Concubine

Chapter 501 Finding the Real Cause of Death
Cheng Ziqin said: "How else to test? Haven't you been looking over and over for a long time?"

"I want to carry the head and body back to the mortuary of the Yamen for a careful examination."

"You have checked carefully enough! What else to check? I disagree. If no one claims this corpse, it will be burned."

According to regulations, the unnamed corpse can be cremated, because the yamen did not have the expense of buying a cemetery for the unnamed corpse.

Yang Tashan said: "There are still many problems that have not been clarified, and further inspections must be made."

Cheng Ziqin pointed to the head and said, "There is a deep wound on the forehead of the deceased, which has been proven to be a homicide. Let's start the investigation and visit to find out who is missing, and then follow the vines to find clues. If we solve the case, won't it be enough? I I don’t think there are any other problems that can be found on this corpse.”

Judging from ancient forensic classics such as Song Ci's "Washing Injustice", ancient autopsies were limited to body surface examinations, or examinations of bones that had become ossified, and dissections were not allowed.So, from Cheng Ziqin's point of view, this was already careful enough, she couldn't think of anything else to check.

Of course Yang Tashan knew this, but he still shook his head firmly: "Cheng Butou, if you let me further examine this corpse, I can tell you more clues to solve the problem, and even tell you who died. who!"

Cheng Ziqin looked at Yang Tashan in astonishment. Judging from the inspection just now, the young policeman indeed knew a lot of things that he had never heard of before. Perhaps, he could really surprise himself and find more clues to solve the problem.Cheng Ziqin was born in a family of police officers, so of course he knows the importance of clues to solve cases.

After thinking about it, Cheng Ziqin said: "Okay then, I'll send it back to you for inspection, I hope you can find useful clues. After the inspection, you can just have the ashes carried to be cremated, and the ashes can be kept."

At this time, other policemen had already searched the area around Pingtougou carefully, and found no other suspicious traces or physical evidence.

Cheng Ziqin ordered the staff to come over and register the corpse, and then wrapped the corpse and head in a white cloth to avoid contamination of other items, and then transported the corpse back to the Yamen mortuary on a flatbed truck.

Then, Cheng Ziqin and Yang Tashan came under the willow tree where the prefect Han was sitting, and reported to the prefect Han.

After hearing this, the prefect Han said: "The decapitation is different, it is indeed very vicious. This murder case seems to be very difficult, so the government will not give you a limit. I just hope that the case can be solved as soon as possible."

The two were overjoyed and bowed to thank them.One of Cheng Ziqin and Yang Tashan's father had killed the prefect of Han, and the other had helped to retrieve the official seal of the prefect of Han. Therefore, the prefect of Han couldn't be cruel and make things difficult for these two people.

The prefect of Han immediately got up in his sedan chair and went back home. The matter of solving the case will be left to the arresters.

Time is running out and there is no time to waste it. Cheng Ziqin immediately made arrangements. Of course, the first step in the investigation is to find the source of the corpse. Find out who the deceased is, and then see if he can find clues to solve the case.However, the corpse had no clothes on it, and there was no corresponding physical evidence for identification. In addition, the corpse was already highly decomposed and unrecognizable, so we had to cast a wide net. Fortunately, Yang Tashan had already preliminarily judged that the death of the deceased was estimated to be no less than four days old. No more than eight days.

After discussing with Yang Tashan, Cheng Ziqin dispatched police officers to search for the missing woman within eight days in Qingyang Mansion and nearby villages, hoping to find clues.Cheng Ziqin and three team leaders are in the Yamen's arrest squad, waiting for Yang Tashan's inspection news.

Yang Tashan went home first with the forensic evidence investigation box, and put the two bottles containing the fly maggots in his forensic room to raise them. Set it up as a forensic room for forensic examinations, only you have the key, and even Xing'er can't get in.

After the arrangements were made, Yang Tashan greeted Xing'er, then returned to the yamen with the suitcase and came to the mortuary.

The mortuary of the magistrate's yamen in Qingyang Prefecture is a semi-basement structure.Most of the windows on the top let in light, and the lighting is still very good, and because the other half is underground, it is relatively shady.

The mortuary was not big, and Wu Zuo had already wrapped the detached corpse in a piece of white cloth and transported it to the mortuary, put it on a mortuary board, and left.

Yang Tashan originally planned to wash away the fly maggots on the corpse with clean water, but in the end he decided not to wash it with water, because the wound sometimes left adherents or broken remains of the murder weapon, which are important basis for judging the type of murder weapon.If washed with water, it is possible to wash away these traces of evidence in the wound.So, he still used a probe to sweep away the fly maggots, and dumped them in a trash can.

After cleaning up the maggots on the corpse, he anatomically pieced together the head and the corpse, and the cervical vertebrae could fit together.Next, a blood type test is carried out to see if the blood type of the head is the same as that of the body. If the blood type is different, then it is certain that the head and the body are not the same person.

Since both the head and the body were highly corrupted, the blood was also corrupted and polluted, making it difficult to test. Yang Tashan took a pinch of hair from the head and a pinch of hair from the body, and performed blood type tests on the hair. , resulting in the same blood type.Proved to be the same.

Then, Yang Tashan conducted a physical examination on the corpse again. After the examination, he stared at the highly decomposed female corpse with its head and body separated, and hesitated whether to conduct an autopsy.

This kind of hesitation was just a flash of thought, and he had already decided, anatomy!
He remembered that only after the autopsy was performed, could he dare to say that the real cause of death of the deceased had been found out, and autopsy could overturn many conclusive judgments about the cause of death.Autopsy is irreplaceable by other inspection methods, and it is also the most important basis for ascertaining the cause of death.

Although he can't remember who told him this, this concept has always been deeply seared in his mind.What's more, newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and the concept of fear does not seem to exist in his memory.

He decided to dissect the head first, because the fatal wound was in the head.

Yang Tashan opened the forensic evidence investigation box, took out a scalpel, and made an arc-shaped incision from the back of the ear on one side of the skull to the back of the ear on the other side, and turned the scalp back and forth. When cutting, he tried his best to avoid Cut off the hair so it won't be easy to see from the outside after it's stitched up for a while.

With the calvaria exposed, he used a magnifying glass to take a closer look at the wound on the left temporal region, starting with the wound on the damaged scalp.

Under the magnifying glass, a small amount of relatively coarse particles in the wound caught his attention. After carefully extracting it with tweezers, he observed it under a microscope and determined that it was the powder of bluestone slate rock!

Could it be that when the corpse was dragged by wild dogs, the wound adhered to the rock fragments on the ground?

As soon as this idea flashed from his mind, it was immediately denied.He clearly remembered that the place where the body was thrown was a grassy field, and there was only soil on the muddy field, and there was no such bluestone and slate rock fragments.

Yang Tashan continued to observe the comminuted depressed fracture area of ​​the temporal bone with a magnifying glass, and found that such fragments also existed in the fracture area!Yang Tashan decided to open the skull to see if there were such gravels in the corresponding inner part of the skull. If there were, it could basically be judged that it was left by the murder weapon hitting the skull.

He took out the fine-toothed bone and sawed the inner and outer plates of the skull in a circular manner, and removed the calvaria. In the corresponding part of the trauma outside the dura mater, he found a small amount of the same rock particles.After cutting the dura mater, it was found that part of the brain tissue had been damaged, and such particles were also found in the damaged area.

After brain dissection, Yang Tashan judged that the weapon that caused the fatal injury of the deceased was a long strip of bluestone with edges and corners.

The cause of death may be that the murderer smashed the bluestone to death, or he hit the edge of the bluestone slab to death, of course, it may also be an accidental death caused by an accidental fall and impact on the edge of the bluestone slab.

Suicide, homicide, and accidents are all likely to occur in this part of the temporal region, so it is still difficult to judge the nature of death.However, since the corpse was obviously transferred to Pingtougou, and Pingtougou has no such bluestones, the possibility of suicide or accident is not very high, because suicide and accidental death are unlikely to be transferred. , especially throw it in the wild and leave it alone, which is even more unreasonable.From this point of view, the possibility of homicide is very high.

Yang Tashan then dissected the skull, took out the brain tissue and performed an incision test, and examined the base of the skull, and found no abnormalities.

Then, he dissected the body, and found that the thoracic and abdominal organs were normal, without obvious lesions or traumatic damage.However, he was shocked when he opened the abdominal cavity, only to see a large amount of blood in the abdominal cavity, about one or two thousand milliliters.

Yang Tashan's expression suddenly became serious. If the fluid in the abdominal cavity was blood and the amount of bleeding was so large, it would be enough to cause the woman to die from hemorrhagic shock.And such a large amount of blood suggests that it is a traumatic injury, because only when the heart is still beating, it is possible to squeeze a large amount of blood from the damaged part.

In this way, at least this injury should have occurred before or at the same time as the fatal injury on the forehead. Whether it was before or at the same time, you need to find the location of the bleeding and judge it based on the amount and speed of the bleeding.

However, before doing this work, he had to carry out another task, that is, to test the blood sample effusion in the abdominal cavity to see if it was really blood.

Yang Tashan extracted the effusion material and conducted a hemin crystallization test. Microscopic examination showed brown diamond-shaped crystals, which were positive, indicating that it was blood.At the same time, microscopic examination also unexpectedly found squamous epithelial cells, lanugo and cholesterol crystals, suggesting the presence of amniotic fluid.

Was this woman pregnant when she died?The uterus is damaged, the amniotic fluid leaks out and enters the abdominal cavity together with the blood, excessive blood loss complicated by severe peritonitis?If so, the cause of death would be complicated.

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