Genius Detective - Chapter 422

Chapter 422

Chapter 422: The Scream in the Song

After entering the house, Chen Shi turned on all the lights . He checked around the blood stains and said, "This blood wasn’t sprayed out . It should have been leaked out . There are traces of dragging on the ground, so the body should have been moved here from somewhere else . "

"They didn't even clean up the blood?" Lin Dongxue said .

"Maybe they felt that it was unnecessary . After all, the corpse was left here!"

"The bedroom was ransacked . "

"Let’s go and see what’s missing . "

Chen Shi went to the bedroom . There was a computer on the table . He dragged the CPU out and looked at it . The dust on it had been wiped off . He picked up the CPU to gauge its weight and then pressed the power button . However, the computer couldn’t be turned on .

"The hard drive was taken away . There may have been chat records and the like . "

"But when I came here with Xiaodong earlier, we were lucky to meet a friend of Ling Shuangshuang and got some chat records from her . "

"Let me have a look!"

Chen Shi took Lin Dongxue's mobile phone and looked at the screenshot of the chat record as well as the photo . Luo Zuyu's face wasn’t shown in the photo . Based on what was visible behind the car window, it looked like a parking lot . From the car’s interior, they could more or less figure out the car model .

He praised, "Very valuable evidence!"

The bedroom drawers were all opened . Chen Shi found several different types of power cords in a drawer . However, the electronic equipment in the house only consisted of a computer with the hard drive removed and a digital camera .

Chen Shi suspected that the gang had seized Ling Shuangshuang's tablet, laptop, etc . to prevent leaving any evidence behind . They were indeed cautious .

"How did this female fan contact Luo Zuyu?" Chen Shi wondered .

"Maybe it's a message via Weibo or she might have written her number down on the packaging of the flowers . According to her friend, Ling Shuangshuang was the one to hand over the flowers when they welcomed him at the airport . "

"You should contact Weibo officially later to see if you can find Ling Shuangshuang's chat history . "

"Okay, I’ll note it down . "

Then the two went to the bathroom . Chen Shi put on gloves and squatted down to investigate . "The body had been cleaned and the back of the head was injured . . . There are some scratches on the body . There’s no redness or swelling though, so they should have been left on the body after death . Maybe it happened when they moved the corpse . "

He carefully felt the bones of the corpse . The bones were intact . Then he checked the livor mortis[1] and pupils, saying, "The pupils are completely clouded and adhering to the crystalline lenses . The livor mortis doesn’t lose its color upon pressure and her back has large merged areas of vibices . This should have been caused by the transportation of the body . I can only estimate that the time of death happened more than two days ago . We have to let Old Peng check the body for a more accurate result .

Then he pried the drain cover open and retrieved all the hair and fibers inside as evidence .

Chen Shi asked, "Has the identity been verified?"

"No, but I’m guessing that it is the female cleaner . "

"Take a photo . "

Chen Shi swept the hair off the face of the victim, raised her head and asked Lin Dongxue to take a photo . Meddling with a corpse in such a small and dim bathroom, Lin Dongxue was worried that the corpse would suddenly open her eyes . Horror movies had already implanted such fantasies deeply into her mind . As a result, it took her a few tries before she could capture a clear photo because her hands were shaking .

Chen Shi comforted her, "It's a good thing to be afraid of corpses . It indicates that you respect death . ”

"Why aren’t you afraid?"

"I am afraid . If you asked me to stay with a body alone, I wouldn’t be able to do it . ”

The body was as pale as paper and even her lips were no longer red . Lin Dongxue felt her heartstrings getting tugged . "She must have been killed by that gang . How unfortunate . "

"Yes . We’ll avenge her . . . Go to the car to get a bag . We’ll take the body away . ”

Fearing that Chen Shi would be uneasy staying there alone, Lin Dongxue rushed to grab a body bag and opened it up . The two of them moved the body together and put it into the bag . Then Chen Shi picked up the corpse in his arms and went out with Lin Dongxue .

Finally, the body was moved to the car . The two went to the property management office and took a copy of the surveillance video from the past few days . Currently, there wasn't any extra manpower and time for them to investigate around the area, so they left .

Chen Shi asked Lin Dongxue to go to the hotel to verify the identity and conveyed the body back to the bureau himself .

Upon seeing the body, Peng Sijue said, "I can't help you right now . I have other jobs on hand . You know there’s a big case going on right now . "

"I didn't expect that you would be able to help to begin with . I’ll leave the corpse here with you for now!"

"Wait . . . " Peng Sijue called on another forensic pathologist . "Little Zhou, make a preliminary evaluation of this body and then give the report to Old Chen . "

Chen Shi saw that Peng Sijue was wearing sterile clothing and had blood on his body . There were two bodies waiting to be dissected in the forensic laboratory . He asked, "Who are those?"

"Members of the underworld gang that were shot last night . It’s said that the first gun has now been found . The murderer really mailed a dozen guns to strangers whom he didn’t know . "

"You guys must have been exhausted over the past few days . I’ll finish up on my side as soon as possible and come over to help you guys . "

At this time, Lin Dongxue also came back . She had confirmed the identity of the deceased with the hotel . It was truly the missing female cleaner . Chen Shi said, "Old Peng is already tied up by the gun mailing case . It’s impossible for us to completely investigate the scene right now . To find evidence, we can only use the fastest way available . "

"What’s the fastest way?"

Chen Shi pondered, "Actually, we all know that the whole group is collectively lying . Who do you think will be the weakest link?"

"Luo Zuyu himself . He’s irritable and naive . "

"I also thought of this . But Luo Zuyu isn’t easy to approach . I think I can start with that female entertainer . "

"Should we go and find her now?"

"It's too late . We’ll go tomorrow!"

Xu Xiaodong ran in and said, "Hey, you guys are here? Listen to this . "

Xu Xiaodong inserted a USB flash drive into the computer, which contained an unrecognizable file and an installation package . After installing the audio analysis software, he loaded the file and said, "This is the new song that hasn’t been released yet . The colleagues in the information department parsed out the audio tracks . I don’t understand the specifics . But anyway, we can listen to it now . "

On the screen, several audio tracks were displayed in a parallel format as voiceprints . It was very intuitive . Xu Xiaodong played one of them, and a scream of a woman was heard .

Although Chen Shi had expected it, he was still startled when he heard it on the spot . "Replay it!"

Xu Xiaodong played it again several times and Chen Shi said, "There’s a sharp echo . It should have been recorded in a closed environment with smooth walls . "

"That should have been the bathroom . . . He actually added the victim’s scream into the new song . He’s truly a cold-blooded psycho . " Lin Dongxue said in shock .

"Play the whole song again . "

Xu Xiaodong played the whole song and the scream wasn’t easy to make out spliced with the other sounds in the mix . In fact, there were many strange background sounds in the mix and it matched very naturally with the overall rhythm .

Chen Shi said, "If this voice belongs to the victim, Ling Shuangshuang, then it’s undoubtedly ironclad evidence to convict Luo Zuyu with!"

1 .   Postmortem skin changes include livor mortis, vibices, Tardieu spots, and marbling .  Livor mortis refers to the bluish-purple discoloration (lividity) under the skin of the lower body parts due to gravitation of blood after death . Onset of lividity, its location and color, provide information on the time and cause of death .  Vibices are pale marks on a dead person's skin that are caused by dermal pressure (e . g . marks around the neck from a rope) . Dark pinpoint spots (Tardieu spots) are seen when capillaries rupture due to increased gravitational pressure (e . g . in the legs of a hanged person) . A prominent purple discoloration of subdermal vessels appears later in the process of decomposition and leaves a marbling pattern . Not to be confused with rigor mortis .