Chapter 194: Finding the Thread

In the autopsy room, the air was filled with a strange smell, making it feel somewhat difficult to breathe.

What Liu Jinghui said was easy, but he himself felt it was troublesome.

The task force was even more overwhelmed.

The inquiries and pressure from superiors regarding the six-corpse homicide case had never stopped.

If it weren't for the two "white shirts" (high-ranking officials) of Qinghe City personally calling the provincial capital, the order to solve the case within a time limit might have already come down.

If it really came to that, everyone in the Municipal Bureau wouldn't have to sleep.

Wives would only be able to sleep alone.

Liver is the right thing.

However, saying a thousand words and ten thousand words, no matter how fancy you play, you still have to solve the case, right? Just touching around outside, what can you do?

Normal life cannot be lived by learning from movies.

If it was said that in the first two days, the task force was still familiarizing themselves with the case and searching for clues, then by the fourth or fifth day, if there was no positive news, leaders who knew a little about criminal investigation would know what was going on...

Can't get it up!

And it's likely a big problem that even medicine can't fix.

Otherwise, it would speak, or at least shout for a tourniquet.

Therefore, on the fifth day after the case, the Bureau Chief also sat in the task force's office.

For a time, the expressions of everyone in the task force were twisted.

Comrade Shen Feihong, the Captain of the Qinghe City Criminal Investigation Detachment, finally remembered Liu Jinghui. After finally sending off the Bureau Chief, he immediately invited Liu Jinghui to a meeting.

In the smoke-filled conference room, everyone showed sincere and awkward smiles.

Shen Feihong took the initiative to hand out cigarettes and said, "Director Liu, we are stuck now. You have to give us some suggestions."

Liu Jinghui thought to himself, I gave you suggestions before, but you didn't listen.

Of course, facts proved that the suggestions he gave before were of no use either. However, solving a case is walking in the dark. If you don't touch until the middle of the night, how can you touch the cup of milk you want?

Liu Jinghui had been solving cases outside for many years and had long been accustomed to the different styles of police work in various places. There were many police leaders with ideas, and they all had a strong desire for control, but some could solve cases, and some couldn't.

Shen Feihong wasn't the worst kind; he also had the ability to solve cases, but the cases he encountered were too complex.

If it were a smaller current homicide case, he might have solved it himself.

Looking back, he wouldn't have met Liu Jinghui for a small current homicide case.

"We can start by investigating based on the reservoir. Regarding the hydrological data of the reservoir and the water levels over the years, we should have the data now, right?" Liu Jinghui didn't think about confronting people and spoke calmly.

Captain Shi of the Major Crimes Unit was about the same age as him. He also lit a cigarette in the side, exhaled a puff, and said, "We invited a hydrological expert. According to him, since the construction of the reservoir, the water level has never been this low... The internal water flow situation doesn't have much research data. To summarize, if the perpetrator knows how to use the water flow of the reservoir, he is not just a local, but also someone who is proficient in water and lives by the water."

"But we don't know if the perpetrator is that knowledgeable." Liu Jinghui expressed understanding.

Captain Shi nodded. "Indeed, there's no way to prove it, but I think the possibility of the perpetrator living and working around the reservoir is very high."

"Oh?"

"We visited eyewitnesses, especially those who like fishing nearby. We asked no less than 300 people," Captain Shi emphasized the quantity. "Not a single one saw anything, and there was no rumor or news."

Finding eyewitnesses is something that can be done in every case. The effect of this case should have been better.

Such a large body bag thrown into the reservoir would have caused some movement. If it was too conspicuous during the day, it was possible it was seen by someone at night.

Moreover, the perpetrator didn't dump the body only once.

Captain Shi had raised similar questions at the previous meeting, and now he emphasized his tone even more. "As the saying goes, if you walk on the night road too much, you will always meet a ghost. So many fishing enthusiasts, and not one heard the sound in the reservoir, which shows that the location the perpetrator chose was absolutely excellent. This is not a location that can be chosen just by looking with eyes."

"It's possible it was just good luck. He threw it there the first time, it wasn't discovered, and then he just kept throwing it in," said another veteran criminal investigator from the Qinghe Bureau. As an opposition party, he had also opposed the search and investigation centered on the reservoir several times.

This was a typical competition for the direction of criminal investigation. Liu Jinghui had already witnessed it once, and now he still couldn't make a judgment.

Both of them made sense, especially the veteran criminal investigator behind. His words sounded like he was arguing, but in reality, serial killers are just like that.

This is the same as doing business and starting a company. Everyone is taking very important things out to gamble, so there must have been a self-perceived complete investigation and research beforehand, and it was put into practice.

And the final result, some are related to strength, and some are related to luck.

A person uses wrong cognition to choose a wrong location and opens a wrong store, and as a result, he makes money due to various coincidences. Is it possible?

Very possible.

A perpetrator uses wrong cognition to choose a wrong body dumping location, and as a result, he is not discovered. Is it possible?

Still very possible.

At this time, the veteran criminal investigator added another sentence: "This reservoir is the main reservoir for the nearby residents' life, drinking, and irrigation. Many residents around are familiar with it, so it's not easy to investigate. Another thing is that everyone has lived here for generations and wouldn't throw corpses into their own wells. When we solve cases in the countryside, there is no reason for anyone to throw corpses into their own wells."

"1234 and 56 were discovered in two areas, which shows that the perpetrator chose two locations. Both locations were not discovered, and the second one was even more hidden than the first. This shows that it wasn't good luck, and it wasn't a dumping site found by accident," Captain Shi insisted on his point of view.

Liu Jinghui interjected, "56 were washed over, right? Have you asked that hydrological expert?"

Captain Shi said, "Asked. They weren't washed over. They were dumped in other places."

Liu Jinghui agreed, and without waiting for Captain Shi to show a happy expression, he added, "But it can't explain that the perpetrator is someone around the reservoir. The perpetrator should be familiar with the reservoir. We all agree on this. I think we should combine your ideas. The perpetrator is not someone around the reservoir, but he is familiar with the reservoir. There must be quite a few such people."

Captain Shi was silent for a moment. "That's too coincidental."

The veteran criminal investigator was also silent, obviously not agreeing with Liu Jinghui's conclusion. Moreover, from his perspective, there was no way to investigate. You couldn't ask one person after another: Are you familiar with the Baichuan Reservoir in Qinghe?

Liu Jinghui sighed secretly. In fact, the problem with deduction is just like this. Everyone can make deductions based on some facts, but in the process of deduction, it is not the most probable event that is the truth.

At this time, more evidence is needed to assist.

Or, change a direction of thinking to see if the two can have an intersection.

"Transportation, how is the investigation?" Liu Jinghui asked.

"The reservoir's own cars, the staff's cars, the cars that often deliver goods, we have all checked." This time it was Captain Chen who spoke.

"The tire tracks by the reservoir, the parking position, can you find them?" This was the idea Liu Jinghui proposed last time. The perpetrator came to the reservoir to abandon corpses many times and should have a fixed route and parking point.

It's like a family going out camping. Anyone with a bit of planning will consider the route and parking space.

Someone going out to abandon a corpse should have more planning than someone going out with their family. Otherwise, if you park randomly on the side of the road, you might have passersby who want to help you, or worse, traffic police or reservoir staff coming directly.

Captain Chen was tanned dark. He said "En" and said, "There are parking places all along that side. The plots are scattered, some planting corn, some planting sunflowers, some reeds, and some trees. In some places, when the water is dry, off-road vehicles can press on the reed land to go in, and there are people who come to play."

"This group of people playing off-road vehicles?"

"Asked, doesn't look like it. They are basically from outside, from the provincial capital, etc., and shouldn't be familiar with the water situation. Moreover, ordinary people come a few times and then change places to play. It's rare for them to come continuously for three or four years. It's rare for them to have come here 8 years ago and still come three years ago." Captain Chen's train of thought was still very clear, immediately clearing out the off-road clan.

"Consider it from the life trajectory of the victims? No. 1 was on a business trip. The route she took to Qinghe City should be traceable, right? No. 5 was a student. Where is the intersection of the two?" Liu Jinghui continued to ask.

"It's just our Qinghe."

"What is the specific route?"

"It's not clear now."

"What about No. 3? Can't you filter out the source of the corpse?"

"Only after filtering will we know. There are really many jobs that require squatting all day and night..."

The truth cannot jump out by itself. Now it belongs to the task force's brainstorming time.

In another way of saying it, it is in the process of aimlessly looking for the thread.

Jiang Yuan walked back and forth between No. 2 and No. 4 for a long time.

A total of 6 corpses, No. 1 and No. 5 can be considered to have found the source of the corpse. Although No. 3 has not been determined, there is always a direction to look for.

Among the remaining 246, No. 6 only has the skeleton of the upper body and was done by the perpetrator in the later stage, lacking available clues.

No. 2 and No. 4 are really lacking in traces on the bones.

If you want to talk about it, both of them should have taken X-rays.

Because No. 2's humerus was fractured, and No. 4 had dental correction, both of these must have been X-rayed.

Theoretically, Jiang Yuan can take another X-ray of the skeleton and then compare it with the X-rays kept in the hospital to judge the identity of the deceased.

However, there is a very troublesome point here: asking the hospital for X-rays in batches is very difficult. Taking them back is even more impossible.

It would be fine if it was determined which hospital it was, but given the domestic environment, it is also very reasonable for people in Qinghe City to run to Changyang City for medical treatment.

What if you encounter another one like No. 1, who is directly a business trip or wandering type of victim, and what if it is from another province, how can you match it?

Fortunately, humerus fracture and dental correction, both tend to be treated locally.

Dental correction requires many times over the years. Treatment in other places is heavy and troublesome.

Humerus fracture is an acute illness. Most people who break their arms will definitely seek medical treatment nearby—it's just afraid that he broke it in another place...

After repeated verification, without other identification points, Jiang Yuan still found Wang Chuan for this.

Wang Chuan could actually see these two identification points, but similar to Jiang Yuan's concerns, it was hard to say whether the hospital could produce the X-rays of the No. 4 corpse's teeth, and she couldn't do the humerus fracture either.

"No other way?" Wang Chuan saw that Jiang Yuan had proposed it, so she didn't hold any fluke.

Jiang Yuan nodded and said, "This is all I can think of."

"Can you finish reviewing the X-rays of the humerus? I can do the teeth, but I can't do the humerus."

"Yes." Jiang Yuan could only persist! ===== CHAPTER 195 =====