"From the factory to the dormitory in Hongqi Town, we would pass by an ice lake!" A female factory worker said to Zhao Yu and the others, her eyes red. "If we walked around the ice lake, it would be a little longer. Plus, we didn't have bicycles or anything like that. So, in winter, we preferred to walk directly across the ice, which saved us a lot of time."
"Probably …" the female worker recalled. "It was more than a month ago? "Xiao Chi said that every time she got off work in the afternoon and walked on the ice, she would often see a woman in a red dress waving at her from the forest in the north!"
At this point, the other two female workers at the scene shuddered inexplicably.
"It gets dark early in winter," the female worker continued. "By the time we got off work at six in the afternoon and finished dinner, the sky would be dark. You couldn't even see the forest on the ice, let alone the woman in a red dress!"
"At first, we didn't take it seriously. We thought that Xiao Chi was deliberately scaring us!"
"But, after a while, Xiao Chi's condition got worse and worse. She started to get nervous and anxious. She insisted that she saw the woman in a red dress again!"
"Another time, it scared the hell out of us!" The female worker hesitated, then said nervously, "Because we were worried about Xiao Chi, we accompanied her after work and went back to the dormitory together.
Then, one day, when we were walking on the ice, Xiao Chi pointed to the forest in the north and said that she saw the woman in a red dress! "
"But, we turned our heads and looked for a long time, but we didn't see anything at all!"
"From that day on, Xiao Chi's condition got worse. She even had a fever and took a few days off. We even discussed whether we should hire a teacher to take a look at Xiao Chi …"
"But, I didn't expect …" The female worker cried. "Something so serious happened … Woo woo woo …"
As she cried, the other female workers also started crying.
Zhao Yu, Wu Xiumin, and Xi Mengna looked at each other. No one had expected that a strange murder case would have a ghost story!
Of course, based on Zhao Yu's experience, this ghost story might just be an interlude. It had nothing to do with Chi Meixin's murder or the murder under the bridge.
So, Zhao Yu adjusted his thoughts and mentality and began to focus on the case in front of him.
He put Wu Xiumin in charge of the case. She was to investigate the information related to the deceased and the surrounding environment to look for suspicious traces.
Then, he found Captain Qiu and asked him to look for the video of the second murder under the bridge. He suspected that the murderer might be among the crowd of onlookers.
Then, Zhao Yu put on his gloves again and went under the bridge.
Under Forensic Doctor Guo Fengzhan's instructions, the corpse had been taken down from under the bridge and placed into a body bag.
Next, the inspectors began to conduct detailed collection work at the scene.
The snow stopped and there was no wind. The temperature was slightly higher than before, but it was still around -10 degrees Celsius. The staff were obviously not prepared for the cold, and they were all shivering in the cold.
"Police Officer Zhao," Guo Fengzhan saw Zhao Yu and immediately pointed at the body bag. "From the degree of freezing of the body, the time of death hasn't been long!
"I'm …" He opened the bag and showed Zhao Yu a place. "I found some abrasions on the body, as well as some herbal residue.
I suspect that the murderer might have dragged the deceased through the grass for a while. So … I suggest that you search the grass carefully! "
"Oh, I understand …" Zhao Yu turned his head and looked at the withered yellow grass on both sides of the river. He extended his hand to Guo Fengzhan and said, "Forensic Doctor Guo, we met in such a hurry that I didn't get to greet you!"
"Oh …" Forensic Doctor Guo quickly shook Zhao Yu's hand and said, "The situation is special, so you can't take off your gloves! I've long heard of Detective Zhao Yu's name. We finally meet today! "
"It's freezing outside. Thank you for your hard work!" Zhao Yu quickly said.
"Hey, don't say that. This is our job! Mm … "Guo Fengzhan hesitated for a moment, then said to Zhao Yu," Police Officer Zhao, there's something that I don't know if you've noticed!
"I read the autopsy reports of the previous cases on the plane. I realized that the situation this time was a little strange!"
"Yes, you saw it too!" Zhao Yu said. "The scene was a mess, and the murderer looked like a rookie! But, in the previous three cases, it was clean and neat! "
"That's right," Forensic Doctor Guo said. "I also think that in this case, someone might be imitating the real murderer!
"I just saw that there were different degrees of strangulation marks on the deceased's chin, collarbone, and even on the face. I suspect …" Forensic Doctor Guo pointed at the corpse in the bag and said, "The murderer hung it several times before he succeeded. He might have forgotten that the rope needed to be fixed, then put the dead's neck into the noose …"
"Yes," Zhao Yu said. "There were traces of friction on the previous rings. I suspect that the murderer used a pulley that was more labor-saving. But, the murderer in front of us didn't know what a pulley was!
He just thought that as long as he got a noose and installed a rope ring, he could hang a dead person up! "
"I saw some bruises on the deceased's neck. It seemed that the murderer strangled the deceased before he was hanged, but …" Guo Fengzhan reached out his hand and gestured at the corpse. "I compared it with the previous corpses, and the position and strength of the bruises are obviously different!
So, based on what we know now, we can basically conclude that this case is not the work of the same murderer as the previous ones! "
"Mm …" Zhao Yu nodded and fell into deep thought.
He was thinking about whether he should inform Miao Ying in advance if this case was really a copycat crime.
Maybe, the full martial law could be implemented later.
Besides, he was also thinking, if the murderer of this case was not the same as the murderer of the previous three female corpses under the bridge cases, which side should he focus on?
There were many loopholes in this case. A female worker from a foreign oil production factory had died under the bridge outside the factory. There had to be a big reason for this, and it would be easy to investigate!
So, if he focused on this case, he might be able to find the murderer soon!
"Police Officer Zhao," Guo Fengzhan looked around, then said to Zhao Yu, "I just heard that the deceased was a female worker in the oil production factory. If this case is really a copycat crime, does that mean that the murderer is related to the factory?"
"I understand what you mean!" Zhao Yu nodded and said, "I'll send someone to talk to the factory. Later, we have to go to the deceased's dormitory to check the scene. At that time, I'll have to trouble your team …"
"Please don't treat me like an outsider," Guo Fengzhan said. "Before I came here, Teacher Gao Facai called me and specifically told me about this.
I'm a forensic doctor, so in order to investigate a case, I'm naturally duty-bound. If you have any orders, just let me know! "
"Oh … Oh …" Zhao Yu nodded with satisfaction.
It seemed that Gao Facai must have told him about his bad temper, so when Guo Fengzhan spoke, he was very respectful and polite.
The two talked for a while, then Zhao Yu walked out of the river for the second time.
At the same time, the forensic staff had already transported the bag containing the corpse to the riverbank and loaded it into the police car, ready to be transported back to the Manchurian Police Station for an autopsy.
Seeing Zhao Yu come up, Captain Chou hurried forward and said, "Police Officer Zhao, we've found the video of the last crime scene at Baishuiqiao. If you want to see it now, I can ask the technical department to share it with your mobile phone. You can watch it now …"
"No hurry," Zhao Yu said. "Before that, we have to go to the deceased's dormitory and consult with the people in the factory …"
Beep beep … Beep beep …
Who knew that at this moment, his phone would ring.
Zhao Yu turned on his phone and saw that it wasn't his phone that was ringing.
"Oh … Mine, mine …" Captain Chou quickly grabbed his phone and pressed the answer button.
Unexpectedly, when he answered the phone, Captain Chou suddenly staggered and almost fell to the ground …
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