Chapter 78 Cause of Death

Chapter 78 Cause of Death

Chapter 78 Cause of Death
The atmosphere in the office suddenly became tense.

Xu Yiqing's smile was still on his face, but when he saw Zhou Shi tilt his head with an innocent look of confusion, his smile froze.

"It's... the fruit in my refrigerator." After Xu Yiqing's smile melted, he showed some confusion and shock: "Didn't you put it there?"

Zhou Shi shook her head: "I haven't been to your house... I know you live in the Forensic Department, why should I go to your house?"

Although there is a refrigerator, what Zhou Shi would do is to deliver it directly to Xu Yiqing's mouth, instead of leaving it in the refrigerator until it goes bad.

Seeing Xu Yiqing's shocked expression, Zhou Shi also realized that there was a misunderstanding, so he asked seriously: "Are there extra things at home?"

"There are more fruits I like in the refrigerator."

"did you eat?"

"I ate it. I ate it last night. I should be fine now."

"From now on, you can only eat canned food that you buy yourself. Do you hear me?" Zhou Shi pushed the door open and walked out: "After you finish the autopsy, go to the hospital. You must go this time!"

"Where are you going?"

"I'll go find Boss Du and get everything in your refrigerator back for testing!"

Zhou Shi went out and met Lin Sheng head-on. Without giving him time to explain, she walked away in her high heels. The corridor was filled with the sound of her hurried footsteps.

When Lin Sheng saw Xu Yiqing chasing out, he looked at Zhou Shi's back and did not chase after her, thinking that his master's wife and his master had a conflict.

"Brother Xu, this...how about you go after him first? I've seen the body, it's severely decomposed into bones. Anyway, there's no rush."

Xu Yiqing retracted his gaze, his eyes firm: "It's urgent, prepare for an autopsy."

He put on protective equipment, disinfected his whole body, put on a medical mask and a plastic face shield, and faced the corpse on the dissection table fully armed with Lin Sheng.

During routine autopsies, they have to worry about whether the deceased had infectious diseases such as AIDS, and they have to be cautious when dealing with blood, especially when they have wounds on their hands, to be careful not to be pricked by bone spurs.

Even if it turns to bones, we should not take it lightly, because some viruses and bacteria can exist in the soil for decades!

"Prepare to begin the autopsy on body No. 209." Xu Yiqing said.

There is no need for an autopsy on a skeletonized body, and it is extremely challenging for forensic scientists.

It is very difficult to accurately determine the time of death to the hour for a person who has been dead for more than a week. It is even more difficult to shorten the time of death to years when the body has completely turned into dry bones.

Only a select few forensic experts can achieve accuracy to the moon.

"Based on the condition of the pelvis, it is determined to be a male." Because it involves bones, Lin Sheng was not only responsible for recording this time, but also participated in the autopsy. "Based on the degree of tooth loss, the age of the deceased is between 12 and 15 years old... Because the environment in which the body was stored was slightly corrosive, the tooth loss can only show so much."

"What about the pubic symphysis?"

"If you can be more precise, maybe between 14 and 15 years old."

Xu Yiqing nodded and said, "When recording, add one more sentence. The deceased may be a junior high school student."

This is inferred based on the death of the principal of No. 14 Middle School and Song Lang. It is obvious that this series of cases are related to No. 15 Middle School, and the age of the skeleton in front of us is between and years old. It is hard not to speculate that the deceased may have been a student of No. Middle School.

Lin Sheng continued to fiddle with the broken bones that had been turned into parts. The body had been skeletonized for too long, and the bones had lost their soft tissue connections and had become scattered, posing a great obstacle to the autopsy.

"Brother Xu, there is a skull injury!"

"Fatal injury?"

"Hmm... not quite."

Xu Yiqing took the deceased's head from Lin Sheng, and the entire head was covered with cracks.

Then he immediately understood why Lin Sheng said it was neither similar nor alike.

If it is broken into pieces like this, the person will definitely die.

The wound that could cause this phenomenon must be somewhere else. Sure enough, after continuing to examine the pile of broken bones, Xu Yiqing found that the deceased's limbs and torso had fractures and fractures of varying degrees.

The neck, left arm and sternum are the most obvious.

"The neck was broken directly." Lin Sheng frowned: "Such a... brutal wound, how did it happen?"

He observed the fractured cervical vertebrae and imagined the injuries before the soft tissue decayed: "It was as if someone had twisted the head off directly... and pulled it very hard."

But this is the reality. There is no monster that can directly twist off a person's head. Even if it is a wild beast, the cracks on the deceased's head cannot be explained.

Xu Yiqing said: "Almost all the ribs are broken, and the left arm also has exaggerated wounds like the neck, and the neck..."

Lin Sheng also thought about it, he couldn't figure out how such a brutal wound was caused.

Xu Yiqing already had the answer: "You can write the cause of death. The deceased died from falling from a high altitude, and he was more likely to jump from a building."

As a junior high school student, Xu Yiqing didn’t think he would fall from a tower crane or something like that, so the most common way of falling from a high place was jumping off a building.

Lin Sheng was slightly startled when he heard this, and then he looked at the wound of the deceased again, and suddenly realized.

"The floor he fell from must be quite high. His left hand and head were broken!"

The Forensic Department used to receive victims who jumped from buildings. However, jumping from buildings was not like what most people imagined, where the victim was smashed into pieces. In fact, it was common for the victim to be torn into pieces.

The low floor might have caused a fracture, and the dead man's broken arms and legs were exposed with bones turned outward, which was very tragic.

It is very common for people to fall and get injured on higher floors.

If there was still flesh and blood on the corpse, Lin Sheng would definitely be able to tell at a glance that the deceased died from falling from a building, but now that the flesh and blood had rotted away, he did not realize the cause of death at the first sight.

Moreover, in normal cases of falls from buildings, the deceased will be brought to the hospital as soon as possible, instead of having the autopsy performed many years after the fall as in this case.

Mr. Lin asked, "How could they pull a body that had been dead for so many years and was thrown to death here for autopsy? I heard from the detective who handed it over to me that it was dug out from the coffin."

Xu Yiqing shook his head and took off his gloves and protective gear: "That's unclear, at least the cause of death has been found out. Also, let the laboratory do radioactive isotope testing, decalcification and protein testing as soon as possible."

As technology becomes more and more advanced, there are already scientific methods that are more reliable than forensic experience to determine the time of death of skeletons.

Soon there was a reply from the laboratory department that the deceased had died about eight years ago.

Xu Yiqing asked Lin Sheng to write the autopsy report and send it to the criminal police team, and he prepared to take a taxi to the hospital for examination to prevent being poisoned.

On the other hand, Du Yu and Zhou Shi were shocked beyond words in the fruit shop that Xu Yiqing often visited.

Ten minutes ago, Zhou Shi took Du Yu and several police officers to Xu Yiqing's home, preparing to send all the food in his home for inspection.

Then the police found a plastic bag containing the receipt when they were rummaging through the trash can.

The fruits on the receipt matched the fruits in the refrigerator. Zhou Shi could tell at a glance that the logo printed on the plastic bag was the fruit shop that Xu Yiqing often went to.

So after asking the police to take the food away for inspection, Zhou Shi took Du Yu to the fruit shop at the entrance of the community.

"Yes, he bought it from us." The clerk of the fruit shop nodded and said with certainty: "Bananas, jackfruits and cherries, each weighing about 300 grams. It must be the customer who often comes to our store."

"Are you sure it's him?"

"I can't remember it wrong. He's the only one who buys these three things every time he comes. If you don't believe me, just watch the surveillance video!"

The time was on the receipt, so Du Yu and Zhou Shi quickly retrieved the surveillance footage of the corresponding time from the background.

But the people inside left them shocked and confused.

It’s Xu Yiqing!

(End of this chapter)