The case of the floating corpse in the park (I)
On July 21, 1996, in Nanfu City, Guangyuan Province, it was summer and the park was full of old men and women who got up early to take a walk.
As usual, Uncle Lin strolled along the small river in the park. He put his hands behind his back, walked in a figure-eight step, and held a radio in his hand. The deep voice of a male announcer came from the radio, "The cool weather brought to Nanfu City by the heavy rain the night before yesterday has been disintegrated as the temperature rises today. We would like to remind all citizens that the weather is hot, so please pay attention to heatstroke prevention..."
Uncle Lin glanced casually towards the river and almost fell down out of fright.
I saw a corpse floating on the river. The corpse was lying on the river with long hair wrapped around its head. The corpse was moving slowly with the flow of the river.
Even though Uncle Lin was well-informed, he was frightened to the point of turning pale. He dropped the radio in his hand and said, "Dead, dead person! Come, come! There's, there's a dead person!"
Uncle Lin yelled and stumbled towards the crowd. He grabbed a man and said tremblingly, "Dead, dead! There's a dead person in the river!"
The man calmed down a little, asked for the location, and called the police.
…
When Shen Xingyan heard that there was a murder, his first reaction was to pack up his forensic tools and go to the scene. But when she saw the empty desk, she remembered that she had worn it.
Traveled to the 1990s.
She didn't understand why she traveled through time, and she didn't understand why it was 1996 and she was still in her grandfather's notes.
The notes belong to my grandfather, recording the various cases he encountered since he started his career.
She had been reading this notebook since she was a child and could be said to have known it by heart. Therefore, in the first week after she traveled through time, she knew that she had arrived in the notebook.
She possessed the body of a female police officer with the same name and surname as her. She was 25 years old like her and also majored in forensics. The difference was that she was assigned to the municipal bureau, while she was assigned to the police station and became an ordinary police officer.
At first, she was wondering, in this era when college students are scarce, even if she managed to graduate and couldn't become a forensic scientist, she should have no problem being assigned to the Municipal Bureau. Until she heard the gossip.
"A forensic doctor is afraid of blood. No wonder he was assigned to our police station."
"I originally thought she came here to get gilded, but I didn't expect she was really divided here. Tsk tsk, I'm dizzy with blood, how can I do this job?"
"What can I do? I'll just do logistics in the office."
"What a pity. I heard he graduated from a decent university."
"She's like that. She falls down when she sees blood. I guess she didn't learn very well in school."
Look, this is why she came to the police station - she was fainting from blood.
As a forensic doctor, she felt ashamed for her.
Shen Xingyan watched his colleagues go to the scene one after another, and felt itchy in his heart, and the genes in his bones could not help but get restless.
She quietly got up, walked to the door, and looked at it eagerly.
Sister Zhang, who was also in charge of logistics, saw this and said, "Don't look at it anymore. You won't be able to leave the scene if you keep looking." She shook her head and said she would never be able to leave the scene in her lifetime.
Sister Zhang continued, "It's unbelievable that a little girl like you is studying forensic medicine, and you're also afraid of blood. I really don't know what your parents think. If you had gone to another university,... "
Shen Xingyan hung his head, "I said I don't faint at the sight of blood anymore, do you believe me?"
Sister Zhang shook her head.
She wouldn't believe it either. However, she had to find a way to make them believe her, otherwise what was the point of her coming into the notebook? She could just do logistics.
Sister Zhang handed her a form and said, "You need to buy some cooling products next month. Please check the data and report to the purchasing department."
Shen Xingyan took it, watched the last colleague who came to the scene leave, and nodded sadly.
The data was given to purchasing and the files were sorted. She was thinking about how to change everyone's mind about her when the phone on the table rang.
Shen Xingyan picked up the phone and heard Lao Chen's voice, "Xiao Shen? Come to the park on Xiaxing'an Road, that's where the police were called. Hurry up and take a taxi. I'll reimburse you for the fare. If you have any difficulties, try to overcome them."
When Shen Xingyan heard the word "park" on Xing'an Road, her heart flew away. She didn't even listen carefully to the words that followed. She just put down the phone and ran out.
Sister Zhang called from behind, "Where are you going?"
"Get out of the scene!"
Sister Zhang: “…”
Is this kid stupid? Doesn’t he know his own situation?
…
Xing'an Road Park, where Uncle Lin discovered the floating corpse.
A cordon has been set up around the area and onlookers have been kept outside.
The body has been salvaged. It is a female who was only wearing panties on the lower body and a T-shirt on the upper body, but the T-shirt was lifted up to the chest area. There was an uproar when the body was first fished out.
To avoid causing further unrest, the body was covered with a white sheet.
Director Xie Anquan had a worried look on his face. Since he took office, the only cases in his jurisdiction were petty thefts, and there had been no murders at all.
The first time I encountered this, it felt tricky.
Among the police officers under his command, except Lao Chen, who has been a police officer for a long time and has encountered homicide cases, the other police officers also encountered this case for the first time. Some of the people who were salvaging the bodies are still vomiting.
Xie Anquan lifted the white cloth and glanced at the dead man's face, which had turned pale from being soaked. He endured the churning in his stomach and asked Lao Chen, "Is Shen Xingyan here?"
"It's useless even if she comes. You know this girl faints at the sight of blood."
"This is a corpse. There is no blood."
Old Chen opened his mouth but said nothing.
Xie Anquan: "How about this, let's first find out the source of the corpse and check the recent missing persons cases to see if there is anyone who matches the case."
"What if he hasn't been reported missing yet?"
Xie Anquan glanced at Lao Chen, and Lao Chen shut up and went to arrange the work.
As the crowd of onlookers grew larger and larger, Xie Anquan became impatient and asked his police officers to inform the criminal police team that they could not handle a murder case. Just as they were wondering where to drag the body, Shen Xingyan pushed through the crowd and came in.
She was wearing a mask and gloves. She greeted Xie An'an and went straight to the body covered with white cloth.
Xie Anquan let out a sigh, and then saw her lift up the white cloth.
The body had not completely swollen, but had turned white from being soaked, like soaked white fungus. Fortunately, the face could still be seen in its original appearance.
After the examination, Shen Xingyan reported to Xie Anquan: "The body is 165 centimeters long, female, aged between 22 and 27 years old. Rigor mortis has begun to ease, and the preliminary judgment is that the time of death has exceeded 24 hours. There are wounds on the surface, the wounds are of different shapes, there is no vesicular foam outside the mouth and nose, and there is no sand in the fingers. The possibility of drowning is not high."
"You said... homicide?"
"We need further inspection to know." Shen Xingyan looked around. The body was floating here. This was definitely not the crime scene. The scene had been destroyed and was of no value for investigation.
"Thank you, let's take them to the nearest funeral home first. It won't be a good thing with so many people."
Xie Anquan asked someone to move the body and looked at Shen Xingyan in confusion, "Are you not dizzy anymore?"
Shen Xingyan stumbled and almost forgot to pretend. He quickly shook his head and said, "Oh my god, luckily there's no blood."
Xie Anquan waved his hand and said, "Stay aside."
The police came over, put the body into a bag, carried it into the car, and took it to the funeral home.
Xie Anquan took the remaining people back to the station and held a meeting. The focus of the meeting was on investigating the source of the bodies, especially the missing persons in recent days. As for the autopsy, we have to wait for the criminal police team to arrive before we can do it.
The institute doesn't have the conditions for that.
Shen Xingyan, as a non-staff member, also attended the meeting. She remembered that her grandfather mentioned this case in his notes. After thinking for a while, she said, "The deceased is not very old. Can we check the university, such as Guangyuan University?"
Xie Anquan nodded, "This is also an investigative idea. So, we will divide into two groups, one to investigate the missing persons, and the other to go inside the school."
Shen Xingyan continued: "When will the criminal police team arrive? The autopsy needs to be done quickly."
Old Chen laughed, "What? You still want to participate in the autopsy?"
Shen Xingyan said nothing.
Old Chen continued, "I think it's better to forget it, so that you don't faint before the body is dissected."
“I’m getting over it.”
Lao Chen shook his head. “This is not a question of whether or not to overcome it.”
Shen Xingyan knew it would be difficult to change their views all of a sudden, but she had to try.
The criminal police team arrived, led by deputy captain Wu Shilai, accompanied by two police officers and a forensic doctor.
They asked a few brief questions and then went to the funeral home to perform an autopsy.
Wu Shilai said, "I heard that you have a newly graduated forensic doctor here. It's a good opportunity for us to work together. Forensic Doctor Bao needs an assistant."
Forensic pathologist Bao Wu, 42 years old, is an experienced forensic pathologist with strong skills and a tough temper.
Bao Wu's eyes were fixed on Shen Xingyan, as if he knew that she was the newly graduated forensic doctor.
Shen Xingyan glanced at Xie Anquan, and when he nodded, he hurried out and followed.
Bao Wu said: "While I am doing the autopsy, you can take notes. Is that okay?"
"no problem."
The group rushed to the funeral home, it was already dark.
Bao Wu took out the tools and began to perform the autopsy.
"No restraint injuries were found on the body surface, but there were wounds on the body surface, ranging in size from four to ten centimeters. There was no response to life, and the wounds were arranged irregularly. There was damage and congestion on the occipital region, no vesicular foam was found in the trachea, no edema was found in the lungs, no diatoms were found in the lungs, kidneys and other internal organs, and a small amount of □□ was found in the body. There was only a small amount of digestive matter left in the stomach contents, and the gastric mucosa was eroded with punctate bleeding."
While performing the dissection, Bao Wu dictated the information to Shen Xingyan.
Shen Xingyan wrote furiously, writing down every word Bao Wu said, and observed the dissection process at the same time.
After Bao Wu finished the autopsy, he looked at Shen Xingyan and asked, "Can you suture?"
Shen Xingyan nodded, this is a compulsory subject in school.
Bao Wu took off his gloves and said, "I'll leave the rest to you." He went out with the report.
Dissecting a corpse is a strenuous job, and the forensic doctor will be sweating profusely after the dissection.
Shen Xingyan picked up the needle and thread and started to sew carefully.
The deceased was about the same age as her, and it was such a pity that he died like this.
Thinking about myself again, even though I was wearing it, I was lucky that she was still alive.
After the stitches were completed, Shen Xingyan stared at the face of the deceased. The deceased had beautiful features, eyebrows as dark as distant black, and a faint bitter smile at the corner of his mouth, as if lamenting the impermanence of life.
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