National Forensic Doctor
Chapter 147 - 147 143 Enough with the Case (Three More Updates)

147: Chapter 143 Enough with the Case (Three More Updates) 147: Chapter 143 Enough with the Case (Three More Updates) Monday.

Rain began to fall in Ningtai County.

Abundant rainfall traveled from south to north, from east to west, turning the view outside the window into a watery land.

Leaning against the window sill, Wu Jun solemnly smoked a Yuxi cigarette and slowly said, “If someone dies today, we’ll be in trouble.”

Jiang Yuan lifted his head from behind the computer screen and said, “It’s not that coincidental.”

“Don’t jinx it,” Wu Jun waved his hand grandly and said, “Speaking of coincidences, they tend to actually happen.

I remember there was a case we worked on where that was exactly what happened…”

Thus, Wu Jun began to tell an old story to Jiang Yuan.

Jiang Yuan silently reviewed the training materials on the screen.

His understanding of fingerprint identification was constantly improving.

However, the difference between criminal science technology and ordinary science or technology lies in the need for considerable external support.

Perhaps it’s because police don’t favor going it alone, and no one has considered creating a technology that would allow officers to operate solo.

On the contrary, criminal science technology often requires the cooperation of colleagues, even that of an entire system.

Like with fingerprint technology, no matter how skilled Jiang Yuan’s identification abilities were, they still relied on the fingerprint database.

And the fingerprint database was something that was accumulated bit by bit.

From Jiang Yuan’s perspective, what’s currently restraining the further development of fingerprint technology is the construction of the fingerprint database, as well as the input and annotation of new fingerprints.

This, too, requires the collaboration of the entire police system.

In the field of criminal science technology, this usually manifests as various trainings.

Explanation of the latest technology, promotion of newer technologies, use of more mature technologies…

The police system might be the entity most fond of organizing training in the country; even so, the strength of the police’s grassroots force remains weak.

And the task of entering fingerprints isn’t just something that can be solved with extended periods of work; it also calls for more meticulous work planning and the dissemination of working methods.

As it stands, the system is unlikely to impart such managerial skills.

So Jiang Yuan tried to learn on his own.

Bang.

Captain Wei rushed in from outside.

“Is there a dead person?”

Jiang Yuan and Wu Jun turned their heads in unison and shouted in chorus.

Captain Wei carefully glanced behind him, thought for a moment, then said, “No…

No one’s dead, I think.”

“Oh…

I thought so…

Luckily…” Wu Jun breathed a sigh of relief, stopped smoking, hurriedly sat back down, his hand silently touching the Guan Gong statue.

Jiang Yuan looked at Captain Wei and smiled, “Captain Wei, what’s up?”

“Oh, that, Li Suigong has returned, bringing with him the suspect of the fraud case,” Captain Wei caught his breath and smiled, “They’ve taken him to the case management center.”

Jiang Yuan looked outside, surprised, “At this hour?

Did they stay up all night to catch him?”

“More than that, they’ve been running around for three days.

I just found out; there was an alarm at the Qi Province checkpoint, and Li Suigong called people to go, a one-way trip of 1200 kilometers, a round trip of 2500 kilometers.

They even staked out for a day,” Captain Wei shook his head in admiration, “Economic investigation is not easy.”

“Then let’s go have a look,” Jiang Yuan quickly stood up.

Upon entering the case management center, he saw Li Suigong and another police officer filling out forms, while their colleagues were already sprawled out dead asleep on the sofas.

There weren’t many people in the case management center, but there were always people coming and going, looking over.

Li Suigong just pretended not to see them.

“Captain Li,” Jiang Yuan greeted him eagerly.

“Jiang,” Li Suigong quickly shook Jiang Yuan’s hand, grateful to Jiang for the trip to Qi Province.

Now that he had returned, he naturally wanted to show his appreciation even more.

“Don’t be so formal.

I heard you’ve brought back someone?”

Li Suigong nodded emphatically, then with some embarrassment said, “We followed the person’s trail, but we didn’t expect that guy to have already transferred the money.

The funds we managed to recover might not even amount to 300,000.”

He actually knew it was impossible to recover all the money.

And 800,000 might seem like a lot to the average person, but the various financial channels aren’t there to serve the average person.

That’s why, from the beginning, Li Suigong didn’t bother with the direction of the money flow.

It was a matter of catching the person first, then asking and checking.

Sure enough, there was only a little over 200,000 left.

The rest of the money was either squandered by the suspect or somehow transferred.

But according to Li Suigong’s experience, these kinds of fraudsters would rather go to jail than return the money.

Jiang Yuan certainly wasn’t one to insist on perfection.

He shook Li Suigong’s hand and said, “Being able to crack the case is the best outcome; the rest isn’t entirely under our control.

You’ve worked too hard on this, traveling 2500 kilometers back and forth in just three or four days.

That’s quite demanding.”

“No worries, it’s mainly the driver who gets tired.” Li Suigong laughed.

It was then that Jiang Yuan learned that the economic investigation team even had a driver.

Indeed, it was a squad with ample funds.

Captain Wei glanced at Jiang Yuan with a look that said he hadn’t seen much of the world, pulled him aside, and whispered, “Captain Li, you get on with your work; we’ll sit for a bit before leaving.”

“Alright.” Li Suigong hurried back to his paperwork.

Nowadays, solving cases was all about following the process; one wrong move and you’d be buried in paperwork.

Captain Wei then said to Jiang Yuan in a low voice, “Nowadays, well-funded police forces all like to have drivers because they don’t take up auxiliary police positions and can help with driving, carrying things, and whatnot.

It’s very practical.”

“So, there aren’t enough auxiliary police positions either?”

“When are there ever enough personnel positions?” Captain Wei laughed.

Jiang Yuan also sent messages to his dad and Jiang Yushan.

Both of them called back with questions.

Jiang Yuan stepped out of the office area to talk freely.

He didn’t know much, and some of it was quite unfriendly to the victims.

But for Jiang Yushan, just hearing that the suspect had been brought to justice was enough to make him very happy.

Noon.

Jiang Yuan was hesitating whether to treat Li Suigong to a meal or let him sleep first, then have another meal with Dazhuang, when the system interface suddenly popped up:

Mission Complete: Find a Person

Mission Details: A qualified forensic doctor, capable of finding a person (alive/dead) through various details.

Mission Reward: Footprint Identification (LV3)

Jiang Yuan knew at that moment that the suspect must have confessed.

With the domestic mechanisms, once there was a confession and some physical evidence, during the litigation phase, the defendant would at most argue the severity of the sentence.

There were almost no cases of escaping punishment.

While he thought this, Li Suigong’s call came through.

“The suspect has caved.

We’ll sort out the documents and rush to press charges.

As for asset recovery, it might be delayed a bit,” Li Suigong explained to Jiang Yuan.

Jiang Yuan thanked him again and then ended the call, feeling that helping others was no easy task.

Turning his attention back, Jiang Yuan carefully read the description of Level 3 Footprint Identification.

The most notable feature of Footprint Identification is its extremely high extraction rate.

Almost any crime scene would yield footprint traces.

In comparison, while fingerprint and DNA technologies are more mature and reliable for confirming identities, in the current criminal environment, the extraction rate for fingerprints is only about 15% or less, and even lower for DNA.

In cases where DNA and fingerprints cannot be obtained, footprints may be the only thing to rely on.

Jiang Yuan casually mixed some cigarette ash into a paste, stepped in it, twisted his foot around, then stepped to the side, and began to observe the resulting footprint.

Indeed, a flood of information rushed into his mind.

Without hesitation, he got up and headed to the adjacent forensic office, opened the door, and asked, “Brother Wang, do you have any cases with footprints for me to work on?”

Footprint analysis was also part of forensic work.

Wang Zhong was stunned by the request, then asked in confusion, “What do you mean by ‘cases with footprints’?”

“I’ve been looking into footprint science recently and would like to find a case to work on as homework,” Jiang Yuan said humbly.

Wang Zhong was instantly invigorated!

Months ago, Jiang had said the same thing about fingerprints!

And then he solved so many cases in quick succession…

“Yes, yes, yes, there’s plenty; just give me a moment.”