Forensic Medicine Qu Xiaoshui

Chapter 23

After a few hours' journey, the three arrived smoothly, and they took a taxi directly to L City Criminal Police Brigade.

After entering the door, he exchanged pleasantries with the leaders of the L City Criminal Police Brigade, and Qu Xiaoshui quickly got involved in the case.

"At 6:7 p.m. on June 11, our bureau received a report. The reporter claimed that he was the manager of a grain operating company in this city. During his routine inspection, he found that several warehouses had been stolen. He contacted the warehouse manager. After opening the warehouse and inspecting it together, the body of the deceased was found in No. 40 warehouse." The team leader briefly introduced the case.

"The deceased Su Sheng, male, 55 years old, was the owner of a large electric appliance factory in this city. When his body was found, he was neatly dressed and hung from a beam in the warehouse. It appeared that he died of electrocution."

"We have already contacted the deceased's wife, Liu Xile. According to her, Su Sheng often does not come home for many days, so it is not clear when Su Sheng disappeared."

The team leader said to Qu Xiaoshui: "The most difficult part of the case now is to determine the cause of death of the corpse."

"Cause of death?" Jiang Yue was puzzled, because in most criminal cases, the cause of death is the best to judge, but the time of death may be affected by various factors, so it is difficult to infer.

"Yes, the biggest problem we face now is that we don't know the real cause of death of the deceased."

Qu Xiaoshui flipped through the documents in her hand, she had read them several times on the way here. "I'll do my best to cooperate."

Although Qu Xiaoshui was seconded, this is not her home field after all. Although Jiang Yi knows Qu Xiaoshui's skills, Jiang Yi is not the only forensic doctor in the L City Criminal Police Brigade.

Qu Xiaoshui definitely couldn't act and investigate as she wanted in her forensic room. The first thing she had to face was the new colleagues in the forensic room.

"Hello, I'm Qu Xiaoshui, the forensic doctor of the Criminal Police Brigade of H City, and this is my assistant, Jiang Yue." Qu Xiaoshui shook hands with the people in the forensic room one by one, and introduced himself.

"Hello. Thank you for coming, but we have already conducted a comprehensive investigation on the corpse." A young forensic doctor said.He was very dissatisfied that the bureau actually borrowed forensic doctors from other places, which was a slap in the face of their own people.

Of course Qu Xiaoshui knew that her arrival was not welcome, and if someone ran to her home court to criticize her, she would not show a good face.But the most important issue now is to deal with the case files in her hand.

The case files are two completely different appraisal reports given by the L City Forensic Office.There are not many people in the forensic room, but they are divided into two factions. One faction believes that the deceased committed suicide, while the other faction believes that the deceased said he killed himself.

Qu Xiaoshui had read both appraisal reports, but when she didn't actually face the body, she couldn't easily say whether it was suicide or homicide.

Qu Xiaoshui ignored the talking young forensic doctor, and she said to Jiang Yi: "Please prepare the dissection room and protective clothing, I need to see for myself."

"Okay!" The person was invited by Jiang Yi. He most hoped that Qu Xiaoshui could start working quickly. Jiang Yi quickly prepared the necessary items. Qu Xiaoshui, Jiang Yi, Jiang Yue, and three forensic doctors Into the autopsy room.

The dissection room in City L is much more advanced than that of City H where Qu Xiaoshui is located. Many of the equipment look brand new. The dissecting table in front of me is much better than what Qu Xiaoshui used when he was level. It can not only automatically adjust the dissecting table The height of the table top and the automatic sprinkler system do not need to be cleaned by yourself. The air exchange system is also good. Qu Xiaoshui looked at it specially. The top of the dissecting table presses down the air, and the bottom draws air down, which can effectively let poisonous and harmful The gas is controlled below the range that forensics can inhale.

Qu Xiaoshui expressed her envy in real name. She felt that she had to report to the leader when she went back, and that the equipment in their bureau should also be updated.

The body of the deceased was quickly moved to the planing table, because the body had already been dissected once, which made it more difficult to dissect again. Qu Xiaoshui began to perform physical examination, and Jiang Yue helped record.

Seeing that Qu Xiaoshui was getting ready, Jiang Yi said, "The deceased, Su Sheng, male, 55 years old, was from L City. He was the owner of a large electric appliance factory in this city. His body was found in the warehouse of a certain company. The rope was tied through the armpit, hung on the beam of the warehouse, and there were wires around the body, and an electric pulley block, a remote control, hemp rope, and a burned out transformer were found at the scene."

Listening to Jiang Yi's supplementary information, Qu Xiaoshui said, "The deceased had no obvious scars other than purple-red bruises on his neck."

She turned sideways and asked Jiang Yue to take a picture, then carefully cut the sutures and reopened the deceased's chest. "There was bleeding in the lungs. Judging from the situation at the scene dictated by Jiang Yi, it was very similar to pulmonary hemorrhage caused by respiratory muscle paralysis caused by electric shock."

Qu Xiaoshui was afraid of making a mistake, so he checked it carefully again, "But it's very strange, there are no current spots that are common in electric shocks on the corpse."

Jiang Yue is a newcomer, and Qu Xiaoshui was afraid that he would not understand, so he said: "Current spots are also called current marks, which are a special kind of skin damage that occurs at the contact point when a charged conductor contacts the skin and the current passes through the intact skin."

"There are usually one or two electric current spots, and they can be multiple. They usually appear in the place where the current flows in and out. The common parts are fingers, palms, forearms, soles of feet, chest, shoulders, side of the neck, calves and feet. Wait."

The young forensic doctor in L City gave a disdainful cut, and retorted: "Not all electric shocks will have current spots, and there are very few that may not form current spots."

He was right, but Qu Xiaoshui didn't plan to talk to him either.

Jiang Yue knew that Qu Xiaoshui said so much for himself, so he listened more seriously.

"If you only look at this point, there is a high possibility of electrocution." Qu Xiaoshui said.

Qu Xiaoshui then took out a bottle of potion and sprayed it on the purple bruise on the neck of the deceased just seen.

She pressed the bruise with her finger, and quickly moved it away: "After pressing, the purple spot did not move, so the purple spot on the neck is not a natural corpse spot, but a scar caused by subcutaneous bleeding."

Qu Xiaoshui had a headache, "In other words, this is a strangle mark, the mark formed after the fingers pinched the neck. Looking at this alone, the deceased did not die by electrocution, but more like suffocation."

Qu Xiaoshui continued: "There are no defensive wounds near the strangulation marks. There are several possible reasons for this: First, the prisoner was completely defenseless, and the other party was very strong, and instantly strangled the deceased's throat, causing the deceased to suffocate. die."

"Secondly, the deceased did not resist at all, allowing the prisoner to strangle him until he died of suffocation. And judging from the traces, the prisoner was right-handed."

Qu Xiaoshui checked it again from the beginning to the end, and the temporary result was almost the same as the answer given by the forensic doctor of L City.Both autopsy reports were corroborated.

Qu Xiaoshui and Jiang Yue cleaned up the dissection room, sent the body back to the refrigerator, and walked to Jiang Yi's office wearily.

Jiang Yue took a cup of hot water for Qu Xiaoshui, pulled a chair over, and said distressedly: "Sit down for a while, you're exhausted!"

"It's okay, you can sit down for a while."

Seeing these two people pretending that he didn't exist, Jiang Yi cleared his throat: "How is it?"

"The autopsy results are almost the same as those given by your forensic laboratory, but I am very concerned about some places, and I need to investigate carefully."

"Well, you have always been serious." Jiang Yi handed over a new folder: "Here are the photos and materials of the case scene inspection. Because there are a lot of them, I didn't bring them with me when I went to find you, so I didn't give them to you. .”

Qu Xiaoshui took it cautiously. The cause of death of the deceased has not been determined yet, and the current case is full of fog.

(End of this chapter)