Chapter 54: A Stump from Another Person
During the four hours on the high-speed train, my mind recalled over and over again the details of the case that Lu Yuan had told me. However, based on his dictation, I got too few clues, and I could only roughly sketch the details of a case in my head, and I couldn't draw any strong inferences at all.
The rest of the things can only be reasoned step by step after seeing the scene of the crime.
After getting off the high-speed train, I found that Lu Yuan had been waiting for me in the waiting room for a long time.
I haven't seen him for a few years, but he hasn't changed much, still wearing a black plain clothes and a black cap, curled up obscenely in a corner and smoking.
Those who know him know that he is the captain of the police force, and those who don't know him probably think of him as a paparazzi who secretly photographed stars.
After meeting, we first exchanged a few pleasantries, and then, Lu Yuan drove Santana and dragged me to the scene of the crime. Seeing him so anxious, I could only secretly put Tang Yirou's matter aside first and give priority to this vicious homicide case.
The two of us didn't have much intersection along the way, after all, if we wanted to say anything, we had communicated on the phone before.
It took nearly an hour of jolting before finally arriving at the scene of the incident. As mentioned before, the crime occurred in the downtown area of the city center, next to a well-known local farmers' market in Huayuan City, with a huge flow of people. The murderer dared to choose such a place to throw the corpse, which further proves the strength of his psychological quality.
Indeed, throwing the body in such a place can maximize the malignant impact of the case in the first place, and I guess this is also the purpose of the murderer.
At the same time, there are risks associated with doing so. Even if the limbs are cut off, the sack that can hold a person is enough to attract attention. I asked Lu Yuan to retrieve the surveillance footage around the scene of the incident, and sent people to visit the surrounding people to look for eyewitnesses who might have seen the murderer throw his body past.
If the characteristics of the suspect can be found in the first time, it will be much easier to solve this case.
In order to prevent the case from being further expanded and reported indiscriminately, Lu Yuan earlier instructed his subordinates to stretch the cordon very large, and it was strictly forbidden for outsiders to enter and leave at will within a radius of 500 meters from the place where the incident occurred.
This is the right decision, after all, the media industry is too chaotic now, and random reporting will not only affect the detection of the case, but also may anger the murderer hiding in the shadows!
As soon as I walked into the scene of the crime, I saw a girl with two ponytails, squatting by the pit of the toilet next door, holding tweezers and preparing to pick up something from it.
When Lu Yuan saw the girl, his face turned green, and he rushed up and gave her the back of the head directly.
"How many times have I told you that you have to wear gloves and condoms at the scene of the crime! Got it! If you do this, all the useful evidence will be ruined for you! β
Lu Yuan's blow to the back of the head was not light, not to mention that the other party was just a little girl in her early twenties, if it were me, Lao Tzu would definitely fight with him!
Unexpectedly, the little girl was not only not angry, but looked at Lu Yuan, but was a little embarrassed, scratching her head like a child who had done something wrong.
"I'm sorry, Brother Yuan, next time, I'll pay attention next time."
"There's no next time, just stay there." After Lu Yuan finished speaking, he took a deep breath, tried his best to calm down the anger in his heart, and then compared me: "Introduce you to someone, this is the friend I said who specializes in criminal psychology, this case, I specialize... β
Before Lu Yuan could finish his introduction, the little girl rushed over excitedly and grabbed my hand: "Hello, my name is Ke Mobai!" I've heard Brother Yuan say about you, Goofy, right! I heard that you are very powerful, you were expelled from the police academy three times, and you can still force yourself to graduate, it's amazing! β
Well, it's quite remarkable, so I don't even know how to answer her, so I can only smile wryly.
I looked at Ke Mobai with an enthusiastic face in front of me, and then looked at her holding my hands, and suddenly remembered that she seemed to be still in the toilet to collect evidence, without gloves, and she didn't have time to wash her handsγγγγγ
"Okay, don't pester people, Goofy, leave him alone, in the innermost compartment, there is a corpse!" Lu Yuan drank the little girl away and pulled me inside.
For the convenience of investigation, the wooden door of the compartment has been artificially disassembled, and as soon as I walked over, there was a strong smell of blood.
I saw a bloody sack containing the corpse of a woman. Although I had been prepared enough before I came, when I actually saw the "human body", I was shocked in my heart and I had never expected it before.
The limbs of the person account for a large part of the whole body, and the woman's hands and feet are deliberately cut off, and they are stuffed into the sack, which is extremely abrupt. The incisions on the limbs of the deceased had obvious signs of hemostasis.
It is conceivable that after cutting off her hands and feet, the murderer did not want her to die so quickly, so the wound was treated with hemostatic gauze. That bastard wants the woman in front of her to wait for death in endless torment.
The section of the incision of the limbs of the corpse is very flat and smooth, and the other party is cut at the weakest part of the joint, for some reason, such a cross-sectional incision suddenly reminds me of the headless female corpse Wang Li in the black gold case.
The incision section of her neck is somewhat similar to the corpse in front of her, both are flat, smooth, and cut off with a knife! At that time, Lin Xiaoxue also made an evaluation, saying that this seemed to be the work of the executioners of the old society.
The tongue of the deceased was also cut off, but compared to the section of the limbs, the treatment of the section of the tongue was so rough that I couldn't help but wonder, could it be that the murderer of the deceased at that time was two different people?
Lu Yuan told me that the medical examiner also found hot oil in her ear. The other party poured the hot oil directly into the ear canal of the deceased, and the internal and external ear canals, including the eardrum, had been almost completely destroyed due to the erosion of the hot oil.
"By the way, did you find the mutilated limbs of the deceased?"
"Right next to you!" After Lu Yuan finished speaking, he lightly pointed to the compartment, and when I opened the wooden door, I couldn't help but be completely shocked by the scene inside.
In the small compartment, the limbs of the human body are prominently hung. My hands and feet were nailed to the planks of the cubicle with wooden nails, and I looked at it for a while, and my stomach began to churn again.
"Are you sure that all the limbs belong to the deceased?"
"I haven't had time to bring it back to the bureau for a detailed appraisal, but, depending on the situation, it should be eight or nine or ten!"
In all likelihood? , big brother, this is the scene of the crime, how can you give such a vague definition! I instinctively felt something strange about those limbs, so I leaned in and took a closer look.
After I saw the stump clearly, the next second, cold sweat unconsciously trickled down my back.
The stump of the left leg in the innermost part is clearly different from the right leg!
The left calf is muscular and the upper and lower limbs are broad, while the right leg stump is slender and thin. More importantly, I clearly saw that the sole of the left residual limb was a typical flat foot, while the arch of the right foot was flexed normally.
By all indications, the left leg was a stump from another body! Is there more than one victim?
I told my analysis, and Lu Yuan on the side also gasped, he hadn't thought about this situation before.
At this moment, Ke Mobai, who was tied with a double ponytail just now, rushed in again and hurriedly shouted at us: "Brother Yuan, Gao Fei, the identity information of the deceased has been confirmed!" β
"Speak quickly!"
"The deceased, Liu Ping, female, 36 years old, ran a private grocery store in Fujiang District! Today, her grocery store was not open all day, and relatives and friends could not contact her. The police handed over the photo of the deceased to the neighbors for confirmation, which proved the identity of the "human body"! β
Grocery store proprietor? It sounds like just an ordinary person, why did he suddenly encounter such a catastrophe. Vendetta? Love killing? Or is the other party just killing people indiscriminately?
The public toilet is just the scene of the dumping of the body, we need to find the first murder scene, and we have more clue information. What's more, the stump from another body has always reassured me. The case is just a clue, and there are more details waiting to be confirmed.