Chapter 615: Chapter 615: Victim’s ID Card
The time taken for the skinning murder must have been very long, and the murderer was sure that during this period they wouldn’t be discovered.
The scene looks gory, and although the murderer erased many of their traces, from a psychological perspective, it reveals more issues about the murderer.
Additionally, from observing the angle of the cuts, Lu Chuan could roughly assess the height of the murderer.
For a victim of a certain height, the angle of the cuts would vary with the murderer’s height.
One or two knife wounds could be explained by different arm-swing angles, but if the wounds are numerous, a comprehensive data probability analysis could roughly determine the height range of the perpetrator.
However, this is not something that a quick glance could reveal; Lu Chuan needed to return to the Criminal Investigation Team for detailed calculations.
While Lu Chuan was conducting the investigation at the scene, Qin Yong called the team.
Old Bai and Yang Sen, who were originally on house duty, were also called over.
With such a large crime scene, relying solely on Lu Chuan for investigation might not be enough for even a day’s work.
Under Qin Yong’s arrangement, various action teams spread out around the Bolida Warehouse for inspection.
The Bolida Warehouse is located in a remote area, with no residents or other commercial warehouses within a 2-kilometer radius.
The murderer must have meticulously planned to choose this location.
"Captain Qin, have everyone pay attention to the tire tracks on the road."
The suspect must have a vehicle to commit such a crime here.
The traces left inside the warehouse by the murderer were thoroughly cleared, no fingerprints, no footprints, nothing.
However, there’s no way the murderer came on foot to the Bolida Warehouse, they must have their own vehicle.
Otherwise, how would they have brought the victim over? They couldn’t possibly have carried them on their back.
So, if they could find the tire marks of the vehicle, it would be a clue.
After all, tire marks are not easy to erase, and the suspect might not have been careful about this detail.
But as it turned out, the suspect was meticulous and anticipated Lu Chuan’s approach.
The traffic around the warehouse is not convenient, with only a cement road leading to the main road.
And after entering the warehouse gate from the cement road, there are overgrown grasses in the yard.
The weeds in the yard showed no signs of being crushed by car tires, indicating the vehicle did not enter the warehouse yard.
Outside the warehouse gate, a noticeable distance was cleared of any traces.
This distance extends for about 1.2 kilometers.
After these 1.2 kilometers, the cement road connects to the main road.
Once on the main road, it is naturally impossible to trace the tire marks anymore.
Now, on the cement road, there are only the tire marks of a few police cars, nothing else.
After Zhang Hui communicated the inspection results to Lu Chuan, Lu Chuan felt a sense of heaviness.
The current state of this case initially feels like a perfect murder.
Because the perpetrator planned it for a long time.
The traces left by them on the scene are extremely limited.
And they have a strong counter-detection awareness, considering everything meticulously.
Furthermore, the murderer left clues on Zhang Manyu’s skeleton.
And this clue was left a year or two ago, what does this indicate?
This indicates that the murderer planned the killing for at least 1 to 2 years.
Of course, the actual planning time could be even longer.
Because, currently, it seems that the deceased in the warehouse and Zhang Manyu are likely to be linked in some way.
The person who called in to report to Qin Yong led the police to discover Zhang Manyu’s skeleton.
And they left clues about the skinned victim in the pocket of Zhang Manyu’s skeleton.
One must know that the West Mountain Bolida Warehouse is extremely remote, if not for the clues deliberately left by them, it would be unknown when the police would discover this body.
Moreover, the timing of the murder is a massive provocation against the police.
The victim was deceased for less than 24 hours, meaning the murder happened around this time yesterday.
After committing murder, the perpetrator meticulously cleaned the scene, eliminated all their traces, even including tire marks on the cement road.
After completing all this, the suspect called Qin Yong this morning, revealing everything to them.
The first thing Lu Chuan wondered was why the perpetrator did this, what was their motive?
Was the suspect simply motivated by murder?
Clearly not.
If the suspect was only interested in killing, all this trouble would be unnecessary.
Judging from the method of murder, there must be immense hatred between the murderer and the victim, otherwise, such brutal methods would not have been used.
Lu Chuan, after conducting a preliminary investigation on the body, determined that the perpetrator was likely inexperienced.
Because the skinning depth and incision were inconsistent, showing a lot of oversight.
Some knife wounds were deep, others shallow, requiring multiple cuts in the same area to peel off the skin.
This resulted in uneven skin thickness and several areas of damage.
However, based on the clues obtained so far, it’s highly possible that the person who called Qin Yong is the murderer.
Soon, Old Bai and Yang Sen arrived at the scene.
Photos were taken, investigations were conducted, proceeding methodically.
While the crime scene investigation was busy, the action team also made some discoveries.
Among the pile of clothes next to the body, they found the victim’s mobile phone, wallet, and ID card.
"The victim’s name was Song Jinfu, male, 45 years old, a resident of Haizhou City."
The murderer didn’t dispose of the victim’s ID card, nor did they destroy the victim’s appearance.
This indicates that the murderer did not intend to conceal the victim’s identity.
In Qin Yong’s view, this is not necessarily good news.
In most homicide scenes, the perpetrator tries hard to hide the victim’s identity, often because the perpetrator and the victim are acquainted.
The perpetrator subconsciously fears that the police might trace back to them via the victim’s social connections.
Therefore, most perpetrators choose to destroy or hide the body for this reason.
Once the suspect does not disguise the victim’s identity, it suggests that from a normal investigation of social connections, there is likely no direct connection between the victim and the murderer.
For example, robbery-murder is such a case.
But this case is different, the means by which the murderer killed the victim was extremely brutal.
This indicates that there must be deep grievances between the murderer and the victim.
If there are grievances, clues must be left behind, is the perpetrator not afraid of being tracked down?
After four to five hours of effort, the crime scene investigation was finally completed.
Lu Chuan, along with the Forensic Doctor, loaded the corpse into the vehicle, preparing to conduct a more detailed investigation back at the station.
Wang Changjiang and Shen Yan arrived afterward, and despite being forensic doctors, they couldn’t help but frown upon seeing such a gruesome scene, it’s quite rare to witness such brutality.
In Old Wang’s words, unless it’s a deep vendetta such as family destruction, nobody would commit such an act.
Of course, compared to the crime scene investigators and forensic doctors, the action group members felt somewhat relieved, as they conducted searches around the area and didn’t have to confront the corpse directly.
