Chapter 90: The Crazy Ripper (4)
Due to the length of the live broadcast, it is not like the original Jack the Ripper case where there was an interval of eight days before attacking the second person, but the second target was attacked the day after the first person died.
"Did you disturb the scene?" Wang Ziyang asked as he turned into the carriage that had arrived with the young policeman.
"Of course not, we sent someone to look for you as soon as we got the news, and no one will be able to enter the scene without Inspector Lestrade's consent. β
"Well, there should be more useful news this time, let's go, officer. With that, Wang Ziyang took out his pipe, leaned into the carriage, and said no more.
When he came to the deceased, Wang Ziyang found many clues.
Since the criminal's modus operandi is very similar to the previous case, Wang Ziyang collected all the clues, plus Watson's examination, and made the following inferences:
The deceased's name was Anne, who was forty-three years old at the time, and was also a prostitute. The deceased had no obvious signs of fighting or struggling before his death and should have voluntarily entered the backyard. At about half past five in the morning, a young carpenter named Albert Cardosh entered the Humberley 27 backyard, about five feet high, about five feet high, just across a fence from the 29th yard. He heard a woman's voice in the backyard of 29 shouting, "Don't!", and then heard the sound of an object hitting the fence. At 6 a.m., a coachman named John Davis found Anne's body (he lived on the 3rd floor of Humberley Street) and called the police, so it was initially assumed that the killer had completed the murder within 20 minutes. Anne had been subjected to the most vicious devastation during her lifetime, her eyes were dull, and she had two cuts on her throat, one of which went straight into her trachea.
When Wang Ziyang lifted the blanket over Anne, he found that her internal organs had been hollowed out, and there was a jagged wound on the left side of her abdomen, which was very deep, and there were three or four similar knife wounds on the right side, extending from top to bottom.
The killer didn't just stab Anne, he dragged her intestines out. In the pelvis, the deceased's son
g, and the bladder was cut and taken away by the murderer, and the incisions were very neat, and it should be done by someone who is proficient in anatomy.
After completing a series of analyses, Watson couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine, how could he find such a murderous criminal as soon as possible? Wang Ziyang deduced that this guy was very sensible and planned to commit crimes, and he would continue to do so. Therefore, it is necessary to track down as soon as possible.
When Wang Ziyang closed the white blanket and suddenly squatted down, it turned out that he was attracted by the hands of the deceased.
"Look here. As he spoke, Wang Ziyang pointed to the ring finger of the deceased's right hand and said:
"There was a deep mark on the ring finger of the deceased's right hand, which should have been left by the ring for many years, but now, the ring on the ring finger of the deceased's right hand is missing. β
With that, Wang Ziyang stood up and said to Inspector Lestrade:
"Detective, please hurry up and find out the identity of the deceased to me, I think we can start with the clue of the ring. With that, the prince turned to Watson, and continued:
"Watson, where is the nearest medical school, can you take me there?"
Led by Watson, the two went to the nearest medical school, the University of London Medical School.
Because of Watson's status as a military doctor and a graduate of the University of London, the two soon met a professor of clinical medicine at the University of London Medical School.
After some pleasantries, Wang Ziyang asked the professor:
"Mr. Professor, I would like to ask you, what should a person do if he has a very serious kidney disease, or a gastrointestinal disease?"
"If it's not particularly serious, it's better to use medication, but if it's too serious and it progresses to the level of cancer, it's difficult to treat. Because Wang Ziyang is a layman, the professor gave a very general answer.
After hearing Wang Ziyang's question, Watson was a little puzzled, and ran all the way to his alma mater just to ask such a simple question, not to mention a professor, even he could easily answer it.
But Wang Ziyang then asked:
"So Mr. Professor, in current medicine, is there a way to treat this kind of disease by transplanting a kidney?"
"I heard that more than 40 years ago, an Irish doctor transplanted the cornea of a sheep into a human body, and even transplanted the organs of an animal into a human body, but what was the result, not a few months later the human died? The professor said, and when it comes to organ transplantation, he is a little disdainful.
"Thank you, professor, for answering my questions about this, and we left first. Prince Yang replied satisfied.
"Watson is also my first class of students, don't worry about this little favor, you go slowly. The professor replied.
When he left the gate of medical school, Watson asked in confusion:
"Wang Ziyang, what do you want to do by asking those questions just now?"
"Of course, I want to test the possibility of a motive. Think about it, the murderer disembowels every victim and then hollows out the organs in the abdominal cavity, will he want to resell the organs and transplant the organs of others for profit? But through the professor's answer, I can be sure that the murderer will not have such a motive to commit the murder, because even the leading doctors in London have a skeptical or even optimistic attitude towards organ transplantation, so not many people will go back to use this technology, and naturally there will be no market, and even the market will not exist, so there will be no way to talk about making profits, at least for the time being, this situation does not exist. β
After listening to Wang Ziyang's words, Watson gasped and said:
"It's the first time I've heard of organ transplantation, and if the technology is perfected, it seems that some major diseases can be cured, but the human organ transaction chain behind it is too dark to imagine. β
"Okay Watson, stop complaining. We used to complain that the underdevelopment of science and technology led to inconvenience in our lives, and when science and technology progressed, we complained about the darkness behind the progress of science and technology. Watson, there are always two sides to things, and instead of holding on to the dark side of things, we should look at the benefits that things can bring, so that we can enjoy the benefits of the changes in things correctly and rationally. β
As he spoke, the prince beckoned, and an empty carriage saw this and quickly stopped in front of the two.
Wang Ziyang got into the carriage and said to Watson:
"Let's go Watson, let's go back and fill our stomachs, and take a nice nap, and when we wake up, Inspector Lestrade should have sorted out the information we need, and by then, there should be new clues." β
After Wang Ziyang returned to 221B Baker Street, ate and drank enough, and slept well, Inspector Lestrade had already sorted out the information and came to 221B as Wang Ziyang expected.
Wang Ziyang picked up the document and saw it, but suddenly said:
"Do you remember what I had to say in the morning when I was interrupted? The first prostitute walked with a beaming smugness, and what could make a man happy at the first sight of hardship, and who was stretched to the limit?
I think that the person who wants to talk to Martha about business should be a nobleman or a rich man, at least in the style of high society, otherwise a sloppy drunk will not give hope to a low-level prostitute, although this hope is only her imagination.
Anne worked as a maid before her death, but was kicked out by her master's house on suspicion of stealing, but in the end, the police found no evidence of Anne's theft. When the deceased last saw his friends, he was penniless and could not even pay the rent, so he had to earn a small amount of money by soliciting customers on the streets. The deceased had a husband who mailed him ten shillings a month to support him, but two years earlier, the deceased's ex-husband had died of illness and her financial resources had been cut off.
As for why he is an ex-husband, according to the previous records of the police station, it is because of Anne's immorality in life and long-term alcoholism.
So, can we infer that Anne is a very prodigal woman, she may have had an affair with the man who used to be a nanny, and was kicked out of the house after being discovered by the hostess? And Anne's original male owner is also a middle-class person, and if she dresses up a little, she can also pretend to be an upper-class person.
Of course, these are still my subjective assumptions, and there are many untenable inferences in them. But, practice brings true knowledge, let's go and meet this man's family. Watson, you go to Anne's rented apartment for clues, and Inspector Lestrade and I go talk to Anne's old employer. β
For the sake of safety, Inspector Lestrade still sent Anderson, a young police officer who was familiar with Wang Ziyang and his party, to join Watson to "protect Watson".
After discussing it, the four of them divided into two teams and went in two different directions. Watching Watson and the two turn over into the carriage and drift away, Wang Ziyang was still a little embarrassed. After two days of observation, Wang Ziyang is quite optimistic about Watson's ability, maybe he can't grasp the essence of the problem at once, but he can understand it with a little mention, and his ability to collect evidence is not bad, but he is a little too naΓ―ve, and he needs to go through some more social beatings to improve, but fortunately, this Jack the Ripper case can do this.
"Well, let's go to meet Anne's old employer, Mr. Baskerville, and see what he can surprise us. β