MTL - Mystery Hunter-Chapter 44 Carrion Investigation

However, although Captain Li was not petrified, after seeing the corpse clearly, he was really disgusted for a while.

At this moment, the three members of the task force were carefully observing the corpse.

This corpse is really physically uncomfortable. Looking around, the clothes the corpse is wearing are in tatters, and it is even difficult to tell what he is wearing. As for the corpse that swelled due to corruption, the clothes have even been smashed. On the clothes, a large number of wriggling maggots are falling to the ground "thumping" because they are not blocked by the cabinet.

Many maggots climbed up and down on the corpse, rolled and wriggled, and some of them even twisted into a ball, which was very disgusting.

And the corpse swelled so much that it felt like a skinny man suddenly became a fat man. Due to the swell of the corpse, it was now firmly stuck in the cabinet, so everyone could only see the front of the corpse. Much of the corpse was a brownish color, with many parts being dark green.

The face of the corpse is even more appalling, and the facial features are already difficult to identify. The corpse's face was swollen~ swollen seriously, and the facial features were even squeezed together. His eyeballs were bulging out, and the eyelids could no longer block the eyeballs. It looked as if he was staring at a certain person. Some shudder. The lips of the corpse were everted, hanging over the mouth like two sausages.

On his face, tissue fluid and turbid blood are slowly flowing down. Those maggots are in and out of his ears, nose, and even his mouth. His round, billowing body looks like a Eat a lot of carrion.

The head of the corpse, above the forehead, can clearly see a concave piece.

In other words, the murderer smashed the deceased's head with some kind of blunt tool.

The arms and legs of the corpse were swollen and swollen seriously, and they were stuck on the left and right walls of the cabinet at the moment. I carefully observed the hands of the corpse, and found that the skin had fallen off in one piece, in the shape of a glove, falling into a pile of maggots. At this moment, Xu Yiman used a piece of cloth to gently hold up the glove-like skin, and then used tweezers to get rid of the maggots one by one.

Although the arm of the corpse was swollen, there was no sign of rupture.

"Pretend." Xu Yiman had no expression on his face.

The detective next to him brought an evidence bag with a distorted expression and put it in it, and just like that, the detective had some symptoms of retching, showing how physically uncomfortable it was.

Xu Yiman looked at the detective and said, "Be careful, don't loose this skin, this is the last message this corpse left us. There's nothing scary or disgusting about it. It seems that every one of us will die, and you don't want others to dare to dispose of your body after you die..."

While listening to Xu Yiman's words, Jiang He also looked at the corpse.

However, Jiang He was not a professional after all, and he could only see the slightest conclusion. Jiang He was mainly looking at the belly of the corpse. Due to the swelling of the corpse, the clothes he was wearing seemed to have shrunk, revealing most of the corpse's belly.

Jiang He saw that the blood vessels on the corpse's stomach were clearly reflected, like a net drawn on the corpse.

Jiang He didn't understand this, so he asked Xu Yiman, "What's the matter with the reticulated blood vessels on the stomach?"

Xu Yiman had already observed the corpse as a whole at this moment. He looked at Jiang He, who was eager to learn, and explained: "This is called the venous network of corruption. We all know that there are many bacteria in the human body. These bacteria are good and bad. In symbiosis with people, there is a kind of bacteria called spoilage bacteria, after death, without the control of the immune system, these spoilage bacteria will grow wildly and produce gas."

"The venous network of corruption you mentioned is because a large amount of corrupt gas increases the pressure in the body, the blood flows to the surface of the body due to the pressure, and gathers in the venous blood vessels under the epidermis, and because there is no way to supply blood after death Oxygen, so this dark color."

For this kind of knowledge, Xu Yiman explained very carefully.

Jiang He nodded.

Xu Yiman glanced at Jiang He with relief: "These bacteria will produce a large amount of putrefying gas in the human body, and this gas takes on the dirty green in our terminology, that is, a blackish green, just like the green of this corpse's arm. "

Saying that, Xu Yiman pointed to the parts on the corpse that were stained green: "The longer the time of corruption, the darker the stained green is, and it becomes dark brown or even black like it is now. And you look at the corpse's nose and mouth. There was a lot of blood in it, partly because of the fracture of the skull, partly because of bleeding from the organs."

Everyone followed Xu Yiman's fingers and saw the sunken skull: "As for whether this blow is fatal, because I can't see the back of the corpse, and there is no way to detect whether it is poisoned or suffocated, so at present I can't come to a conclusion yet, I can only get the body out and go to the funeral home for an autopsy."

Speaking of this, everyone couldn't help but worry. The corpse was firmly stuck in the cabinet. It was not an easy task to get the corpse out. Moreover, the corpse stinks badly and is full of white maggots. The operation is difficult and disgusting.

Xu Yiman said again: "But from this corpse, it is possible to infer a time of death."

"Huh?" Jiang He asked, "When?"

Xu Yiman wrote something in the notebook and said to Jiang He, "It's summer now, the temperature is hot, there has been a lot of rain recently, and the air is damp and humid. In such an environment, the decay process of the corpse will be accelerated. The time for the appearance of the putrid green spots in summer is about twelve hours, but you can see that the green spots on this corpse even appear brown and black, which means that the deceased should have been dead for about three or four days."

"The same." Xu Yiman continued: "The color of the venous network of corruption was also lighter at the beginning, but it gradually became darker as time went on, and the venous network of corruption first formed on the upper side of the chest. Gradually expand around, and you see, this has obviously been exposed in the lower abdomen, and the time is three to four days."

Everyone listened to Xu Yiman's professional knowledge with relish, and they didn't even pay attention to the occasional thunder.

Xu Yiman continued: "And we call this phenomenon as a whole the concept of corrupt giants. As the name suggests, his face is swollen to the point where I'm afraid his biological parents can't recognize it."

"But the most important thing." Xu Yiman picked up a maggot with tweezers: "Look at it."

Several criminal policemen hurriedly hid outside, but Jiang He leaned in.

Jiang He saw that it was a white maggot about five millimeters long. At this moment, Xu Yiman was holding it on the tweezers, and he was twisting and trying to escape. Jiang He suddenly had a maggot at this moment. The doubt stemmed from Jiang He's childhood experiences. He asked, "Why do some maggots have tails and some don't..."

Xu Yiman rolled his eyes at Jiang He and said, "Can you pay attention to the key points? It's like there are many kinds of tigers, Siberian tigers, South China tigers, etc. There are also many kinds of flies, so the maggots are different. I'll show you now. It's the length of the maggot, which tells us exactly when the dead person died."

For ordinary people, maggots are a species that makes them sick once they see them, but for forensic doctors, they are their close partners.

"For corpses in summer, it is an important method to judge the time of death of the corpse through maggots. Flies are very sensitive to the odor of corpses. After about a few minutes of the dead, the flies can smell the breath of animal death. In about ten minutes, All different kinds of flies would come to the carcass."

"Why do some flies lay eggs in feces instead of carrion?" Jiang He asked again, tilting his head.

Xu Yiman was a little helpless. She gritted her teeth: "Isn't that the point? It's like if you like meat, why do you want to be a vegetarian because you can't afford it? Can you do it because you can't buy it?"

Xu Yiman said angrily: "In about an hour on the corpse, these flies will lay eggs. In a corpse with a suitable temperature, these eggs will hatch into adult worms in about an hour, and maggots will begin to appear."

"These maggots will grow and mature in about five days." Xu Yiman still held the maggot with tweezers: "That is to say, these maggots are already mature when they have grown to this size. But you can observe carefully, in the cabinet. No pupa shells were found, which means that these maggots are first-generation maggots, so the time of death must be within four to five days."

Shao Lao blurted out: "That is to say, it is possible from August 8th to August 9th."

"That's right." Xu Yiman nodded: "But from the maturity of maggots, August 9 is very likely."

"It's about the same time as Song You's death." Jiang He looked at the corpse seriously. He wanted to identify the appearance of the corpse, but unfortunately, the corpse's face was so swollen that it was impossible to identify it. In other words, I'm afraid his biological parents can't see it either.

"Is there any surveillance?" Shao Lao raised his head and looked up.

The principal replied: "There is monitoring, but this is a holiday. Who would have thought that someone would come here..."

"That's not it?" Shao Lao said.

The principal nodded.

Shao Lao said: "Then it will be difficult for us to know who the murderer is, but we followed Zhuang Ziming's phone number here. Could this body be Zhuang Ziming?"

The principal looked over from a distance: "It's all like this, it's really hard to tell the difference."

"That's enough." Xu Yiman said: "Go back and check whether Zhuang Ziming's fingerprints match those on the Internet, so you know why I picked up the peeled skin, there are clear fingerprints on it, compare it. It's clear. Now, it's better to get this body out and take it to the funeral home for a more in-depth autopsy."

But Xu Yiman's words are easy to say, but quite difficult to do.