In just an afternoon, an excavator at the landfill unearthed a large black suitcase.
The cautious staff didn’t open it privately; the discovery of the first body left everyone with an unusual fear of the black suitcase.
Liu Guodong from the Cri Scene Investigation office led the team, with Forensic Doctor Wang Changjiang and others arriving at the scene promptly.
The experienced Liu Guodong and Wang Changjiang knew there was another discovery without opening the suitcase, just by the sll nearby.
The stench of a corpse is different from most rotting slls.
It’s an extrely complex and unique sll, one you will never forget once you have slled it.
So especially skilled forensic doctors or cri scene experts can estimate the decomposition ti of a body just by slling, combined with the environnt of the discovery.
Lu Chuan’s interdiate cri scene skills cover this area, but he doesn’t have this skill; it should be at the advanced level, perhaps.
"Old Bai, you take photos, I’ll open the suitcase."
Even though the suitcase was not yet open, the unique sll of corpse decay confird to everyone that a body was inside.
Strangely, the decomposition odor of a human body is distinct from that of an animal, and the difference is quite noticeable.
The exterior cri scene photographs were quickly completed.
Liu Guodong put on three layers of gloves, ready to open the case.
Whoa!
As the chain was unlocked and Liu Guodong lifted the lid, the faces of the people who saw inside turned extrely grim.
Compared to Wang Lili’s rely moldy corpse, this body couldn’t just be described as decayed; parts of it had already started to liquefy.
The phenonon of body’s autolysis is essentially a breakdown process within the cells themselves.
After death, cells lose their activity, and under the action of various enzys, they begin to degrade, which causes organs and skin to soften or liquefy.
"So skin has shown signs of autolysis, the body has been abandoned for... at least two or three months."
Autolysis of a body follows a sequence, generally starting with the internal organs.
The pancreas in the human body begins to show structural changes in just six or seven hours after death, first swelling, then losing cell boundaries as its color becos transparent, ultimately presenting a liquefied state.
Then the phenonon of autolysis occurs in the lungs, heart, spleen, and kidneys.
The last organ to show this phenonon is the liver.
Theoretically, autolysis of a body proceeds regardless of environntal pollution; that ans even if the body is in an absolute vacuum, as long as the temperature is suitable, autolysis will still occur.
This is a decompositional phenonon inherent to the cells themselves.
In reality, complex environnts have nurous bacteria, which, to so extent, can accelerate the progression of autolysis.
The most critical factor is temperature. Extre low temperatures can significantly delay the autolysis process, with organs that typically complete autolysis in days able to be preserved for centuries under cold conditions.
And the natural environnt of the landfill will obviously speed up the onset of autolysis.
Wow.
The suitcase opened, spilling out a gush of corpse fluid.
The formation of corpse fluid is actually part of the decomposition process, where microbes dehydrate the body’s sugars and proteins, and the exuded moisture becos the main source of corpse fluid.
Corpse fluid is toxic because it contains a large amount of decomposing microbes and various breakdown substances from the decomposition process.
Unprotected contact can easily lead to infection.
Carefully collecting so of the corpse fluid for toxicological analysis, the team began to clean the body inside the suitcase.
"Limbs, torso, five parts, the dismbernt thod is the sa as the previous body."
Although the discovery of a body here basically confirms it’s the sa killer, as cri scene investigators and forensic doctors, they need to make inford inferences through judgnt and analysis.
Wang Changjiang nodded, turning over the thigh bone with so attached tissue: "The dismbernt thod is also similar, neat and clean... wait, here!"
There was a scratch on the dismbernt joint of the right arm.
The joint on the left arm also had a scratch.
"The sa thod, with signs of progress from accumulated experience..."
"This person... has killed more than one or two."
Liu Guodong observed closely and indeed found traces on the bones.
Just like how a student progresses in handwriting from ssy to neat, it requires practice, ti, and process.
Killing is the sa.
If a murderer dismbers a body, it’s unlikely they can achieve perfect dismbernt with just one body, seamlessly and without flaw, like an expert butcher carving an ox.
In real case investigations, the discovery of dismbernt traces can reveal a killer’s learning trajectory.
This second body evidently showed traces of this nature.
"Let’s take it back for autopsy to see the condition."
Liu Guodong sighed. Most of this body had turned into fluid, with many traces long gone.
For instance, the cause of death is indiscernible due to the body’s autolysis and near disappearance of the skin, with only so residual tissue clinging to the bones, making it impossible to determine the cause of death from external injuries.
If the cause of death did not impact the bones, there’s virtually no way to figure out how the killer murdered the victim.
In such cases, there’s very little that forensic doctors can do beyond so analysis of the bones.
The most important thing is identifying the victim’s identity.
Cri scene investigators have certain thods for this; although the body is highly decomposed and in a liquefied state, DNA identification and analysis can still extract DNA information from it.
However, the process might be cumberso and ti-consuming, and common thods may not be effective because the autolysing cells’ genetic material would have long since degraded.
They can only look at the bone marrow or extract mitochondria for DNA identification.
If that doesn’t work, they can only rely on the bones.
For example, whether they had any fractures or dental work, these traces can remain even if the corpse is completely decomposed.
After Qin Yong gained an understanding of the basic situation, he got in a car and headed to the city level to report to the director in person.
Major case.
Qin Yong had a strong feeling that this was definitely a major case, and the murderer’s thods were cruel, likely killing more than just one or two people.
The excavator operator at the landfill had been replaced, as the previous one couldn’t handle it and had vomited bile.
But there’s no choice; since a second body was discovered, no one can be sure there isn’t a third.
Old Bai stayed behind to keep an eye out in case a third body was found, while the others returned to the squad to examine the second body.
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