Chapter 266: The Strength of Tokyo Elementary School Students
An autopsy can be inferred that the deceased was most likely killed indoors.
This is something that even "Tokyo elementary school students" can do.
However, the Osaka Prefectural Police had asked someone to do a complete autopsy, but they were unable to read out the valid contents from the autopsy report.
There is no need for Lin Xin to ridicule again and again.
Just by seeing the breezy expression of Miss Gray Yuan, Hattori's black face was a little red:
"Ahem, anyway..."
"According to an investigation by the Osaka Prefectural Police, Ms. Nishiguchi said goodbye to her employees and went home by herself after finishing her job at an izakaya that day."
"She doesn't leave work until 12 o'clock, and it's so late that she probably won't go anywhere else after work."
"So, since Ms. Nishiguchi wasn't killed by the murderer on the way home..."
"Then there is a high probability that she was killed by the murderer after returning home."
Heiji Hattori worked hard to get rid of the embarrassment of being defeated by elementary school students, and concluded in such an orderly manner.
"Well, that's how it should be."
Lin Xin nodded in agreement.
And he was not in a hurry to continue to analyze the death of Ms. Nishiguchi, but took out the autopsy report of the first deceased, Mr. Hidetoshi Nagao:
"From Ms. Nishiguchi's autopsy report, we can tell that she died indoors."
"And although the circumstances of Mr. Nagao's death are very different, if you analyze them carefully, you can actually conclude that there is not much difference..."
"No, it's a more interesting conclusion."
As he spoke, Lin Xinyi deliberately repeated what he had just extracted from Hidetoshi Nagao's autopsy report:
"Mr. Nagao has no obvious resistance or restraint injuries all over his body, and he has a ring-shaped closed cord groove on his neck."
"There was blunt force trauma to the parietal bones of the head, a slight epidermal peeling of the forehead with severe subcutaneous hemorrhage, and a slight subcutaneous hemorrhage in both knee joints."
"Any idea what that means?"
"Uh..."Heiji Hattori fell silent again.
He is still not very good at reconstructing the scene from the signs of corpses, which is completely different from his previous method of handling cases.
"First of all, pay attention to 'blunt force blow trauma to the parietal bone of the head'."
"The parietal bone of the skull, that is, the Tianling Gai, is injured in this place, which generally indicates that there is a height difference between the murderer and the deceased."
"And the autopsy report said that the victim, Mr. Nagao, was 1.91 meters tall."
"This kind of height is considered tall in any country, and if the murderer is taller than him, then I am afraid it must be an extremely rare little giant."
Lin Xinyi carefully analyzed the height of the murderer and deduced:
"So, if you don't consider the small probability of the murderer being more than 2 meters tall, then..."
"It means that when the deceased was smashed on the head, he should maintain a lower posture than the murderer."
"For example, 'sitting,' or..."
"Kneeling?!" Heiji Hattori finally reacted.
Thinking of the autopsy report that Lin Xinyi had just repeated, he quickly thought:
"Mr. Nagao has slight subcutaneous bleeding in both knee joints..."
"It's actually a bruise caused by the friction of the patella against the hard ground when you kneel."
"That's right."
Lin Xinyi continued to guide the great detective to think:
"The deceased also had a slight exfoliation of the forehead and severe subcutaneous bleeding."
"This shows that before his death, his forehead had collided with some kind of hard object."
"The hard object must be flat and wide enough, otherwise in the case of severe subcutaneous hemorrhage, it would not have been possible to have only such a slight exfoliation of the epidermis."
"And this hard object could probably be..."
"Floor?"
Heiji Hattori gave the answer.
It would be difficult to come to this conclusion if we only knew that the deceased's forehead was bruised.
But if it is linked to the bruise on the knee, with the mind of Hattori Heiji, it is easy to restore the scene:
"The deceased may have been kneeling on the ground and kowtowing heavily to the murderer for mercy."
But the murderer did not let him go like this, but took advantage of this opportunity to smash him on the top of the head.
"And after the deceased was knocked down, he was even more powerless to resist."
The murderer took out a rope and put him around his neck and strangled him to death.
"Hmm." Lin Xin nodded, and deliberately added:
"It's the same reason we speculated that Ms. Nishiguchi died indoors..."
"The deceased had knelt on the ground and kowtowed before his death, but the pants on his knees were not bruised and did not get much dust."
"This shows that the place where he knelt is most likely indoors, not outdoors."
It is said that the road is so clean that you can walk with only white socks, after all, it is a legend that only exists on the domestic Internet.
No matter what country you are in, the outdoor ground is bound to be dusty.
If it weren't for kneeling on the floor indoors, the deceased's knees couldn't have been so clean.
"So, there's a high probability that Mr. Nagao also died indoors."
"And Mr. Nagao didn't even resist the whole time—so he didn't have any resistance or restraint injuries on him."
"Why is that?"
Lin Xinyi raised a question:
"Although he is relatively thin, he is 1.91 meters big after all."
"In the face of a murderer who may not be able to have an advantage in physical fitness, why did he not even resist and kneel down and kowtow?"
“.......”
The air became somewhat silent.
Hattori's pupils shrank and he came to a terrifying conclusion:
"Mr. Nagao doesn't resist, and he falls into it because the murderer has the 'power' that he absolutely can't resist."
"If this strength isn't purely physical, then there's a good chance it is..."
"Guns—"
"The murderer may have a gun!"
The situation suddenly became more serious.
The murderer is likely to be in possession of a firearm, and the danger can be said to increase exponentially.
"I think the reason for Mr. Nagao's kneeling..."
"Probably more than just being scared by a gun."
At this time, another immature voice quietly sounded.
It was Conan's child who had almost forgotten about Heiji Hattori when he spoke.
He had already finished the thick stack of documents, and at the same time, he didn't forget to pay attention to the conversation between Lin Shinichi and Hattori Heiji just now:
"After all, everyone think about it..."
"If you were held at gunpoint, what posture would you use to beg for mercy?"
"Uh..."Hattori Heiji was slightly stunned.
He looked at Conan's serious, focused, and confident expression, and pondered the imp's words again.
Somehow, Hattori Heiji actually felt a little bit of his peers from this elementary school student in Tokyo:
"Do you reason with your imagination..."
"Let me think about it, if I were to be held at gunpoint..."
"I would definitely subconsciously raise my hands to show that I am harmless and compliant."
"If you are a little more afraid, you should be like Mr. Nagao, raise your hands and kneel in front of the murderer."
"Wait..."
Heiji Hattori suddenly realized something:
"Even if I kneel, I won't kowtow like Mr. Nagao!"
"Because, if you want to kowtow, your eyes can't see the muzzle of the murderer."
"It's very stressful to be pointed at a gun, and if you can't see the muzzle of the murderer, you have a fear of not knowing when you're going to be shot."
"I guess most people wouldn't dare to look away from that situation, right?"
"And Mr. Nagao chose to kowtow and beg for mercy after kneeling, and kowtowed so hard, which means..."
"It means that he is very likely to know the murderer." Conan helped to come to a conclusion.
He rubbed his small chin and analyzed it in a good way:
"Kowtowing with all your strength and begging for mercy, or even kowtowing until your forehead is bruised, it is likely to represent a kind of 'debt' mentality."
"Mr. Nagao not only knows the murderer, but he has also done something bad that has attracted the murderer's revenge."
"That's why he knelt down and kowtowed so hard, wanting to use this almost 'self-harm' way to get the murderer's forgiveness and forgiveness."
Conan uses empathy to boldly speculate on the mental activities of the deceased during his lifetime.
And his analysis actually implies a very important clue:
"This is an 'acquaintance' committing a crime."
"And it's not just Mr. Nagao who knows the murderer."
"The second victim, Ms. Nishiguchi, also knew the murderer."
Conan gave a serious conclusion:
"Hattori's big brother also reasoned before:"
"Since she was killed at home after she got home from work at 12 p.m."
"Then think about it, if it weren't for an acquaintance to visit, how could a woman who lives alone at home open the door to a stranger in the middle of the night?"
"In the same way, if Mr. Nagao was also killed at home, and there were no signs of prying doors and windows in his house."
"It is also very likely that Mr. Nagao took the initiative to open the door for the murderer and invited the murderer in."
After some analysis, everyone realized that the murderer should know both the two deceased.
Otherwise, they are unlikely to open the door for the murderer.
But...
"Our Osaka Prefectural Police have obviously investigated..."
"The two deceased, Mr. Nagao and Ms. Nishiguchi, have no intersection in their social relationships!"
Hattori Heiji said in bewilderment.
"Not necessarily."
Conan grinned triumphantly.
It's been a long time since he's been a serious detective.
Especially, in front of this "third-rate detective" who always secretly calls Xiaolan...
"Didn't the murderer use a knife to nail the deceased's wallet to the deceased's heart?"
"The dagger pierced not only the wallet, but also the driver's licenses of the two deceased people in the two wallets."
"Generally speaking, in order to evade investigation and make it more difficult for the police to solve the case, the murderer will deliberately take away the documents on the deceased, making it difficult for the police to confirm the identity of the deceased."
"But in this case, the murderer left his driver's license in his wallet."
"And he also impartially stabbed the location of the driver's photo on two driver's licenses with a knife."
Conan pointed to the case materials and said seriously:
"Now that we have speculated about the origin of the murderer and the two victims."
"Then his act of piercing his driver's license with a knife must have some special meaning."
"If you start the investigation with your driver's license, you should be able to find something."
"yes..."
Hattori Heiji suddenly sighed:
"A special killing ritual must have its own special significance."
"Kid, you're reasoning well!"
"Uh... Wait..."
Hattori Heiji sighed, but his expression suddenly collapsed:
He, a detective in Kansai...
I really talked to a primary school student in Kanto, talking about reasoning so energetically.
Even, there are many key points, which are all seen by the elementary school student first.
And there is more than one such elementary school student, and two of them pop up as soon as they pop up... This is difficult to explain by genetic mutations.
"Is this the strength of elementary school students in Tokyo..."
Hattori was originally unconvinced, but now he is completely convinced.