◎ Chapter 1 Corpse spasms

On October 17, 2008, a mother and son went back to the company office at night to get the key, and after the elevator door opened, a spherical object rolled to the mother's feet, and it turned out to be a bloody human head. Mom was so frightened that she stamped her feet and screamed loudly; The child's eyes were glazed and he pointed to the elevator in horror, and the mother looked closely, and there was a headless corpse in the elevator, and the strange thing was that the headless corpse was actually standing in the elevator.

The walls of the elevator were splattered with blood, blood was serpentine flowing, the lights were dim, and a headless woman stood in the middle of the elevator.

This horrific scene frightened the mother almost fainted, she wanted to leave with the child in her arms, but she was paralyzed, had no strength, and pressed the mobile phone button several times with trembling hands before dialing the 110 police call......

The 110 command center quickly issued instructions to the police in the jurisdiction, and the local police rushed to the scene, and the building safety supervisor and the security department actively cooperated with the work to appease the frightened mother and son, and cut off the power supply of the elevator at the first time.

The police were divided into two groups, one responsible for taking interrogation notes and the other for on-site investigation.

The survey was carried out all night.

The special case team arrived early the next morning and saw that the scene of the crime was very well protected. A police officer, surnamed Zhou, who was in charge of the scene, told the special case team in frustration that despite working all night, it was not yet certain whether the case was a suicide, homicide or accidental death, so he asked the special case team to assist in the investigation.

The dragon said: The head has fallen off, can it still be suicide?

Officer Zhou said: I have never seen such a strange case, do you believe that there are ghosts?

The deceased's name was Wen Xiaowan, an editor whose publishing company was located on the 42nd floor, which is the top floor, of the building. On the day of the crime, she worked overtime alone until late at night, and died in the elevator when she returned home, her head was in a different place, her hands were tied with silk scarves behind her back, and although her head fell off, her body could not stand. At that time, a mother and son on the 40th floor were about to take the elevator downstairs when they stumbled upon a murder in the elevator and called the police.

Based on the eyewitness accounts and the preliminary post-mortem report, the police determined:

Time of death - around eleven o'clock in the evening.

The place of death - the elevator, which is the scene of the first crime.

Cause of death – unnatural death.

Officer Zhou said that after investigation, a few days before the incident, the deceased Wen Xiaowan broke up with her boyfriend, was depressed and had suicidal tendencies. On the day of the incident, due to a mistake in her work, the leader of the editorial department ordered her to work overtime to complete it, and died in the elevator when she returned home. The child among the witnesses had seen her standing in the elevator suspended in the air, and the police speculated that she should have been hanging in the elevator at the time.

The child only saw a woman dangling in the air and did not see anyone else in the elevator.

The police believed that it was a possible suicide, but the scene investigation did not find anything like rope wire. Strangely, no signs of heavy objects hanging from the top of the elevator were found.

The reason for the separation of the corpse is caused by the violent pulling of external forces, and this kind of tragedy occurs from time to time in elevator accidents, and the police basically rule out the possibility of accidental death according to the traces of blood splashing. The neck wound is not caused by a sharp cut, but looks like a rope or wire is used to strangle the neck of the deceased, the head is strangled violently, or the deceased is suspended in the air and then hugged the deceased

The legs, borrowing their own strength, pulled off the deceased's head vigorously.

Hualong said: How is it possible, even if the murderer is infinitely powerful, it is difficult to strangle a person's head stiffly.

Officer Zhou said: The blood splattering marks on the four walls of the elevator show that there was only one deceased person at that time, and when her head was broken, there was no one around, if there were people, it would block the blood spatter, and the police would definitely be able to find it when they inspected the inner wall of the elevator.

Su Mei said: Many women are afraid of taking the elevator alone, afraid of ghosts, afraid of being trapped in the elevator.

Bao Shu asked: Who is the silk scarf that the deceased's hands tied behind his back?

Officer Zhou said: The silk scarf belonged to the deceased, and it was not tightly tied, and it was not clear whether the deceased tied himself or the murderer. It is also from this point of view that we believe that this case was killed by him. However, there have been precedents in the past where suicides have hanged themselves with their hands tied or jumped into the river, and further investigation is needed to confirm this.

Professor Liang said: My intuition is that this is homicide, an impossible criminal case, a criminal act that cannot happen on the surface and logically, and the murderer has a high IQ and understands the characteristics of murder in a closed room.

The results of the investigation at the scene showed that the killer had disappeared from thin air, or that the killer had never appeared at all. There were no fingerprints, no shoe prints, no murder weapon, and no clues left at the scene to solve the case. This case is like a ghost or a ghost in the elevator, it violently grabbed the woman who was riding alone in the elevator, and with an incredible force, pulled her head off.

Su Mei said: It's the first time I've seen a dead man standing.

Officer Zhou said: Yes, this dead man standing has no head yet, let's go and listen to the forensic doctor's explanation.

According to the medical examiner, standing after death is a special phenomenon of corpse spasm, a rare phenomenon of corpse stiffness.

Corpse spasms occur at the moment of death, when muscles contract and stiffen to fix the posture or expression of death.

Cadaver spasm is an extremely rare form of muscle stiffness. It is that after death, the muscles are not relaxed, and at the moment of death, the muscles immediately contract strongly, and quickly form a stiff body, fixing the limbs in the posture at the time of death. It usually occurs during high levels of stress or brain injury, but also occurs when the medulla oblongata is severely mechanically injured.

Cadaveric spasms can be localized or generalized. Partial cadaveric spasm preserves the contraction of some muscle groups in the body at the last moment of life, and this kind of local cadaveric spasm is more common. For example, some people who commit suicide with knives and guns still hold lethal tools in their hands after death. The self-strangled the deceased, and his hands still grasped the rope. Before his death, the drowning victim's hands were in the shape of eagle claws, and his hands were clutched with aquatic weeds and sediment. Some people who have died of poisoning can also leave a painful expression when they are dying. Whole-body corpse spasm fixes the corpse in a full-body posture before death. On the battlefield, some soldiers are dead, but they still retain the posture of shooting with their guns, or they hug each other tightly and die with them. In the case of cadaveric spasms, most of them are localized, and only a few are generalized cadaveric spasms.

The deceased Wen Xiaowan's head was broken, but at the moment of death, due to the spasm of the corpse, her stiff body did not fall, but kept standing. Her head rolled down in the elevator, and the mother and son on the 40th floor called the elevator, electricity

When the elevator stopped, the head rolled out of the door due to the bump of the elevator.

The space inside the elevator was cramped, and the police quickly concluded the investigation of the crime scene, and the body was also transferred to the police infirmary's infirmary for further autopsy.

The four members of the special case team stood at the elevator entrance on the 42nd floor, and it was from here that the deceased Wen Xiaowan walked into the elevator.

Professor Leung asked the building safety supervisor to turn on the power supply of the elevator where the crime occurred, asked Officer Zhou to record the running time of the elevator on the first floor, and asked the safety supervisor to call the elevator on the 40th floor.

The elevator door opened, the blood had not yet been cleared, and there was a strong smell of blood inside.

Su Mei waved his hand and said: Do you have to take this elevator? Can we not ......

Bao Chop seemed to smell something, and the smell of blood in the elevator was mixed with a strange smell, a burnt smell.

Bao Chop warned: It's better not to go in, there is a problem with this elevator.

The painting dragon laughed at the cowardice of the two, and pushed Professor Liang in a wheelchair into the elevator, and Bao Chu and Su Mei had to follow up. Professor Liang informed Officer Zhou on the first floor and the safety supervisor on the 40th floor to start recording the time, and the elevator door quickly closed.

The lights in the elevator were dim, and the four members of the special case team did not speak, and they thought that the deceased was also standing in this elevator at that time.

Professor Liang carefully observed that the blood stains on the four walls of the elevator looked very appalling under the light, a piece of carpet under his feet was hard and had not been replaced for a long time, the carpet was also soaked in the blood of the deceased, and the exhaust fan on the top of the elevator was broken, and the elevator fire protection device was not installed.

The elevator stopped on the 40th floor, and the safety supervisor pressed the stopwatch to tell Professor Liang the running time of the elevator.

Professor Liang nodded, and the elevator door quickly closed and continued to descend.

Suddenly, the lights in the elevator flickered a few times, and the power went out, and the elevator was dark. This overage elevator, without warning, fell rapidly from the 40th floor. Many people think that when the elevator is first aided, they can jump up at the moment of landing to avoid disaster, but under weightless conditions, people can't jump up at all......

On the line of life and death, if the elevator falls to the bottom floor, that is, the first floor, the four members of the special case team will be smashed into meat sauce. Su Mei shouted, drawing a dragon's eye quickly, pressing a few buttons of the elevator in a hurry, falling rapidly, the four of them stumbled, and the elevator stopped abruptly on the first floor.

Elevators are generally equipped with self-locking devices, and if the falling speed exceeds the limit, the elevator car will lock.

In the dark elevator, all four of them have the feeling of picking up a life.

The lights flashed a few times and then came back on, and the elevator automatically activated the emergency backup power.

The elevator door opened, and Officer Zhou looked surprised and asked strangely: You guys, why are you so fast?

The four people in the special case team were shocked, and everyone was shocked into a cold sweat.

Hualong wiped the sweat from his forehead, pushed Professor Liang out of the elevator, and said, "I'm back from hell."

Bao Shu helped Su Mei, who was pale, and then walked out, he said: This elevator is faulty and stops running.

Professor Liang said: The murder weapon has been found.

Officer Zhou said: Where?

Professor Liang said: This elevator is a murder weapon!