Serious Crime Unit 1

Chapter 578 The shocking discovery of bones (2)
There were three boxes of mineral water in the police car, but Zhou Ting didn't want to go get them because it would take a lot of time to go back and forth, and it was almost noon. They had already told Guan Shanlin that they wanted to have dinner in Songzhuang.So Zhou Ting put his head into the stream to drink water. Jiang Yiming laughed that he could drink like a cow.

After drinking, Zhou Ting stood up and walked south. Before he had walked ten steps, he found traces of digging on a piece of land, exposing black soil. The exposed area was about two and a half meters long and 1.5 meters long. It is wide and is relatively new soil.

"Captain Jiang, come and take a look." Zhou Ting felt suspicious and shouted to Jiang Yiming who was not far away.

"What did you find?" Jiang Yiming turned around and walked towards Zhou Ting, asking as he walked.

"I found signs of digging."

Jiang Yiming quickly came to Zhou Ting. Zhou Ting, who was squatting on the ground, pointed at the fresh soil and said, "Look, this is very much like the width and length of a tomb."

Jiang Yiming saw several shoe prints on the new soil, so he took out his Canon camera and took pictures of the shoe prints. After taking more than a dozen photos from various angles, he squatted down to look at them, and then stepped on them with his feet. The soil felt very strong. He dug the soil carefully with a hoe to avoid breaking the cultural relics or other things.Zhou Ting used an engineering shovel to spread the soil dug out by Jiang Yiming.

There was a soft "dong" sound, and Jiang Yiming felt that the hoe seemed to have hit something. He quickly dropped the hoe, squatted down, put on gloves, and used his hands to peel away the soil. A semicircular object was revealed, which he immediately recognized. That's the human skull.

Zhou Ting also squatted down and scraped the soil with his hands. After a few seconds, they saw a complete skull!They were slightly surprised: Songzhuang implemented cremation 25 years ago, where did the skull come from?And it's a female skull.The female skull is relatively small, the bone surface is smooth, the eyebrow arch is not obvious, and the frontal tubercle is obvious.The cheekbones are not prominent, the nipples are small, and the orbits are shallow.Jiang Yiming could tell at a glance.

Zhou Ting took out an extra-large evidence bag from the investigation box, spread the bag on the ground, gently placed the soil-covered skull on top, and then continued to dig up the soil. Five minutes later, another hand and foot bones were pulled out, followed by 5 ribs, and finally a complete set of human bones, a total of 24 bones.

Jiang Yiming stood up, took out his mobile phone and called Wu Jiang and Luo Jin respectively, explaining the situation to them and asking them to come over and take a look.Luo Jin and Lu Yingying were close to Jiang Yiming, and they arrived quickly.

Luo Jin squatted down, picked up the skull with gloved hands, observed it carefully for a while and said, "This is a woman's skull. Judging from the wear of the teeth, it should be a young woman. Judging from the pubic symphysis, it is also Prove it.”

"Can you tell how old she is?" Jiang Yiming asked.

"We know that age can be judged by the shape of the teeth and pubic symphysis, with an error of less than two years, and height can also be calculated based on the multiple regression equation of multiple long bones, with an error of within two centimeters. I think she is 24 years old Between the ages of 25 and [-], the specific age will only be accurate after instrument testing and calculation."

"Approximately how many years has it been since she died?"

"This is more complicated and difficult to judge. It depends on many factors such as ambient temperature, humidity, the number of bacteria in the soil, whether it is sealed, etc. However, based on the conditions of the soil, the weight of the skull, the degree of corrosion, etc., it is likely that she will die at least for more than 20 years.”

"Can you tell with instruments?"

"Yes, but it still cannot be accurate to the month. The longer the skeleton is buried in the soil, the harder it is to accurately judge it."

"Songzhuang implemented cremation in the entire village in 1992. This deceased person must have been murdered."

"I dare not judge this. All 206 bones in her body are intact. At least it can be judged that she did not die because her bones were broken by heavy objects, unless she was killed with a sharp weapon."

Wu Jiang and Xiao Ke also came, and everyone expressed their opinions around the pile of bones.

"Assuming she was murdered, what should we do?" Jiang Yiming asked.

"First of all, we need to sift through all the floating soil here to see if we can find any physical evidence left by the deceased, such as buttons, watches, accessories, etc., so that we can find the source of the body. We may not be able to find anything left by the murderer. ." Wu Jiang replied.

"Team Jiang, before you started digging, did you find out when the floating soil was dug up?" Luo Jin asked.

"Before I started digging, I took photos. I took 15 photos in total. Take a look." Jiang Yiming handed the camera to Luo Jin. After Luo Jin looked at it, he handed the camera to Wu Jiang.

"Great, there are 15 different kinds of footprints on these 4 photos, and they are relatively clear, because our city has not had heavy rain in the past [-] days, so the footprints left on them have not been washed away. This is a blessing from God. Helping us." Wu Jiang was a little excited. "This should be a murder case. If the relatives of the deceased secretly buried her here, there would definitely be a coffin, because she is an adult. Even if she died as an idiot, her parents would be afraid of spending money on cremation. A simple coffin, this is the custom of our city." Jiang Yiming said firmly.

"If it was buried here 20 years ago, the coffin should have rotted into soil, right?" Lu Yingying asked.

"No, even if the coffin is completely rotted, it cannot completely turn into soil. Even if it turns into soil, its color and composition will be different. Also, if a normal death is buried here, it is impossible to dig a pit facing the sky. Yes, the custom in our city is to dig holes into the mountains, just like cave dwellings." Wu Jiang is a native of the Yangtze River and is of a certain age, so he is well aware of the local customs.

"But why would someone dig her grave 20 years after she died? Let alone a wild grave?"

"Maybe she has something precious with her?"

"Impossible. How could a person who was hastily buried after death have valuable burial objects?"

"Okay, let's go back to Songzhuang for lunch first. It's already 1 p.m." Just as he was talking, Jiang Yiming's cell phone rang. It was Guan Shanlin calling, urging them to go back to the village committee for dinner. Jiang Yiming said he would leave immediately. , and then hang up.

"Captain Jiang, I'll stay here to watch the scene. After you finish eating, just bring me some food." Zhou Ting looked at Jiang Yiming and said.

"Aren't you hungry?"

"I'm hungry, but I'm young and it's okay to be hungry for a few 10 minutes."

"Good job!" Jiang Yiming patted Zhou Ting on the shoulder, "Let's pack up all these bones and take them to the car to prevent them from being exposed to the sun and evaporating the water."

Everyone took out their evidence bags and put the 206 bones into 10 bags respectively. Each person carried two evidence bags and walked towards the parking lot. Zhou Ting watched them go away, looked back, and fell into deep thought: She is who?Why was he buried in the wilderness?Maybe a very pretty girl?Why is she so beautiful and miserable?

Guan Shanlin and village party secretary Song Liangshan were waiting for them to have lunch at the entrance of the village committee. Jiang Yiming stepped forward to shake Song Liangshan's hand.Song Liangshan is 65 years old this year. He is a provincial model worker and a provincial party representative. He is very respected by the villagers. Jiang Yiming has special feelings for the respected grassroots cadres.

During the meal, Jiang Yiming told Song Liangshan about the discovery of a skeleton in Minghuang Valley and asked him what he thought?Song Liangshan said that from ancient times to the present, no villager has buried an adult in Minghuang Valley because Songzhuang is too far away from there.

Before cremation was implemented, when villagers in Songzhuang died, they would put the body into a coffin, then dig a cave dwelling in a nearby mountain, carry the coffin up the mountain and bury it. The furthest grave would not be more than two kilometers away, and Ming Ming The Imperial Valley is nearly five kilometers away from Songzhuang. How could it be a normal death?

With Song Liangshan's confirmation, Jiang Yiming felt more at ease. As expected, this was a murder case, but who was the murderer?Who is the deceased?
The skeleton case is the most difficult of all cases to solve, especially so many years later because there is so little physical evidence.

2
After they had lunch, they put the food in an insulated box and prepared to take it to Zhou Ting.Because I didn't think of using a sieve to sift the soil when I came here, I didn't bring a sieve with me. There are iron sieves of various sizes in the storage room of the criminal police team.

Jiang Yiming asked Xiao Ke to drive back to the team to get the sieve, because Xiao Ke had the best driving skills and he always drove when he was in a hurry.Others drove to Baishui Falls. After arriving at Baishui Falls, they got off the car and walked to Minghuang Valley.

When Zhou Ting saw the food coming, he took the incubator from Lu Yingying's hand, took out the food, and started to devour it.In order to facilitate the sifting of soil, Jiang Yiming asked everyone to crush the mud clods. After crushing the upper mud clods, he used an engineering shovel to dig up the soil below, find the mud clods, and continue kneading.

At 3:30 in the afternoon, Xiao Ke brought two iron sieves with mesh sizes of 1*1.2 cm.There were six of them in total, and they were divided into two groups. Two people in one group shoveled the soil onto the sieve, and one person shoveled the soil onto the sieve, allowing two of them to sift.

The people who shoveled the soil were more relaxed, and Lu Yingying and Wu Jiang were responsible. In fact, the soil dug up was not much, because the bones were not buried deep, about 50 centimeters, so it was only three or four cubic meters.By the time the sun was about to set in the evening, they had finished sifting all the floating soil.

As a result, no physical evidence was found except for large and small stones, only two incisors that had fallen from the skull.Everyone found it incredible.It stands to reason that the buttons on the clothes of the deceased will not rot, because the buttons are mostly made of resin, plastic, metal and other materials. These things are not easy to rot. After scientific testing, it is said that these things will last at least 50 years after being buried in the soil. It will take 200 years for it to completely decay.

(End of this chapter)