Chapter 24 The mystery of the dismembered body: Coincidence?

Through Ye Zeling, Fang Rui and his friends soon found out the clinic where Ye Zeming had his teeth extracted.

"My brother had his wisdom teeth extracted six months ago, and it seems that he had it extracted at a private clinic called Huikang Dental Clinic in the city center. I accompanied him there at that time."

Mu Mian followed Fang Rui to the dental clinic.

"Mr. Ye Zeming is indeed our client. Our visitor registration shows that he had his wisdom teeth extracted at our clinic six months ago."

Mu Mian asked, "Do you have his medical records here?"

"I think so. Mr. Ye is our VIP client. We will keep all his reports and generate his personal file."

The nurse at the front desk opened the system and tried to retrieve Ye Zeming's file, but couldn't find it after searching for a long time.

She looked apologetic: "I'm sorry, Mr. Ye's file has been deleted. This situation is usually requested by the client himself. Some clients care more about their privacy and will ask us to delete the files."

Mu Mian asked unwillingly: "Don't you have a backup?"

The receptionist shook her head and said: "No, if the customer asks for deletion, we will delete the backup as well."

"What about the oral CT scan? Is there no backup in the system too?"

"No, we will delete it regularly, otherwise the system will not have enough memory."

"Okay."

Mu Mian was a little frustrated: "It is more difficult for us to prove his identity now."

Fang Rui also felt that there were too many coincidences in this case. Ye Zeling and Lin Lan both happened to receive calls from the deceased, and several neighbors of the deceased happened to see Ye Zeming standing by the window - these seemed to emphasize that it was Ye Zeming who died in the fire.

But now the dental report that could prove the identity of the deceased happened to be deleted.

This thread is broken. Mu Mian could only do the next best thing and go to the homes of Ye Zeling and Lin Lan to find Ye Zeming's personal belongings. Fortunately, traces of Ye Zeming's life were preserved in their homes.

Mu Mian quickly extracted a large number of DNA samples. After comparison, it was found that these DNAs all belonged to the same person. Therefore, there is a high probability that the deceased is Ye Zeming.

There are still big loopholes in this comparison method, but Mu Mian has no other evidence to verify it.

Early the next morning, Mu Mian did not go to the city bureau. Instead, she took a taxi to Ye Zeming's villa.

Mu Mian lifted the cordon and just stepped onto the lawn, she saw a person standing on the second floor. He looked like Fang Rui in clothes, but his figure was not quite the same.

At this time, Mu Mian received a call from Xiao Zhang: "Forensic Doctor Mu, check the second floor, have you seen the boss?"

"Are you talking about the person on the second floor? That person is not Fang Rui!" Mu Mian's tone was very sure.

"Ah, I knew you could tell." Xiao Zhang turned his head and whispered to others, "This doesn't count! I said a long time ago that this test is useless for Forensic Doctor Mu!"

Mu Mian went to the second floor first. She saw a familiar policeman wearing Fang Rui's clothes, as if he was pretending to be him. And Fang Rui was standing next to him.

"Except for the bug of forensic doctor Mu, no one else realized that the boss was impersonated by Jianguo. So if someone was standing on the second floor wearing Ye Zeming's clothes, people passing by might think that it was Ye Zeming."

Xiao Zhang concluded excitedly: "This can prove that on the morning of the explosion, the person the neighbors and Ye Zeling saw was most likely not the deceased, but the murderer in disguise."

Mu Mian couldn't help but pour cold water on him: "Ye Zeling loves her brother so much, are you sure she will make a mistake?"

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The villa area where the deceased is located is a high-end community that attaches great importance to privacy. This leads to very few public cameras in the community. The cameras are all installed by the owners themselves, and there are only cameras at the gate of the community.

This villa area is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and backed by a forest. The environment is secluded, which means that if the murderer enters the villa through the forest instead of the main gate, he can avoid surveillance.

Cameras were installed around the deceased's villa, but the surveillance video of the deceased's home was not backed up in the cloud, but saved on the deceased's computer. A fire burned all the electronic equipment in the deceased's home, and the technicians were unable to restore it.

This greatly increased the difficulty of the investigation.

There were several technicians on the scene, and they were determining the cause of the explosion.

The second floor of this villa was all connected, and it was the deceased's studio. It was filled with his works, as well as a large amount of pigments, paint and plaster powder. After the fire and explosion, it was a mess. The ground was full of debris.

Fang Rui asked, "Has the center of the explosion been determined?"

"It has basically been determined. The force of the explosion is radial, with the center of the explosion as the center of the circle. The distance an object is ejected is related to the distance of the object from the center of the explosion. That is, the closer the distance, the closer the distance of the object. According to the distribution of the body parts, it can be basically judged that the center of the explosion is the workbench behind the deceased."

The deceased's workbench was facing the French window, three meters long and two meters wide, and occupied a large area. The material of the workbench is the best pear wood, which has been burned into a pile of charcoal by the fire.

Technician Xiao Feng said, "But we didn't detect any explosives here. Our initial guess is that there were a lot of cans of self-spray paint piled up in the house. Under high temperatures, these bottles exploded. We also found a lot of paint thinners in the air. It's possible that the thinners evaporated and accumulated quickly, and then caused a fire source to explode."

Fang Rui asked, "You mean the explosion could be an accident?"

"It is currently impossible to prove that it was man-made. There are too many flammable and explosive items piled here. Once they encounter open flames, there is a high probability that an explosion will occur."

Xiao Feng pointed to the position on the left side of the workbench: "This is the most serious carbonization, and this should be the starting point of the fire. We have also detected combustion-supporting materials here. Judging from the combustion products, it is likely to be paint. We have sent it for physical and chemical testing, and we will soon be able to determine what the combustion-supporting agent is."

Fang Dui put on gloves and searched the pile of rubble. There were all kinds of burnt debris on the ground, broken plaster fragments, utility knives, old alarm clocks, batteries... Fang Rui saw the burnt and discarded battery, he picked it up and looked at it for a while, and then put it in the evidence bag.

"What is this?"

Mu Mian originally came to look for body fragments, but she found something strange.

Fang Rui and the others looked at Mu Mian.

Mu Mian was holding a small piece of charcoal in her hand, which was pitch black and nothing special. Judging from the shape of the charcoal, it should be a wooden clip that was burned by fire.

"Forensic Doctor Mu, isn't this just a wooden clip used to clip socks?" Xiao Zhang took a look and sounded disappointed. He thought Mu Mian had found something important.

Fang Rui took the clip and observed it carefully for a while. There are two nails on the upper and lower sides of the front end of the clip. The two nails are attached together, and iron wire is wrapped around the nails.

Mu Mian explained: "The burning substance on the clip is suspected to be glue, and something should have been stuck on it."

Fang Rui remembered the battery just now, he took out the battery and put it on the clip.

"If there are two wires, we should be able to make a simple ignition device." Mu Mian whispered, "The closed circuit will cause a short circuit, and ignite the flammable material after heating. This device is very simple, and ordinary people should be able to make it."

Everyone present was shocked. This means that the murderer is likely to be able to set the fire remotely. Then the alibi previously investigated will be invalid.

The technicians checked the villa again and soon made new discoveries.

"This villa is equipped with an intelligent fire extinguishing system. When a fire occurs, this system will immediately sound the alarm and spray water to extinguish the fire. But we found that the circuit system of this system has been destroyed."

This discovery proved that the fire in the villa was not an accident, but someone deliberately set the fire.

Mu Mian searched the crime scene for a long time and found some body fragments. But she still didn't find the deceased's genitals.

According to the explosion center and the angle between the body and the ground, it can be basically inferred where the broken limbs should appear. The location of other body parts basically fits Mu Mian's speculation, but Mu Mian just can't find them.

So Mu Mian speculated that it was probably taken away by the murderer or destroyed by the murderer.