Chapter 10: The Dead in the Lake
I shouldn't have been there for the opening of the wax museum this time, so I wouldn't have been involved in this strange crime-solving competition.
But this Thor is really too deceitful, and the words are all disdain for the serious crime team and ridicule of the two of us, even if I can't bear it anymore, a man's competitive spirit in his bones makes me unable to refuse this gamble.
But I quickly calmed down, and it was a gamble that was almost guaranteed to be lost. There are only two of us, no, only one and a half people, Li Meng...... How so...... Alas......
There is a specialization in the art industry, and her strength is not in criminal investigation!
"Have you forgotten that you are going to attend the opening ceremony of your senior Gu Feng tomorrow?" I looked at Li Meng helplessly and reminded her.
Li Meng then remembered the purpose of his trip, and looked at me with some surprise: "I...... Forgot about ......."
I smiled wryly and shook my head, once again wondering if she had entered the Crime Squad through a relationship.
Li dreamed for a while, and suddenly looked at me: "If you don't say that I forgot, we still have senior Gu Feng, a foreign aid!" ”
"Him?" I frowned.
"You don't know, he is not only proficient in criminal psychology and criminal justice, but also proficient in criminal investigation and forensics!" Li Meng said.
It seems that this Ling Gufeng is still an all-rounder, and he really can't be underestimated.
Although Thor promised that all the resources of the criminal police team could be called, but it was not easy to use, I had to find a way to call the old dog over, and his holiday arrangement was to eat and drink every day, and he was very idle at home.
"Thor, we're ready to go!"
The voice of a criminal policeman came from outside the door.
Without further ado, let's go out to the scene first.
Walking out of the Public Security Bureau, Thor arranged a police car for me and Li Meng: "Xiao Liu, these two are members of the serious crime team of the Public Security Department, and they have come to solve the case with the help of us this time." ”
"Yes!" The police officer named Xiao Liu answered and asked us to take his car to the scene of the crime.
This gamble is only known to us and Thor, and neither of Thor's criminal police knows about it, otherwise they will definitely deliberately favor Thor in order to help him win.
In fact, these are all for me, as long as I can solve the case and bring the murderer to justice, nothing else matters.
In the car, we had a preliminary understanding of the case.
The crime occurred in a wild lake in the back mountain of the city, which is not a place for key water resources management, nor is it a park scenic spot, so no one usually cares about it, and there are often people fishing and wild swimming. Local authorities have repeatedly warned against swimming there to avoid accidents, and warning signs have been erected, but to no avail.
The person who reported the crime was a man who was swimming in the lake, and it is said that a body was found at the bottom of the lake.
When we arrived at the scene, it was four o'clock in the afternoon, and it was still relatively bright.
Thor and the criminal police team immediately cordoned off the scene of the crime, and found the alarmist who was sitting slumped by the lake and was in shock.
It's a wild lake, and the surrounding woods aren't very dense, and it's full of garbage, mostly left behind by people who come here to fish.
I stood high on the shore and looked at the whole wild lake, the water was flowing fast, it seemed that this was not stagnant water, it should be a reservoir upstream.
I asked the police about the situation, and he first repeatedly emphasized that he had not killed anyone, and then said that he was swimming in the lake when he saw a person lying under the lake, at first he thought he was dazzled, and then continued to swim towards the person, and when he got close to make sure that it was a person, he hurriedly swam back to the shore to call the police.
Thor took a brief look at the surface of the lake and prepared to send divers down to retrieve the body, and the accompanying forensic doctor was also ready on the shore. After the three divers changed into wetsuits and put on diving equipment, they took kayaks to a location in the middle of the lake provided by the policeman, and after the divers raised their hands to Thor, they dived into the lake to salvage the body.
After about twenty minutes, two divers surfaced with the body in their hands, and then one poked his head out of the lake and handed out a twine tied to a boulder.
Seeing this, the facts of the case can already be qualified, not a suicide, but a murder.
As for whether the living person sank into the lake or the body at the bottom of the lake, as long as the forensic doctor conducted an autopsy and observed the water in the lungs and the sediment in the mouth and nose of the deceased, it can be known.
Three divers drove the body back to shore in a kayak, where the forensic doctor took over for a preliminary autopsy.
After the body was soaked in the lake, there were no obvious signs of decay, and it basically maintained its appearance before its death, which shows that the body sank in the lake for a short time, which saved the police a lot of trouble in confirming the identity of the deceased.
"The deceased was a woman, there was no large amount of sediment in her mouth and nose, there were no obvious restraint injuries on her hands, feet and body, and there were traces of hemp rope binding on her waist, and the murderer used hemp rope to tie a heavy object around the deceased's waist and sank to the bottom of the lake." The forensic doctor conducted a preliminary autopsy and then brought the body back to the Forensic Medicine Department of the Public Security Bureau.
"What are you doing? Pick up the nearby surveillance! Thor crossed his hands on his hips and said loudly to the criminal police beside him.
"Thor is notoriously short-tempered, but he is very good and interesting to his brothers, and he is a typical knife-mouthed tofu heart." Xiao Liu stood beside me and hurriedly introduced Thor from the side, probably because he was afraid that our Serious Crime Team would misunderstand Thor and have a bad impact on him.
"Your Thor's temper, I have just experienced it at the Public Security Bureau." Li Meng said coldly.
After listening to this, Xiao Liu only smiled awkwardly.
"Thor, this is a wild lake, how can there be monitoring?" A detective said weakly.
"Then hurry up and investigate the social relations of the deceased and notify the family to identify the body, do you still need me to teach this? The two leaders of the serious crime team are just watching there, not to mention that our criminal police team is incompetent, and we can't even solve the case! Thor raised his voice, still saying in a strange voice.
"This ......" Xiao Liu hurriedly answered, but he didn't think about how to explain it for a while.
I smiled and patted Xiao Liu's shoulder: "It's okay, don't think too much." ”
This is a wild lake, usually come here to fish more people, the damage to the scene is more serious, I observed, the lake is surrounded by woods, there is no easy to walk road, basically some fishing people will walk.
At the moment, there is only one easier path under my feet, and if the murderer throws the corpse, he will definitely not choose to walk through the woods with the corpse, but will take the road under my feet.
Back on the shore, this is a remote location, and if the killer chooses to dump the body, then the contestant will definitely have a vehicle.
And there are no obvious traces of drag here, and the murderer must be very strong if the body can be thrown.
Thinking of this, I already have a preliminary idea of the facts of the case.