Mary from the technical team came over and said, "Captain Luke, we are ready to call it a day and go back."

"Anything found?"

"Based on the position of the bag containing the body at the bottom of the river, the place where the body was dumped should be on the bridge. However, no obvious traces of blood or dragging were found, and there were people and cars on the bridge. Even if there were traces, they were probably gone.

It was vandalized, so we just took photos of the scene, just in case."

Luke nodded. This was just a corpse dumping site, not a murder scene. The suspect left few clues. "The identity of the deceased is still unclear. The body of the deceased is also difficult to identify. I hope to do DNA on the body as soon as possible."

Identification and fingerprinting are compared to databases.”

"There is no problem with the DNA test. You are always the first one. This is what Rhett specially warned.

As for fingerprint identification, it depends on whether Sheila can find complete fingerprints."

After watching Mary leave, Luke called a meeting with other team members.

"Guys, what do you think?"

The deputy said, "Disposal of the body after a murder is a big problem and a trouble. Many problems can also be seen from the suspect's method of disposing of the body.

According to the medical examiner, the body should have been cut into pieces by machine.

Finding a meat mincing machine and transporting the carcasses to the cutting site also increases the difficulty of the operation and the risk of exposure.

Therefore, the suspect must have other purposes for doing this.

I guess there are two possibilities. The first possibility is to conceal the identity of the deceased so that the police cannot find out the identity of the deceased through the minced meat.

The second possibility is that the suspect may have some kind of mental illness and kill out of a morbid mentality."

Xiao Hei concluded, "To put it simply, he may be a pervert. I think this possibility is relatively high. After all, even if the body is cut into pieces, the DNA can still be verified."

Jackson added, "DNA databases don't hold everyone's DNA samples.

I prefer the first possibility."

Xiao Hei curled his lips, "You just like to go against me."

"I'm not, I'm just analyzing the situation." Jackson looked innocent.

Luke interrupted the argument between the two, "The corpse is that of an adult male. He cannot weigh only ninety pounds, so there should be other broken corpses.

Jenny, please contact the salvage team and ask them to conduct a thorough search of the river bottom."

"Okay, sir."

Luke continued, "The two bags weigh up to 90 pounds and are not easy to carry. The suspect probably used a vehicle. Porter, you are responsible for checking the surrounding vehicles."

"Okay, sir." After Porter finished speaking, he looked towards the Los Angeles River. "Captain, is it possible that the suspect drove a boat to dump the body?"

Luke said, "This possibility is very small. If the body was abandoned on the boat, there would be no need to throw the body under the bridge and the body would not be discovered."

"What happened here? Is someone dead? Let me go in and take a look..."

At this moment, there was a noise not far away.

Luke frowned slightly, "Others are walking around to see if they find anything suspicious or if there are any missing persons recently?"

"Okay, sir." Everyone split up.

Luke walked to the commotion, and there was a white woman standing outside the police cordon, with an anxious look on her face, "Ma'am, what's the matter?"

A patrol officer introduced, "This is Captain Li, who is also the person in charge of the scene. If you need anything, tell him."

The white woman looked at Luke and said, "Captain Li, what happened here? Did someone jump into the river? Is it a man or a woman who died?"

Luke said, "A male body was indeed found in the river. Is there anything wrong with that?"

"My husband is missing and I'm worried...can I see the body?"

Luke hoped that she could identify the body and save the police a lot of work. But the problem now is that the body has turned into minced meat. The possibility of the other party recognizing it is very slim. On the contrary, it may be frightened.

arrive.

"Madam, don't worry, that body may not be your husband.

Can you tell me about his situation?"

"Captain Li, I'm very anxious now. I just want to see if that body is my husband. What's the difficulty in this?

Why does it have to be so complicated for a very simple thing?" The white woman looked puzzled.

Luke said truthfully, "The condition of the body is not very good now. It is almost unrecognizable. I was afraid of scaring you."

"God, why did this happen?" The white woman looked helpless.

"Ma'am, what's your name?"

"Elsa Martell."

"What's your husband's name?"

"Brett Martell."

"When did your husband disappear?"

"Around 12 o'clock the night before yesterday."

Luke glanced at his watch and saw that 38 hours had passed. "Have you called the police?"

"No."

"Why didn't you call the police?"

"We had a fight that night and I thought he just went out to calm down and would come back soon, but he never came back...

I just heard someone say that a corpse was fished out of the river, and I suddenly felt inexplicably worried. If I had known this... I would never have quarreled with him."

"Do you live nearby?"

"Yes, it's in the community to the east. This is the only way for him to go to work."

"Tell me about your husband."

"He is a white man, 38 years old, working in an IT company. He is about 1.8 meters tall and weighs about 170 or 180 pounds. I'm not sure.

He was wearing a shirt and jeans when he left that day, and his clothes were all similar."

Luke asked, "Why were you two fighting?"

"He wants to resign. He feels that the IT industry is too hard, and he wants to change to a manual job where he can exercise and work in the sun.

I don't agree. I think he thinks everything is too beautiful. Any job has its difficulties. We should find ways to overcome them instead of avoiding them.

I think it is unwise for him to change jobs at his age. Once he leaves his job, it will not be easy to go back, and his income will be reduced a lot. I don’t want to change his current life. I hope he can stick to it. After all, we are no longer the same people.

As a young person, you have to consider your family and children.

This was not the first time he had proposed this idea. I was worried that he would really resign, so I tried my best to persuade him.

But the more he talked, the more excited he became, and then the two of us started to quarrel.

I told him that if he dares to resign, he will not come back."

Mrs. Martell's voice was choked and she wiped her tears, "I regret saying these words now. Maybe I didn't understand him enough and didn't know how much pressure he was under at work.

As long as he can come back, I will seriously talk to him about resigning."

"How did your husband leave home?"

"He drove a black BMW."

"Have you ever called him?"

"I called. His phone number couldn't be reached. He didn't go to the company. My friends didn't know where he was. I searched everywhere I could think of. I was considering whether to call the police when I heard about it.

."

Mrs. Martell seemed to remember something, "I have a photo of him, please see if it's him."

Mrs. Martell took out her mobile phone, clicked on a photo and handed it to Luke.

The photo showed an unsmiling white man. Luke thought about the two bags of minced meat again and thought to himself, I can see a ghost.

"Mrs. Martell, I'm not sure if that body is your husband? We need matching samples, such as DNA, fingerprints, and your husband's identity information and license plate number.

"No problem, I can provide it for you."

"Ding bell..." Luke's cell phone rang. He took it out and checked it. It was Orti's number.

Luke said to the deputy team on the side, "Vice team, record Mr. Martell's information."

The deputy team leader had been listening to the conversation between the two and made a gesture of invitation, "Mrs. Martell, please come with me."

Luke walked aside and pressed the answer button, "Hello, I'm Luke."

Orti's voice came from the mobile phone, "I made an appointment with the client to have dinner at Sayinda Restaurant at eight o'clock in the evening."

"I'm afraid it won't work today, I have a new bag."

"But I have already made an appointment with the client. It is not good to unilaterally break the contract now. Besides, you should have already got off work at eight o'clock in the evening."

"It's hard to say tonight. I don't know how long I will be busy."
To be continued...