Chapter 240: Corpse Source

Windy day.

The wind blew along the tree-lined road of the funeral home, making a "rustling" sound, not disappearing all night.

Jiang Yuan and several other forensic experts remained in the autopsy room boiling bones, but when the wind was strong, they looked at each other without words.

Everyone was a bit tired, but there was no time to sleep. At this time, they didn't even have the energy to chat.

What was being boiled now was the fourth corpse, which was discovered and sent over at dusk.

And, similar to the second and third corpses, the fourth corpse was also packed in a gray travel bag, with a red and blue plaid snake-skin bag inside.

Moreover, the gray travel bag and the red and blue plaid snake-skin bag also had heat-scorched marks.

The scene investigation technicians thus obtained more evidence and stimulated Xu Taining to withdraw a large number of personnel from the Zifeng Mountain Coal Mine and send them to several townships in the north.

Finding Liu Jinghui was still the top priority and the most urgent matter, but in the absence of clues, solving serial homicide cases to find Liu Jinghui became more feasible and possible.

Xu Taining also couldn't manage what comments or sequelae there would be afterwards, and still gritted his teeth, sending the search team to do the investigation.

Jiang Yuan sat beside the third corpse source, brushing his mobile phone, and waiting for the pressure cooker to boil to the time.

Boiling a corpse required a higher degree of softness and rot than boiling meat at home. In kitchen terms, it had to be boiled into completely deboned meat.

However, most corpses that needed boiling had a certain degree of rot and deterioration, so the total boiling time might not be that long. It was just that some parts with too much meat required exceptionally long time.

Jiang Yuan's mobile phone had more than a dozen work groups.

Most were related to Zifeng Mountain, and there were also groups just added.

In the Zifeng Mountain group, teams were gathering everywhere, looking for vehicles, storing items, etc.

Opening up thousands of people in one go, and heading to different locations, the scheduling and support were very difficult. Even the gas in the local gas station was used up.

However, Xu Taining was most skilled at this. Although he wasn't familiar with the personnel under his command, and each unit was temporarily pieced together, he arranged them in an orderly manner. By five or six o'clock in the morning, each team had arrived.

【Now it has been eight days since Comrade Liu Jinghui went missing, there is no more time to delay, after each team arrives, please carry out work immediately, and be sure to be careful and attentive.】

Xu Taining gave orders to the captains of each team and @ everyone in the large group.

Jiang Yuan looked absent-mindedly. He could imagine that each team was knocking on doors one by one, being scolded while explaining, mixed with mutual scolding and reporting.

In fact, if it were just asking the families of the missing persons, the situation would be very different.

But whether it was small criminal police or senior police sergeants, everyone knew very well in their hearts that the victims' families wouldn't necessarily tell the truth either.

Asking neighbors, taking statements from the missing persons' friends, relatives, and colleagues, could both obtain relatively accurate information from the side and, to a certain extent, deter potential perjurers.

"Number four is almost boiled." The young forensic expert guarding the stove rang his alarm and reported busily.

"Then let's make a summary for number three, does anyone have any other thoughts?" Forensic expert Zhai shouted responsibly.

Different from the previous corpse examinations, forensic expert Zhai required collective action. He asked everyone to fully express their opinions, and for this, he required everyone to write a corpse examination report.

Corpse source one and corpse source two had already been handled, and corpse source three was this mode.

Jiang Yuan handed over his corpse examination conclusion without a word.

"Corpse source three, age 30. Female... height 163, cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, old fracture of the ankle (should have been treated)... eyelid has embedded thread... time of death, three years ago."

Forensic expert Zhai collected the conclusions of everyone and read them one by one.

Seeing Jiang Yuan's, forensic expert Zhai looked at it for a long time.

"Everyone has slight differences in the judgment of time of death, and there are also a bit in age, but others can basically maintain consistency, of course, more or less there are differences." Forensic expert Zhai summarized the points.

Everyone didn't speak and looked at Jiang Yuan silently.

Forensic expert Zhai not only had the identity of a provincial forensic expert, but his battle record over the years was also quite good. He belonged to the practical school of forensic experts who were relatively good at fighting.

And among the forensic experts on the scene, the relatively strong Wang Lan was the weakened version of the weakened version of forensic expert Zhai, and forensic expert Niu's strength wasn't high either.

Everyone was a grassroots forensic expert of normal level, occasionally making mistakes, occasionally performing beyond normal, and most of the time being diligent. Whether it was the judgment of time of death, the judgment of age, etc., they all gave as broad a conclusion as possible--

Whether a forensic expert was strong or not, you could have a basic judgment by looking at the final conclusion given.

The same time of death, Jiang Yuan directly gave a 30 years old, while some forensic experts, in order to avoid mistakes, would give 25-30 years old.

Of course, under normal circumstances, Jiang Yuan could also give a conclusion like 28-32 years old. This was the difference in the corpse's situation, but facing the same corpse, giving a narrower range was obviously a performance of confidence.

"Is the gap big? I mean in terms of time of death and age." Jiang Yuan asked.

"En, it's not big either. Everyone has some different thoughts." Forensic expert Zhai actually wasn't used to Jiang Yuan's confidence in work.

He was an old man, and he always prioritized caution in doing things; if the range could be given wider, he wouldn't give it narrower.

When he was young, everyone was confident daily and cautious in work.

It was just the opposite of Jiang Yuan's generation.

However, Jiang Yuan's conclusion was also within the range of forensic expert Zhai's own conclusion.

Forensic expert Zhai's gaze lingered on the time of death for a moment.

The time of death he gave was three to five years. He personally tended to choose four years.

Jiang Yuan gave three years... it wasn't wrong by much.

Forensic expert Zhai didn't say much more in the end, nodded, and said: "Then let's tidy up and start piecing together the fourth corpse."

Toot toot toot.

The pressure cooker released gas.

Everyone waited silently for the gas to run out, and began to take bones, peel meat, and arrange the corpse.

Jiang Yuan still looked at the bones piece by piece, and quickly reached a conclusion, writing it down himself:

Corpse source four, age 32-34. Female... height 160, cause of death, mechanical asphyxia... time of death, four years ago.

He determined what could be determined first, and then slowly analyzed the remaining bone fragments.

Other forensic experts also had similar operation modes.

Anthropology was a discipline of grinding work. For a corpse of that size, with more than two hundred pieces of bone, if one looked at it in a cursory way, one afternoon would be about enough.

But if one wanted to extract information from it, the difficulty was high.

One had to look at it bit by bit, bit by bit.

When Jiang Yuan did Wang Guoshan's reservoir corpse-disposal case, he was looking for details day and night.

But this case was different; various evidence provided quite a lot of information, and going over it shop by shop like last time, the efficiency was too low.

Comrade Liu Jinghui was afraid he couldn't hold on.

Jiang Yuan was thinking, when his mobile phone called out.

He looked at it with his elbow, and seeing it was Huang Qiangmin, Jiang Yuan immediately took off his gloves, rinsed them roughly with water, put on a glove again, and picked up the mobile phone.

"Team Huang, any news?" Jiang Yuan dialed back.

"En, the owner of the jewelry has been found." Huang Qiangmin's mood was heavy.

At this moment, Huang Qiangmin was standing in the victim's home.

This was a three-bedroom apartment, located in the core area of Fangjin Township, and outside the window was the only vegetable market in Fangjin Township.

The house was an early welfare house, decorated very leakily, and many places were pasted with newspapers.

The hostess lay on the hospital bed, looking at the police in the room with eager eyes.

The host sat by the wall smoking, and the photo of the missing daughter hung where the smoke rings circled.

"Do the jewelry match? Are there photos?" On the phone, Jiang Yuan asked a bit worriedly.

Because it was very cheap jewelry, its repetition rate might be relatively high, so it was best to have other corroboration.

Huang Qiangmin still said "En" and said: "Look at the photos on WeChat, there are photos."

"Wait a moment, I'll turn on the speakerphone." Jiang Yuan put down the mobile phone, opened the private chat on WeChat, and saw Huang Qiangmin send a string of photos over.

Most of the photos were re-photographed. In the photos, the girl's smile was sweet, her long black hair was draped down, and one could see the photos of the necklace and ring. Finally, there was a selfie, revealing the earrings on her ears.

Although it might still need more careful comparison later, just in terms of investigation procedures, it was very complete to this step.

Jiang Yuan looked back at the skeleton of the third corpse source; he had been sitting there for a long time.

However, the white bones and the sweet smile in the photo didn't match at all.

"How long has this girl been missing?" Forensic expert Zhai walked over and asked across the speakerphone.

"Who is this?" Huang Qiangmin asked first.

"Old Zhai, forensic expert Old Zhai."

"En. Forensic expert Zhai. The victim has been missing for 3 years and four months." Huang Qiangmin answered this time.

Forensic expert Zhai said "Oh" unexpectedly and couldn't help saying: "The time is a bit short."

"The temperature problem in the mine tunnel." Jiang Yuan replied casually, then picked up the mobile phone and asked: "Team Huang, do other teams have any gains?"

"Not yet, this wasn't found by us either, it was found by the city criminal police team." Huang Qiangmin explained to Jiang Yuan first, and then said: "We have already begun to search for local motorcycles." ===== CHAPTER 241 =====