Coroner Coroner

The blade just pressed against his face and dug into the couch behind him.

Akiko Yonehara's eyes were red, her chest was heaving violently, she looked down at him from above, unscrupulously releasing her anger.

"you you…"

Looking at Akiko Yonehara, who was looking to devour people, he felt the cold blade on his face.

Teacher Shimoda was so frightened that he twitched and almost peed his pants.

"You devil!"

Akiko Yonehara looked at him coldly.

Immediately afterwards, he gradually loosened the handle of the knife, which eased the tense situation.

But Shimoda did not have time to feel grateful for his narrow escape.

He heard, Mr. Yonehara issued a question mark in a cold tone:

"Since you went to Minako's funeral, you saw Minako's face before she was cremated."

"Then think about it carefully:"

"Did Minako wear shoes on her feet?"

"Eh?" Shimoda was taken aback for a moment, and his expression became terrified again.

"That's right..."

Akiko Yonehara straightened up slowly.

She threw down the murderous knife, but her eyes were sharper than the knife:

"That shoe was not sent for cremation."

"It has always been kept by me."

Chapter 314 Belmod's Indulgent Way

As soon as this remark came out, even Lin Xinyi was stunned.

He was already desperate.

Forensics also has limits.

This kind of old case with the passage of time and lack of evidence, he didn't have too much hope in his heart.

When he found out that Shimoda had been to Minako's funeral and knew that the evidence had been cremated with the body, he felt even more desperate.

Because Lin Xinyi knew very well that after having the confidence to know that the police had no evidence and that it was impossible to find any more evidence, the suspect would rarely discover his conscience and plead guilty voluntarily.

Personally, he was outraged.

As a forensic doctor, he had to accept it.

Because insufficient evidence cannot prove a person guilty, subjective feelings must obey objective reality.

This is the professional ethics of forensic medicine.

But now, when Hayashi Shinichi had given up, Akiko Yonehara said:

Minako's leather shoes are with her.

How could it be with her?

Including Lin Xinyi, everyone present had this question.

"Because I already knew there was something wrong with Minako's death."

Akiko Yonehara sighed deeply, and told everything she knew:

"I was Minako's class teacher at the time, and I had the best relationship with her."

"And three years ago, the day before Minako died..."

"Minako told me in private that she accidentally found out that Mr. Sugiyama and another teacher whom she admired very much were engaged in the business of illegally buying and selling admission qualifications."

"Because this matter is of great importance, I asked her to keep quiet for now."

"And because the second murderer had a good relationship with her, Minako refused to tell me the name of that teacher.'

"Unexpectedly, it was only the second day..."

She bit her lips quietly, with infinite pain and self-blame in her eyes:

"Just the next day, when I went to get things from the utility room, I found Minako's body!!"

"I knew right then that she must have been silenced by Mr. Sugiyama and his accomplices."

"That's why I planned to kill Sugiyama."

"Then invite the teachers who were closest to Minako back then to this villa, and through a scene, find out what Minako said, the 'teacher she admires very much'."

"It turns out that the second murderer is Shimoda!"

Yonehara-sensei looked at Shimoda coldly.

Shimoda escaped from death, but was completely scared out of his wits.

He was trembling all over, and was almost frightened to plead guilty by Yonehara Akoko's look.

But he still held back, he was still waiting, waiting for Akiko Yonehara to come up with the evidence that would make him powerless to refute.

And Akoko Yonehara finally fulfilled his wish:

"That's when I found the body."

"And when I accidentally found Minako's body, she had just died not long ago."

"At that time...the saliva stains on the soles of her shoes hadn't even dried up."

"So I easily noticed that the sole of Minako's shoe seemed to be covered with something like spittle."

Akiko Yonehara told the astonishing fact:

It turns out that the key evidence that Lin Xinyi noticed today was noticed by Akiko Yonehara three years ago.

Then why didn't it attract the attention of the police?

Everyone has such doubts in their hearts.

But the answer is still so simple and absurd:

"Because those policemen don't listen to me at all."

"They felt that this case was a simple suicide."

"I pointed out to them who's saliva was on the sole of Minako's shoe."

"But when they saw the water stain after it dried up, they just thought that it was just the accumulated water where she stepped on the ground when she was alive."

"They just want to solve this case as soon as possible, in the name of 'suicide'."

"I really have no choice but to pester the investigators to at least take pictures to collect evidence."

"That's why there is Manager Lin, the photo you saw."

Akiko Yonehara picked up the photo Hayashi Shinichi showed earlier:

"See that light over there?"

"This is my flashlight."

"This..." Lin Xinyi was stunned for a while:

He was wondering how those master photographers, who only use the naked eye to find evidence, thought of using the side light source method to record this dry saliva spot that is difficult to find with the naked eye.

Co-authoring this is no coincidence.

But after Mr. Yonehara discovered something strange, he deliberately used a flashlight to enhance the contrast and asked them to take pictures and record it.

"And then, the police quickly closed the case as 'suicide'."

"The shoe that I thought was problematic was taken back by Minako's parents along with her daughter's body."

"Because I just instinctively feel that there is something wrong with that shoe. I can't find so much information from the saliva on the sole of the shoe like you, Manager Lin, and restore the details of the crime."

"So my doubts can only be doubts born out of thin air."

"From an outsider's perspective, it might even seem crazy."

"I can't convince Minako's parents, who are overly grieved, to believe my guess, and I can't convince the Metropolitan Police Department, which is determined to perfunctorily close the case, to restart the investigation."

"I can only find Minako's parents and ask them to at least leave those shoes to me."

Mr. Yonehara asked.

Lin Xinyi asked impatiently:

"How are you keeping those shoes, are they not contaminated?"

Private forensics, strictly speaking a procedural violation, would invalidate the evidence.

But if the leather shoe is cared for enough, it is still in perfect original condition.

Then by comparing the on-site photos with the dust traces on the soles of leather shoes...

Not only can it prove that this leather shoe is the one worn by Minako when she died.

And it can also prove that this shoe has not been tampered with.

This is already strong enough proof.

With such a proof, unless Mr. Shimoda can afford a lawyer of Feili level, he should not try to follow Simpson and take advantage of "procedural violations".

Lin Xin is very concerned about the preservation of the evidence.

And Akoko Yonehara's answer was not only satisfactory, but even gave him a pleasant surprise:

"Don't worry, I took good care of it."

"The Metropolitan Police Department is unwilling to collect evidence, so I will do it myself."

"I invited the police officer who was handling the case to come forward and notarize evidence preservation in the notary office in the name of a private person."