Chapter 246 Difficult to Advance

"Everyone is here, let's get started," Cen Lian looked at the time, "The case file is here, the situation is complicated, the current case and the last reopening were investigated from two directions, and there was no breakthrough."

This case was reopened once before, after all, the case caused a certain degree of sensation at the time, but in the end it was still stuck on the identity of the deceased.

"I just took a rough look at the autopsy report. The head of the deceased was severed from the neck and stuffed into the abdominal cavity with all the organs emptied. The face was severely damaged. After the skull restoration, the identity was not matched. I took a look at the skull restoration, the level is not too bad." Forensic Doctor Lin was the first to speak, "The biggest problem now is that the body was hit a lot in the river during the flood discharge, and some areas of the skull were severely broken. The bones are also incomplete to a certain extent, so the effect of the skull restoration is not good."

Cen Lian carefully checked the skull restoration picture. About one-third of the upper part of the entire face could not be completely restored. It should be the area that Forensic Doctor Lin said was severely broken.

The broken bones were missing after being pieced together, and the face was not complete.

"Actually, the skull reconstruction was done quite well," Lin, the forensic doctor, was still reading the autopsy report. "The technical level of our experts is roughly here. I have only seen better ones when I attended lectures in the capital. The skull reconstruction route should not work."

Cen Lian was not surprised by this. If the skull restoration route could work, the case would never have been in their hands.

"Maybe we still need to do another autopsy," Cen Lian read the autopsy report over and over again. "With the things in the current file, we can't move forward."

This case has been stuck at the first step until now. If we want to move forward, confirming the identity is the most basic.

"The reservoir and the river can also be observed again," Qi Yan proposed a new idea based on his own experience. "The murderer should have a better understanding of the water level of the reservoir, at least the lowest water level of the reservoir, but he is definitely not a staff member of the reservoir, otherwise the location where the body was dumped would be far away from the gate."

These were also investigated by the previous special task force, but no very detailed records were formed in the file.

"It's not hard to know the hydrological changes of the reservoir," Wu Qiushan stopped flipping through the files, "As far as I know, there have been people fishing near these reservoirs for a long time. You can find out when the water is deep and when it is shallow by asking."

"So it can explain why he dumped the body in the waters near the gate," Qi Yan marked several locations on the plan of the reservoir, "At least he is definitely not a local from the nearby villages and towns. We often have heavy rains in the summer, and floods will be released every two or three years. The residents nearby know the rules of flood discharge in summer, and always dump garbage near the gate. The reservoir has been fined several times before it has become a little restrained."

Although Qi Yan's words are somewhat off topic, the content is not wrong at all. If you want to completely sink the body into the reservoir and never dig it out, the best way is to dump the body in the place where it is least likely to be washed into the river by the flood discharge. In this way, the body will completely turn into bones over time, and the black plastic bag wrapped in the body will gradually rot. At that time, there may only be a few bones of unknown origin left.

"Not from a nearby village or town, but definitely a local," Wang Yuanteng brought a large teacup this time, which was somewhat out of tune with the mineral water and milk tea on the table, "Even locals don't know much about this reservoir. I've only heard of it once and never been there."

"The murderer's range is indeed not too large," Cen Lian also had no objection to this conclusion, "but the question is still going back, how can we determine the identity of the deceased."

"I'll do another autopsy and see," Lin, the forensic doctor, even notified the body to be sent over before he came, "A woman between 25 and 30 years old will more or less leave some unique traces of life."

Although it is not certain whether such traces have commonalities, it is definitely impossible to be featureless.

"I want to go to the reservoir to take a look," Qi Yan also had his own ideas, "The place where the body was dumped could not have been chosen for no reason."

In this way, the troops were divided into two groups again.

"Brother Wang, you and Brother Qi should go to the reservoir together, and take Yu Ye and the others with you," Cen Lian knew that Qi Yan always had some unique ideas about the topography of the place where the body was dumped, so he also expected him to make some discoveries, "Let's go and take a look at the body, and maybe we can find something by working together."

This case is still in the early stage of investigation. As long as there is an idea, you can try it. If it doesn't work, Cen Lian always has a backup plan.

Ask is exhaustive.

The general portrait of the murderer in this case is a young and middle-aged local male. It's nothing more than looking at millions of household registration information.

Cen Lian didn't dare to think about it any further. Although he always set up this backup plan in his mind, he never hoped to really use it.

If this is done, even a nuclear-powered donkey can't stand it.

The simple meeting ended, and the two groups set off separately.

It was Cen Lian's first time to come to the forensic autopsy room of the Municipal Bureau, and he found that the equipment here was much more advanced than that of the funeral home.

"These are all sets of equipment specially purchased by the Municipal Bureau. They are said to be of international quality," Forensic Doctor Lin said to them after changing his clothes. "The body has been delivered, but there are a few procedures that we don't have to go through. When this case was reopened last time, the forensic doctor in charge of this case directly removed the bones of the body. Now only the bones are left."

"No wonder you didn't say wait for thawing," Tang Hua was familiar with the process of forensic autopsy, "This kind of skeleton doesn't need to be frozen."

"That's not the case. A completely skeletonized body also needs some special means to preserve it," Lin, a forensic doctor, didn't say too much in detail, "This situation has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that the state of the bones is more intuitive, and the disadvantage is that we can't make more judgments through muscle tissue."

Because the body was sunk into the reservoir for disposal, most of the muscles had dissolved when it was hit by the flood downstream, and the bag containing the body was full of corpse oil and human tissue with a foul odor.

At that time, there were still some relatively complete tissues and organs, and when the second autopsy was performed, they could only be examined after the bones were removed.

So the information they can get from the body now is much less than three years ago.

"The characteristics on the bones should have been checked by the previous forensic doctor." Wu Qiushan said confidently, "So what we are looking for now is not so obvious characteristics."