Chapter 14 Chapter Thirteen Human Skin Cage

This spring is not too cold. As soon as winter passed, the temperature rose sharply, and various spoilage bacteria accelerated the growth, and the decay of corpses was several times faster than in winter.This marks the return of a season of headaches for forensics. Every time we go on a business trip, we are mentally prepared, and gas masks and coriander have become our must-have items. It is also a kind of enjoyment to drive on the highway and admire the blooming rapeseed flowers on the roadside.The only thing that hurts deeply in my heart is that the girl who was killed in the rapeseed field a few years ago doesn't know if her father is okay now?

When the car got off the expressway, a police car with flashing lights from the Jinzhen County Public Security Bureau was already waiting at the intersection. "The scene hasn't moved yet, and the trace inspection is collecting evidence on some items." Forensic Xue Xue got into our police car, "This case is really special." Jinzhen County is a southern county, one of the top ten counties in the province and one of the top 100 counties in the country.In recent years, Jinzhen's economy has developed extremely fast, especially the rapid expansion of light industry and entertainment industry.The rapid economic development has enabled the common people to live and work in peace and contentment.I have been working for several years, but I have never been to Jinzhen to investigate a murder scene.Because there were very few homicide and injury cases, Jin Zhen's forensic doctor even began to work part-time as an investigator, catching thieves and liars.

Technical work is like sailing against the current, if you do not advance, you will retreat.If you let go for a long time, first of all, you will lack confidence.After the incident happened this morning, forensic doctor Xue, the deputy head of the Criminal Police Brigade of the Jinzhen County Public Security Bureau, immediately made a call to "request the green channel for technical support from the provincial department to guide the homicide case". The urban construction of Jinzhen County is no less than that of any prefecture-level city. The high-rise buildings in the economic center and the white bricks and black tiles in the residential center, the perfect combination of modern and retro, make this county a special charm.Only in a small area in the east of the county seat, for various reasons, there are still some old-fashioned green brick buildings built after the founding of New China, where some residents live sporadically.

The scene of the murder was in one of these blue-brick tube buildings. Tongzilou is also known as a barracks-style building, and a long corridor connects many single rooms in series.Because both ends of the long corridor are ventilated and shaped like a tube, it is named "Tongzi Building". Originally, this kind of building is much more "family friendly" than the modern "pigeon cage" building. The left and right neighbors meet each other day and night like family members and live in harmony.But because this ancient building has been increasingly abandoned, there are only two rooms on the first floor of this tube building, and the other is one of the fourth floors of the murder scene.In this day of heightened vigilance, no one in the building knows anyone else.

Most of the landlords in this area of ​​Tongzilou have lived in spacious and beautiful new buildings, and the real estate certificates of Tongzilou in their hands have become bills waiting for compensation for demolition. It is said that since a few years ago, a young woman has lived in the scene, and the neighbors have never seen her a few times, and she can't even describe her features clearly.I just remember that this is a coquettish woman who likes to wear white clothes and walks silently. A week or two ago, when Uncle Wang, who lived alone on the first floor, got up at night, he suddenly heard a faint cry coming from the corridor, and he broke out in a cold sweat.He stopped peeing and hid in his bed and shook all night.

In those two days, Uncle Wang and a middle-aged couple who lived on the first floor would always hear intermittent and vague cries from the building at night, just like the ghosts in a thriller crying. own experience. The three neighbors all thought of the alluring woman who lived on the fourth floor two months ago.She can't be a female ghost, can she?Otherwise, how come there is no sound when walking?Otherwise, why do you always wear white clothes?Otherwise, why did you go out for activities at night?Otherwise, where did the bursts of bitter crying come from? The owner of the fourth floor was working in Beijing, and couldn't be contacted. After discussing with the three of them, they finally went to this dark and gloomy fourth floor together one afternoon.There were all kinds of garbage piled up in the corridor on the fourth floor. They stepped over the garbage and knocked on the door of every room on the fourth floor one by one.

Nobody. Strange to say, since that night, I haven't heard that terrible cry again.Maybe the female ghost was scared away by them.After two days, everyone also forgot about it. Until yesterday, when Uncle Wang was also waking up at night, he seemed to smell a strange smell in the corridor. Is it the smell of a fox?Uncle Wang thought of that alluring "female ghost" again, so he shivered and held back his urine all night under the quilt. In the early morning, the three people living on the first floor met again to discuss.They all really smelled the smell of embarrassment in the corridor, and recalled the mournful cry a week or two ago. They felt that they could no longer bear such fright, so they dialed 110.

"Then what happened later? What did the people at the police station find?" Dabao obviously felt that Forensic Xue shouldn't have let such a pass at this time. "It's almost here, you can go and have a look and you'll understand." Forensic Xue frowned. Seeing Forensic Xue's expression, I knew it was time to use the gas mask and parsley again today. Sure enough, passing through the bustling center of the county, we saw the small piece of blue brick building in the legend. The location of the scene was very remote, so it didn't disturb too many onlookers.A dozen police cars had already parked at the bottom of the building, and a bright yellow warning tape separated Uncle Wang and the others who were looking around.As soon as we stepped into the corridor, the smell of "vixen" came to our nostrils.

Years of forensic experience told me that this smell is exactly the smell of decaying corpses.If the smell had already permeated the entire Tongzilou before reaching the fourth floor, one could imagine what that corpse would look like. Although the sky was clear outside, it was very dark in the small building with the back of the sun. The voice-activated lights in the corridor flashed yellow light, illuminating us all the way up to the fourth floor. Soon, my guess was confirmed. When we climbed up to the fourth floor, we saw a technical policewoman with a camera hanging around her neck, crouching on the stairs and throwing up.Seeing that pile of vomit, I immediately gasped back.

Walking up the corridor on the fourth floor, the stench of corpses became even more pungent, and several trace inspectors were wearing rubber shoes and gas masks, swiping fingerprints on the door. Forensic Xue took out a few pairs of rubber shoes from a plastic bag on the side and handed them to us: "Put them on, or you won't feel safe." "Sense of security?" I took the rubber shoes, but I didn't rush to put them on, but looked into the door curiously. I didn't see the body directly. The structure of this tube building is very simple, each door is a separate room, not connected to each other.The scene was located in a single room in the middle of the fourth floor. The rusty anti-theft door and the wooden door with almost no paint were pried open by the police from the police station, and flies flew everywhere in the room.

The furnishings in the room are simple.A simple stove, a double bed and a dining table near the east wall, and a freezer near the west wall.The most conspicuous thing is an iron cage in the middle of the house. Yes, the kind of cage that holds the beast. There was a pool of black things faintly dripping inside the cage, with white spots mottled on it. At first glance, the cage was empty, but looking further down, it was a corpse that had already been highly decomposed and looked like a giant. A large amount of putrid liquid produced by the corruption soaked the corpse's clothes, and the corpse swelled, the skin and clothes were almost integrated and dyed in the same color, and the shape of the clothes could not be seen at all.And those mottled and wriggling white spots are densely packed maggots. The rotting liquid had already flowed out of the iron cage, and almost half of the floor of the room was covered by that green liquid. Countless wriggling maggots were desperately absorbing nutrients in the green liquid. I finally know what it means to "feel safe when you wear it". After wearing it, at least you don't have to worry about maggots crawling into your trousers along your shoes. The irresistible stench ravaged my nostrils and olfactory nerves. I rubbed my nose subconsciously, then quickly backed out, and began to change into rubber shoes and wear a gas mask. "Since there is such a cage, and the deceased was locked in the cage, then it must be a murder case." Forensic Xue's voice was reduced by a lot of decibels through the gas mask. I didn't say anything, put on my rubber gloves, and walked into the scene. There is almost nowhere to go on the way to the heartland - the rotten cage.Although I had no intention of killing, every time I landed, I could hear the crackling sound of maggots being crushed under my feet. I circled the cage twice.This is an iron cage with a length, width and height of about one meter, with a door on the side, and a huge three-ring lock hanging on the door. I pointed to the lock on the door and asked Lin Tao beside me, "Can fingerprints be printed on this?" "Yes, but they are incomplete fingerprints and have no identification value." The trace inspector beside him interjected. I shook my head to express my pity, and then asked: "Can other places be brushed out?" "There are too few things in the room, and we are working hard." The trace inspector said. "You do your work, I'll help them." Lin Tao looked around and found that there was no ground where the investigation box could be placed, so he simply put the inspection box directly on the dining table that had been scanned but no fingerprints were found. I knelt down and said, "How can I get out the corpse inside?" Forensic doctor Xue said: "I have sent someone to the fire brigade to borrow a chainsaw, and I can just open the lock." I nodded, frowning as I observed the corpse in the cage. The head of the dead body in the cage leaned against a railing, and its lower limbs were curled up.The face can no longer be seen clearly, almost completely covered with maggots.Maggots continued to crawl out of the corpse's shriveled eye sockets and open mouth, as if the corpse was weeping and spitting out something.Even though the gas mask kept the rancid smell out, the sight of it still made one's scalp tingle. On the other side of the cage, the railing seems to be stained with some splattered blood, but because of corruption, it blends with the rust of the railing, making the observation unreal. "This is a male corpse." Dabao reached in and tugged at the corpse's clothes. "It was wearing a suit." I nodded, dusted the top of the corpse, and a dozen or so maggots fell out.I said, "You can tell from the hair, it's a crew cut." "Then tell me," Dabao asked, "is this person crying before his death, or is someone else crying after this person's death?" It seems that Dabao has been struggling with the weird crying sound in the legend. "Anyway, it's not that this person cried after he died." I insisted on a scientific judgment, "When was the cry heard, we can know through investigation whether the cry was made before or after his death. The suspect is very important, so the time of this person's death is very important." Dabao nodded and continued to look at the condition of the corpse.I also had to pace the room while waiting for the chainsaw to see if I found anything else. As the trace inspector said, apart from the freezer and stove, there are very few other items in the room, which means that the owner of the room is only here to eat and sleep. I walked to the freezer and found that it was an old-fashioned freezer, the kind with double doors that open upwards.Looking at the dust attached to the corner of the freezer, it can be inferred that this freezer has been placed here for some years.It appears to be the landlord's belongings rather than the tenant moving in. I touched the freezer and found that the compressor of the freezer was still working, and the whole freezer was shaking slightly. "The person has been dead for a long time, and the murderer probably ran away for a long time, but he forgot to close this freezer." I said to Dabao, and opened a door of the freezer. In the freezer, a frosted head stared at me with open eyes. I was taken aback for a moment, then backed up a few steps in shock and bumped into Dabao who was crouching beside the cage.Perhaps Dabao noticed my pale face and asked, "What's wrong?" "Then...then..." I pointed to the freezer, my mind was blank for a while, and I was incoherent. Dabao looked at me, then looked at the freezer suspiciously, stood up, walked to the freezer, and opened the door of the freezer. "Oh my god," it seemed that Dabao was a little more courageous than me, and he was not frightened, "That... there is still a corpse here!" At this point, I had come to my senses, turned around and said to the other policemen handling the case: "There is an unexpected discovery." Inside the freezer was a male corpse that had been frozen into a popsicle. He was curled up with his head up, showing a surprised expression. It may have been frozen for some days, and thick frost formed around the body, sticking to the wall of the freezer.Several policemen tried to pull the body out of the freezer together, but they lifted the body together with the freezer.There is no way, the only way is to wait for the corpse to melt after the power is cut off. "Did... have the investigation been clear?" I collected myself, squatted down again, and picked up a maggot, "Then... those witnesses... When did the witnesses hear the cry?" "Why... why are you stuttering?" Dabao has this problem, when others stutter, he stutters. "Scared... scared." After I finished speaking, I turned to look at the investigator. The investigator wearing a mask retched, his eyes were full of dissatisfaction with me calling him into the house, and said: "It was the 24th and 25th of last month, and there was no one on the 26th. I heard crying again." I did the math, the 24th is exactly twelve days away from today. "Generally, flies lay eggs on corpses. In this season, the eggs can develop into maggots in about two weeks, and then burrow into the nearby putrefaction liquid or corpses. After another two weeks, the pupae will break into flies." I said, " There are no fly shells on the ground at the site, and the maggots here should be the first generation of maggots." Dabao took the maggots that had been strangled by me from my hand, measured them, and said, "According to the growth rate of maggots in this season, such long maggots should have grown for about ten days." "That is to say," I said, "on the twenty-fourth, the deceased began to cry here. After the twenty-sixth, no crying was heard, because he was already dead." "I have a question." Lin Tao interjected, "Why do you think this man has been crying instead of shouting?" "The murderer must be controlling him." Dabao made a vicious gesture, "If you dare to shout, I will kill you." "Do you know if it was he who cried, or the one in the freezer?" I pointed to the freezer. "The key is why are you crying?" Dabao adjusted the position of the gas mask with his arm. "Do you think there is really a female ghost crying?" Lin Tao is the most superstitious, "Killing someone, and still pretending to be merciful?" "Imagination is so rich," I said, "how about you write a thriller." Lin Tao hit me with his butt, almost knocking me down among the maggots. I glared at Lin Tao: "You are busy here, you must find the fingerprints, I went to the funeral home. Well, can the body be dragged away?" Jinzhen County Public Security Bureau Funeral Home. Dabao and I worked together to drag the corpses in the freezer into the thawing pool in the dissection room.According to the normal thawing speed, within two hours, the corpse can be examined. So, we once again faced this giant-looking corpse with a foul smell. The clothes had been filled with swollen tissues, and they could not be taken off with normal methods, so they had to be cut with scissors to remove them. The outfits worn by the deceased were worth a lot, at least more than ten thousand yuan in total. "Hey, he's a rich man," I said, "those pants cost thousands." "Does it work?" Dabao pointed to the yellow feces in his crotch, and said, "It's just as disgusting if it's stained with poop." "Incontinence?" I said. "That's more common in traumatic brain injuries and mechanical asphyxia." "But the head and neck are not injured." In order to avoid inhaling a few bad breaths, Forensic Xue blushed. Without a sound, I parted the neck muscles and scalp little by little.Due to the corruption of the soft tissues of the corpse, the muscles almost all turned black, and the green putrid liquid soaked between the muscles and the skin.I wiped off the rotting fluid with gauze, looked and looked, and made sure the man hadn't suffered fatal mechanical damage—only a chunk of soft tissue was missing from the outer right thigh. Dabao took a closer look, and screamed, "Damn! This is the tearing damage formed after death! There can't really be female ghosts eating people!" I broke out in a cold sweat from being frightened by Dabao, not because I was worried about any female ghosts, but because reports of perverted cannibals are not uncommon nowadays.I quickly wiped off the soft tissue defect with gauze, observed it with a magnifying glass, and said, "I know it's scary, look at the tooth marks, they are small fangs, obviously there are mice eating the corpse." "That's good, that's good. However, the whole body is not injured," Dabao frowned, "What should I do? There is no legal cause of death." "It can be said that the corpse is highly corrupted, so the cause of death cannot be detected?" Medical Forensic Xue began to retreat. I shook my head, turned the abdominal cavity of the corpse, and began to arrange the dead man's intestines.At this time, the smell of rotting corpses, feces, and intestines had already broken the limit of forensic doctor Xue's endurance. He sweated profusely, took off his equipment and escaped from the dissection room. Dabao looked at Forensic Xue's back and shook his head contemptuously.I smiled and said: "The limit of endurance is the same as the amount of alcohol. It depends on exercise." The stomach of the deceased was empty, with diffuse bleeding spots, and there was hardly any chyme in the intestines. "Do you know how he died?" I turned my head and asked Dabao. Dabao nodded, pointed to the stool in the crotch of the deceased, and said, "If you can't pass it, you'll starve to death." I nodded and said, "The murderer watched the deceased die from extreme hunger, weakness, dehydration, and shock." "I just can't figure it out," Dabao said. "How could a big man be stuffed into this cage so easily, and then starve to death without daring to scream? What kind of person would the murderer be?" "It will be a man with a gun," I said. "Of course, there are no bullet marks, and I'm only speculating." Dabao nodded and said: "There is a certain reason, otherwise it would be impossible to control a big man so easily." "It's more than just control?" I took the left hand of the deceased and said, "And the deceased obediently handed over all his belongings to the murderer." "What?" Dabao also moved his head to look at the dead man's hand, "You have judged the nature of the case so easily? How can you say this is a case of property infringement?" "Look," I wiped the dead man's wrist with my fingers, and said, "Although the dead man's skin has swelled, there are still some crease marks on the wrist, in a regular shape." "Understood, watch." Dabao's comprehension has been particularly high recently. I smiled and said: "Not only here, the root of the middle finger has a change in skin color, and there may have been a ring worn here during his lifetime. That is to say, the deceased may have voluntarily removed the watch and ring and handed them over to the murderer. So Powerful control that can only be achieved with a firearm." Dabao thought for a while, but was still worried, so he cut open the skin of the deceased's wrists and ankles. Indeed, the deceased had not been restrained in any way during his lifetime, as if everything he did was voluntary. "But he couldn't be forced to come here with a gun from the center of the county town, right?" Dabao said, "then he has many chances to escape on the way." I lowered my head and thought about it, and said, "Don't think about it too much, maybe it's an acquaintance." "Acquaintances steal money?" Dabao said, "Is it necessary to be so complicated? They starve to death." I didn't say anything, and started to cut off the deceased's pubic bone with a chainsaw.After all, clarifying the characteristics of the deceased and finding the source of the deceased's body is the way to solve the case as soon as possible. After confirming the age, height, and body shape of the deceased, we asked the technician in charge of taking pictures to call the investigators on the front line.In this case, we still need to find the source of the corpse to find a breakthrough in the case. At this time, the technician who took the picture was already turning blue from vomiting, and after hearing our feedback, he hurried out of the dissection room.In such an environment, taking a few more breaths of fresh air is a gift to him. When the other body was pulled out of the thaw pool, the body had completely softened.The advanced thawing facilities equipped in this new forensic anatomy room really helped us a lot. "It's really good if the finances are good." Dabao said enviously, "Look at the effect, it's leveraged. Good finances, not being eaten up, can be regarded as being used for ideas." "I didn't think about it that much." I interrupted Dabao, "Look at this dead man, his clothes are so shabby, even his socks are patched. My God, people who have to mend their socks these days, have to How difficult it is. The object of this robbery is the rich at one time, and the poor at the other, what kind of murderer is this?" Dabao was quickly brought into the question by me, and he lowered his head to think. After the body softened, it was very simple to take off the clothes.I spread the dead man's clothes on the ground and began to check the pockets one by one, hoping to find an ID card or something in the pocket. I didn't have an ID card, but I found a piece of paper that looked like a receipt.Because the body was frozen and thawed, the paper was soaked in water, so the writing was blurred.But it can be seen that this receipt is copied from carbon paper, and it should be the stub of the payee.There are three crooked characters written in the payee column at the bottom of the note: "Li Dazhu". "Li Dazhu?" I said, "This should be the name of the deceased." Dabao was also very pleasantly surprised, and shouted to the technician outside the door, asking him to contact the investigator immediately to investigate the identity of Li Dazhu.The technician was overjoyed to hear that he could continue to stay on the phone outside the autopsy room. The deceased's hands and wrists showed signs of being tied up with ropes, and both knees had obvious subcutaneous bleeding, which is a typical restraint injury.The deceased died of a knife wound, and a bloody gash was severely pulled on his neck, reaching deep to the cervical spine.There were no trial cuts at both ends of the bloody hole, indicating that this was a very sharp knife, which directly cut the dead man's throat with one knife.The jugular arteries and veins of the deceased were all ruptured, and half of the trachea was cut.A large amount of gushing blood flowed back into the trachea, and was sprayed out due to coughing, resulting in a large amount of splattered blood on the chest of the deceased's clothes. "A bunch of the deceased's hair fell out." Dabao pointed to the bald scalp of the deceased, and said, "The murderer should have made the deceased kneel on the ground, tied his hands, then grabbed the deceased's hair with one hand, and held a knife in the other, killing him with one blow." However, here comes the question, why is there no blood at the scene?" "Who said there wasn't?" I said, "There was blood splatter on the cage, but I didn't pay attention to it at the time, thinking it was rust." "But look at this corpse, the spots on the corpse are light, which means that the blood loss is serious." Dabao said, "Why is there not so much blood at the scene?" "Why not?" I said, "There are so many rotten liquids on the ground, do you think it's all from the rotting corpse just now? You're wrong! There are a lot of blood from this corpse and the rotten liquid from that corpse just now." It’s just merging together and corrupting together. Combined with the blood spots on the cage, I’m now basically sure that this corpse was killed in front of the cage.” Dabao nodded and said, "But I still can't connect the deaths of the two corpses. Who could have done this?" I picked up the dead man's hands and said, "What a laborer, look at these hands, they are full of calluses." Dabao raised his elbow and pushed the glasses on the gas mask, and said, "What does this mean?" I looked up at the ceiling, thought for a while, and said, "I really remembered something about the mysterious iron cage. It might really explain something. However, I need Lin Tao's verification." The body was transported away, and the putrid liquid at the scene continued to emit a stench.The stench lingered in this impenetrable corridor, and the disgusting index did not weaken at all. Lin Tao was leaning against the entrance of the corridor smoking a cigarette, his complexion was sallow, and his handsome appearance was greatly diminished.It seemed that the several hours of on-site investigation had exhausted him enough. "Are you all over?" Lin Tao stubbed out his cigarette and said, "Isn't the speed a bit fast?" "Well, I'm in a hurry to come here and ask you a question." I dragged Lin Tao back into the scene room, put on my gloves, and said, "There is something wrong with this iron cage." Lin Tao smiled knowingly: "It seems that we coincided with each other again this time." This iron cage is a cube with a side length of more than one meter, and there are no disassembled parts around it. In other words, this iron cage is an integral structure. I measured the width of the door with a steel tape and said, "It's only 80 centimeters." Lin Tao nodded with a smile. Dabao was at a loss: "You... what do you mean?" I said, "Can you move a cube that's just over a meter on a side into a door that's only eighty centimeters wide?" Dabao shook the iron cage, it was very strong, then turned his head to look at the window with iron bars outside, and shook his head. "The iron cage was welded in the room," Lin Tao said. "After the welding was completed, the room was cleaned, but traces of welding gun burns could be seen on the floor." "Understood." Dabao said, "In order to prepare for the crime, the murderer completed the process of making the iron cage here." I nodded, now at least it is clear that this is a well-planned robbery and murder. "These are all solid iron pipes, and the cage weighs tens of kilograms." Lin Tao said to Dabao, "Also, can you weld each iron pipe so tightly?" Dabao shook his head blankly. "That's right," Lin Tao and I sang together, "let alone a woman?" "I think of the hands of the corpse in the freezer," Dabao said. "It's full of calluses. It should be a welder, right?" Lin Tao and I looked at each other and smiled. "If that's the case," Dabao continued, "it's very likely that this person who is suspected to be called Li Dazhu is in the same group as the woman who rented the house. They killed the rich man and took the money because the spoils were not evenly distributed." , so the woman killed her accomplice again." "I think Dabao's analysis is not unreasonable." I said. Lin Tao said, "A woman killed a strong man?" "It's like this," I added, "we passed the autopsy and found that there was no restraint damage on the body of the deceased, and the signs of property infringement were obvious. What makes it so easy for people to submit obediently, even if it is shouting or running away? Opportunistic? So we analyzed that the killer might have a gun." "You mean the woman had a gun in her hand, and then used the gun to force Li Dazhu to kill him with a knife?" Lin Tao laughed, "It's illogical." "Why is it illogical?" Dabao said, "There are people living downstairs, and there is a sound when you shoot. The target is too big." I shook my head and said, "The man who may be called Li Dazhu was kneeling with his hands tied behind his back. The murderer grabbed his hair with one hand and cut his neck with a knife in the other. If this woman did it, she would have to take a gun again." Controlling, grabbing hair, and holding a knife. How many hands does she have?" "That's right." Dabao said, "But we still can't explain why two people with such huge differences in economic bases are chosen for robbery?" I pondered for a while, then spread my hands and said, "I can't think of a good answer either." The three fell into silence again. Lin Tao said: "By the way, we found a few fingerprints, which appeared in different places on the scene, and the degree of suspicion is very high. After careful processing, it is worth comparing. Just now I asked them to enter the warehouse for comparison, but it failed." "This is good news, it's strong evidence anyway." I nodded, then turned to the investigators beside me and said, "In this way, on the one hand, we will start by checking the identity of the rich man, and on the other hand, we need to check this Li Dazhu and others. The woman he has contacted. Other than that, there is no good way. How about it, let's go back and think about it in half a day, and meet tomorrow morning. " Although I have been investigating the scene of the murder case, the "Yuntai case" always comes to my mind from time to time. DNA has been found for so long, but the murderer has not been identified.If the scope of investigation is not further narrowed, it is really difficult to find this demon in the vast crowd. Lin Tao understands my knot best. He just came out of the bathroom of the hotel, and while wiping his hair with a towel, he asked me: "Still thinking about the 'Yuntai case'?" I nodded feebly. "Is there any progress now?" Lin Tao said, "Tell me, I don't know much about this case." I took a long breath and said, "That's right. The 'Yuntai Case' was reported seven years ago, five years ago, four years ago, and three years ago, all around Yuntai City. The basis is that the victim had seminal spots in his body that were weakly positive, but no sperm was found. About a year ago, Longdu sent another case. The reason why it can be combined with the previous case is because I found the knot and cloud that bound the victim. The knots in the Thai four cases were consistent and very characteristic, but this time sperm was found in the corpse and DNA was produced. In the case of Longdu, I found a characteristic imprint at the scene, suggesting that the murderer should be People in uniform. It’s been a few months, so it shouldn’t be so difficult to find people in uniform who wear uniforms in counties near Yuntai City, right?” Lin Tao thought for a while and said, "There are too many people in uniforms. Besides, you can't go to the unit one by one to launch blood tests for everyone, right? So it's probably not that easy to find. I think you should start from Why there is no sperm before, but then there is sperm, start with the question, and look for some characteristic populations, so there is hope." I nodded and said, "Yes, this is also a question I have been unable to understand. If you wear a condom, you won't have weak positive sperm spots; if you have azoospermia, a large amount of prostatic fluid will be left in the victim's body; Fine, sperm spots should also be mentioned on the corpse and the nearby scene; sexual dysfunction, how can he rape?" Lin Tao smiled, rubbed his wet hair and patted my shoulder and said, "I don't want to, go to sleep and wait for the good news tomorrow." In the meeting room of the task force, everyone looked dignified.Some looked up at the ceiling, some held their heads in their hands, and some fiddled with their mobile phones.When I just entered the meeting room, I felt like I had walked into the scene where I bid to host the Olympic Games and waited for the announcement of the results, and I suddenly became dignified. I moved my lips, not embarrassed to say anything, and looked eagerly at Director Hua of the Jinzhen County Public Security Bureau. Director Hua saw that we had arrived, pulled away the chair beside him, motioned us to sit next to him, and said, "I found out the identity of one of the deceased, and it was indeed Li Dazhu. However, after investigation, this Li Dazhu was a carpenter. Pushing bicycles on the side of the road, hanging carpentry signs and other businesses. Going out at normal time, returning home on time, never fooling around outside, and has no bad habits. An honest old bachelor who supports his seventy-year-old mother alone. On the 25th I went out in the morning and never came back.” "Oh," I forced a smile, and said, "I thought he was in the same gang as the woman who rented the house. He welded the iron cage and then killed people." Director Hua shook his head and said, "After investigation, he definitely doesn't know electric welding skills, and he's an old bachelor who has never seen a woman's butt, let alone talk about a concubine." I frowned, working with these rough old detectives, I couldn't get used to it all at once. "That..." Dabao pushed his glasses and asked timidly, "Have you found out the identity of the rich man?" Director Hua said: "Yesterday, we checked the missing population information of the whole county and surrounding counties for about half a month, and found a few who met the requirements. After checking one by one, all of them were ruled out. In the middle of last night, it may be because we saw that we were in the official According to the posting on Weibo, a woman from the provincial capital contacted us, saying that her husband, Gu Weimin, went on a business trip to our county on the 23rd and lost contact that night. Because this Gu Weimin usually likes to ask questions, she didn’t care. Until I saw our Weibo yesterday." I nodded in approval, it seems that the official Weibo can really play a role. "The DNA is still being worked on," Director Hua said, "it should be out soon." "Looking for flowers and asking willows?" I was still thinking, but Lin Tao blurted out, "Could it be a fairy dance?" Immortal jumping refers to a trap of defrauding money by using women's sex.Generally, a man and a woman collude. The woman seduces the victim with lust. When the two go to the residence to have sex, the man will come forward to blackmail or rob. At this time, Director Hua received a call from the DNA Laboratory of the Municipal Bureau and confirmed the identity of the seemingly wealthy deceased, who was Gu Weimin who usually loves to find flowers and ask willows. The meeting room of the task force was filled with jubilation.The source of the corpses has been found, which means that the case has taken a big step forward. I didn't participate in the noise. Why were Gu Weimin and Li Dazhu, two people from different social classes, killed by the murderer at the same time?Is it a coincidence, or is Li Dazhu really one of the murderers?But he doesn't know electric welding technology.Is he hiding something?But how can a person who goes home on time every day conspire to commit a crime?Countless thoughts collided in my mind, but still did not collide with a result. "Everyone, don't rush to celebrate." Director Hua suppressed the atmosphere, and said, "Now we have a lot to do, and we will start with Gu Weimin's account. He is on a business trip and doesn't bring much cash. The murderer doesn't even have a watch or a ring. Yes, it seems that he is hungry. Gu Weimin’s handbag is missing, and there are credit cards in it. I believe the murderer will not let the money in these credit cards go.” "I agree," Dabao rushed to say, "The deceased was starved to death and tortured. The only way for the murderer to torture Gu Weimin like this is to ask for the password of his credit card." "Then check the bank monitoring, especially the monitoring between the 24th and the 26th, the monitoring of people who use Gu Weimin's credit card." Director Hua said, "It's not difficult, right? Check it out immediately!" 看着几组民警信心百倍地离开会议室，我忍不住问道：“华局长，你一直没说那个租房子的女人是什么身份。” 华局长愣了一下，说：“哦，你是说房东那里是吧？早就查回来了。这家房东真是奇怪得很，人不在本地，也不把房子交给亲戚或中介。房东说一个女人看了他贴的租房告示，价都没有还，直接给他的卡里打去了半年的房租。他觉得这女人很省事儿，就把房门钥匙直接邮寄给了这个女人。算是口头合同生效了。真是没见过这么图省事儿的房东。” “邮寄？”我挑了挑眉毛，“地址呢？” “是我们这里的一家旅社，”华局长说，“叫什么高潮旅社。等这个案子结了，我看他们也该关门大吉了。” “那登记的身份呢？” “就是因为他们不强制要求旅客登记身份，”华局长气愤地说，“所以我才要让他们关门大吉。问他们记不记得一对男女或一个妖艳女人曾经在这里住过一段时间，他们说，这里住的都是妖艳的女人。操！是开旅店呢，还是开妓院呢？翻看登记记录，也排查了，这个女人肯定没有登记身份证，或者登记的是假身份证。” 我又垂下头。多好的线索，就这样断了。该死的黑商人，是要罚。 苦苦等待了两个小时，前线就传来了喜讯。顾伟民的两张信用卡在二十四号到二十六号之间，被人在ATM上反复使用，但统统因为密码错误，里面的钱没有被取走一分。 显而易见，这个要钱不要命的顾伟民，因为不断地给凶手错误密码，而被活活饿死。其实，即使他给了正确的密码，也一样难逃一死。只是他拖延了时间，却没有能够成功地逃离或获救，看来凶手是经过精心准备的。 我重新兴奋起来：“现在有两个问题我要说一下。一、凶手肯定有两人或两人以上。因为一个凶手去取钱的时候，顾伟民完全可以呼救，为什么没有？因为有另一个人看守，二、取钱的是男人还是女人？” “都是一个妖艳的女人。”华局长确认道。 我接着说：“另一个人很有可能就是那个会电焊技术并有可能持枪的男人。我们现在有ATM上摄下的女人的影像不？” 华局长说：“虽然她都是晚上取钱，但是经过处理，能够清晰辨别容貌。” “那么，”我说，“我们现在拿着女人的照片去找高潮旅社的老板，这次他总能认得出了吧？” 一行人到达了这家传说中的高潮旅社，一个破烂巷道里的破烂旅社，也正是个藏污纳垢的地方。 “这个女人我记得，”老板总算想起来了，“在我们这儿住了一段时间了，和一个男人在一起。” “现在还住在这儿？”我的肾上腺素顿时有些分泌过多。 老板点点头：“住了好些天了，昨天我还看见她男人出门的。” “哪一间？”身边的刑警纷纷掏出了手枪。 有多少人见过这个场面？老板被吓得脸色苍白，颤抖着带着这一帮刑警悄悄靠近了203室，然后老老实实地蹲在墙角，大气也不敢出。 主办侦查员一脚踹开房门，率先冲了进去，四五个人紧随其后。 可是，房间里静悄悄、死气沉沉的，一个人也没有，侦查员的眼神里充满了失望。 “人呢？”主办侦查员把老板揪进了屋里，“你不是说一直住在这里？” 老板看了眼刑警们手里的枪，咽了口口水，语无伦次地说：“确实住在这里啊，十来天前就住进来了，不出门，只有她男人每天出门。昨天她男人出去没回来，她肯定没出去。对，肯定没出去。我天天坐在吧台的，这个女人那么香，出去了我肯定知道。当然，如果晚上偷偷出去，也有可能我不知道。” “到底你是知道还是不知道？”侦查员厉声问道。 我摆摆手，吸了吸鼻子。以我多年的法医经验来看，这个房间里充斥着一股淡淡的味道，像是香水和臭气夹杂的味道。 我环顾四周，猛然掀起其中一张床的床板，床底空空如也。我又掀起另一张床的床板，床底赫然躺着一具穿着睡衣的女尸。 侦查员一脸惊愕，老板则吓得一屁股坐在了地上。 “开始就有些怀疑这个女的被灭口了，可惜咱们晚来了两天。”我说。 “会是她男人杀的吗？”侦查员问。 我从随身携带的勘查箱里拿出手套戴上，翻看了死者的眼睑，指压一下尸体的尸斑，说：“角膜中度混浊，尸斑指压不褪色，尸僵开始缓解了，应该死亡一天以上了。” “一天前，她男人离开这里，”侦查员说，“说明这个男人有重大作案嫌疑。” 我点了点头，说：“老板，你记得这个男人的模样吗？” 老板神不守舍地点了点头。 “马上带他去省城，请我们的模拟画像专家做一个模拟画像。”我说，“尸体拖走吧，我们来检验，看能否发现一些线索。另外，为什么房间里什么都没有？至少应该有这个女人的衣服吧？” 老板偷偷看了我一眼，说：“那个男人带着一个大包走的。” “那你也不问？”侦查员说。 “他交的押金多啊，”老板说，“不欠费，我不怕他跑的。” “问题是他还是跑了啊！”侦查员恼然叹道。 尸体安详地躺在尸体解剖台上。 我拿出ATM摄录的取钱人的照片，和这个死者的样貌完全一致。 “多行不义必自毙。”我说，“本以为能捞一笔钱财，却被自己的同伙黑吃黑了。” “黑吃黑？”大宝问。 我点点头：“你没有发现，死者的手指和顾伟民的一样吗？是个戴着戒指的手指，戒指却被取走了。她的耳洞还呈张开状，有组织撕裂的痕迹，说明她是死后被人强行扯掉了耳环。这个凶手连一个女人的首饰都抢，可见对钱的渴求是多么强烈啊。” “而且凶手隐藏了尸体，为他的逃离创造了时间。”大宝说。 我检查了死者的会阴部，没有任何损伤，也没有发现有精斑反应，说：“看来她死之前没有发生过性行为。” “谁说没有？”大宝拿着一张精斑试纸条，说，“口腔擦拭物，精斑预实验，阳性。” “哟呵，”我挑起了眉毛，“啥都懂啊，这都能想到。” “那是，”大宝一脸得意，“法医什么都得懂。” “看来，我们是掌握了犯罪分子的DNA了。”我说，“下一步，就要考虑一下如何才能缩小侦查范围。” “其实只要能查清这个女人的身份，”大宝说，“那么这个男人的身份也就水落石出了，毕竟他们俩是有关系的。” 我说：“这个女人的窒息征象很明显啊。” 大宝露出一脸贱贱的表情，说：“不会是那啥的时候，被那啥堵住了呼吸道吧？” 我白了大宝一眼：“哪啥？哪啥？想什么呢？你看，死者的口唇黏膜和牙龈都有出血。这是典型的用软物捂压口鼻腔导致的机械性窒息死亡。” “原理都差不多。”大宝咧了咧嘴。 “差太多了。”我说，“那啥致死，充其量是个过失致人死亡。而死者是在没有准备的情况下，被捂压口鼻死亡的，连约束伤、抵抗伤都没有，这可是故意杀人。” “无所谓喽，”大宝摊摊手，“反正凶手已经满手鲜血了，抓住了肯定是要吃枪子儿的。” 我没再吭声儿，在尸体上寻找一些能够证明身份的东西。 “你说，这个小县城会有几家不正当的娱乐场所？”我问。 大宝一脸迷茫：“估计没几家吧？不管几家，当地派出所肯定很清楚。” 我脱了解剖服和手套，拨通了华局长的电话：“华局长，让侦查员拿着女死者的照片去一些可能存在卖淫服务的娱乐场所查查，看有人认识这个女死者吗？” “你凭什么说这个女人是卖淫女？”大宝问。 我指了指解剖台上放着的女死者的子宫，说：“你看看这个子宫的宫颈，可以肯定这个女子没有生育过，对吧？” 大宝点点头。 我又重新戴上手套，掰开子宫，说：“那为什么子宫里会有节育环？我觉得啊，这个女人戴个节育环很可疑，很可能是曾经或者现在从事过这行。我们别忘了，如果本案真的和我们分析的一样，是个仙人跳，凶手最方便寻找猎物的地方就是那种不干净的地方。” 丁零丁零……我们还没有到宾馆，电话就响了起来，是华局长打来的：“好消息！女死者的身份查清楚了，萧牡丹，洋宫县人，在一家酒吧里陪酒的，偶尔出台。” 早晨，我睡眼惺忪地被林涛踢醒，坐了起来，伸了个懒腰。 “凶手抓住了。”林涛嘴里含着牙刷，一嘴泡沫，嘟嘟囔囔地说。 “这么快？”我大吃一惊，“昨天刚知道萧牡丹的身份，今天就抓住凶手了？” “是啊，”林涛漱了漱口，说，“刚接到电话，说是调查出萧牡丹只对她的一个老乡钟情，叫什么什么杨勇的。咱们推断得不错，之前在老家，这个杨勇就是个电焊工。” 我“哦”了一声，说：“听说是电焊工，他们就下定决心抓人了？” “是啊，”林涛说，“我也没想到他们效率如此之高，昨天下午往洋宫县赶的，凌晨就把杨勇堵在了他老家的一处临时住所。听说还发生了枪战。不过，杨勇拿的是自制的猎枪，所以没啥战斗力，很快就放弃抵抗，被活捉了。刚才我接电话的时候，他们在洋宫县已经完成了对杨勇的突审。” “都交代了？”我对晋瑱刑警的高效率刮目相看，“果真是有枪。” “咳咳，”林涛捋了捋头发，得意地说，“这个，我们都有功劳。你分析出他可能有枪，咱们的民警才加强了防备，所以没有人受伤。现场我刷出来的几枚指纹，经过比对，就是杨勇的。DNA虽然还没做，但已经证据确凿了，他不可能不低头认罪的。” “太棒了！”我一骨碌爬了起来，“快快快，让他们先把讯问笔录传真回来，我等不及了，得看看他们究竟是怎么勾结起来干这档子买卖的，为什么要杀穷人李大柱，又为什么要自相残杀呢？” 杨勇是个孤儿，和萧牡丹从小一块儿在福利院长大，青梅竹马、两小无猜。 杨勇有个坏毛病，就是一赌博起来就忘乎所以。为了帮助杨勇偿还欠债，萧牡丹选择了远离洋宫县，到晋瑱县打工。一个孤单女子在外，一不留神就失足成为了一名卖淫女。 虽然牡丹寄回来的钱让杨勇一时摆脱了债务的困扰，但是他对牡丹的怀疑日益加重。终于有一天，杨勇按捺不住自己的怀疑心，悄悄来了晋瑱，来了个突然袭击。 他看见的是一个胖老头粗鲁地把牡丹压在身下。 杨勇把老头揍了一顿，并且声称要把这个强奸他女朋友的老头送去派出所，让他没有想到的是，这个老头并没有做过多的辩解，而是丢下了三千块钱后扬长而去，留下牡丹和杨勇瞠目结舌。 由此，杨勇和牡丹发现了商机。 他们租了房子，做了笼子，由牡丹负责在酒吧物色合适的猎物，他们要敲一笔大的。在发现顾伟民之前，他们还没有找到过一个像样的目标。 顾伟民被牡丹骗到了出租屋，又被杨勇用枪指着脑袋，关进了铁笼。杨勇和牡丹在这两三天的时间里，从顾伟民的嘴里问出了六七个密码，牡丹出去了六七趟，却都是空手而归。杨勇一气之下想打死顾伟民，却又不愿意放弃那两张看起来十分阔气的金色信用卡。 二十五号下午，在经过商量后，牡丹再次外出，以打家具为名，把路边招揽生意的李大柱骗到了出租屋，然后当着顾伟民的面，杀死了李大柱。 当那一股从李大柱颈动脉喷射出来的热血飞溅到顾伟民的脸上时，顾伟民真的吓尿了裤裆，但杨勇这一招杀鸡儆猴，并没有吓唬到吝啬成性的顾伟民。 直到顾伟民因为过度脱水、惊吓和饥饿休克的时候，杨勇和牡丹仍没有拿到信用卡的密码。 拿着顾伟民包里的一万元现金和手表、首饰，不想和两具尸体共处一室的杨勇和牡丹匆匆逃离了现场。 住在旅社里的牡丹，想起当着顾伟民的面杀死李大柱的残忍场面，夜不能寐。经过激烈的思想斗争，她开始劝说杨勇去派出所自首。 当涉及自身安危的那一刻，爱情啥也不是。于是，杨勇趁牡丹熟睡之机，送她先去见了上帝，灭了口，吞了钱。 他可能不知道，尸体也会指控；他可能不知道，任何犯罪都会留下痕迹物证。他更是想不到，逃回老家没两天，刑警们就从天而降。 “故事还真是挺简单的。”我一边看着讯问笔录结尾鲜红的指印，一边说，“就是李大柱这个冤大头，让我们还真是费了不少心思，他真是太可怜了。” 林涛点点头：“做任何坏事，总是会有报应的。杨勇和牡丹是这样，顾伟民也是这样。一个错误的决定，没了四条人命。”