Crime Profiler 2

Chapter 2 Marionette (2)
"It's all up to you, and we will fully cooperate with you to solve the case." The person in charge was very forthright, "Come to my house in the evening, ask my wife to cook for you, and cook some dishes for you."

"This is a high-level reception for you. I haven't had a family banquet of your level yet." Tang Hegong said with a big laugh.

City A Public Security Bureau, forensic autopsy room.

Qin Ling picked out a scalpel, hesitated for a while, and did not dissect according to the conventional dissection procedure. A preliminary autopsy by the police in city A showed that no fatal trauma was found on the body surface of the deceased, and his facial expression was serene, which seemed more like a normal death.There was a bronze "Chen" tattoo on the arm of the deceased, but it is speculated that it has nothing to do with this case.

Therefore, according to Zheng Yan's intention, what she should focus on is the part where the deceased was suspended by the fishing line, where the real purpose of the murderer might be hidden.

The scalpel cut through the skin of the deceased's wrist. To Qin Ling's surprise, no blood flowed out of it.This is extremely abnormal. Although the victim died for as long as half a month, due to the weather, the phenomenon of decay has not yet occurred. Even if the blood stops flowing after the death, it is impossible to see the blood during the autopsy.

"The blood of the three victims has been drained." said the forensic doctor who accompanied the autopsy at the Public Security Bureau of City A. "I have worked as a forensic doctor for more than [-] years, and I have never seen such a cruel murderer. Our preliminary autopsy believes that the murderer did not The victim was abused and violently abused, but it was definitely torture and killing. He made several cuts on the victim and drained the victim's blood. With this method of killing, the victim could clearly feel the passing of life during the whole process. "

"Have you done toxicological testing?" Qin Ling asked, "The victim must have died unconsciously, right?"

"Qin Fayi is right." The forensic doctor of City A Public Security Bureau nodded, "After the murderer drained the victim's blood, he did not treat it, but stayed at the scene, which provided us with a lot of convenience. According to toxicological tests, the three victims had large doses of sleeping pills and sodium citrate in their bodies."

"Sodium citrate?" Qin Ling's eyes widened. "That's an anticoagulant commonly used in clinical practice. Why did the murderer do that?"

"I don't want to cause more harm to the victim." Zheng Yan put his hands on the dissecting table and looked at the deceased, "Look carefully, the fishing line on the victim's face was not hung up randomly, it was all in the facial muscles Important parts. Therefore, the murderer did not think of harming the victim too much unless necessary."

"That makes sense!" Qin Ling nodded, aiming the scalpel at the victim's elbow, and she noticed that the wound there seemed to be too large.

"Strange." She frowned suddenly, "There is more than one scratch, but there is only one wound that actually causes bleeding. What's going on?"

"Try cutting trauma?" Zheng Yan raised his head, "As far as I know, people who commit suicide usually have trial cutting wounds. Homicide, shouldn't there be?"

"Not necessarily." Qin Ling thought for a while, "The murderer may have made a trial cut for the accuracy of the incision, but a trial cut that does not cut the skin is a bit unusual."

"Grasp the big and let go of the small, we will study this issue later and continue to dissect it." Tang Hegong made the final decision.

Qin Ling nodded, and carefully cut the scalpel around the elbow joint for a circle, and then she let out an exclamation.She noticed that the scalpel did not feel the feeling of cutting the muscles, but it was as easy as cutting a piece of tofu.She took a pair of hemostatic forceps and lifted the layer of skin, only to find that the muscle tissue of the victim's elbow had already been severed, and a metal ring was placed at the joint.The arm bones of the forearm and forearm are connected together through this metal ring.

Qin Ling glanced at Zheng Yan, saw him nodding, and the scalpel was dancing rapidly, opening all the joints near the fishing line. Without exception, the tendons of all joints were cut off, and the original bone joints were cut off. metal ring replaced.

"What do you think?" Zheng Yan looked at Mu Xue and asked.

"The murderer has very high skills and piety in making dolls." Mu Xue thought for a while and said, "At the same time, he has a very good understanding of human body structure."

"You said that he has very advanced skills, I can understand, but he is pious, why didn't I see it at all?" Tang Hegong couldn't help asking.

"There's a detail you didn't notice." Du Li shook her head, and couldn't help but say, "This doll is made too finely, with proper operation, he is a living person, don't forget the two None of the reporters noticed it at first. This involves an extremely large and cumbersome project, and if you are not pious, you will not be able to do it so finely. I think we can probably know the identity of the murderer?"

"It's still a little bit short, I still need to go to the scene to take a look." Zheng Yan said.

Because of this sudden and extremely brutal murder case, the demolition office became the only beneficiary of this tragedy, and the "nail households" in the tube building moved out almost overnight.Although they do not know the details of the case.But because of this, the demolition office was pushed to the forefront for a while, and all kinds of slogans were posted all over the tube building.Even the police who stayed at the scene could not escape the fate of being cursed.

Led by a police officer surnamed Huang, team Z walked through the dark corridor, crossed the "feces mines" all over the ground, and came to the scene of the crime.

Zheng Yan didn't go directly into the house, but stopped in front of the door, and a water tank by the door caught his attention.

"Mu Xue, don't look, tell me what's in this water tank?" He asked.

"The water tank in the corridor is probably the pickles or sauerkraut pickled by the residents themselves." Before Mu Xue could speak, Du Li said.

"You think so too?" Zheng Yan looked at Mu Xue.

"No." Mu Xue shook her head, "The water tank looks relatively new, and it should have been bought recently. Considering that the building is being demolished, the water and electricity should be cut off, so it should be used for water storage, and the murderer should be The conditions for committing the crime were created by putting drugs in the water tank."

"This police officer is right." Officer Huang glanced at the young Mu Xue in surprise, and said, "After the incident, we searched all the items in the victim's home. At first we thought it was the alcohol. Alcoholism." He pointed to the bottles of inferior liquor piled up messily next to the water tank, and said, "But nothing was found. Later, we expanded the search area and finally found the problem in this water tank. There are also Some powder that hasn't been cleaned up."

"Moreover, the murderer probably didn't use violent hijacking to break into the victim's house. He picked the lock and entered after the victim drank water mixed with drugs and fell into a deep sleep." Mu Xue walked to the door and looked at the old door On the lock, there are fresh scratches on it.

There were no loopholes in this reasoning, even Tang Hegong and Qin Ling nodded, only Du Li remained silent with an ugly face.

"Lingzi, how long will it take to drain the blood of the three victims and make dolls?" Zheng Yan asked.

"One week, if you're skilled, you can finish it in five days, but it won't work any shorter." Qin Ling silently calculated and said.

"For such a long time, this water tank with important physical evidence has not been cleaned. It's interesting." Zheng Yan smiled, "Combined with the treatment of the ceiling, the murderer should have been lurking in the victim's house for at least half a month. Half a month I haven't seen anyone from this family for a month, so no one has raised any questions?"

"You're really right." Officer Huang smiled wryly, "We have conducted a detailed investigation into the family background of the victim. This family has no job, lives on government subsidies, has no relatives, and doesn't usually appear in front of everyone. .Because of alcoholism and bad temper, I don’t have a good relationship with the people around me.”

"Oh!" Zheng Yan suddenly realized, and then walked into the scene of the crime.

It was similar to the scene seen in the video, but Zheng Yan was even more shocked by what the murderer did after he visited the scene.

The entire ceiling was cut like a spider web, and the closest distance between the tracks was less than a centimeter.Such a precise cutting and huge network, if the two reporters hadn't discovered it in time, what they saw might not be simple actions such as opening the door, nodding, and waving.

Zheng Yan's heart moved, and he asked, "Did you take down the machine in the ceiling?"

"In the bureau." Officer Huang replied, "don't say it, it's really a very sophisticated machine. There are three machines in total. We disassembled one of them. There is a chip and a signal receiving end in it. We judge that it should be passed Remotely controlled by computer."

"It's a pity, if we can crack the operating program, we can understand the murderer's psychology more clearly." Zheng Yan sighed.

Officer Huang showed a strange smile, "Officer Zheng, to tell you the truth, we have already found that computer. Although the computer was damaged when we found it, fortunately the hard drive was not damaged. Our technicians have already restored part of it. content, including this operating procedure.”

Zheng Yan's eyes lit up, "Great. Please arrange someone to bring the procedure over. Dr. Du, can I trouble you to make a trip?"

"Oh, what are you doing?" the absent-minded Du Li suddenly woke up and asked.

"Please go back to the bureau and bring that program over."

"Oh, good." Du Li nodded, turned and walked out without another word.

Seeing Du Li's apparently vain footsteps and dazed back, Tang Hegong couldn't help but whispered in Zheng Yan's ear: "I know you want to give the little girl you brought back room to express, but you don't think so Is it inappropriate to treat Dr. Du? After all, her relationship with you is not just that of a patient and a doctor. "

"She is a qualified doctor, but that doesn't mean she is also a qualified detective. Her reasoning is wrong, of course I have to correct her." Zheng Yan said nonchalantly.

"You know that's not what I mean." Tang Hegong said with a little anger, "Dr. Du likes you, it's impossible for you not to know."

"I..." Zheng Yan froze for a moment, then said, "What is this?"

He suddenly bent down, rubbed his hand on the ground, put it under his nose and smelled it, "It seems to be incense ash. Someone has lit incense here, and the victim's relatives have been here?"

"No." Officer Huang said, "It should be left by the murderer. We tested it and it is indeed incense ash."

"Interesting." Zheng Yan nodded, "Let's go to another place. If I guessed correctly, the computer was found in another room, the room at the other end of the corridor, right?" He asked Police Officer Huang.

"Yes." Officer Huang nodded, "At that time we had sealed off the scene and searched the entire building. In the room at the end of this floor, we found computers and other things We speculated that the murderer had just left when we arrived, but unfortunately, it was just one step away."

"Other things?" Zheng Yan noticed that when he said this word, a look of discomfort flashed across Police Officer Huang's face, and he asked subconsciously.

"Well, I can't say, you'd better take a look for yourself." He said, took out a few photos from his file bag, and handed them to Zheng Yan.

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"abnormal!"

"brute!"

"Why did he do this?"

"interesting."

Looking at those photos, Qin Ling, Tang Hegong, Mu Xue and Zheng Yan expressed their thoughts respectively.

The photo showed a square table with three plastic barrels on top of it, each of which had a photo attached to it, corresponding to the three victims.There was a dark red liquid in the transparent plastic barrels, and the photos provided by the police specifically marked that the three plastic barrels contained the victim's blood.

Just in front of the three plastic barrels are three incense burners filled with incense ash. When the police took this group of photos, the incense burners were still burning.

In front of the square table is a futon.

Zheng Yan strolled into the room, looking up and down, the room was covered with dust, it looked as if no one had lived in it for a long time.But in a limited area, some traces of life clearly remain.

"Have you found your fingerprints?" Zheng Yan asked Officer Huang's men.

"We searched, but the results were not satisfactory." Police Officer Huang said, "The murderer obviously didn't expect us to come so fast, so he fled in a hurry and only had time to smash the computer. But he should have made preparations to escape, So the fingerprints were cleaned."

"By the way, we have also conducted an investigation on this place." Officer Huang flipped through the files quickly, "According to the investigation, the original occupants of this house had already moved out at the beginning of the relocation. Here, they don't know. But one thing is certain, about half a month before the incident, a passer-by noticed that this house was inhabited. Unfortunately, it was night and the light was not good, so the witnesses could not see the person's appearance clearly. , I just remember that the man seemed to be wearing a suit at the time."

"Wear a suit?" Zheng Yan thought for a while, and smiled again, "It's getting more and more interesting. By the way, when the demolition starts, the water and electricity in this building will be cut off, right?"

"Yes." Officer Huang looked at Zheng Yan puzzled, not understanding why he asked such a question.

"Xiaoxue, I'll leave it to you. Make sure to find the murderer's fingerprints." Zheng Yan said to Mu Xue.

Mu Xue just nodded, walked to the window, pushed the window open, and her eyes fell on the messy wires outside the window.When police officer Huang saw this scene, he suddenly realized.The murderer wanted to cut and process the ceiling of the victim's home, and he needed to use a computer. The machine that manipulated the victim's actions also needed electric power. How could he obtain electricity when the entire building was cut off?

The answer is simple, steal electricity.

The murderer brought enough wires and connected one end to the power supply line of the grid, and the other end to the house where he was hiding and the victim's home.There may be fingerprints left by the murderer on those wires.

Even if not, through those wires, the police may find clues to the murderer.

"I found it." Mu Xue suddenly turned around and said.

"Officer Huang, don't we need to do the next job?" Zheng Yan said to Officer Huang.

"Of course, just watch." Police Officer Huang laughed, but after only a moment, his face was replaced by bitterness, "But it's still not realistic to rely on this alone to find the murderer."

"Of course. There is another job to do, and that job is something that only I can do, but we have to wait a while." Zheng Yan said meaningfully.

"You didn't empathize this time?" While waiting for Du Li to come back, Tang Hegong threw a cigarette to Zheng Yan and asked.

"It's not yet time. There is one very important thing that I haven't confirmed yet." Zheng Yan took the cigarette, but did not light it. He put it under his nose and smelled it, then threw it to Tang Hegong again, "I quit smoking, The professor said that while tobacco was destroying my body, it also slowed down my mind."

Tang Hegong looked at Zheng Yan and smiled: "Sometimes I think it's not a bad thing for your thinking to be a little slower, at least it can give you more buffer time."

"But the murderer won't give me a buffer time." Zheng Yan shrugged.

Twenty minutes later, Du Li came back with a laptop in her arms, with an unconcealable excitement on her face: "Guess what else I found?"

"Some things that can provide important help for my empathy. It can even be said that without this thing, my empathy will fail." Zheng Yan said affirmatively.

Du Li's small mouth opened into an "O" shape, and she shook her head helplessly: "You guessed it a long time ago, right? Otherwise, I wouldn't have let me go back and get this."

"If you say it, you don't say it." Seeing this scene, Qin Ling couldn't help but muttered, "Why does Sister Lili seem to be an idiot at this point?"

"What did you say?" Tang Hegong asked.

"No, you heard it wrong, I didn't say anything." Qin Ling shook her head and said.

"Guessing is one thing, but confirming is another." On the other side, Zheng Yan took the computer and turned it on. What he wanted was on the desktop.Tang Hegong and Qin Ling were surprised to find that it was a video, an interactive video of manipulable character movements made after full 3D modeling.

(End of this chapter)