civil forensic

Chapter 949 Confirmed Murder
"Captain Jiang, cut it open."

Shen Yaowei had to cut off three saw blades before he could saw open the inner and outer plates of the deceased's skull.

Jiang Yuan put down the teacup, sighed, and began to put on his coat, gloves and hood. He then picked up a chisel and pressed it against the place where the skull was sawed open. With a "click", he pried the skull open.

Shen Yaowei then stood up and asked someone to wipe his sweat off his face. He said, "It's like using a saw to open two boxes of coconuts. My arms are sore."

This work is indeed similar to opening a coconut. First, you have to cut open the skin and flesh on the outside, then saw open the hard shell, and then you can see the soft contents inside.

Jiang Yuan first carefully observed the dura mater under the skull. The dura mater is a thin layer of membrane, similar to the white coconut flesh after a coconut is pried open.

The most common and basic operation performed in neurosurgery is subdural hematoma evacuation, which involves cutting open the patient's dura mater for the purpose of clearing congestion or relieving pressure. It sounds high-end, but in fact, it is a surgery with average technical content. Many lower-level hospitals have voluntarily or been forced to carry out this type of operation.

Because subdural hematoma removal is an emergency surgery in most cases. In simple terms, if you fall on your head, your head is hit, your head is kicked by a donkey, etc., you may need to perform this type of surgery urgently. Many local health commissions will require that there must be a hospital within a radius of XX kilometers in the city that can perform the operation to avoid the patient dying during transportation.

For forensic doctors, subdural hemorrhage is also a good indicator.

In most cases, the discovery of a subdural hemorrhage can be explained as the cause of death. Even if the deceased had other conditions that led to death, a large mass of blood in the brain still needs to be considered.

This is also what Jiang Yuan is seeing now.

"Death caused by blunt force trauma to the brain." Jiang Yuan cut the dura mater along the midline, then used forceps to pull the dura mater apart from the arachnoid mater, exposing the cerebral hemispheres. He gave his conclusion on the spot, then asked Wang Chuanxing to record it and the photographer next to him to take pictures.

Click, click, click…

The photographer's SLR camera fired a series of shutter buttons.

The light before dusk is the softest and most beautiful time, reflecting on the yellow, white, red and black flesh, with a deformed and perverted stimulation. It is just like the "Sour Toe Cocktail" - when a human toe is soaked in whiskey, the taste of this cocktail is far from the taste itself!

"Pack the body, add ice, and transport it back. Let Wang Lan do the autopsy." Jiang Yuan checked a few key parts again and was basically sure that there was no other cause of death, so he asked someone to transport the body back.

The conditions at the scene were extremely crude, but compared to performing an autopsy after the body was transported back, an on-site autopsy could obtain conclusions several hours earlier, which was very beneficial to the advancement of the case.

Because the case itself is actually very simple. The deceased died while participating in a group fight and fighting with others under the watchful eyes of a group of people.

Therefore, as long as we collect the testimony of eyewitnesses and find out the people involved in the gang fight, the lower limit of the case will be basically saved. The slightly difficult part is who the murderer is.

In fact, according to the ordinary thinking mode of ordinary people, all those who participated in the group fight are equivalent to murderers, but the law aims to find out the perpetrator of the fatal blow, that is, the specific perpetrator of the fatal act.

For forensic pathologists, it means finding the main cause of death.

Assuming that the deceased fought his last battle, his neck was tightened by Huang Zhong's bowstring; his abdomen was pierced by Zhang Fei's Zhangba Snake Spear; his left thigh was torn by Guan Yu's Green Dragon Crescent Blade; his chest was pierced by Ma Chao's Tiger-Headed Golden Spear; his head was hit by Li Yuanba's Purple Gold Hammer; his left and right wrists were each cut open by Liu Bei's double swords; Cao Cao poured him wine; Diao Chan struggled desperately under him...

Even if bystanders know that the person was killed by a team, they still want to find the most representative person as the murderer. At this time, it is necessary to look at the forensic doctor.

If subdural hematoma can also be found, Li Yuanba will be the biggest suspect.

……

Su Shanming from Changle City Bureau is the person responsible for finding Li Yuanba.

Qishanzhai is still within the jurisdiction of the Changle City Bureau. Su Shanming followed Jiang Yuan here and has long been involved in numerous cases, but this is a homicide case, so naturally he must be given sufficient resources as soon as possible.

Su Shanming carefully selected several police officers and rushed over while instructing them: "From now on, you will be responsible for this murder case. Let me make it clear first, a murder case is a murder case, and it is the top priority. No matter how chaotic it is here, who died, or whether the murderer has been sentenced to death, these are not issues for you to consider. You just need to concentrate on solving this case!"

"Yes." Several police officers responded calmly.

The Criminal Police Detachment is actually a relatively high-level investigative unit. The city-level Criminal Police Detachment can even be considered the highest-level investigative unit on the front line. It can be said to be a de facto elite serious crime squad. They handle cases that district and county-level units cannot handle on a daily basis. They are not only familiar with homicide cases, but can even be called professional.

When several people arrived at the scene, they all looked serious.

Jiang Yuan had already changed his clothes, washed his hands, and written the first version of the informal report.

Seeing Su Shanming coming, Jiang Yuan greeted him with a smile, and then asked Wang Chuanxing to bring something over. He said, "The cause of death of the deceased was a blunt object hitting the head. The murder weapon should be a beer bottle or a round stick. The murderer is taller than the deceased. Without considering the position at the time, he is at least 10 centimeters taller and weighs relatively more..."

Several police officers were originally preparing to read the informal version of the autopsy report filled out by Jiang Yuan one by one, but after hearing what he said, they gradually stopped their actions and looked at Su Shanming together.

Su Shanming also frowned, and if you didn't know better you would think he was angry.

In fact, Su Shanming’s forehead was indeed buzzing.

Mu Zhiyang had seen too many criminal police captains like this, and said, "Captain Su, our Captain Jiang is so easy to use. You just need to get used to it in the future."

"Is it so useful?" Su Shanming recalled the previous cases. After all, he was not the one who led those cases, so he didn't have such a deep feeling...

Mu Zhiyang smiled and said, "What do you think we should do next?"

"Next... there's nothing to do next." Su Shanming sighed and said casually, "We basically have a record of the people who participated in the fight. Now we just need to see who is the one holding the stick or the beer bottle. We will ask about the attack process in detail later. If someone saw him hitting the victim's head, then it's basically a done deal."

"There is also a murder weapon." The subordinate reminded.

"Oh, yes, and there is a murder weapon. A beer bottle is a little hard to find, but a wooden stick is okay. Could it be a wooden stick? Or a steel pipe or something like that?" Su Shanming reacted and began to further confirm. In this case, if the murder weapon was found, the chain of evidence of the case would be more complete, and it could be said that the case was basically solved.

Compared with beer bottles, wooden sticks, steel pipes and the like, these are obviously easier to preserve.

Jiang Yuan shook his head slowly and said, "It's most likely a beer bottle. We can infer the cause of the injury from the shape of the fracture..."

Jiang Yuan only said this, looked up at Su Shanming, and his desire to explain was reduced a lot. After thinking about it, he said: "This is not a high-level technology. The reason why I mentioned wooden sticks and steel pipes is that the probability is very low. For now, you just need to consider beer bottles."

Injuries and even deaths caused by beer bottles are not uncommon in China. Drunk people are prone to fighting and injuring others, and throwing a freshly drunk green bottle, or a pile of full green bottles, at people is a common pattern of nightlife.

Therefore, among the forensic community, those with a little experience will focus on observing and recording the characteristics of some common injury-causing objects. For example, many forensic scientists can recognize something like a beer bottle at a glance.

Jiang Yuan had been involved in a murder case involving a beer bottle before, so when he encountered the same case again this time, he felt like he was solving the problem in a familiar way.

However, after Su Shanming felt relieved, he began to feel a strong sense of anxiety and couldn't help saying, "I'm afraid it's not easy to find the beer bottle used as the murder weapon. Maybe it's broken..."

"According to eyewitness data, the beer the murderer drank that day was local beer. He did not break the beer bottle, but threw it into the garbage dump." Jiang Yuan paused and said, "Fortunately, the garbage here is basically not processed. If we look carefully, we should be able to find the beer bottle."

Su Shanming made a bitter face, looked at the police officers he brought with him, and then turned to look at the endless mountain of garbage.

Several police officers were surprised: "Su Da, that's not what you said when you came..."

"If you don't have enough manpower, I can lend you a few people." Jiang Yuan coughed twice and said, "However, since we are going to deal with garbage, we might as well do some garbage sorting."

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