Chasing the Mist

On the way to Ningshui Village, Gu Xun squinted for a while. Before getting off the car, he asked Lao Zhao for a bottle of purified water. He squatted on the side of the road and washed his face first. The cold water stimulated him, and his mind suddenly cleared up. He lowered his eyes to look at the time, 3:35 in the morning In the afternoon, the sun always emerged from the gray sky, and there was a little light in the mountains, forests and farmland.

There is only one season of crops a year in the north, and the growth pattern is exactly the same as the saying that spring grows and summer grows, autumn harvests and winter hides.

In summer, the farmland is verdant and green, full of vitality and hope, which is completely different from the vast whiteness in winter.

At this time, the green corn stalks were tall, and there was a rustling sound from behind the stalks. Gu Xun raised his foot to go in, but a car horn blew, which made him stop. When he turned around, Meng Jia was coming out of the police car, and at the same time, Lin was also He and Zheng Tiancheng also came out from the back seat of the car.

Meng Jia trotted to catch up with Gu Xun, looked at the two people behind, and said embarrassingly, "Boss, they insisted on following...I thought they were recovering well, so I brought them here."

Gu Xun sneered in his heart: Heh!Being able to go out and date young boys, of course he recovered well.

Seeing his face sinking into the water, Meng Jia looked indifferent, thinking that he had done something wrong, and quickly said: "I'll send someone back later, and take them back, don't come out and get exhausted."

With one hand in his pocket, Gu Xun pushed aside the stalks and leaves blocking the way with the other, and said calmly, "No, since they recovered well and returned to the team voluntarily, their work will be the same as before, and they don't need special care."

"Ah?" Meng Jia trotted behind him, walked for a while, and said "Oh."

Passing through a dense cornfield, the scene of the crime is revealed. The low watermelon vines are covered with large and round watermelons. The policeman is talking to an old man.

The captain of the criminal police of the sub-bureau saw Gu Xun approaching, and hurriedly stepped forward to introduce, "Hello, Captain Gu, I am Zhang Heng, the head of the Nanping County Criminal Police Team. The old man in front is the reporter. His name is Li Guofu, a villager in Ningshui Village. Throwing watermelon, he deliberately didn't sleep in the melon field for the past few days, and wanted to catch the thief at night. Burnt people, the flames spread around the body and towards the door, the old man picked up a bucket and poured it on the fire, and the flames became more intense, and he immediately realized that it was gasoline, so he covered the flames with a quilt."

Gu Xun nodded, "What did you find at the scene?"

"The deceased's face was seriously injured. I was afraid of damaging the scene. I didn't let anyone go in for further investigation. I have been waiting for you to come."

Gu Xun put on his shoe covers and gloves, and walked into the melon watching room first. The room was less than [-] square meters, with a bed, a washbasin beside the bed, a few clothes hanging on the wall, nothing else, the smoke had cleared, The charred corpse was lying on the ground in a supine position.

The facial musculature of the deceased had been burned away, exposing the skull. The skull had also turned black due to the smoke, and there was a little skin left on the body below the head. The burnt degree was not as serious as the head.

Gu Xun squatted down and turned his gaze to the ground on the left side of the corpse. There seemed to be two indentations on the dirt. In order to see clearly, he knelt on his knees and put his head on the ground, looking at the shallow marks on the ground.

"Boss, what are you doing?"

Meng Jia and the others stood at the door at some point, staring at him closely.

Gu Xun didn't have time to explain, stood up and waved to his colleagues in the trace inspection department, "Come here, Xiao Liu, here are two shallow marks, I think it looks like the mark of your arm, you use the metering light to look at it."

With the entry of the trace inspection, other people entered the house one after another, and the on-site investigation was orderly.

After taking pictures of the marks on the ground, Xiao Liu waved at Gu Xun, "Boss Gu, these are indeed the indentations of the two arms." He pointed to the open space between the two marks, "There are also shallow marks, and the oval shape should be the face."

Gu Xun folded his arms around his chest, looked down at the ground, "Of the deceased?"

"It looks like a woman's arm, and we can't confirm it until the forensic doctor gives the data."

"Similar indentation, is there one around the corpse? Or multiple?" Lin Yiran interrupted.

Gu Xun squinted at him, and said coldly, "Working after drinking is strictly prohibited, don't you know?"

Lin Yiran was stunned, remembering that he was eating by the side of the road, and asked, "Did you see me?"

Gu Xun ignored him and walked out.

"I've been on vacation all the time. I didn't expect that there would be a case tonight. Besides, I just drink a glass of beer, which will be metabolized early." Lin Yiran followed up and explained.

Gu Xun directed the on-site investigation work, and Lin Yiran was treated as air and left alone.

Lin Yiran tore off a piece of dog's tail grass and put it to the side of his mouth. Gu Xun hadn't treated him like this for a long time, and he was fine when he left home in the afternoon. Why was he suddenly angry?

Knowing that he was drinking, he must have seen him competing with Zhang Yan for dinner.

It turned out that he was angry because of the meal, but after trying to understand the reason, Lin Yiran spit out the dog's tail grass and smiled.

Forensic room.

Gu Xun pushed the door open and went in, "How is it? Did you find anything?"

The forensic doctor put down the knife and pointed to the abdomen of the corpse, "It's a bit like following the case. The abdomen and stomach of the deceased were cut open, and the stomach was cleaned."

Gu Xun bent down to look at the corpse, and said, "Is there something in the stomach?"

The forensic doctor shrugged, "I don't know, the stomach was washed very clean, no food residue was found, and the intestines were basically emptied."

"Pass me a pair of gloves." Gu Xun stared at the corpse and stretched out his hand to the forensic doctor. Soon he put on the gloves, picked up the dead man's hand and looked at it carefully. The skin on the back of the hand was burned, and the nails were thrown away. He looked at each nail Again, "The nails are short, the surface is not smooth, and there are debris between the fingers. It seems that the nails have not been trimmed for a long time."

The forensic doctor came over, "Did someone trim her nails after death?"

"Well, there should be residues in the nails, look carefully." After speaking, Gu Xun's phone rang.

Meng Jia: "Boss, the meeting is ready, and all the staff are here. We're just waiting for you and Forensic Zheng."

"Let's go down right away." Gu Xun took off his gloves, turned his head to see the doctor, "I'm here to call you for a meeting, let's go."

In the big conference room, all the participants are seated and ready.

After Meng Jia introduced the case of the reporter, the computer was handed over to the forensic doctor, and the screen was replaced with a close-up photo of a blackened corpse leg, "The subcutaneous tissue of the corpse showed coagulation necrosis, no inflammatory reaction, no thrombosis, trachea, bronchi, intestines , There is no soot or charcoal in the stomach, the deceased was cremated after death.”

The forensic doctor switched to a close-up photo of the neck. The damage to the neck of the corpse was not as serious as that of the face, and some skin tissue could still be seen. The forensic doctor quickly changed a photo of the subcutaneous tissue of the neck. The infrared pen pointed to a deep bleeding mark in the photo, "Decedent Cervical spinous process fracture, thyroid gland, laryngeal mucosa and base of tongue can be seen focal bleeding, combined with deep neck muscle bleeding, the deceased died of mechanical asphyxiation, the crime tool should be a little finger width of the rope.

In addition, there were fresh ruptures and lacerations in the virgin |female|membrane of the deceased, and there was no male fluid in the body.

Judging from the degree of tooth wear and bone, the deceased should be between 16 and 18 years old. "

After the forensic doctor finished speaking, someone asked: "Jack first, then kill, and then burn the body?"

"From the perspective of the corpse." The forensic doctor changed another photo, and a bloodstain appeared on the burnt skin. "Compared with ordinary rape|murder cases, there are two doubtful points in this case. First: the stomach of the deceased was thoroughly washed. Very clean, second: "The infrared pen pointed to the photo, "The burn on the deceased's thigh was obviously lighter than the upper body, and there was a fresh wound on the inner side of the leg, with a width of one centimeter. The death time of the deceased was within 18 hours, and the wound formation time was about 5 days after death. About an hour."

Meng Jia looked at the time, at 7 pm on July 21, 3 hours back, the time of death was at 18 pm on July 7, and at 20 am on the 9st, someone scratched the wound on the leg of the deceased. The body found at 21:1 in the morning, "When the reporter arrived at the crime scene, the murderer had just left?"

Forensic doctor: "The wound on the inside of the leg cannot be determined by the murderer for the time being. No fingerprints were found on the deceased's stomach, and there are toilet paper fibers around the wound on the inside of the leg."

"After you cut the wound, wipe your fingerprints with toilet paper?"

The forensic doctor nodded.

Gu Xun turned the lighter rhythmically with his thumb and forefinger, and a one-centimeter gash in his leg?When the corpse has been burned, making a wound on the corpse will definitely arouse the police’s idea. Such a risky behavior must be to get something important. Something small and can be hidden under the skin. Two words popped out of my mind—— chip.

This bold speculation made him a little distracted. Lin Yiran kicked him quietly under the table before he came back to his senses. The conference room was quiet, waiting for him to speak, "How about the trace inspection?"

The laptop was pushed in front of the trace inspection, and the picture on the screen changed accordingly. In the picture were the two imprints that Gu Xun found. mark.

Trace inspection: "The prone-like indentation on the human body was confirmed by comparison to be the indentation of the deceased himself. The initial posture of the deceased entering the watermelon room was lying prone on the ground, and then he was turned into a supine position.

There was no sign of struggle or fighting in the watermelon room, so it can be concluded that it was the scene of the second crime, and the murderer moved here to burn the body after death.

A total of three sets of footprints were found in the house, one of which was compared to that of the informant, and the owner of the other two sets of shoe prints could not be found, which may have been left by the murderer. This is all I have for now. "

The computer was pushed back in front of Meng Jia, and the screen was replaced with a photo of the deceased's head, "The deceased's head was burned most seriously, and there were ashes of paper. It is preliminarily judged that the fire started on the head, and the combustion aid was No. 92 gasoline. I deduce that the murderer first put Gasoline was poured on the corpse, most of which was poured on the head, and then ignited with paper. There was a little gasoline around the corpse on the ground. It should have been poured on the corpse. There is no need to move the body into the watermelon house just by burning the corpse, I think the murderer may have committed the crime temporarily and did not have much gasoline on hand."

Zheng Tiancheng: "Seeing that there were no car marks around Guafangfa, two sets of footprints were found around the corpse. They came out of the house and fled to the northwest. The footprints on the side of the road were severely damaged and could not be traced."

After everyone reported, Gu Xun said, "Meng Jia asked Professor Zhao to make a facial reconstruction map based on the head of the deceased. Zheng Tiancheng went to several high schools and vocational high schools in Nanping County to find the recently missing female student. The others took Ningshui Village as their Center, visit the surrounding villages and towns, look for the missing girls recently, in addition to the school and nearby villages, compare the missing girls who match the height and age of the deceased in the database of missing persons in Baicheng."

That night, Gu Xun received a facial reconstruction map from Professor Zhao.

The author has something to say: the content of this chapter refers to the book "Forensic Science"