Chapter 81: No Light of Day 10 There is a new case.
Chapter 10
"Hello, I want to report a crime..."
"Okay, I'll record it for you."
"Someone's dead. Xiangfu Garden, Building 14, 1005."
The police quickly sent people to the location provided by the reporter.
The door to the scene was open and a group of people gathered at the door.
"Who reported the case?" asked the police.
Another policeman walked to the door and looked inside. The floor of the room was all water and nothing else could be seen clearly.
"I was the one who called the police." A gentle man wearing glasses stood up.
The police looked over and said, "Don't leave. You need to cooperate with us in taking a statement later."
The man nodded.
"Everyone else, please step back and don't stand at the door. If you don't have anything to do, go back first." The police stepped forward and drove away the people gathered at the door.
Among these people, there was also a property management guy who was kept.
They are the local police officers from the nearby police station. They came to maintain order after receiving a report of a crime. They cannot enter the crime scene at will to avoid destroying evidence.
"Who entered the crime scene?"
The property manager raised his hand: "I, I'm the only one who went in."
"Why did you enter the crime scene? How did you find the body? When the police in charge of the case come, tell them everything."
"good."
It wasn't long before the city police criminal police team arrived at the scene.
The person in charge of the case is a detective from the city bureau's criminal investigation team, and the team leader is Tao Zheng.
After the criminal police team took over the scene, the district police pointed to the man in pajamas with glasses and the property manager of the community, "One of them called the police, and the other entered the crime scene."
The man in pajamas introduced himself: "I am the resident of room 905 downstairs."
"What is the specific situation?" Tao Zheng asked.
"When I woke up early in the morning, I found that the ceiling of my house was flooded and leaking seriously, so I immediately went upstairs to find the owner of 1005. I knocked on the door for a long time but there was no response. I contacted their family in the group, but no one responded. You can see the situation of my house by taking a look. The ceiling may collapse at any time. I had no choice but to contact the property management. Even if no one was at home, at least turn off his faucet first, and then ask professionals to come to my house to assess the damage and confirm that it was his fault. I have to fix my house as soon as possible, otherwise I can't live in it."
He sighed, "I worked so hard to buy this house, and I've only lived in it for half a year, and it cost me 200,000 or 300,000 yuan to renovate it, and it's turned into that state."
Tao Zheng looked at the property manager: "What's going on with you?"
The property manager said: "Mr. Zhang contacted our property management company and hoped that we could help solve the water leakage problem. The property management company has spare keys for the entire community, so I took the spare key and planned to stop the water in the house first. As soon as I entered the house, I checked the water pipes everywhere and found that the water was flowing out of the bedroom in the house. I went all the way to find the owner, Mr. Shen, lying in the bathtub. He was pale from soaking. The water in the bathtub was still rushing. I was also scared by this situation. I turned off the water in a panic and called Mr. Zhang, who was not in the house, to help call the police."
"It means you are the only one who has been to this scene."
"I'm not sure if I was the only one who went in. Anyway, I was the only one who went in after Mr. Zhang and I came up together."
Mr. Zhang from 905 said: "Yes, after all, this is someone else's house, I can't just enter it casually, so I entrusted it to the property manager."
Tao Zheng understood and nodded: "Both of you should leave your fingerprints and footprints."
After saying that, he walked to the door and checked the door lock of the deceased's house.
There are no signs of damage to the door lock. Most houses renovated nowadays use fingerprint locks or password locks, which provide double security and are not so easy to pry open.
Looking in from the door, the ground was very clean and water stains were clearly visible.
I don't think there will be any traces left as they have been almost washed away by the water.
After the trace examination collected fingerprint evidence, the forensic doctor entered the scene.
Tao Zheng put on shoe covers and a hat, entered the house, and followed the forensic doctor carefully.
After a forensic examination, the cause of death was confirmed.
There was a horizontal knife wound on the deceased's left wrist, about four millimeters long, with the skin and flesh turned outward.
"Commit suicide?" Tao Zheng asked.
The forensic doctor looked at the shape of the wound and the condition of the deceased and said, "We cannot rule out this possibility. The direction of the knife does look like suicide, but choosing this way of death is very painful."
There was a razor blade in the bathtub to the right of the deceased. It was thin and matched the shape of the wound on the deceased's wrist. It was a commonly used razor blade.
"About half an hour after a person dies, the blood will begin to coagulate. If a person is immersed in warm water, the blood in the body will not coagulate but will circulate continuously. This process is very slow and one can clearly feel the blood flowing out until the person gradually goes into shock due to excessive blood loss and the last drop of blood is lost."
"Can the time of death be confirmed?"
The forensic doctor shook his head and said: "The water temperature will affect the accuracy of our judgment of the time of death. If we want to know the exact time of death, we have to take the body back for an autopsy."
"Judging from the surface of the body, the time of death is at least one day."
Tao Zheng nodded, "Thank you for your hard work."
He waved to his deputy and said, "Immediately retrieve all the surveillance videos in the community for the past three days."
"Yes." The other party left quickly.
The police helped lift the body and put it into a body bag when they found an object under the deceased's body.
The forensic doctor picked it up, Tao Zheng glanced at it and asked, "Where did you find it?"
"Under the dead."
Tao Zheng took it and looked at it, then immediately called a colleague in the bureau and said, "Send me the criteria for the judge immediately."
After finding it, my colleague sent it to him without stopping.
After Tao Zheng clicked it, he compared it with the thing in his hand. He couldn't say they were exactly the same, but it was definitely the mark of the Judge.
He told the medical examiner: "It's probably not suicide."
He then called his immediate superior to report the situation.
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Liao Qingya was sent to the Mental Assessment Center for an assessment. Several members of the Serious Crime Squad, together with Kuai Li, sorted out the information of the sexually assaulted victims in the bureau, intending to let Liao Qingya identify the person who assaulted her after she had completed the assessment.
Yue Fanglin's phone suddenly rang. He picked it up and saw that it was Director Yu calling. He patted Lu Changfeng on the shoulder and said, "Director Yu is calling. I'll go answer it."
Lu Changfeng hummed.
Continue to investigate the information.
No one knew what Yu Chu said on the other end of the phone, but Yue Fanglin's expression changed and he looked at Lu Changfeng with a frown.
When Lu Changfeng saw it, he thought there was something wrong with him.
After hanging up the phone, Lu Changfeng immediately asked: "What's wrong?"
"There's a new case."
Lu Changfeng: “???”
Zhou Yu and Jing Jue were also surprised and looked at Yue Fanglin with confusion.
Yue Fanglin said: "Pack your luggage and leave for Yicheng immediately."
"Yicheng..." Lu Changfeng asked, "What's the situation of the case?"
"It's hard to explain in a few words, so let's talk while we walk."
Yue Fanglin looked at Kuai Li and said, "Captain Kuai, I'll leave this to you to investigate. Let's go check out the situation in Yicheng first."
"I will inform you as soon as possible if there are any new discoveries or progress."
Kuai Li arranged a car to take the serious crime team to Yicheng.
Colleagues from the Criminal Police Team of Yicheng City Public Security Bureau had already helped in arresting Liao Qingya.
The information of the judge was kept confidential. Except for the special task force, everyone else thought it was just an ordinary case. Therefore, the Municipal Bureau did not know that Liao Qingya was a suspect in a case related to the judge.
Now that he saw several members of the serious crime squad, Tao Zheng finally understood.
It took only an hour and a half from receiving the news to arriving at the city police station for the meeting. The autopsy has not yet begun, and the case is still in its early stages.
Yue Fanglin asked Tao Zheng: "When can we get the autopsy report?"
"The earliest possible time would be tonight."
Yue Fanglin asked: "Did you find anything at the scene?"
Tao Zheng shared the information obtained from the on-site investigation with the serious crime team.
This includes the emblem of the Judge.
"Isn't it similar to the mark in the Qin Ou case?" Jing Jue checked it carefully and said affirmatively: "The same material, although not exactly the same."
Lu Changfeng took the sign from Jing Jue, looked at it, and asked, "What's the situation with the deceased's family?"
"His wife went out to play with her friends. She was out of town and was on her way back after receiving the news. His wife sent the child to the grandmother's home."
"Is there any case involving the deceased? Does the system have any police records related to his wife and him?"
"Captain Lu has any doubts?" Tao Zheng asked.
Lu Changfeng said, "In the case committed by Liao Qingya, whom you helped to arrest yesterday, there were also marks of the same material. Although the person killed was in Huacheng, Liao Qingya lived in Yicheng. The marks left at the scenes of the two murders in the same area were made of exactly the same material. Based on our past understanding and experience of the judges, we can judge that the general direction of the investigation should be the same."
Yue Fanglin: "Do you suspect the death was related to domestic violence?"
Based on their previous analysis of the characteristics of the judge's recent crimes, Yue Fanglin felt that Lu Changfeng's thinking direction should be correct.
Lu Changfeng nodded: "Yes, but it still needs to be verified. We also need to find the deceased's family and neighbors to learn more about the situation."
"Our forensic doctor has not ruled out the possibility of suicide," Tao Zheng explained, "so we haven't started to confirm the direction of the investigation yet."
"It doesn't matter. It's only been two or three hours since we received the call. It's normal that we haven't had time to start an investigation yet."
Lu Changfeng and Yue Fanglin said: "I suggest that we apply to set up a joint investigation team, and have the Huacheng and Yicheng police jointly handle this case. If there is a second case, there may be a third case, and if there is a third case, there may be a fourth case."
Jing Jue looked at the two materials with the same logo. "If we want to investigate the two cases together, the source of the judge's logo will be very important. In previous cases, we have seen various judges' logos, but we have never seen two logos so similar. Could it be that someone is behind this?"
"Your point of view is exactly what I want to say." Lu Changfeng looked at Tao Zheng: "Captain Tao, please take the trouble to investigate what I said. Please also check the connection between the victim and his family and Liao Qingya."
As for this 3D printed judge logo, there is really no way to find it.
"I'll arrange for someone to check it out immediately."
Tao Zheng had just finished arranging the work when his colleague brought the parents of the deceased to the criminal investigation team.
The deceased was the only child in the family. His parents were both retired teachers. They did not like the hustle and bustle of the city and returned to their hometown to live.
After receiving the news of his son's death, he entrusted the child to a trusted neighbor and then rushed to the municipal police station.
"This is the police officer who is investigating the cause of your child's death. You can ask him if you have any questions."
The two old men grabbed Tao Zheng's hands tightly as if they were grabbing a life-saving straw, "Officer, how did my son die?"
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