Chapter 817: Follow Your Feelings

"The deceased was beaten to death with a blunt object. The murder weapon hasn't been found either, right? Was anything missing from the clinic?"

Jiang Yuan flipped through the photos one by one. He first looked at the photos of the deceased's body in the file, and then looked at the photos of the scene where the body was found. However, because the documents were brought by Yu Wenshu, the content was incomplete and missing a lot of information. Jiang Yuan had no clue for a moment.

Judging solely from the wounds on the deceased's head, the murder weapon should be a relatively heavy cylindrical object, similar to an infusion bottle or a beer bottle. This point was also reflected in the forensic report of the Changyang City Criminal Police Detachment, but because there were no fragments and the murder weapon was not found at the scene, it was impossible to determine exactly what the murder weapon was.

Yu Wenshu also understood what Jiang Yuan meant, shook his head, and said: "The clinic has been turned over, but the deceased operated the clinic independently. He did everything—seeing patients, grabbing medicine, and hanging IV drips—by himself. It's impossible to determine exactly what inventory he had or what items were there."

"The primary scene hasn't been determined either, right?" Jiang Yuan asked again.

Yu Wenshu coughed twice, nodded, and said: "The clinic is in the village, after all. It has a relatively large area, a two-story building facing the road, and two courtyards in the front and back. Usually, in addition to the villagers in the village, employees from nearby factories will come to see a doctor and buy medicine. The personnel are also quite mixed..."

Yu Wenshu felt a bit embarrassed saying this.

In three days, the progress of the case could be said to be stagnant. The most important factor in a body-dumping case should be identifying the source of the body. But after the special task force completed this work, there was no progress for a long time, which made Yu Wenshu inevitably anxious.

The golden moment of the current case was so short, and now it had basically been squandered. Even if Jiang Yuan hadn't returned this time, Yu Wenshu would have had people bring the files to consult him.

Of course, Jiang Yuan's personal arrival was the best.

Jiang Yuan looked at the photos in the file and pondered.

In fact, the special task force's line of thinking was fine. It is common for body-dumping cases not to find the murder weapon. Many murderers will dump the body and the murder weapon separately. They might be relatively close, but as long as the murderer walks back for five minutes, the workload of the search will increase significantly, not to mention that the nearby area is full of water bodies of varying depths.

And in a normal body-dumping case, if no direct evidence such as DNA or fingerprints can be found at the scene, after identifying the source of the body, looking for possible suspects through interpersonal relationships is the most normal practice.

Because usually, only a murderer who knows the victim will choose to dump the body.

"It's okay to check the interpersonal relationships." Jiang Yuan thought for a while and said: "As for the rest, let's go back and look at the body."

"Hmm, I hope there will be some gains." Yu Wenshu was also an extremely experienced criminal police detachment leader. Based on his experience, for a deceased person whose interpersonal relationships spread throughout the village, wanting to find a suspect through interpersonal relationships was purely a matter of luck.

(Distribution of interpersonal relationships in cases causing the death of the victim in 240 indictments in a coastal city)

"Let's call Division Chief Liu to come and work on the case together." Jiang Yuan didn't like this kind of riddle-like case. If he had to look for clues from the fine details, let Liu Jinghui do it.

Yu Wenshu was naturally very willing and took the initiative to say: "I will talk to the Provincial Department and ask Division Chief Liu to come and support."

The Coaster arrived smoothly at the Criminal Police Detachment.

Everyone welcomed them.

After the ceremony, Jiang Yuan went straight to the conference room to read the files related to the case.

The police officers also brought boxes of evidence over and handed them to Jiang Yuan for inspection.

An ordinary expert wouldn't have such treatment. Homicide cases involve a lot of evidence, especially evidence in the investigation stage. Many of them might not be used later, but at this stage, they were all pulled out, filling an entire conference room.

Jiang Yuan looked at them one by one, while reminding the forensic doctor to thaw the body.

The body had already been dissected, so it was naturally stuffed into an ice coffin for frozen storage. Jiang Yuan had come to re-examine it, so it could only be taken out of the ice coffin to thaw before looking at it. Otherwise, the stiff body might still have ice shards hanging on it, making it difficult to perform a surface examination.

The next day.

Liu Jinghui took the 7:30 AM bus and arrived at the Criminal Police Detachment smoothly at 8:40. After saying hello to the police officer on duty, he fell into piles of documents.

For a reasoning expert, taking over a case requires not only understanding the whole picture of the case but also understanding the details of the case. This is a very time-consuming and laborious process.

Fortunately, Liu Jinghui liked it. It was better than being cooped up at home making breakfast for his wife.

Jiang Yuan slept in his small house. After waking up, he had breakfast at a familiar shop downstairs, then took the pre-booked Alphard to the Criminal Science and Technology Center.

Wan Baoming, the director of the Criminal Science Center, was also an old acquaintance. Seeing Jiang Yuan, he pretended to be relieved: "It's good that you're here, Jiang Yuan. The body has thawed almost enough. I also had people prepare hot pot. Let's have hot pot together at noon."

The time for the first autopsy is usually over three hours. If it is done meticulously, a lot of time will be spent later. The time for the second autopsy can be long or short, but including the time for changing clothes and taking a shower, it can't be done in an hour, and then looking at specimens and so on. Coming to the dissection room once, the body has to be opened, and the forensic doctor has to donate a morning.

In addition, everyone who has performed an autopsy knows that this work is quite physically demanding, so having a hot pot after the autopsy is absolutely very happy.

Jiang Yuan smiled and nodded, saying: "If we can finish looking at the body, we will have hot pot at noon. Who is the forensic doctor in charge this time..."

"I performed the first dissection." The speaker was forensic doctor Tang Feng. He had cooperated with Jiang Yuan several times and had eaten hot pot in the dissection room together, but facing Jiang Yuan, Tang Feng still felt a little guilty.

In forensic examination, there are still many uncontrollable factors. The so-called laws and science, when facing the complex human body, often require subjective judgment to intervene if one wants to obtain a certain result.

At this time, the levels of different forensic doctors are clearly revealed.

As an adult, especially a high-level adult technical personnel in his thirties, Tang Feng had also tried to learn from Jiang Yuan, but like many peers, this only made it harder for him to resist when he saw Jiang Yuan again.

Jiang Yuan smiled and nodded at Tang Feng, asked a few casual questions, and several people walked into the elevator together.

Wan Baoming and the others sent Jiang Yuan all the way to the dissection room and turned to leave. Most people are not willing to take two showers just to pick someone up.

Dissection room.

The body was not completely softened, just in a state where it could be cut and not too soft. At this time, the state of the body was similar to the state of cutting thin slices of meat at home. The knife slid in with a bit of astringent resistance, which was much easier to cut than when it was completely thawed.

Of course, keeping the body in such a state was out of another consideration.

Because for a body in a frozen state, its surface traces will be clearer. For forensic doctors, it means that if the body is frozen, the damage to the surface of the body will be more obvious.

If there are not very obvious surface pressure marks, they can be revealed more easily at this time. However, this degree of revelation is more suitable for forensic doctors below LV3, or to improve the efficiency of high-level forensic doctors, and cannot solve the problem from 0 to 1.

Like the first negative autopsy case Jiang Yuan did when he went to Malaysia, it was also a body observed in a frozen state. The traces on the surface of the body were not revealed at that time either.

However, the traces on the body after freezing are clearer, which is naturally more convenient for identifying the tools of damage.

Especially identifying the shape of the impact surface, the angle of object impact, etc., all have certain help.

Tang Feng took the opportunity to re-measure the length of the victim's injury to avoid looking too idle.

Jiang Yuan looked at the body and fell into deep thought.

"Do you want to perform a second autopsy?" Tang Feng saw him like this and felt guilty again.

"Then let's dissect it." Jiang Yuan's answer belonged to the reasonable, but unexpected.

A second autopsy often means that something went wrong with the first autopsy.

Tang Feng couldn't help but ask: "Did you see something?"

"The feeling is not quite right, dissect it and see." Jiang Yuan has reached his current level, no need to explain the indicator data in detail, just talking about the feeling is enough. ===== CHAPTER 818 =====