Criminal Investigation: Satan's Forest

It took the forensic doctor nearly an hour and a half to clean up a complete human skeleton from the pit.

Lu Lingfeng handed over the finishing work to Sun Yibo, while he himself got into the car of the forensic department and returned to the Municipal Bureau with Xu Jinyan and others.As soon as the police car drove to the gate of the Municipal Bureau, a black car drove in first.

Lu Lingfeng recognized that it was Senyu's car.

After getting out of the car, Lu Lingfeng saw Mori getting out of the car alone.

"Where's Xiaolin?" Lu Lingfeng asked.

Mori was a little absent-minded, "Obviously, he didn't come."

"I have eyes, of course I can tell. I'm just curious, you are usually like conjoined twins, why didn't you bring him here today? It's really not like you."

Mori squinted at him, "Is there any problem?"

Lu Lingfeng looked around and saw that no one was coming towards them, so he skillfully dug out from a layer inside the jacket.

Mori was curious about what he was doing, but his hand had already protruded from the inside of his clothes, and at the same time, a cigarette was caught between his fingers.Lu Lingfeng took two deep breaths on the familiar spot.Then leisurely said:

"No problem, it's just that I haven't seen him for so many days, it's weird."

Senyu glanced at him lightly, but didn't speak.

In the dissecting room...

A skeleton was impressively placed on the dissection table, and Mori also joined Xu Jinyan in the autopsy work.After apprentice Yuan Yusheng took pictures of the bones and fixed them, Xu Jinyan officially started the autopsy.

Xu Jinyan picked up a human bone from the dissecting table. Even without skin and flesh tissue, the bone still holds a lot of weight in his hand.

"The bones of the corpse are thick and heavy, the pelvis is narrow and the pubic bone is long and narrow. It can be preliminarily determined that the deceased is a male."

Xu Jinyan picked out the long bone and measured the length.He continued: "According to the length of the long bones, it can be estimated that the height of the deceased is between 170 and 175 centimeters."

Yuan Yusheng carefully recorded from the side...

"In addition, considering the environment of the burial site, the appropriateness of the soil, and the influence of the climate, and from the degree of corruption and wear of the pelvis, it can be inferred that the deceased's death time was about five years, not more than six years."

Lu Lingfeng said: "It should be five years. The family of the deceased from the grave where the bones of the deceased were dug up, Li Changqing said that his old man passed away five years ago. The deceased should have been not long after the old man was buried..." Lu Lingfeng stopped and thought about it Xiang continued: "I reckon it will be within four days... During this period, even if the grave is dug up, since the earthen grave was renovated when the old man was buried, and it will be renovated again in a short period of time, nothing abnormal will be noticed. In other words, the deceased should have been killed by the murderer and buried in the grave during the period from March 22 to March 25 five years ago. This way, the year and date of the deceased's death can be roughly estimated. "

A strange look flashed across Senyu's eyes, and he said, "Four days? What is your basis for judgment?"

Lu Lingfeng replied: "I asked Yan Wang and his grandson to ask Li Changqing and some villagers in his village, and learned from them a custom that has not changed from generation to generation in the village. That is, if someone in the family dies, they must be buried three days later. After the deceased is buried On the fourth day, the family members will go to the grave to burn paper to worship again."

"It doesn't necessarily happen to be within these four days," Xu Jinyan said disapprovingly.

"This old man passed away ten days before the Ching Ming Festival." Lu Lingfeng said, "As we all know, on the Ching Ming Festival, every household in the countryside will go to the grave to worship the dead. Li Changqing's family is no exception. According to his family, I went to the grave to worship that day, but I didn't notice anything unusual about the grave.

Moreover, there is another basis for judgment here, which can prove that the deceased was buried four days after Li Changqing's father was buried. "

Xu Jinyan examined the bones meticulously, and asked, "What basis?"

"There are a few trees next to the cemetery. You have been to the site today, so you should have seen it."

Xu Jinyan thought about it for a while and nodded. "There are a few arborvitae trees indeed."

"I asked Li Changqing specifically. It was planted by his brother one month after the old father was buried. After that, the family would go to the grave of the old father every ten days and a half months, water and spray the tree, and pay attention to the growth of the tree. , It lasted for about a year. That is to say, if the deceased was killed by the murderer and moved here a long time after the old man was buried, the family members would come to the cemetery every now and then, and they would definitely notice that the grave had been dug. That's why I concluded that the deceased was buried in the grave by the murderer within four days after the old man was buried."

That's the benefit of being there.To a large extent, criminal investigators can ask or discover many clues that have been overlooked.And these clues may be a breakthrough or key evidence to solve the case in the future.

Mori picked up the skull with one hand, observed it carefully for a while, and added for Xu Jinyan: "The age of the deceased can be inferred from the degree of wear and tear of the teeth, which is about 36 to 40 years old." Li picked up the tweezers, clamped a tooth, and shook it back and forth, and then said: "The deceased showed signs of loosening in a few teeth, which is probably caused by the external force he suffered during his lifetime."

Lu Lingfeng on the side asked, "Can you find out the cause of death?"

Xu Jinyan nodded, "Yes, but it will take some time."

After finishing speaking, he pointed to a few ribs and said, "Did you see these marks?"

Lu Lingfeng's gaze followed the direction of his fingers, and he saw obvious defects of the same shape on several ribs.If you observe carefully, you can also find that these defects are a bit strange.

But Lu Lingfeng couldn't say anything strange for a while.

Xu Jinyan said: "The injuries on the deceased's ribs were all caused by the same pistol."

Lu Lingfeng suddenly thought of something, and added, "Li Kuan found a dagger in the soil next to the remains. That dagger is double-edged, and it should be the murder weapon."

Xu Jinyan continued: "Although the ribs are not as hard as the pelvis, they can cause this level of damage, which shows that the murderer's arms and wrists are very strong."

Lu Lingfeng said without hesitation: "According to what you said...the murderer might be a man?"

Mori said noncommittally, "There may be more than one murderer."

As he spoke, he rested his fingers on the ribs of the corpse, and then circled the parts with signs of damage, and said at the same time: "It can be seen that these defects are concentrated in the right chest of the deceased. From this, two points can be deduced.

First, the killer was most likely left-handed.

Second, when the murderer stabbed the deceased with a knife, the deceased showed no obvious signs of resistance.If the deceased had resisted and avoided the murderer's attack, then the distribution of these wounds could not be so concentrated. "

Lu Lingfeng nodded in agreement. "That's right. Under normal circumstances, if the deceased resisted, the murderer would cut the knife severely, leaving wounds on the hands and arms at least. However, I saw that the deceased's phalanx and humerus were intact.

But having said that, this is strange, why didn't the dead resist?Could it be that the deceased was drugged by the murderer? "

Xu Jinyan said: "I think this can be explained by the real cause of death of the deceased."

Lu Lingfeng looked at him suspiciously: "The real cause of death? Could it be that the deceased died of shock due to excessive blood loss after being stabbed by a sharp weapon?"

"Although these knife wounds can also be fatal, I think the real cause of death is the head injury." Xu Jinyan opened the skull, pointed to the cranium and said, "The skull has a comminuted fracture, and the fracture line is often truncated. This is an injury caused by a hard blow to the head.

This can explain why the deceased did not resist when he was stabbed in the chest.Because the deceased was probably in a sitting position before death, in other words, sitting on a chair, and then was attacked by the murderer from behind.After being hit hard on the head, the deceased immediately lost consciousness, and then the murderer stabbed the deceased's chest with a knife continuously..."

"Wait..." Lu Lingfeng suddenly interrupted Xu Jinyan, "Why do you say that the deceased was sitting when he was attacked? If the attack was from behind, the deceased might have been standing somewhere, and after being attacked from behind by the murderer causing a comminuted skull fracture , fell to the ground on his back, and then the murderer attacked with a knife."

Mori took over the words, "The answer is very simple. If you look closely at the damage on the ribs, there are traces of inclination. This kind of damage shows that there is a certain gap between the height of the deceased and the murderer. The knife is from top to bottom, and the tip of the knife is in contact with the body of the deceased. There is a certain angle to penetrate the body of the deceased, so as to leave such damage on the ribs.

If, as you said, the deceased was lying face up on the ground, then stabbed by the murderer.Then the knife is perpendicular to the body of the deceased, and the double-edged knife stabs vertically into the body of the deceased, and it is impossible to leave such oblique scars on the ribs.

Lu Lingfeng nodded and accepted their point of view. "Sitting... so the deceased and the murderer may be acquainted, relatively familiar people."

Then, he asked again: "Apart from gender, age, height, etc., can we find other slightly special characteristics? It is difficult to find out the identity of the deceased with only age and height."

"What if this feature is added?" Lu Lingfeng and Xu Jinyan looked at Senyu who was standing on the other side of the dissecting table at the same time.

He was picking up a toe bone with tweezers.

Xu Jinyan had already guessed what he was going to say next.

"There is an extra phalanx here, and the color and texture of the bone are exactly the same as the other metatarsals. This metatarsal also belonged to the deceased, which shows that the deceased is likely to be a male with eleven toes."

In fact, Xu Jinyan had already discovered this when he cleaned out the bones from the mud pit at the scene.It's just that before he could say anything in the future, he was discovered by Senyu, who had a strong observation ability.

It was an important finding, and one that largely narrowed the scope of the investigation into the identity of the deceased.

"You go on, I still have a lot of things to do and take a step first."

After finishing speaking, Lu Lingfeng turned around and walked towards the door of the dissecting room.

"Your cigarette dropped."

Senyu's voice suddenly floated from behind.

Lu Lingfeng looked at the ground almost reflexively, and quickly searched the ground with his eyes, but found nothing.He looked up at Sen Yu, but Sen Yu remained expressionless, as if he hadn't said anything just now.Lu Lingfeng suspected that he had heard it wrong just now.

After thinking about it for a while, he noticed the clue.Generally, before entering the autopsy room, other than the mobile phone, other things cannot be brought in, so as not to affect the forensic autopsy work.How could someone bring cigarettes in?He sweated for the pack of cigarettes that he secretly put in a locker outside the anatomy room.

He sneaked a sneak peek at Xu Jinyan, but Xu Jinyan happened to take a look at him at this moment, and the eyes of the two collided by such a coincidence.

Xu Jinyan understood something, he turned his eyes away lightly, and looked at the bones on the dissecting table again.

"..."

At this moment, Lu Lingfeng suddenly realized that he had been tricked.It was Mori Yu, an old and cunning dog who wanted to frame him.

It's hard to imagine that Lu Lingfeng's mental activities were so rich in just a few seconds.Our team Lu is usually so cunning, shrewd, and resolute, but in front of Xu Jinyan, he is a brute.Xu Jinyan made a small look, and he knew that he was done.Lu Lingfeng was a little panicked, and wanted to cover up something, so he pretended to be calm and said:

"Where is the smoke? It must not be me. I have quit smoking."

After finishing speaking, he wished he could slap himself two big mouths.

——This is simply "there is no silver 300 taels here"

In the end, the good brother Mori did not intend to let him go, "Then you must have quit two hours, 32 minutes and [-] seconds ago. We met at the gate of the police station just now. The cigarette you smoked was the last one."

Lu Lingfeng glanced at Sen Yu with a half-smile, but gritted his teeth and cursed inwardly, "Sen Yu, I'm not done with you!"

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