Chapter 351: Blood Case

"Your Jiang Dui's reputation has recently reached us in Chiyong."

Yuan Ben accompanied Wang Chuanxing to handle the paperwork. With his help, whether it was going through procedures at the case-handling center or various detention processes, things were much more convenient.

Wang Chuanxing chatted along with a positive attitude, taking the opportunity to boast a bit: "Our Jiang Dui is truly amazing at handling cases. Take this counterfeit money case, for example; he basically looked at the notes and stated the printer model directly. I don't even ask why anymore."

"So it's true that he solved several cold cases in one go?" Yuan Ben asked.

"Definitely. He was originally a criminal police officer in Ningtai County. Now, Ningtai's homicides have been cleared up to before the year 2000, and there aren't many of the eight major cases left; most of what's left are fugitive cases." Wang Chuanxing felt that wasn't enough boasting, so he added, "I was originally from the Changyang City Criminal Police Detachment. It was Jiang Dui who came to Changyang to clear cold cases, and he cleared them so well that I became one of his people."

"Oh, right. You're from the Changyang City Criminal Police Detachment, and Jiang Yuan is from the Ningtai County Criminal Police Brigade. Now, you all listen to Jiang Yuan?" Yuan Ben reorganized his thoughts.

Wang Chuanxing gave an "en" and said, "That's right."

Yuan Ben sucked in a breath. This change in organizational relationship explained much more than solving three or five cases ever could.

Current cases, especially major and important ones, are often led by a bureau chief, with a bunch of subordinates solving them. In the end, it's very hard to see from an official report that a specific individual played a key role. Moreover, different provinces and cities have different habits and ways of doing things, so it cannot be generalized.

Only this organizational relationship, the management of superiors and subordinates, is a standard that applies across the entire country.

If one weren't outstanding to a certain level, and if one couldn't exert a massive influence, how could criminal police from a provincial capital be doing grunt work for police from a county?

Thinking this way, Yuan Ben's desire to verify things vanished entirely. He spoke directly: "It's a bit embarrassing to say, but actually, I've just encountered a case recently. Could I ask your Jiang Dui to help take a look and offer some ideas?"

He felt embarrassed to ask for Jiang Yuan to come over; naturally, he didn't have the qualifications for that. On the other hand, Yuan Ben wasn't the only one seeking help; he had sought help from many places in the last half-month, but it had never had any effect.

Wang Chuanxing felt embarrassed to refuse, so he thought and said, "I can help you pass on the message, but our Jiang Dui rarely works cases outside the province. Helping you look at the evidence should be possible..."

"That's fine, that's fine. Looking at the evidence is enough."

Upon hearing Yuan Ben's tone, Wang Chuanxing quickly followed up: "What kind of case is it?"

"An extermination case." Yuan Ben's voice was small.

Wang Chuanxing was stunned, his scalp tingling: "I haven't heard of it..."

"A small baby survived, lying in the blood of its parents for seven or eight hours. Sigh." Yuan Ben sighed and said, "So, strictly speaking, it's not an extermination, but all four adults in the family are dead. If there's no result in the next few days, you'll probably hear about it."

This meant the news was still under control. While surprised, Wang Chuanxing nodded slowly, indicating he understood.

Yuan Ben glanced at Wang Chuanxing, knowing that this young man didn't truly understand. If it had been a more seasoned criminal police officer, encountering such a case, hearing the timing, and seeing Yuan Ben's level of anxiety, they would have guessed that the case might soon be subject to a time-limited investigation.

From the public's perspective, a time-limited investigation is a term that sounds cool and bold, but for criminal police, it's a deadly term.

At the very least, sleep is out of the question.

Secondly, once a time-limited investigation begins, the leader in charge of criminal investigation is very likely to visit the scene in person. They might not say anything, just sit in the office, giving you people, funds, and equipment. At this point, the most terrifying thing isn't the inability to solve the case, but having resources that no one knows how to use or having money that can't be spent.

Yuan Ben was currently in a state of having no ideas, and recalling similar situations he had encountered before, he felt a chill. Being watched by leaders while solving a case is truly easy to break under.

Yuan Ben struck while the iron was hot, organizing the case-related materials and giving a copy to Wang Chuanxing, saying:

"Please ask Jiang Yuan, Jiang Dui, to help us take a look."

This was equivalent to giving fingerprints to a fingerprint expert, or traces to a trace expert. There was no need to be truly familiar; having an opportunity to send it over, whatever information could be gained was a gain.

Wang Chuanxing had already agreed, so he didn't dawdle, made a phone call, and then did the scanning and photographing that needed to be done.

Ningtai County.

Jiang Yuan and Liu Jinghui were also looking for cases.

A team of over twenty people, purely criminal police, in the normal sequence of a police bureau, would be expected to solve over a hundred cases a year to be considered reasonable. Of course, if there were homicides among them, one would be worth fifty.

Unfortunately, Jiang Yuan solved cases a bit too quickly, and small cases weren't really suitable for his team. Wang Chuanxing's call came at just the right time.

Hearing it was an extermination case, Liu Jinghui was the first to be moved. After the call ended, he said: "There aren't many criminals who dare to do such a big case now. And it's a fresh case in Chiyong? It's worth going to take a look."

"Working a criminal case across provinces?" Jiang Yuan had been leading the team for a long time now and wasn't a novice. Criminal cases are purely expenditure-based cases, and the expenses for cross-province work are so high. This wasn't a simple question of whether they wanted to do it, but a question of the balance between income and expenditure.

Liu Jinghui said: "It's been over half a month since the case occurred, and they haven't solved it yet. They're probably going crazy. If we can solve the case for them, reimbursement of expenses shouldn't be a problem. Old Huang can negotiate that."

"What if we can't solve it? The other side will consider that, right?" Regarding solving cases, Jiang Yuan had a certain level of confidence, but he also knew he couldn't expect criminal police in another city thousands of miles away to trust him implicitly.

Liu Jinghui smiled, pointed to the case file that had just been faxed over, and said: "If we can find some useful clues, we should be able to prove something, right? Of course, if we can't find anything, we'll think of other ways."

"Good." This was originally what the Chiyong City criminal police team wanted. Jiang Yuan understood immediately. Anyway, the first step was to look at the case, and the specifics of how to proceed would be decided based on the case itself.

There was only one copy of the faxed case file. Liu Jinghui placed it between himself and Jiang Yuan, and the two read it shoulder-to-shoulder. However, they focused on different aspects, and soon they each divided a stack of inner pages and began reading.

Jiang Yuan first looked at the photos of the scene.

The crime scene was a well-decorated rural villa with a separate courtyard. The main gate was two meters high, thick and heavy, with bolts and a lock.

The four-story villa had another ordinary anti-theft door. From the living room inside, bloodstains began to appear.

First, there were some blood-stained white clothing fragments scattered on the ground, followed by a trail of bloody footprints, extending from light to dark into the elderly room on the first floor.

In that room, the male owner of the villa, Ma Zhongli, was lying on the bed, his back clothing torn, his mouth stuffed with fabric. At the same time, Ma Zhongli's hands were tied behind his back. The whole person was painful and twisted.

There was a clear fracture on the back of his head, likely caused by an object like a hammer. Jiang Yuan shifted his gaze slightly, his eyes landing on the bloodstains throughout the room.

Bloodstain analysis is a powerful weapon in such an environment.

In his mind, Jiang Yuan had already simulated Ma Zhongli going to open the door, then struggling with the perpetrator in the center of the room, subsequently being taken into the inner room, controlled, and finally killed.

Just from this, it could be seen that the perpetrator shouldn't have been alone.

There were at least two people, possibly even three, otherwise, it would have been impossible to completely suppress the homeowner, Ma Zhongli.

On the second floor, bloodstains were concentrated in one room. The homeowner's 10-year-old son was covered in blood, dead by the bed, collapsed on the floor.

The homeowner's mother, about 70 years old, was lying in a pool of blood, covering a small baby with half her body. Of course, the child could no longer be seen in the photo; the technician in charge of shooting could only note it with a pen.

Finally, there was the hostess in the master bedroom on the top floor, lying on the bed, hacked to death, blood soaking the mattress. "They went straight for the kill. This is a case committed by someone familiar," Liu Jinghui said, having finished reading. "Do you

think it was for money or for the person?" Jiang Yuan raised a key question.

Liu Jinghui thought for a moment and said: "They came for money, but were afraid of being recognized, or had already been recognized, so they had to go for the person too?"

"The family's network of relationships has basically been checked thoroughly, with no results." Jiang Yuan handed a piece of paper to Liu Jinghui, which was full of the police's judgments.

"What are your thoughts?" Liu Jinghui was slightly worried. For his logical warfare to make an appearance, the difficulty was still a bit high, but if Jiang Yuan's technical plan could achieve a breakthrough, the persuasiveness would be even stronger.

Liu Jinghui hoped that Jiang Yuan could at least provide some new ideas. He saw Jiang Yuan ponder for a few seconds and say:

"I think the time of death for the victims... should be 6:30 in the evening. I don't know if that counts as the local meal time." "The murder weapon was a hammer. It was caused by a direct blow to the back of the head."

"The male owner should have resisted. Judging from the defensive wounds on the back of his hands, one of the perpetrators might have been injured. Of course, it's also possible they have already recovered." ===== CHAPTER 352 =====