Chapter 422 The Moved Corpse
Hoshi Saku can be called a "model" suspect.
There was no need for the police to examine him, so he rushed to plead guilty and try his best to reduce the workload of the police.
If those veteran policemen from the Metropolitan Police Department had seen such cooperative prisoners, they would have happily gone back to work.
But Lin Xinyi became more cautious:
"Mr. Saku, don't worry."
"As a Tokyo lawyer who specializes in criminal prosecution, I think you also know how fragile accusations with only oral confessions are in court."
"Evidence, you must produce evidence that proves you are the murderer."
The atmosphere became even weirder.
The murderer wants to plead guilty and be punished, but the police are asking the murderer to prove that he is the murderer.
"evidence."
Fashi Saku sighed helplessly:
"The fingerprints and skin scraps you extracted from near the door lock were left behind when I committed the crime."
"Can't this be used as evidence to convict me?"
"It's because Mr. Maori found such irrefutable evidence that I was forced to stand up and plead guilty!"
"No." Lin Xinyi shook his head: "Maybe the fingerprints and skin flakes on the door really belong to you."
"But the question is, what if you left it there on purpose?"
"Huh?" Everyone was slightly stunned.
Everyone realized that something was wrong, and the looks they looked at Sakubo became even weirder.
Lin Xinyi pressed forward step by step and asked about the details of Saku Hashi's crime:
"Mr. Saku, what time did you come to Miss Usui's room last night?"
"Around 0 o'clock."
"When you entered the room, was Miss Usui Bing still alive?"
".certainly."
Hoshi Saku hesitated a little, and then without Lin Xinyi asking, he honestly confessed the details of his crime:
"When I first went to Ritsuko Usui's room, no one answered the door or opened the door for me."
"So, in order to complete my murder plan, I first stole the spare key of the hotel room, then returned to the scene and opened the door of Ritsuko Usui's room."
"And it was only after I entered that I discovered:"
"Ritsuko Usui was drunk alone in her room and fell unconscious."
"So, I just thought of the strategy of suffocating Ritsuko Usui with a pillow and pretending to be 'acute alcohol poisoning'."
"That's it, I killed Ritsuko Usui, used those little mechanisms to set up the secret room, and finally left the scene."
Saku Hashi's narration is quite detailed, making people unknowingly believe the "fact" that he is the murderer.
But Lin Xinyi raised his eyebrows:
"In other words, you entered Ritsuko Usui's room around 0 o'clock, and while she was drunk, you suffocated her to death with a pillow?"
He simply repeated what Saku Hashi had said.
But somehow, upon hearing Lin Xinyi's questioning tone, Saku Hashi's expression quietly turned guilty and hesitant.
After struggling for a moment, he pretended to be calm and replied:
"That's the way it is."
Lin Xinyi was silent for a while.
Then, he shook his head helplessly:
"No, Mr. Saku, you are lying."
"And he said three panics in one sentence."
"First, you did not arrive at the scene at 0 o'clock."
"Second, Ritsuko Usui was already dead when you came."
"Third, Ritsuko Usui was not suffocated to death by you with a pillow."
"Because...my initial guess was wrong. She was not suffocated to death at all."
One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and Lin Xinyi's words had an earth-shattering effect.
Saku Hashi stood on the spot in astonishment.
Everyone present also looked surprised:
"Mr. Lin, what are you talking about..."
"Is there another murderer?"
"And Mr. Saku, he, he is..."
"He is taking the blame for someone." Lin Xinyi said the answer in his heart.
Relatives and friends of the real culprit took the initiative to take the blame for the real culprit. This kind of plot is not new at all in criminal cases.
Several lawyers present could understand Lin Xinyi's guess.
but
"If Mr. Saku's purpose is to scapegoat someone, then he shouldn't be afraid of being caught by the police at all, right?"
"In that case, why did he still hide and hide until Mr. Mori discovered the evidence and was forced to come forward and confess?"
"Can't you just surrender to the police?"
"Of course not."
"First, a suspect who is forced out of the crowd by the police using evidence will definitely look more like a murderer than a suspect who simply surrenders."
The police chasing the murderer is like a man chasing his girlfriend.
If he has tried his best to catch this girl, the man will definitely feel that he knows her thoroughly and will not have too many doubts.
But if this girl obviously doesn't have any friendship with him, but she greets her with greetings and throws herself into her arms as soon as she comes up,
Then people have to be wary and wonder if they have encountered some fairy dance or pig killing game.
"That's why Mr. Saku specially set up such a clumsy secret room murder scene."
"This shows that he has an anti-reconnaissance mentality and makes him more like a murderer."
"And this clumsy secret room technique deliberately left key evidence for our police to identify him as the murderer."
"The evidence and testimony, as well as the fact that he was 'passively exposed' during the investigation, are enough to make Mr. Saku's identity as the murderer a certainty."
Lin Xinyi answered everyone's questions in an orderly manner:
"Second and most important:"
"Because there was no effective communication between Mr. Saku and the 'real murderer' he wanted to help cover."
"The so-called real murderer doesn't even know what Mr. Saku did for him."
"This is all Mr. Saku's own initiative."
"So, he didn't know the specific process of the crime at all."
"And with the forensic knowledge he had acquired through his eyes and ears, he did not have the confidence to accurately judge the time and manner of Usui Ritsuko's death."
"So Saku Hoshi has no way to surrender."
How could he surrender and deceive the police when he couldn't even accurately tell the time and method of his murder, and his secret would be revealed when asked?
Hoshi Saku must first hide and indirectly confirm the time and manner of Ritsuko Usui's death by secretly observing Lin Shinichi's investigation.
"So, something interesting happened:"
"I speculated that the time of death was 0 o'clock, so he said that the time of his crime was 0 o'clock."
"I speculated that the method of death was suffocation, so he said that his method of committing the crime was suffocation."
"But here's the thing."
"My initial guess was wrong. Ritsuko Usui did not die of suffocation."
"This alone is enough to put an end to Mr. Saku's lies."
"And Ritsuko Usui's death time was indeed around midnight."
"But I have evidence that the time Mr. Saku entered the room and discovered the body was at least 1 or 2 hours after Ritsuko Usui died."
"That is, after 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning."
Lin Xinyi came to a decisive conclusion.
There was total silence.
Everyone, including Hoshi Saku who looked ugly, was waiting for him to give evidence to prove these somewhat unbelievable conclusions:
"The most direct evidence is the corpse spots."
"I just carefully examined the body surface of the deceased and found that there were body spots on the front and back of her body."
"The corpse spots on the front chest are lighter, and the corpse spots on the back and back are heavier."
No one has reacted yet.
Mao Lilan, who had studied with Lin Xinyi for a while, quickly realized something:
"There are corpse spots on the front, back and sides."
"Could it be said that the body of the deceased was turned over and moved after death?"
When Ritsuko Usui's body was found, she was lying on her back on the bed.
To put it bluntly, corpse spots are skin spots formed after a person's blood circulation stops, the blood in the cardiovascular system lacks power, and accumulates along the blood vessel network in the lower parts of the body.
Water flows downwards, and blood naturally accumulates downwards due to gravity.
The body was like a bottle of water.
If you put it upright, water will definitely accumulate at the bottom of the bottle.
If you put it upside down, the water will definitely accumulate to the cap.
Therefore, if Ritsuko Usui's body never moved after her death, it would always be in a supine position, lying flat on the bed.
The corpse spots should only appear on the lower part of the body, which is the side of Ritsuko Usui's back.
But there were corpse spots on one side of her chest.
It's just that the color is much lighter, so light that it's almost indistinguishable.
this means.
"It means that Miss Ui Bing should have been lying face down in a prone position during the first period of time after her death."
"At that time, her chest was the lower part of the body, so blood accumulated here, forming spots visible to the naked eye."
"And 'this period of time' is not short, at least 1 to 2 hours."
"Without these 1 to 2 hours, there would be no time for spots to appear on the body."
In other words, Ritsuko Usui lay prone for at least 1 to 2 hours after her death.
But after that, someone touched her body.
He also turned her over from lying down to lying on her back.
In this way, Ritsuko Usui spent another night lying on her back until her body was discovered in the morning.
Within 1 to 12 hours after death, which is the "accumulation period" when the corpse spots have just formed, the blood in the corpse has not yet coagulated and is highly fluid.
Therefore, during the accumulation period, if the body is turned over, the original corpse spots will gradually become less obvious or even disappear.
So, on this night, Ritsuko Usui's body was like an hourglass turned upside down.
The blood that originally accumulated on the chest side slowly accumulated downward to the back side under the influence of gravity.
Therefore, more and more blood accumulated on the back and back, and the color of the corpse spots continued to increase.
The corpse spots on the chest side gradually faded and became lighter in color, so light that they almost disappeared completely.
"So, here's the problem"
Lin Xinyi cast his scrutinizing gaze on Saku Hoshi:
"Mr. Saku, if you are the murderer."
"Why did you kill Ms. Usui Bing at 0 o'clock and then go back to her room to move her body at least an hour later?"
"And if you weren't the one who moved the body."
"Who could it be?"