Chapter 12 Chapter Eleven

"Master?" Dabao said pleasantly, "It's been a long time since I appeared with you." Although every case we went out for investigation would be brought back to Master for comment, and then we learned some investigative skills through the comments, but we never went out to the scene with Master and learned from the scene. Because the number of forensic doctors in the provincial department is limited, Master and we often have to work separately, and there are very few opportunities to go out to investigate the scene together.However, on this day, Master was already sitting in the co-pilot seat, waiting for us.

"I must go to the scene where many people were killed." The master looked serious. "It's still a year, and such a vicious case happened. It's too abominable. Listen carefully, everyone, we can't let criminals go unpunished. After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month." On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the first day of work after the new year, I, Dabao and Lin Tao received an order from the command center of the department, and set off at 7:00 a.m. to Qingyang County to investigate a case in which a family of three were killed. "According to the command center, three people were killed," I said, "Is it the couple and the child?"

After the murder of Xiao Qinghua, whom I knew well during my internship, what I detest the most is the murder of a child.It is really resentful that their lives were forcibly taken away before they could appreciate the beauty of the world. Master shook his head and said: "The specific situation is still unclear. The scene is closed, and the local trace inspection department is opening the scene passage. After receiving the police and entering the house, they found that the dead were an old woman and a young woman. According to reports, the house There should also be a three-year-old girl, but the police haven’t found her, so she’s probably missing now.”

Killing for child abduction?It can't be so outrageous!I broke out in a cold sweat. "I hope the little girl ran away on her own," Dabao said with his head down, "and she can survive." "I hope so." Master sighed. In order to cope with the cold wind outside the window, the car windows continued to fog up, and the effect of blowing with the air conditioner was not obvious. From time to time, I wiped off the fog beads attached to the car window with my hands, squinted and drove hard on the icy national road.To ensure everyone's safety, we must rush to the scene as soon as possible. After all, the task force is still waiting for us.This road is really tiring.

Qingyang County is a developed county under the jurisdiction of the provincial capital, and it is the closest county to the provincial capital in the whole province.With the pace of urban-rural integration, the county seat of Qingyang County is gradually connected with the urban area of ​​the provincial capital.The place we passed was prosperous all the way. It took us only half an hour to reach the county seat in this icy and snowy situation, and then it took us an hour to cross the icy and slippery country road and arrive at The scene outside the village. I jumped out of the car, looked at the police car that was completely covered in mud under the windows, and said, "Fortunately, I drive this off-road vehicle. If it were Poussin, our windows would have to be glued."

"I can't drive in ahead," the policeman who led the way also jumped out of the car and said, "The inside is full of dirt roads, potholes, and ice everywhere. If you go in, you probably won't be able to get out. Why don't you trouble the leader to go in." The master opened the car door, bent over and wrapped the bottom of the police trousers with the opening of the sock, and said, "It's so remote, on this kind of day, who would come here to commit crimes?" The master is the master, and he has not yet entered the scene, and has already drawn up the scope of the investigation.

It was too cold and there were not many onlookers. The site is a solitary house surrounded by farmland and ponds for hundreds of meters.The house is mottled with historic sites, but not dilapidated.Moss grew in the seams of the blue bricks, withered ivy covered the exterior walls, and sporadically dotted with white snow that hadn't melted yet. Master led us around the old house with one foot deep and one foot shallow, pushing the windows of the house from time to time. "The windows are all locked. Could it be that the murderer entered through the gate?" Dabao said. "There are creepers outside the walls at the scene. If they climb over the walls, will they leave traces?" Master turned to Lin Tao and asked.

Lin Tao nodded: "Such a high wall, if you climb up, there will be pedals on the wall, so there must be traces of the entrance." "The main investigator is here, let's ask about the situation." I said to Master. The master nodded, and walked with difficulty from a puddle mixed with mud and ice at the back of the house to the gate of the scene.There were some firecracker debris outside the gate, which were swept together and became an area where exploration equipment could be placed.I squatted down, grabbed a handful of firecracker scraps and looked at it, as if I could still feel the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year, as if I could still hear the laughter outside the gate of this ancient house a few days ago.

"There are four people living in this house from three generations of grandparents and grandchildren." The investigator said, "The old man Gu Xianglan is in her 60s and has been a widow for many years. She has only one daughter named Zhu Feng, who is 29 years old this year. Although Gu Xianglan has always been a widow , but because Lao Zhu’s family was from a businessman with a wealthy family background, four years ago, Lao Gu recruited a son-in-law for Zhu Feng, named Sun Haiou, who was an orphan.” "A door-to-door son-in-law?" I was surprised, "Is there still such a saying?"

The investigator smiled and said, "Yes, the child has to take the woman's surname." "Hey," I said, "so old-fashioned." Master waved his hand and told me not to interrupt the investigator's presentation of the case.I quickly stopped the sound. "Sun Haiou and Zhu Feng gave birth to a little girl three years ago." The investigator went on to introduce the case, "The name is Zhu Lingli. As the name suggests, this little girl is naturally beautiful, lively and intelligent, and is deeply loved by the villagers in the village. At around six o'clock this morning, a villager came to find Zhu Feng to go shopping in the town as agreed, but knocked on the door for a long time, but the door did not open, so he walked to the window of the west wing and looked in, and saw Gu Xianglan died on his bed, with all the It's blood, and we reported it."

After finishing speaking, the investigator pointed to the window of the West Wing next to the gate of the courtyard. "Did Sun Haiou refuse to accept his daughter's mother's surname, so he killed the mother-in-law and wife, and ran away with the child?" I couldn't help interjecting again. The investigator smiled and said: "The preliminary investigation at the scene did not find any signs of tampering. The lock on the door is also good, there is no trace of prying, and all the windows are locked. We even checked the outer wall. Once again, there is no obvious climbing trace." "You mean," the master rubbed his chin, "on the one hand, it looks like a vendetta, and on the other hand, the murderer entered the scene peacefully?" "Not only that," the investigator said, "our forensic doctor conducted a simple autopsy on Gu Xianglan's body and determined that Gu Xianglan was killed while she was asleep." "What does this mean?" Lin Tao asked. "The east wing where Gu Xianglan lives is closest to the gate. If the murderer knocked on the door, Gu Xianglan should be the first to get up and open the door." The investigator said, "So the current suspicion is that the murderer used a key to enter the door." "I can see that you have a key suspect now." The master's solemn expression eased a little, "Then, what is the relationship between Sun Haiou and Zhu Feng? How was Sun Haiou's activities yesterday?" "Very suspicious." The investigator swallowed, and said, "According to the villagers, two months ago, the relationship between Sun Haiou and Zhu's family suddenly became bad. Sun Haiou immediately went out to work, and he has never been seen back. .” "Is the crime time ruled out?" I asked. The investigator smiled mysteriously, shook his head, and said in a low voice, "We have inquired about Sun Haiou's ID card. Sun Haiou returned to the provincial capital from Shanghai by train yesterday!" "What about others?" Master asked. "I haven't seen it yet." The investigator said, "This is the most suspicious place. He is back. Where else can he go if he doesn't go home? In addition, the two adults are dead, but the little girl is missing. What does this mean?" Woolen cloth?" "When did the bullet train arrive at the provincial capital?" Master continued to ask. "One o'clock in the morning," said the investigator. "It will take more than an hour to get here from the provincial capital railway station?" Dabao said, "Then he will be able to get home after two o'clock in the morning." "Has there been any investigation into the activities of the deceased last night?" Master asked, counting the time with his fingers. "The village chief's son got married last night," the investigator said. "The three of them went to the village chief's house for a wedding banquet. They had dinner at about seven o'clock in the evening, and then they had a bridal chamber or something. They left the village chief's house after nine o'clock." "Does the deceased have any enemies?" Master asked. The scout shook his head. "The work efficiency is good." The master nodded approvingly, and said, "We haven't had an autopsy yet, and your case is about to be solved." The investigator scratched his head embarrassingly, and said, "Isn't there an obvious causal relationship?" "Anyway, we still need to look at the scene." Master said, "Get as much evidence as possible, and make the case a death case." Walking into the gate of the ancient courtyard, I found that this courtyard, which does not look spacious from the outside, is actually quite spacious. The main house and the east and west wing rooms are arranged in a "U" shape, with a large yard in the middle.There are some sundries piled up around the yard, but it is still clean and tidy at first glance. "Usually, Zhu Feng and Zhu Lingli live in the main room." The investigator said while gesticulating, "The east wing is used when guests come, and the hut next to the east wing is the kitchen. Gu Xianglan lives in the west wing, and the west wing One side of the wing is the toilet." "What does Gu Xianglan's family do for a living?" I asked. "Their family has an orchard," said the investigator, "and they earn a lot of money every year, and it is said that their family has several gold bars handed down from their ancestors. Anyway, they don't have to worry about food and drink." There should be a dead body lying in the middle of the courtyard.In order to prevent the outside world from polluting the corpse and to prevent the onlookers from peeking at the corpse from outside the gate, investigators covered the corpse with a plastic sheet.Around the corpse, there were blood splatters and flakes of blood, as well as some blood footprints and blood bare footprints, which were obvious signs of fighting. Master went to the corpse and lifted a corner of the plastic sheet. I looked under the plastic sheet and saw that the deceased was lying prone on the ground, with her face sideways. She was a young woman with a petite figure, her long hair was covered with blood, and her face was covered indiscriminately, and her eyebrows could not be seen clearly. She was wearing a white cotton pajamas, the cuffs and neckline of which were soaked with blood. Lin Tao took out a footprint ruler, measured the clearest shoe print on the ground, and said, "Based on this calculation, the murderer probably wore a size 40 shoe." "Forty size?" I said. "You don't look tall for a grown man, do you?" Lin Tao nodded. The master turned to ask the investigator behind him: "According to what you know, how is Sun Haiou's figure?" "He's not tall," the investigator flipped through the notebook and said, "It's probably less than 1.7 meters, right? The type with big arms and round waist, which is relatively strong." "From the point of view of trace inspection," Lin Tao said, "the shoes are about the same size, but I feel that these shoe prints are relatively shallow, and they don't seem to be left by heavy people. However, this cannot be used as a basis. The material of the shoes, the traces left The posture of the footsteps and the factors of the ground have an impact." "I'm not thinking about this aspect." Master squatted on the ground and thought for a while, then said, "Look at Zhu Feng, she is about 1.5 meters tall and weighs only 80 to 90 catties at the heaviest. With such a physique, you can Has it been so long to fight against the big and round Sun Haiou?" I looked at the blood dripping and fighting marks on the ground in the yard along Master's fingers, and said, "It's true, with such a large area and such a large amount of bleeding, the deceased should have lost too much blood before falling down." "If Sun Haiou wanted to kill Zhu Feng, do you think it would take so much effort?" Master asked the investigator. Dabao squatted aside, pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose, and said, "They are husband and wife after all, maybe they don't have the heart to do it." "He has already killed one person," the master said. "As the saying goes, killing people is red-eyed. People who have already killed one person will not be lenient if they continue to kill people. He has already killed Gu Xianglan. Is there anything you can't bear to do?" "Mr. Chen," the investigator said, "Why are you so sure that the murderer killed Gu Xianglan first?" The master smiled and pointed in the direction of the west wing. The investigators were spraying the ground of the courtyard from the west wing to where Zhu Feng's body was with luminol spray, and traces of occult blood gradually appeared one by one. "In addition to some blood footprints near Zhu Feng's body, there are also some blood-occult footprints." Lin Tao walked along the blood-occult footprints in the yard, and said, "The blood-occult footprints came out from the west wing, from dark to light, to There were some detours around Zhu Feng's body, and then there were many back and forth in the yard, crossing, and finally disappeared." "Is it because I walked around on the ground too much and the blood was wiped off?" I asked. Lin Tao nodded: "The soles of the murderer's shoes were not stained with much blood. After walking twice on the concrete road with high friction in the yard, it is basically impossible to find and track them." "Understood?" Master brought back the topic, "The bloody footprints came out from the west wing, and then walked back without seeing them. Therefore, the murderer should have killed Gu Xianglan first, got blood on her feet, and then came again. The one who killed Zhu Feng in the courtyard." The scout nodded. I took over the conversation and said, "The murderer killed Zhu Feng, why did he still stay and linger in the yard?" The master shook his head: "From the perspective of criminal psychology, after killing someone, there are people in any mood. You can only ask the criminal after you have caught the criminal." "Then, Mr. Chen's opinion is that we started to suspect that Sun Haiou was wrong?" The investigator was a little worried. Master shook his head: "No, this basis is at best suspicious. Through your preliminary investigation, Sun Haiou still has serious suspicions." After the master finished speaking, he looked at the traces of the fighting in the courtyard, straightened up and patted the dust on the gloves, and said, "Go, let's go to the west wing to have a look." This is a hardworking resident.The room was clean and tidy, spotless, but the hardworking old man was lying on the bed, motionless, blood dripping drop by drop to the ground along his drooping right hand. There is a row of combination cabinets in the room, the combination cabinets are clean and tidy, without any traces of flipping.On the opposite side of the combination cabinet is a single bed, the head of the bed and one side of the bed are against the wall, and a well-made mahogany bedside table is placed on the head of the bed, which should have some history. Gu Xianglan was lying on the bed, her head, face and neck were bloodied.I took a closer look, a little horrified. Gu Xianglan's face had been hacked to pieces with a sharp weapon, and even the facial features could not be distinguished clearly.There was also a huge wound on the neck, and there were multiple skin flaps at the corner of the wound, which should have been caused by repeated hacking by the murderer. The wall at the head of the bed and the bedside table were covered with splattered blood. It was obvious that the bed was the first place where Gu Xianglan was killed. The master picked up Gu Xianglan's hands and said to the forensic doctor Wang of the provincial and urban public security bureau beside him: "The deceased did not have resistance wounds on his hands, and there was not even any rubbed blood stains on the bed caused by body movements. You are right. When the dead were slashed, they had no defense." "Did you take the anal temperature?" Dabao asked. Forensic Doctor Wang nodded: "It was tested, but the temperature difference between the two corpses is very large." Master said: "Yes, Zhu Feng's body is outdoors, while Gu Xianglan's is indoors. This room is very effective in keeping warm. Such a large temperature difference between indoors and outdoors will naturally seriously affect the degree of body temperature drop. This will also give time for death." Judgment has brought great difficulties." "Therefore, there is no way to be precise." Forensic Wang said, "The time is probably between twelve o'clock last night and three o'clock this morning." "Sun Haiou has time to commit crimes," Dabao said. The master didn't answer, squatting on the ground and looking at the door of the bedside table, he waved to Lin Tao and said, "Look, what are the marks on the door?" Lin Tao irradiated the door of the bedside cabinet with a multi-band light source, and said, "Mr. Chen is right, there should be a bloody glove mark here." "Blood glove marks?" I said, "Why does Sun Haiou wear gloves when he comes to kill people in his own home?" "In winter, it's not surprising to wear gloves, right?" Lin Tao said. "Then why did he turn over the bedside table after the murder?" I said. "The imprint is small in size and light in color," Lin Tao said. "It cannot be ruled out that it was accidentally rubbed against the bedside table." "No." The master had already opened the door of the bedside cabinet and looked into the cabinet. "Did Master discover anything?" I hurriedly poked my head over and asked. Master said, "Look carefully inside the bedside table, is there any problem?" I squatted beside the bedside table and looked into the cabinet.There are some books, medicines and sundries neatly placed in the cabinet, without any sign of turning over.I noticed a drawer above the bedside table and carefully opened it.There are some albums in the drawer, nothing unusual. "There's nothing wrong with it," I said. "There's no sign of tampering. It's not a case of trespass." Master shook his head and said, "You're not focusing on the right thing." After finishing speaking, the master illuminated the inside of the door of the bedside cabinet with a survey lamp, pointed with his finger, and said, "Didn't you notice what this is?" I took out a magnifying glass and looked along Master's fingers, and was shocked: "It's blood spattering!" "Scared me." Dabao said, "Well, is it abnormal to splatter blood? What's the fuss about?" I watched Dabao together with Master. Dabao thought for a while, and suddenly realized: "That's right, why did the splattered blood go inside the cabinet door?" Lin Tao nodded aside, this is an important discovery. "There is only one possibility," the master said, holding up a finger, "when the murderer killed Gu Xianglan, the door of the bedside cabinet was open." "Obviously, no one sleeps with the door of the bedside table open." I said, "Then, the murderer probably woke up the dead man when he opened the bedside table, and hacked the dead person quickly." "Could it be that the cabinet door was accidentally opened during the killing process?" Lin Tao asked. I pulled the cabinet door a few times and said: "No, the cabinet door has a hinge, and it will close automatically unless it is fully opened. It is estimated that the hinge has rusted after a long time, and the closing force of the cabinet door is not small. I can't open it with strength." Lin Tao also tried a few times and said, "Well, the murderer must have opened the cabinet door, killed someone, and then pushed the cabinet door shut with bloody gloves." "You mean, this case is the transformation of theft into robbery and homicide?" Dabao was astonished. "Could it be that Sun Haiou was looking for something secretly?" Master said, "In terms of trace inspection, can it be ruled out that the murderer turned the scene and restored it?" Lin Tao asked the trace inspector of the Qingyang County Public Security Bureau in a low voice, raised his head and said to Master, "It can be ruled out that the murderer turned the scene after the murder. Because we have dealt with the boxes, cabinets, and cupboards at the scene. After the murderer's gloves were bloody, it must be Never touched anything again." The master bowed his head and thought for a while, then said: "This scene looks very much like a scene where theft turned into robbery and murder, not a scene of murder due to vengeance. However, Sun Haiou's suspicion is indeed too great after the preliminary investigation. Sigh, I can't make sense of it either." "Mr. Chen," Lin Tao said, "I also went to see the east wing and the main room just now, and I can be sure that the murderer never went inside." "Then what should we do next?" Dabao asked. "Let's arrange for someone to transport the corpse to the funeral parlor first," the master said, "After seeing the corpse, we will conduct a comprehensive analysis." "Then we now..." the investigator said anxiously.Hearing that it might be an embezzlement case, the investigators are a bit overwhelmed, because if it is confirmed that the crime is an embezzlement crime, and key traces and physical evidence cannot be extracted at the scene, it will bring great difficulty to the investigation. "Sun Haiou is still seriously suspected." Master said, "Go find him first, and the little girl must be found. If Sun Haiou ran away with the little girl, it may not be difficult to find them. In addition, Lin Tao left Here, on the one hand, we will continue to study the shape of the bloodstains, and on the other hand, we will continue to search to see if we can find fingerprints or something." Lin Tao nodded and said, "Okay, but I guess the hope is very small, after all, the murderer wore gloves." Master took off his gloves, patted Lin Tao on the shoulder, as a way to encourage him, then turned to me and said, "Let's go, the road is difficult, go as soon as possible, the task force is still waiting for our feedback." I nodded and followed Master back to the yard again. I worriedly looked around the courtyard for another week, and the sundries around the courtyard were still in the corner quietly.Suddenly, I found an inconspicuous water tank in the corner beside the toilet. The master stood in the yard with his hips akimbo, and was also looking around at the sundries around the yard.At this water tank, the eyes of Master and I fixed the focus at the same time. There is a circle of white snow around the edge of the water tank, but on the small half circle outside, the white snow is gone. This is a fresh rubbing mark. Master and I walked to the edge of the water tank at the same time, and looked into the water tank about 1.2 meters high. We are angry. Because we saw a pair of children's feet. The deceased was indeed Zhu Lingli, a three-year-old girl who was naturally beautiful and intelligent. Seeing the dead body of the child, we all felt pain in our hearts.The child's whole body was soaked in the cold water, and his skin was already red and stiff from the cold.A pair of beautiful big eyes were wide open, as if still immersed in the shock of this sudden disaster. After the little girl was salvaged, she was placed on a flat plastic sheet.She was wearing long-sleeved cotton underwear, her lower body and feet were naked, her hair was wet, and she lay quietly on the ground. Soon, the little girl's pajama pants were also salvaged out of the water tank. "Could it be," I couldn't bear to think about how the perverted murderer tortured the little girl, as if trying to comfort myself, I speculated, "When I fell into the water, the pants fell off by themselves?" "Do you think it's possible?" Master frowned, "There should be a process of rape or obscenity." The master looked at the little girl's body, and found no damage except for subcutaneous bleeding around her ankles. "The murderer grabbed the child's feet, carried the child upside down and threw it into the water tank." Master said, "The exact cause of death will have to be determined after an autopsy." "Sun Haiou has always loved his daughter very much." The investigator was a little at a loss, and said, "You have said before that the murderer and Zhu Feng were equally capable in fighting, and there was a movement of searching the bedside table at the scene, and now they have killed her. Zhu Lingli, this is becoming less and less like what Sun Haiou did." Neither of us spoke.Obviously, the death of the little girl touched everyone's nerves of pity and caused outrage. "This water tank is too hidden. We didn't notice it the first time we looked at the scene." The director of the criminal technology department of the Qingyang County Public Security Bureau explained. Master waved his hand and said, "Let's go to the funeral home, the case is more difficult than imagined." "What kind of person would the murderer be?" I sat in the car and said sullenly, "The method of killing the little girl is too cruel, without any compassion, is it still a person?" Master said: "There are two possibilities, one is an extremely perverted person, and the other is a person who doesn't understand anything." "Master thinks, is it possible that Sun Haiou did it?" I continued to ask. "It can't be ruled out at the moment." Master said, "Because you and I don't know what kind of person Sun Haiou is. A man who has been oppressed for a long time and can't hold his head up, after breaking through his psychological limit, he can do anything." I nodded, looked up, and saw the gate of Qingyang County Funeral Home. For the autopsy, let's start with Gu Xianglan's body. Gu Xianglan was wearing a cotton sweater and cotton trousers, covered in blood.A total of 21 knives were cut on the body, of which 17 were cut on the head and face, and four were cut on the neck.Her facial skull was collapsed and her brain tissue was shattered, so she died instantly.After her death, the murderer slashed her neck four times, causing the trachea, esophagus, and jugular artery and vein to be completely broken, and the head was barely connected to the torso by the cervical spine.She died of a severe head injury. The master put away the tape measure in his hand and said, "Look, what are the tools?" Dabao said, "Single-edged machete, is that okay?" I nodded and said, "Bone injuries are more serious. This is a heavy metal machete with a sharp blade." After finishing speaking, I unconsciously remembered the case of mutilating a corpse years ago. bone chopping knife. The master said: "Look, there are so many wounds on the head, face and neck of the deceased. Although they are all connected together, if you observe carefully, you can clearly see the length of each cut. I measured it just now, and the longest cut was only eight. centimeters. Have you ever seen a tool like a kitchen knife with a cutting edge of only 8 centimeters? Moreover, judging from the shape of the fracture, the cutting edge of the tool is relatively thick, while the cutting edge of the kitchen knife is relatively uniform." I froze for a moment and said, "Oh, the axe." Master nodded and said, "Yes, the wounding tool is an axe." "Who is so cruel?" I frowned and said, "The attack was too vicious, it was chopped like this." Master was examining the contents of Gu Xianglan's stomach and intestines. He didn't answer my question and asked, "Before, what time did they say that the deceased went to have a wedding?" I rolled my eyes and said, "It seems to be seven o'clock." "If this is the case," the master stretched out his hand to make a calculation, and said, "the possibility of Sun Haiou committing the crime is ruled out." I know that Master is a very rigorous person. If there is no definite basis, he will not draw conclusions casually. Master has a unique method in calculating the time of death, which can even be accurate to within plus or minus one hour. "Master, you mean," I asked, "in terms of time, Sun Haiou has been excluded?" "Well," Master nodded and said, "According to our new method, the exact time of death of the deceased should be between eleven o'clock in the evening and one o'clock in the morning. At this time, Sun Haiou was still on the train." Suddenly, the host investigator ran into the dissection room sweating profusely and said, "Mr. Chen, Sun Haiou has been caught." The master didn't even raise his head, and said, "Let it go, we ruled out the possibility of him committing the crime a minute ago." The investigator said: "We also want to report this issue to you. Just now, Sun Haiou swaggered towards his home and was caught at the entrance of the village. When he learned that his family members had died, he looked very sad from his expression. Surprised. We don't feel like he did it either." Master nodded: "That's right. There was no sign of finding an ax at the scene. We analyzed that the murderer entered the scene with a small ax. Combined with the signs of turning over the bedside table, we consider it to be a case of theft turned into robbery and homicide." The investigator scratched his head and said in embarrassment: "Then what should we do next? It will be more difficult if the crime is committed on the run. So far, there has been no good news from the scene. Except for the uncharacteristic footprints, no traces have been found." Other valuable traces and physical evidence." "Don't worry," Master raised his hand, "If any case is so simple, what do we need to do?" Eliminating key suspects and confirming the nature of the case made us feel even more uneasy.In addition, looking at the dead body of this lovely little girl on the dissecting table, everyone felt unspeakable pain in their hearts. Little girls have indeed been sexually abused.According to the injury of the little girl's perineum, we judge that the murderer molested the little girl after she died. As for the cause of the little girl's death, we were at a loss after the autopsy.The little girl had obvious signs of suffocation all over her body, and her neck and mouth and nose were not damaged.There was indeed some frothy liquid in her respiratory tract, but there was no symptom of pulmonary edema, and the stomach contents were not filled with drowning fluid like ordinary drowned people, but were dry, similar to Gu Xianglan's stomach contents. "Mechanical suffocation caused by choking the neck or covering the mouth and nose is ruled out," Dabao said, "but there are no typical characteristics of drowning. Is this related to her head-down into the water?" "Haven't you heard of dry drowning?" Master glared at Dabao and said, "Going head-down into the water is a typical drowning, and there are also characteristics of drowning. Dry drowning is different. The principle of dry drowning is cold water. After entering the respiratory tract, it stimulates the larynx, causing spasm of the glottis, which blocks the respiratory tract and causes death by suffocation. In this way, less water enters the corpse. Such atypical drowning usually occurs in winter." "That," Dabao stuck out his tongue, and said, "I've heard of it, but I haven't seen it." "In other words, the murderer just carried the living little girl upside down and threw her head down into the water tank. Then, he took off the little girl's pants and molested her?" I couldn't bear to say The scene is reconstructed once in the mind. Master nodded. "Is this person out of his mind?" Dabao gritted his teeth and said. The master pointed to Dabao and said, "You may be right this time. I just saw the injury on Zhu Feng's back. Your analysis may really exist." "Psychopaths committed crimes?" I walked to the side, lifted Zhu Feng's pajamas, and found that she really had many strange wounds on her back. "It can only be said that the murderer's mind is not sound." The master said, "One is a person who is prone to mania, and the other is a child. The premise of a mental patient's crime is that there is no specific purpose. In this case, the murderer has a clear purpose. That is for money, such a crime with a clear utilitarian nature can be ruled out as a mental patient." Dabao and I carried Zhu Feng's body onto the dissecting table, and cleaned the blood on the body with gauze. "The deceased had multiple cuts on both hands, which belonged to resistance injuries." I said while measuring the wounds, "There were multiple cuts on the head and face, and the skull was linearly fractured below the deepest wound." "Her injury was much lighter than that of Gu Xianglan," Dabao said, "and she died mainly from blood loss." Master said: "That's natural. Gu Xianglan was lying on her back when she was slashed, and there was a bed cushion under her head, so the damage caused by the slash would be much more serious. And Zhu Feng was fighting with the murderer. For the injured, because the body is in a state of motion, the strength of the slash will be buffered by half, so the injury is much milder." "Master, no confinement injuries were found on the corpse." I looked carefully at the subcutaneous tissue of the joints of the deceased and said. The master put his hands on the edge of the dissecting table, lowered his head and said, "Yes, this confirms the above point of view. The murderer's ability to restrain himself is limited, and his physical strength is equal to that of the deceased." "It's the same physical strength as a delicate woman," Dabao said. "The murderer is also a woman, right?" The master glared at Dabao again: "Why do women molest little girls?" Dabao opened his mouth and swallowed back what he wanted to say. "Based on Master's previous analysis," I said, "could this case be committed by a child?" "Children wear size forty shoes?" interjected the investigator. "Don't rule out this possibility." Master said, "There was once a serial murderer who wore a shoe size 37, so when many experts inferred the murderer's figure in the early stage, they thought it was a thin man less than 1.6 meters , and after the case was solved, he was a strong man with little feet of about 1.8 meters. The huge individual differences are often beyond our expectations." "Especially these injuries." I wiped Zhu Feng's back with gauze, revealing more than 30 small wounds less than one centimeter long arranged in parallel. One end of the small wound is relatively blunt and the other end is sharper, and the wound cavity presents an obvious inverted triangle.On the back of Zhu Feng's pajamas, there are corresponding wounds of similar shape. "This..." I was about to speak, but Master stopped me by raising his hand. Master cut Zhu Feng's back skin and separated his back muscles layer by layer. Some dark red bleeding appeared between the deep muscles. "It's obvious now," Master said, "These wounds are near-death injuries. The injuries to the deep muscles of the back are crush injuries." "After the murderer had cut the dead woman down, he rode on her waist," I said, "and then lightly poked the dead man's back with the tip of the axe? Is that so?" The master smiled and nodded in satisfaction: "Yes. Then, from the perspective of criminal psychology, what is the murderer's state of mind at this time?" I bowed my head and thought for a while, but there was no answer. "Are you showing off his victory in this fight?" Dabao broke the silence. The master said: "This time Dabao succeeded in answering the question, plus ten points. This further shows that the murderer is a person with a mental disorder." Dabao had a proud expression on his face. "As soon as Mr. Chen said," the investigator said, "the murderer should be a child? This is related to the scope of the investigation. Can Mr. Chen be sure?" The master shook his head and said, "I can't be sure, so I'm going to look at the scene again. After so long, the criminals have not found the entrance to the scene, which is very unreasonable." After lunch, we returned to the scene and saw Lin Tao who was still busy. "Mr. Chen, we have a new discovery." Lin Tao raised his eyebrows and said when he saw us walking into the scene. "Let me tell you," the master said with a smile, "it's been so long, there should be some good news." Lin Tao led us to the bathroom on the side of the west wing, and said: "According to the direction of the hidden blood footprints, the murderer went out through the gate after killing three people, and then closed the gate casually. As for his entrance, we kept I am wondering, excluding the possibility that the murderer has a key, this is the only place that can enter the scene." When we looked up, there was a small window on the wall of the bathroom. "It's so small?" I said. "How can anyone get in?" "That's right," Lin Tao said, "we were also wondering at the beginning, if we got in head-on, there would be no support points below, and we would be injured if we fell head-on. If the murderer came in from here, he would have to squat on the window sill Then, we curled up and got in, and then jumped into the house. So, we conducted a careful survey on the windowsill and on the ground." "You have found the basis to confirm this, right?" Master's eyes were full of expectation. 林涛笑着点头，说：“是的，我们在窗户外面的窗台上，和卫生间地面上，发现了和中心现场血足迹花纹一致的泥水足迹。” “是了，”师父说，“这里就是入口！不过，你们有没有进行侦查实验，个子多高的人能从这么小的窗户里钻进来？” “做了，”林涛说，“侦查实验显示，一米六的瘦小的男人都钻不进来。” “只有一米五几的男人？”师父说，“那么最大的可能，就是小孩子了。” 林涛点头。 “陈总，您说的这个小孩子，是指多大岁数？”侦查员挠了挠脑袋，不好意思地说，“能量化一下吗？” “心智不健全，十六岁以下吧。”师父顿了顿，补充道，“性懵懂，十三岁以上。” “那，能判断是熟人作案还是流窜作案吗？”侦查员还是一脸不好意思的表情，“毕竟现在一些流窜盗窃的团伙，很多成员都是十三四岁的小孩子。所以，这个问题很关键，牵涉到整体侦查的方向。” 师父低头想了想，说：“目前还没有什么确切的依据。不过，既然凶手没有翻动其他东西，只翻动了床头柜，说明他的目标是床头柜。有目标的，熟人的可能性大。” “凶手先翻动床头柜，惊醒受害人后杀了人，”我说，“也有可能是杀了人以后，因为害怕别人听见动静或是其他原因，所以没有再对现场其他地方进行翻动。” 师父点头赞许：“嗯，确实不能排除你说的这种可能。那我们现在就再去仔细看一看凶手的目标——床头柜吧。” 再一次观察这个红木制的床头柜，发现真是做工精细。四周严丝合缝，却没有看到一颗钉子的痕迹。 师父打开柜门，看了一圈，又拉开抽屉，仔细翻看。 “你有没有觉得这个抽屉有哪里不对？”师父转头问我。 我看了眼，抽屉里面除了整齐码放着的几本影集以外，没有什么异常。我迷茫地摇了摇头。 师父说：“你看这个抽屉蛮厚的，结果里面放两本影集就满了，这厚度不太靠谱吧？” 我捏了捏抽屉，上下看看，说：“对哦，这个是有点儿奇怪。” 我用力去抽抽屉，想把抽屉拿下来。 师父摇了摇头，说：“这种柜子里的抽屉后面是固定住的，取不下来。” 说完，师父沿着抽屉敲了一圈，兴奋地说：“抽屉是中空的。” “你是说有夹层？”我把影集搬了出来，敲了敲抽屉里面，发出了一阵“砰砰”的闷响，根据经验，这个抽屉的下面确实有夹层。 师父用手慢慢地摸着抽屉的周围，然后神秘地一笑，说：“我找到机关了。” 话音刚落，“啪”的一声，抽屉底部居然从中间裂了开来。 我激动了半天，第一次看到这种古老的开关、暗门，实在太有趣了。掀起抽屉底部裂开的板门，果真露出了抽屉的下层暗层。 暗层里胡乱地放着几张存折。 “这里应该是古香兰保存现金、存折的地方，”师父说，“现在有什么想法？” 我翻了翻几张署名是朱凤的存折，还真有不少存款。我说：“凶手的目标明确，为的就是这个暗层里的钱。不过，什么人知道古香兰的床头柜里有这么个暗层呢？肯定是非常熟悉的人！” “这个古香兰就不怕别人把她的床头柜直接抱走吗？”大宝岔开了话题。 师父笑道：“你抱抱看。” 大宝走过来，环抱住床头柜，使了使劲儿，说：“哟，还真抱不动。过去的物件儿就是实诚，都是实打实的红木啊。” “可是，”我说，“凶手得手了吗？” 师父点了点头，说：“应该是得手了，所以没有再翻动其他的地方。有了这个依据，我们可以大胆地推测，凶手是非常熟悉现场的。” “孙海鸥的嫌疑已经排除了，”我说，“如果是别人家小孩作案，那么他是怎么知道古香兰藏钱的这个地方呢？这个地方也太隐蔽了。” “不知道。”师父说，“说不准是因为古香兰没有对这个小孩子设防而已，所以当着他的面开过这个机关暗格。” 师父又摆弄了几下这个做工精致的床头柜机关，转头对侦查员说：“熟人，不，应该说是非常熟悉的人，十三至十六岁的男孩。身高一米五左右，瘦小。有获得小斧子的条件，作案后应该有血衣，突然变得有钱。这么多条件，不难查了吧？” 侦查员两眼放出兴奋的光芒，摇了摇头。 “那么，明天上午破案，OK？”师父说。 侦查员抬腕看了看手表，说：“好，那我抓紧了。” “嗯，”师父说，“你先去查，我们在这边再把现场勘查一遍。” “还要勘查？”我揉了揉酸痛的腰。从清早出来，到现在还没有休息过。 “当然，”师父说，“到目前为止，除了分析推断的东西，没有发现任何可以证明犯罪的物证，这样的案件上了法庭，还不被律师喷死？” 我无奈地点了点头。 林涛说：“可是，据我们勘查结果显示，凶手一直戴着手套，能留下指纹的可能性几乎不存在呀。” 师父说：“我也知道难度很大，但是不能想当然就放弃勘查，毕竟发现证据是我们的职责。” 按照师父的嘱咐，我们分段提取现场的血迹，以期待凶手在行凶过程中受伤，留下他罪恶的血液。林涛则带了一组人，沿着凶手的行动轨迹，一点儿一点儿地刷指纹。师父偷起了懒，蹲在现场警戒带外，抽着烟和省城市公安局刑警支队长聊天。 差不多过了两个多小时，当我无法再忍受腰部的酸痛的时候，我听见了林涛的一声惊呼。 师父扔掉了烟头，重新戴上手套，走进现场，一边说：“镇定，镇定，别大惊小怪的。” “还真被陈总说对了，”林涛戴着口罩，指着卫生间墙壁上一块被他用银粉刷黑了的地方，说，“居然有纹线！” “不是说戴了手套吗？”师父眯着眼睛看。 “这是个拇指指纹。”林涛迅速做出判断，说，“指纹的周围有手套印。” 师父转头看了看林涛，又转头看看我，最后目光重新定格在指纹上，说：“明白了，手套破了。” 林涛点头，说：“按道理分析，应该是这么回事。” “可以肯定和本案有关吗？”师父说。 “可以。”林涛肯定地说，“现场发现的一些血手套印痕，和这枚指纹周围的手套印痕完全一致。凶手不凑巧，从小窗跳下来的时候，手指指腹通过破洞按了一下墙壁上的瓷砖。” “好！”师父高兴地捶了一下墙壁，说，“有了这个东西，定案指日可待了！” 林涛没有因为自己的发现而感到骄傲，依旧谦虚地说：“如果不是陈总督促，我们就准备放弃寻找指纹了。真的如陈总所说，不到最后一刻，绝不能放弃啊。任何没有可能的事情，都有可能发生。” 师父赞许地点了点头，说：“收队，休息。让他们马上把这枚现场指纹的样本送到侦查部门去，作为排查依据，我们回去等侦查部门明天的好消息吧！” 因为刚过完节加上上班第一天的过度疲劳，回到宾馆后，我倒头就睡，一直睡到第二天早晨冬天的阳光暖洋洋地透过窗户晒在我的脸上。我拿起身边的手机一看，居然快九点了，赶紧一骨碌爬起来，来不及洗漱，就跑去了专案组。 师父早已经坐在专案组办公室里，黑着脸。 “实在不好意思，”主办侦查员说，“经过前期排查，古香兰生前非常好客，乐善好施，人缘关系很好，而且特别喜欢小孩子。经常去她家玩耍的可能知道床头柜藏钱的符合年龄范围的小男孩，我们共找到十七个。” “怎么会这么多？”师父说，“不是有指纹吗？很好排查吧？” 侦查员一脸为难的表情，说：“因为都是孩子，我们的排查工作受到了很大的干扰。村民们对我们提取孩子指纹的要求有很大的抗拒，村里的学校校长都出面了，还说要反映到县教育局，说我们这样的行为会给孩子心理造成阴影。” 师父沉吟了一声，一边翻看着笔记本电脑中的尸检照片，一边说：“说的不无道理，这样大范围提取小孩子的指纹，确实不合适。我也没有想到会有这么多人。” 林涛放下电话，说：“刚接到电话，金条上的指纹和我们提取的卫生间里的指纹认定同一。” “金条？”我茫然地问道。 师父皱皱眉头，看着我说：“谁要你睡懒觉迟到的，前面的都没听吧？” 我瞪了眼大宝，心想你自己起床，不知道喊我？ 大宝赶紧接过话茬儿：“今天早上，有村民在村里的垃圾堆放处发现了一个装着几根金条的小袋子。金条上有血，所以赶紧报了案。” “哦，”我说，“是凶手的父母害怕我们发现，所以扔了赃物吧。” 师父点头说：“有了金条上的指纹作为参照物，这枚指纹肯定是凶手留下的。” “不过，”侦查员害怕师父又要让他们去强取指纹，说，“我们取指纹的难度很大。” “十七个小孩当中，有左撇子吗？”师父的话锋突然转了。 侦查员翻了翻记录本，说：“有一个。这个小孩子叫桂元丰，一个月前刚满十四周岁，上小学六年级。是这十七个孩子中间最老实的、学习最好的，也是古香兰最喜欢的，经常被叫去古香兰家里吃饭。” “那，取他一个人的指纹进行比对总可以吧？”师父说。 “为什么？”侦查员一脸迷惑，“我们觉得他是最不像凶手的那个。” 师父笑了笑，说：“看一下古香兰和朱凤的损伤。” 我凑过头去看照片，经师父这么一点拨，瞬间想通了。我说：“明白了。古香兰的姿势是头朝北墙，左手靠东墙仰面躺在床上时遇害的，凶手站在古香兰右手边，古香兰头部一侧有床头柜阻隔，所以如果凶手右手持斧的话，砍出来的创口应该是纵向的或是斜行的，而古香兰的创口都是水平的，只有凶手是左手持斧才能做到。” “我也明白了。”大宝说，“朱凤背部的创口是凶手骑跨在她的腰部用斧子一角形成的，创口平行排列，却全部向左边偏斜。如果是右手拿斧，应该是向右边偏斜。” 师父满意地点了点头，对着侦查员说：“听明白了吗？” 侦查员似懂非懂，说：“不管怎么样，我们试一次吧。” 这是一个关键性的推断，正是因为这个推断，案件顺利破获了。 侦查员在秘密搜查桂元丰家的时候，发现院子里有焚烧物体的痕迹，取了一部分灰烬，做出了两名死者的DNA分型。这应该是凶手的父亲焚烧血衣的时候留下的灰烬。 经过现场指纹和桂元丰的指纹比对，认定同一。 案件办成了铁案。 讯问未成年人时，应有监护人在场。因为桂元丰的父母涉嫌包庇罪也被关押，所以桂元丰的班主任陪同桂元丰接受了讯问。 师父带我们一起走进审讯室的时候，眼前这个眉清目秀的小男孩正在对他的罪行供认不讳。 “我爸爸赌博欠了人家好多钱，”小桂抹了抹眼泪，说，“妈妈天天在家里哭，我想帮他们。” “你怎么知道古香兰的床头柜里有暗格，暗格里面有金条的？”侦查员问。 “我刚上小学的时候，去找朱阿姨玩，看见古奶奶在床头柜里拿过钱。” 小桂说，“我当时还想让古奶奶再表演给我看一次那个机关，不过古奶奶神秘兮兮地不让我看。” 我下意识地点了点头，心想，这也难怪，对于一个七八岁的小孩，是没有必要设防的。只是这个古香兰万万没有想到这个七八岁的小男孩居然能把这件事情记到六七年以后。 “你为什么要杀人？”侦查员说。 “因为我刚把金子装进口袋，古奶奶就醒了。”小桂说，“她认识我的，我只有用斧子砍死她了。后来我就想跑掉算了，结果走到院子里，看见朱阿姨从屋里跑了出来，可能是听见我砍人的声音了吧，于是我就也去砍她。没想到她力气那么大，我和她打了好一会儿，她才倒到了地上。后来我又用斧头捅她，问她到底服不服。” 我看了师父一眼，心想，这心理又被你猜对了，真牛。 “你砍了她多少刀？”侦查员问。 “不知道，当时天好黑，只能看到个人影。”小桂说。 “那你为什么要杀死朱伶俐？她只是个三岁的孩子！”我忍不住问道。 小桂抬眼看了看我，又看了看侦查员，意思是问他需要不需要回答我的问题。 侦查员点点头。 小桂说：“她一直蹲在院子里哭，我怕别人听见，没办法。” “没办法？”我的牙被自己咬得咯咯直响，“那你还猥亵她？” 小桂一脸迷茫，显然不懂我说的“猥亵”是什么意思。 “你是不是脱了小女孩的裤子？”侦查员问，“你干了些什么？” 小桂听罢立即红了脸，缓缓低下头，喃喃道：“我就是想看看女孩子和男孩子的那里有什么不同。” 师父显然是听不下去了，拍拍我的肩膀，示意我们一起离开。 “唉，”大宝直起腰，叹了口气，嘟囔道，“这都是些什么教育呀！” 师父也无奈地摇了摇头。 小桂见我们要离开，急着说道：“叔叔，等等。” 师父回过头，疑惑地看着他。 “我要说的都说完了，明天就开学了，我能去上学吗？”小桂问。