borrow face

Chapter 9 The strange female corpse (2)
"The person who dumped the body may not necessarily be taking drugs. It may be a family member or friend. They are afraid of getting into trouble, or they have no money to collect the body, so they just throw it away."

"The dead body was thrown away a day after the deceased died. Maybe he lived alone. The landlord came to open the door, fearing that he would cause trouble and throw the body away. I think it's normal to destroy the body. After all, he was afraid that people would recognize him and the police would come to the door and be implicated."

"The person who threw the body may be a drug friend of the deceased. He took drugs and was bold."

"Drug addicts are often crazy, bold and reckless, and cannot be viewed by ordinary people. The place where the case started may be far away from the place where the body was dumped. The body dumper is also a drug addict. He may drive for a long time until he arrives at National Highway 108 to dump the body. "

"He couldn't even walk straight after taking drugs, and he still drove all the way to throw the body?"

"Maybe the person who dumped the body was not that addicted to drugs, maybe he was smoking ice, he was very excited, and he didn't feel tired after driving for a long time."

Others speculated: "Maybe the deceased was a drug dealer? Or she has other criminal records. The police have her file and fingerprints. The person who threw the body was an accomplice, and he was afraid of getting caught in the fire."

Because drug use is a high consumption, after drug addicts become addicted to drugs, most of them have no intention of working and are financially distressed. It is not a small possibility to rent cheap houses in the outer suburbs.Therefore, the villages and towns near the place where the body was found and the residents of the real estate project are the current investigation focus of this case.

"I think the deceased is likely to be a prostitute. He died in the store or at the client's home. The boss or the client threw the body away. It is easy to understand the disfigurement. I don't want to be recognized by others, and I am worried that the police will be called. It's not that he killed the person. Divide the body It’s a bit exaggerated, there’s no need to make it so big.”

This speculation has been supported by many people.Many female drug addicts rely on prostitution, so nightclubs, shampoo shops, massage parlors and other "chicken coops" in the vicinity of the crime site were added to the investigation focus.

Xia Yan, the leader of the second squadron, reported the week's work to Jin Rusong, the team leader.With regard to the 8 female corpse case, no progress has been made due to the delay in determining the identity of the deceased.

During this period of time, I don’t know whether it’s the bad economic situation or the hot weather. All kinds of criminal cases happened frequently, and the criminal police team was exhausted.Jin Rusong himself hasn't had much rest for almost a month.

In front of Xia Yan's jurisdiction, there was an unsolved supermarket poisoning case and an unresolved main culprit in an injury case in which one died and one was seriously injured. When he was in a state of desperation, there was another female corpse case, and he almost passed out.

Seeing his subordinates with black eye circles and frowning faces, Jin Rusong couldn't say anything to blame, since they were brothers who worked hard together, he should give priority to encouragement.

Jin Rusong went over the case of the female corpse in detail, and asked Xia Yan how the forensic doctor judged the cause of death.Xia Yan repeated the preliminary conclusion of the forensic doctor, the deceased was an addict, and the possibility of death from drug overdose was the greatest.

Jin Rusong thought for a while and said, "Xia Yan, the supermarket poisoning case has a greater impact, so you should focus on solving that one first. Let go of the female corpse case first, and wait for the final autopsy report from the Municipal Bureau. It's that simple."

This simplicity is not that simple.Jin Rusong is not saying that the female corpse case is a simple case that is easy to solve, but that the death due to drug addiction is not intentional homicide. If the body is not thrown away, it is not even a criminal case.As for the corpse throwing case, it was not considered a major case internally.The attitude of the police is different for major criminal cases and general criminal cases.

Hearing what the captain said, Xia Yan breathed a sigh of relief.The team leader thought the same as him. At this time, one thing more is worse than one thing less.If this case is indeed caused by drug overdose, Xia Yan is ready to listen to the leadership and delay it.

Our public security organs emphasize that "homicide cases must be solved."Homicide cases refer to eight types of death cases involving intentional homicide, intentional injury to death, and eight types of criminal activities such as explosion, poisoning, arson, robbery, rape, and kidnapping.The police are not gods, so how could all murder cases be solved?The superior demanded that the murder case must be solved, so the lower officials were very nervous when they found out the murder case, because the detection rate should be counted in one year's work performance.Especially the murder case, of course I am happy to be solved, otherwise there will be a lot of trouble and affect a lot of assessment indicators.

If the female corpse case is determined to be an accidental death caused by drug overdose, this kind of murder case does not belong to the "homicide case must be solved" homicide case, it is considered a corpse case.

If the person throwing the corpse did not destroy, molest, dismember, whip or otherwise insult the corpse, but just dumped the corpse in the wilderness because of ignorance of the law and timidity, he could be released after a few days of education.

In this case, the thrower who destroyed the face and fingerprints of the deceased should be convicted of insulting the corpse.However, this kind of sudden death of addicts, abandoning themselves and others, is generally classified as accidental death.Of course, it's good to be able to solve the case of throwing corpses, but it's not a big problem if it can't be solved.The police force is limited, and the knife must be used wisely, and the superiors can understand it.The corpse is parked in the funeral home for a period of time, and if no one claims it, it will be automatically disposed of according to the procedure.

3. Depressed Xiao Wu

A week later, the pathology and poisoning appraisal report of the appraisal center of the Municipal Bureau came out. The heroin metabolite morphine and monoacetylmorphine derivatives in the blood of the deceased in the 8 female corpse case were 12 times the normal lethal dose, and a small amount of methylbenzylamine (ice) metabolites and stabilizing ingredients were also detected.The pathological analysis is consistent with the symptoms of heroin poisoning, and agrees with the branch's technical department's judgment on the cause of death of the deceased in the 8 female corpse case "in line with the sudden death of respiratory failure caused by heroin overdose".

Now that the cause of death was determined to be drug overdose or accidental death, the importance of the 8 female corpse case declined, so Jin Rusong agreed that the No. 12 Squadron should assign manpower to more urgent and difficult cases.

After Xia Yan withdrew the staff from the task force, the female corpse case task force existed in name only.The squadron only left Xiao Wu and Lao Cui to continue to follow, demanding to try to confirm the identity of the female corpse.Lao Cui is still on vacation, and Xiao Wu is currently in charge of the case alone.

Although it is very difficult to handle the case alone, Xiao Wu is still very excited.He has been an intern in the bureau since his senior year, but he always followed other people's buttocks to do some errands.The female corpse case was the first case I was "responsible for" since I started working, and it was still a "murder case", so the responsibility was heavy!
"We are pests, we are pests, the righteous Lai Fuling, the righteous Lai Fuling, we must kill the pests, kill them! Haha, I am the leader of the task force!"

Xiao Wu was humming, full of energy.

The information on the Internet has been checked, and among the recently registered missing persons, those whose characteristics are similar to those of the female corpse have been compared one by one, and all of them have been excluded.Information on the female corpse has been sent to other districts and counties in Beijing, and Hebei has also been contacted, but there is no feedback yet.It has been almost two weeks since the bounty for the identification of the corpse was issued, and some reports were reported, but they were all ruled out after comparison.

Xiao Wu didn't know what to do next.Since the deceased was an addict, Xia Yan asked Xiao Wu to check the "Dynamic Control of Drug Addicts" to see if there were any registered drug addicts who met the requirements?

Xiao Wu listed the drug addicts on the Internet who roughly met the age of the deceased between 31 and 33 years old and a height of 1 to 68 meters. There were 1 people nationwide, 75 in Beijing, and 1356 in Hebei.Xiao Wu called one by one to confirm, not to mention other places, 53% of Beijing could not be contacted.How to do?If you search for and verify the addresses one by one by yourself, how long will it take to verify them?What about those from other places?What if the deceased is not found?After all, the drug users on the record are the tip of the iceberg.How to do?Search must be narrowed.Before, the photos and information of the female corpse had been posted on the Internet, but there was no feedback yet.But who would recognize a face that was scratched, rotting, and most of it eaten away by maggots? !It would be better to have a photo of the restored face for comparison. Xiao Wu wants to invite Wang Dan, the suspect portrait artist in the bureau, to paint the corpse.

Wang Dan gave Xiao Wu a white look, and said to him, "I won't look at the corpse. Tell me, what does the deceased's face look like?"

Xiao Wu thought about it for a while: "It should be an oval face." Wang Dan drew an oval on the paper with a pencil and asked, "What hairstyle?" Xiao Wu didn't know how to answer. They stick together in a mess from time to time, how can there be a hairstyle?Wang Dan then asked: "Is her eyebrows thick or thin? Big or small eyes?"

Xiao Wu couldn't answer.He only glanced at the corpse a few times, but didn't dare to take a closer look.In the autopsy photos, the face was in such a mess that it was impossible to tell the eyebrows.

"What does that nose look like, can you remember? High nose bridge or bulbous nose?"

"..."

Wang Dan dropped the pen and crossed his hands: "Handsome guy, if you don't tell me what she looks like, how can I draw it?" Xiao Wu quickly apologized and smiled: "Mr. Wang, I'm an ordinary person, so I can't tell. Our captain said you are God-man, you can imagine her true face just by looking at her."

"Don't flatter me. The portraitist is based on the information provided by the witnesses. Just tell me about an oval face. How can I draw it? Just this oval face. I've finished it. You can take it?" Xiao Wu continued to smile and beg Said: "Mr. Wang, you can just draw one."

"Draw one at will? What if the drawing is reversed and affects the detection?"

"Please do me a favor, go and have a look, maybe you'll see it when you see it." Facing Xiao Wu's begging, Wang Dan sighed: "You let the forensic doctor sew up your face first, and then I'll go and see it. Draw it for you." The female corpse's face has been eaten by maggots a lot, I wonder if the forensic doctor can still sew it up?It is estimated that it is choking enough.Asking a suspect portrait artist to restore the face of the disfigured dead body, Xiao Wu was originally taking chances, but now it seems that this way will not work.

Although there was nothing he could do to help, Wang Dan pointed out another way for Xiao Wu: "You can go to someone who does skull restoration and have a try."

The so-called "skull restoration" is to analyze the race, gender, and age based on a bare skull (or even part of it), and then build a facial model based on the anatomical relationship and the skull data, fill in the muscles, facial features, and skin , and finally add eyebrows and beards to restore a person's original appearance.

Xiao Wu has heard of this technology, but I don’t know which domestic institution can do it?After thanking Wang Dan, Xiao Wu went back to the forensic doctor Zhao Zhuowen for consultation.

Forensic doctor Zhao Zhuowen gave a surprising answer: "Yes, there are people doing it at the Beijing Public Security University and the Forensic Medicine Department of the University of Medical Sciences."

"That's great. A skull can be restored. Our female corpse has muscles and everything. It should be easy to do." Public Security University is Xiaowu's alma mater, so it should be easy to handle.

Zhao Zhuowen poured cold water on it; "Don't think so simply, this technology is immature. They have to build a database first, and each race, nationality, region, living habit, age, and environment will affect a person's Appearance, how complicated is this database and how much work do you think? Even if there is a database, according to the data of the database, you think that the appearance of people is very different. The eyeballs of this female corpse were eaten up by maggots. What type of eyeballs should I choose? Set it up? A slight difference is a thousand miles away."

Xiao Wu is right when he thinks about it. If a face with eyebrows and eyes that are very different from the deceased is recovered, it is better to have no clues and mislead the direction of detection.

But there is no other way now, no one has reported the crime, and there is no missing person registration.Maybe a few more combinations of facial features can be made, and one of them may be close to the face of the deceased.

Facing a disfigured dead body, Xiao Wu wants to use the dead horse with skull restoration technology as a living horse doctor.When Xia Yan heard Xiao Wu said that he would open a letter of introduction to go to the Medical University for skull restoration, he asked, "Have you investigated all those drug addicts?"

"I've contacted them once, but most of them can't be reached." Xia Yan frowned: "Can't get in touch?"

"Some phones were shut down, some moved, some families said they had left home a long time ago and hadn't contacted them for a long time, and some had already died."

"How did you get in touch?" Xiao Wu reported: "Call one by one according to the directory. I even contacted the police station in their jurisdiction if I couldn't get through by phone."

"The results of it?"

"The police said that many people's phones were down, and they couldn't be reached." Xia Yanteng got angry immediately.Today's young people are generally squeamish and lazy. They don't like to do strenuous basic research work, and they always want to be opportunistic and whimsical.Look at the monitoring and surfing the Internet, is it so easy to solve the case?This kind of new criminal police often can't work for a long time, and they will find various excuses to change jobs.Every year, the Criminal Police Force loses many people, and Xiao Wu's character is typical.

Xiao Wu also heard that the leader's tone was very bad, so he took it in when he didn't understand, and felt a little uneasy: "Captain Xia, I want to use the skull restoration technology to restore the appearance of the female corpse, and then it will be more reliable to find someone."

"Reliable?" Xia Yan yelled, "Can you do something reliable? This face is so rotten that it can be restored by sitting in the office and squeezing the plasticine? What if you do something wrong? What if you catch the wrong person?"

Xiao Wu also wanted to defend: "Captain Xia, I want to ask them to make a few more combinations, maybe they can bump into one." Which teacher taught you? If you make a phone call, you have investigated it, you..." Xia Yan reprimanded Xiao Wu.Although Xiao Wu was not convinced, Xia Yan was the leader after all, so he didn't dare to contradict him.Besides, asking him to check on drug addicts, it really doesn't make sense for him to just call.In fact, the squadron leader Xia Yan is not a conservative person, he just hates his subordinates who are not serious and unsteady in their work, especially the new police officers, who have not yet shaken off their student spirit, have high eyesight and low abilities, and they will not be able to work without hard training for a few years.

The workload of Chinese criminal police is overloaded, their income is pitifully low, and their lives are often in danger.After working so hard, family members often don't understand.If it is not for faith and love, no one can persist for a long time.

Xia Yan has been under a lot of pressure and worries recently, and Xiao Wu has hit the gun.He ordered Xiao Wu to complete the investigation of 53 eligible Beijing drug addicts within a week.This time, it's not just a phone call. Those who can't be reached by phone must go to the door one by one to verify whether the person is still there.

This time it was hard for Xiao Wu.Xiao Wu is a native of Beijing, his only son, and his family lives in Xicheng District.From his home to work, if he takes a bus, it takes nearly two hours one way.To be honest, unless it is some particularly fat department, no one wants to be assigned to such a distant suburban county.In the criminal police team, there is no free time at all. Xiao Wu almost lives in the unit dormitory after he officially goes to work.

Beijing is so big, and its traffic conditions are famous all over the country. If you walk from the suburbs to the city, the traffic will get more and more congested.It often takes half a day to find someone on the road.He started running every day as soon as he opened his eyes, and in the middle of the night, he still stayed at the door of someone's house to ask about the situation.

This ran day and night for seven days.

Among the 53 drug addicts in Beijing, a total of 37 people were contacted by phone calls and home visits (alive), 4 people died, and 12 people could not be contacted. However, it was too late to come to understand the situation.

Xiao Wu bit the bullet and went to report to Xia Yan. Unexpectedly, Xia Yan's attitude was very peaceful today. Maybe because the supermarket poisoning case was solved, Xia Yan was in a better mood these two days.

The squadron leader knew that it was impossible to find out such scattered drug addicts by himself in such a short period of time, and Xiao Wu was considered a pass if he could run like this, so he didn't blame Xiao Wu anymore.Feeling that the progress was too slow, Xiao Wu boldly asked the captain if he could ask someone from the anti-drug team to help.Xia Yan said that there is no need for the time being, and continue to find the people who have not been found this week, and check the investigators in Hebei, and then wait for Lao Cui to get his opinion after he goes to work.

(End of this chapter)