Chapter 83 (1/2)

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at 18th of March 2020 08:05:03 PM

Chapter 83: 83

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As they were leaving the forensic lab, Lin Qiupu asked Lin Dongxue, ”What do you think of this case?”

Lin Dongxue thought for a second and said, ”Captain Peng stated that all of the jewelry on the female victim was gone . It makes me wonder if it was a couple that committed double-suicide . The girl died first and as the man was preparing to commit suicide, a third-party entered the scene . The man and the third-party had a dispute before the mystery person killed the man and stole all of the girl’s jewelry . The individual also took their cellphones and disfigured their faces using a rock . ”

”A couple? I don't think so! I think this case is a revenge killing, but after the murderer killed the two, the bodies were abandoned in the mountains, and the killer arranged it to look like a double-suicide . ”

”Brother, did you already forget the traces of a struggle that were found at the scene?”

Lin Qiupu was speechless for a moment . ”If what you say is true, they didn’t abandon the body; the crime may have been committed in the cave . ”

”Three people appearing in the cave at the same time? There is a good chance that the two deceased were related . ”

”Not necessarily . Their time of death was quite far apart, and the contents of their stomachs are different . The possibility of them being a couple is very low . I think that they were simply two unrelated strangers . ”

”If it’s as you said, did the murderer kill the girl first, and then remain in the cave to kill a second person?”

Lin Qiupu also did not understand and bitterly smiled . ”The longer this conversation goes on, the more confused we’ll get . We should investigate more first!”

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Contrary to their mentally taxing debate, their next act was physically draining . The task force walked through each suburb to collect the most recent missing person reports . They selected the people who best fit their specifications and then proceeded to visit the families for questioning .

This process alone took three days, with Peng Sijue making notable progress on his end . From a.n.a.lyzing the jewel particles left on the female corpse, he found that the jewels were all pure, solid gold . Skull reconstruction allowed Peng Sijue to see what the female looked like when she was alive . From the construction, it could be a.s.sumed that she had a decent appearance and a set of elegant teeth . When these two clues were shown in the forensic team’s a.n.a.lysis, everyone immediately concluded that there was around an 80% chance that this was the heiress to a wealthy family .

The reconstructed picture of the male victim could only be described as ordinary . Peng Sijue found that the deceased had symptoms of lumbar muscle strains when he did further autopsy testing . In addition, when compared with the ash sample brought by Chen s.h.i.+ last time, it was found that the male deceased usually smoked five yuan[2] cigarettes .

With this revelation, the faceless man was transformed into a poor man who loved hiking in everyone's mind .

Peng Sijue also mentioned that the drug in the female’s body was identified to be succinylcholine, a musculoskeletal relaxant . Its clinical use was for local anesthesia, which can cause bradycardia, arrhythmia, cardiac arrest, etc . If too much is administered, the bronchial muscles can constrict, resulting in bronchospasm . It can also cause anaphylactic shock . The amount of succinylcholine given to the female was a lethal dose . ”

”Is this medicine easy for ordinary people to acquire?” Lin Qiupu asked .

Peng Sijue shook his head . ”I’m not too sure . ”

Lin Qiupu ordered his officers to source the origins of the drug and to continue confirming the ident.i.ty of the deceased using the reconstruction photo .

With the picture, their work efficiency was markedly improved . On the same day, they confirmed the ident.i.ty of the female victim . Her name was Jiang Mei . She was born in 1997 and was a recently graduated college student majoring in financial management . She had just graduated a year ago and had not been employed yet .

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Jiang Mei’s father was the president of a bank, so it was now undeniable that she was the heiress of a wealthy family .

A call from the bureau brought Jiang Mei’s parents over . When they saw the girl’s unrecognizable face and body, the old couple couldn’t stop crying . Lin Dongxue, who was responsible for receiving the family of the deceased, could only attempt to ease the couple’s sorrow .

Jiang Mei’s mother sobbed and blurted out, “It’s all our fault! We shouldn’t have forced her!”