Chapter 14 Chapter Eleven Amber Child Corpse

When we go out to play in the wild, in remote places, we only need to observe carefully to find a suitable place to bury the corpse. We just don't know what kind of corpses are buried there. In August 2011, a buried corpse of a child was found under a viaduct near Songzhuang Town, Tongzhou District, Yanjing City. It is strange that the corpse of the child was sealed in a highly transparent resin, which looked like a Like a large amber.The same state police received a report and cleaned the amber. It can be seen that although the amber is artificially synthesized, the craftsmanship is very high, and the appearance is crystal clear and smooth like brown glass.Amber wrapped a little boy, who was only about one year old by visual inspection. He was just at the age of toddler and babbling. He was wearing a white double-breasted jacket, shorts with leaky crotch, and a pair of new sandals with cartoon patterns on his feet.

The child's corpse in the amber was in a curled up state, with slightly closed eyes, a bruised and swollen complexion, and half clenched hands into fists. A forensic doctor judged that the little boy died of homicide using only the naked eye. Deputy Secretary Huang of the Tongzhou Branch Party Committee asked: There is no autopsy yet, are you sure? The forensic doctor said: No mistake, the boy was strangled to death. Strangling is called strangulation in the professional term of forensic science. Strangling is homicide, and there are occasional accidental deaths. Through the light yellow amber, it can be clearly seen that there are obvious crescent-shaped nail marks on the neck of the child's corpse, one choke mark on the right side of the neck, and four choke marks on the left side of the neck. It can be judged that this is the child strangled to death by the murderer with his right hand.Strangulation is common in cases of infanticide, rape and robbery.Strangling is a very common method of killing, and forensic doctors usually come into contact with a large number of strangulation cases.

The murderer strangled the boy to death, made it into amber, and buried it underground. This case was too bizarre and terrifying. Although the police had taken measures to keep it secret, the news still leaked out, which had a bad influence on society. Deputy Secretary Huang of the Tongzhou Public Security Bureau urgently reported to the Ministry of Public Security, and the special case team drove here.Professor Liang instructed the police in the same state not to act rashly and not to conduct an autopsy on the phone. The special case team really wanted to see this rare amber corpse of a child with their own eyes.

Deputy Secretary Huang presided over the meeting. There was a potted plant in the middle of the multimedia conference room, but now it was replaced with a glass square table. The child's corpse amber was placed on the glass table. Everyone sat around and talked a lot. It is also the first time that people have seen such a strange thing. Professor Liang looked at it for a long time, and said: There have been some cases in China where the body was sealed with cement, and there were also cases where the murderer sealed the body with wax. This is the first case where the body was made into amber.

Bao Zhan said: There was a plaster corpse case in Shenzhen. Two murderers robbed and killed a boss, sealed the corpse with plaster into a plaster statue, and threw it into the river. Su Mei said: I think of a movie, Horror Wax Museum. Deputy Secretary Huang said: Horror wax figures, we also have them here, you may see them at art exhibitions in a few days. Su Mei said: This amber corpse looks like a work of art. Bao Zhan said: Crafts made from corpses are usually used for sale or exhibition, so why bury them? Professor Liang said: According to common sense, it is possible that relatives killed the boy and made amber to preserve the body.

Deputy Secretary Huang said: Song Zhuang near the place where the crime happened almost gathered artists from all over the country, the case should not be so simple. The forensic doctor said: This corpse has not been embalmed, amber cannot preserve the child's corpse, and sealing can only delay the decay of the corpse. Bao Zhan said: The murderer either killed his own child, or killed someone else's child.It would be terrible if it was someone else's child, perhaps a random little boy abducted from the street. Hualong asked: "Send the artist to Zhuang, what's going on?"

Professor Liang smiled and said: You are ignorant. Deputy Secretary Huang introduced the situation of sending the village. The sending village is located in the countryside, but only tens of kilometers away from the urban area. If you get up at six o'clock in the morning, smell the fresh air in Songzhuang, hum a little song, walk on the tree-lined road in the country, admire the 70 acres of sunflowers planted on both sides of the road, and then take the bus, it will take less than an hour. Arrive at the bustling urban area of ​​Yanjing. In 1990, around the Loudou Bridge near the Old Summer Palace, a group of earlier domestic wandering artists gathered, including many famous painters who are now well-known at home and abroad. At that time, they had an identity called "Blind Flow".These people with ideals lived near the Old Summer Palace and used it as a base for their creation and life, gradually becoming a cultural symbol.

At the beginning of 1994, the "Yuanmingyuan Artist Village" was forced to disband after its heyday. Artists moved away from the hustle and bustle of the city and moved to Songzhuang. The largest and most well-known artist community. This is a cultural sanctuary for Beidiao artists, and together with the 798 Art District, it has become a landmark of the spiritual road. The forensic doctor used an electric drill and a hammer to break open the amber and dissected the child's corpse. The subcutaneous soft tissue of the child's neck was bleeding, and the muscle and bone damage was obvious. This further confirmed the cause of death of the one-year-old boy—being strangled alive Dead, the time of death is about a week.

There was a self-adhesive sticker on the navel of the child's corpse. No fingerprints were found on it. The murderer must have been wearing gloves. The size of the sticker was half the size of a straight finger. There was a sentence written in carbon pen on it: When I rot into shit, my words are still alive! Deputy Secretary Huang said: This sentence should be left by the murderer. What does it mean? Professor Liang said: Obviously, the murderer wanted to be immortal, to leave something permanently in this world. Su Mei said: Amber is usually older than 15 million years. Hualong said: How long can this synthetic fake amber last?

Bao Zhan said: A plastic bag buried in the soil will take hundreds of years to degrade. Synthetic resin is a synthetic high molecular polymer. The most important application is to make plastics. It is estimated that it will take thousands of years to bury it in the soil. Time doesn't rot either. The special case team and Deputy Secretary Huang tended to think that the corpse of the amber boy was a work of art, or in other words, a work of performance art. In recent years, performance art is disgusting with blood, brutality and obscenity, and the tendency of perversion has become common practice.Many performance arts use animal and human corpses as materials, and the visual effects are so jaw-dropping that some viewers vomited on the spot.

In 2002, a performance artist married Mule. In 2003, a performance artist hung himself from a beam with iron chains. With the help of a doctor, the blood from his body dripped into a heated plate. People watched his blood boil, burn, evaporation. There is also a performance artist who ate a baby and took pictures with a camera to record the whole creepy process. These appalling and incomprehensible performance arts all took place in China, which aroused public shock and criticism. The Ministry of Culture once issued a notice prohibiting the performance or display of bloody, brutal and obscene performance art in various places. As an art group, Songzhuang not only has many painters, but also sculptors and performance artists. Deputy Secretary Huang said that Songzhuang currently has nearly a hundred professional artists engaged in performance art creation. It is a loose group. Most of the artists are from easel painting, and a few of them are engaged in underground rock music. . Professor Liang arranges the work, and finding out the source of the corpse is the focus of solving the unknown corpse case. The police in the same state immediately issued an investigation report to each sub-bureau. The police station and police office under its jurisdiction compiled a list of the one-year-old boy who had disappeared recently, compared it with the deceased, and asked the family members to identify it. The special case team was stationed in the sending village, and conducted a one-by-one investigation of the personnel engaged in performance art, focusing on finding molds and raw materials for making artificial amber. Songzhuang was a remote village ten years ago, but now there are many restaurants, and even a commercial street. The roadside shops are decorated in different styles, showing an artistic atmosphere. You can still see many foreigners with cameras on the street. . Deputy Secretary Huang drove to Songzhuang with a team of criminal police and the special case team. As soon as he arrived at the police station of Songzhuang, a bald man broke in. He took out a pair of handcuffs and handcuffed himself, yelling to see the leader. The bald man shouted: I want to see the biggest official here. Deputy Secretary Huang asked the person in charge of the police office in puzzlement: Is this person a thief? The person in charge of the police office said, "We didn't arrest him. Look at the handcuffs, he put them on himself." Su Mei asked: "What does this person want to do? Do you want to report the crime?" Hualong warned: Don't make trouble. The bald man said: I will not report the case, I will surrender myself. Professor Liang asked: What did you do? The bald man said: I know you dug up an amber under the bridge, and I want to talk to the leader. Deputy Secretary Huang pointed to Professor Liang and said: This is the leader of the special case team, and he has the highest position. Professor Liang said: I see that you are really sincere, and you put on the handcuffs yourself, so tell me. The bald man said: There is a child in the amber, which is an art work I created called "Frozen Summer".