Chapter 48 Chapter Forty Seven

"It's here." Gao Dong got off the car, stood on the beach, which was only the size of a football field, and looked around vigorously. Ning County is located on a coastal peninsula. There are many beaches in the county. The most famous one is the Royal Beach in the second largest town in the county. It is said that an eunuch in the past died here holding the little emperor of Nanming in his arms. name.Royal Beach is a tourist attraction, with an investment of hundreds of millions, and there is an endless stream of people coming and going every day.Other than that, many small beaches are often located in remote areas, and no one cares about them. Even the locals rarely know about them, and naturally no one visits them on weekdays.

The same is true for this beach, surrounded by low hills, and as far as the eye can see, apart from a few policemen, there are no other idlers. "Is no one here usually?" Gao Dong asked a local policeman. "There are not many people. There are a few tidal flats behind the mountain. The fishermen raise some razor clams. They may pass by here sometimes." Gao Dong nodded and turned to Zhang Yiang: "Where was the body found?" Zhang Yiang pointed to a small hill more than a hundred meters away from them, and said: "It's there." Gao Dong walked to the bottom of the hill. The hill was not high, about 20 meters long, and the half near the sea was washed away by the sea for many years. It had already collapsed and turned into a small cliff like it is now.There is a stone beach under the cliff, and the sea water is not far from here, so after high tide, it will be submerged in the stone beach.

Gao Dong took a few glances at the rocky beach. The rocky beach is different from the sandy ground, and no footprints can be left on it. Zhang Yiang took him to the exact location of Shao Xiaobing's body, where the rocks were protruding, and the characteristics of people falling to death would be obvious, so Lao Chen's autopsy results would not be a problem. Afterwards, Gao Dong came to the back of the hill, and he carefully checked the surrounding area. There are all kinds of withered and yellow weeds growing here. There is no obvious path, but the slope is very gentle, and walking up is effortless.Some sheep manure was seen next to the grass, it seems that the surrounding farmers sometimes come here to herd sheep.

Gao Dong thought for a while, then walked up the mountain. When he reached the top of the 20-meter-high hill, there was a flat area of ​​about 20 square meters in front of him. The ground was made of soil with a high sand content. The seaside climate is cloudy and humid in winter, so it is easy to keep footprints on the muddy ground. Now the entire flat slope is full of footprints, which are left by the staff walking back and forth after the collection of forensic evidence. Gao Dong pursed his lips. So far, he hasn't found anything that can make him think. He sighed, walked helplessly to the edge of Pingpo, and looked down.Below is the place where Shao Xiaobing died after falling. He fell more than 20 meters high on the rocky beach, and he was guaranteed to die immediately.

According to all the circumstances at the scene, it cannot be overturned that Shao Xiaobing committed suicide. At this time, Gao Dong focused on the slope in front of his feet. There is an iron hook more than 20 centimeters long sticking out of the side slope. One end of the iron hook is connected to a piece of iron sheet, and a few long nails are firmly driven into the rock of the side slope on the iron sheet. "What is this?" Gao Dong asked. The local police officer from the county bureau came over to have a look, and said, "Maybe it is used by fishermen to hang things."

"Hang what?" The man replied noncommittally: "Maybe hanging marine lights, or flags, or maybe something like a Bodhisattva, people on the seaside are superstitious." Gao Dong called Zhang Yiang: "Didn't Lao Chen notice this thing?" Zhang Yiang recalled it for a while, and said: "I also asked at the time, and later said it has nothing to do with the case, maybe it was released by someone on the beach." Gao Dong said, "Take this photo." Zhang Yiang was puzzled: "Boss, is this related to the case?" "Let's take a picture first and then watch." Gao Dong didn't want to explain to him, because he couldn't be sure whether this was related to the case. The reason why he paid attention to this iron hook was not because of an iron hook that suddenly appeared on the side of the cliff. You must know that it is very common to hang things on a hook on a rural mountain, but it is because Gao Dong noticed that there is very little rust on the iron hook, and it is obviously new.Whether a hook that had been put on not long ago would have anything to do with the case, he couldn't tell.

Then Gao Dong asked the local police of the county bureau to find time to ask the surrounding fishermen to see if they knew about the hook.He looked around again, but found no other clues that might be useful, so he could only walk down the hill unwillingly. Before getting into the car, Gao Dong stopped again, looked around the beach, and said to everyone, "Shao Xiaobing's wife hasn't shown up for so many days, and everyone knows that maybe, um... she's not here anymore. Didn't you look for it carefully?" One of them said: "We and dozens of people from the police station have searched all around here, and brought a few police dogs. This beach, including the mountains behind, has been searched several times, and there is no sign that anyone has turned it over. The police dog smelled that Mrs. Shao Ju had been in a car, but I don’t know if it was the car that day, or if it was the usual smell.” When he said flipping, he meant burying the body.

In fact, most of the people also thought so. Shao Xiaobing committed suicide in fear of guilt for no reason, which was not very reliable, so others naturally added the element of conjecture.After Shao Xiaobing killed Wang Baoguo, his wife knew about it and planned to report it because she was afraid, but Shao Xiaobing killed his wife too. Afterwards, he was worried that he would be exposed sooner or later, so he committed suicide in fear of crime. His wife hasn't shown up for so many days, it is estimated that she is probably dead.The only thing that puzzled them was that the body couldn't be found. The police dogs could smell his wife in the car, which might have been left behind by the car.Police dogs searched the section from Shao Xiaobing's car to the beach for a long time, but they still couldn't smell the smell. It may be because of the strong smell of the seaside, which covered it up. But so many policemen checked with their own eyes, and they didn't find any signs of disturbance on the ground.

Of course, it is also possible that the corpse was thrown into the sea, but after so many days, the floating corpse was not found by the police.Moreover, based on experience at the seaside, corpses thrown in shallow water are almost always washed up on the beach. They even thought about the possibility of sinking the body into the sea, but if you want to sink the body, you have to choose a place with deep water, you can't just throw it into the sea on the beach, right?There are deep waters under several nearby cliffs near the sea, but I searched for it and found nothing.Of course, it may be transported to deep water by boat and sink, but how to check this?Not to mention that the wife of the bureau chief can't be found, even if the wife of the governor can't be found, the wife of the minister can't be found, or even so-and-so's wife can't be found, you can't search the coastline of Ning County all over.

Gao Dong felt more and more that the investigation of this case had come to a deadlock. Three homicide cases and one substantive clue could not be caught, so what else could be done? It seems that we can only wait for the conclusions of Lao Chen's footprint identification and surveillance video investigation.