Chapter 7 - This Isn’t a Woman’s Forte
Chapter 7: This Isn’t a Woman’s Forte
“I learned Locard’s Exchange Principle in police school; wherever a crime is committed, there will always be direct or indirect traces left at the scene.”
Walking out of the warehouse, Xiao Yu looked at the puzzled face of Guo Qiang, “Master, there are no traces of the crime in the warehouse, at most it’s just the second scene where the body was dumped.”
“No wonder you graduated top of your class from police school.”
Guo Qiang was impressed, “Facing someone like you, I feel like I’m just here to make up the numbers.”
No, I’m not that amazing, I’m just carrying over the wisdom from my past life… Xiao Yu grinned, “Master, you’re overpraising me. I still need to learn from you as my experience is lacking.”
But in his mind, he thought: Stop treating me like a newbie. Testing a newcomer like this is a waste of time!
Just as he thought.
Guo Qiang had brought Xiao Yu to the warehouse without telling him it was a secondary crime scene, intending to test his new apprentice.
But the apprentice was too strong, making Guo Qiang feel like his own experience was being slapped in the face.
Feeling embarrassed?
No, Guo Qiang was actually a bit happy.
Talents like Xiao Yu are highly sought after by any investigative unit.
The more talented they are, the easier it is to achieve results in the future.
The Criminal Investigation Team is a collective; anyone achieving results benefits everyone.
Conversely, if a case isn’t solved, the whole team suffers…
Guo Qiang decided not to play any more tricks.
He believed Xiao Yu might lack experience but had an excessively strong investigative ability.
Testing him further would only embarrass himself…
***
Primary crime scene, factory dormitory.
A three-story building.
First floor dining hall, second floor male dormitory, third floor female dormitory.
The so-called primary scene was on the rooftop terrace.
Squatting down, looking at the dried and darkened blood stains all over, Xiao Yu squinted.
Now, this is a proper crime scene!
First, you can see the traces of struggle after the victim fell, and even some footprints.
From observing the scene and the traces left after the victim fell.
A surprise attack from behind?
Because the victim was lying face down when found.
From the friction marks on the head against the ground and the direction of the blood spatter.
After falling, the victim was subjected to continuous heavy blows.
The victim couldn’t even turn over, indicating that the attacker was extremely fierce and ruthless.
First knocking the victim down, then continuously striking, giving no chance to react.
From a psychological perspective, not many ordinary people can do this.
To make someone act with such ruthless intent to commit murder.
There are only five motivations: emotion, hatred, interest, jealousy, and greed!
Killing without reason?
Impossible, that’s insanity!
Repeatedly investigating, repeatedly going over the details, repeatedly scrutinizing.
Unknowingly, Xiao Yu entered a certain state.
Until… he looked up and shook his head helplessly.
There wasn’t much to be found at the scene.
Xiao Yu thought: This path isn’t working for now, let’s switch to another approach and find a breakthrough elsewhere.
He had a blind date in the morning, reported in at noon, visited the crime scene in the afternoon, and it was already five when he returned to the team.
He called his family, saying he was checking in at work and would be late.
As a result, his mom scolded him.
She said: You barely said two words to the girl from Aunt Zhou’s family and then left with another woman? How am I supposed to explain this to Aunt Zhou? You little brat, just wait until you come back. I’ll skin you alive…
Covered in sweat, Xiao Yu ended the call with his mom.
He always believed that tigresses were the most terrifying creatures in this world.
After transmigrating, he realized he was wrong, and very naïve.
When a tigress upgrades to a mom, you’ll understand what true brutality is!
There are four breathing beings in the house, ranked by status.
Mom, Cara, Dad, himself.
Cara is a dog!
From this, you can see.
Cara is the real child, Dad was picked up, and he was a promotional offer…
Perfect!
***
Criminal Investigation Team.
Xiao Yu was sitting in a chair, holding a folder containing the warehouse murder case files.
Compared to investigating the scene, he preferred dissecting the files.
Chewing on those subtle details, then drawing conclusions.
The so-called search for clues boils down to two words: reasoning.
The most important part of reasoning is subtraction.
List out the clues one by one and sort them out.
Otherwise, it’s like a tangled ball of yarn, the more you think, the more confused you get…
At this moment, Xiao Yu was reading the autopsy report.
“The victim’s posterior skull was struck seven times by a suspected metal object, causing a fractured skull…”
While carefully reading the files, Xiao Yu unconsciously raised his arm, mimicking the motions in the air.
Once, twice, thrice… until seven times.
Blinking, Xiao Yu came back to his senses and confirmed.
There was only one perpetrator, but whether there were accomplices helping was undetermined.
At the time of the crime, the factory was on New Year holidays, with only a dozen workers who didn’t return home.
This included two female workers, who were the main suspects in the case.
Why were these two women the main suspects?
Based on the estimated time of death, the victim died four days ago, roughly around midnight.
At that time, only the two female employees were in the dormitory, while the other employees were working overtime in the factory, making it unlikely for them to have the opportunity to commit the crime.
The contradiction is that, based on the autopsy, the force required to strike the victim’s head with the murder weapon would be difficult for an average woman to achieve.
Not to mention, very few women possess the mental toughness to commit murder.
There are few cases of women indirectly, actively, or directly committing murder.
Experts have found through numerous case studies that the ratio is 9 to 1, a real statistic.
Female criminals using blunt instruments to kill are even rarer.
In other words, solely using blunt instruments to commit murder is not a woman’s forte!
Of course, Xiao Yu thought his mom was an exception.
As a child, watching his mom beat his dad, she mastered all eighteen types of martial arts, proficient with various weapons.
She could pin his dad to the ground in minutes.
Absolutely brutal!