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Chapter 93 - 85: Wow, a Case Within a Case

Chapter 93: Chapter 85: Wow, a Case Within a Case

"Huh?"

Susan doubted that Brian, the bastard, was discriminating against her intellect!

Brian didn’t explain but instead called Shi San over, encapsulating his thoughts with pheromones in his words, "Remember all the scents here!"

Raise a dog for a thousand days, use it once.

Many times.

It was inconvenient for Brian to stick his nose up to many people and sniff around, as it would be ungraceful.

At such times, Shi San, the nose replacement, could take the stage.

Under the influence of pheromones, Shi San easily understood Brian’s intent, wagging his tail, emitting clear pheromones of comprehension.

Seeing this, Susan’s lips curled.

She crossed her arms and tapped her right foot against the ground repeatedly, watching the dog’s performance that followed.

Hmm.

At this moment, in Susan’s eyes, Brian was also a dog.

A dog playing coy!

...

After covering the wooden box with a bag and setting it aside, Brian increased his digging speed.

Half an hour later.

A severely decomposed female corpse appeared on the ground.

The woman’s face was unrecognisable, and her body was bloated, buried face-down and body-up; the previously exposed hand was her right, but the fingertips had been gnawed by wild dogs.

Though the woman’s identity could not be discerned from her appearance,

her attire was trendy, a loose wool sweater matched with a short skirt that reached just to the buttocks, her legs encased in torn tights with evident ripping marks, skirt with no underskirt or panties underneath.

On the bluish-purple buttocks, there were clear slap marks.

Based on the traces on the lower body,

Brian concluded that before the woman died, sexual activity had occurred.

The cause of death was also clear.

A pair of large handprints followed from the back of the woman’s neck along her back to the sides of her neck at the front; the perpetrator must have been behind her, clutching her neck, getting carried away, leading to her suffocation.

Moreover, the woman’s neckline had a student ID hanging from it.

From the design, it could be confirmed as the emblem of this community college, but the information and photo had been removed, making it impossible to determine her identity.

Emm...

The student information was taken, but the card was left...

If the perpetrator didn’t deliberately do so to divert the police’s attention, then it indicated he was very panicked at the moment, probably indicating an unplanned murder.

However, considering the crude method of disposing of the body, Brian was certain it was the latter case.

In that case,

it could be fairly confirmed that the victim was indeed a student of the school.

However, there was a new twist to the identity of the perpetrator, shifting from students and teachers to older males, ostensibly upright, with respectable professional identities.

After stating his deductions, Brian affirmed, "This is likely an accidental death during a transaction between a patron who likes the college campus atmosphere and a self-reliant female college student."

Susan, though irritated by Brian’s previous coy behavior, couldn’t help but speak up, "Why, couldn’t it possibly be that the perpetrator coerced and accidentally killed the student during the act?"

Brian shrugged with certainty in his tone,

"The way to tell is simple.

It’s to look for other injury marks on the victim’s body.

Besides that.

One can also check the inner sides of the victim’s legs near the buttocks.

This is because when a woman is coerced or engaging in sexual activity for the first time, the muscles in the lower body subconsciously tense up, causing muscle strain marks between the buttocks and legs.

However, this woman, apart from signs of frequent friction, had no such marks on her body, indicating she was quite experienced in this regard and was relaxed at the time.

Unless she enjoyed being coerced.

Otherwise, I don’t think this is a case of coercion."

Other types of traces, he might not be so knowledgeable about.

But in this regard,

Ha!

Who dares challenge him here, Brian would be ready to confront them directly and let them know who is the authority in this matter!

Susan, after hearing Brian’s explanation, was impressed, very admiring of Brian’s clear understanding of these details, truly an experienced Autopsy Officer.

She looked at him appreciatively, "Alright, what do we do next?"

"First, figure out the victim’s identity," said Brian, frowning as he looked towards two overweight patrol officers in the distance. "Guys, in the past few days, has this community college reported any missing female students?"

Normally, this simple information would be proactively reported by the patrol officers responsible for this area.

Unless no one had reported a missing case.

Sure enough, one of the obese patrol officers shook his head, "No, when we arrived here, we reported it to the precinct, but there were no reports of young women going missing here or nearby recently."

...

Hearing this.

Before Brian could speak, Susan exclaimed in surprise, "Isn’t the school being irresponsible?"

Upon hearing this, Brian realized Susan didn’t understand community colleges.

He had to enlighten this young lady:

California’s community colleges (similar to technical schools, two-year system), mainly have two types of students.

One type is high school students who failed to get into a university.

Their academic performance wasn’t great during high school, and to go to college, they enroll in community colleges, which have low admission requirements.

Because many universities have nearly a third of their enrollment quotas reserved for students from community colleges,

these students, as long as they accumulate enough credits during the two-year period, have a good chance of gaining direct entry into the universities they wish to attend.

This is actually a common pathway chosen by many students in California and international students.

Another pathway is adult re-education.

This is generally for career advancement.

In both cases, learning is very flexible and it is often normal not to attend school frequently.

"However, the situation with the female corpse is somewhat special.

She wasn’t missing for just a day or two, but at least four or five days. Normally, her family or friends would have sensed something wrong unless she was a loner living alone.

Loner, out of contact, aged between 18-20, fashionable and spendthrift...

These characteristics can all help me determine the identity of the deceased."

Under Brian’s clear analysis, Susan, who was straightforward, suddenly gained a clearer understanding, "Brian, you are amazing!"

Brian’s lips curved upwards, feeling pleased inside, but he appeared nonchalant on the surface as if to say: Basic, no biggie...

Suddenly,

Susan looked at Brian, "How do you know she was extravagant with money?"

Brian subconsciously pointed at the remnants of stockings on the corpse’s legs, "I am not sure about the prices of her other clothing, but these stockings cost over 120 US Dollars a pair and can’t be worn more than twice. The average community college student can’t afford that..."

"Do you know a lot about this?"

Susan’s tone was inexplicable.

Brian: ...

Damn.

Trapped.

...

Half an hour later,

A sweaty, overweight white man in his fifties placed three female student files in front of Brian and Susan:

"Officer, these are the only three female students the school hasn’t been able to contact.

They are all between the ages of 18 to 20.

The first and second, although young, are adult students; they have their own full-time jobs and enrolled in community college only to enhance job competitiveness,

They mostly don’t attend school.

The remaining student, named Audrina,

came to community college for university admissions and also seldom comes to school."

The chubby man was Ma Haus, the president of this community college.

Susan took the photos, looked at them, and directly pulled out Audrina’s photo, handing it to Brian, "It seems the victim is this student named Audrina."

On seeing the photo, Brian noticed that she had a sweet appearance, smiling sweetly and innocently in her ID photo.

Most people would find her clean and cute on first impression.

According to the data,

Audrina was 19 years old, in the prime of her youth. Her parents were ordinary office workers, considered a working-class family.

Brian curiously asked, "Why are you so sure?"

"Her necklace around her neck is Tiffany’s latest model, costing at least ten thousand US Dollars, and that’s not something a 19-year-old girl from a working-class family can afford."

Susan, mimicking Brian’s style, analyzed confidently.

"Good job, Susan, you are really smart!"

Brian was never stingy with his compliments.

Hearing the praise,

Susan’s eyes turned into crescent moons.

This was the first time someone had praised her for being smart, and she was quite thrilled.

Just then,

the dog, who had been quietly following behind Brian, suddenly ran to the overweight man’s desk and started barking loudly at one of the drawers.

Seeing this, Brian and Susan exchanged a glance and presented a friendly smile toward the community college president, Mr. Ma Haus.

Ma Haus: ...

He glanced at the exaggeratedly large revolvers on Susan’s waist, ultimately lacked the courage to refuse, and without waiting for them to speak, he wisely opened the drawer himself.

The drawer was opened.

It was filled with various documents.

Besides that.

There were also several black empty supermarket bags.

Ma Haus, wiping the profuse sweat, explained, "These documents are all the school’s peer review documents, and the bags are used for lunch bags prepared by my wife. Maybe the dog smelled the lingering food odor on the bags."

Saying that,

he even grabbed a bag and threw it in front of Shi San.

Sure enough, Shi San pounced on it, grabbed the bag, and walked over to Brian, wagging its tail, its pheromones changing to: Boss, prey...

Seeing this, Susan felt somewhat disappointed.

She thought it was going to be something.

After a slight twitch of his nose, Brian then knocked on the desk, addressing the portly Mr. Ma Haus,

"Mr. Ma Haus, will you take the initiative to disclose Audrina’s clients, or should we handle the issue of you organizing female students into prostitution, and then you disclose Audrina’s clients?"

Wow, a case within a case.

Hearing Brian’s words,

Both Susan and Mr. Ma Haus doubted if they had missed any part of the plot.

How had this conclusion been reached already?

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