The surrounding woods are very large, and so many people have just arrived and been active in the woods, so it is actually difficult to find clues. Xu Mingzhi didn't have much hope, he just wanted to try his luck.
However, he obviously had bad luck. He turned around and found nothing.
When we returned to the grave, the people from the forensics department finally arrived. Xu Mingzhi stood aside and waited for them to dig up the grave after completing the preliminary sampling of the periphery. While waiting, the phone rang, and it was He Yu.
"Boss, I found something about five hundred meters west of the path. However, I'm not entirely sure. I sent you a photo for you to take a look at."
After Xu Mingzhi hung up the phone, he opened WeChat. The signal in the mountains was not very good. Xu Mingzhi waited for a while before receiving two photos. One of them was two wheel marks. It must have been a few days, and there was grass on it again. stood up. The other one was a bit blurry, and you could vaguely make out a piece of rag, very small, hanging on a branch.
Xu Mingzhi decided to go over and take a look, so he asked a colleague from the forensics department to go with him and take a sample.
He Yu was waiting there. After a while, he saw two people coming over and hurriedly led him to check these two clues, which he was not sure yet whether they were clues or not.
Xu Mingzhi looked at the wheel marks on the ground. It looked like it was a motorcycle. The rags on the branches are very thin, and you can just barely make out the clothes that should have been plaid or striped. Judging from the height, they should be clothes.
"Have you looked around here?" Xu Mingzhi asked He Yu.
He Yu nodded: "I've looked at it and found nothing else."
Xu Mingzhi was worried and decided to take a look himself. He followed the direction of the tomb and searched all the way there. Just as He Yu said, he found nothing, not even a trace of his passage. In other words, if this person is the murderer, then he is very likely to carry the body back to the previous path, the forest he entered from that path, and the cemetery he went to. So why didn't he just stop on that trail? Is it because the entrance of the path is very close to the way they came in, so it is easy to be discovered?
This may not be a reason. However, Xu Mingzhi still felt that the distance of about five hundred meters was too far. If you just want to avoid being discovered easily, you can hardly see it if you walk about fifty meters to the edge. There is no need to walk so far.
As he pondered, he returned to the starting point. A colleague from the forensic department has completed the sampling. As he just inferred, the wheel prints are from a motorcycle. However, the specific model of motorcycle is not yet completely determined. However, judging from the tire size and texture, the preliminary inference is that it should be the most common That kind of Sanzu motorcycle. As for the scrap of fabric, it can only be determined that it is cotton clothing, but other than that, no other information can be determined. For more in-depth testing, we have to return to the unit.
At this time, the phone rang again. It was at the cemetery that they were preparing to dig a grave. They asked if they should wait for Xu Mingzhi to go over before opening the phone. Xu Mingzhi asked them to bring someone here to mark the place for isolation, and then he rushed over immediately with He Yu.
After they arrived, the people from the forensics department began to direct the police to dig the grave. While watching, Xu Mingzhi asked one of his colleagues in the forensics department: "Director Yuan, did you gain anything just now?"
Director Yuan nodded, then pointed to the soil on the grave, and said: "Looking at the color of the soil, plus the weather in the past few days, it can be initially inferred that the body was buried in these two days. In addition, I just took a brief look at the hand. The body should have been placed in the freezer before being brought here, so it may be a bit difficult to determine the exact time of death. Let me say hello to you in advance."
Xu Mingzhi nodded.
The body was not buried deeply, so the dogs smelled it and dug up the grave. As soon as they finished speaking, the body was dug out.
The body was curled up and stuffed into a sack only 70 to 80 centimeters long. The sacks were stained with blood, and some were even damp.
Several police officers worked together, and under the command of colleagues from the forensics department, they moved the entire sack out and placed it on a plastic sheet that had been laid out long ago.
A colleague from the forensics department went up to take samples. After finishing, he picked up the scissors and started to cut open the sack. Once the sack was cut open, the sight revealed made everyone present take a breath. They finally understood why there was so much blood on the sack. I saw that Qingbai's curled up body was covered with wounds that could be seen deep in the bones, especially the wound in the neck, which reached deep into the spine.
After a long silence, Director Yuan took a deep breath and said, "This is probably because he wanted to dismember the body but not into pieces."
Dismembering a body requires skill. Human bones are hard, and it is difficult to successfully dismember a body without the right tools and certain skills.
Xu Mingzhi has been a criminal police officer for seven years and has experienced many murder cases, but this is the first time he has seen a scene like this. After calming down his anger for a while, he asked Director Yuan: "Looking at the wounds, the murderer probably touched the body before putting it in the freezer, right?"
Director Yuan nodded, then stepped forward to start a preliminary autopsy.
After Xu Mingzhi watched for a while, he retreated to the grave and dug up the soil.
He Yu came over and asked, "Boss, what are you looking for?"
"Just look for it." Xu Mingzhi replied.
When He Yu heard this, he also took action. The two of them rummaged through the soil and found nothing useful. However, He Yu jumped in and dug out the cement coffin on the lower floor. This shocked He Yu. It was a serious offense, and he hurriedly bowed and apologized to others.
Cement coffins are very rare these days, but some old people believe in these things and will make such requests.
Xu Mingzhi asked He Yu to bury them quickly, then called the police on the side and asked, "Where are those villagers?"
"It's just outside the woods at the fork in the road." the policeman replied.
After hearing this, Xu Mingzhi said hello to Director Yuan and took He Yu out of the woods. When they arrived at the fork in the road that the police had mentioned, they found that only three of the dozen or so villagers had left, two of whom they had never seen before.
Xu Mingzhi frowned and asked the two policemen in charge of watching: "What's going on? Didn't you tell those people to stay for a while? Have you finished taking shoe samples?"
The policeman looked bitter: "As soon as they heard they wanted to take samples, they all ran away. We really couldn't stop them."
The oldest of the remaining villagers overheard the conversation between Xu Mingzhi and the police and helped to defend himself: "They are just afraid of getting into trouble, but I remember who they are, and I will take you to find them later." them."
Xu Mingzhi looked at him when he heard the sound. He was a lean man. He was a bit old, probably in his fifties or sixties. He probably had a tanned skin, but his eyes were bright because he had been doing farm work all year round. It was obvious that although this man was also He is somewhat old, has a good physical condition, and is in good spirits.
"Zhang Weishun?" Xu Mingzhi asked.
The man nodded, then pointed to the two people beside him: "Captain Xu, these two are my sons, one is Zhang Liangcheng and the other is Zhang Xueyi. They just came here and have never been inside."
Xu Mingzhi looked at the two people following his introduction. Zhang Liangcheng was wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and suit pants. He looked more mature, so he should be his elder brother.
"Hello Captain Xu, I have long admired you." Zhang Liangcheng stepped forward and extended his hand to shake Xu Mingzhi's hand, and at the same time said: "I am from the Xiacheng District Discipline Inspection Commission. We have met before, but you may not remember."
Xu Mingzhi really didn't remember, but Zhang Liangcheng turned out to be a member of the District Discipline Inspection Commission, which surprised him. People in government units are always more taboo about this kind of thing.
Xu Mingzhi shook his hand at him and said, "I just dug the mud, it's dirty."
Upon seeing this, Zhang Liangcheng took back his hand and asked Xu Mingzhi: "What's the situation inside now?"
Xu Mingzhi considered it for a moment and said: "Currently, my colleagues in the forensics department are still collecting evidence. It's hard to say what the specific situation is."
Zhang Liangcheng nodded when he heard this, and then said: "If there is anything that requires our cooperation, Captain Xu, just ask, and we will try our best to cooperate. There is one thing, the person buried in the grave is my mother. If you have finished collecting the evidence, can you Can’t we restore the tomb to its original state as soon as possible?”
"This is no problem. I will inform you after the forensics department confirms that the work is over. However, it is best to wait for a day or two, just in case." Xu Mingzhi said.
Zhang Liangcheng was a little confused about what Xu Mingzhi meant by just in case, but he didn't ask much.
Xu Mingzhi then asked Zhang Weishun: "Were you the first to discover the scene?"
Zhang Weishun shook his head: "No, he is from our village. He came here to chop bamboo in the morning, and his dog dug up the grave and kept barking at it. He felt strange, so he went over and took a closer look, only to find that there was something inside. Someone called me."
"My mother passed away ten years ago. When she went up the mountain, he helped carry the coffin, so he knew very well what was in the tomb." Zhang Liangcheng added helpfully from the side.
Xu Mingzhi glanced at He Yu and saw that he was taking notes with a pen. Then he looked at Zhang Weishun again and said, "Have you touched the scene since you arrived?"
Zhang Weishun shook his head: "As soon as I saw someone inside, I knew something was wrong. If I dared to move, I immediately called Liangcheng. He asked me to call the police, so I called the police."
"When did the person you just mentioned call you?" Xu Mingzhi asked again.
Zhang Weishun took out his cell phone and flipped through it, then handed it to Xu Mingzhi: "It's about eight o'clock in the morning."
After Xu Mingzhi took a look, he asked He Yu to write down the time. After he had memorized it, he told He Yu: "Follow Uncle Zhang to find this person, and then by the way, go find those who have been at the scene before and record a confession." After that, he said to Zhang Weishun: "Uncle Zhang, please help me with this matter."
Zhang Weishun was very cooperative and nodded hurriedly: "No trouble, no trouble, you're too polite." After that, he asked He Yu to follow him.
Zhang Xueyi, who had been silent until now, suddenly spoke and said, "Dad, let me go with you."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Weishun turned to look at Xu Mingzhi: "Captain Xu, can he come with us?"
Xu Mingzhi glanced at Zhang Xueyi. The father and son actually had similar facial features, but this Zhang Xueyi might be more like his mother, with a bit more softness between his eyebrows. Unlike Zhang Liangcheng's sophistication, he was full of youthfulness. With a bookish air.
"My brother has been a bit introverted since he was a child. He doesn't like to talk much, and he doesn't like crowded places." Zhang Liangcheng suddenly explained from the side, not knowing whether he was afraid that Xu Mingzhi would think too much or something.
Xu Mingzhi nodded and said yes.
Zhang Weishun smiled gratefully and led the two of them a short distance away. When he arrived, he drove a battery tricycle. Zhang Xueyi and He Yu got on his tricycle and quickly disappeared into the forest.
