Chapter 316 The truth three years late

Chapter 316 The truth three years late

Lin Xinyi and others returned to the living room.

Contrary to what they were worried about, the living room was still harmonious and peaceful.

Nakamura Minori, who was previously recognized as the number one suspect, was currently huddled on a single-seater sofa with a pale face, silent and not knowing what he was thinking.

There was always tension in her eyes.

And the existence of her "murderer" also made other people present nervous about her.

Everyone subconsciously kept a subtle distance from her and deliberately sat far away from Nakamura Minori.

Especially Shimoda-sensei.

This Shimoda-sensei was squeezed into the very edge of the couch, farthest from Nakamura Minori who was sitting on the single-seater sofa.

He always lowered his head and his face was as gray as a sheet. He even appeared to be more guilty and uneasy than Nakamura Minori, who wore the hat of "murderer" on his head.

What made Lin Xinyi and others slightly concerned was:

Sitting next to Teacher Shimoda is Koko Yonehara.

She sat next to Teacher Shimoda on the couch, with a natural expression and indifferent eyes, which was in sharp contrast to the "living dead" face of Shimoda next to her.

Mihara Akiko is very calm.

It feels like the snow-capped mountains before an avalanche or the sea brewing a storm.

It was eerily quiet.

Especially, at this moment, Yonehara Koko was still holding a fruit knife in her hand.

She clutched the fruit knife, lowered her head and concentrated on peeling the apple in her hand - it seemed that the function of this knife was only to peel apples.

But in the eyes of Lin Xinyi and others, this scene looked like this:

As if Yonehara Koko was about to get angry at any time, she turned the fruit knife in her hand into a butcher's knife and stabbed Teacher Shimoda next to her in the neck.

"Don't worry."

Belmode blinked, hinting that he had sent such a message to Lin Xinyi.

Mihara Koko sat next to Shimoda, and she also sat next to Mihara Koko.

Belmod's expression was more natural than Yonehara's, so natural that there was no trace of it.

While she was chatting and laughing with Suzuki Sonoko, she quietly maintained an alert and hidden posture, ensuring that every move of Koko Yonehara beside her was always under the corner of her eye.

"give it to you."

Lin Xinyi secretly returned her look.

Seeing Belmod's performance, he finally felt relieved:

Although she did not go through as rigorous and tedious investigation and reasoning as they did, Belmode clearly noticed the flaws in Mr. Yonehara's performance through the method she was good at.

Without him saying hello, she was already helping to monitor Teacher Mihara's actions.

Lin Xinyi believed that it would be absolutely impossible for Yonehara Koko to succeed in the murder with Belmod at his side.

"Then we can have a good talk."

After confidently handing over the security work to Belmode, Lin Xinyi finally got to the point:

"Shimoda-sensei."

"Do you have anything to say about Minako's case three years ago?"

"Ah, ah?"

Teacher Shimoda was trembling all over.

When Lin Xinyi said in front of everyone that he wanted to ask the Metropolitan Police Department to investigate Minako's file, he had already realized that Lin Xinyi might bring up the old matter again.

But when he was actually asked by this famous forest manager, he was still a little uneasy:

"M-Minako's case, isn't it just a simple suicide?"

"I only know that she hanged herself in the utility room. I don't know the rest."

"you do not know?"

"Then why did you react so loudly when you heard Minako's name?!"

Lin Xinyi asked coldly.

"I, I" Teacher Shimoda, in a state of nervousness and confusion, made the most effective response:

That is to remain silent and answer nothing.

"It doesn't matter if you don't say it."

"Let me tell you."

Lin Xinyi never imagined that he could tell the truth with just such a sentence.

He can only make the most of the extremely limited clues he has in hand, and make the best of this bad card:

“Look at these pictures!”

"Just these photos can prove that Minako Mochizuki did not die of suicide three years ago!"

Lin Xinyi coldly threw away a stack of photos of the scene.

These are the works of forensic photography masters.

Fortunately, their photography skills are not bad.

Fortunately, they have mastered the core skills of fishing in the workplace:

That is, no matter how idle you are, you must always maintain a busy working posture in front of your leaders/colleagues/customers.

As long as they are seen "working" all the time, even if there is no work result, outsiders will not suspect that they are lazy.

So. After arriving at the crime scene, these master photographers held their cameras and took pictures from east to west without stopping the shutter for a moment.

They took photos and recorded almost every space of the crime scene.

Including the body surface conditions that were very useful for Lin Xinyi's review and analysis, it also included some inconspicuous details that they accidentally photographed.

"First, let's look at this photo of Minako's body."

Lin Xinyi picked out a photo with a stern expression and presented it to Teacher Shimoda.

Mochizuki Minako is a very cute little girl.

But in the photo, her remains only make people feel palpitated.

Because people who die from mechanical asphyxia will inevitably have corpse signs of protruding eyeballs, bluish lips, and facial cyanosis.

You may even become incontinent.

Therefore, people who hang themselves will never have a peaceful death, and hanged ghosts have also become a terrifying existence in customs and legends.

The once innocent and cute little girl in the photo has now become like this.

"." There was silence in the air.

Teacher Shimoda mustered up the courage to look at the photo Lin Xinyi handed over, but he only glanced at it briefly and lowered his head as if he was electrocuted.

Observing his reaction, Lin Xinyi continued to explain:

"Although the photographer is not a professional practical recorder, he only took regular photos and did not take special photos of a certain part for storage."

"But we can still see it very clearly:"

"On Minako's neck, there are two rope ditches going in different directions."

If it is a simple suicide by hanging, except for a few special circumstances, such as failing to succeed when the rope breaks for the first time, and winning the grand prize of "hanging again".

Generally speaking, there will only be a rope groove on the neck of the deceased.

There were two rope ditches running in different directions, which showed that the deceased's neck had been repeatedly squeezed.

If you see this situation, the forensic doctor, or any police detective with a brain, should immediately increase your vigilance and conduct an in-depth investigation into the authenticity of this so-called "suicide".

"But the murderer three years ago was very lucky."

"He didn't meet a famous detective, nor did he meet a police detective with brains. He just met a bunch of moths waiting to die."

"The murderer didn't use any tricks, and he didn't even clean up the traces at the scene."

"Just taking advantage of the institutional loopholes of this aging agency, the Metropolitan Police Department, I have allowed myself to get away with it until now."

Lin Xinyi's tone became colder and harsher.

"This" Cold sweat broke out on Mr. Shimoda's forehead.

He plucked up the courage in his nervousness and questioned: "Those two rope ditches alone can prove that this is not suicide?"

"Not necessarily yet."

If Lin Xinyi was present at the time, based on these two rope ditches, it would almost be certain that it was homicide.

As long as the neck is dissected and the damage and bleeding of the muscles and blood vessels under the cord groove are checked, it can be judged whether there is any life reaction under the cord groove and whether it was formed before death.

If one of the cable ditches has no obvious life response, it can be easily proved:

Minako was first strangled to death, and then hung up with a rope to pretend to commit suicide.

But now, without the body, Lin Xinyi can only look for clues with his naked eyes from the photos.

But this trick is useful for ordinary cases of Tal's disguised suicide, but in this special case, it is not so effective.

"Because the victims in this case are children."

"Under normal circumstances, when he strangled and hung himself, one was strangled hard by others behind his back, and the other was strangled by his own feet hanging in the air."

"With different body positions, the position and shape of the cable groove will naturally be very different."

"And because the force that the average murderer can use when strangulating, it is difficult to compare with the force of the deceased who uses his own body weight to cause suffocation when hanging himself."

"Therefore, strangulation and self-hanging produce different amounts of force, and the degree of internal and external damage is also different."

"In general:"

"The damage caused by self-hanging will be more serious than that caused by other hangings."

"The cord groove of the autoreflexia is mostly located between the thyroid cartilage and the hyoid bone, while the cord groove of the other's cord is mostly located below the thyroid cartilage."

"But these methods of identification are not applicable to Minako."

"Because she was a little kid, she was very underweight and very short."

"So when an adult put a rope around her neck."

Lin Xinyi paused for a moment and restored the scene at the time of the crime in a heavy tone:

"With the huge difference in height and strength, the murderer could easily lift Minako from the ground, leaving her struggling with her feet in the air in the pain of her neck being strangled."

"In this case, the postures of killing and hanging are similar, and the rope ditch formed will also be similar."

"So, we can now see:"

"In the photo, although the directions of the two cable ditches are slightly different, their positions and shapes are very similar."

"If we rely solely on these photos of the scene and observe with the naked eye, we cannot rigorously conclude that Minako died of homicide."

"Huh?" Teacher Shimoda's eyes lit up.

He seemed to be happy to hear this answer: "Then, doesn't that mean that there is still no way to confirm that Minako did not commit suicide?"

"Can't."

Lin Xinyi broke his illusion with a calm tone:

"The evidence on the body is not sufficient, so we have to look at it together with the situation at the scene."

"Look at this photo again:"

"This is the iron pipe that the murderer used to hang the rope of 'suicide' that was photographed by the police of the Forensic Division."

Minako died in the utility room of the teaching building.

The teaching building seemed to be an old building from decades ago, so many rooms had exposed pipes.

There happened to be a thick, rusty iron pipe under the ceiling of this utility room.

The lifting rope is tied to this iron pipe.

“Did you see this iron pipe in the photo?”

"The iron pipe was covered with a layer of accumulated dust and there was a lot of rust on the iron pipe itself."

"Put the rope on such an old iron pipe, and with just a slight tug, a large amount of dust and rust at the point of contact should peel off."

"And if Minako committed suicide——"

"She hung herself under this iron pipe. During the fierce struggle during her life, the rope would have swayed and rubbed back and forth with her body, causing a large area of ​​rust to peel off on the surface of the iron pipe."

"But, look at this:"

"There is just a rope mark on this iron pipe that is neither narrow nor wide."

"This shows that after Minako was hung up here, she didn't struggle at all, or even made any movements."

Lin Xinyi's eyes became sharper:

"Because she was already dead by then!"

"She was strangled to death with a rope and then hung up on an iron pipe to pretend to commit suicide!"

He restored the truth that had been covered up back then.

This truth has been delayed for three whole years.

The air became dead silent.

Yonehara Koko quietly clenched the apple in her hand and the apple-peeling knife.

She quietly turned her gaze to Shimoda beside her.

And Mr. Shimoda

He was silent for a long time, raised his head, and said with an ugly face:

"It seems that Minako did not die by suicide."

"But, Manager Lin, if you want to imply that I am related to this case."

"Should we still give evidence?!"