deep sin

Chapter 277 The Missing Scalp

Judging from its short stature, the corpse should be a female corpse.

The reason why the judgment was so ambiguous was because the entire body was almost scorched black, and only a human figure could be distinguished, and other features could not be distinguished at first glance.

Forensic doctor Zhao stood near the charred corpse with a dignified face, watching two younger forensic doctors seriously inspecting the corpse, An Changpu and Qin Ruonan walked over to greet him and inquire about the situation by the way.

"This morning, the county bureau sent people and staff from other departments in the county to inspect the disaster situation, to see if the thunderstorm last night caused any casualties besides property damage, and just received the response from the nearby villagers, saying: In the woods, a person who might have been struck dead by lightning was found, and the people from the county bureau came over to take a look, and after seeing that something was wrong, they called us." Forensic doctor Zhao sighed and pointed Pointing to the corpse on the ground, "You have also seen that this corpse has extensive burns all over its body, and it is carbonized black. Such uniform and large-scale burns cannot be caused by a short-term lightning strike. There must be combustion aids. , and no deposits of soot and carbon powder were found in the mouth and respiratory tract of the deceased, so the body should have been cremated after death."

Qin Ruonan bravely looked at the corpse for a few more times. The corpse had been burnt to the point where its true colors could not be seen, and its facial features could no longer be recognized. The surface of the corpse looked a bit greasy due to the high-temperature burning, and the corpse looked very tall. Short, with all limbs bent and curled up, as if in a defensive position.The body was burnt in a large area, but it didn't seem to be particularly deep. The skin on the torso, limbs, especially near the joints showed signs of cracking. Those irregular fusiform cracks were not deep, as if they were cut out by someone with a knife. The same as the one, the subcutaneous tissue that is different from the charcoal black on the surface can be vaguely revealed from the crack.

"Forensic Zhao, the deceased is so thin, is the gender female? Are these wounds and the posture of the corpse due to having fought with others before he was alive?" Qin Ruonan was defensive about the short, charred corpse. He was puzzled by his posture and the multiple diamond-shaped wounds on his body.

"The gender of the deceased is indeed female, but it is not judged from the short stature," Zhao forensic doctor explained to Qin Ruonan and An Changpu, "After the corpse is burned at high temperature, its weight and height will decrease and shorten correspondingly. The length you see now does not match the height of the deceased before his death. In addition, the posture similar to the boxing defense presented by the deceased was also caused by burning, and it has nothing to do with whether he was in a defensive posture before he was alive. After inspection, they are all relatively shallow and only exist on the surface of the skin. In forensic science, we call it a false laceration. It is also caused by burning to cause the skin to coagulate and shrink, so it will be cracked along the texture. It should not be caused by man-made machinery. sexual injury."

After inspecting the corpse, An Changpu also noticed that on the main torso of the corpse, the cracks in the skin were not the same scorched black, so he asked Zhao Forensic Doctor: "Is this corpse considered to be burnt deeply?" ?”

"Judging from the burned area, the intention of the cremator should be to fully burn the corpse. You can see the burned trees and vegetation around, but judging from the final result, the degree of burning is really not Deep, I personally think that it is very likely that the rain caused the burning to continue."

"The time of death and the age of the deceased..."

"There is no way to draw conclusions about these now, and you have seen it too," Forensic Doctor Zhao shook his head helplessly, "This will be solved after we bring it back, and then we will try to measure the bone age and try to restore the face of the deceased. .”

"Okay, then we know!" An Changpu nodded understandingly, discussed with Qin Ruonan, and decided to go to a nearby village to check the situation first. After all, it was found that the person who first discovered the body was in that village.

The few villagers who found the corpse lived in the village closest to the cremation site. Although it was said to be the closest village to here, the actual walking distance was as long as [-] minutes, because it was only a short drive away. They still need to take a detour, which would waste even more time. An Changpu and Qin Ruonan decided to walk there. They greeted Tian Yang and entrusted him with the affairs of the scene. The police from the county bureau went to the village where the informant was located to have a look.

The policeman of the county bureau, surnamed Chen, is a few years younger than both An Changpu and Qin Ruonan. It seems that he has just walked out of the campus, maybe he is not used to things like being on the scene, even though he is trying his best to show himself Naturally calm, his pale face still betrayed the shock in his heart.

"Don't just keep recalling the scenes in your head, think about something else. At the beginning, you will feel uncomfortable, but you will get used to it gradually." An Changpu patted Chen's face in a considerate manner. Shoulder, did not discuss with him too much about the incident at the scene of the crime. While encouraging him, he changed the topic to other aspects to help the pale-faced Xiao Chen divert his attention.

Xiao Chen was seen to be not calm in his heart, so he smiled a little embarrassedly, then looked at Qin Ruonan who was walking aside, and sincerely praised: "I still don't have enough tempering, such a big person, I'm so courageous." It's embarrassing to be so young, I'm not as good as our senior sister in this respect, you two just watched the scene for a long time, and the senior sister didn't change her face, how brave! It's really not comparable to ordinary girls!"

Qin Ruonan was not good at talking to strangers, so when he was praised by Xiao Chen when he met for the first time, he gave him a faint smile in embarrassment, and didn't talk to him.

On the other hand, An Changpu, after hearing what Xiao Chen said, he chuckled and said, "Then you don't know her well. You, a senior sister, are very aggressive in your work, and you are no worse than a man. Girls are no different."

Having been analyzed by An Changpu in front of outsiders, Qin Ruonan cleared his throat a little uncomfortably, An Changpu smiled and said nothing more, while Xiao Chen sized them up curiously, a little understanding He looked at An Changpu with a smile and didn't speak.

The three of them chatted and walked, and it didn't take long before they came to the village where several informants lived. Along the way, An Changpu and Qin Ruonan had already found out the general situation of the village from Xiao Chen, knowing that this was a population There are many villages with a population of about [-]. Residents' residences are distributed in a narrow and long form. There is a ridge behind the village. After crossing the ridge, there is another adjacent village. The mountain is not high, and there are frequent exchanges of people between the two villages on weekdays, and the place where the corpse was buried is near that mountain, which means that if the corpse is a nearby resident, the two Villages are all possible search areas.

The three of them arrived at the village. Under Xiao Chen's leadership, they first found the three villagers who found the body early in the morning.

These four villagers are all middle-aged men in their 40s, native-born locals, and the whole family has lived here for generations. When they approached the door, they were gathering at one of their homes, with a large group of relatives and neighbors. They were chatting lively about the disaster nearby, and the discovery of a dead person in the nearby woods in the morning.

After questioning, Qin Ruonan and An Changpu learned that two of these four people were relatives, and the other two were their neighbors. One of these four people had relatives in the village on the other side of the mountain. I heard that the disaster in the village over there was very serious. Because of the strong wind and thunderstorm, the local phone could not be connected, so I called three other people and wanted to go to the next village to see the disaster situation of relatives. The cement road was broken by the sudden surge of the river, so he could only take a small path. Unexpectedly, when he took the path through the woods, he found a charred corpse inside.

"At first I thought it was a dummy!" One of the villagers said to An Changpu and Qin Ruonan, "Looking at it from a distance, it looks like a black plastic dummy like the ones that sell clothes in shopping malls, so They didn't take it seriously, and later they said, who in this barren mountain has nothing to come here to throw a dummy! The trees next to it were burnt to black, let alone someone last night When Dalei was walking in the woods, he was struck dead by lightning. I thought it was right, so I went over to have a look, and I almost sat on the ground in shock!"

Thanks to the courage of these four villagers, after discovering that someone was burned to death there, none of the four had the courage to get closer to see clearly, so they hurried home and even went to the next door. The matter in the village was also left behind, and did not cause too much impact on the corpse scene.

When asked if there was any missing female population in the village where they lived, the four of them couldn't answer. They could only confirm that no one was missing from their own family or neighbors' family, and they couldn't tell the reason for anything else.

So the three of An Changpu and the others found the village chief and senior officials of the village, and accompanied by them, they went door-to-door in the village to investigate. After doing some statistics, they finally found three female villagers who could not be contacted due to communication failures caused by windstorms and thunderstorms. Qin Ruonan recorded the names, ages and appearance characteristics of these three people.

To be on the safe side, the three of them went around the mountain to the neighboring village on the other side of the ridge to investigate, and finally found two female villagers who could not be contacted for the time being.

In the evening, he returned to the Public Security Bureau with a tired body and muddy feet. As soon as he entered, Tian Yang brought another surprising news to An Changpu and Qin Ruonan.

"You are back, and you have made an 'interesting' discovery." The expression on Tian Yang's face has nothing to do with the word "interesting". "The forensic doctor is still conducting an autopsy on the female corpse. It is certain that this female corpse has no scalp."

"What do you mean by no scalp? Burned out?" An Changpu frowned, not understanding Tian Yang's meaning.

Tian Yang shook his head: "No, there is no sign of the hair being burned, and no scalp tissue was found on the head of the deceased. Forensic doctor Zhao believes that the scalp of the deceased was stripped and taken away after being burned!"

(End of this chapter)