deep sin

Chapter 278 Plastic Surgery
"The scalp was stripped off?" Qin Ruonan couldn't help feeling a tingle in her back after hearing Tian Yang's words, and a chill came up from the bottom of her heart, which made her shudder involuntarily.

An Changpu was also very surprised by this detail: "I can still imagine murder and cremation. After murder, the victim's scalp is first peeled off and then burned in the wild. This is a bit weird!"

"Could it be because of jealousy? Is it possible that the deceased's hair was something she was most proud of during her lifetime, so the murderer deliberately peeled off the deceased's scalp after the murder as revenge or humiliation?" Qin Ruonan guessed one of the possible reasons.

"There is this possibility, or because of an evil thought similar to death without a whole body, for example, the deceased loved her hair most when she was alive, so she deliberately let her die with a bare head." An Changpu nodded, agreeing Echoed, "I really can't think of any other possibility, even if the hair was an obvious symbolic feature when the deceased was alive, there is no need to peel off the scalp and burn it, no matter how good or bad it is All hairs will be ruined."

Tian Yang did not have any further speculations about why the scalp and hair of the deceased were stripped off. The forensic doctor also did not draw any conclusions for reference, and the autopsy was still in progress, so he asked An Changpu and Qin Ruonan: "How is your local investigation going?"

"The harvest is not too big. According to the statistics, there are five female residents in the two local villages who are temporarily unable to get in touch and do not know where they are. However, it is not ruled out that among these five people, there are some who have no news because the local communication facilities are all paralyzed. Possibly, so it means that there is no harvest." An Changpu is not optimistic about this kind of harvest.

Tian Yang patted him on the shoulder sympathetically, and went off to do other things by himself.

"Let's check to see if there have been any reports of other missing women in various areas of City C in the past few days!" Although Qin Ruonan came back from the outside exhausted, after hearing Tian Yang's strange disappearance of the scalp of the deceased, he was strongly moved. Driven by curiosity, I can't wait to investigate the identity of the deceased immediately.

An Changpu hurriedly stopped her, pointing to her trousers, which were wet to the knees and covered with mud: "No matter how urgent the mood is, it's not too late to change into dry clothes in a few minutes, or you will catch a cold and get sick." If it fails, even if you have a lot of enthusiasm for work, it won't help, will it?"

After hearing what he said, Qin Ruonan finally realized the damp and cold clothes on his body again, and was fascinated by the strange signs found in the case just now, completely forgot about them, and then hurried to his locker He dug out two changes of clothes and hurried to the duty room to change.

When she came out after changing her clothes, An Changpu had already gone to the washroom to change into dry clothes, and the two of them started counting the recent reports of missing women without saying a word.

However, their investigation statistics did not make much satisfactory progress. Recently, there have been only two or three reports of missing persons within the scope of City C. Among them, two women, one an old lady in her early 70s, suffered from cerebellar atrophy. As a result of severe memory loss, she got lost and is looking for her. The other one is a fourteen or fifteen-year-old young girl who ran away from home willfully because of an argument with her parents. It was just found two days ago. Although the last No.3 reported missing person has not been found yet, it is an 11-year-old boy.

The conditions of these people did not match what Anchangpu and the others were looking for.

At seven or eight o'clock in the evening, some examination information about the corpse was sent back. After further examination, the forensic doctor can confirm that the death time of the deceased has been 36 to 48 hours from now, that is to say, The deceased had been killed about 24 hours before the thunderstorms of the previous night.The deceased was indeed set on fire after his death, and the combustion aid used to burn the body was judged to be No. 97 gasoline.The degree of incineration of the corpse was not much different from what Forensic Zhao estimated at the scene. The murderer spilled a lot of gasoline on the surface of the corpse and the ground around it. It seemed that the intention was to burn the corpse as thoroughly as possible, but the corpse But only the skin was burned into a large area of ​​charcoal black, and the internal fat and bones were not damaged too much. There was a short period of rainfall, and it is very likely that the rainfall affected the murderer's plan to burn the body.

In addition, the face of the deceased was burnt under the action of gasoline, and the original appearance could not be discerned at all. It is almost impossible to reproduce the appearance of the deceased through facial simulation and restoration. However, when the forensic doctor dissected the corpse , but some strange objects that were not human tissues were found on the face of the corpse, and they hesitated to be burned and deformed. At first, no one could identify what this foreign object was. After a series of laboratory tests, the final conclusion was that, That piece should have been a substance called polytetrafluoroethylene, which was deformed due to heat. Combined with its position on the face of the deceased, the forensic doctor judged that it should be an expanded stent placed in the nose.

In other words, the deceased may have undergone rhinoplasty before his death.

In this way, although the real age of the deceased needs to be determined by measuring the bone age, it can be roughly inferred that the deceased is not too old, and the age span is likely to be from just adult to under 50 years old. Because there are not many people who accept rhinoplasty for minors and women over 50 years old, and it is not too long to mention silica gel as a filler for rhinoplasty with bulky materials.

Except for extensive burns on the surface of the corpse, no fatal trauma was found, and there was no food residue in the stomach of the deceased, so the specific cause of death is still under further investigation.

Although we got some information about the corpse, it didn’t help An Changpu and Qin Ruonan too much. There are a lot of young and middle-aged women in C City, and there are no facial portraits for identification, and there are no missing people who match their age group. Population reporting, women undergoing plastic surgery, let alone reporting to the Public Security Bureau, even relatives and friends around them may not all know about it, so even with a series of inspection conclusions about the corpse, An Changpu and the others The two still don't know where to start.

After discussion, they decided to exclude the five women who could not be contacted in the two neighboring villages near the crime scene.

The next day, Qin Ruonan and An Changpu rushed to those two villages again. The scene there was even more lively and busy than the day before. All this had nothing to do with the discovery of a dead body nearby. The village over there was severely affected by the disaster. The county government dispatched personnel from various units to carry out disaster relief and emergency repairs there, trying to resettle the villagers whose houses were damaged as soon as possible, and also helped nearby residents restore power supply and communication signals.

According to the information recorded the day before, I visited again. Of the five women who could not be contacted before, four of them have returned home safely, and only one who is still unable to be contacted is also certified by family members and neighbors. , Confirm that you have not done any plastic surgery.

In this way, the five people who were temporarily locked up before were all excluded, and the deceased were not residents of these two villages.

"If it wasn't a resident of this neighborhood, then the murderer brought the corpse to this neighborhood on purpose and found a rare forest to burn the corpse..." Qin Ruonan dragged An Changpu around the crime scene again, After checking the road conditions nearby, he came to a conclusion, "In this way, the route he took to get to this forest should actually be similar to the route we took when we drove here yesterday. Not too much, even less at night, and if you don’t come from that side, you can only come from the direction of the village. Or..."

As she said that, she hesitated again: "Do you think it is possible that the deceased was not from the nearby village, but the murderer was? Otherwise, why did they come all the way here to dump and burn the corpse?"

An Changpu shook his head, and didn't quite agree with Qin Ruonan's later speculation: "If this corpse was dug into a deep pit and buried, or thrown into the river, I would probably suspect the scope of the perpetrator first. to the people in the village, but you think, if the corpses were burned in the woods, if it was not raining and the fire was extinguished, then you can see the condition of the surrounding trees and vegetation, the murderer was not stingy with gasoline at all, if the murderer People in the nearby villages cannot ignore whether the fire in the woods at night will attract the attention of others. Compared with people living nearby, they are more vigilant about the danger of forest fires. Even the private houses in the city cannot escape the danger of being burned, so I think the more local people are, the more scruples they will have.”

"You're right, let's confirm the identity of the deceased first, otherwise it's nothing but guesswork." Qin Ruonan felt that An Changpu's analysis was reasonable, sighed, and gave up the pointless speculate.

In the next few days, the two of them focused their work on determining the identity of the deceased. According to the forensic doctor's identification of the bone age of the deceased, the woman should be between 18 and 25 years old. The investigation scope of An Changpu and Qin Ruonan has narrowed down a lot, but it is still very difficult.

After many days of investigation, just when the people who participated in the investigation felt discouraged because there was no progress, a certain police station in C suddenly called and informed them that they had just received a report about missing persons. It was a middle-aged couple who claimed that their 21-year-old daughter had been missing for several days, and under interrogation by the police, the couple said that their daughter had undergone rhinoplasty.

An Changpu and Qin Ruonan were overjoyed, and hurried over to bring the couple to the serious crime team. Since the body of the woman was burnt beyond recognition, it was impossible to identify it, so the confused couple had to accept the collection of DNA samples.

After waiting for a few more days, the test results showed that the female corpse discovered earlier was directly related to the couple, and was in line with the genetic genes of the parents and children. It was confirmed that it was their daughter who had been missing for many days.

(End of this chapter)