National Forensic Doctor
Chapter 211 - 211 203 Rumors Unconfirmed

211: Chapter 203: Rumors Unconfirmed 211: Chapter 203: Rumors Unconfirmed Longli County.

Highway exit.

The police car, with its flashing lights, obediently stopped by the roadside.

Hou Xiaoyong anxiously waited until he saw a familiar Skoda approaching, and hurriedly called for the person inside to get out.

The Skoda slowly came to a stop, and Jiang Yuan got out and greeted him.

“Jiang, you finally arrived,” Hou Xiaoyong’s mood relaxed a lot.

What he feared the most was Jiang Yuan not coming over or, even worse, if Jiang Yuan decided to delay and intentionally arrive the next day, what would they do if the case remained unsolved?

Jiang Yuan was a bit surprised and chuckled, “It’s been tough on you guys to come all this way to pick me up.”

“You’ve come all this way for us, waiting a bit by the highway is nothing,” Hou Xiaoyong shook hands enthusiastically.

Jiang Yuan had quite an impression of Hou Xiaoyong, the crime scene investigator.

It was rare to see someone with such a low level of skill at 0.6.

Having later observed him at the crime scene, he realized that Hou Xiaoyong was the type to sit in the outhouse and do nothing, which explained a lot.

But even so, when others were occupied with constipation in the outhouse, they usually could learn the ways of maggots through observation.

That Hou Xiaoyong’s progress was so slow was truly noteworthy.

“Let’s go straight to the scene,” Jiang Yuan didn’t feel much like going to Longli County town anymore; the welcomes and farewells were too troublesome, and the food wasn’t good.

Although Ningtai County and Longli County were adjacent, Longli was far from being on the same level.

The last time’s pork intestine, pig’s stomach, and chicken dish were already the pinnacle of Longli’s catering, and even that was opened by outsiders.

Hou Xiaoyong hesitated for a moment, then agreed, starting the car and leading the way.

After driving for almost another 20 minutes, the two cars finally arrived at their destination: San’an Village.

San’an Village was flat in terrain and was considered one of the better villages within Longli County.

The village had factories from outside, mainly dealing with the simple processing of agricultural products.

The most important factory was a cannery, producing a small amount of fruit cans but mainly focusing on bean and mushroom cans for export.

The benefit of having factories was that the village’s young people could find work and willing older people could do some small business.

The downside was a decline in public security and a change in people’s attitudes.

The victims this time were a woman left behind in the village and a young child.

The scene was covered in bloodstains, and from the photographs, it was apparent that the victim had lain face up, collapsed beside the bed, with a pool of blood seeping underneath it.

The already small room was smeared with blood on three of its four walls.

The child was two and a half years old and is currently missing.

Several familiar faces, including Longli County’s Criminal Police Captain Hou Lejia, were waiting at the crime scene.

“Doctor Jiang, thank you for your trouble,” Hou Lejia’s face lit up with a smile, as if he had changed his face entirely.

Last time, he hadn’t paid enough attention to Jiang Yuan, but this time, faced with bloodstains on the walls again, Jiang Yuan was the first person he thought of.

Thinking back now, Hou Lejia felt that it would have been very difficult to solve the case of the scavenger from the last time, and this case was just as baffling for the entire team.

Faced with a similar situation twice, Hou Lejia naturally knew what needed to be done.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Jiang Yuan asked, “Shall I take a look at the scene?”

Hou Lejia agreed without hesitation.

Jiang Yuan took the opportunity to extract himself from the conversation and refocused his attention on the crime scene.

The somewhat familiar Doctor Ye approached, yawning, and then explained, “We’ve been at the scene for nearly 48 hours… Uh, the estimated time of the incident is between 3 and 5 a.m.

on the fourth…”

“The person who reported the crime is the child’s grandmother, the victim’s mother-in-law.

She came to see the child in the morning and found blood everywhere.

The child was also missing.”

“After receiving the report, the police officers responded immediately and sealed off the scene.

However, relatives of the deceased and villagers had entered the scene, which is very bad and has caused difficulties for the ongoing investigation…”

Doctor Ye slightly distanced himself from the situation and then looked at Jiang Yuan, saying, “After the detective team arrived, they first sealed off San’an Village.

Then, we collected physical evidence and DNA from the scene.

Through case analysis, we initially considered the victim’s husband…”

Jiang Yuan listened more intently.

When a married woman died, even if an alien had killed her, one should consider the possibility of the husband disguising as an alien as well as the possibility of him hiring an alien to commit the murder.

“The victim’s husband was working out of town and couldn’t have made it back in time,” Doctor Ye paused before continuing, “However, we then uncovered a significant piece of information that brought the victim’s husband back onto the list of suspects.”

Jiang Yuan nodded to show he was listening.

“By collecting DNA from the hair tips left by the victim’s young son, we confirmed that the son was not the biological child of the victim’s husband.” Doctor Ye played a significant role in this work and spoke very detailed, saying, “Thus, the detective team went to Changyang City again to investigate and collect evidence about the victim’s husband and, in the end, verified his alibi.”

“What was it?” Jiang Yuan would certainly need to verify it again.

Others might be trustworthy, but Doctor Ye in front of him was famously careless.

Even Jiang Yuan, a forensic doctor new to the job, had heard of Doctor Ye’s reputation.

One could imagine the level of notoriety he had accumulated.

Therefore, Doctor Ye’s evidence needed to be reviewed again to provide reassurance.

With an indifferent and carefree demeanor, Doctor Ye said, “Our police officers found the victim’s husband on the surveillance footage entering his dormitory area around 1 a.m.

In addition, he was seen eating skewers with his workmates around midnight, corroborated by a coworker’s testimony.”

“There’re factories in this village, why go out to work?” Jiang Yuan asked.

“Factories in the village prefer to hire those in their fifties or sixties, as well as middle-aged women; they tend to pay lower wages,” explained Doctor Ye.

Hou Xiaoyong added, “Perhaps it’s a case of ‘out of sight, out of mind.'”

Jiang Yuan glanced at the corpse and then asked, “What about the biological father of the child?

Do you know who he is?”

“We do.

He’s from the same village and also works out of town; he has an alibi as well.”

Jiang Yuan frowned slightly, “What about the child?”

The atmosphere at the scene turned colder.

If the perpetrator was the husband or the child’s biological father, then naturally, the child would have been taken away.

Now that they had been ruled out, the whereabouts of the child became a much more serious issue.

Hou Le cleared his throat and said, “The child is missing.

Despite extensive inquiries, no one has any news.

That’s why we need to solve this case as quickly as possible.”

Jiang Yuan’s expression became three degrees more solemn.

After becoming a police officer, he knew that human trafficking was still a significant issue.

There once was a news story that said a couple had lived by selling their children, 5 children in 6 years.

This meant they had committed the crime 5 times over a period of 6 years before being caught.

Doctor Ye continued, “The door lock of the room was intact, with no signs of picking, and the time of the crime was around 3 a.m.

We preliminarily deduced that the perpetrator was someone familiar.

Considering the victim’s situation, we first began the search for the victim’s lover…”

“Was there one?” Jiang Yuan asked.

“We haven’t found one.

There are rumors, but unverified.”

“Did the victim live with her mother-in-law?

Even if there was a lover, they wouldn’t be meeting at home, would they?” Jiang Yuan remembered that the person who discovered the body was the victim’s mother-in-law.

With a “you’re still young” expression, Doctor Ye looked at Jiang Yuan, saying, “We’re currently leaning towards there being no lover.

Because if there were, in a place like San’an Village, it would be hard to keep it a secret.

But this makes the case even harder to solve.”

Longli County was investigating the case by tracing the victim’s interpersonal relations.

They started with the household registry, then moved on to the contact list, similar to the procedure for debt collection.

The outcome was also similar to debt collection: if hitting the mark, you celebrated, but if there was no response, then you were out of luck.

“If it wasn’t someone familiar with the crime, then was it a stranger?” Jiang Yuan stated the obvious.

Hou Lejia shook his head in denial: “The victim was living alone with her child, next to her in-laws’ house; how could there be an opportunity for someone at 3 a.m.?”

“We didn’t find any useful evidence at the scene, nor were there any defensive wounds,” sighed Doctor Ye.

At this point, Hou Lejia earnestly said, “Doctor Jiang, we’re relying on you for the crime scene investigation.”

He had called Jiang Yuan over, hoping that Jiang Yuan could go over the crime scene again and come up with some useful leads.