Chapter 21: This Hair

Following the trace evidence team to the scene, Criminal Investigation Brigade Captain Huang Qiangmin, Deputy Bureau Chief Zhang Tao, and Bureau Chief Director Guan Xi also arrived one after another.

These three carriages usually don't appear much, especially the Bureau Chief. Don't look at him working in the office building daily; ordinary police officers basically have no chance to talk to him. Except for homicide cases.

For a county bureau, a homicide case is almost the most important case.

For other cases, the Bureau Chief can not appear, and doesn't even need to sit in the office to listen to reports, but once a homicide case occurs, the Bureau Chief must not only appear at the scene but also sign the scene investigation report.

For this reason, he has to understand the case whether he wants to or not.

However, Ningtai County used to have only one or two homicide cases a year. Now that two have occurred in succession, the Bureau Chief's brow furrowed even deeper.

"What is the situation now?" The Bureau Chief asked Huang Qiangmin next to him while putting on his gear.

As the Criminal Investigation Brigade Captain, his daily work is far more management than business, but for homicide cases, the designated scene commander is him.

And the first one to be pressured is undoubtedly the Criminal Investigation Brigade Captain.

Huang Qiangmin didn't hesitate and said, "The victim, Xue Ming, 36 years old this year, is a supervisor at a logistics company. Currently single, the house where the case occurred belongs to the victim's parents... Around 23:00 at night, his sister came home from work, stopped by his house to pick up a package stored there, and discovered the corpse. She called 110 to report the case. After the police from the Second Squadron arrived at the scene, they found traces of the crime scene being cleaned, the wardrobe had been rummaged through, and the victim's phone had also been taken. But judging from the property left at the scene, we believe we can rule out burglary or robbery; it should be a crime committed by an acquaintance..."

He spoke quite detailedly and directly stated his guess. This is Huang Qiangmin's habit. The Bureau Chief and Deputy Bureau Chief have both left the front line; being vague is more likely to cause leaders to misjudge.

Bureau Chief Director Guan Xi just nodded, dressed neatly, and walked into the room first.

After observing briefly, Bureau Chief Director Guan Xi came to the corpse and asked Wu Jun, "Old Wu, how is it? Tell me about it."

Unlike police officers in other technical positions who come and go, Wu Jun has been a forensic doctor for nearly 30 years, and leaders from top to bottom are all familiar faces.

And in homicide cases, the importance of a forensic doctor is also beyond doubt.

Wu Jun was prepared. After a brief contemplation, he said, "The deceased was stabbed in the chest, the large blood vessels in front of the chest ruptured, and he died of blood loss. The blood loss was very large. I specifically looked at the bathroom; there were traces of bathing, but it was rinsed with a large amount of cleaning liquid..."

The Bureau Chief nodded while listening. After Wu Jun finished reporting, he ordered, "Be sure to extract samples as meticulously as possible. If necessary, expand the scope of the investigation..."

After speaking for a while, Bureau Chief Director Guan Xi looked at Huang Qiangmin again and said, "The bureau will do the logistics for you; don't have any misgivings..."

After the Bureau Chief finished speaking, the Deputy Bureau Chief said, "The scene must be protected well. I see that the environment of the residential area here is relatively complex, so we must maintain the opportunity to re-examine the scene... The forensic side too, must re-examine the scene according to the initial investigation situation to check for omissions..."

Huang Qiangmin listened to the instructions of the Bureau Chief and Deputy Bureau Chief seriously, turned around, and began to give orders. He specifically gathered a team, combined with all members of the police dog squadron, to expand the scope and search for the murder weapon.

At the same time, police officers investigating the victim's social relations and police officers searching for video leads in the vicinity were also scattered.

Huang Qiangmin stiffened his face, straightened his waist, and kept communicating with each squadron.

In the eyes of ordinary people, solving a case seems to be a job full of intellectual competition, danger, and mystery. But in the eyes of criminal police, solving a case is more about burning funding and burning physical strength.

Those mysterious and tricky locked-room murder cases and notorious serial murder cases might be happening somewhere at some time, but for criminal police in small places, they also learn about this kind of case through movies and television.

For ordinary police officers, the most difficult homicide case is random killing. This kind of case with great contingency, if the criminal is lucky enough, there are indeed cases where no leads can be found and the case cannot be solved. But apart from this, whether most homicide cases can be solved is related to luck and resources.

And as for today's case, Huang Qiangmin only scanned the crime scene once. He didn't dare to say he had full confidence, but he felt grounded in his heart.

A crime committed by an acquaintance means digging from the victim's social relations, which has a high probability of digging up leads. Secondly, the corpse was discovered relatively early, only a few hours after the incident. Then digging from the surveillance in the surroundings also has a possibility of digging up leads. Thirdly, the victim's phone was lost, which could very well mean that the phone contained information unfavorable to the murderer. And based on Huang Qiangmin's experience, remotely accessing the victim's WeChat or text messages and other information is very likely to provide powerful leads...

Huang Qiangmin's train of thought for solving the case is extremely clear, but his sense of tension does not decrease because of this.

People who have been police officers for a long time know that solving a case is never the problem. The most difficult problem is always handling the case—finding the suspect, arresting and interrogating is just the most basic part. Fixing evidence and forming a complete chain of evidence is a more important and difficult part. Especially for homicide cases, there is no need to wait for the death penalty review step; the preceding second-instance and first-instance trials, and the preceding Procuratorate part, will all make demands with extremely harsh attitudes.

Precisely because of this, the first thing Huang Qiangmin arranged was to find the murder weapon.

In addition, luck is also something that cannot be explained clearly.

Those homicide cold cases, are you saying they are complex? Perhaps they are really complex, but to say they cannot be solved, it seems that is not the case.

And changing the angle to speak, are those solved homicide cases simple?

Huang Qiangmin commanded with stable and tense emotions.

As the Criminal Investigation Brigade Captain, he is responsible for hundreds or thousands of cases a year, but homicide cases still bring heavy pressure.

"This pubic hair is not the victim's." Jiang Yuan at this time took out a hair from the crotch of the deceased, and his voice also reached Huang Qiangmin's ears. ===== CHAPTER 22 =====