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Criminal Investigation Cases: Book 4
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In the bustling market, a skull appeared—fake; but aside from the skull, the other bones were real, alongside some pig bones.
On the bed in the bedroom, where pillows should have been placed, lay a bloody human head—real; yet the body sprawled on the bed was merely a plush toy. The murderer mixed human bones with pig bones in an attempt to deceive everyone. Why then leave behind a human head to create such a spectacle?
Although the dead cannot speak, the corpse can reveal who the real killer is.
Date of the incident: January 10, 2006.
Location: Yueguang Province, Yang City.
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That morning, Liu Dajie arrived at the market as usual, intending to buy some fresh pork ribs for her husband’s soup. To her surprise, the stall she frequently visited was closed, but there was a cardboard box placed on it.
Driven by curiosity, Liu Dajie opened the box, and a terrified scream shattered the morning calm. Inside, she found it filled with stark white bones, and to her horror, there lay a human skull. Instantly paralyzed with fear, Liu Dajie collapsed to the ground, shouting in panic, “Murder! Murder!”
Upon receiving the report, I quickly followed my captain to the scene. Staring at the pile of bones still bearing remnants of flesh, I furrowed my brow; I could immediately tell that some of these were human bones while others were pig bones. The terrifying skull turned out to be plastic.
To quell public panic, the captain shouted to the gathered crowd, “Everyone, don’t worry! These bones are all fake!” We packed up all the bones and took them back to the station.
After examination, I sorted out the real human bones and managed to piece together a skeleton missing its skull. The deep and varied knife marks on the bones indicated that the murderer’s technique was quite unprofessional and likely involved multiple people in dismembering and skinning.
Through DNA comparison, police quickly confirmed that the deceased was a young girl named Xiao Jing.
Records showed that Xiao Jing lived in an apartment complex near the market. The captain hurriedly led a team of detectives to her residence. It was a two-bedroom apartment in disarray; clothes and snack wrappers were strewn everywhere.
To everyone’s shock, as soon as we opened Xiao Jing’s bedroom door, we saw a bloody human head where pillows should have been on her bed. Although there was a shape resembling a person beneath the blood-stained blanket, lifting it revealed a headless plush toy.
Upon identification, it was confirmed that the head belonged to Xiao Jing; her neck bore cleaving marks but showed no signs of contraction—clearly indicating that her head had been severed post-mortem. Additionally, I noticed signs that her head had been frozen and that surprisingly, the blood on the blanket was not human blood.
What puzzled me was that typically when a murderer decapitates their victim, it is to prevent police from identifying them.
Yet in this case, why would the killer mix human bones with pig bones and discard them in the market while also placing the victim's head on her bed in such an eerie manner?
The captain speculated that perhaps the murderer believed they wouldn’t be caught by police and set up this scene deliberately or aimed to confuse investigators about their direction.
After investigation, the police confirmed that neither the market nor Xiao Jing's residence was the primary crime scene, meaning that Xiao Jing was murdered after leaving her home. According to her colleagues, Xiao Jing would go to a bar every Saturday night to unwind, returning around 2 AM the next day.
However, surveillance footage from the community showed that around 10 PM on January 7, 2006, Xiao Jing left her rental apartment wearing a striking dress. She returned only at 11 PM on January 8, carrying a black plastic bag, and then left again at 1 AM on January 9.
Strangely, the surveillance did not show anyone else entering the apartment after her return. So how did Xiao Jing's head end up on the bed in her bedroom?
Watching the footage of a woman with heavy makeup, whose face was unclear but whose figure resembled Xiao Jing's, the captain speculated that this woman was not Xiao Jing but someone very familiar with her. They shared similar body types, and she was likely the one who brought Xiao Jing's head back to the apartment. Even if she wasn't the murderer, she must have known something.
Consequently, the police decided to split into two teams: one would investigate Xiao Jing's social connections to find suspicious individuals, while the other would look into the medical skull model discovered at the market. Such models are custom-made and can be traced easily.
Indeed, the police quickly found that a warehouse manager named Li from a medical equipment company had sold a human skeleton model to a man named Zhao Wu on January 8.
At the same time, they learned from Xiao Jing's parents that her cousin Xiaolin had recently come to Yang City to stay with her and had found accommodation and work with her help. However, for some unknown reason, Xiaolin suddenly returned to her hometown alone on January 9.
It was reported that Xiaolin was uneducated and often associated with various men, making her unpopular among relatives. From her photos, it was clear that she bore a strong resemblance to her cousin Xiao Jing in both figure and appearance.
Could she be the one who brought Xiao Jing's head back to the apartment?
On January 12, 2006, the captain and several detectives arrived at Xiaolin's hometown. Just as they were about to knock on the door, Xiaolin opened it while dragging a suitcase. Upon seeing the police at her doorstep, she appeared extremely flustered, beads of cold sweat forming on her forehead.
At that moment, the captain caught a strong smell of blood wafting from Xiaolin's house. With his professional instincts kicking in, he immediately seized Xiaolin to prevent any desperate actions. Shockingly, in Xiaolin's kitchen lay two bodies—a man and a woman—presumably her parents.
Although Xiaolin remained silent during interrogation, the captain doubted that such a frail-looking girl could have committed these acts alone. Moreover, all evidence suggested that more than one person was involved in the murder and dismemberment.
Suddenly, he noticed Xiaolin trembling uncontrollably and sweating profusely as if she were going mad, struggling with her hands. Upon inspection, he found two needle marks on her arm.
Clearly, Xiaolin was a drug addict experiencing withdrawal symptoms. Seizing this opportunity, the captain aimed to break through her psychological defenses. He casually remarked, "Zhao Wu is your boyfriend, right? It's pathetic that you're still covering for him. Have you thought about what he was doing when he got arrested? He was with another girl, talking disparagingly about you." Although this interrogation method could be seen as coercive or deceptive, coming from a forensic expert gave it a different weight.
As expected, upon hearing this statement, Xiaolin appeared lost and incredulous. After some internal struggle, she finally recounted the details of the case with vacant eyes.
Based on Xiaolin's account of where the crime took place, police apprehended Zhao Wu, Liu Erjin, and Zhang Li while they were still asleep in an apartment and found tools like kitchen knives used in the crime.
It turned out that on the night of January 7, while Xiao Jing was relaxing at the bar, she coincidentally encountered Xiaolin and her boyfriend Zhao Wu there. At that moment, both of them were experiencing drug cravings and planned to return to their rental apartment to resolve it.
However, Zhao Wu's two friends, Liu Erjin and Zhang Li, were captivated by Xiao Jing's youthful beauty and revealing attire. They pressured Xiao Lin to lure Xiao Jing back to their rented apartment.
Little did Xiao Jing know that upon returning to the apartment, the gathering would not continue with drinking but instead devolve into drug use. To her disgust, in the midst of their revelry, Xiao Lin was simultaneously involved with three men, including Hu Tian.
Faced with such absurdity, Xiao Jing was furious and demanded to leave. However, Zhao Wu and the others were already lost in hallucinations and driven by primal urges, leaving her with no choice but to cry out for help.
Fearing that her cries would attract the police and expose their crimes, Zhao Wu hastily grabbed a pillow and covered Xiao Jing's mouth and nose. When the group finally regained their senses, they realized that Xiao Jing had not merely fainted; she was already dead.
In a bid to evade police scrutiny, Zhao Wu and his friends conspired to sever Xiao Jing's head and have Xiao Lin take it back to her apartment, staging it as a supernatural murder to mislead the investigation. They never anticipated that the police wouldn't consider such a scenario at all.
Next, they dismembered Xiao Jing's body and mixed her remains with pig bones, discarding them in a market.
To further obscure their actions, Zhao Wu foolishly purchased a skull model to place among the bones, believing that if someone recognized it as fake, they would dismiss the entire incident as a prank and dispose of all the bones. Unfortunately, his cleverness backfired.
Meanwhile, after witnessing Xiao Jing's bloody head, Xiao Lin became increasingly terrified and decided to return home to get money from her parents for a getaway. However, her parents refused to help her and confined her at home to prevent her from running off. In a fit of drug withdrawal rage, she brutally murdered them without hesitation.
Thus, this bizarre Fake Corpse Case was unraveled.
Not long after, Xiao Jing, Zhao Wu, and two others were sentenced to death by firing squad.
In the dazzling cityscape, people may indulge their baser instincts under the influence of alcohol, but one must never let down their guard; otherwise, the consequences could be unbearable for anyone involved.
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