The case of the floating corpse in the park (Part 2)

The case of the floating corpse in the park (Part 2)

The search for the body was not smooth, as there was no matching person among the missing persons. There are many students at Guangyuan University, and it is difficult to screen them all out at once.

Shen Xingyan stared at the face of the deceased in the photo and fell into deep thought.

Wu Shilai and his men re-investigated the place where the body was found, but found nothing except messy footprints.

The case has reached a stalemate.

With the assistance of Xie Anquan, Wu Shilai reconvened the case analysis meeting, hoping that everyone would brainstorm.

Wu Shilai: "The source of the corpse cannot be determined for the time being. As for the cause of death, I would like to hear everyone's opinions." He looked around, and everyone had their heads hung, at a loss.

Finally, his eyes fell on Bao Wu. "Forensic Doctor Bao, what do you think?"

Bao Wu turned to Shen Xingyan, "What do you think?"

Wu Shilai looked at Bao Wu in surprise and turned to Shen Xingyan.

Shen Xingyan was a little surprised when her name was suddenly mentioned, but she quickly regained her composure and said, "Although the deceased had bleeding in the back of his head, the amount of bleeding was not enough to cause death, and the wounds on his body were not enough to cause death. The blood test of the deceased did not detect the content of drugs and alcohol. Combined with the weather at the time and the characteristics of the body, I speculate that the deceased died of high and low temperatures."

Other police officers whispered among themselves, and one asked, "What is death by hypothermia?"

"It's commonly known as freezing to death."

"What? Freeze to death? It's summer now."

Moreover, the highest temperature during the day is over 30 degrees. If someone freezes to death at this time, it will indeed arouse suspicion.

Shen Xingyan: "Although it is summer, there are still places with low temperatures. It rained heavily a few days ago. The temperature on the mountain where it rained was only around 10 degrees."

Bao Wu and Wu Shilai looked at each other. The latter smiled bitterly, obviously full of doubts about the intern's inference.

Xie Anquan also held the same view, but Shen Xingyan was his subordinate after all. As a leader, he had to protect his own people in front of outsiders. "Xiao Shen, tell me your basis."

Shen Xingyan: "The body surface had bright red spots, gastric mucosal erosion, punctate bleeding, and the expression on the body had a wry smile, all of which were signs of death caused by high or low temperatures.

Death due to high or low temperature may cause abnormal undressing. This is because the deceased has hallucinations before death and takes off his or her clothes by himself or herself. ”

Someone raised an objection, "But the deceased had sexual intercourse before his death. How do you know that he was not raped?"

"There were no restraint injuries on the deceased, which shows that the sexual intercourse was voluntary."

Xie Anquan's eyes lit up. He didn't expect that the young intern would bring honor to the institute like this. "Forensic Doctor Bao, is Xiao Shen's inference correct?"

Bao Wu laughed, "I didn't expect Xiao Shen's theoretical knowledge to be so solid. The deceased was indeed frozen to death."

As soon as the words fell, whispers were heard again in the conference room. The policemen at the police station all puffed out their chests, smiled, and looked very proud of themselves.

Xie Anquan laughed, "Our Xiao Shen is a serious college graduate."

Bao Wu chuckled twice, "It's a pity that I wasn't assigned to the Municipal Bureau."

Xie Anquan almost choked and coughed a few times to hide his embarrassment, "But we can't find the source of the corpse now."

The atmosphere in the conference room froze. Wu Shilai said, "Through the investigations over the past few days, the deceased was not a missing person. The death of the deceased was most likely an emergency. For such an incident, if we can't find the crime scene, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack to investigate."

Shen Xingyan quietly raised her hand, "Can I tell you what I think?"

"you say."

"The river where the body was found is a moat that connects several mountains in the city. The deceased died of freezing, so when she died, she must have been in a very cold place, such as the mountain, the cave, and the shopping mall. The temperature in these places is very low. The shopping mall is ruled out first, and the cave is the second. If she died in the cave, she could have just dumped the body directly, and there was no need to throw it in the river.

Then there was only one mountain left, and it rained heavily a few days ago. If the person died on the mountain, the heavy rain might have caused a landslide, and the body might have been washed into the river. Furthermore, there were wounds of varying sizes on the body of the deceased, and they were posthumous injuries. I suspect they were caused by rolling down the mountain. “

Wu Shilai nodded. "What you said coincides with what I thought, but which mountain?"

Shen Xingyan took out a map, pointed at it and said, "The deceased was found here. The nearest mountain is the Gem Mountain. Why don't we survey this place first?"

Wu Shilai looked at her meaningfully, stroking his chin in thought, "There is no other direction for investigation at the moment, so let's follow Xiao Shen's idea first. Dawei, you and Wen Ke, borrow a few police dogs and go into the mountains to search."

After the meeting, Lao Chen patted Shen Xingyan on the shoulder and said, "Xiao Shen, you finally got it. You really made our director proud."

Shen Xingyan chuckled, "I'm still a long way from here, I still need to learn more from Brother Chen."

"What are you learning from me? I don't have much to teach you. If you are interested, you can communicate more with Medical Examiner Bao from the Municipal Bureau."

"Yes, I will."

Shen Xingyan packed up her things and returned to the office. Sister Zhang smiled and poured her some water. "Xiao Shen, I heard that you were very popular today. Even the criminal police officers were impressed by you."

"No, don't listen to their nonsense."

"You are too honest, kid. People praise you because you are capable. If you are interested, you should go to the scene more often with Xie Suo and others. It is better than staying in the logistics department all your life. However, if you are a girl and go to the scene all day, I am afraid you will not be able to find a partner."

Shen Xingyan almost spit out water, "Sister, I'm not in a hurry to get married." She hasn't figured out why she came here, so how can she think about finding a partner.

"You are not in a hurry, but your family is. You are 25, right? When I was your age, my child was already two years old."

Shen Xingyan smiled bitterly. She was always urged to get married wherever she went. Sister Zhang's tone was exactly the same as the one in her family.

As for the original owner's mother, in the original owner's memory, the relationship between mother and daughter was weak.

My mother, Shen Lan, is a strong woman. She used to be in charge of household registration at the police station, and later went into business. He is now the boss of a cosmetics company and spends less time with the original owner.

His father, Chen Hua, also worked in the police station as a policeman. He and Shen Lan divorced when the original owner was in the second year of junior high school. The original owner was awarded to her mother, and she and her father were also rarely together.

Chen Lan was busy, and so was Chen Hua.

The original owner grew up almost without the company of his parents and had a somewhat extreme personality. After graduating from university, she was assigned to the police station and rented a house near the police station.

This makes it convenient for Shen Xingyan, as he doesn't have to worry about being exposed.

She thought that with Shen Lan's personality, he probably wouldn't force her to get married. Shen Lan herself is very disappointed with marriage.

When it was time to get off work, Shen Xingyan rode his bike home.

I hope Wu Shilai and his team can get something, but the source of the corpse has not been found yet.

In the afternoon, she heard that Chief Xie had contacted the TV station, hoping they could help find the source of the corpse.

In the days when the Internet was not well developed, everything seemed slow. For example, she has to cook for herself when she gets home and there is no takeout to order. Or she could go out to eat, but with her salary, she couldn't afford to eat out every day.

Fortunately, there is a gas stove, a ladle of water, a handful of noodles, and an egg, so I can have enough to eat. After dinner, he curled up on the sofa, went over the case in his notes, picked up his car keys and went out.

It gets dark late in the summer, and it’s still bright at seven o’clock.

Shen Xingyan rode his bike and arrived at Guangyuan University half an hour later. Because he looked young, he was not stopped when entering the school gate. I asked for the direction to the girls' dormitory and rode my bike there.

Guangyuan University is divided into two campuses, the new campus and the old campus. The old campus has two female dormitories, and the new campus has three.

Shen Xingyan came to the new campus. She found the aunt in the dormitory management department and showed her the photo of the deceased. The aunt shook her head and said she had no impression of him.

Shen Xingyan went to the other two buildings, but the aunties in the dormitory management department said they had never seen him.

This is strange. My grandfather’s notes clearly show that he is a student of Guangyuan University and he is in the new campus. How come no one has seen him?

Shen Xingyan stood outside the dormitory, looking up at the black and gray building gradually disappearing into the darkness.

She believed that her grandfather's notes would not be wrong, but what went wrong?

"Classmate, are you in dormitory building No. 2?" A boy with acne on his forehead asked Shen Xingyan nervously.

Shen Xingyan shook his head, and the boy lowered his shoulders and said, "The dormitory manager of Building 2 has changed. This aunt is not as good as the previous one. She won't let me send snacks to my girlfriend."

There was a "ding" sound in Shen Xingyan's head, as if his Ren and Du meridians were opened. Yes, the dormitory management aunt had just arrived, so it was normal that she didn't know her. She took out the photo and showed it to the boy, "Have you seen this girl?"

The girl in the photo had her eyes closed, her face was pale, and there was a faint bitter smile at the corner of her mouth.

The boy stared at the photo for a while and said, "I think I've seen it before."

"In dormitory building No. 2?"

The boy slapped his forehead and said, "I remember now. A few days ago, I came to see my girlfriend and saw this woman and a man arguing right here."

Shen Xingyan smiled and said, that’s right.

"Where is the academic affairs office of your school?"

"There's no one in the Academic Affairs Office at this time."

"It's okay, I'll come back tomorrow."

After asking about the location of the Academic Affairs Office, Shen Xingyan rode his bike back home. She plans to report the good news tomorrow.

The next day, when he arrived at the police station, Shen Xingyan went straight to Xie Anquan's office.

Wu Shilai and the others were all there. Just as Shen Xingyan was about to speak, Xie Anquan said, "Xiao Shen, I have good news for you. We found the source of the corpse."

Shen Xingyan was stunned for a moment, "Really? That's great."

Old Chen took over the conversation and said, "The deceased is a student at Guangyuan University, Zhang Wanqing, a junior. According to her roommates, she went out on the 19th and never came back. They were worried that something might have happened, so they went to the police station to report it. The comrade who received the call happened to know the inside story and notified us."

"Who did she go out with?"

"Her boyfriend, Ma Haijun, has not returned since he left on the 19th. We have contacted the police in his hometown and asked them to help investigate. I believe there will be news soon. As long as we find Ma Haijun, the case will be close to being closed."

Shen Xingyan said, "Where are Zhang Wanqing's roommates? I want to meet them."

"They have already gone back. Here is the transcript."

Shen Xingyan took the transcript from Lao Chen and started to look through it.

Zhang Wanqing wanted to break up with Ma Haijun, but Ma Haijun didn't want to. Ma Haijun was born in the countryside and was admitted to university through his own efforts. Zhang Wanqing was born in a provincial capital city and both her parents are employees of state-owned enterprises.

The difference in their backgrounds meant that being together was destined to be a tragedy.

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