Seeing Ling Xu's expression, He Siwen walked up to him and told him what happened again: "The deceased Bai Yuanchao, male, 75 years old, a left-behind old man, has a daughter under his knees, married to Huhai City, usually does not go home, the deceased's wife has passed away for more than ten years, and lives alone on weekdays.

At about six o'clock this morning, a fire suddenly broke out in Bai Yuanchao's home, and the surrounding neighbors immediately dialed 119 for the fire alarm, and after the firefighters put out the fire, they found that Bai Yuanchao had been burned to death in bed, and then the fire brigade reported the matter to the criminal police team.

Because the fire was too big, many items were burned, so it brought great inconvenience to the on-site investigation work, and the technical department combed through the scene and found a suspicious place, that is, many things were missing in the deceased's house.

According to the description of the deceased's neighbors, the LCD TV, refrigerator, air conditioner inside and outside the deceased's house, and several boxes of famous wine purchased by the deceased's daughter for him were also missing.

Therefore, I believe that those items were taken before the fire, and given the age and physical condition of the deceased before his death, it is obvious that he could not move those heavy household appliances.

Therefore, I deduced that someone had entered the deceased's residence with the intention of stealing these valuable household appliances, but in the process of stealing the goods, the deceased discovered the whereabouts, and the murderer committed the crime of arson and murder for fear that the deeds would be exposed. ”

After listening to He Siwen's reasoning, Ling Xu couldn't help but fall into deep thought, according to the current situation, He Siwen's analysis is very reasonable, as long as the suspect who stole the items is found, this arson murder case can be solved.

However, thinking of Liu Qianchuan's teachings before, Ling Xu did not rush to characterize the case, and returned the inquest report to He Siwen, he walked into the ruins alone to check, and the quiet old mansion was burned as black as ink, and as far as the eye could see, the three brick houses had become broken walls at this time.

Because the car transporting the body has not yet arrived, the body of the deceased has not moved, and the broken beam is moved aside, Ling Xu entered the room, the roof of the living room has been burned out, the wall is blackened, and in the east corner, there is a small hole with a diameter of about four or five centimeters, there was originally an air conditioner here, and the small hole was used for the air conditioning pipe to connect to the external unit.

Ling Xu walked to the corner and observed the small hole, and found that there were traces of pry and chisel around the small hole: "Strange? When the murderer stole something, he actually stole the rubber ring used to decorate the pipe at the edge of the hole, and the murderer actually had time to pry and chisel such a small gadget, didn't he bear that his actions would be discovered by the dead? ”

Then, Ling Xu walked to the wreckage of the TV cabinet and took a look, and found that on the horizontal surface of the wreckage of the TV stand, not only did there be no trace of the TV being burned, but there was not even a trace of melting of the plastic products: "The line connecting the wired socket, the remote control, and the power socket, these things were also taken away by the murderer, even the remote control and power socket were taken away, the murderer was calm enough?" ”

After inspecting the living room, Ling Xu first went to the east room to check, it was the room where the deceased stored his belongings, there were many cabinets in it, as well as many half-burned clothes and shoes, and there were many meters and noodles scattered on the ground.

After some observation, Ling Xu walked towards the bedroom of the deceased Bai Yuanchao, Bai Yuanchao's bedroom was located on the west side of the living room, there was a curtain at the door, and it happened that he could see the things in the living room, at this time the curtain had been burned to ashes by the fire, leaving only a corner of fragments hanging at the door.

Ling Xu walked into the bedroom and found that the degree of burn in this room was obviously worse than the other two rooms, although the two rooms outside were very badly burned, at least the furniture frame in the room remained, but the tables, chairs and benches in this bedroom were all burned to ashes.

Gently picking up the ashes with his feet, feeling something strange under his feet, Ling Xu squatted down to look for it, and after a while, he found four plates and a piece of burnt chicken cake, looking at the plate in his hand and the burnt chicken cake, Ling Xu was a little suspicious in his heart:

"How can there be four plates? And there's a chicken cake that big, isn't it? Did the deceased entertain guests at home before he was killed? No, if you are entertaining guests, you should go to the living room outside to eat, not in the bedroom next to the bed.

If it weren't for entertaining guests, then the deceased prepared such a sumptuous dish, what special festival should there be, and what festival would use chicken cakes? It is estimated that it is a special commemorative holiday for the deceased, such as acquaintance anniversary, wedding anniversary or birthday. ”

Putting these things aside, Ling Xu turned his gaze to the corpse on the side, lifted the white cloth covering the corpse, and he saw the charred corpse of the deceased, the corpse was lying flat, his hands were placed vertically next to his legs, and his face was so badly burned that he couldn't recognize his expression.

Because when Liu Qianchuan was training Ling Xu before, he specially taught him a course on examining corpses, and in order to practice, Liu Qianchuan specially led Ling Xu to the place where the corpse was stored several times at the police station, and showed him N specimens of corpses.

Inside the surface of those corpses were those who died of illness, frightening, hanging, burning, freezing, sudden, drowning, suffocation, excessive blood loss, natural death, and unnatural death.

In short, there are many specimens of those corpses, in addition to explaining the characteristics of the death of those corpses to Ling Xu, Liu Qianchuan also specially found a few forensic doctors and brought Ling Xu to the autopsy site, so that he could experience the knowledge of autopsy in person.

After Liu Qianchuan's special training, he not only cured Ling Xu's blood sickness, but also made him overcome his fear of corpses, so when Ling Xu saw Bai Yuanchao's corpse, his heart no longer had the previous fear and diaphragm reactions.

Wearing special gloves, Ling Xu carefully examined the corpse, took him to break open the corpse's mouth, and when he observed the inside of the corpse's mouth, he couldn't help but be stunned, and then, he carefully inspected the inside of the deceased's nostrils, and after the inspection, Ling Xu's face showed a trace of confusion:

"It's strange, Bai Yuanchao's nostrils and mouth actually didn't inhale smoke, and the body of the deceased had no signs of struggle, it didn't look like it was burned and tortured to death by fire, what is going on? Could it be that before the fire, Bai Yuanchao was already dead? ”

With this question, Ling Xu carefully examined the body of the deceased, and found no wounds, in other words, Bai Yuanchao had not suffered any injuries with sharp weapons before his death, and the symptoms of the corpse's mouth and nostrils were not like suffocation due to smoke inhalation.

If you want to determine the time of death and the cause of death, an autopsy must be performed, but for the deceased who has family members, the public security organs must ask for the consent of the deceased's immediate family if they want to autopsy the deceased's body.

When He Siwen contacted the daughter and son-in-law of the deceased Bai Yuanchao before, he had asked the other party, but Bai Yuanchao's daughter objected to the autopsy, for this reason, Ling Xu was a little difficult, he now wanted to determine the cause and time of Bai Yuanchao's death, but if he did not autopsy the corpse, he could not confirm his inference.

Just when Ling Xu was feeling a headache for the cause of Bai Yuanchao's death, suddenly, he saw a set of strange traces under Bai Yuanchao's corpse, and under his doubts, Ling Xu gently lifted the corpse aside, and when he moved the corpse to the side and saw the traces clearly, his eyes suddenly lit up.