Chapter 26: Crime scene

Chapter 26: Crime scene

"Mystery: Key of the Star(

Ignatius followed behind Joshua and Jennings, and after changing the footgear, hood and gloves, did he actually walk into the house.

There were a few Backlund police officers in the originally deserted and empty house, and they guarded the scene. Two people are holding large cameras and appear to be taking pictures of the body and the room for evidence.

Others were wearing cloth towels on their faces and holding cotton swabs in their hands to collect evidence at the scene.

The corpse of this case was lying in the center of the room, and it was a sturdy man based on his size. Medium build with broad shoulders. The clothes he was wearing were a smoky gray three-piece formal suit, which looked very valuable. He lay down on the floor, his expression painful, and his cheeks were eerily bright red.

The whole room was very dim, and although it was afternoon, the sunlight outside seemed to have nothing to do with the room. Even if a few kerosene lamps were lit, they only physically illuminated the room. There still seemed to be some kind of gloom in the room.

Ignatius trembled invisibly, but did not make a sound.

Igna tried to focus on the busy figures of the police. Well... this is a little different from the imagined police work scene, and there are some similarities.

Then, he quickly realized that the work flow of these police officers was partly borrowed from the "Emperor Roselle's Investigation Method".

Emperor Roselle invented "fingerprinting", "footprinting", "criminal investigation", and also proposed the idea of ​​"forensic medicine". It can be said that the "criminal investigation" founded by Emperor Roselle provides a complete model and sample for the current police criminal investigation work.

"Toolbox." After Jennings walked into the room, he walked to the side of the corpse, put down his cane, and said to Igna.

Ignat also quickly entered the state of work. And the staff who took pictures and collected evidence on the side, after seeing Jennings Wenzer, all automatically moved away.

Carrying the toolbox, Igna walked over to Jennings and squatted down, opening the toolbox.

Inside the box are all kinds of bottles and jars, sterilized and sealed evidence bags, and a row of scalpel handles, pliers, tweezers, and blades.

Looking at these things, Ignat was dazzled, but Jennings saw these tools as if he saw his palm, and he picked up the tools and operated them without any hesitation.

Igna also took out his notebook and seriously became an assistant. After all, he too was once an "excellent apprentice".

Jennings squeezed his palm on the face of the deceased, and said softly to Igna, "The deceased, male, actual age is 30 to 35 years old. Ruen race."

"Cause of death..." Jennings opened the deceased's eyelids and lips with his hands, then took out a cotton swab and checked the deceased's mouth. Then, at the same time, he leaned forward to sniff the lips of the deceased, and squeezed the deceased's hand.

"The immediate cause of death was suffocation ... passed out and then choked on his own vomit."

Jennings said, put the cotton swab and some of the vomit of the deceased in a small bag in the toolbox and handed it to Igna, saying: "Wait to take it back for testing."

He then went on to examine the body of the deceased with his gloved hands. His movements are very skilled, and it is not like the first time to do this job.

"There's no sign of resistance," Jennings said. "The medicine, the seizures could have been the cause of his death. If it was poison, they were, um, voluntarily swallowing the poison."

"The corpse...the stiffness of the corpse...the time of death was more than twenty hours. The location of the corpse...the body has not been moved. It was always face down from death to discovery."

After saying this, Jennings didn't speak any more.

"Apart from that, can't you see any other clues?" Joshua, who was standing beside him, asked aloud.

"...Well." Jennings nodded and said, "If you look at the smell of bitter almonds in the mouth of the deceased and the color of the corpse spots, cheeks, and lips. It is estimated that this time is also cyanide poisoning."

"It's the same as before... We don't know his identity or who he is. Next, we can only wait for the detective of the special operations team to arrive at the scene after the interview is over." Joshua After sighing, he said.

"Well, I have a question..." Ignatius said to Jennings and Joshua, who were looking at him at the same time. "Have you checked his suitcase? Isn't there any clue as to who he is?"

"What did you say?" Jennings and Joshua said in unison.

"There's no suitcase here. Where did you see the suitcase?" Joshua wondered.

"The mud spots on the coat and trouser legs are obvious." Ignatius said, "and the suitcase is not small, it should be a large hand luggage."

Jennings and Joshua looked at Igna in surprise, then at the dead man's trouser legs.

"Deng deng pedal!"

There was a sound of rapid footsteps from outside the door. Before Igna could see anyone, he heard someone shouting: "Now professionals take over the scene, and other irrelevant people will go out!"

As soon as Ignatius and Jennings stood by the door, two police officers walked in quickly.

Their footsteps were hurried, as if they were in a hurry.

Igna glanced at their epaulettes. They all had three silver six-pointed stars. One of them was older and looked more impatient, and the other was about the same age as Igna and Jennings.

Igna knew that he was a very obvious outsider, so he didn't say much, just bowed his head and backed out. Leave the scene to two "professionals".

Jennings and Joshua didn't say anything, and withdrew with Igna.

Joshua called a policeman over and assigned the task of finding the box. Then, they returned to the stairwell with Igna and Jennings.

Watching the police coming and going in the house Jennings asked in a low voice, "How do you know he has a suitcase? How can you tell from the mud spots on his pants?"

"Well...it's very obvious." Igna pondered and replied quickly, "It's been raining in Backlund these two days, and as long as you walk on the street, you will be splashed with muddy water. The carriage passing by would leave marks on the sides of the trouser legs."

"Everyone has mud spots on their trouser legs, but different people carry boxes. A patch on their trouser legs or coat will be covered." Ignatius said, "And this gentleman has mud spots on his trouser legs. And based on the arrangement and size of the mud spots, it was clear that a carriage had passed him at close range. But the mud spots were only an inch above the ankles. That means...”

"He has a large suitcase."

Jennings listened to Igna's reasoning with a surprised expression. Joshua, who was standing on the side, obviously heard Igna's reasoning, and his expression was also full of incredible.

"Did you see anything else?" Joshua murmured.

"Well." Ignatius said. There is a lot of similar knowledge in his memory, and the knowledge of the era of Emperor Roselle.

"He should still be a lawyer in the entrepreneurial period. He is likely to be single. He was entrusted to come to Backlund to handle a big case. It was not long before he got off the train before he was killed." Igna said.

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Note: The evidence for judging the death stage of a corpse refers to Professor Sue Black's "Forensic Report: What Death Taught Us"

Cyanide death and autopsy findings refer to Law Press, edited by Chen Shixian, "Forensic Science" 2nd edition.

But even with reference books, the author is still a layman! Don't take it seriously! Please point out any mistakes!