Chapter 684 Anatomy and on-site restoration
When Jack came to the medical examiner's office, Mike Taylor's female deputy Stella Bonacilla was also there, and there was a disemboweled male body lying on the autopsy table.
A thin old man with gray hair wearing black-rimmed glasses was busy under the shadowless lamp. At this moment, he was scooping out the stomach contents from the deceased's stomach with a long-handled spoon.
Normally, forensic doctors may not wear masks when they appear on the scene, especially when encountering fresh corpses, but when they go to the autopsy table, they will be equipped with basic protective equipment.
No one knows whether the corpse suffered from any infectious diseases before death, and tissue or blood will inevitably splash out during the autopsy process. When encountering a corpse that is severely corrupted or even looks like a giant, a respirator with a disposable filter and goggles are also a must. Prepared.
It can be seen that the CSI side is really busy. The case that happened three days ago, the body is just starting to be dissected now. Jack and Stella said hello, and they stood together and watched the old forensic doctor spoonful after spoonful. , took out a large glass jar.
"Normally starch is easily broken down by stomach acid, but because the deceased ate so much, I can even find small pieces of bread, see?"
The old forensic doctor used a small spoon to scoop a semi-solid piece of almost unrecognizable shape into a glass dish and showed it to Stella.
Jack put on gloves, and after receiving permission, carefully took the large glass jar from his hand, frowning to identify the ingredients inside.
"It looked like there was steak, asparagus, some salad greens and corn, and it looked like Mrs. Carter was a pretty good cook at home."
Although the old forensic doctor was wearing a mask and couldn't see his expression clearly, his raised eyebrows showed a hint of excitement about meeting a close friend, "You know what? I'm always amazed at how corn kernels can resist stomach acid and finally pass through. The entire digestive tract.”
Jack also shared a short story in a very naughty way, "Did you know? There was a guy in Florida who wanted to know the answer just like you, so he did an experiment using enoki mushrooms and corn kernels, and finally concluded that corn kernels It will be digested faster than Enoki mushrooms.
Corn kernels only require three cycles, while it takes a full fifteen to completely digest Enoki mushrooms.”
"That's enough for you two." Stella, who was completely unmoved by the corpse, couldn't stand the bad taste of these two people, so she quickly interrupted.
"Can we get back to the point? According to the confession of his wife Deborah Carter, before she took action, her husband Kevin Carter had just sat down at the dining table and only ate a bite of the bagel, which is where we found the suspected third party. That piece of DNA, where did the food in his stomach come from?”
The old medical examiner Hammerbeck shrugged nonchalantly, "This is your job. I can only tell you that these foods were eaten by this husband less than 20 minutes before his death."
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When Danny Regan rushed to the CSI laboratory with an excited expression, he saw two guys concentrating on analyzing the dishes on the computer screen.
"What are you doing?"
"Shh, don't talk." Stella turned around and shushed him, "Wait a minute, it will be your turn to work soon."
Then she continued looking through the photos of the scene one by one, "There is at least half a pound of asparagus scattered on the ground, which is usually enough for two people. The portion of cream corn soup looks quite large, and the steak is complete."
Jack pointed to the salad plate that was lucky enough to escape the disaster and was not taken off the table with the tablecloth. "The salad hasn't been mixed yet, and it's untouched at first glance. Although the plate is broken a lot, it's basically clean," he said. .
The same goes for the silver knives and forks, well, except for the steak knife that stabbed the deceased seventeen times, but theoretically the steak knife was also clean, with blood stains on it instead of oil stains. "
"Wow, seventeen dollars, is this the end of an eight-year marriage?" Danny exclaimed as he picked up the case files they had and flipped through them.
"It seems like your marriage to Linda was shorter than this. It's all love." Jack's sigh attracted the attention of Stella and Danny at the same time.
Stella frowned at him in confusion, "What are you talking about?"
"A wealthy middle-class life, easy and comfortable. If Deborah Carter married her husband just because of money, she would pretend she didn't find anything, put the ring back in the box, hang up the clothes, and then sit down and continue tasting Steak and that nice bottle of Merlot.”
Jack's plausive words made Danny's expression change, and he curled his lips immediately, "Hate comes out of love. This kind of thing doesn't seem to be limited to couples. I think you should be more worried about this than me."
"Uh" Jack didn't expect the boomerang to fly back so fast. Is it really close to the first year of the boomerang?
"OK, no matter what, we need to find evidence of the presence of a third person." Stella walked to a rectangular evidence examination table, covered it with a white cloth, moved a chair, and motioned for Danny to stand. Beside.
"Now, you are the deceased Kevin Carter. According to Mrs. Carter, you just got home and couldn't wait to pick up the bagel in the bread basket from the dining table and took a bite."
As she spoke, she met Danny from the other side and hugged his neck. Danny picked up a roll of tape from the table and pretended to take a bite. Stella patted him like a coquettish wife. With his hand, the latter angrily put the half-bitten "bread" back on the table.
"You have been on business trips a lot recently. I have a burning love in my heart and have carefully prepared a sumptuous dinner." Stella waved her hand at the folders, tapes and other miscellaneous items on the table.
Danny followed up her words and continued to perform, "And I am a great actor. Even though I had already had a full meal, my gluttonous performance just now still easily deceived you, and then I became careless."
As he spoke, he took off his coat and put it casually on the back of the chair, then turned his back to the two of them, signaling that he was leaving the scene temporarily.
Stella picked up his coat and started to perform without physical objects, because there was indeed nothing in this guy's coat, "Look, what did I find? A ring box and a card.
I smiled and opened the card first, thinking it was a little surprise from my husband. However, I was surprised to find that it said 'for my beloved Kevin'. I was shocked and opened the ring box again. Inside was a male ring inlaid with peridot, and I suddenly understood everything! "
"The husband, who was unaware of this, simply washed himself and returned to the dining table."
Danny pulled out the chair and sat on it. Stella made a half circle around the table and came back to him, holding a plastic tray in her hand with a small petri dish on it, pretending it was a ring. One hand was hidden behind his back.
Danny was immediately "shocked" and subconsciously raised his hands. However, before he could raise his hands halfway, Stella roared angrily, and the stapler in the other hand was already raised high and changed to be held in both hands. He held it and stabbed Danny hard in the chest.
Her strength was so great that she overturned Danny and his chair to the ground. If Jack hadn't tacitly stretched out his legs to help hook the back of the chair and gently blocked it, he might have been knocked unconscious this time.
Danny did not forget the confession record he just saw on the case file. When he fell down, he subconsciously grabbed the white cloth on the table with his right hand. Suddenly, people fell on their backs, and the scattered objects used to pretend to be dishes on the table also fell. land.
Stella didn't stop there, and even rode on Danny, the stapler in her hand still stabbing him again and again.
"Crack!" There was a burst of applause from the surroundings. Apparently Jack was not the only one watching the show. Other researchers in the laboratory, including Mike Taylor, who had just returned from the police station, all applauded.
"To be honest, it's a shame that you don't submit your resume to Broadway." Jack reached out and pulled Danny up from the ground with a wry smile on his face. He turned to look at the mess in front of him and shrugged at Stella.
"Whether it's from the physical evidence at the scene or Mrs. Carter's confession, this is pretty much what happened. So where did the third person's DNA on the half piece of bread and the knife handle come from?"
Mike Taylor picked up the roll of tape on the ground and shook it at the three of them and asked.
"I have an idea." Jack and Stella looked at each other and said.