Chapter 13: Three Broken Teeth

After a while, the bustling crowd gave way to a road, and four workers carried two large buckets of water into the cordon.

Ling Hu Yunfei took a few green bricks and spread them on the ground, and then placed the spherical object on top of the green bricks.

The two workers picked up a bucket and, under the guidance of Ling Hu Yunfei, slowly poured the water onto the spherical object.

When the first bucket of water was emptied, the wires wrapped around the spherical object were slightly revealed.

The wire was red, and it was wrapped around the spherical object four times, and the outlines of the spherical and cylindrical bodies were all revealed, and some hair was exposed above the spheroids.

By the time the second bucket was emptied, the deceased's ears, hair, neck, and incisions on the neck were clearly visible.

As the true appearance of the spherical object gradually became clear, the brows of Zhao Zimeng and Ling Hu Yunfei became tighter and tighter, their expressions became complicated, and the previous joy disappeared in an instant.

While it's a good thing to be able to find One's head, the headless corpse has become a headed corpse, and the case will be much less difficult.

Sadly, the skull's facial features had been smashed - like the face of corpse two, it was no longer recognizable.

The murderers were so cunning that they double-insured themselves by cutting off the head of corpse No. 1 and throwing it into a well before smashing its face with a blunt object.

Zhao Zimeng and Linghu Yunfei have been able to determine: this head should be No. 1, because the degree of decay between the head and the No. 1 corpse is almost the same, this is one of them.

Second, the incision of the corpse is at shoulder level, and the neck that remains of this head is almost the entire neck of a person, and the neck of the deceased is longer than that of the average man. Moreover, from preliminary observations, the incision of the skull is basically consistent with the incision of the corpse.

Of course, the final conclusion will not be finalized until further autopsy is performed.

Captain Xiao asked four more workers to get two buckets of water, and one worker got a large new paint brush out of nowhere.

The two workers slowly poured water on the head and the stone, and Ling Hu Yunfei carefully brushed the head and stone back and forth with a brush.

After a cautious operation, Ling Hu Yunfei looked at the scene in front of him and felt a trace of despair and doubt: the murderer not only smashed No. 1's face with a blunt object, but also deliberately smashed the deceased's front teeth - three front teeth! Why destroy the teeth of the deceased?

Could it be that there is something special about the front teeth of the deceased. From the gums and the stumps of the remaining teeth, it is clear that the deceased was a bucktooth.

After the mud was washed away, they saw that the stone used to sink their heads turned out to be a long stone about 45 centimeters long, about 20 centimeters wide, and 15 centimeters thick.

It was supposed that the murderer was afraid that No. 1's head would surface, so he fell the stone on it.

The wires used to wrap the long stones and the head are all red, presumably made of local materials - Zhao Zimeng has long noticed that the wires used in No. 117 are also red - the wires fixed to the beams are all red skins.

"Captain Zhao, isn't this wire No. 117? Not long after Mr. Cai and his family moved in, they often encountered short circuits, so I asked my second child to help Mr. Cai change a new wire-this red leather wire. ”

"My son is an electrician in the unit, and he brought this wire back from the unit." Uncle Cao on the side said.

Captain Xiao took two more workers to fish in the mud for a while, and there was nothing else except a few bricks.

Everyone had been busy in the night for a long time, and they were all exhausted.

"With the help of Director Zhang and others and the construction workers, although some gains were made, the head of the deceased and the face of the second were smashed. Now that the identities of the two victims cannot be confirmed, how should this case be investigated? ”

On the way back to the criminal investigation team, Zhao Zimeng has been thinking about this issue repeatedly, and several other comrades in the criminal investigation team must also be pondering the same problem.

Moreover, in the on-site survey just now, due to realistic factors, the teammates did not extract valid fingerprints from any objects, and the case seems to be helpless at present.

After eating in the cafeteria, Zhao Zimeng, Ling Huyunfei, Ma Jianping and Xiao Luhan went to the forensic office.

The forensic doctor Xiao Changsong was waiting for the arrival of the four, and he was already ready for the autopsy - Xiao Changsong was Xiao Luhan's father.

Since he had surgery on his stomach, he has been assigned to work at the medical examiner's office.

In the past, he was also engaged in forensic work, often running the scene, when the criminal investigation team was first formed, there were only two forensic doctors in the team, and there were not enough people, so Xiao Changsong naturally had to suffer a lot of hardship.

Later, the team successively divided five high-achieving students who graduated from forensic science, and after Xiao Changsong's careful attention.

Now, all five assistants can take charge on their own.

Today's case is very special, and Xiao Changsong decided to bring two assistants to the battle in person.

He had already taken a cursory look at the two corpses, and he thought that the murderer had a very strong sense of anti-detection.

Therefore, tonight's autopsy is particularly important, and Xiao Changsong hopes to find some valuable clues from the corpse. To this end, Xiao Changsong also drew up steps in his mind.

In the forensic examination room No. 2 of the Forensic Medical Department, there are two autopsy vehicles, on which are placed the bodies of No. 1 and No. 2, both covered with a white cloth.

In the middle of the two autopsy carts is a movable instrument cart with all the equipment needed for the autopsy.

Four Vientiane lights hang above the car.

Xiao Changsong's two assistants were already dressed in their overalls and were placing masks, gloves and white coats on the plates of the equipment cart.

Seeing Xiao Changsong leading Zhao Zimeng and others into the room, the two assistants handed the masks, gloves and white coats to the hands of the four people.

The two assistants are Cheng Qiushui and Feng Yiming.

Cheng Qiushui is Chinese New Year's Eve years old today, he has been working with Xiao Changsong for four years, Feng Yiming is 23 years old, and he just graduated from the forensic medicine department of the National Public Security University this summer.

The four of them put on masks, gloves, and white coats.

"Jianping, it's up to you to restore the brain image of the deceased!" Zhao Zimeng instructed.

"Don't worry, Team Zhao." Ma Jianping looked confident.

The reason why Zhao Zimeng left Ma Jianping and Xiao Luhan behind was to assign tasks to them.

The faces of No. 1 and No. 2 were smashed by the murderer with a blunt object, and Zhao Zimeng pinned his hopes on Ma Jianping's computer imaging technology to draw the deceased's head based on the description and the human skull, which was Ma Jianping's main direction in college.

In the earlier cases solved by the Criminal Investigation Team, his imaging skills have come into play.

Xiao Luhan's writing skills are good, and he also has the advantage of having an unforgettable understanding of all the information, after Ma Jianping drew the simulated portraits of No. 1 and No. 2, he wanted to write a missing person notice.

This missing person notice, in addition to the simulated portrait, also has to attach some characteristic content, Zhao Zimeng wants Xiao Luhan to complete this work.

In recent years, the provincial departments and municipal bureaus have given strong support to the construction of the criminal investigation team.

A long time ago, there were only a few people in the criminal investigation team, everyone was engaged in criminal investigation, forensic medicine, and sometimes laboratory technicians, but the professionalism and depth were still not strong enough, especially in autopsy.

Now it is different, the team already has a forensic department, a laboratory, a technical team, and the forensic department has an autopsy room, an autopsy room, and a freezer room, which not only makes the work of each department more detailed, but also greatly improves the efficiency of solving cases.

The setup of these departments provides technical support for the detection of cases.

Now, Zhao Zimeng has a bigger goal, which is to introduce DNA identification technology one day earlier. Once this technology is in place, many problems will be solved.

As the saying goes, the road is one foot high, and the magic is one foot high.

The murderer was clever and thought that by destroying his face, he could eliminate all the features on the deceased's body, and the police would have no way to investigate.

As everyone knows, in addition to the facial features, the facial features of the human face are also reflected in the skull, as long as the skull is complete, it is not difficult to draw the facial features of the person.

Zhao Zimeng and Ling Hu Yunfei carefully examined the skulls of No. 1 and No. 2, and except for the destruction of soft tissues, the skulls should be intact.

Of course, whether it is complete or not will have to go through Xiao Changsong's further autopsy, especially the X-ray examination, before the final conclusion can be made.

"Feng Yiming, has No. 1's head been cleaned?" Xiao Changsong half-raised his hands and asked Feng Yiming.

Xiao Changsong walked up to the No. 1 autopsy vehicle and lifted the white cloth.

"It's been cleaned. No. 1's front teeth were all broken, and the three teeth were found inside No. 1's mouth. Feng Yiming replied.

"Zimeng, as you expected, there are indeed three broken teeth in No. 1's mouth." Xiao Changsong said.

When Lu Qian transported the two bodies back to the forensic department, Zhao Zimeng specially reminded: "I instruct the comrades of the forensic department to carefully clean the mouth of No. 1, and the three broken front teeth should be in the mouth of the deceased." ”

Cheng Qiushui uncovered the white cloth covering the instrument cart, picked up an aluminum rectangular shallow box from the instrument cart, and handed it to Zhao Zimeng's hand, where three broken teeth were placed - two were longer and one was slightly shorter.

"Captain Zhao, the teeth have been cleaned, this should be the original color of the teeth." Feng Yiming said.

Zhao Zimeng understood what Feng Yiming meant: there were obvious black and yellow cigarette stains on his teeth, and the deceased must have been a smoker before his death.

This coincides with the cigarette butts found by the comrades at the bottom of the cave and the different brands of cigarette packs found in the main house, the West House, where the smoker is not alone.

Xiao Changsong used tweezers to dock the three teeth with the root of the tooth one by one, and the fracture fit completely.

"Team Zhao, you see, these three teeth fell out of the deceased's mouth, and the deceased should be a patient with bony buckteeth, with a deformed maxillary protrusion and deep upper teeth." Xiao Changsong said.

"Bony buckteeth? What does that mean? Zhao Zimeng was a little puzzled.

"Yes, buckteeth are divided into three types: dentological, bony and functional, and bony buckteeth are mainly due to genetic or environmental factors caused by abnormal maxillary morphology. The protruding maxillary protrusion and receding mandible of the skull are distinctive features of bony buckteeth. Xiao Changsong explained.