The weather in Haizhou City in September is hot and dry.
Summer is over and autumn has arrived.
Of course, although it is already the beginning of autumn, the weather is still relatively hot, and it is a relatively hot time of year.
It is also a season of the year when fires are more likely to occur.
Under normal circumstances, there is no need for the criminal police to appear at the fire scene, but once the criminal police comes, it means that someone must have died at the fire scene.
All accidental deaths, including falls, fires, drownings, etc., cannot be treated as pure accidental deaths before the police issue a death certificate. They need to go through the investigation procedures of criminal cases.
Only after it is determined that there is no possibility of a criminal case occurring can you proceed to other procedures involving civil litigation in accidental cases.
September is a period of high incidence of fires in Haizhou City, and fires often occurred in the past.
Wang Zhaokai and others also received similar alarms, so they often went to fire scenes in the past, but this time they thought it was no different from before.
The fire occurred in a suburban tourist resort.
This tourist resort village features scarecrows, wheat fields, pumpkin displays and other autumn harvest crops as its main exhibits.
The fire broke out in the scarecrow exhibition area.
The scarecrows in the resort are all made of real straw, and there are also some simulated buildings made of straw, such as windmills and wheat stacks, etc., all in this area. If a fire breaks out, you can imagine that it will be absolutely turbulent here.
In fact, this is true.
When Wang Zhaokai and the others were waiting to arrive, the entire resort had basically been burned down. The most serious thing was the scarecrow. There was basically nothing left in the area. The entire site was a mess, filled with a mixture of water and ashes.
“Captain Wang, it’s you who are here!”
The person who greeted Wang Zhaokai was Qin Li, the captain of the high-tech zone fire brigade.
"Captain Qin! Why are you here in person? This person from the fire station should just come over."
Qin Li shook his head: "I just found them last night, because they were all scarecrows, and some of the veins were flammable. After I found them, a large area of the sky was on fire. The fire was very strong. There was a fire station nearby. I couldn’t handle it at all. I had already mobilized all my strength and worked hard for most of it. I only put out all the open flames at night.”
"As a result, when we were inspecting the fire scene to find out the cause of the fire this morning, we found a body in this scarecrow area."
"That's why I asked the resort to call the police. I didn't expect you to come over."
"Where is the body? Let's go over first and see if we can figure out the cause of death?"
Wang Zhaokai asked.
"The initial judgment is that he was burned to death, but we have to wait for your forensic doctor to do the autopsy. We are just making a rough judgment here."
"After discovering the body, everything around us was protected and not moved, just waiting for you to come over."
"Over there..." Wang Ruokai pointed to a lot of people watching, and there was a man sitting on the ground looking at that, as if he had been crying, "What's going on?" "That man over there is the husband of the deceased. , he said that his wife came out to get some fresh air last night, and originally he wanted to come with her, but he didn’t come out because he was tired yesterday. Unexpectedly, it caught fire, and the person who was burned to death when his wife didn’t come back was his wife. ”
"Oh..."
"Okay, dear, you are busy here first, and I will go and see the body first. Have we found the cause of the fire?"
Qin Li nodded affirmatively: "We have discovered the initial ignition point. It is basically confirmed that the fire was caused by cigarette butts, and the smoker is likely to be the deceased who was burned to death."
Did the deceased smoke and cause the fire?
It is quite possible that there is straw all around, and a cigarette butt is enough to burn all these scarecrows. Zhaokai looked around. Although it was no longer burned, he could still see these traces.
Even after some straw piles were burned to ashes, they were still piled there like small hills.
On-site investigation at the fire scene has actually always been relatively difficult.
Some time ago, there was also a criminal case involving arson that resulted in death. It took Lu Chuan and the others a long time to finally smooth the case.
At that time, the main reason why this case took a long time to handle was the fire. After the scene was sprayed with fire water, there was basically no way to restore it.
From a health perspective, the entire trace of many things has been destroyed, so it is difficult to have directional key clues.
The scene was relatively closed in a self-built house on the third floor. To be honest, it was relatively easy to investigate at the fire scene, but this scene was different.
This is a scene that has been driven over, and the footprints on the scene are very messy, and there is no sense of on-site protection at all.
Qin Li had just told him that the people at the resort had organized firefighting before they came, but it was of no great use.
But although it was useless, everyone's footprints at the scene were messy, even on the ground. The ashes from burning straw were mixed with fire water, and the entire ground was muddy.
In this case, if it was really suspected of a criminal case, Wang Zhaokai would have a headache just looking at it.
Soon, the investigating detective came to the body after putting on his equipment.
The entire corpse had been completely charred. The corpse was lying on its back, with its legs curled up and its hands stretched out, and the tip had been burned away.
The state of a body after being burned can largely indicate whether the body was dead or not dead when the fire burned.
If the person is already dead before the fire burns, then the victim will not struggle during the burning process of the body, which means that the victim's position will not move.
For example, if the corpse in front of you had died before the fire burned, there should be no traces of burning on the back of the corpse.
Two modern criminal policemen first checked the back of the body, turned the body around, and checked that the lower part was all burnt.
Because the victim will definitely struggle during the process of being burned to death, it will be difficult to maintain a still posture. In this case, there will be burn marks all over the victim's body, so there should not be a situation where one part is intact. From the current point of view, it is simple. It was judged that the deceased should have been normal, conscious and able to move before being burned to death.
So judging from this simple situation, the deceased was probably burned to death. This is also the main reason why the fire department made this judgment.
Another thing is that the current posture of the deceased also proves that he had vital signs before being burned to death. (End of chapter)