Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 140 Forensic Practice
"It's over... Let's start stitching."

Sancheng breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and then began to sew.

Although the person is dead, stitching shows respect for the deceased...

Shiraishi has obtained enough "evidence" from "Yamashiro Yoshinosuke"!
Although there were still some samples that needed to be tested, Shiraishi was confident at this point - even if Yane decided to sue, it would only bring disgrace upon himself.

The existing evidence is enough to make Yamashiro Koichi suspicious, and then...

So many witnesses!
Even though they dare to lie together now, once loopholes in their testimonies are found and Yamashiro Koichi is clearly suspected, both the police and the prosecutors will have ways to pry open their mouths. By then, the more witnesses there are, the easier it will be to have a "breakthrough."

As for whether the prosecution will not accept the evidence submitted by the Rice Flower Agency because it has already filed a lawsuit?

In response to this, Shiraishi could only say - you don't want the evidence to appear in the defense's evidence library, right?
At the same time, recorder Kube Rokuro also heard about the "dispute between Chief Shiraishi and the prosecutors", and then secretly gave the basic information of "Yamashiro Yoshinosuke" and took a photo...

Although he was born into a medical family and is now a medical student, but... Hisabe's life ideal is to become a journalist, and an investigative journalist at that, who can go deep into the tiger's den and expose all kinds of dark sides of society!

For this reason, he also cooperated with the newspaper, and the reason why he came to UDI as a recorder was because the newspaper asked him to come.

Originally, he had no interest in the newspaper's desire for the "scandal of the beautiful forensic doctor", but this time, when he met the legendary Director Shiraishi, who seemed to be having some conflicts with the prosecutors, he immediately felt that this was an opportunity!

……

On the other hand, at UDI, the Zhongtang Department has completed the autopsy of the third body...

"Yeah! Suicide, suicide... It was indeed suicide. There is no problem with the three bodies, only one!" Detective Maori was already celebrating at this time.

Even when he saw Sancheng coming over, he seemed quite conceited.

Sancheng rolled his eyes at this and sighed in his heart - they are both police officers, why is there such a big difference in their character?

"There is still one more." Zhongtang said with a stern face.

He didn't care about suicide or homicide, nor did he question the suicide report. He just felt annoyed with this detective who was always "buzzing" in his ears.

"Hurry up!" Maori urged immediately.

"I'm hungry, Sancheng, come here." After Nakadashi glanced at Maori, he took off his protective helmet impatiently and left.

"Forensic Doctor Sancheng, there is one last body..." Maori has long been accustomed to Zhongtang's attitude.

And just then...

Shiraishi, who had changed into a "protective suit", came over and said, "Leave it to me... UDI didn't charge for the body just now, so I have to return the favor."

Misumi, Maori: ???

Shiraishi was wearing a protective suit on the front, and of course the back couldn't fit, so he put on another one, and put extra sterile sleeves on his arms. He looked bloated and chaotic, but also had a sense of order. With the transparent mask that was stretched out of shape, he looked like a soldier from 40K...

"Eh? That... isn't the body of a criminal case?" It was only then that Sancheng realized that this guy was not only taller, but also braver!
"Please ask Director Shiraishi to give it a try...Misumi, you be the assistant." Kamikura said at this time.

Kamikura has great trust in Todai and the forensic medical certificate, but...

Shiraishi hadn't performed an autopsy for at least six years, so he wasn't sure.

Need to investigate...

This determines whether he can perform a "self-autopsy" later.

"Director Shiraishi will perform the autopsy personally? That's such an honor..." Maori was already bragging about Shiraishi.

Sancheng of course understood what the director meant, and quickly followed him in: "Then I will be the assistant, and Jiubu will be the recorder."

"Yes! Director Shiraishi, I'm Hisabe Rokuro, thank you for your guidance!" Hisabe immediately stood up straight and greeted him.

"Hmm? Oh, please give me some advice." Bai Shi was also a little surprised. What was he doing?

Dong Hailin, who was standing by, saw this and teased, "Xiao Liulang, do you admire big guys?"

"No... Chief Shiraishi is... the pride of the police..." Hisabe said a little embarrassedly, and then added: "Unlike some police officers who are afraid of cases!"

As a result, he was glared at by Mori Tadashi, and then he quickly hid in the autopsy room with the camera.

……

At this time, Shiraishi saw on the autopsy table that the deceased was a very young woman with orange-pink skin, which was consistent with the characteristics of "charcoal burning suicide" that Maori had just mentioned.

"The autopsy began at 11:23 p.m. on November ." Sancheng said as he recorded the time.

"This is a corpse whose identity is unknown, right?" Bai Shi confirmed.

Jiube rushed to say, "That's right! The other three bodies all had their identification documents found at the scene. The three people had no relationship with each other, so the police concluded that they committed suicide together, but the identity of this girl is unknown!"

Mao Li shouted outside when he saw this: "But the girl also left a suicide note! How pitiful... She lost her determination to live at such a young age..."

Seeing this, Sancheng reminded with some concern: "But it's best not to care too much about these things... um."

Shiraishi understood that she wanted to remind him that the autopsy should be objective and it was best not to put in too much subjective speculation. However, because he was not familiar with Shiraishi, he felt that it was a bit presumptuous, so he did not say much. Shiraishi said, and first conducted a general inspection...

"There are white crystals on the hair... There are no wounds inside the mouth, there are cavities that have not been treated, the age of the teeth is about 20 years old... There are marks on the wrists that seem to be from being tied up..."

Hearing what Shiraishi said, Hisabe took the camera and took a picture on his wrist.

Mao Li heard this and immediately interrupted from outside, "No, no, no, Director Shiraishi, that could have been left behind from a failed wrist-cutting attempt, right?"

Bai Shi ignored him at this time.

"Make sure there are no other obvious injuries..."

Shiraishi conducted the initial inspection very standardly and step by step, and then began to open the body.

Mao Li was getting a little impatient at this time, but...

But he didn't dare to urge Director Shiraishi!
Sancheng also discovered that although Shiraishi was "big-handed" in the physical sense, he was very steady when picking up a small scalpel...

This technique doesn't even look like that of someone who hasn't touched a scalpel in years!

Shiraishi himself didn't think this was strange - with his own physique, his hands couldn't be steadier, and "Forensic Practice" was a skill that Shiraishi had upgraded to Level 8 while studying for a master's degree in forensic medicine...

"Hmm?" Bai Shi paused suddenly after he had just cut open the sac of the heart.

Immediately, Shiraishi looked up and saw Sancheng who was recording, and found that Sancheng also looked up and looked at him in surprise, and their eyes met.

Hisabe, the recorder who was holding a camera nearby, didn't understand what was happening at that time.

Maori Tadashi: ???
What are you two doing in there?
"How is it? Are you sure he committed suicide?" Maori asked anxiously.

"Detective Maori, the deceased was found indoors, right?" Shiraishi did not answer but asked back.

"Of course, it was charcoal burning..." Maori was about to say "charcoal burning suicide".

But Bai Shi interrupted and said, "This man froze to death."

"It's really freezing... Eh? Frozen, frozen to death? Eh?" Maori was shocked and looked at Misumi expectantly.

Although he had just praised Shiraishi highly, he now hoped that Shiraishi had just "got a bad move"...

However, Sancheng did not respond to his expectations, but nodded and said: "The blood in the left ventricle is bright red, and the blood in the right ventricle is dark red... This is a typical characteristic of a frozen heart."

"Eh? But..."

Without waiting for Maori Tadashi to panic, Shiraishi immediately asked, "Detective Maori, when the deceased was found, was there anything unusual about her clothing? For example, her clothes were torn off or something like that."

Shiraishi only saw her in the autopsy room. She was without any clothes at that time and didn't know the situation at the scene. After all, the forensic doctor didn't need to see photos of the scene.

"Of course not." Mao Li said immediately.

If a young girl's clothing is "unusual", then immediately consider the possibility of being assaulted or harassed.

"It seems that the wrists were most likely tied up," Bai Shi judged.

"Huh?" Maori was still a little reluctant.

However, Sancheng also directly agreed: "That's right, otherwise people who freeze to death usually have phantom heat due to paralysis of the body's temperature regulation center, which leads to [abnormal undressing phenomenon]."

"The weather now..." Maori's eyebrows were twisted together - the lowest temperature in Dongdu is now more than ten degrees!

"Moreover, no frostbite was found on the body surface at the beginning, no [bitter smile], no dark red corpse spots... It can be seen that this was a person who was quickly frozen to death in the extremely low temperature below minus 20 degrees Celsius. This is definitely not something that can happen naturally in the current Dongdu." Bai Shi further confirmed.

Although the skin of a person who died of freezing will appear pink, there will usually be signs of frostbite, and it is not easy to confuse them with someone who has suffered carbon monoxide poisoning, unless... they died quickly enough!

Mori Tadashi: …

Maori has almost "accepted his fate", and it is indeed difficult to close the case as suicide or an accident!

"Let's check the [Wisniewski spots] in the digestive tract later..." Shiraishi said, continuing the dissection until...

"Pectinous bleeding in the gastric mucosa, Vickers spots confirmed... Hmm?" Shiraishi paused again.

"What, what did you discover again?" Maori asked hurriedly.

"There's a piece of...paper...in the stomach?" Shiraishi took out a small piece of paper from the stomach, and then skillfully used medical scissors to peel it open.

"【Snowman's】something, 【save】...【Flower】?" Shiraishi read the recognizable handwriting on the note.

"There are no wounds in the deceased's mouth and esophagus. This is definitely information about death that was swallowed voluntarily," Shiraishi emphasized.

After checking everything and taking various samples, Bai Shi sewed the body up again and finally put his hands together and prayed for it - Bai Shi did not believe in any gods or Buddhas, this was just the most basic respect for "life".

"November 11, 23: p.m., the autopsy is completed." Sancheng finally recorded.

(End of this chapter)