It's a very small room, only 30 square meters to the eye, like an office.

The furnishings in the room are very simple, with a large desk in the middle, which divides the entire office in two.

Outside the desk, there is a sofa chair and a water dispenser at the door.

Inside the desk, there is a boss's chair, and on the walls on either side of the desk are three tin bookcases, filled with law books and pennants.

The law books attest to the professional identity of the deceased's lawyer, and the pennant represents the results of his litigation over the years.

At this time, he still looks like a suit and leather shoes on weekdays, which is a lawyer's professional attire, and he gives people a very professional feeling from the way he dresses.

He sat in the boss's chair, his upper body leaned over the desk, his hands behind his back, and his left face pressed against the table, in a very strange pose.

After receiving the alarm, the Qingfeng City Public Security Bureau came to the scene of the crime as soon as possible, and the accompanying forensic doctor was also ready, but it was difficult for the 30-square-meter office to allow the investigation of the scene and the preliminary autopsy to be carried out at the same time, so the criminal police and the forensic doctor had to enter in batches.

There are five factors that are most likely to damage a crime scene, the most serious of which is the police, who will inadvertently destroy the crime scene when they investigate the scene.

"What's going on inside?" I stood outside the office door, tiptoe and looked inside.

Su Yumei stood beside me, clasped her hands in front of her chest, took a deep breath, and said slowly: "The neighbor reported the crime, saying that he glanced inside when he passed by here, and he didn't respond to greeting him, and when he walked into the house, he saw that someone was dead." ”

"Has the deceased been identified?" I asked again.

Su Yumei didn't think about it, and blurted out directly: "The deceased's name is Wan Fei, male, fifty years old, a lawyer by profession, and this Wan Fei Law Firm is his." ”

Not long ago, the criminal police handed her the identity information of the deceased, and she only glanced at it and memorized it all in her mind.

I looked at the small room in front of me and asked in surprise, "Is this a law firm?" ”

"Don't look at the small size of this place, it is said that Wanfei Law Firm has been operating here for more than 20 years. This is an old town, and in the early years, the people's court was located nearby, so many lawyers opened private law firms here, according to incomplete statistics, there are no less than 100 such small law firms in this residential area alone. Later, the people's court changed its location, and many law firms also moved. Su Yumei said lightly, it seemed that she knew the situation in her jurisdiction very well.

Lawyers are an indispensable and important figure in legal proceedings.

A good lawyer can even single-handedly turn the entire litigation situation around and help the client obtain more favorable conditions.

Many large law firms will have their own professional team of lawyers, some specialize in civil litigation, some are good at criminal litigation, and it is rare to find such a small law firm with only one person.

"Does this case have anything to do with a serial murder case?" I asked her.

Su Yumei pondered for a moment and said an ambiguous answer: "It's not clear for the time being, but judging from the profession of a lawyer, it is very likely to be ......"

A detective's instinct told her that the case was no accident.

About half an hour later, the criminal police finished investigating the scene and walked out of the office.

They brought the good news that a fingerprint had been extracted on a cabinet door behind their desk.

This is definitely a major breakthrough in the case, you must know that in the first two cases, the murderer did not leave any traces.

The next step was for the medical examiner to enter, and we followed.

The room was very clean, there was no dust at all, except for the faint smell of blood.

Wan Fei sat on the desk, his clothes did not have a trace of wrinkles, and his face was very calm, without a trace of pain. His hands were tied to the back of the chair with hemp rope, and Jiang Tingbai immediately stepped forward to check, and the knot was still a figure-eight knot.

It seems that the murderer committed the crime again, and he did not go to the witness Zhu Yang, but killed a lawyer first.

Although there is no direct evidence to prove the experience of lawyer Wan Fei, the fact that the same murderer committed the crime has shown from the side that Wan Fei must have participated in the litigation of Wang Dahai's case 20 years ago as a lawyer.

A complete criminal case needs to go through three stages: public, procuratorate, and judicial.

That is, the public security bureau, the procuratorate, and the courts.

The first step in a criminal case is for the public security organs to file and investigate, investigate and collect evidence, take compulsory measures against the suspect, transfer the evidence to the procuratorate for review, and then the procuratorate approves the arrest and initiates a lawsuit with the court.

The lawyer's intervention is after the police solve the case and during the procuratorate's review. The specific circumstances of the lawsuit will not be written into the police case file, let alone the information of the plaintiff and the defendant's lawyers.

The murderer used this blank window for our litigation mitigation to commit murder against the lawyer.

After the forensic doctor entered, a preliminary examination of the body was conducted, and only one blood stain was found on the table, and the deceased had no obvious external injuries, and all the blood stains were flowing from the mouth.

The deceased's eyes were slightly closed, his facial expression was calm, and his cheeks were slightly bulging.

The medical examiner gently opened the deceased's mouth and slowly probed his fingers into the deceased's mouth.

Slowly, the forensic doctor pulled a bloodstained string from the deceased's mouth.

As the string is pulled out of the mouth, a hedgehog pendant is also pulled out.

It's a hedgehog pendant again! Sure enough, it was the same serial murder case, and the murderer did not go to the witness Zhu Yang as we predicted, but killed the lawyer Wan Fei before that.

From this point of view, the importance of protecting the witness Zhu Yang is a little heavier.

The medical examiner held the deceased's mandible and looked into the deceased's mouth.

"The tongue of the dead is gone." The forensic doctor said lightly.

"What?! The tongue is gone?! ”

Hearing the forensic doctor's words, my body trembled violently.

It's not that I'm surprised by this modus operandi, but Wu Junhao once said that if he committed the crime, he would tear out the tongues of the witnesses......

Is this really a coincidence?

The medical examiner continued: "I did not find any obvious wounds on the deceased's body, judging by the amount of blood on the table, the deceased died of suffocation due to lack of oxygen after the severed tongue and a large amount of bleeding and oral secretions were sucked into the trachea, under the premise of excessive blood loss. Under normal circumstances, the liquid being inhaled into the trachea will cause severe choking, and the nerves on the human tongue are extremely distributed, and the pain of the broken tongue will definitely make the deceased struggle desperately, but the deceased did not struggle, and there was no painful expression on his face, indicating that the tongue was cut out under the condition that the deceased was unconscious, and the specific cause of the deceased's coma required to bring the body back for further autopsy, if this was a serial homicide case, the deceased should have the same agent in his blood as in the previous two cases. ”