Criminal Investigation Notes

At 9:30 in the evening, the quiet white lights were still on in the Nancheng funeral home. There was a chill in this white, and the whole room was several degrees lower than the outside.

The autopsy has been completed, Lin Xiuran supported his arms on the dissection table, lowered his head to observe the half-corrupted male corpse on the dissection table, his expression was a bit solemn.

Obviously, the murderer did not want the victim to die easily. Before the victim died, he had suffered a long period of torture. The surface of the body was full of scars from various abuses. This time may be a few days or even a week.The stomach content of the corpse is empty, which means that the victim has not eaten for a long time before his death.

Accompanied by footsteps, Song Wen and Fu Linjiang walked in from outside the door.

Song Wen's nose moved. In addition to the rancid smell, there was a strong bloody smell in the room. In addition to these two smells, there was also a special smell in the air, which was a disgusting smell, like The smell of the liquid mixed with seawater evaporates, as if the moisture in the whole house is much heavier.

Lin Xiuran pointed to the male corpse on the autopsy stage and introduced straightforwardly: "The corpse was transported by the third team. The deceased was named Zhang Peicai. He was 35 years old this year and was an external investigative reporter from a media company. He had his own official account and was quite well-known. The deceased was 1.78 meters tall. The time of death can be determined initially. It was three days ago. The corpse was found tonight by the river in the dark river area."

"There is a large area with sparsely populated areas, and there is no monitoring. It is estimated that the person who throws the body is difficult to find." Song Wen said and looked at the autopsy platform. The identity of the deceased was sensitive. He somewhat understood why this case came to his hands. "From the current information, it can only be determined that the corpse thrower may have a means of transportation before the corpse is transported to that place."

"According to the testimony of the scavenger who found the corpse, the corpse was not there last night. We can preliminarily determine the time when the corpse was thrown around early this morning. The temperature has risen recently, and various insects have reached an active period and become corrupt. Time is much faster than usual." Lin Xiuran made a simple explanation.

At this time, lying flat on the dissection table is the corpse of a young man. The flesh has begun to rot and emits a strong stench. The corpse has completed the basic dissection, the chest and abdomen are opened, and the head has been shaved. saw.

Under the white light, the eyes of the corpse were slightly open. If there were other differences, it was that the white of the corpse's eyes revealed a light red turbidity.Like when people’s eyes get irritated.The eyeball turned completely red with red blood lines inside.Under this pale light, it looked like a pair of blood pupils.

Song Wen suddenly thought of the movie he had watched. The zombies in it seemed to have such eyes.He looked down at the rotting corpse again, as if he would sit up at any time.

The deceased was a young man with long and strong muscles. His height was not low. Who subdued such a man and tortured him to death?

Lin Xiuran went on to introduce: "Zhang Peicai used to be a social investigative reporter. Later, he resigned from his position but did not stop social investigations. Later, he started doing news releases on the Internet by himself. He did more famous series such as takeaway. Visits to factories and chaos in private kindergartens."

Fu Linjiang nodded: "I seem to have seen one of his five-star hotels reveal the hygiene situation. Those workers use powerful bleaching detergents and throw the cleaned bedding directly on the floor. As long as I think about it, I will I feel like getting goose bumps."

Song Wen said: "You don't need to be too nervous. We can't afford to stay in a five-star hotel."

Fu Linjiang clutched his chest and said, "Thank you for your relief, it makes sense, but why am I more sad."

There is no lack of darkness in the world, and there are even many well-known gray areas. Many people have their own secrets. Zhang Peicai’s job is to explode these things. And he himself has already been in the gray area for money and popularity. Judging him by purely good or bad.

Some of his reports are true, while others exaggerate facts.

If this kind of private investigation wants to make a fortune, either it is to be a paparazzi star, or it is like Zhang Peicai to do this kind of sensational social news.Accompanied by a sensational news item, they are often fame and fortune.

Lin Xiuran continued: "Before the accident, the deceased had told his relatives that if he was going to investigate for a period of time, the family did not care about his whereabouts. About a week ago, his brother could not contact him many times, so he reported. The police, because relatives provided Zhang Peicai's specific characteristics and birthmark photos, this time it was possible to determine the source of the corpse so quickly."

Song Wen familiarly reached out and took out a pair of gloves to put on, then looked down at the corpse: "Is the cause of death determined?"

"I'm sure, it's because of trauma that he lost too much blood and died." Lin Xiuran said.

"But it seems that there are many wounds on the corpse, and there are no obvious fatal injuries..." Fu Linjiang carefully observed the decomposed corpse, most of the wounds were not fatal.

Lin Xiuran explained: "There are many scars everywhere on the body. The torso, limbs, including the head. The murderer knows how to torture others and can make the victim more painful."

"That is, the victim was slowly tortured to death by bloodletting." Fu Linjiang endured the nausea while speaking, and leaned down to observe the brain of the deceased. Song Wen followed to look at it. At this time, the skull of the corpse was sawed open and exposed. The brain that came out was exposed to the air, part of it had decayed, the dura mater was full of blood vessels, and several bleeding spots had blood stasis. Adults and flies had been collected, but some eggs and larvae were inevitably left in the corpse.The entire brain becomes a paradise for insects, like a worm's nest that has been emptied.

"This is..." Fu Linjiang found that there were several white sacs on his brain, which were the size of rice flowers, and he reached out to touch them.

"Don't move!" Lin Xiuran said, reaching out and using a pair of tweezers to break a white sac that looked like an egg, and then put it on the dissection table, and some flowed out of the broken sac. The transparent liquid, and then a white worm a few centimeters long crawled out of it.

Song Wen finally knew what the smell he had smelled before was the smell brought by this maggot, a smell that was raw and fishy, ​​indescribable.It's kind of like it's from a broken egg.He looked down at the struggling bug and said, "Looking at the development of this bug, it doesn't look like it has been dead for three days."

Song Wen doesn't have much research on this, but he also knows one thing. Forensic doctors often use insects to determine the time of death, but looking at this corpse, it seems that the insects will only develop after more than a week of death.

Lin Xiuran nodded: "The surface of the brain is swollen, and there are maggots in the coronal section. This person's brain is almost hollowed out by the worms." Then he tilted his head and explained, "Generally after death, maggots will grow wildly according to the environment, as the saying goes. Good, flies do not bite seamless eggs. Flies like to lay eggs in some moist places, such as wounds, snouts, and reproductive organs. Although the corpse is now rotten, according to the tips of the insects, this person had his head before his death. When injured, there should be insects invading."

Song Wen saw this scene and stood up straight: "This means..."

Lin Xiuran calmly said a bit cruel facts: "There are iron nails on his head, leaving a round wound on the skull. This is also a way of torture. In other words, it may be When he was still alive, the insects had already laid eggs in him. The rot and collapse of the wound caused a large number of insects to multiply."

Song Wendao: "It looks like the murderer is very experienced, like a veteran."

"Besides," Lin Xiuran's complexion was still condensed, "the deceased has some binding scars on his hands and feet, and there are traces of tape on his mouth and nose. I suspect that he was imprisoned for a period of time before his death. When the deceased was discovered In order to put it in the bag and fix the corpse, he wears knots on his hands and feet. The knots are made in a special way. You can look back later.

In many serial cases, the suspect will have a special way of binding, which is also one of the important clues to the murderer in the later stage.

"What about his belongings? Do you have a mobile phone or other documents?" Song Wen asked again.

Lin Xiuran shook his head and said, "No one knows what he is investigating and where he went during this period. When he was discovered, his body was only wearing simple clothes. We can use it as physical evidence, except for the rope in his hand. , It's a big black bag used to discard the corpse."

"What about other clues? Didn't it mean that his family had reported missing before?" Song Wen asked again.

Lin Xiuran thought for a while and said, "I heard a few words before. It seems that the deceased's brother said that his brother had told him when he left and he found a shocking news."

Song Wen frowned slightly when he heard these words, could it be more shocking than his previous revelations?Was this person killed because he knew something?

After examining the corpse, it was already more than ten o'clock in the evening. Lin Xiuran had to perform further biopsy on the corpse and write an autopsy report. Song Wen said to Fu Linjiang: "Let’s withdraw first and wait until tomorrow to start the investigation." He finished. In other words, he looked aside suddenly, and put a few packages on the table in the corner of the funeral home.

"This is?" Song Wen frowned, the thing looked a bit familiar.

Lin Xiuran looked up and glanced: "Oh, it was delivered by Lu Siyu. He said that it was the wolfberry and tea leaves that Zhang Dahai gave before. You put my share on his side. He happened to be free today. I'll send it over."

Song Wen frowned more tightly: "When did it happen?"

"Just now, as soon as he left, you came."

"You just let him run to the funeral home to deliver it?"

Lin Xiuran said, "He said he happened to be nearby. One minute after he made a call, people came over. Then he came over and left something and talked a few words before leaving." At this point, he finally felt out from Song Wen's words. Pointing to something else, he straightened up and asked, "Did you...have you been awkward recently?" He thought about it before using this word. Anyway, Fu Linjiang is not an outsider. He knows how much Song Wen cares about Lu Siyu. So I can't figure out what these two people are doing.

Song Wen asked, "Did he say anything else?" So counting the time, Lu Siyu probably came out of the police station and went to the funeral home. He drove until the car was parked here and then called Lin Xiuran.

Lin Xiuran pursed her mouth and made a face with a hand spread: "Say you will not allow him to reinstate and let me plead for him. But after all, I belong to the Forensic Medical Appraisal Center, and I am not his direct leader, so I can't talk about you. Something in the team comforted him and let him go back."

Song Wen just accepted this explanation.But he couldn't figure out why Lu Siyu was so active.

The funeral home is a remote, dark place. When the two people left the funeral home, the temperature outside was several degrees higher than the inside.After getting in the car, Fu Linjiang continued the topic just now: "This murderer is probably not easy."

"The murderer is currently hiding well, leaving no traces." Song Wen started the car, "I guess this case is not so easy to solve."

"Hey, are you really not going to disclose some information to Lu Siyu? I think his intuition and ideas are quite accurate sometimes." Fu Linjiang tentatively suggested.

"He won't also ask you to intercede for him, right?" Song Wen still refused: "Let's check it out first. When he wasn't there, we still solved the case in the same way?"

As long as it is a murder, from the moment when the murderer starts thinking, all actions are like toppling Domino's dominoes. Every word he says, everything he does, and even every step he takes may be due to this. Change, this change is very subtle, maybe he didn't even notice it.After the behavior of everything, there will be various traces. As long as they can be connected reasonably through reasoning, the desired answer can be found.

There are no murderers who are smart enough, only hunters who are not smart and persistent enough.