Life as a police officer in America

Chapter 254 Can You Eat It

Compared to Kareding, Helene is much more professional and outstanding. After all, Kadingley's forensic technology has been neglected for many years.

Heleni put on gloves and started the autopsy, Wang Dengming and Satsuma assisted.

Helene began to report: the corpse, male, aged between 25 and 28 years old, 1.7 meters five in height, thin, with plaques already appearing, the time of death was about four days ago, that is, 96 hours ago, the chest of the deceased, The head and arms were hit by blunt objects, and the skull was dented. The murder weapon was initially suspected to be a hammer
On the neck of the deceased, there were obvious traces of being drawn by a rope, the fingernails were turned over with a sharp weapon, and the tongue of the deceased was cut off
Sam couldn't help shaking his head and said, "Poor boy, who do you have such a deep hatred with, and want to make you like this?"

From the appearance, this is obviously a case of torture and murder, and the murderer's methods are very cruel.

Is this the first scene?Wang Dengming scratched his head, a snow covered the ground, and he couldn't see anything.

He observed the surrounding terrain and asked Summer, "What do you think?"

"Head, we're out of luck. We won't be able to better determine if this is the first murder scene until the snow melts. In my estimation, this shouldn't be the first scene. The murderer may have tortured the deceased to death before throwing away. corpse here."

Not only did the heavy snow show no sign of stopping, but it was even heavier.

"Helena, what do you think?"

"Sheriff, I need to bring the body back so that the autopsy can draw the final conclusion."

Summer looked towards the direction of the town, and asked the two shivering security guards: "Do you have a morgue here?"

One of the security guards said: "We don't even have a large hospital here, just some private clinics. There is no morgue. In the past, when the county police investigated cases, they would transport the corpse back to the county. If it is too remote a mountainous area Planing directly on site.

Wang Dengming raised his eyebrows and asked, "On the spot?"

"correct."

Wang Dengming asked Helene: "Can you?"

Helene hesitated for a moment and said, "It's possible, but I've never done this before. I usually do it in the dissecting room. The dissecting room has all the inspection equipment. It feels strange to dissect in this wasteland."

Another security guard said: "Maybe you can do the cooking oil in that abandoned oil refinery. People from the county police station did it before, and they dissected it there, many years ago."

"where?"

"We'll take you there."

The two security guards brought a simple stretcher, a medical stretcher, and they lifted the body up and left as if they were very skilled.

The oil refinery was about three kilometers away from the incident. Two security guards carried the body into a small container truck, leading the way in a hurry, followed by a police car.

After a while, the police car drove into the refinery.

Weeds are overgrown here, and the machine has long been rusted and dilapidated. Wang Dengming put the body on a metal platform that was about to collapse, and at the same time lit a fire next to it.

Summer said: "Head, are you sure you're doing the autopsy here?"

"Send it to the autopsy room in the county. People may not be happy. I think it's too bad to go back to our town. Are you afraid of overturning in such heavy snow?"

Helene said: "The sheriff is right. Try everything. I still have all the tools I brought."

"Then let's get started."

Heleni started to dissect. Wang Dengming and Satsuma were still assistants. The body didn't rot much in the cold weather, so the smell wasn't too bad. Satsuma and Wang Dengming could bear it, but Heleni was the most natural, as if she couldn't smell anything. Same.

The autopsy didn't take long, but after Helene checked the deceased's lungs and chest cavity, he cut open his stomach, and they made a major discovery.

First, half of the foot that had not been completely melted appeared, which looked like a duck's foot, followed by a finger, a human finger, even though it was corroded badly, Wang Dengming could recognize that it was a human finger, What surprised Wang Dengming the most was that there was a ring on that finger, a diamond ring.

I rely on!

Not to mention Samo, Heleni was amazed, even Wang Dengming found it miraculous.

Heleni took off the ring, put it carefully into the evidence bag, and brought it to Wang Dengming, saying: "Sheriff, this finger and this ring belong to the murderer, and besides, this thing, yes, it is The duck feet were eaten about 10 minutes before the deceased died."

Americans generally don't eat duck feet, chicken feet, etc. How can this person eat duck feet?
Wang Dengming said: "You Americans don't eat duck feet, but we Chinese like to eat them. It's delicious."

A security guard said: "Whoever said that we Americans don't eat duck feet, I like to eat them, and I eat a lot. There is a Chinese restaurant in the town, and the duck feet are very exciting."

Wang Dengming was happy, maybe they could find some clues in that Chinese restaurant.

The body was handed over to two security guards. Wang Dengming didn't go anywhere, but went directly to the Chinese restaurant. It was just lunch time, and Samo couldn't eat anything. During the autopsy just now, he felt like vomiting and almost vomited.

This Chinese restaurant in the town is called the Sheraton Restaurant. It is not small, with only one floor. When Wang Dengming went in, there were many customers, and the signature dish here was braised duck feet.

So many foodies?
Wang Dengming was not in a hurry, he ate first, and then he was full. He first ordered a dish of braised duck feet.

After the duck feet came up, Samo yelled and ran outside to vomit, it seemed that he didn't want to eat at noon today.

Helene used a knife and fork to fork half a duck's paw, and said, "The duck's paw cut out by the knives here is also half a duck's paw."

"Then it means that the deceased probably ate the duck feet here before he died."

"The problem is that a person's digestion ability is very strong, but the bones of the duck's feet are still in his stomach. If the deceased ate the duck's feet here and then went to the woods, the timing would not be right, and they would have been digested long ago."

Wang Dengming said: "Then what if someone else packed it back?"

Helene nodded and said, "That's possible, Sheriff, can this thing be eaten?"

Wang Dengming stuffed the duck's paw into his mouth and kept saying, delicious, delicious, great!The duck feet are indeed quite good, so beautiful that Wang Dengming wants to cry, how long has it been, how long has it been since he ate such a good hometown dish!
One word, great!

Encouraged by Wang Dengming and the surrounding diners, Heleni tried it out, and suddenly she exclaimed, "It's great!"

A plate of duck feet was quickly reimbursed by the two, and Samo just stared at the two eating in a daze.

When the customers in the store were almost gone, Wang Dengming called the boss, a southern man, with a Sichuan accent in his English.

When Wang Dengming came in, the boss paid attention to him.

"Officer, what's the matter?"

"Are you from Sichuan?

The boss with a flat shaved head suddenly smiled and said, "Brother, are you Chinese too?"

"of course."

"What's up?"

"A little thing."

Wang Dengming asked Helene to take out the ring and said, "Have you ever seen a ring like this?"

The boss looked at the ring in the evidence bag, carefully identified it, and finally said: "Brother, I haven't seen it before."

Wang Dengming asked again: "Four days ago, what did you eat here?"

"Four days ago, many people came here to eat."

"Is there any packing to go?"

"Packed and left. Four days ago, I thought about it. Yes, there are quite a few."

"That's good, think about it, who are they?"

"Brother, what happened?"

Wang Dengming briefly explained the matter, and then said: "I suspect that the deceased has eaten duck feet from your place, so I came here to ask."

The owner of Xiaopingtou tried his best to recall, when the wife of the boss came over, a short and plump woman, she saw her husband chatting with the police, she thought she had something to ask.

"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, we're just investigating something."

Wang Dengming spoke Mandarin. When the proprietress heard it, the tension was relieved immediately. After she learned about the case, she stared at the ring and thought for a while and said, "I remembered that there was a guest. At that time It looked like this was the ring he was wearing when he paid the bill, but I'm not sure."

Wang Dengming's spirits immediately lifted.

After detailed inquiries, the person who came to buy the duck paws, what time did he come and what he looked like? According to the proprietress, Helene quickly drew something on a piece of paper. When the proprietress finished speaking, Helen Ni handed over the paper in her hand and asked, "Does it look like this person?"

When the proprietress saw it, she was surprised and said, "That's right, it's very similar to that person that day!"

Only then did Wang Dengming know that Helene actually had the ability to find people with portraits.He couldn't help but raised his thumb.

With the portrait, Wang Dengming was in a hurry to find the camera. There was no camera at the entrance of the restaurant, and there were not many cameras in the whole town, but the restaurant was on one of the busiest roads in the town. There was a cross street, and there were two cameras at the cross street. The camera can take pictures from any direction.

"Summer. Didn't you say it's not a good sign? Look, what a good sign."

Wang Dengming expressed his gratitude to the couple in the restaurant, and left their phone number and contact information. If this town is close to Gumeng Town in Alaska, Wang Dengming will definitely pack it every day.

After leaving the restaurant, Wang Dengming immediately called for Xu Bang. He had to check the surveillance cameras.

After Xu Bang came, he didn't expect these little policemen to find the clue in one morning, and they were both surprised and suspicious.

Wang Dengming didn't talk to him, what he wanted was the surveillance footage.

Xu Bang came forward, and soon the surveillance video came out. According to the time period provided by the couple in the restaurant and the portrait of Helene, they found the suspect, a short and stocky young man in a red jacket and black leather pants, but Does he wear a ring on his hand? The surveillance video is far away and the angle is not good. We are not sure whether he has a ring on his finger.

Wang Dengming asked, "Do you know this man?"

Xu Bang still shook his head.

(End of this chapter)