Chapter 69: Don't Keep Me in Suspense
Zhou Ning looked at Liu Yongxin and Da Zhao. Both of them were staring at him. Zhou Ning nodded with difficulty.
"It was an acquaintance who committed the crime. It was premeditated. The robbery might have been a disguise. Once we find the cell phone or investigate the deceased's communication records, I think there will be clues. Oh, and there's also the deceased's car. We came back in a hurry and didn't check it."
Liu Yongxin didn't say anything. Da Zhao sensed the difference of opinion between the two. At this time, a voice came from the door, and Xiao Liu was holding a brown paper bag and waving it outside the door.
"What can you do if you send it in here, you are just making noise outside."
Muttering, Da Zhao went to the door and got a brown paper bag, unfolding it in front of the two of them. This was an X-ray. The doctor on duty had just come over to take the X-ray. He was not very good at handling electronic images, so he just developed the X-ray and sent it over.
Liu Yongxin held up the film and looked at it carefully under the light.
"The damage to the frontal and temporal regions caused a skull fracture, but the fracture was not serious and did not cause more serious craniocerebral injury, which is consistent with epidermal damage."
Zhou Ning also nodded. It was true that such injuries only looked serious, but would not be fatal. However, this also further confirmed that the deceased was threatened by the murderer just to prolong his suffering.
"Okay, let's sew it up. There's no need to do a craniotomy. After we're done cleaning up, let's go back to the team to eat. I saw on the text that Xu Da has already notified a special case meeting. I'll tell him to have someone check out the deceased's vehicle."
Glancing at the time, it was already half past one. The autopsy took a reasonable amount of time, after all, there were so many wounds that needed to be measured. He quickly sutured the chest and abdomen, while Old Man Cui and Xiao Liu sent the body back.
After washing up, they got in the car and drove towards the team.
As soon as I got downstairs, I heard shouting from above my head, and I looked up and saw Xu Dayuan.
"Hurry up and go to the office to eat first, then come back."
Da Zhao grinned.
"It seems the boss has left some food for us. Let's go upstairs and eat. I'm starving."
Liu Yongxin punched him.
"You're such a hungry bastard, no wonder you gained thirty pounds. The hungrier you are, the less you can eat. Your stomach and intestines didn't give you any signals, so you ate too much without realizing it."
"Uncle, I understand the theory, and I also know that this is unhealthy, but I'm still growing, so I can't starve."
Several people laughed. Da Zhao's cheerfulness was the best way to communicate. Zhou Ning followed the two of them upstairs. When he saw the lunch boxes, his stomach started growling. Without further ado, they started eating.
However, Zhou Ning had just finished an autopsy, so he didn't dare to eat too much and only ate half of the box lunch. Although he had come into contact with many corpses, eating too much would easily irritate his stomach and intestines.
Da Zhao didn't mind, and put the remaining beans and pork, shredded potatoes, etc. from Zhou Ning into his lunch box, mixed them together, and ate them all. Liu Yongxin kept shaking his head while the two of them drank water. Zhou Ning had already written some summaries at the end of the autopsy report, and stood up after finishing it.
"Master, shall we go to the special project meeting?"
Liu Yongxin stood up, and the three of them went to the conference room together. In fact, the special project meeting had just begun at this time. Seeing the three people come in, Xu Dayuan quickly waved his hand, and He Chunyang also stopped introducing them.
"Come and sit down. Director Sun is here to attend our special project meeting. Xiao Zhou, come over here. Director Sun wants to see you."
Zhou Ning was stunned. Liu Yongxin pushed him and winked at him. Zhou Ning then stepped forward.
Director Sun was sitting next to Xu Dayuan, looking at Zhou Ning with a smile on his face.
"Comrade Zhou Xiaozhou is amazing. Your reputation is top notch in our system. Come and sit down. I am here to attend the meeting, not to guide the work. You guys should continue. Nothing is bigger than a case."
After the leader said so, He Chunyang hurried to continue.
Zhou Ning smiled awkwardly. He had no temper at all when his leader called him that. He couldn't just go up and correct him. He probably didn't even know his name was Zhou Ning. Sitting next to Xu Dayuan, this position really made him uncomfortable.
Thinking about it carefully, it was probably about the last software issue. Xu Dayuan reported it to his superiors, and the branch office configured a good computer at that time.
Liu Yongxin sat next to Zhou Ning, flipped through what Zhou Ning had written on the back of the autopsy report, and made an OK gesture to him. Only then did Zhou Ning's worried heart settle down a little.
He Chunyang over there continued with his previous speech.
" We conducted a carpet search around the first scene and found that the deceased's family lived in the first to seventh floors. However, the door of Room 201 downstairs was not locked and there was no decoration inside. There was a pile of sand outside the window, so it was very likely that he jumped out from the north window. We also found two footprints on the sand pile, which will be sent to the forensic room later.
The deceased, Wen Haicheng, worked at the East China Design Institute and was considered a top designer. They also had some design drafts for the real estate projects they co-developed and had won many awards. His social relationships were not complicated and he did not have any enemies.
The boss of this design institute was their former mentor. The reporter Wang Mingliang and Wen Haicheng were classmates. After graduation, Huang Yongsheng, who had a good relationship with them, followed their mentor into business and established the East China Design Institute.
According to Mr. Chen, if there are any people who are dissatisfied with Wen Haicheng, it is only a few competing design institutes. However, they have a good relationship with each other privately, and sometimes they even bring other design institutes to participate in the bidding.
Wang Mingliang said that the deceased had been coughing yesterday, so he went home early and did not participate in their evening meeting. However, at 11 o'clock in the evening, they checked the various drawings needed for today on the Internet. They could not contact anyone in the morning, so they went to Wen Haicheng's house to check. As for the deceased's car, no valuable evidence was found.
Oh, one more thing. The deceased Wen Haicheng's wife Zhang Xin was a schoolmate of Wen Haicheng and Wang Mingliang. The two of them established a relationship in high school. They were the only campus lovers who got married. They were very happy and their son was very smart. They all envied this couple. "
Xu Dayuan nodded, exchanged a few words with Director Sun, and then pointed at Liu Changhai and said:
"Changhai, tell me, have Wen Haicheng and Zhang Xin's phones been found? Have their call records been retrieved?"
Liu Changhai held up two evidence bags, which contained two unrecognizable mobile phones, both the front and back were shattered, with many fragments still inside.
"The phone was found in the community, in the flowerbed on the north side of Building No. 6 where the crime occurred. We used a police dog to search for it. After all, there was construction waste everywhere in the community..."
Xu Dayuan tapped the table with his fingers, his face looking a little dark.
"Let's talk about the main point, not the process. Can the data on the phone be recovered?"
Liu Changhai shrank his neck, obviously startled.
"I asked the technical department, and they said we can try to export the data, but we are not familiar with this phone, so it will take two or three days. As for the two people's phone numbers, we have already recorded their communication records at the mobile company."
As he spoke, he took out a stack of papers and distributed them. Zhou Ning felt a little anxious. There were very few problems that could be found in the call records. Many people's privacy was on their phones. If he couldn't figure it out after two or three days, then something would be wrong. After all, his countdown was only 96 hours.
I glanced at the large transparent screen and my heart sank again.
No, there are only 92:27 hours left.
As he was thinking, Xu Dayuan had already looked at Zhou Ning.
"Tell me about the findings from the on-site investigation and autopsy."
Zhou Ning unfolded the autopsy record and handed one of the hand-drawn floor plans to Da Zhao. Da Zhao quickly turned on the slide projector, projected the map on the screen, and came to the conference table and said loudly:
"Let me first talk about the findings of the autopsy. The cloth strips used to bind the deceased Wen Haicheng were made from local materials. There were 27 cuts and stab wounds on his body, including 3 on the chest and abdomen, 1 on the neck, and 22 on the limbs. The deepest of these 26 cuts was less than two centimeters, and no major arteries or veins were injured. These were injuries caused by coercion.
The most serious cut was located below the biosensor, which cut off two-fifths of it. The cut surface was neat and the amount of bleeding was over 800 ml. All the cuts and stab wounds were completely consistent with the wallpaper knife left at the scene. The knife was cut without hesitation and was very ruthless. There were traces of paint on the handle.
The deceased was hit on the head with a claw hammer, with three injuries in total, one on the forehead and one on the temporal part, which is behind the temple. These injuries only caused skull fractures and scalp tears, and were not fatal.
The cause of death of the deceased was mechanical asphyxiation due to covering his mouth and nose. The murder weapon was a cushion on the bed. Now let’s look back at the cloth strips, wallpaper knife, claw hammer, and pillow.
By comparing fingerprints, residues, patterns, colors, etc., I can confirm that at least three of the four items were obtained from the first crime scene."
Director Sun looked very interested.
"Oh, Comrade Zhou Xiaozhou means that this case is a crime of passion, and the murderer originally wanted to rob, but the victim resisted strongly and refused to cooperate, so he killed him in desperation?"
Xu Dayuan frowned slightly. When they were at the scene, Zhou Ning ruled out the possibility of theft and robbery, and directly defined it as a crime committed by an acquaintance. Has he changed his mind now?
"Don't keep me in suspense. Tell me your judgment!"
