National Forensic Doctor
Chapter 435 - 435 401 Urgency

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forensic doctor!” the officer who came out of the barn called out, his face contorted.

The officers at the scene had all noticed the woman who had come down with them, and given their familiarity with the case, as well as their natural ability for deduction and association, their expressions were far from pleasant.

Jiang Yuan stepped forward, calling over Mu Zhiyang, and immediately put on a coverall beneath the barn, followed by a face mask, then silently ascended the steps.

The other two trace examiners from Luyang City also hurriedly donned their gear, especially making sure to cover up their hair, before they followed into the barn.

The smell inside the barn was bearable.

This type of flat, elongated barn was like an enlarged ice cream cone raised more than a meter off the ground, so the ventilation and damp-proofing were exceptional.

If the rice was not dehusked, it could be stored for two or three years with no issues.

But now, the barn utilized the same principles to mask the scent of habitation within, as well as…

the smell of death.

After passing a two to three-meter-long pile of rice bags used for concealment, there was a bedroom and a renovated bathroom inside.

The bathroom had a toilet and a shower facility, and the floor was tiled, but there was no glass or mirrors, probably to prevent the women from using them as weapons.

The most conspicuous feature, however, was the arrangement of three large freezers in the corner.

The freezers were running, humming steadily, and the more one thought about their contents in the current context, the more horror and evil one felt.

Jiang Yuan silently approached and directly opened the middle freezer.

A large amount of plastic-wrapped flesh was revealed before his eyes.

Another might have hesitated, but Jiang Yuan could tell at a glance that this red meat belonged to humans.

He even instinctively wanted to compare it to numbered skeletal remains.

Mu Zhiyang unconsciously tensed up, furrowing his brow as he opened the freezer beside it.

The contents were the same.

And the same for the third freezer.

Based on capacity, the weight of a relatively slender woman could be roughly equivalent to that of two sheep, or half a pig, and the three freezers…

“Take photos.

No, take a few pictures first, then start recording.” Jiang Yuan called out, and the trace examiner who followed immediately raised a small video camera.

Once the red light came on, Jiang Yuan bent down to turn over the limbs inside the freezer.

Black hair soon emerged from beneath.

Jiang Yuan sighed, and also felt a small sense of relief.

Heads took up space; the presence of a few meant one less full body.

And putting the heads on the bottom layer of the freezers was probably not intentional, but rather the leftovers after the bodies above had been gradually processed.

Jiang Yuan looked around and saw no large pots and no stove setup, so he temporarily put aside the most disgusting speculations.

He guessed that the remains that couldn’t be stored must have been taken out and buried.

Or perhaps they initially employed burial methods for the bodies and later gave up altogether?

After all, the last corpse discovered was still from 15 months prior.

“There are already five heads here.

That’s one extra.” One of the trace examiners who was filming had another peek inside, also feeling unsettled in his stomach.

“Burying the bodies was probably their earlier method.

The crime escalated quite quickly,” Jiang Yuan guessed simply, then turned to Mu Zhiyang and said, “Get some body bags sent up from below, one for each body.

And call up two more people, those with experience.

The ones who might throw up, don’t let them come up.

The bathroom is full of evidence, there’s no place for people to get sick.”

“Okay,” Mu Zhiyang walked back to the door to call for help and to get some fresh air.

He understood, and his stomach felt very uncomfortable, especially after hearing Jiang Yuan’s last comment, he was pretty sure the bathroom was where the bodies were dismembered.

However, the kidnapped women were all staying in the bedroom next door, in other words, when the perpetrator killed someone, they were dragged from the bedroom to the bathroom, likely bled out over the toilet, and then dismembered and put into the freezers inside the room.

The dread inspired by the entire process was indescribable.

Even as a police officer, Mu Zhiyang felt extremely unsettled himself.

Jiang Yuan turned back to the two trace examiners and said, “You two start with the bathroom evidence, be thorough, make sure to collect from every nook and cranny, and do it several times.

From what I see now, there’s got to be DNA from at least 5 individuals.”

“Understood,” the two trace examiners were very cooperative.

Jiang Yuan had solved more cases with fingerprints than many could in their lifetimes.

Over the past year and a half, Jiang Yuan had also occasionally helped police departments across the province with fingerprint verification.

His reputation was well established.

While his performances in trace evidence examination had not become widely acclaimed, with a little inquiry, anyone in the industry could grasp thirty to seventy percent of it.

The progress of case 805 up till today had left the local trace evidence examiners in Luyang not just devoid of any other ideas from the start, but now they were itching to screech out their frustration.

Jiang Yuan himself began to tidy up the bedsheets and quilt cover on the bed.

The owner of the barn, Chen Youdi, lived alone; he had neither children nor a wife, so he washed things like clothes and bedsheets by himself.

By bringing the two women here, it was clear that Chen Youdi had sexual needs.

Not only could the bedding serve as evidence, but with some luck, it might also yield information about the victims.

After the activity started inside, two criminal police officers in their thirties, dressed neatly, walked in.

Police officers in their thirties generally have about ten years of work experience, as this industry has not yet reached the point where a graduate degree is necessary to work.

Two police academy graduates with a normal 10-year tenure in the detective squad would be considered the backbone of the police force and would have seen at least dozens of bodies.

Occasionally, in a rush or in places like Luyang City, where there are no forensic assistants, it’s common to help handle the bodies or even assist in autopsies.

Despite this, upon seeing the bodies in the freezer, the two criminal police officers were so shocked they were speechless.

“The meat my family bought for this year’s New Year’s, I don’t need to eat that anymore,” mumbled the police officer in disgust, wanting to cover his eyes.

He wasn’t actually about to physically vomit, but mentally, he certainly wanted to expel the scene before his eyes.

As a human being, there are some things it’s better not to know or see.

“Let’s move the bodies out first.

The head has been frozen; we can’t use bags.

Get some boxes from outside,” Jiang Yuan said, helping to lift the larger chunks of the body from the freezer.

Compared to buried bodies, the ones in the freezer were larger and heavier.

The No.

5 victim was likely a plus-size girl who had taken a wrong step, and perhaps it was because No.

5 was heavier that the murderer changed the method of disposing of the body?

“What kind of boxes do we need?” asked the two officers as they carried the bodies outside.

“Anything that can fit a head will do.

Instant noodle boxes, larger express boxes are fine,” Jiang Yuandao replied.

…

Bags of body parts were taken out, creating an overwhelming shock.

The small note of celebration that had just begun to rise due to the case being solved suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Jiang Yuan stood inside the barn, directing the evidence technicians to nearly empty the place before calling Liu Jinghui in.

“What’s the matter?” Liu Jinghui asked, looking at Jiang Yuan’s expression and guessing what was on his mind.

Jiang Yuan moved closer to Liu Jinghui and said softly, “We still haven’t found the murder weapon.”

Liu Jinghui was stunned for a moment.

“The search isn’t finished yet, right?”

“Chen Youdi didn’t know we were coming; he didn’t have time to hide the weapon,” Jiang Yuandao explained.

Liu Jinghui looked at Jiang Yuan in surprise, “Are you suggesting there’s an accomplice?”

“There definitely is,” Jiang Yuan mumbled, saying, “The body parts in the refrigerator are large and heavy.

With two murderers, both Chen Youdi and Zhang Hai are in their fifties and not very strong.

If they were handling it, they should have cut smaller pieces, made a few more cuts—the effort shouldn’t have been so exhausting.”

Liu Jinghui considered, “This…

Strength varies from person to person, after all…

”

“The bloodstains in the bathroom do not seem to be made by two men in their fifties with weak constitutions, at least not entirely.

Some of the stains indicate that the knife was swung quickly, by someone relatively young and strong.

In short, there was at least a third person in this room!”

“Three people?

” Liu Jinghui hadn’t considered this.

“The victim must have seen someone else.”

“The victim hasn’t come around yet, and the information we can get from her now isn’t accurate.

But…” Liu Jinghui paused for just a moment before nodding, “We’ll consider the possibility of three people being involved.

That way, there might still be a victim alive…”

The case suddenly became urgent.

If the third perpetrator learned about what’s happening here, it was very likely they could decide to simply kill the kidnapped woman.

But to be honest, with all the commotion here, in this age where everyone is an uploader, it’s virtually impossible to keep anything secret.

“I’ll think of something.

” Jiang Yuan took the initiative.