Chapter 541 Autopsy (Part 1)

When they arrived at the funeral home, Chen Shu and Xiao Ming carried the body onto the autopsy bed.

Xiao Ming was young and moved the corpse very neatly, and there was no hint of disdain on his face.

He is a good prospect. Chen Shu, who is nearly 30 years old and has been working as a police officer for nearly ten years, unknowingly started to think about the older generation of police officers scrutinizing new comrades.

Chen Shu, wearing disposable latex gloves, helped move the body out of the body bag and arranged it on the bed.

Then he began to take off the clothes and pants from the corpse.

Now that he was so close, the shocking visual impact and the tangy sour smell, along with the sticky touch on his fingers, made him admire Xiao Ming's expressionless expression.

Julie hung her coat by the door, took out the white robe and put it on her body. While wearing a layer of latex gloves, she said: "The corpse wax has not formed, and the corpse has not decomposed and swelled to a great extent. The time of death should be around Within a month.”

Xiao Ming put the clothes and pants that the body had taken off into a transparent evidence bag, and then took out a folder pad from under the bed with a stack of table-style A4 paper sandwiched on it.

He lowered his head and began to record: "Director, I thought that the absence of the head would be equivalent to a large ventilating hole in the body, and there would be no giant view!"

This was professional knowledge, and Chen Shu didn't quite understand it. He pricked up his ears and looked at Zhu Li.

Julie put on the second layer of latex gloves and said calmly: "Not to mention such a big corpse, even the limbs, trunk and head alone can create a giant look. Because these corpses can produce certain cavities due to decay. The trapped gas in the cavity can cause the corpse to expand. From the outside, it looks like a giant."

Since the body was missing its head, much of the readily identifiable data had to be obtained through other means. For example, height, which could be obtained by simply pulling a measuring tape, now has to be measured by measuring arms, calves, soles of feet, etc. to calculate the height of the deceased, which may not be accurate.

The autopsy continued for more than an hour, during which time Ren Guoqing, captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade, rushed over with Li Meng, Wen Zhao and other police officers from the Serious Case Squadron.

Generally speaking, the principals of business units will not be involved in specific case handling work, but murder cases are special. Not to mention the team leader, sometimes the deputy director in charge will come to the scene to take command.

Ren Guoqing walked in and saw that Chen Shu was there. He was stunned at first, and then thought about it after thinking that today happened to be a weekend break. Chen Shu and Zhu Li were also wearing casual clothes, and he felt a little bit better.

Then he looked thoughtfully at the two people who were working on the anatomy table.

In the Criminal Investigation Brigade, Li Meng was the deputy captain in charge of serious cases. At this time, when he saw that the body had been placed on the bed and the autopsy began, he naturally understood that the body must be involved in a murder case.

An autopsy requires the consent of the family, unless a homicide is involved.

Li Meng, who originally wanted to act like the deputy captain, took a closer look at the presence of his classmate Chen Shu and Zhu Wuchang from the team, so he calmed down a bit and stood aside obediently waiting for the autopsy results.

After the autopsy, Zhu Li gave a preliminary conclusion: "Male, about sixty years old, 1.7 meters tall, estimated to have weighed about 140 kilograms before death. There were seven penetrating injuries with sharp objects near the left chest, including three stab wounds. At the heart."

Zhi!

It was indeed a murder!

Ren Guoqing and Li Meng's expressions suddenly became stiff. Although they had been prepared, they still felt a little uneasy when they heard the exact result.

Xiao Ming, who was in charge of recording, raised his head and asked: "Director, the cause of death is cardiac arrest caused by a sharp instrument penetrating the left chest? The method was to kill and throw the body into the river?"

I don't know where the head is, so I still can't determine that the cause of death is in the heart. Chen Shu, the only non-criminal police officer present, immediately thought of the doubts, but he didn't say anything.

Julie was noncommittal. She placed her left hand on the edge of the anatomy bed and walked clockwise around the headless cervical vertebrae of the male corpse. She leaned over and said, "There are obvious marks of sharp cutting on the cervical vertebrae of the corpse. It should have been cut with a knife or ax." caused."

"Kill and dismember the body?" Ren Guoqing couldn't help but take a few steps forward and followed Julie's gaze to carefully examine the unknown man's corpse lying on the autopsy bed.

Chen Shu raised his eyebrows: "Ren Da, have you ever seen a corpse cut into one head? Compared to this head that was thrown away somewhere, I think these wounds deserve more attention."

"oh?"

Ren Guoqing, a veteran detective for many years, did not feel dissatisfied with Chen Shu's shameless questioning and focused his attention on the numerous wounds on the left chest of the corpse.

After pondering for a moment, Ren Guoqing pinched his chin and said: "You mean that so many stab wounds are concentrated in the heart, it means that the murderer hates the deceased deeply, so he stabbed him repeatedly?"

Seeing many of his classmates from other units showing up in front of his eldest son, Li Meng felt extremely uncomfortable and snorted coldly: "Chen Shu, all the three-year-olds in our brigade know this kind of thing, you There’s no need to waste everyone’s time by bringing it up.”

Chen Shu didn't pay attention to the smell of gunpowder in Li Meng's words. He leaned on the corpse's left chest with both hands and stared directly at the corpse's chest.

Slowly lowered.

Then closer and closer, closer and closer.

Until,

"Chen Chen Da, your nose is wheezing!"

Xiao Ming, who had not said much since the leader of the brigade came over, finally couldn't help but run out of the house and hold on to the door frame to retching when he saw Chen Shu almost touching the body with his nose.

Unaware, Chen Shu squinted his eyes, took the small scalpel on the side, and used the tip of the knife to slightly open the wound.

After changing the wound, he lowered his head a little more.

Li Meng's face froze and she complained, "Ren Da, he is not our Xing Da. Ren Da, why are you sticking to him?"

Ren Guoqing was curious and followed Chen Shu, holding his breath and staring at Chen Shu to check the wounds on the body one by one.

"Huh!"

Chen Shu, holding his breath and staring, stood up straight and said firmly, "Ren Da, the edges of all the wounds are very flat and the inside is also very regular. This is very strange."

Inspector Wen Zhao walked to Xiao Ming's side, took the form he filled out, and handed it to Li Meng.

Li Meng read it from beginning to end and snorted again: "How many times have you seen knife wounds in the police station? Now you are making a whole set of tricks. This is a murder case! Don't show your tricks for public security cases, or you will be embarrassed."

This is a bit too much, but as Li Meng said, this case is a murder case, and you can't be careless at all. Ren Guoqing also had doubts in his heart, but as the top leader, he still knew that he couldn't express his position too early, otherwise there would be a risk of being slapped in the face.

After all, he had been a slippery iron man with Chen Shu, and he had the illusion of actively extending his face to him.

"Wait, don't talk first."

Chen Shu had some ideas in his mind before, but he was constantly interrupted by the long-winded Li Meng, and he lost his direction again. Now no matter how hard he thought, he couldn't grasp this point.

He frowned and thought about it. When he was about to say something, Zhu Li walked quickly to the cabinet by the wall, opened the cabinet door, fumbled out some small objects from it, and then walked to the dissection bed.

According to her habit of handling cases in NX some time ago, Zhu Li had been following Chen Shu's thinking, so when the other party raised doubts about the wound, she immediately reacted due to her years of forensic experience.

Although Zhu Li didn't know what Chen Shu was thinking, she knew that her assistance this time would definitely help him.

Chen Shu just lacked forensic knowledge and criminal investigation experience. In terms of investigative thinking, he must be the best among those present!

Zhu Li was so sure.

Everyone's eyes were focused on Zhu Li.

She was not in a hurry, and she steadily inserted the small metal pieces in her hand into the wound on the left chest of the corpse one by one.

When the small metal pieces were still, they were at right angles to the chest of the corpse.