Coroner Coroner

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"So, when an adult puts a rope around her neck..."

Lin Xinyi paused slightly, and in a heavy tone he restored the scene at the time of the crime:

"By virtue of the huge difference in height and strength, the murderer could easily lift Minako from the ground, leaving her struggling with her feet dangling in the pain of being strangled by her neck."

"In this case, he strangled and hanged himself in a similar position, and the rope trench formed would be similar."

"So, we can now see:"

"In the photo, although the direction of the two cable trenches is slightly different, their positions and shapes are very close."

"Based on these photos at the scene and observing with the naked eye, it is not possible to rigorously draw the conclusion that Minako died of homicide."

"Huh?" Teacher Shimoda's eyes lit up.

He seemed to be very happy to hear the answer: "That, doesn't that mean that there is no way to confirm that Minako didn't commit suicide?"

"Can't."

Lin Xinyi calmly broke his fantasy:

"The evidence on the corpse is not sufficient, so we have to look at it in conjunction with the situation at the scene."

"Everyone look at this photo again:"

"This is the iron pipe that the murderer used to hang the 'hanging' rope that was taken by the police officers of the forensic department."

Minako died in the utility room of the school building.

And that teaching building seems to be an old building decades ago, so many rooms have exposed pipelines.

Just under the ceiling of this utility room, there is a thick and rusty iron pipe.

The hanging rope is tied to this iron pipe.

"See this iron pipe in the photo?"

"The iron pipes were covered with a layer of dust and there was a lot of rust on the iron pipes themselves."

"Put the rope on this kind of old iron pipe, and as long as you pull it with a little force, the dust and rust on the place where the force is attached should be peeled off in large quantities."

"And if Minako committed suicide—"

"She hung herself under this iron pipe. During the violent struggle during her lifetime, the rope would definitely shake and rub against her body back and forth, causing a large area of rust to peel off the surface of the iron pipe."

"But, look here:"

"There is just a not narrow and not wide cable mark on this iron pipe."

"This shows that Minako didn't struggle at all after being hung on it, or even made any movements."

Lin Xinyi's eyes became sharper:

"Because she was already dead at that time!"

"After she was strangled to death with a rope, she was hung on an iron pipe and pretended to commit suicide!"

He restored the truth that was covered up back then.

This truth has been late for three full years.

The air became deadly still.

Akiko Yonehara quietly clenched the apple in her hand, as well as the apple-peeling knife.

She quietly cast her eyes on Shimoda beside her.

And Mr. Shimoda...

He was silent for a long time, raised his head, and said with an ugly face:

"So it seems that Minako did not die by suicide."

"However, Officer Lin, if you want to imply that I have something to do with this case..."

"Should I still give evidence?!"

Chapter 312 The hidden secret of photos

Shimoda-sensei has been in a panic all the time, so panicked that he would tremble just by hearing Minako's name.

This shows that his psychological quality is very poor, and he should be a very easy guy to break through.

But he still shows no signs of pleading guilty.

Because Lin Xinyi brought out too few things.

And Shimoda-sensei is actually right:

Without evidence, Lin Xinben should not have regarded him as a sinner.

The investigation has finally reached the most critical and difficult moment.

The case has been classified as homicide.

What he needed now was evidence, evidence that would bring out the murderer and bring him to trial.

And at this point, Lin Xinyi's hole cards are definitely not many.

He can only try his luck:

"You want evidence?"

"Okay, I'll give it to you!"

Lin Xinyi squeezed the one-on-three in his hand, and shouted "I'll eat the screen if I lose".

He picked up Minako's picture again:

"see it?"

"By observing the shape of the two cable grooves, I can confirm that the two cable grooves are formed by the same rope."

"This means that the rope used by the murderer to strangle Minako is the same rope as the 'upper rope' that hung Minako under the iron pipe."

"That is to say—"

"The murder weapon was actually left at the scene by the murderer."

"The murder weapon is this hanging rope."

"And no matter how unreliable the guys in the Metropolitan Police Department are, they also know how to keep the most important physical evidence in the suicide case, on a hanging rope."

"Although the case was quickly concluded as a 'suicide', according to regulations, the evidence must be archived and kept together with the files after the case is closed."

Lin Xinyi stared coldly at Mr. Shimoda:

"That rope is now kept in the evidence room of the Metropolitan Police Department."

"And Shimoda-sensei, you can try to recall..."

"When you and Sugiyama killed Minako, were you wearing gloves?"

It takes a lot of strength to strangle someone, and once you use the strength, your hands have to rub vigorously against the rough rope.

If you kill without gloves, you will surely leave the flakes of your own skin on the rope.

Three years ago, or before Lin Xinyi appeared, the prisoners were generally more "simple".

Their brains are all focused on conceiving tricks, and they don't even know how to clean up the traces when committing crimes. Few of them wear gloves to kill.

What's more, judging from the omissions everywhere at the scene, the murderer who killed Minako was indeed not a high-intelligence criminal who would pay attention to cleaning up details and cleaning up traces.

"Think about it!"

"If you're not wearing gloves..."

"On the rope that strangled Minako, will you find the skin flakes left by you?"

"Don't take chances—"

Lin Xinyi also specifically and solemnly warned:

"Even if it is an old inspection material from three years ago, our Metropolitan Police Department can identify it."

"On this point, you can read my previously published papers."

Hearing this, Teacher Shimoda's face became extremely pale.

Lin Xinyi heaved a long sigh of relief:

Whether this so-called evidence works depends entirely on whether the other party wears gloves when committing the crime.

If you wear it, the rope is useless at all.

But now, seeing Mr. Shimoda's panic-stricken reaction, Lin Xinyi has already come up with the answer: