freenovelworld Chapter 950 Dongchuan Cement Plant
Chapter 950 Dongchuan Cement Plant
After Li Ming finished investigating the old textile factory case, he went to the Municipal Public Security Bureau and gave Qin Chuan a very detailed report.
Recently, Qin Chuan has been compiling the investigation process and records of major criminal cases that have occurred in Dongchuan City over the years.
Of course, what Qin Chuan needed to understand wasn't the specific investigation process of the case, but rather to analyze and understand the underlying reasons for the high incidence of criminal cases in Dongchuan City over the years.
To say that the public security environment in Dongchuan City is bad is not necessarily true. In fact, the public security environment in Dongchuan City is not the worst in the province, nor is it the best. It is at least in the middle range.
Moreover, the crackdown on organized crime and gang-related activities has been very intense in the past two years, and the social atmosphere in Dongchuan City is relatively good. You can no longer see thugs on the streets, unlike before when they were everywhere. In addition, some shady places have been shut down.
In the old Dongchuan City, there was a casino here, a hair salon there, a KTV there, and some kind of club there. You could say that if you just walked into any street, you would find a lot of these gray-market businesses.
With these staff members hidden in the gray industry chain, many cases are prone to involving conflicts of interest.
Just three or four years ago, there were a lot of kidnapping, robbery and theft cases in Dongchuan City, and the frequency of these cases was very high.
However, in the past two years, since Qin Chuan took office in Changning, the campaign against organized crime has been carried out with great force. The industrial chains hidden under the gray industry have been basically destroyed. Although there are still some fish poisons, they are hidden deeper and will not easily cause trouble.
However, compared to this, the probability of homicide has not decreased. In Dongchuan City, there are similar cases almost every week. Whether it is the criminal investigation branch or the criminal police brigade of the public security bureaus in various districts and counties, each brigade basically has one or even two homicide cases on hand. Some have been investigated, some have not yet been investigated, and some are in the process of investigation.
Therefore, Qin Chuan wanted to collect some information from these past major cases and archives to see if he could discover some patterns through overall statistical analysis of these cases, so as to take further measures to reduce the probability of Dongchuan City's demise.
Just as Li Ming was returning after giving a report to Qin Chuan, and had just entered the courtyard of the Criminal Investigation Detachment, he received another murder case as soon as he stepped into the office.
The voice on the other end of the line was urgent and panicked: "Team Leader Li! A body has been found at the Dongchuan Cement Plant, buried in a pile of stones." He grabbed his coat, quickly gathered the key members of the detachment, and the siren pierced the twilight as they sped towards the cement plant, twenty kilometers away.
Acrid dust filled the factory area, and searchlights cast a ghastly white glow on the piles of stones. The worker who reported the incident was deathly pale, his fingers still trembling slightly: "I was driving the bulldozer to shovel stones, and as soon as the tines went in, I felt something was wrong. I dug it open and saw..." His Adam's apple bobbed, and he couldn't continue. Li Ming put on rubber gloves and stepped through knee-deep gravel to approach the body. The deceased was face down, the skull severely deformed from the pressure, the clothing on the back torn to shreds by sharp stones, and dark red bloodstains mixed with cement dust, hardening into lumps in the night wind.
The scene was completely cordoned off. Beside the pile of stones, Yang Lin and Yang Sen were bending over, wearing professional gloves and goggles, carefully conducting their investigation. Their movements were slow and precise, as if they were afraid of missing any subtle clues.
"Captain Li, the scene is relatively well preserved." Yang Lin straightened up and pointed around. "The police officers set up a cordon before we arrived. Apart from the few workers who discovered the body, no one else has been interfering with the scene for the time being."
Li Ming nodded, his gaze sweeping over the massive pile of stones. The grayish-white stones, piled high like a mountain, gleamed with a cold, hard light in the afterglow of the setting sun. The body of the deceased, Li Dejun, lay curled up in a depression in the pile, his head mostly covered by stones, his body twisted in an unnatural position, his blue work clothes stained with cement dust and dark red blood.
Forensic pathologist Zhang Lin crouched down and began a preliminary examination of the body. He put on a mask and gloves and gently removed the stones from the deceased's head. "The deceased has multiple blunt force injuries to the head, with irregular edges, which should have been caused by being struck by irregular hard objects like stones," Zhang Lin reported to Li Ming as he examined the body. "There are also some abrasions and bruises on the body surface, which should have been caused during the struggle or rolling."
Yang Sen held a magnifying glass and carefully examined the ground around the body. "Captain Li, there are drag marks here." He pointed to a blurry dark mark on the ground and said, "Judging from the direction of the marks, they extend from the edge of the pile of stones to the location of the body. It seems that the murderer dragged the victim here and then buried him with stones."
Following the drag marks, Li Ming walked to the edge of the pile of stones and found a small area where the stones were loose, as if they had been disturbed. "Take samples of these stones and check for bloodstains or other biological traces," Li Ming instructed.
Yang Lin immediately took out an evidence bag and put the suspicious stones into it. By this time, Zhang Lin had completed a preliminary examination of the body's surface. "Based on the livor mortis and rigor mortis, the preliminary assessment is that the time of death was 12-16 hours ago. However, the exact time of death needs further confirmation through laboratory tests, such as the degree of digestion of the stomach contents. As for the cause of death, blunt force trauma to the head is currently the primary factor, but other possibilities cannot be ruled out; an autopsy is necessary to reach an accurate conclusion."
After a moment of contemplation, Li Ming said, "First, take the body back to the autopsy room. Zhang Lin, you should perform the autopsy as soon as possible. Yang Lin and Yang Sen, you two continue to conduct a thorough investigation of the scene, especially around the pile of stones. Any small item or trace could be a key clue."
"Understood!" Yang Lin and Yang Sen replied in unison.
Zhang Lin directed the staff to carefully lift the body onto the forensic vehicle, and then drove back to the autopsy room. Yang Lin and Yang Sen remained at the scene to conduct a more in-depth investigation.
Yang Sen lay on the ground and used tweezers to extract some substances from under the victim's fingernails, placing them into an evidence bag. "These substances might be the killer's skin tissue or clothing fibers, and could potentially become key evidence in solving the case," he said.
Yang Lin, with his camera in hand, took photos of the scene from different angles, not missing a single detail. "The photos from the scene can help us with repeated research later. Perhaps clues that we haven't found yet can be found in the photos."