Book of Sins 4

Chapter 13
Although there was no corpse, after careful investigation, it was confirmed that this was the scene of dismemberment.

It was later proved that the blood on the ground came from the suspect Liu Ming.

The bunk on the iron frame bed has been unoccupied for a long time, and it is dusty. Three fingerprints were extracted from the iron railing of the upper bunk, and there are still traces of hanging on the iron railing.Bao Zhan pointed at the hanging mark and asked Su Mei to take a picture. He said: It is a canvas belt, and the heavy object hanging may be a person.

The bed rail of the lower bunk was stained red with blood, and there were clear knife marks. Bao Zhan said: These are the marks caused by cutting things with sharp tools, not cut by knives.

The blood that had solidified into jelly contained bone residues. Bao Zhan picked them up separately with tweezers and observed them with a magnifying glass. He said, "What was cut off is a human head. This is the thyroid cartilage at the Adam's apple... and there are hairs, like Armpit hair, thighs or arms of the deceased were also cut.

There is a drag mark on the concrete floor inside the house, which is formed when the edge of the sole of the shoe rubs against the ground.

The room was empty, with spoiled meals in the corner, and three empty Erguotou wine bottles.

Bao Zhan believes that the deceased should have been drunk at the time, strangled to death and then dismembered.

A criminal policeman asked: "Two bottles of Erguotou made you drunk and passed out. Why do you think the body was dismembered after death? Why wasn't the head chopped off while alive?"

Bao Zhan said: If a person's head is cut while alive, the blood will form a splatter, and there is no splatter-type blood in this room.

According to various traces at the scene and clues obtained from visiting the surrounding residents, Bao Zhan restored the scene at that time.

Above the basement is an old-fashioned brick building, and the basement is the storage room that the residents rent out. There are many such simple residences in Yanjing, and Liu Ming has lived here for more than three months.A few days ago, someone saw him selling all his belongings to an old man who collected scraps.That night, Liu Ming drank in the room with a strange man and a child.

A girl lived next door to Liu Ming, who claimed to be a special actress and had played small roles in several TV dramas. She said that Liu Ming was a lunatic who liked to talk to herself and had mental problems.

Hualong asked, "Have you seen that child? Whose family does that child belong to?"

The girl said: Through the wall, I heard a child crying. I don't know who it is. I have never seen that man before.

The girl next door reported that Liu Ming usually has no friends and walks alone, and the surrounding residents respect him at a respectful distance.Liu Ming spoke very fast, his thinking was chaotic, and he was in a mess.No matter who greets him, he will sell his handmade poetry collection. If others are not interested, he said boldly: one day you will know that the great poet Liu Ming is the greatest person in the world you have ever seen in your life.

Liu Ming cherishes the opportunity to talk with people very much. This kind of opportunity is very rare for him. He doesn't care whether others are willing to listen or not.The girl next door chatted with him once, thinking that he had mental problems, and never talked to him again.When Liu Ming saw a girl in the basement corridor, he would say in a pleading tone:
Give me another minute. I haven't finished my speech last time. It's hard for someone to talk to me. Just let me finish.

The girl regarded him as air and turned a blind eye.

A few days ago, Liu Ming sold everything in the rental house. That night, the girl next door heard three people drinking and talking in Liu Ming's room. Besides Liu Ming, there was a man and a child.Liu Ming was impoverished, and he usually drank cabbage lump soup, which he called "hero cabbage soup".On that day, Liu Ming bought a few dishes, among which were fried shrimps, bones in sauce, spicy rabbit heads, and braised pig's trotters.

The girl was very surprised, and thought to herself, did this crazy person get rich?

Su Mei asked: How do you remember so clearly, you even know what you bought.

The girl said: The sound insulation in the room is not good. I can hear him snoring.

Su Mei asked again: What else did you hear at that time? What do you think is their relationship?
The girl said: I suspect they are gay, the little boy was adopted, he is their son.

Su Mei said: Little sister, your imagination is so rich.

The girl said: I am from Chongqing, and in Chongqing, two people gnaw on the rabbit's head, which means that two people want to kiss.

The noise next door annoyed the girl so much that she plugged her ears with cotton and fell asleep on the bed.

At around eleven o'clock at night, the girl vaguely heard the sound of cutting things from the next door. She took off the cotton in her ears and listened carefully, which was very similar to the sound of a knife cutting an iron fence.Bao Zhan speculated that what the girl heard should be the sound made by the murderer when he dismembered the body.The murderer strangled the boy, hanged the drunk and unconscious Liu Ming on the iron frame bed with a belt, and then moved the body to the lower bunk with his head resting on the iron railing. In order to avoid waking up the neighbors, the murderer was useless Instead of chopping with a knife, the body was divided by cutting. First, the head was cut off, and then the limbs were cut off.

The basement was stuffy and hot, the door of the girl next door was ajar and not locked, and some residents even slept with the door open.

The sound of cutting things stopped, the girl turned over and went back to sleep, with her back facing the door, she vaguely heard footsteps stopping in front of her door, after a while, the door opened slowly, in the darkness, The girl felt a figure walk in.

The girl was so frightened that she covered her head with a sheet and tried her best not to tremble.

The man stood by the bed and looked at her, holding something in his hand.

The girl continued to pretend to be asleep, feeling terrified inside. The man stared at her motionless. After a while, she felt the man turn around and walk out of the room, closing the door behind him.

The next morning, the girl found blood dripping on the ground in front of the bed. She comforted herself, thinking it might be her own menstrual blood.

However, a terrible idea vaguely came to the girl's heart. That person walked into her room quietly at night, stood by the bed and looked at her, and what he was holding in his hand might be a human head!
Hualong asked: Then why didn't you report the crime?

The girl said: I didn't lose anything in my room, what if it was my hallucination.

The special case team held a case analysis meeting. The only criminal suspect, Liu Ming, was killed and dismembered. The focus of the next work should be to find the strange man who drank with Liu Ming. This person is a serious suspect, and his identity must be clarified as soon as possible. .The boy's identity is unknown and is also the main direction of investigation.In the corridor in the basement, the neighbors had seen the strange man and the child. According to the description, the age and clothes of the child were consistent with the corpse of the child Amber.Witnesses can no longer remember the appearance of the strange man, and the conditions for the police to make a portrait of the suspect are not mature.

Su Mei said: That strange man may be a performance artist, killing people, making it into amber, wanting to be famous and crazy.

Deputy Secretary Huang said: Through the investigation, we know the mobile phone number Liu Ming used, and we should be able to find some clues from it.

Professor Liang said: Liu Ming sold his own things, and the old man who collects waste must also find them. Those things may be useful.

Hualong said: I was thinking, was the little boy strangled to death by Liu Ming, or by that person?

Bao Zhan said: The motive for the crime is unknown. I share the same opinion as Xiaomei. I tend to believe that Liu Ming and the little boy were killed by the murderer.

Deputy Secretary Huang said: It is also possible that Liu Ming strangled the boy, and the murderer killed him again.

Professor Liang said: If the murderer is a performance artist, a few days later, when the annual art festival opens, the murderer will definitely appear.

Bao Zhan said: He should have new works.

Deputy Secretary Huang said: Then we will sit on the sidelines and wait for him.

The special case team once again visited the residents around the basement where Liu Ming rented, looking for more insiders and witnesses.

A young courier delivery man lived in that basement, and folded plastic foam bags were piled up in the aisle. He reported to the police that someone stole some foam bags and turned the piled things into a mess.Liu Ming usually rode an old bicycle to Tianqiao to set up a stall, selling his collection of poems and sometimes trinkets. That bicycle was usually parked in the aisle, but now it is gone.

Hualong said: After killing and dismembering the body, we now know how to take away the body parts.

Su Mei said: I originally thought that the murderer would stop a black car, but I didn't expect that the murderer was also very poor and might not have the money to take a taxi.

Bao Zhan said: The murderer found several plastic foam bags in the aisle, packed the body parts, and then transported them away by bicycle.

Su Mei said: This poor poet.

You can imagine such a picture:
He was hung on either side of the back seat of his bike, torso on the left, hands and feet on the right, all in the kind of bubble wrap we used to pinch when we were kids.The two bags of the poet's meat were half a foot off the ground, and the ropes were tightly tied together. When the murderer pulled over and rode his bicycle, the poet's hands could still touch the dwarf bamboo and bougainvillea on the roadside.

His head hangs from the handlebars, looking ahead through the foam wrap.

The street lights were dim in the middle of the night, and a dead child was sitting on the bicycle beam, as if asleep.

(End of this chapter)