Chapter 8 Similar Cases

"Is it possible that someone deliberately faked it?"

Miko, who is a man of reasoning in herself, naturally thinks about it from the perspective of conspiracy. X

Seeing that Miko and Miki were looking at him with some curiosity, Lin Xiuyi thought for a moment, and then remembered that this case had already been reported by the media, so he said to Miko without any worries:

"The victim in this case is a retired university professor, and the Hokkaido police have determined that this is a suicide case, and so far, I have not found anything unusual from the available information. So, maybe the conclusion reached by the Hokkaido police is the truth of the case!"

Lin Xiuyi was turning over the crab legs on the charcoal stove with a tong, while thinking about the case on the information, and suddenly replied to Yuzi a little absent-mindedly.

"Hey...... There have been a lot of cases involving the elderly recently, but is it because of the aging population? A few days ago, Aizawa and the others handled an accident case involving an elderly person living alone. It's so sad that this kind of unfortunate time always happens!"

Miki heard Lin Xiuyi's words, and couldn't help but say with some emotion.

"Is it a suicide of an elderly person who lives alone?"

Hearing that Miki accidentally brought up a similar case, Lin Xiuyi couldn't help but ask with some curiosity.

"No...... No, it was an accident that caused the gas explosion! The case is the responsibility of Aizawa and Hanagata, and it has been determined that it was caused by the aging of the gas stove. ”

Miki was coldly asked by Lin Xiuyi, and casually told what she knew.

"Can you tell me more about the gas explosion?"

"It seems that the deceased fell asleep while boiling water, causing the boiling water to extinguish the fire and causing gas poisoning, but the explosion seems to be caused by the aging of the surrounding electrical wiring. I don't know much about the specific situation!"

Miki said to Lin Xiuyi with some regret, she didn't expect Lin Xiuyi to suddenly be so interested in the case she accidentally raised.

"Then the deceased must have died of gas poisoning in his sleep, doesn't that sound like suicide?" Miko Fukuda keenly put forward her point as a bystander.

"Old man living alone?", "Charcoal burning?", "Gas poisoning?"

Lin Xiuyi's mind suddenly appeared with these few keywords, and he keenly felt that there seemed to be some similarities in them.

"Gas explosion? The concentration of the leaked combustible gas should be quite high, isn't there a window open in the whole house for ventilation?"

"It should be like this!Otherwise, it won't explode!" Miki thought for a while, and then replied to Lin Xiuyi.

"Haven't you opened a single window? The temperature at night must have been very comfortable these days! It feels a little strange to close all the windows?"

Lin Xiuyi said to Miki suspiciously.

"What's the matter, are you very concerned about this case?" Miki asked Lin Xiuyi with some puzzlement, and just when the two were about to discuss further, Miko suddenly said loudly to Lin Xiu:

"Hey, Xiu Yijun, is the cod crab on the stove roasted?"

"Oops, it's really careless that I almost baked paste, but fortunately you reminded me!"

Lin Xiuyi hurriedly took down the over-roasted cod crab from the oven, and then distributed it to everyone with a tong. After everyone was assigned a new cod crab, Lin Xiuyi's mind returned to the case in Hokkaido.

According to the autopsy report provided by the Hokkaido police, the forensic doctor detected a part of zopiclone in Noguchi's gastric juice, which is mainly contained in common sleeping drugs. This means that Noguchi had taken sleeping pills to prevent himself from waking up before burning charcoal. However, there is actually a very critical question in the case of Professor Noguchi's suicide that has not been clarified, that is, why he chose to commit suicide by burning charcoal, which is not reflected in the short two-sentence suicide note.

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The next morning, after Lin Xiu made himself a cup of fragrant pour-over coffee as usual, he immediately sat quietly in front of the computer, and searched with great interest for relevant consultations about the accident that happened not long ago.

The bombing occurred in a remote Kenri in Tokyo. The deceased was Shuntaro Kobayashi, a retired elementary school principal who lived a prosperous life. Speculation based on some of the signs found at the site of the explosion. It is very likely that Shuntaro Kobayashi accidentally fell asleep on the sofa in his living room while boiling water. So much so that no gas leaks were found, which eventually led to this tragic tragedy.

Lin Xiuyi kept looking at the relevant materials of this case with his mouse, until he saw the kettle that was placed on the gas stove photographed at the scene, and he couldn't help but feel even more suspicious.

"The kettle in the photo has a kettle stopper that can be honked after boiling. This kind of thing Lin Xiuyi can still see at a glance. Since Shuntaro Kobayashi was sitting on the couch not far from the kitchen, why couldn't he wake up? ”

It was with this question in mind that Lin Shuichi quickly opened the detailed autopsy report of Kobayashi Shuntaro, and according to the hints on this practice report, Lin Shuichi found a familiar word zopiclone in Kobayashi Shuntaro's stomach solution.

"I thought I was taking sleeping pills! If that's the case, I can't hear the horn. But how many people will have a heart big enough to take sleeping pills while still boiling water on the stove?"

Seeing the information here, Lin Xiu couldn't help but put the two cases together and made some comparisons. According to the available intelligence. There are many similarities between the two cases. For example, the cause of death of the deceased was carbon monoxide poisoning, and the identity was also an elderly person living alone who lived a prosperous life, in addition, the composition of the sleeping pills taken by the two was also very similar.

"How can it be such a coincidence, will there be any problems?"

As soon as Lin Xiu sat in front of the computer, this thought in his heart started at some point and kept haunting his heart. Because this case has been characterized as an accident. Therefore, the Metropolitan Police Department did not put more energy into the follow-up investigation. This also caused the lack of some key information required by Lin Xiuyi in the data. Thinking of this, Lin Xiuyi couldn't help but move to the scene of this case to take a look.

"Miki. Can you come with me to the scene of the crime and find out what is going on there?"