Of course, for now, this is all just speculation.
Solving crimes in reality is not as legendary as in detective movies and TV series.
Your assumptions are often far from what actually happened.
Therefore, there are not many clues that can be drawn so far.
The task force could only know that the victim was a female, about 160cm tall, and probably no more than 50 years old.
As for whether she had given birth to a child, she still has to undergo an autopsy by a professional forensic doctor. Whether the results can be determined is unknown.
In addition, it is difficult to obtain accurate results through autopsy on the time and cause of death of the victim.
The only thing you can count on are those pebbles.
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Not long after, Ye Mo and other police officers handling the case, led by Zhao Jiaming, arrived at a beach four kilometers upstream of the river.
There is a bridge connecting the other side of the river above the river beach, which is about one hundred meters long by visual inspection.
Under the bridge is the river connecting the Peijiang River, which the locals call Wuhe River.
Sure enough, there are a lot of pebbles on both sides of the river here, and there are also many small stones the size of eggs.
"In the 1960s, this was a sand quarry. It was later forcibly removed for the sake of ecological environment, so a circuitous river beach was formed, causing stones from the upper reaches to wash down and be deposited here. Over time, there were more cobbles." Captain Zhao Jiaming explained. .
Looking at the river, which was neither very wide nor very deep, Ye Zhang Xiaofan took a closer look.
"The depth of the water here is estimated to be less than one meter, and the current is gentle. Normal people would not think of throwing the body here." Zhang Xiaofan said in confusion.
"You will know how deep the water here is when the gate is opened soon." Ye Mo said while looking at the traces of water receding on both sides of the bank.
At this time, it was approaching six o'clock, and the upstream gate was also ready to open.
In March and April, the fixed gate opening hours are from 6 pm to 9 pm.
This sluice is a water conservancy facility built by the Ninghai Municipal Government in 1987. Its main function is to regulate water flow, control water levels, protect river embankments, and prevent floods.
When the gate is not opened to release water, the water level is only more than one meter deep. After the gate is opened to release water, the water level can exceed five meters.
"According to the water level, the maximum depth should be five meters, so the location where the corpse should be dumped should be on this bridge." Lin Xuan analyzed.
"Let's do this, Team Lin, Team Ye, we will set up a task force here. You arrange the work, and we will investigate separately." Captain Zhao said.
"Okay!" Faced with Captain Zhao's request, Ye Mo nodded immediately.
Subsequently, Ye Mo set up a task force with all the police officers at the scene handling the case.
Ye Mo and Lin Xuan also officially became the main persons responsible for the 4.13 Zhaojiahe corpse dismemberment case.
The task force has a total of 14 people, including six people from the technical brigade and eight people from the Sifang County Public Security Bureau.
The deadline given by superiors to solve the case is one month.
It sounds like the time limit is completely enough for Ye Mo.
But his intuition told Ye Mo that this case was not that simple for him.
After the task force was established, the police handling the case immediately visited Jilong Town to investigate.
Ask the village committee cadres of each village in the town to cooperate and try their best to find the identity of the victim.
Ye Mo and Lin Xuan continued to stay in Sifang Bridge to investigate.
Soon, the upstream gate opened, the water flow began to accelerate, and the water level immediately rose.
Ye Mo looked at the time, it was now 18:57.
In a normal process, the murderer would have killed and dismembered the person and brought them here, then went to the river bank below to collect pebbles, put the pebbles into a snakeskin bag and filled it with body parts, tied the mouth of the bag tightly, and then removed it from the body. Throw it off the bridge.
This is a more logical inference.
Based on this inference, Ye Mo and Lin Xuan conducted surveys on both sides of the river.
Sure enough, the pebbles on the shore showed signs of being pried.
"The tool for collecting cobblestones should be a big shovel." Lin Xuan took photos and recorded them with her camera, then wrote to Ye Mo in her notebook.
"There are traces of shoveling, but there are no footprints." Ye Mo said. It was most likely that the murderer had specially cleaned it up.
"The murderer is more cautious in doing things. It seems that this is another case of planned and premeditated murder and dismemberment," Lin Xuan said.
"The murderer put the pebbles into a snakeskin bag, dragged it to the bridge, and then came back and used a shovel to remove all the footprints. This means that the murderer was very calm at the time and was not worried about being discovered," Ye Mo said.
"You mean, the murderer is very familiar with the environment here?" Lin Xuan asked.
"No, the murderer is not only unfamiliar with the environment, he may even be an outsider." Ye Mo said.
"What do you say?" Lin Xuan asked.
"First of all, the locals know the time when the sluice is opened and the water is released. They also know that many places in the lower reaches of the river are relatively shallow. If the body is dumped from here, the body will definitely be stranded and discovered after the sluice is closed." Ye Mo said.
"It means that the murderer thought that the river was usually this deep and the water flow was so fast?" Lin Xuan suddenly realized.
"That's right. If you were a local, you would never choose this place as a dumping point. You might as well run ten kilometers more to other sections of the Peijiang River." Ye Mo said.
"If the murderer is from outside the country, then the victim may also be from outside the country." Lin Xuan suddenly realized the seriousness of the problem. If the victim is a foreigner, then this case will be the same as the previous case, which will be troublesome to investigate.
"So, this time I didn't give myself a military order to solve the case in ten days. My intuition told me that this case is a bit troublesome." Ye Mo frowned.
"Don't put too much pressure on yourself, just do our best," Lin Xuan said.
"I'm not under much pressure, but this is a place planned by the Planning Bureau, which involves many complicated issues. If the case is not solved quickly, it will be very troublesome." Ye Mo said.
"There is nothing we can do about it. Solving crimes sometimes depends on luck." Lin Xuan said.
Just like the previous case, luck accounted for 70% of the reason why it was solved so quickly.
If Ye Mo and Lin Xuan hadn't discovered the severed head, they would have investigated based on the clue that the victim had undergone tonsillectomy surgery.
It is estimated that the case has not been solved yet.
Luck and strength are both important in solving crimes.
"Since the murderer is not familiar with this place, why can he be so calm?" Lin Xuan asked again.
"I guess he should have a car, and the bag containing the body is in the car, so even if someone sees him digging cobblestones, there will be no suspicion. At most, after the cobblestones are dug, the body can be dumped in another place." Ye Mo said.
"But after digging, no one else found it, so he simply poured the pebbles into the bag containing the body, sealed it and threw it off the bridge." Lin Xuan said.
"I took a look just now. There are many tire marks on the bridge, which proves that other cars usually pass by, so the murderer's tire marks have been covered long ago. Therefore, we don't know the width and texture of the car the murderer drove, or the width and pattern of the tires. "Ye Mo said.
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