Chapter 4: Photographs in the Mouth

With the discovery of sleeping pills, a suspicion has been added to this case, which has almost been characterized as suicide by hanging.

With the consent of the deceased's younger brother, Yu Zhehan, the Ningzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau conducted an autopsy on the body.

In the autopsy room of the forensic department, Ren Qiushi and Zeng Lan were ready to begin the autopsy of the deceased Yu Zhehao.

It is already established that the deceased was hanged and that there were no other traumas on the body.

The reason for the need for an autopsy, in addition to judging the exact time of death of the deceased, is also the true cause of his death.

Autopsies have strict process steps, and certain procedures cannot be abandoned or skipped because the cause of death of the deceased has been determined to be hanging.

Ren Qiushi picked up a scalpel and made a standard zigzag incision from the neck to the abdomen of the deceased.

The autopsy went smoothly, the deceased's vital organs showed signs of severe hypoxia, the lungs had edema and hemorrhage spots, and blood samples and gastric dissolvers were collected for testing.

Just when Ren Qiushi was stitching the body surface of the deceased and sorting out the deceased's remains, he suddenly found that the deceased's mouth was a little strange.

The deceased's tongue was pressed against his teeth, taking on an unusual posture.

It is very common for hanged corpses to have the tip of the tongue exposed and the tip of the tongue close to the teeth, which is also the image of hanging ghosts rolling their eyes and sticking out their long tongues in our folk beliefs.

The more Ren Qiushi looked, the more strange it became, carefully observing the tongue of the deceased.

"What's wrong?" Zeng Lan looked at Ren Qiushi's strange behavior and asked softly.

"There seems to be something in the mouth of the deceased." Ren Qiushi frowned suddenly and muttered.

He picked up a pair of tweezers and inserted them into the deceased's mouth.

The tweezers reached the throat of the deceased, and suddenly touched something.

As a professional forensic doctor, although he did not see, with the faint touch of the deceased, he could clearly feel that there was a foreign object in the deceased's mouth.

It's just that the position of this foreign body at the base of the tongue is not visible to the naked eye at all.

Ren Qiushi calmed down, operated the tweezers in his hand, and slowly removed it out of the deceased's mouth.

On the head of his tweezers, there is something that looks like a ball of paper.

The paper clump is not large, about the size of a thumb, nested in a ball, and the paper is white.

"What is this?" Zeng Lan held a tray, carefully observed the paper ball, and asked a question.

Ren Qiushi didn't speak, the tweezers in his hand were easily opened, and the paper ball fell into the tray.

The paper ball was stored deep in the deceased's mouth for a long time, but it was not wet, which shows that the paper is very waterproof.

Ren Qiushi took two tweezers, sat in front of the workbench, and gently opened the paper ball.

As the paper ball slowly spreads, the color changes from white to brown.

It's not that the paper has changed color, it's that the paper is brown on one side and white on the other.

"It's like a picture." Ren Qiushi muttered.

The paper was fully spread out, about a third the size of a palm, and appeared to be part of a photograph.

The photo is square, with neat edges, and should have been deliberately cut rather than torn apart.

"What's in the picture?" Zeng Lan leaned in and observed carefully.

The definition of this photo is very low, the tone is very dim, it looks like it should have been taken at night with a handheld camera device, and when it was taken, the camera equipment was not stable, so the photo was blurry.

Or, here's a screenshot from a video.

Or maybe it's a candid footage or video.

Although the photograph is not clear, the image above can still be distinguished, and the photo shows two men, one of whom is the deceased. Judging from the background of the trees, it should have been taken in a forest or park.

"Take photos and keep them, hand over the photos to the technical team, make them clear, and notify the serious crime team." Ren Qiushi said seriously.

If the deceased committed suicide and did not leave a suicide note and last words, but put a cropped photo into his mouth, and put it so deeply......

Ren Qiushi fell into deep thought, in his heart, this case was absolutely impossible to be suicide.

But how did the murderer control the deceased, and hung the deceased, who weighed 160 pounds, on the crystal chandelier in the living room.

What does this photo mean? Who was that person next to the deceased?

In the office of the Serious Crime Unit, we saw the photos that had been magnified and clearly processed by the Technical Investigation Section, and we asked the same question.

Although the photo has been processed, it is difficult to see the specifics because the photo itself has low pixels and is somewhat blurry.

"It should be a photo of the deceased and a friend." Lin Zifan looked carefully at the photos on the big screen in the office and said lightly.

"This clarity was taken with a BB machine." Li Meng frowned and said casually.

"How do I feel like I was secretly filmed?" Lin Zifan muttered.

Xue Hang walked up, took a closer look and said, "I think this is a bit like a screenshot of a moving image." ”

"Judging from the photos, the facial features of the man next to the deceased are still relatively clear, and we must check who this person is." I said seriously.

Then, Lin Zifan pressed the remote control and turned the pages of the text on the big screen, on which was the identity information and social relationship of the deceased.

Lin Zifan said seriously: "The deceased Yu Zhehao, male, twenty-nine years old, with a bachelor's degree, is temporarily unemployed. He is the eldest son of Yu Lang, the owner of Jixiang Jewelry Co., Ltd. ”

Lin Zifan paused and continued to say to us: "This Yu Lang is a veritable wealthy businessman with assets of hundreds of millions, and he has two sons, the eldest son is called Yu Zhehao, and the younger son is called Yu Zhehan. This Yu Lang is sixty-five years old this year, he is old and has a son, and he loves these two sons very much, focuses on training, and wants them to take over his company.

Yu Lang originally planned to let his eldest son Yu Zhehao be the future chairman of the company, and his younger son Yu Zhehan would be the general manager, so that the two brothers could help each other and take over the company together. But this Yu Zhehao, that is, the deceased in this case, after graduating from college, did not want to forge ahead, and was at ease as his 'rich second generation', regardless of the company's affairs, he found a group of fox friends to go out to drink every day, and his social habits were very serious, like a gangster.

Yu Zhehan, male, 26 years old, bachelor's degree, temporarily unemployed, has been following his father to learn company management. Yu Lang's youngest son, Yu Zhehan, is honest and intelligent, but he is indecisive and sentimental by nature, and lacks the ability to make decisions when encountering things. It is precisely because of this character that Yu Lang plans to make him the general manager and his brother to be his deputy. ”