I am a super cop

Chapter 986 The Last Supper
"You mentioned anatomy just now, yes, this is indeed the most direct way." Gu Chen agreed with Zhuang He's opinion.

In my opinion, when body temperature, rigor and cadaver spots are no longer helpful for judgment, the most direct way is undoubtedly an autopsy.

You know, 12 to 24 hours after death, the body will be completely rigid.

It then completely subsides in another 12 to 24 hours.

So after 60 hours, rigor had first appeared and then eased.

Corpse plaques are set after about 8 hours, so they are not helpful for judgment.

Therefore, Gu Chen believes that the time of death can be estimated based on the contents of the stomach and the degree of corruption of the corpse.

After all, after death, all body functions will stop, including digestion.

It takes two to three hours for the stomach to empty the food after a meal, and it takes about 24 hours for it to pass through the body completely.

While this range is general, it is a good estimate.

So the problem to be solved now is to wait for the parents of the deceased Ami to arrive at the scene and sign the consent form.

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The waiting during this period was very time-consuming. Everyone waited from morning to afternoon, and it was not until dinner time that Zou Xiaoli hurried over with her two elders.

When the two saw their daughter's body, they burst into tears.

Then I wasted a lot of time in the testing room.

Police officer Wang and Lu Weiwei went forward to do ideological work and were busy until 7:[-] pm. The two elders recovered from their grief and decided to sign their names on the autopsy book, agreeing to the forensic doctor to conduct an autopsy on their daughter's body to find out the identity of their daughter Amei. time of death.

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7:30pm.

After a simple dinner in the lounge, Gao Chuanfeng sat on the sofa and asked his assistant Zhuang He: "I'll do the autopsy later, is there any problem?"

"No... no problem." Zhuang He seemed a little nervous and stuttered when speaking.

Gao Chuanfeng said contemptuously: "There is a first time for everything, don't be nervous, you can take whatever I ask you to take later."

"Yes." Although Zhuang He agreed on the surface, he was still a little nervous inside.

Gu Chen directly asked for a fight: "I'll be with you, and I'll give you a shot."

Gao Chuanfeng pondered for a moment, then agreed and said: "That's fine, you Gu Chen has seen a lot of corpses, and you have experience in this area, we will cooperate together later."

Several people quickly reached an agreement in the lounge.

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The time soon came to 8 o'clock in the evening.

At this moment, Gu Chen, Gao Chuanfeng, and assistant Zhuang He had already put on their protective equipment and entered the testing room, ready to conduct an autopsy on Amei's corpse on the testing table.

And Lu Weiwei, Police Officer Wang and Yuan Shasha asked Zou Xiaoli to arrange for Amei's parents to find a hotel to stay first, and let them wait for the test results.

The three of them stayed in the testing room next door, quietly waiting for the end of the work.

It was about 9 o'clock in the evening when Lu Weiwei realized that Gu Chen and Gao Chuanfeng were helping the pale Zhuang He back to the lounge.

As soon as Lu Weiwei looked at Zhuang He's face, she knew that she might have vomited in the testing room.

Lu Weiwei was deeply touched by this.

When I saw the tragic state of the corpse for the first time, I had a similar experience.

But forensic medicine is different. If it is a static corpse, it is okay. Once you have to dissect the corpse, the scene you see will definitely make you unforgettable.

"You said you kid, you didn't rarely see corpse specimens when you were in school, right? Why did you vomit so hard?" Gao Chuanfeng looked at Zhuang He's miserable image, and couldn't bear to look straight at it.

Zhuang He covered his mouth with his left hand and waved his right hand: "I'm really sorry, I've embarrassed my brother, vomit."

"Okay, there is a first time for everything. It will be much better if you experience it a few more times." Gao Chuanfeng patted Zhuang He's back hard, feeling that this guy lacked more than a little experience.

Lu Weiwei hurriedly asked Gu Chen, "Junior Brother Gu, how are you testing inside?"

"It's okay." Sitting on the sofa, Gu Chen also took a deep breath and said, "During the autopsy, we found what she had eaten from the stomach of the deceased Ami."

"What is it?" Officer Wang asked.

"Noodles." Gu Chen said.

"Noodles?" Lu Weiwei widened her eyes and said involuntarily: "Then the last thing she ate was noodles, but we didn't find them at her home. There can only be one possibility. Have you ever eaten noodles at a noodle shop?"

Gu Chen also nodded slightly, and explained: "You know, after a person dies, all bodily functions will stop, including digestion."

"While it takes two to three hours for the stomach to empty the food after a meal, it takes about 24 hours for it to pass through the body completely."

"While this range is general, it's a good way to estimate it."

Glancing at Lu Weiwei in front of him, Gu Chen said again: "Just like what Senior Sister Lu said just now, if we are in the stomach of the deceased Amei, we can find food like noodles."

"At the very least, it can be shown that Ami died shortly after eating the noodles. This time frame is easy to estimate."

"However, since we didn't find such food as noodles in Amei's rental house before, it is easy to judge that it is the noodles that Amei ate, and it is likely to come from an outside restaurant."

Officer Wang also nodded slightly when he heard the words: "So, as long as you find the place where Amei had her last meal, you can determine the approximate time of her death?"

"Yes." Gu Chen took the glass of water Yuan Shasha handed over, took a sip, and then explained:

"In general, corruption follows a predictable pattern, and based on that, the time of death can be estimated."

"However, the surrounding environment of a dead body is rarely normal, so the pace of the process is almost never normal."

"However, judging from the situation we are facing now, the environment is known and constant, which helps us make reasonable inferences."

"If you add the judgment of the stomach content, you can narrow the error range of the time of death to within a few hours."

"Senior Brother Gu, that means that if you find the source of the noodles in the stomach of the corpse, you can know the time of the deceased's last meal, so it is correct to judge the scope of her death?" Zhuang He asked with a pale face from vomiting.

In his opinion, Gu Chen has organized his thoughts well.

At least from being clueless at the beginning, it is possible to roughly judge the scope of death by now.

Although it is not known when the death time is, but with the food in the stomach of the deceased as the basis, it seems that there is a little breakthrough.

But this kind of breakthrough is already a great gift to Gu Chen.

"You can put it this way." Gu Chen put down the water glass, ready to get up to get his equipment.

Zhuang He was slightly taken aback, and quickly asked Gu Chen: "Brother Gu is going out so late?"

"We must find that restaurant." Buckling the equipment on his body, Gu Chen also smiled and said:
"I have just contacted Brother He from the third group. He has found a restaurant based on the characteristics of the deceased Ami, and this may be the last place Ami ate. I have to make sure that she ate noodles that night."

"I really admire you." Facing Gu Chen's judgment, Zhuang He couldn't help complaining, "I didn't expect that the noodles in your stomach would allow you to deduce such things?"

"You still have a lot to learn, follow Gao Chuanfeng well." Lu Weiwei patted Zhuang He on the shoulder, feeling that this kid is quite studious.

Everyone took a short rest in the lounge, and the four hurriedly left the technical department.

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Gu Chen drove the car, and according to the address sent by He Junchao, he found a restaurant that was very close to Amei's rental community.

There are not many people in the restaurant at the moment, under the warm lighting, there are a few couples of customers sitting sporadically, all of whom are eating supper after get off work.

After Gu Chen parked the car, he led everyone inside.

A waitress who was lying on the dining table and playing with her mobile phone saw four policemen entering the store, so she also stood up quickly and walked forward to say hello.

"What would you like to order, please?" the waitress said.

Gu Chen looked around for a week, then pointed to the cash register and asked the female clerk: "Is the monitoring of your cash register useful?"

"Yes, it has always been useful." The female clerk scratched the back of her head, feeling that the police came here to handle the case.

"Can surveillance let us see?"

Sure enough, Gu Chen asked his inner thoughts.

The female clerk looked at the handsome policeman in front of her, and couldn't help but nodded her head: "Of course, the store manager, the police want to watch our surveillance..."

1 minutes later……

Everyone gathered around the monitoring computer.

What Gu Chen retrieved was the surveillance footage before 7 o'clock on Friday night.

The roadside monitoring information provided by He Junchao showed that Amei left the restaurant at 7 o'clock that night.

According to the surveillance, Gu Chen also quickly found Ami.

6:20pm.

May came to the restaurant alone and ordered pasta at the cashier.

After that, I was alone, and came to a corner, playing with my phone while eating pasta.

It was not until 6:58 in the evening that Amei packed her things and left the restaurant.

"It really is noodles." Lu Weiwei couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

It seems that everyone has found the right restaurant, and this is probably the place where Amei ate last.

Fortunately, Ami’s point here is pasta. If it’s other food, maybe everyone’s search area has to be placed elsewhere.

Gu Chen stood up and said gratefully to the store manager, "Thank you for your cooperation."

"You're welcome, don't you guys want something to eat?" the female store manager asked weakly.

Gu Chen smiled slightly: "There are still tasks, let's wait another day."

"That's fine." Seeing that the policemen didn't say anything, they just checked the surveillance and left in a hurry.

The store manager couldn't say anything, so he could only follow behind a few people and watch the four policemen leave.

Back in the car, Gu Chen called He Junchao.

When He Junchao answered the phone, he seemed to be eating instant noodles, and asked Gu Chen hissingly, "What's wrong, Gu Chen? Have you investigated it?"

"After investigation, what Amei ate in the restaurant that night was indeed pasta, which exactly matched the food in her belly."

"That is to say, this is really Amei's last supper?" He Junchao asked.

Gu Chen smiled lightly and said, "That's right, so after A Mei left this restaurant, have you discovered anything new?"

"Yes, I just wanted to report to you." He Junchao paused for a moment, and then reported to Gu Chen again:

"I investigated what Ami did after she left the restaurant on Friday night. Ami left the restaurant and went straight back to her rental house. There was no major problem."

"But I found out that just before Ami returned to the rental house, a strange man entered the community where Ami was renting, at about 6:30."

"The man left the community at 7:50, and Ami entered the community at 7:25."

Hearing He Junchao's remarks, Gu Chen thought briefly for a few seconds, and then asked: "There are so many people entering Amei's rental community, how can you tell that they are strange men?"

"It's very simple." He Junchao didn't make any detours with Gu Chen, and told him straightforwardly: "Judging from the surveillance at the gate of Amei's rental community, this man looks suspicious, and his expression is completely different from that of other residents."

"And based on his whereabouts, I checked the people who entered and left the gate of the community within a few days. This person has basically never appeared, at least not in a week."

"After that, I checked the people who came and went in and out of the Amei community in the past two days, and I didn't find this man, so I can be sure that he is a stranger, at least not from this community."

"Very good." Gu Chen expressed satisfaction with He Junchao's proactive investigation, which saved himself a lot of time.

So Gu Chen asked him again: "Then have you checked out this person's personal information?"

"Hmm..." He Junchao suddenly began to hesitate after hearing Gu Chen's words.

As soon as Gu Chen heard it, he knew that it seemed that the investigation was still underway, so he asked again: "How long will it take to find out?"

"Actually, it will take some time, but on Thursday, this man had a brief contact with a woman. A few days later, it was still this woman. I need to investigate this woman now."

"Okay then, you can send me the picture of this woman by the way." Gu Chen said.

With these pieces of information, it is actually not difficult to find the parties involved, the difficulty lies in the time-consuming.

He Junchao readily agreed.

Not long after that, Gu Chen received a message from He Junchao in his WeChat text message.

Gu Chen clicked on it at random, and Zou Xiaoli's photo suddenly appeared on Gu Chen's phone screen.

"It's her?" Gu Chen couldn't help saying.

Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha also hurried forward.

The two looked at each other and frowned slightly at the same time.

Officer Wang was also surprised.

"Why is it Zou Xiaoli? How did that man get involved with Zou Xiaoli?"

Everyone couldn't help being stunned, feeling that the situation didn't seem so simple.

Gu Chen lay on the seat, looked up at himself in the rearview mirror of the car, and couldn't help feeling: "Could it be that A Mei's death has something to do with Zou Xiaoli? But aren't they best friends?"

"Senior Brother Gu." Seeing that Gu Chen was hesitant, Yuan Shasha, who was sitting in the back row, reminded: "Since Zou Xiaoli knows us, will this strange man... also know us?"

After the words fell, Gu Chen seemed to feel that there was some truth.

So he smiled lightly and said, "Wait a minute, I'll ask Brother He to send the picture of the strange man."

Tens of seconds later, He Junchao sent the picture of the man.

Everyone gathered around, staring fixedly at the screen of Gu Chen's phone.

After a while, everyone was shocked again by the man in the picture.

"No way? Why is it him?" Lu Weiwei scratched the back of her head involuntarily, and said in amazement, "Isn't this the man who dined with Zou Xiaoli in the restaurant that day?"

"I still remember that he was riding a motorcycle." Yuan Shasha also added.

Officer Wang also nodded silently: "It seems that Amei's death really has a lot to do with Zou Xiaoli, and the two cannot be cleared up."

"Men have problems. As for Zhou Xiaoli...maybe she was kept in the dark." Gu Chen tried hard to recall Zou Xiaoli's various reactions at Amei's house during the day.

If Zou Xiaoli had known about A Mei's death in advance, she would never have called the police so quickly.

And judging from Zou Xiaoli's on-the-spot reaction, it seems that she has a good relationship with Amei, and the relationship between the two is a master-student relationship, so there is no so-called conflict.

Without conflict, there is no motive for killing.

Therefore, Gu Chen feels that it is unlikely that Zou Xiaoli and others will murder A Mei.

But what about that man?Maybe that's the root of the problem.

Lu Weiwei seemed to have guessed what Gu Chen meant, and hurriedly asked him, "So, Junior Brother Gu, do you believe that Zou Xiaoli is innocent?"

"That's right." Gu Chen nodded.

"To find this man, we have to ask Zou Xiaoli." Officer Wang said.

Gu Chen hesitated for a moment, then took out an insurance business card from the car, and dialed directly according to the phone number left on the business card.

Not long after, Zou Xiaoli answered the phone: "Hello, who is this?"

In Zou Xiaoli's room, the crying of the two elders could still be heard.

Gu Chen could tell that they were A Mei's parents, so he said lightly, "I'm Gu Chen."

"So it's Police Officer Gu?" Hearing that it was Gu Chen who called, Zhou Xiaoli immediately became excited and asked Gu Chen, "Officer Gu, what's the test result?"

"Everything is going well." Gu Chen didn't say it too clearly, but just mentioned it casually.

Before Zou Xiaoli could ask the second question, Gu Chen asked directly: "By the way, Zou Xiaoli, the first time we met in the restaurant, the man who was eating with you was your boyfriend?"

"No!" Zou Xiaoli didn't know why Gu Chen suddenly asked this question?

So he hurriedly asked Gu Chen: "What's the matter, Officer Gu? Why did you suddenly ask this?"

"I need him to cooperate with the investigation. Can you contact him and come to our Furong branch?" Gu Chen said succinctly and directly explained the reason.

Zou Xiaoli hesitated for a moment, then asked Gu Chen weakly: "Officer Gu, what do you mean... he is suspected?"

Gu Chen said: "For now, we are going to conduct an investigation, and I have a question to ask you, this man, how is his relationship with Amei?"

"Uh……"

"Please answer truthfully." Gu Chen continued to remind, hoping that Zou Xiaoli on the other end of the phone could understand.

Zou Xiaoli also tried her best to calm down, and then confessed frankly: "Officer Gu, this man's name is Liao Jun. When I was eating at a food stall in the night market, I met Amei and me by chance."

"But then he always wanted to pursue me, and I didn't have any precautions at the time. I just told him my work address. I thought he was joking, but I didn't expect that from that day on, he would often come to my company and he would often come to my company after get off work. Follow me when."

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(End of this chapter)