West Hill Mystery Case

A man-made forest park located in the western hills of Harbor City found a body that had been completely white-bone, the forensic field investigation preliminary identification of blunt force trauma to the back of the head caused death.

This incident also has to start a few days ago. That day, I went to a science enthusiast rally. At the gathering, on the issue of how much energy is generated by the explosion of sodium metal in water under sealed conditions, I disagreed with several colleagues. So we decided to experiment, and for safety reasons, the address was chosen in a forest park that was closed at night. We dug a meter-deep pit in a remote area, put a bucket of pure water in it, put a water-soluble capsule inside the sealed sodium metal, and then hurried to bury the pit, waiting at a distance. Waiting for half a day, the ground has been slow to respond, suddenly, the soil began to loosen up, and then "bang" a loud sound, the ground was blown away. Everyone was overjoyed.

I was just about to run to the edge of the pit to see, unexpectedly something fell on my body, I subconsciously held it, but it was half a skeleton covered with mud! I immediately screamed.

Half an hour later, the forensic pathologist came, and we were taken to the police station, just when I was scared, suddenly received a chestnut on the head, dizzy and dragged into an unoccupied cabin, I fixed my eyes, but the old Yang!

Old Yang is my leader Xu Jingnan's friend, is criminal police, I am not familiar with him, but he is familiar with my boss ah! It's over, Xu boss must soon know that I broke the law and disciplined things.

"I say you, young people, ah! The whole day and night months! Slippery go back to work ...... what do not tell your leaders ah! It is Xu Laodi let me get you out!" Old Yang said while patting my head.

After a few days, Xu Jingnan nudged me that I should invite Lao Yang to have a meal. During the meal, Xu Jingnan casually asked a question about the progress of the West Mountain White Bone case, the old Yang is quite talkative, with a mouth at the end of the story.

In the millennium, during the harbor city real estate bubble, developers do not care about the demand, building a large number of properties. West Hill is located in the western suburbs of Harbour City, there was no mountain at that time, it was a village. Developers bought the land, bulldozed the farmland and mansions, and built high-rise buildings. However, for various reasons, the buildings in the western suburbs were built halfway to the end and the skeleton of steel and concrete stood there in a ghostly manner. Later, because it was hidden and less crowded, there were several vicious incidents, plus it really affected the cityscape, so the government took a bold decision to knock down the building, construction waste on the spot into a mountain, brought a lot of soil to cover it, planted trees and grass, and transformed the building ruins into a forest park!

The forensic expert said that the victim died 25 years ago when Seaport City was still a leased land of a certain country! Not only is there no forest park, but there also is not even a building ruin.

"Little thing ah! The pit you blew up was shallow! What did you use to blow it up?" Old Yang gave me a chicken leg.

"That, that, sodium and water ......" I stammered.

"It's been too long, the source of the corpse is not easy to determine, right?" Xu Jingnan asked Lao Yang, a mysterious man, I guessed he had done criminal investigation work before.

"Brother, 25 years ago! We now want to start with missing persons, but it is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack, but the forensic identification results are still quite useful: female, about 16 years old, one meter six, we are now contacting the Ministry of Public Security, hoping to transfer skeletal identification experts, can identify from the bones roughly what place ...... Hey, let you eat, and not let you talk, want to say anything on the say! And not mute!" The old Yang even eat and drink with Kanchan, surprisingly not delayed to see me through.

I mustered up enough courage to finally say: "Old Uncle Yang, you want to solve the case, is it possible to double-pronged ah? Check the murderer at the same time as the victim?"

Old Yang smothered a mouthful of wine: "Yes, the case of buried bodies, according to the scene can analyze the murderer, but is the fire you set, the scene in addition to the white bones are burned away!"

Sodium burning in water will produce high heat, I feel guilty: "Old Uncle Yang, I was wrong, if we determine the place where the corpse was buried 25 years ago, is not it will help?"

"The place where the corpse was found 25 years ago what kind of place, it will be useful." Xu Jingnan said.

"Old Uncle Yang, I'm going to make up for it, I think I can help you determine what it was like there 25 years ago."

Old Yang looked at me with some suspicion and shouted, "Boss, the check!"

According to the site survey and the old Yang their analysis, the blasted soil has human decomposition mass, asphalt blocks, etc., indicating that the body is not yet decayed when buried, buried body site in the construction of the building was paved into the road, and that's all.

I took a course called Fundamentals of Surveying when I was in college. Under the coordination of Lao Yang, we went to the SAR Lands Department to borrow a sub-meter handheld GPS and went to the crime scene to measure the coordinates again.

Back at the Lands Department, I gave the coordinates to the staff and applied for access to the historical image of the site around 1991. This image is the ground situation taken by an airplane or satellite in the sky at that time, and usually, the land department has a backup of historical data.

When a house appeared in front of my eyes, I was so ecstatic that I almost hugged Lao Yang and jumped up. Old Yang but carelessly holding a cigarette, pointing to the screen: "Little thing is still good, then buried under this house." The image is not very clear, but the useful ones can see.

"Four into four out of the courtyard, this middle is a what ah? Look like animal sculptures! A big family!" I said excitedly.

"Western suburbs ......" Old Yang flicked his cigarette ash, "This thing in the middle is quite distinctive! I'm not going to ask for outside help, but do you have people who lived in the western suburbs in the 1990s?"

The staff member looked up and replied very matter-of-factly, "Brother, I am."

"Then whose house is this? Do you know?"

The staff grabbed his head, tangled half a day before saying: "This thing looks like a brave sculpture, brave is not a symbol of wealth, business people like to put a brave for. The head of the family called Li Shan-neighbor, in the early years by buying and selling to make a fortune, earned money in the city and bought a villa to live in. But that the old house feng shui good, spend a lot of money to customize a jade brave town in the old house, the developers moved, the Lee family but spent a lot of effort to transport that brave!

On the way back, I carefully analyzed: "The body buried in the old mansion of the Li family, should not be buried by outsiders, right? For the Li family, I have heard a little, they have a large family in the harbor city. 2010 years later, the Li family gradually transferred the industry abroad, most of their family is holding American passports, settled in Canada." Old Yang nodded: "The Li family is the most suspicious, but now we have no way to subpoena the suspects, since you know so much about the Li family, then tell me more details to listen!"

The Li family is considered a popular figure in Seaport City, so I know quite a bit of gossip. Li Shan-Leung is openly a wife, with three sons, two daughters, two daughters, and the eldest son, the second son has long since inherited the family business, concentrating on business, and low-profile people. But Li Shanlin's youngest son, known as the little giant of the harbor city, either driving drunk or with which female celebrity scandal.

"Why is it called Little Big Man?" Old Yang asked me.

"Because he is 6 meters tall, my friend saw him at the company's annual meeting, hugging a supermodel, not to their breasts, according to the usual character of the words, I think he can do the worst things."

Lao Yang shook his head: "It will not be him, forensic identification results are the victim's back of the head by blunt force trauma to death, the location is the skull there, which means that the killer is higher than the victim. But then again, since it has been determined that the body was buried in the old residence of the Li family, then you can also search, you can privately visit the old employees of the Li family, drivers, nannies, maids, gardeners, and whatnot. Your friend looks like the gossip knows a lot, see if you can help uncle find a few old people who know the inside story."

A few days later, my mother called me to tell me that my grandfather's chess partner, Grandpa Liang, had something to do in Seaport City and asked me to pick him up at the airport. I went straight to the airport early in the morning and ran into Old Yang and Xu Jingnan at the pick-up gate. I did not expect that the old man who always regretted playing chess with my grandfather was a famous criminal investigation expert.