved.

Luo Jin immediately performed an autopsy on the female corpse and handed a detailed autopsy report to Jiang Yiming early the next morning.

The report states the following points:

The body is female, aged approximately 23 to 25 years old.

1. Mask-shaped foam on the mouth and nose, white or pink in color, mixed with blood.

2. Corpse spots are light red in color.

3. Chicken skin-like skin. After the skin is stimulated by cold water, the hair retracts. This phenomenon is common when corpses are thrown into the water.

4. The palms and soles of the feet are soaked, and the drowning time is about 4 days.This is judged based on the normal phenomenon of drowning and floating corpses in this season.

5. No sperm spots survive in the body, but there are stabilizing ingredients.

6. There are no obvious marks on the whole body.

7. The cause of death tends to be homicide.

Luo Jin added: "Judging from the presence of drowning fluid in the gastrointestinal tract, the deceased may have swallowed the drowning fluid and its mixture into the stomach and entered the small intestine before entering the water. Her drowning time should be longer, because the drowning fluid flows from the gastrointestinal tract It penetrated into the abdominal cavity. If the deceased was thrown into the water after being killed, when the water pressure is high, a small amount of drowning fluid may enter the stomach, but it will not enter the small intestine."

"Can you put it more simply and vividly?" Jiang Yiming frowned.

“Due to the violent struggle of the deceased during the drowning process, trying to breathe, which caused bleeding in the sternocleidomastoid muscles on both sides, it proves that the deceased was pushed into the water alive, and the deceased inhaled diatoms, which further proves this. "

"In other words, the deceased was pushed into the river after taking sleeping pills on June 6? After she woke up in the water, she kept struggling and inhaled a large amount of river water. She eventually drowned?"

Luo Jin nodded: "That's what I mean."

Jiang Yiming immediately convened a meeting of the serious crime team to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the case.

First, it was determined that the deceased was murdered, and the murderer was most likely an acquaintance of the deceased, so the deceased was given sleeping pills without warning.Due to the lack of time, the test results of the dissolved contents in the deceased's stomach have not yet been released, and it is currently impossible to determine what she ate before her death.

The core question in this case is: Why was the deceased found dead four days ago?who is she?Where did she come from?Why was he killed?
To solve the case quickly, we must first find the source of the body, and secondly determine where the deceased fell into the water.

Jiang Yiming distributed the work. He and Wu Jiang were responsible for finding the scene, while Zuo Li and Xiao Ke were responsible for finding the source of the corpse.

"6 Floating Corpse Case".A formal investigation was launched.

Zuo Li used computer scanning to restore the appearance of the deceased who had been swollen and deformed due to being soaked in river water, and then distributed it to various branches and street police stations to assist in the investigation. She also used subtitle advertisements on TV to mobilize the masses to come and identify the corpse. .Xiaoke has conducted a survey on the missing people in recent times, and is preparing to work with the municipal public security organs to carry out a key investigation and investigation of people with criminal records, especially sexual crimes.But this murder case is simply a headless case with "an antelope hangs its horns and no trace can be traced."The only clue was the green dress the deceased was wearing.

The skirt is from a well-known low-end brand called "Pink Beauty". There are nearly [-] specialty stores in Yangtze City alone. The annual sales volume is huge. It is extremely difficult to find out the identity of the owner. Know.

Three days have passed, and Zuo Li and Xiao Ke still found nothing in their investigation of the identity of the deceased.

Jiang Yiming and Wu Jiang also started working non-stop. On the evening of the third day, when the "6·12" crime team was summarizing the situation, Wu Jiang gave a detailed explanation of the investigation: "Team Jiang and I were working together along the Yangtze River Bridge. We walked all the way upstream from the bridge and carefully examined the terrain, river shape, water flow speed, and surrounding buildings. Based on the flow speed of the river, the degree of swelling of the female body, and the time it took for it to float up, combined with the opinions of experts, we speculated that the victim should It was thrown into the water here—" Wu Jiang pointed to the Tianjing Reservoir area on the map hanging on the wall.

"Of course, this is a rough range. We need to conduct further searches from Dingjun Bridge to Tianjing Reservoir. There are very few pedestrians in this area, so it is more likely that criminals will choose to commit crimes here. But we have not found anything valuable yet. clues. Zuo Li, how is the situation over there?"

"There's not much gain."

Wu Jiang sighed: "Tomorrow you and Xiao Ke will go to the scene with us. I believe someone will come to identify the body soon."

"Brother Angkor, are you really that sure?" Zuo Li asked Wu Jiang.

"Of course, based on my many years of criminal investigation experience: things will always come to light."

"What kind of experience is this? This is the law of nature."

"Okay, that's the rule..."

The next day, the five members of the crime team plus [-] armed police officers were divided into two teams, each with three police dogs. They searched along both sides of the Yangtze River, starting from Dingjun Bridge, step by step toward the Tianjing Reservoir. And go.But they searched for a whole day and walked nearly ten kilometers, but found nothing.This result was also within Jiang Yiming's expectation.Although police dogs have a keen sense of smell, the rain during this period must have diluted the clues.

But Jiang Yiming didn't give up. The next day, he and Wu Jiang led people to continue the search.This time, they focused on the surrounding area of ​​Tianjing Reservoir. If there was still no harvest, they were prepared to continue to extend the search range upwards. Because there were various uncertain factors, it was not ruled out that the deceased might have been thrown into the river by the murderer elsewhere. of.

Tianjing Reservoir is only twelve kilometers away from the Yangtze River City. It is a freshwater reservoir with nearly ten square kilometers of water. The reservoir is home to many carp and crucian carp. It is surrounded by endless moso bamboo and pine forests. The lush bamboo forests form a unique scenery. Therefore, after the rainy season, students or work organizations often come here to barbecue and sleep outdoors... But now it is the rainy season, and almost no one comes here.This also provides criminals with good conditions for committing crimes.

While searching for clues, Wu Jiang suddenly pointed at the grass and said excitedly: "Captain Jiang, look, what is this?"

Jiang Yiming glanced in the direction of Wu Jiang's finger and said puzzledly: "It's a rose petal."

"Yes, they are rotten rose petals."

"Does this mean anything to our case?"

"Maybe, maybe the murderer scattered flower petals to commemorate the deceased."

"You are too imaginative, aren't you? How could the murderer scatter flower petals for the deceased?"

"If they are friends or even lovers, then it is possible." Wu Jiang continued to search around.Not far away, he found another empty wine bottle. The label had been soaked by the rain, but it was still relatively new. It could be seen that the bottle had been discarded not long ago.Wu Jiang put the petals and wine bottle into the evidence bag.

Then, they found some more footprints. Among them, the footprints of a man and a woman were relatively clear, but they had been washed away by rain many times and had been deformed.

"If these two are the footprints of the deceased and the murderer, then our case will be half solved." Wu Jiang said while extracting the footprints.

"I'm not so optimistic. Maybe some couple brought red wine and roses to have a romantic time? June 6th is a sunny day!"

"If this hateful rain hadn't been raining for so long, I would have been able to extract the fingerprints from the wine bottle, and the footprints would not have been destroyed."

"Stop blaming others."

Wu Jiang suddenly remembered something and said, "Didn't Luo Jin say that there was a stabilizing component in the body of the deceased? Maybe we can extract the stabilizing component from the residue in the wine bottle."

"Would the murderer put sleeping pills into the wine bottle and drink the wine with the deceased?"

"Ah? Why am I so stupid that I didn't even think of going up here." Wu Jiang said, patting his head.

The sunset gradually sank into the other side of the mountain, dyeing the entire reservoir water blood red, and night came quietly.Jiang Yiming and Wu Jiang had no choice but to go home.

(End of this chapter)