Forensic mad wife protector

Chapter 147 Strange cellar? (two more)
The next day, Eve arrived at the office early in the morning.

Walking into the autopsy room, she found that someone was there earlier than her. Li Hao and Qin Jinhui had already arrived, each holding a laptop computer, vigorously flipping through the photos of the scene and the corpse.

It is necessary to check the photos of the scene, because in many cases, some subtle clues will be ignored due to the problem of light at the scene, and the photos will be different, because the light and angle of the photos are different, and sometimes things that are not easy to be found can be captured. show out.

Seeing this, Eve didn't bother them, and took out yesterday's cervical vertebrae and began to examine them carefully.

She was right about the trace of the incision.

Although the neck bone is not ideal in terms of retaining the characteristics of the blade, the fourth cervical vertebra was cut transversely, retaining some lines, showing concave curvature, and the upper fixed radius curve is not around the breaking point. , but away from the breaking point.

On the fifth cervical vertebra, there was a knife mark that started and then gave up, with a width of about 0.22 cm.

Each facet has the exact same, almost smooth finish, with no chopping in and out as you would see with a knife.

All of this suggests that the tool of crime was an electric circular saw.

Eve took pictures of the sawed-off cervical vertebrae, then began processing the bone filler removed from the body, slicing it into thin slices that would help her pinpoint the age of the deceased if the fingerprints didn't match up.

After cutting the slices, she placed them on slides, looked at them under a light microscope at [-]X magnification, and started counting.

Bones are very strong tissue cells that are constantly repairing and replacing themselves.Throughout a person's lifetime, the amount of those tiny things keeps increasing.Thus, adult age can be estimated by counting osteons, osteon fragments, lamellae, and ductwork.

The numbers Eve came up with confirmed her original estimate, between 16 and [-].

This was not different from what she expected at the beginning.

But in addition, she has some new discoveries.

While counting, she noticed a weird color change in several of the Hover tubes.The Harvard tube is very small, but it allows nerves and blood vessels to enter the bone.

Could it be some kind of invading microbe?
Got dirt?
Mineral precipitation?

Or a microfracture?

Eve increased the magnification, but the abnormality was still unclear.

In this situation, she needed a scanning electron microscope, but the original one in the office was damaged, and the new one would not arrive until three days later.

Eve was a little frustrated, but fortunately at this time, police officer Liu received good news. The police found fingerprint information that matched the deceased in the fingerprint database.

"Ji Yuanchong, male, 17 years old, from Yancheng, studied in the third year of Yancheng No. [-] Middle School, and has just successfully applied for studying abroad, so his fingerprints are in the fingerprint database. According to our understanding, he is a very smart kid who passed the entrance examination abroad. I went to a very good school, and I planned to go abroad next month, but I didn't expect such an accident."

"His parents and the school teacher didn't call the police?" Eve was a little puzzled. Although the time of death has not been determined, the body has been in Mingyue Lake for more than two days. Don't the family and teachers find it strange?

Officer Liu said: "Ji Yuanchong completed his studies before the National Day and obtained his graduation certificate ahead of schedule. Later, he told his parents that he wanted to take a domestic trip to see around before going abroad. It took several years to come back, so I agreed. Ji Yuanchong departed the day before the National Day, but we checked and found that he did not take the flight he bought that day."

"Did he travel alone? Or with other friends?"

"According to his parents, he found a companion on a travel website who was also from Yancheng. We found that person based on his ID. He was a young man who had just graduated from university. His name was Yu Le. Yuan Chong flew away by himself, we checked, and he did not lie, he left Yancheng by plane at 55:[-] that day and arrived in Nanjiang."

Eve was silent for a moment, which meant that Ji Yuanchong disappeared on September 30th.Today is October NO.16, a full seventeen days...

"Did he contact his parents during this time?" she asked suddenly.

"No." Officer Liu sighed softly, "The child's parents are in foreign trade business and often need to travel. Ji Yuanchong can be said to have taken care of himself since he was a child, and he is quite independent. He and his parents The way we get along is that we usually don’t contact each other, and sometimes his parents have been away on business for more than a month, and they haven’t contacted once, maybe they are used to it, so his parents don’t think there is anything wrong, and they think that no news is good news.”

Eve also felt very speechless about this. How much do these parents feel? How can the child feel at ease after being away alone for half a month without calling?
From these alone, it is still impossible to determine when Ji Yuanchong was killed.It is also impossible to know where he has been, and it is impossible to know whether he could not arrive at the airport on time due to some delays or was kidnapped on the way to the airport.

I went around in circles and still couldn't figure out anything.

Just as he was thinking about it, Officer Liu continued, "I didn't just call you to tell you about Ji Yuanchong. We just received a call from the police, and there is a more difficult case."

"What case?"

"Homicide case."

Eve raised her eyebrows, waiting for Officer Liu's next words.

"The location of the discovery was in a shop at No. 145 Hammi Road. The shop had just been rented out and was being renovated. The plumber bumped into the wall and found that there was a cellar under the basement. He looked and was frightened. There's a lot of bone in there."

Eve asked, "Are you sure it's a human bone?"

"At least that skull is."

"more than one?"

"The police officers who received the call went to see and said that there might be more than one, but they dared not move around before you passed, for fear of damaging the scene."

"Very well, let them continue." Eve had already stood up, "I'll go over right now."

As soon as she hung up the phone and turned around, she saw Qin Jinhui and Li Hao running behind her at some point, looking at her with burning eyes.

Li Hao couldn't wait to ask: "Have you discovered something new?"

"Well," Eve said in a low mood, "The identity of the Mingyue Lake corpse has been confirmed. Ji Yuanchong, 17 years old, is a third-year student at Yancheng No. [-] Middle School."

"It's gone?" Li Hao was stunned for a moment, and soon came back to his senses, "Didn't you just say that there was more than one human bone? Didn't you find his head?"

Eve picked up the phone, her face was cold, "It's a new case, let's go, go and have a look at the scene."

Li Hao: "..."

There is still no clue about this case, and there is a new case, what should I do if I can't solve the case within a week?Do you really want to resign and bid farewell to the forensic profession?
Qin Jinhui glanced at his face wrinkled like a dried bitter melon, "Let's go, get the toolbox quickly!"

A group of people drove to the address that Officer Liu said.

The area around Hammi Road is an old area, and the buildings are still old buildings from 40 to [-] years ago, wholesale shops, and many small warehouses, all of which are rented by those shops to store goods.

The address given by Police Officer Liu is at the junction of Hanmi Road and Xinyang Road, which happens to be a blind spot for monitoring.

Qin Jinhui parked the car on the side of the road, and Xiaofeng helped Eve get out of the car and sat in a wheelchair. The four of them saw that inside the cordon, the outer walls of the shops were dirty, dilapidated, mottled, with peeling paint everywhere, and the ground was almost It was all covered in dust, and there was a huge pile of rubbish at the door.

The four walked in through the cordon and saw a man sitting tremblingly on a rough wooden box. He heard footsteps and raised his head with horror in his eyes.

The police officer on the side said to Eve, "He found it."

Eve nodded, motioned Xiaofeng to push her over, and asked, "Can you tell me what you saw?"

The man's dirty hands were clenched together, and the gray trousers on his body were torn at the left knee. He visibly trembled when he heard Eve's question, as if he was very scared.

His voice trembled slightly, "I've already said it, it's too scary, I don't want to say it anymore... It's hell in there..."

Eve could tell that he was really scared.

She lowered her voice and asked as softly as possible: "Have you made a record yet?"

The man nodded, his movements a little stiff.

"Then can you briefly tell me what you saw?" Eve asked again.

The man's head began to shake from side to side, "It's horrible! It wasn't done by humans...I've never seen such a cruel and terrifying thing..."

"Can you tell me what happened?" After Eve asked, she asked Xiaofeng to open the thermos and pass it over.

The man took a few sips of hot water before starting to say, "I was replacing the pipes here... I started in the wall and another brick came down and knocked a hole in the floor and then I watched There's a big old plank down there."

He stopped, and Eve didn't rush him, but waited patiently.

"I don't know why, but I kicked it with my toes, and one end of the board immediately lifted into the air..." the man continued, speaking very slowly, occasionally pausing to think about it, "There is a hidden hole underneath, I was I was curious, so I turned on the flashlight and took a picture."

The man paused and swallowed.

Eve asked, "Is there a cellar down there? What do you see?"

The man wiped the cold sweat off his forehead with his hands, but he still didn't speak, his body began to tremble again.

Eve decided to get straight to the point, "You called the police and said you saw a human skull?"

The man nodded.

"What else did you see?"

"That scene is too scary, I don't want to recall it anymore... If you want to know anything, go down and see for yourself, don't ask me any more!"

Eve had no choice but to give up, and changed the subject and asked, "Did you go down?"

"How is that possible! I couldn't go down there even if I was killed, so I immediately called the police."

After the questioning, Eve asked the police to take the man away, and told him that he was not emotionally stable, and it was best to take him to see a psychiatrist.

Then, the four of them started walking towards the basement with the toolbox.As soon as she went down two flights of stairs, the little hairs on the back of Eve's neck began to stand on end.

(End of this chapter)