Chapter 13: The scene of the dismemberment

Although there was no body, after careful investigation, it was confirmed that this was a dismemberment site.

It was later proved that the blood on the ground came from the suspect Liu Ming.

The iron frame bed was left unoccupied for a long time, and dust fell. Three fingerprints were extracted from the iron railings on the upper railings, and there were traces of hanging on the iron railings. Baozhan pointed at the hanging marks and asked Su Mei to take a photo. He said: It was a canvas belt, and the hanging heavy object may be a human.

The bed railing on the lower bunk was stained with blood and there were clear knife marks. Baozhan said: This is a trace caused by cutting things with sharp tools, not a knife chop.

There was bone residue in the blood that had solidified into a jelly. Baozhang clamped it with tweezers and observed it with a magnifying glass. He said: What was cut was the human head, which was the thyroid cartilage in the Adam's apple of the human body... and hair, such as armpit hair, and the deceased's thighs or arms were also cut off.

There is a drag mark on the concrete floor in the house, which is formed when the sole edge of the shoe rubs against the ground.

The room was empty, with spoiled meals in the corner, and three empty Erguotou wine bottles.

Bao Zhan believed that the deceased should have been drunk at the time and was strangled to death and was dismembered.

A detective asked: Two bottles of Erguotou are so drunk that they are unconscious. Why do you think they are dismembered after death? Why aren't they being cut off when they are alive?

Bao Zhan said: If you cut a human head while you are alive, blood will splatter, and there will be no splattered blood in this room.

Based on various traces at the scene and clues obtained from visiting the surrounding residents, Baozhan restored the scene at that time.

There is an old brick building above the basement, which is the storage room used by residents to rent. There are many such simple residences in Yanjing. Liu Ming has lived here for more than three months. A few days ago, someone saw him selling all his things to an old man who collects waste. That night, Liu Ming and a strange man were drinking in the room and a child.

There is a girl living next to Liu Ming. She claims to be a special actor and has played a small role in several TV series. She said that Liu Ming is a lunatic and likes to talk to himself, and has mental problems.

Hualong asked: Have you seen that child? Whose family belongs to that child?

The girl said: Through the wall, I heard the child crying. I don’t know whose family it belongs to. I have never seen that man before.

The girl next door reported that Liu Ming usually had no friends and was alone, and the residents around him kept a distance from him. Liu Ming spoke quickly, his thinking was chaotic, and he was in a mess. No matter who said hello to him, he would sell his handmade collection of poems. Others were not interested. He said arrogantly: One day you will know that the great poet Liu Ming is the greatest person in the world you have ever seen in your life.

Liu Ming cherishes the opportunity to talk to others. This kind of opportunity is rare for him. He doesn't care whether others are willing to listen or not. The girl next door once chatted with him for a few words and felt that he had mental problems, so she never paid attention to him again. When Liu Ming saw the girl in the aisle in the basement, he would say in a pleading tone:

Give it again

I hadn't finished speaking last time, and I finally heard someone talked to me, so just let me finish it.

The girl treated him as air and turned a blind eye.

A few days ago, Liu Ming sold everything in the rental house. That night, the girl next door heard three people drinking and talking in Liu Ming's room. In addition to Liu Ming, there was a man and a child. Liu Ming was poor and usually drank cabbage soup, which he called "hero cabbage soup". That day, Liu Ming bought a few dishes, including shrimps with oil, bones, spicy rabbit heads, and braised pork trotters.

The girl was surprised and thought to herself, did this lunatic get rich?

Su Mei asked: How come you remember so clearly that you even know what dishes you bought.

The girl said: The room was not soundproof, I could hear him snoring, and they spoke loudly, and they persuaded each other to drink and eat food.

Su Mei asked again: What else did you hear at that time? What do you think is their relationship?

The girl said: I suspect they are homosexual, and the little kid was adopted and their son.

Su Mei said: Little sister, you have such a rich imagination.

The girl said: I am from chóngqìng. We are there, two people chew on the rabbit's head, which means that the two people want to kiss.

The noise next door made the girl very upset. She plugged her ears with cotton and fell asleep on the bed.

At around 11 o'clock in the evening, the girl was confused and heard the sound of cutting things from the next door. She took off the cotton in her ears and listened carefully, which looked like the sound of a knife cutting to an iron railing. Baozhan speculated that what the girl heard should be the sound of the murderer dismembering the body. The murderer strangled the boy to death and hung the drunk unconscious Liu Ming on the iron frame bed with a belt, then moved the body to the lower bunk with an iron railing. In order to avoid waking the neighbor, the murderer did not chop with a knife, but used a cutting method to dismember the body. He first cut off the head and then cut off the limbs.

The basement was stuffy and the door of the girl next door was closed and it was not locked. Some residents even slept with the door open.

The sound of cutting things stopped. The girl turned over and continued to sleep. She turned her back to the door and vaguely heard footsteps stopping in front of her door. After a while, the door slowly opened. In the darkness, the girl felt a figure walking in.

The girl was so scared that she covered her head with the bed sheet and tried her best to prevent herself from trembling.

The man stood in front of the bed and looked at her, holding something in his hand.

The girl continued to pretend to be asleep, and she was extremely frightened. The man stared at her motionlessly. After a while, she felt that the man turned around and walked out of the room and closed the door.

The next morning, the girl found dripping blood on the ground in front of the bed. She comforted herself, thinking that it might be her menstrual blood.

However, the girl vaguely had a terrible thought in her heart. The person quietly walked into her room at night, stood in front of the bed and looked at her, and the person holding a head might be!

Hualong asked: Then why didn't you report the case?

The girl said: My room

I didn't lose anything at once, what if it was my hallucination.

The special case team held a case analysis meeting. The only suspect Liu Ming was killed and dismembered. The focus of the next work should be to find the strange man who was drinking with Liu Ming. This person is a major suspect and must find out his identity as soon as possible. The boy's identity is unknown, which is also the main direction of investigation. In the aisle in the basement, the neighbors once saw the strange man and the child. According to the description, the child's age and clothes were consistent with the amber child corpse. Witnesses can't remember the appearance of the strange man, and the conditions for the police to portray the suspect were not mature.

Su Mei said: That strange man might be a performance artist, murdering people and making them into amber, and he was crazy about becoming famous.

Deputy Secretary Huang said: Through investigation, we know the mobile phone number Liu Ming used, and we should be able to find some clues.

Professor Liang said: Liu Ming sold his own things, and the old man who collected waste must also find them, and those things may be useful.

Hualong said: I was wondering whether the little boy was strangled to death by Liu Ming or that person?

Bao Zhan said: The motive for the crime is unknown. I, like Xiaomei, tend to think that Liu Ming and the little boy killed by the murderer.

Deputy Secretary Huang said: It may also be that Liu Ming strangled the boy to death, and the murderer killed him again.

Professor Liang said: If the murderer is a performance artist, the murderer will definitely appear in a few days, the annual art festival will open.

Bao Zhan said: He should have new works.

Deputy Secretary Huang said: Then let’s wait for him and wait for him.

The special case team once again visited residents around the basement rented by Liu Ming to find more insiders and witnesses.

There was a young man delivering express delivery living in the basement. Folded plastic foam bags were piled in the aisle. He told the police that someone had stole some foam bags and turned the piles up in a mess. Liu Ming usually rode a shabby bicycle to the overpass to set up a stall, sell his own poetry collection, and sometimes sells small accessories. The bicycle was usually parked in the aisle, but now it is gone.

Hualong said: We have now figured out how the murderer took away the corpse after he killed someone and dismembered him.

Su Mei said: I originally thought the murderer would stop a black car, but I didn't expect that the murderer was also very poor and might not have money to take a taxi.

Bao Zhan said: The murderer found a few plastic foam bags in the aisle, packed the body pieces, and then transported them away by bicycle.

Su Mei said: This poor poet.

You can imagine a picture like this:

He was hung on both sides of the back seat of the bicycle, with the torso on the left and the hands and feet on the right, both in the bubble paper that we often pinched when we were young. Two bags of the poet's flesh were half a foot away from the ground, and the rope was tied tightly. When the murderer leaned over to ride the bike, the poet's hands could also touch the short bamboo and bougainvillea on the side of the road.

His head was hung from the handlebar and looked ahead through the foam paper.
Chapter completed!