Zhang Qiang's body was found, and it stands to reason that Zhou Fan should be happy.

But Zhao Donglai obviously felt that his tone was a little heavy, and with confusion, he immediately took everyone to the scene.

Zhang Qiang was salvaged about two kilometers downstream.

It was on the edge of the city, with no buildings or people around, and there was wasteland on both sides of the river.

At this time, on the wasteland by the river, there was a corpse lying on it, which was Zhang Qiang, who had just been salvaged from his hands.

He had been in the water for less than 24 hours, and had not changed much, except that his body was slightly swollen from blisters.

After arriving, Zhao Tian immediately stepped forward with the personnel of the technical squadron and prepared to conduct a simple autopsy on him.

At this time, Zhao Donglai noticed that there were two lights on the dark and dreary river.

In the faint light, it was possible to see that there were two salvage boats.

"Zhang Qiang has found it, let them hurry up and go back to rest."

Hearing this, Zhou Fan shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Team Zhao, I'm afraid I won't be able to finish the work." ”

"Why?"

"You'd better take a look at these things first."

As he spoke, Zhou Fan took him two steps forward and pointed at a wet hiking backpack on the ground with a flashlight.

At this time, the zipper of the backpack was opened, but at first Zhao Donglai didn't see what was inside, only saw a white sphere, and there were some things like sticks around them.

He looked at it twice, and finally realized what was inside.

"Give me a pair of gloves!"

He shouted at Zhao Tian next to him, who hurriedly got a pair from the toolbox and threw it to him.

After quickly putting on the gloves, Zhao Donglai directly started and completely opened the backpack, and sure enough, as he guessed, a complete human skull appeared in front of him.

Next to the skull are several neatly incised human arm bones and hand bones.

Everyone present, including Zhao Donglai, was taken aback.

"How is there still a skeleton here? Zhou Fan, where did you find these things? ”

"It's the bottom of the river, and Zhang Qiang was brought up together just now."

Zhou Fan said, explaining the salvage situation at that time.

It turned out that they had been salvaging from the upper reaches of the river, but they had not been able to catch anything until the boat reached this position, and the salvage hook was lowered and finally reacted.

However, with Zhang Qiang being hooked up, there is this backpack.

At that time, the corpse's foot happened to be stuck in the bag of the backpack, and the shoulder strap of the backpack was supported by a large rock.

has been a criminal policeman for more than ten years, and Zhou Fan, who is a professional habit, was sensitive to the first time that something was wrong.

Who would throw a backpack into the river and have to tie a stone to it?

Curious, he immediately opened his backpack and took a look, and then found the human bones inside.

He immediately realized that it was most likely another homicide.

So while notifying Zhao Donglai, he asked the salvage team to continue to carry out more detailed salvage of this nearby water.

"Team Zhao, I just checked, there are only human heads and two arm bones of people, I suspect that the rest should still be in the water."

"Your assumption makes sense."

Zhao Donglai nodded, glanced at the boats still operating on the river, and his expression was heavy.

Depending on the degree of corruption of the bones in the bag, it would take at least a year or more for them to form like this.

That is, this is most likely a case from a year ago.

Generally, this kind of case is quite time-consuming and laborious to investigate, not to mention, the key is that it is very likely that it will not be clear, and finally it will become an unsolved case......

At this moment, Zhao Tian walked over.

"Team Zhao, we found the deceased's ID card in his jacket pocket, confirming that the deceased was indeed Zhang Qiang himself."

"After a preliminary autopsy, the deceased's body spots appeared slowly and not obviously, and there were sediment and silt in the mouth and nose, which is in line with the general death of asphyxiation, which is what we call drowning."

"In addition, according to the degree of stiffness and edema on the deceased's body, the time of the deceased's death was probably around the early hours of the morning, which is also in line with the time when Zhang Qiang finally disappeared."

"Okay, I know, you have someone take his body back, remember to extract his DNA and compare it with the blood stains in Lin Qi's nails, if it is determined to be the same person, this case can be closed."

After Zhao Dong finished speaking, he said, "Zhao Tian, let's take a look at this again." ”

Zhao Tian was next to him just now, and he also heard some of their conversations.

Hearing this, she was not surprised, she immediately called a colleague, and the two of them squatted down and immediately conducted a simple survey of the white bones in the bag.

"The ossification is so complete that no muscular tissue can be seen, and according to the table of decay of the corpse in the water, the deceased died for at least two years."

"The incision at the broken bone is very flat, and it should be a professional cutting tool or a tool such as a bone chopping knife, which can be determined that this is a very typical case of murder and dismemberment."

"The forehead of the skull is relatively steep, the brow arch bone is flat and not obvious, and the cheekbones are slender, so it can be seen that this should be a female skull, and judging by the degree of tooth wear, the deceased should be a young woman, between the ages of twenty and thirty."

After Zhao Tian analyzed the situation of the white bones, he carefully picked up all the bones and put them in a bag that was laid out at the same time. This was followed by a meticulous rummag of the bag.

Unfortunately, I didn't find anything in the bag that could prove the identity of the other party.

At this moment, an exclamation suddenly came from the river, "I hit something again!" ”

When the people heard this, they were overjoyed, and they all hurried around to the water's edge.

The salvage boat slowly approached, although what they had caught finally appeared in front of everyone.

This time they salvaged a large suitcase large enough to fit an adult male, and a large stone was still tied to it.

Seeing this, Luo Fei suddenly had a bad premonition.

If it was only used to hold the remaining torso and legs of the deceased, this suitcase would be a little too big.

Sure enough, as the box was opened, his suspicion was confirmed.

Unlike the previous pack of bones, this box had already faintly emitted a foul smell before it could be opened.

The moment it was opened, an even stronger stench instantly filled the audience.

Everyone couldn't help but hold their breath, pinched their noses and took two steps back, and the more serious ones even almost vomited.

During the whole process, Zhao Tian and the forensic doctor Guo Hua in the team were relatively calm.

After all, the two have been running the scene for so many years, and this level of taste is simply trivial to them.

However, when they saw the scene in the box, the two couldn't help but gasp.

The box was full of human parts, the rotten muscles were blistered, oozing out a lot of viscous and disgusting liquid, the hair of the two heads fell out everywhere, and the rotten faces were facing everyone.

"Wow!"

This time there were more people spitting, and even the well-informed Zhao Donglai couldn't help but tilt his head to the side.

This time, Zhao Tian didn't dare to conduct an autopsy casually, and quickly zipped up the suitcase.

"Team Zhao, these things may need to be brought back to the technical room and processed before the autopsy can continue."

"Yes, then you can take it back quickly."

Zhao Donglai waved his hand and said to Zhou Fan, "Inform them to continue salvage, I suspect that there may be corpses in here." ”

Zhou Fan thought about it about the same as him, and immediately went over to negotiate.

At this moment, everyone also exploded.

"Three heads equals three lives!"

"And depending on the degree of decomposition of the body, I don't know when the deceased was killed, so this is likely to be a serial homicide!"

"He's using this place as a fixed corpse dumping point, who is so mad?"

"If it weren't for Zhang Qiang, I'm afraid we wouldn't have found these corpses......"

Amid their discussions, another salvage boat quickly fished out a bag of corpses......

In the end, after a whole night of salvage, they salvaged a total of six bags.

Almost every bag contains parts of the human body's tissue.

The matter was very important, and Zhao Donglai immediately asked people to send all these pieces to the technical room, and asked them to put all the pieces together in the shortest possible time to determine the number of victims.

And after they returned to the police force, they also held a meeting as soon as possible.

"Although Zhang Qiang is dead, judging from the clues we currently have, he is sure to be the murderer of Lin Qi, so after going down for a while, Luo Fei, you will immediately write a case analysis report to me."

"When Zhao Tian and their DNA comparison results are available, this case can be submitted."

After briefly talking about Zhang Qiang's case, Zhao Donglai immediately focused on the human tissues recovered from the river.

"Now we need to focus on the broken corpses salvaged in the river, Liao Xingyu, you will take someone to investigate the list of missing persons in Jiangzhou City in recent years, especially on missing women."

"Li Jun, you will take someone to take a tour of the crime site tomorrow to see if you can find any eyewitnesses, and then copy all the surveillance of the surrounding road sections."

"Zhou Fan, you find a group of professional divers tomorrow to dive into that water area and see if there is anything left out in it."

After the meeting, it was about six o'clock in the morning.

Zhao Donglai asked everyone to go out for breakfast first and then continue to work.

But as a result, he sat at the breakfast stall and had no appetite at all.

"Luo Fei, what do you think about this case?"

"No, there are too few useful clues at the moment, and I don't have a clue."

"Hey, judging from the current situation, the number of victims this time must be quite a lot, and this is already a very serious case...... You say I'm stuck with this kind of thing. ”

This kind of case can easily cause great panic in the society, and it is a very great pressure on the investigators.

"Team Zhao, don't worry, I think that as long as the identity of the deceased can be determined in this case, it may be possible to find clues of the murderer from this point."

"And judging from the body in the suitcase that was picked up from the back, the decomposition time should not be too long, so it should not be too difficult to determine the identity of the deceased."

"I hope so."

The two of them quickly finished their breakfast, and then went back to the police force to continue their work.

After about eight o'clock in the morning, Zhao Tian finally got the result.

"Team Zhao, through the splicing and restoration of the corpse parts, it can be determined that there are at least seven or more people killed."

"But some human fragments are missing, and only six bodies have been pieced together in their entirety, two of which are completely ossified, and one of them is missing two thighs."

"One is about to ossify, and the remaining four bodies are decomposing to varying degrees, one of which died about a month ago."

"In addition, the bodies were all young women, and we checked all the tools used to hold the bodies, and we didn't find anything in them that could prove their identity."

When Zhao Donglai heard that there were at least seven or more victims, his heart was full of chuckles.

It turned out to be more serious than he thought.

No, it seems that this matter must be reported to the higher authorities immediately.

"Zhao Tian, you immediately try to restore the faces of these corpses, and then take a DNA sample, so that it will be convenient to compare with the family members who identified the corpses in the future."

After Zhao Tian went down, Zhao Donglai called Zheng Ju as soon as possible.

"Zheng Ju, yesterday when we were salvaging a suspect who committed suicide by jumping into the river, we accidentally found a backpack containing severed limbs and a human head."

“…… After that, we let the ship continue to salvage, and several boxes and bags containing human tissue were fished up one after another, and after the personnel of the technical room worked overtime to confirm it, it was now basically determined that there were more than seven victims. ”

When Zheng Changjun heard this, he immediately paid attention to it.

Generally, this kind of serial homicide case, with more than two deaths, is a major criminal offense, not to mention seven!

He hurriedly instructed Zhao Donglai to solve the case as soon as possible.

hung up the phone, Zhao Donglai was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

The leader said a word, and the subordinate ran and broke his leg.

What he said was easy, he was not even sure of the identity of the deceased now, where to find the murderer.

After some slander, Zhao Dong came and went to the office of the second group.

"Liao Xingyu, how is it, have you found any information on missing persons in recent years?"

"There is no Zhao team, we have checked the records of missing persons received by the public case in recent years, and none of them are worthy of the number."

"How is this possible?"

Zhao Donglai was puzzled, "Have you checked carefully?" Have all the local counties, villages and townships verified? ”

"It's all verified, and there is no ...... I'm wondering, could the dead be from other cities, killed by the murderer before being thrown to our side by the murderer? ”

"Your guess is not impossible, so you immediately send a notice to the police across the country to assist in the investigation, asking them to help check the list of people who have disappeared in the city in recent years."

"Okay, I'll go."

Verification like this usually takes some time.

In the process of waiting, Zhao Tian also made progress.

Notifying the facial recognition restoration technology, Zhao Tian finally succeeded in restoring the appearance of the other party on a corpse with the slightest decomposition.

got the restored photo, Zhao Donglai was excited, and quickly asked Liao Xingyu to put this photo in the investigation notice.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, there was good news again.

"Team Zhao, just now there was a call from Huangxu City, two months ago there was a masseuse girl who disappeared on their side, 25 years old, who disappeared mysteriously on the way to get off work in the early morning of March 25."

"After her family called the police, the police immediately launched an investigation into her route to work, but found no clues."

(End of chapter)