Coroner Coroner

Nakamura Misato, who was recognized as the number one suspect before, was curled up on a single-seater sofa with a pale face at the moment, silent and not knowing what he was thinking.

There was always tension in her eyes.

And the existence of her "murderer" also made other people present feel nervous about her.

Everyone subconsciously kept a subtle distance from her, deliberately sitting far away from Nakamura Misato.

Especially Mr. Shimoda.

Shimoda-sensei was squeezed into the farthest edge of the couch, farthest away from Nakamura Misato who was sitting on the single-seater sofa.

He kept his head down all the time, his face was as gray as paper, and he was even more guilty than Miri Nakamura with the "murderer" hat on his head.

What made Lin Xinyi and the others a little concerned was:

Sitting next to Shimoda-sensei was Akiko Yonehara.

She was sitting next to Teacher Shimoda, with a natural expression and indifferent eyes, in stark contrast to Shimoda's dead face.

Akiko Yonehara was calm.

But after guessing her true intentions, her appearance gave people the feeling of a snow mountain before an avalanche, a sea brewing a storm.

It was eerily quiet.

Especially, at this moment, Akiko Yonehara was still holding a fruit knife in her hand.

She was holding the fruit knife, lowering her head and concentrating on peeling the apple in her hand-it seemed that the function of this knife was only to peel apples.

But in the eyes of Lin Xinyi and others, this scene:

Akiko Yonehara seemed to be about to explode at any moment, turning the fruit knife in her hand into a butcher's knife, and stabbing Shimoda teacher's neck beside her.

"do not worry."

Belmode blinked, implying that such a message was sent to Lin Xinyi.

Akiko Yonehara was sitting next to Shimoda, and she was sitting next to Akiko Yonehara.

Belmode's expression was more natural than Yonehara's, so natural that there was no trace.

While chatting and laughing with Suzuki Sonoko sitting on the other side of her, she always maintains a special and hidden posture, ensuring that every move of Yonehara Akiko is watched from the corner of her eye .

"give it to you."

Lin Xinyi secretly looked back at her.

He also felt relieved suddenly:

Although not as rigorous and cumbersome as their investigations and reasoning, Belmode obviously noticed the flaws in Mr. Yonehara's performance through the way she is good at.

Lin Xin didn't even need to say hello, she was already helping to monitor Mr. Yonehara's actions.

Hayashi Shinichi believes that with professionals like Belmode on guard at all times, it is absolutely impossible for Akiko Yonehara to succeed in the murder.

"Then, we can have a good talk."

After reassuringly handing over the security work to Belmode, Lin Xinyi finally got to the point:

"Ms. Shimoda."

"Do you have anything to say about Minako's case three years ago?"

"Ah, ah?"

Teacher Shimoda shuddered all over.

When Lin Xinyi said in front of everyone that he wanted to find Minako's files from the Metropolitan Police Department, he had already realized that Lin Xinyi might bring up the old matter again.

But when he was actually asked by the famous forest management officer, he was still a little uneasy:

"Mi, Minako... Isn't this case a simple suicide?"

"I only know that she was hanged on the utility room, the rest...I don't know."

"You do not know?"

"Then why did you react so strongly when you heard Minako's name?!"

Lin Xinyi asked coldly.

"I, I..." Shimoda-sensei responded in the most effective way amidst the nervous confusion:

That is to keep silent and not answer anything.

"It's okay if you don't say it."

"Let me speak for you."

Lin Xinyi never imagined that he could tell the truth with such a sentence.

He can only use the extremely limited clues in his hands to the extreme, and play this bad deck to the best:

"Look at the pictures!"

"Just these photos can prove that Minako Mochizuki did not die by suicide three years ago!"

Lin Xinyi coldly threw down a stack of photos of the scene.

These are the works of photography masters in the forensics class.

Fortunately, their photography skills are not bad.

Fortunately, they have mastered the core technology of fishing in the workplace:

That is, no matter how free you are, you must always maintain a busy working attitude in front of your leaders, colleagues and customers.

As long as they are "working" all the time, even if they have no work results, outsiders will not suspect that they are being lazy.

So... After arriving at the scene of the crime, these master photographers tapped their cameras here and there, and the shutter didn't stop for a moment.

They photographed and documented nearly every space in the crime scene.

It includes the surface of the corpse, which is very useful for Lin Xinyi's replay analysis, and also includes some inconspicuous details that were inadvertently photographed by them.

"First, let's look at this photo of Minako's body."

Lin Xinyi picked out a photo with a stern expression and presented it in front of Mr. Shimoda.

Mochizuki Minako is a very cute little girl.

But in the photos, her remains can only make people feel palpitations.

Because people who died of mechanical asphyxiation will inevitably have exophthalmos, blue lips, and cyanotic corpse signs.

There may even be incontinence.

Therefore, the death of the hanged person will never be peaceful, and the hanged ghost has become a terrifying existence in folklore.

And the once innocent and lovely little girl in the photo has already changed into this appearance.

"..." The air was silent for a while.

Mr. Shimoda plucked up the courage to look at the photo that Lin Xinyi handed over, but he just glanced at it lightly, then lowered his head like an electric shock.

After observing his reaction, Lin Xinyi continued to explain:

"Although the photographer is not a professional practice recorder, what he did was just routine shooting, and he didn't take a special photo of a certain part."

"But we can still see very clearly:"

"On Minako's neck, there are two rope grooves going in different directions."

If it is a simple suicide by hanging, except for a few special circumstances, such as the first time the rope broke and failed, and you won the grand prize of "hanging again".

Generally speaking, there is only one rope groove on the neck of the deceased.

There are two cable ditches with different directions, which means that the neck of the deceased was repeatedly strangled.

If you see this situation, the forensic doctor, or any police detective with a brain, should immediately increase their vigilance and investigate the authenticity of this so-called "suicide".

"But the killer from three years ago was lucky."

"He didn't meet a detective, he didn't meet a detective with a brain, he just met a bunch of moths waiting to die."

"The murderer didn't use any tricks, and he didn't even clean up the traces of the scene."

"Just taking advantage of the loopholes in the system of the Metropolitan Police Department, an old institution, has allowed me to get away with it so far."

Lin Xinyi's tone became more and more stern.

"This..." Cold sweat broke out on Mr. Shimoda's forehead.

He plucked up his courage in the tension, and questioned: "Only by those two cable ditches, can it be proved that this is not suicide?"

"Not sure yet."

If Lin Xinyi had been present at the time, in fact, relying on these two rope ditches, it could almost be determined that it was homicide.

As long as the neck is dissected and the damage and bleeding of the muscles and blood vessels under the cable groove are checked, it can be judged whether there is a life reaction under the cable groove and whether it was formed before death.

If one of the rope trenches has no obvious life reaction, it can be easily proved that:

Minako was first strangled to death, and then hung up with a rope to pretend to commit suicide.

But now, without a corpse, Lin Xinyi can only look for clues with the naked eye from the photos.

However, this trick is useful for the usual case of Ta Le's fake suicide, but it is not so effective in this special case.

"Because the victims in this case are children."

"Under normal circumstances, he strangles and hangs himself. One is strangled by others behind his back, and the other is hanged with his feet in the air."

"Different body positions will naturally have very obvious differences in the position and shape of the cable ditch."

"Because of the strength that ordinary murderers can use when they strangle their necks, it is difficult to catch up with the suffocation force that the deceased uses his own body weight to cause when he hangs himself."

"Thus, strangled and hanged, the force formed is different, and the degree of internal and external damage is also different."

"Generally:"

"The rope ditch formed by hanging himself will be more seriously damaged than him."

"The cord grooves of self-hanging are mostly located between the thyroid cartilage and the hyoid bone, and the cord grooves of his strangulation are mostly located under the thyroid cartilage."

"But these methods of discrimination are not applicable to Minako."

"Because she was a small child, she was very light and short."