Coroner Coroner

"Evidence plus testimony, plus the fact that he was 'passively exposed' during the investigation, is enough to make Mr. Saku's identity as the murderer a certainty."

Lin Xinyi answered everyone's questions in an orderly manner:

"Second, and most importantly:"

"Because there was no effective communication between Mr. Saku and the 'real murderer' he wanted to help cover."

"The so-called real murderer doesn't even know what Mr. Saku did for him."

"All of this is Mr. Saku's own initiative."

"So, he didn't know the specific process of the crime at all."

"And relying on the forensic knowledge he acquired by ear and eyes, he has no confidence to accurately judge the time and method of Ritsuko Ubing's death."

"So Saku Hoshi has no way to surrender himself."

He couldn't even tell the exact time and method of killing himself. If he asked, he would reveal his truth. How could he turn himself in to deceive the police?

Saku Hoshi must first hide it, and indirectly confirm the time and method of Ubing Ritsuko's death by secretly observing Hayashi Shinichi's investigation.

"So, a funny thing happened:"

"I speculated that the time of death was 0 o'clock, so he said that the time of his crime was 0 o'clock."

"I speculated that the method of death was suffocation, and he said that his method of committing the crime was suffocation."

"But the problem is..."

"My initial guess was wrong, Ritsuko Ubing didn't die from suffocation."

"That alone is enough to put an end to Mr. Saku's lies."

"And the time of Ritsuko Ubing's death was indeed around midnight."

"But I have evidence to prove that the time when Mr. Saku entered the room and found the body was at least 1 or 2 hours after Ritsuko Usui died."

"That's after 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning."

Lin Xinyi came to a firm conclusion.

The scene was silent.

Including the ugly Saku Hoshi, everyone is waiting for him to give evidence to prove these unbelievable conclusions:

"The most direct evidence is the corpse spots."

"I have just carefully examined the body surface of the deceased, and found that there are corpse spots on the front and back of her body."

"The body spots on the chest are lighter, and the spots on the back are heavier."

No response yet.

Mao Lilan, who had studied with Lin Xinyi for a period of time, quickly realized something:

"There are corpse spots on the front and back sides..."

"Could it be that after the deceased died, the body was turned over and moved?"

When Ritsuko Usui's body was found, she was lying on her back on the bed.

To put it bluntly, corpse spots are the skin spots formed after the blood circulation stops after death, the blood in the cardiovascular system lacks power, and accumulates along the vascular network in the lower parts of the corpse.

The water flows to the lower place, and the blood will naturally only accumulate in the lower place due to the effect of gravity.

The body was like a bottle filled with water.

If it is placed upright, the water will definitely accumulate to the bottom of the bottle.

Put it upside down, and the water will definitely accumulate to the bottle cap.

Therefore, if Ritsuko Usui's body has not moved after death, it has always been lying on the bed in a supine position.

The corpse spots should only appear on the lower part of the corpse, that is, on the back side of Ritsuko Usui.

But she also had corpse spots on one side of her chest.

It's just that the color is much lighter, so light that it can hardly be distinguished.

this means…

"It means that Miss Ubing should have been lying face down in the first period of time after her death."

"At that time, her front chest was the lower part of the corpse, so blood stagnated here, forming corpse spots visible to the naked eye."

"And the 'this period of time' is not short, at least 1~2 hours."

"Without this 1-2 hours, the corpses would not have time to show corpse spots."

In other words, Usui Ritsuko lay prone for at least 1 to 2 hours after her death.

But after that, someone moved her body.

He even turned her side so that she changed from prone to supine.

In this way, Usui Ritsuko spent another night lying on her back until her body was found in the morning.

And within 1 to 12 hours after death, that is, the "falling accumulation period" when the plaque has just formed, the blood in the corpse has not yet coagulated and has strong fluidity.

Therefore, during the deposition period, if the position of the corpse is turned, the original plaques will gradually become less obvious or even disappear.

So, during this night, Ritsuko Usui's body was like an hourglass turned upside down...

The blood that was originally pooled on the front chest was slowly pooled down to the back under the action of gravity.

Therefore, more and more blood accumulated on the back and back, and the color of the corpse spots continued to increase.

The corpse spots on the front chest gradually faded, and the color became lighter, so light that it almost disappeared completely.

"So, here comes the problem..."

Lin Xinyi turned his attention to Saku Hoshi:

"Mr. Saku, if you are the murderer."

"Why did you deliberately run back to her room and move her body after at least an hour after you killed Miss Ubing at 0 o'clock?"

"And if it wasn't you who moved the body..."

"Then who could it be?"

Chapter 418: A Passionate Devotion

Saku Hoshi could no longer speak.

Lin Xinyi has already proved through the body spots on Ritsuko Usui that her body had been moved at least one hour after her death.

This alone is enough to expose Saku Hoshi's lies.

Because this had a serious conflict with his previous confession:

He said that he finished killing Ritsuko Ubing around 0 o'clock, set up the secret room mechanism, and left the crime scene directly.

How to explain the moving of the body?

Could there be a mysterious person who somehow ran over to move the corpse in the middle of the night?

After he finished all this, before he left the room, he tried his best to restore the secret room mechanism set by Saku Fashi?

This cannot be explained logically.

"There is only one reasonable explanation."

"That is, Saku Hoshi-san..."

"You are not the murderer, but the mysterious person who came to Usui Ritsuko's room in the middle of the night and moved the body for some reason!"

Saku Hoshi: "..."

He was silent for a while, and his expression became more and more complicated.

In the end, in the face of Lin Xinyi's irrefutable indications, Hoshi Saku sighed and admitted his lying behavior:

"That's right...I'm not a murderer."

"Usui Ritsuko's body was also moved by me."

Lin Xinyi got a satisfactory answer.

He then asked puzzledly:

"Saku-san, why did you come to Usui Ritsuko's room in the middle of the night?"

"And why move her body?"

"It's a long story."

Hoshi Saku sighed softly, and said surprisingly:

"It's midnight, to be precise, it's around 2 o'clock in the middle of the night."

"At that time, I went to Ritsuko Ubing to kill her."

"Don't be surprised..."

He emphasized in a serious tone:

"The motive I said before was not made up by me."

"Because of the lawsuit between the village and Mitsui Chemicals, I really want to kill Ritsuko Usui and let Mitsui Chemicals lose this crucial lawsuit."

"But you know I'm here." Lin Xinyi retorted: "How dare you commit crimes?"

"Ha ha…"

Hoshi Saku smiled frankly:

"Officer Lin, although your name is famous, it can only scare those cowards who try to escape legal punishment."

"But I'm different."

"Before I thought about killing Ritsuko Usui, I decided to surrender after committing the crime."

"This..." Lin Xinyi was speechless: