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

Chapter 205 The Cruelty of the Methods!
Late that night.

In the conference room of the Chengbei Branch.

Under the incandescent light, smoke swirled.

Lu Shaohua, who was sitting at the head of the table, stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray and said, "Let's all speak."

Zheng Kang, the captain of the criminal investigation team, had no choice but to stand up and explain the case.

"Director Lu, Director Wen, there are two victims. The incident occurred between 4:30 PM and 6:30 PM..."

Wen Mo asked, "How was the time determined?"

Zheng Kang replied, "The body was discovered at 6:30 p.m., around 4:30 p.m., when the public toilet attendant was off duty."

The toll collector was a woman in her fifties. We found her, and she said she finished her shift at 4:30, by which time the park was deserted.

"They get off work at 4:30?"

Zheng Kang nodded: "During the Spring Festival, she only works half a day, from 10:30 in the morning to 4:30 in the afternoon, a total of six hours."

Did she see anyone?

Zheng Kang shook his head: "According to the other party's statement, it was snowing all day yesterday, and there were very few people strolling around the sports park. Only a few people were playing in the snow near the basketball court."

Lu Shaohua frowned: "Who were those people playing in the snow? Could there be two victims among them?"

Zheng Kang said, "Before the meeting, Captain Yang and I discussed it and decided to have him give the presentation."

"Okay." Lu Shaohua nodded.

Yang Jinwen walked to the right side of the conference table and stood in front of the whiteboard.

He picked up a watercolor pen and drew a simple map of the park on the whiteboard, marking the eight directions.

"The crime scene was in the northwest corner of the sports park, near the public restrooms. At this location..."

Yang Jinwen drew a house layout in the northwest direction and then said, "There is a barbed wire fence next to it, and the basketball court is opposite the barbed wire fence. The public toilet at the scene of the crime is more than 100 meters away from the basketball court."

Besides the barbed wire fence, there was a row of trees over three meters tall in the middle, covered with snow.

At 4:30, the toll collectors went off duty, and some people were playing in the snow on the basketball court.

However, from where we were standing on the basketball court, we couldn't see the public restrooms or the location of the first body; it was a blind spot.

Yang Jinwen paused for a moment, then continued, "To the right of the public toilet, that is, to the northeast and east, there is a row of ping-pong tables and a badminton court."

The toll collector said she left from the northwest and didn't notice this direction.

Therefore, she didn't notice whether there were people at the ping-pong tables or the badminton courts.

Besides, there is a small path leading in from the southeast. Yu Guang, who discovered the body, entered through this path. He walked more than 200 meters forward and found the headless male corpse in the grass behind the bench.

The body was more than 100 meters away from the public toilet, at a diagonal angle.

These are the two crime scenes.

In addition, as everyone knows, behind the public restroom is a 20-meter-high cliff, and down the cliff is a road that leads directly to the west gate of the Teachers' College, which is where Yu Guang is on duty. That's the general situation.

Wen Mo understood and asked, "So, to find witnesses, the only way is to look for them among the people who were in the ping-pong and badminton courts?"

Yang Jinwen nodded: "These two places are very close to the crime scene and there are no obstructions in between. If someone lingered near the ping-pong table between 4:30 and 6:30, they should have been able to see the victim or the murderer."

Lu Shaohua asked anxiously, "So, does it exist or not?"

Not wanting to put Yang Jinwen in a difficult position, Zheng Kang replied, "It's still unclear. Even if someone saw it, they might not want to call the police."

Yang Jinwen said, "We can go to the teachers' college to check."

As he spoke, he sketched out a few more pictures on the right side of the whiteboard.

He continued, "To the right of the ping-pong table and badminton court, there is a door, separated by the road, and across the street is the school gate where Yu Guang is on duty."

Entering through the main gate, the building against the mountain is the dormitory building for faculty and staff.

It's the Spring Festival now, and the school is on holiday, but people may still be living there. There's a circular balcony on one side of the building, and every floor has one.

If someone was standing on the balcony at the time of the incident, they could have overlooked the entire sports park.

Wen Mo pointed at him with a pen: "Go look this up."

"Okay." Yang Jinwen nodded.

Wen Mo looked at the people in the forensic room and said, "Please tell me the situation."

Wen Ling nodded: "The two victims, the male victim was between 24 and 26 years old, and the female victim was between 20 and 22 years old. Both of them were very young."

The male victim died from a sharp weapon piercing his heart; the perpetrator stabbed him twice, with the wound penetrating thirteen to fifteen centimeters.

One of the stabs pierced the left ventricle, and high-pressure blood gushed into the pericardial cavity, causing death within three minutes.

The wound is triangular, with the acute angle pointing towards the tip of the knife, indicating that the weapon used was a single-edged sharp object, about two fingers wide.

After the male victim died, his head was severed by the murderer. Judging from the cuts, it was likely made with a thick-bladed knife or similar tool, and he was slashed at least five times.

The female victim also had two stab wounds to her left chest, but unlike the male victim, her head had been severed…

At this point, Wen Ling took a light breath and continued, "In cases of bleeding from the wound edge, the blood splatters and infiltrates the deeper tissues. The muscles at the stump spasm and curl, and the blood in the trachea forms bloody foam."

In other words, she was not dead at that time.

However, before the decapitation, the female victim's chest was cut off, and her lower body was severely mutilated; the killer stabbed her three times.

Upon hearing this, the atmosphere in the conference room became tense, and everyone lit cigarettes.

Yang Jinwen opened the conference room door slightly, and Wen Ling pushed her chair back to let in some fresh air.

She then continued, "After the autopsy, we found the same food residue in the stomach contents of the two victims. The most unusual thing was the presence of chili flakes, which means that they had eaten the same spicy food before they died."

If you eat chili peppers at noon, they won't be digested and will be excreted through the intestines and feces.

This connected the two victims.

He Jinbo immediately asked, "Are they a couple, or a newlywed couple?"

Wen Ling did not answer; this was not within her job scope.

At this moment, Cai Ting raised her hand and asked, "Was the female victim assaulted? Why did the murderer stab the victim's genitals?"

Wen Ling let out a breath: "I was indeed violated."

Yang Jinwen continued, "It's possible that the victim's semen remained in his body, so he used a knife to stab him and interfere with the forensic examination."

Cai Ting nodded and said nothing more.

Wen Mo asked, "Where was the male victim killed? Was it in a public restroom, or where the body was found?"

Wen Ling replied, "A large amount of blood was found in the grass behind the bench, under the snow in the grass. The beheading also took place in this place."

For greater precision, DNA testing of the blood sample would be necessary. If the male victim's DNA wasn't detected in the women's restroom, then it's likely the correct match.

Wen Mo then asked, "Captain Song, did your forensic examination reveal anything?"

Song Jun nodded: "Yes, we found a lot of footprints, fingerprints and hair in the public restroom, but we need to compare which ones belong to the murderer."

"It should be relatively easy to compare. The perpetrator is definitely male, especially the size of the footprints and the length of the hair, which are quite different."

"Yes," Song Jun replied.

After the case was explained, Wen Mo continued, "Everyone, what are your thoughts? Let's determine the direction of the investigation."

Zheng Kang said, "First, we need to find the heads of the two victims..."

Before he could finish speaking, Yao Weihua, who was sitting to the side, interrupted him.

"Finding the head is important, but I think the nature of this case is neither robbery nor revenge killing. Even if we find the victim's identity, it will be difficult to screen out the perpetrator."

Therefore, I tend to believe that the killer committed the murders randomly and with great audacity.

Right now, our first step is to look into the criminal underworld and investigate individuals with prior criminal records.

He Jinbo calmed down a bit: "We need to find the boss too, and we also need to investigate what Lao Yao mentioned."

I'll add one more thing: the murderer took the heads of the two victims, as well as other body parts from the female victim.

Did these criminals leave the crime scene on foot, or did they have a means of transportation? Therefore, investigating their means of transportation is one approach.

Lu Shaohua looked at Yang Jinwen and asked, "Little Yang, what's your opinion?"

Yang Jinwen pondered for a while before replying, "The murderer not only cut off the victims' heads, but his treatment of the female victims was extremely cruel."

I tend to agree with Captain Yao's statement. This gang of criminals is extremely vicious and audacious. They dared to kill someone in a public place before it even got dark. They are not ordinary criminals!

Therefore, I figured I should start with people with criminal records, especially those who have just been released from prison, as that should be able to identify them.

The location is not limited to the northern part of the city, but rather the entire city.

Furthermore, I suspect there were at least two, or even three, perpetrators.

Moreover, no one can guarantee that this is their first crime, or that they will commit crimes again.

Our municipal bureau needs to issue a request for assistance to all police stations in the city to conduct a comprehensive search and warn the public to take precautions and not go out alone.

Lu Shaohua became increasingly alarmed as he listened, and not only him, but everyone in the conference room frowned.

If anyone else had said that, Zheng Kang or He Jinbo would have already criticized them.

But since the person who said this was Yang Jinwen, they had to consider the seriousness of the matter.

Most homicides are either driven by profit or by emotional entanglements.

But now no one dares to make that judgment about this case.

If it was robbery, would there be a need to kill people? Even if it was murder, why cut off the heads of two victims?

If the murder was caused by rape, then the nature of the crime is extremely heinous.

What the murderer did to the female victim, in particular, can only be described as perverted.

Finally, Yang Jinwen added, "Director Wen, Director Lu, this case isn't difficult to solve; the murderer will be caught sooner or later. The important thing is, how many people have these criminals killed? Will they kill anyone else?"

(End of this chapter)