The murderer not only thought carefully throughout the whole process, but also designed cleverly. He acted calmly and calmly. After the patrol found the abandoned body, he could come back to collect it and continue the original plan; even when he fled in a hurry, he did not forget to use pillow waves.
The special design of the back door of the garden, and the back door was re-locked. The boldness of this person is evident.
Judging from the way he hid the body and disguised Wang Xiuzhu as a suicide, this person was very familiar with the traditional yamen's case handling methods. Either he was an old Jianghu with a lot of criminal records, or he was once a prisoner in the government.
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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 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, without a beard, with a gentle appearance, and probably a scholar based on his demeanor. He is 160 to 165 centimeters tall.
Between them, his feet are about 24 centimeters long. He is agile and may have martial arts skills. He can speak Guangzhou Mandarin and is familiar with the local situation. He probably lives in Guangzhou.
With this image alone, it was naturally impossible to arrest him. The criminal police still needed more clues. At this time, the autopsy report of the murderer was sent.
The forensic doctors from one prefecture and two counties in Guangzhou have been retained. Although their techniques 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, but also because of his work, 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 the corpse greatly reduces the effect of the autopsy. Therefore, Liu Sanquan had to be asked to act as a forensic doctor to perform the knife.
The autopsy report that has been sent now is such a mixed report that has been double-checked. The conclusion is that the deceased was a middle-aged man. There was no clothing left on the body. He was about forty to fifty years old. He was short and fat, and had delicate skin on his hands and feet.
, lived a prosperous life, and did not come from a working-class background. The most surprising thing was that the genitals of the deceased were 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's genitals had been 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 was killed after being drunk.
"I think this is undoubtedly a swindle case." 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 is what kind of trick is needed to provoke the murderer to first behead and then castrate the deceased. Such a deep hatred may require killing the father, seizing the wife and killing the son.
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"Could it be Wang Xiuzhu's deceased 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. If Wang Xiuzhu's man and child died, if her man still had brothers in the clan, he would definitely marry her back to solve the single problem. Even if he doesn't marry, she will
Either sell it or pawn it, and you can always get some money. As for this house, it is even more impossible to leave it to a helpless widow like her.
"So it is impossible for her late husband to 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.
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Wu Xiang thought for a while and said: "One thing is certain, the murderer is probably not Widow Wang's concubine, or rather, not the concubine who lives in her house."
The evidence is clear. The man's clothes found from Wang Xiuzhu's house did not match the suspect's body shape at all, but were similar to the victim, indicating that these clothes belonged to the victim. In addition, undigested food from the victim's stomach was extracted after autopsy, including
A variety of foods were related to the leftovers found at the scene, indicating 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. 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 lives in the Wang family. However, the suspect is very familiar with the 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.
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"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 investigation is to encounter the missing person found in the wild.
The corpses are all in pieces, because it is difficult to identify such corpses.
In the old days, the police had a high chance of figuring out the 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, facial reconstruction. But in the 17th century, in addition to the newly established household registration system,
, nothing. In this time and space, no one reports missing persons, because the Yamen does not care about missing cases. 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 huge workload, it is not necessarily
Can be found.
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 was a husband, so he naturally knew how difficult it was. He thought for a moment 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, the man said.
Maybe I remember who bought it. You can also check the ring and the clothes left behind."
Wu Xiang knew that this was the only way, and immediately agreed. They divided their work to investigate. Because the criminal police manpower was insufficient, Li Ziyu and Zhao Gui were also temporarily transferred to "assist in the work."
Gao Chongjiu's job is to use his old connections in the lower class society to investigate whether there are any young people who meet the characteristics of the suspects recently. If this person is indeed from a "jianghudao" background, there is no way that there is no information about him among the rats in the city.
The general public police officers will have a group of so-called "eyes and ears", which in modern times are called "informants". Gao Chongjiu has been a police officer for decades, and he and the leader of Guandi Temple are sworn brothers. In Guangzhou
He was a man of great status in the gray world of the city, and he had many eyes and ears under his command. He sat in a teahouse where he often went, and within a short time he connected with several of the main eyes and ears.
Based on his experience, a major case like the one that 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 abnormal situation caught his attention. He asked again if he had heard any news about a young man like the suspect recently. The eyes and ears again said no in unison. Although a few said they would go back and inquire about it, but
Gao Chongjiu has a sharp eye, and he can tell at a glance that they are dealing with him.
"Could it be that Boss Gao issued a gag order?" Gao Chongjiu muttered secretly. This is a rare thing. Although the Guandi Temple troops are powerful in Guangzhou, they still adhere to the principle of "not fighting against forces." Generally speaking,
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 in a few scapegoats -
In short, it makes both the police and the government look good.
Gao Chongjiu realized the complexity of the case - it seemed that the matter was not just a murder. He thought about it and decided to use other forces to investigate secretly to see what Gao Tianshi was doing.
What the hell.
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 found from Widow Wang's house and go to the dumping shop to investigate.
In fact, silver ingots are not the official currency of the Ming Dynasty, it is just a fait accompli recognized by the government. Therefore, although the official ingots have the best quality and the most weight, the official does not have a monopoly on the casting rights. Any individual shop owner can melt and cast silver ingots by himself. However, this
After all, it is a professional job, so most people still leave this job to dumping shops. (To be continued.)