Ch. 61 - The Case of the Dismembered Body in Daxing County [Part 2]
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After sending Shen Dan to the leased farmstead with a rental allocated for the relief of the needy outside the city to carry the body, Sun Shaozong himself was not idle but immediately let someone escort Butcher Hu to his home.
After arriving at Butcher Hu's house, he first checked the ironware in his house, then went to the place where the body was buried in the back and searched it carefully.
The result could only be said to be nothing like usual.
After all, five or six days have passed, and the Yamen guards have not done an excellent job protecting the crime scene. He didn’t know how many visitors had been to the burial ground. Only ghosts could find clues!
As for the hoe and shovel, although there was no trace of them being used, Sun Shaozong was not sure whether these inferior iron materials would produce new rust within a week.
Therefore, he could only escort Butcher Hu back bitterly.
Back in Daxing County Yamen's inner hall, as soon as he entered the door, he saw a bed board placed in it. Although it was covered with white sheets, it still vaguely exuded a rotten smell.
Without saying a word, Sun Shaozong came forward and lifted the whole white sheet, immediately exposing the body pieces that were lying in rows below. In addition to the internal organs that had begun to decay, they were also spread out on the body pieces in a mess. It was horrible to watch!
So in the inner hall, there was a sound of exhalation at first and then retching from the body smell.
"If you want to vomit, go out and vomit."
Sun Shaozong gave a faint command, and his eyes first fell on the head placed in the middle. He saw that most of the bun on the head had been burned away, and only a short section remained on the scalp.
Did the murderer ever intend to burn the corpse to destroy the trace? But how can burning the corpses lead to only the hair being burned?
Full of doubts, Sun Shaozong turned his attention to the only calm official at the scene, asking, "Are you the corpse examiner?"
The petty official hurriedly bowed, "Daxing County, Wang Gaosheng, greetings to the Assistant Prefectural Magistrate."
"Cut the crap. Take out all your tools and have another examination of the body with me!"
Sun Shaozong's previous inspections were all of the bodies that had just died, so there was no need to prepare any protective measures, but this rotten corpse was different. He was unable to predict how many moldy bacteria were hidden in the body. He didn't want to die before he succeeded in solving the case.
Naturally, the corpse examiner didn't dare neglect them when he heard the words. He hurriedly took the full set of equipment for the autopsy, dressed themselves up like a “pig butcher,” and finally presented two pills, saying that as long as they were placed in the interlayer of the mask, they could ward off evil spirits and poison.
Although he didn’t know whether this thing had a scientific basis or not, it should be more or less effective to see it the way Wang Gaosheng vowed.
After being dressed neatly, he put the body up on a bench and lit more than 20 candlesticks around. Then Wang Gaosheng asked for instructions, "My Lord, where do we start?"
"Check her fatal wound first! I see that your official autopsy document only says that the victim was dismantled after death, but it did not mention where her fatal wound is!"
That's right~
*It's a “she.”
The mutilated dead person was a young woman, and judging from her facial features and some residual physical characteristics, she should be a girl with an excellent appearance and figure!
Will it be love killing or robbery for sex?
After Wang Gaosheng heard Sun Shaozong's orders and knew his laziness in his work, he had long been seen through by the “Divine Judgement.” Naturally, he didn't dare to neglect it further. He was busy searching for the fatal injury, according to Sun Shaozong's orders.
Sun Shaozong searched much more carefully than he did. If there was any doubt, he would carefully consider it for a long time.
After about half an hour, Wang Gaosheng looked up in confusion and hesitated, "My Lord, it seems... It seems that there is no fatal injury on the victim!"
Sun Shaozong continued to check the body, and without raising his head, he asked, "What else do you see?"
"This... This..."
Wang Gaosheng racked his brains and recalled, "The dead... In the back and chest of the dead, there are obvious abrasions. Depending on the skin and flesh valgus of the wound, it should have been left over from when she was alive. "
Speaking of this, he felt a little excited, "I know, the dead must have been dragged on the ground before she died, probably to move her to a quiet place to rape and kill her!"
"Reasonable speculation."
Sun Shaozong nodded slightly and gave a two-word comment.
Wang Gaosheng's snot bubbles came out immersed in his praise. He was waiting for a few words of modesty, but he heard Sun Shaozong say again, "Unfortunately, your observation was not detailed enough, so the whole speculation was biased."
His observation is not detailed enough?
Wang Gaosheng was very dissatisfied but didn't dare to speak out because of Sun Shaozong's identity and reputation.
But how discerning was Sun Shaozong?
Even if he were to cover his mouth and nose, his whole face was already covered. Sun Shaozong could still see his dissatisfied mind.
So he simply took out the back part of the dead woman, pointed to the trace on it, and said, "There are scratches left on the chest and back of the body, but if you carefully observe them, you will find that these scratches are very disordered, and there are almost no linear scratches!"
Almost no linear scratches?!
Wang Gaosheng hurriedly leaned over to have a closer look. Sure enough, he found that the traces on her back were disordered, and the most common linear scratches were missing!
But if the murderer was not the person who pulled the mill, then why did he pull the dead around in circles?!
Being puzzled, he heard Sun Shaozong say, "When I looked carefully earlier, the inside of the body's mouth was stained with a lot of flax thread. It can be seen that she had been blocked by something like linen for a long time."
"Moreover, the body spots are mostly concentrated on the chest, and the formation is quite symmetrical, which shows that the victim has not been moved for several hours after her death."
"In addition, I found more than one eczema on her body. It can be concluded that she was bound to her limbs and imprisoned in a place where the sun could not be seen and was imprisoned for quite a period of time. Otherwise, she would not have so much eczema!"
"For some reason, the murderer probably didn't come to visit her for a long time. She was hungry and cold, perhaps to call for help or perhaps to let the murderer hear the news, so she twisted and struggled desperately on the ground, leaving a lot of disorderly scratches."
"But her struggle was doomed to be in vain because the murderer never appeared. So, she could only slowly swallow her last breath in the despair of hunger and cold."
"It wasn’t until a long time after her death that the culprit arrived at the scene and untied her up, ready to transport her out and bury her."
Everyone was a little creeped out by his flat and indifferent description, except for one person, Wang Gaosheng!
After Sun Shaozong finished his narration, Wang Gaosheng couldn't help questioning, "Your Excellency, your speculation seems to ignore the most important point. That is, there are no traces on the limbs of the body! Since she struggled desperately before her death, how can there be no traces left?!"
In the face of Wang Gaosheng's doubt, Sun Shaozong smiled and said firmly, "This is the most brilliant move the murderer has made. He wiped out all the trace marks on her limbs!"