424: Chapter 391 Search 424: Chapter 391 Search Jiang Family’s kitchen.
Uncle Qiang was chopping the filling with a kitchen knife, and once he finished, he piled it into the stainless steel basin.
Jiang Fuzhen ca holding an ostrich, expertly deboning it.
Jiang Yuan stood in front of the stove, looking like a master chef as he prepared a secret marinade for atballs using sweet potatoes, pumpkin, chicken eggs, duck eggs, duck at, ostrich at, and fish.
Everyone was bustling about, only Jiang Fuzhen, with a touch of concern, wiped off so sweat and said, “Jiang Yuan, if the police dogs don’t eat this dog food, just feed it to the stray dogs, okay?
Don’t bring it ho, I’m afraid it might stuff our Doberman to death.”
“There might not even be enough to go around.
Tomorrow, I reckon there’ll be at least a dozen or twenty dogs,” said Jiang Yuan as he stirred the minced at, ensuring it was evenly heated, “this is going to keep us busy for several days.”
“If it tastes good, of course there won’t be enough.
But if it doesn’t taste good, it’ll be hard to finish it all,” Jiang Fuzhen remarked with a deep sense of experience while looking at the ostrich under his knife: “When I first tried this thing, I nearly paid soone a hundred bucks to eat a bite.”
Jiang Yuan let out an amused laugh, “Don’t worry, dogs like to eat flavorful things, and as long as the ostrich at is cleaned thoroughly, there won’t be any problems.”
“Wild dogs couldn’t catch an ostrich to eat out there, could they?
They wouldn’t win in a fight, I guess,” Uncle Qiang remarked, looking disdainfully at the plucked ostrich.
It seed like an oversized chicken, but with a longer neck and rougher pores, it was hard to look at it and get hungry.
There was also a slight feeling of fear, perhaps an ancient fear stemming from the age of dinosaurs.
With his LV5 dog food preparation skills, Jiang Yuan confidently went about making the dog food, casually adding, “Wild dogs can’t get beef either…
I’m using ostrich at mainly to enhance the flavor.
The dogs coming tomorrow have varied diets, so regularly eat beef and mutton, while others eat chicken and pork.
They have different perceptions of taste.
Giving them ostrich at, sothing they’ve never had before, will provide novelty.”
As Uncle Qiang worked, he suddenly developed a doubt, “Is being a forensic doctor these days about doing such miscellaneous tasks?
Back in the army, the main forces didn’t have to help out in the kitchen at all.”
So, Jiang Yuan scooped up a spoonful of the minced at from the pot and held it under Uncle Qiang’s nose.
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By the national road.
The aroma of the dog food excited the police dogs, who were even more eager than Uncle Qiang.
If not for the officers holding them, they would’ve gone straight for a buffet.
Jiang Yuan patted the heads of familiar police dogs like Dazhuang and Heizi, signaling to the handlers that they could help themselves to the dog food, before leaving the area where the dogs were assembled.
Soon, under Xu Taining’s command, the dogs started following their handlers, setting off or getting into vehicles, each searching their assigned area.
A large number of officers also boarded vehicles, heading for their designated sectors.
Wearing a white shirt with the collar button fastened tightly, Xu Taining walked up to Jiang Yuan and said with a smile, “Where did you learn this dog cooking technique from?”
“I didn’t specifically learn it, but dogs enjoy my cooking,” Jiang Yuan replied with a smile, considering that an exchange of pleasantries.
“What you feed them, dogs are always happy with.
However…” Xu Taining changed the subject, “I can’t promise you that everyone will be pleased with this sweep you’ve asked to carry out.”
“Yeah, you ntioned that before,” responded Jiang Yuan.
“What I said before was that it might be labor-intensive and costly without finding anything.
Now, I’m cautioning you, if we don’t find anything, we might be stuck here indefinitely,” Xu Taining had a very good impression of Jiang Yuan.
In addition to the 805 case and the work being done by the Luyang City Bureau, Xu Taining thought Jiang Yuan’s cases were quite reliable.
At this mont, Xu Taining was reminding Jiang Yuan, “The Luyang City Bureau sought the support of the provincial hall leaders, so we did receive a degree of backing.
Consider it an extra incentive for us.”
Jiang Yuan paused, then laughed, “Luyang has spent so much money and mobilized so many people; wanting so assurance is quite reasonable.”
“The approach is correct, keep on searching until we find sothing.
That’s the current stance of Luyang Bureau, and we should be prepared.
They only talked to the leaders just before we set out, so they’ve certainly put their minds to it,” Xu Taining ntioned as an aside.
Over the years, the results haven’t always been smooth in his experience.
Sotis, when the search yields no results, or the desired results aren’t found, the financiers and the spenders are naturally discontent, and it’s just sothing that can’t be helped.
Luyang City Bureau reluctantly invited Xu Taining, and the sa was true for other districts and cities when they invited him.
In this era, poor units lacked funds, and wealthy units were just as much in a state where “the landlord’s family doesn’t have any surplus grain.”
Squeezing out so funds might be easy, but was Xu Taining soone to spend only a tiny bit of money?
Looking at today’s scenario, one could understand.
The initial search area was 110 kiloters, extending 30 kiloters beyond Site 1 and 2.
It sounded effortless, but think about securing a marathon race, which only covers about 40 kiloters; the cost for the additional 30 kiloters could easily aggravate a few leaders.
However, this was rely the beginning.
Xu Taining had also mobilized over 40 pieces of construction equipnt, mostly excavators, as well as flatbeds and small cranes.
In his words, if soone doubted a particular spot, allowing them to dig on their own ant there would be far fewer suspicious locations.
Additionally, using engineering machinery is also cheaper than hiring manual labor to excavate.
Besides, the more than 40 police canines from various places, the initially invested over 800 police officers, more than 100 vehicles, various tal detectors, walkie-talkies, high-power flashlights, gloves, raincoats, shovels, hoes, drones…
even the supplies and equipnt needed for eating and resting, could be overwhelming for a regular city bureau.
Without experience, such a large-scale search could easily waste millions.
What Jiang Yuan feared most was missing sothing.
Based on Jiang Yuan’s current experience and understanding, the majority of difficult cases were closely tied to initial investigative errors.
The killer couldn’t eradicate all traces; that would only lead him to create even more traces.
The only thing that could really wipe out traces of a cri was mistakes by the investigators.
There’s no need to use dostic examples; the famous Simpson wife-murder case is a case in point, regardless of how dreamy Simpson’s legal team was, the prosecutors indeed ssed it up.
The JonBenét Ramsey murder case, which involved a 6-year-old beauty pageant queen, also beca difficult to investigate later on due to the cri scene being compromised.
“It’s started.” Dr.
i Fang approached as Xu Taining got into the car to check on the operation and greeted Jiang Yuan, saying, “Now, we just hope the two of us, as forensic doctors, can be of use soon.”
“Indeed.” Jiang Yuan was also a bit nervous.
This case was ultimately being pushed forward by him.
Now, apart from Xu Taining conducting a search here, Jiang Yuan’s Cold Case Team was still continuing to investigate the social relations of victim number one, Li Yuan, while the nail salon lead was being pursued by people from Luyang City.
Everyone’s united efforts and hard work were all in hopes of seeing results.
Dr.
i Fang looked at the grand scene before him and couldn’t help feeling overwheld, saying, “As long as it’s there, we’ll definitely find it.”
Jiang Yuan couldn’t help but smile.
The search for Liu Jinghui back then had been even bigger than this, and they’d still almost failed.
“I just fear the criminal won’t cooperate with us,” Jiang Yuan said.
Dr.
i Fang looked at Jiang Yuan surprisingly and said, “I thought you were quite certain before organizing the search.”
“Rationally speaking, yes, emotionally…” Jiang Yuan shrugged.
“There must still be bodies buried,” Liu Jinghui said as he ca over from the other side, handing Jiang Yuan and Dr.
i Fang each a bottle of water.
After taking a sip himself, he said, “The disposal thods for the first and second bodies are clearly different; the second one was dismbered.
This indicates that the killer’s thod is escalating, and during this process, it’s impossible for him to have killed just one person.
If you’re only slaughtering two chickens at ho, would you need to change your slaughtering thods?
Upgrades and optimizations are made to cope with a large number of similar situations.”
“That makes sense.” Dr.
i Fang listened and nodded repeatedly.
Jiang Yuan had already heard Liu Jinghui express similar theories before, and they had consented to this theory through mutual discussions, which led to the current search operation.
In comparison, Dr.
i Fang had many more questions.
Seizing the opportunity, he asked, “If the killer commits cris along the national highway, like a truck driver, and the bodies are beyond this 110-kiloter range, is that also possible?”
Truck drivers and prostitutes are practically a cliché in cri dramas, and in reality, there are indeed many cases involving murdering truck drivers and murdered prostitutes.
Liu Jinghui shook his head, saying, “Our country’s truck drivers travel nationwide.
If they wanted to bury bodies, there’s no need to bury them just within the borders of Luyang City, and similar cases haven’t been discovered elsewhere.”
“That’s true…” Dr.
i Fang was a pretty good forensic doctor, but he wasn’t directly involved in the investigation, so he could only make so generalized speculations.
But talking to Jiang Yuan for a bit, Dr.
i Fang gradually cald down.
“Director Liu, shall we go have a look up front?”
Jiang Yuan brought Liu Jinghui into the car and they drove slowly forward.
To search a distance of 110 kiloters, even with a speed of 80-sothing kiloters per hour, they would need to drive for nearly an hour and a half.
A full-line search was a daunting spectacle.
“It takes soone like you, ordinary people from other departnts wouldn’t make such a decision,” Liu Jinghui said while looking out the window.
Jiang Yuan, looking ahead, said, “There must be sothing.
It’s just a matter of how quickly we find it.”
As they were speaking, Jiang Yuan’s phone rang.
The two exchanged a glance, and Jiang Yuan imdiately answered, announcing, “This is Jiang Yuan, I’ve put you on speaker.”
“We’ve found a bag of remains,” ca Xu Taining’s voice on the other end of the line.
“A bag?
How big a bag?”
“About a quarter or a third of a body.
It looks like there’s at least one leg, no clothing, wrapped in a tarpaulin bag.
The body is badly decomposed, almost skeletonized,” Xu Taining sighed, “I think it’s ti to call in more manpower.”
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