Madness of the Heart

The criminal police broke in, and a cordon was quickly pulled up outside the courier station.

Jiangbei No. [-] Village is densely populated, and many families living here have three generations living together. There are usually five or six people in an old house of seventy to eighty square meters.Although it was not the peak season for people entering and leaving at this time, news of an accident at the courier station spread quickly, and more and more people gathered outside the cordon.

The forensic doctor and the trace inspector were still on their way. Mingshu asked other police officers to stay outside to prevent the residents who came to see the fun from destroying the scene. He put on shoe covers and latex gloves and entered alone, squatting on the pile of hills. Before express delivery.

Before the store door was opened, the entire courier station was completely closed. Although the curtains were opened a crack, the windows were closed. Now the air has not diffused, and the surrounding area is filled with a very strong smell of blood and corpses.

Even multiple masks can't block the smell of corpses, Mingshu subconsciously pressed the mask.

Huang Yan is not only the head of the house, but also the owner of the courier station. It is very likely that she is the one who was buried by the package at this time.

Mingshu didn't go to the package immediately, but found the computer for work.

The computer is turned off, and the startup response is a bit slow.

While waiting for the computer to turn on, Mingshu looked at the camera hanging on the corner of the ceiling.

The camera didn't work, it's unknown who turned it off.

All courier stations will be monitored. The computer and camera are likely to be turned off by the murderer, and the video stored in it may have been deleted, but the technical investigation team has the ability to restore the deleted data.

It took half a minute for the computer to start up, and there was a picture of a woman on the desktop.

The woman's hair was cut very short, her facial features were not outstanding, and she looked a bit mean at first glance.She was wearing a light yellow low-cut chiffon dress, more than half of the angel tattoo on her chest was exposed, and the background was the snow-white sand and the blue sea.

Mingshu found the folder where the surveillance video was stored, and clicked to open it. The last video was saved at 12:13 on December 19th.

And now it's December 12th.

Residents said that the courier station had not opened for two days, so the murderer may have committed the crime on the night of the 13th, and deleted the subsequent video.

Mingshu quickly checked the video, but found no abnormalities, and planned to ask Zhou Yuan or the technical investigation team of the sub-bureau to restore the data on this computer.

After leaving the computer desk, Mingshu walked towards the morgue.

The exposed pair of feet was not wearing shoes, and was only wearing pure white socks. The socks were all stained with blood, and there were corpse spots under the calf, which were stained with smeared blood.Next to the corpse was a line of dragging blood, spreading all the way from another room.

Apparently, the victim was transferred here posthumously.

The murderer deliberately threw the package on the victim on the shelf.

But what is the meaning behind this behavior?

Mingshu didn't touch the package and the corpse for the time being, stood up, took two steps back, and looked up at the window with the curtains not drawn tightly.

The wrapping was able to cover the body, but the victim's lower legs and feet were exposed, so it didn't work at all.If the murderer wants to use a package to hide the body, he should cover the legs and feet and draw the curtains tightly, not like this.

So if the purpose of dropping the package wasn't to hide the body, what was?

Mingshu walked along the drag-like bloodstain while thinking, observing the situation of the whole house.

The houses in Jiangbei Second Village, as long as they were on the first floor, were all converted into shops, including a fruit and vegetable shop, a barber shop, a small shop, a pet beauty salon, a massage shop, and there was more than one courier station.

Apart from the living room, kitchen and bathroom, this house has a total of three bedrooms, the smallest of which is Huang Yan's bedroom, and the other two plus the living room are full of express goods and Internet celebrity snacks - most of the express delivery stations nowadays They no longer only provide courier collection services, but also sell Internet celebrity snacks together. When residents come to pick up the courier, they will occasionally buy a bag of snacks to go back.

It seems that the dead boss was a man who knew how to generate income.

The body was thrown between two shelves in the living room, and the blood came from the largest room.Standing at the door of this room, Mingshu noticed the splattered blood on the wall.

The appearance of this kind of blood is usually caused by severed arteries when a person is alive, which can also explain why there is so much blood on the floor, and there are even blood footprints of the murderer.

The killer didn't seem to clean up the scene after the crime and didn't care to leave footprints.

From this point of view, the murderer's anti-reconnaissance awareness is not strong.

Mingshu sighed, feeling a little troubled in his heart.

What had been one case not so long ago suddenly became two.

It is difficult to determine the identity of the "faceless female corpse" thrown in Fengshui Lane, Textile Fourth Road. The police conducted routine investigations on the entire textile road, focusing on finding the missing woman. As a result, the identity of the "faceless female corpse" has not yet been determined, but another corpse.

Also a woman.

The end of each year is the peak time for criminals to commit crimes, and it is also the busiest time for criminal police officers. It seems that all walks of life are striving for performance, and criminals are not far behind.

Mingshu took a rough look at the whole house, and when he returned to the living room, he saw Xiao Man squatting on the ground and opening the inspection box.

"There's a traffic jam on the road, I'm late, I'm late!" In the cold weather, Xing Mu was sweating profusely from running, and coughed violently after saying a word.

"Cold?" Mingshu asked.

"It's okay, I took my medicine before going out." Xing Mu's voice was hoarse and he was seriously ill, but he refused to delay work because of his illness, so he put on his equipment neatly, and after Xiao Man finished taking pictures, he quickly and carefully removed the package from the corpse take it down.

Mingshu stood aside, watching silently, and when the corpse was fully revealed, he let out a soft cry.

The victim's neck was bloody and bloody, with blood vessels and trachea protruding from the flesh, and it seemed that the head was about to fall off the neck.

This is probably the fatal wound, and the blood on the bedroom wall is bursting out from the carotid artery.

But what is strange is that there are a large number of small holes on the victim's chest, they are densely distributed, and just looking at it makes one's scalp tingle.

The holes completely destroyed the victim's angel tattoo.

"What kind of injury is this?" Mingshu asked.

Xing Mu was obviously also taken aback, shook his head and said, "Leader, wait a moment, I have to look again."

Mingshu could only take a step back.

The deceased was wearing a winter nightdress, but the upper part of the nightdress was not buttoned up, and there was only a corset and a pair of underwear inside the nightdress.

The panties were still in good shape, the metal hooks of the bodice had come undone, and the straps hung loosely over the shoulders.

The buttons of the nightdress were not undone naturally, but were torn apart violently. The buttons were scattered on the ground, and threads were flying where the buttons were sewn.

"The neck of the deceased was cut repeatedly with a sharp weapon, and the trachea and artery were ruptured." Xing Mu began to talk about the results of the preliminary autopsy, "From the condition of the wound, the sharp weapon used by the murderer was not sharp. The face of the deceased was hit, and the bridge of the nose The fracture was an injury during his lifetime, and there was a severe crushing injury on the lower jaw, which was caused by pinched fingers. The murderer may have controlled the head of the deceased with one hand after beating the deceased's face, while the other hand held the knife to commit the crime. The deceased was still conscious and struggling continuously , causing extensive damage to the neck."

Mingshu said: "That is to say, not only is the murder weapon not sharp, but the murderer's throat-cutting action is also unskilled."

Xing Mu nodded, "The murderer made multiple cuts, and only the nape of the neck was relatively intact. As for the time of death, the rigors had been completely relieved, the abdomen began to swell, the cornea was severely clouded, white spots appeared, and the pupils had completely disappeared. Unrecognizable, it is winter, the temperature is low, and the indoor heating equipment is not working, I deduce that the time of death was above 4 o'clock, that is, at least two days ago."

Mingshu still looked at the dead man's chest.

Compared with the vascularized neck, the chest looks less terrible, but more noticeable.

The murderer cut the victim's neck to kill the victim, so why did he make so many small holes in the victim's chest?What tool made these holes?

Did the killer want to destroy the victim's angel tattoo?

"The wound on the chest has no life response, it is an additional injury after death." Xing Mu turned the corpse, revealing a large amount of blood on the floor. "The murderer cut the victim's neck and throat in the inner room, but these small holes were made here."

There are at least hundreds of small holes, which seem to be messy, and many of them are stacked together, but if you look closely, you can find that some small holes that are not stacked together are the same distance from each other.

It is impossible for a needle to pierce such a small hole.

Xing Mu looked at it for a while, then stood up and looked down at the corpse from a height.

Mingshu said, "Can we clean up these injuries now?"

Xing Mu nodded.

After cleaning, those small holes became more clear.

Mingshu suddenly said: "Do you think they look like individual seals?"

The small holes seem to be a whole, spreading downward from the collarbone, but in fact they are all framed in a circular range with their own boundaries.

"The cross-section of the murder weapon is circular, with a diameter of about 5 centimeters. On this cross-section, there are countless small cones distributed at equal distances." Mingshu took out the notebook he carried with him, opened a page and drew a sketch, "The murderer held The handle of the murder weapon pierced the chest of the deceased like a seal."

Xing Mu looked at the column on the notebook that looked like an old-fashioned flashlight, frowned and said, "What kind of murder weapon is this?"

"The small cone on the section reminds me of the mouthparts of certain insects." Mingshu said, "For example, caterpillars."

Xing Mu shrank his neck, "Stop talking, there is a picture!"

"Brother Xing, are you afraid of caterpillars?" Xiao Man leaned over and gestured with the pen in his hand, "If I'm not mistaken, this is an ice hammer that can also crush fruit. It's very common in drink shops. Use it to smash large ice cubes, or crush grapefruit, oranges and other fruits. The diameter of 5 cm is not too big. The largest section I have seen is more than 10 cm in diameter, and the small one is even 3 cm. No."

"Ice crushing hammer in the drink shop." Xing Mu said: "There are not many people who have this thing."

Xiao Man shook his head, "Not many are not many, after all, most people don't have this thing at home. But it's easy to get it, you can buy it in hardware stores, online stores, and supermarkets with a full range of goods."

Mingshu said: "However, it is easier to find out the source of this kind of thing than to find out ordinary sharp weapons. This can be used as an important clue."

Xing Mu was about to take the body back for autopsy, Ming Shu asked Xiao Man, "How is your side?"

"This is like a store. Except for the room where the deceased slept, outsiders can enter any other room." Xiao Man said, "So there are many footprints on the ground, but there is only one kind of blood footprint."

Mingshu said: "The footprints of the murderer."

"But the murderer was wearing slippers from the deceased's house when he committed the crime." Xiao Man pointed to the shoe rack in the corner. Besides four pairs of women's shoes, there was also a pair of cotton slippers on it. "The pattern of blood footprints is consistent with the pattern of slippers. , and the pattern of the slipper dropped by the deceased is also consistent with the blood footprint."

"There are three pairs of slippers here. The deceased wore one pair and gave the other pair to the murderer." Ming Shu said, "And after the murderer killed her, he took this pair of blood-stained slippers away?"

Xiao Man nodded, "It can only be understood in this way."

"The murderer was an acquaintance of the deceased." Mingshu walked to the shoe rack, "Customers who come to pick up the courier will never change their shoes, and if they are still doing business during the day, they don't need to change their shoes either. The murderer's slippers, the murderer can only visit at night."

At this time, Fang Yuanhang called and said that Wang Hongying, the discoverer of the "Faceless Female Corpse", had provided a clue.

North City Branch, inquiry room.

When she saw the face of the dead body, Wang Hongying passed out directly, and kept talking nonsense after waking up. After counseling by a psychologist, she finally calmed down now.

Whether it is someone who has dealt with corpses for decades, Wang Hongying's psychological quality and acceptance are better than ordinary people. Not only did he describe the situation in detail several times, but he also said: "That dead man looks familiar to me."

The criminal policeman who was in charge of the questioning said: "Her face is gone, how do you know that she looks familiar?"

Wang Hongying thought for a long time, "I always feel that I have seen her dress before. It scared me to death at the time, but the more I think about it now, the more I feel that she should be someone I have seen."

Wang Hongying is in the funeral business, and usually contacts with a lot, in addition to the family members of the deceased and the staff of the funeral home, they are colleagues.

"Where does Wang Hongying live?" Mingshu asked.

Fang Yuanhang said: "On Guangdan Road, next to Textile Road. There is a famous 'funeral street' in Beicheng District. Most residents are engaged in funeral business. Master, do you suspect that Wang Hongying saw the victim there?"

The body throwing site is two stops away from Guangdan Road, and the investigation has not yet covered Guangdan Road.

Mingshu said: "The deceased didn't have a coat on his body. He was dressed indoors. Wang Hongying thought it looked familiar, so it was unlikely that he saw it outside. Part of the police force went to Guangdan Road to see if there were any women who had disappeared recently. They are still there. In the initial investigation stage, don’t let go of any possibility.”

After explaining to Fang Yuanhang, Mingshu walked outside the warning zone.

Xiang Tao and other criminal police officers from the Beicheng branch were asking the gathered residents about the situation, and Mingshu could see that they were in a hurry.

The emergence of this case caught the police by surprise. It took a lot of manpower and time to determine the identity of the "faceless female corpse".

Although the two murders both took place on Textile Road, Beicheng District, and the victims were both women in their thirties, the modus operandi was not similar. One was hit on the head with a blunt object and then thrown away, and the other was shot by a The sharp weapon cut off the trachea and carotid artery, but the murderer did not move the body and left blood trails at the crime scene.

Comparing the two, the murderer does not seem to be the same person.The former only hit the victim twice on the head, and the first time was fatal, which can be called neat, while the latter repeatedly cut the victim's neck, and his behavior was procrastinated.

There is no reason and no need for joint investigations. The most appropriate way to deal with it is to conduct separate investigations without interfering with each other.

but……

It would be wrong to say that the current victim bears no resemblance to the "Faceless Female Corpse".

The deaths of both of them have a strange point - the 21 dog hairs in the mouth of the "Faceless Female Corpse", and those dense holes on Huang Yan's chest.

After a brief discussion with Li Chicheng, the deputy captain of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Beicheng Branch, Mingshu decided to assign the "Faceless Female Corpse" case to the serious crime team, and the branch will mainly investigate the current case.

Guangdan Road.

It was already late at night, but the wreaths and paper figurines placed on the road by the shops facing the street had not been taken back. Cars kept coming out of the alleyway. The windows of these cars were all pasted with extremely dark film. It was daytime, let alone night. It's also hard to see what's inside the car.

After Fang Yuanhang inquired, he realized that these were vehicles for picking up and dropping off the remains.

Nowadays, when ordinary families hold funerals, they generally do not use their own car to send the remains to cremation. This business is contracted by the merchants in the funeral business. When the business is best in winter, a car can carry more than ten remains in one night. funeral parlor.

To those unfamiliar with the funeral industry, lugging dead bodies around in the middle of the night is a horrible thing to do, but to those who make a living, it's no different than any nine-to-five job.

"This street feels infiltrating when I walk." Fang Yuanhang, who was wearing less clothes, was blown by the cold wind, and shivered in front of a paper figurine. Yuanhang glanced at it and cursed "day".

During the rush hour, many people felt that the police were interfering with their business and were unwilling to speak up. However, after asking all the way, some people still said that they didn't seem to see Meng Shan from Unit [-] recently.

Guangdan Road is not long, Meng Shan's home is at the innermost, and the residents who provided clues directly took Fang Yuanhang there.

Knock on the door, but there is no movement inside.

Instead, a house nearby opened the door, and a middle-aged woman asked, "Are you looking for Meng Shan? Are you the police?"

"Have you seen her recently?" Fang Yuanhang asked.

The woman shook her head, "I heard her yelling in the house a few days ago, as if she was fighting with someone, but I never saw her again. The next day I knocked on her door, but no one answered."

Fang Yuanhang asked: "Do you still remember the specific day?"

The woman thought for a while, "Friday."

Friday, in line with the death time of "Faceless Female Corpse"!

Fang Yuanhang immediately reported the situation to Mingshu, who rushed to the scene and told him to unlock it immediately.

The moment the door was opened, a cold wind suddenly poured in from the window, rumbling open the curtains.It was as if someone had jumped out of the window.

Fang Yuanhang walked quickly to the window. There was no sign of someone climbing the window, and the street downstairs was empty, except for a black cat that ran past.

The building opposite is sparsely lit, and it seems that there are not many people living there.

The trace inspectors started to work, Mingshu sniffed, "What is this smell?"

"Disinfectant water." Xiao Man said, "Someone has disinfected this house."

Fang Yuanhang said, "So you want to eliminate the traces?"

Xiao Man said: "You go out for now, I will do a blood test."

Mingshu arranged for the team members to learn about the situation of Meng's family nearby, and learned that there was originally a father and daughter living here, and Meng Shan's father was named Meng Yonghui.Meng Yonghui passed away a few days ago. Instead of building a funeral hall downstairs like most people, Meng Shan kept Meng Yonghui's body at home. After two full nights, she took it to the "Xiyue" funeral home and burned it.

Since Meng Shan has no relatives, she can neither identify the corpse nor do a DNA comparison. Whether the "faceless female corpse" is really her or not can only be determined after the materials in the room are collected.

While they were so busy here, a surprising piece of news came from the sub-bureau—the surveillance in the courier station did not capture the murderer.

Mingshu asked: "Did it not be photographed, or can't be recovered by technical means?"

"I didn't capture it." Xiang Tao said, "Before the murderer showed up, Huang Yan had already turned off the camera."

"Huang Yan used to have the habit of turning off the camera at night?"

"No, she won't turn off the camera even when she goes out, only on the day of the incident."

Mingshu was silent.

Under what circumstances would Huang Yan—a woman who runs a shop and lives alone—turn off the camera at night that she never turns off?

And it just so happened that she was killed that night?

"Huang Yan grew up in a single-parent family and separated from her mother many years ago. Her mother has now come to identify the body and do a DNA test." Xiang Tao said: "The investigation of interpersonal relationships is still in progress. Team Ming, you Do you have any thoughts on Huang Yan turning off the camera?"

"Someone asked her to do this, and she is willing to do it for this person." Mingshu said: "But what kind of person Huang Yan is, I don't know now. Analyzing a person's behavior must be based on understanding the person's Basically. Did the forensic doctor do an autopsy?"

Xiang Tao said: "It has been done, and it is consistent with the preliminary autopsy results of Teacher Xing. In addition, Huang Yan has not been violated."

Mingshu thought for a while, "I suggest you sort out Huang Yan's social relations first. Since she is willing to turn off the camera for this person, it means that this person is very important to her. They met at night, and when they met, Huang Yan Yeon is wearing a nightgown, and I suspect there is an emotional entanglement between them."

As the night got darker, the traffic of the live broadcast platform "Crazy Rabbit" continued to rise, and countless game anchors, food anchors, and beauty anchors went online one after another, starting their day's work.

In a host room named "Stubborn Lancao", although the live broadcast has not yet started, fans have already chatted lively.

A piece of music played, and a charming face appeared on the screen.

"Lan Lan is here!"

The fans cheered.

"Good evening." The host showed a sweet smile, "Long time no see, do you miss me?"

The fans chatted a lot, and the host smiled and replied, "Sorry, I've been too busy at work recently. Let me send you some benefits today. What do you want to watch?"

"Just look at your face, you look so beautiful!"

"I want to watch Lan Lan dance!"

"Lan Lan teach us how to do makeup!"

"Hey, what kind of lipstick is Lan Lan wearing today? The color is amazing!"

The anchor smiled very gently, answered one by one, satisfied each one, yawned tiredly when the broadcast was off in the early morning, and waved goodbye to the fans very sexyly.

In the early morning, not only the anchor and fans, but also the criminal police from the serious crime team were not asleep.

Xiao Man completed the comparison of the samples taken from Meng Shan's home, and her DNA completely matched that of the "Faceless Female Corpse".