Chapter 21 wedge

He received a call from his subordinate at 6 o'clock in the morning, and Huo Wen knew that something was going to happen. "What's going on?" He had his phone between his head and shoulders, already pulling on his pants. "Boss, there's a new victim. You'd better come to the scene directly. The address is 53 Maple Avenue. Just a reminder, it's best not to eat breakfast." Huo Wen's heart sank and he knew what the case was.He cursed secretly, "Damn it." He hung up the phone and quickly put on his coat. The wife who was sleeping on the bed turned over and asked softly, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Huo Wen didn't want his wife to know about these heinous cases.He got dressed, leaned down and kissed his wife on the forehead. "Go to sleep." As the wife of the criminal investigation captain, she knew about her husband's work and didn't ask much. Half an hour later, Huo Wen drove to the scene of the crime.It was still early in the morning, and the sky was dim.A thick fog hung in the air, and the streets were deserted.A police car was parked on the side of the street, and a young policeman in plain clothes saw Huo Wen's car approaching, immediately got out of the police car and greeted him.

"Boss, you are finally here." The young policeman leaned on Huo Wen's car window. "We have been at the scene for more than 30 minutes, which has aroused the curiosity of some people around. Fortunately, there are not many people on the street now." "Evacuate all irrelevant people." Huo Wen got out of the car and closed the door heavily. "Don't let anyone around you know what happened." "It's already been done." The young policeman led Huo Wen forward. "Which part did you discover this time?" Huo Wen walked briskly with a gloomy expression.

"Calf...and some internal organs." The young policeman made an extremely uncomfortable expression. "It's disgusting." The two bypassed the police car parked on the side of the road, and turned into a small street from Maple Avenue. Ten meters away, three plainclothes police officers stood around a rectangular trash can. When they saw Huo Wen coming, they shouted together: "team leader." Huo Wen nodded. "Where are the mutilated bodies?" A policeman pointed to a black plastic bag next to a dumpster. "In here." Huo Wen was about to open the plastic bag with his hands when the young policeman stepped forward quickly. "Boss, you'd better not touch it with your hands." He handed the captain a small plastic stick.

Huo Wen took it, opened the black garbage bag with a small stick, and saw the contents inside - the blurred flesh and blood were disgusting.He used a small stick to move the severed limbs—yes, it was the lower leg of a human being. Judging from the feet, it was very likely that it was another woman.The two lower legs were cut into four sections, as well as the liver and a small intestine. Huo Wen's brows were twisted into a twine, he straightened up, and threw the plastic stick into the trash can. "Who discovered it first?" "The sanitation worker in charge of cleaning up the garbage. When he was loading the garbage into the garbage truck, the package fell apart. Needless to say, he was scared out of his wits," said the young policeman.

"Where's the sanitation worker?" "It has been sent to the bureau to record a statement." "Do you think there's anything wrong with him?" The young policeman shrugged. "I don't see any problem." Huo Wen exhaled, pointed to the package of stumped limbs on the ground and said to a policeman, "Take these back to the bureau and hand them over to the laboratory." A gloved policeman fastened the black garbage bag and lifted it. "Captain Huo, what else can we do?" Huo Wen said to the three policemen: "You go back first, I will talk to Ye Lei."

"Yes." The three policemen walked towards the police car with black garbage bags.Huo Wen said to the young policeman named Ye Lei, "Get in my car." Sitting in the captain's car, Ye Lei took out a pack of cigarettes and handed it to Huo Wen. Huo Wen glanced at him and took one knowingly.Ye Lei used a lighter to light the captain's cigarette, but he didn't smoke it himself.He specially prepared this pack of cigarettes for the captain.He knew that the captain's wife was telling him to quit smoking, but he also knew that when the captain encountered a major headache case, he couldn't do without that cigarette.

Huo Wen took a deep breath and exhaled blue smoke. "After the sanitation worker finished recording his statement, remember to tell him not to tell the story. Just say it's related to his safety." "Will it scare him?" "What you want is to scare him, otherwise these people won't pay attention, and they will still spread the news." "Are you afraid of attracting media attention like the old man who did his morning exercise last time when he found his dismembered upper body?" Ye Lei looked at the captain. Huo Wen stared at the road outside the car window, and the number of pedestrians gradually increased. "This matter cannot be further expanded - especially if those who have been exposed to this matter and read the newspapers know that this case has not been closed, it will cause great panic."

"Yeah, it's been three months in a row. Dismembered corpses have appeared in every corner of the city one after another—fortunately, we acted quickly every time and arrived in time to deal with them, otherwise the bad impact would be unimaginable." "How many times is it now?" Huo Wen asked. Ye Lei took out a small notebook from his jacket pocket, opened it and checked it. "The sixth time. I remember it in detail. Boss, take a look." Huo Wen took this little notebook, and saw the records of the six corpse throwings recorded on it, and his heart became tense.

"On March 2, in the trash can on Tongwan Road, two arms and some internal organs; On March 16, the garbage room in Zhugan Lane, the thigh part; On March 28, under the Heping Bridge hole, the calf and some internal organs; April 9, Binjiang Road trash bin, chest and abdomen; On April 25th, the garbage dump at the back door of Juxiang Hotel, the shoulders and necks and the head corroded by sulfuric acid; (Today) May 29, trash bins, calves and some internal organs on Buffalo Street on the side of Maple Avenue. " Ye Lei watched the series of corpse throwing records with the captain, and couldn't help feeling angry. "This lunatic deserves to be hacked to death! Cut the corpse into several parts like playing a game, and then discard them in batches. He is clearly teasing us police!"

Huo Wen looked at the young and energetic Ye Lei. "You think he (she) is a lunatic, teasing us? No, I don't think so. In my opinion, this murderer is probably the most cunning and dangerous habitual criminal I have encountered in my twenty years as a police officer!" He tapped Ye Lei's small notebook with his fingers. "Judging from the six corpse throwing processes you recorded, we can at least find the following problems." Ye Lei calmed down and listened carefully to the captain's analysis. "First, after the murderer killed, the process of throwing away a corpse lasted for nearly two months, and the corpse did not decompose. It can be seen that he (she) frozen the corpse and processed it in batches; Second, he (she) dismembered the corpse and discarded it in different places five times, and each time only needed one garbage bag to fill it up.This is where it is cunning—because the target is small, it can deceive people, and even our police cannot guard against it—it is impossible for us to monitor every person who throws garbage in the city; Third: When the residual limbs from the previous five times were combined, they just formed a person—the corpse of a woman.This point has been identified by the laboratory.And today's incident means that another person was killed, and it was the first part of this corpse..." "That is to say, there will be at least four more corpse throwing incidents later?" Huo Wen frowned and nodded slightly. "Listen to me. The most important point - the first part of the first body appeared on March 2nd. And the last part appeared on April 25th, nearly two months. Then - May The 29th, which is today - the second body just appeared, what do you think this means?" Ye Lei rolled his eyes. "It's been more than a month since the first body was thrown away—that is to say, during this period, the murderer may be in contact with the second victim!" "Yes, from the perspective of criminal psychology, if the murderer is a purely perverted killer who kills aimlessly, then his (her) targets should be random. And this type of murderer often commits consecutive crimes. In this case, There should not have been such a long period of time between the first victim and the second victim. The current situation shows that the interval between the killing of the two victims was at least three months. This shows that during these three months , the murderer may have been in constant contact with the second victim, and later killed her for some reason!" "Yes, some murderers contact the victim premeditatedly, and then kill them after achieving a certain purpose...Maybe we can frame some suspects based on this!" "Well. But don't forget, this is just a possibility—it's just that this possibility provides a certain direction for us to solve the case." "Boss, what exactly are you thinking?" Huo Wen held up a finger. "Let's think about it this way. Now, the murderer has killed the second person, and the next thing is to throw the corpses in batches. Now, I'm afraid he (she) is looking for the next target. We will start again after he (she) Before that, get him (her) out!" Ye Lei frowned. "However, the face of the corpse was disfigured, and we haven't received a corresponding report, and we can't even confirm the identity of the victim. Where is the starting point for solving the case?" Huo Wen smiled old-fashionedly. "What you said happened to be the starting point for solving the case." Ye Lei was taken aback. "Think about it, why someone was killed, but we didn't receive a report of someone missing. What does this mean?" "Ah!" Ye Lei suddenly realized. "The victim may be a foreigner or a floating population!" "That's right. The murderer probably knows the situation of the victim and knows that even if this person 'disappears', he will not attract people's attention, so he chooses to attack him-this shows from another angle that this murderer is indeed a very The cunning and premeditated dangerous character is definitely not the kind of simple-minded reckless man, if we don't stop it in time, the tragedy may continue to happen!" "Then next, we will focus on the migrant population." Ye Lei clenched his fists. "The specific plan will be decided in the game." Huo Wen started the car and drove out of Maple Street slowly. A man sitting by the window of a breakfast shop across the street watched the police car out of sight. The man trembled like an electric shock. Really cool. It was such a treat to be so close, to see a scene I was directing with a policeman acting it. They never imagined in their dreams that I was by their side——thinking of this, the tingling pleasure spread all over their bodies again.