Chapter 525: Centennial Stone Carvings
Under normal circumstances, corpses are exposed to the natural environment and will decompose rapidly under the combined action of hydrolases in their own cells, external bacteria, and bacteria in the intestines.
In a relatively short period of time, the flesh and skin will rot, decompose and be consumed, leaving only a skeleton in the end.
However, if under extreme natural environmental conditions, mummified corpses and frozen corpses will also form.
Mummies formed under natural conditions have very high environmental requirements.
Usually in desert areas with high temperature, dryness and good ventilation, mummies will form under natural conditions. Most of the mummies found in China are in places such as Lop Nur.
In extremely cold high-altitude areas, frozen corpses will form. For example, the corpses of climbers who failed to climb Mount Everest and died remained permanently on Mount Everest.
Haizhou City faces the sea, the air humidity is relatively high, and the temperature is not very hot. It does not meet the conditions of high temperature and drought, so mummies will not form under normal circumstances.
Now surveying the laboratory.
Lu Chuan is studying the reasons for the formation of mummies.
Compared with the action team who focused on the supplier of stone statues for clues and targets, Lu Chuan pursued the reason why the corpse became a mummy.
First of all, the purpose is very clear. The murderer hid the body in the stone statue just to hide the body.
As for why the other party mummified the corpse by some means and then hid it in the stone statue, Lu Chuan guessed that it was to prevent the corpse from rotting, which would cause a smell and make it easier for people to find it.
If you figure out how and where the corpse became mummified, you will most likely be able to find the source of the corpse.
Over in the autopsy room, Lu Chuan had already examined the corpse in great detail when collecting fingerprints from the corpse.
Combined with the inspections conducted in the camping area, Lu Chuan basically ruled out the possibility that the corpse had naturally transformed into a mummy in the desert environment.
The reason for the exclusion is simple. There is no gravel left on the body.
Although there were no clothes on the corpse, there were many wrinkles on the surface of the dried corpse.
If the body is a fold that has been naturally dried in the desert, there will definitely be a small amount of gravel left in it, and it will be difficult for the murderer to clean it up.
Thinking about it from another perspective, if the body was dried in the desert, there is no need for the murderer to dig it out and seal it inside the stone statue.
After all, compared to the inaccessible desert, the probability of being discovered sealed in a stone statue may be higher.
Lu Chuan checked some large-scale drying equipment on the Internet and found that drying equipment can actually be used in all walks of life, but in comparison, grain drying uses relatively more.
“Is it possible that it is a corn dryer?”
In the stone statue, Lu Chuan once found a corn kernel and it has been sent to the relevant unit that can do testing for testing.
But the results will not be available until tomorrow morning at the earliest.
Murder cases are very important to the police and time is very tight, but for other units, testing corn kernels is testing corn kernels.
And when I got the corn back this evening, it was already after get off work. The test can only be done until tomorrow morning, so the fastest I can get the results is tomorrow morning.
Of course, the so-called time crunch is relative. After all, the corpse has been sealed in the stone statue for a year or two. The deceased has been dead for such a long time, and there is no such thing as a 72-hour golden period to solve the case. statement.
Of course, Lu Chuan just made a guess as to whether it was a mummy dried in a corn dryer.
"Xiao Lu, take a rest, we will work tomorrow."
After busy work in the evening, it is already midnight.
"Master, are there any results from the DNA comparison?"
Liu Guodong shook his head: "There is no DNA information of the deceased in the database, and there is no successful comparison."
Although the body has been Although it is air-dried, there are still some active substances inside the bone marrow, and DNA testing can still be performed. Unfortunately, there is no successful comparison information in the database.
"How are your fingerprints here?"
Speaking of this, Lu Chuan was also helpless.
“Although the corpse has been dried, the fingerprints have not been erased. It is difficult to collect and compare, but I have tried several methods and none of the targets in the database have been matched.”
“The other party has never recorded fingerprints?”
“That’s most likely the case, or it’s possible that the fingerprints are not in our database.”
The fingerprint database of the Haizhou City Criminal Investigation Detachment is only connected to the province, not the whole country.
So Lu Chuan is not sure that the other party's fingerprints have not been collected, but it must have not been collected in the entire province here.
“Either the other party is a foreigner, or the fingerprints have not been collected.”
Fingerprint and DNA information identification, both paths failed to match, and there was no way to determine the identity of the deceased.
“How is the investigation going with the action team?”
Liu Guodong shook his head: "There is no big progress, but the supplier of the stone statues has been found. Zhang Hui and the others should be there tomorrow morning."
Lao Bai on the side stretched: "It's because of his age. , can't stay up all night."
"Actually, I don't think there's a problem with the direction of the action team. The stone statue is so big and heavy, and it's unlikely that it was tampered with during transportation."
"The murderer is very unlikely. It should be the person who carved the stone statue."
Yang Sen disagreed: "I don't think it can be said so absolutely, everything is possible."
"Forget it, my work here has been completed. Go get some sleep and call me tomorrow morning."
Old Bai was too sleepy to argue with Yang Sen, so he yawned and went upstairs. Went to bed.
Lu Chuan and the other three packed up their things and went up to rest.
Early the next morning.
Zhang Hui and others went straight to the stone processing park in Xishan.
Centennial stone carvings.
The person in charge was a lame middle-aged man. He was carving stone statues in the yard when he suddenly saw two police cars entering the yard.
"Hello, I am a criminal police officer from the Criminal Investigation Detachment, Zhang Hui. Are you Zhao Shengli, the person in charge here?"
Zhao Shengli put down the hammer and chisel and nodded in confusion: "Ah , I am Zhao Shengli, this is the stone carving garden I opened, police comrades...what can you do?”
Zhao Shengli has opened the stone carving garden here for more than 20 years, and this is the first time there are police officers. Enter the courtyard.
Zhang Hui looked around. There were more than a dozen statues standing in the yard, as well as semi-finished stones.
"Hello, Master Zhao, we would like to ask you whether the stone sculpture in the camping area on the East Sea two years ago was carved by you?"
East China Sea?
Camping area?
After hearing this, Zhao Shengli didn’t recall it at all, so he answered directly: “You are talking about the three-meter-high mermaid stone statue over there, right?”
Zhang Hui's eyes were sharp. Over the past two years, Zhao Shengli still remembered it so clearly?
What's going on?
"Master Zhao has a really good memory. It has been such a long time and he still remembers it so clearly?"
(End of this chapter)