Chapter 885 - 823: Solving the Case by Looking at Pictures (Request for Monthly Votes)
How do we find the person with the photos?
In China, it’s very simple. The police can scan the photo to obtain ID information and phone numbers, and recent hotel lodgings and other locations can also be seen. If you’re willing to flip a couple more pages, even more information becomes available.
It could be said that, in front of criminal cases, ordinary people are virtually in a state of nakedness. If technical investigation methods are utilized, the police know more about a person’s movements than the person themself.
Although Dama doesn’t have this capability, Deputy Chief Kamaludin sent the photos back to the police department, where technicians linked computers to a server, then conducted database searches and comparisons to usually find the person.
Deputy Chief Kamaludin, suppressing his excitement, crouched in a corner and began frantically making calls.
Jiang Yuan and others silently ate durian.
Cases where the source of the corpse is unknown, once identified, usually have a high chance of solving the case. This may sound somewhat mystical but is actually related to the perpetrator’s efforts.
Apart from natural and accidental situations, changes in the body are largely related to the perpetrator’s actions. All such actions require the consumption of physical energy, strength, time, and often involve risks.
Take the phrase "throw far, bury near" for instance—it reflects the choices of the killer. Those with familiar environments or convenient transportation will opt to discard the body, and the burial site is often not too far from the killer.
Why not both throw and bury? Does the killer dislike it? Throwing or burying a body is tiring. Although not uncommon in cases involving multiple people or having the victim dig their own grave, doing both by a lone perpetrator involves more physical effort than a normal eight-hour manual labor job, and most killers don’t have the conditions for that.