Madness of the Heart

The detective broke in, and a cordon was quickly pulled up outside the express station.

Jiangbei No. 2 Village is densely populated. Many families living here are three generations under one roof. An old house of 70 or 80 square meters is usually crowded with five or six people. Although it was not the peak time for arrivals and departures, news spread quickly that something went wrong at the express station, and more and more people gathered outside the cordon.

The forensic doctor and trace examiner were still on their way. Ming Shu asked other police officers to stay outside to prevent the lively residents from destroying the scene. He put on shoe covers and latex gloves to enter alone, squatting down on the hills. Before courier.

Before the store door was opened, the entire express station was fully enclosed. Although the curtains were opened with a slit, the windows were closed. Now the air has not dispersed, and there is a very strong smell of blood and corpses around.

Even with multiple masks, the body odor cannot be isolated, so Ming Shu subconsciously pressed the mask down.

Huang Yan is both the head of the house and the owner of the express station. She is probably the one who was buried in the package at this time.

Ming Shu did not go to the parcel immediately, but found a computer for work.

The computer is turned off, and the startup response is a bit slow.

While waiting for the computer to turn on, Ming Shu looked at the camera hanging in the corner of the ceiling.

The camera did not work, I don't know who turned it off.

All express stations will be installed with surveillance. Computers and cameras may have been shut down by the murderer, and the videos stored in them may have been deleted, but the technical reconnaissance team has the ability to recover the deleted data.

After half a minute, the computer finished booting, and the desktop was a picture of a woman.

The woman's hair is cut very short, her facial features are not outstanding, and she looks a little bit mean. She is wearing a light yellow low-cut chiffon skirt with an angel tattoo on her chest showing more than half, with the white sand and turquoise sea in the background.

Mingshu found the folder where the surveillance video was stored and clicked to open it. The last video was saved at 19:21 pm on December 13th.

And it is December 16th.

Residents said that the express station did not open for two days. The murderer may have committed the crime on the night of the 13th and deleted the following video.

Ming Shu quickly pulled the video again, but found no abnormalities, and planned to go back and let Zhou Yuan or the branch's technical reconnaissance team perform data recovery on this computer.

After leaving the computer desk, Ming Shu walked towards the corpse.

The exposed feet did not wear shoes, only pure white socks. The socks were all stained with blood, and there were corpses under the calves with smear-like blood on them. Next to the corpse was a trail of blood stains, spreading all the way from another room.

Obviously, the victim was transferred here after his death.

The murderer deliberately threw the package on the shelf onto the victim.

But what is the meaning behind this behavior?

Ming Shu didn't move the package and corpse for a while, stood up, took two steps back, and looked up at the window with no tight curtains.

The package can cover the corpse, but the victim's calves and feet are exposed, so it can't cover the body at all. If the murderer wants to hide the corpse with a package, he should cover his legs and feet together, and draw the curtains tightly, not like it is now.

So if the purpose of dropping the package is not to hide the body, what is it?

Ming Shu walked along the trailing blood trail while thinking about it, observing the whole house.

As long as the houses in Jiangbei Second Village are on the first floor, they are all converted into shops, including fruit and vegetable shops, barber shops, canteens, pet beauty salons, massage shops, and there is more than one express station.

In addition to the living room, kitchen and bathroom, this house has a total of three bedrooms. The smallest one is Huang Yan's bedroom, and the other two plus the living room are all express goods and Internet celebrity snacks-now most express delivery stations They no longer only provide delivery services, but they do online celebrity snacks together. Residents will occasionally buy a bag of snacks when they come to get the express delivery.

It seems that the dead boss is someone who knows how to generate income.

The body was thrown between the two shelves in the living room, while the blood stains came from the largest room. Standing at the door of this room, Ming Shu noticed the splattered blood on the wall.

The appearance of this kind of blood stains is usually caused by a person's arteries being cut while alive. This can also explain why there is so much blood on the floor, and there are even blood footprints of the murderer.

The murderer didn't seem to clean up the scene after committing the crime, and didn't care about leaving footprints.

In this way, the murderer's anti-reconnaissance consciousness is not strong.

Ming Shu sighed, a trace of depression in his heart.

There was only one case not long ago, but now suddenly it has become two cases.

The identity of the "faceless female corpse" thrown in Fengshui Alley on Textile Fourth Road is difficult to determine. The police conducted routine investigations throughout the textile road, focusing on finding women who have disappeared recently. As a result, the identity of the "faceless female corpse" has not yet been determined, but another one has been found. A corpse.

Also a female.

The end of each year is the peak time for criminals to commit crimes, and it is also the busiest time for criminal police. It seems that all walks of life are rushing for performance, and criminals are not far behind.

Ming Shu glanced over the entire house, and when he returned to the living room, he saw Xiao Man squatting on the ground opening a survey box.

"There is a traffic jam on the road, coming late and late!" In the cold weather, Xing Mu actually ran profusely and coughed violently after saying a word.

"Have a cold?" Ming Shu asked.

"It's okay, I took medicine before going out." Xing Mu's voice was hoarse, very sick, but he refused to delay work because of illness, neatly put on his gear, waited for Xiao Man to take the photo, and quickly took the package from the body. Take it down.

Ming Shu stood aside, watching silently, and when the corpse was fully revealed, he whispered.

The victim's neck was bloody, blood vessels and trachea branched out from the flesh and blood, and it seemed that his head was about to fall from his neck.

This is probably a fatal injury, and the blood on the bedroom wall is bleeding out of the carotid artery.

But what is strange is that there are large small holes in the victim's chest, they are densely distributed, and the scalp is tingling at the first glance.

These small holes completely destroyed the victim's angel tattoo.

"What kind of injury is this?" Ming Shu asked.

Xing Mu was obviously taken aback, and shook his head: "Leader, wait a minute, I have to look again."

Mingshu had to take a step back.

The deceased was wearing a winter home nightdress, but the upper part of the nightdress was not buttoned up, and there was only a bra and a pair of underwear inside the nightdress.

The **** are well worn, the metal hooks of the bra have been loosened, and the shoulder straps are loosely hung on the shoulders.

The buttons of the nightdress were not unfastened naturally, but were torn apart violently. The buttons were scattered on the ground, and threads flew where the buttons were sewn.

"The deceased's neck was repeatedly cut with sharp weapons, and the trachea and arteries were ruptured." Xing Mu began to say the results of the preliminary autopsy. "From the wound, the sharp weapon used by the murderer was not sharp. The deceased's face was hit, and the bridge of the nose The fracture was a pre-mortem injury. There was a severe compression injury on the lower jaw. It was caused by pinching the fingers. The murderer may have controlled the deceased’s head with one hand and held a knife in the other after beating the deceased’s face. The deceased was still conscious and struggling. , Causing extensive damage to the neck."

Ming Shu said: "In other words, not only is the murder weapon not sharp, but the murderer is not skilled in cutting his throat."

Xing Mu nodded, "The murderer has cut several times, and the skin on the neck of the deceased is relatively complete. As for the time of death, the corpse stiffness has been completely relieved, the abdomen has begun to appear corrupt and swelling, the cornea is severely turbid, white spots appear, and the pupils are already Unrecognizable, it is winter, the temperature is low, and the indoor heating equipment is not working. I infer that the time of death was more than 4 o'clock, that is, at least two days ago."

Ming Shu still looked at the chest of the dead.

Compared with the valgus neck, the chest looks less terrifying, but it is more noticeable.

The murderer cut the victim’s neck in order to kill the victim. Why did the victim make so many small holes in the chest? What tools caused these small holes?

Did the murderer want to destroy the victim's angel tattoo?

"There is no life reaction to the chest injury. It is an additional injury after death." Xing Mu flipped the corpse, revealing a lot of blood on the floor. "The murderer cut the victim's neck and throat in the room inside, but these small holes were caused here."

There are at least hundreds of small holes, which seem messy, and many of them are stacked on top of each other, but if you look closely, you can find that some small holes that are not stacked are at the same distance from each other.

It is impossible for a needle to pierce such a small hole.

Xing Mu looked at it for a while, then stood up and looked down at the corpse from a height.

Ming Shu said: "Can I clean up these injuries now?"

Xing Mu nodded.

After cleaning, those small holes became clearer.

Ming Shu suddenly said, "Do you think they look like seals?"

The small holes seem to be a whole, spreading downward from the collarbone, but in fact they are all framed in a circular area with their own boundaries.

"The cross-section of the murder weapon is circular, about 5 cm in diameter. On this cross-section, there are countless small cones distributed at equal distances." Ming Shu took out the notebook he carried with him, opened a page and drew a sketch, "the murderer held it. The handle of the murder weapon pierced the chest of the dead like a stamp."

Xing Mu looked at the old-fashioned torch-like pillar on the notebook and frowned, "What kind of weapon is this?"

"The small cone on the cross section reminds me of the mouthparts of certain insects." Ming Shu said, "For example, a caterpillar."

Xing Mu shrank his neck, "Stop talking, there is a picture!"

"Brother Xing, are you afraid of caterpillars?" Xiao Man leaned over and gestured with the pen in his hand, "If I'm not mistaken, this is an ice crushing hammer, which can also crush fruits. It is very common in beverage shops. Drink shops Use it to smash large ice cubes, or crush fruits such as grapefruit and oranges. The diameter of 5 cm is not too big. The largest cross section I have seen has a diameter of more than 10 cm, and the smaller one is even 3 cm in diameter. No."

"Ice hammer in a drink shop." Xing Mu said: "There are not many people who have this thing."

Xiao Man shook his head, "Not much is not much. After all, most people don't have this stuff at home. But it's easy to get it. You can buy it anywhere in hardware stores, online stores, and supermarkets with complete goods."

Ming Shu said: "However, it is easier to find the source of this kind of thing than to find a common weapon. This can be an important clue."

Xing Mu was about to take the corpse back for an autopsy. Ming Shu asked Xiao Man, "How is your place?"

"This is equivalent to a shop. Outsiders can come in anywhere except the room where the deceased slept." Xiao Man said, "So there are many footprints on the ground, but there is only one type of blood footprint."

Ming Shu said: "The murderer's footprint."

"But when the murderer committed the crime, he was wearing the slippers of the deceased." Xiao Man pointed to the shoe rack in the corner. In addition to four pairs of ladies' shoes, there was a pair of cotton slippers on it. "The texture of the blood footprint is the same as that of the slippers. , And the pattern of the slippers that the deceased fell into is also consistent with the blood footprint."

"There are three pairs of slippers here. The deceased wore one pair by himself and gave the other pair to the murderer." Ming Shu said, "After the murderer killed her, did the murderer take away the **** slippers?"

Xiao Man nodded, "It can only be understood like this."

"The murderer is an acquaintance of the deceased." Ming Shu walked to the shoe rack. "Customers who come to take the courier will never change their shoes. If they are still doing business during the day, they don't need to change their shoes. The deceased wears a nightdress and pays it back. Killer slippers, the killer can only visit at night."

At this time, Fang Yuanhang called and said that Wang Hongying, the discoverer of the "faceless female corpse", provided a clue.

Beicheng branch, inquiry room.

When she saw the face of the corpse, Wang Hongying fainted. After waking up, she kept talking nonsense. After counseling by a psychologist, she finally calmed down.

After all, it was someone who had dealt with corpses for decades. Wang Hongying's psychological quality and acceptance were better than ordinary people. Not only did he tell the situation in detail several times, but also said: "That dead man, I look familiar."

The detective in charge of the questioning said: "Her face is gone, how do you see it familiar?"

Wang Hongying thought for a long time, "I always think where I saw her dress. It scared me to death at the time. The more I think about it, the more I feel that she should be the person I have seen."

Wang Hongying is engaged in funeral business, and he usually has a lot of contact with them, except for the family members of the deceased and the staff of the funeral home, they are colleagues.

"Where does Wang Hongying live?" Ming Shu asked.

Fang Yuanhang said: "On Guangdan Road, next to Textile Road. There is the famous ‘funker street’ in Beicheng District, where most residents do funeral business. Master, do you suspect that Wang Hongying has seen the victim there?"

The corpse-throwing scene was two stops away from Guangdan Road, and the investigation has not yet been paved to Guangdan Road.

Ming Shu said: "The deceased did not have a coat on his body. It was dressed indoors. Wang Hongying felt familiar. It is unlikely that he saw it outside. Part of the police force went to Guangdan Road to see if there were any women who had recently disappeared. They are still there. Don't let go of any possibility in the initial investigation stage."

After explaining to Fang Yuanhang, Ming Shu went outside the warning zone.

Xiang Tao and other detectives from the Beicheng Sub-bureau were asking the gathered residents about the situation, and Ming Shu could see that they were anxious.

The emergence of this case caught the police by surprise. To determine the identity of the "faceless female corpse" originally took a lot of manpower and time. Now that another corpse is found in the jurisdiction, this will inevitably split a part of the police force.

Although the two homicides occurred on Weaving Road in Beicheng District, and the victims were women in their thirties, there was no similarity in the methods of committing the crimes. One was hit by a blunt instrument on the head and then the body was thrown away, and the other was being beaten to the head by a blunt object. The trachea and carotid artery were severed with a sharp weapon. The murderer did not transfer the body and left a blood footprint at the scene of the crime.

Comparing the two, the murderer is not like the same person. The former only struck the victim twice on the head, the first time it was fatal, which was called neat, while the latter repeatedly cut the victim’s neck and acted procrastinately.

There is no reason and there is no need to investigate the case together. At present, the most appropriate way to deal with the case is to conduct separate investigations without interfering with each other.

but……

To say that the victim now has no resemblance to the "faceless corpse", it is not right.

Both of them had a strange point in their deaths-the 21 dog hairs in the mouth of "Faceless Woman Corpse", and the dense small holes in Huang Yan's chest.

Mingshu briefly discussed with Li Chicheng, the deputy captain of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Beicheng Branch, and decided to assign the "faceless female corpse" case to the serious case team, and the branch mainly investigated the current case.

Guangdan Road.

It was already late at night, but the wreaths and paper men placed by the street shops on the road were not taken back. There were constantly cars coming out of the lanes. The windows of these cars were all covered with a very dark film, let alone at night, but during the day. It is also difficult to see the inside of the car.

When Fang Yuanhang inquired, he realized that these were all vehicles for picking up the remains.

Nowadays, ordinary families do not use their own car to send the remains to cremation. This business is contracted by the funeral business. When the business is at its best in winter, a car can pull more than ten remains in one night. funeral parlor.

People who are not familiar with the funeral industry think it is extremely terrible to run with the body in the middle of the night, but for those who make a living, it is no different from any 9 to 5 work.

"I feel that this street is infiltrating." Fang Yuanhang was wearing less, was blown by the cold wind, and shivered in front of a paper man who was made very crudely, with a weird smile on his face. Yuanhang glanced at it and cursed "Sun".

During the rush hour, many people suspected that the police disturbed their business and were unwilling to speak. However, after asking questions along the way, some people still said that they seem to have not seen Meng Shan in Unit 6 recently.

Guangdan Road was not long, Meng Shan's home was in the innermost area, and the residents who provided the clues directly led Fang Yuanhang over.

Knock on the door, there is no movement inside.

But a house next door opened, and a middle-aged woman asked: "Are you looking for Meng Shan? Are you a policeman?"

"Have you seen her recently?" Fang Yuanhang asked.

The woman shook her head, "I heard her yelling in the house a few days ago, as if she was fighting, but then I didn't see her again. I went to knock on her door the next day, but no one agreed."

Fang Yuanhang asked: "Do you remember the specific day?"

The woman thought for a while, "Friday."

Friday is in line with the death time of the "faceless female corpse"!

Fang Yuanhang immediately reported the situation to Mingshu, and Mingshu rushed to the scene to unlock the lock immediately.

The moment the door was opened, a cold wind suddenly poured in from the window and opened the curtains. The formation was like someone turned out through the window.

Fang Yuanhang walked quickly to the window. The window showed no signs of being climbed. The street downstairs was empty, only a black cat rushed over.

The building opposite is sparsely lit, and it seems that there are not many people living.

The trace inspectors started to work, Ming Shu sniffed, "What smell is this?"

"Disinfectant water." Xiao Man said: "Someone has disinfected this house."

Fang Yuanhang said: "Is that to eliminate the traces?"

Xiao Man said: "You go out temporarily, I will do a blood stain test."

Mingshu arranged for his team members to learn about the situation of Meng's family nearby, and learned that Meng Shan's father was called Meng Yonghui. A few days ago, Meng Yonghui passed away. Meng Shan did not set up a mourning hall downstairs like most people, but put Meng Yonghui's body at home. After two nights, he took it to the "Xiyue" funeral home and burned it.

Since Meng Shan has no relatives, he can neither recognize the corpse nor do DNA comparisons. Whether the "faceless female corpse" is her or not, can only be determined after extracting the test materials from the room.

While being very busy here, a surprising news came from the sub-bureau-the surveillance in the express station did not capture the murderer.

Ming Shu asked: "Is it not photographed, or is it impossible to recover by technical means?"

"It was not taken." Xiang Tao said, "Huang Yan had turned off the camera before the murderer appeared."

"Huang Yan used to turn off the camera at night?"

"No, she would not turn off the camera even when she went out, only on the day of the incident."

Ming Shu was silent.

Under what circumstances would Huang Yan, a woman who runs a shop and lives alone, turn off her camera that she never turns off at night?

And it happened that she was killed that night?

"Huang Yan grew up in a single-parent family and separated from her mother many years ago. Her mother has now come to recognize the corpse, and has also done a DNA test." Xiang Tao said: "The interpersonal relationship investigation is still underway, Ming team, you Do you have any thoughts on Huang Yan's turning off the camera?"

"Someone asked her to do this, and she was willing to do it for this person." Ming Shu said: "But what kind of person Huang Yan is, I don't know now. Analyzing a person's behavior must be based on understanding this person. Basically. Has the forensic doctor performed an autopsy?"

Xiang Tao said: "It has been done, and it is consistent with the initial autopsy results of Teacher Xing. In addition, Huang Yan has not been violated."

Ming Shu thought for a while, "I suggest you sort out Huang Yan's social relationship first. Since she is willing to turn off the camera for this person, it means that this person is very important to her. They meet at night, and when they meet Huang Yan Yan is wearing a nightdress, and I suspect there is an emotional entanglement between them."

As the night got a little deeper, the traffic of the live broadcast platform "Mad Rabbit" was steadily increasing. Numerous game anchors, gourmet anchors, and beauty anchors went online one after another, starting a day's work.

In an anchor room called "Stubborn Bluegrass", although the live broadcast has not yet started, the fans have been chatting lively.

A piece of music sounded, and a coquettish face appeared on the screen.

"Lan Lan is here!"

The fans cheered.

"Good evening." The anchor gave a sweet smile, "Long time no see, do you miss me?"

The fans were chattering, and the anchor smiled while watching and replied: "I'm sorry, I've been too busy recently. Let me give you some benefits today. What do you want to see?"

"Just look at your face, you are so beautiful!"

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The anchor smiled softly, answered one by one, satisfied one by one, and yawned tiredly when it was broadcast in the early morning, and waved goodbye to the fans very sexy.

Not only the anchors and fans who have not gone to sleep in the early hours of the morning, but also the criminal police from the crime squad.

Xiao Man completed the comparison of the seized materials in Meng Shan's home, and his DNA was completely consistent with the "faceless female corpse".