The bones of corpse number 5 have been boiled.

The white skeleton of Bai Sensen, without a head, was placed on the first dissecting table.

Jiang Yuan asked, "Has number 1 been put away?"

"Yes, because there aren't enough dissecting tables, number 1 has been finished..." the forensic assistant explained hurriedly.

To say it's finished is naturally impossible.

There is a lot of information that can be inferred from the body, and there are many ways to do so. However, some things are also left to chance, just like the eight possible solutions to a problem, it's easy to fall into a fixed mindset.

The conditions in the autopsy room are like this. Four dissecting tables are already quite large, and the police station cannot treat the conditions for six bodies as a regular configuration.

Jiang Yuan asked, "How is the analysis of number 5 going?"

"It has just been laid out, and there are no conclusions yet," the forensic assistant replied.

In fact, for an ordinary forensic expert, it takes quite a while to lay out the bones in an orderly manner. Everyone is busy and tired, and there is simply no time to do further analysis.

Jiang Yuan nodded and looked at them absentmindedly, adjusting the position of the bones to make them look better.

Appearance is still very important. The strongest sense of humans is vision, and the development of thinking is also centered around vision.

For example, the beginning of astronomy, the beginning of optics, and the beginning of the AV industry are all like this.

Those famous mathematical formulas, such as the Archimedean line, the Cartesian line, and the Jacobian line, are also known for their beauty.

Whether some geometric problems can be solved or not, the key is to draw auxiliary lines.

Therefore, whether a corpse is arranged beautifully or not is also important.

Moreover, don't look at some people who look ugly in their lives, do things particularly ugly, and are bad to the core. But if you take off their flesh and arrange them more beautifully, they will be reborn.

As the saying goes, for some special people, as long as you give them a chance, they can transform themselves.

"You take note of it," Jiang Yuan played with the bones for a while, then measured them with a ruler, and began to output the results.

It can be hard to make great work when its stolen from bit.ly/3iBfjkV.

The most basic judgments can still be done very quickly.

The forensic assistant took off his gloves, washed his hands, and then put on new gloves, ready to write.

"Female."

"Height 160."

"Age... around 18 years old."

With a few words, Jiang Yuan stated the main points of judgment.

The forensic assistant made a record and paused for a moment at the end, surprised, "So young?"

"Yes, an 18-year-old girl missing, her family should be more concerned," Jiang Yuan said, "Wait a moment, I will confirm the exact age."

In terms of forensic anthropology techniques, many bones in the human body can be judged in various ways. But there are always some bones that are more advantageous for certain types of judgments.

For example, long bones are particularly useful for judging height, with high accuracy and low difficulty. Even ordinary junior forensic experts can accurately produce results.

The lumbar vertebrae are different. It is possible to infer height, but the accuracy is lower, and the difficulty exceeds the level of beginners.

Jiang Yuan's quick judgment just now was based on the pelvis for gender determination and the pubic symphysis for age determination.

The pelvis can be said to be a treasure trove of human bones.

Using the pelvis to determine gender, there are many characteristic points, from the overall shape of the pelvis to the angle of the pubic arch, all can be used to distinguish between males and females.

In families with conditions, they can take a male pelvis and a female pelvis for comparison. It is easy to see that the male pelvis is overall high and narrow, with a larger upper part and a smaller lower part. The female pelvis is low and wide, with a short and wide pelvic cavity, resembling a cylinder...

If conditions are not available, an X-ray of a male pelvis and an X-ray of a female pelvis can be compared. However, in this case, there is a lack of a sense of three-dimensionality and depth.

The accuracy of age determination based on the pubic symphysis is also very high and is the main method of judgment.

The rougher the pubic symphysis, the younger the age, and the smoother it is, the older the age.

However, as the saying goes, it is difficult to establish a single proof. Jiang Yuan flipped through the bones for a while and then turned back, saying, "18 years old is not a problem."

"Okay," the forensic assistant responded and drew another circle.

"The cause of death may be stabbing," Jiang Yuan said unexpectedly.

The forensic assistant curiously asked, "How did you determine that?"

"The injuries on the ribs should be stab wounds. A saw was used for dismemberment."

As Jiang Yuan said this, the four forensic experts in the outer room finished their meal and returned one after another.

Jiang Yuan glanced at them and noticed that their expressions were not very good.

"Is it not tasty?" Jiang Yuan asked with concern. After all, he was the one who made the instant noodles.

Now thinking about it, the big bone soup noodles may indeed not be as tasty as the big bone broth noodles. Maybe he should have...

"I tore open the tape outside," the forensic expert Xiao Zhuang honestly admitted his mistake.Old Ye walked in with a look of disgust, saying, "If you're going to rip it, just rip it. Don't read it out loud after you've done it. You've ruined my soup."

"Sorry, sorry. I just saw a plastic head there and wanted to pull it off." Xiao Zhuang looked helpless. He didn't expect to find a bone soup under the caution tape.

"You mentioned something about a knife wound?" Old Ye changed the subject.

"Yes, there are cut marks on the third and fourth ribs." Jiang Yuan picked up the bone and turned it to the right position.

Since all the bodies were severely decomposed from being fished out of the reservoir, it was difficult to identify them before they were boiled. After boiling, the surface of the bones became complicated.

The cut marks Jiang Yuan found were very subtle, measured in millimeters. He guessed that the murderer had accidentally grazed the bone when stabbing.

However, despite the small size of the cut marks, they revealed a lot of information.

For example, the killer's knife skills were subpar, suggesting that he was unlikely to be a doctor or butcher. Otherwise, he wouldn't have made such a mistake.

The mood of the forensic team immediately improved, and they all came over to examine the rib.

Two young forensic doctors even mimicked the stabbing motion on their own chests.

"Another thing," Jiang Yuan continued examining the bone, "The fifth victim likely had extensive ballet training."

Forensic Ye was taken aback and quickly looked at the foot bones of the corpse, exclaiming, "So many pieces of bone are missing?"

"They might have been chopped off." Jiang Yuan had already checked and said, "The killer probably noticed the ballet feet and likely disposed of them along with the head."

After extensive ballet training, dancers often develop ballet feet, causing deformation of the foot.

According to Jiang Yuan's analysis, the ballet feet of the fifth victim might not have been severe enough to affect the skeleton, but the killer could only see the deformed feet of the corpse, which were easily identifiable. He might have chopped them off in advance.

However, the traces left by ballet training were not limited to ballet feet.

The killer chopping off the feet actually reminded Jiang Yuan.

Eighteen years old, ballet training, plus a missing person report, it was easy to identify the source of the corpse.

(End of Chapter)