Chapter 1301: Robbery?

A group of people had their own tasks, instantly emptying more than half of the office.

The personnel of Jiang Yuan's cold case task force and Cao Chujun's Third Detachment added up to about 60 people, but chasing several targets in one go, the manpower was just barely enough.

Of course, this is also the configuration of a homicide special task force, and it is only like this in the preliminary stage. If needed later, increasing the configuration is also a matter of course.

Liu Jinghui got up to tidy his police uniform and asked Jiang Yuan: "Do you want to go and see together?"

"Which part do you want to check?" Jiang Yuan stood up as he spoke.

As the "King of Reasoning," Liu Jinghui spent most of his time in the office reading documents to handle cases, and his frequency of on-site investigation was not as high as Jiang Yuan's.

Liu Jinghui was very satisfied with the dragon's obedience. He used a middle-aged man's mature tone and said: "I want to see if there are any traces of fighting at the scene, um... although I said to investigate from easy to difficult, from the current investigation, the situation of a crime of passion similar to robbery is becoming more and more likely."

"Also, then let's go and see again." Jiang Yuan said "again."

Liu Jinghui reacted immediately: "You have already checked the drowning point?"

"Didn't look carefully. I just took a rough look at the riverside when I was taking diatoms. I walked along the river once, and I didn't see any messy footprints near the river edge. However, now that the drowning point is confirmed, checking the surroundings thoroughly is a good idea." Jiang Yuan also reacted, feeling that Liu Jinghui's idea was good.

He said he walked along the Taihe River to take diatoms. In fact, other on-site investigators also took them along the river, about every 50 meters, for about 8 kilometers.

And Jiang Yuan himself walked along the river once, but didn't finish it. On the way, it was mainly "looking at flowers while riding a horse." Mainly looking at the embankment by the river, the road surface along the river, and whether there were traces of fighting in the surrounding green belt.

Because many of these places are hardened road surfaces, and the grass doesn't leave footprints, and traditional methods like static electricity were not used to take footprints, so only very large changes would attract Jiang Yuan's attention. This kind of observation, even for Jiang Yuan, could only find very obvious traces. To say it was meticulous is definitely not the case.

However, according to Liu Jinghui's idea just now, now that the drowning point is confirmed, then re-investigating the surroundings of the drowning point thoroughly is obviously meaningful.

Even if the deceased fell into the water by suicide, he might have left traces of passing by.

If a robbery case or other situations occurred, and the deceased had obvious scars on his body, then the two sides might have had a dispute or fight near the drowning point, which might have left some traces such as messy footprints, or fallen plants, etc.

Although the probability is not very high—mainly because there are cleaners and greening maintenance personnel who clean every day nearby...

Thinking of this, Jiang Yuan immediately reminded: "Ask the Sanitation Bureau or someone to see if there has been any green belt repair or similar situations near the drowning point these days."

"I'll call them." Wang Chuanxing immediately took the task.

Jiang Yuan then took a car with Liu Jinghui to the drowning point of the deceased that had been determined.

The LV6 diatom detection related to drowning allowed Jiang Yuan to determine the drowning location of the deceased in just one day. Given that samples were taken every hundred meters, the drowning location was basically fixed within a range of 200 meters.

Two hundred meters, running as fast as Bolt, takes only 20 seconds, but if walking normally, it takes about 5 minutes. But to investigate carefully, it takes half an hour to walk back and forth.

This riverside road near Changyang Vocational School of Technology is, from near to far from the Taihe River, a stone river embankment of about two meters, a green belt of two to three meters, a sidewalk of about two meters, an asphalt road with two lanes, and then a sidewalk and a large green belt seven or eight meters wide. Further out, there are sparse buildings, open spaces, and small sections of hills.

The buildings near the drowning point include a restaurant, a teahouse, and a small park, all very far from the drowning point. There is no public transportation nearby. Diners either live nearby or come by car. Most look out at the Taihe River from the private rooms upstairs, dozens of meters away. If they want to see the situation by the river, they have to go out and cross the road.

Overall, this riverside route is just an extension of the southern suburb area of Changyang. Those who come here are mainly students from nearby schools and residents of two small residential areas.

The police have already started visiting nearby personnel and collecting surveillance videos, but there has been no discovery for the time being.

Liu Jinghui pulled Jiang Yuan over, also hoping that Jiang Yuan could find criminal traces near the drowning point, and didn't even expect to find the suspect's footprints.

There are sanitation workers cleaning along the river. After so many days, wanting to directly find the suspect's traces, even if Jiang Yuan checks it himself, Liu Jinghui doesn't hold any hope.

Jiang Yuan mainly walked on the river embankment before. This time, he walked the 200-meter river embankment again.

Sanitation workers rarely clean the river embankment when cleaning, at least not to the extent of daily or every other day cleaning. Theoretically, the stone river embankment can provide some clues.

For example, if the footprints of the deceased Zhang Xianyao can be found, it would be very helpful for judging his state that day.

In fact, it is almost impossible to find them. Because footprints on the stone embankment are almost invisible during the day, and what is obtained by looking with an investigation light at night is also a large number of messy footprints. Analyzing them one by one... is actually not very meaningful.

After several days, the wind on the river embankment is strong and the humidity is high, and there are constant decomposers provided by the green belt next to it, so the erosion speed of the footprints is very fast, and the deformation is also very severe.

To scan all footprints of this type in 200 meters, even for Jiang Yuan, it is very difficult to do. At the very least, it is very difficult to do it meaningfully.

The most hopeful is the green belt. Jiang Yuan hopes to find bent branches, footprints deeply stepped in, etc. —if there was a conflict and fight at that time, and it affected the green belt, this is the most likely situation.

Half an hour later, Jiang Yuan could only spread his hands to Liu Jinghui.

"None?" Liu Jinghui couldn't say he was disappointed; he could only say he didn't see hope.

"Can't find matching traces. What did the sanitation side say?" Jiang Yuan asked.

"None. Asked the sanitation worker who cleaned this section, and didn't find any special situation." Liu Jinghui frowned, looked at the back, and said: "Guests who have consumption records in the restaurant, as well as employees, etc., also didn't find anything."

"Hmm, okay." Jiang Yuan was also used to the situation of no harvest. In the process of handling cases, what is encountered most is actually no harvest.

Liu Jinghui could only shake his head: "If it's not robbery or conflict, this case is not easy to handle..."

"Look ahead." Jiang Yuan suddenly pointed forward and said: "The drowning point is here, but it doesn't necessarily mean it happened here."

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