Chapter 73: Dry Drowning?
"Deputy Team Leader Chen, this ground medium is difficult to find footprints, there is no blood stain distribution at the scene, there is only one kind of rubbing marks on the edge of the swimming pool, no one approached Hong Pingqing at that time, we saw similar footprints near a rocking chair, combined with the analysis of the situation at the scene, she should have been next to each other on the rocking chair before the accident, and then stood up and walked towards the pool, I don't know what happened, her feet lost their balance, and then they fell into the water, I checked that none of the probes here can be used."
"I knew that if there was no breakthrough in the trace examination, only clues could be found from the corpse, but why did you suddenly call me like that!"
"Ha, during working hours, don't call your name directly!"
"It's not that we're not unfamiliar, it's okay, okay, let's leave one after another if everyone is fine, we're going to go back for an autopsy now."
Hong Pingheng quickly agreed to the autopsy, and after our people questioned him, he signed the confession and pressed his fingerprint, and then went to the outside of the autopsy room to wait, in fact, he had the right to watch the autopsy, but because this scene was so shocking, 99% of the family members would not see it in person.
After Su Yaxin and Xiao Dong and I put on the autopsy equipment, under the protection of sterile clothing, we walked into the dissection room, and when facing this bloated female corpse, all three first tried to drain the excess water from the deceased's body, then shaved off the hair, cut off the nails, and of course, washed the contaminants on the edges of the scars of the corpse with absolute ethanol.
But because the degree of decay of the corpse is too scary, there are bubbles between the epidermis and the dermis, and the epidermis is also easy to peel off, we must be extra careful to wipe it, otherwise the epidermis will be rubbed off by us at the same time, in the process, I accidentally found that the mucosa of the female corpse's mouth and nose was a little smudge, so I asked Su Yaxin and Xiao Dong suspiciously: "This looks like bloodstains?" ”
"It's kind of like, but the corpse has been soaked for so long, it's hard to tell the difference!" Su Yaxin said.
I didn't answer, and continued to wipe those small flakes with alcohol, Su Yaxin put on the appropriate blade and used a lancet to attack the woman's chest and abdomen, but the knife only touched the woman's corpse, and with a muffled sound, the deceased was like a punctured balloon, constantly emitting some turbid green gas outside, and the swollen abdomen quickly deflated!
A foul smell filled our cramped dissection room in an instant, and even I couldn't help but retch, and everyone's tears came out, and we stared at each other wide-eyed, which was extremely painful!
I immediately turned the exhaust fan to the maximum to let the rancid smell slowly dissipate, and when it had eased a little, I took the lancet, but because the deceased's trachea had rotted into a crimson and the lungs were rotting to the point that we could no longer tell if there was any sign of congestion, and it was difficult to tell if there was even drowning.
I could only start from the stomach, and the moment I parted the stomach pouch, I found that it was very dry: "There is no drowning, it doesn't seem to be drowning!" ”
Xiao Dong next to him held the camera and said, "Maybe it's dry drowning?" ”
Dry drowning in the traditional sense is atypical drowning, accounting for about 15% of people who die from falling into the water, including the following two conditions: some people with sensitive physique have irritated the sensory nerve endings of the skin or the laryngeal mucosa due to cold water after entering the water, which excites the vagus nerve and reflexively causes cardiac arrest and primary shock. This death is very rapid, and the drowning fluid does not enter the respiratory tract, so it often does not have the typical symptoms of drowning, and some people call it water shock death.
Some people who seem to be healthy before their deaths, due to underlying diseases, when these people enter the water, due to cold water stimulation, chest and abdomen compression, or strenuous exercise in swimming and increase the load on the heart, resulting in myocardial damage, sudden death in the water, and their signs of drowning are not obvious, which is called sudden death in the water. Some scholars also believe that dry drowning does not belong to drowning, but to death from water shock.
"But it's summer, and this usually happens in winter!" Su Yaxin questioned.
"Look at it again, look here, the mucous membranes of the deceased's mouth and nose are damaged, and the change in color is beginning to become obvious, because the temperature of the corpse is constantly dropping under the effect of air conditioning, and the skin becomes dry."
"With this characteristic, it is obvious that the deceased died of mechanical suffocation caused by covering his mouth and nose, so suicide and accidental falling into the water are not established, because this is a murder case!" Su Yaxin said firmly.
I took out a lot of stomach contents with a medicine spoon in my jaw, from the analysis of the chyme situation, the deceased probably died 3 hours after the last meal, according to the time on the watch, that meal should be her supper, we observed the cornea of the deceased, combined with the temperature, the relief of mortis and mild decay, etc., the specific time of death was 3 days ago at 2:20 a.m.
Xiao Dong quickly recorded all the information, but I still re-analyzed the thyroid cartilage of the deceased's neck, and determined that it and the horn bone were broken and had a cord groove, there were pinpoint-like bleeding spots at the conjunctiva, the corpse spots were dark purple red, no common poisons were detected, and the rapid aggravation of breathing before death caused the formation of mold on the face, and so on, before the death, it was finally determined that it was a mechanical suffocation death, and finally we took heart blood and urine for physical, chemical and pathological experiments.
Take off the latex gloves to prove that my autopsy is over, and the follow-up work Su Yaxin followed up the whole process, when I came to the technical department, He Sheng and others were already discussing the case, I told what I found during the autopsy, He Sheng said: "If it is a murder, it must be filed and investigated, and this case has been taken by our number one serious crime team!" ”
"That's right, we can accurately judge the nature of the case, and we can also investigate without worries, Yuting, in addition to the deceased's son, have you contacted her other family members?"
"I found her ex-husband Ji Hongbo, who is now on his way to the Public Security Bureau, along with the deceased's parents and grandparents!"
"Then did you investigate other social relations and background of the deceased?" I asked.
Du Yuting tapped on the keyboard to open an interface for me and said, "Look for yourself!" ”
I put on my glasses and stared at the screen intently, only to see that some of Hong Pingqing's information appeared on the screen, this person's business is still quite big, in Fuming almost covers our entire tourism industry, this fountain villa is the fifth tourist area she developed, it can be seen how powerful this woman's financial resources are, her company headquarters is in Fuming Qionghua East Road Shrewd Tourism Company, her home address is at No. 31 Minghua Road, but her residence has several, all villas, and a high-end community.