Chapter Twenty-Six: Completely Softened Bones

We investigated Zhou Yi's case all the way, and unexpectedly found another case of oak barrel hiding the body.

According to Yu Dazhuang, the owner of the black workshop, the oak barrel was collected at a Western restaurant on Back Street, and it has been stored for more than six months, and it has never been opened, and it is not known that there is a corpse inside.

After about fifteen minutes, the forensic department arrived at the scene.

"Vomit-" Ren Qiushi retched as soon as he entered the room.

can make such a battle-hardened forensic doctor retch, which shows that this smell has reached the limit of human tolerance.

"Vomit-" Zeng Lan followed Ren Qiushi into the basement, and she retched uncontrollably.

The two of them looked at each other thoughtfully, and they both continued to walk inside as if nothing had happened.

They walked straight into the cellar and saw the bones in the oak barrels.

The bones were black in color, soaked in a blue-black sludge-like liquid.

"This is red wine?" Zeng Lan pinched her nose and asked.

She couldn't believe it, and said weakly: "The corpse soaked in red wine will not be the wine bar we drank on the day of our picnic." ”

Ren Qiushi frowned and said, "Let's take a look at the situation first." ”

The two changed into protective clothing and put on thick masks and goggles.

"The body is highly decomposed." Ren Qiushi muttered, put his hand into the blackened red wine, and fished out a bone, which was a shinbone.

He held the ends of his tibia with both hands, and with a slight force, the shibone, which should have been hard, could be bent at will, and it looked like a rubber product, and the bone was completely softened.

Ren Qiushi threw his shin back into the oak barrel and picked up his pelvis again.

The pelvis is one of the hardest bones in humans, and it is very soft to grasp the large pelvics on both sides and bend them gently inward, even folding.

"This is due to the fact that the air enters the barrel, which causes the red wine in the barrel to acidify, completely corroding the corpse, so the original red wine has become the current blue-black appearance. The musculature of the corpse was completely decomposed, and all tissues, including the internal organs, were mixed with the red wine and turned into a sludge-like state. "Ren Qiushi has seen all kinds of corpses, and it is the first time he has seen them soaked in red wine and rotten into mud.

"How long has this barrel been sold?" Ren Qiushi turned around and asked.

Yu Dazhuang stood outside the wine cellar and replied from a distance: "I received this oak barrel six months ago, and I have never opened it since I took it back, and I didn't know that there were corpses inside. ”

Ren Qiushi carefully observed a bone mass and came to his conclusion: "This corpse has been soaked in oak barrels for at least ten months. ”

"Ten months?!" Zeng Lan was shocked.

Ren Qiushi nodded and replied, "The bones and muscle tissue are completely separated, and the internal organs are completely decomposed into meat puree mixed with red wine, and it will take at least ten months to cause such a degree of decay." ”

"What now? Retrieve all the bones first? Zeng Lan had never encountered such a situation, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

"Seal the barrel and bring it back to the dissection room." After Ren Qiushi finished speaking, he added: "Put it in the autopsy room of the decomposing corpse, and the air will be purified and disinfected." ”

Yu Dazhuang said that the oak barrel was collected six months ago, and the forensic doctor Ren Qiushi said that the corpse inside had been soaked for at least ten months, and on the surface, this matter had nothing to do with Yu Dazhuang.

"You said that this oak barrel was received from a western restaurant on back street, do you have any credentials?" I asked Yu Dazhuang.

Yu Dazhuang was about to speak, but when the words came to his mouth and he swallowed again, he shook his head weakly, indicating that he did not have any proof to prove that this oak barrel was received.

I'm not suspecting that he killed someone and hid his body in an oak barrel, but there is no evidence to prove where this oak barrel was collected, even if Yu Dazhuang can say the name of the Western restaurant, but if the owner of the Western restaurant denies it, we can't do anything, after all, the time is really a long time.

The case of hiding the body in the oak barrel and the case of Zhou Yi's disappearance have nothing to do with it at present, and the case cannot be investigated together for the time being, the body in the oak barrel is waiting for Ren Qiushi's autopsy report, and I will continue to investigate Zhou Yi's case here.

Zhou Yi's body is likely to be shredded by the murderer, and a small amount of it was discarded in kitchen waste many times, and it was recovered by Yu Dazhuang by mistake. It is also possible that it was mixed in the leftovers of Baiyun Food Company and mixed with quick-frozen chicken nuggets produced by Yu Dazhuang in his small workshop.

Now the issue of traceability has become a top priority.

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The entire oak barrel was carried into an independent decomposing autopsy room, and the smell emitted by the highly decomposed corpse that had been in a closed environment for a long time was poisonous.

Ren Qiushi fished out the pelvis from the oak barrel, and according to the observation of the pubic symphysis, and judging by the thickness of the tibia, the corpse was male.

The two of them picked up a large long-handled mesh spoon, carefully salvaged and filtered the bones of the corpse in the oak barrel, and placed the human tissue on the dissecting table.

The tissues of the human body are all highly decomposed into rotten flesh, and it is no longer possible to tell which part of the human body the tissues belonged to before they decayed.

Ren Qiushi could only give up the comprehensive salvage of human tissues and change to focus on salvaging human bone tissue.

After the comprehensive salvage, the human skeleton was salvaged piece by piece, and was assembled into a complete human skeleton on the dissecting table.

"The deceased was a male, 1.65 meters tall, about 35 years old, and the time of death was between 10 and 11 months. Later, the Technical Investigation Bureau will be notified to perform a skull reconstruction for the deceased and assist in the investigation of the identity of the deceased. Ren Qiushi commanded seriously.

Next, he has to find out the cause of the deceased's death as much as possible based on the deceased's bones.

If you want to inflict fatal injuries on people, hitting the head and chest and internal organs is the most direct and effective way, which can make the opponent lose the ability to resist and stun, or kill with one blow.

As usual, Ren Qiushi still looked at the deceased's skull first.

Although the bones have softened severely, they still retain their original appearance without external force.

Sure enough, Ren Qiushi found a fracture mark at the top of the skull.

The fracture line is vertical, and in the midline of the skull, the murderer must be standing behind the deceased, holding a blunt object, and striking downward.

Ren Qiushi gently wiped the blue-black silt-like sticky substance attached to the surface of the skull at the fracture site, and it could be clearly seen that the fracture mark was like a groove, deep in the middle and shallow on both sides.

Judging from the width, it looks like a bottle trace.

This fracture mark is very similar to Zhou Yi's fracture mark.

Don't...... Wine bottles?!