Chapter 818: Stubborn Body

Tang Feng felt a tremor in his heart as he listened to Jiang Yuan's answer, as if he were checking his answers after an exam and suddenly heard the top student next to him coldly spit out two words: *Wrong. *

"What kind of feeling?" Tang Feng knew it wasn't necessary, but he couldn't help but ask.

"The degree of leather-like change on the body is a bit abnormal." Jiang Yuan looked down at the body with a harsh gaze, touched the surface of the body with his finger, and focused on the scrotum of the body, shook his head, and said: "Let's dissect it first and see."

Leather-like change is a specialized term for forensic medicine, referring to the fact that part of the skin on the surface of the body has turned into a leather-like appearance. The part most prone to "leather-like change" is the "scrotum," because the skin here is very thin and prone to water loss, making it easy to turn black and purple, looking like the leather of a handbag.

But leather-like change requires time and conditions.

It's not that it can change into leather just because you want it to, nor can it be avoided just because you want to. A typical example is a fair-skinned and beautiful boy who is fair and tender in the south, but if he can't think straight and rushes into the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the strong ultraviolet rays and windy weather will blow his skin black and rough in just a few days. This process is the same as leather-like change.

A body after freezing will also partially present leather-like change, which is why pressure marks are more easily revealed. Some old forensic doctors in the past might not have been very accurate in their own judgment and didn't dare to confirm certain pressure marks, so they would freeze the body to see if there were traces and what the traces were like.

The body in front of him was also like this. Many small traces on the skin were revealed, such as those on the knees, the bends of the legs, and the arms, but Jiang Yuan looked carefully, and they were basically falls and abrasions.

Imagine the victim in a standing position, receiving a heavy blow to the head, might stagger two steps, bump into something nearby, causing slight abrasions, and then fall heavily to the ground, causing fall injuries. If he could survive, or live for a period of time, these scars might be able to recover, but if he died on the spot, the traces were equivalent to being fixed.

It's just that these traces were not enough to solve the case.

Jiang Yuan took the knife and, taking advantage of his height, slashed a "one" on the body. This was the traditional Chinese straight-line cutting method, also known as the "one" cutting method.

(T-shape, one-shape, Y-shape, inverted Y-shape)

(Forensic Pathology, 4th Edition, Zhao Ziqin et al., People's Medical Publishing House.)

Tang Feng helped Jiang Yuan on the side.

The suturing after the first autopsy was to pull the flesh on both sides together and cross-stitch them, so the second autopsy still had to be cut open with a knife. And because of the partial freezing, this time when it was cut open, some minced meat would naturally fall out of the suture.

But it doesn't matter, because it was a body that had been placed for several days. Even in the ice coffin, there would still be a certain degree of decay. This is why meat in the ice storage will go bad, and meat that is repeatedly thawed goes bad faster.

Therefore, after the second autopsy of the body, there was basically no dissection value. If the third or fourth autopsy was not for the request of the family members, it was usually just to confirm certain elements.

Jiang Yuan also checked relatively carefully. After all, this dissection almost determined the final fate of this body. For the case, it was also equivalent to determining the fate of the case.

"This person is quite fat." Jiang Yuan pushed aside the discolored yellow fat with his hand, and a rancid smell came from his nasal cavity.

Usually, when cooking oil at home goes bad, or snacks with high oil content go off, they easily develop a rancid smell; smelling it on a corpse is even stronger than the smell of putrefaction.

Of course, the smell of the corpse was still there.

Tang Feng wore a mask, said "Hmm," and said: "The weight is 180 jin. There was no dismemberment, which means the murderer is likely not acting alone."

"The murderer is one person, killing with one blow, but dumping the body might have found someone to help." Jiang Yuan sighed and said: "If the victim is a village doctor, everyone in a village is actually a suspect. It's just that in the current situation, it's not certain whether it was premeditated."

If the murderer dumped the body at the scene, this kind of blunt force killing with one blow is often a crime of passion. Because if it is premeditated murder, usually they want to ensure the victim's death, so there are often cases of supplementary stabs or supplementary strikes.

But after going through the stage of dumping the body, it is hard to say whether it was premeditated, because the murderer is right there and can completely ensure death. Moreover, because the crime has not yet ended, the murderer's attention may also shift.

"Leave this kind of thing to Division Chief Liu to ponder." Jiang Yuan looked at the three cavities, took a magnifying glass, looked carefully at the position of the abrasions, and finally shook his head in disappointment.

There were no fragments or anything like that, and he couldn't even use it for trace evidence inspection. This also shows from another side that the victim was indeed wearing pants before he died.

—This is not a ridiculous guess. It is not a strange thing for a victim to die in a semi-nude or naked state, and it is also normal for someone to put clothes and pants on after death. Some families, in order to cover up ugliness, even have family members destroy the scene and dress the deceased.

As for measuring trace evidence on clothes and pants, although it is possible, it is not necessary for the time being. On the one hand, the environment at the scene is complex, the deceased lay in the reed marsh for a long time, and the evidence on the pants is already excessive. On the other hand, even if there is evidence from the primary scene on the clothes, it is difficult to distinguish and impossible to identify now.

This can be said to be the complicated part of dumping a body in the wilderness compared to burying a body. If it is burying a body, because the environment underground is stable, the body is actually maintaining the state when it left the murderer. Trace evidence can often have more discoveries.

From this perspective, if the murderer has shifts, the wilderness body-dumping class and the deep-digging burial class should be two majors and two teaching directions.

Jiang Yuan spent more than an hour on the second autopsy. Finally, he threw down the dissected body, sat on another cold dissection bed nearby, pondered for a long time, and asked: "What do you think?"

Tang Feng, a man in his thirties, had eyes as clear as if he had just graduated: "I have no ideas."

If he had ideas, why would he wait until the second autopsy.

Jiang Yuan felt that he respected the forensic doctor in charge. After asking, he nodded and said: "For this body, I don't think the previous judgment of the time of death is appropriate, but I can't judge the specific time of death for the time being! I have to check it carefully!"

When Jiang Yuan said this, his expression was very serious.

His LV6 time-of-death identification, after re-dissection, actually made it difficult to determine the accurate time of death, which in itself was the biggest problem.

What kind of good body can be so stubborn? ===== CHAPTER 819 =====