Chapter 243 – Waste Sorting

Jiang Yuan automatically began to change into protective clothing, ready to continue working.

Two bodies and one body, these are two different concepts.

In the domestic environment, one body belongs to a normal homicide case. In the case of Ningtai County, if a body appears, the county bureau chief and the deputy director in charge of criminal investigation will appear first, and the criminal police team will be mobilized and reported to the municipal bureau.

With the resources of the municipal bureau, there is often a certain level of support, such as laboratory support, fingerprint support, and if there are enough forensic resources, a forensic doctor can also be sent to help with the autopsy.

But if there are two bodies, the case will be directly escalated to the level known by the provincial department.

If things go smoothly, it's fine, but if things don't go well, the provincial department will quickly send a supervisory team or technical experts to help.

So, if a person accidentally kills another person, their skill in evading investigation may still be effective. But if they kill two people in one go, like a couple or a pair of spouses, then the case will directly receive the attention of provincial-level experts.

At that time, the fingerprints, footprints, bloodstains, and even image data at the scene could all receive support from the provincial department's technical department.

In summary, killing one person and facing investigation is completely different from killing two people.

And for some killers who commit heinous acts, such as killing an entire family of three, they will be under the scrutiny of the ministry-level criminal investigation agency and personnel.

Sometimes, fingerprints that cannot be extracted at the grassroots level can be easily obtained in the laboratory of the ministry.

As for the special task force and police officers, their attitudes towards cases of different levels are also completely different.

Not to mention anything else, if another body were to appear now, Xu Taining wouldn't even consider going back. He had to make some progress in this case.

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And from the current situation, the possibility of a third body appearing is very high.

The newly excavated body bag was placed in a new body bag, with the forensic doctor half of his body propped up in the basket, half-holding the body bag, and was lifted to the top of the mine.

The quality of the travel bag didn't feel particularly good, and no one dared to pull it up, not knowing how long it had been buried underwater.

The bottom of the basket was not flat, but had a mesh steel grating. The forensic doctors were worried that the body would be damaged by the swaying of the basket, even if it was already dismembered. At this point, it was the only clue everyone could find.

When the basket was lifted up, several forensic doctors rushed up and carried the body bag onto a flatbed cart, ready to transport it directly to Qinghe City for autopsy.

As for the forensic doctor, who was all dirty, he was finally pulled up by someone.

Jiang Yuan was still hesitating whether to follow the body, but Wang Lan had already called him.

"Jiang Yuan, let's do the on-site investigation first," Wang Lan said in front of the leader. "Jiang Yuan's on-site investigation is one of the best among forensic doctors. Let others handle the autopsy first, and we'll go back to take a look later."

Forensic doctors also need to do on-site investigations, especially in such an environment. The on-site investigation done by the forensic doctor himself is quite different from the on-site investigation done by others.

Jiang Yuan had no objections and nodded, "You go up."

"Thank you," Xu Taining rarely found time to say a comforting word.

Ye Liang smiled and followed Wang Lan back to the bottom of the mine.

After nearly ten hours of work, the mud on the floor of the mine had been cleared away, and small pieces of concrete had been pulled down by the hoisting equipment.

The small excavator was now humming as it dug up the garbage.

The garbage at the bottom of the tens of meters of water pressure had solidified, forming a solid mass, and it was very difficult to dig it up.

Seeing Jiang Yuan come up, Wang Lan reassigned the area and said loudly, "Do you think the body outside was done by Liu Jinghui?"

Liu Jinghui, the culprit in the case of dumping bodies in the reservoir, was confirmed to have killed more than 10 people, but his confession about the later cases was very vague.

Involving the case in Zifeng Mountain, Ye Liang's sister had been very detailed from start to finish, which was one of the reasons Wang Guoshan thought it was unnecessary to continue the investigation.

Ye Liang was also uncertain at this time and could only say, "If it was done by my sister, I was there, and there were no accomplices."

"Is he talking about the tire puncture?" Wang Lan suddenly remembered.

"Yes."

"Maybe the tire puncturer was just an accomplice in one or two cases?" Wang Lan had encountered similar cases.

The difference between a killer who kills infrequently and a serial killer described in Europe and America is not substantial. Many killers kill for some kind of benefit.

In such cases, the killer may not have the possibility of temporarily finding an accomplice. It's similar to the concept that the enemy of your enemy is not your friend.

But for killers who continue to kill temporarily, they do so to keep the secret and struggle for the rest of their lives.Compared to that, such cases are naturally easier to crack.

Jiang Yuan understood what Wang Lan meant and knew what kind of answer you were expecting.

But Jiang Yuan still shook his head and said, "It must have been a novice. The case where Liu's tire was punctured, you haven't studied it carelessly. The perpetrator was very decisive, can be described as timid yet meticulous. If luck had been on his side, Liu might have died in a car accident right then and there."

Pausing for a moment, Ye Liang continued, "If the accident had caused a fire, or if the location of the accident had been more in line with the murderer's expectations, setting another fire, the tire case might have existed."

Wang Lan nodded eagerly, "So, is the other murderer the main culprit?"

"Liu Jinghui is still locked up outside of prison, I can't act alone or gather others to commit the crime again," Jiang Yuan said, then added, "But if you were to take on that case, you would link it to Ye Liang's sister."

"Oh? Why?" Wang Lan was quite puzzled, as combining cases is often the best way to solve them.

"Liu must have considered the issue of combining cases. I also managed to solve cases in a short time," Jiang Yuan's answer was also very promising.

Ever since arriving in Zifeng Town, Jiang Yuan had unconsciously chosen the same perspective as Wang Guoshan.

In Jiang Yuan's memory, Wang Guoshan's deductive abilities were extremely strong.

I spent a month on a case and couldn't figure it out. Following my approach again, even considering the possibility that the murderer might have been tipped off or made adjustments, Wang Guoshan would still need another month's time.

If it was just to crack that case, Jiang Yuan felt that it was completely unnecessary to wait a few more months before taking action.

And the most pressing matter at the moment was to find Wang Guoshan's whereabouts.

Seeing the person or finding the body is always better than them being missing.

Moreover, Jiang Yuan's approach was originally the same as Wang Guoshan's; all I had to do was follow the evidence.

Combining cases tests one's deductive and analytical abilities.

That was exactly Jiang Yuan's forte.

Wang Lan partially understood Ye Liang's thought process but didn't fully agree.

However, the person in charge of that case was Xu Taining, and it wasn't the turn of two forensic experts to direct the investigation.

The two began a dialogue, continuing to dig through the mine.

More and more trash and construction waste were unearthed.

By evening, another mini excavator was brought in, slightly speeding up the process.

Then, another grey plastic bag was dug up.

"Wait. Don't take it out," Jiang Yuan saw it from afar and walked over slowly.

When the next body bag was excavated, everyone was certain it contained a body. This time, without saying it, everyone could guess.

After taking photos, Jiang Yuan observed the body bag and the surrounding trash, quietly analyzing, "Take photos of the trash as well, and confirm the location."

Wang Lan quickly realized and said, "Right, the trash should have been buried in the same batch, it could help analyze the origin of the body."

We haven't seen the body yet, but according to the news from the front, although the body provided very little information, it was not necessarily unhelpful in determining the origin of the body.

In fact, identifying the origin of the body of a deceased youth is not very easy. And the bodies that can be identified make up a significant proportion of the total.

There are no statistics on the identification rate of criminal cases, but from another perspective, the difficulty of identifying the origin of bodies is evident—famous mass graves in some regions, where very few anthropologists are dispatched to identify the origins, still face low identification rates even among a known regional population.

For the forensic experts present, anything that could lower the identification rate was unhelpful.

Jiang Yuan changed his gloves on the spot, adding two more layers before starting to sort through the trash right there.

Having worked on a case involving a scavenger before, I had acquired the skill of Waste Sorting (LV4), which was now being applied with low efficiency.

The other forensic experts, although they also had a certain ability to identify evidence, watched Jiang Yuan's movements and gradually started to follow suit.

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