Here, the forensic work is almost done.
All the corpse pieces were spliced into their proper positions as much as possible according to the texture structure.
The body parts were relatively large, with 41 pieces in total, including the victim's internal organs and limbs, all of which were intact.
The only thing missing was the victim's head.
Yes, this is another headless corpse.
It's just that this case is different from the previous case. In the previous case, the victim was just cut off his head.
In this case, the victim was divided into 41 pieces.
Arriving in front of the white cloth, the policeman handling the case took photos with his camera.
"Team Ye, the body has been spliced together. There are 41 pieces in total, excluding internal organs. The victim is a female, and all parts of the body are intact except for the head..." Forensic Medicine Report reported.
"Thank you." Ye Mo nodded.
Afterwards, Ye Mo squatted down and carefully inspected the body parts.
"The cut part of the bone is flat, but there are signs of fragmentation around it, which proves that the murder weapon is most likely an axe, machete or other sharp weapon." Ye Mo said.
"Can Captain Ye roughly tell the height and weight of the victim?" Zhang Xiaofan asked.
"The height is about 160. The weight and age cannot be estimated." Ye Mo said. The corpse was so rotten that no matter how powerful Ye Mo's eyes were, it was impossible to calculate the weight range of the deceased, let alone the age.
The technology of this era cannot calculate age based on bone density.
Therefore, it is still very difficult to solve the case.
The corpse has no characteristics. All that is known so far is that it is a female about 1.6 meters tall.
Because the body is so decomposed, you won't be able to find any more useful information.
But Ye Mo, who observed carefully, still found some clues on the body parts.
There was a tattoo on the victim's left buttock. Although the flesh had rotted and turned black, it couldn't be seen without looking carefully.
But through careful observation, Ye Mo still found a butterfly-like tattoo on the victim's buttocks.
The whole body of the victim was relatively intact, except for the buttocks.
So, Ye Mo immediately picked up the pen and drew the tattoo.
"Captain Ye, what are you drawing?" Zhang Xiaofan was a little confused.
"The tattoo on the victim's buttocks." Ye Mo said.
"If you don't tell me, I really didn't see it." Zhang Xiaofan turned the body parts over and finally found the tattoo that Ye Mo mentioned. However, the body was rotten and black, and the color difference was not obvious. It was impossible to tell without looking carefully.
"Generally speaking, who would put a tattoo on their butt?" Ye Mo asked.
"Under normal circumstances, you wouldn't do this. Do you think this woman is an escort?" Zhang Xiaofan asked.
"It's not ruled out." Ye Mo narrowed his eyes. After all, in this era, minds are not that open, and most people don't know how to get tattoos, let alone tattoos on such areas.
This is not to say that there is any prejudice against people with tattoos.
It's just a matter of fact.
Soon, Ye Mo drew the tattoo.
Zhang Xiaofan took the camera and took many more photos.
Basically, there are no useful clues found in this corpse.
Except for this tattoo on my butt.
Ye Mo couldn't tell from the condition of the body whether the victim had given birth to a child, whether he was disabled or something like that.
The body was too broken into pieces and too rotten.
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Normally, the purpose of the murderer's dismemberment is to clear his own suspicion, destroy the evidence, and disrupt the direction of the police handling the case.
No clothes of the victim were found in the snakeskin bag containing the body.
Those pebbles and small stones add up to a total of 46 kilograms.
46 kilograms, plus about 100 kilograms of body parts, it is about 150 kilograms.
The murderer thought that this would sink the body to the bottom, but he did not expect that the impact of the water flow was too great and did not proceed as planned.
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"Team Ye, should we call in the police dog team to look for the victim's head around here?" Zhao Jiaming, the case handler of the County Public Security Bureau, asked.
"No need, the victim's head will most likely not be found." Ye Mo shook his head.
"Even if the chance is slim, I think we should still..." Zhao Jiaming didn't understand Ye Mo's way of handling cases.
Just because you might not find it, you can't stop looking for it at all.
If the victim's head cannot be found, it is difficult to confirm the victim's identity.
If the identity of the victim cannot be confirmed, your case cannot be solved at all.
What if we follow the banks of the river and find the head?
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But Ye Mo quickly gave an explanation.
First of all, the snakeskin bag was sealed at first, and the body was discovered only after the caller opened it out of curiosity.
In other words, the victim's head was not in the snakeskin bag.
It is impossible to fall into the reeds or under the water nearby.
Since the murderer sealed the snakeskin bag, he did not put the head in it.
It means that the head has been abandoned in another place.
Ye Mo speculated that there was a high probability that it would not be Daheli.
Since the murderer knew that the current was strong and was afraid that the snakeskin bag would be discovered downstream, he would not just throw the head into the water.
You know, there is a shoal seven kilometers away. Many people cast nets there to catch fish. If their heads are washed down, they will soon be stranded on the shoal and be found.
The murderer used a weighted snakeskin bag to sink the body to the bottom, which means that he had made a certain plan.
Therefore, Ye Mo believes that there is no need to search for the victim's head on a large scale.
Just like the case of Chen Wanhai, if the police were really mobilized to find the head, you would not be able to find it even if the legs are broken in such a big mountain.
Moreover, the mountain road is rugged, and you will fall into those holes if you are not careful.
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Although the head could not be found, other things provided Ye Mo with clues.
Those are the pebbles.
Ye Mo looked at the cobblestones in the evidence box and said to Zhang Xiaofan, "Tell me, why did the murderer use cobblestones as heavy objects to fill it?"
"Because there are no other larger stones around the crime scene, only these pebbles." Zhang Xiaofan said.
"That's right, there must be a lot of pebbles where the murderer dumped his body, and where upstream are there more of these pebbles?" Ye Mo asked.
"You have to ask the locals." Zhang Xiaofan said.
"About four kilometers upstream, there is a bridge with many cobblestones at the bottom." Zhao Jiaming suddenly said.
"Okay, let's go to that location now and take a look." Ye Mo said.
"Received, I'll arrange it right away." Zhao Jiaming immediately went to arrange for the police.
Subsequently, the body parts were taken back to the forensic department of the detachment for another autopsy by the forensic doctor.
Ye Mo and others went to the location mentioned by Officer Zhao Jiaming for further investigation.
In this case, the breakthrough lies in these pebbles.
Why bother installing pebbles when you can choose heavier stones?
In fact, it was because there were no other stones at the crime scene, only cobblestones.
The murderer simply put the pebbles and body parts into a snakeskin bag and threw them into the river.
Therefore, there must be a lot of cobblestones at the scene where the body was dumped.
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