National Forensic Doctor
Chapter 229 - 229 220 Finishing Move

229: Chapter 220: Finishing Move 229: Chapter 220: Finishing Move Wu Junhao’s first squad was dispatched to search for the blood-stained clothing, but they sniffed out no results in the short term.

The criminal police in the Qianjin District, on the other hand, brought back all the surveillance footage from the cinema, much to the chagrin of the officers from the Surveillance Analysis Squad.

“Those who do fieldwork really are…

Can’t they do a little screening?

They directly brought back several months’ worth of surveillance footage.

Aren’t they using their brains?” grumbled the municipal Surveillance Analysis Squad officers as they scanned through the videos.

The municipal and county levels are more or less on the same level and handle similar tasks.

However, places like Qinghe City’s Qianjin District, being part of the main urban area, have larger scale operations and more personnel than Ningtai County.

After all, the larger the urban area, the more conflicts and disputes, and thus, there are more homicide cases.

On the other hand, as the central urban districts of prefecture-level cities have higher investments in infrastructure, surveillance is relatively more sophisticated, which allows Surveillance Analysis to play its role.

The Surveillance Analysis officers in Qinghe City are still quite busy day-to-day.

If it were any other case, let alone bringing back footage spanning several months, even a few days’ worth of surveillance might not get looked at by anyone.

But homicide cases are different; they require working overtime to watch the footage.

While the Surveillance Analysis squad complained, they quickly organized the surveillance footage and roughly divided it among themselves before starting to watch it with heavy glasses perched on their noses.

Most of them viewed the footage backwards in time.

Moreover, there were records of when the cinema’s surveillance cameras broke down, so the focus was primarily on the footage from the time right before and after the cameras failed.

The broken camera itself didn’t provide much information.

It was like a diligent star, doing what ordinary stars do, before getting tossed over.

However, with this time marker, it was easy to find Bai Yuequn’s figure by checking the nearby cameras.

He was consciously avoiding the cameras, but his skill level wasn’t sufficient.

He managed to dodge some, but most he could not.

In fact, in many areas dense with cameras, there are not only no blind spots, but there are also regions with overlapping coverage.

The cost of surveillance nowadays is indeed very cheap, especially for general retailers who install cameras willy-nilly, to the extent that even professionals might get caught out.

Bai Yuequn’s face appeared continuously at the entrance of the shopping mall, the parking lot, and the entrance to the parking lot.

Although there was still no direct evidence proving that Bai Yuequn had sabotaged the surveillance equipment in the No.

2 screening hall on the day of the incident, the fact that he was at the scene during the time the equipment was tampered with weakened his alibi.

The newly established special case group was all energized.

While the evidence was still insufficient for prosecution, by this point, they were almost certain that Bai Yuequn was the culprit.

Although his tactics seemed effective, even extremely so, for the police, they actually didn’t mean much.

In the United States’ judicial system, they could have prosecuted at this stage already.

The standards for homicide cases in China are higher, requiring further evidence gathering, but confidence was nevertheless soaring among the team.

As Huang Qiangmin said, single evidence doesn’t stand alone; conversely, when multiple pieces of evidence appear, the case is established.

For an open-and-shut case, there is actually plenty of evidence; it’s all a matter of how to find it.

The first thing Lei Xin thought of was to pull in all of Bai Yuequn’s associates for a thorough questioning.

Those who run bars, no matter if they are underlings or little henchmen, all cringe under the light, and as soon as they sit in the interrogation room, they quickly become obedient and talkative.

Jiang Yuan turned back and, together with Wu Jun, studied the wounds on the body and made a mold of the murder weapon.

The mold wasn’t very well made, but double-edged military knives weren’t common, and well-known ones were even fewer.

Before long, some lackeys confessed that Bai Yuequn had once purchased two Sparta V14 knives.

It was also proven that Bai Yuequn had many years of experience in fencing—not playful wielding, but the real thrusting powerful enough to disembowel.

Having seen photos of the Sparta V14, Jiang Yuan and Wu Jun both felt that the weapon could completely serve as a short-handled western sword, and when comparing the height of the victim and the height of the murderer, the direction of the stab wounds seemed reasonable.

Jiang Yuan then did a crime scene reconstruction and gave Huang Qiangmin and the others a simple demonstration.

The murderer entered, first approached Yuan Yutang’s new boyfriend, held the dagger with both hands aimed towards the heart, stabbed once, and smoothly pulled out the dagger.

If it hadn’t been pulled out, Bai Yuequn’s leg would still have been strapped with another spare dagger.

The new boyfriend’s body position remained unchanged, and a large amount of blood flowed out, forming a pool of blood under the bed.

Yuan Yutang was awakened by the noise nearby, and as he saw Bai Yuequn, he tried to fend him off with a pillow or a quilt while getting up.

Bai Yuequn might have said something, or perhaps nothing at all, but wielding a 40-centimeter-long dagger and occupying a favorable position, he effortlessly stabbed Yuan Yutang’s arm with a flick of the blade after slightly adjusting his stance.

Fencing is a sport that requires keen attention to distance, and at that moment, Yuan Yutang, who had just been startled from a dream and was physically weakened from daily revelries, could possibly lose the ability to fight with just one stab.

Bai Yuequn didn’t let his guard down, stabbing multiple times without aiming for lethal spots, causing Yuan Yutang to gradually lose blood.

After toying with him for several minutes, Yuan Yutang’s bleeding caused him to collapse beside the bed, and it was then that Bai Yuequn approached to finish him off completely, afterwards venting his rage with additional stabs.

After the upper half of Yuan Yutang’s body was mutilated with stabs, Bai Yuequn carelessly slashed at the other corpse on the bed, then went to the bathroom to take a shower, wash his clothes, and clean the floor.

In order to not leave any evidence at the scene, he must have been on a tight schedule, but he likely also prepared in advance, with clothing made of a special material or design to prevent too much blood from clinging to his body and avoid leaving his own hair or skin flakes at the scene.

Finally, Bai Yuequn left the scene stepping over the pool of blood, in a somewhat hurried manner, but essentially having completed his premeditated plan.

“Looking at it this way, his plan wasn’t made in a day or two,” Huang Qiangmin commented, feeling somewhat emotional after hearing Jiang Yuan’s explanation, especially regarding the preparation of the weapon and clothes.

Wu Jun said as if it were the norm, “Those who plot murders always plan day and night.

It’s just that some are unskilled or lack professionalism…”

“In that case, he would have had to scout the location multiple times,” Huang Qiangmin finally stated his purpose.

Wu Jun nodded, “But it’s still circumstantial evidence.”

“Then it would be best to find evidence of him being outside the movie theater during the screening, like a video or a photo,” Huang Qiangmin had considered similar ideas before but had been hesitant.

The reason for his hesitation was that the investigation required a lot of manpower, and jurisdiction over the case actually belonged to the Criminal Police Brigade of the Qianjin District, that is, in the hands of Lei Xin, the brigade chief.

Merely suggesting such an idea to them seemed somewhat foolish.

They would have thought of it already, and if they hadn’t acted on it, it was clearly for some objective reason.

Huang Qiangmin himself didn’t want to invest resources into the mix; he was originally dealing with a case of burglary, and now it had turned into a murder investigation, which made the resource input quite a loss.

“The witness for Bai Yuequn, his boyfriend, is he still unwilling to speak?” Huang Qiangmin asked, turning to Wu Junhao.

“Not yet, maybe because there hasn’t been enough time,” Wu Junhao commented nonchalantly.

From his experience, with a case and a witness like this, it was only a matter of time before he would speak out.

It was just that being a man from a bar background, maybe he was holding out because of some promise, nothing more.

As Jiang Yuan recalled the boyfriend in question, the crime scene reconstruction occurring in his mind suddenly expanded.

Just then, Jiang Yuan said, “I remember Bai Yuequn saying that after watching the movie, he went to a nearby hotel to get a room with his boyfriend.

They took a shower first, then got into bed, right?”

“That’s right.”

“This means if there were any bloodstains or the like on Bai Yuequn, he could take the opportunity to wash them off in the hotel, and the bloodied clothes could be temporarily dealt with too…” Jiang Yuan paused, then stood up and said, “Send me the hotel room number they stayed in, I’ll go over and check it out, see if I can find any blood.”

As hotel rooms are mostly assigned randomly, Bai Yuequn likely hadn’t prepared any specialized cleaning agents in advance.

And without professional cleaning agents, bloodstains are difficult to eliminate completely.

At least not in a short time.

Jiang Yuan, carrying the forensic case, headed straight for the Wanda Hotel.

The Room 602, where Bai Yuequn had previously stayed, had actually been sealed off, and Jiang Yuan and Wu Jun followed the staff up to the room, and upon looking inside the bathroom, they saw it dried up, with no anomalies.

So, Jiang Yuan took out the pre-prepared Luminol Reagent, poured it into a sprayer, and sprayed it onto the walls of the bathroom.

“Turn off the lights,” Wu Jun reminded, switching off the light.

A luminescent blue glow immediately appeared, and there was no shortage of it.

If the bloodstains in the bathroom match the DNA of either Yuan Yutang or his boyfriend, it would be a decisive blow.

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