C26 Deja vu
The area of the wedding that was divided and provided to the Bureau immediately quietened down. Yun Duruo's face returned to the strict and professional look, the smile on the butcher's face disappeared as she calmly asked.
Are you sure?
After all, I cleaned a large portion of the corpses in the dissecting room. Every time I cleared out a corpse, I would strip off the white fabric once, and no matter if it was the texture or the feel, Chu Tianqi and I would probably be the most familiar with the fabric.
Halfway through the wedding, the butcher brought Yun Duruo and I, as well as Ling Guodong and our colleagues from the Physical Evidence Examiner to leave. He immediately rushed back to the police station and got Ling Guodong to personally lead people to analyze and compare the white cloth on the corpse with the one I brought back from the wedding.
From Case concerning the Unknown Female Corpse's analysis and description of the psychological characteristics of the culprit, one could tell that the culprit's patience and cruelty was beyond ordinary. At the same time, it also showed that the culprit was an extremely strict person, and one could tell from the size of the corpse. Thus, when selecting the item to wrap the corpse, it shouldn't be a casual choice.
The main point of the previous investigation was to find the source of the white cloth, but none of the incoming messages matched the fabric used to wrap the corpse.
Half an hour later, Ling Guodong rushed in so fast that he forgot to knock on the door. He placed two analysis packages in front of the butcher and said with excitement.
"After comparing the length and thickness of the fibers, they were extracted from the same cloth. The process and material are the same. It can be confirmed that they are the same cloth."
We came back in a hurry, Yun Duruo had not had time to change her clothes, she was still wearing her wedding gown, and after obtaining Ling Guodong's accurate appraisal result, she told the butcher.
"This dress is the same as the wedding dress the bride is wearing, but the style is a bit different. Originally, I was wearing a bridesmaid uniform, but because I wanted to accompany her to toast the guests, she let me choose a wedding dress similar to hers. Originally, she was wearing my dress, but because she was a bit shorter, she let me wear it."
"Bring people to the wedding shop immediately. Since we are sure it is a wedding dress, we must find the location of every single one." "The butcher arranged the work for Yun Duruo seriously and suddenly looked at me. You found the clue, so you should follow it. "
After rushing to the wedding shop, the photographer still recognized Yun Duruo and I, and immediately raised his camera when they met. Yun Duruo took out her ID card seriously, and from the photographer's expression, it seemed like he was very surprised. I think that he still wasn't used to Yun Duruo changing from before to now.
The owner of the wedding dress shop took us to the office and told us why we were there. He told us about the wedding dress inventory after he knew it was important and didn't dare to delay.
This was a wedding dress imported from abroad. In the country, this wedding dress shop was the only authorized seller, thus the wedding dress was only owned by this shop. Normally, it was only rented to customers because the craftsmanship and style were up to date, so very few people bought it directly.
After looking through the sales records, the boss pointed at the records and told us that other than the one worn by Yun Duruo, there were a total of four pieces of wedding dress.
When Yun Duruo and I received the sales records, we were delighted to find out that behind the sales records for each wedding dress, there was a detailed record of the buyer.
According to the information provided by the shop owner, only four people had bought the wedding dress. According to the information provided by the shop owner, only four people had bought the wedding dress.
One of the four might have been the murderer.
Four, Seven Case concerning the Unknown Female Corpse s finally had a major breakthrough. After we reported the information to the butcher, he heaved a sigh of relief, and unavoidably alerted Yun Duruo to immediately organize the criminal investigation personnel to investigate the four people who bought the wedding dress.
In less than two days, Yun Duruo was doing her utmost to investigate the details of the person who bought the wedding dress.
The butcher convened an emergency meeting for Yun Duruo to report the progress of the case and exchange information with other departments.
According to the date, the four people who bought the wedding dress were respectively:
First person, Huo Chengxi, male, 36 years old, German Chinese, professional software development, bought the wedding dress at the wedding shop on January 3, and held the wedding on January 5. Three days after the wedding, he returned to Germany with his wife. According to the information obtained from the entry and exit, Huo Chengxi did not return home after leaving the country, and judging by the time of the discovery of the nameless woman's corpse and the time of the woman's death provided by Forensic Forensics, Huo Chengxi had no possibility of committing the crime.
The second person was Xiao Jiayu, female, 25 years old. She was a bank clerk who bought the wedding dress at the wedding shop on March 2. Amongst the four people investigated, Xiao Jiayu bought the wedding dress at the same time as the Case concerning the Unknown Female Corpse.
"Why is it her who buys the wedding dress?" "I thought about what to say for a long time before I interrupted Yun Duruo. "According to her previous deductions, there was an accomplice to the culprit. However, to complete the process of dismembering the body, there is a high probability that the husband was a male. If it was a love affair, the male would be more qualified to carry out the culprit's motive and circumstances."
The butcher nodded, apparently thinking the same thing as I did.
"I've thought about it before, but the chances of Xiao Jiayu's husband committing the crime is close to zero." Yun Duruo replied with certainty.
"Why?" the butcher asked solemnly, lifting his teacup.
Her husband is Guo Yan, and he was completely paralyzed two months before the wedding. It was said that he and Guo Yan were married even though Xiao Jiayu didn't leave him alone, and the media even reported that Guo Yan and Xiao Jiayu had agreed to choose a wedding dress together, and Guo Yan had been involved in the accident on March 2nd. At that time, Xiao Jiayu didn't know about it, which is why Xiao Jiayu went to buy a wedding dress by herself. Yun Duruo's answer to that question was extremely clear. Most importantly, when we were investigating Xiao Jiayu, the wedding dress that she bought was still intact at home. "
"Continue with the other two." The butcher nodded slowly.
The third person was Zhou Yuanqiao, male, seventy-one years old. He worked as a retired worker in a garage, married his wife for fifty years, and was hospitalized because of a heart attack. His wife had always said that when he was young, he had married without a wedding dress, and Zhou Yuanqiao had gone to a wedding dress shop to buy it for his wife.
A pair of old people who could work together for fifty years without leaving each other was incapable of and did not have the strength to complete the process of dismembering, not to mention that a person so loyal to their feelings could not possibly be an extremely vicious murderer.
After eliminating the first three, everyone in the meeting room focused on Yun Duruo, the key to solving the case all focused on the last person.
Yun Duruo said in disappointment as she put down the report in her hands.
"The last person bought the wedding dress on the ninth of the third month. She's a woman, aged between twenty and twenty-five …"
"About?" "The butcher put down the teacup in his hand and asked in a low voice." "What's going on? Didn't you say that the bridal shop has these four people's contact details?"
"The wedding dress shop did leave behind customer information, but the fourth person's information was verified to be fake." Yun Duruo looked at the report in her hands and answered. The fourth person left behind the address of room 21 on the 53rd floor of Changping Street, but when we went to investigate, we discovered that the place mentioned was a dilapidated residential building with no one living there. "
"He has to leave behind a fake address even if he wants to buy a wedding dress. It seems like he has a guilty conscience and wants to cover everything up. There's something wrong with this woman, is there any other information about this woman?" the butcher continued, nodding thoughtfully.
According to the sales clerk's memories, this woman rarely talked when she bought a wedding dress. She looked at the wedding dress for a long time without trying on it, because buying a wedding dress took a lot of time, and she had to wear it over and over again to compare its size with the size of her upper body. There was almost no way to buy a wedding dress from this woman, so the sales clerk had a very deep memory of this woman.
"It seems like this woman did not buy the wedding dress for the purpose of marriage. This coincides with the purpose of the Case concerning the Unknown Female Corpse wrapping around the corpse. This woman is suspected of being very important, so she might have directly or indirectly participated in the marriage dress. Seven Case concerning the Unknown Female Corpse s, the main point of our investigation right now is to find this woman for me. " said the butcher sternly, tapping his fingers on the table.
"I've arranged for people to check this woman out. Since the clerk has a deep memory of this woman, I got someone to draw a picture of her appearance according to the employee's description and sent it down to the police stations for investigation."
Yun Duruo then took out a copy of the portrait from her report. Everyone present had one picture, the butcher looked at the portrait in his hand and spoke with a serious expression.
"I do have a portrait, but since this woman wants to hide her identity, it must be because she's on guard. It's like searching for a needle in a haystack with such a vast crowd."
When the portrait was passed to me, I casually picked it up. The woman in the portrait did not look like the person I had imagined to be involved in the murder, at least there was no hostility or resentment on her face.
I frowned and suddenly stood up from my seat. Everyone in the meeting room looked at me in shock and Yun Duruo asked in a low voice beside me, What's wrong?
I didn't answer her. I never took my eyes off the portrait in my hand, the face, the eyes, as if I'd seen them somewhere.
I suddenly remembered the woman in the red dress pushing the baby carriage that night. They had the same eyes.
Yun Duruo saw that I did not say a word, and tidied up the report, before adding.
"The information that the woman left behind is fake. We found her name in the sales signature at the wedding shop, but it should be fake as well. The name that the woman left behind is …"
Yun Duruo flipped through again, raised her head and said to the people in the conference room.
"Mu Hanzhi."