Chapter 182 New Case: Corpse Hidden in a Grave
After all primary, secondary and high schools started classes, Shen Qingye's job stabilized.
There haven't been many cases in the team recently, so they have some free time. But it was boring to be idle for a long time. After sitting in the office for a week, Shen Qingye couldn't sit still anymore, so he went to look through the old books.
Some unsolved cases.
Zhou Qiming couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "Come to think of it, since Qingye came, the rate of unsolved cases in our team has been greatly reduced."
Not only their group, sometimes Group 1 and Group 2 would also come to "borrow" Shen Qingye for use. Every time he went out, he would gain something. This made Team Yang and Team Ma, who usually had bad tempers, favor Shen Qingye and treat him gently. Zhou Qiming occasionally looked at it and was amazed.
But she is indeed capable. Apart from anything else, the fact that there have been no new unsolved cases in their group since she came is enough to prove this point.
Even the way they addressed Shen Qingye changed from Xiao Shen at the beginning to Qingye. While showing closeness, isn't it also a recognition of her abilities?
Shen Qingye smiled, but did not belittle herself. Instead, she accepted Zhou Qiming's compliment naturally and generously.
No matter what, only when you respect yourself first, others will respect you.
Shen Qingye has always been well aware of this and has done a good job.
There had been almost no backlog of unsolved cases in the past six months, so Shen Qingye followed the timeline and finally came across a rather strange case.
This case happened during the Spring Festival last year. Ding Dayong, a villager from Shanghe Village in Shoushan County, went home to worship his ancestors during the New Year, but unexpectedly found that there was something strange about his grandfather's grave. The soil covering the grave was not in line with the surrounding soil. When I touched the tomb carefully again, I found that the soil was no longer hard, but rather fluffy.
——You know, his grandfather has been buried for more than ten years, and during all these years, the relatives in the clan have never moved this tomb. Besides, his family has been working outside these years and usually doesn't come here. Even on Qingming Festival, relatives would sweep the graves on behalf of the deceased.
Normal tomb sweeping just means burning something in front of the tomb. Who would touch the tomb itself?
At first, relatives and friends in the family thought that some naughty boy had disturbed the grave, so they beat and scared the boy at home, but no one admitted it. Ding Dayong felt that something was wrong. When it comes to matters involving the dead and ancestors, Chinese people always have some fear. The more he looked at the grave, the more he felt something was wrong. In the end, he gritted his teeth and dug up the grave despite everyone's disapproval.
Then, in the grave, the body of an adult male was found.
This was a big deal. The whole village was alarmed and the police were called immediately. The local police reported the case to the municipal bureau and Ma Dui was in charge of it.
After the Ma team took over the case, they immediately went to the village to investigate. But the villagers went to identify the deceased, but no one knew who the deceased was. Even in this village, there haven't been any missing persons recently.
The cavalry felt something was wrong and expanded the search range. Finally, with the help of the local police station, they learned that a person had recently gone missing in Rongshu Village, five or six kilometers away from Shanghe Village.
The missing person is Deng Hailong, 32 years old, and he disappeared half a month before the incident. According to local villagers, Deng Hailong was usually idle and had no proper job at his old age. He often stole things, either stealing the chickens of one family or the fish of another. It just so happened that the Deng family was a big family in that village, and Deng Hailong's father had some reputation. In addition, the amount of money involved in his cases was not large, so everyone tolerated it.
When Deng Hailong's father reported the case, Deng Hailong had been missing for five or six days. At first, he thought that the useless boy had gone out to do some cheating and trafficking again. Although he was angry, he didn't care. But there was no sign of anyone for five or six days in a row, which was extremely rare in the past. Deng Hailong's mother couldn't help but worry, so she went to look for him in the homes of several families he usually hung out with. But after searching for two days, no one said they had ever seen Deng Hailong.
The Deng family was really panicked this time and quickly called the police. After the police helped search for a while, they didn't find anything, so they suspected that he had left the area on his own. After all, he is an adult in his thirties, and no one can stop him from going wherever he wants.
The Deng family naturally didn't want to believe it, but they had no other clues and the police were busy with work. They couldn't keep wasting police resources looking for an adult man, so they put the matter aside for the time being. It was not until the body was found in Xiahe Village that forensic examination and analysis determined that the deceased was a male, about thirty years old, and had died about 6-8 days ago.
After making this comparison, the police station remembered what happened to Deng Hailong before, and found that everything matched, so they asked his family to come and identify him.
When Deng's mother arrived, she fainted at the first sight of the corpse. Deng's father was also staggering, and looked instantly old.
In this way, it has been proved that the deceased is Deng Hailong without a doubt.
But the problem arises again. Rongshu Village is five or six kilometers away from Shanghe Village. The Deng family doesn’t have much contact with Shanghe Village. Why did Deng Hailong appear here?
The Ma team interrogated those people who were on good terms with Deng Hailong, and found out that it was difficult for them to commit crimes in their own village, so they often went to nearby villages to steal. Shanghe Village was also included in their previous plan, but before they had time to take action, they didn’t expect that Deng Hailong arrived first.
With this confession, Ma Dui and his team speculated that perhaps when Deng Hailong came to a house to steal, he happened to run into the owner of the house, and the two sides might have had a conflict - the forensic doctor found a mark of being hit by a heavy object on the back of the deceased's head - Deng Hailong was killed as a result, and the owner buried him in a grave in order to hide the truth of the murder.
The reasoning made sense, but when they actually checked it out, they encountered a problem.
Every household in the village insisted that they did not know Deng Hailong and that no theft had ever happened to them. Ma Dui and others had no choice but to investigate door to door, but as time had passed a while, even if there were any traces, they had already been cleaned up. Secondly, the soil and dust in rural areas are quite heavy, which is not conducive to their investigation.
After Ma took over the case, he visited the area for more than a month, tried various ideas, and even placed the suspects in Rongshu Village and the village next to Shanghe Village, but there were still no clues.
After such a long time, Team Ma was helpless and could not continue to work on the case, so he had to put it on hold.
Until now, this case was discovered by Shen Qingye.
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