Wrongful Death Criminal Investigation

Chapter 148 2



Chapter 148 2

After exchanging pleasantries with Li Yanshan, Mingtang did not forget the purpose of his trip.

"Captain Li, where was the body of the deceased found? Can you take us to see the scene?"

"You come with me."

Li Yanshan walked in front to guide them. The main road is the road along the lake. The lake covers a large area. Cycling competitions are held every year along the lake. This kind of competition will also bring a lot of benefits to the local area. Competitions like this are held throughout the year, so this place is very important to Biyang, which is why the local government attaches so much importance to it. The provincial leaders even directly appointed their serious crime brigade to handle this case.

The lake here is Zimu Lake, which consists of a huge lake and countless small lakes. In some places on the edge, there are small hills separating the lakes. Therefore, the local government connects the hills with the hills, some with arch bridges, some with corridors, and others. In some remote places, there are stone steps built on the hills, which is convenient for people to climb while swimming in the lake, and there are small pavilions on the hills to enjoy the shade.

Therefore, the environment here is good. The place where the body was found was on the shady side of a small hill near the road. It’s just that the lakeside hit the fence, but not many people passed by here, and people usually passed by the other side, so only the morning The lady running past found a dead body under the fence here, and was very frightened.

Qiu Shaoyang and the others walked along the road. The place was really remote, because there was a corridor not far away, and this place did not belong to the crowded park among the hills.

Go under the fence where the body was found.

Just not far from the fence, there is a small pavilion.

The body had been salvaged at this time and placed in the pavilion.

Li Yanshan held a very long stick in his hand, then turned on his mobile phone and showed them the photos of the dead body found at that time, pointed down with the stick, and said: "The dead was just like this one with his head down and his feet down." Upward posture, the water here is not very deep, and there is a wooden stake here, the lowered feet are hooked by the wooden stake, and they are not completely submerged in the water."

Mingtang asked: "Has the identity of the deceased been found out?"

Li Yanshan said: "The identity of the deceased has not been confirmed yet. The deceased was soaked in water for a long time, and his face was swollen and unrecognizable. Judging from the comprehensive conditions such as the height of the deceased, the age of the deceased is about 35-50 years old. According to the preliminary judgment, the deceased died of mechanical asphyxiation."

Reminiscent of the fact that the deceased was head down and his head was in the water, Mingtang asked, "Drowning?"

Li Yanshan shook his head: "According to the current situation, it is not drowning. There is no algae in the water in the mouth and nasal cavity of the deceased. The mouth and nose of the drowned person usually form mushroom-shaped foam before they are alive. The mouth and nose of the deceased are very clean. The characteristics do not match the characteristics of drowning. Therefore, we suspect that this is the scene of the second dumping of the body. The specific cause of death will not be known until the forensic doctor brings the body back to the bureau for autopsy."

Mingtang asked: "Is there surveillance around here?"

"Yes, but there are a lot of dead spots for monitoring. For example, the monitoring of this area has been broken for some time." Li Yanshan said: "We have expanded the search area."

Qiu Shaoyang asked: "Can you determine the time of death of the deceased?"

Li Yanshan said: "Currently it is estimated that the time of death of the deceased is within 24 hours."

Qiu Shaoyang looked at the corpse not far away, and said: "Then the deceased must have been thrown here after nightfall last night. It is difficult to determine how long the deceased was soaked in water, but it can be estimated that the height of the deceased is about 170-180cm, and the weight is estimated Between 70-80KG, and it takes about 3 minutes to walk from the main road here. If you want to throw the dead body here, the possibility of the body throwing person is much higher than that of a woman. The weight is almost the same, but it is not an easy task to carry the dead body. There is no trace of dragging on the ground, which means that the dead person is floating in the air. From this, it can be inferred that either a number of people partnered together, or one person directly carried the dead body. , the body of the deceased was close to the water, and if more than two people threw the dead into the lake, they would never be so close to the shore. Therefore, it can be ruled out that many people threw the body, so the deceased was either a very strong woman or an adult. Strong male."

Mingtang said: "Throwing far away and burying near, the deceased must have a means of transportation. How many entrances and exits are there in total, and how many entrances and exits are monitored and can be used? You need to find out as soon as possible and share the surveillance video from last night to this morning. It would be best if you could give us a detailed map of this area for our reference."

Li Yanshan said: "I will arrange it now."

Qiu Shaoyang walked towards the place where the dead body was placed, and the forensic doctor was still collecting evidence.

Qiu Shaoyang asked: "Did you find anything?"

The forensic doctor said: "The deceased's face was swollen and cyanotic, the conjunctiva of the eyelids near the fornix, the inner and outer canthus of the bulbar conjunctiva, and the face had petechial bleeding, the body surface plaques were more obvious, the teeth were bleeding, and the eyeballs were protruding, which is consistent with mechanical asphyxia. The death characteristics of the deceased did not meet the characteristics of drowning, and the deceased had drank alcohol before death, and how much he drank will only be known after going back for testing."

Qiu Shaoyang nodded to the forensic doctor, and returned to Mingtang's side.

"There are not too many traces at the scene, even if you stay here, you won't find anything."

Qiu Shaoyang has opened the nearby 3D map, which clearly marked some main roads of this artificial lake.

"There is still too little evidence, and it is difficult to make a judgment based on the current situation. The first thing is to confirm the identity of the deceased, and then check the nearby surveillance to see if any suspicious vehicles have entered here last night." Ming Tang said to Qiu Shaoyang: " Do you want to take a walk on the main road with me to see what's going on nearby?"

Qiu Shaoyang: "Yes."

So the two bid farewell to Li Yanshan and returned to the main road.

Qiu Shaoyang said to Mingtang: "Substitute the following perspective of the corpse thrower, how would you choose your whereabouts route?"

Mingtang said: "Since I dare to throw the corpse in the artificial lake nearby, I must know the situation nearby. The location I chose is actually very hidden, so the place to throw the corpse is not a random choice by me, but a matter of discretion. I chose it later. There are 4 exits in the vicinity. If I had to choose the exit closest to here, the surveillance probe just broke down at the exit closest to here. In this era of surveillance probes everywhere Here, the broken surveillance made it convenient for me to dispose of the body."

Qiu Shaoyang nodded with a smile.

So they all believed that the murderer should have entered through the broken intersection.

The intersection is only a few hundred meters away from here.

Mingtang and Qiu Shaoyang walked over there on foot, and stood at the intersection to watch. They didn't know where the road led. Qiu Shaoyang opened the map and kept zooming in along this road, and found that there was a residential area over there.

The management personnel of the lake area took their map and came to look for Ming Tang and the other two.

As a result of the map, the two could see that there were surveillance cameras at all the entrances and exits of the passages on the map, but it happened that the entrances and exits here just happened to be broken.

Mingtang asked: "Do you know the residential area at the end of this road?"

The staff member said: "I belong to that place. It is a newly-built resettlement site, and they all moved here from nearby remote villages. People from many villages live there."

Mingtang asked the staff to leave first, and he and Qiu Shaoyang still stood at the intersection.

At this time, the sound of a car's horn came not far away.

The two turned their heads one after another, and Lu Changfeng and the others had arrived.

The car stopped behind them, and Lu Changfeng and the others got out of the car, "How about it, what did you find?"

Mingtang shook his head: "It hasn't been found yet, we can only continue to investigate after the identity of the deceased is confirmed. I plan to go down this road with Shaoyang and go to the end to see."

"Let's go together then."

Lu Changfeng called Lanning Xiaoding to join him, while Yang Meng stayed here and followed Captain Li to see if they found anything.

On the way, Mingtang gave Lu Changfeng an overview of the situation at the scene.

The car came all the way to the residential area. There was no fork on the road, and the road crossed the residential area.

When driving near the residential area, Mingtang stopped on the side of the road.

A few people got out of the car and watched while walking along the way.

"Strange, why is there no surveillance on the road here?"

Mingtang also found it very strange that they walked more than 100 meters along the way without seeing a single surveillance camera, which was very unreasonable.

There are about dozens of resettlement houses on both sides of the road. This scale is definitely not small. Why is there no monitoring?

And according to what the staff said just now, the people who live here have moved from various nearby villages. Isn't it even more strange that there is no surveillance?

There is no monitoring along the way, so this route is very suitable for dumping corpses.

From the lake exit of Forest Park to here, it is about five kilometers away, and it takes less than 10 minutes to drive.

Mingtang contacted Li Yanshan. Li Yanshan didn't know the specific situation here, but he helped find the administrator here.

The resettlement sites were relocated from various villages, so a resident office was also set up. The person in charge of the office came out of an intersection not long after, saw a group of people standing by the roadside, and immediately greeted them.

The person in charge is Liang Junsheng, who is about 50 years old.

Mingtang asked: "Why don't you install surveillance cameras in this resettlement site?"

Liang Junsheng sighed: "The original plan was to install it, but because when we first moved here, there were only a limited number of cameras, and there was a building where cars were always scratched, so the cameras installed on the main road were removed. It was installed downstairs of their unit, so there was no monitoring on the main road, thinking that if there were any conflicts between people, they wouldn’t just tear it up on the main road, so no monitoring was installed on the road here.”

"..."

For a moment, everyone present was speechless.

What you think you think, is just what you think.Uneasy rules and regulations have now affected their investigation.

In the entire residential area, there is no surveillance camera facing the main road. Outrageously, there is a surveillance camera dedicated to a row of flowers on the side of the road. They say that they are afraid that other people will steal the flowers if they look good, so they use surveillance cameras to watch them. Private.

Xiao Ding complained: "To be honest, this is the most outrageous thing I have encountered in a year of handling the case."

However, no one formally manages this kind of place with no front to the village and no shop to the back. To implement these details, the person in charge is recommended by the residents here. It is normal that many things do not comply with the regulations.

This is the downside of decentralization of power. Excessive power will lead to such outrageous things.

Ming Tang left Xiao Ding and Lan Ning behind to monitor all the exits of this resettlement site within 48 hours, in order to see if there were any vehicles entering or exiting the village last night.

And Mingtang, Qiu Shaoyang and Lu Changfeng continued to drive along the road, less than one kilometer to the main road.

Once on the main road, there will be monitoring.

Biyang is a county-level city, so its urban areas are relatively concentrated, all on the other side of the forest park.

The main road is a national road that runs through other areas.

Mingtang contacted Li Yanshan again, retrieved the surveillance cameras about one kilometer along the way, and then returned by the same route. After Lanning and Xiaoding had retrieved the surveillance cameras, they returned to the place where the dead body was found.

The body had already been brought back to Biyang Public Security Bureau by the forensic doctor, and the policemen who stayed here were also preparing to gather up and return, so Mingtang and the others happened to follow them to Biyang Public Security Bureau.

The Public Security Bureau of Biyang City is not very large, but it still has the necessary configuration.Jiang Han and the original forensic doctor of Biyang Municipal Bureau conducted the autopsy together.

Tang Yan and the others also came for trace inspection, but the situation at the scene basically didn't require them to be dispatched.

While waiting for the results of the autopsy, Mingtang and the others watched the surveillance video to see if they could conduct an investigation from the vehicles that passed that road that night.

However, the traffic flow was much larger than they had imagined. There were roughly five or six hundred vehicles that passed this section of the road that night.

After learning about it, I realized that the road is going forward, and there are several county towns nearby, and it is close to the national highway. Some drivers take a shortcut into the urban area, and they will take a shortcut from the road by the forest park lake, and that area It is not a closed road section, and vehicles can pass through normally, but only trucks over [-] meters are restricted.

Therefore, many cars going to and from urban areas and towns will pass here.

Then the scope is much larger.

At this point, watching the surveillance was put on hold, waiting for the final DNA comparison results.

In the afternoon, the forensic examination report came out, as did the DNA comparison results.

The deceased was Qin Wang, 43 years old, who lived in Yashan County under the jurisdiction of Biyang City, 18 kilometers away from the place where the body was found. He had his own cram school in the county registered under his name.His wife, Kou Qing, is a nurse at the county hospital and has a daughter who is in high school in the county.

The cause of death was mechanical suffocation. The cause of suffocation was blockage of the respiratory tract. There were no other superfluous marks on the face and neck of the deceased.

The alcohol content in the deceased's blood was about 390mg/100ml.

"The alcohol content is so high."

"Off the scale."

"See you soon."

Such a high alcohol content is indeed rare.

"Depart from Yashan County."

After Mingtang communicated with Li Yanshan, everyone rushed to Yashan County together.

The above only gave them three days to solve the case, and now for them, time is very precious.

Yashan County is not too big, with a permanent population of about one hundred thousand.

However, there are still many residents around the county seat.

The car stopped at the Yashan County Police Station. After greeting the local police, the police took them to the home of the deceased Qin Wang.

Qin Wang's family is not in the county seat, but in Qinjia Village, about five kilometers away from the county seat.

There are more than 30 families in Qinjia Village.

When the police car entered the village, the residents of the village came out one after another to watch, and there were spectators standing at the door of every house.

The police car stopped at Qin Wang's house, and the door was open. In the second floor of his own house, a girl was washing shoes by the sink.

It was a bit scary to see so many police cars.

Fortunately, they found the village party secretary in advance, and the little girl was not so afraid when they saw that the party secretary in their village was there.

The branch secretary asked, "Shuangyu, is your mother at home?"

This is Qin Wang's daughter Qin Shuangyu.

Qin Shuangyu shook his head: "My mother is still working in the hospital."

The village party secretary wanted to call Qin Shuangyu's mother, Kou Qing, and told her to go home, but Ming Tang stopped him. He asked Lu Changfeng to take someone to the hospital to find Kou Qing.

Kou Qing was also suspected of committing the crime, and the village party secretary's phone call would have exposed her.

So Lu Changfeng made the trip himself.

Mingtang and the others searched Qin Shuangyu's home.

There are many beer bottles on the ground at home.

There are also a lot of wine bottles on the wall outside the house. Mingtang counted them, and there are 30 boxes in total. The color of the boxes below the wine bottles has completely changed, which is very different from the boxes above. It must be inferred that they have been placed for a long time. .

But judging from the quantity alone, it is already very scary. There are 12 bottles of beer in a case, and 360 bottles in [-] cases. One bottle per day is a year's supply.

Qin Shuangyu is still underage, and relatives need to be present when questioning him.

Therefore, Mingtang chose to ask the village party secretary, everyone in the same village would know something about Qin Wang more or less.

Then he asked the village party secretary: "Is Qin Wang a person who likes to drink?"

Village Party Secretary: "He likes to drink. He needs several bottles every day. If someone drinks with him, he will drink more."

"So drinkable?"

The village party secretary nodded: "He holds a good amount of alcohol, and he won't get drunk after a few bottles."

"This Qin Wang has a cram school in the town. What does it mainly teach?"

The village party secretary said: "Mathematics, he had a falling out with the school for some reason. It seemed that he was not selected for the selection of outstanding teachers. Later, he resigned and opened a cram school outside the school. Qin Wang's teaching ability It’s still very good, many children are willing to go to him to make up lessons, he has private lessons from Monday to Friday, all day on Saturday, and unified make-up lessons in the morning on weekends.”

"As far as you know, has he offended anyone in the village or town?"

The village party secretary thought for a while, then shook his head: "There is none in the village. Everyone is from the same village and has a good relationship. As for the town, I don't know. There are so many people in the town, and we old guys are all in the village and don't buy vegetables. I don’t usually go to the town, the children all work in the city, and no one knows about it.”

After a general understanding, Mingtang walked into Qin Wang's home.

Qiu Shaoyang wandered around with the tracers.

According to the forensic report, the deceased died about an hour after eating yesterday.

The remnants of beans and tomatoes were extracted from the stomach solution of the deceased, and there happened to be unfinished scrambled eggs with tomatoes and beans in the refrigerator.

Qiu Shaoyang found Qin Shuangyu and asked, "What time did you finish your meal last night?"

Qin Shuangyu whispered: "As usual, around 07:30."

"Did you eat scrambled eggs with beans and tomatoes last night?"

Qin Shuangyu nodded.

It can be inferred from this that the time of death was probably between 08:30 and [-]:[-].


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