TPODN Chapter 21

Wang Linfei instructed Lu Yao and Li Ke, as well as other members of the investigation team, to continue investigating those who had information about or were suspected of being involved in the “serial homicide dismemberment case,” including Zhao Wei, Zhang Lan, Lin Meng’s parents, Lei Minghua’s mother, Eric, Jack, Zhang Zhongfei, and to closely monitor Wang Xiaofeng’s online interactions with the suspect “Edward.”

Wang Linfei and Hu Shi were currently at the Arbor Day afforestation areas of Luyuan No. 1 Middle School and Zileng No. 3 Elementary School, respectively. Captain Ma had already obtained approval from the province and city to begin excavating these two afforestation areas to see if any corpses were hidden there.

Although it was Saturday, the police still didn’t want to alarm the students who were staying at school. They had informed the schools in advance and “lied” to the students, saying that the afforestation areas would be under construction that night, and that students staying at school should go home if possible, and those who couldn’t should definitely not go to the afforestation areas to watch.

On Saturday night, the excavation of the two afforestation areas at Luyuan No. 1 Middle School and Zileng No. 3 Elementary School began simultaneously. Large numbers of police and police dogs were stationed at both locations, ready to go, with the goal of finding the corpses!

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Wang Linfei waited anxiously for the results next to the afforestation area of Luyuan No. 1 Middle School. He, who hadn’t smoked in a long time, had already finished a pack of cigarettes. Three hours had passed, and no human remains had been found in the Luyuan No. 1 Middle School area, leading Wang Linfei to wonder if his judgment was wrong.

Although Captain Ma had promised that if Wang Linfei made a misjudgment, he would shoulder the responsibility for the team’s “judgment error,” Wang Linfei’s confidence in his detective instincts wouldn’t allow him to be wrong. Therefore, Wang Linfei watched the entire excavation process with great intensity. The excavator was just an “assistant,” only digging the initial part, with police officers doing most of the digging with shovels themselves, to minimize damage to the corpses (if the corpses were hidden in the soil).

Wang Linfei didn’t want to let down the hard work of all the police officers. He kept praying for the appearance of the corpse remains, but after three hours, there was still no discovery.

Wang Linfei had already called Hu Shi in Zileng District more than ten times, but Hu Shi sighed every time and said that the afforestation area near Zileng No. 3 Elementary School was also empty-handed…

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Could it be that Wang Linfei’s judgment was wrong?

Time will prove everything.

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Suddenly, a police officer dug up something hard. It seemed that he couldn’t dig through the object in the soil with several shovels. The police officer immediately reported to Wang Linfei. Wang Linfei realized that there must be something fishy about this excavation site, and he asked several police officers to excavate the area in detail. Sure enough, a large number of corpse remains were dug up!

With the help of all the police officers, the full view of the corpse was dug out, and the forensic police took photos. Wang Linfei instructed more police officers to carefully excavate the surrounding area, as there might be unexpected gains. The corpse remains were immediately sent back to the forensic department for testing to determine whether they were the victims of the “serial homicide dismemberment case.”

“Team Wang, it should be pretty close. Your judgment is correct!” Police officer Xiao Li cheered.

At this moment, Hu Shi in Zileng District also discovered corpse remains. He immediately called Wang Linfei, and just as Wang Linfei was about to breathe a sigh of relief, Hu Shi said that in addition to a suspected male corpse, there was also a female corpse!

“Male corpse?” Wang Linfei was stunned. There were no male victims in this “serial homicide dismemberment case” in Fengyun City. Where did this corpse come from?

“That’s not right…” Wang Linfei also realized that wasn’t there a corpse in Hualge District? The results hadn’t come out yet because the corpse was found in Huangle District, and the limbs were missing. A small hole had also been dug in the chest, all the internal organs had been taken out, and the entire pelvis had been dismembered, making it impossible to identify the victim as male or female.

Could it be?

Wang Linfei immediately told Hu Shi his thoughts. Hu Shi said that he had also thought of this and had ordered the forensic department to take the corpse back for a thorough investigation. Moreover, after their unremitting efforts, they discovered that the female remains had a chest cavity, and whether it matched the corpse remains in Huangle District still needed to be determined by the forensic department.

The excavation results of the continuous night excited the entire provincial and municipal public security bureaus. Wang Linfei’s judgment was correct, and the remaining corpse remains arrived “as scheduled” at the Fengyun City Forensic Appraisal Institute.

There were a total of five corpses, with one missing. The remains of four people corresponded to Wang Daqing, Lei Minghua, Meng Ke, and Lin Meng. The DNA of these four victims completely matched the previously discovered corpse remains.

The most exciting thing was that the victim of the fifth corpse also matched the corpse remains in Huangle District, a truly amazing discovery.

Unexpectedly, it was impossible to confirm the identity of the fifth corpse. Through fingerprint collection and DNA comparison, it was impossible to determine who the fifth victim was. However, one thing could be determined through the pelvis: that this person was female.

Four female victims mixed with one male victim, why was this? Did the murderer prey on both men and women?

Captain Ma rushed to the Forensic Appraisal Institute overnight and listened to Wang Linfei and Hu Shi’s report in the conference hall of the institute.

“Do these corpse remains have any common fingerprints or DNA information?” Captain Ma asked.

Wang Linfei and Hu Shi shook their heads at the same time. They said that they had not collected any identical fingerprints or DNA, or other clues that would be helpful for solving the criminal case.

“Captain Ma, we asked the forensic doctors to thoroughly investigate whether there was any identical DNA information in the corpses, but no clues were found. The murderer did not commit rape or murder on the corpses. Moreover, apart from the dismemberment marks, the murderer did not cause any damage to the corpses. It is obviously unrealistic to judge his motive before committing the crime based on the current criminal investigation clues. Moreover, it is impossible to confirm the identity information of the corpse remains in Huangle District by collecting biological samples left at the scene.”

Captain Ma was in trouble. It seemed that finding the corpse didn’t help the criminal investigation at all.

However, Captain Ma was not in a hurry. Although the fifth corpse had been almost completely burned, he asked the Forensic Appraisal Institute to do everything possible to extract all the fingerprint information from the fifth corpse in Huangle District, or compare the other four corpses to investigate the same DNA information. Captain Ma said that if the information database of Dou Nan Province could not extract the victim’s information, he would report to the Ministry of Public Security, and then compare the fingerprint information samples from all over the country. He felt that figuring out the identity of the fifth corpse, the decisive clue in this case, would definitely come to light.

Almost all the forensic experts in the province were mobilized. After a day and night of forensic identification, the initial report was delivered to the investigation team. Professor Gong Lin, a forensic expert, said to Wang Linfei: “Team Wang, according to your requirements, the forensic identification results of the fifth corpse have revealed a strange thing. That is, a large amount of perfume residue appeared on the corpse. There are a large amount of essence, solubilizer, pigment, ethanol, dealdehyded alcohol, antioxidant, fungicide, glycerin and other substances on the corpse remains, but we compared the composition of many domestic perfumes on sale and could not determine the specific brand name of this perfume. Or does this perfume come from a certain brand abroad? I have to tell you about this.”

Wang Linfei suddenly smiled relievedly. He patted Professor Gong Lin on the shoulder and said, “This is very helpful for promoting our criminal investigation.”

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Wang Linfei made a call, and Lu Yao answered the phone on the other end.

“You’re free to confirm something for me here, Lu Yao. Recently, did the two of them go together?”

“No, only him alone.”

“I see.”

“Lu Yao, do you still have those two things?”

“Team Wang, what do you mean?”

“Yes, through my intuition, I feel that everything points to him, but we don’t have evidence. You immediately take those two dolls to the Forensic Appraisal Institute in Fengyun City. If the identification is consistent, it seems that everything should come to light.”

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