Chapter 41: Missing Person Case

"326 missing person case... It's a case from three years ago." Wei Zhenguo's tone was slightly reminiscent, and he said slowly: "You know, there are certain requirements for filing a missing person case. So, when the case was transferred to me, there were actually many bad signs appearing."

Wei Zhenguo was obviously reviewing the case, and he paused slightly before continuing: "The victim, Ding Lan, was an accountant at the factory. On March 26th, she worked overtime until about 10 o'clock in the evening and left the factory to go home. She didn't go to work on time the next day, but her colleagues at the factory thought she was just late. It wasn't until the afternoon that they tried to contact her. Ding Lan lived alone, so it wasn't until the evening of the 27th that her family reported the case. It wasn't filed immediately at that time. Later, several people who spontaneously searched for Ding Lan found Ding Lan's bicycle behind the municipal flower bed seven or eight meters away from the driveway."

"This can be filed." Wu Jun interrupted.

"Right, the abandoned bicycle shows that there are hidden feelings in the disappearance." Wei Zhenguo sighed and said: "Later, our squadron did some search work and also took fingerprints from the bicycle, but there was no progress, and the case stalled there."

"Let me look at these fingerprints." Jiang Yuan had no other sharp criminal investigation means. Fingerprints are his sharpest weapon at present, sharper than the forensic doctor's own skills.

Wei Zhenguo asked him to look at this case, and it could only be because of this reason.

Opening the police comprehensive application platform, the fingerprints associated with the 326 missing person case were in a long row.

Among them, the most important were the fingerprints collected on the bicycle, totaling dozens of fingerprints, belonging to multiple people, located all over the handlebars, car body, and tires.

It can be said that the person who collected the fingerprints was also quite serious.

However, compared with the previous injury case, the fingerprints left on the cylindrical car body material were severely deformed and very difficult to match.

Coupled with the large number of fingerprints collected in Ding Lan's home, the number of fingerprints involved in the whole case was easily dozens.

Without a clear direction of investigation, the processing of these dozens of fingerprints was enough to make people drink a pot.

Wei Zhenguo obviously realized this point and could only explain: "Ding Lan's bicycle was often borrowed by people in the office to ride. Especially the cashier and another financial staff member often rode it. In addition, Ding Lan was relatively casual in making friends, and she had many relatives, friends, girlfriends, and boyfriends. We know that there were 4 ex-boyfriends living in this county..."

"Emotional entanglement?" Wu Jun guessed blindly. This case had no corpse and did not belong to a major special case. After two years, he had no impression at all.

Wei Zhenguo shook his head: "Her several ex-boyfriends all broke up peacefully and had no violent tendencies... To be honest, after we recorded the confession, the case stopped, and there were basically no follow-up resources. If it weren't for the fact that the bicycle was indeed suspicious, this case might not have reached me... But precisely because the abandoned bicycle was too suspicious, I have always remembered this case..."

Wu Jun listened and suddenly sighed: "In China, so-called perfect murder is actually fine as long as it is replaced by a missing person case. Just the time of filing can consume the golden 72 hours. Without a corpse, many pieces of evidence cannot be found. Moreover, there will not be so much manpower and material resources invested."

Wei Zhenguo nodded heavily and looked at Wu Jun: "You feel it too?"

Wu Jun said "En...", "It's impossible to throw the bicycle to the side of the road for no reason. However, there are other explanations. The key problem lies in... no corpse."

"Yeah." Wei Zhenguo sighed again.

Jiang Yuan understood and said in surprise: "Captain Wei thinks there is a homicide in this?"

Wei Zhenguo said: "It's a pity that feelings don't count."

Jiang Yuan was young after all, frowned and said: "No matter what, the person is really missing, so we have to find her back."

Wei Zhenguo smiled bitterly: "Missing person cases and homicide cases are too different."

Wu Jun also said on the side: "Missing persons have the problem of false disappearance. For example, eloping with a boyfriend, running away or escaping debt due to economic problems, or actively participating in pyramid schemes and strange religions, and then, like you young people say, go on a trip that says go, have a destined love..."

"En, our police force is limited, energy is limited, without certain evidence, it is impossible to actively turn a missing person case into a homicide case." Wei Zhenguo said.

Wei Zhenguo and Wu Jun said one sentence each, showing the situation to Jiang Yuan.

Jiang Yuan asked hesitantly: "What does certain evidence refer to?"

"Just a corpse." Wei Zhenguo said: "The tradition in China is to file a case when seeing a corpse. Without a corpse, it is impossible to throw hundreds of thousands or millions of funds into a case."

The high pressure of "homicide must be solved" is the original driving force for the police station to solve cases regardless of cost. However, being able to solve cases regardless of cost for homicides does not mean that the police station's funds are unlimited.

On the contrary, precisely because it is necessary to save funds to leave for major cases such as homicides, the funds for ordinary cases are even more stretched.

And before seeing a corpse, a missing person case is an ordinary case.

The resources it can get can only be the resources of ordinary cases.

"The victim's position is an accountant, is there any economic problem?" Wu Jun raised a new question.

Wei Zhenguo sighed: "Preliminary investigation shows no big problem, but there are some small problems such as extra reimbursement. In short, it is not too clean. But the factory side is not willing to investigate carefully, and we have no manpower to investigate."

"Like socializing, love to play, many ex-boyfriends, and not too cautious about money." Wu Jun shook his head: "This kind is really hard to turn into a homicide. Maybe one day she suddenly ran out and laughed and told you it was a joke."

"Three years, she didn't jump out." Wei Zhenguo's expression was much heavier.

"Then, what do I need to do now?" Jiang Yuan saw the air pressure low and stood out again.

Wei Zhenguo adjusted his emotions and pondered: "I'm considering it this way. When investigating the case before, our work focus was on acquaintances, considering acquaintance crime, and also considering problems such as emotional entanglement. In short, it was checked along interpersonal relationships. Now, the old road is put aside first, and the focus can be concentrated on this bicycle."

Specifically to solving the case, Wei Zhenguo's thinking became extremely agile, his eyebrows were deeply wrinkled, and he said: "The only flaw in this case is the bicycle. If it weren't for this bicycle lying in the flower bed, the missing person case might not have been filed. And to cover up this bicycle, it is actually very easy to do, ride it away or throw it on the side of the road, maybe it was ridden away by other passersby, even more untraceable."

Jiang Yuan nodded, this kind of case analysis was still very fresh for him, a forensic doctor who graduated from medical school.

"So, this bicycle represents that the case has a certain contingency, and there is a possibility of passionate crime. If a crime occurs, the bicycle has a high probability of leaving greater flaws, for example, the criminal suspect's fingerprints." Wei Zhenguo looked at Jiang Yuan and said: "To be honest, I had considered this three years ago, but matching fingerprints was more difficult than it is now..."

With Wei Zhenguo's description, a semi-transparent interface jumped out in front of Jiang Yuan.

Task: Full Territory Matching

Task content: Wei Zhenguo believes that the clues to the 326 Ding Lan missing person case may exist in the fingerprints on the bicycle. Please match the fingerprints collected on the bicycle and try to solve the case.

The corners of Jiang Yuan's eyes jumped.

Good guy, matching all the fingerprints on the bicycle, throwing away the seven or eight percent of fingerprints matched before, the rest are all difficult fingerprints—really only if a major criminal case is assumed to have occurred, will people have the patience to do them all. ===== CHAPTER 42 =====