Chapter 365 A Big Case is Coming! (Memory)

Previous life.

May 6, 1997.

Wu Yongcheng walked into the office of the Third Brigade as usual.

Chen Yan raised his head and called out, "Master, good morning."

"You're here quite early." Wu Yongcheng saw a document in front of Chen Yan. He glanced at it and asked, "Is it about the 316 case?"

Chen Yan nodded. "I'd like to review the recent list of released prisoners in surrounding cities. We've already checked Du Xiaolin's social connections twice, but several of the suspects have clear alibis. Perhaps the 316 case wasn't committed by someone we knew."

Wu Yongcheng took a deep breath and involuntarily took out the Daqianmen from his pocket.

"Master, are you smoking so early in the morning?"

Wu Yongcheng took out a cigarette and lit it. "You've been annoying me since I mentioned this case so early in the morning. The heavy rain completely destroyed the scene, and even affected the autopsy results."

As he spoke, he exhaled a puff of smoke and continued, "Director Xie has asked me several times."

"Xie Director, are you urging us to solve the case?" Chen Yan asked.

"He keeps pushing us to solve the case, but it doesn't matter anymore," Wu Yongcheng said, flicking off his cigarette ash. "The director of the Third Municipal Hospital complained to him, saying we were groundlessly suspecting their medical staff without any evidence and repeatedly investigating them, seriously affecting their normal work."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yan said indignantly, "How can it affect us? We don't go there every day. Besides, when the case first happened, the hospital was very friendly and even made a room for us to handle the case and inquire about it."

Wu Yongcheng patted him on the shoulder and said, "You're still young. The dean's words were not about wine."

"What do you mean?"

"What do you mean?" Wu Yongcheng chuckled. "You just want to put the blame on us."

Chen Yan was deeply upset. Their Third Brigade had pulled all-nighters for this March 16th case, their legs nearly numb from all the investigation. They were simply trying to bring justice to the deceased and solve the case, especially since the deceased was so young.

The case has not made any progress and they are more anxious than anyone else, but the hospital is trying to shirk responsibility.

It wasn't us police officers who killed the man, so why are you blaming us? That's funny!

"Alright, that's just my casual remark. We'll investigate what needs to be investigated. Since it's unlikely that someone we know committed the crime, let's focus on the roving criminal. We'll have another meeting this afternoon to review the case."

In a blink of an eye, it was afternoon.

The weather in May has become warmer, with the temperature reaching around 26 or 27 degrees Celsius after noon.

It's a sunny day today, but after lunch, the air is filled with a drowsy feeling.

Wu Yongcheng was not sleepy. After all, it was not easy to feel sleepy after smoking half a pack of cigarettes a day.

When I looked up, I saw Jiang Biao's huge body lying on the table, almost snoring.

Wu Yongcheng clapped his hands and said loudly, "Everyone, pay attention. Let's have another meeting on the 316 case."

Jiang Biao raised his head and stretched.

As soon as Wu Yongcheng finished speaking, the phone on the table suddenly rang.

The shrill ringing of the phone suddenly perked up the other three people.

With all the members of the three teams present, there is at least a 50% chance that the phone ringing is not a good thing.

That's why they are so energetic.

Wu Yongcheng took the cigarette out of his mouth, put it in the ashtray on the table, and then answered the phone.

"Hello, Third Brigade."

Chen Yan and the other three didn't know who was on the other end of the phone, nor did they know what was being said. They just clearly saw that Wu Yongcheng's originally flat eyebrows slowly began to tighten, and finally turned into a deep "川" shape.

They knew that something big must have happened!

"I understand. Please protect the scene. We will be there soon." Wu Yongcheng hung up the phone in a dull voice.

"Captain Wu, what's going on?" Jiang Biao asked impatiently.

But Wu Yongcheng had already stood up before he could ask.

"Someone fished out a bag of body parts in the eastern section of Nansha River in Nanming District. Police patrolling nearby arrived and confirmed the bag contained body parts. They've secured the scene and notified us to come over."

"Body parts?" All three of them were shocked.

Jiang Biao exclaimed: "Oh my god, a dismemberment case! Hongcheng hasn't had a dismemberment case in years."

"Xiao Qiao, notify the technical department and the forensic doctor and go to the scene immediately."

"yes."

Several police cars quickly drove out of the city police station gate and headed east.

When Wu Yongcheng and his team arrived, there were already quite a few people watching along the riverbank, all craning their necks to look curiously at the riverbank. Two uniformed patrol policemen were advising everyone not to get too close.

On the river bank, there was a small fishing boat more than three meters long. The boatman was sitting helplessly on the mud beside it, holding the oars.

The crowd was about three to five meters away from the fishing boat, whispering to each other, curious about what had happened.

Someone with sharp eyes said that there seemed to be a gray bag inside the fishing net on the fishing boat.

Soon, several police cars arrived at the scene.

When the crowd saw so many police cars, they became even more curious.

But when Wu Yongcheng got out of the car, he saw a group of people gathered on the riverbank and immediately said to Jiang Biao, "Set up a cordon and keep the crowd away."

Jiang Biao nodded. As a veteran criminal police officer, he knew it was unrealistic to forcibly remove people from such an outdoor scene. After all, some people just loved to watch the excitement. Furthermore, forcibly removing them would easily lead to complaints and rumors, causing social panic.

Especially the complaints, although they sound outrageous, they still happen.

He called over several colleagues, set up a cordon, and then moved directly toward the crowd along the cordon.

As he moved, he shouted, "Come on, everyone, step back, step back! You can't touch this line. If you do, it's illegal and you could be detained."

His height of about 1.9 meters and his sturdy build gave people a natural deterrent effect. Moreover, no one dared to refute what he said and they could only retreat.

Jiang Biao pulled it out a few meters and saw that he would reach the road soon. He knew it would not be good if people gathered on the roadside.

Moreover, at this distance, he couldn't hear or see what was happening on the small fishing boat, so he nodded to several colleagues and asked them to secure the cordon.

Wu Yongcheng took a look at the situation at the scene and gave a look to Qiao Jiali and Chen Yan.

Chen Yan immediately walked towards the fisherman sitting there to find out what was going on, while Qiao Jiali walked towards the two patrolling police officers.

"Captain Wu, this distance should be enough." Jiang Biao walked over and said.

Wu Yongcheng looked back and nodded.

The two are now standing on the bank of Nansha River, with the small fishing boat in front of them.

This type of fishing boat is very common. It has no shed and is just a flat fishing boat with a slot in the middle to store the caught fish.

This kind of small fishing boat was very common in the past, and was generally used by fishermen along the Nansha River. After all, the water and soil of the Nansha River are quite fertile.

However, it was mostly used in the 1970s and 1980s. It is now relatively rare and is generally used by elderly people.

There were a few fish in the trough of the small fishing boat, but none of them were big.

There was a patched fishing net on the fishing boat. Inside the messy fishing net was a gray travel bag, which was wet and still leaking water.

The duffel bag had been opened, like the mouth of a dead animal.

"Biaozi." Wu Yongcheng shouted and reached out to grab the hull of the boat.

Jiang Biao understood and immediately stepped forward to grab the other side, then exerted force and dragged the boat directly to the shore.

Song Yiming walked over, already wearing white gloves, followed by Xu Nian, carrying a toolbox.

There was no verbal communication, Wu Yongcheng just nodded to Song Yiming.

Song Yiming squatted down and opened the travel bag.

Wu Yongcheng leaned over to take a look, and even though he was an old criminal policeman, he still felt a chill on his back.

In the travel bag were piles of human tissues. I don’t know if it was because they had been soaked in water, but these pieces of tissue were so white that they were creepy.

Wu Yongcheng patted Song Yiming's shoulder and whispered, "Old Song, just take the body parts back for an autopsy. There are too many onlookers here, and it could easily cause panic."

"Okay." Song Yiming looked at the body parts in the bag for a few seconds, then zipped it up, picked up the travel bag and walked towards the criminal investigation vehicle parked at the back.

Sure enough, the crowd looked towards the bag in his hand.

"Biaozi, notify the salvage team. Starting from here, salvage within a one-kilometer radius in front and behind."

"Okay, Captain Wu, I'll be there right away."

The travel bag that Song Yiming took away just now weighed only a dozen pounds at most, and it couldn't be everything for one person.

Since it was fished out of the river, it means that the murderer divided the body into several parts and disposed of it several times, so there must be other body parts.

But contrary to expectations, the last two salvage ships salvaged for three kilometers along the Nansha River, one south and one north, but found nothing.

The boatman's questions were of no value. He just noticed a bag floating on the river and thought it was some unwanted clothes or something, so he dragged it up with a fishing net.

I was quite happy when I found the bag was quite heavy.

When I unzipped it, I was terrified.

His exclamation happened to be noticed by a patrolling policeman, who asked him to dock the boat, confirmed the situation, and immediately reported it to the police station, which immediately contacted the city bureau's serious crime squad.

Although the technical department conducted a detailed on-site investigation of the river bank, since the bag was salvaged from the river, the river bank was not a crime scene, let alone a body dumping site, so naturally nothing was found.

Since it was a serious and vicious murder case involving dismemberment, Wu Yongcheng reported the case to Xie Guoqiang immediately.

A large number of police forces were then mobilized to conduct a carpet search centered on the place where the travel bag was salvaged, with the focus on trash cans, garbage dumps or unnoticed wastelands.

At the same time, a river blockade and drag net salvage search were carried out in the lower reaches of the Nansha River to prevent body parts from being washed away by the current.

Since May 6, the police search scope has continued to expand.

Until May 9th, eleven bags of body parts were found in multiple locations, totaling more than 300 body parts.

But the deceased's head was never found.

The head was not discovered until five days after the body parts appeared, on May 10th.

The identity of the deceased was thus confirmed.