TPODN Chapter 5

The investigation into “Lei Minghua’s Right Hand” stalled, and another severed left hand appeared in Zileng District, shocking all the criminal investigation police in the city.

Hu Shi, under immense pressure, reported the incident to Liu Zihao, the captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade. Liu Zihao, now the brigade captain, urgently reported to the leaders of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, proposing to temporarily cancel the meeting and have his subordinates investigate the “dismemberment case” in Zileng District. With his years of criminal investigation experience, Liu Zihao realized that this “dismemberment case” in Zileng District was likely directly related to the severed right hand found in Luyuan District!

Liu Zihao personally called Hu Shi, instructing him to oversee the overall situation. These two cases were rare in the history of Fengyun City. Dismemberment cases had occurred in different districts for two consecutive days, and these two cases were very likely directly related!

“Let Wang Linfei supervise this case. He’s the most skilled at handling these kinds of cases in our Criminal Investigation Brigade,” Liu Zihao said to Hu Shi on the phone.

“I’ve already assigned Wang Linfei to take the case, and Lu Yao has already told me the preliminary investigation results from Luyuan District. I plan to supervise the Zileng District case and the Luyuan District case together!”

The day after the “dismemberment case” occurred in Zileng District, Hu Shi brought the investigation results to the office building of the case team. All fourteen criminal investigation police officers of the “Special Criminal Investigation Unit,” except for Li Ke, were present. Hu Shi sat in the middle of the conference hall, solemn and dignified. After a long time, Hu Shi spoke, without official jargon, directly to the point, getting straight to business:

“There has never been such a bizarre case in the history of our city. Corpses have appeared in different districts for two consecutive days, and after investigation, these left and right hands are directly related. The dismembered right hand was found near Luyuan No. 1 Middle School in Luyuan District, and the dismembered left hand was found near Zileng No. 3 Elementary School in Zileng District. The two seem unrelated, but there is also an inevitable connection. A Fei, tell Wang Linfei the investigation results of the dismembered right hand found in Zileng District.”

A Fei, wearing glasses, held a large stack of materials and began to introduce them to Wang Linfei.

The dismembered right hand in Zileng District was also found near a school, and the school had just finished its “Arbor Day” activities. The preliminary judgment is that this right hand is a female right hand, with a white lace accessory on the wrist. The wearer had an emerald ring the size of a pebble. This ring is very beautiful, with spiral patterns engraved on it, and dark green flowers dotted on it. Obviously, this ring was designed by a jewelry designer. The entire severed right hand also had no blood stains, and the white bones could be clearly seen at the wrist. All the fingers of this severed right hand had been cut off, apparently to prevent the police from obtaining fingerprints; investigating police also found that this right hand had been discarded for many days, and corpse fluid had begun to seep out from the wrist…

“Black lace accessories… very similar to the right hand in Luyuan District. And both were discarded near schools.” Wang Linfei immediately grasped the key point.

“That’s why I said that these two incidents may have an inevitable connection, but it cannot be ruled out that the killer is confusing our police.” Hu Shi took a sip of tea and looked at Wang Linfei sitting on his left.

Wang Linfei always stops drinking coffee when he thinks about things. Soon, his cup of diluted Americano was finished. Lu Yao immediately brewed him a new cup, and he drank it all in one gulp, saying, “Captain Hu, I should know about Jin Sisi from Lu Yao, right?”

“Jin Sisi…”

The right hand in Luyuan District belongs to Lei Minghua, which was the result of fingerprint analysis. Wang Linfei guessed that, based on abnormal logical reasoning, if the two are inevitably connected, then the owner of the severed left hand in Zileng District might also be a fan of Jin Sisi.

“There are no fingerprints on the right hand, so it is difficult for us to investigate who the deceased is. We cannot rashly determine that she is also a fan of Jin Sisi; there is no evidence.” Lu Yao interjected, clearly disappointed as the case team’s technical analyst about the lack of fingerprints.

“Indeed… without fingerprints, anyone can put on this black lace. And we also analyzed the fingerprint morphology characteristics. Lei Minghua’s right hand and the left hand found in Zileng District have no common fingerprint imaging. It is almost impossible to investigate the murderer through big data.” Hu Shi’s words caused everyone present to break out in cold sweats. They all knew that this case might overturn common sense.

Hu Shi saw everyone’s concerns and smiled, “That’s the meaning of our ‘Special Criminal Investigation Unit.’ However, don’t worry everyone, we can use the ‘Jin Sisi’ angle. Lu Yao told me about Lei Minghua, and everyone can focus their work on this. We can definitely dig out results!”

The only clear lead they could grasp was Lei Minghua’s. Although the left hand in Zileng District had no clear clues to investigate, they could connect the two and investigate them together. Currently, based on the information they had, this was the only logical reasoning they could do.

However, Wang Linfei fell into anxiety, and he asked Lu Yao to brew another cup of coffee. Hu Shi knew that Wang Linfei’s silence meant his brain was working at high speed, and his lack of active participation indicated that the case was indeed difficult.

“What about the rest of the body, Captain Hu?”

This was the most difficult part of the entire case. Since only a left hand and a right hand had been found, where were the rest of the body parts?

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