Chapter 283: Strange "Suicide"
Lin Xinyi uses Jackie Chan's method of going downstairs, but the movements are a little more learned.
He stepped on the rocks protruding from the top of the cliff, tossing and turning nimbly, leaping down the steps, and soon descended to the bottom of the cliff.
The body of the deceased is here.
It was a young woman, lying on her back on the ground, a shocking pool of scarlet blood dripping from beneath her.
The area of the blood stain was not too large, and it was already a little dry, and it looked a little black.
If you look closer, you can see that there is a long contusion wound on her forehead, which is deep into the skull, the wound angle is torn, and the wound edge has a severe epidermal peeling.
"Hemorrhage in the right temporal muscle, comminuted depressed fracture of the right temporal bone."
"The injury life response is obvious, and the amount of bleeding from the wound is not small."
"It's certain, at least not after death."
"Moreover, if it is determined that the footprints at the bottom of the cliff were left by the deceased, it proves that she was still capable of mobility and conscious before her death."
Lin Xinyi simply glanced at it twice, and basically ruled out the possibility of "throwing the body after death" and "being thrown off the cliff after being unconscious".
Things are becoming more and more "unexpected", and this is not an unexpected outcome.
But he hadn't even done a complete autopsy, so he certainly wouldn't have made up his mind so quickly.
"Thankfully, the body is clean and intact."
Lin Xinyi breathed a sigh of relief:
Bodies in the wild are often found very late because they are located in inaccessible and remote locations.
And the longer the death, the more the corpse will develop in a "terrifying" place.
Rotten, maggots, giants, and ossified are all very common in such homicides that occur in the wild.
The smell and visual impact are by no means bearable to ordinary people.
Lin Xinyi can endure this kind of physiological nausea, but after touching this kind of corpse, he can't wash off a layer of skin on his body when he goes home, and the smell can't be clean.
That's all good, but worst of all, carcasses in the wild often attract wild predators.
They tend to gnaw corpses all over the place, which not only makes investigators feel sick to their stomachs, but also destroys the original traces on the corpses, seriously affecting the autopsy work.
And this time, for Lin Xinyi, for the deceased, they were lucky.
The body was found early and in very good condition.
This will not have an impact on the investigation.
So, he first used the "Polaroid" camera that was originally intended to be used to take landscape photos to record the original state of the scene, and then put on the latex gloves he carried with him, and began to do the autopsy:
"The cornea is cloudy, the muscles of the whole body are stiff, the corpse spots are formed, the position is fixed, and the acupressure does not fade."
"The time of death should be around 24 hours."
"Man died yesterday."
As soon as Lin Xin judged the time of death, he continued to perform an autopsy.
It was found that the injuries of the deceased were widely distributed throughout the body, but they all looked relatively light.
Except for the open injury to the head, which was more hideous and terrifying, the deceased looked relatively "clean" as a whole.
She lay there quietly, looking as if she had fallen asleep peacefully.
But Lin Xinyi knows that these injuries are actually "light on the outside and heavy on the inside", which looks nothing on the surface, but the inside is often accompanied by severe fractures and rupture of internal organs.
"The damage is a one-time formation."
"These injuries can be explained by a 'high fall', rather than being hit by an external force."
"It looks like she just fell to her death because of a high fall."
"But..."
Lin Xinyi keenly noticed that there seemed to be a few strands of white textile fibers left on the shoulders of the deceased.
Those few strands of fibers were extremely fine, if it weren't for the fact that the deceased himself was wearing a black dress, forming a distinct color difference, with Lin Xinyi's concentration and carefulness during the examination, I am afraid it would be difficult to notice.
"The deceased was not wearing white at all."
"These few strands of fiber, I think she got them from."
Lin Xinyi carefully twisted a strand of fiber and kneaded it carefully, and put it in front of his eyes to observe carefully:
"White short filament fibers, straight, soft, with poor elasticity."
"The initial inference is that it is cotton yarn."
Cotton yarn, white.
These two words are placed in Lin Xinyi's mind, and the first thing that comes to mind is the one he often comes into contact with in the investigation, and the criminals like to wear the most when committing crimes - labor protection gloves.
"There's this fiber left on the shoulder."
"Could it be that someone was wearing gloves and pushed her off the cliff?"
Such a terrifying conclusion popped into Lin Xinyi's mind.
But such a conclusion is not rigorous.
Because cotton yarn is widely used in a variety of common textiles, in addition to gloves, clothes, pillowcases, and quilts that need to be touched every day, cotton yarn may appear everywhere.
And after the cotton yarn fibers and the fibers on the clothes are entangled, they can not fall off for a long time.
These fibers may have been picked by the deceased when he leaned on the sofa, lay on the quilt, or hugged someone a few days before his death.
In short, based on this alone, it is not certain that someone was wearing gloves and pushed the deceased over the shoulder.
What's more, Lin Xinyi always felt that something was not right.
"All injuries on the deceased's body were 'formed all at once' and met the criteria for a high fall injury."
"I don't see any signs of being hit by external forces at all."
"So, what the hell doesn't feel right..."
Lin Xinyi frowned tightly.
Now he has two speculations:
One is to accidentally step on the air and fall off the cliff, and the other is to be pushed off the cliff by someone.
But he had an inexplicable feeling in his heart that these two conclusions were somewhat unreliable.
"Wait..."
Lin Xinyi suddenly woke up in contemplation:
"It's because the injuries of the deceased are too in line with the judgment standard of high fall injuries, so something is wrong!"
The formation of injuries at one time is an important basis for judging high fall injuries.
This means that all the injuries on the deceased's body were caused by falling from the moment they landed from a height.
However, in the wild, the opposite is often true in cases of high falls that occur under mountainous terrain.
"Natural cliffs are not the same as buildings in the city."
"The building stands straight, jumps from it, and doesn't encounter any obstacles in the fall."
"On the other hand, there are often protruding rocks and trees on the cliff face, like steps extending outward."
Lin Xinyi had just jumped off those protruding rocks.
He clearly knew that the cliff topping here was not flat, and there were many protrusions in the middle.
"If you slide off the edge of a cliff or if you're pushed down, it's easy to hit those protruding rocks."
"In this way, the deceased received multiple blows during the fall, and there should be extensive abrasions on his body, and it will definitely not be as 'clean' as it is now."
"If you fall on such a cliff, you can still form that kind of 'one-time injury'..."
"That only means that when she fell off the cliff..."
"There's also a 'horizontal acceleration.'"
The so-called "horizontal acceleration" means that when the deceased falls off the cliff, his state is moving outward.
Other words...
"Did she leap out of the rock face on her own, jumping over those protrusions of the rock face?"
Lin Xinyi gave this judgment:
There are protruding parts of the rock wall, but there are no multiple abrasions on the corpse -
This is an important basis for judging that the deceased is "suicide" under the wild mountain terrain.
Because if it is a suicide, it usually has a force ahead, and naturally crosses the protruding mountain.
And if it is an accidental slide from the edge of a cliff:
The deceased will fall tightly along the rock wall, and in the process of falling, it will collide with the outward protruding part of the rock wall.
If someone pushes you off the edge of a cliff:
Because it doesn't take much force to push a person off a cliff, the killer often pushes people with only a slight force.
And with the power of a normal adult, it's hard to push another adult too far.
Therefore, the deceased who was pushed down by someone will still collide with the protrusion of the rock wall as if he had accidentally slipped.
However, there were no such abrasions on the deceased's body, and all the injuries were formed at once.
So...
"Will she be suicidal?"
Lin Xinyi's eyes became more and more solemn.
For forensic doctors, the word "suicide" must be used with caution, as is "accident".
He can't come to a conclusion now, so he can only keep those doubts in his heart.
And now the police support has not arrived at the scene, and the equipment is not in place, and this is the only inspection that Lin Xinyi can do.
He began to rummage through the deceased's belongings, hoping to find more clues:
"Yoshiko Yamaguchi, 22 years old, from Tokyo."
Lin Xinyi took out the wallet that the deceased was carrying.
The money and documents inside are complete, and it is not like it has been robbed in a no-man's land in the wild.
She is even less likely to have been killed.
"I didn't carry a suicide note or anything like that in my backpack that could prove suicide."
"I had a copy of Osaka's travel guide in my bag, and there were a few pages on it that were folded up like marks for travel."
"Would a person who runs to kill himself be in the mood to study travel strategies?
Looking at it this way, the possibility of suicide is not very likely.
Lin Xinyi was in a dilemma, and in the midst of the entanglement, he could only make a judgment for the time being:
"It's better to contact Tokyo as soon as possible and ask them to investigate whether the deceased has been suicidal recently..."
"If not, the problem is in trouble."
With this in mind, he silently memorized everything he found and took photographs to record it.
There were no more clues found at the bottom of the cliff, so Lin Xinyi turned around and climbed back from the cliff again.
A moment later...
"Mr. Lin, Mr. Lin!"
Hattori Heiji and Moriran both looked at each other in unison.
They first used that complicated gaze to show their amazement at Lin Xinyi's special climbing skills.
Then, the two quickly returned to business:
"Mr. Lin!"
"Did you find anything down there?"
"Sort of..."
Lin Xinyi patted the soil on his body, and his expression was a little complicated:
"The deceased is very much like a suicide, but there is something strange about it."
"Heiji, Miss Mori, how did you do your survey on the cliffs, and do you have any conclusions?"
"This..."
A hint of hesitation appeared on the faces of both Maoliran and Hattori Heiji:
"Actually, the conclusion of our investigation is different from that of you, Mr. Lin:"
"The deceased was very much like an accident, but there was something strange about it."