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Chapter 16 Who is she (1)
1. The first scene
Old Cui finally came to work.After running exhaustingly for more than half a month, Old Cui still looked listless after resting for so long.Squadron leader Xia Yan asked Lao Cui and Xiao Wu to work together to investigate the 8 female corpse case.Xia Yan specifically asked Old Cui to take Xiao Wu with him.Xiao Wu was very dissatisfied: Old Cui is so foolish, can he still take me?
Unhappy is not happy, work still has to be done.There are still a few drug addicts in Beijing who have not been found, and those in Hebei who have just started contacting by phone. If they can’t be contacted, they have to go back and forth like Beijing. It is estimated that another month will not be enough.

Also, Xiao Wu hasn't seen his girlfriend for a month.My girlfriend has a lot of opinions and gave Xiao Wu an ultimatum last week: break up if you think work is more important than her.

After Xiaowu told Lao Cui about the investigation progress of the special case team since the incident, the investigation of villages and towns that Lao Cui worked hard during his vacation, and the ongoing comparison of drug addicts on the record, the other party only said lightly, "It's hard work." up".

Before Xiao Wu had time to say that he hoped that Lao Cui would share some workload, Lao Cui said again, "I'm going to do something", and disappeared again.

There was no sign of Lao Cui all morning, until after lunch break in the afternoon, Shi Shiran appeared in the office with a file bag in his pocket.

Xiao Wu was on the phone in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, and had no time to answer him.Old Cui sat on the side, listened with interest for a while, and suddenly interrupted: "Why do you spend so much time on these useless things?"

Xiao Wu suddenly petrified.After half a minute, Xiao Wu realized: You have wiped out all the results of my work with one sentence!Xiao Wu was about to vomit blood: "This is the task arranged by Team Xia, what's wrong?" Old Cui blinked: "There is nothing wrong with Team Xia's arrangement, but there is something wrong with what you did." Xiao Wu gritted his teeth: "What's wrong? Questions? Please advise." "Okay, Captain Xia asked me to guide you, and I will teach you today." Old Cui actually put on a show, "Captain Xia asked you to investigate drug addicts, there is nothing wrong with that. But there are How many drug addicts meet the requirements? You check one by one, when will you find out? You are studying criminal investigation, the teacher must have taught that the first priority of investigation is to locate, analyze the traces left at the scene, and delineate the direction of investigation.”

Xiao Wu raised his hand and made a "please" gesture, pretending to be listening attentively.But I said in my heart: Nonsense, do you want to say this?

"How far is Shijiazhuang from Beijing?" Xiao Wu couldn't say the specific distance between the two places, but it took about two hours to drive, as someone said at the last case analysis meeting.

"Driving for two hours is a high-speed drive. Let me tell you, how many toll stations are there along the 270 kilometers from Shijiazhuang to Beijing? Two hours of high-speed driving is a fast car. If you drive on National Highway 107, the time will be more than doubled. Such a long distance, this How many patrolling police cars will you encounter along the way? It’s so hot and the corpses stink. Do you think throwing corpses will travel that far?”

"I think the distance of two to three hours is acceptable." Since most Beijing drug addicts who fit the characteristics of the deceased were found and eliminated, several eligible drug addicts in Hebei were in Shijiazhuang. Xiao Wu thought that Shijiazhuang was not far from Beijing. There is a possibility that the deceased came from Shijiazhuang.

"Okay, let's consider him brave and not afraid. Then analyze it, why did he travel long distances to Beijing?"

"The place where the body was dumped was in a ravine, which was deserted. The criminal may have planned to find a ravine to dump the body from the beginning, but he didn't expect that there would be sheep herding."

"Shangougou? Are there no mountains near Shijiazhuang? Have you been to Shijiazhuang?" "No."

"Then let me tell you, the Taihang Mountains stretch thousands of kilometers to the west of Shijiazhuang. Why don't the criminals just find a nearby ditch to dump their corpses instead of going to Beijing to find them? It’s not easy to find the body if it’s buried in a pit.”

Xiao Wu felt that what Old Cui said made sense, but the possibility of moving corpses over long distances could not be ruled out.There have been disputes about the distance of throwing corpses before. Some people think that the first scene of the crime should be within [-] kilometers from the place where the corpse was found. Some people think that there are many cases of throwing corpses across provinces (after dismemberment).Especially a few years ago, there was a murder case in Beijing where the corpse was sent by courier to a certain banner in Inner Mongolia after the murder. Only because of an accidental factor to solve the case.Xiao Wu was very impressed by this case.

So Xiao Wu insisted: "It can't be a crime with a high IQ? The murderer is from another place, but he wanted to create the illusion that the deceased was a Beijinger, and he was transported to Beijing to confuse the police's investigation."

"Hey, what a criminal with a high IQ. He didn't throw the corpse at the first time, not afraid of leaving marks on the road? It took so long to run long distances, why didn't he use this time to dismember the corpse?"

According to Lao Cui's experience, the distance for the murderer to move the corpse after the murder is long or short. Often, the long-distance throwing of the corpse is mostly after the corpse has been dismembered and dismembered. The decomposed corpse parts are easier to carry and are convenient for long-distance transportation. .However, the body of the 8 female corpse was obviously handled hastily, only the face and finger prints were destroyed, and finally the corpse was left in the wild.This shows that although the murderer had the intention of destroying the corpse, he did not have the courage and patience to dismember and dismember the corpse (big action).Therefore, Lao Cui believed that the thrower was too afraid to abandon the corpse, and did not have the psychological quality to move and throw the corpse across provinces.

"The deceased was a drug addict. He died suddenly from a drug overdose. I didn't kill the person. Why should I dismember the body? Dissection is so troublesome. If caught, the punishment will be increased." Xiao Wu said confidently.

"Afraid of trouble, you still send it all the way to Beijing?" Xiao Wu has already realized his problem.This is not a homicide, just a case of dumping a body.The deceased died of a drug overdose, and the people around him threw the body away.The person who threw the corpse was afraid of trouble, so he threw it away as soon as possible. In this case, he probably wouldn't choose to run long distances.

But wouldn’t it be embarrassing to choose to admit defeat to Old Cui under the circumstances, Xiao Wu chose to be stubborn: “Maybe he threw the body not to escape the crime, but to challenge the Beijing police?”

"Have you watched too many TV shows, kid? You left clues to the police on purpose? If this is the case, this is not a simple corpse dumping case. Psychopath? Hate the society? This is a terrorist! You report it to the police, just by Our two investigations will definitely go wrong."

There are indeed loopholes in his own analysis, Xiao Wu is a bit softer: "Shijiazhuang is far away, Zhuozhou is always okay. Zhuozhou is closer to the place where the corpses are dumped than our squadron is. There is also Langfang, which is not far away."

"Zhuozhou? There are many rivers in Zhuozhou. Wouldn't it be better to find a river to sink than to transport it to Beijing?" Old Cui suddenly smiled again, "Xiao Wu, you haven't been to Zhuozhou, have you?"

This laugh is obviously mocking.Xiao Wu was a little discouraged. It is true that he has never been to Shijiazhuang or Zhuozhou.Since he was a child, he rarely left Beijing. He has been to Tianjin, Inner Mongolia and Qingdao in college; he has only been to Langfang in Hebei, and Baoding for military training.It's not enough to have never been abroad or take a plane.

But Xiao Wu doesn't like Lao Cui's attitude very much. Isn't it great to be old and experienced?This case is now at a bottleneck, I want to see what tricks you have!
2. Hallux valgus

"Old Cui, Mr. Cui, what's your opinion?" Xiao Wu smiled. "Little friend, now I will teach you how to think in reverse." Old Cui puffed out a puff of smoke, "The deceased was a drug addict. There are only three kinds of people around drug addicts, one is family members; the other is drug friends; the third is people with related interests, such as Business partners or drug dealers. Family members will not throw corpses; drug friends can’t run far if they don’t have the energy; interested parties are afraid of getting into trouble and throwing corpses must be done as soon as possible. In addition, corpses must be thrown from crowded places to people There are few places to transfer, and the city is transferred to the outside of the city. Compared with Beijing, Shijiazhuang and Zhuozhou are suburban villages, and no one will transport corpses from the suburbs to the city. There are criminals who provoke the police, but they do everything possible to remove the traces of the crime. Erase, deliberately leave clues for the police to catch yourself, that is not high IQ."

Xiao Wu touched Lao Cui's words, although he insisted that throwing the body as far away as possible would be safer, but in reality the probability of it actually happening is very small.If you want to be provocative, you should throw the body where ordinary people can find it; if you want to escape guilt, the sooner you can cover up the evidence, the better.Starting from the thrower is a way to solve the case.

The old bird's experience is worth learning, Xiao Wu lowered his posture: "Okay, Lao Cui, Mr. Cui, according to your opinion, this woman must be from Beijing?"

"I don't know if she is a Beijinger, but she lives in Beijing for sure." "Is there any evidence to prove that she lives in Beijing?" "There is no evidence, intuition." Xiao Wu felt that the old police were very self-willed and superstitious.Lao Cui is very typical. "Then your intuition tells you which district this woman lives in?" Old Cui said firmly: "In the city, it should be within the Fourth Ring Road."

"According to what you said just now, is the body dumping place close? The Fourth Ring Road is much farther away from the body dumping site than Zhuozhou. Fangshan is also Beijing, so Fangshan can't do it?"

"You are so stupid. First, I said that I would not throw it at the door if I said it was the nearest one. Second, this woman doesn't look like a farmer at all."

"Farmer? Teacher Cui, it's your fault to discriminate against fellow farmers. Zhuozhou is a prefecture-level city, and Fangshan is now a district."

"Hmph, do you want to move your family to Fangshan?" "No..." Xiao Wu admitted.

"That's it. This woman doesn't look like one from the nearby villages." Old Cui didn't entangle Xiao Wu about regional discrimination. He asked Xiao Wu, "Have you seen the autopsy?" "Yes."

"Huh, I remember that you were too timid to look at the scene that day. Isn't that right?" Old Cui was not polite, and directly ordered Xiao Wu's life.

"Timid? It's not enough!" Xiao Wu wanted to argue, "It's hot, I think it stinks." "Well, the autopsy photos are also very clear, have you looked at them carefully?" I heard Mr. Zhao explain it." "I dare not look at the scene, I don't seriously analyze the photos, and I don't have first-hand information. How can I analyze the case? Just listen to others? No way, young man." Old Cui lit another cigarette and looked at the case. Looks a little smug.

Xiao Wu nodded humbly, this is his shortcoming, and Old Cui was right to criticize.When doing criminal investigation, you must never follow others' advice, you must have your own opinions.

Old Cui took out a photo from the file bag and handed it to Xiao Wu: "Look at the hands and feet of this woman, do they look like they grew up in the countryside?"

It turned out that Old Cui borrowed the file of the female corpse case from the identification center of the sub-bureau.Xiao Wu guessed, Old Cui must have discovered something.

"This one is a close-up of the hand, and this one is the foot." Old Cui found two more photos.Xiao Wu's eyes flicked between the three photos, and said, "This hand is cut like this, what do you think?" "The tip of the finger is cut, but the stem is still there. Does she have calluses on her fingers and palm?" Only then did Xiao Wu seriously look for it. The woman's fingers and palms were relatively smooth, and there were indeed no calluses. "However, it cannot be concluded that this woman is definitely not from the countryside. Nowadays, there are many rural women who do not do farm work."

"You thought it was rural love. The village girls are all skinny and tender. You said you went to investigate the nearby towns, where did they look rich?"

The vicinity of the incident is all ravines, and most of the nearby villages are relatively poor.If it hadn't been for running just now, Xiao Wu couldn't believe that there would be such a poor area in Beijing.

"Do women from that kind of place have thin arms and legs?" "Isn't she taking drugs?"

"Is there anyone taking drugs in that place?" Xiao Wu checked this point with the local police station, and there were no drug users in the nearby mountain villages.Xiao Wu was speechless.

Old Cui changed the question: "Do you have a girlfriend?" "Yes."

"Does your girlfriend usually wear high heels?" "Yes." "Is there anything unusual about her feet?" "I think they look good, what's the difference?" "Have you ever seen her bare feet?" "See Yes." "Is there anything special about her toes?"

"It's normal. I've seen very few women with bare feet." Xiao Wu smiled hippie. "Then look at this photo, is there anything special about the deceased's feet and your girlfriend's feet?" Xiao Wu has seen his girlfriend's bare feet, but when his girlfriend is barefoot, she is also bare in other places.To be honest, when his girlfriend is naked, Xiao Wu's eyes will not stop at the feet, and he has no foot fetish.

Now Xiao Wu looks at the feet of the deceased in the photo, and compares them with his own feet in his head.In the photo, the woman's feet are much slender, but the joint of the big toe of the woman's big toe seems to be very large, and a bag bulges out.I don’t know if this is what Lao Cui is referring to?
"Do you know what's going on?" Xiao Wu shook his head.

"This is hallux valgus. Do you know what hallux valgus is?" "Hallux valgus? This foot has a big bump on the thumb, but the thumb is not everted!"

"This kind of condition is called hallux valgus, and it is a disease. I go to the toilet, and you can find out what hallux valgus is..."

Xiao Wu took out his mobile phone and searched for "ballux valgus" on the Internet.

It turns out that hallux valgus, commonly known as the big foot bone, means that the joint between the big toe bone and the first metatarsal bone tilts more than 15 degrees. It is mostly related to genetics (accounting for more than 80%) and discomfort in wearing shoes.There is also a picture of a certain female celebrity hallux valgus on the Internet. Her lesion is exaggerated to the point that it looks like a small hammer.

Xiao Wu waited for Lao Cui to come back and joked with him: "I found out, but luckily I don't have a girlfriend. Lao Cui, why are you so experienced? Have you read countless women?"

Old Cui's complexion darkened: "Be serious. If you want to learn from me, just listen carefully and memorize, and only say what I say once."

Xiao Wu shut up.I thought to myself that I can't even make a joke, such a boring person.

Old Cui continued to teach his disciples: "Bunions are also called high-heeled feet. Women who often wear high-heeled shoes are most likely to suffer from this disease. Do you still think that this woman is from a nearby mountain village or lives in a nearby village? "

Xiao Wu thought that hallux valgus is not all caused by wearing high heels, it may also be a disease inherited from the village girl, and it cannot be ruled out that the deceased was a village girl.However, in connection with the delicate skin and tender meat, it is more reluctant to say that she is a village girl.

Alas, in order not to annoy Teacher Cui, it's better not to raise an argument.

After making out with his girlfriend on a weekend night, Xiao Wu held his girlfriend's feet to review his homework.My girlfriend usually likes to wear high heels. Although her feet do not have symptoms of hallux valgus, her five toes are obviously squeezed together, and there are indentations where they touch each other. There are calluses and Minor wear and tear.The same is true for the feet of the female corpse. These are not genetic, they must be caused by pointed high heels.

Xiao Wu thought, based on the parts of these calluses, he should be able to calculate the height of the high heels he usually wears.The deceased was 1.7 meters tall, and wearing a pair of high heels, many men would be short.

What kind of woman would dress like this?Does she have a boyfriend?Will her boyfriend be jealous that she is taller than him?
Seeing his obsessive appearance, his girlfriend said coquettishly, "What are you doing?" Xiao Wu knew that this was not a good time to talk about work, so he had to lie: "I appreciate it, your feet are so beautiful."

The girlfriend was full of enthusiasm: "Then, Xiao Wuzi, I will give you enough kisses..."

3. Old Cui's Secret

It is a pity that hallux valgus and high-heeled feet are of little help in narrowing the scope of the investigation. There is no option for high-heeled feet in the dynamic control of drug addicts.

It has been three weeks since the incident and there has been no missing persons report.This kind of case is the most difficult to deal with, and it often becomes an unsolved case.

Xiao Wu, a drug addict who was on file in Beijing and met the requirements of the deceased, had already checked all of them at home. He originally planned to check those in Hebei next. Lao Cui suggested that Xiao Wu’s Hebei phone call would be enough, and there is no need to run away for the time being.There are still many drug addicts on file in Beijing who have not been contacted. Xiao Wu asked Lao Cui if there were any dead among them.If there is, you can continue to search or contact your family to identify the body.Old Cui shook his head.

Shake your head to indicate yes or no?
(End of this chapter)