Chapter 1306 - 1232: Hanging by a Thread
Within the forensic building of the Beijing Bureau, there’s its own Physical and Chemical Laboratory, considered a rather luxurious setup, because even Ningtai County Bureau’s building number 9 doesn’t have one.
Jiang Yuan found a clean lab bench and had Mu Zhiyang and Wen Ming help him carefully clean it with alcohol before pulling out the two plastic ropes and observing them meticulously.
These were currently the most valuable clues found, apart from the body. Although they found these two plastic ropes early in the garbage-sifting process, an experienced police officer must realize that clues aren’t linearly distributed.
Making full use of every clue you know about is the most basic respect for criminal investigation. Whether you receive a lot of clues and evidence at once or find a tiny bit by sheer luck, utilizing them as best as you can is the only thing a police officer can do and should do.
"Length 131 centimeters. Width 3 centimeters."
"Length 246 centimeters, Width 3 centimeters."
Jiang Yuan patted the two plastic ropes repeatedly to ensure no further details were available in terms of shape and then carefully untied the ropes, measuring the length and width first and then observing along the plastic rope bit by bit.
The so-called plastic rope is actually a wide and flat plastic band.
Its thickness is extremely thin, making the rope semi-transparent. The width is 3 centimeters, roughly equivalent to slightly more than two male fingers, but less than three, not counting those with larger hands.
In practice, people habitually twist the plastic rope to use it in its rolled-up form.