Chapter Thirty-Five: Smiling at the Dead
On the night of the second day of the new year, there were still snowflakes in the sky, and everything was exactly the same as on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve.
The snowflakes flying in the sky make the heavens and the earth merge into one, forming a world with only white.
It is a very clean white, pure snow white.
White, like a child's heart.
Under a bridge pier three kilometers away from Guting Alley, a white body lay down.
White snowflakes fell on her white skin, just like her body, blooming with white flowers.
These beautiful fantasies never belong to us, because we are policemen, criminal police.
And where we are now is a crime scene.
In front of us was a naked female corpse, unclothed and discarded haphazardly.
This kind of crime scene easily reminds us of a strong woman killing people.
After inspection by the technical team, the clothes she discarded were all stained with blood, and there was a folding fruit knife in the pocket of her pants.
Now, the identity of the deceased has been confirmed, it is Jing Yan.
The technical team was investigating the scene, and Ren Qiushi, the head of the forensic medical department, also came to the scene for the first time to start the autopsy.
It is only three kilometers away from the scene of the Chinese New Year's Eve murder, and the road is remote and there is no surveillance video. If Jing Yan escaped along this road after the killing, she could indeed completely avoid the surveillance video.
Moreover, the distance between the two crime scenes was very close, and blood-stained clothes and a fruit knife, the murder weapon, were found here. This shows that Jing Yan fled in a panic after the killing, but immediately after, she was killed here.
In this way, Jing Yan's time of death was also forty-eight hours ago.
But how did she die? After she killed someone, what happened along the way?
It's winter, and the temperature outside has been below zero for a long time, and Jing Yan's body is very stiff, but this is not a corpse, but it is frozen.
Mortis begins to appear 10 minutes to 7 hours after the death of the deceased, and after the whole body has formed a mortis, it begins to resolve after 24 to 48 hours or more, and completely resolves within 3 to 7 days.
"There are no obvious fatal injuries on the body surface of the deceased, but there are multiple frostbite on the body surface, and the life reaction is obviously ......" Ren Qiushi frowned suddenly after making a preliminary observation of the corpse, because he saw the deceased's expression.
The dead man was smiling, and it was a pure, clean smile, like the snow.
This smile is very empathetic, because it is the most sincere smile that comes from the heart.
We also saw the smile on the face of the deceased, which was strange but easier to explain.
That is, Jing Yan was relieved after completing the murder case.
It was a smile of relief.
"No, she was frozen to death......" Ren Qiushi said suddenly.
His conclusion surprised us all.
Because judging from the current situation, it is extremely likely that a strong woman will kill someone. If she froze to death, then why did she take off her clothes? And why are you smiling?
Freezing to death is such a painful thing, people must be curled up in extreme cold, and clenched teeth.
The survival instinct of people will make people move constantly, which will generate heat for heating.
However, the deceased's limbs were very stretched and smiling.
Don't...... She froze to death after being by a strong woman?!
"There was no blood at the scene and there were no visible wounds on the deceased. As for whether she was subjected to a strong female before her death, it will not be known until further autopsy. But for now, it is very likely that she will freeze to death. Ren Qiushi is very adamant about his opinion.
He then gave us some popular science and slowly explained-
"In forensic science, there is a strange phenomenon called 'frozen corpse undressing' and 'smiling deceased'.
The average person who freezes to death has varying degrees of abnormal undressing, because before a person freezes to death in an extremely cold environment, the muscles that control the constriction of blood vessels will fatigue due to the cold, causing the blood vessels to re-expand, so that the warm blood in the body quickly flows to the blood vessels around the skin, thus making people feel very hot.
In this case, the person who is about to freeze to death may voluntarily take off his clothes.
There are many cases of this kind in Northeast China, where the deceased fell naked in the snow, with clothes scattered around him, looking like a strong woman killing someone, but in fact he froze to death.
The fact that people who freeze to death smile is a very wonderful and interesting phenomenon that cannot be accurately explained by forensic theories.
But precisely because the deceased was in a warm and extremely comfortable situation at the time, especially when on the verge of death, the deceased is often accompanied by hallucinatory symptoms.
The deceased may have seen their loved ones, or perhaps they have seen heaven.
Just like the little match girl, she was hungry and cold, and in the last moments of her life, she felt a trace of warmth, even happiness, instead of pain and resentment......"
[At the last moment, the grandmother picked up the little girl and held her in her arms. They flew away in light and joy, higher and higher, to a place where there was no cold, no hunger, and no pain. 】
Thinking of this, do you still think that the little match girl is a beautiful fairy tale?
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Jing Yan froze to death, which made us all feel very strange.
Even if after she came to Ningzhou City, the Shan family didn't buy her warm clothes, but after she killed the seven members of the Shan family, she could just take a piece of warm clothes and leave.
It's all so weird......
Even if she was frozen to death, she should have been frozen to death on the road, why did Jing Yan appear under the bridge pier?
It has been snowing for the past few days, so it has become very difficult for the technical team to survey the site, because all the footprints left behind will be covered.
After the on-site investigation, the technical team brought the body back to the forensic department of the Ningzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau and waited for Ren Qiushi to do further autopsy.
At the same time, the technical team extracted blood sample components from Jing Yan's clothes, and examined and analyzed the fruit knife in her pocket as the final physical evidence confirmation.
After blood tests by the laboratory department, it was confirmed that the clothes on Jing Yan's body had a total of seven DNA components, which were exactly the same as the seven deceased in this case.
Moreover, on that fruit knife, the DNA of seven people was also tested, proving that this fruit knife was indeed the crime tool of this Chinese New Year's Eve murder case.
There is only Jing Yan's fingerprint on the fruit knife, and in the current situation, there is no possibility of blame.
Jing Yan is the real murderer of this Chinese New Year's Eve murder case, she killed armed with a fruit knife, after killing a single family of seven people, fled along the path of Guting Alley, because of the thin clothes on her body, so she froze to death on the road three kilometers away.
As for why she appeared under the pier, maybe she wanted to take shelter from the cold under the pier.
The case seems to be closed here, although we have caught the murderer, but the murderer is dead, as for why she chose to kill seven people in the single family on Chinese New Year's Eve, we can only know through speculation.
Just when we finally breathed a sigh of relief, news suddenly came from the forensic department.
Ren Qiushi found a drag and scratch on Jing Yan's body surface......