Chapter 1: Hanging on Christmas
The river of time, flowing slowly. Since December, the weather in Yangcheng has been getting colder and colder. In the days when there were no major cases, the lives of the members of the Serious Crime Team were still very happy and comfortable.
At the same time, there is also an indescribable and incomprehensible subtle relationship between Jiang Chonglang and Zhang Lanshan. It's just that the two of them never pierced the window paper. Maybe there are some things that are the best in the hazy and ambiguous stage, and there is the most room for reverie.
There is still more than a week to go, and it is almost Christmas, and Han Yuchao proposes to go out for a big meal together. But Jiang Chonglang said: "Christmas is a foreign festival for Westerners, what is there to spend." You are a manifestation of admiration for foreigners. ”
Han Yuchao was not happy, and said: "Brother Chong, I just want to find a reason to let everyone get together for a while, you call Sister Lan Shan again, everyone is usually so busy." It's rare to relax, in case there is a case at this time, a corpse. Then our plan will have to be in vain, and maybe the New Year's Day plan will also have to be in vain. ”
Unexpectedly, Han Yuchao's crow's beak was quickly fulfilled, and several people's mobile phones rang again. In a certain community, a body was found, which had been dead for several days, and the police were asked to come out of the scene immediately.
After hanging up the phone, Han Yuchao unexpectedly received the reward of the big guy's mobile phone headshot. In the police car, the team members were complaining that Han Yuchao's crow's beak was so precise that they were going to get busy again.
Police cars soon arrived at the complex, which has very tall buildings. The deceased's home was on the 28th floor of Building 13, so Jiang Chonglang and the others took a long time to go up the elevator. When I entered the deceased's home, I saw a young girl sitting on the sofa crying, and several policewomen comforted her, the deceased was his boyfriend, and the body was found by her.
The body was found in the bathroom. It was a man, and he didn't look to be in his thirties. The deceased was almost **** all over, wearing only a pair of underwear and barefoot. Hanging from the front on the beam of the bathroom, he was hanged by an ordinary long towel, cut in half and tied in two knots. There was a small bench kicked at the feet of the deceased, and Zhang Lanshan and her assistant were conducting a preliminary examination of the body.
"Judging by the degree of rigidity on the surface of the corpse, it must have been dead for several days." Zhang Lanshan said as she stepped on a stool to observe the neck of the deceased. "There are no traces of the ditch crossing at the back of the deceased's neck, which should have been left by hanging himself."
"Then the preliminary judgment is that the deceased should have committed suicide?" Jiang Chonglang asked, picked up the towel used by the deceased to hang himself, put it under his nose, and smelled a faint smell of perfume.
"The preliminary judgment should be, but we still have to go back for further analysis." Zhang Lanshan replied.
"No, no. I don't believe Tao will kill himself, even though we have quarreled before. But he would never commit suicide, so why would he commit suicide? Hearing the conversation between the two, the young girl cried.
Zhang Lanshan walked over and patted her on the back to calm her down: "Girl, if you say anything slowly, we will write it down." If your boyfriend was murdered, we'll get justice for him. ”
The young girl nodded, and sat down on the couch again. According to her, her name was Hu Yanzhu and the deceased was his boyfriend named Ren Mingtao. The two have been living together for almost a year. However, recently, he and Ren Mingtao often quarreled over marriage.
About a month ago, Hu Yanzhu found that Ren Mingtao often sneakily answered the phone, and the person on the other end of the phone seemed to be a woman. So the two quarreled even more violently. Two weeks ago, Hu Yanzhu took the initiative to apply for a business trip to another city, but due to other reasons, Hu Yanzhu returned four days later than originally planned. As a result, as soon as she returned from a business trip, she saw her boyfriend's body at home.
Other members of the Crime Squad surveyed the scene of the crime and found no useful clues. can only wait for Zhang Lanshan's autopsy to find anything.
In the dissection room, Ren Mingtao's body was laid flat on the operating table. Zhang Lanshan was looking at his neck and said, "The deceased's hanging type belongs to the anterior hanging. ”
The so-called anterior hanging: the rope is hung on the front of the deceased's neck, passing through the left and right sides of the neck, diagonally backward and upward, along the angle of the mandible through the back of the ear into the hairline, reaching the head to form a lift. Then tie the rope to the upper attachment point at the back.
Zhang Lanshan then continued: "There are no hangings on the back of the deceased's neck. There were no obvious traces of squeezing on the deceased's upper limbs, armpits, and waist, and there were no injuries caused by dragging on the lower limbs, indicating that he was not dragged after death. It should have hanged himself, that is, suicide. ”
Soon, the detailed autopsy report came out: the specific time of Ren Mingtao's death was 5 days ago, that is, around 10 to 11 o'clock on the evening of December 17. The cause of death was death by asphyxiation. For Ren Mingtao, whether he committed suicide or killed him. Zhang Lanshan gave the former, for the following reasons: 1. The ditch on the deceased's neck was indeed caused by hanging, and the character of the ditch on the neck was the same as that of the long towel at the scene of the crime; 2. The deceased did not have any injuries left by violent confrontation with others; 3. The injury on the deceased's ditch had a vital reaction, which can prove that it was hanged rather than hanging after death. The above three points can prove that Ren Mingtao committed suicide. However, Zhang Lanshan also reflected in the autopsy report: through the examination of the deceased's reproductive organs, it was found that the deceased had had sex before his death.
After investigation and visits, the police officers of the serious crime team also found out about Ren Mingtao's financial situation and found that he had recently lost a large amount of money in the stock market. Trying to remedy it everywhere but with little effect, and it seems like I've gone to find my ex-girlfriend once. Regarding Ren Mingtao's ex-girlfriend, Hu Yanzhu said that he had never seen that woman and did not know who she was.
When the autopsy report was handed to Hu Yanzhu, although Hu Yanzhu was emotional and did not want to believe the fact that her boyfriend committed suicide. But under Zhang Lanshan's persuasion, her mood became much calmer.
Jiang Chonglang told her that Ren Mingtao was likely to lose money because of stock speculation, so he couldn't think of going to extremes for a while, which is also possible. At the same time, Zhang Lanshan said that the deceased has passed away and cannot be traced. I hope that Hu Yanzhu can receive some psychological counseling, and I am willing to help her in this regard. Hoping that Hu Yanzhu can get out of the haze of losing her boyfriend soon, Hu Yanzhu nodded.
Leaving Hu Yanzhu's residence, the two of them were a little silent. The former pillow man has no meaning to foreshadow the separation of life and death. Both reminded the two of them of their deceased relatives.
When leaving, Jiang Chonglang suddenly asked, "Lan Shan, if a precious person in your life leaves you, how do you feel, and how long will it take to recover." ”