Chapter 77 Perversion
The portrait of the thin man and the warrant for cooperation were quickly distributed.
Bai Yu had an important meeting in the provincial capital the next day, so after finishing the painting, he left in a hurry without even having dinner.
Looking at Bai Yu's departing back, Xia Mufan suddenly felt a strong desire in his heart.
——She also wants to become such a criminal investigation expert.
Xia Mufan, a criminal investigation technology expert at the Provincial Public Security Department, has only met two of them so far, one is the forensic doctor Gu Shaoqi, and the other is the criminal investigation portrait artist Bai Yu. They each have their own strengths and shine in their professional fields. As they grow older and their academic qualifications improve, they will become more and more respected.
What are you good at?
What abilities do you have that cannot be replaced by others?
What area can you become an expert in?
Xia Mufan's eyes flickered and he fell into deep thought.
She can hear the voices of animals, which gives her more help and information during her investigations.
However, this special ability cannot be made public.
It is still necessary to combine theory with practice to explore a path that is unique to you.
Now, the most important thing is to find Lu Pingping.
Gu Shaoqi could see the anxiety in Xia Mufan's eyes.
When Yue Yuan took over the Wei Qiaozhen case, he was so anxious that his mouth was full of blisters. He kept pulling his hair and almost turned himself bald.
When Wei Qiaozhen's body was found, Yue Yuan was on the verge of collapse. His eyes were red and he roared angrily, his voice so loud that it seemed to overturn the serious crime squad's office.
When the case was finally decided as an unsolved case, Yue Yuan was depressed for a long time. He would pull Gu Shaoqi aside to talk late at night, constantly blaming himself, blaming himself for being incompetent and hating himself for being useless.
Every unsolved murder case will become a permanent thorn in the hearts of investigators.
Even after a long time, it will still hurt my heart little by little.
Now, another case of the same type has occurred. Even though Yue Yuan has been promoted and no longer has to go to the scene, he still attaches great importance to it and pulls Gu Shaoqi to the bus station.
This time, Xia Mufan's team found more clues. With the portrait of the thin man, they would be able to find him and rescue Lu Pingping before he could take action.
Gu Shaoqi said gently: "Xiao Xia, don't worry, let's find a solution together."
Gu Shaoqi's words were like a spring breeze blowing across the lake, gentle and warm, successfully calming Xia Mufan's inner anxiety. She glanced at Gu Shaoqi and nodded gently: "Okay. Expert Bai, I have to thank you for this matter."
Gu Shaoqi did not take credit for it and waved his hand: "Old White Man is quite good. If there is a case, it doesn't matter who finds him. I am just a little familiar with him, so it is easy to contact him."
Yue Yuan interrupted Gu Shaoqi impatiently: "Don't be polite, we are all in the same team, solving the case is our common goal, whoever is capable will do it, it's normal."
Gu Shaoqi pursed his lips and immediately fell silent.
Xia Mufan followed suit and immediately began to direct Yue Yuan: "The cooperation order has been issued. How long will it take to get news? Captain Yue, do you want to call the police station to urge them?"
Yue Yuan was stunned for a moment, but soon reacted: "Unless this person has a number at the police station and can be recognized at a glance, otherwise we will have news at the earliest tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."
After saying this long string of words, Yue Yuan glared at Xia Mufan and said, "I'll call you when I get back!"
Xia Mufan didn't care at all that Yue Yuan's attitude was a little stiff: "After we return to the brigade, we will merge the Wei Qiaozhen case into one investigation. Do you want to participate, Captain Yue?"
Yue Yuan asked her: "Are you sure it was done by one person?"
Xia Mufan: "Wei Qiaozhen and Lu Pingping are both 16 years old, technical secondary school students. One disappeared near the school, and the other disappeared at the bus station. The crime trajectories are highly overlapped, so it can be considered that they were committed by the same person."
As they were talking, the pagers on Yue Yuan and Gu Shaoqi's waists started beeping.
The two looked down and Yue Yuan's face suddenly turned gloomy: "A female corpse was found on Wangxi Road in the north of the city, in a red and white woven bag."
Gu Shaoqi's eyes turned cold: "Wei Qiaozhen's body was also found in the north of the city."
The bodies were also packed in woven bags and abandoned in the north of the city. It is possible that this case was committed by the same person as the Wei Qiaozhen case two years ago.
Yue Yuan said to Xia Mufan, "You arrange the search at the bus station, and Shaoqi and I will go to Wangxi Road."
Xia Mushige nodded: "Okay, I'll meet you at the team later."
Thinking of what the cat once said about the thin man smelling of blood, Xia Mufan felt a pang of pain in his heart. This man, right after killing someone and dumping the body, started looking for his next prey. He's such a pervert!
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At night, the office of the Serious Crime Unit 7 was brightly lit.
Yue Yuan and Xia Mufan sat at the conference table with serious expressions, and the other team members also had stern faces and frowns.
The female corpse from Wangxi Road has been transported back to the forensic laboratory, and Gu Shaoqi and his apprentice are currently performing an autopsy on the body.
The photos taken on site were developed and posted on the whiteboard.
Yue Yuan slowly stood up, walked to the whiteboard, pointed at the photos and began to briefly introduce the situation.
"Preliminary judgment shows that the deceased is a female, aged between 15 and 18. She was naked, with multiple knife wounds and soft tissue contusions on her body, part of her scalp peeling off, purple marks on her throat, and bleeding spots on her facial skin and eyelid conjunctiva. She may have died of suffocation, and the time of death was about the night before yesterday. A detailed autopsy report will be released after the forensic autopsy."
Xia Mufan opened the case file of Wei Qiaozhen two years ago, took out the photos inside, and compared them with today's set of photos.
"Wei Qiaozhen, a freshman at Huishi Accounting School, had been enrolled for just over a month. A week after she went missing, her body was found in the bushes near Weixi River in the north of the city. She was buried in the same red and white woven bag, and also had signs of abuse. She died of suffocation."
Upon hearing that the two victims were teenage girls and looking at the two pretty faces in the photos, all members of the Serious Crime Unit 7 were extremely angry.
"Pervert! He only targets young girls."
"He stripped off all his clothes because he was afraid the police would find something, or was it just out of his bad taste?"
"He tortured her for several days, then strangled her to death and dumped her body. This murderer is definitely a mentally twisted psychopath."
"We must catch the murderer!"
Gong Weiguo tried to calm himself down: "From the characteristics of the deceased, the method of disposing the body, the injuries on the body, and the cause of death, these two murders should have been committed by the same person, and can be investigated together."
Feng Xiaoyu trembled and said, "Lu Pingping is also a 16-year-old girl. Like Wei Qiaozhen, she also disappeared in a public place. I am worried that she was taken away by this perverted murderer. We must hurry up and rescue Lu Pingping before he kills anyone!"
Sun Xianbing nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, we must hurry up."
Yu Jing said: "Captain Yue, Team Leader Xia, you guys arrange the tasks. Even if we have to go without food or sleep, we must rescue Lu Pingping as soon as possible."
Looking at the time, it was already eight o'clock in the evening, but the lights were on in several offices of the Criminal Investigation Brigade.
Criminal Investigation Technology Department, Forensic Autopsy Room, Serious Crime Squad...
Countless calls were made, and countless calls were received.
At this moment, everyone was concerned about Lu Pingping's fate.
The Criminal Investigation Brigade has demonstrated unprecedented unity and fighting spirit.
In such an atmosphere, Yue Yuan no longer put on airs as a leader. He opened the file from two years ago and unfolded a topographic map of Hui City, on which were the distribution areas of acidic soil layers and shady and moist slopes outlined by botanical experts.
"This is the distribution map of the golden moss in the suburbs and urban areas of Hui City. We conducted a carpet search in these areas in the past, but we ended up with nothing because there were too few clues. This time, the three cases are combined into one, and the portrait of the murderer has been drawn. We must catch the murderer! We must not let him get away!"
Yue Yuan's voice was sonorous and powerful, like the sound of a battle drum.
This was the first time that the Serious Crime Unit 7 took on such a major case, and everyone felt a heavy burden on their shoulders.
Xia Mufan carefully examined the distribution map of the golden moss and marked the places where the two bodies were found.
Bushes in the lower reaches of Wei Creek, north of the city;
It is located in the green belt of the eastern section of Wangxi Road in the north of the city, only 200 meters away from Weixi River.
Sun Xianbing responded the fastest: "They are all in the north of the city."
Gong Weiguo then analyzed: "Close to Weixi River."
Feng Xiaoyu said: "The witness said that the small truck went north along Zhanqian Road."
Yu Jing has rich driving experience and also put forward his own point of view: "The murderer has an old truck, which is relatively convenient for dumping the body. But drivers are usually used to driving in an environment they are familiar with and will not easily change. The two search and dumping locations are both near Weixi River, seven or eight kilometers apart. The murderer should be mainly active in the north of the city."
Xia Mufan drew a big circle on the map: "Yes! The murderer is in the north of the city."
Starting from the bus station and heading north along the road in front of the station, Xia Mufan drew several routes connecting the bus station and the two places where the bodies were dumped. As he drew, he said, "The murderer has a car. His residence should be able to park. It shouldn't be too remote."
Referring to the distribution map of the golden moss, everyone discussed it and marked out several most likely ranges.
Yue Yuan is an old criminal policeman after all. Two years ago, he personally led a team to conduct a search and rescue operation in the suburbs of Hui City. He knows the place names and jurisdictions like the back of his hand.
"This is the jurisdiction of the Gejiadun Police Station."
“This is Twin Peaks Forest Farm.”
“Oh, here…”
After determining several areas that needed special attention, Xia Mufan looked at Yue Yuan.
Yue Yuan nodded: "Don't worry, I will immediately contact the police stations in each area and ask them to search the slopes and woodlands."
Sun Xianbing raised his hand: "We have only sent the murderer's photo to the police stations in each jurisdiction in the form of a search warrant. Should we simply adopt a human wave tactic and issue a wanted warrant throughout the city?"
Gong Weiguo shook his head: "Although someone may recognize the murderer, the murderer will also be alarmed. If he is angered, he will kill Lu Pingping and run away..."
Feng Xiaoyu said loudly: "Right! Don't alert the enemy."
Tap! Tap!
After two polite knocks on the door, Gu Shaoqi, wearing a white coat, walked in.
There were marks from the mask on his face, and he smelled of disinfectant. He was chilled all over, and it was obvious that an autopsy had just been completed.
As soon as Gu Shaoqi entered the room, the temperature in the entire office seemed to drop by two degrees.
Xia Mushige came forward and asked, "How is it?"
Gu Shaoqi said: "Zhou Wei is writing the autopsy report. I know you are anxious, so I came over to talk about it first."
Xia Mufan was indeed very anxious: "You tell me."
Gu Shaoqi raised his eyes and looked at the other people in the office.
Everyone's eyes were on him, anxiously waiting for the outcome of his body.
"Based on the depth and direction of the knife wounds, the extent of scalp peeling, and the scars on the neck, it can be judged that the murderer is the same person who killed Wei Qiaozhen."
After hearing what Gu Shaoqi said, Yue Yuan and Xia Mufan exchanged glances: the basis for joint investigation was there.
Gu Shaoqi continued, "There were skin flakes, blood stains, and dirt under the nails of the deceased. It is speculated that he had a fierce fight with the murderer before he died."
Feng Xiaoyu let out a low cry, her voice filled with worry, sadness, and anger.
Xia Mufan felt his heart shrink.
The girl had a fierce temper and had fought with the murderer, but... she died.
Gu Shaoqi has extensive experience in autopsies, and his description is complete and accurate: "Compared with Wei Qiaozhen's autopsy results, the earliest knife wound on this deceased was five days ago, which means that it was only three days from her imprisonment to her death."
It took only one week from the time Wei Qiaozhen disappeared to the time she died.
The deceased only had three days.
The murderer is cruel and hates resistance.
Gu Shaoqi said: "The deceased was washed with clean water, her skin was white, and no moss was found under her fingernails. But there was grease and moss at the bottom of the garbage bag. The residue in her stomach was still tomatoes, eggs, and noodles."
Xia Mufan thought carefully: "After cleaning the body, he put it into a woven bag and dragged it to the car. It seems that he had to pass through a clump of golden moss. This means that the murderer lived on the first floor, which is dark and damp, and there is moss growing on the ground in the yard."
Feng Xiaoyu was puzzled: "Is the murderer only able to cook tomato and egg noodles? Why are there only these in the stomachs of the two victims?"
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