Chapter 63 Red Spider Lily 02
This was the first time that all the police officers had seen such a strange scene.
Ni Xiang was also a little scared. She stood at the door hesitating and didn't dare to go in.
Even the forensic doctor Chu Shisui, who came in with an investigation box, frowned, feeling that the problem was a bit tricky.
Although this bathroom is much larger than most people's, it can still be a bit crowded when there are too many people.
Luo Siwei said, "The restroom is too small. The forensic examiner will stay here. The others can leave first."
This sentence relieved the young detectives of their suspense. After Luo Siwei made a few arrangements, they began to investigate the living room and other rooms.
There were fewer people in the bathroom. Chu Shisui began to organize his equipment, while Lan Anan took out his camera to take pictures of the corpse.
Luo Siwei squatted calmly and looked into the bathtub intently. The bathtub was filled with blood and some body parts floated on the surface. Because they were swollen and white from being soaked by water, they looked swollen.
Luo Siwei carefully observed the upper body of the female deceased placed at the top.
The female corpse looked quite old. Although her face was unrecognizable, it was still obvious that she had been well-maintained. Her skin was fair and her eyebrows were carefully trimmed. Her neck was long and connected to her torso. There were stab marks on her chest, and the wound was very deep. It can be preliminarily determined that the cause of death was probably heart and lung injury.
The corpse's expression looked a little strange, especially her mouth which was slightly open and her lips seemed unable to close.
Luo Siwei observed for a moment and said, "There seems to be something in the corpse's mouth."
Forensic Doctor Chu also noticed this.
He leaned over and gently opened the corpse's jaw with his fingers. Since the rigor mortis had long passed, the woman's mouth was opened without much effort, and the smell in the room became even worse.
Chu Shisui pinched the corpse's cheeks with his fingers, causing her mouth to open wider.
Doctor Chu tried to identify it: "It looks like a piece of paper..." He probed with his fingers and said, "It's very deep, stuck in the throat."
Luo Siwei also came closer and helped him turn on the flashlight to shine inside. There was something stuck deep in the female corpse's throat, as if it had been half-swallowed but not completely.
The paper was ginger yellow and folded into a triangle. It was already stained with blood and saliva, and then dried into a ball, sticking to the base of the tongue.
Just as Forensic Doctor Chu was about to use tweezers to remove the piece of paper, Huo Cunsheng arrived at the door of the scene. He saw the scene before him and hurriedly shouted, "Hey, don't move!"
Luo Siwei and Chu Shisui turned around and looked at Huo Cunsheng.
Old Huo was indeed well-informed. He pointed at the paper inside the female corpse and said, "That thing is a sealant!"
When he said this, everyone reacted and seemed to have seen this kind of thing on TV. The yellow color was indeed similar to talisman paper.
Luo Siwei turned off the flashlight and asked, "Old Huo, how much do you know about this?"
Huo Cunsheng first clasped his hands together and bowed to the corpse, mumbling something incoherently. Then he walked in, squatted down, and took a closer look.
"This thing is also called a soul-calming talisman." Huo Cunsheng's face became more serious. "Generally speaking, it's placed in the mouth of the dead to comfort their soul. For example, after killing someone, they'll feel guilty and scared, so they'll stuff this thing in their mouth. Some people will also draw curses on the talisman, which can send the deceased to hell, and their descendants will also be unable to be reborn forever."
Then Old Huo muttered mysteriously, "This talisman must be stuffed into the mouth of the deceased when he or she is about to die or has just died. It is said that the talisman can suppress the soul of the deceased and prevent the corpse from rising and becoming a ghost. Oh, I've heard of it too, this is the first time I've seen it."
Just as he was saying this, Guo Zhengyao finished handing over the work to several criminal police officers from the branch and strode in. He entered the bathroom, and his height of nearly 1.9 meters made the entire room seem small.
Guo Zhengyao happened to hear Huo Cunsheng say this, and patted him on the shoulder, saying, "Alright, I got it. Stop spreading feudal superstition. Old Huo, stand further away and don't get in the way of the medical examiner."
Huo Cunsheng retreated to the bathroom door, shouting, "This isn't superstition at all. We should respect the unknown. If we rashly take out the talisman now, we might end up turning into a zombie..."
As Old Huo was talking, the forensic doctors were working without delay.
Forensic Doctor Chu observed the female corpse's mouth and muttered to himself, "This is a bit difficult..." As he spoke, he gently pulled it with tweezers, and his face changed slightly: "Oh no!" He felt that the talisman paper was about to break.
Luo Siwei watched it clearly from the side and reminded him: "Be careful!"
Guo Zhengyao thought they really believed what Huo Cunsheng said, and snapped his fingers together, "Are you scared? Don't worry, even if she's a corpse, I can still push her back."
"If you're afraid of corpses, you wouldn't be a forensic pathologist." Chu Shisui's eyes were still fixed on the corpse's mouth. He changed his angle and said, "I've dissected dozens, if not hundreds, of corpses in my life. Materialistic fighters don't believe this. We're worried about how to get this thing out intact..."
Luo Siwei said, "This kind of talisman paper is hand-painted, and everyone's style is different. If the talisman paper was specially prepared for the crime, the pattern must be very special. If we go back and find out where the talisman paper came from and who bought it, we may be able to identify the murderer."
Therefore, the talisman paper should be as complete as possible, so that the cinnabar and pattern on the talisman can be used as clues to find out who the murderer is.
It can be said that this is important physical evidence and clue in this case.
Huo Cunsheng listened to them and stopped talking about the corpse. He flattered them at the right moment, "Yes, that's what I meant. Captain Luo is really thoughtful. I'll contact the half-immortal god in Donglan and make sure to find out the whole story."
As time goes by and the body moves, the evidence may be damaged, but now the female corpse's tongue and the talisman paper are stuck together and it is difficult to separate them.
At this point, Chu Shisui looked at the tall and strong Guo Zhengyao and said, "Captain Guo, don't just stand there and watch! Come and help."
The difficulty in the operation lay in stabilizing the body. The talisman paper was stuffed down her throat, and the woman's head had to be raised and her neck straightened to remove it. The body was heavy and slippery, making it difficult to stabilize. Lan Anan and Luo Siwei struggled to support it.
Upon hearing this, Guo Zhengyao hurriedly rolled up his sleeves and stood on the edge of the bathtub, lifting the female corpse's jaw from under her ears through his gloves.
The touch of the corpse's chin was cold and slippery, making it nauseating even through the gloves. Guo Zhengyao and Chu Shisui worked together, one holding her neck while the other used tweezers to carefully scrape the paper scraps stuck to her tongue, then carefully removed the talisman paper from the corpse's mouth.
After struggling for more than ten minutes, I finally put the talisman into the evidence bag.
Doctor Chu wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Fortunately, the talisman paper was folded thickly, and a part in the middle was not wet. It should be possible to unfold it and restore it."
Luo Siwei said: "Thank you for your hard work."
Forensic Doctor Chu handed the evidence bag to Lan Anan and said, "I'll try to reconstruct it using a computer scan later."
A routine autopsy followed, and the body parts were fished out of the bathtub and placed on the ground nearby.
After cleaning, it was confirmed that there were two bodies, the hostess Zhou Zitu and her thirteen-year-old daughter Zheng Congcong.
While Lan Anan was examining the body, she muttered to herself, "This is tragic. This is too tragic."
There were knife marks on the chests of the corpses, and Zhou Zitu had the most wounds, with more than a dozen densely packed ones. The deepest one was on the chest, which pierced through the chest cavity and went through the body.
The dismemberment wounds showed no signs of life, suggesting post-mortem dismemberment. Additionally, Zhou Zitu had some old wounds, likely from years past.
The forensic doctor confirmed that the time of death of the two people should be between 10 pm the previous night and 4 am the next day.
After the body was placed in a body bag and loaded onto the body transport vehicle, the smell at the scene finally dissipated a little.
After disposing of the body, Guo Zhengyao said, "I've already sent someone to the property management to copy the surveillance footage."
Luo Siwei calmly analyzed: "The murderer must have visited the spot. He has taken the surveillance into consideration. I just checked, and there are not many surveillance cameras in this yard. There must be many blind spots. It will be difficult for us to find the murderer through the surveillance."
She gathered her thoughts and continued, "No valuables were missing from the house. Judging from the method of murder and dismemberment, the killer was very strong and likely a man. There were two victims, and there were many traces in the house, but not much useful information. Most of those traces were left by the victims struggling. The killer must have worn gloves and shoe covers to avoid leaving more traces."
"From the scene, it looks like a revenge killing or a murder of passion. We can't rule out a hired killer or a multi-person crime..."
"I feel like the murderer hated her very much."
She just analyzed here.
As if to confirm what Luo Siwei said, the officer who had gone to retrieve the surveillance footage returned and said to Guo Zhengyao, "Deputy Captain Guo, I've copied the footage, but I fast-forwarded through it in the security room and didn't see any suspicious individuals..."
Guo Zhengyao took the USB drive containing the surveillance video and turned to Luo Siwei, "Captain Luo, how do we investigate next?"
Luo Siwei's face was calm. She said, "Let's first reconstruct the murderer's movement path."
The villa is very large, and the investigating police and trace examiners are searching for various traces upstairs and downstairs.
Luo Siwei and several criminal police officers walked up the stairs again. They found them very clean, without a trace of blood.
Several people came to the master bedroom of the villa. Luo Siwei looked down at the head of the bed. Zhou Zitu's slippers were still there. Her cell phone was placed casually on the bedside table. It was out of battery and the phone had not been taken away by the murderer.
Luo Siwei observed for a while and said calmly: "The murderer's plan was very thorough, but... he still left some traces."
As soon as these words came out, several police officers looked at her.
Luo Siwei pointed his finger towards the center of the bedroom.
This bedroom is about 20 square meters in size. In the middle is a luxurious big bed. The bottom of the bed is suspended in the air, and there are four bedposts at the head and foot of the bed. The bed is covered with a thick Simmons mattress, and the silk sheets on it hang down to the ground.
Luo Siwei squatted down and pointed at the dust on the bedside table: "This house is very big, I don't know why they didn't hire a nanny. There is dust on the bedside table, which means that the room has not been cleaned for a while."
Ni Xiang looked down and said, "There's some dust on the floor. It must be because I open the windows frequently, but haven't cleaned them in a few days."
Luo Siwei lifted the bed sheet again and pointed it out to everyone: "The floor under the bed on the outside is surprisingly clean, without even a trace of dust."
Old Huo frowned: "Is this... because the murderer cleaned the room?"
Luo Siwei shook his head and said, "Even if they clean the room, they won't clean under the bed where there won't be any trace left. And this bed is in the middle, so the only dust-free area under the bed is the side closest to the door."
Ni Xiang ran to the other side and took a look: "Indeed, the dust under the bed here is very obvious."
Luo Siwei looked at the clean area under the bed and said, "Based on the area of dust that has been wiped away, it should be a man lying under the bed. This is the murderer or one of the murderers. He has been lying under the bed, waiting for Zhou Zitu to rest."
In other words, the murderer should have entered the villa long ago and was lurking there.
That night, the murderer may have lay under the bed, knife in hand, holding his breath until the victim lay down on the bed.
Zhou Zitu knew nothing about this. She changed into silk pajamas, turned off the lights, and lay down on the bed to prepare to fall asleep. There was only a layer of bed board between her and the murderer.
The bed looked very clean, but the bedding was messy, as if it was left by someone getting up from sleep.
Ni Xiang asked: "Could it be that the murderer took the victim hostage, walked her to the bathroom, and then brutally killed her?"
Luo Siwei stared for a moment, lifted up all the bedding, and then carefully checked the mattress. Finally, Luo Siwei found a small brown mark and traces of knife damage in the upper middle part of the mattress.
Luo Siwei concluded: "The murderer must have first arrived at the hostess's bedroom. He hid under the bed, then stood up and stabbed the victim in the chest with a knife."
As she spoke, Luo Siwei gestured. She knelt on one knee on the bed and made a knife-stabbing motion.
"The tip of the knife pierced Zhou Zitu's chest and pierced the mattress. The murderer then wrapped the victim in blankets and carried her downstairs. He then changed the bed sheets and disposed of the bloodstained blankets to create a disguise. This should be the primary crime scene."
The evidence officer hurried forward to take pictures and record the marks on the mattress.
Ni Xiang frowned as she wrote the record and said, "How much hatred must one have to pierce the chest with one knife..." She had just seen Zhou Zitu's body. Although she was relatively thin, it still required a lot of strength.
Soon, the police found the blood-stained quilt and sheets in the cabinet of the adjacent cloakroom.
Luo Siwei called for physical evidence again: "Move the bed away and check under it. This was once the murderer's hiding place, and there might be some clues left."
After hearing this, Guo Zhengyao started moving. He rolled up his sleeves and moved the big bed away with Shen Qing and a male police officer.
Now the police officers could see more clearly. The ground under the bed on the outside was relatively clean, and there were traces of dust in some places where the clothes had wiped it off.
Su Qi walked forward and took a few photos, then he squatted down and looked carefully. Soon, he carefully picked out a hair from the dust on the ground.
Su Qi shouted excitedly: "There's a hair!"
He held the hair up to the light and observed it. "It's a fresh black hair. Judging by its length, it should be a man's. There's a white follicle at the base of the hair."
After reporting the situation, Su Qi carefully placed the hard-earned hair into the evidence bag. This would be important evidence to identify the murderer in this case.
The other police officers also looked delighted with the important discovery.
Guo Zhengyao turned his head and looked at Luo Siwei who was standing beside him with his head down.
Luo Siwei said: "After killing the hostess, the murderer did not leave, but went to the daughter's room and killed the girl. Then he carried the two bodies downstairs and brutally dismembered them in the bathroom."
The police officers further reconstructed the murderer's movements and sprayed luminol in the villa. They found a blurry bloody footprint outside the bathroom.
It was a shoe print left by half a men's rubber shoe, with a vague shoe size in the middle - No. 43.
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