Although only confirming one victim, or rather, confirming one victim, has already made everyone's emotions high.

In several groups, the number of people talking has clearly increased.

In the 'Grey Chapter Group' that Jiang Yuan was pulled into, someone started chatting happily:

Forensic Li Rui: [I feel like I see hope. Once the source of the body is confirmed, we can search for the activities on the day of the disappearance.]

Investigator Zhang Mingyuan: [Don't be so optimistic. It's been three years and four months since the disappearance. Only the family can remember a little bit. If you ask people around, they won't remember.]

Surveillance Fu Quanzai: [Was there any active search for the missing person? Normally, if someone goes missing around you and you're asked about it, you would definitely remember, right?]

Investigator Zhang Mingyuan: [When she went missing, her parents were not around. They went to the countryside. The victim had no job, just stayed at home. Now it's called flexible employment, and she had no colleagues. Four days after the disappearance, her parents reported it to the police after failing to reach her multiple times.]

Forensic Niu Lihuang: [(•ω•) The victim had cervical spondylosis and lumbar disc herniation, all occupational diseases from desk work. How come she didn't have a job?]

Investigator Zhang Mingyuan: [Probably playing games.]

Forensic Niu Lihuang: [Damn, the forensic can't do anything. How can we judge the living and working environment?]

Investigator Zhang Mingyuan: [It's a good thing that we found the victim's accessories. Jiang Yuan is really amazing. Otherwise, we might not even be able to find the victim.]

Surveillance Fu Quanzai: [So, do we have any clues about the motorcycle now? Or did the clues just disappear?]

Investigator Zhang Mingyuan: [Still looking, and we can't limit it to the victim's living area. Her living area is very narrow.]

The group of people chatted, from optimism to pessimism, and soon stopped chatting.

Jiang Yuan also frowned as he read. He had considered the identity of the victim, but he didn't have any solid ideas.

However, his initial idea was that the victim was a white-collar worker or a civil servant, at least the type of person who worked in an office. Who would have thought that a girl in her twenties, who was seriously playing games, would have so many health issues.

After finishing his phone, Jiang Yuan sighed and looked back at the body. According to his original idea, if the source of the body or the scene of the crime was found, the probability of finding the murderer would be very high.

In terms of unsolved and homicide cases, the evidence obtained so far was not insignificant.

But if it can't be found, it can't be found, especially during the time spent at the victim's home. If there were new clues, it might be possible to directly identify the murderer, but if not, the value of this clue would be greatly reduced.

The criminal police were still working hard in the local area, investigating the motorcycle, the status of the people at the time of the disappearance, the victim's relationships, and so on, perhaps they could find some clues.

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But from Jiang Yuan's perspective, the best evidence was always the body itself.

The "King of Evidence" illustrates the richness of the information provided by the body, but it is too difficult to obtain.

However, compared to the first three bodies, the fourth body seemed to have more to say - this was purely Jiang Yuan's feeling. If you had to describe it, the fourth body seemed more messy and hastily handled.

And in terms of time, the fourth body had been dead for quite a while, Jiang Yuan's judgment was four years ago.

In other words, this victim was killed by the murderer at an earlier stage.

Was it not handled properly, or were there accidents during the handling?

Jiang Yuan was filled with anticipation and carefully searched for clues.

In fact, it was normal for some accidents to occur during the dismemberment process.

During the Spring Festival in the countryside, when pigs are slaughtered, even a butcher who has been killing pigs for a lifetime dare not say that he won't have any accidents.

Moreover, the psychological pressure on the murderer is great, and the operating location is often not very comfortable, with limited visibility and other restrictions, so it is normal for accidents to occur. Some murderers even wear latex gloves, and the gloves end up being cut into the body.

Jiang Yuan didn't find any particularly useful evidence from the first three bodies, but looking at the appearance of the fourth body, he hoped to find something.

He didn't examine the bodies in order, but followed his instincts and started by looking at the larger bones.

After looking at it for a while, other forensic experts also came to look at the bones, but everyone had different focuses and directions of attention and judgment.

Jiang Yuan silently watched, and when he saw the cut radius and humerus, he couldn't help but stop.

What caught his attention this time was the cross-section of the bone.The bones were sawn open with a saw. There was nothing novel about that. Many dismemberment maniacs liked to use saws, including Wang Guoshan from the reservoir body-dumping case, who also used a saw for dismembering.

Compared to those who used axes or knives for dismemberment, using a saw required less effort, resulted in more pieces, and each piece tended to weigh less on average.

Jiang Yuan had seen his fair share of bodies dismembered with a saw, but there was a change in the cross-section of the bones from victim number four.

What kind of change?

Jiang Yuan took out several pieces of sternum and ribs and compared them with the humerus and radius. It was then apparent that the former had smoother and more even cross-sections, while the latter not only had more severe saw marks but also clear signs of the saw blade jumping. Moreover, the humerus and radius had distinct step-like marks, about 4 millimeters from the cross-section and also 4 millimeters in length, whereas the sternum and ribs appeared much smoother and clearer.

All this pointed to one issue: the killer had changed saws.

Whether he cut the sternum first or the arms, he had switched saws at some point.

Perhaps a saw broke, or the saw blade was damaged, or maybe he felt the saw he was using wasn't effective enough. Whatever the reason, the killer had changed saws, or at least the saw blade, during the dismemberment process.

But whether it was the saw or the blade that was changed, it further indicated one answer: the killer had dismembered the body at a fixed location.

This inference was made because the killer was using a high-powered saw, most likely a chainsaw.

A chainsaw is not small in size or weight, typically around 10 kilograms, and its saw blade, more appropriately called a saw chain, is a heavy object similar to a bicycle chain, weighing several pounds. Jiang Yuan thought that a typical dismemberment maniac wouldn't carry two chainsaws or a chainsaw with an extra chain.

If the dismemberment maniac had a fear of chain breakage, wouldn't it be more logical and appropriate for him to simply replace the chainsaw's chain?

This thing is often used for sawing wood and trees, made of special steel, and after hundreds of cuts, it can be sharpened and reused, not so easily broken or damaged.

Buying a new one online and replacing it after chopping up two people, you might even be able to return it to the seller.

Therefore, on victim number four, the more reasonable explanation for changing the saw or saw blade is that the killer was dismembering on his own turf.

This way, if there was a problem, he could smoothly and easily change the saw or saw blade.

If this is the case, it overturns another hypothesis: that the killer deliberately carried saws and other tools to commit the crime far from his residence or workplace.

In other words, the killer's residence or workplace should be near the crime scene.

That is, near the residence of victim number three, Feng Xiaoyan!

Once Jiang Yuan realized this, he immediately called Huang Qiangming.

Huang Qiangming on the other end of the line hadn't rested either and listened to Jiang Yuan's reasoning with anticipation, but then fell somewhat silent.

"Is there a problem?" Jiang Yuan sensed something was off.

"We've already swept through the motorcycles in Fangjin Village, and no suspects have been filtered out," Huang Qiangming sighed.

Jiang Yuan was surprised: "You swept through so quickly? What about the surrounding areas of Fangjin Village? The rural areas closer to Feng Xiaoyan?"

"It's possible. But around here, motorcycles aren't as common as in Zifeng Town," Huang Qiangming paused, then added, "Or maybe someone rode over from another township twenty or thirty kilometers away?"

"That's a bit far, isn't it? And carrying a chainsaw on a motorcycle is tough enough, let alone two chainsaws or one chainsaw with two chains? That's too exhausting."

"That's true," Huang Qiangming paused for a moment, then said, "Feng Xiaoyan could have also moved, but the likelihood of her leaving alone for dozens of kilometers is indeed not high."

As Huang Qiangming spoke, he seemed to negate his own point.

"So, it seems very likely that the killer is in Fangjin Village or its vicinity. It's a pity we can't find the source of the other bodies, otherwise..." Huang Qiangming sounded frustrated, then continued, "We've also been paying attention to the dismemberment tools, but haven't found anything. Hmm, your discovery is still valuable. I'll report to Chief Xu, and we need to intensify the search and investigation here."

Jiang Yuan acknowledged and hung up the phone, feeling a bit weary himself.

The scope may have narrowed, but a ten or fifteen-kilometer radius was still not small. If there was enough time, a meticulous search could yield a high possibility of results.

But searching was the most time-consuming part.

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