Chapter 228 The Clever Murderer
Su Ming walked around the room for a long time and finally came to the place where the meat sauce was found.
He squatted down and stared at the red cement floor carefully. There were some subtle scratches on the ground that were difficult to detect.
Just as Su Ming was about to reach out to touch it, Zhu Hualong beside him immediately handed him a glove: "Director Su, come, put this on."
"Oh, sorry, I don't know the rules." Su Ming smiled apologetically, put on gloves, and carefully touched the scratches. A vague picture emerged in his mind - a man holding an axe high was dismembering the body lying here.
Bi Changlin noticed Su Ming's point and explained, "The weapon the murderer used to decompose the body was most likely an axe. If a sharp weapon like a knife was used, the decomposition should be done by cutting. The traces left by this action should show that the damage to each part is relatively uniform, but this is obviously not the case.
Although a similar effect can be achieved by swinging a knife roughly, this cannot be achieved unless the person is very strong and can break the bone in one blow and still have enough strength to smash it on the ground and leave a mark.
Of course, it's not definitely an axe. We just think that among common daily tools, an axe is more consistent with these traces. We do not rule out the possibility that the murderer has other strange tools.
All in all, it is difficult to deduce the murderer's weapon based on these few traces."
Su Ming nodded, indicating that he agreed with Bi Changlin's conclusion.
Su Ming stood up, walked around the room again, and returned to the living room. Zhu Hualong smiled and walked over to him, asking, "Did District Chief Su see anything?"
Su Ming smiled at Zhu Hualong and shrugged: "Not at all, let's go to the next place."
Zhu Hualong was stunned for a moment before he came back to his senses. He nodded slightly and called to the investigators behind him: "Alright, alright! Let's go to the next place and re-examine the scene. Maybe there will be new discoveries!"
Bi Changlin said nothing, pushed his glasses, went out silently, and followed him to the next location.
After that, Su Ming visited three locations in succession. An hour passed quickly. During this hour, the team led by the two analysis experts did not find any more clues.
Because before this, the investigation team had already inspected the scene in detail many times, and all the results that could be found must have been checked out.
Generally, the investigation team's investigation steps are as follows: first observe the characteristics of the victim's remains, call up the surrounding surveillance, and if the murderer is obvious, immediately hunt him down and interrogate him.
But if there are fewer clues and the body's sensory organs are intact, go to Chu Xiaobai for help.
If the body has lost too many sensory organs, special containment devices will be used directly.
The Seventh Investigation Bureau has many items with various functions, but only one of them is helpful in solving cases , and that is a video recorder.
The name it was recorded under was [Death Video].
As long as you use it to film the body of the deceased, the body will move in the video in the same state as when it was filmed, reenacting the actions made during the victim's death, including how the waist was intact when being chopped, which part of the body was covered when being stabbed, what kind of reaction was when being beaten, and so on.
Through the movements made by the body in the video, the investigation team of the Analysis Department can calculate the murderer's height, dominant hand, route of action during the crime, and part of the motive for the murder.
All in all, it was a very useful containment object, but it also had a fatal weakness. That was that when the body was incomplete, many actions could not be performed, and the "body" that was chopped into a meat paste was completely ineffective.
On weekdays, most cases can be solved by Chu Xiaobai. In a very small number of cases, the body has lost key sensory organs, and then the [Death Video] is used to find clues.
If even the death recorder is not available, then we can only use traditional methods to solve the case.
Generally speaking, a murderer with low IQ cannot escape the pursuit of the Analysis Department, but obviously the murderer this time is different. He did not leave any clues.
"This is the fourth location." Zhu Hualong pointed to the building surrounded by yellow warning tape and introduced, "It's where the gangs gather. A dozen people who were there at the gathering died . Do you want to go in and take a look?"
"Go in and take a look."
Su Ming took the lead, opened the door, and walked into the rally.
When I entered the room, the ground was covered in blood and the bloodstains on the walls had not been cleaned up yet. From these remaining traces, I could tell that the scene was tragic.
Su Ming walked around the scene as usual, carefully observing every clue and trace, while the investigation team behind him talked to each other.
“How many times have we been here?”
"I don't know how many times it has happened, but it must have happened at least ten times. If the bodies of those people were intact, then maybe we could find something. But it's too difficult to find new clues now."
Jiang Yun knew that these people said these words specifically for Su Ming to hear, and their subtext was that continuing to search here would be a waste of time.
Although she is Su Ming's secretary and should support Su Ming's work, to be honest, she doesn't think what Su Ming is doing now is of any use.
Instead of trying to find clues from a perfect crime scene, it would be better to deploy more people to stake out near the slums and wait for the murderer to appear.
Jiang Yun felt that Su Ming was indeed too young and still needed to experience a lot of things. Now he had great strength but no experience in other aspects. He was just a blank slate.
Miss Sylvie asked her to be Su Ming's secretary, probably with the intention of asking her to help Su Ming grow.
"District Chief, shouldn't we focus on patrolling? Since this is a serial murder case, the murderer will definitely strike again. Compared to looking for clues at the scene, improving patrol work will have a higher chance of arresting the murderer." Jiang Yun suggested.
Bi Changlin pushed his glasses and stood up and said, "I agree with Secretary Jiang's suggestion. We should leave professional matters to professionals. We also hope that District Chief Su can have more trust in our work. As long as there is information that can be found, we will never miss it!"
"Yes, yes, analyzing the scene is our job, and District Chief Su's specialty is overall management." Zhu Hualong said with a smile.
In fact, Zhu Hualong knew that Su Ming was just a newcomer and had no management skills at all, but Su Ming was the one chosen by Sylvie after all, and he had accomplished so many great things, so he admired Su Ming very much in his heart and was very confident in Su Ming's future growth, so his words were very polite.
Su Ming touched the dried blood on the ground, stood up, and wiped his hands on his pants: "Do we have any collection items that can be used to solve the case?"
"Yes, but the body must be intact to be used. If it's all turned into a paste, it can't be used."
"The murderer must have a motive to go to so much trouble to do such a thing. Do you think the murderer might be someone from the Investigation Bureau, so he specially processed the body like this so that we have no way to start?" Su Ming asked casually.
Everyone was stunned and stared at Su Ming blankly.
Seeing that everyone was silent, Su Ming turned around and looked at them in confusion.
"What's wrong? Is my hypothesis impossible?" Su Ming looked at them and said.
"This...this is unlikely?" a young investigator said in disbelief.
Zhu Hualong stared at Su Ming for a while, realized that Su Ming was serious, and began to think seriously.
"It is indeed possible that they were from the Investigation Bureau, but if that is the case, all of us present here would be suspects. And based on my experience, it is unlikely that someone from the Investigation Bureau would do such a thing," said Bi Changlin.
"Yeah, there's no reason for people from the Investigation Bureau to do this," Jiang Yun said.
"And if the purpose is to evade the investigation bureau's pursuit, people who are not from the investigation bureau may also choose to destroy the body. When they don't know what investigation methods are available, destroying the body as much as possible is a method that anyone would think of," said Bi Changlin.
Su Ming nodded when he heard this. He felt that what everyone said was good and made sense.
But the traces at the scene did make Su Ming somewhat concerned.
Through these traces, Su Ming could feel that the murderer's mood was different when killing different people.
The difference is hard to describe. If I have to, it would be that for some people, the murderer kills very seriously, while for others, the murder is not serious.
Hide a tree in a forest, hide a corpse in a sea of corpses... Perhaps those who died were not all the people the murderer wanted to kill.
"Let's go." Su Ming said.
"Um, are we going back to the Investigation Bureau now?" Jiang Yun asked.
"No, we have to visit all the subsequent sites." Su Ming said.
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"Flora, have you figured out what you are doing?" An old voice came from the other end of the phone.
Flora's hand holding the phone was shaking slightly. She had already made up her mind and felt that this was the only thing she could do on her own.
"I know what I'm doing. I don't ask for much. I just want my mom and brother to live with me. Is that difficult?"
She spoke in a tone so polite and humble that even she felt angry.
Now she is a kidnapper and she is in control. She shouldn't talk to her family like this and her attitude should be tougher.
But she couldn't be tough. Over the years, she had become accustomed to accepting everything.
"Do you think the Osborn family hasn't been good enough to you?" Enoch's voice was cold and majestic.
"No, it's not! The family has been good enough to us, but I just want to be with--"
"Shut up! You ungrateful thing! If it weren't for your father, your mother would still be in the slums, and you would never have been born! We treat you as a member of the Osborn family, and you actually did such a stupid thing. How can you bear the name of Osborn like this!"
Flora was yelled at. She looked at Lance beside her, calmed herself down, and said in a cold voice:
"I don't care. This is not the life I want! I want you to send my mother and Milo here, or I will kill Lance!... If you don't believe me, I will cut off one of Lance's fingers and send it to you first!"
