Female Forensic Bone Collector

Chapter 7 Stripping the Truth
"Yes, it was a robbery. After my brother-in-law passed away, my sister took care of the child by herself. Life was very difficult, but my sister was very stubborn and worked to raise the child by herself. Zhigang has been sensible since he was a child, especially when he got this After the illness, he was very low self-esteem and very out of gregarious. I didn’t have a son, so I passed on the handicraft handed down to him as a means of earning a living. I expected their family to live in peace from now on, but a In the midwinter night, my sister was off the night shift and met a robber. My sister was stabbed multiple times and died on the street. But when I got the news from the police and rushed to the hospital, her body had been taken by Zhigang. I took it away, and I have rarely seen this child since then. But..." The old man didn't continue.

"But what?" Liu Chunxiao asked immediately.

The old man hesitated, he thought for a while: "I still don't know where my sister is buried!"

Wang Yanan immediately asked: "Do you still have a photo of your sister? When you were young!"

The old man nodded: "Wait a minute, I'll look for it!"

The waiting time was always extremely long, and Wang Yanan walked up and down the living room anxiously.

"Let me say, Team Wang, please sit down. Professor Ding is old and his hands and feet are not very flexible. Naturally, he will be slower to find things." Liu Chunxiao was almost dizzy by Wang Yanan's pacing back and forth.

Wang Yanan glared: "You are the same as Xiao Tong. Call me 'Yanan', so I can hear it comfortably. 'Team Wang' is called by my subordinates. We are on the same level, so you don't have to flatter me!"

Liu Chunxiao grinned and said nothing.

"I've kept you two waiting for a long time. These are old photos, a bit outdated." Professor Ding came out holding two yellowed photo albums.

Opening the photo album, it was as if uncovering a dusty memory, Wang Yanan quickly recognized the young and slender woman with two long braids in the photo.She pointed to the woman and asked, "Professor Ding, is this when your sister was young?"

"Yes, this picture was taken when she was there. My sister is 21 years younger than me, and my father had her when he was 60. There is a big age gap between us, brother and sister." Professor Ding smiled lightly.

"How old was she when she died?"

"It's three days away from being 39 years old, but when she was alive, she couldn't tell her age at all. She loves beauty very much!"

Wang Yanan stared closely at the young woman in the photo: "Professor Ding, are you sure you haven't found your sister's burial place yet?"

"I asked Zhigang later, and he said he was buried at sea because there was no money to buy a cemetery."

After leaving Professor Ding's house, on the way back to the Public Security Bureau, Liu Chunxiao suddenly said: "Wang Dui, oh, no, Yanan, I have a friend from the Civil Affairs Bureau, and they have the funeral records of our Tianchang City. Check back to 20 years ago."

"That's great, I'll drive, you call him immediately." Wang Yanan took out from his pocket the piece of paper with Huang Zhigang's mother's name and time of death that he asked Professor Ding before leaving, and handed it to him. To Liu Chunxiao, "You call now, don't delay!"

Liu Chunxiao parked the car on the side of the road and exchanged seats with Wang Yanan.

Early the next morning, watching my mother rushing in and out of the kitchen, it was as if the accident last night never happened at all.When Zhang Tonglin went out, she walked back to her mother's room uneasy, opened the small drawer of the bedside table, and counted the pills inside again. After she was sure that the number was correct, she greeted her mother and left. home.

When passing by the gate of his uncle's building, he met his uncle who got up early to exercise unexpectedly. Zhang Tong remembered the content of his father's suicide note, and he hesitated in his steps.

"Tongtong, what's wrong? Is your mother wrong again today?"

Zhang Tong shook his head: "No, uncle, don't worry. My mother is fine today, and your medicine should have worked yesterday."

"That's good," the old man took a deep breath, with a sad expression on his face, "Your mother is also a miserable person!"

"Uncle...why is Dad willing to leave my mother and me to leave this world?" Zhang Tong looked earnestly at the old man in front of him.

"Forget it, it's all over, treat your mother well, her life is too hard!" After speaking, the old man took a distressed look at Zhang Tong, then turned around silently and left without looking back.

yes!Now she only has a mother, so she must take good care of her.Mother!A thought suddenly flashed in her mind - medicine!There must be something wrong with the medicine, otherwise, why did my mother not get worse after taking it for so many days, but last night... Zhang Tong didn't dare to continue thinking about it, so she quickly turned around and ran towards home.

"Tongtong, why are you back?" Mother was surprised.

Zhang Tong rushed into his mother's bedroom without saying a word, opened the drawer, took out the medicine bottle, unscrewed the light yellow cap of the small medicine bottle with trembling hands, poured out all the medicine inside, and waited to see the palm of his hand clearly. With a few pills in his heart, Zhang Tong's heart suddenly hung in his throat.She put the pills in her hand on the table, and took out all the remaining eight medicine bottles one after another, and poured out the medicines one by one.As expected, if he didn't look carefully, Zhang Tong couldn't believe that what his mother took was vitamin tablets!At first, all the prescription medicines that my uncle prescribed were put in by myself, so why have they turned into vitamin tablets now?No wonder the mother's reaction has become so slow.

"Mom, who used this medicine?"

Mother shook her head blankly: "I don't know."

"Then has anyone been here in the past few days?"

Mother frowned, and thought about it carefully: "Your uncle, and only you, Uncle Chen, the courier..."

"No! Impossible!" Zhang Tong cried out, his voice raised a lot unconsciously.Looking up and seeing the fear in her mother's eyes, Zhang Tong couldn't help feeling deeply regretful.She took a deep breath and softened her tone, "Mom, it's okay, you take a break, I'll call uncle."

"Oh." Mother nodded and walked out of her bedroom nervously.

After Zhang Tong closed the door, he quickly dialed his uncle's phone number: "Uncle, I will send my mother to your hospital immediately and stay for a while... No! There is no other reason, I am worried about leaving her at home alone... Alright, I'll take a taxi there!"

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Tong looked at the pile of vitamin tablets on the table in front of him, and suddenly felt uneasy like never before.She subconsciously looked up at the photo of her father on the wall, gritted her teeth, and walked out of the bedroom.

"Do you have something on your mind, Zhang Forensic Doctor?" Zhao Junjie hesitated again and again, but still carefully said what was in his heart.It has been more than a month since I practiced here at the grassroots level, and I have made a lot of notes. I have spit out what I need to spit out, and I have seen what I need to see. However, I have paid so much, and I am still far away from the realization of my real goal. For this reason, he was extremely distressed.

Zhang Tong seemed a little different today. When she just walked into the office, Zhao Junjie could see the heavy thoughts on her face. The most important thing was that she was late today, who was never late.Has his chance finally come?

"I'm fine." Zhang Tong replied dryly, without even bothering to raise his head to look at him, he walked straight into the inner dressing room.

The door was closed afterward, and Pan Jian took the opportunity to glare at Zhao Junjie: "Why are you talking too much? Didn't you see her face today? Be careful of being scolded!"

"I don't care about her!" Zhao Junjie muttered aggrievedly, but then glanced unwillingly at the tightly closed locker room door.

Early in the morning, Wang Yanan, who had just arrived at the gate of Chengnan Hospital, was on fire. The medical records clearly showed that the patient had come for a follow-up visit and took away the medicine after two o'clock in the morning, but Zhao Yun and his two subordinates didn't look at anything. Arrived, which means that this thread has been broken.After walking out of the hospital gate, Wang Yanan slapped the car door angrily and roared, almost poking Zhao Yun's face with his finger: "How many times have I told you not to assign novices to be on duty. It's good now, he's dangling under your noses I walked around, but you didn't even see a ghost, where do you tell me to go and catch him!"

Zhao Yun's face turned red and white, and he lowered his head.

"Captain Wang, it's my fault, I shouldn't have done this, I ask for punishment!"

"Punish the fart!" Wang Yanan frowned and roared, "If someone dies again, can you take this responsibility?"

"Captain Wang, it's my fault! I made a mistake! Vice-captain Zhao has been on guard for most of the night, and I accidentally fell asleep during the shift in the second night. It has nothing to do with Vice-captain Zhao, it's my responsibility!..." The subordinates around Zhao Yun constantly reviewed themselves.

Wang Yanan waved his hands angrily, ignored him, and continued to grit his teeth and said, "Zhao Yun, you are also an old policeman, why do you have such a short memory! You have to stare at people, and even a fly is in front of you." If you fly by, you have to show me clearly that I didn’t send you here to sleep and enjoy life. You tell me what to say about you!” She sighed heavily: “Hey...forget it, let’s talk about it when we go back! "

When everyone was about to get in the car, Wang Yanan's cell phone rang.Seeing that it was the number of the network monitoring team, Wang Yanan suddenly became energetic: "Vice Captain Cheng, how is it?"

"The criminal suspect just completed a transaction 5 minutes ago. Although I didn't find his IP address, I locked the IP address of the counterparty. The IP address shows that she is at [-], Building [-], Donghe Garden, east of the city. room. Because of the hot weather, the pet owner requested to pick up the goods immediately!"

"Did he agree?"

"I promised, I'll be there in half an hour!"

"Okay, let's go there right away!" After hanging up the phone, Wang Yanan seemed to put all the unhappiness just out of the blue, and excitedly said to Zhao Yun who was driving beside him: "The turnaround is here, hurry to the Donghe Garden in the east of the city, we have to go to the East River Garden in the east of the city." Be there in 15 minutes. Don't let him run away!"

Wang Xiaoyue, a resident of Room [-], Building [-], Donghe Garden, who was in a trance because her pet had just passed away, heard the doorbell ring, and her first reaction was to open the door.However, after the few people standing in front of her showed their IDs, she never dreamed that these stern-looking people turned out to be policemen.

"You are……"

Wang Yanan didn't intend to tell the depressed woman in front of him her real intention of coming.Out of the corner of her eyes, she caught sight of a dead pet dog lying on the floor in the back room, and then said calmly, "Don't worry, we're here to check if you just ordered pet taxidermy on the same city website?"

Wang Xiaoyue nodded: "Yes, what happened?"

"It's okay, we hope you will cooperate with our work." Wang Yanan said, then turned to Zhao Yun and said, "You stay and protect the safety of the victim. Xiao Zhang and I will go downstairs."

"I'll go!"

Wang Yanan stared: "This is an order!" She said, and walked out of the door without looking back.

Time passed by every minute, and not long after, a creamy yellow Jinbei van turned into the corner of the community, and the front of the car was pointing towards Sandong.Wang Yanan frowned, the color was wrong, did he make a mistake?
"Team King? Do you want to join?"

Wang Yanan shook her head and whispered, "Wait and see!"

After the car was parked downstairs, without turning off the engine, the door opened, and a man came out of the car.But the strange thing is that the weather is very hot now, but this man is wearing a hat, sunglasses, and even long-sleeved clothes and gloves, as if he is very afraid that the morning sun will burn his skin.

"Quick! It's him!" Seeing this weird outfit, Wang Yanan suddenly opened the left car door and rushed out, followed closely by two subordinates.

"Huang Zhigang, we are the police!"

Just after revealing his identity, the sudden movement startled the man who hadn't left the van for a few steps.Before he had time to think about it, he immediately pushed away the policeman who had already walked beside him, and quickly turned around and got into his van.Since the engine hadn't turned off just now, he slammed on the accelerator and slammed the steering wheel. The car quickly backed up more than ten meters, turned onto the green area of ​​the community, rolled over the flower bed, and rushed to the gate of the community.Wherever they passed by, people ran away one after another.

"Quick! Don't let him run away!" At this time, Zhao Yun, who had just heard the noise and ran down the stairs, had already gotten into the car parked not far away. Chased out.

Wang Yanan stomped her feet anxiously, quickly took out her mobile phone, dialed the switchboard in the bureau, and asked to stop the van along the way.

It was the rush hour for work in Tianchang City at this time, and the vehicles on the main road formed a long queue in no time.However, when Wang Yanan and his subordinates chased to the door, the police car and the van had long since disappeared.

The traffic jam added a lot of difficulty to the police's pursuit, but despite this, the cream yellow van driven by Huang Zhigang was like a fish being driven towards a fishing net, and was about to be forced to stop outside the city. We were on the ring road, but the milk yellow van still didn't give up, rushing from left to right, trying to break free from the gradually tightening encirclement of the police behind us.

At this moment, the police car driven by Zhao Yun, who had been left behind by several parking spaces, suddenly accelerated and rushed into the isolated green belt on the side of the road. The moment he passed the van, he turned the steering wheel suddenly and rushed down.

With a "bang", the van was finally slammed to a stop, and the police car stuck firmly to the body of the van.

In the van, the man wearing sunglasses closed his eyes in despair.

Huang Zhigang has been silent since he was arrested, which is also expected in Wang Yanan's view.After getting his latest residential address through the local police station, she called Zhang Tong and a group of on-site technical survey personnel to go together.

This is an old-fashioned residential building located in the old residential area in the south of Tianchang City. Due to the imminent demolition, the surrounding residents have already moved out one after another.Along the way, I occasionally saw one or two puppies and cats abandoned by the owner who moved.

Huang Zhigang rented a basement.I heard from the landlord that there is an old-fashioned boiler in the basement, which was previously used to heat the surrounding area. He doesn’t understand why the tenant named him to rent this basement with a boiler. Generally speaking, most people would not want to sleep by themselves. There is a big boiler in the room, but the guest is obviously very happy.The landlord repeatedly stated that if he hadn't watched the tenant pay the rent on time every month, he would have driven the tenant out long ago, because the weird skin of the tenant made him uncomfortable.

After taking out the key and opening the heavy door in the basement, the landlord quickly disappeared into the night behind him.

Wang Yanan and Zhang Tong walked into the basement one after the other.

The space here is very large, the lights are dim, and there is a weird smell, a bit like the hospital's disinfectant mixed with the smell of rot.

In a corner of the basement, a row of large iron cages covered with thick rainproof cloth was neatly arranged, and opposite to them was the old boiler.

The two looked at each other and walked towards the row of big iron cages first.Wang Yanan stretched out his hand and pulled off the rainproof cloth. With the shaking off the dust, what appeared in front of them was a terrifying scene—the big iron cage was inlaid with a layer of glass, just like an exhibition window in a museum. Behind the glass, the human skeleton stared at the uninvited guests who took off the rainproof cloth with their black eye sockets.

The eerie silence at this moment made people feel creepy.

"Yanan, the chemical product you asked me to check is an acid, which is used by taxidermists to dissolve the remaining organisms on the bones." Zhang Tong pointed at the bones in front of him and murmured, "This is It's worthy!"

Sweat gathered on Wang Yanan's eyebrows, irritating her eyes, but even so, Wang Yanan still stared at the terrible collection in front of her without blinking.

"Can you identify the time and gender of the skeletons?"

Zhang Tong nodded, turned up the brightness of the emergency light in his hand, and identified one by one from the first display cabinet: "Female, aged between 35 and 38 years old, has given birth, judging from the glossiness of the bones, it should be in the Five to ten years ago...Yanan, I found a line of characters!" As he spoke, Zhang Tong bent down and carefully identified the ankle of the skeleton, "This was made in 2002..." Zhang Tong turned around suddenly "Yanan, there is the word 'mother' written on it, I think this is probably Huang Zhigang's mother! You see, among all the skeletons, only this one is sitting, posing It was placed very carefully, and there were even fake flowers!  …”

"Oh my god, it's no wonder Professor Ding said that after his sister passed away, she never disappeared. It turned out to be made into..." She sighed heavily, looked up at this special skeleton, and couldn't say anything for a while. Out.

There are a total of seven skeletons in the entire storage cabinet, and the careful suspect even marked the name and age of the deceased under each skeleton.Looking at the remaining three empty cabinets that hadn't been filled in time, everyone present understood what that meant.

Inside the boiler was a thick layer of ash, occasionally mixed with some fine bone chips.Apparently, this is where the suspect used to dry out the bones.Thinking that the thousands of bones in the window behind him were taken out one by one and treasured, Zhang Tong's hands could not help trembling slightly.

Take a closer look at the entire basement, it is clearly a hell on earth!On the meat hook hanging from the beam in the center of the corner, crimson blood can still be seen faintly on it. Next to the hook is a large pool, which exudes a strong bloody smell, and two [-]-liter large lead barrels beside the pool Inside, the pungent sulfur trioxide is in full bloom, and a thick layer of unknown oily substance is floating on the surface.The wall in one corner of the basement was covered with all kinds of knives. Without testing, it could be seen from the deep layer of blood on the surface that these knives had been used to do terrible things.

Wang Yanan couldn't bear to continue watching. She took out her mobile phone and dialed the number in the bureau: "... Please send an additional on-site technical team to No. 38 Jukou Street as soon as possible..."

Back at the bureau, it was already late at night, but for Zhang Tong, his work had just begun, and there were many things to do. Every skeleton brought back from the scene had to be classified into categories for necessary identification, so as to wait for a short time. Upcoming DNA testing.The entire anatomy room was busy, and almost all the forensic doctors and assistants were present.

Liu Chunxiao had been lingering at the door of the dissecting room for a long time, and rushed to the bureau as soon as he received a call from Zhao Junjie.At this moment, he silently watched Zhang Tong's busy back through the small transparent glass window on the door of the dissecting room.Recently, whenever Liu Chunxiao was free, he would come here and watch his beloved woman from a distance, but he didn't dare to approach her.Zhang Tong's mind is still too fragile, Liu Chunxiao is afraid that his recklessness will hurt her, for this reason, he would rather stay aside and pay attention silently.

Liu Chunxiao's persistence was all seen by Zhao Junjie on the side. He shook his head helplessly, thought for a while, then turned around and went back to the criminal police office.

"Reporter Zhao, why did you come back so soon?" Xiao Deng, who has the lowest qualifications in the criminal police team, couldn't help joking, "Didn't you say you were going to the forensic room? Isn't our place too boring?"

Zhao Junjie pouted: "Let's come here, there are too many people! By the way, haven't you spoken yet?"

Xiao Deng shook his head and spread his hands: "How can it be so easy? Do you think this is acting?"

"Where's Captain Wang?"

"Still in the interrogation room!"

Wang Yanan was almost impatient. Huang Zhigang in front of him had a calm and composed face. No matter what he asked him, he always smiled dismissively.

"Captain Wang, what should we do?" Assistant Zheng Jie approached Wang Yanan and asked in a low voice.

Wang Yanan frowned, then opened the folder, took out the first photo, and pushed it in front of Huang Zhigang: "You should know who she is better than us, right?"

Huang Zhigang was stunned for a moment, and a trace of panic flashed between his brows.He looked away from the photo and remained silent.

"Since you refuse to speak, well, let's change the subject and tell me about bones. Why do you want to collect bones?"

This question obviously opened up Huang Zhigang's chatterbox. In an instant, his eyes were full of spirits, and his words became eloquent.

"Bone? That is the purest and most precious treasure in the world! It is an unbelievable substance! It is as hard as granite, but lighter than wood, and it still has vitality!"

"Bones have no vitality! You are wrong!" Wang Yanan interrupted him suddenly.

"You nonsense! Bones can make life eternal! It won't rust, it won't corrode, it's an eternal continuation of life. Compared with those rotten skin bags, bones are much more sacred. You don't deserve to talk about bones, You don’t understand bones!” Huang Zhigang jumped up suddenly as if he had been electrocuted, roaring hoarsely, if it wasn’t for the shiny handcuffs on his wrists that firmly fixed his hands on the chair, Wang Yanan had no doubt that Huang Zhigang would rushed to himself angrily.

"Sit down! Be honest!" The policeman beside him quickly pushed him back.

"That's why you kept your mother's bones, right?"

Upon hearing this, the pupils of Huang Zhigang's eyes shrank: "Where did you put my mother? You are not allowed to touch her! You are not allowed to touch her!..."

"We can return it to you, but the prerequisite is that you must tell us why you killed so many innocent women?"

"Well, I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything. The reason I killed them is actually very simple. Their bones are so perfect! Especially the moment they were just taken out of the stove! They are so dazzlingly beautiful! You can also Say, I let them have eternal life!" As he spoke, a slight smile crossed the corner of Huang Zhigang's mouth, and his eyes focused on the front.

Wang Yanan felt cold all over.

When Wang Yanan opened the door and walked out of the interrogation room, Wang Yanan looked up and saw Zhang Tong and Professor Ding standing in front of her. Her heart sank suddenly. This moment was the last thing she wanted to face.

"Yanan, Professor Ding was notified to come to identify the corpse. It is Huang Zhigang's mother. But before that, he wants to meet you first!"

Wang Yanan nodded and sighed secretly: "Then come to my office!"

In the evening, Wang Yanan took the initiative to ask Zhang Tong out for the first time, but she didn't speak for a long time in the cafe, her eyes were blank.

"Yanan, I have never seen you like this before when the case was closed. Are you still depressed about Professor Ding?"

Wang Yanan nodded: "Thinking about my only sister who can't be rested in peace after death, but has to survive in this world in this special way, no one can figure it out. Not to mention that after so many years, she still has to do it with her own hands. Bury my sister's bones, but my sister's son has become a murderer, and human life is worthless in the eyes of my nephew, how can an old man bear this?" At this point, Wang Yanan suddenly raised her head and looked at Zhang Tong seriously, Asked word by word: "Do you think there is a soul in this world?"

Zhang Tong's heart skipped a beat: "You mean..."

"The ghost of the dead!"

"Why do you ask that?"

"I don't know, it's just a sudden thought. Xiaotong, you deal with the dead every day, have you ever thought about this problem? If the dead have ghosts, it's like Huang Zhigang's mother, who is in the window every day. What do you think she would think if she watched her child so motionless and took the life of others?"

Zhang Tong didn't answer this question, and she didn't even take into account what Wang Yanan said later.At this moment, there was only one thought in her mind, which she had never considered seriously before, and that was the crying sound of the little girl that kept ringing in her ears in the nightmare that always haunted her.She couldn't help but frowned, could it be that her sister was really dreaming for herself?Is my sister no longer in this world?
She couldn't answer the question.

"Yanan, how is Zhao Yun? I haven't heard from him for so long."

"He was transferred to Shanghai." Wang Yanan couldn't help but praise, "I usually look down on him and always say that he has no masculinity and doesn't look like a criminal policeman. It's really a surprise to drive into someone at this critical moment. It was beyond everyone's expectation. Xiao Zheng, who sent him off, said that he couldn't move his lower body, yet he could still laugh!"

"What did the doctor say about his injury?"

"I heard that the third vertebra was broken, and surgery is very difficult. Only by going to Shanghai to find a neurologist can I hope he can stand up again!"

Zhang Tong didn't speak, and he knew very well what the consequences of breaking the third vertebra were.Looking at Wang Yanan with a complicated expression in front of him, Zhang Tong really couldn't bear to let her suffer the blow of disappointment and self-blame again.

Late at night, lying on the bed, Zhang Tong couldn't fall asleep for a long time, under the dim light, everything in the room became so strange.

My mother is still living in my uncle's hospital, so the house is empty, only Zhang Tong is alone.

Originally, she didn't want to come home tonight, but Zhang Tong never forgot about the little girl in her dream.

In her hand was an old photo frame that was already a bit old. Inside was a family photo that she secretly hid. Beside her father was her mother, and in front of her were two little girls aged five or six. In the photo was a family of four. Had a good laugh.This is the only photo of my sister left in this world. Zhang Tong cherishes this old photo in his hand like protecting his own life.Her fingers gently stroked the surface of the old photo, and a cold feeling instantly filled her whole body.Her father has already passed away from this world. For so many years, looking for her missing sister has become a persistent yearning for her. No matter what others say, Zhang Tong will never accept the idea that her sister has left this world.

So, where has my sister been all these years?While thinking hard, Zhang Tong subconsciously scanned every corner of the room inch by inch. Suddenly, the scene in front of her interrupted her thoughts.She stood up quickly, opened the door of the bookcase, and a red and green international express mail stuck on the door fell to the floor with a plop.Zhang Tong frowned and bent down to pick up the courier on the ground. He recognized that it was the strange American courier that his mother had signed for him a few days ago. Lost things.But Zhang Tong clearly remembered that he threw the courier into the drawer of the bookcase casually, why is it so casually caught on the door of the cabinet now?

Also, the strangest thing is that the courier in his hand feels light to the touch, it has already been opened, and at this moment, the huge courier envelope is empty!
Zhang Tong had a bad premonition, put the express envelope in the drawer, and lay on the bed thinking about all these strange phenomena.

"Have you heard? A girl disappeared on the way to school!" Zhang Tong was about to take out the key to open the door of the locker room cabinet, when a sentence in her ear made her heart sink.She looked back and saw that it was Xiao Wang, the switchboard operator who was about to leave the night shift.

"What happened? Is it a report from 110?"

Xiao Wang nodded as he changed his clothes: "Sister Zhang, the case record shows that a 16-year-old girl was reported missing! It's really worrying!"

No one wants to hear such news.

One day two weeks later, on the outskirts of Tianchang City.This is the time when the spring is bright and beautiful, so there are many people who come to the suburbs where there are few people usually come.

A group of middle school students, led by their teacher, are camping by a ditch.It was almost time for lunch, so some male students were going to follow the teacher's instructions and go to the woods by the ditch to find some dry branches to start the fire.

Suddenly, a strange smell attracted everyone: "Squad leader, is there a dead mouse in front, why is it so smelly?"

The squad leader was a little chubby, he stretched out his hand and scratched his head: "I don't know, take a look! If there are dead mice, we won't pick up the branches over there, it's disgusting!"

Just as he was talking, a scream came from beside him: "Look! Dead rat!"

Everyone's attention was immediately attracted.What appeared in front of him was a large pile of garbage exuding a foul smell, just leaning against a mound beside the ditch, and the outer packaging bag whose original color could not be identified for a long time could be vaguely seen.

The classmate who had a good thing ran and called the teacher, saying: "Teacher, someone threw a lot of rubbish over there! Go and have a look!"

The teacher who led the team looked suspiciously at the children around him, and then looked back at the pile of suspicious objects. After carefully examining them for a long time, he finally made up his mind: "Students, the teacher will go down and have a look first, and wait to find out what it is." After cleaning things, let's clean them up together and restore nature to a clean and tidy environment, shall we?"

"it is good--"

The enthusiasm of the students for environmental protection deeply inspired the leading teacher. He frowned, found a thick branch, covered his nose with his left hand, and carefully poked open the covering on the pile of garbage with the branch with his right hand. The scene appeared before him Everyone was stunned immediately!Immediately, several people vomited on the spot.

It was a rotten arm!

At the beginning, the teacher was still holding back, but the pungent stench came to the face one after another, making people dizzy.

Zhang Tong came out of the scene with the serious crime team.In front of him was a place that few people visited, surrounded by overgrown weeds, and the chirping of unknown bugs could be heard from time to time.After getting out of the car, she walked towards the scene surrounded by the police tape, thinking to herself, if the camping middle school students hadn't discovered it by accident, she really doesn't know when this pile of corpses will be found.

Following her closely was another new assistant, intern forensic doctor Deng Ran. Today was his first appearance, so he seemed a little excited.

"Why are you so excited, you might run away if you don't know for a while!" Seeing this scene, Zhang Tong couldn't help but pour cold water on him.

"I'm not that fragile, forensic doctor Zhang! Just watch!"

Zhang Tong shook his head helplessly.

There was basically no movement at the scene, the group of terrified children hid far behind the big tree, glanced here from time to time, and then shivered.

Because the rubbish was piled on the side of the ditch, Zhang Tong didn't have that much strength, let alone at such a steep 75-degree angle, Deng Ran became her right-hand man at this moment.Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the two forensic doctors finally dragged the three large green garbage bags to the flat ground on the shore with great effort.Flies were flying around, and there were some nasty unknown bugs, Zhang Tong couldn't help muttering: "Old Zhao should be brought out, he will like these nasty little things!"

Lao Zhao is Zhang Tong's colleague and a forensic doctor. His specialty is the study of all corpse insects.

Deng Ran forced a smile, a trace of uneasiness flashed across his face.At this time, the videographer on the side came over, turned on the camera, and began to record the scenes of on-site work.

Bending down to open the tightly wrapped green garbage bag, a stench hit my face even more.As Zhang Tong expected, the intern beside him couldn't take it anymore. He muttered something vaguely, and then walked quickly to the parking place in the distance with a pale face.

"Forensic Zhang, should we wait for him?"

"No, let him take it easy! Let's get on with it!"

Zhang Tong continued to work on the work in hand without raising his head.

The three garbage bags were all bound with something like a dog leash, and the one that was loose was pulled apart by the teacher who reported the crime with a branch.Zhang Tong carefully opened one of them, and found that the remains of the body were wrapped in a worn white sheet. When the sheet was removed, what appeared in front of everyone was the lower body of a girl's corpse. A terrifying but neat large incision, and there was no black blood clot at the incision, which indicated that the dismemberment was carried out after the death of the deceased.After the other two large garbage bags were opened, they were the upper body, head, and arms of the corpse.Since the idlers on the scene had been taken far away, the specific situation of the scene could not be seen, so Zhang Tong immediately opened a large black plastic sheet, and put the body parts on it according to the original physiological position of the person. Carry out preliminary inspection.As a grass-roots forensic doctor with many years of work experience, she knows very well that the shorter the time she spends on the initial examination of the corpse, the more beneficial it is for the collection of first-hand evidence on the surface of the corpse!

In the end, what appeared in front of me was the corpse of a young girl. Although it had begun to decompose, judging from the facial features, biological age and clothes of the corpse, it was somewhat similar to the 16-year-old girl who disappeared two weeks ago in the report.Zhang Tong frowned, stood up and signaled to Wang Yanan beside him, Wang Yanan walked over with a serious face.

"The preliminary identification of the corpse is female, aged between 16 and 18 years old. Judging from the incisions, it was dismembered after death. Otherwise, I will inform you as soon as I return to the bureau for autopsy!"

Wang Yanan nodded, turned and left.

People who come to the dissecting room for the first time will feel an indescribable coolness rushing to their bones.But if you stay in it every day, it will feel different.

When Zhang Tong, the intern assistant Deng Ran, and the cameraman were preparing for the autopsy in the autopsy room, the police officer from the serious crime team suddenly called and asked to postpone the scheduled autopsy for half an hour. The mother of the 16-year-old girl who disappeared two weeks ago was called to identify the body and DNA samples were then ready for comparison.Zhang Tong knows very well that the sooner the identity of the deceased is confirmed, the more helpful it will be for them to solve the case smoothly!So, after hearing the news, she quickly put the white cloth on the broken body of the deceased again.Then, he sat quietly by the workbench, staring at the closed door of the dissection room without saying a word.

Not long after, the door of the dissection room was pushed open, and two people came in, one was Xiao Ding from the serious crime team, who was also a novice, and he had been here for less than half a year.The moment he entered the door, he quickly frowned, obviously the smell of death in this room made him very uncomfortable!The other is a middle-aged woman with a sad face, no need to ask, she is the girl's mother.Zhang Tong signaled Deng Ran to stand on one side with his eyes, while he hid in another corner of the room, keeping as far away from the family member as possible.

After seeking the girl's mother's opinion, Xiao Ding signaled to Deng Ran that he could take off the white cloth covering the body.At that moment, everyone's hearts suddenly rose to the throat, and they looked at the middle-aged woman nervously. Sure enough, the mother of the missing girl passed out after only one glance at the corpse.That dress is so familiar!The deceased was her daughter who had been missing for two weeks!
"Sister Zhang, why did you hide so far just now? You are not even afraid of the dead!" Deng Ran's childish face was full of doubts.

Zhang Tong sighed and said, "I'm not afraid of death, but I'm afraid of the pain of life and death."

A trace of sadness flashed across Deng Ran's eyes: "Sister Zhang, do you think the girl's mother will not let us dissect her daughter?"

"I don't know, but we can understand that feeling. After all, they are my relatives! But in order to solve the case and catch the murderer, we have no choice."

Deng Ran fell silent.

The clothes on the deceased's body were identified as the school uniform she wore on the day of her disappearance, but there was no obvious trace of mud on the whole set of clothes, and there was no sign of being washed by rain, which indicated that her body was recently abandoned. at the scene of the crime.A knotted scarf was wrapped around the neck of the corpse, along with a plastic strap and an identical one around the wrist.These evidences were carefully collected by Deng Ran in an evidence bag, sealed, and immediately sent to the trace identification team.

Next, Zhang Tong noticed that the same bruises were found on the girl's throat and wrist, and the edema found when the throat and trachea were cut, indicating that the deceased died of physiological suffocation caused by lack of oxygen. To put it simply Said she was strangled to death!The incisions on the corpse were neat and uniform, showing that the murderer used a very sharp electric cutting device, because the wound was left at one time, without any traces of dragging or shaking, except for the power of the electric tool, no matter what Whoever wants to cut it by hand, the wound will not look like this.

After determining the cause of death of the deceased, a special phenomenon appeared on the corpse, but she was very puzzled.Because the way the corpse rots is obviously abnormal!After she opened the chest cavity of the deceased with a Y-shaped incision, everyone was shocked by the scene in front of her. The inside of the girl's body was more rotten than the outside!This can't help but make people wonder whether the corpse may have been frozen.Although it is said that the decay of the corpse first starts from the inside of the abdomen of the corpse, which is mainly the result of the action of bacteria, but the degree of decay on the surface and inside should be similar, and the scene presented on the dissecting table at this moment is definitely two extremes. One is at the beginning, and the other has entered the middle and late stages!Under normal circumstances, this is simply impossible!Zhang Tong frowned, took a small scalpel, cut off the heart of the deceased, and then removed the tissue sample, put it under the electronic scanning microscope for analysis, and immediately found that there were a lot of heart muscle tissue in the sample. Large gaps indicate that ice crystals once appeared in the tissue, and it was the ice crystals that caused the rupture of the muscle fiber bundles.The body was indeed frozen, so what freezing equipment caused this state of tissue?

The meeting room was brightly lit, and the members of the serious crime team sat in a circle around the table without saying a word. Everyone looked at Zhang Tong who was speaking without saying a word.

"...the size of the ice crystals is inversely related to the speed of the freezing process. If you freeze quickly in liquid nitrogen or liquid oxygen, the ice crystals will be very small; on the contrary, if you freeze slowly, such as in your own home If it is carried out in a deep-freezing place such as a refrigerator or a meat storehouse in a food processing factory, then the ice crystals will be correspondingly much larger! According to the size of the gaps shown under the electronic scanning microscope, I deduce that the deceased was subjected to deep and slow freezing. Ordinary refrigerators cannot hold the body of the deceased, because the deceased is 1.6 meters five, and even if the deceased is folded, it cannot be stuffed in. The dismemberment, obviously, was carried out before the body was thrown, because the body There is no trace of freezing at the incision! From this, it can be seen that the deceased was hidden in a cold storage, or a large place similar to a freezer."

Wang Yanan nodded: "This clue is very important! Trace identification team, how are you doing?"

"We found some fine dark red particles from the knotted scarf left by the murderer. The sample analysis results showed that it was pig blood. The same blood sample was also extracted from the bandage. After inspection, it was consistent with the blood on the scarf. They are exactly the same, they all belong to pig blood. On the school uniform worn by the deceased, there are also the same dark red fine bloodstains. The shape of these bloodstains is not splashed, on the contrary, it clearly shows that they were rubbed on through indirect contact. The bloodstains are the most On the underarms of the school uniform and on the trouser legs of the school uniform at the two ankles. We can infer from this that the deceased was the pig's blood that was rubbed on when he was dragged by the armpit and the ankle with both hands! When the murderer committed the crime, there must have been a lot of fresh pig blood splashed on his body, which is why such an obvious secondary transfer occurred!"

"In this way, the murderer's occupation can be roughly concluded. He is likely to be engaged in pig slaughtering work. Generally speaking, some pig slaughtering factories will have corresponding freezers to store some pork. If so, our criminal suspect will have a location where the body is stored according to the inference!" Wang Yanan stood up, went to the whiteboard, drew a circle on the hanging map with a red pen, then pointed to the center and said: " This is the school where the victim is, and this is the residence of the victim. The distance between the two places is less than one kilometer." Then, she drew a line between the school and the residence with a blue pen, turned around and said with a serious expression, "A group, today Immediately investigate all live pig wholesale points within this range, including shops, as long as there is a freezer, they must be checked, regardless of the size of the freezer!"

After get off work, Zhang Tong had just walked out of the locker room when he unexpectedly ran into Liu Chunxiao head-on.

"It's time to get off work, old classmate!"

"Yes! Why are you here?"

"Come here to be busy. I have to work overtime for a few days just for those files." As he spoke, Liu Chunxiao exaggeratedly stretched his waist. "What about you? How are you? Have dinner together at night?"

Zhang Tong shook his head: "My mother is not in good health, I have to go back. Next time."

Liu Chunxiao couldn't hide the disappointment on his face.

At the moment of embarrassment, Wang Yanan opened the door and came out.

"Have you left yet? I thought I was the last one!"

Zhang Tong suddenly had an idea in his mind, and immediately grabbed Wang Yanan and said: "You came just in time, my old classmate is worried that no one will help him spend money, so ask him to treat you to dinner tonight!"

"Really?" Wang Yanan couldn't believe his ears, "Is there such a good thing?"

"Don't worry!" Zhang Tong patted Wang Yanan's shoulder, "When did I ever lie to you?"

"By the way, is there any progress in the case?"

Wang Yanan frowned tightly: "There are very few useful clues, so we can only investigate slowly."

On the way home, looking at the monotonous street lights outside the car window, Zhang Tong was in a particularly depressed mood, because human life is too fragile.

The next morning.

"Ju Li, the victim's name is Li Xiao, a second-year student at Tianchang City Middle School. On the day she disappeared, the school temporarily rehearsed the program for National Day, so when Li Xiao walked out of the school, it was already eight o'clock in the evening. Because Parents are busy with work, so Li Xiao has always taken care of herself. She usually comes home late, and her daughter is obedient and sensible, so her parents don't care. In addition, the school is opposite to the community where her home is located, and she can see it from her balcony. However, she did not come home until ten o'clock in the evening, and her parents realized that something might have happened to their daughter. But no matter how they searched, Li Xiao seemed to have disappeared from the world. It was not until two weeks later that someone unexpectedly found her Her body was found in the suburbs." Wang Yanan stood in Bureau Li's office, reporting the case seriously with a serious face.

"After the incident, my subordinates and colleagues from the local police station visited all the residents on the 800-meter distance from the community to the school, and they all said they didn't notice it. In the surveillance video, there is only a small section of the girl crossing the road. The scene of the scene. She was walking in the direction of Tangxiang Community, which is the community where her home is located."

"So, from this point of view, the victim happened on this 800-meter road. It is very likely that she was still somewhere on this road at that time, but we haven't found it yet, right?" Director Li said with a full face. Confused expression.

"My thoughts are the same. We plan to check all the pork businesses along the way again based on the clues provided by the forensic room to see if we can find any clues."

Director Li nodded: "Okay, give me news as soon as possible!"

"Team Wang, there is only one that operates pork slaughtering and wholesale business, and it is also equipped with a small freezer to store pork." Assistant Xiao Zheng quickly brought news from the sub-district office.

"Let's go and see right away, is the owner there?"

"exist!"

This is a butcher's shop at the corner of the street, the frontage is only eight or nine square meters, and the whole butcher's shop is greasy.Because it was already afternoon, there was no business in the butcher shop, and a few pieces of leftover meat from the morning market were thrown alone on the shop counter, exuding an indescribable strange smell.

The shop owner is a fat middle-aged man with a kind face.

After Wang Yanan explained his intentions, the shopkeeper seemed aggrieved: "Comrade policeman, I am doing my job. I have never done anything illegal. You can't wrong me. Besides, I wasn't here when the girl disappeared." , I’m on a business trip. There’s only one guy in the store looking after the door.”

Wang Yanan and his assistant looked at each other, and quickly explained: "Boss, we are just investigating the situation, and we didn't say anything about you, so don't worry!"

"Really?"

Wang Yanan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Our police won't wrong good people! Don't worry!"

The chubby shopkeeper then nodded with a long face in doubt.

"By the way, Boss, you said that there is a guy watching the door for you, where is he now?"

"He, it's quite strange to say that he resigned a few days ago, saying that there is an urgent matter at home and he has to rush back."

Wang Yanan's heart moved: "Can I let my colleagues come and see your shop?"

The shopkeeper nodded hurriedly: "Of course, come on."

Wang Yanan immediately dialed the telephone number of the bureau, and applied for the mobilization of the trace identification team, and immediately sent people to the scene for investigation and verification.

After more than two hours, the inspection work came to an end. The trace identification team checked the garbage bags used in the store and the sheets in the duty room. After comparison, the fiber types of the garbage bags and sheets used for shrouding the corpse were compared. It fits perfectly!Near the cold storage behind the store, there is a dog kennel, several dog chains are hung on the wall, and several hooks are empty!Finally, the ice crystal sample extracted by the trace identification team from the pork in the cold storage was consistent with the sample extracted from the girl's corpse.

At that moment, the hearts of everyone present were almost firmly gripped, because everyone realized that the deceased was murdered in this place only a few hundred meters away from home!

Two days later, the criminal suspect Feng Aiwu was arrested in his hometown in Anhui. He explained in detail how he killed Li Xiao: After a busy day, after dinner, Feng Aiwu sat in the shop as usual, and when he was bored, , turned on the computer, and the pornography on the Internet made him extremely excited. He raised his head and saw the victim who came back late from school accidentally, and couldn't help but tiptoe out of the store. Looking around, no one was paying attention. In the darkness of night, the evil deeds happened naturally.However, because of the victim's resolute resistance and loud screams, Feng Aiwu strangled her to death in desperation.The passion subsided, and when he looked at the girl's corpse in front of him, he was terrified, and hurriedly dragged the corpse into the cold storage for a while, and the pig's blood on the surface of the corpse was rubbed at this time, because the suspect's overalls had not yet been worn. In time to replace.On the eve before the boss came back, he pulled the corpses out, cut them up brutally with the meat cutting machine in the store, packed them in garbage bags, and drove them to the ditch in the suburbs in the middle of the night. I discarded it unknowingly, and then resigned and returned to my hometown the next day.I thought this matter was done flawlessly, all the criminal evidence was destroyed by myself, and the scene was wiped clean, but, I didn't expect that he would be arrested in less than two days.In the detention center, this thin, wretched man kept muttering: "I don't want to kill her, but she screams too loudly! I can't even cover it! I don't want to kill her!..."

According to the usual practice, when the case is closed, Wang Yanan always invites everyone to dinner, but this time, at the dinner table, no one is happy, and no smile can be seen on everyone's face.Even Zhang Tong, who was used to seeing death, felt particularly depressed.Human life is so fragile that when it passes away, it is as light as a feather floating in the air.The shadow of her father suddenly flashed in Zhang Tong's mind. She wondered if her father would feel like a feather in the air when he jumped up from a tall building without hesitation?Has he hesitated about his choice?Human life is only once after all.How could my father have the heart to abandon himself and his mother?There was a tear in the corner of Zhang Tong's eyes.

It was already eleven o'clock in the evening, and the Wanlong community was completely silent, and most of the people had already fallen asleep.Suddenly, a black shadow flashed across the gate of No.18 building in the innermost part of the community. He hurriedly slipped out from the secluded back door of the community, and disappeared into the deep night after a short while.

Behind him, a trace of smoke gradually emerged from the closed door of a resident on the left side of the second floor of No. 18, and more and more.

More than 20 minutes later, Lao Wang, a milkman living on the first floor, was awakened by a strange sound. He sat up from the bed vigilantly, his nose was already filled with a strong smell of cigarettes.He hurried out of the bedroom, opened the door, and looked around for the source of the smell of smoke.He finally found the bathroom. After careful inspection, he was shocked to find that the smell of smoke was coming down from upstairs through the pipe. "Not good! The upstairs is on fire!" He opened the door and rushed out to the door of 201 on the second floor.The smell of smoke became stronger and stronger, Lao Wang knocked on the door desperately, and shouted: "Is there anyone in the room? Your room is on fire!"

There was no sound in the room, only the smoke that kept coming out of the crack in the door.The neighbors next door were also awakened, and everyone went out to find out.

"119, hurry up! Our side is on fire!" A neighbor hurriedly called the fire alarm.

"Where is the address?" The telephone operator skillfully tapped the computer keyboard.

"No. 18th floor of Wanlong community, come quickly!"

After hanging up the phone, the operator immediately notified the fire brigade near the Bandung community where the incident happened.About two or three minutes later, three fire trucks with their sirens blaring roared past on the road, heading towards the scene of the incident.

When receiving the request from the fire brigade to identify the dead body on the scene of the fire, Zhang Tong did not delay and immediately sorted out the necessary equipment for going out.

Hearing that it was a scene of fire, Deng Ran, an intern forensic doctor, didn't care about it.He deals with all kinds of dead people here every day. Although it is said that every day is very difficult and long, but in his own words, that is, at least he survived, so no matter what you see He always has a smile on his face.

The site is located in a medium-sized residential area close to the urban-rural fringe area. The scale is not very large, and basically all the people living there are relocated households.Zhang Tong and Deng Ran parked their car under the innermost residential building according to the guidelines. As soon as they got out of the car, they could clearly see that the windows of the house on the left on the second floor were a bit strange, and the window frames were all blackened. Over there is the crime scene.The two of them carefully carried their toolboxes and walked towards the second floor. The road was full of puddles of water, some of which were still black and messy.Colleagues from the local police station had already arrived at the scene before them. After revealing his identity, he smiled casually: "It's okay, forensic doctor Zhang, just going through the motions!"

"We forensic doctors didn't say that!"

Zhang Tong muttered and shook his head helplessly.What he said was actually correct. For a series of accidents such as fires and earthquakes that resulted in personal casualties, the work of forensic doctors is correspondingly much simpler. However, "going through the motions" is absolutely impossible!If you really want to do that, you are irresponsible for your work.

After entering the scene, the room was dark everywhere, filled with a strong burnt smell, soot floated in the air and fell to the ground, and there was a black, twisted thing on the sofa.It was the body of a man, completely charred.

The firefighters around quickly explained: "The fire started from this sofa, and this location is also the place where the deceased died."

Zhang Tong frowned, something was wrong at the scene, because although the whole room was blackened and messed up, only the deceased and the sofa under his body were really burned!Moreover, the posture of the corpse is a bit strange, because generally the corpses burned to death on the fire are almost always twisted with their hands and feet facing the sky, and their faces are also facing the sky. This is an instinctive manifestation of the dead's thirst for air before death.Unlike the corpse in front of me, it was lying on its stomach, with its entire face buried in the sofa!The body is in a weird posture!
"Did your firefighters move the corpse before we came?" Zhang Tong asked while squatting beside the corpse.

"No, if it is obvious that the deceased has no signs of life, we will not move, and will only notify you as soon as possible."

"I have to transport this corpse back to the bureau for autopsy immediately. After determining the specific cause of death, I will send you the report. Also, you should keep the scene as it is and deal with it after my autopsy report comes out. The cause of death is suspicious."

He nodded and handed the folder in his hand to Zhang Tong: "Okay, you can sign it, and I will send someone to help you take it away immediately. I will contact the comrades at the police station here."

Deng Ran sneaked a glance at Zhang Tong, who was serious and serious, and didn't dare to say anything, but stood silently on the side to help her with the preparations.At this moment, the charred corpse had been placed on the ice-cold dissecting table, the front of the corpse was facing upwards, and the limbs were still in that strange mountain-climbing posture.This situation is a normal contraction reaction caused by the loss of water in human tissue after a fire.The whole dissecting room was filled with the smell of burnt meat.

"Zhang Forensic Doctor, didn't this deceased person die in a fire? Why are you mobilizing so many people?" Deng Ran frowned. The unpleasant smell and the horrible face of the corpse made him feel a little uncomfortable.

"You can't take it for granted that the cause of death was related to the fire just because it was a corpse lifted out of the fire! We must be more careful when dealing with this type of death, especially if there are obvious doubts, because many suspects want to use the fire. Cover up the evidence of your own murder. What we are looking for now are the wounds other than those burns!"

As she spoke, she used a test tube to extract a 5ml blood sample from the deceased and handed it to Deng Ran, "Immediately send it to the laboratory next door to test for carbon monoxide residues in the body. Tell them that I must first rule out that the deceased died of fire concentration." The possibility of carbon monoxide gas poisoning caused by smoke!"

Deng Ran nodded, turned and left.

While waiting for the test results to come out, Zhang Tong signaled the cameraman to turn on the machine and start filming.

She first cut open the trachea of ​​the deceased's throat, and found that there was no sign of blackening, but a small part near the mouth of the throat, [-] centimeters from the entrance, was a little black, but also a little gray.Obviously, the deceased had died before the fire broke out, because the entire trachea of ​​the deceased in a real fire accident was black, from the throat to the lungs!
(End of this chapter)