Forensics

In the morning, outside the Fourth Branch.

The office of the Fourth Sub-bureau is naturally not as grand as the city bureau. When entering the courtyard, there is a small three-story building in front of it. The first floor is the case handling hall, and the upper floor is the management department.

Zhao Ju, the head of the sub-bureau, was waiting at the door early, and when he saw the car arrived, he greeted him with a smile.

Not only a few leaders were there, but also the criminal police and forensic doctors of the branch office gathered in the hall, welcoming them with smiles on their faces, wishing that each of them would hold a bouquet of flowers and shout for welcome.

Lu Ying glanced at this posture and whispered: "You don't have to welcome them in such a way, it's clear that you are here to wipe their buttocks. Think we are here for sightseeing?"

Bai Meng glanced sideways and said, "Probably Bureau Zhao's idea is to reach out and not hit the smiling face."

Qi Yi'an recalled the scene when his leader went to inspect the school when he was in high school: "When we talk later, they won't applaud from the sidelines..."

Lu Ying imagined for a moment: "Oh my god, that's too disgusting."

Gu Yanchen: "It's all superficial."

In the past, when they couldn't catch the pigtails, the people from the Fourth Branch would ignore the leaders of the Ding Bureau and the City Bureau.

Their current attitude shows that the case is a bit tricky.

Bai Meng and Lu Ying followed Gu Yanchen to get off the car.

Director Zhao walked over and greeted him with a smile: "All the leaders and colleagues of the Municipal Bureau, we have communicated with Director Ding on the phone about this case before..."

Gu Yanchen directly stopped Zhao Ju's polite words: "Zhao Ju, time is urgent, let's start the handover work as soon as possible."

Shen Junci brought Qi Yi'an into the hall as well: "We are from the Forensic Medicine Center of the Municipal Bureau, where is the body?"

A man in a forensic gown stood up: "My surname is Zou, and I'm the director of the forensic department here. I'll take you there."

The forensic doctors went to work, and Director Zhao led Gu Yanchen into the criminal police office of the sub-bureau. Director Zhao pointed to the file on the table and said, "According to Bureau Ding, all the relevant information about Zhou Yingying's case is already here."

Gu Yanchen looked at the desktop in front of him.

There was only a small stack of files on the table, but beside it were tea, snacks, and a large fruit plate, which contained many varieties of fruits.

Gu Yanchen pressed his hand on the file, frowned and asked, "There are only so many?"

The police officer on the side said: "This case was classified as a disappearance case at the time, so we didn't do much work..."

Gu Yanchen asked: "Why is a criminal case classified as missing?"

The leader below coughed: "We also followed the regulations at the time, according to the police regulations..."

Gu Yanchen was not in the mood to listen to this group of bureaucrats' explanations, so he stretched out his hand to stop him: "I'm asking about the actual situation, and you don't need to memorize the rules and regulations."

The person who spoke just now was the deputy director of the Fourth Division Bureau, and the man's expression immediately fell.After all, he was also the second in command of the sub-bureau, so he didn't expect to be lectured like this by the criminal investigation captain of the city bureau.

But in this situation, in this situation, he couldn't help losing his temper.

Director Zhao smoothed things over: "It's because we haven't done enough work, Captain Gu, please correct me."

Gu Yanchen sat down, opened the file, and looked at the name of the criminal policeman in charge signed on it: "Pang Zimin, who is this?"

The captain of a sub-bureau on the side said: "It's me."

Gu Yanchen asked: "Please tell me the details."

Pang Zimin stammered, "This case has been declared missing for three reasons. The first is that a surveillance video near the factory that night captured Zhou Yingying wandering outside the factory."

"The second is the confession of other workers. They have heard Zhou Yingying say that they are under a lot of pressure, and their family always forces marriages, and they want to leave."

"The third piece of evidence is Zhou Yingying's Weibo account. She wrote that her parents ruined her life, and some related content... In addition, we also verified that in the afternoon, Zhou Yingying and his father Mom just had a quarrel on the phone. Her parents admitted it."

Gu Yanchen flipped through the evidence he said: "There is only this short section of surveillance, and there are no other related images. How can this be regarded as evidence of disappearance?"

Pang Zimin said: "We didn't think carefully. The main reason is that the testimonies of the workers at that time were very consistent. They said that they heard Zhou Yingying crying when she called her family and thought that her parents wanted to sell her to raise money for her brother. In exchange for the dowry, she has long wanted to run away, to a place where no one knows her..."

At this point in the discussion of the case, Gu Yanchen asked again: "Now this case can be classified as a criminal homicide case. Since you investigated a few days ago, have you found any suspects or suspects who are suspected murderers?"

Pang Zimin bit the bullet and continued to answer: "Her family members are out of town, she has an alibi, and Zhou Yingying doesn't have a boyfriend or anything. We haven't found anyone suspicious yet."

Does this mean that there is no progress after checking for a day?

Gu Yanchen didn't even bother to say anything, he said, "Then Director Zhao and everyone should cooperate with our work, and we will take away a copy of the relevant materials."

Director Zhao respectfully asked, "Then what else do we need to do?"

Gu Yanchen: "Please appease the family members of the victims. If the media comes over, don't make up your own mind to answer, so as not to cause follow-up questions, let them interview the leaders of the Municipal Bureau."

He said here and said: "And..."

Director Zhao asked, "What's the matter?"

Gu Yanchen closed the file, pointed to the tea and fruit plate on the table and said, "Please remove these things, they will interfere with our work."

Director Zhao took the fruit plate and walked away in despair.

The criminal police offices of the entire fourth branch began to enter the working state, and the criminal police began to copy materials, handover, and understand the case.

Gu Yanchen took those testimonies back to study.

Flipping through the testimony, Gu Yanchen's expression became more serious, and the testimony of several female workers working in the same workshop was almost the same.

Everyone claimed to have seen Zhou Yingying pack up some underwear and documents and go out, but they didn't know where she went.

It is not even possible to determine who was the last person to see her.

At the same time, in the forensic office of the Fourth Branch, the stored corpses have also been pulled out.

Because the corpse was dug out and frozen, the corpse is still hard now, and as the ice above melts, an unpleasant smell wafts out.

This is a female corpse. When it was discovered, the corpse was barely wearing any clothes and was wrapped in a sheet.

Shen Junci and Qi Yi'an changed into their dissection suits.

Director Zou, the forensic doctor of the Fourth Branch, accompanied them, and respectfully handed over an autopsy report: "Both leaders, the body was discovered in the middle of the night a few days ago, and we worked overtime overnight to conduct an autopsy. Since the body has been buried for a year, So the damage is serious, and there are not many clues on it."

It was the first time Qi Yi'an was called a leader face to face, and he felt a little uncomfortable.

Shen Junci didn't care, and looked down at the corpse.

It can be seen that this corpse has been buried for a long time. The female corpse's face is severely decomposed, her eyeballs are collapsed, her teeth are exposed, and she has a hideous face.The corpse's hair was messy, and there were some mud clumps in it, as dry as a bunch of dead grass.

The smell of the corpse was very unpleasant, but it was still within their tolerance.

It can be seen that there is a wound on the head of the corpse, and part of the blood and hair are coagulated together.

Shen Junci flipped through the autopsy report. The autopsy report by the Fourth Division was sloppy. He frowned and said, "Some places are not written accurately."

Looking at the crooked stitches on the corpse, Qi Yi'an also showed a somewhat disgusted expression.This job is too rough, and it can't compare with his master's skills.

The corner of Director Zou's mouth twitched: "We are not as talented as Forensic Doctor Shen, and we are definitely not as experienced as Forensic Doctor Shen. It seems that I have to trouble you to check again."

Shen Junci looked up and asked Director Zou: "Have you done the internal organ biopsy?"

"The internal decay of the corpse is quite serious. We chose for a long time, and then cut a slice of costal cartilage."

"The costal cartilage can't do a lot of toxicological analysis." Shen Jun resigned, "Let's re-test."

Qi Yi'an also took out the record sheet and started recording.

Shen Junci conducted a basic examination: "The female corpse is about 22 years old, the length of the corpse is 1.6 meters, and the weight is 107 kilograms..."

After death, due to the loss of water, the weight of the corpse will decrease, and the current corpse is still very heavy, indicating that the deceased was obese during his lifetime.

Because the corpse was wrapped in a sheet and buried under the soil for more than a year, a lot of yellow mucus oozes out, and now the surface of the corpse is somewhat white-yellow solid.

Qi Yi'an wanted to see the melting state, so he pressed the skin of the corpse with his gloved hand: "Master, this surface is very hard."

Shen Junci nodded: "The saponification is serious." Then he said, "When it melts, it may be very slippery."

Saponification of corpses is an uncommon phenomenon. Those white and yellow things that appear are so-called corpse wax.

This is a preserved corpse phenomenon.

Only when the corpse is placed in a place with little oxygen and rich water is it easy to form.

The vicinity of the water canal behind the factory just fits this situation.

The fat in the corpse chemically reacted with the external environment to form a hard wax like amber. After one year, this wax spread all over the surface of the corpse. It bulged out, forming a hard lump like amber.

Qi Yi'an pinched the corpse's leg, feeling like he was touching a large piece of soap with ice on it.

Shen Jun said: "The waxing of the corpse can completely preserve some of the wounds on the corpse. For us, this is a good thing."

Qi Yi'an nodded obediently.

Shen Junci was not in a hurry to remove the stitches, he judged: "It will take a while for the corpse to completely thaw, let's continue the examination of the corpse first, and turn the corpse over now."

Director Zou also stepped forward, and the three of them worked together to turn the corpse over.

With the back and buttocks facing upwards, the saponification of the back of the corpse was more serious. Shen Junci observed carefully, and then let out a hush.

Qi Yi'an probed to look: "Master, did you find anything?"

Shen Junci pointed and said, "There may be some wounds on her back."

The whole back is uneven, and some saponified places are very hard, forming a hard scab on the surface.

Overall, it looks like a hard washboard.

Qi Yi'an took a closer look: "There are small wounds, each one is not big, it seems that there are many?"

He went to look through the autopsy records of the previous forensic doctor, wanting to see what was written.After seeing it, Qi Yi'an's eyes widened in anger: "Rat bite marks? How could this be a mouse bite mark? Your sub-bureau is really writing nonsense and not drafting."

Even an inexperienced forensic assistant in him could tell that the forensics in these sub-bureaus were a little too much.

"Wrote suspicious." Director Zou wiped his sweat, "The wound is shallow, there is not much bleeding, it is likely to be a post-mortem wound. How can ordinary wounds be so shallow? Also, some wounds are not worn at all. Through the muscle layer, only on the surface of the skin, could it be that this is some murderer's perverted hobby of destroying corpses? To chop up the back of the corpse as meat?"

Except that animals like mice or weasels can leave such dense and shallow marks, he really can't think of anything else that can cause such scars.

Shen Junci carefully distinguishes one by one, and measures one by one,

These wounds are not deep. Some of the wounds have just been cut open, the small ones are only about one centimeter long, and the long ones are no more than three centimeters. The average depth is about three centimeters. within five centimeters.

These wounds are distributed on the back of the deceased, intricate, mottled, and of different depths.

And depending on the situation, it was indeed a posthumous injury.

It looked as if the corpse had once slept on some kind of nail or knife board.

Looking at the scars all over his back, Shen Junci frowned, these scars were somewhat unreasonable.Under what circumstances would it be left behind?