You're supposed to be a security officer, what case are you solving?

Chapter 203 The Scene Inside the Women's Restroom!

"Poor cross-sectional layering, bone fracture, step-like tearing at the wound edges, and skin and muscle fibers brutally torn off..."

"Regarding the muscle tissue, the cross-section showed dark red muscle cellulose, and the muscle protein coagulated after death, with no bleeding reaction."

"The bone cross-section, the cervical intervertebral disc, is white and gelatinous, and the exposed bone marrow is egg-yolk yellow and oily."

Wen Ling examined the wound as she spoke.

Zhang Lei squatted to one side, his notebook resting on his lap as he scribbled notes.

The veterans from the Major Crimes Unit and the North City Branch also gathered around the body.

"What does this mean?" Cat looked completely bewildered.

Yang Jinwen explained, "This means that the deceased was beheaded by an axe or a thick-bladed knife."

It was cut off after death. If it were beheaded while alive, there would be splattered blood that would infiltrate deep tissues, and the muscles at the severed ends would spasm and curl.

If a person is beheaded after death, very little blood will seep out, and the muscles at the cut will be relaxed and show no contraction.

If you want to be absolutely sure, you can open the trachea and check for any abnormal substances in the airway.

Wen Ling chimed in: "In other words, if someone is beheaded before death, blood will be inhaled into their trachea, forming bloody foam."

The cat hissed and exhaled a puff of white mist.

He Jinbo asked, "Was your head cut off after you died?"

Wen Ling nodded and pointed to the two knife wounds on her chest: "Two knife wounds on the left chest, these two should be fatal wounds."

Zheng Kang frowned: "Killed someone and chopped off their head? What did the murderer want to do?"

He Jinbo said, "I guess they wanted to cover up the identity of the deceased."

Wen Jian chimed in, "That's too cruel! And it happened during the Spring Festival, this is definitely a revenge killing."

Wenling glared at him when she heard him swear.

Wen Jian chuckled awkwardly, "Little sister, I didn't see you here."

Zheng Kang looked at Yang Jinwen: "Jinwen, what are your thoughts?"

Yang Jinwen lifted the deceased's left hand, which was frozen stiff.

There are minor abrasions on my wrist.

"The deceased must have had a habit of wearing a watch, but the watch is missing."

Cat said, "So that means robbing someone of their money and then killing them?"

Yang Jinwen glanced at him: "It's too early to say."

He Jinbo frowned and said to Zheng Kang and Wen Jian, "The snow was too heavy last night. We need to have someone shovel the snow off the roadside and in the bushes."

The snow was still falling, and even in the park, there was a layer of snow several fingers deep, making a crunching sound when you stepped on it.

Zheng Kang said, "I'll call the patrol team to see if they can find anything under the snow."

Wen Ling said, "Take the body back to the branch office first, and I'll try to give you an autopsy result by tomorrow morning."

Zheng Kang was about to call his men to help move the body when he suddenly heard Yang Jinwen speak: "The victim was not killed by a single murderer. They used two different tools, a dagger and an axe-like tool. Was it a gang crime?"

Although Wen Jian was the deputy director, he had always harbored a desire to become a criminal investigator. He argued, "Could it be that the murderer used two different tools to commit the crime?"

Yang Jinwen retorted, "Did he plan this all along, intending to cut off the victim's head?"

"Uh……"

At this moment, Yao Weihua narrowed his eyes slightly: "We still need to investigate from the underworld."

"On the street?" Cat didn't understand what he meant.

Yao Weihua didn't explain, but everyone else understood what he meant.

He Jinbo asked, "Old Yao, how did you figure that out?"

"Ordinary people wouldn't even dare to kill a pig, let alone murder. Not only that, they cut off the victim's head."

Captain Yang just said it might be a gang crime, and I'm inclined to believe that. Those thugs in the underworld are very audacious.

Zheng Kang said, "So you have a criminal record?"

Yao Weihua nodded: "It's very likely. The person who can do something like this is no ordinary person."

He Jinbo asked, "There's another question: how did the victim end up in the sports park? Was he there to play basketball on a snowy day?"

Or was she kidnapped by the murderer?

There's a basketball court not far away, but it's separated by a wire fence.

As far as the eye could see, everything was covered in a thick layer of white snow, with buildings and treetops all blanketed in it.

Yang Jinwen squinted at the barbed wire fence in front of him.

At the very back is a rock wall covered with bluestone slabs, and next to it is a public toilet.

Yang Jinwen exhaled a puff of white mist, stepped through the snow, and headed towards the public restroom.

Maozi and Yao Weihua followed behind him.

The public toilet was not far from the location of the deceased, about fifty meters away.

When Yang Jinwen arrived at the public toilet, snow was falling from the eaves because of the thick snow.

Snow fell on Yang Jinwen, who gently patted his shoulder and stepped onto the stairs.

The public restrooms are separated for men and women. At the entrance to the women's restroom, there is a wooden table and chair against the wall, which is probably the workstation for the public restroom staff who collect fees.

Yao Weihua first looked at the men's restroom. There was a lock on the door, a U-shaped lock with copper plating on top and a black square iron block on the bottom.

Yang Jinwen looked at the door of the women's restroom. The lock on the door was gone, and the thin latch of the padlock was deformed and twisted, indicating that it had been violently damaged.

The door was slightly ajar, revealing a gap about the width of a hand.

Yang Jinwen stepped forward and gently pushed the door open. Compared to the cold outside, a wave of hot air immediately rushed into the room.

The cat stood behind him, and upon looking up, its face turned pale with fright.

He hurriedly turned around and shouted to He Jinbo and the others in the distance, "Here, there's another body here!"

He Jinbo didn't hear what he said, but the cat had already started running.

"Master, the toilet, there's a corpse in the toilet."

Upon hearing this, He Jinbo froze.

By the time he realized what was happening, Zheng Kang and Jiang Jianbing had already run over.

Immediately, all the criminal police officers present rushed over. Because they were moving too fast, their feet slipped, and several of them fell in the snow.

When Yang Jinwen saw them coming, he immediately raised his hand and said, "Don't come up yet."

Zheng Kang asked, "What's wrong?"

After asking, he realized that the park was covered in snow, except for the ground above the public restroom steps, which was dry.

In other words, the entire public restroom is very likely to contain traces of the murderer, or rather, this is the crime scene!

Immediately, He Jinbo called out to the forensic team in the distance, "Old Song, Teacher Song, come over here quickly, you two go first!"

Song Jun had originally planned to pack his survey kit, take his apprentice to have breakfast, and wait for the old men to clear the snow around them before coming over. But now he had no choice but to go on his way, even though he was hungry.

According to the procedure, he had to take photos and conduct an investigation first, recording the posture of the body and the situation at the crime scene. Then, Wen Ling would enter the scene to examine the body.

After Song Jun finished dressing, he handed Yang Jinwen a shoe cover.

Then, he looked at the snow footprints in front of the two toilet doors.

"Let's examine this area first."

The two apprentices immediately put down their survey kits, preparing to remove the footprints of Yang Jinwen and his two companions.

There was a large crowd standing below the public toilet, and all we could do was wait.

When He Jinbo was the captain of the Chengbei Branch, he had very high requirements for physical evidence. In any murder case, no one was allowed to enter the crime scene first, including himself.

Previously, Liao Guohua, the former head of the Chengnan branch, would disregard everything and lead his men to check the situation first before calling in forensic experts and trace evidence specialists.

This very fact makes trace evidence inspection very difficult, as the scene is often contaminated beyond recognition.

Song Jun is a veteran forensic investigator. When he first started out, he scanned a very clear blood fingerprint at a crime scene.

At the time, he was overjoyed, because with this, he could identify the murderer.

Finally, when the shortlisted suspects were compared, none of them matched.

Ironically, among these suspects, one person is highly suspicious, and has even been identified by eyewitnesses.

But the fingerprints didn't match. Upon closer inspection, it turned out that the bloody fingerprint belonged to a police officer who entered the crime scene.

The Song army's hard work over the past few days was completely in vain.

Therefore, he was quite satisfied with He Jinbo, at least this unshaven deputy detachment leader was very cooperative with his work.

After putting on shoe covers, Yang Jinwen went into the women's restroom first.

He Jinbo and his group could only continue to wait.

Half an hour later, Song Jun nodded after collecting the traces outside the toilet.

A group of old men, like a school of sharks attracted by the smell of blood, surged up the steps and arrived at the entrance of the women's restroom.

The women's restroom has a row of squat toilets next to the wall. Although there is a wall between them, the wall is about 1.5 meters high.

The red brick wall, covered with unsightly cement, has been there for a long time, with patches of cement shell scattered here and there, and a large chunk can be easily broken off with a gentle tap.

A row of ventilation windows was opened on the back wall, next to the ceiling, resembling a pattern of two overlapping rhombuses.

Looking through the doorway, a naked corpse lies in the corner to the left.

Only the lower half of the corpse could be seen; the upper half was obscured by Yang Jinwen.

In addition, under the faucet on the left wall, there were pools of congealed blood, the bloodstains frozen solid.

Upon seeing this, the old-timers took a deep breath!

At this moment, as Yang Jinwen stood up and moved away, Maozi saw the spot he had just been hiding and quickly covered her mouth.

He Jinbo, Zheng Kang, Yao Weihua and others all felt their hearts stop beating.

The head of the corpse was also missing, and for a moment they couldn't tell whether the corpse was male or female.

Why can't you tell the difference?

Besides the severed head, the corpse had two large, bloody holes in its chest.

In other words, the murderer cruelly mutilated the victim...

At this moment, Yang Jinwen turned around, a hint of panic in his eyes.

"It's a female corpse."

Upon hearing this, He Jinbo cursed, "Fuck your mother!"

Zheng Kang also cursed, "Damn it, they're inhuman!"

One decapitated corpse is already a major criminal case, let alone two.

He Jinbo immediately notified Wen Mo, who then reported to his superiors and promptly notified the city.

Less than an hour later, police cars from the Anan City Public Security Bureau arrived with sirens blaring.

Hundreds of patrol and security personnel also arrived, and in addition to shoveling snow, they also needed to find missing persons.

So Zheng Kang found a septic tank truck and prepared to pump out the hardened septic water from the public toilet to see if he could find the victim's head!

(End of this chapter)