Animal Detective

Chapter 214 Ample Time to Dispose of the Corpse (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
Ding Yuwei has returned from her visit.

Building 27 is unoccupied, while building 25 is occupied by a couple with two children.

The man didn't get up until after 8 a.m.

The woman got up early to take her child to school, around 6:30 a.m., by which time Jiang Qi had already disappeared.

So we didn't find anything, and we didn't notice anything last night.

Ding Yuwei also inquired about the two rows of villas on the outskirts, and everyone knew that this place was a kennel, and that some people had even bought dogs from there.

They knew the woman was sick, but they didn't notice anything unusual.

Chen Chao arranged for people to continue the search, and Ding Yuwei took Dou Dou to continue the search outside the community.

Then he led Shen Xin and the others into the scene.

First, we checked the power distribution room. We asked Bai Jifei, and he said that the door to the power distribution room was usually not locked and that he used it to store dog food and other miscellaneous items.

The distribution box is open, and the power switch is now closed.

There were no signs of forced entry on the front and back doors of the villa, suggesting they were not usually locked.

Then the entire first floor was used as kennels.

The couple lived in two rooms on the second floor, and the remaining two rooms were used to house their puppies.

As we entered, a large group of Maltese greeted us.

They're all incredibly beautiful.

They were free-range, so they ran around everywhere and caused quite a bit of damage to the first floor.

I checked the monitoring host.

The computer was disassembled, the motherboard was smashed by something, and the hard drive was missing.

Chen Chao stared blankly at the main unit.

Shen Xin said, "Captain Chen, the villa has no security system, and there are no signs of forced entry on the front and back doors. Since the other party has decided to damage the monitoring system host and take the hard drive, isn't turning off the power a bit redundant?"

Chen Chao nodded and led Shen Xin upstairs.

The master bedroom on the east side is where Jiang Qi lives.

Chen Chao leaned against the doorframe and asked, "Old Cui, have you found anything?"

Cui Yan was with Yu Xiaoping, while Tang Bin was busy.

Cui Yan stood up and shook his head.

The bedroom was quite large. Jiang Qi slept on a nursing bed. There was no blood on the bed, but there were unusual handprints.

There were no signs of a struggle at the scene.

She couldn't fight either; Jiang Qi, an ALS patient, couldn't even move.

If someone were to kidnap her, she would have no way to resist.

Chen Chao hesitated for a moment, then asked, "What about the restrooms upstairs and downstairs?"

Cui Yan was taken aback, and immediately guessed why Chen Chao would ask that question.

"wait for me."

Cui Yan called Yu Xiaoping to the master bedroom bathroom.

There are four restrooms in total, upstairs and downstairs, as well as a laundry room.

While Lao Cui and the others were spraying luminol in the master bathroom, Shen Xin wandered around the room.

The bedroom was furnished in a very ordinary way.

There is a dressing table, but no mirror.

I guess Jiang Qi didn't want to see herself in such a miserable state that she couldn't even move.

A wedding photo of the two of them hangs on the wall. It looks like it was taken at the beach, with the two of them facing away from the sea and the sky ablaze with sunset colors.

Apart from that, there was nothing particularly unusual.

At this point, the master bedroom bathroom was also sprayed.

Draw the curtains and turn on the fluorescent lights.

At first glance, it was spotless.

Cui Yan didn't mind and continued to the other restrooms.

Shen Xin followed Chen Chao to Bai Jifei's room to check, and everything was normal there.

"Captain Chen, what are you thinking?"

Shen Xin picked up a photo album.

It looks like a photo of the couple traveling around the world.

All of them are photos taken at tourist attractions abroad.

The two look quite like a married couple; the man has a good temperament, and the woman is beautiful. In the photos, they look incredibly loving.

Chen Chao countered by asking Shen Xin what he was thinking.

Shen Xin said, "Captain Chen, based on the current situation, I don't believe that Jiang Qi can fly out of thin air. It's most likely the situation we're both thinking about."

That is, he was murdered by Bai Jifei and dismembered inside the villa.

The so-called traces of intrusion were fabricated by himself.

"Either he lied about the time Jiang Qi disappeared."

Chen Chao, as if on cue, replied, "Before the sixth day of the month."

Shen Xin nodded. The property management's surveillance video and access control records all disappeared on the same day.

If there are no problems with this, Shen Xin's name will be written backwards.

So there is another possibility: Jiang Qi did not disappear today, but before the sixth day of the Lunar New Year.

Bai Jifei may have transported the body out, then managed to erase the surveillance footage, and a few days later, fabricated evidence of intrusion before filing a police report.

Jiang Qi is unable to move or go out. No one knows when she disappeared.

Chen Chao smiled and said, "He can try to delete the surveillance cameras inside the residential area, but he can't delete the surveillance cameras on the roads outside."

As he spoke, he took out his phone and called Zhao Tianxing at the branch office, asking him to check the surveillance footage outside the residential area.

While we're at it, let's also check all the basic information about Bai Jifei and Jiang Qi.

Just then, Cui Yan's shouts came from downstairs.

"Old Chen, come quick!"

Shen and Xin hurriedly went downstairs.

First floor guest bathroom.

The curtains were drawn, and Cui Yan closed the door.

In the pitch-black bathroom, the floor glowed under the fluorescent light.

Shen Xin gasped.

You guessed right!

Chen Chao's expression also changed.

The bloodstains scattered throughout the bathroom, as well as on the wall tiles, clearly indicate that it wasn't just a simple case of bleeding gums while brushing teeth.

Cui Yan put her hands on her hips and sighed softly.

This is another big job!
Chen Chao patted him on the shoulder knowingly and said, "Thank you for your hard work."

The two left the restroom.

Chen Chao waved to Zhou Zhongyi, signaling him to take Bai Jifei back to the branch office first. There was no rush to interrogate him.

We need to obtain some key evidence here before we can proceed with the retrial.

Not far away, on the kitchen floor, lay an adult bloodhound, obediently watching everyone busy at work.

These should be Loki's parents, Bloodhounds that Bai Jifei imported from abroad.

Shen Xin waved to him.

With a high level of affection, after a slight hesitation, it ran over and gently licked Shen Xin's hand.

"Captain Chen, where are the bones? Did you take them out to dispose of the body? Or were they smashed up along with the flesh and flushed down the drain?"

Dismembering a body is no easy task.

Just like Zhu Tianshun before, he worked hard for a long time.

"Will..."

Shen Xin looked at the dogs in the room.

Chen Chao understood immediately, and he also gasped slightly, saying, "Don't say it, you really shouldn't say it."

He rested his chin on his hand and thought for a moment, then said, "Could it be that Jiang Qi was already killed by Bai Jifei before the sixth day of the lunar new year, and then dismembered?"

"He slowly fed the meat to the dogs, and he managed to take the bones out and dispose of them."

"Or we could just smash it up, bones and all, and feed it all to the dogs."

"Is it possible that he waited a few days to report the crime so that he could feed the dogs slowly and let them digest their food gradually?"

It weighs over 100 pounds, after all.

Shen Xin didn't speak, a chill running down his spine.

There are dozens of dogs, weighing over 100 pounds each; they could really eat them all in a few days.

But after going inside a dog's belly, nothing can be detected.

Just then, Sun Jingyi ran in and said that he had found some digging marks on the lawn in the backyard.

They hurried to the backyard.

The front and back yards are both about 100 square meters each. The front yard has been landscaped with a platform made of anti-corrosion wood, while the back yard is simpler, consisting entirely of lawn.

It's probably for the convenience of the dog's daily activities.

"here."

Sun Jingyi led the two to a corner of the lawn and said, "Captain Chen, look, this patch of turf looks like it was lifted up and then compacted."

If you look closely, it's quite different from the surrounding lawn.

Chen Chao lifted the turf, glanced at the damp soil beneath, and said in a deep voice, "Dig!"

The disturbed turf was about the size of an 80-brick square.

Shen Xin looked around the area.

Bai Jifei's house has a wall, which was probably built specifically to prevent the dog from running out.

Previously, I saw other unoccupied villas surrounded by iron fences.

Building a wall would provide better privacy.

There is greenery and trees between each villa. If you dig from this side, you shouldn't be able to see villa 25 from the other side.

Bai Jifei has been taken away.

They borrowed shovels from the property management office and started digging together.

Just then, Ding Yuwei returned with Dou Dou in her hand.

They searched both inside and outside the residential area, but found no trace of Jiang Qi's scent.

If Jiang Qi disappeared before the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, several days have passed, and there was even a light rain in between, so it's normal that no smell could be detected.

Chen Chao took Ding Yuwei and had Dou Dou smell the bloodstains in the bathroom to see if they could find anything.

There was a group of dogs inside, and DouDou was a little scared.

They then chased all the dogs upstairs and locked them up before DouDou went into the bathroom and smelled the blood.

Having sniffed clearly, she searched inside the house, then went outside, wandered around for a while, and finally arrived at the place where Shen Xin had dug.

Ding Yuwei had already seen the bloodstains all over the bathroom floor and stood silently to the side with Dou Dou in her hand.

This guy was buried pretty deep.

Shen Xin and Sun Jingyi dug for a long time, and estimated that it was almost a meter deep. Then, their shovels hit something.

The plastic film was exposed in the soil.

Chen Chao quickly went to call Cui Yan.

Cui Yan carefully cleaned away the surrounding soil and took out a package.

It was wrapped in plastic film.

Upon unfolding it, one could find an axe, a hacksaw, a hammer, and a boning knife.

Without a doubt, this is a tool for dismemberment.

Cui Yan picked up the boning knife, sniffed it carefully, and then said, "It should have been soaked in a high concentration of bleach or something similar."

"And look, he even tried to choose tools that weren't made of wood."

He picked up the axe, which had a plastic handle instead of a wooden one, to prevent blood from seeping into the wood and leaving residue.

He brought several tools indoors, sprayed the agent, but under the fluorescent light, there was no reaction whatsoever.

Yu Xiaoping frowned and said, "It's been cleaned too thoroughly, it looks brand new."

Cui Yan nodded, thought for a moment, and said, "Captain Chen, I think this guy has a strong sense of counter-surveillance. Since he consciously cleaned up the murder tools, he wouldn't have left the dismemberment scene covered in blood."

Chen Chao's heart skipped a beat, and he frowned, saying, "You mean he managed to contaminate the scene?"

Shen Xin understood and immediately looked at Dou Dou not far away.

Cui Yan said, "I suspect that's possible. Given enough time, he could thoroughly clean up the site, destroy the DNA with a strong oxidizing agent, and then completely contaminate the scene with other blood."

"For example, dogs."

There are a whole house full of dogs, all readily available.

This way, the traces of dismemberment can be covered up to the greatest extent.

As for sufficient time.

That's not a problem either, since Shen Xin and Chen Chao speculated that Jiang Qi might have already been murdered before the sixth day of the lunar new year.

She couldn't go out, and Bai Jifei could stay home as well. In the undisturbed villa, he had several whole days to deal with the body.

Chen Chao said, "It's okay. The suspects we've encountered before always thought they were handling things very cleanly, but in the end, we still found evidence and convicted them."

It is virtually impossible to completely remove all traces.

Shen Xin thought so too.

As things stand, the case is quite clear.

Bai Jifei murdered Jiang Qi and then managed to dispose of the body.

He then faked his wife's disappearance and filed a false police report in an attempt to evade investigation.

only……

Shen Xin just felt that the case was solved a little too easily.

(End of this chapter)