Chapter 1050: Collective suicide case

Unnatural deaths indeed have to be reported to the Medical Examiner's Office, so it's not strange for police to come over.

However, the Medical Examiner's Office usually only performs administrative autopsies, which are mainly autopsies for unnatural deaths unrelated to criminal offenses.

There are two types of forensic autopsies in Japan: judicial autopsies and administrative autopsies.

If there is a suspicion of homicide, a judicial autopsy is performed, which is the responsibility of the forensic medicine classroom of the university. Dr. Misumi used to be responsible for judicial autopsies at the university.

Other situations are all administrative autopsies, which are the responsibility of medical examiners.

Therefore, corpses sent to the Medical Examiner's Office are usually unrelated to criminal offenses or there was no suspicion of a crime during the inspection. After all, some causes of death can only be determined after an autopsy.

"Since it's charcoal-burning suicide, is it necessary to perform an autopsy investigation?" Ai asked curiously.

"That's what I think too," a thin police officer said helplessly, "For such an obvious suicide, don't make things troublesome."

"Of course we have to perform an autopsy," Dr. Misumi responded while changing clothes.

"Even if there is the slightest suspicion of homicide, we cannot give up casually. In the past, there have been cases where it was judged as having no suspicion of homicide during the inspection stage, but the case was overturned through an autopsy. This is also the reason why I came to the Medical Examiner's Office."

"In the past? Were there such cases in the past?" The police officer's face turned bitter, "Dr. Misumi, are you listening to me?"

"Your name is Ai, right?" Dr. Misumi looked at Ai on her own, "There are no child spectators considered here, so can you watch from outside?"

"Okay."

Kaze Akaso had also changed his clothes, wearing a transparent coverall and a mask.

The personnel of the autopsy team were each doing their own preparatory work, looking very relaxed.

"Is Dr. Shiro-uchi not coming?"

"Dr. Shiro-uchi is mainly responsible for inspection and identification."

The police officer stood on the side like an idler, and no one even paid attention to him, so he had to smile and find Kaze Akaso, "You are Lord Akaso, right? I've heard about you from people at headquarters. I've long admired you. I am..."

"Officer Mouri," Dr. Misumi said after talking to Ai, re-entering the autopsy room, "If you have time, can you tell Lord Akaso about the situation?"

"Uh," the police officer was quite embarrassed, "I am Mouri, just happening to have the same surname as the famous detective Kogoro Mouri, haha. The situation this time is that the newspaper delivery person found a letter outside the Sato family's mailbox this morning. The writer was Shoichi Sato."

"When the police received the news and rushed over, they found 4 people, including Sato, lying on the ground in a 16-square-meter room, all dead." ===== CHAPTER 1052 =====