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Chapter 1271 Remnants
Chapter 1271 Remnants
The man wearing a tweed plaid suit jacket, a beige deep V knitted vest, a blue and white striped tie, and a pure white Oxford shirt was Jacob, who greeted Jiang Yuan at the door of the forensic autopsy room.
He is small, he is slender, he has a rough and dark skin, but his British style is genuine.
Jiang Yuan, surrounded by a group of people, came to the rough and peeling door of the autopsy room. Looking at Jacob in a dress, he suddenly felt like he was meeting his last comrade in an air-raid shelter after World War III.
Jacob became even more excited, holding Jiang Yuan's hand tightly, and said: "God Jiang, the body is ready, come in quickly."
As he said that, he took Jiang Yuan's hand and walked into the autopsy room.
The bright white light shone on the stainless steel dissection bed, making the newly thawed deep red body parts appear the color of tuna.
Two forensic assistants stood with their hands behind their backs. Both looked very young but very energetic.
"I didn't call Hardy and the others over this time because I feel like you are like Zhuge Liang. You need obedient subordinates to carry out your orders. In this case, a young forensic assistant may be more suitable! In addition, you can let me do the trivial work such as slicing." Jacob deliberately explained to Jiang Yuan that he had put in the effort.
Jiang Yuan nodded in satisfaction. This choice was indeed more to his liking. He asked, "Do you know Zhuge Liang?"
"I think that to understand Mr. Jiang and your forensic technology, we should also delve into cultural factors. So, I specially invited a Chinese master to introduce Chinese culture to me. My favorite is Zhuge Liang. I think, Mr. Jiang, you are the incarnation of Zhuge Liang." Jacob's straightforwardness was a bit embarrassing. He really seemed like a foreigner who had just started to learn Chinese culture.
Jiang Yuan smiled and said, "Zhuge Liang is too great to be used to describe a living person."
"Ah? Why?" Jacob was eager to learn, just like when he was studying in England.
Jiang Yuan thought for a moment and said, "In Chinese history, Zhuge Liang is a nearly perfect figure, probably...similar to a textbook-like anatomical structure."
The textbook anatomical structure means the golden ratio of bones, organs, muscles, etc., means zero pathological variation, and means the optimal solution for various functions...
Jacob nodded suddenly: "Too perfect?"
"Let's go change our clothes." The forensic assistant reminded Jacob.
"Yes, yes, I'll take you to change your clothes." Jacob hurriedly put on his shiny black Oxford shoes with carved toes and took Jiang Yuan out of the autopsy room and to the locker room.
Two young forensic assistants saw the boss off with expectant expressions. Although Jacob's actions were a bit like taking off his pants to fart, it was a British fart, which was very stylish.
Jiang Yuan quickly changed into a one-piece protective suit, and wore a hood, goggles, and a mask. According to domestic standards, this level of protection exceeded the standard. Because the body was frozen in time, it had not yet reached the stage of rot and deterioration, and it even smelled a little fresh. However, being in a foreign country, the other party provided this level of protective equipment, so style also had to be considered.
Jiang Yuan walked back to the dissection bed, observed briefly, and then looked through the body parts one by one.
The body parts had been moved several times, and the surface had changed to some extent, but the size of the body parts themselves was valuable. At the very least, the weight of the largest body part here was within the carrying range of the person who dumped the body.
This is a very simple inference. If there were two people carrying the body, they would not have to dismember it, or they could have simply cut it into pieces. The same theory could also be used to suggest that the murderer was a strong man.
The situation of particularly fine dismemberment often points to some special reasons, such as to conceal the external features of the corpse or to facilitate burial location.
Just like the body parts this time, because they were all dumped into the sewer, the pieces were relatively small, including the head, which was chopped many times but just not split open - it was not necessarily because of lack of strength, it could also be that the knife was not good enough, or there was no experience.
Jiang Yuan lifted the corpse's head, placed it at the same level as himself, and then looked at her carefully.
The deceased was a female. Her mouth, nose and eyes were all smashed to pieces, with white bones exposed in many places, especially the exposed tooth roots, which looked like a buck-toothed demon.
Compared with red muscles and white bones, the yellow fat on the face is more likely to cause psychological nausea, especially when mixed together, like unchopped dumpling fillings, which makes people feel even more nauseous.
"It was chopped off with an axe." Jiang Yuan put the head back on the dissection bed.
"I agree." Jacob once gave the same answer.
Jiang Yuan: "The wounds are mostly wedge-shaped with neat edges, which means the axe blade is very sharp. There are very few contusions, so it is possible that the axe was newly bought or newly sharpened."
Jacob nodded: "This means that the dismemberment was probably a premeditated act."
Jiang Yuan: "The cut corners are sharp, and the thickness of the axe blade forms a tail and bifurcation at the exit, indicating that the axe is relatively thick, perhaps 3 to 4 millimeters."
Jacob used his brain: "Hmm?"
Jiang Yuan thought for a moment and then said, "This is thicker than an ordinary axe. It's a chopping axe, similar to the one used for chopping wood. The bevel angle of the blade is large, about 40 degrees."
Jacob looked at Jiang Yuan, then at the body parts, and suddenly smiled.
Jiang Yuan was thinking and analyzing by himself, and said, "Combining the previous information, the 40-degree blade edge and the thickness of the axe blade of about 4 mm, this axe is at least not in a polished state, because this thickness is also very thick for a chopping axe. The thickness of an axe that is frequently polished should be thinner, so... the murderer is likely to have bought a new chopping axe, such as the common American chopping axe."
Jiang Yuan looked at the marks on the head and said, "The back of the axe is about 30 mm. In this case, we are looking for a chopping axe with a blade of 3.5 to 4 mm, a blade bevel angle of 40 degrees, and a back of about 30 mm. It is likely an American chopping axe. It is likely newly purchased."
The two forensic assistants couldn't help but crane their necks to look over.
Jacob craned his neck as well, not necessarily, but necessary.
The thickness of the axe back is easy to judge, but the thickness of the axe blade is not so easy. Jacob didn't even see Jiang Yuan measure it with a ruler, but his ability to tell the length with his eyes shocked him, because the axe blade was accurate to the millimeter level. Needless to say, Jiang Yuan was also confident in his judgment of the length to the millimeter level.
Jacob couldn't help but consider it from several angles. The more he thought about it, the more problems came to his mind. For a moment, his mind was in a mess and he didn't know what to say.
Jiang Yuan then put down the head of the corpse and began to check the other body parts.
Judging tool mark inspection is his strong point. The LV6 [Trace Inspection - Tool Mark Inspection LV6] is also a top skill in Jiang Yuan's skill list. However, the axe's chop is too obvious, and it doesn't even need the LV6 level.
Jacob thought for a long time and finally came to his senses. He quickly took the notebook and recorded it, saying, "In this way, we can check the sales of American-style splitting axes during this period to find out if there is a murderer?"
"It's most likely an American splitting axe, but it's not certain. If you want to investigate, I suggest you do it more carefully." Jiang Yuan said Xu Taining's psychology, and then said: "Do you have a way to check the sales records of all axes? Online and offline purchases... A new axe doesn't mean it's newly bought."
Jacob was stunned by Jiang Yuan's push just now. After hearing what Jiang Yuan said, he was even more stunned: "In this case, the information about the axe... cannot be used directly?"
Jiang Yuan spread his hands, which were covered in blood.
He had not expected to conduct an investigation in Malaysia, so he just continued to look at the remaining body parts.
Jacob gradually calmed down, and followed Jiang Yuan to conduct the immersive autopsy again.
Strictly speaking, this can also be considered a second autopsy.
Moreover, since it was an autopsy performed by Jacob, it was quite complete and Jiang Yuan did not find any omissions.
After reading all this, Jacob breathed a sigh of relief for some reason, then turned around and frowned slightly.
In this case, there is no new clue...
At this time, Jiang Yuan picked up several pieces of corpses that originally belonged to the chest, put them together, and said, "Cut them very finely here."
Jacob turned around and saw Jiang Yuan fighting with a pale and yellow pear.
"You mean... the murderer is a pervert?" Jacob didn't know what Jiang Yuan was thinking, so he could only think about it himself.
"Let's find a microscope and take a look." Jiang Yuan looked at the condition of the body parts and realized that no samples had been taken before, so he started taking samples himself.
Jacob quickly asked someone to make arrangements, then stepped forward to help, watching Jiang Yuan scrape off a layer of flesh and blood, and couldn't help asking: "What do you suspect?"
"What was the cause of death?" Jiang Yuan asked Jacob.
Jacob hesitated for two seconds: "Death from cuts? Multiple cuts all over the body caused hemorrhagic shock and death."
"Well...it's not ruled out." Jiang Yuan said.
After the victim was dismembered, some evidence was missing, and Jiang Yuan did not deny this possibility.
Jacob asked, "What do you think?"
"I think the size of the chest pieces doesn't match the murderer's rhythm of dismemberment, and there's a possibility of a cover-up. The chest has ribs and spine, so it's not easy to chop, and there's no need to cut it into so many pieces. Therefore, the marks on the chest, especially near the heart, may indicate the cause of death. Specifically, I didn't see any particularly obvious marks of axe chopping before dismemberment. Let's take a look under the microscope." Jiang Yuan said as he handed the removed sample to Jacob.
Jacob said nothing more and quickly set up a high-resolution microscope.
Jiang Yuan operated slowly, scanning the fourth sample in one breath, stopped, made room and said, "Take a look at this."
Jacob hurried forward and without Jiang Yuan's reminder, he saw obvious non-body remnants in the familiar cellular world.
"This is..." Jacob tried hard to see clearly.
"Find a centrifuge, spin the sample, and then look at it with an electron microscope." Jiang Yuan's LV5 physical and chemical analysis started online at this time.