Chapter 71 Let’s Go Home

Traveler Bridge is on the east side of Qinghe City.

The river here is not wide, but it is quite beautiful. The straight beam bridge is open to traffic and pedestrians. There are river and mountain views nearby. It is a good place to relax in Qinghe City.

When Liu Wenkai and others arrived, it was already 10 o'clock in the evening. The bright street lights reflected the bridge deck, which seemed to lead to an unknown place on a rainy day.

The mountains in the distance are green and green. You can't see the height or the vertical and horizontal directions. There are still only the lights on, slightly showing the outline of some mountains.

Liu Wenkai is the captain of the Second Squadron of the Ningtai County Criminal Police Brigade, and the First and Second Squadrons of the Ningtai County Criminal Police Brigade are usually responsible for solving serious crimes.

As an experienced criminal police captain in his 40s, Liu Wenkai's daily life is to deal with various complex cases.

He drove the car across the Travelers Bridge and then drove back, completing the basic observation.

There were only two people in the car, Liu Wenkai and Zhang Enze. Liu Wenkai said unabashedly: "Both sides are not prosperous areas. Find a place to jump, and it is likely that no one will see it."

"You can't see it even if someone pushes it down." Zhang Enze said.

Liu Wenkai nodded, then sighed and said: "If it was a homicide and then the body was dismembered, the first scene would not be here. There is no condition for dismemberment. After all, it is a place where people come and go, and it is not convenient."

"So, if Zhou Lei can be found in the surveillance two or three days ago, we can make a preliminary judgment that he committed suicide." Zhang Enze regained his thoughts.

"Absolutely." Liu Wenkai clapped his fingers and said: "The deceased Zhou Lei had no money, no savings, no house, no debts. Looking at it now, he has no relatives or friends, no fixed job, and his girlfriend broke up. Basically, that's it. This excludes common murder motives such as murder for wealth, murder for love, and murder for revenge.”

Zhang Enze's cheeks dropped when he heard this. He looked at the rain outside the window and said, "It's quite miserable."

Liu Wenkai gave a muffled "Yes", lit a cigarette, looked to the other side, and said: "Sometimes when I think about it, it's quite boring."

Zhang Enze didn't say anything again until he finished smoking, then he opened a window, threw the cigarette butt out, and said again: "How do you explain dismemberment?"

"There are boats on the river, they must be driven by propellers." Liu Wenkai said wistfully: "It's nothing new. The boats on the Taihe River are all rushing back and forth on several rivers. If they encounter a corpse, they may not Call the police."

"Then go find the surveillance camera." Zhang Enze didn't talk about looking for a boat. If it is a homicide, then for the sake of the completeness of the case, it is normal to use various means to ask all the boats that have passed through the Taihe River in the past few days. But if it is a suicide, this is an abnormal death case. Think about it again. It is not so easy to invest police resources in large quantities and for a long time.

Liu Wenkai silently took out his mobile phone and gave Huang Qiangmin a report. Then he drove to a hotel near Qiaotou in the rain and asked his boss to see the surveillance video.

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Ningtai County.

When the news from the front came back, Jiang Yuan was quite surprised. He went back to the funeral parlor, pulled out the body, and checked it again.

The broken section of the waist of the corpse is relatively flat as a whole, but if you look closely, the muscle bundles are of different lengths, and the skin flap at the broken end can still be seen, and the cutting object is not very sharp.

Jiang Yuan was inexperienced and could not directly and accurately deduce the extent of the tools from the broken state of the corpse.

However, now based on the news from the front line, the explanation of the paddle makes sense.

Especially in the remaining vertebrae, the uneven bone cross-sections suggest that there are more components of blunt pain. This also matches the cutting pattern of the paddle.

Of course, it is impossible to deduce the possibility that the oar was the only murder weapon just by analyzing the cross section. However, the knowledge of forensic anthropology does not rule out the possibility that the paddle was used as a dismemberment tool.

Jiang Yuan checked twice in a row, then breathed a sigh of relief, changed his gloves again, took a bunch of photos again, and then slowly collected the corpses.

Rinse all the dissecting table and floor with water, and then soak them in bleach solution. The same goes for the dissection instruments that have just been used, but they need to be soaked for a longer time.

When the anatomy room was tidied up and Jiang Yuan was washing his hands again, Wu Jun strolled in with his hands behind his back and a mask on.

"How is it?" Wu Jun asked with a smile.

"That makes sense." Jiang Yuan brushed his hands and asked, "Can't you find the remaining bodies? How should you find them?"

"I called the cities and counties upstream and downstream and asked them if they had received the remaining half. There is no news yet. However, if it was suicide, the body should not be lost." Wu Jun paused. Then he said: "If it is really gone, then we need to re-examine the cause of death."

Jiang Yuan nodded slowly. Indeed, if it was a suicide and the body was broken by the oars, the first half of the body should appear. Especially with the recent heavy rains, the bodies will never disappear out of thin air.

Of course, you can also look at it from another angle. It is possible that continuous heavy rains washed half of the corpses into the jurisdiction of Ningtai County, while the upper half of the corpses may still be somewhere else.

But as long as no one deliberately hides it, it should still appear within a few days - in this set of inferences, the only way to hide the body is the ship that smashed the body. However, half of the body had already been thrown away, and there seemed to be no use in hiding the other half.

"Okay, don't think about it. In my experience, some things don't happen according to reason or probability. Especially in homicide cases, no matter how you talk about reason or high probability, it's useless. Homicide itself is a matter of low probability." Wu Jun paused and said, "Wait two more days and see the situation."

Everyone had to work overtime in the rain before because the homicide case had to be solved as soon as possible, and everyone was fighting for the golden 72 hours.

Now that it has been basically proved that it is not a homicide, it is actually meaningless to be anxious.

Jiang Yuan has done everything he can, and can only clean up the autopsy room and return to the criminal police brigade.

The next day, a criminal policeman came back with the video of the day of the incident.

Jiang Yuan went to the video office with Wu Jun to watch it.

The surveillance video has been sorted out. The technicians in the video office simply called up the screenshots and images, and easily locked Zhou Lei in the video.

Young, 170 cm tall, weighing 130 catties, Zhou Lei when he was alive. It can be seen that he got off the taxi, walked to the bridge with very slow steps, wandered, returned to the bridge and stopped, and finally walked to the center of the bridge step by step until he was out of surveillance.

In this way, suicide was basically confirmed.

The next day, the news of the upper half of the body finally came, but it was found on a reed island several kilometers away.

Jiang Yuan and Wu Jun took the body back again.

At this time, the body had been corroded to the point that it was impossible to look directly at it. It was hard to imagine what it looked like a few days ago.

This time, after a simple surface examination of the body, the abdominal cavity was opened first.

The huge left and right lungs almost rebounded from the chest cavity, and the surface of the lungs could still see the indentation of the ribs.

Jiang Yuan pressed it with his fingers, and there was a finger mark. Then he pressed it with his palm, and it felt like kneading dough.

"Water-borne emphysema." Jiang Yuan made a simple judgment.

Wu Jun nodded. This is an important feature of drowning. It is caused by the desperate breathing of the deceased before death, which causes the drowning fluid, mucus and air to turn into foam and finally be inhaled into the alveoli.

The time of drowning is usually more than 6 minutes, which is very painful and long. Watery emphysema is one of the proofs.

Jiang Yuan cut another knife in the lungs, and saw a large amount of foamy drowning fluid flowing out. Fortunately, the body itself has been rotten, and the stench is strong enough to almost perfectly cover the smell of drowning fluid.

At this time, a shiny ball also rolled into Jiang Yuan's hands:

Zhou Lei's legacy - swimming (dog paddle) (LV4) - In the small river in the village, Zhou Lei learned to swim with his friends, and he was very good at it. He even used his swimming skills to save another friend. After entering the city, he found that the swimming method he was best at had become the target of everyone's ridicule, so he was no longer willing to swim. At the last moment of his life, facing the turbulent river, Zhou Lei could choose to fight hard, but think about it, why bother, it's better to go home. Why not go see grandma?

Jiang Yuan sighed deeply.

Forensic doctors always see things too late and can change too little. They are just like ordinary people. As the saying goes, the Qin people had no time to mourn themselves, but later generations mourned them; if later generations mourned but did not learn from them, they would also make later generations mourn later generations.