"Dididi......" A bell rang at the head of my bed.

"Hello, who?"

"Hello, I'm Jiang Chen, a criminal policeman from Bac Ninh County. There is a case of corpse shredding at the station in our county, due to the old station, the population flow is more, and the difficulty of investigation is very huge, we understand that you have published a number of academic papers and studies related to criminal investigation, and I would like to ask you to assist the police in handling this case. ”

"No problem, Officer Jiang, you send me the basic information, I'll find out first"

I looked at the case report sent by Officer Jiang with sleepy eyes:

In the early morning of June 20, 2018, the police in Bac Ninh County received a report that a suitcase had been stolen from the station, and when it was opened, it was found that it contained multiple bags of human corpses.

After receiving the police, our bureau immediately went to the scene of the crime to carry out relevant work, and has now verified that the information said by the reporter is true. There was no surveillance available at the station, and the man with the suitcase was so tightly wrapped that it was impossible to identify, according to the informant.

I washed up and changed my clothes and took a taxi to the scene of the crime, and while I read the report, I thought about the process by which the informant found the body: early in the morning, a man wearing a mask and hat who could not see his face clearly was holding a suitcase in his hand and preparing to leave the city by car to abandon the trouble, but as soon as he entered the station, he was targeted by two thieves squatting here.

Thief 1: This man is fully armed, and his suitcase is so big, he must have good things.

Thief 2: It's him, and it's not in vain that our brothers have been here for so long.

The man dragging the suitcase was looking for the car, because he was too nervous, the two thieves took advantage of his unpreparedness to pull his suitcase directly into the van at the door, drove away, and couldn't wait to open the suitcase to prepare for the partition after going back, but was frightened by the open box, which was actually a dismembered corpse!!

My thoughts slowly returned, and the car also delivered me to the scene, and Jiang Chen bypassed the cordon and came to me. "You are the famous teacher Ji Yan in the detective world." I smiled politely and nodded, Jiang Chen continued: "This case is a big case that our county has not seen for many years, and there are no people in the county who have participated in this kind of case. I said, "It's an honor to be able to assist the police in handling the case and give the victim the truth." "I decided to go first to find out the preliminary situation of the body, Forensic Doctor Zhang said that the body parts of the suitcase were wrapped in a black plastic bag, only the torso part of the body was inside, and the preliminary judgment was that the deceased was a man, under 30 years old, and the time of death should be between 19-21 o'clock last night. The cut section of the corpse is very messy, there is a "eight" shaped wound in the abdomen of the torso, the wound angle is round outside and pointed inside, it is formed at one time, the wound is not deep, it looks like it has been a few days, and a blunt force wound was found on the neck of the corpse, which was preliminarily judged to be a fatal injury.

After learning the preliminary information, Jiang Chen and I came to the informant, and Jiang Chen did not get any useful clues after some interrogation. The officers took the thieves down, and they would be held legally responsible for the theft even if they had nothing to do with the murder. The people in the station are mixed, and the murderer is dressed plainly and has no features, so it is undoubtedly a needle in a haystack to lock on to the target from the people who came and went that day. This small county has been monitored for some years, and no major incidents have happened at the station, and no one has reported if the camera is broken. The suitcase is also very ordinary, and it is sold in many stores on the market, and the clue is broken...

Suddenly, a noise reached my ears, Jiang Chen and I rushed over there, and when we saw the scene in front of us, Jiang Chen and I looked at each other, and it was a big suitcase, and the police officer in charge of the investigation quickly evacuated the crowd of onlookers. The bottom of the suitcase was wet, and the investigators quickly arrived at the scene, after taking pictures and recordings, the suitcase was opened, and there was also a black plastic bag wrapped in the human body, maybe the murderer was too nervous, the plastic bag was not tightly tied, water and blood were mixed and seeped into the suitcase, the color of the blood was not dark, it was diluted by water, and the murderer's body should be in a place where there is water to flush in the toilet and kitchen. Back at the police station, the forensic doctor conducted an autopsy on the body parts, the two suitcases were from the same person, the head was deliberately destroyed by the murderer, the little finger and ring finger of the deceased's left hand were missing, but the wound had completely healed, it was an old wound. The cause of death was intracranial hemorrhage caused by a blunt instrument in the back of the head, and the body parts were disorganized, and the murderer should be unfamiliar with the human anatomy. Fragmentary clues have been flooding the mind, but who is the deceased? Why did he end up being killed and dismembered? Just when my thoughts were fruitless, a police officer found out that a year ago, there was a man named Xu Anguo who was cut off two fingers because he owed money, his father was Mr. Xu Hongcai, who taught in our county and was rated as an outstanding teacher in the province many times when he was young. "Mr. Xu? I've also heard that there seem to be two sons, and this one turned out to be a gambler. Jiang Chen said. We retrieved Xu Anguo's file, and the height conditions matched the broken body, and we immediately notified Xu Hongcai to come to identify the body, and Xu Hongcai rushed to the police station after a while.

I asked, "Mr. Xu, do you live with your son Xu Anguo?" ”

Xu Hongcai: "No, he moved out by himself, and the last time I saw him was a month ago, when he came back to celebrate my birthday." ”

Me: "That's right, we suspect that your son may have been killed, and we are here to ask you to confirm his identity, so be prepared." After speaking, I took Xu Hongcai to the corpse storage place, Xu Hongcai looked at the patchwork corpse in front of him with an embarrassed face, I was afraid that he would not be able to bear it, so I stepped forward to support, he just reached my shoulder. I pointed to the corpse's left hand, and he realized that the corpse in front of him was his son, and he was about to faint from crying several times, and he kept shouting "An Guo... An Guo..."Looking at the scene of the white-haired man sending the black-haired man, I couldn't help but be a little moved. After DNA comparison to determine the paternity relationship, we learned some basic information about Mr. Xu.

A few years ago, Xu Anguo lost his job because of gambling, and his fiancée also regretted her marriage, so his mother couldn't afford to be ill, and Xu Hongcai also died a year ago. Xu Hongcai said that Xu Anguo and Xu Anmin came back to celebrate his birthday on May 19, and they were quite happy chatting at first, until Xu Anguo asked for money to gamble, and the three of them had a big quarrel, Xu Anguo never came back when he went out, and rented a small courtyard in a small village in the county. Jiang Chen and I decided to go on a trip to see if there were any clues. We came to the small courtyard rented by Xu Anguo, it was very simple, even the door was not locked, and there were no useful clues at home, I came to the next yard, the aunt in the yard saw that the people came to greet him very warmly, I identified myself and asked the aunt for some clues, saying that on June 17, two men came to Xu Anguo, about seven or eight o'clock in the evening, Xu Anguo was blocked at the door by them before he entered the house, and Xu Anguo said that he would kill him if he didn't pay back, and then he seemed to have taken something to stab Xu Anguo, After the two of them left, Xu Anguo also left in a hurry.

Jiang Chen quickly confirmed the identity of one of them, Ma Wenqiang, a surgeon at the county hospital. After some interrogation, we learned that Xu Anguo borrowed 100,000 yuan from Ma Wenqiang, and on the other hand, the police found a pair of bloody scissors at his house, and after comparison, it was determined that it was the scissors that caused Xu Anguo's abdominal trauma. But Ma Wenqiang said that he just scared him with scissors, and never thought of killing him, Xu Anguo promised to return it within a week, and Ma Wenqiang let him go, and then Ma Wenqiang followed Xu Anguo and watched him go back to Xu Hongcai's house. After investigation, Ma Wenqiang was on duty at the hospital last night and had an alibi. However, Ma Wenqiang said that Xu Anguo went to Xu Hongcai's house on June 17, but Xu Hongcai said that the last time he saw Xu Anguo was on May 19. Jiang Chen and I came to Xu Hongcai's house with the trace examination department, and there was a photo of their family hanging in the living room, Xu Hongcai's height was on Xu Anguo's nose, and Xu Anmin was half a head taller than Xu Anguo, and scabbed blood marks were found on the wall of the bathroom, and some pieces of minced meat were also extracted from the drainage pipe of the bathtub. I came to the study, a big trophy came into my eyes, I stood on tiptoe and barely got to the trophy, it was the swimming competition trophy of the deceased's younger brother Xu Anmin, heavy, there was an obvious crack at the bottom of the trophy, we immediately detained Xu Hongcai and brought all the evidence back to the police station for testing.

After identification, the blood stains on the ground and the base of the trophy have detected Xu Anguo's DNA, and the minced meat pieces of the drainage pipe also belong to Xu Anguo, under this series of evidence, Xu Hongcai confessed: "On the 17th, after Xu Anguo came back to ask for money and was driven away by me, he came back last night, and shouted that he would kill me if he didn't help him pay back the money, I was angry that I gave birth to this unfilial son, so I took the trophy on the bookcase and smashed his head hard, I didn't expect to ...... "Jiang Chen was about to close the case, I remembered that the trophy was put so high, how did he get it easily, However, the only person who can protect Xu Hongcai like this is Xu Anmin, Jiang Chen arrested Xu Anmin for interrogation, and he confessed the facts of the crime: Yesterday he went home to visit his father, and as soon as he entered the door, he heard the quarrel between his father and his brother in the study, and his brother also said that he was going to kill his father, and he couldn't control the anger in his heart at once, because in his heart, his mother was killed by Xu Anguo, and he rushed in to pick up the trophy and smashed it at Xu Anguo, but he didn't expect Xu Anguo to wake up. In order to protect Xu Anmin, he planned to throw Xu Anguo's body in other cities after dividing the body, but he didn't expect to encounter an accident......

The case has come to an end, and the story behind this is embarrassing, a happy family was pulled into the abyss by the word "gambling".

After the case was reported the next day, I also became an instant hit in the detective world, and I began to look forward to the next case would be ......

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The Case (END)