kvmb Chapter 1109 Case Analysis and Discussion to Determine Direction
Chapter 1109 Case Analysis and Discussion to Determine Direction
Xiao Zhou's eyes lit up. "At 7:12 pm on July 15th, there was a WeChat payment from 'Suifeng', and the linked ID card is..." Xiao Li's finger hovered over the enter key, then suddenly stopped. "The ID number shows 'Zhao Hongwei,' but this person was deregistered in the household registration system in 2015, and it shows 'dead.'"
The information center fell into a deathly silence, with only the hum of the air conditioner echoing through the room. Xiao Zhou grabbed his coat, the zipper stuck on the third tooth. "Check the reason for 'Zhao Hongwei's' deregistration," his voice was hoarse, "was it a declaration of death or actual death? Is it possible that he faked his death?" Xiao Li pulled up a scanned copy of the case file. The death certificate stated "died in a car accident in 2015," but the handwriting in the family signature section was slightly different from the signature on the steel mill's pay slip.
As dawn broke, the match for record number 1243 failed. Xiao Zhou stacked all the excluded files neatly, the height reaching just to his chin. "Notify the technical team," he said wearily into the walkie-talkie, "focus on investigating 'Zhao Hongwei's' social connections, especially those who had contact with the steel mill and Hongwei Building Materials after 2015." He gazed at the brightening sky outside the window; the information center's display screens were still flashing, those unmatched names like countless souls waiting to be awakened, silent in the depths of the database.
Xiao Li yawned as he packed his things, accidentally knocking over a coffee cup on the table. The brown liquid smeared on the "exclusion list," completely obscuring Liu Zhiqiang's name. "Brother Hui, do you think this deceased person might not even be in the missing persons database?" He wiped the coffee stains from his hands. "Maybe he was an unregistered resident, or maybe no family reported him missing." Xiao Zhou didn't answer. His gaze fell on the blank space on the whiteboard, where the three characters "Zhao Hongwei" were about to be written—a name that had been cancelled eight years ago, perhaps the final key to unlocking the mystery.
As the information center door closed, the warmth of the keyboard lingered on his fingertips. Xiao Zhou knew the comparison work had to continue; those overlooked details, files misclassified by the system, and characteristics mistakenly reported by family members might all hold the truth. But at least for now, in this sea of 1243 pieces of information, the deceased's identity remained a mystery, awaiting the next round of screening to be revealed.
Early the next morning.
When Li Ming pushed open the wooden door to the conference room, it carried the distinctive smell of rust from the abandoned steel mill. A reconstruction of the tattoo on the victim's left chest lay spread out on the long table; the strokes of the word "magnificent" gleamed coldly under the fluorescent light, creating a stark contrast with the bag of dark blue fiber on the corner of the table. Li Ming slammed an enamel mug onto the "Steel Mill Decomposed Corpse Case" file; tea stains seeped into the cover, much like the oil stain found at the scene. "Everyone's here," he said, scanning the dark circles under everyone's eyes. "Starting with Xiao Yang, what new conclusions have been reached from the on-site investigation?"
Xiao Yang lifted the projector screen, and a panoramic view of the steel plant instantly filled the entire wall. "The size 43 diamond-patterned shoe print extracted from the scene has a stride length of 78 centimeters and a stride width of 15 centimeters, estimating a height of 175±3 centimeters," he said, pointing his laser pointer at the drag marks in the steelmaking workshop. "It perfectly matches the deceased's skeletal parameters, indicating that the dragger is the murderer himself. However, the size 42 circular granular shoe print found in the waste disposal area has a stride length of 65 centimeters and a stride width of 8 centimeters, estimating a height of approximately 165 centimeters, belonging to a second person, who may be an accomplice."
The screen switched to a 7D model of tire tracks, with horizontal serrated lines rotating on the screen. "The medium-sized freight car tires are 20 centimeters wide, with a spacing of 180 centimeters, and there's a 2-centimeter cut on the right front tire," Xiao Yang's fingertip traced the wear marks on the model. "The pattern matches the scratches on the railway joints. This car entered the scrap area via a switch on the evening of July 15th. The tire wear indicates a mileage of approximately 8 kilometers. There are 127 freight cars in the area that match these characteristics, and 32 have been checked, but no match has been found yet."
He suddenly clicked the mouse, and a close-up of the watch popped up on the screen. "A stainless steel watch found in the railway drainage ditch, the hands stopped at 11:07, which matches the time the person who reported the incident heard the truck start," Xiao Yang zoomed in on the blurry letters inside the clasp, "After enhancement, it shows the letters 'HW,' possibly related to 'Hongwei Building Materials.' The wear on the strap indicates it's been used for over two years, and the impact marks on the case match the parameters of a high-carbon steel wrench, suggesting it was dropped during an argument."
As Zhang Lin opened the autopsy report, the paper made a dry, rattling sound. "The deceased was male, aged 35-40, and the time of death was confirmed to be around 10 p.m. on July 15th," he circled the skull X-ray in red pen, "a 3x4 cm depressed fracture in the left temporal region, with the inner table fractured more extensively than the outer table, exhibiting a funnel-shaped deformation, consistent with the characteristics of a 5 cm diameter high-carbon steel blunt force trauma, and perfectly matching the parameters of the heavy wrench lost at the scene."
He suddenly raised his voice, pointing a laser pointer at the photo of the perforated stomach wall: "A 2-centimeter sharp-instrument wound, with sharp angles and no contusion at the edges, is more likely a post-mortem stab wound." The histochemical analysis attached to the report showed that the subcutaneous tissue showed a degree of fatty acid rancidity equivalent to 60 hours after death, "consistent with the time estimated from rectal temperature, but the error caused by heat generated from putrefaction should be noted; the actual time of death may be 1-2 hours earlier."
“The healing pattern of the old fracture of the right femur is completely consistent with the characteristics of the prolonged support period of the right leg in the size 43 shoe print at the scene,” Zhang Lin said, pulling up the three-dimensional reconstruction image of the fracture line. “The callus formation time exceeded 18 months, which is highly consistent with the characteristics of the ‘right femur fracture’ case in the steel plant’s 2021 work injury record. This suggests that the deceased was a steel plant worker and was still engaged in heavy physical labor after 2021.”
In Xiao Wang's statement notebook, the key points of the complainant's testimony were highlighted in red pen. "The beggar Liu Laowu confirmed that at 11:10 pm on July 15, he heard the sound of a truck starting up coming from the direction of the steel mill, which lasted for about ten minutes," he said, pointing his laser pointer at the surveillance screenshot at the steel mill gate. "At 11:05 pm that night, a medium-sized truck drove out of the east gate of the steel mill. The headlights matched the tire tracks of the vehicle, but the surveillance camera's resolution was too low to identify the license plate number."
He suddenly turned a page, revealing the consumption record of "Old Zhang's Noodle Shop". "At 7:12 pm on July 15, a user with the WeChat name 'Suifeng' spent 28 yuan and ordered a rice and vegetable set meal", Xiao Wang enlarged the ID number in the payment record, "The household registration of 'Zhao Hongwei' shows that he died in a car accident in 2015, but the handwriting of the family member's signature on the death certificate has 3 differences from the signature of 'Zhao Hongwei' on the steel mill's 2014 payslip - the angle of the top part of the character 'Hong', the curvature of the vertical hook of the character 'Wei', and the strength of the finishing stroke of the signature, all of which do not conform to the writing characteristics of the same person."