Things that solve crimes

After hearing what forensic doctor Bai said, Qin He was very happy. After four years of learning forensic knowledge, he could finally touch the real corpse. The ones in the practice room don't count, and they're not dissecting real cadavers. Although this time it wasn’t an autopsy, I was able to touch the body at least! It's a big improvement. I believe he will be able to perform autopsies on corpses soon.

When we arrived at the funeral home, the director had already received a call from Director Yang and had arranged a large room to serve as a temporary anatomy room. Two policemen lifted the body and bones from the car and put them into the autopsy room. Qin He and two forensic doctors, Bai and Guo, put on protective clothing and entered the autopsy room. The two police officers immediately retreated and guarded the door.

Qin He entered the dissecting room and walked towards the dissecting table where the bones were placed. The pile of bones were large and small. After careful observation, Qin He began to lay out the bones.

There are 206 bones in an adult. Some small bones require special attention, such as the hyoid bone and hand bones. Although these bones are small, they are very important.

If the hyoid bone is broken, it means that the cause of death was strangulation, which is described in official terms as "mechanical asphyxia."

After the bones, skin, flesh and fascia of the hand are gone, it will be broken into 27 bones, making a total of 54 bones in both hands. With the skin, flesh and soft tissue gone, the only way to determine whether the hand is injured is by looking at the bones.

Qin He picked up a bone and observed it for a moment, then tied a label with a name on the bone, placed it on the dissecting table, and then continued to repeat the process.

Forensic doctor Guo looked carefully at the bones arranged by Qin He and found that they were all correct, and then he felt relieved. Went to Forensic Bai to help.

Picking up the pen, Forensic Doctor Guo began to record the autopsy information. The identity of the victim was unknown, so this column was skipped. Judging from the appearance alone, this was a female corpse. Her face and limbs were lame and swollen, her abdomen was bulging, and her skin was dirty green. "Everything appeared The lame giant has been dead for at least five days," Medical Examiner Guo said as he wrote.

This time, forensic doctor Bai was the surgeon. He held the scalpel, lowered the blade, and pressed it against the corpse's neck. A straight line was drawn directly to the top of the pubic symphysis. Green corpse water flowed out along the wound, which was worse than the previous corpse odor. The smell, which was several degrees strong, instantly spread throughout the room.

Immediately afterwards, Forensic Doctor Bai began to separate the muscle tissue of the chest, and then cut along the dividing line of cartilage connecting the auxiliary bone and the sternum, opening the chest cavity and abdomen along the way, exposing the organs in the body...

Forensic doctor Bai finished the dissection, and Qin He also put together the bones. A total of seven human skeletons were put together, and each bone was numbered for easy identification.

"This bone is well put together." Forensic Doctor Guo praised. Putting the bones together is easier said than done. If it is a corpse buried in the earth with a "grave", the bones will still be arranged normally when the person dies. Just collect the bones in order from top to bottom, and then put them out in order during the dissection. This kind of It's easier to put it together.

For example, the bones Qin He put together this time were relatively difficult. They were scattered and in no order. To piece together a corpse from a pile of bones relies on the forensic doctor's familiarity. What is familiar with? Familiarity with bones.

The skeletal corpse also has many small bones. If you are not familiar with bones and are not careful, the old forensic doctor may overturn it.

Forensic Doctor Bai also looked at it and saw the deep and shallow marks on the bones. He said, "There are also these marks on the corpses I dissected. It looks like they were cut with a sharp blade such as a knife or an axe. Only cutting will cause damage to the bones." Leave traces on it.”

Forensic doctor Guo observed all seven bones and said, "These injuries are basically on the limbs and back, not on the vital parts. It is highly likely that they died from blood loss."

"I'm afraid he died of blood loss." Qin He pointed to Bone No. 2 and Bone No. 5, "Bone No. 2 only had a thigh wound, and Bone No. 5 had a wound on the arm. Neither wound was fatal, but the two victims They all died. The only explanation is that they were not treated at the time and the victims bled to death. However,"

Qin He paused for a moment and then said, "There is also the possibility of poisoning. After all, some poisonous reactions will not show up on the bones."

"The probability of poisoning is smaller. If it was poisoning, why would the person be chopped up?" Forensic Doctor Guo said.

"What if it's just to vent his anger!" Qin He put forward another point of view with caution. It is not a bad thing for criminal investigators to be cautious. Sometimes if something is missed, it may cause the case to go in the opposite direction, farther and farther away from the correct path, and ultimately the entire case cannot be solved.

After listening to the discussion between the two people, Forensic Doctor Bai first agreed with Qin He's point of view, "Xiao Qin is right to be cautious," and then said, "Take some samples from the corpse and send them to the city bureau's toxicology testing center to know whether there is poisoning."