Chapter 192: Beauty and Ugliness

The bones of No. 5 had already been boiled out.

The white skeleton, headless, was placed on the first autopsy table.

Jiang Yuan asked, "Has No. 1 been put away?"

"Yes, because we ran out of autopsy tables, and No. 1 was already finished..." the forensic assistant explained hurriedly.

To say it was finished was naturally impossible.

There was a lot of information that could be inferred from a corpse, and even more ways to do it. However, some things also depended on fate, just like eight ways to solve a problem; it was very easy to fall into a fixed mindset in the middle.

The conditions of the autopsy room were just like this; 4 autopsy tables were already very large, and it was impossible for the police station to treat the conditions of a 6-corpse homicide case as a standard configuration.

Jiang Yuan asked, "How is the analysis of No. 5 going?"

"Just laid out, no conclusions yet," the forensic assistant replied.

In fact, for an ordinary forensic doctor, laying out the bones step by step also took a long time. Everyone was busy and tired, and there was simply no time to do further analysis.

Jiang Yuan nodded, looked at them on his own, and by the way, adjusted the positions of the bones to make them look better.

Aesthetics were still very important. The strongest sense humans have is vision, and the development of thinking is also centered on vision.

For example, the beginning of astronomy, the beginning of optics, the beginning of the AV industry, all are like this.

Those famous mathematical formulas, like the Archimedean spiral, the Cartesian curve, the Jacob curve, are all known for their beauty.

Whether some geometric problems can be solved depends on drawing auxiliary lines.

By extension, whether a corpse is laid out beautifully or not is also very important.

Moreover, don't look at some people who were ugly before they died, did particularly ugly things, and were bad to the bone; if you deboned them and laid them out more beautifully, they would instead be reborn.

As the saying goes, for some special people, you only need to give them one chance, and they can be reborn.

"You should take notes." Jiang Yuan fiddled with the bones for a while, measured them with a ruler, and began to output the results.

The most basic judgments could still be made very quickly.

The forensic assistant took off his gloves, washed them, changed into new ones, and held a pen, ready.

"Female."

"Height 160."

"Age... about 18 years old."

Jiang Yuan stated the main judgment points in a few sentences.

The forensic assistant recorded them, paused at the end, and said in surprise, "So young?"

"Yes, if an 18-year-old girl goes missing, her family should pay more attention," Jiang Yuan said, adding, "Wait a moment, let me confirm the specific age."

In terms of forensic anthropology techniques, many bones of the human body can be used for various judgments. But there are always some bones that are more advantageous for certain types of judgments.

Like long bones, they are particularly useful for judging height, with high accuracy and low difficulty, and even ordinary young forensic doctors can accurately produce results.

Lumbar vertebrae are different; height can also be inferred, but the accuracy is lower, and the difficulty exceeds the level of a newcomer.

Jiang Yuan's judgment just now was very fast, based on the pelvic gender judgment, and also based on the pubic symphysis for age judgment.

The pelvis can be said to be the treasure bone of humanity.

Using the pelvis to judge gender has many characteristic points, from the shape of the pelvis to the angle of the pubic arch, all can be used to distinguish between men and women.

Families with conditions can take a male pelvis and a female pelvis to compare. It's easy to see that the male pelvis is generally high and narrow, with a large upper part and a small lower part. The female pelvis is low and wide, with a short and wide pelvic cavity, shaped like a cylinder...

If that doesn't work, you can also take an X-ray of a male pelvis and an X-ray of a female pelvis to compare. It's just that this lacks a sense of three-dimensionality and depth.

The accuracy of judging age based on the pubic symphysis is also very high, and it is also the main judgment method.

The rougher the pubic symphysis, the younger the age; the smoother it is, the older the age.

However, as the saying goes, a single piece of evidence is hard to stand on. Jiang Yuan went to flip through the bones for a while, then turned back and said, "18 years old is no problem."

"Okay." The forensic assistant responded and drew another circle.

"The cause of death for this one might be stabbing," Jiang Yuan added, which was somewhat unexpected.

The forensic assistant asked curiously, "How did you judge that?"

"The scars on the ribs here should be traces of a knife stab. A saw was used for dismemberment."

As Jiang Yuan was saying this, the four forensic doctors in the outer room had also finished their meal and returned one after another.

Jiang Yuan took one look and found that the expressions of the four were not very good.

"Doesn't it taste good?" Jiang Yuan asked with concern. After all, he was the one who soaked the noodles.

Thinking about it now, the Large Bone Soup Noodles might not have been as delicious as the Large Bone Rich Soup Noodles. Maybe at that time, he should have...

"I tore off the tape outside," Wu Wu Fa Yi Xiao Zhuang honestly admitted his mistake.

Old Ye walked in with a look of disgust and said, "Tear it if you want, but why read it out after tearing it? It made me drink only half the soup."

"Sorry, sorry. I just saw a plastic head there and wanted to pull it," Xiao Zhuang said helplessly. He hadn't expected to see "Large Bone Soup" under the "Caution" tape.

"Did I hear you say something about a knife stab?" Old Ye took the initiative to end the topic.

"Yes, there are cut marks on the third and fourth ribs," Jiang Yuan picked up the bones and flipped to the position.

Because they were all corpses retrieved from the reservoir with severe decay, it was difficult to distinguish them before boiling. After boiling, the situation on the surface of the bones was also very complex.

The cut marks Jiang Yuan found were very subtle, measured only in millimeters. He estimated that it was a place the perpetrator accidentally grazed when inserting the knife.

However, don't look at the small cut marks; there was a lot that could be read from them.

For example, the perpetrator's knife technique had to be downgraded. His identity was likely unrelated to jobs like a doctor or butcher. Otherwise, he wouldn't have made such a mistake.

The moods of several forensic doctors improved immediately, and they all came up to look at the ribs.

Two young forensic doctors were even gesturing vaguely in front of their own chests.

"Another thing." Jiang Yuan continued to check the bones and said, "Corpse No. 5 very likely learned ballet before death, for quite a long time."

Wu Wu Fa Yi Ye was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly went to look at the feet of the skeleton, and said in surprise, "So many bones are missing?"

"They might have been chopped off," Jiang Yuan had already looked at it and said, "The perpetrator should have also discovered the ballet feet and likely handled them together with the head."

After practicing ballet to a deeper level and starting to wear ballet shoes, it was easy to cause "ballet feet," causing the feet to deform.

According to Jiang Yuan's analysis, the ballet feet of Corpse No. 5 might not have been serious enough to affect the skeleton, but the perpetrator couldn't see the bones and could only see the deformation of the corpse's feet, which was easy to identify. It was very likely he chopped them off in advance.

However, the traces left by practicing ballet were far more than just the ballet feet.

The perpetrator chopping off the feet instead reminded Jiang Yuan.

18 years old, learned ballet, plus a missing person report, it was easy to determine the source of the corpse. ===== CHAPTER 193 =====