Reborn in 97, I solved a cold case at the Municipal Bureau

Chapter 380 (Third Update, Seeking Votes) First Major Case Meeting

In the main conference room of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, all the key members of the Hongcheng Criminal Investigation Detachment were present.

Sitting in the middle is Xie Guoqiang, with Ni Jianrong and Wu Yongcheng on his left and right respectively.

Then there were the main members of Team One, Team Two, and Team Three. In principle, Shi Tao had nothing to do with this case, but when he was notified to rush back to the bureau, he knew that the case must be very serious.

Xie Guoqiang looked at Wu Yongcheng and said, "Let's begin."

Wu Yongcheng nodded and said loudly, "Comrades, it's 4:20 PM on May 1st. Today is Labor Day, a day that should be a day of rest for everyone. But as you all know, last night we received a tip from the public that a bag of body parts had been found. Today, after our large-scale search, we have found several more bags of body parts. This is an extremely heinous dismemberment case, and the fact that it happened at this time undoubtedly poses a huge challenge to the safety of Hongcheng."

"So today is the first case analysis meeting for the 430 dismemberment case, which will be chaired by Director Xie. We will share all the clues that have been discovered with everyone, and then carry out the next steps based on the clues."

Wu Yongcheng said to Jiang Biao, "Biaozi, tell me about the search first."

Jiang Biao stood up and said, "Okay. Today, we will use the coordinates of the eastern section of the Nansha River where the first bag of body parts was found as the center and continuously expand the search area outwards. The main search targets are garbage cans, trash bins, and relatively hidden corners of the city. Later, based on the possibility that the deceased was a student of Hongda University, we adjusted the search area and expanded the search outwards from Hongda University."

"To date, in addition to the initial bag of body parts found in a travel bag, we have discovered five more bags of body parts in black garbage bags in five different locations, including a trash can next to the Hongqi Road bus stop and a construction waste dump near Xiaohong Bridge. The search is ongoing. We are increasing police resources to expand the search area and conducting secondary searches in the areas already searched. The focus of the secondary searches will be abandoned construction sites, abandoned old residential areas and factories, sewers, and land where body parts may have been buried."

"Oh, so far a total of six bags of body parts have been found, all of which are human tissue. No skulls or human skeletons have been found yet."

Xie Guoqiang nodded and praised, "Well done. Comrade Jiang Biao is very experienced in large-scale searches and his thinking is very thorough. In particular, the arrangement of the second search was very well done, which prevented us from letting our guard down in the areas that had already been searched."

"However, I also have another suggestion. The victim's head and bones haven't been found yet, and compared to human tissue, this is the most difficult part to deal with in a dismemberment case. So, during the second search, we can't just focus on the location, but also on the person."

"Our police officers must keep their eyes open, be vigilant about suspicious vehicles and people on the road, and conduct checks and inquiries at any time, because the murderer may have disposed of the body a second time."

As Xie Guoqiang spoke, Wu Yongcheng nodded repeatedly. After Xie finished speaking, Wu Yongcheng immediately said, "Biaozi, remember that, and get it arranged right away."

Jiang Biao nodded: "Okay, thank you for your guidance, Director."

Sitting to the side, Zhou Yi felt that the possibility of Director Xie's suggestion of a second body disposal was very high.

There are two reasons.

First, in my previous life, I found an old snakeskin bag in the bushes by the side gate of the Pinghe Road Hospital. It weighed a full fifteen kilograms and contained the bones of the deceased and larger pieces of human tissue that were not easy to dissect.

But in this life, the snakeskin bag was not found.

Before the meeting, he had privately asked Jiang Biao whether there would be a search in the area near the hospital, given the large flow of people and the diverse population.

Jiang Biao pointed directly to the area on the map and said that he had checked all the hospitals near the hospital, including the one on Pinghe Road.

This hospital is not a top-tier tertiary hospital in the city, but a second-tier regional hospital in Nanming District. However, it is the closest to Hongda University, so students from Hongda University and nearby residents usually go there for minor ailments.

Since a search was conducted, it means that the murderer in this life did not directly dispose of the victim's bones, or that the disposition plan may have changed due to changes in the methods of dismemberment.

That would raise the possibility of the body being disposed of a second time.

Secondly, the fact that there was no movement on Shangguan Street basically means that the murderer did not throw the victim's head into the sewers of Shangguan Street in this life.

Otherwise, with such a large-scale salvage operation, it would have been discovered long ago.

The head and bones were likely in the same condition, because the changes in the murder case in this life led to some changes in the subsequent disposal of the body.

Wu Yongcheng continued, "Besides the victim's head and bones, what we have found so far are mainly slices of human tissue and some internal organs. This means that there are other body parts that have not yet been found, so Biaozi needs to step up his efforts."

Jiang Biao responded aggressively, "Please rest assured, leader, I will dig three feet into the ground to find the remaining body parts."

Wu Yongcheng nodded and looked at Song Yiming and Xu Nian, saying, "Let the forensic doctor tell us about the autopsy."

Song Yiming opened the folder in front of him, which contained a large number of autopsy photos and documents. He stood up and handed the photos and documents to Director Xie across the table.

Jiang Biao immediately stood up, stepped in the middle, took the documents, and handed them to Director Xie.

Xie Guoqiang glanced down at the document, his face grim.

Song Yiming said, "Currently, the forensic team has received a total of six bags of body parts. The weight of each bag and the number of body parts slices are all specified in the preliminary examination report, which you can all take a look at." As he said this, Xu Nian had already handed out copies of the prepared reports to everyone present, and Zhou Yi also received one.

Every single number above is alarming.

Song Yiming said, "I won't go into the individual figures; you can see for yourselves. I'll just mention the overall figures. So far, these six bags of body parts include human tissue slices, slices of four internal organs such as the liver, totaling 632 slices."

This number sent chills down the spines of everyone in the room of detectives.

Song Yiming, his face somewhat pale, said, "Based on the current situation, I estimate that the overall dismemberment may exceed one thousand pieces."

"One thousand?" Even Xie Guoqiang was shocked.

"There probably isn't a dismemberment case this serious in the history of the world, right?"

When faced with Xie Guoqiang's question, Song Yiming answered directly: "No."

"Hiss..." Xie Guoqiang looked at the report in his hand and felt it was burning hot. This level of report was probably not just a matter of reporting to the province; it had to be reported to the ministry.

What's wrong with Hongcheng? Lately, the cases are getting more and more serious. If any of them go wrong, my career will probably be over.

Zhou Yi glanced at the bureau chief out of the corner of his eye. Judging from his serious expression, he knew that after this meeting, the bureau chief would have to call the provincial government. It seemed that he didn't have much time left.

Song Yiming continued, "I'd like to say a few points regarding the preliminary autopsy findings."

"First, it can be confirmed that the deceased was female, because human tissue with female characteristics was found in the existing pieces of meat. However, unfortunately, the special nature of the body makes it impossible for us forensic experts to determine the specific age, height, and weight of the deceased. We can only make a rough judgment based on the muscle texture and internal organ structure of the human tissue, and we tend to think that she was a young woman."

When Song Yiming said this, everyone in the Third Brigade couldn't help but glance at Zhou Yi.

"Secondly, the way the body was dismembered was very professional. We have measured and numbered all of the more than 600 pieces of flesh that have been found so far, in order to fully reconstruct and piece together the body. The thickest piece of flesh is two centimeters, the thinnest piece is only 0.8 centimeters thick, and the thickness of the vast majority of pieces of flesh is controlled to be one centimeter thick."

Upon hearing this, Ni Jianrong asked, "Then can we assume that the murderer possesses highly professional skills in human anatomy and is very likely a medical professional?"

Song Yiming said, "This relates to the third point. All the body parts discovered so far, including the internal organs that were also sliced, have all been deep-fried at high temperatures. In other words, all the human tissues we have discovered so far have been cooked in oil by the murderer."

This is a chilling description.

As the child of a steelworker, Zhou Yi heard his father talk about many accidents that haunted his nightmares when he was young.

For example, a worker accidentally fell into a ladle of molten iron at a temperature of over 1,000 degrees Celsius, and in the end, not even a trace of slag could be found.

For example, someone might accidentally get caught in a steel scrap cutting machine and be crushed into a paste mixed with steel scrap.

There was also a female worker whose long hair was accidentally caught in the machine, and her entire scalp was torn open.

These real accidents at the steel mills left a huge psychological scar on him when he was young, and made him remember the saying: Life is paramount, safety comes first.

This is probably one of the reasons why he didn't choose to become a steelworker later. After all, he was very worried when he was a child that his parents would die tragically in the factory one day. It wasn't until later that he learned that one of them was a forklift driver and the other was a warehouse worker, which was considered the least dangerous job in the steel mill.

However terrifying these things may be, they are still accidents. They may be due to improper operation, weak safety awareness, or force majeure such as mechanical failure.

At least these victims were not murdered, nor were they killed by others.

But this gruesome method of dismemberment is now filled with immense malice.

Zhou Yi, in particular, was the only one who knew how astonishingly the methods used in the dismemberment case had changed.

In his previous life, it shattered into more than three hundred pieces, which already shocked the entire nation.

This time, they went straight for a thousand dollars, and they were all deep-fried. It really proves what Director Xie said: there is no such case in the whole world.

why?
Why such a huge change?

Is it still the same murderer?
Is it still the same deceased person?

(End of this chapter)