Investigation work requires a lot of manpower.
The twelve men of the Sixth Brigade alone could not complete the task.
Yang Xiao hopes to get help from the detachment.
"No problem!" Wen Hongjun agreed readily, asked for some details of the case, and left in a hurry, assigning the task to the criminal investigation detachment.
It wasn't until early in the morning that Liang Zhijun, director of the technical center and municipal forensic expert, sent the autopsy report to Yang Xiao:
"The deceased woman was between 25 and 35 years old, about 1.6 meters tall, and had no history of breastfeeding... The head and limbs were cut off with a sharp weapon after death... The cause of death was homicide..."
"...Seven sharp injuries were found on the deceased's back, one of which stabbed the heart, causing massive hemorrhagic shock and death...The murder weapon was a sharp knife two centimeters wide with an edge on one side..."
"The deceased had obvious facial features, short hair, and a fleshy mole with a diameter of 0.5 centimeters on the left eyebrow and eyelid..."
Following the release of the autopsy report, a notice describing the characteristics of the deceased appeared on the streets of Mingzhou the next day.
The investigation of a case began in full swing.
As the work progressed, clues soon came to the office of the Sixth Brigade.
According to an old man who often exercises in Central Park, one morning after the National Day, I can’t remember the exact day, it was about five o’clock in the morning, and an electric tricycle appeared in the park.
It was still dark at that time, and the old man did not see clearly what was contained in the tricycle, but it was covered with a tarpaulin.
The tricycle saw someone in the park and stopped briefly by the lake for a few minutes before driving away.
At that time, the park had just opened, and there were not many people exercising in it, let alone anyone riding a tricycle in the early morning, so the old man had some impressions.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the police responsible for investigating in Central Park received another news. One of the cleaners found a pair of white high-heeled sandals while clearing away the trash can. Because he thought they looked good, he took them home.
This pair of shoes was sent to the Sixth Brigade and was now placed in front of Yang Xiao.
The cleaner recalled that the time when he picked up the shoes was after the National Day holiday.
As for the visits to surrounding communities, there has been no news about the police officers looking for missing persons. It seems that the unit searching for missing persons will be spread throughout the city, and even surrounding districts and counties, and all police stations will be notified to report missing women who match the characteristics of the source of the body.
The appearance of a man changed the case.
With the announcement of the search for the source of the corpse, people came to the Public Security Bureau one after another to report the situation. Tong Ran was arranged by Yang Xiao to the reception room, responsible for receiving the visiting people and recording the problems they reported.
From morning to afternoon, Tong Ran received seven or eight people and answered dozens of phone calls, but found no valuable clues.
Either the ages don't match, or the physical features are different.
Until five o'clock in the afternoon, when he was about to get off work, a man lingered at the entrance of the Municipal Public Security Bureau for a long time, and finally plucked up the courage to walk into the reception room.
Tong Ran received the man patiently. Seeing that he was very nervous, she poured a glass of warm water, put it on the table, pushed it in front of the visiting man, and said:
"Comrade, don't be nervous.
Take a sip of water first and speak slowly if you have anything to say. "
"Gudu...cough!" The man looked very young, only in his twenties. Sitting in the reception room, he looked very nervous. His legs kept shaking. He picked up the paper cup and took a sip of water. He choked. He kept coughing and took a long time to calm down. He stammered and said to Tong Ran:
"Officer, I-I suspect that the body found in Central Park is my sister!"
Tongran had heard this opening statement many times. She recorded the man's words on paper and asked:
"Comrade, what's your name?
Why do you suspect that your sister has been killed?
How long has she been missing? Can you tell me more about what she was wearing before she disappeared? "
"My, my name is Li Qiang, and my sister's name is Li Fang." A man named Li Qiang told Tong Ran about his sister's situation.
Li Fang, thirty-two years old.
There are two children in the family, the elder is eight years old and the younger is only three years old.
After the National Day, Li Fang told her family that she would go to Chengdu to look for her husband and send her children to her parents' home. She has been missing from the family ever since.
Li Qiang raised his hand, pointed to his left eye, below his eyebrows, and said:
“Officer, my sister has a mole under her eyebrow.
When she left home, she wore a black dress, a beige coat, and a pair of white high-heeled leather shoes... By the way, those pair of leather shoes were summer style, a bit like sandals. "
"What!"
Tong Ran stopped writing and raised his head to look at Li Qiang.
The pair of white high-heeled sandals the cleaner found in the trash bin were very similar to what Li Qiang described. This clue did not appear in the announcement of finding the source of the body!
"Please wait!" Tong Ran realized that the information provided by Li Qiang was very important, and immediately reported it to Yang Xiao.
Yang Xiao came to the reception room with a photo of white high heels for Li Qiang to identify. He only took one look and determined that the shoes in the photo were the shoes his sister wore on the day she left home.
To be cautious, Yang Xiao asked Tong Ran to go upstairs, take down the white high heels from the evidence bag, and let Li Qiang carefully identify them.
"Yes, these are my sister's shoes!"
Li Qiang pointed to a not-so-obvious scratch on the shoe and cried:
“This scratch was made by my little sister.
The elder sister even beat the younger sister for this.
I was right next to you at that time...woohoo! "
The deceased is suspected to be Li Qiang’s sister!
Yang Xiao immediately notified the technology center to collect biological specimens from Li Qiang and conduct DNA comparisons with the found remains to finally confirm the identity of the deceased.
Before the DNA identification results came out, Yang Xiao questioned Li Qiang and learned about the general situation before and after Li Fang's disappearance.
Li Fang, a native of Mingzhou City, is unemployed.
Ten years ago, she was introduced to Liu Zongbao, a young man from Guanghua City, Yuantai Province.
After marriage, the two had two daughters.
Three years ago, with the birth of his second daughter, his family's expenses increased. Liu Zongbao took out a loan to buy a truck and made money by running transportation.
On October 7, the last day of the seven-day National Day holiday, someone came to Li Fang's house and brought back a message to Li Fang, saying that Liu Zongbao had received a temporary business order and had to go to Chengdu and return home two days late.
After that, there was no news about Liu Zongbao.
Li Fang waited at home for three days. On the 10th, she took her two children to her parents' home, fostered the children in her parents' home, told her parents that she was going to Chengdu to find her husband, and left home that day.
On the 11th, Li Qiang talked to his sister on the phone and told her that her eldest daughter's school had notified parents to pay a student fee.
Li Fang told Li Qiang to ask her parents to advance the money first and then return the money to her parents when she comes back.
After that, no one answered the call.
The atmosphere in the reception room was somewhat solemn.
Wen Hongjun got the news and rushed over to listen to Yang Xiao's questioning of Li Qiang.
