Chapter 152: Manner of Death

Wanghe Building.

These high-rise buildings in the city center are the most prosperous area of Ningtai County and also where the county-level CBD is located. Various banks have branches in this county, various financial companies have "headquarters" in this county, as well as real estate companies, hotel companies, some government departments, and local branches of state-owned enterprises, etc...

The high-rise buildings have never been fully rented out, and the fluctuation range of rent is naturally very large. The worst-managed Wanghe Building has had people raising cats and dogs run in, calling it breeding, making the whole floor smell terrible.

Jiang Yuan had previously followed friends to Wanghe Building to play escape rooms and archery. In contrast, the escape rooms set up by people in the county were too crude. Jiang Yuan had originally forced his way through the back of the wall, and what he saw at that time was a dark, unfinished plot of land.

It was much scarier than the escape room itself.

The first few police officers who arrived cordoned off the place of the high fall. The yellow warning tape, the flat square, the natural high-end stone wall, looked a bit like something in a TV series.

Outside the warning tape, a group of county-level young people dressed like white-collar workers were desperately taking videos and photos with their mobile phones.

It was probably to inject a pool of blood into their barren social media circles.

The deceased was also a white-collar worker.

Wearing a white shirt and black suit pants. Back to the ground, face facing the right side, it was already a mess.

Fortunately, the head didn't smash out from inside, but shattered inside the skull; otherwise, the scene would have been enough to discourage most white-collar workers.

"Pull the warning tape further away. Drive away those taking photos; if they don't leave, confiscate their phones." Huang Qiangmin also arrived at the scene in his old Pajero and loudly ordered the criminal police who had just arrived.

The police officers who received support immediately pulled a further warning tape, especially dispersing the people looking around nearby.

There were still people upstairs stretching their necks and taking photos with their phones until they were pointed at and persuaded to return.

Jiang Yuan and Wu Jun cautiously observed the corpse.

Wu Jun held a ruler, measuring lines on the ground, indicating the position, while Jiang Yuan acted like an assistant, holding a camera to shoot and take photos.

Wu Jun had to remind him from time to time: "Here, here..."

Unlike previous cases, for this case, both of them were very persistent about taking photos and measuring distances.

This was because both of them knew very well that for a high-fall case, the first thing to judge was whether it was suicide, accident, or homicide. In addition, corpse disposal also had to be considered separately.

With so many criminal police colleagues coming, it was basically configured according to homicide.

There was no way; if you didn't set a position, like foreigners, sending two ordinary criminal police to take a look first, and then calling people after finding suspicious points, the golden 72 hours couldn't be wasted for several hours.

Under the pressure of must-solve homicides, the criminal police team couldn't afford to waste these few hours.

At this time, if the forensic doctor said it was a self-inflicted high fall, then the entire criminal police team could get off work two hours early.

But saying this sentence was definitely not easy.

Wu Jun and Jiang Yuan were so solemn precisely because they understood this point.

"The injury basically conforms to the characteristics of a high fall." Wu Jun waited until the photos were completely taken before turning the corpse over to check the surface injuries.

The characteristics of high-fall injuries are actually easy to understand; the most important point is that the damage is usually formed by a one-time force.

Of course, like Jackie Chan, when falling from a building, still tripping and falling, that's definitely not okay, so it must be checked again.

But for a normal person, falling from a building is basically that one moment of hitting the bottom.

At this time, even if the corpse has multiple injuries, the direction of the force should be consistent.

If it is inconsistent, then the possibility of pre-death injury or corpse disposal must be considered. Basically, it is also considered from the perspective of homicide.

Of course, high-fall injuries have other characteristics, but most of them are observed during the autopsy stage.

Wu Jun felt half relieved as long as he could confirm that it was indeed a high-fall death.

In the city, most high-fall deaths are suicides.

That is to say, it is an unnatural death, but it cannot be counted as a homicide.

Jiang Yuan made a record on the side and reminded: "Does the arm have a side-blocking posture?"

"Hmm, it shows it's not corpse disposal." Wu Jun agreed.

Having consciousness when falling naturally means it's not corpse disposal.

For some high-fall corpses, it is not easy to judge whether it is corpse disposal at the scene.

And corpse disposal usually means homicide.

If you didn't kill them, why would you dispose of the corpse—this kind of talk is generally fine in the context of corpse disposal.

In addition, having consciousness when falling to death shows that it is not in a state of drunkenness or the like. This is one step closer to suicide.

As for whether it is an accident or suicide, these two are actually not easy to distinguish from the perspective of forensic medicine.

Even, whether it is a self-inflicted high fall or being pushed off the building, from the perspective of forensic medicine, it is not easy to distinguish.

Although it is true that one can judge one or two from the distance of the fall, etc. But what if they weren't pushed far enough, or the deceased jumped down themselves?

Whether it is suicide, a simpler and more accurate plan should be judged from the state of the deceased before death and the investigation of the scene of the fall.

Wu Jun then asked the police officer next to him: "Is the scene of the fall determined?"

"Not yet, we are inquiring and checking the surveillance." The police officer's answer was slightly surprising.

Wu Jun frowned slightly: "Didn't they jump from the roof?"

Wanghe Building is an office building with a glass curtain wall. The facade does not have a design similar to the balcony of a residential building. So the most convenient place to jump off the building should be the roof.

Most of its windows are half-open structures, and the positions are relatively high.

And with such a suffocating window design, it shouldn't be easy for a suicide to choose.

The police officer said "Hmm" and said: "There are witnesses who saw them jump from a high floor, but the specific floor is not very certain."

"Okay, then we'll talk when we find it." Wu Jun frowned and returned to the corpse.

He felt a bit bad now. When ordinary people commit suicide, even if they rush out of the window, they have to have some time to do ideological struggle. Some people wander at the scene of the fall for hours or even more than ten hours before jumping off the building.

And the witness didn't even see which floor it was, which shows that the time in front of the window was definitely not long.

That kind of person who runs over in a hurry, climbs the window without stopping, and jumps out, is not non-existent, but it is indeed rare.

It means that the case doesn't look like suicide again.

Huang Qiangmin, who also received the news, didn't look good either. He walked over and said: "Can you see anything on the corpse?"

If there were defensive wounds or any obvious injuries, they could be directly considered as homicide, and everyone wouldn't have to think wildly.

However, there were none.

Wu Jun squatted down and said: "Let's check the surface of the corpse first. See if we can find anything."

The surface examination of a high-fall corpse is not easy to characterize because there are too many accidental situations, and the corpse may rebound twice on the ground, which is more complicated.

However, forensic doctors do this. In the absence of better means, they can only use the second-best means to do things.

Jiang Yuan was emotionally stable.

He was just a single dog, and there was nothing he had to do when he went home, so solving a homicide was just solving a homicide.

Jiang Yuan didn't follow Wu Jun to check the surface of the corpse this time, but said on the side: "Master, I want to wipe some attachments first."

"Okay, you wipe first." Wu Jun agreed immediately.

Jiang Yuan then tried hard to take the front, and began to wipe the physical evidence on the deceased.

He mainly wanted to collect some trace evidence.

If the deceased had scratching or pulling with the murderer before death, there was a high probability of exchanging trace evidence.

Even if the murderer just pushed, it was possible to find traces.

Of course, it was difficult.

Jiang Yuan lowered his head to look for physical evidence, and from time to time he had to turn his head to look with the sunlight. What he used most was a horseshoe mirror.

This thing is known as a criminal science artifact, used for fingerprints, crime scene investigation, bloodstains, and DNA, actually all use it.

In general, this is a magnifying glass that is not easily affected by light, but in the domestic criminal science circle, for a long time, everyone basically had this one weapon.

It is that the right to speak of criminal science people is relatively weak, otherwise, various voices could raise it to the level of PCR (the instrument for doing DNA).

"Someone took a video." A police officer ran to Huang Qiangmin's side, his voice quite loud.

Jiang Yuan and Wu Jun both looked up.

Huang Qiangmin simply turned around and looked at the phone with several people.

The video on the phone was very short, basically the owner aimed at the window, and the person fell from the window.

There didn't seem to be anyone behind the window, in other words, was this an accident?

Jiang Yuan frowned and only said: "Keep the phone, don't return it to the owner. I'll strengthen it when I go back."

Huang Qiangmin responded immediately and urged to protect the scene upstairs.

Jiang Yuan chased after him and said: "After I finish here, I will go to scan for trace evidence immediately. Keep the warning tape as far away as possible."

Huang Qiangmin frowned and asked: "You don't think it's suicide? Is there a person hidden in the video?"

"I don't know, I want to take another look." Jiang Yuan really didn't know either; he just felt uneasy. ===== CHAPTER 153 =====