Chapter 12: See the Heavy Rain Again
Cases without clues can be said to be the norm in our serious crime team.
But this time, I really had the feeling that the case was going to become an unsolved case.
And, this time we all agreed that this case was not an ordinary homicide. Zhang Mengyu went out alone at night, going in the opposite direction, if she encountered something at the time and needed to take a taxi, then it might be a random crime. If there was an acquaintance waiting for her in the car at the time, then it was possible to kill in passion.
In this kind of case, the victim and the murderer have no grievances, and the murderer's idea of killing is only a thought, so we can't investigate any clues from the social relationship of the deceased.
Now that 24 hours have passed since the time of the crime, if there are still no clues after 72 hours, then we need to make public the facts of the case and solicit clues from the public.
According to the internal data of the public security organs, there are many major homicide cases, especially in those days when the technical means were not advanced, and many cases end up as unsolved. Even now, many cases cannot be solved in a short period of time, and even have been put on hold for years or decades.
The police are not gods, they are also people, and many times they are really powerless.
However, we are a serious crime team, and since the establishment of the serious crime team, the cases we have taken over have never been shelved, or even become unsolved cases.
This time, it became a question that I had to think about.
Now, we have made two preparations, on the one hand, we will continue to investigate through the social relations of Zhang Mengyu and Ma Junxu, and strive to investigate more people and find clues. On the one hand, the use of crowd tactics to investigate the entire route from Zhang Mengyu's residence to Beishan, such a long distance, Zhang Mengyu must be in the car, investigate and monitor along the road, and may find some clues.
All of this is because of a heavy rain, otherwise we might have locked up the suspect by now through the bloodstains and footprints collected at the crime scene.
Just then, it started raining outside the window again.
Spring is the rainy season in Ningzhou City, and it is like this every year.
I looked out the window at the heavy rain and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
A figure suddenly appeared in my mind.
He was wearing a black raincoat and holding a folding dagger in his hand......
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"Team Qin! Team Qin! ”
A rush of shouting woke me up instantly, and when I woke up, I found that the desktop was full of materials on the case, and I actually fell asleep looking at them.
"What's wrong?" I rubbed my eyes and looked at Lin Zifan beside me.
"Team Qin, after receiving a report, Qinghe Limeng found a corpse." Lin Zifan hurriedly said.
"What?" I suddenly frowned, rubbed my face vigorously, and asked in disbelief.
"A body was found inside Qing Hanoi." Lin Zifan stood beside me and repeated it seriously.
I steadied myself and stood up, my numb right leg stumbling and nearly falling to the ground.
It's not a dream, it's a serial murder, and it's a murderer who specializes in committing crimes on rainy days.
"Call someone and go to the scene." I relieved myself and hurriedly followed Lin Zifan out of the office of the Serious Crime Team.
"Li Meng and Xue Hang went to talk to Zhang Mengyu's case, and they can't come back now. Jiang Tingbai led the technical team, as well as the forensic department, which was ready. Lin Zifan said seriously.
Now that the heavy rain outside has not stopped, and there is a tendency to get heavier and heavier, Lin Zifan and I changed into police raincoats printed with criminal investigation characters, got into the police car, and set off towards Qinghe together.
"How did the deceased find out?" In the car, I asked seriously.
"It's the rainy season, and according to the management of previous years, the flood control department will inspect all the rivers and reservoirs in Ningzhou at this time, and the staff of the flood control department will call the police, and they found the body when they were patrolling near the Qinghe River." Lin Zifan replied in a deep voice.
I looked at the heavy rain outside the window, and my heart was filled with sadness, the crime occurred in Qinghe, and it was such a heavy rain, the crime scene must have been destroyed again.
"Is it certain that it's a serial murder?" I fixed my mind and asked again.
"It's hard to say now, let's go to the scene and see the situation." Lin Zifan replied lightly.
"The body was found in the river?" I frowned and asked again.
"The body was first found in the river, and the two staff in charge of the patrol thought that someone had fallen into the water, and they pulled the body ashore only to find that the person was dead, and from the situation of the body, it was preliminarily judged that he had killed him." Lin Zifan said.
The Qinghe River is located in the northwest of Ningzhou City, passing through the northwest urban area of Ningzhou City, and confluence with the main river line of Ningzhou Reservoir, flowing southward.
Therefore, only the small section of the river in the northwest is called the Qing River.
It's four o'clock in the afternoon, and according to normal times, it's still bright outside, but today's heavy rain has overcast the entire city of Ningzhou.
Qinghe is still quite far away from our Municipal Public Security Bureau, and it took more than half an hour to drive to the scene of the crime.
The car slowly stopped, and we saw two flood control workers wearing raincoats and holding flashlights, standing on a stone bridge.
"Where's the body?" I put on my raincoat and hat, walked up to the flood control staff, and asked loudly.
Even though my voice was loud, it was swallowed up by the sound of rain in an instant.
The flood control staff raised their hand and pointed along the upstream of the river, and there was a figure on the bank about 30 meters away in the woods.
We are now standing on the stone bridge and looking out, the figure is a little blurry, if it is the actual distance, it will only be more than thirty meters.
"Was the body washed down from upstream?" I paused, raised my voice a little more, and asked.
"I don't know, but when we found it, the body was stuck in the bluestone on the shore." The flood control staff said to me.
I nodded, made a clear gesture to them, and went down the bridge with the technical team.
In front of me was the technical team led by Jiang Tingbai, and beside me were Lin Zifan, forensic doctor Ren Qiushi, and forensic assistant Zeng Lan.
Everyone carried their own on-site investigation toolboxes, and their rain boots walked in the direction of the corpse.
It is the rainy season, and the water depth of the Qinghe River is at least two meters or more, but the crime site is in the middle and upper reaches of the Qinghe River, it is a forest, the river is twisted, and there are smooth bluestones on the bank.
The body had been brought to the shore by two flood control officers, and it was clearly visible that the deceased was a young woman wearing a sweatshirt on her upper body, a pair of flare pants on her lower body, and a pair of sneakers on her feet.
This outfit is what this season should be......