Chapter 153 Double Clues: Identity of the Dead

The female dead woman’s clothes were in disarray, and the zipper of her skirt was only half-zipped. She was lying prone on the back seat of the car.

Mu Mian examined the surface of the female dead woman’s body. The rope groove on the dead woman’s neck was in the shape of a closed ring, with uniform depth and darker color, and there were pressure marks on the back of the neck.

Chen Xue pointed to the strangulation marks on the dead woman’s neck and said, “This is a typical strangulation rope groove. This dead woman was most likely strangled to death.”

“There are no friction wounds on the wound. She should have been strangled by a softer rope.” Mu Mian remembered that the male dead woman had lost a tie, and she suspected that the murder weapon was likely that tie.

“Could it be that tie?” Fang Rui guessed.

"It's possible."

"If that's the case, the murderer didn't bring any tools to commit the crime, and he was most likely a murder in the heat of passion." Xiao Zhang analyzed.

Murder in the heat of passion usually leaves a lot of evidence.

The items in the car were also looted. The deceased's mobile phone was lost, and no items that could prove the identity of the deceased were found in the car.

Mu Mian saw that the deceased's right hand was clenched tightly, as if holding something. Mu Mian opened her hand and found that she was holding a condom.

Everyone quickly deduced the course of the crime.

"The crime process is likely to be like this: the two victims were meeting in a red car, and they found that there were no condoms, so the female victim got out of the car and went to the black car to get one. The murderer took the opportunity to go to the red car and killed the male victim; then he took the victim's tie and strangled the female victim. The murderer is likely to have been following the victims." Fang Rui analyzed.

"Could the murderer be the husband or boyfriend of the female victim? This is very much like the scene of catching an adulterer." Xiao Zhang said, "It is very likely a murder of passion."

Fang Rui and his team retrieved the surveillance footage of the mall, and soon saw the two victims in the surveillance footage leading to the underground parking lot of the mall.

Around 9:15pm, the male victim first passed the camera at the entrance of the parking lot carrying two shopping bags. About a minute later, the female victim also appeared in the camera carrying several luxury shopping bags.

She was followed closely by a tall man in a cap. He was wearing a black sports suit and a black mask. The brim of the cap covered his eyes. The surveillance camera did not capture his face.

At 10:11pm, the camera captured the man in the cap carrying a bulging black backpack and hurriedly passing through the aisle from the parking lot to the mall.

The police quickly locked on the suspect. Although the camera did not capture his face, the police had a grasp of his physical features. The suspect is about 1.82 meters tall and male.

"The car refrigerator is not valuable, and the murderer has no need to take such a large and low-priced item," Fang Rui analyzed. "It is very likely that there is some evidence left on it that can incriminate the murderer, so the murderer had to take it away. Although the suspect in the surveillance video was carrying a lot of things, he did not have any difficulty carrying them, which does not seem to be a refrigerator. Everyone, search the trash cans in the parking lot to see if you can find the refrigerator."

The shopping mall's cleaning staff had not yet cleaned up the garbage, but the police searched the trash cans throughout the parking lot and did not find the refrigerator.

"It is possible that the murderer's car was also parked in this parking lot, and he hid the refrigerator in his car and took it out." Xiao Wang analyzed.

"Then why didn't he leave the other items in the car and take them away together?" Fang Rui retorted.

"That's right."

The identity of the deceased was quickly determined. The two were frequent customers of the mall, and one of the shop assistants recognized the two dead bodies. The

male deceased was Wang Yonghua, the manager of the purchasing department of Jianhua Engineering Company. He was twelve years old, married, and had a son and a daughter with his wife; the female deceased was Sun Xiaoning, the personnel manager of the company's administrative department. She was twenty-seven years old and unmarried.

The police first contacted Wang Yonghua's wife to come and identify the body. His wife answered the phone.

Wang Yonghua's wife said coldly: "Wang Yonghua is dead? God finally opened his eyes and took him away! Which woman's belly did he die in?"

"He was murdered!"

"Murder? There should be a lot of suspects. A scum like him, there are many people who want to kill him. You should start with the women around him. Whose house did he die in?"

"He died in the underground parking lot of the mall."

"Parking lot? No wonder he couldn't be caught cheating recently. It turns out he has found a new place to cheat, the parking lot in the mall. Why are you contacting me? Do you want me to collect his body? He doesn't deserve it!"

Wang Yonghua's wife was very cold. She didn't seem to plan to come and claim the body. "You can contact his mistresses, Xiaoxi, Xiaowu, Xiaoliu, and Xiaoqi, to collect his body. Do you want me to give you your contact information?"

Xiao Zhang was stunned holding the phone. Wang Yonghua's wife's attitude was too cold. Would she hold a grudge against her husband and hire someone to kill him?

Xiao Zhang called Wang Yonghua's mistress again. A gentle girl on the other side burst into tears after hearing the news of Wang Yonghua's death. "Wuwuwu, the house he promised to give me has not been transferred yet. How could he die like this? Police comrade, he promised to give me a house, but he is dead. Is the verbal promise still useful? Can I still get the house?" "

Sorry, I am a policeman, not a lawyer!" Xiao Zhang interrupted her crying.

"Then why did you call me?"

"Are you free to identify the body?"

"I am a mistress. What qualifications do I have to collect his body? You should find his wife!"

"..."

Beep, beep, beep, the phone was hung up.

Xiao Zhang called Xiaoxi, Xiaowu, and Xiaoliu again. They all said that they only had a financial relationship with Wang Yonghua and had no responsibility or obligation to collect his body. Xiao Qi's phone was always unreachable, and soon Xiao Zhang found out why. The dead Sun Xiaoning was Xiao Qi.

"Zhang Qiang, is no one willing to come and identify Wang Yonghua's body?" Xiao Li asked.

Xiao Zhang spread his hands and said, "Wang Yonghua's parents died a long time ago. His brother and sister have cut off all ties with him, and his women are unwilling to come and identify the body. The deceased's character is probably not very good."

Sun Xiaoning is a local. Her parents are both workers. They live in the old city of Jiangzhou City and their family conditions are average. After they received the news, they quickly came to identify the body.

Fang Rui and Xiao Zhang took notes for them.

"Has Sun Xiaoning had any conflicts with anyone recently?" Fang Rui asked.

The grandson's father said, "No, my daughter works in a construction company. She is a white-collar worker and usually goes back and forth between the company and home. My daughter has a very high emotional intelligence and gets along well with her colleagues and leaders. When she had her birthday, many colleagues and leaders celebrated her birthday. I don't think she has offended anyone."

While crying, Sun's mother looked through her cell phone albums for photos of Sun Xiaoning's daily life, including photos taken at the company and during team building activities. In the photos, Sun Xiaoning loved to smile and was very pretty.

However, Fang Rui and his team discovered that most of the people in the photos with Sun Xiaoning were men, and the few photos with women were all group photos. Several of the photos were of Sun Xiaoning and Wang Yonghua.