Chapter 20: Both a victim and a murderer

Li Jian and a few others quickly arrived at the scene.

Looking at the vomit on the ground, he suddenly got angry.

Just as he was about to lose my temper, the police officer next to him reminded that it was caused by the property staff's carelessness.

Seeing that the property staff was also outside the door, Li Jian didn't say anything else.

The two police officers thought they had dodged a bullet.

But they didn't expect that after the property staff left, they still couldn't escape a scolding.

"What do you two do for a living? You are both veteran police officers, how could you make such a mistake?!"

…

In this regard, the two police officers could only express helplessness.

It's because Director Li is so angry.

After discovering two tragedies in a row, you can imagine the pressure he was under.

Moreover, this may indeed cause great trouble to solving the case.

If the vomit happens to cover up some important evidence, the consequences will be something no one can afford.

Now, they just hope that there are no clues to solve the case in this area.

Now the forensic doctor who came with Li Jian also felt his scalp tingling after standing at the door and taking a look at the crime scene.

Having been in this line of work for so many years, he can count on one hand the number of horrific crime scenes like this one.

There isn't much room to sit in the bedroom.

Maggots were crawling all over the ground, leaving behind light red trails.

The forensic doctor and his assistant simply cleaned the ground while trying not to disturb any traces on the ground, and then walked in.

It was the height of summer, and the stench of corpses in the house was stronger than 1,000 tubes of mustard.

Although they were wearing a protective mask, it still couldn't stop the strong smell from rushing into my nostrils and deep into my respiratory tract.

On the bed in the bedroom was a male corpse wearing only underwear.

The body was extremely distorted, and although there was little left of the face due to maggots, one could still see that the deceased had a hideous expression.

He must have suffered a lot during his lifetime.

The surface of the corpse was covered with a network of green decaying veins and bright red spots everywhere. The forensic doctor could easily remove a piece of flesh with a light touch of tweezers.

A few dozen minutes.

After some investigation, the forensic doctor and his assistant determined the basic information of the body. After extracting contents from the nail crevices, mouth and other places, they walked out of the room.

Then, he briefly reported the results of the body identification to Li Jian.

"The deceased was a male, about 40 years old, 166cm tall, with black hair, and died about 10 days ago. The body looked like it had been poisoned, with a black body and red spots all over the body. The body was rigor mortis, and the face, hands and feet were skeletal. Some of the internal organs were missing, and there were no obvious fractures in the body."

"The initial diagnosis is that it may be cyanide poisoning. And the dosage should be quite high."

Afterwards, the forensic doctor and his assistant hurried back to the police laboratory with the contents they had taken out and began testing.

Several police officers who often deal with crime scenes waited for the medical examiner to come out, put on masks, and quickly entered the bedroom.

Start collecting evidence, taking photos, doing trace detection, etc.

The ground at the scene was very clean.

After examining it for a long time, the criminal investigation personnel only found a few footprints and a broken water cup.

The broken pieces of the cup were scattered on the ground beside the bed, surrounded by some water stains.

The water stains and broken glass were covered with maggots that had long been dead and had now turned into maggot pupae.

Several police officers, holding tweezers, carefully put the broken pieces of the cup into numbered evidence bags.

Afterwards, mark the footprints on the ground one by one.

Outside the bedroom.

Several police officers soon made an important discovery.

They found that the room had used 30 tons of water in the previous month.

A normal family of three uses about 10 tons per month.

According to the property management, this household is home to only a couple, who are often not at home.

This amount of water usage is obviously very suspicious.

Could it be that the dismemberment case that was just discovered also happened in this room?

The police officer just checked the water meters and found that this house's water usage was the most suspicious in the entire building.

At this moment, Li Jian felt that there should be some connection between these two cases.

This is a feeling he has gained from working in criminal investigation for many years, an inexplicable feeling.

But he couldn't tell what the specific connection was.

At this time, the forensic test results have not yet come out, and the identity of the body parts is still being compared...

Just a few minutes later, Li Jian's suspicions were initially confirmed.

A police officer found a suicide note in the desk in the bedroom.

The main contents of the suicide note are:

The man admitted that he killed his wife because she had an affair and then dismembered her body. In the end, he felt regretful and chose to commit suicide to atone for his sins.

Is the case solved now?

Faced with the sudden suicide note, Li Jian was a little confused.

Having been engaged in criminal investigation work for so many years, he had encountered at least 800 cases, big and small, if not thousands.

However, things like today are really rare.

There are also cases where murderers commit suicide out of fear of punishment.

There are also many people who kill and dismember people.

However, the case I encountered today combined the two.

He always felt something was wrong.

…

Lu An, who was downstairs, heard that the water meter checking was effective, so he rushed over under the leadership of Liu Qian.

He was the discoverer of the body parts and had helped solve major cases before.

So, we arrived at the scene smoothly.

Li Jian, who was at the crime scene, frowned and thought about the case.

I saw Liu Qian bringing Lu An over.

His mood brightened up instantly, but his face showed no sign of expression and he remained serious.

Last time, he discovered that this boy was no ordinary man. Not only did he have good reasoning skills, but he also knew a lot about criminal investigation.

It's a pity that he didn't do this job.

Otherwise, he would be the head of the Criminal Investigation Department now.

After arriving at the scene, Lu An looked towards the bathroom and the system prompt appeared instantly.

[Victim: Cao Dong (Cause of death: cyanide poisoning.)]

[Murderer: Hou Chunqin.]

[The murderer's current coordinates are being locked...]

Hou Chunqin, why does this name look so familiar?

Lu An thought for a moment, and was suddenly shocked. Isn't this the body fragments that were just found?

Is she the murderer?

Did you make a mistake with the system?

Or is it just a coincidence that we have the same name?

Lu An clicked on the previous prompt again and took a look, and found that it was not a duplicate name.

All the information about the body parts just found and the murderer in the current case completely matches each other.

Just one person.

Both a victim and a murderer.

Originally, Lu An thought that this dismemberment case was probably just a murder of passion or revenge, and that he could solve the case by simply working backwards and finding some evidence.

But now it seems that Lu An was thinking too simply.