After committing a thousand perfect crimes, he joined criminal investigation

Chapter 9 On-site exploration, suspected burning area

Gao Yi and his party came here by a small river 6 kilometers away from Houcun.

As soon as he arrived here, Gao Yi saw two burning areas. The area away from the river was slightly larger, and the area 8 meters away on the right was smaller.

There is also a burned area in the cornfield about two meters to the right of the smaller area.

Since the case is still under investigation, the area has been cordoned off by the police, and the scene is well preserved.

"Angkor, are you familiar with this terrain? Do you know where this river leads?"

After taking a general glance at the scene, Gao Yi turned to look at Wu Jianzhang.

"To the North River."

Wu Jianzhang had investigated cases in several nearby villages before and was most familiar with this place. After hearing the words and looking a few times from a distance, he gave the answer.

"These ditches were dug by villagers in the 1980s to divert water for irrigation. So they all lead to the Beida River in the end.

However, Beidahe is also an artificial river. "

As he spoke, Wu Jianzhang looked around:

"I have been to Houcun, a place with about 200 households. This area is called [Northern Land] by them. This season, there are many crops such as corn.

It covers a large area and is far from the village, so except for people who are busy with farming, few people come to this place. "

"Ah."

Gao Yi wrote down Wu Jianzhang's introduction and reviewed it in his mind. Then he pointed at Xiaohe and said:

"I'd like to trouble Angkor. I'll investigate along this river to Beida River and see if there are any containers like gasoline barrels."

"it is good."

Wu Jianzhang did not hesitate and nodded in agreement.

"Don't tell me, it's really unreasonable for the deceased to travel so far and find such a remote place to set himself on fire."

At this time, Wei Qiang came over wearing rubber gloves and talked as he walked.

This place is 20 kilometers away from the county seat and 6 kilometers away from the nearest village. The road is difficult to drive, so the car can only be parked on the road a few kilometers away and walked here.

Even if the deceased really wanted to commit suicide, he wouldn't choose this place, right?
  "There are many doubts, but it is impossible to confirm that it was homicide... This case is interesting."

Gao Yi was quite calm and looked at the ground beneath his feet while speaking.

On the wet beach, it is difficult to leave footprints unless you wear high-heeled shoes.

Therefore, there were only shoe prints left by the deceased's high-heeled sandals at the scene.

If it was [homicide], then the murderer may have planned it for a long time by bringing the deceased to this place.

The murderer knew the topography of the place and knew that wearing flat shoes would leave no shoe prints.

However, Gao Yi always firmly believes in one thing - whoever comes here must leave traces.

It's just that some traces are more subtle and may not be discovered until the case is closed.

"I'll go around and see if there are any other clues."

Seeing Gao Yi entering the survey state, Wei Qiang was not unambiguous.

After saying that, they started investigating in the surrounding corn fields.

At this time, Gao Yi came to the burning area near the river.

The burning marks in this area were extremely irregular, and it was obvious that the deceased had struggled violently before his death.

Unfortunately, he fainted during the struggle and was burned to death.

Since it was in the wild, nothing else could be seen at the site except some burned ruins.

Gao Yi stood up and went to the second burning area eight meters away, near the cornfield.

The area was not large, and the burn marks on the surrounding ground were not obvious. It should have been caused by the deceased falling while running towards the river.

So, there were some pieces of unburned clothing around the burn area.

After a brief survey, Gao Yi turned his attention to the burning area in the cornfield two meters away.

This corn field belongs to spring corn, which is usually planted in early to mid-April. It is now more than one meter high.

According to previous analysis, this should be the first burning point, with the largest area and a diameter of almost three meters.

In this area, some corn was crushed and some was burned and turned black.

"Even a well-trained professional criminal cannot maintain a high level of alert when committing a crime.

This is the critical moment for revealing the flaws. ” ˆ ˆ Gao Yi came to the cornfield step by step. The moment his eyes were fixed on the burning area, he had already made a conclusion in his heart——

[The large piece of corn was burnt black and was severely burned. The burning time was no less than 2 minutes, but there was no radioactive ignition point, indicating that the deceased did not struggle when the fire was on. 】

Gasoline burns the body, and even those who are determined to die cannot sit still and sit there waiting to be burned to death.

[So the deceased was probably burned while in a coma, and struggled towards the river after waking up. This also explains that the burning area extended towards the river]

At this point, combined with the missing gasoline barrel and the manner of death of the deceased, Gao Yi can be sure that the deceased was a "homicide."

Putting on rubber gloves, Gao Yi opened up a piece of cornfield that was close to the ground and had been burned.

Down below, Gao Yi found ashes from some burned clothing.

In addition, there is a shoe mark left by the high heel of a high-heeled sandal.

Gao Yi took a photo of the shoe prints and stood up to investigate another burning area.

"Ok?"

But the moment Gao Yi stood up, a patch of burnt black ground twenty centimeters away from the shoe prints suddenly caught his attention.

Unlike the burned ground around it, although this area was burned, the color was obviously lighter.

Of course, the "obvious" here is relative to Gaoyi.

After all, if you want to complete a perfect crime, you can't do it without keen insight.

Every detail needs to be checked afterwards to ensure that no flaws will be found by the police.

After carefully cleaning the ash on it, the light-colored area became more obvious.

The light-colored area is not large, about half the size of an adult's hand.

Seeing this, Gao Yi's eyes suddenly flashed with brilliance, then he picked up the camera and took two photos.

After taking the photo, Gao Yi began to search carefully again.

In this way, Gao Yi surveyed the fire area of ​​the cornfield, which can be said to be digging three feet!
  "Xiao Gao, look what I found!"

At this moment, Wei Qiang suddenly ran over in a hurry.

Gao Yi stood up and took a closer look, only to see a plastic bag in his hand containing a red high-heeled sandal.

"Where was it found?"

Seeing this, Gao Yi immediately became energetic.

"The cornfield is more than a hundred meters away from here."

Wei Qiang replied, pointing to the northwest: "That side is close to the river beach. It should have fallen on the way from the other side of the river."

This is a major discovery.

Because a person under normal circumstances will put on his shoes as soon as possible after falling off.

Unless, the person was unable to wear shoes at the time.

There are two possibilities: being in a coma, or being coerced and unable to stop and put on shoes.

"Where are you, what did you find?"

After getting excited, Wei Qiang asked Xiang Gaoyi.

Judging from the way Gao Yi was sweating profusely, he probably wasn't idle either.

I wonder what he will discover this time?
  "Look here~"

Gao Yi didn't talk nonsense and pointed to a small patch of ground.

Compared with the surrounding area, the burnt black color of this area is lighter.

"This place..." Wei Qiang looked suddenly, but didn't find anything wrong, and then looked at Gao Yi in confusion: "Is there anything wrong?"

A trace of the ground burned by flames.

Nothing seems wrong~
  "Look at this small piece~" Seeing that Wei Qiang didn't find the key, Gao Yi bent down and pointed at an area the size of his palm, and drew a circle around it with his hand: "Its color and the traces of burning around it There is a significant difference.”

"Different burn marks?"

After Gao Yi said this, Wei Qiang also noticed the difference in the degree of blackness on the ground after burning.

Where do you start with "obviously different"?
  If you don’t pay special attention, you won’t notice it at all!
  Cursing in his heart, Wei Qiang raised his head, frowned, and asked:
  "What does this mean?"

(End of this chapter)