Detective: From the Police Academy

Chapter 385 Looking for a corpse!

Yonghe City, north of the city.

In the drainage ditch at the foot of the mountain, there stood a row of policemen in black uniforms, and a cordon had been set up around the area.

After getting off the car, Luo Rui and others hunched their hands, stepped on the frozen hard soil, and headed to the scene.

The sky was gloomy and the temperature was very low. A cloud of white mist was puffing out as we spoke. Even so, it had not yet snowed.

The person guarding the scene was Feng Jianqiu. When he saw Luo Rui and his group, he quickly came forward and said, "Director Luo."

"What's going on at the scene?"

"We found a bloody suitcase, but we can't tell if it's Zhang Jing's." Feng Jianqiu replied, "We've already notified Zhang Yongcheng and asked him to come over and identify it."

"Who discovered it?"

"Officer Chu Yang." Feng Jianqiu had just finished speaking when Chu Yang and Sun Zhihao came over.

Luo Rui saw him and grinned: "Have you found the suspect's movement trajectory?"

Chu Yang nodded and explained, "Team leader, the situation is like this. We have identified surveillance cameras within a five-kilometer radius of Baita Community, especially several main sections of Baita Community. The technical staff of the Municipal Bureau are checking.

But we didn't find the suitcase in this way. Instead, we looked for it according to the place where the body was dumped.

The suspect took Zhang Jing away in a suitcase. It was either kidnapping or body dumping. If it was kidnapping, more than 20 days have passed. The suspect neither notified Zhang Jing's family nor asked for a ransom. So Sun Zhihao and I discussed it and thought that the possibility of body dumping was very high.

The suspect is very alert and is very cautious when entering and leaving the Baita Community. He has certain anti-detection capabilities and may be a repeat offender.

If he wanted to dump the body, he would definitely avoid surveillance, and there was also a risk of absconding, so I focused on searching the surveillance blind spots around the Baita community, as well as places where the suspect could easily escape after dumping the body.

It just so happens that the location in the north of the city meets the requirements..."

Chu Yang pointed to the building in front. On the roof of a building stood a rusty sign with five large characters "Chengbei Bus Station" written on it.

"The Chengbei Bus Station is only two kilometers away from the Baita Community. Behind the station, which is the hillside where we are standing now, is a large wasteland. Few people come here, which is more suitable for dumping corpses.

With the cooperation of our colleagues from the local police station, we searched together and actually found a suitcase with blood on it.”

Luo Rui blinked. Chu Yang's mind was very quick. It was not easy for him to define the scope and find the target based on the existing clues.

"Good job." Luo Rui encouraged.

Hearing this, Sun Zhihao also looked at him eagerly.

Luo Rui patted his shoulder and said, "You are also very good. Learn more from Chu Yang and watch more."

Sun Zhihao nodded and smiled shyly.

Since Luo Rui entered the provincial department, he no longer had to investigate many cases himself, but had to hand it over to his subordinates. If he still led the way and rushed to the front line as he did before, even if he solved every case, he would not be recognized by his superiors.

What's more, this blocks the possibility of advancement for subordinates. Everyone follows him, and who doesn't want to shine and make further progress?
Both Chu Yang and Fang Yonghui have the ability to stand on their own, and what he has to do now is to let them go.

Chu Yang was a calm person, not showing much pride. He said, "Team Leader, Xiao Sun and I will go check the bus station and see if we can identify the suspect."

"Do as you wish." Luo Rui agreed.

The two men called a few detectives from the city bureau, and the group ran towards the bus station excitedly.

At this time, Yi Chunlin and Zhao Ming were squatting in the drainage ditch, and the technical police were standing above them, holding cameras and taking pictures continuously, and the crisp "click" sounds were heard in their ears.

The 26-inch Oxford cloth suitcase was placed on the white cloth, the zipper was unzipped, and the bloodstains on the lining were clearly visible.

In addition, there were two black plastic bags in the drainage ditch, which were also stained with blood. Yi Chunlin handed the plastic bags to the police officer above, who took them and carefully placed them on the white cloth.

Luo Rui noticed that the two black plastic bags were put together, just like when buying vegetables, the things are too heavy and one bag will easily break, so two layers are used.

Because it was winter, there was no water in the drainage ditch, but there was a lot of sludge, so Zhao Ming and Yi Chunlin squatted on the survey board carefully.

After a while, the two men straightened up. Zhao Ming was already in his forties. He joined the Municipal Bureau to do on-site investigation right after graduation. His waist had been damaged for a long time. At this time, he had a black waist belt wrapped around his waist, but he still kept beating his old waist with his hands because of the pain.

Luo Rui stretched out his hand and pulled him up from the drainage ditch which was more than one meter high.

"Thank you." Zhao Ming took a breath.

Yi Chunlin was young. He pushed himself against the shore with his hands and climbed up.

He clapped his hands and said, "It meets the conditions for dumping a body, but this is not the site where the body was dumped."

After saying that, he looked at Zhao Ming, as if he wanted to ask for his opinion. Zhao Ming was the son of his master. Whether it was on-site investigation or related forensic knowledge and experience, Zhao Ming was an expert.

Zhao Ming held his waist with one hand and said thoughtfully: "I agree with Chunlin's opinion..."

He looked around, then looked at Feng Jianqiu and asked, "Has it rained in Yonghe City since the incident?"

Feng Jianqiu quickly shook his head: "It rained twice, but it was just drizzle. It rarely rains heavily in Yonghe City in winter."

"That's right." Zhao Ming replied, "There are no useful footprints found around here. Logically, this place is rarely visited by people. The suspect dumped the suitcase containing the body here, but there were no footprints left. This shouldn't be possible..."

Luo Rui looked at the drainage ditch. Both sides of the ditch were flat concrete floors, about three palms wide.

"It's impossible that there were no footprints! Unless the suspect walked barefoot, but there is one more thing..." Luo Rui looked at the wheels of the suitcase: "Wouldn't the wheels of the suitcase leave traces?"

As they spoke, everyone squatted down and carefully observed the wheels of the suitcase.

There was a thick layer of mud on the wheels and the damage was quite serious.

Luo Rui took the gloves from Lin Chen and put them on. Then he turned the wheel on the upper left side. The wheel was broken, obviously due to overuse.

In addition, the wheels next to it were also severely deformed, and the metal support rods were flattened.

At this time, Lin Chen handed the tablet to Luo Rui: "Zhang Jing, this suitcase is a foreign brand, it is very valuable, it costs more than 1,000 yuan, and all four wheels are universal wheels."

Luo Rui took a look and asked, "How much does Zhang Jing weigh?"

"There is no accurate data." Feng Jianqiu replied: "It is estimated to be around 90 kilograms, neither fat nor thin."

Luo Rui pondered and said, "The Baita community where Jiang Mei lives is two kilometers away from here. Chu Yang and his team checked the surveillance for a day but did not find the suspect in the surveillance. We might as well speculate that the suspect brought Zhang Jing here with a suitcase to avoid the surveillance on the road.

These two wheels are the front wheels. The suspect dragged the two front wheels diagonally near the pull rod, so the front wheels were severely worn.

"Director Luo's guess is correct. This should be the case." Feng Jianqiu gave a thumbs up and flattered him. In order to avoid being laughed at by others, he quickly coughed, pointed at the two plastic bags next to him, and asked, "What's going on with this?"

Zhao Ming picked up the plastic bag, took the tweezers from the assistant, and carefully picked out a long black hair from the bag.

Seeing this, Yi Chunlin quickly took out the evidence bag and asked Zhao Ming to put his long hair into the transparent bag.

There is not just one long hair in the bag, but many, and Zhao Ming is taking them out one by one.

Feng Jianqiu was surprised. After swallowing his saliva, he said, "This... this plastic bag is used to cover the victim's head?"

No one answered him because it was obvious that the suspect had put two layers of plastic bags over Zhang Jing's head.

"But why did he do that?"

Luo Rui looked at him and said, "There are two reasons. One is to prevent the blood from seeping into the suitcase and dripping onto the road. The other is that the suspect is not dead yet, so that she won't wake up and scream, which would arouse other people's suspicion.

No matter what the situation is, the victim must be dead after having his head covered with a plastic bag for such a long time!"

"Damn, this bastard is so meticulous?" Feng Jianqiu cursed.

Just as he finished speaking, a black Audi drove up from the bottom of the slope. Before the car stopped, Zhang Yongcheng opened the door and ran over, rolling.

Behind him was a middle-aged woman in gorgeous clothes.

Feng Jianqiu immediately went to meet him, but Zhang Yongcheng ignored him and went straight to the scene.

Qiao Xue and Lin Chen quickly stopped him: "Please don't cross the cordon!"

"Get out of the way!" Zhang Yongcheng didn't give any face and was about to yell "Get lost"...

Luo Rui stood up and stared at him coldly: "Boss Zhang, keep your mouth shut!"

Zhang Yongcheng saw his eyes and immediately swallowed his words. He pulled Feng Jianqiu and asked anxiously, "Did you find my daughter?"

Feng Jianqiu shook his head: "We called you here because we want you to identify Zhang Jing's belongings."

"What did you find?"

Feng Jianqiu was about to speak when he heard the woman next to him crying at the top of her lungs.

When everyone looked over, they found that Zhang Yongcheng's wife was staring at the suitcase and began to cry.

Needless to say, the suitcase most likely belongs to Zhang Jing, and the bloodstains and hair extracted from the suitcase must also be taken back for testing, not just for family members to identify it.

But with the testimony of the family members, the case can proceed quickly, saving a lot of investigation time.

Although Zhang Yongcheng is a piece of shit and an extreme egoist, Zhang Jing's mother is innocent.

Cai Xiaojing helped her up and asked, "Is the suitcase Zhang Jing's personal belongings?"

"Yes, it's hers. We went to Huangshan for a vacation during the summer vacation, and she brought this suitcase with her. Where is she? Where is she? Is she dead?"

When Zhang Yongcheng heard his wife say this, his knees went weak and he sat down on the ground.

Feng Jianqiu had never seen Zhang Yongcheng so cowardly. After all, he was usually arrogant and domineering.

But Zhang Yongcheng was only distracted for a moment, and then he forced himself to stand up, looked at Feng Jianqiu, then turned his head and stared at Luo Rui.

He grabbed Luo Rui's wrist and said in a crazy tone: "Director Luo, tell me, is it Xing Guolong who wants to get me? Is it him who killed my daughter? It must be this bastard. He wants to compete with me and suppress me!"

Luo Rui shook off his hand and yelled, "Calm down for the fucking time, Zhang Yongcheng, are you crazy?"

Luo Rui cursed and suddenly felt that he was a little too radical, which was not in line with his current status. He immediately lowered his tone and continued, "Zhang Yongcheng, I will tell you clearly now that there is no evidence that indicates that Xing Guolong is the suspect in this case!
As for who committed the crime, our provincial department and municipal bureau will do their best to investigate, so you'd better not mess around."

"I won't make trouble. I will listen to you, but you must catch the murderer. Director Luo, I beg you. I only have this one daughter and I have loved her since she was a child..." Zhang Yongcheng bowed with his hands and spoke in a dispirited voice.

"Take them away and don't interfere with the investigation." Luo Rui said to Feng Jianqiu. Apparently, during the half month that Zhang Liang was missing, Zhang Yongcheng, as a father, had not considered it a murder case at all. In his heart, he always believed that it was Xing Guolong who was using despicable means to target him.

When it comes to the fact that Xing Guolong dared to kill someone, he didn't believe it at all. After all, they were all public employees and there was no need to commit murder just for a position.

Although Zhang Jing's body has not been found yet, indirect evidence has shown that the possibility of her being alive is very slim, and Zhang Yongcheng no longer forces the case to be placed on Xing Guolong.

The crying gradually faded away, and everyone focused their attention on the case again.

Zhao Ming said: "There is nothing for me to do at the scene, so I will go back and see if I can scan fingerprints and biological samples on the box."

Luo Rui shook his head, thinking, and said: "Don't worry, the suitcase was thrown into the drainage ditch by the suspect, and the body is likely to be nearby.

Feng Zhi, we must conduct a carpet search of this area. In addition to organizing police officers, we should also dispatch a few cadaver dogs."

"I'm already mobilizing people." Feng Jianqiu raised the tablet phone in his hand. After all, he was also an old criminal policeman, it was impossible for him not to think of this.

Luo Rui looked at the scene carefully and said, "There are no useful footprints or wheel marks from the suitcase touching the ground. So can we infer that this is not the suspect's route into the mountain?

This is most likely his return route. After dumping the body, the suspect went down the mountain from this side and then dumped the suitcase in the ditch?"

At this point, everyone looked towards the road outside the slope, which led directly to the North City Bus Station below.

From here, you can see the vehicles entering and leaving the station, as well as the vendors and people on the roadside.

Qiao Xue said, "It's really possible. The surveillance cameras can't capture him. He can't possibly pass through a crowded station!"

Cai Xiaojing continued, "After the suspect dumped the body, did he immediately flee by car?"

Luo Rui ordered: "Chu Yang and his team have already gone there. Call him and ask him to check for long-distance buses that will leave the station after 9pm on December 3rd!"

"Yes!" Lin Chen immediately took out his phone.

Luo Rui did not delay any longer and walked up along the three-palm-wide cement ground beside the canal.

Seeing this, the others also followed suit and went up.

Half an hour later, the search team and the police dog unit arrived with cadaver-sniffing dogs.

The two corpse-hunting dogs looked listless and listless, which made their trainer very anxious.

Feng Jianqiu asked, "What's going on? Are these two dogs not full or what?"

The trainer looked innocent: "They have bad attitudes and have just been criticized. They have not been motivated these past few days."

Lin Chen thought of Xiao Mu, the police dog in Shahe County, and asked curiously, "What have these two little guys done wrong?"

As soon as she finished speaking, the two police dogs barked at her a few times, seemingly dissatisfied with her tone.

The trainer quickly pulled the dog leash and scolded, "What? Are you two still stubborn? Don't you know how to turn over a new leaf? If you don't do anything good this time, you'll be put in solitary confinement!"

Feng Jianqiu sighed, "These two dogs violated the law and discipline. Not only did they not take a bath, but they also peed in the dormitory. Not only were they lifeless at work, but they also did not distinguish between friend and foe and beat up their colleagues. It's simply too numerous to mention!"

Lin Chen looked at the vest that the dog was wearing, which had an official police number on it. She smiled and said, "Oh, it's like this after you're enlisted. I understand. I understand."

Xiaomu is still better... Lin Chen complained in his heart and gave up the idea of ​​petting the dog.

It was afternoon and the police began to organize a search of the mountain.

The trainer first did some serious ideological work on the two cadaver dogs, and then let them sniff the suitcase.

Zhang Jing had been missing for more than half a month, and the bloodstains on the suitcase had long dried up. It would be difficult to find the body by the smell of blood. The best way was to track it by the stench of the corpse.

The reason for letting the two cadaver dogs sniff the suitcase carefully was mainly to see if they could find other odor sources.

Sure enough, one of the cadaver dogs named "Blackback" got the feeling.

It whined twice, stepped back, and urinated.

The trainer was so annoyed that he criticized, "Blackback, you broke the rules again. What did we say before? Let me tell you..."

Before he could finish his words, the black back barked twice and ran along the canal.

The trainer took one look and hurriedly followed behind it.

Another corpse-hunting dog also followed the leader, trotting all the way.

At this time, Luo Rui had reached the end of the canal, which was halfway up the mountain.

This location is not far from where the suitcase was abandoned, only half a kilometer away, but it is on the other side of the mountain and the North City Bus Station cannot be seen.

He looked down and saw a low residential area at the foot of the mountain.

There are also several white water pipes laid on the mountainside, leading directly to the residential area.

Luo Rui asked, "Isn't the water used in the residential areas down the mountain supplied by the water plant?"

Although Qiao Xue is from this city and started as a grassroots police officer, she was not clear about this matter. When Luo Rui asked about it, she had to answer: "It may be that the residents living at the foot of the mountain dug a well in the mountain privately..."

"well?"

Luo Rui frowned and turned his head to look, only to see two corpse-hunting dogs running towards the top of the mountain, and the trainer couldn't stop them.

Seeing this, Luo Rui immediately said, "Follow me!"

As he spoke, he also climbed up the mountain, followed closely by two corpse-sniffing dogs.

On a relatively flat piece of land on the top of the mountain, a well with cement cast on all four sides appeared before everyone's eyes.

Two corpse-sniffing dogs surrounded the well, barking non-stop.

The well mouth is very small, with a diameter of only one and a half meters.

Luo Rui took the flashlight handed to him by Qiao Xue and shone it down the well, but it was pitch black and he could not see anything.

At this time, everyone went up the mountain and gathered around.

Feng Jianqiu asked anxiously, "Isn't the body down here?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the smell coming from the well answered him: this smell was the stench of a highly decomposed corpse.

No wonder the two corpse-hunting dogs ran so fast, it turned out that they smelled the scent at the foot of the mountain.

"Finally found!"

Qiao Xue sighed. If anyone had to say who was most touched by this case, it would be Qiao Xue. After all, she had participated in the preliminary investigation of this case. At that time, it was just a missing case. If it were not for Zhang Yongcheng's relationship, the Criminal Police Detachment of the Municipal Bureau would not have accepted the case at all.

After going around in circles and going to the provincial department, she didn't expect that she would take over the investigation of the case again.

Feng Jianqiu frowned and shouted to the veterans of the Third Brigade: "Don't just stand there, hurry up and bring up the water pumps, and get a few high-powered pumps!"

At this time, Luo Rui asked someone to bring a few flashlights and shone them into the well, but no floating corpse was seen on the water.

"The body must have been tied with something heavy and sunk to the bottom of the well," said Feng Jianqiu.

Luo Rui stood up and pondered, "Why did the murderer abandon the suitcase?"

"What do you mean?"

"The person was put into a suitcase. If you want to dispose of the body, why not just put rocks into the suitcase and let it sink together?"

Feng Jianqiu blinked: "There's already one person in the suitcase, so maybe there's not enough room for anything else?"

At this time, Zhao Ming replied: "There is a gap in the suitcase, and any small stone or gravel can be stuffed in."

Upon hearing this, everyone looked around and found that there were indeed quite a few small stones and gravel nearby, which might have been left over from the drilling process.

"Will the suitcase float in this case?"

Zhao Ming shook his head: "I haven't done any experiments, so I can't judge."

Feng Jianqiu frowned: "Why did the murderer take the body out alone?"

"We can only answer this question after we catch the person." Luo Rui said, "It's getting late, let's hurry up and retrieve the body first."

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the two pumps were installed properly. The machines continued to roar, draining the water in the well down the mountain.

Lin Chen looked at the situation and smacked his lips: "The residents who drink the water are unlucky. They drink corpse water every day..."

"Ah..." Feng Jianqiu sighed: "We have to keep this a secret for now. If the residents down the mountain knew about this, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to sleep."

An hour and a half later, when sewage appeared in the drain pipe, Feng Jianqiu immediately asked someone to stop the pump.

Although there was still a lot of water in the well and no bodies were visible, I didn't dare to continue pumping.

Zhang Jing was murdered on December 3rd. It is now the end of the month. The body is not only highly decomposed, but if you are not careful, the rotten flesh will be pulled out.

Under the illumination of more than a dozen flashlights, Yi Chunlin and a forensic doctor from the Municipal Bureau put on their equipment.

"Um...if I can't come up, please tell my master a message."

Lin Chen asked with amusement: "What do you mean?"

"I can't be filial to him anymore."

Zhao Ming, who was standing next to him, rolled his eyes and said, "Get lost. I'm still here. Get off now."

Yi Chunlin laughed and bent over to sit in the hanging basket, which was slowly lowered into the bottomless well...

He looked up and saw the stars, which were rare in the winter month, appearing above the narrow well mouth...

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