Reborn in 1995, Criminal Investigation Records

What's even more coincidental is that the cemetery there is also the Xie family's ancestral cemetery!

"Zhou Yang, tell me your investigative strategy!" Liu Chengyu returned from outside immediately after receiving the message, followed by Xiao Jiale and Dai Yan.

"Okay, Mr. Liu, but before that, I need to confirm two things!" Zhou Yang said, calling Fang Duo and Wang Chao over and giving each of them a few instructions before the two hurriedly left.

He himself quickly went to the technical team and found the leisurely Wang Zhenhai.

"I knew you'd come over as soon as I heard you brought people back!" Wang Zhenhai said, raising his chin slightly and pointing to a report on the table.

Zhou Yang flipped through two pages, then suddenly clenched his fist, wanting to shower Wang Zhenhai with compliments.

"Forget it, hurry up and go conduct the interrogation, this old man is exhausted!" Seemingly seeing through Zhou Yang's thoughts, Wang Zhenhai snorted coldly and arrogantly lit a cigarette.

......

Zhou Yang returned to the First Brigade's office area and looked at the eagerly waiting group: "I'm not trying to keep you in suspense, but we need to verify things from multiple sources before we can determine the final result. However, it shouldn't be a big problem!"

"Let's wait a bit then, Fang Duo and Chao Zi haven't come back yet!" Liu Chengyu poured a glass of water and placed it in front of him. The swirling steam seemed to raise the temperature of the whole room by a few degrees.

Five or six minutes later, Fang Duo returned first, staring wide-eyed at Zhou Yang and giving him a thumbs up.

"I've made contact, yes, how did you know? Amazing!" A rough voice rang out, and Wang Chao returned.

"Now that everyone's here, I'll give you a general outline of the plan, which will make the interrogation easier later!"

"At the time, Chao and I contacted Ding Longlong and Xie Lixiang to understand the situation, because they were not only the plumbers and electricians in the community, but also the first to discover the body!" Wang Chao opened his notebook and looked through the police dispatch records for that day.

"At the time, Ding Longlong said that the lock on the stairs leading to the roof had been broken for three days, but according to the analysis of the debris that Teacher Wang detected at the wound site of the deceased, the padlock should have been broken a week earlier. Evidence does not lie, so the only one who can lie is Ding Longlong!"

After the last cleaning, Xie Lixiang was supposed to lock the door, but Ding Longlong took it from him. Then they found that the lock was broken. Considering that Xie Lixiang had opened the lock before, there was ample reason to suspect that if Ding Longlong hadn't suddenly insisted on locking the door this time, Xie Lixiang might have been able to cover up the lock problem again!

Combined with Xie Lixiang's unusual behavior when the body was discovered, this naturally made me suspect him.

Secondly, I just had Sister Duoduo contact Ding Ling, a friend of Zhong Yue's from before. It was confirmed that before tutoring Chen Leilei, Zhong Yue was tutoring Xie Lixiang in Ping Shui...

Subsequently, Zhou Yang laid out his investigative approach, along with his speculations.

After a while, the room was quiet.

Although everyone had guesses that this guy might catch the murderer within three days, no one expected that he would actually bring the person back on the second day.

Based on what Zhou Yang just said, it is highly likely that Xie Lixiang is the murderer who killed Gong Xiaojun and Zhong Tao.

"But what about the evidence?" Xiao Jiale frowned, raising his hand to interrupt, "I don't mean anything by it, but while we investigative work encourage bold hypotheses, hypotheses are not the same as wild guesses. Everything must be guided by evidence!"

Zhou Yang nodded: "There's something everyone might not have noticed, and that's why Zhong Tao's body was found in the cesspool of the ditch?"

"Didn't they say it was in the middle of nowhere, secluded, and that the stench of corpses would be masked?" Wang Chao said, counting on his fingers. "Could there be another reason?"

"Does everyone remember what Ren did after he returned to the scene after dealing with the first body?" Zhou Yang looked at his colleagues and began to guide them.

"Going back and pretending to sweep up sugar was actually a way to cover up our tracks!" Dai Yan said, then blinked, "Could it be that Zhong Tao's body was also..."

Zhou Yang nodded and tossed the autopsy report onto the table: "Many people probably didn't notice a sentence in this report: 'A small amount of dissolved, autolytic skin tissue was found inside the nail fold of the right middle finger, making it unsuitable for further examination.'"

"And this too!" Zhou Yang pointed to one of the lines: "Yellowish-brown substance with foul-smelling feces was found inside the mouth; the substance was not found in the pharynx or deep airway."

"What does this mean?" Wang Chao asked bluntly, and immediately felt himself being stared at by a fierce gaze.

"What does that prove? Use your brain, will you? Stop thinking about catching people all day long and just looking at the final assessment!" Liu Chengyu slammed his cup on the table, exasperated by his son's lack of self-confidence.

Unfortunately, every era has its limitations. Nowadays, when handling cases, many people are in a state of knowing what happened but not why, and they only look at the most intuitive key conclusions in the report.

For example, corneal opacity can be interpreted as indicating that the person has been dead for some time.

Temporal bone petrosal hemorrhage – could lead to suffocation.

Stomach contents emptied – died without eating.

This systematic transformation into experiential language may be inaccurate. For example, drowning is simply understood as falling into water and drowning, which may overlook whether the body was disposed of after death.

Of course, this is a product of the times. Criminal investigation technology in this era is generally regarded as an auxiliary tool rather than the main one. The core of solving cases is still investigation, interrogation, and experience!

However, with the development of the times and the progress of informatization, these situations will improve.

"This means the killer may have known about the existence of DNA, and even knew how to use contaminants to damage DNA in order to hide their personal information!" Xiao Jiale looked intently at Zhou Yang.

"Gong Xiaojun was bled out, and Zhong Tao had feces stuffed in his mouth after he died. How could the murderer be so malicious?" Fang Duo looked at Wang Chao, who had a conflicted expression. "Those filthy things were only in his mouth, not in his esophagus or throat, which means they were stuffed in after he died."

"Oh, oh..." Wang Chao nodded frantically, as if he had found a treasure.

"I think this might not be malicious, but a means, a way for the murderer to destroy evidence. There might be some evidence in Zhong Tao's mouth that is detrimental to the murderer!" Xiao Jiale said, suddenly standing up, his expression slightly agitated.

"Liu Da, I suggest the technical team currently..."

Da da da...

A familiar knock on the door interrupted Xiao Jiale's words. The technical team member standing outside, seeing a dozen pairs of eyes staring at him, looked slightly embarrassed: "Excuse me, Teacher Wang asked us to bring this over!"

Upon receiving the report, Liu Chengyu's eyes lit up as he flipped through it: "A tuft of hair was found in Zhong Tao's stomach, swallowed shortly before his death!"

"Good heavens!" Wang Chao exclaimed, "Zhong Tao is using himself as a tool to store evidence!"