Forensics

Penang City Council, Special Criminal Division Office.

Gu Yanchen clicked on Zhong Xiaoke's Weibo. The background picture on it was a silhouette of two people holding hands. She should love Liao Yinghan very much.

Then he received the video sent to him by Baimeng.

The woman on the screen smiled like a flower, and she held up a selfie stick to take a selfie: "Everyone has been waiting for a long time. Today we have arrived at the seaside hotel in Penang. Tomorrow we will go diving! We have prepared a lot of equipment for this dive. !"

The camera took a look at the various equipment and diving suits in the suitcase. The pink suitcase obviously belonged to Zhong Xiaoke, and the other blue suitcase belonged to Liao Yinghan.

Then the camera turned to Liao Yinghan who was packing up his things behind.

"Husband, come and say hello to everyone!"

Liao Yinghan in the back waved his hands a little shyly.

Zhong Xiaoke's camera turned again: "I'll show you the scenery outside the sea view room."

Outside the window, there is a sea in the setting sun, and seabirds flying in the sky, everything looks so beautiful.

"In the evening we will eat seafood! Pippi shrimp and abalone! But what I am most looking forward to is going into the sea. I can't wait to go diving now, and tomorrow, I will share with you the underwater world I took!"

The entire VLOG lasts for more than two minutes.

After the police announcement was released, someone picked up this account, and now many people below are lighting candles.

Just a few hours ago, this woman slept forever on the blue sea she loved.

After reading it, Gu Yanchen turned off the computer, ready to go home and continue to check the rest of the information.

He went to the forensic building to pick up Shen Junci.

Shen Junci had already completed today's autopsy and was just about to leave work, so the two of them went downstairs together.

Gu Yanchen asked him: "Forensic Shen, do you have any new discoveries here?"

Shen Junci told Gu Yanchen about the wound in the corpse's mouth, and then asked, "Have you made any progress?"

Gu Yanchen walked side by side with him: "We interviewed Liao Yinghan's ex-wife. According to her description, this Liao Yinghan seems to be a habitual criminal who killed his wife and cheated insurance. It's just that he chose a more subtle way."

The current problem is still stuck in the evidence.

Shen Junci sighed: "It would be great if there were surveillance under the sea."

As soon as he said these words, Gu Yanchen suddenly stopped in his tracks: "I'm stupid about something..."

He sorted out his thoughts and said: "Zhong Xiaoke recorded a VLOG before, saying that she wanted to record the underwater world. She must have brought a waterproof camera, but we didn't find the camera on her and Liao Yinghan's body."

Shen Junci continued to reason: "Then, the camera may have been left on the bottom of the sea!"

Stupid to this point, Gu Yanchen said: "If the camera can record something, it will be the strongest evidence!"

Shen Junci asked: "But...is it easy to salvage?"

Gu Yanchen said: "It didn't take long to fall into the water, and it's near the sea, so there is still great hope."

There have been no storms these two days, maybe you can give it a try.

They hurried home and had dinner, Gu Yanchen was not in a hurry to operate, nor did he ask Liao Yinghan about the camera, so as not to startle the snake.

He asked the technical side to check Zhong Xiaoke's mobile phone first, and found a few selfies of Zhong Xiaoke before departure, and there was indeed a waterproof camera hanging around the woman's neck.

Then he checked with the lifeguards who rescued them again, and everyone said that they didn't see Zhong Xiaoke bring the camera ashore.

After confirming these, Gu Yanchen looked at the time, and it was already past eight o'clock in the evening.

Going into the sea to salvage a camera is not an easy task. If there is someone from the Municipal Bureau, it needs to be coordinated with the Coast Guard.The first thing is to get approval from the leadership.

Gu Yanchen dialed Deputy Director Dong's cell phone.

The phone rang several times, but no one answered.

Gu Yanchen called Deputy Director Dong's home again.

After waiting for a while, someone finally answered the phone, and Mrs. Dong's voice came from the opposite side: "Hello..."

Gu Yanchen said: "Hello, I'll find Deputy Director Dong." As soon as he finished saying this, he heard Deputy Director Dong's voice faintly coming from the other side. .

Gu Yanchen was a little embarrassed: "How about I call later..."

Mrs. Dong was not surprised: "It's okay, he is tutoring his grandson's homework, I will call him for you."

After a few seconds, Deputy Director Dong answered the phone: "It's Captain Gu, sorry, I was teaching Junjun just now, and I didn't hear the phone ring."

Junjun is the nickname of Dong Fuju's grandson.

Gu Yanchen: "I heard something just now."

Deputy Director Dong said: "Cough! Homework tutoring, it's all like this. You'll know when you get married."

Gu Yanchen was dumbfounded and felt something was wrong: "I remember Junjun was in kindergarten, right?"

Dong Fuju: "Yes, middle class. I haven't recognized [-] Chinese characters. I can only add and not subtract within [-]. It's far behind."

Gu Yanchen was not fooled: "Now the kindergarten is so introverted to this extent?"

Deputy Bureau Dong: "Yeah, there are no remedial classes yet. It's all up to the parents. By the way, why are you looking for me?"

Gu Yanchen told about Yu's going to the sea to salvage, and Deputy Director Dong said: "This case has a lot of social attention, and the camera is an important physical evidence. I have approved the salvage here. But you have to give me a budget. Make an action plan, and I will reply to your email later, and then go to communicate with Lao Ding. It is also agreed in advance that this salvage is a waste of money, no matter how it goes, it will be salvaged for three days at most.”

Deputy Director Dong was foolish and said again: "Also, you can contact the diving instructor at their beach and go down to search with the lifeguards. If this is a murder case, don't smash their signboard."

Gu Yanchen hung up the phone and arranged the action overnight. The coast guard was very cooperative and made an appointment to go to sea tomorrow morning.

Early the next morning, dozens of people gathered on the beach. The range of diving could not be very far, and the entire area was quickly marked out.

Due to the recent murder, this area is still blocked.

Gu Yanchen greeted the person in charge of the coast guard, and the other party drove several small sea boats, and he followed one of them.

This is a joint operation. The diving club in Penang Bay is willing to help, and the diving training institution that Zhong Xiaoke visited before his death also sent several coaches.

Those diving instructors are all experienced, and they have been searching in the nearby offshore sea area since seven o'clock.

Although the search work is progressing in an orderly manner, the progress is not fast. To find a lost camera in a sea area is as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack.

The divers went up and down and changed batches.

In the afternoon, the underwater visibility turned low. Captain Liu from the Coast Guard came over to discuss with Gu Yanchen: "Captain Gu, why don't we do this today first?"

Gu Yanchen said: "Let's call it a day, we'll go back when the divers come up."

The criminal police were a little discouraged when they saw that there was no harvest after a day of salvage. Gu Yanchen in turn comforted them.

As soon as the words were finished, the water broke apart, and a diver floated up, waved the object in his hand, and then he spat out the respirator in his mouth: "I found it, I found a camera!"

Captain Liu became excited all of a sudden, he didn't bother to pull people up, first he fished the camera over with a copybook, handed it to Gu Yanchen and said, "Captain Gu, check to see if it's this!"

Gu Yanchen looked at the camera. He compared Zhong Xiaoke's photo with the one of the same brand and model: "This is it."

It's just that the camera may have been in recording mode before, and the battery has run out, so it cannot be turned on.

"As long as you find it, solve the case as soon as possible." Captain Liu laughed.

After a busy day, there was finally some progress, and everyone finished work smoothly.

Gu Yanchen took the criminal police back to the city bureau, took the hard-won camera, and found the matching connection cable immediately.

Shen Junci heard that they had recovered Zhong Xiaoke's camera, and rushed over from the forensic department.

Even Director Ding came down from upstairs to see what was in the camera.

For a while, everyone gathered in the office of the Special Criminal Division, silently, waiting to see the contents of the video card.

Bai Meng's hands were shaking with excitement, she clicked on the memory card, saw a few files inside, dragged it to the end, and clicked on the last paragraph.

The video started to play. At first, it was shooting the scenery of the seabed, and then it was shooting at the diver on the side. Judging from the color of the diving suit, it was Liao Yinghan, and the one holding the camera was Zhong Xiaoke. Liao Yinghan made a gesture towards the camera. Thumbs up gesture.

Zhong Xiaoke then took off the noose on the case, turned the camera around and took a selfie of himself.

Then the camera took pictures of the animals on the bottom of the sea, a lobster crawled across the bottom of the sea, and various fishes swam past them.

The kelp and aquatic plants on the bottom of the sea sway gently with the waves, and small crabs emerge from the sand on the bottom of the sea from time to time.

A few minutes later, the video screen suddenly flickered, the camera fell, and the camera captured Zhong Xiaoke's face for a moment. Her respirator had left her mouth, and then a figure came...

There is no sound at the bottom of the sea, but the picture is reaching a critical moment, and everyone's hearts seem to hang in their throats.

But at this moment, the camera fell to the bottom of the riverbed.

There was some dust.

The lens is momentarily blurred.

The distance becomes farther, and the focus is not allowed.

In the increasingly blurred picture, it can be seen that the figure hugged Zhong Xiaoke from behind, and wrapped his arms around the woman. Zhong Xiaoke seemed to be struggling, and then the two floated up.

The woman's feet kicked in the picture.

Seeing the critical moment, Lu Ying clenched her fists excitedly.He wished he could straighten the camera, adjust the focus, and take pictures of the whole process.

The whole process lasted only ten seconds, and then only the quiet seabed was left in the camera.

Everyone was quiet, and then Bai Meng pressed the pause button: "There should only be so many..."

Some content was captured in the video, but this is not conclusive evidence.

From the beginning when they realized the existence of the camera, to the time when the camera was actually salvaged, everyone hoped to see the truth of the accident from the camera, but in the end, there were only a few blurry shots that were difficult to define.

The hope is as great as the disappointment.

In the end, it was Gu Yanchen who calmed down first. He coughed lightly and said, "This is an important piece of evidence. Let's look for other clues."

Bai Meng raised her forehead, a little discouraged: "What other clues can I find..."

At this time, Director Ding who was standing behind said, "Everyone has worked hard. It is very good that we can find so many clues in this case." Then he said to Gu Yanchen, "Captain Gu, come with me." Let's go to the meeting room."

Gu Yanchen got up and followed Director Ding to the small conference room on the side.

Bureau Ding found a chair and sat down, and Gu Yanchen sat opposite him.

Director Ding said, "Are you a little disappointed?"

Gu Yanchen looked calm: "Fortunately, although the image is blurry, it can be used as a reference. Let's find other evidence."

Director Ding said: "I have read all your records. I have asked everyone I could. I even got the testimony of my ex-wife and salvaged the camera. You have done your best. This case is special. It happened at the bottom of the sea. .Surveillance, fingerprints, bloodstains, all conventional criminal investigation methods are useless. I have experienced a lot, old man, and I know that some things may not necessarily have results even if they are pursued. I think you can put all these existing evidence on the Internet. Hand it over to the procuratorate, as to whether the man is guilty in the end, that is a matter for the court to judge."

He has been the chief of the bureau for so many years, and he knows that some cases do not follow people's wishes, otherwise there would be no unsolved cases in this world.

Environmental constraints will make it impossible to investigate many cases, and this is something that must be accepted.

Furthermore, the Penang police have found so many clues, and they have a clear conscience in solving the case.

Gu Yanchen said: "Ju Ding, this case is with me, it's easy to give up."

He paused for a moment, raised his eyelashes, and continued with firm eyes, "In this world, there are so many husbands who want to kill their wives. What I worry about is that once we give up here, those murderers will feel that this way It’s safe, this matter works, and the wife can be perfectly killed in this way, so that more women will die in the deep sea.”

Bureau Ding frowned: "But this case is destined to be flawed in terms of physical evidence. How are you going to investigate next?"

Gu Yanchen said: "I'm stupid to add this in the confession, so that Liao Yinghan can admit it personally."

Bureau Ding: "This... can it be done?"

If Liao Yinghan didn't speak up, he would most likely get away with it and bring millions of insurance compensation.If he confesses, he may face the death penalty. Director Ding can't figure out how to interrogate him to get a confession from that man.

Gu Yanchen said: "I'll give it a try."

Director Ding said, "Okay, I'll go to the procuratorate and apply for a 24-hour arrest warrant."