Chapter 514

After visiting Sherlock Holmes, Mr. deputy director left in a hurry to continue to cope with the pressure from the media and Parliament. Others returned to their respective jobs, leaving Lestrade as their escort.

Although the detection of the serial homicide in Whitechapel is now the top priority of the police, it does not mean that other work and cases can be completely put down. As the largest city in Europe and even in the world, London's police work is not easy at all, especially now it is an eventful autumn, because the murder in Whitechapel has started many dishonest guys With the general public's growing panic, the police in London have cancelled their holidays.

Lestrade has been following up since the first homicide. He is also the person who knows the most about this round of cases. It is the most appropriate choice for him to stay and cooperate.

The three men stepped out of the carriage, not far from the morgue. So far, three women have been killed, ranging in age from 34 to 50. The bodies of the first two victims have been returned to their families and friends for burial, while the bodies of the third one are still there because they were killed two days ago and there is no family.

Sherlock Holmes was about to enter the door, but Zhang Heng stopped him. The latter said to Lestrade, "can you give us a little time?"

The short officer made a gesture of help, then stepped aside and waited patiently.

Zhang Heng said, "this case I hope we can crack it separately. "

"Oh?" There was a look of interest on Holmes' face and he asked, "why?"

"I want to verify what I've learned in this period of time." Zhang Hengdao.

Sherlock Holmes looked into his eyes. Zhang Heng didn't know if the other party saw anything from it, but in the end, Sherlock Holmes just laughed and said, "well, it will be more interesting if you join in. In this case, let's make a bet on who will catch the murderer first, and the loser will provide two tickets for the opera of Queen song."

“………… Are you addicted to opera recently But Zhang Heng did not hesitate, very readily agreed to the bet.

The conversation between the two took less than a minute, and then Lestrade was called back to introduce the case.

"The dead man's name is Bernice. She is 46 years old. Like the two before her, she is also a prostitute living at the bottom of the east side. Her body was found in the fence behind her cheap apartment. The first one to find her is a coachman named Slater, which can be basically ruled out."

The short police officer opened the shroud and continued to introduce, "the time of the crime was around 5 am, according to the forensic guess. The fatal wound was in the neck and was cut open by a sharp blade. The method was the same as the other two homicides we met earlier. At the same time, the murderer also had a caesarean section after death. When the driver found her, a part of her intestines were thrown on her right shoulder."

Lestrade said as he gave Sherlock Holmes and Zhang Heng a picture of the scene, "but the difference is that part of her womb and abdominal meat were also cut away, which is also the most puzzling place for us. I can't imagine what the killer used to take these meat."

Holmes' eyes lit up, but he was not in a hurry to say anything. Instead, he asked Zhang Heng, "do you come first or do I come first?"

"You first." Zhang Heng is still looking at the photos, including the photos of the two people who were killed before. He looks very carefully, and tries not to let go of any details. At the same time, he confirms some inferences of later generations.

Zhang Heng knows that it is not realistic to win the fight with Holmes only by LV1's criminal investigation skills. In this round of competition, he has no room for fault tolerance. It is also a more opportunistic choice to let Holmes take the lead. At the same time, he can also observe the key points of Holmes' observation.

But the detective was totally indifferent. Wen Yan took out the magnifying glass from his pocket and went to the body.

He quickly transformed himself into a smart hound. The magnifying glass moved left and right, and he put his face on the body despite the bad smell Five minutes later, Holmes contentedly took back the magnifying glass, indicating that it was Zhang Heng's turn.

Zhang Heng takes a deep breath and goes to the corpse. In recent months, he has gained a lot. As an important part of criminal investigation, dissection, forensic anthropology and wound examination have made great progress. In this way, he can get more and more information from a corpse.

Zhang Heng first noticed a bad smell of alcohol in the air. Later, he also found that the skin of the deceased was red, which was caused by telangiectasia. Combined with the previous smell of alcohol, it showed that the victim had a long-term drinking habit. Later, Zhang Heng noticed the fatal wound in Bo neck, which was obviously not only cut by one knife, but also cut by the killer Many knives almost cut off the victim's head completely.

In addition, under those wounds, there were obvious strangulation marks on the neck. Zhang Heng frowned. From that mark, it was not like a rope or a palm, but more like A handkerchief? Zhang Heng thought of the statement that Jack the Ripper was a woman, but it's too early to make an assertion just with a handkerchief.

Zhang Heng thinks of Holmes' warning that detectives need to maintain absolute rationality and objectivity when handling cases, and must not be preconceived. Deduction is reasoning, but this kind of reasoning is more like the process of using clues to continuously narrow the collection and finally find the answer. Once there is a subjective bias, then there will be unconscious bias when collecting evidence, and the ultimate goal is to find the answer It's possible to go further and further on the fork road.So Zhang Heng will find the information temporarily put aside, continue to check.

In addition to the wounds on the abdomen and neck, the victim's face was painted.

"I can see that guy really hates jinu." Lestrade sighed to one side, "otherwise I wouldn't have done such a thing to a corpse. I've been a policeman for so many years, and I've never seen anyone do this to a corpse."

Zhang Heng is noncommittal. He turns his head and looks at the scratches silently. Then he looks down and finally comes to the abdominal cavity.

The uterus is a very special place and the origin of human life. The fetus was born here. It can be seen that this serial killer also has a special preference for this woman's unique organ. In the first homicide, the victim was only cut throat and had dozens of knives in his body. Then the abdomen of the second victim was broken and the uterus was stabbed. When it came to the third person, the killer was even worse Further, half of the uterus was removed.

He and she are like an excited gold digger, walking into a huge gold mine, digging out the inner desire.

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