Rebirth 2014: I, the King of Criminal Investigation

Chapter 141 There is a kind of makeup technique...

Yu Dazhang had known about the previous case at the tertiary hospital.

At the time, he suspected that the hospital wanted to take the child's organs.

Later, after consulting professionals, I learned that organs must be transplanted from living persons.

You can tell by looking at the hospital's requirements for donors.

Either he is brain dead, or he asks his family members to sign at his last moment.

Another way to extend the time is to remove the organ and perform cold perfusion within half an hour of cardiac arrest.

Obviously, the four bodies in this case do not meet these conditions.

Yu Dazhang pinched his eyebrows twice, feeling a little annoyed.

This kind of time-sensitive case is the most difficult to handle.

If you follow the clues step by step, by the time you find the clues, the body will probably have been destroyed.

"Today is the fourth day since the body was lost." Yu Dazhang said, staring at the time on the surveillance camera.

He had a feeling that even if he found the suspect now, it would be too late.

The other party is so anxious to get the corpse, I'm afraid... An idea suddenly popped up in Yu Dazhang's mind.

"Do you think it's possible that the suspect used stolen bodies to make up the numbers?"

He felt hot on his lips when he said this.

It lacked logic and had no beginning or end, but for some reason, he always felt that this was a possibility.

"To make up the numbers?"

Sure enough, the team members around him didn't understand:

"What are you going to top up? Where are you going to top up?"

Yu Dazhang scratched his head irritably, and it was obvious that his mind was also a mess.

It was as if a ball of wool appeared in front of him, but he just couldn't find where the end of the thread was.

Seeing that he looked distressed, everyone fell silent.

Most experienced criminal investigators have encountered this situation.

I clearly have a clue, but I don't know where to start. If I figure it out, everything becomes clear, but if I don't, I'm in a dead end.

"We shouldn't focus all our attention on the morgue, let's think outside the box..."

Yu Dazhang's eyes gradually became sharper. He stared at the members of the task force and said:

"Where else can the bodies be stored besides the morgue?"

After hearing this, everyone fell into deep thought.

Yes, this is indeed a direction worth thinking about.

Four bodies were missing for four days. How did the other party preserve them?
The longest storage time in the morgue is two weeks, and that requires the body to be placed in a refrigerator to keep it from decaying.

Since the other party dared to steal four bodies at once, he must have thought of a way to preserve them before stealing them.

In other words, the other party didn't need to make any special preparations, and preserving the corpse was not a difficult task for them.

Where else can this be done besides the morgue?

After a brief silence.

"I understand!" One of the team members suddenly looked up at Yu Dazhang:

"funeral parlor!"

After his reminder, other team members also reacted.

"Yes, funeral homes can also preserve bodies, and there are more ways to preserve them. In addition to cryopreservation, there are also specific liquid medicines for embalming."

When an idea is opened up, everyone's thinking becomes active.

Everyone started talking about it.

Yu Dazhang did not participate, but continued to watch the surveillance video.

Ten minutes later, the discussion gradually stopped.

"Da Zhang, how did you come up with the idea of the funeral home?" asked one of the team members.

In fact, they should call Yu Dazhang the deputy team leader.

But his qualifications and age are there, and calling him by his name is more intimate.

Yu Dazhang didn't care about the name, as that was how it was in the system.

Not calling me “Xiao Yu” was already polite.

"That's not what I thought of." Yu Dazhang pointed at the surveillance screen:
"I discovered it when I was watching the surveillance."

"Although we can't see the faces of the four people on the surveillance video," "but we can still see that their faces are different from those of normal people."

"Pale and gray face, sunken eye sockets, and light purple spots on both sides of the cheeks."

"Obviously they put on makeup beforehand."

Having said that, he deliberately found a clearer picture and pressed pause.

Everyone immediately gathered together and looked carefully at the four people on the screen.

"It's true. The makeup is done with great skill." One of the team members exclaimed.

Another team member pointed at a man on the screen and said:
"Look, there is a mark on his neck. This must be the one who hanged himself in the mental hospital."

"What a detailed look! The marks from ligatures are so realistic."

Yu Dazhang didn't interrupt them, but just listened quietly.

After a while, the team member closest to him asked:

"Since we already know they've prepared in advance, it's okay to put on some makeup, right?"

If you want to pretend to be dead, you must put something on your face.

A living person’s complexion is ruddy and can be identified at a glance.

This is common sense, even ordinary people know it.

"That depends on what kind of makeup it is." Yu Dazhang explained patiently:

"People who work in the morgue have seen all kinds of corpses."

"It's impossible for an ordinary person to fool the duty officer by putting on a dead person's makeup."

"Not only did they deceive him, they also frightened the attendant so much that he fainted."

“It means the makeup on their faces is very realistic.”

"Anyone who can do the dead makeup to this extent must be a professional."

When he said this, everyone present understood.

It can make a living person look like a dead person. Most people don’t have this kind of makeup skills.

Even when filming TV shows or movies, the special effects makeup artists who do the dead-eye makeup on the set can't do it.

In movies and TV dramas, the most that is done is to make the face whiter and the eyeliner darker.

If it's a war film, it's even simpler. Just put some dust on your face, some fake blood, and lie on the ground.

The special effects makeup artists on those sets have never even seen a real dead person.

To be able to use this kind of makeup, you must meet two requirements:
1. Having dealt with corpses for many years, I have a deep understanding of a person’s state after death.

2. Know how to put on makeup, and be professional at it.

There is only one type of person who meets these two requirements.

Undertaker!
Also known as a funeral director.

Undertaker is usually under the jurisdiction of the civil affairs department and is a staff member of the funeral home.

This is also one of the reasons why Yu Dazhang identified the suspect as the funeral home.

The body can be preserved for a long time, and there are professional undertakers to help with makeup...

These two points alone are enough to make people suspicious.

Make bold assumptions and verify them carefully...Yu Dazhang was making inferences and analyses in his mind.

Suppose it was really someone from the funeral home who stole the body.

So what was their purpose in stealing the corpse?
There are already corpses in the funeral home, so wouldn't it be easier to just embezzle?

Why go so far and take such a big risk to steal from the hospital morgue?

The logic doesn't make sense!
unless……

Make up the numbers!

Yu Dazhang returned to his original inference, but this time, what he saw was no longer a mess.

But there is a thread.

It is precisely because funeral homes are places where corpses can be stored that there is a possibility of a shortage of corpses.

As for why there are no corpses, it cannot be inferred, it is just a hypothesis.

Next, put yourself in their shoes.

Yu Dazhang tapped the table lightly, his eyes looking straight ahead without focus.

"If I were a body stealer."

(End of this chapter)