Chapter 53 Wanted Corpse

Chapter 53 Wanted Corpse

Chapter 53 Wanted Corpse
On the way to the villa residential area.

Xu Yiqing asked: "Do you think something happened to Zou Yi?"

Du Yu said: "I am more inclined to believe that she absconded."

This answer was somewhat unexpected to Xu Yiqing. After all, before this, Du Yu thought that Zou Yi was a pure victim. It was not easy for the family member of the deceased to raise two children. Due to the case handling process, Zou Yi was listed as a subject of investigation, but in fact, he had little suspicion that she committed the crime.

"Why do you suddenly conclude that Zou Yi might have absconded?" Xu Yiqing asked, "Is he absconding as the murderer who killed He Yunke?"

"I know that I may have shown that I believed Zou Yi before, but that was based on the premise that she had no motive for committing the crime. The law emphasizes the presumption of innocence. As long as there is no evidence, Zou Yi is not a suspect but a family member of the victim."

Du Yu looked serious as he stared at the road ahead. "But after learning last night that He Yunke had cheated on her, Zou Yi had a motive. From then on, my sympathy for Zou Yi only existed on a moral level. Now, we must enforce the law impartially."

When Xu Yiqing heard what he said, she realized that the police must have made some new discoveries when they went to her home.

"What's new?"

"According to the children's testimony, Zou Yi cleaned the house thoroughly last night, wiping it inside and out, and then disappeared."

Du Yu said: "We couldn't contact Zou Yi this morning, so the police went to visit her. When we entered the house, we felt that it was too clean. Combined with what the children said, we realized something was wrong, so we tried to extract fingerprints...but we found nothing."

Xu Yiqing frowned: "Zou Yi wiped off all his fingerprints."

"Yes, the investigation department is still searching her home to see if there are any fingerprints or hairs that have been missed." Du Yu said: "This behavior is too abnormal, so I tend to believe that she escaped rather than having an accident."

If someone disappears voluntarily, they are either doing something wrong and are afraid of being exposed, or they are hiding from people like He Yunke did.

Zou Yi's behavior basically shows that she disappeared on her own initiative.

Although Du Yu is sympathetic, he can still distinguish the priorities at times like this.

Now all signs indicate that Zou Yi has fled for fear of punishment.

When they arrived at He Yunke's house, there were several cars parked outside the door, including police cars as well as the Chevrolet and Panamera that Lin Sheng was familiar with.

The gate of the villa was open and several policemen were standing at the door.

An investigation is currently underway inside, so it is not convenient for them to go in. They are afraid of leaving traces and disrupting their colleagues' work, so they simply wait outside for the captain to come.

Zhou Shi was also at the door, squatting there trying to calm the two children. It was obvious that this scene frightened them a little.

Xu Yiqing followed Du Yu inside. He glanced at Zhou Shi, who also saw him but just nodded without further communication.

Now is not the time for small talk.

"Let's go to the car to warm up." Zhou Shi took the two children's hands and walked away from the scene.

As soon as he entered the entrance hall, Xu Yiqing smelled a strong smell of disinfectant. Several technicians from the serious crime investigation department were carefully searching for fingerprints and hair.

Mr. Lin was there too. He must have come directly from home so early in the morning and was helping out. He was lying on the ground with a fluorescent light in his hand, looking into the gaps under the furniture. His whole body was pressed against the ground, with no image at all and no regard for the dirt.

But Xu Yiqing was very pleased to see this. There was life in his eyes, and he looked like a forensic doctor.

I can pay more attention to helping him evaluate his professional title, Xu Yiqing thought to himself, and then I will call the teacher.

"What's the situation?" Du Yu stood in the entrance without going in.

A technician from the Investigation Department looked up, pursed his lips and shook his head at him.

Xu Yiqing put on shoe covers, a hood and medical gloves and walked in, "Ah Sheng, have you found any clues?"

"Good morning, Brother Xu." Lin Sheng pushed himself up from the ground, let out a long breath, and supported his knees with both hands. "I didn't find anything. It's really strange! How could Zou Yi, a wealthy lady who has never done housework, clean so thoroughly?"

He waved his hand towards the house and said, "Based on my observation, Zou Yi should have let the children into the house at night and cleaned it up like this in just a few hours... If you don't have professional anti-reconnaissance capabilities, you can't do this."

Xu Yiqing still believed what his beloved disciple said. Lin Sheng now has the ability to conduct on-site investigations on his own.

Besides, there are so many police officers from the serious crime investigation department around him. Even if he makes any omissions, there is strength in numbers and his colleagues will help to pay attention.

In that case...

Xu Yiqing looked around and it seemed that there was nothing worth investigating about He Yunke's home.

If I were to be too serious and check every detail again, it would only embarrass my colleagues in the investigation department.

Could it be that Zou Yi just disappeared without leaving any trace of having lived in his house?

Xu Yiqing suddenly had a familiar but not very good feeling in his heart——

The house is too clean, but it doesn’t mean there is no garbage or it is spotlessly clean. It’s as if all traces of someone’s existence have been wiped out. It makes people think about it carefully and it makes their backs crawl!

He lowered his head, resting the back of his medical-gloved hand on his chin as he thought.

After thinking for a while, Xu Yiqing suddenly remembered something and asked Lin Sheng: "Have you checked the storage room and bedroom?"

Lin Sheng was slightly startled but still answered truthfully: "I checked, there are no fingerprints or hair."

"It's not fingerprints, but..." Halfway through his speech, Xu Yiqing suddenly realized that Lin Sheng was not among the people who went to Pan Yao's house to investigate yesterday. He probably didn't know his inference, so he didn't elaborate, but directly arranged the work: "Go to the car to get the luminol reagent, the measuring tape, the acrylic plate, and the wool stick."

Lin Sheng’s car is almost becoming the official car of the Forensic Department. It is equipped with all kinds of tools, making it convenient to be on the scene at any time when there is an unexpected mission.

He quickly got the tools as his master requested and followed Xu Yiqing to the bedroom.

Lin Sheng said, "Brother Xu, didn't we already sprinkle luminol when we first came here? And you see Zou Yi has changed all the sheets and quilts, so I'm afraid we won't be able to find anything."

The last time Xu Yiqing came here, he sprinkled some luminol reagent on the bed and walls of the bedroom, confirming that this was not the first crime scene, where Lin Sheng and Zhou Shi were both there.

The reagent stained the bed sheets, so Zou Yi simply didn't even wash them and just changed the entire set of bedding.

Xu Yiqing shook his head: "Not checking for bloodstains, but traces."

"Traces?" Lin Sheng was puzzled.

Xu Yiqing stood in the bedroom and looked around, finally looking at the wall facing the door.

He stood by the wall, raised his head and gestured, muttering to himself, "With He Yunke's obsessive nostalgia, it should be hung here."

He rubbed the surface of the acrylic plate with a wool stick to give it static electricity.

Then he lifted the acrylic plate with a slight static electricity on the surface and slowly approached the wall, seeming to be printed on the wall, but in fact there was still a little distance.

"A painting hung indoors with backlight will not leave particularly obvious marks on the wall when it is taken down." Xu Yiqing explained to Lin Sheng: "Besides, He Yunke has only moved in for about a year, so it is even more impossible."

"And since there are no obvious traces left, there is no need to clean up... This could be the key to solving the case."

After holding it for a few minutes, Xu Yiqing took down the acrylic board.

There was a very, very faint line made of dust on it, so faint that it was almost invisible, but it was there.

This line is a broken line in the shape of a cube, similar to a U-shape.

"Although there are no traces to the naked eye, as long as there is uneven air pressure density in the house, dust will float. The dust density in the area covered by the painting is different from that outside."

"There is already a difference in dust density, so after the painting is taken away, both sides are exposed to the same air, and the amount of dust left behind is the same, so the initial difference will remain."

"Plus, this kind of white wall attracts dust very well, so fine dust cannot be seen by the naked eye, but the method of electrostatic adsorption will still leave a dividing line, which is evidence that can be preserved for a long time unless it is deliberately destroyed."

Xu Yiqing used a tape measure to measure the length of the mark on the acrylic board, and found that it was basically the same size as the painting "Agriculture Eating Children" that was hung in the storage room during the last investigation at He Yunke's house.

He looked at the bare bedroom wall. "It is certain that the painting 'Agriculture Devouring Children' has been hung here for a while, and Zou Yi also said that she was afraid of the painting, so she would never let He Yunke hang it in the bedroom." Lin Sheng suddenly realized, "So this bedroom was the storage room before!"

Xu Yiqing nodded and motioned for Lin Sheng to take a photo of the acrylic plate in his hand as evidence: "This is the physical evidence."

The two went to the storage room again, and the door was still locked. The police officers from the Investigation Department had the skills to open it.

However, the policeman's unlocking process was surprisingly smooth. He looked at the door lock and said, "The style of the lock is very old, but the quality is new. It's a bit strange... There are signs of a lock change."

After a pause, the police officer said: "This kind of lock is completely meaningless. It can only keep out children."

child?
Lin Sheng suddenly realized: "Zou Yi locked the door because he was afraid that the children would see it, right?"

Xu Yiqing pushed the door open, signaled to turn off the lights, and then sprayed luminol reagent into the storage room.

Lin Sheng shone the light inside and his eyes immediately widened!
There are spray-shaped blue marks all over the walls!

The room filled with severed limbs was eerie and terrifying. The hideous eyes of the "Saturn Eating His Children" were staring into the room. In contrast, the bloodstains next to it skipped the painting and spread wantonly on the wall.

Not long ago, there was blood flowing here and blood splattered everywhere!

Xu Yiqing took two steps back, retreated back to the corridor, tilted his head and shouted outside: "Du Yu!"

"what happened?"

"We have found the first crime scene." Xu Yiqing said, "We can issue a wanted notice. Zou Yi is a major suspect."
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In today's society, it is difficult to get around without an ID card. If you don't take a taxi or drive, you can't even go out of town.

She was only missing for one night, which gave Du Yu enough time to catch Zou Yi. There was no way she could escape.

After Xu Yiqing confirmed that He Yunke's home was the first crime scene, Du Yu mobilized the entire criminal police brigade to set up checkpoints at major highway intersections in Jiangcheng to intercept vehicles, interrogate information records and check identity cards.

At the same time, messages were also sent to the bus station and high-speed railway station to verify all passenger information from yesterday to the next week, and to verify Zou Yi's ID card one by one.

"She can't get away."

This sentence has always been on Du Yu's lips.

But as time went by, from the initial promises, to three days later there was still no news from Zou Yi. When Du Yu said this, he pinched the corners of his eyes with his hands, and his tone was already a little annoyed.

Three days, no news at all.

There was finally some progress on the morning of the fourth day, but it was not for the better.

Du Yu had just arrived for work that morning, and before he even sat down, he received a call from a field police officer: "Captain Du, there's a murder."

Du Yu said, "The case has been transferred to the team. Ask Lao Qian's second team to take charge. Also notify the forensic department to prepare for the autopsy. I have to go out of town today, so I won't be there. Please ask me when you need a signature or seal to draw a conclusion."

He hadn't found any news about Zou Yi in Jiangcheng for four days, which forced him to admit that Zou Yi might have escaped from Jiangcheng.

So he decided to expand the search area to surrounding cities, and after packing up the materials, he had to prepare to leave for other places.

The police officer said on the phone: "Captain Du, you should come in person. The location is in the villa area."

Du Yu frowned when he heard this.

Villa area.

Isn’t that the neighborhood where He Yunke lives?
After thinking about it, Du Yu felt something strange and decided to go and take a look.

"I know, I'll go right away."

The security guard at the villa area couldn't remember how many times a police car had roared into the gate during this period of time. He was worried and was considering whether he should change his job.

Du Yu drove there and found that the place where the alarm was called was another villa in the residential area, some distance away from He Yunke's home.

"what happened?"

There were police officers standing at the entrance of the villa. Xu Yiqing and Lin Sheng had already arrived at the scene with tools. They would be on call whenever there was a homicide.

Xu Yiqing said: "I just arrived too, but I heard that the owner found the body after returning from a trip."

A police officer answered: "We received two calls. The first one was from the homeowner who said someone had entered his home and suspected something was stolen, so he asked us to go. But just two minutes after I and my colleagues left the house, he called the police again and said a body was found in the freezer."

When Du Yu and Xu Yiqing entered the house, they first saw the owner.

Both he and his wife were older, around fifty years old, and at the moment they were trembling with fear in their eyes.

The man said: "My wife and I came back from a trip and saw something on the table. We thought someone had broken in, so we called the police. Then we looked everywhere to see if there was any valuables missing. When we checked the kitchen, we just... just..."

With a look of fear on his face, he pointed in the direction of the kitchen, where the police were already taking photos and collecting evidence.

Du Yu asked, "What's on the table?"

The police officer took out a report that was in the evidence bag and said, “Here.”

Du Yu took a closer look and was stunned: "Autopsy report?"

"Yes." The policeman said, "This is it."

How can ordinary people have autopsy reports at home?

Xu Yiqing said: "I'll go see the body."

He walked inside, into the kitchen, and directed the police to take the body out of the refrigerator without affecting the autopsy.

This refrigerator is very big. Those who live in villas are all rich people. They have two refrigerators in their kitchens, so it is no problem for them to squeeze two people into the refrigerator.

So it is not difficult to take the body out.

But when Xu Yiqing saw the face of the corpse clearly, he was stunned.

Zou Yi?!

"Du Yu, I think you can cancel your out-of-town trip today." Xu Yiqing said with some regret: "The deceased is Zou Yi."

Du Yu frowned and strode into the kitchen. He looked at the slightly curled up, frozen corpse for a long time, and finally sighed.

The suspect who had been searched for for four days turned out to be dead.

The case that just seemed to have some clues now has no evidence. Let’s not talk about this. Du Yu felt a little regretful when he thought of the two children who were about the same age as his own.

"Wait, something's wrong." Xu Yiqing said suddenly.

He squatted down, put on gloves and began to examine Zou Yi's body.

"No...very wrong." He frowned as he checked, and his expression became more and more shocked at the end.

"what happened?"

"The body has been dissected and even stitched up." Xu Yiqing's expression was terrifyingly serious. Du Yu rarely saw him like this.

"And the most important point is that this body has been dead for about two months!" Xu Yiqing thought about it and said with certainty: "It died about the same time as He Yunke's body."

When these words came out, even Du Yu was stunned.

Two months?
But they had just met Zou Yi five days ago!
If this is Zou Yi, then who was the one before? If the one before was Zou Yi, then who is this? !

(End of this chapter)