Forensic mad wife protector

Chapter 315 Determining the Cause of Death (Part [-])
Eve glanced at the bones on the autopsy table and frowned, "This is the only bone found?"

Yan Yunying nodded, "This was washed up on the road by the mud... You said that this corpse was bitten by wild dogs. Could it be that these bones were taken to the side of the mountain by wild dogs, and were taken to the side of the mountain by the heavy rain? We rushed to the road together, and there may be other bones on the mountain."

"We have to go up the mountain again, maybe we can find the place where the corpse was thrown."

"However, it rained heavily last night, maybe all the traces were washed away, and this person has been dead for a long time, so I don't know what else is left."

"Do your best."

After all, Eve asked Zhou Zhaohui to arrange a helicopter. Half an hour later, the two were already in the air, accompanied by the staff of the office.

When the helicopter arrived at the top of the Hengshan Highway, the night gradually fell.

In the twilight, over 400 meters above the wooded hill, Eve couldn't determine the exact location of the search area.What's more, no landing point could be found.

"It seems that we can only slide down with the rope on our backs. Do you have any questions?" Eve looked at the staff on the helicopter.

A group of people shook their heads, "No problem."

"Okay, then act now."

Everyone quickly put on the required tools, and when the helicopter landed to about 100 meters away, they dropped a rope from the helicopter and slid down to the ground one by one in an orderly manner.

Eve held a tablet computer in her hand, called up the satellite map here, and pointed in a direction, "That's the direction of the road. Let's go to the side of the mountain first, and then spread out from there to search. If we find something, we will mark it with a flag." , and then radio me."

The group had no objections, so they found out the searchlight and moved forward quickly.

There were five people who followed Eve. Together with Yan Yunying, the seven of them split up on the side of the mountain and searched carefully.

The helicopter didn't leave, but followed Eve's position and illuminated them all the time.

In two hours, the search team had found a lot of evidence, and flags of evidence were planted in several places on the mountain and marked on the tablet.The finds, which included bones and clothes, were scattered over a radius of more than 100 meters in the forest.

The most important thing Eve found was the upper jaw, which contained 13 teeth, some intact and some broken.

Her attention was immediately on the front teeth.Two of the 4 upper front teeth were broken from the root, and the crown was also missing.But the other two gave her the information she needed.

The front teeth are shovel-shaped, although it is not particularly obvious, but it is similar to what she expected. This is indeed an Asian girl.

"You contact Yang Xinzi's parents and ask her if she has been to a dentist. If so, get her dental records and we can confirm her identity here tonight." Eve turned to Yan Yunying and said with certainty .

Yan Yunying didn't delay, and quickly contacted Yang Xinzi's parents.

"I've got good news for you, she did see a dentist, and I've sent someone over to get her dental records."

Eve breathed a sigh of relief. While waiting for the medical records, she began to check the evidence found by the staff one by one.

Clothing scattered among the trees included a pair of blood-stained blue jeans that had been torn or cut; a purple sweater; a white coat; and a pair of blue and white sneakers.

The newly discovered bones include two fragments of the right temporal bone, just above the ear; the left fibula interrupts the diaphysis, possibly the tibia; The base fits perfectly with the roots still embedded in the upper jaw.

At this time, Yan Yunying's people had also arrived and set up a portable work lamp to illuminate the area where more bones were found during the search.

But the area where the bones and clothes were scattered was so wide that it was almost impossible to find them all in the dark.

Eve discussed with Yan Yunying and decided to conduct a more comprehensive search tomorrow morning.

Even so, the night's work was not over.

The police sent Yang Xinzi's dental records to Eve for comparison.

It only took Eve a moment to get the result.

She had noticed when she initially examined the skull that the teeth were in pretty bad shape, not least because a few of them had broken off the gum line.Of the 13 teeth in the upper jaw, 10 had been filled, and one had three holes filled.

Also, one molar on the left had been pulled out, which seems to have been a long time ago, because bone had begun to grow in the alveolar cavity.

Cavity to cavity, filling to filling, teeth on skull matched dental records.

"It's confirmed that the deceased is Yang Xinzi, Captain Yan, you can file a case now." Eve handed back the medical records in her hand to the police officer and said to Yan Yunying.

It only took a few hours from the discovery of the body to the confirmation of the identity of the deceased, but Yan Yunying was not happy at all, "Can the nature of the case be determined as homicide?"

After all, how could a 16-year-old girl come to this barren mountain by herself.

"Go back and check to be sure." Eve said lightly.

After 11 o'clock in the evening, several people boarded the helicopter again and returned.

Looking out from the canopy, the lights of Yancheng were like jewels sprinkled on black velvet, shining brightly under everyone's feet.Beautiful and bright, in sharp contrast to this ugly murder.

It was already late at night when Eve got home. She took a quick shower and fell asleep on the bed. The incomplete skeleton was in her dream.

The next morning, Eve got up early and returned to the office.

Identifying the identity is only the first step. Judging whether the homicide was committed, and if so, by what weapon and by whom, is the crucial second step.

Although she told Yan Yunying that she was not sure before, Eve has basically confirmed that Yang Xinzi was murdered before the appraisal was started.

From the time she received the skull, she had seen enough to form a fairly clear and chilling picture in her mind.

A broken tooth provided an important clue.

Three of the four incisors had broken off near the root in what is known as a hinge fracture, meaning that the front of each tooth was completely broken along a clear horizontal line, and the tooth folded back into the mouth as if on a hinge.

A hinged fracture represents a frontal blow to the tooth, very hard.

In fact, not only did the tooth snap back, but the root of the tooth protruded from the bone at the front of the mouth.The right incisor is the only unbroken one among the four middle incisors, but there is a gap on its inner surface, which means that the blow probably came from a direction slightly to the left of Yang Xinzi. The most likely situation is that a right-handed person swung some kind of tool horizontally. Caused.

This overturned her original guess whether Yang Xinzi fell and hit a stone by herself.And this blow, though painful, would not have killed her, and might not have even knocked her out.

Another horizontal blow hit her forehead, above her left eye.

This blow left an oval-shaped notch on the outer plate of the skull, but the force of the blow was not strong enough, and the innermost layer of the three layers of bones in the skull had not yet cracked.The profile of the depressed crack measured 2 cm long and 1.2 cm deep.

An oval indicates that the wound may have been caused by a blunt object, cylindrical or circular in cross-section, such as a baseball bat, a tire wrench, or the long flashlight used by night shift security.

Another blow followed, weaker this time, almost to the midline of her forehead, just above her eyebrows.

The blow also left an oval-shaped concave gash, vertically, about half the size of the wound above the left eye.Also like the larger oval fissure, it did not crack the inner plate of the skull.

In Eve's view, these three blows were not powerful enough to kill Yang Xinzi, but any of the two fractures on her forehead could make her unconscious.

Then came a fourth blow, behind her right ear, so hard it chopped the back of her temporal bone in half.As well as shattering the temporal bone, the blow created a 7cm-long crack that pierced both the outer and inner plates of the skull.

The shape of these cracks is different from other cracks, Eve can at best judge that when the murder weapon hit, Yang Xinzi was lying on the ground with the right side of her head facing up.

This time it might have been the same cylindrical weapon, or it might have been a heavy boot.

When Yang Xinzi fell to the ground, the murderer trampled on the side of the girl whose head was facing up.

After examining the skull, Yan Yunying walked into the autopsy room.

"You came really early," Yan Yunying said admiringly when she saw that Eve had put on her overalls and gloves and was standing in front of the autopsy table, "Are you sure he killed him?"

Eve put down her skull, her face was a little cold, "I'm sure, and she was still beaten to death."

She recounted what she had just discovered and her own inference, "Of course this is just my inference, and there is no way to confirm it. I just hope that the deceased lost consciousness at the beginning of the torture, so that the suffering will not last too long."

After hearing this, Yan Yunying clenched her fists, and her heart boiled with anger, "What a bastard! If you don't have the ability, go find some women who are weaker than you and torture and kill them. Such people should be cut to pieces!"

Eve raised her eyebrows, "Is there a definite suspect?"

"Well, we have locked down a criminal who has a history of stealing. His name is Huang Pei. He is 32 years old and lives in a village next to the Hengshan Highway. On the day Yang Xinzi disappeared, someone saw him going up the mountain. That guy was ten years ago. I was arrested for kidnapping a girl, but luckily that girl jumped out of the car and escaped, otherwise she might have been killed too."

"Have you caught anyone?"

"Not yet, he's not at home, and no one in the village knows where he went, but I've already sent people to look for him, and I believe he will be found soon."

Eve nodded, although her heart was heavy, she was relieved, at least confirming that this case has nothing to do with the Lex family.

The two discussed again, and then they planned to take a helicopter to the mountains to continue the unfinished search last night. This time, there were not many discoveries. brought back to the office.

Among these evidences, Eve didn't find any property, so it can be speculated that it might be robbery.

(End of this chapter)