Chapter 337: Expert Group

Dong Bing sent Jiang Yuan and the others to the municipal bureau's guesthouse, arranged the rooms, and immediately went to find the provincial expert Wu Xia.

Wu Xia was 50 years old, had a square face, and a somewhat dignified image. He was also a long-established fingerprint expert in Anping Province.

Dong Bing had dealt with Wu Xia before. She knocked on the door, didn't close it, and entered, saying: "Team Leader Wu, I have picked up the fingerprint expert and trace examination expert from Shannan Province."

"The one picked up is Jiang Yuan, right? Jiang Yuan from Ningtai County?" Wu Xia asked.

"Right, do you know him?"

"Don't know him. Haven't met him."

"Then I think you need to pay attention." Dong Bing curled her lips and said: "He has quite a big show. Young as he is, he brought seven or eight people over in one breath. It feels like he brought people over for a vacation. Listening to him talk, he doesn't seem to be too confident either..."

Wu Xia interrupted Dong Bing's words and said: "He solved more than 20 cold homicide cases this year."

Dong Bing was stunned: "What do you mean?"

Wu Xia looked at Dong Bing, smiled, and said: "It means he's a cow-person (awesome person). This Jiang Yuan participated in their provincial fingerprint battle. It took him a little over a month, and he matched more than 10 cold homicide cases."

Dong Bing was so stunned that she was a bit silly: "10 cold homicide cases? How is that possible? Did the fingerprint experts in their province not do anything before?"

"Look at what you're saying. Those are cold homicide cases. How could anyone match them and let them go?" Wu Xia's tone was slightly more stern, and then it softened again, saying: "Otherwise, why say one cannot underestimate the heroes of the world? You are looking at people being young. You calculate, how many homicide cases did your municipal criminal police detachment solve in a year? And how many cold homicide cases could it solve in a year?"

Dong Bing's expression stiffened. This couldn't be compared. Guqi City was not a very big city either. There were few current homicide cases, and there were not many cold cases. A criminal police detachment would solve three or four homicide cases from the beginning of the year to the end, and there was other work to do usually. And if counting cold homicide cases, there were even fewer. Most detachments didn't even get a turn for this kind of errand.

"Does that mean the person is quite powerful?" Dong Bing said in a low voice.

"Anyway, more powerful than me," Wu Xia said directly.

Dong Bing hurriedly smiled and said: "Then you are too modest..."

"Nothing modest. I heard that the ministry invited Jiang Yuan, so I immediately looked at the fingerprints he matched. Nothing to say... En, you can also take a look." Wu Xia said, opening the folder he had organized in the computer before.

Dong Bing had no choice but to go over and look, saying in her mouth: "I don't understand fingerprints either..."

"For this kind, you understand as soon as you look."

Dong Bing turned the laptop, and saw a black lump on the screen.

Dong Bing looked at Wu Xia uncomprehendingly.

"This is the fingerprint of one of the cases. Is it exaggerated or not?" Wu Xia said, shaking his head with emotion.

Dong Bing let out a "hiss": "If you didn't say this was a fingerprint, I would have thought it was pot bottom ash."

"About the same meaning, but he was just able to use image software like Photoshop to scrape this black pot bottom out." Wu Xia sighed twice, looked at the computer screen twice himself, and then shook his head, saying: "Actually, I didn't study it too carefully either. Nothing to study. This kind is just the ancestor rewarding food to eat. I can't learn it even if I want to, and I can't learn it."

"You are too modest..." Dong Bing hurriedly comforted him twice, but in terms of inner feelings, Dong Bing actually agreed with Wu Xia's words. A fingerprint expert who could even make this kind of black pot bottom, compared to a provincial expert with normal levels like Wu Xia, still had a huge difference.

"The experts invited by the ministry are not joking... By the way, is the conference room arranged? You ask Expert Jiang later if he has any special needs. I estimate that this level of fingerprint and trace examination expert still has requirements for the work environment. At least there must be a computer for image processing." Wu Xia was an insider. While speaking, he indirectly guided Dong Bing's work.

Dong Bing nodded repeatedly and hurriedly said: "Then I will go prepare things first. We might need to organize an expert discussion meeting tonight. At that time, we will update the latest news and progress. Remember to attend."

Even if it was very hard for experts to rush over from all over the place, in this kind of criminal case, it was impossible to get sufficient rest.

The timeliness requirement of criminal cases is too high. No matter how awesome an expert is, when facing the golden 24 hours, golden 72 hours, etc., they have to make concessions.

Jiang Yuan and the others basically only got twice the time to wash up and change clothes. After tidying up, they only rested for a while before being notified to head to the conference room.

Soon, the 5 experts coordinated by the ministry, as well as the 3 experts from Anping Province, were gathered together.

Gao Changjiang, the director of the Guqi Municipal Bureau, entered the conference room with a face as heavy as water.

"Expert Jiang has arrived?" Gao Changjiang recognized Jiang Yuan at a glance, or rather, discovered that there were a few more people.

"Yes, we just arrived." Jiang Yuan sat up straight.

Gao Changjiang let out an "En" and said: "Then familiarize yourself with the situation as soon as possible and keep up with the progress. That, has Professor Shi Hao arrived?"

Jiang Yuan raised his eyebrows. Shi Hao was a famous trace expert in the country, and he had heard the name too.

Dong Bing stood up and said: "Professor Shi Hao's case has not ended yet, so he cannot arrive tonight."

"Then let's start the meeting first. I will report the situation first. According to our expanded investigation today, and the release and collection of news, the number of missing children has increased to 4. In just half a month, 4 children were abducted. The case is so vicious, it is shocking!" Gao Changjiang first commented, then looked at both sides, and added: "For the existing clues, after a day of tracking and following up today, there is not a single one that can continue to advance the case. I am now considering whether it is necessary to re-examine various evidence..."

When Jiang Yuan was on the plane, he had looked at some case materials, and just now he flipped through today's progress, so it was easy to understand Gao Changjiang's words.

No clues is the current progress.

Disappearance cases are originally extremely difficult cases to solve.

It is not like a homicide case, which at least has a corpse as a clue for the police to track. In addition, there is often no strong causal relationship between the perpetrator of a disappearance case and the victim.

Especially in child disappearance cases, perpetrators usually abduct or loot for the purpose of trading, which is to say, the perpetrator commits crimes against unspecified people. He doesn't necessarily have to grab which child, but has a certain randomness in taking action. This disguisedly increases the difficulty of investigation.

Finally, perpetrators of disappearance cases often tend to be itinerant. Hitting one shot and changing a place is the most common. For case investigation, this adds another difficulty.

Therefore, police don't like doing disappearance cases. Not only are they worried that the missing person will run back by themselves, but the difficulty of the case itself is also very high.

On this point, disappearance cases and poisoning cases have something in common; they are very dependent on surveillance or eyewitnesses.

And this case happens to lack the support of these clues.

"The vegetable market in Er'ma Lane is currently the place where the most children have been lost. However, the investigation of hotels, restaurant service industries, and the rental market near Er'ma Lane has not yielded any clues."

"The good news is that there is currently no report of corpses."

"But there is also no news of child population trading."

"The search for transportation during the case, and the search for surveillance, have not found anything."

"We plan to start searching the Er'ma Lane area from tomorrow morning, and we have also dispatched police dogs."

Gao Changjiang's anxiety was overflowing. Just as he said, this case was too vicious, but the case had no progress at all.

As of now, he could not hold a press conference, but he had to report the situation to the leaders. And regarding the situation of the case, he could only be scolded when reporting.

Jiang Yuan slowly flipped through the case files.

The only disappearance case he had done was eventually transformed into the girl imprisonment case in Changyang City.

Although the case had been solved, looking back, Jiang Yuan could still recall the various difficulties encountered that day.

Speaking of which, that disappearance case at least had a bicycle for analysis. This time, the disappearance case in Guqi City had nothing left behind.

"Searching Er'ma Bridge might not be useful. The perpetrator is so painstaking in preparing, he shouldn't be stumped by the housing problem." An expert expressed an opinion: "Is it possible to keep Er'ma Bridge, select some personnel, and disguise them into the market..."

Gao Changjiang shook his head: "We have waited long enough. The perpetrator must already know that we have intervened. Now... it is time for open confrontation."

"Are these all the cases?" Jiang Yuan leaned forward and said: "Were there any similar cases before?"

"We checked the cases of the last two years, and there were no similar cases." Gao Changjiang shook his head slightly.

"Then from the traces at the scene, the perpetrator knows what he is doing. The traces left are very few. This is definitely not the work of a novice." Jiang Yuan raised a point lightly, which caused everyone to frown one after another. ===== CHAPTER 338 =====