Forensic mad wife protector

Chapter 149 Half a Skull (Part [-])
After a break, the three of them started working.

Eve asked Li Hao to arrange the camera, calipers, sieve, pointed digging tools and a small shovel, put on gloves and prepare to start working.

Everything was packed in a big box. When the lid was opened, each head remained the same as it was when Eve put it in. They were packed in sealed plastic bags and marked.

Qin Jinhui took out the human skull and placed it on the balancer on the autopsy table.

Eve touched the forehead and top of the skull with her fingertips, and frowned, "It seems to be waxed here."

The hairs on Li Hao's back stood up, "Who is so perverted to wax a skull? But what are the spots on it?"

"Blood spots." Qin Jinhui said lightly.

"Human blood?" Li Hao swallowed, feeling goose bumps.

Eve glanced at him, "We need to take a sample for testing to find out. Go and call Zhou Zhaohui to help."

There are too many things to test, and the three of them are simply too busy.The half of the skull still needs to be restored. She had called Jiang Xuchen half an hour ago, and it was about time.

Before taking X-rays, she needs to determine the age of the deceased.

Eve picked up the head and turned it over so that the palate and the foramen were facing upwards, "you can clearly see that the third molar has just erupted, and the other molars are also very lightly worn. The basal sutures have just fused, and these According to the circumstances, the age of the deceased was between sixteen and sixteen."

"Between sixteen and..." Qin Jinhui pondered for a moment, "Ji Yuanchong's age is also consistent."

Eve pursed her lips and turned her head in one direction.

"The back of the head is very smooth, with a bulge that connects the muscles of the neck." She pointed to a triangular bulge protruding downward under the right ear hole, "The mastoid is larger, and there is an extension from the brow ridge to the cheekbone, which continues to extend backward above the ear canal."

"These features suggest it was a male."

Eve nodded, "Yeah, but at this age, the brow ridge can't decide everything."

"What about race?"

"The skull is round, with a shorter front-to-back diameter, but wider. The eye sockets are mostly round or square, and the sides slope downward to a lesser extent. The nasozygomatic angle is larger, and the nasal bones are relatively flat, all of which show that the deceased was a person. Asian."

"How about the time between deaths, can you judge it?"

"The skull has been cleaned and waxed, so it will take some time to figure it out," Eve also felt a little tricky. "By the way, have you identified the bugs from yesterday? Maybe you can compare them with the bugs collected this time." , to see if they overlap."

Qin Jinhui's eyes lit up, "I'll go now!"

Eve then took an X-ray scan of the skull, and the results showed that the third pair of upper molars had partially erupted, and with the fact that the basal suture had just fused, she instinctively thought that the deceased should be 17 years old.

She reanalyzed the features of the skull, and the results reinforced her initial ideas about gender and race.

The next step is to judge the time between deaths and the method of death...

The bones were so dry and devoid of fleshy and organic components, and lacked the mandible, that it was almost impossible to determine the time between postmortems based on the large half of the skull alone.

Eve supported the skull with her palms, weighing its weight.The skull looked and felt solid, not porous or degraded like the bones and archaeological artifacts found in cemeteries.

She begins to look for tissue changes such as teeth for trimming, cranial fusion, flattening of the occiput, and surgical craniotomy.

The result is nothing.

Eve was not discouraged, and then checked to see if there were any traces of burial in the coffin.However, upon examination, the skull showed no signs of a funeral, such as setting wax left by the funeral make-up artist, trocars, no needles and threads, no fibrous tissue.

There is no preserved tissue, no peeling of the brain cortex, not a single hair, and not a single fine hair on the face.

She inserted a small flashlight into the foramen magna, the hole at the bottom of the brain through which the notochord passes and enters the brain.

The interior of the dome is empty except for the dust clinging to it.

The dust scraped out of the skull was no different from the soil in the iron pot, except that there was a ball bug, a pupa shell, and nothing else.

After packing the excavated soil and the chrysalis of the bug, Eve used a scalpel to cut off a few pieces of wax covering the top of the head, scraped off a little fragment from the blood spot, and put it in a Petri dish for testing later.

Then she started studying the X-rays, going through them one by one.

There was no sign of trauma or disease on the skull, and it was so clean that there was nothing to suggest the cause of his death.

Eve felt a little discouraged, and the irritability in her heart was about to move.

"Hi! I'm not late, am I?" A clear female voice suddenly came from the door, and Jiang Xuchen walked in quickly with a smile on his face.

Seeing her like this, Eve knew that she and Han Yufeng should be fine, so she didn't ask any more questions, squeezed the space between her brows, and said in a muffled voice: "It's still in time, come here and see if you can restore the face of this skull , I’m really at a loss.”

Jiang Xuchen raised his eyebrows, "Is there any skeleton in this world that can stump you?"

Eve shrugged, "There is only half of the skull, and there are no traces on it. Even if I am a god, I can't help it."

Jiang Xuchen walked over, put on the gloves, took a look at the skull, and sure enough there was no mandible, so she understood why Eve was so anxious to find her.

"Although one piece is missing, it shouldn't be a big problem. Give me half a day." She said confidently.

Hearing what she said, Eve finally felt better, "Take it easy, don't get tired."

Jiang Xuchen rolled his eyes, "How dare I not care, my brother told you about the bet between you and Yan Yunying last night, and even set this case as a first-level task. Now the killer whale is busy, looking for clues everywhere , we must find that head within two days."

Eve: "..."

She really didn't know about it, but...

"I have an intuition that the skull in your hand belongs to Ji Yuanchong."

Jiang Xuchen was stunned, "What a coincidence?"

"The age and gender match. More importantly, there is also a pentagram pattern on the place where the skull was found, which is similar to the pattern on Ji Yuanchong's abdomen. Even if the skull does not belong to Ji Yuanchong, the murderer is very likely to be the same. personal."

"Serial murders related to spells?" Jiang Xuchen's relaxed face turned serious. If this is the case, the case must be solved as soon as possible, lest more innocent people die tragically.

Eve turned her gaze to the skull, "It's still not clear whether this person was killed or not. I've already sent the photos of the scene to Wei Yu, and I believe there will be results soon."

If you want to know why the person who set up the formation did this, you must first figure out what the formation is for. Only in this way can you know the purpose of that person.

Jiang Xuchen's face was a little cold, "What time is it now, and there are still people who believe in this, and still use human skulls to form formations, that person must be a psychopathic lunatic!"

It would be even more dangerous if someone was killed for this!
Eve pursed her lips and said nothing.

People's desires are always endless, and it is a good thing to have desires, because only in this way can we promote progress and make ourselves better.But if the desires are too strong, and their own abilities cannot satisfy these desires, some people will have the idea of ​​committing crimes, take risks, and do not hesitate to plunder other people's property or even their lives.

"No matter what, what we have to do is to find out the truth." Eve said lightly, "No matter how difficult it is, we can't give up."

Jiang Xuchen nodded, putting away his emotions, "Then I'll go get busy."

After she walked out with the skulls, Eve turned her attention to the animal bones.

The skulls of both the goats and the chickens still contained dry muscle, and she had previously found several insect larvae and pupal shells in the goat's fornix and ear canal, as well as blowfly adults, larvae, beetles, and a few cockroaches.

Although she was still waiting for Qin Jinhui's inspection report, she knew that the chicken must have died more than ten days ago.

Another quite matching time, which made Eve's suspicion a little deeper.

His eyes turned to the big iron pot again.

She first took pictures, then put on a mask and started sifting the dirt inside.

There was a soft "rustling" sound as the dust leaked down from the mesh, and the smell of earth filled the surroundings.

One shovel, three shovels, five shovels... A few pebbles, snail shells and beetle bones slowly appeared in the sieve.After twelve shovels, Eve felt as if the sieve was clogged.

She put down the shovel, reached in, and took out a mud ball about five centimeters in diameter.

Putting the mud ball on the autopsy table and fiddled with it carefully with her fingers, Eve's breathing suddenly became suffocated.The blob was shriveled but still resilient, a blob of organic matter!

She slowly brushed off the dirt on it, revealing the true face of the ball—brain return!Dimples on the surface of the brain!
Under the finger is a piece of dry gray matter. The human brain is nearly [-] cubic centimeters. This thing is at best a very small piece of the human brain.

Goat's?Chicken?

Or maybe, a small piece of the human brain?

She put her mind back into a glass vessel and continued to sift the dirt in the pot, only to make a second, creepy discovery.

That's a photo.

The photo is slightly smaller than the driver's license, and the surface has been blurred by the sand. You can only vaguely see two people, a man and a woman, and there is a sentence written on the back, so you can't make out what it is.

Eve felt her heart tighten, and her eyes turned to the glassware.

Could the skull belong to one of the boys?If so, how did it end up in the cellar?What about the other girl?Was she also killed together or was she the murderer?

She turned her gaze back to the photo.

The two should be in a relationship. The girl's head rested on the boy's shoulders, and the hands hanging by her sides were tightly clasped. There was an air of pure love that belonged to young people. Eve really didn't want such two people. I believe it was the girl who killed the boy.

(End of this chapter)