Generally speaking, after the autopsy results come out, the victim's body is handed over to the family for disposal.
Cremation or burial does not matter!
But the body was not claimed, so it had to be sent for cremation tomorrow!
Because the body was so decomposed that it could no longer be stored in a funeral home.
However, the skull of the corpse should remain and be preserved with the archives.
Ye Mo planned to conduct an autopsy on the body, clothes and other evidence before the victim was cremated.
Missing records contain no person matching the description.
Unable to confirm the identity of the victim, Ye Mo could only find a breakthrough based on other clues!
Come to the anatomy room.
After the body was processed by the forensic department, the injuries on the body became more conspicuous.
There was a huge impact injury on the forehead of the head, which was consistent with Ye Mo's theory. The murderer held down the victim's head and slammed it against the billboard.
There were several holes as big as eggs on the back of the head, and the scars were very serious. These were the real fatal injuries.
The murderer used a stone to hit the victim on the back of the head at least ten times.
The brain matter in the skull has been eaten away by birds, leaving it completely an empty shell.
Ye Mo checked the victim's remaining burned clothes and found nothing unusual.
On the other side, on the evidence shelf, there was the pile of burnt soil and some leaves that Ye Mo ordered the police to bring back.
Ye Mo walked over and took a closer look, and suddenly found that there was a strange smell in the pile of soil.
It smells like Chinese medicine.
Among them, there are some strange leaves.
Ye Mo picked up one piece and looked at it.
Lin Xuan saw this and came over.
"What's wrong? What's wrong with this leaf?" Lin Xuan asked.
Ye Mo put the leaf in his hand and said, "This leaf is different from the leaves of all the herbal plants around the crime scene."
"You mean, these leaves were probably left by the murderer or the victim?" Lin Xuan asked.
"This should be the victim's belongings, otherwise it would not have been burned together by the murderer. According to my speculation, this should be a kind of Chinese medicinal material, and there is a large medicinal material market around the crime scene!" Ye Mo said.
"In other words, the victim went to the medicinal material market to buy traditional Chinese medicine that day and was killed when he came back and waited for the bus!" Lin Xuan said.
"Let's go to the medicinal materials market near the crime to investigate!" Ye Mo put the leaf in an evidence bag and walked out!
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Soon, Ye Mo drove a police car and Lin Xuan arrived at the large medicinal wholesale market near the incident site.
Arriving at the first medicinal material store, Ye Mo directly took the leaves from the exhibit and asked, "Do you know what medicinal material this is?"
The fat boss took one look and immediately replied: "This is epimedium, we don't sell it here!"
"Excuse me, where can I buy this in this market?" Ye Mo asked.
"This is a kind of aphrodisiac Chinese herbal medicine. We only have three stores here that sell it. It's on the left. Go down for about a hundred meters. You can see the signboard of Jinma Herbal Medicine Store. There are three stores selling this in a row. He grows aphrodisiac Chinese medicine!" the boss replied.
"Okay, thank you!" Ye Mo said.
"Are you here to investigate the recent case of a headless female corpse?" the boss asked.
"Yes, you can provide any clues. If they are helpful to the case, we will reward you!" Ye Mo said.
"Okay." The boss nodded!
After leaving this first medicinal shop, Ye Mo followed the boss's instructions and headed to the Golden Horse Medicinal Shop.
It didn't take long to reach the destination.
After entering, Ye Mo explained the situation to the boss and started asking for relevant information.
"Hello, do you still remember that during the days when the heavy snow stopped work last month, did a woman come to you to buy medicinal materials such as epimedium?" Ye Mo asked.
"Is it the 20th of last month when it snowed heavily?" the boss asked.
"right."
"There weren't many people in those days. The people who came to buy medicinal materials from me were all retail traders. Please tell me what the characteristics of that person are!" the boss said.
"She is about 1.55 meters tall and weighs over 90 kilograms. She is a woman in her forties or fifties. She looks very rich." Ye Mo said.
"What you said made me think of something. It seems that it was the second day of the shutdown. In the morning, around ten o'clock, a woman came to buy medicine. As soon as she came in, she asked me to prepare medicine for her. She wanted something special for aphrodisiac. She also said that any amount of money is fine! I was joking with a few guys at the time, asking if her husband was not good, so I gave her some medicine according to the standard aphrodisiac formula, but not much, because we are wholesalers and usually don’t I'm doing this kind of retail business, and people from the Food and Drug Administration happened to come over that day to investigate, so I didn't dare to sell more to him for fear of getting into trouble if I ate too much, so I made a small bag and charged her 35 yuan!" said the boss! , In normal times, it would be weird if you didn’t cheat this kind of person hard and give her thousands of dollars in medicine! Whatever medicine is the most expensive will be given to her, including deer antlers and seahorses!
"How small is the bag? Can it be put in your pocket?" Ye Mo asked.
"Not much, she put it in her coat pocket after I gave it to her." The boss said.
"Then where did she go after buying the medicine?"
"Just cross the road directly and go to the park!"
"Then do you have surveillance here?"
"There is surveillance, because people often steal things, and our medicinal materials are also very expensive. Just put them out like this, and even if they are stolen, they are very valuable!"
"How long will you keep this surveillance system?"
"It is automatically deleted once half a month. I don't know if the one on the 21st of last month is still there!"
"Whether you're here or not, please check it for me, I'm in trouble!"
"Don't say that. It's our duty to cooperate in handling the case. Come with me."
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Because it was often stolen, the boss installed surveillance, and the surveillance lasted for a relatively long time.
If you're lucky, you can find the victim's records for that day.
Lin Xuan was also very excited when she heard the news.
Both of them went to check the surveillance video with great expectations!
Ye Mo said that solving crimes requires luck.
Unfortunately, they were unlucky this time, and the monitoring happened to be automatically deleted by the system.
I left the pharmacy feeling a little disappointed, but at least I found some clues!
That is, the victim came to buy medicine at ten o'clock in the morning on the 21st. After buying the medicine, he went to take the bus.
The time of the murder was probably between ten and twelve o'clock in the morning.
Moreover, why the Chinese herbal medicine Epimedium was found in the pile of ashes was because the woman had put it in her pocket.
Along with the burning, it was burned away.
But fortunately, a single leaf was left unburned.
This became a clue for Ye Mo to find this place!
The case has made great progress by now.
This is getting closer and closer to solving the case.
…
Ye Mo took Lin Xuan to the bus station!
Looking at the information on the platform, Ye Mo continued to start his reasoning!
"On the day of the incident, there were only two buses running. Among them, the bus from 10 am to 12 o'clock was only bus No. 6. The terminal of bus No. 6 is University Town!" Ye Mo said.
"Does this university town have anything to do with this case?" Lin Xuan asked.
