Female Forensic Physician: Bone Collector

Chapter 38 Corpse
While carefully touching the cold corpse on the dissecting table in front of him with his fingers, Zhang Yetong described word by word, "The second incision, 29 cm long, cuts the left thigh from right to left, and the third incision, 31 cm long, The right thigh was also cut from right to left. Neither wound penetrated the body, and the purpose was apparently only to facilitate extraction of the bone above the thigh."

"Forensic doctor Zhang, how do you determine that the murderer cut it from right to left? I can't see it!" Zhao Junjie leaned over the dissecting table and carefully examined the wound on the leg of the corpse with a magnifying glass.

Pan Jian replied, "It's not easy. If you look carefully at the knife marks, the deep side is the place where the knife starts, and the shallow place is where the knife is retracted! We usually cut things like this, At the beginning of using the knife, he would involuntarily exert great force, because he wanted to break through the dermis and fat layer, but when he closed the knife," he stretched out his gloved right hand and gracefully drew a circle in the air, "it was very difficult. It’s easy, you just pull it out, so the strength will be relatively weakened in the end, and the marks will become shallower! Don’t you understand the principle?”

"Okay, don't show off, hurry up and do something!" Zhang Yetong couldn't help scolding softly.

Pan Jian pouted, but didn't say anything more.

"For the record, the murderer is left-handed because he is used to wielding a knife with his left hand." Zhang Yetong continued to look down. "The victim's kneecap, fibula, and tibia are all missing, and the sole of the foot is missing. There is a cutting scar at the joint of each bone." Said. At this point, she stood up straight, frowned, and thought for a while, "He is very careful with the bones, but the rest of the flesh is useless to him!"

"What does he want bones for? Does he really want to collect them? How much will he be satisfied with?" Zhao Junjie blurted out the question involuntarily, causing the temperature in the dissection room to drop to freezing point.

"What is this?" After a while, Zhang Yetong raised her head inadvertently, and the scene in front of her immediately caught her attention. She pointed behind Pan Jian and said seriously, "When we first did the X-ray body scan , how could you just ignore this part!" As she spoke, she quickly walked to the X-ray developing light box behind Pan Jian, "Look quickly, carefully look at the dead man's shoulder!"

Sure enough, on the X-ray film in the developing light box, there were three small black spots inlaid in the muscles of the left and right shoulders of the deceased, which were easily overlooked.

"Round, about [-] centimeter in diameter."

"What could this be?" Pan Jian asked with a frown.

Zhang Yetong didn't bother to answer. After confirming the approximate location, she returned to the corpse, took the scalpel Pan Jian handed her, and carefully cut open the dead man's cold shoulder muscles.

After a while, six small black objects on each side were taken out of the deceased one by one, and put into a tray on one side.

No matter how you identify them, there is no way to recognize the true colors of these black substances.

Zhang Yetong suddenly thought of another corpse found in the garbage dump of the abandoned aluminum alloy factory in the cold storage. Although the corpse was highly decomposed and could not be formed, it did not affect the search of the internal substances. Thinking of this, she went straight to the autopsy Cold storage at the back of the room.

More than half an hour later, the same six pieces of black matter were also found.

"Hurry up and take it to the trace identification room, I want to know the result immediately!" Zhang Yetong has an intuition that these unexpected discoveries are likely to be a crucial key to unlock the mystery of the murder case in front of him.

Pan Jian nodded, turned around and left quickly.Now everyone is working overtime for this case, so he doesn't have to worry about waiting until tomorrow for the result.

"Judging from the scars on the surface of the corpse, the three holes on this side penetrated into the body very regularly." Zhao Junjie pointed to the X-ray film.

"Yes, it was punched in artificially. Judging from the recovery state of the wound, it can be confirmed that it was punched in after the death of the deceased, because there are no obvious signs of recovery around the wound! The cell wall has stopped growing!" Zhang Yetong Carefully observe under the microscope the complete piece of skin that was cut off when looking for the subcutaneous substance of the deceased just now, "The question now is, why did the murderer lay these things on the deceased? What are they? What are they for? When they were taken out just now , I feel that it may be metal, which has a certain weight."

As soon as the voice fell, the computer fax machine started up, making a creaking sound.Zhang Yetong stood up and came to the fax machine,

"We've got results."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Junjie immediately came over.

This is a computerized chemical composition identification report from the trace identification room.Since the trace identification room is on the other side of the Public Security Bureau building, it takes several minutes to walk. Therefore, when the work is too busy to leave, those young trace identification experts will use fax machines to run errands for themselves.

"Pan's forensic doctor is still very fast, and the results will be available in less than half an hour!"

Zhang Yetong looked disdainful, of course she understood why Pan Jian had such a high efficiency in handling affairs, and if it was done by another person, it would be a miracle to get it done in an hour.So, at the moment when the report came, Pan Jian hadn't been seen yet. Of course, this was understandable.

"Gold, [-] milligram; copper, [-] milligram; steel, [-] milligram; resin, [-] milligram." Zhao Junjie read out the ingredient list, but was still at a loss, "This can only prove that those black substances It's metal, but there's still no answer for what it is!"

"It's not difficult. We have a database here, which records in detail the chemical composition of some representative substances in many industries or civil industries. This will help us determine the approximate range." At this time, Zhang Yetong in Zhao Junjie's eyes , his eyes were full of excitement, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and a confident smile was written on his face.Zhao Junjie couldn't help being dumbfounded. After staying here for so long, he sadly had the illusion that this woman Zhang Yetong might have dealt with dead people for too long, and she had long since forgotten what laughter is, but now it seems that , the smiling Zhang Yetong turned out to be so beautiful!

The computer quickly found the answer in the database, but it made people puzzled—the rivets used in the production process of fur and specimens played a role in fixing the material.

"Could it be that our murderer was a fur coat maker?"

Zhang Yetong frowned and thought for a while, then resolutely shook his head and vetoed, "No, many leather garments are made by machines now, besides, leather garments do not know so clearly about our human bones, and know where the vital parts are. The knife will not damage the bones. I think he is probably a taxidermist! This kind of rivet is only used by professionals, and most people don't know its existence. I have to inform Yanan of this clue immediately! Now There are not many taxidermists in China! Especially the skilled ones!"

The sky outside the window had already turned fish-belly pale unconsciously. Although the sun was hiding behind the light gray clouds, it couldn't hide the coming dawn at all.The street lights on the road are gradually going out in an orderly manner, and some early risers have already left the house one after another to start their morning exercises in the middle of the day.

This is a new day, Zhang Yetong rubbed his sore shoulders, and just wanted to pick up the mobile phone on the table to call his uncle, after all, his uncle is helping him take care of his mother these days.

However, the next scene made her a little scared. She was already holding the phone in her right hand, and just about to press the keys, her right hand suddenly felt nothing, and the phone hit the floor tiles On, there was a crisp sound.Immediately, the mobile phone battery and the host were separated.

Zhang Yetong was dumbfounded. When she opened the door of the house not long ago, the scene of accidentally dropping the key on the floor appeared in front of her eyes again. She remembered it very clearly. At that moment, her fingers suddenly lost feeling and became abnormal. numbness.

Zhang Yetong subconsciously grasped the completely numb right palm with his left hand, his heart beat wildly, and the mobile phone with a different head on the floor in front of him was staring at him pitifully.

What exactly happened here?What happened to my own hand?Zhang Yetong furrowed his brows tightly, feeling a sense of helplessness that he had never felt before coming to him step by step.

(End of this chapter)