Mystery Hunter - Chapter 44

[Chapter 44 The Carrion Investigation]

However, although Captain Li was not petrified, after seeing the corpse clearly, he was really disgusted for a while.

At this moment, the three members of the task force were carefully observing the corpse.

This corpse is really physically uncomfortable. Looking around, the clothes the corpse is wearing are in tatters, and it is even difficult to tell what he is wearing. As for the corpse that swelled due to corruption, the clothes have even been smashed. On the clothes, a large number of wriggling maggots are falling to the ground “thumping” because they are not blocked by the cabinet.

Many maggots climbed up and down on the corpse, rolled and wriggled, and some of them even twisted into a ball, which was very disgusting.

And the corpse swelled so much that it felt like a skinny man suddenly became a fat man. Due to the swell of the corpse, it was now firmly stuck in the cabinet, so everyone could only see the front of the corpse. Much of the corpse was a brownish color, with many parts being dark green.

The face of the corpse is even more appalling, and the facial features are already difficult to identify. The corpse’s face was swollen~ swollen seriously, and the facial features were even squeezed together. His eyeballs were bulging out, and the eyelids could no longer block the eyeballs. It looked as if he was staring at a certain person. Some shudder. The lips of the corpse were everted, hanging over the mouth like two sausages.

On his face, tissue fluid and turbid blood are slowly flowing down. Those maggots are in and out of his ears, nose, and even his mouth. His round, billowing body looks like a Eat a lot of carrion.

The head of the corpse, above the forehead, can clearly see a concave piece.

In other words, the murderer smashed the deceased’s head with some kind of blunt tool.

The arms and legs of the corpse were swollen and swollen seriously, and they were stuck on the left and right walls of the cabinet at the moment. I carefully observed the hands of the corpse, and found that the skin had fallen off in one piece, in the shape of a glove, falling into a pile of maggots. At this moment, Xu Yiman used a piece of cloth to gently hold up the glove-like skin, and then used tweezers to get rid of the maggots one by one.

Although the arm of the corpse was swollen, there was no sign of rupture.

“Pretend.” Xu Yiman had no expression on his face.

The detective next to him brought an evidence bag with a distorted expression and put it in it, and just like that, the detective had some symptoms of retching, showing how physically uncomfortable it was.

Xu Yiman looked at the detective and said, “Be careful, don’t loose this skin, this is the last message this corpse left us. There’s nothing scary or disgusting about it. It seems that every one of us will die, and you don’t want others to dare to dispose of your corpse after you die…”

Jiang He looked at the corpse while listening to Xu Yiman’s words.

However, Jiang He was not a professional after all, and he could only see the slightest conclusion. Jiang He was mainly looking at the belly of the corpse. Due to the swelling of the corpse, the clothes he was wearing seemed to have shrunk, revealing most of the corpse’s belly.

Jiang He saw that the blood vessels on the corpse’s stomach were clearly reflected, like a net drawn on the corpse.

Jiang He didn’t understand this, so he asked Xu Yiman, “What’s the matter with the reticulated blood vessels on the stomach?”

Xu Yiman had already observed the body as a whole. He looked at Jiang He, who was eager to learn, and explained: “This is called the venous network of corruption. We all know that there are many bacteria in the human body. These bacteria are good and bad, and they coexist with people. There is a type of bacteria called spoilage bacteria. After a person dies, there is no immune system. Control, These spoilage bacteria grow like crazy, producing gas.”

“The venous network of corruption you mentioned is because a large amount of corrupt gas increases the pressure in the body, the blood flows to the surface of the body due to the pressure, and gathers in the venous blood vessels under the epidermis, and because there is no way to supply blood after death Oxygen, so it presents this kind of dark color.”

Xu Yiman explained this kind of knowledge in great detail.

Jiang He nodded.

Xu Yiman glanced at Jiang He with relief: “These bacteria will produce a large amount of putrefying gas in the human body, and this gas takes on the dirty green in our terminology, that is, a blackish green, just like the green of this corpse’s arm. Saying that ,

Xu Yiman pointed to the part on the corpse that was stained green: “And as the time of corruption becomes longer, the stained green becomes darker and darker, and it becomes the same black-brown or even black as it is now. And you look at the corpse’s mouth. There is a lot of blood in the nose, partly because of the fracture of the skull, partly because of bleeding from the organs.”

Everyone followed Xu Yiman’s fingers and saw the sunken part of the skull: “As for whether this blow is fatal or not Injury, because I can’t see the back of the corpse, and there is no way to detect whether it is poisoned or suffocated, so I can’t draw a conclusion yet, I can only get the corpse out and go to the funeral home for an autopsy.”

Speaking of this, everyone couldn’t help but worry When he got up, the corpse was firmly stuck in the cabinet. It was not easy to get the corpse out. Moreover, the corpse stinks badly, and it was full of white maggots. The operation was difficult and disgusting.

Xu Yiman said again, “But looking at this corpse, it is possible to infer the time of death.”

“Huh?” Jiang He asked, “When?”

Xu Yiman wrote in his notebook. Looking at something, he said to Jiang He: “It’s summer now, the temperature is hot, there has been a lot of rain recently, and the air is humid. In such an environment, the decay process of the corpse will be accelerated. The time is about twelve hours, but you can see that the green spots on the body even appear brown and black, which means that the deceased should have been dead for about three or four days.”

“The same.” Xu Yiman continued: “The color of the venous network of corruption was also lighter at the beginning, but it gradually became darker as time went on, and the venous network of corruption first formed on the upper side of the chest. It gradually expands around, and you see, it has obviously been exposed in the lower abdomen, and it takes three to four days.”

Everyone listened to Xu Yiman’s professional knowledge with relish, and they didn’t even pay attention to the occasional thunder. .

Xu Yiman continued: “And we call this phenomenon as a whole the view of the corrupt giant. As the name suggests, his face is so swollen that his biological parents may not recognize him.”

“But the most important thing is Yes.” Xu Yiman picked up a maggot with a pair of tweezers: “Look.” A

few detectives hurried to hide, but Jiang He moved closer.

Jiang He saw that it was a white maggot about five millimeters long. At this moment, Xu Yiman was holding it on the tweezers, and he was twisting and trying to escape. Jiang He suddenly had a maggot at this moment. The doubt stemmed from Jiang He’s childhood experiences, he asked, “Why do some maggots have tails and some don’t…”

Xu Yiman gave Jiang He a white look and said, “Can you pay attention to the key points, as if There are many kinds of tigers, Siberian tigers, South China tigers, etc. There are also many kinds of flies, so the maggots that are born are also different. Now I show you the length of the maggots, which can tell us exactly when the deceased died. ”

For ordinary people, maggots are a species that disgusts once they see it, but for forensic doctors, they are their very close partners.

“For corpses in summer, it is an important method to judge the time of death of the corpse through maggots. Flies are very sensitive to the odor of corpses. After about a few minutes of the dead, the flies can smell the breath of animal death. In about ten minutes, All kinds of flies will rush to the corpse.”

“Why do some flies lay eggs in the feces instead of the carrion?” Jiang He asked again, tilting his head.

Xu Yiman was a little helpless, she gritted her teeth: “Isn’t this the point? It’s like you like to eat meat, why do you want to be a vegetarian because you can’t afford it? Can you do it because you can’t buy it?”

Xu Yiman angrily “In about an hour on the corpse, the flies will lay their eggs. In a corpse with a suitable temperature, in about an hour or so, the eggs will hatch into adults and maggots will begin to appear.”

“These maggots mature in about five days. Xu Yiman still held the maggot with tweezers: “That is to say, these maggots are already mature when they have grown to this size. However, if you look closely, you have not found any pupa shells in the cabinet, which means that these maggots are mature. Maggots are all first-generation maggots, so the time of death must be within four to five days.”

Shao Lao blurted out: “In other words, it is possible from August 8th to August 9th.”

“That’s right.” Xu Yiman nodded: “But from the maturity of the maggots, August 9th is very likely.”

“That’s about the same time as Song You’s death.” Jiang He looked at the corpse seriously, he thought Identify the appearance of the corpse, but unfortunately, the corpse’s face is swollen and swollen at all, and it is impossible to identify it. In Xu Yiman’s words, I am afraid that his biological parents will not be able to see it.

“Is there any surveillance?” Shao Lao raised his head and looked up.

The principal replied: “There is monitoring, but this is a holiday. Who would have thought that someone would come here…”

“That means there is no?” Shao Lao said.

The principal nodded. Shao Lao said: “Then it will be difficult for us to know who the murderer is, but we followed Zhuang Ziming

‘s phone number here. Could this body be Zhuang Ziming?”

“It’s all like this, it’s really hard to tell the difference.”

“That’s enough.” Xu Yiman said, “Just go back and check whether Zhuang Ziming’s fingerprints match those on the Internet, so you know why I picked up the peeled skin, there are clear fingerprints on it, compare them. It’s clear. Now, it’s better to get this corpse out and take it to the funeral home for a more in-depth autopsy.”

But Xu Yiman’s words are easy to say, but quite difficult to do.

[End of This Chapter]