Chapter 59 Final Clue
After the clues were completely blocked, the members of the task force finally felt frustrated.
What is different from all the previous cases is that this time the murderer's method of handling the case is more mature than all the previous murderers. Even all the doubts in the case point to a completely unfounded clue, misleading everyone's attention.
This was exactly what Wang Zheng had guessed. When he looked back to find clues, they might have been cut off by the murderer.
What made the task force even more frustrated was that after nearly three days of investigation, they still knew nothing about the murderer.
Boom!
It suddenly started to rain heavily in the sky of Southwest City. Gu Xia and others in the special project office remained silent as they looked at the case board in front of them.
"This skinning case is more sophisticated than we thought." Gu Xia picked up the cup at hand , took a sip of the coffee that had been left overnight and began to taste bitter, and continued with a frown: "Why don't you analyze it, Doctor Hua, and see if we can make any breakthroughs."
Huamei shook her head and remained silent for a long time before she spoke: "From a psychological point of view, normal people will never solve a case on impulse. They will naturally carefully calculate all the details when they solve a case. If they do this, there will be loopholes in the case, but I don't see any loopholes in this case at all."
"Loophole?" Gu Xia put down the cup. After a moment of silence, he stretched out his hand to Hua Mei, motioning her to continue.
"It was actually an oversight in the operation." Huamei sighed and said, "From how to contact the deceased before the crime, to the means of transportation used to abandon the deceased after the crime, and even which route to take, it should have been carefully considered, but this is why there is a problem."
"What's the problem with this?" Gao Feng couldn't help but interrupt, "For example, if I kill someone and choose to dump the body, I will definitely find a way to stuff him into the car, and then I will drive to a deserted place and dump the body out. What's wrong with that?"
"Yes, you also know that you have to find a place where no one is." Huamei looked at Gao Feng and sneered, "But don't forget that the deceased Zhou Meiling was not dead when she was abandoned, and the place where her body was dumped was in the back street of a certain entertainment venue. But it just happened that a gang fight broke out that day, and the murderer was able to dump Zhou Meiling there openly ?"
"That was planned in advance." Gao Feng curled his lips.
"This is the loophole I mentioned that is difficult to analyze." Huamei pondered for a while and continued, "If this was the first time the murderer killed someone, he would have chosen to dispose of or bury the body like Gao Feng did. But what puzzles me most is that the deceased was not dead at the time, and the place where he was abandoned just happened to be the scene of a mass gathering that day. Isn't that equivalent to..."
"It's like telling us that I'm going to dump the body!" Gao Feng was startled and said quickly: "I understand what the problem is. The murderer did think of dumping the body in the wilderness, but for some reason he chose to dump the dead in a busy city, and the gathering happened by coincidence that day!"
"Too many coincidences are no longer coincidences." Gu Xia suddenly thought of something, picked up the photo with the tattoo of the deceased, and said, "I didn't realize it at first, but the tattoo of the deceased is very unusual. This may also be a clue. You should take a closer look."
As he spoke, Gu Xia handed the enlarged tattoo pattern in his hand to Gao Feng.
The general image of the pattern was as expected by everyone, a black cross, which almost indicated the religious belief of the deceased. But the strange thing was that a colorful snake was entangled on the cross, and its bloody mouth was wide open as if it wanted to swallow the cross into its belly.
"Strange, this snake looks familiar." When Gao Feng handed the photo to Huamei, her expression was suddenly somewhat surprised.
"Where have you seen him?" Gu Xia's eyes lit up and he asked quickly.
"I... can't remember, but I feel that it looks familiar." Huamei recalled for a while, shook her head helplessly, and said: "It's a pity, if Wang Zheng hadn't gone back to sleep, he would definitely have discovered something."
Gu Xia and the other man felt helpless when they heard Hua Mei's words. Indeed, after the clue from the tattoo shop was cut off, Wang Zheng seemed to have lost his soul and fell asleep in the office several times. Finally, after everyone discussed it, they let Wang Zheng go back to the school dormitory to rest, and continue the investigation after he recovered.
Therefore, a large part of the frustration felt by the task force members in the past few days actually came from Wang Zheng.
Just as he was thinking, the door next to him was pushed open. He looked up and saw that the person coming in was none other than Bai Ling, who had not appeared in the dissection room for several days.
"Xiao Bai Ling, are you okay?" Seeing Bai Ling's face turn pale, Hua Mei hurried forward to help her sit down, frowned and asked, "How many days have you not slept?"
"Ah? What day is it now?" Bai Ling asked. She seemed to have just come back to her senses from a trance.
"Don't tell me that you haven't slept or eaten anything in the past few days?" asked Huamei.
"Ah... Oh! These are all small matters. Oh, there is one more important thing I haven't mentioned. Where is my report?" Bai Ling said this and hurriedly started looking for it. It was not until Huamei, who was standing beside her, handed her the folder she had been holding that she calmed down and said, "I have carefully examined the body of the deceased these days and found something important!"
"Are there different substances on the body of the deceased?" Gao Feng asked quickly.
"Yes!" Bai Ling swallowed her saliva and said, "After cleaning the exposed bones and flesh of the deceased, I found some weed-like substances on the deceased's body. Excluding the same type of weeds that were found at the scene where the body was dumped, there is also a kind of grass called pigweed."
"Hmm?" Gu Xia looked a little confused when he heard this.
Bai Ling nodded and explained, "This kind of weed is found all over the country, but it can't grow in every place. According to biological habits, the geographical environment where the murderer abandoned the dead body will not allow this kind of weed to reproduce, so I suspect..."
"We were confused. This is not the first scene where the body was dumped!" Gao Feng shuddered, as if he had suddenly figured something out. He said, "We preconceived that the body was dumped at the back street where the deceased was found alive that day. But it is very likely that the deceased was dumped at another place, picked up by someone, and then dumped at a second location!"
"Why did the murderer do this?" Huamei asked in confusion. If it was just to cover up the truth, there would be no need to go to such great lengths.
"No, the murderer must have done this." Gao Feng was silent for a while, then said, "If we found the first scene where the body was dumped, based on the surveillance and traces at the scene, it is very likely that we can infer a clearer and more reasonable crime scene based on the scene environment. If the body is dumped at another location, it can disrupt our sight."
"Yes, this is a typical anti-reconnaissance method." Gu Xia rubbed his chin and thought: "The other party does not want us to track down useful clues, so they use the most lively places to disrupt our sight and make us mistakenly think that we have found useful clues. In fact, this has nothing to do with the case!"
"That's why every clue we found has not been found until now!" Gao Feng suddenly laughed when he said this. With the clues provided by Bai Ling, he could accurately feel that his thoughts were gradually becoming clearer.
"Comrade Bai Ling, I'm going to give you a credit this time. The clue you provided helped me sort out my thoughts these days!" Gu Xia suddenly laughed, looked at Bai Ling and nodded, saying, "You take a good rest these days, and leave the rest to us. It's time for me to move my old bones."
"I can't rest yet." Bai Ling shook her head, and after a moment of silence, she said, "After the grass sample results come out, I want to go to the Agricultural Science Institute to check which places in the southwest have this kind of grass."
"Where's the grass?" Huamei suddenly asked.
"That's it." Bai Ling took out a small sterile bag from her pocket, handed it to Huamei, and said, "This kind of grass has very high requirements for the ecological environment. There must be water nearby to grow it."
"This is... I know where it is!" Huamei suddenly exclaimed when he saw the grass pattern.
