Chapter 403

Returning to the crime scene was something Cen Lian often encountered when he was at the police station, but they were all petty thefts. It was the first time he encountered a murderer returning to the crime scene, and he even found it a bit novel.

Generally speaking, except for a small number of perverted murderers who return to the crime scene to appreciate their own murder masterpieces, most criminals return to the crime scene because they feel guilty, in various ways.

Cen Lian had previously interrogated many thieves who sneaked back to the neighborhood after breaking into houses to observe whether the owner had called the police. He had also seen unskilled fraudsters who, after defrauding the elderly, asked people indirectly whether the elderly's children had called the police.

Facing such criminals, they don't even need to do anything special. As long as they put on a gesture of "we police have been here", some people with guilty consciences will consciously and actively fall into the trap.

"Arrange a few people to squat at the intersection of the mountain nearby." Cen Lian didn't want to wait for the rabbit by himself, and he didn't have the mind to gamble whether this person would come again. Seeing that the place where the body was dumped might be nearby, their time should not be wasted on this matter.

Wang Yuanteng nodded, turned around and found a slightly more open place to make a phone call.

There was of course no signal in the deep mountains and old forests, so the news was synchronized by satellite calls.

After the footprints were arranged, Cen Lian, with the help of Tang Hua, descended to the most densely wooded area in the middle of the cliff.

Some traces of broken trees can be clearly seen here, and some branches of trees are still hanging with inconspicuous clothing fibers and faint bloodstains.

Due to the high density of trees, although there has been heavy rain here, the area in the middle that is most covered by layers of plants has retained more clues than expected.

At least it can be inferred how the deceased fell by the angle of the broken tree branches, the location and distribution of bloodstains, etc.

If this was when the case just happened, they could still judge the posture of the deceased falling from the cliff before his death by the traces left on the ground, but now the remaining bloodstains on the ground have been minimal after the heavy rain and flood, and it is difficult to distinguish too many things.

"Give me a few more evidence bags," Cen Lian emerged from the bushes, "There are a lot of trace evidence left here, and it's not realistic to do microscopic operations directly. I'll save them and take them back."

Perhaps because Mr. Zhang's coat might not have been completely tightened when he fell, Cen Lian found some scraps of cashmere or some animal wool in the gaps between some branches, which should have been left when the clothes were caught by the branches.

"Got it." Tang Hua shouted, and ran down to ask Wu Qiushan for extra evidence bags, just in time to hear them discussing that the body of the deceased had been parked before being dumped.

"There are traces of suspected return to the crime scene on it," Tang Hua sorted out the evidence bags while describing what he had just seen on the cliff. "The footprints look like an adult male, size 44 feet, he should be tall."

Wu Qiushan raised his head, a little surprised.

"Does this mean that he knows we have made some discoveries?" He rarely encountered this kind of situation in handling cases in recent years. The reason is nothing more than that the major cases that the Municipal Bureau asked him to participate in were mainly murder cases, and the murderers who have the courage to return to the crime scene are still a minority.

Cen Lian heard them talking in the bushes, but he had no time to speak. He could only rappel down the cliff after simply collecting physical evidence.

"There are quite a lot of broken branches on top," Cen Lian wiped the sweat that was out of tune with the late autumn season, "I tried my best to extract the residue, but there must be some omissions. I sent the photos to the group, you can take a look."

Just now in the bushes, he used all kinds of twisted postures to take pictures, and he was almost twisted into a knot to take as many useful photos as possible.

"According to my simple analysis, the deceased should have been pushed down the cliff facing the cliff," Cen Lian took out a blank notebook from his bag and wrote and drew, "If he fell off the cliff by mistake or jumped off the cliff on his own initiative, then he should not have rushed forward to this position in the initial stage of the fall."

As we all know, whether it is jumping off a building or jumping off a cliff, the police have summarized a complete set of judgment methods after long-term research. If you want to create the illusion of suicide or accident by pushing someone off the cliff, it is completely possible to identify it with current technical means.

So after Cen Lian's brief description, Wuqiushan has even simulated the general posture of Mr. Zhang when he fell off the cliff, and began to strengthen the search on the ground.

If the search was conducted in this entire area before, the search range has now been narrowed to within a few square meters.

"The bloodstains here can be confirmed." Yuan Chenxi quickly found a bloodstain residue that corresponds to the posture and position of falling off the cliff described by Cen Lian. "If this is used as the coordinate, then the bloodstains splashed on the stone in front should be thrown out when the forehead was hit when it landed."

Once the head is located, the remaining bloodstains in other parts gradually find the corresponding body parts. Although the remaining amount is very small, it is completely consistent with the position where the tree branches were crushed.

"Now it is basically certain that Mr. Zhang fell off the cliff here, so did he die after falling off the cliff?" Tang Hua asked what he had always been curious about.

Although Mr. Zhang is now a highly decomposed corpse, at least from the autopsy report at the time, it is impossible to confirm whether he died on the spot because of falling off the cliff.

"He's not dead, but he's unconscious," Lin said confidently. "At this altitude, even if he was cushioned to some extent by the trees at the top of the cliff, the height difference between the trees and the bottom of the cliff is enough to be fatal."

"Combined with the dragging marks, he should have been dragged away here after being pushed down." Yuan Chenxi straightened up and moved.

Qi Yan, who had gone out to explore the way, had returned at this time and motioned them to look in the direction of his finger.

"I went down along the waterway and saw a cave nearby," he said, marking the location on his map, "because I was not sure if there were any wild animals in the cave, I didn't dare to approach directly."

There are a large number of wild animals living in the Yunling Mountains. Generally, there is a high possibility that wild animals live in caves close to water sources. Even if Qi Yan was carrying a pistol, he didn't dare to approach rashly.

"The cave looks like a good place to deal with corpses." Cen Lian looked in the direction of his finger, "The evidence collection here is almost over. Let's go over and take a look. If we encounter wild animals, we should shoot if our lives are in danger."

"I understand, emergency avoidance." Qu Zihan laughed and took over his words, "Seeing you busy here, I really feel like I'm out for an outing now."

After all, as a network security worker, she really can't help much in this situation.