Chapter 184: Human Meat Buns
Wen Ning said that the police received a report from the masses at noon today, saying that they had eaten something suspected to be a human fingernail in a bun. When the police arrived at the resident's home, they did find the person's fingernails in the stuffing, and they felt that something was wrong and immediately contacted the criminal police.
Next, the police received two more reports in a row, and the people said that they had eaten human nails in the buns. The criminal police inquired about the source of the steamed buns, and the steamed buns were sold by a steamed bun shop in Xidan. After the criminal police arrived at the scene, they searched the entire steamed bun shop, and the steamed bun shop still had the minced meat of the steamed buns that day.
The criminal police took the owner and staff of the steamed bun shop under control, and took the minced meat to the appraisal center for identification, and the appraiser gave a certificate confirming that the minced meat contained human flesh. The owner and staff of the Xidan bun shop said they didn't know it was human flesh.
The ingredients of Xidan Bun Shop are bought from the market, and for the sake of aspect, the Bun Shop directly buys minced meat, which means that the meat filling can be wrapped as soon as it is bought. The owner of the Xidan steamed bun shop is a woman, in her thirties, not married, and after being controlled by the criminal police, the boss was so frightened that he cried directly.
The police soon found the source of the minced meat at the Xidan Bun Shop, which was a pig farmer who slaughtered pigs and sold them in the market by himself. Xidan steamed bun shop is more famous in Xidan Belt, has been selling steamed buns for more than ten years, both old and young people like to eat steamed buns in Xidan steamed bun shop.
The steamed bun shop has a long-term cooperation with the butcher, and since a few years ago, all the pork in the Xidan steamed bun shop comes from the butcher. The criminal police interrogated the butcher, and the butcher cried out for injustice. The butcher's family and several other families set up pig farms, and in addition to slaughtering and selling pork themselves, they also sell the pigs to other consumers.
From the current interrogation, the police have not found anyone suspicious, but they have not ruled out the suspicion of the staff of Xidan Bun Shop and all the people involved in running the pig farm. Police searched the city for missing persons or found homicides, but soon the body of the pregnant woman was found.
After Wen Ning arrived at the scene, he saw that a lot of flesh on the female corpse had been cut off, and immediately linked the two cases together, making Wen Ning even more sure that the two cases were related to the deceased's fingers and toes being chopped off, because human fingernails were found in the stuffing of the bun.
Whether the human flesh in the bun is the meat of the body of a pregnant woman requires further comparison between the meat filling and the corpse. Wen Ning thinks that eight or nine is not far from ten, otherwise the timing of the two events would not be so coincidental.
The body was carried back to the police station, and Wen Ning did not take me and Jiang Jun back to the police station immediately, but said that he would take us to the steamed bun shop and pig farm in Xidan first. Soon, we came to the Xidan Steamed Bun Shop, which is located in an old street in Xidan, and the Steamed Bun Shop has been seized.
Wen Ning took off the seal and led us into the bun shop. Wen Ning was wearing a police uniform, which attracted a lot of onlookers, and everyone pointed at the bun shop, Wen Ning said that when the police came to bring people, it alarmed many nearby residents. The police have not made the matter public, so the public does not know what happened.
But the reason why the bun shop was closed must be related to illegal operations.
The bun shop is very shabby, even a little dirty, and not very hygienic. Walking into the kitchen, it looks even more greasy, the smell of raw meat and flour is very strong, the bamboo steamer of the buns is black and green, and some iron kitchen utensils have rusted. The whole kitchen was full of big flies, and as soon as we came in, we were distracted by the noise of the noise.
Wen Ning said that he sent people to inquire about this steamed bun shop in detail, and the reputation of the steamed bun shop is very good, and many residents come to the time-honored steamed bun shop, so not many people pay attention to the health of the steamed bun shop.
There is no refrigerator in the steamed bun shop, and because the business is good, the steamed bun shop is not afraid that the minced meat will not run out, and it will be used up on the same day when it is bought. Wen Ning pointed to the stove and said that the minced meat mixed with human flesh had been found there, and when the police arrived, the minced meat was almost used up, and only part of the stove was left.
According to the owner, they have wrapped hundreds of buns with these minced meats, most of which have already been sold, and the remaining part is still in the steamer. Jiang Jun heard Wen Ning say this, and muttered: "How many people have eaten steamed buns made of human flesh......"
Wen Ning shook his head, there are not many ingredients of human flesh, mixed with so much pork, he doesn't know how many people have eaten it. Wen Ning's scalp tingles at the thought of someone eating human flesh, and if the source of these human flesh really comes from the corpses of pregnant women, then it is likely that there is still unborn baby meat in those meats.
After observing the time for a while, Wen Ning put the seal on and took us out of the bun shop. While in the car, I also made an assumption that if the human flesh was on a pregnant woman, then the time to commit the crime would be very short. The blood stains at the scene did not dry up, the deceased was obviously dissected for not long in the stomach, the buns were sold at noon, so in the morning, these minced meat were already in the Xidan bun shop.
Wen Ning took us to the vicinity of the pig farm, where the butcher's family lived. The butcher's family also has a son and a daughter, both of whom are now in the police station. Wen Ning took out the key he had taken in advance and entered the butcher's house, which Wen Ning said had been searched by the police.
The kitchen of the butcher's house is relatively large, and the minced meat sold by the butcher to the Xidan bun shop is chopped here. The police have retrieved the various props, pads and stakes used by the butcher back to the police station for identification.
After coming out of the butcher's house, we went to the pig farm again, the pig farm was stinking and we didn't find any valuable clues, and we returned to the police station.
Medical examiners are conducting autopsies on the bodies, and many criminal police officers are conducting second interrogations of the staff and butchers at the bun shop. After detailed questioning, I had a general understanding of the case. The butcher said that the minced meat was a pig he had just killed yesterday, and he chopped it up early in the morning and brought it to the market.
The employee of the Xidan steamed bun shop also admitted that he went to the market early in the morning to bring the pre-chopped minced meat from the butcher to the Xidan steamed bun shop. There are a total of four employees in the Xidan bun shop, plus the boss, there are a total of five people. One of them is in charge of selling steamed buns in the storefront, and the three employees, including the owner, make steamed buns in the kitchen.
After the minced meat was brought back to the kitchen, it was not processed except for sprinkling it with spices and stirring it, and the boss's statement was affirmed by the other three employees. The employee who goes to the market to buy minced meat is also in charge of making steamed buns in the kitchen, and he needs to buy other ingredients in addition to buying minced meat.
The market is relatively close to Xidan Bun Shop, it only takes ten minutes to go back and forth, the staff went for a total of 20 minutes, and the remaining ten minutes or so is the time for him to buy ingredients. The employees were afraid that we would suspect him, saying that most of the sellers he bought the ingredients from were fixed, and they could testify.
Everyone's confessions undoubtedly put the suspicion on the butcher, and the butcher shouted that he was wronged. The butcher said he chopped the meat at five o'clock in the morning. When the meat was chopped, his wife was there to help, and he was able to prove that he had not killed anyone. Several suspects argued with each other, and none of them wanted to take the blame on themselves.
When it got dark, the preliminary identification results came out.
Through comparison, the DNA remaining in the minced meat and the DNA of the pregnant woman matched, and so far, the two cases have been merged into one. I arrived at Wen Ning's office, followed by the medical examiner, who handed us several copies of the autopsy report.
The medical examiner determined that the pregnant woman was close to the time of delivery, and if the pregnant woman did not die, the child could be born in a few days. The time of death of the pregnant woman was probably fifteen hours before the body was found by passers-by, and the cause of death was asphyxiation. Seeing this, I understood that the deceased did not have their stomachs broken open as soon as they died.
Based on the degree of dryness of the bloodstains, the medical examiner believed that the body had been torn open in the belly and womb ten hours after the deceased's death, and that the body had been dumped at the scene twelve hours after death.
What is even more shocking is that the forensic doctor found the residue of semen in the lower body of the pregnant woman's body......