When I want to review the perverted murders I encountered in those years, the first person who popped into my mind was the "executioner" who claimed to punish the world for God. That was the first case I encountered when I just joined the cleanup work. Because the case happened in a villa in Jinxing District, Changsha, Hunan, it was later called the "Jinxing Villa Family m******e Case". In 2000, I was a graduate of a business master's degree in finance from the University of Sydney. I joined the cleanup work of the Changsha Public Security Bureau Criminal Police Aftermath Team. At that time, there were a total of four people in the aftermath team, including me, Gao Ziyun, my father Gao Yuanchao, "Langli Baitiao" Brother Liu and "Mother Two Insects" Sister Jing. As for why they got the nickname "Water Margin", I didn't figure it out for a long time. Among them, my father has the longest service time, of course, he has worked for more than 30 years and is called Dad. As mentioned earlier, due to the special nature of the work, our aftermath team is often seconded to various places to handle cases. However, no matter where we are seconded, the division of labor among the four of us is basically unchanged: I, my father, and Brother Liu, the "white stripe in the waves", are mainly responsible for the specific cleaning work, and Sister Jing, the "mother bug", is responsible for various desk work and coordination work.
The specific process of the work is as follows: the superiors will inform my father of the details of the crime scene. For the convenience of narration, I will also call my father "father" according to the habits of others. My father will convey the case to Sister Jing, asking her to do the written work such as records and reports, and apply to the superiors for the necessary equipment for the cleaning work. Then we will go to the equipment room to get the equipment and go to the crime scene to clean up. The time for the cleaning work depends on the situation. Simple ones can be done in two or three hours. Complex ones can be done in seven or eight hours, which is normal, and there are even several days of busy work. After the cleaning is completed, come back to hand in the work and write a simple report on the cleaning and aftermath work for archiving. If there is a need to coordinate with the criminal police, such as finding suspicious or potentially useful evidence, the person in charge of the case, usually the captain of the criminal investigation team, needs to be informed.
Before joining the aftermath work group to carry out formal work, my father took me to the morgue and funeral home to be influenced by the "corpse culture" in order to prepare me psychologically. In fact, before returning from abroad, I had already "planned" to be a "cleaner". So, as soon as I received the internal news that Lao Li was going to retire and there was a vacancy, I immediately conducted pre-job self-training.
First, I found a free membership card for a movie website from a pile of advertising emails, and then downloaded a large number of trial movies from the Internet, mainly collecting horror movies. Because unlike Eastern horror movies, the so-called horror movies in Western countries are mostly based on rendering human dismemberment and bloody human internal organs. Then, I used the search engine to download a large number of medical anatomical pictures. In this way, I have a more intuitive understanding of the various forms of corpses. So, when my father took me to visit the morgue, I looked sanctimonious and had no adverse reactions at all. Although the stench of the corpse did make my stomach a little uncomfortable. Dad glanced at me, and seeing that I was full of righteousness, he showed a trace of distrust. After a few days, I soon felt that the corpse was not as scary as I imagined, and thought that my iron heart had been trained. Who knew that when I really arrived at the crime scene of Venus Villa, I vomited all over the place!
I remember downloading a movie called "House of Wax", and its movie poster was impressive. The poster depicts a person whose facial features and limbs are distorted and deformed, melting like wax. The reason why I want to talk about this poster is that the situation in the villa is very similar to this poster. The difference is that the poster shows a person melting, while in the villa, several people are melting together. No, it's not melting, it's decaying. The corpse is constantly decaying like a heated wax man, and the muscle tissue on the face and body of the deceased is twisted and entangled. It's hard to tell which is which. Only the skeleton is still stubbornly supporting the ground in various forms. We shuttled between them, which reminded me of the deer fork in the siege game. The eyeballs rolled here and there, and the eyeballs with melted eyelids looked particularly round, as if staring at you with ill intentions. A large amount of corpse fluid oozed out of the corpse continuously, crisscrossing on the ground and blending with each other, which looked as shocking as it could be. After all, Dad and Brother Liu were old birds and didn't care at all. They wore special gloves on both hands, but the masks drooped on their chests, and they had no intention of using them at all. Although I had already vomited the food in my stomach thoroughly before, and listened to Brother Liu's words, I took a few breaths of corpse stench to get my internal organs into working condition, but I still couldn't help but secretly put on two masks. Even so, the bitter bile still jumped up from the stomach along the esophagus to the throat from time to time. I imitated my father and Brother Liu, pretending to be calm and picking up a shovel. I shoveled the corpse close to me. The corpse was like tofu, and a piece of meat was shoveled out with one shovel. The maggots that had been accumulated in the corpse for a long time seemed to have found an exit. They rushed out one after another, tumbling and performing, afraid that others would not know their existence... I felt like vomiting again, and ran out to vomit again. In fact, there was nothing to vomit. After vomiting back and forth several times, I finally adapted to the environment a little and slowly followed the rhythm of my father and Brother Liu.
Once my internal organs calmed down, my thoughts began to run wild. I muttered in my heart, such a bloody scene, which madman's "masterpiece" was it? So, once the scene was almost handled, I couldn't wait to ask my father for an answer. But my father didn't seem to know much, just saying that the dead people at the scene were killed by each other, and they were all relatives! This aroused my curiosity even more. It just so happened that the Changsha Criminal Investigation Team Captain Wu Tianyou, who was in charge of the case, returned to the scene for some reason. I quickly took the opportunity to approach him, hoping to get some inside information. This is actually very taboo. If you can avoid asking too many questions, don't ask too many questions. It's better to do less than more. Just do what the superiors say. I was young and hot-tempered at that time and didn't understand these rules. Not only then, but now I still love to ask questions. If there is anything new, strange, or unclear, I will break the casserole to get to the bottom of it, but the way of asking is more smooth. Thanks to retaining this simple habit, otherwise, I wouldn't know these bizarre and terrifying stories. Captain Wu is not tall and has a standard police face. Looking at him, I always think of You Yong, who played the role of the mainland public security director Shi in the movie "Underworld". I handed him a "Da Zhonghua" and lit it. I didn't smoke originally, but I followed Brother Liu's advice and always carried a pack with me. One is to suppress the smell of corpses, and the other is to use it as incense when necessary. I didn't expect to use it once. Captain Wu took a puff, looked at the cigarette in his hand, then looked at me, and said two words: "Fake cigarettes." I smiled awkwardly, seeing that he seemed to be in a good mood today, I hurried to continue my questions.
I said: "Captain Wu, have you found the murderer?" As soon as I said it, I immediately regretted it. It was too abrupt and too unprofessional to ask such a question. I was not afraid that Captain Wu would laugh at me for being too naive, but I was afraid that such a question would embarrass Captain Wu. After all, the probability of finding the murderer immediately after discovering the crime scene is almost the same as winning the lottery.
Captain Wu took another puff of the fake Zhonghua, and had no intention of throwing it away. Although he didn't laugh, his tone was obviously cheerful. He said: "We have locked in a major criminal suspect and are setting up a net to search for him."
I couldn't help but be shocked when I heard it. It turned out that he had such a high efficiency in handling cases! Brother Liu, who was tying the mouth of the body bag over there, couldn't help but jump up when he heard this, and hurried over to listen.
When I asked more questions, Captain Wu didn't say a word. He patted my shoulder and asked, "You just cleaned up the crime scene. You are probably more familiar with the details than I am. Tell me, who is the murderer?"
Although I did not graduate from the police academy, I have watched almost all the popular crime movies and TV series that can be found on the Internet. Have you not eaten pork, but have you seen pigs run? I still have basic knowledge of solving cases.
I overlapped my hands and supported them on the shovel handle, answering the teacher's questions like a primary school student: "Although the bodies of these victims are decomposed, judging from the clothing and skeleton features, the deceased are four women and two men, two of whom are children, who should be the children of Li Guobao and Zhang Ting. The older woman should be Li Guobao's mother, and the one who was wearing an apron before death should be his nanny Aunt Sun."
Before I finished speaking, Brother Liu came up and slapped me on the back of my head, saying, "Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and work! Aren't you afraid that Captain Wu will laugh at you? What mother and nanny, this is ridiculous You can't talk nonsense. Investigating a case is about evidence, it's a serious matter, not just chatting and telling stories! "
Before I could argue, Captain Wu slowly pushed Brother Liu aside, looked at me with his eyes piercing and asked: "Tell me, who is the murderer?"
I said: "I can't say for sure. Judging from the current situation, we should find Li Guobao's father as soon as possible to ask him clearly. I wonder if he is one of the suspects?"
Captain Wu patted my shoulder heavily and said that there were case materials from various periods that he thought were more important in the filing cabinet in his office. If I was interested, I could read them at will, and he said that he approved it. After that, he nodded to his father and turned away.
Captain Wu's behavior was like presenting me with a banner, which made me very excited. As soon as he stepped out of the door, Brother Liu immediately jumped over and asked me what medicine I took wrong, whether I was possessed by a ghost, and how I knew so much details.
I pointed to the memorial photos of the Li family from different periods on the table and on the wall and said, "Isn't it obvious? By comparing the body shapes and clothes of the people in the photos, it is not difficult to determine the identities of the bodies. There are also children's drawings on the note board, "A thank-you letter, Aunt Sun is my second mother", etc. I picked up two plane tickets from the coffee table, which were obviously the tickets for Li Guobao's parents to return home. Since Li Guobao's father did not return home, and now he is missing alive or dead, whether he is suspected or not, it is necessary to find him and ask the truth in accordance with procedures." After listening, Brother Liu also came over and imitated Captain Wu, patting my shoulder heavily, and said in a serious manner: "Young man, I really didn't make a mistake. You can take the dirty clothes in my locker room and wash them. If anyone asks, just say that I approved it." Back in the group, Sister Jing learned about my deeds from somewhere and praised me. Dad felt very proud to have such performance on the first day of work. Although he didn't say it, he personally opened a bottle of beer and handed it to me when he came home for dinner that night, which surprised my mother. My father usually opposed me drinking.
With the clear instructions of Captain Wu, the office of the captain of the criminal investigation team became a place where I could enter and exit at will without approval. Although Captain Wu could not disclose the case to me according to regulations, I could browse the materials he had studied at will, which gave me an opportunity to keep up with his thinking on the case.