Abandoned old houses, haunted?

Rorschach narrowed his eyes, feeling something wasn't quite right, and he looked at Odeya.

"Do you know where or whose mouth these rumors came from?"

"Who came out?" Odeya smacked her mouth and thought for a moment, "It seems that the story was first written on a website." ”

"What website?"

"To hell together, that's the name I remember."

When Rorschach heard the name of this website, his heart sank, but he didn't expect it to be this website. This was the third time he had heard it, the first time because of the Bianca murder case, the second time because of the Dana murder case, both of which were related to this site, so this time......

At this time, the mobile phone rings.

Rorschach picked up his phone and glanced at Jessica's number, and he stepped aside to answer the call.

After a long moment, he put down the phone and looked at Quatman.

"There's a case, so I'll have to trouble you to send Odeya to school."

"No problem." Quatman nodded, "What's going on?" ”

Rorschach sighed.

"A body was found outside the town."

Quatman froze, while Odeya, who was on the side, exclaimed.

"Oh my! Isn't it, there was a murder outside the town? ”

Rorschach glared at Odeya.

"After school, you have to go back to the tavern, don't go out at night."

"I ...... I know. Odeya nodded hurriedly.

Rorschach shook his head, turned and walked out of the tavern, driving the police car towards the abandoned old house outside the town.

At this time, he suddenly felt that the morning was terrible.

……

Rorschach drove a police car to an abandoned old house outside town.

A yellow cordon has been drawn around the courtyard wall of the old house, and a police car is parked next to it. Brian was standing next to the car, holding a pen and paper, and was questioning a middle-aged white man who was a little embarrassed.

Rorschach stepped out of the police car and looked around.

At this time, Jessica walked out of the old house, walked through the small courtyard, leaned over to raise the cordon, and waved at him.

Rorschach nodded at her.

Jessica walked over to him and turned her head to look at the middle-aged white man beside Brian.

"It was the middle-aged man who called the police, he walked the dog in the morning, the dog ran into the old house, and then he chased it in, and then found a hanged body in the basement."

"Has the identity of the deceased been verified?" Rorschach asked.

"Hmm." Jessica nodded, "A girl from the town middle school, named Jill, her parents work in Los Angeles and don't live in the town, she lives with her grandmother. ”

"I see." Rorschach narrowed his eyes, "Let's go in and have a look." ”

"Okay, follow me."

Jessica turned around and led him into the courtyard, and the two walked towards the abandoned old house.

Rorschach walked into the abandoned old house, walked through the dusty hallway, and came to the basement, where he saw a girl hanging in the middle of the basement.

Jill hung his head, hung from the beam of the basement by a thick hemp rope, his body hanging in mid-air, his hands drooping, and a pair of glasses on the ground beneath his feet.

Rorschach pulled out his gloves, put them on his hands, took the flashlight from Jessica, and walked over to Jill's body. He brushed away the long hair that hung down from Jill's face and held up his flashlight to shine it on the hemp rope that strangled her neck.

Jessica watched from the sidelines.

"Do you think he killed or killed himself?"

Rorschach squinted, staring at the hemp rope around the girl's neck, and asked, "What do you think?" ”

Jessica thought for a moment and shook her head.

"I don't think it's like suicide, she's an excellent student, she's always got straight A's in school, and she has a bright future, so there's no reason to choose suicide."

Rorschach nodded. Continuing to observe Jill's body, he discovers an anomaly as he circles behind Jill. He saw the camouflage of the vertebrae in Jill's head, with obvious signs of fractures.

He narrowed his eyes.

Death by hanging is usually death by asphyxiation, which is death from lack of oxygen to the brain. This is caused by the lasso being pulled down by the weight of the body, compressing the respiratory tract and carotid arteries. The carotid arteries are located on both sides of the head and supply blood to the brain, and although the airway may be blocked, preventing breathing, in most cases of death by hanging, the real cause of death is usually compression of the carotid artery, blocking blood flow to the brain.

And during hanging, because the lethal force comes from his own body weight, it is usually impossible to cause damage to the spine of the head, unless the weight is extremely large, but Jill's physique is certainly not one of them.

Rorschach examined the muscles and skin of Gil's neck near the hemp rope, and found no abrasions or cuts. And Jill is not tied with his hands, under normal circumstances, people who hang or are hanged, as long as their hands are not tied, will try to break free within ten seconds before death, but there are no these marks on Jill's neck.

After Rorschach examined Jill's body, he already had a rough inference in his mind. Jill had an obvious fracture wound on the vertebrae of her head, and no injuries were found near the hemp rope. From these two points of analysis, it can be preliminarily judged that Jill did not die by hanging, and the real cause of her death was due to a fracture of the spine in the head. Someone broke her spine, causing death, and then hung it on the beams of the house, creating the appearance of hanging.

Jessica looked at him.

"Did you find anything?"

Rorschach nodded, pointing to Jill's neck.

"Look here."

"How?" Jessica poked her head out.

Rorschach pointed to Jill's slightly deformed spine of the head.

"You see, there are broken bones."

"Broken ......" Jessica gasped, suddenly understood, and blurted out, "It's not a suicide, it's a murder!" ”

"Yes, it should be a murder." Rorschach nodded.

"But......" Jessica frowned, "why did she come to this abandoned old house?" Could it be that the murderer tricked her? ”

Rorschach thought for a moment and looked at Jessica.

"She shouldn't have come alone."

"She has companions?" Jessica was stunned, "If there are companions, why don't they call the police?" ”

"Maybe it's because I'm scared......" Rorschach sighed.

Then, he told Jessica what he had learned from Odea about the abandoned haunted house at school.

"Oh, who's special!" Jessica glared, "These idiots, why didn't you call the police at the time!?" ”

"Who knows, go to the school and find out who came to the abandoned old house with Jill last night."

"Understood! I'll go to the town middle school in a moment. ”

"Hmm." Rorschach nodded, "When will the first aid arrive?" ”

"It's coming." Jessica glanced at her watch, then looked up at him, "By the way, there are no ghosts in this abandoned old house, and the rumors that those children heard are all lies." ”

"Oh?" Rorschach looked at Jessica.

Jessica shrugged.

"I looked into this house, it wasn't built during the Great Depression, it didn't belong to Medkai, it used to live with a couple, but then they moved to Los Angeles and it was empty, and it is now."

"That's ......," Rorschach narrowed his eyes, staring at Jill's corpse.

"Could it be that someone made up a story and tricked people here?" Jessica asked.

"There is a possibility ...... this"

At this moment, Brian's voice came from the stairs.

"Sir, it's not good!"

"What's wrong?" Rorschach looked up at the stairs.

Brian held on to the stairs, gasping for air.

"FBI, the FBI is coming!"

Jessica looked at Rorschach and asked, puzzled, "FBI, what's wrong with these guys?" ”

"Who knows......" Rorschach's eyes narrowed, and his heart sank.

It seems that this murder case is not so simple.