I'm a New Police Detective: Specializing in Solving Strange Cases

That day, because their daughter came home too late the night before, the father scolded her.

In the morning, I got up too late again and said a few words to her again.

And my daughter mentioned again that she wanted to get married, and her boyfriend was the son of Zhang family from the same village mentioned last time.

My father said, "Marriage is no problem, as long as the gift is enough."

When talking about this, the daughter got angry: "Is the betrothal gift so important? His family borrowed money for his college education, and later borrowed money to build a house. Do you want them to borrow money for the betrothal gift as well?"

So they quarreled for another day.

The daughter burst into tears, slammed the door, and never came out again.

After a night, the next morning, my father looked at the time and it was almost 10 o'clock. He usually came out to have breakfast at 8:, so why didn't he get up today?

He shouted a few times outside the door, but there was no response. Then he put his ear close to the door and listened for a while, but there was no sound at all.

He was a little puzzled as to what was going on.

The first time, they went downstairs, then came up again and knocked on the door 15 minutes later, but there was still no response. Thinking their daughter was angry and ignoring them, they stayed outside the door to coax her for a long time.

Still no movement, I went downstairs again.

I went upstairs and knocked on the door for the third time, but I heard a window squeak inside the room.

The father called several times, but there was still no sound in the house, but the window was still rattling, so he took out the spare key and opened the door.

When he saw the situation in the house, he immediately shouted "Daughter".

The shouting was so loud that my mother, who had just returned from shopping, heard it and ran up to me in a hurry: "What's wrong? What's the matter, Lao Chen?"

When she entered the house, she saw her daughter hanging on the aluminum frame of the air vent and fainted immediately.

A few minutes later, Du Ming called Lin Yu and the others and set off for Nanxiao District together.

Forensic pathologist Yu Xiaoyu also set off shortly afterwards.

Longjiao Village, Nanxiao District, is located in the southernmost part of Nanjiang City, and it takes an hour to get there.

The local police station has already set up a cordon and taken photos of the scene, and is just waiting for the city forensic doctor and detachment personnel to arrive.

Finally they arrived. After they arrived at the scene, a police officer immediately came over to report to Du Ming and then hurried away.

The scene was a farmer's self-built house, only two stories high, with a circle of villagers gathered outside, pointing and talking.

There were police officers upstairs and downstairs looking for something.

Lin Yu understood that this was an on-site investigation.

Du Ming waved to a police officer and motioned him to come over.

Immediately, the police officer trotted over and said, "Captain Du, you're here!"

Du Ming pointed at the crowd around him and said, "Xiao Chen, please ask them to disperse. There's nothing to see."

After saying that, he walked straight inside.

Lin Yu followed all the way to the third floor. All the police looked at him but didn't say anything.

In a room on the third floor, police officers from the police station were busy, some taking photos and some looking for fingerprints.

The room is not big and the sheets are pink. It should be a girl’s boudoir.

Sure enough, there was a female corpse against the wall, and judging from her clothes, she was still a young girl.

A young police officer reported to Du Ming: "The deceased was a college student who had just turned 18 and was the daughter of this family."

He then took off his gloves and said, "When we arrived at the scene, the family had already placed the body here. The scene was severely damaged, and their footprints were everywhere on the ground."

Du Ming asked: "How did he die?"

"The family of the deceased said that the girl hanged herself. The details need further analysis."

Lin Yu listened and shook his head: "He didn't hang himself!"

The young police officer followed the sound and saw Lin Yu examining the body in a serious manner. He looked at Du Ming and asked curiously, "Who is this?"

Du Ming smiled at him: "Oh, I forgot to introduce you, this is Lin Yu."

"This is Director Liu from Nanxiao."

Lin Yu shook hands with him. When the police officer heard that the other party was Lin Yu, his eyes widened a lot: "So you are Detective Lin, you have a long-standing reputation."

Lin Yu stood up slowly, frowned, and said something that everyone wanted to listen carefully!

"It's not suicide, it's homicide!"

This time Lin Yu felt that the girl looked familiar. He looked at her again and his expression was a little sad: Isn't this the girl who shared a car with him the day before yesterday? She also gave him a candy.

Director Liu was a little puzzled: "But the items at the scene were neatly arranged, with no signs of rummaging. How did you determine that she didn't commit suicide?"

Lin Yu asked: "Did the family tell us what they used to hang themselves?"

Director Liu handed him an evidence bag and said, "This is the switchboard."

Then he said: "We just reconstructed the scene. The height of the wiring board just meets the conditions for suicide by hanging."

"Also, the girl had no injuries on her body, no fighting had occurred, and she was wearing new clothes and new shoes."

Lin Yu squatted down again to check his clothes and shoes, and then shone the flashlight on his mobile phone on the soles of his shoes.

Then he closed his eyes, as if he was thinking, but in fact he was starting a simulation of the scene.

The reconstructed footage showed a man in the room putting a leather cord from a wiring board around the girl's neck and then hanging her on the aluminum window frame. He then wiped her tears, beat him with both hands, and jumped out of the window after a while.

It turns out that this simulated reconstruction does not include all the details, and the murderer is really just a simulation, but it is enough to reveal the truth.

After reproducing it, he nodded confidently: "The problem is with these new shoes. If I want to commit suicide, I have to walk from the bed to here, which will definitely leave a lot of dust.

But you can see there is no dust on the soles of the shoes, it is obvious that someone put them on her!"

"Yes, he is right." The speaker was Yu Xiaoyu, the forensic doctor who was examining the body.

Then he said, "Captain, this groove is not right either."

"The ravine is the second most suspicious thing."

Lin Yu added: "If she hanged herself before her death, the groove created by her own weight under the gravity must be very deep. But now you see, this groove is too shallow and does not meet the characteristics of hanging."

"Yes, he is right." Yu Xiaoyu echoed Du Ming.

Hearing this, Du Ming and Director Liu also squatted down and carefully examined the deceased's neck.

At this time, Du Ming was very satisfied with him.

I admire myself in my heart and think I made the right choice!

The hanging groove, also known as the rope groove, is the mark left when the neck is hanged.

In the eyes of others, Lin Yu is so young and has such strong investigation ability, which really makes other police officers look at him with admiration.

So this was a murder case, but the family members insisted that it was suicide.

What is going on here?

Because the family said that when they entered the house today, they found their daughter hanging on the door window, wearing brand new clothes.

This is also consistent with the characteristics before they committed suicide!

Their Longjiao Village is quite traditional. According to traditional Chinese culture, if someone wants to commit suicide, they must first wear new clothes.

So the family members may mistakenly believe that their daughter committed suicide, but the police must have evidence to prove it.

Du Ming ordered that all footprints at the scene be extracted, including the shoe treads of all the family members.

However, all the traces at the scene have been destroyed, and it will be a huge task to extract them.

To finally confirm whether it was homicide, further autopsy is needed to prove it. The conclusion drawn based on reasoning alone is difficult to convince the family!