The murderer not only thought carefully throughout the whole process, but also designed it cleverly. He acted calmly and calmly. After the patrol found the abandoned body, he could come back to collect it and continue with the original plan. Even when he fled in a hurry, he did not forget to use the special design of the back door of Zhenbo Garden to relock the back door. The audacity of this person is evident.
Judging from the way he hid the body and disguised Wang Xiuzhu's suicide, this person was very familiar with the traditional yamen's case-handling ideas and methods. Either he is an old Jianghu with numerous criminal records, or he was once a slave hunter in the public sect.
Judging from the fact that the murderer did not touch Widow Wang's house, he did not kill for money. A habitual gangster who kills for money would not deliberately dispose of the body. He used various methods to cover up the case.
The murderer was familiar with the route and the Shanshan Guild Hall. He should be a local or have lived in Guangzhou for a long time.
Based on the various clues they collected, the criminal police roughly sketched out the image of the murderer: a young man, aged between 25 and 30 years old, with no beard, a gentle appearance, and probably a scholar based on his behavior. The height is between 160 and 165 cm, and the foot length is about 24 cm. He is agile and may have martial arts skills. If you can speak Guangzhou Mandarin and are familiar with local conditions, you are likely to live in Guangzhou.
With this image alone, naturally he cannot be wanted and arrested. The detectives still need more clues. At this time, the autopsy report was sent.
The forensic doctors from one prefecture and two counties in Guangzhou have been retained. Although their skills are crude and even have many errors, they are still the accumulation of hundreds of years of experience. Until they can train their own forensic doctors, they can only rely on these people for the time being.
Wu Zuo not only belongs to the untouchables of Zaoli, but also because of his work relationship, everyone avoids him. Therefore, it is basically passed down from generation to generation within the family, and there is accumulation of experience. When it comes to theory, he basically relies on a book "The Collection of Abandoned Wrongs" . Naturally, it cannot meet the needs of criminal investigation work. In particular, the inability to dissect corpses greatly reduces the effectiveness of autopsy examinations. For this reason, Liu Sanquan had to be asked to act as a forensic doctor to perform the knife.
The autopsy report sent now is such a mixed report that has been double-checked. The conclusion was that the deceased was a middle-aged man. There were no clothes left on the body. He was about forty to fifty years old. He was short and fat, with delicate skin on his hands and feet. He lived a prosperous life and was not from the working class. The most surprising thing is that the genitals of the deceased were all cut off in a clean and neat manner - the report stated that they were cut off after death.
Wu Xiang was shocked when he saw this. The deceased had his genitals cut off - what a grudge! Looking further down, the cause of death was beheading. However, the autopsy results revealed that there was a large amount of alcohol remaining in his stomach. Considering that there were no external injuries on the body, it was likely that he had been drunk and killed.
"I think this is undoubtedly a case of fraud." Gao Chongjiu went to track down Danhu's boat but found nothing. He rushed back to the station when he was notified that the body had been found.
The murderer cut off the victim's head and then cut off his genitals - if the deceased was a child, it was possible that the flower-shooter had cut off the magic medicine, but the victim was a middle-aged man, and such behavior was not only involved in pornographic cases. There is no other reasonable explanation.
Wu Xiang and Li Zhenguo also agreed with him. The question was what kind of trick would it take to provoke the murderer to first behead and then castrate the deceased. Such a deep hatred would probably require killing the father, seizing the wife and exterminating the son. .
"Could it be Wang Xiuzhu's late husband's relatives who did it?" Li Zhenguo put forward his own opinion, "We can start from here..."
"Wang Xiuzhu would have been married off long ago if her late husband and relatives were still there. Even if she didn't want to, she would definitely not be allowed to live in this house."
The wife of a poor family is also property, not to mention that she was bought in the first place. Wang Xiuzhu's husband and child died. If her husband still had brothers in the clan, he would definitely marry her back to solve the bachelor problem. Even if you don't marry her, you can always get some money by selling or pawning her. As for this house, it was even more impossible to leave it to a helpless widow like her.
"So her deceased husband couldn't have brothers of the same race in the local area, otherwise she would be allowed to live freely on her own?" Gao Chongjiu said, "Besides, the relatives caught the adulterer for financial gain, and they would not kill the adulterer - and they were so cruel. "
Wu Xiang thought for a while and said, "One thing is for sure. The murderer is probably not Widow Wang's concubine, or rather, not the concubine who lives in her house."
The evidence is clear. The men's clothes found at Wang Xiuzhu's house did not match the suspect's body shape at all, but were similar to the victim's, indicating that these clothes belonged to the victim. In addition, undigested food from the victim's stomach was extracted after autopsy, many of which were related to the leftovers found at the scene. It shows that the victim had dinner at Wang Xiuzhu's house.
"Sister-in-law Liu said that the suspect came late and left early, which means that the suspect does not live in Widow Wang's house. The evidence from the scene also proves that he does not live in Wang Xiuzhu's house often. But the information provided by Lao Cui also shows that someone does live in her house - ―The victim must be the one who lives in Wang's house. However, the suspect is very familiar with Widow Wang, and it is true that he spent the night at her house. I think they are probably acquaintances or even familiar with each other. As for the relationship between the three, I think it is worth exploring. .”
"Could it be that 'one woman and two husbands' are causing jealousy?" Gao Chongjiu said.
"It's possible to be jealous. One woman and two husbands doesn't make sense." Wu Xiang said, "One woman and two husbands are the last resort of poor people who can't afford a wife. The victim and the suspect don't look like poor people. , we don’t have to make do with it like this. To say that Wang Xiuzhu has both sides, I think the possibility is very small. After all, she is an ordinary-looking woman, and she is not young, how can she have such great charm? "
Everyone thought Wu Xiang was right.
"Our top priority now is to find out who the victim is." Wu Xiang was unsure when he said this. His teacher, Chief Mu, said that the most fearful thing in murder detection work is to encounter the missing person found in the wild. The corpses are still in pieces, because it is difficult to identify such corpses.
In the old time and space, the police had a high chance of figuring out the specific identity of the unknown corpse with the help of a series of technological means such as household registration, missing persons database, fingerprint and DNA database, and facial reconstruction. But in the 17th century, there was nothing but the newly established household registration system. In this time and space, no one reports missing persons because the government does not care about missing persons. To find out how many people have disappeared recently, the only way is to mobilize Baojia forces to investigate one by one. Not to mention the heavy workload, it may not be possible to find out.
Wu Xiang didn't know about so many high technologies, but he knew that in the charity village set up by the police station outside the city alone, there were dozens of unknown corpses with suspicious causes of death waiting for identification.
Gao Chongjiu is a husband, so he naturally knows how difficult it is. He thought for a while and said: "I think we should start with the items that my concubine left at Widow Wang's place. Her dressing box came from Zizhenzhai, and the guy might remember who bought it. And the ring, left behind You can check all the clothes.”
Wu Xiang knew that this was the only way, and immediately agreed. Divide your efforts to check. Because the criminal police manpower was insufficient, Li Ziyu and Zhao Gui were temporarily transferred to "assist in the work."
Gao Chongjiu's job is to use his old connections in lower class society to investigate whether there are any young people who meet the characteristics of the suspect recently. If this person is indeed from "the world of martial arts", there is no way that there is no news about him among the city's foxes and social rats.
Generally, public detectives will have a group of so-called "eyes and ears", which in modern times are called "informants". Gao Chongjiu has been married for decades, and is sworn brother to the leader of Guandi Temple. He is a very important person in the gray world of Guangzhou City, and he has many eyes and ears under his command. He went to the teahouse where he often went and sat down. After a while, he connected with several important informants.
Based on his experience, a major case like what happened in Nanjianzi Lane would spread throughout the city within a few days, and there would be some useful information among the city's foxes and rats.
However, when he asked about the unsolved case in Nanjianzi Lane, these eyes and ears all said in unison that there was no news.
This unusual situation caught his attention. He then asked if he had heard anything about a young man like the suspect recently. The eyes and ears all said no in unison. Although a few of them said they would go back and inquire, Gao Chongjiu had a sharp eye and knew at a glance that they were dealing with him.
"Could it be that Boss Gao issued a gag order?" Gao Chongjiu muttered secretly. This is a rare occurrence. Although the Guandi Temple troops are powerful in Guangzhou city, they still adhere to the principle of "not fighting against power". Generally speaking, he does not engage in things that involve money and life. If there is a case that the officials want to investigate, they will try their best to cooperate. If an important person in the family is really involved, they will secretly "speak power" with the police and throw a few scapegoats out - ―In short, the policemen and the government can get along in terms of face.
Gao Chongjiu realized the complexity of the case - it seemed that the matter was not just a simple murder. He thought for a while and decided to use other forces to investigate secretly to see what Gao Tianshi was up to.
As for Li Ziyu and Zhao Gui, they were assigned the most boring and tedious job, physical evidence investigation.
The investigation is not difficult, the key is to be careful. After Li Ziyu was assigned the job, the first thing he did was to take the silver ingots he found from Widow Wang's house and go to the dumping shop to investigate.
Silver ingots are not actually the official currency of the Ming Dynasty, they are just a fait accompli recognized by the government. Therefore, although official silver ingots are of the best quality and heaviest weight, the government does not have a monopoly on casting rights. Any shop owner can melt and cast silver ingots himself. But this is a professional job after all, so most people still leave this job to dumping shops. (To be continued.)
