Liaohe River is a backbone river originating from TJ City and flowing through Haizhou City throughout the province.
Since ancient times, the Liaohe River has been an important waterway.
Even a few decades ago, there were still many ships plying the Liao River, but in recent years the requirements for ecological and environmental protection have become higher, and water transportation has indeed fallen behind here.
In the past, water transportation saved time and effort, but in recent years, land transportation has developed rapidly. Highways extend in all directions, so watermarks are slowly being eliminated.
At this time, under the Liaohe Bridge near the north bank, police lights were already flashing.
Lu Chuan and Wang Zhaokai drove over in their own private cars relatively quickly. When they arrived, Sun Biao and the others had not yet arrived at the territorial police station and had just surrounded the scene.
The police station that governs this area on Jiefang North Road is called Xishan Police Station.
Director Wang Damin saw Lu Chuan arriving and hurried over to report.
"Bureau Lu!"
Wang Damin saluted: "I am Wang Damin, director of Xishan Police Station. I just received a call from the police center, saying that there was a suspected discovery under the bridge on the north bank of the Liaohe River Bridge. The person who reported the body was a citizen fishing nearby.”
Wang Damin pointed to a man in black who was being questioned over there.
Lu Chuan and Wang Zhaokai went over and walked to the shore.
“It’s this thing. I don’t know what it is, but I used a branch to get it over. It smelled bad, and I felt something was wrong. I thought about whether to call the police for a long time, and finally I I still made this call.”
The man in black who reported the crime was describing how he found an object that looked like a corpse in the river.
“I was fishing at the time, and then that thing slowly floated over from above. When I saw it from a distance, I thought it was a plastic bag or something. I didn’t pay much attention to it at first, but then that thing It just floated over.”
This man, like Lu Chuan, Wang Zhaokai and others, also came here to catch wild fish, but compared with Lu Chuan and others, this guy should be a more experienced fisherman with quite complete equipment.
“Keep talking.”
The inquiring policeman asked while recording.
“Then when it floated over, I went to the side and took a branch and brought it to the shore here. But I didn’t dare to move it, so I brought it to the shore and blocked it with a branch. Floating away, I thought it was probably a corpse, and then I called and you guys came over. It’s that simple.”
The other party didn’t see it, or they weren’t sure yet, but it was actually the entity. As soon as Lu Chuan and Wang Zhaokai arrived at the scene, they smelled the familiar smell of corpses.
It's just that because the body is now head down, and the legs and head are soaked in water, the large clothes are floating outside and it feels like a plastic bag.
After learning about the incident from the reporter, Lu Chuan and Wang Zhaokai arrived at the shore. At this moment, the body was still on the shore and had not been moved to the shore.
"We have to call a boat over."
Wang Zhaokai frowned and looked at the corpses on the shore. This canal is still relatively deep, and it will definitely be dangerous to go down rashly. Moreover, if the corpse is fished out with iron hooks or other methods, it will undoubtedly cause damage to the body, so Wang Zhaokai's opinion is to let the corpse fishing boat come over.
“Okay, let me know by phone.”
The water system in Haizhou City is relatively developed, and there are many water systems connected to the Liao River. For example, the Shuangyang River where Wang Zhaokai and Lu Chuan were fishing just now is actually a tributary of the Liao River.
While Wang Zhaokai was practicing on the corpse boat, Sun Biao from the Criminal Police Brigade had already arrived with everyone. "Bureau Lu!"
Sun Biao saw that Lu Chuan and Wang Zhaokai had already come forward to report, and then he started to enter the scene, preparing to do some things around him. survey work that can be done.
Such a crime scene is actually what the on-site investigation and criminal police officers least want to see, because the body floated over from the water, and there is a high probability that the surrounding area is not the first crime scene, and it is most likely that the body is not abandoned. the scene.
According to normal logic, when a person is immersed in water after death, he will immediately sink to the bottom of the water. Then as the corpse decomposes, gas will be produced in the body, so the corpse will slowly float up.
But this process does not happen overnight. It takes time from the time the body slowly begins to rise to the surface of the water, which takes at least two or three days.
And this time mainly depends on the degree of decay of the body. In this case, it is related to the surrounding weather and the water temperature.
Generally speaking, the hotter the weather, the faster this floating process will occur. The more it floats, the more it sells. It may even sink to the bottom of the river, and it is possible that it never floats.
The corpse will flow with the flow of the river during the process of floating up. The speed of the flow is basically the same as the speed of the river.
Until the body becomes more decomposed, the inside of the body is filled with gas, and the body floats to the surface.
So the place where the body was found, judging from the current weather conditions, must not be the place where the murderer dumped the body.
Of course, it is too early to determine whether it is a homicide. First, we must determine the circumstances of the death of the deceased, whether it was drowning or death caused by other reasons.
For example, when the Criminal Police Brigade investigated the disappearance of Li Xiaoyan some time ago, a person named Wang Ying was present at the same time. He jumped off the sea-crossing bridge and drowned.
So it is not ruled out that this case is a suicide case.
At the scene, Lu Chuan decided not to move the body for the time being. After all, the body should not have been floating in the river for more than a day. It's been two days, so there's still half a day to wait until the corpse boat arrives.
Haizhou City Public Security Bureau has a special cooperation ship related to this.
Although there are not many cases on the water, sometimes it does require professional personnel to organize searches. Work, this is the kind of ship that has been cooperating.
And the relevant crew members are also relatively professional personnel, and they are sometimes required to do some underwater search work.
In less than an hour, the corpse boat had already arrived.
"Team Wang, do you want to start?"
The captain is an old acquaintance of everyone. Everyone here knows Lu Chuan and actually knows each other. He has known Wang Zhaokai for a long time. After saying hello, he asked if he would like to start the operation.
“Let’s get started, pay attention to protecting the body.”
“Okay! Don’t worry, we are professionals!”
The structure of the corpse boat is quite special, unlike ordinary The boats are not the same. There is an open space in the middle of the corpse boat.
The crew can use a special soft hook to salvage the body directly into this open space. Because this space is flush with the water surface, it is effortless and will not cause damage to the body. (End of this chapter)