Coroner Coroner

"Everyone can imagine..."

"What kind of attack does a person have to be subjected to in order to be slashed all over the body?"

"This..." The onlookers subconsciously entered into their thoughts.

But it was the police officer Mumu, who had the most experience in handling cases, who responded first:

"Could it be... a traffic accident?"

"I've seen a lot of dead bodies who died in traffic accidents before. They have more or less such large-scale traumatic injuries from the collision with the surface of the car and the road."

"But…"

After speaking, he felt that something was wrong:

"Isn't Kudo-brother reasoning that the body of the deceased has been soaked in water after his death?"

"There are no cars in the river, how could there be a traffic accident?"

"No, it's possible..."

It was Kudo Shinichi who spoke.

After Lin Xinyi reminded him to this point, he immediately reacted:

"ferry!"

"I remember that before Xiaolan and I found the body, there were just a few cruise ships passing by on the river!"

"That is to say, the corpse has collided with those ships?!"

"Yes."

Lin Xinyi nodded seriously:

"It's just that, because of the limited speed of the cruise ship itself, just colliding with the ship can't cause such serious scratches."

"Not to mention, the intensity of that damage is enough to make a complete corpse fall into pieces."

"Everyone, please see..."

He pointed to the cross section of the dead man's severed arm.

There, the flesh is eroded, the bones are broken, and the red, white and yellow are mixed together, making people sweat and swell with stomach acid at a glance.

But Lin Xin was accustomed to this scene early in the morning:

"The most used tools are kitchen knives, sharp knives and other cutting knives that are common in ordinary people's homes."

"So the wounds caused by artificial dismemberment often have free flesh flaps on the wound edges, that is, the traces of cutting back and forth."

"The cuts on the bones are generally short and shallow, and there are many repeated cuts."

"Scratches, fishtail-like drag marks are often seen on the skin, and many scratches can be seen on large joints."

"And if you use a saw, you can see obvious saw marks on the severed end of the corpse, the wound surface is uneven, and wavy or stepped sawtooth marks can be seen on the bone section."

"The traces of the axe are more obvious, and the shape of the wound cavity with a wide upper part and a narrow lower part is very easy to distinguish."

"These are the traces that the murderer will inevitably leave when he manually divides the body due to insufficient personal strength and limited tools."

There are only a few tools available for man-made mutilation.

And the scars of trauma caused by each tool are distinctive.

As an experienced forensic doctor, Lin Xin can distinguish the difference from the dissection wound at a glance:

"And the wounds on this corpse are in a messy distribution and in different shapes, and the shapes of the wounds in various parts of the body are different."

"The wound margins and wound walls of the head wounds are neatly distributed, similar to cutting wounds."

"There are multiple wounds in the abdomen, thighs and other rich soft tissues. The arc-shaped wounds are arranged in the same direction and the spacing is roughly equal. - This is the result of some kind of sharp weapon cutting the corpse at high speed and repeatedly."

"And most importantly..."

"The muscles and tendons at the severed limbs show obvious signs of twisting, tearing and breaking."

"And there are repeated and relatively smooth cutting wounds with sharp instruments on the broken end bones, and some of the bones exposed at the bottom of the wounds show the characteristics of concave comminuted fractures."

Lin Xinyi's voice became much deeper:

"Human hacking can't do this kind of damage at all."

"This kind of damage requires some kind of 'kill weapon' with high-speed rotation, huge slashing force and cutting properties."

"It's like... throwing someone into a meat grinder."

At this point, everyone present understood what Lin Xinyi meant:

Simply put, the wounds on the corpse are too messy, too deep, and too heavy.

Humans with limited strength can't cut such scars at all. Only a powerful machine like a meat grinder can cause this phenomenon.

And in this case, the machine that turned the dead body into bits and pieces was...

"propeller?"

After being reminded to this point by the "opponent", Kudo Shinichi finally found the truth he wanted:

"The body was swept up in the propeller by a passing cruise ship!"

Chapter 9 Suicide Clues

Lin Xinyi gave the answer.

Everyone also restored the whole picture of the case in their minds:

About three hours ago, the deceased died of drowning. Because of his obesity, the body surfaced directly to the surface.

More than ten minutes ago, the body accidentally collided with a passing cruise ship and was caught in the propeller.

The enormous force of the propeller slashed the corpse into pieces, leaving a multitude of messy slashing wounds on the corpse.

The corpse also rotated at a high speed with the propeller during this process, and rubbed against the hull many times, causing a large area of ​​skin to fall off.

After that, the cruise ship continued to move forward, and the broken body was left in this waters.

As the corpse shattered, a large amount of blood was lost and dyed the water of the Red River, and finally Kudo Shinichi and Maurilan who passed by witnessed the shocking blood wave phenomenon.

"So it is."

"Because of a simple accident, the case was complicated on the surface."

The Mumu Police Department, who knew the truth, couldn't help but feel embarrassed.

And the truth of the propeller's accidental dismemberment actually sounds a bit bizarre.

But there was no one present, including Kudo Shinichi, who could question Lin Shinichi's conclusion.

Because every word he said was backed by evidence.

As Lin Xinyi said himself, what he did was not reasoning, he was just helping the deceased to speak out.

"Wait..." After a sigh, the Mumu Police Department suddenly noticed another problem: "These evidences can only prove that the deceased died of drowning and was accidentally involved in the propeller, but it cannot prove that she committed suicide."

"Brother Lin."

He changed his name quite familiarly:

"Why did you decide that the deceased died by suicide in the first place?"

"This is..."

"It is speculated that the deceased is a clue to suicide, which is located in the waist and abdomen of the corpse."

"About this, the Kudo detective should have noticed it too?"

Lin Xinyi gave Kudo Xinyi a meaningful look:

He had noticed before that the young famous detective locked his gaze on the waist and abdomen of the deceased as soon as he saw the body.

Obviously, Kudo Shinichi also noticed the details on the corpse.

"Yes."

Kudo Shin nodded and explained under Lin Shinichi's gaze:

"I noticed from the beginning that there was an obvious streak on the waist and abdomen of the deceased."

"Did the murderer bind the dead?"

Officer Mumu had a guess subconsciously.

"No, it's probably tied up by the deceased himself."

Lin Xinyi slowly denied:

"Because on the wrist of the deceased - although only one hand has been recovered so far, we can still see that there are no rope marks on the wrist of the deceased."

"Only tied to the waist, but the hands can move freely..."

"If this is a homicide and the rope is tied by the murderer, will he leave a pair of hands that can move freely for the deceased?"

"If the hands were free, the victim would be able to untie the rope after being pushed into the water."

"So, there is often only one situation that can cause such rope marks..."

He paused slightly here.

And the famous detective named Kudo Shinichi picked up the conversation very tacitly:

"It was suicide by diving."

"People who commit suicide by diving tend to strap heavy objects around their waists so that they can't surface after entering the water."

"So they will have rope marks around their waists and no binding marks on their wrists."

"The deceased only had rope marks on his waist, and he died of drowning. Most of this was a suicide case."

Kudo Shinichi methodically restored the scene:

"I presume that the deceased went into the water with a heavy object tied to his waist and drowned."

"In the next 3 hours, the rope tied around the waist gradually loosened under the impact of the river, and the corpse got rid of the heavy object and floated to the surface."