Chapter 9: Clues to Suicide
Lin Xinyi gave the answer.
Everyone also restored the whole picture of this case in their minds:
About three hours ago, the deceased drowned, and his body floated directly to the surface because of his obesity, and he had been immersed in the river water in the dark night without being found.
Ten minutes earlier, the body had accidentally collided with a passing cruise ship and had been caught in the propeller.
The sheer force of the propeller sliced the corpse into several pieces, leaving a large number of messy slash marks on the corpse.
In the process, the corpse also rotated at high speed with the propeller, and there were many scrapes with the hull of the ship, causing a large area of epidermis to fall off.
After that, the cruise ship continued to move forward, and the corpses that had been reduced to pieces were left in the water.
A large amount of blood was lost as the corpse shredded, staining the river red, and finally Kudo Shinichi and Mao Lilan, who were passing by, witnessed the shocking blood wave.
"I see."
"Because of a simple accident, the case became complicated on the surface."
The Twilight Police Department, who knew the truth, couldn't help but sigh for this.
And the truth about the accidental dismemberment of this propeller actually sounds a bit unbelievable.
But no one present, including Kudo Shinichi, could question Hayashi's conclusions.
Because every word he says has evidence to follow.
Just like Lin Xinyi himself said, what he did was not reasoning, but just helping the deceased to say it.
"Wait..."After some exclamation, the Twilight Police Department suddenly noticed another problem: "This evidence can only prove that the deceased died of drowning and was accidentally involved in the propeller, and it cannot prove that she committed suicide." ”
"Brother Lin."
He quite familiarly changed his title:
"Why did you decide that the deceased had died by suicide in the first place?"
"Well..."
"It is speculated that the clue that the deceased committed suicide is in the waist and abdomen of the corpse."
"This Kudo detective should have noticed this, right?"
Lin Shinichi glanced at Kudo Shinichi meaningfully:
He had noticed before that the young detective had locked his gaze on the deceased's waist and abdomen as soon as he saw the corpse.
It was clear that Shinichi Kudo had also noticed the details on this corpse.
"That's right."
Kudo Shinichi nodded and explained under Lin Shinichi's gaze:
"I noticed at the beginning that there was a clear strangulation mark from the deceased's waist and abdomen."
"The murderer tied up the deceased?"
Officer Twilight subconsciously had a guess.
"No, it's probably the deceased himself."
Lin Xinyi slowly denied:
"Because on the wrist of the deceased - although there is only one hand that has been fished up at the moment, we can still see that there is no rope mark on the wrist of the deceased."
"I only bind my waist, but my hands can move freely..."
"If this is a homicide, and the rope is tied by the murderer, will he leave the deceased with a pair of hands that can move freely?"
"If the hand is free, the victim will be able to untie the rope on his own after being pushed into the water."
"So, there's often only one condition that can cause this kind of rope mark..."
Here he paused slightly.
And the detective named Shinichi Kudo picked up the conversation very tacitly:
"It's suicide by jumping into the water."
"People who commit suicide by jumping into the water often have a weight tied around their waist so that they can't surface after entering the water."
"So they will have rope marks around their waists, and they won't have signs of being tied up on their wrists."
"The deceased only had a rope mark on his waist, and he died of drowning, which is most likely a case of suicide and throwing himself into the water."
Shinichi Kudo restored the scene in an orderly manner:
"I speculate that the deceased drowned because he had a heavy object tied to his waist and drowned."
"In the next three hours, the rope around his waist gradually loosened under the impact of the river, and the body was freed from the weight and floated to the surface."
"That's the whole truth of this case."
Kudo reconstructed the scene based on reasoning and made a decision on the case.
And Lin Xinyi is out of professional habits, and he carefully considers his words:
"It's hard to say that it's a foregone conclusion, after all, I only have the conditions to do autopsy now, and I can't completely rule out other possibilities."
"But from the evidence that can be collected so far, there is a high probability that the deceased died by suicide."
"Next, please send frogmen into the water to search carefully, and you should be able to find the ropes and heavy objects left by the deceased at the bottom of the river."
"At the same time, it is necessary for the police to confirm the identity of the deceased as soon as possible, and confirm whether the deceased had a motive to commit suicide through a visit and investigation."
"If possible, a total autopsy must be done to confirm that the deceased did not have subcutaneous bleeding caused by pre-mortem trauma."
"I see!"
Sheriff Twilight let out a long sigh of relief:
Although Lin Xinyi's words always have room for improvement, he can also hear that the case is basically stable:
"So the truth is so simple!"
There is no murderer at all in this case.
was casually reasoned by Lin Shinichi and Kudo Shinichi, two "Shinichi", and a corpse shredding case with bad social impact and huge pressure to handle the case was solved so easily.
Thinking of this, the expressions of the policemen present stretched like the Twilight Police Department.
But Shinichi Kudo, who had just solved a big case, fell into deep thought.
"That's right, it's that simple..."
"Boats, propellers, a simple accident."
"Why didn't I think of that?"
This answer is actually not difficult for Shinichi Kudo, a famous detective.
If he is given more time to think, he should be able to see through the truth behind it.
It's just that, anyway...
This time, he was completely left behind by Lin Xinyi.
Lin Xinyi had already seen through everything when he was entangled, and it was obvious that this duel between detectives was the defeat of him Kudo Shinichi.
Speaking of which, this seems to be the first time he's lost a detective duel like this, right?
Raising his head, Kudo Shinichi's gaze at Lin Shinichi had changed.
There was unwillingness in his eyes, but there was respect and admiration:
"Mr. Lin Xinyi, are you also a detective?"
"Nope."
Lin Xinyi shook his head very decisively:
"I'm not the detective you think I'm supposed to be, and I'm not much smarter than the average person."
"You're going to slow me down because you don't have some knowledge and experience."
Although he has participated in the investigation of many cases, including some big and important cases, Lin Xinyi has never regarded himself as the wise and close detective in the novel.
Because just like programmers can code, architects know how to design, mathematicians are good at calculations... The autopsy is just an ordinary job skill for Lin Xinyi.
He is good at this not because he has a higher IQ than ordinary people, but because he spends more time and energy studying than ordinary people.
"Indeed..."
Kudo Shinichi nodded thoughtfully:
"I'm better at starting with clues from the scene other than the corpse, and wound mark testing is not my strong point."
"If I could understand a little more, maybe I could see the truth in the first place like you."
For a high school student, Kudo Shinichi's knowledge is actually beyond imagination.
Because he had a rebellious father, his father took him to a rebellious Hawaii technical school.
But Hawaii could teach him to drive, fly a boat and fly a plane, but it couldn't teach him an autopsy.
Because this skill is useless just by reading, only after long-term practice can you exercise strength.
Even forensic science students who graduated from a serious course and have studied hard in this field for many years were basically blinded when they first participated in the internship, and the only thing they could do was to help the master move the body.
Only by going out to enough scenes and seeing enough corpses can he slowly grow into a forensic doctor who can take charge of himself.
And Kudo Shinichi will lose this time because he is inexperienced in this area, and he can't read the words that the corpse wants to express in the first time like Lin Shinichi.
"I see."
"I'll work that!"
Kudo Shinichi said energetically.
"Uh... You come on. ”
Lin Xinyi smiled noncommittally:
It's just a high school student, where are so many corpses for you to exercise...
Do you encounter dead people every day?
Let's go back and study hard and see if we can get into a famous medical school in the future.
"Mr. Lin Xinyi."
Kudo Shinichi said with anticipation:
"Hopefully we'll have another chance to fight again."
“......”
Lin Xinyi's smile was a little untenable:
This kind of thing who would want to have a next time...
You can still be so excited to meet a dead person, are you really a high school student?
By the way, it's not just this Shinichi Kudo...
It seems that everyone, including the onlookers, has a different kind of enthusiasm for criminal cases.
Not even the horrific shredded corpses could completely frighten them, and many of the onlookers were even women and children...
For example, the delicate and weak-looking Miss Maoriran, who was obviously frightened by the broken corpse, turned pale, but she could still insist on watching Kudo Shinichi's on-the-spot reasoning with a devoted.
"Am I here in some strange place?"
Lin Xinyi gradually realized that something was not quite right in this world.