I don't really like cold weather, because in such weather, if something chills happens, it makes people feel cold from the inside out, and I always hate that feeling.

But in my memory, there is such a case that I will never forget the pain it caused me.

It was a cold winter morning, I remember that it was not yet 7 o'clock in the morning, and it was still very dark, so I received a call from Lao Lu, saying that the body of a girl had been found in the downtown area.

It was a really cold day, and it seemed that a good quality down jacket could not stop the cold of nature at all.

I rushed to the scene of the crime without stopping, which had been completely cordoned off by the police, but because it was in the downtown area, the crowd of onlookers still surrounded the scene.

I observed the scene and the location of the deceased was on the sidewalk, and the hospital was opposite the deceased.

I walked out into the crowd and began to listen to what the people were talking about.

A bloated rural woman in her 40s, wearing a colorful cotton jacket, had the loudest voice, and she pulled a middle-aged man next to her and said: "I just went to see the dead girl, it's really pitiful, she must have been kicked out of the hospital with no money for treatment, and then she froze to death outside the hospital." ”

The middle-aged man was dressed very plainly, with a pair of yellow-rimmed glasses, he shook his head and said: "Impossible, what kind of society is there now, where is there any money for treatment to freeze to death at the gate of the hospital, you don't talk nonsense, let's go, go home, don't talk nonsense here." ”

I agree with the man's statement, but the woman's words are not entirely unreasonable, or the deceased may have come out of the hospital.

"Old Lu, what's the situation?" I entered the scene, rubbed my hands together and asked Lao Lu.

Lao Lu said with white breath in his mouth: "I received a report from the masses early in the morning, saying that a girl died on the side of the road. It's weird, you just have to look at the deceased. ”

Lao Lu did know me very well, and he did not tell me directly about his investigation, because that might affect my judgment of the deceased and the murder scene. Of course, if Lao Lu wanted to explain the murder in detail, I would have interrupted him.

I walked over to the body and could tell at a glance that the deceased was very young, about 17 to 19 years old.

The deceased was wearing a down jacket with English letters, and from the texture of this down jacket, I can tell that this kind of clothing is a very cheap down jacket, which is usually sold in towns and small shops.

The deceased's pants were very strange, wearing a pair of pink velvet pants. These fleece pants should be pants for a suit of home clothes, and these pants are generally only worn at home. Especially girls of this age should belong to the more beautiful people, and they will never go out if they don't dress up beautifully. But why did this girl go out in her home clothes and die in the downtown area?

I checked the clothes inside the deceased's down jacket, and sure enough, it was a home suit that matched the pants. Plus the girl wears a pair of snow boots on her feet, but no socks. My preliminary judgment was that the girl had come out of the house in a hurry, and because she was in too much of a hurry to go out, she put on her coat and did not even have time to put on her socks.

You can come out of the house, so will it come out of the hospital?

Lao Lu also thought of this situation before, and went to the hospital to investigate, and found that this girl was not a patient in the hospital.

During the initial autopsy, I felt angry because the girl's face and head had been beaten before she died. Although it didn't hit it until the head broke the blood flow, it also hit the nose and swollen face.

However, the head and face injuries were not fatal, but I could see that her injuries were not only new injuries, but also old ones.

I examined the deceased's arm, and there were also bruises, which looked like marks from being whipped with a rattan stick, and they were also old wounds. Because it was a preliminary autopsy, I did not conduct a full examination of the body. But I can tell that the deceased had been beaten many times before his death.

In the preliminary autopsy, I did not see the real cause of the girl's death, as there were no obvious fatal injuries on her body. Therefore, for the judgment of his death, the body had to be transported to the forensic center for further autopsy.

Although I didn't see the real death of the deceased at the scene, I judged that this was not the first scene, and I also reversed my previous judgment, the girl did not come here to die by herself, this place was the scene of the dumping of the body.

I got up and said to Lao Lu: "The deceased's hand is on the dirt next to the street tree, but there are no scratches on the dirt floor, and there is no dirt in the deceased's fingernails. It shows that the deceased did not struggle before he died. Moreover, the deceased's shoes were very strange, the shoes on her left foot were obviously put on by someone else, but they were not properly set, resulting in her heels and soles not touching each other. So I think this is the dumping site. ”

Lao Lu nodded and said, "Well, it makes sense." Investigators had previously found some confetti on the side of the body, which appeared to have phone numbers on them. Perhaps the owners of these phone numbers have some connection to the deceased. ”

I said, "Well, put those scraps together as soon as possible." Let the medical examiner remove the body, and I'll go with me to see the further autopsy. By the way, you see there's a surveillance probe over there, maybe you can capture the footage of the body being dumped at that time. ”

Lao Lu said: "I have already asked the investigators to access the surveillance. ”

Lao Lu stayed at the scene to continue the investigation, while I followed the forensic doctor and took the deceased to the forensic center.

The results of a further autopsy came out quickly, and the results were shocking to me.

The age of the deceased has been determined, only 19 years old. The real cause of her death was due to prolonged beatings, coupled with malnutrition, which led to organ failure. The time of death was around 3 a.m. today.

Although the deceased had not been sexually assaulted on the eve of her death, she had old lacerations on her lower body, indicating that she had been subjected to inhuman abuse in the days leading up to her death.

The most distressing thing is that the girl is covered with bruises, especially on her back, there are obvious marks of belt whipping, and there are also burn marks from cigarette butts.

Who had abused this girl so frantically? Looking at this autopsy report, I had already clenched my fists and gritted my teeth, bound to arrest the real murderer and return justice to the victim.

Of course, the direction of the investigation is to find the source of the corpse first, and only when the identity of the deceased is determined can the social network be investigated around her identity.

It's a pity that there is nothing on this girl that can prove her identity. Lao Lu has also searched for the recent missing person case, but there is still no information about this girl.

Without an identity, it will bring great inconvenience to the detection of the case, so I can only investigate from the two clues we have now. The first was the scrap of paper that was next to the corpse, tearing up the scattered paper.

The confetti was quickly pieced together with five phone numbers, and the police were able to contact the five people quickly.

All five men owned restaurants, and upon further investigation, all five had perfect alibis. And one person pointed out that he had written the shredded note and given it to a vegetable farmer.

We soon found the vegetable farmer again, and the vegetable farmer told us that he had stored the phone number on the slip of paper on his phone, then tore it up and threw it on the ground. After the investigation, it was found that the vegetable farmer had nothing to do with the case.

But the investigation was not in vain, because the vegetable farmer told me that when he threw away the confetti, there were no bodies there. He remembers that it was around 5 a.m., as he was rushing to the wet market to prepare for the morning market.

Based on the time period provided by the vegetable farmer, we retrieved the surveillance footage. This surveillance video is our second clue.

We locked the monitoring time between half past four and six in the morning.

Sure enough, surveillance footage showed that at 5:13:26 a.m., a car stopped at the location of the body.

Unfortunately, I don't know what the reason is, the street lights are not turned on at this time, so on this screen, only the lights of the car can be seen, and it can be roughly judged that it is a sedan.

After the car stopped, the lights were suddenly turned off, because the street lights were not turned on, the lights were turned off again, and it was still early, although it was a downtown area, there were few cars passing by during this time period. So it's pitch black in the surveillance footage.

At 5:15:17 a.m., the lights turned on again, and the car quickly drove away from the surveillance screen.

I frowned and looked at the surveillance screen and said, "Lao Lu, in the two minutes that the lights went out, I guessed that the murderer was throwing the body." Two minutes to throw a body of less than 50 kilograms to the side of the road is more than enough. ”

Lao Lu looked at me and said, "I agree with what you said. This car must be the vehicle driven by the murderer. I guess he deliberately chose a place where there were no street lights to dump the body. These bastards, though cunning, don't believe that other surveillance cameras can't catch them as long as they enter the city. ”

I frowned and said, "Comrade Lao Lu, don't you think the place where the murderer's body was dumped is very strange? ”

Lao Lu said: "What do you think, just say it." ”

I lit a cigarette and said, "First of all, I don't deny your statement, the murderer did choose a lot without street lights to dump the body. But don't you think it's strange? Why should the corpse be thrown in the downtown area, isn't it safer to go to the countryside and go to the mountains in the countryside? Could it be that the murderer is mad and wants to challenge the police and let the police find the body quickly? This is not logical. ”

Lao Lu also lit a cigarette, looked sideways at the surveillance screen, and said after thinking for a while: "Indeed, this is really different from the previous murder and corpse dumping cases, the murderer wants to hide the corpse after killing, this murderer actually did the opposite, what does it mean?" ”

I frowned and said, "It's hard to guess what this murderer is thinking, let's find this car first through conventional means." ”

Lao Lu nodded and said, "Makes sense." ”