National Forensic Doctor
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476: Chapter 438: Heart Flutters (Vote for Monthly Ticket) 476: Chapter 438: Heart Flutters (Vote for Monthly Ticket) “Captain Jiang, let me help you with the evidence bags,” Mu Zhiyang offered.

As a rookie on the crime scene, Mu Zhiyang immediately stepped forward to help Jiang Yuan collect key evidence.

Having been a police officer at a local station, he always felt that Captain Hou of the Hou Lejia household resembled the type of character you’d find at the center of local disputes, possessing the knack to snatch evidence and flee on impulse.

What Mu Zhiyang didn’t know was that Director Huang had always been the first to charge fees when it came to the Hou household.

In terms of familiarity with life and work experience, Huang Qiangmin had also suffered his own setbacks and, as a result, had thickened his cerebral cortex.

Jiang Yuan handed the evidence bag to Mu Zhiyang, then continued to look for hairs around the drawer.

These hairs were not necessarily those of the perpetrator, but if the killer was neither wearing a cap like himself nor obsessively clean like Wu Junhao’s Bald Strike Team members, the likelihood of hair being left behind was very high.

It was like those trying to catch a cheating partner, who could always find someone else’s hair in their significant other’s car.

Could a murderer be more meticulous than a cheating man or woman?

Cheaters can philander daily and clean their vehicles and bedsheets afterwards, but how many murderers kill every day?

However, judging by appearances alone, Jiang Yuan estimated that the hairs around the drawer belonged to several people.

If all belonged to the victim’s family members, then that was one thing; but if they did not, the likelihood that they came from the perpetrator was very high.

The possibility of the crime being committed by a stranger was extremely high.

If it was someone the victim knew, given their social circle, it would be hard to find a murderer so calm.

And if there was one, they wouldn’t ransack a rural home for trivial gains, thus increasing the risk of exposing themselves.

“These,” Jiang Yuan said, sorting the hairs before passing them to Mu Zhiyang.

The way he categorized them was already much more meticulous than many other trace evidence technicians.

Mu Zhiyang collected them again, and on noticing that the Hou household was now absent, he whispered, “Captain Jiang, does this mean this case is solved?”

Jiang Yuan glanced at the chaotic scene and replied, “If the sweat stains’ DNA matches, then it would be simple.

If they don’t match…”

“Even if the sweat stains don’t match, we still have the hair,” Mu Zhiyang was optimistic.

Jiang Yuan shook his head, “The hair could also be from the person who installed the drawer, or even from lovers having an affair.”

The issue with some evidence is that if it had been there too long, it became problematic.

Especially in tricky-to-reach places like the interior of a wardrobe, proving the evidence was relevant became difficult.

In Europe and America, courtroom evidence science had encountered great difficulties in this regards.

In the past, when forensic technicians faced similar situations, they often chose to test selectively, mainly due to the high cost of early DNA testing.

However, with the airing of various legal dramas, the criminal science mindset of Americans, particularly those using a jury system, suddenly leaped ahead of the institutional framework.

The demand for completeness and integrity of evidence occasionally exceeded the capabilities of typical American labs.

As such, many lab technicians even became reluctant to collect evidence comprehensively.

Domestically, when it comes to the collection of evidence in homicide cases, especially during investigation periods, the approach is still to be as comprehensive as possible.

The crime scene investigation continued for almost an entire day.

By the time Jiang Yuan and his team left Changxin Village, the initial batch of evidence results were almost all processed.

Jiang Yuan then left these matters to others, tidied up, and went to sleep for a couple of hours.

By the time he woke up, the forensic doctors from Qinghe City had already arrived.

Jiang Yuan then proceeded with Medical Examiner Zhai and others to the mortuary’s autopsy room to join forces with Wang Lan and Doctor Ye from the Qinghe City Bureau.

Though Medical Examiner Zhai brought along eight junior forensic doctors who could work independently, as a Provincial Bureau leader with his own plans and work procedures, he wouldn’t perform unpaid labor just to save the Hou family money.

If not for Jiang Yuan’s presence, even an invitation wouldn’t have sufficed.

Wang Lan’s presence, however, was mandatory.

The Qinghe City Bureau’s policy dictated that for major cases like gruesome homicides, dismemberments, incinerations, or cases involving multiple victims such as this, the city bureau’s medical examiners were required to assist, sometimes even when assistance wasn’t sought.

Therefore, on that day, the Longli County mortuary’s autopsy room was crammed with twelve forensic doctors.

If the corpse could speak, it would surely complain about feeling claustrophobic.

The medical examiners were also somewhat embarrassed, as they were accustomed to quiet and independent work environments and rarely had such “gatherings.”

Even the socially astute Doctor Ye had never experienced such a situation.

Seeing everyone a bit reserved, he suggested, “It’s rare for us to meet.

Let’s have a late-night snack together tonight.”

“With two bodies to examine, if we want to have that late-night snack, we need to get started now.”

“We can do it,” Doctor Ye said, looking up at Jiang Yuan and Medical Examiner Zhai to ask, “Will you two be directing?”

Directing an autopsy was, of course, far easier than performing it oneself.

High-level medical examiners, such as Medical Examiner Zhai, likely seldom performed complete autopsies these days, usually delegating the task to their subordinates.

As expected, Medical Examiner Zhai nodded, but Jiang Yuan straightforwardly said, “I’ll take this male body.”

His actual experience performing autopsies was not extensive; since starting his career, he had only examined a few dozen bodies, roughly equivalent to the number a seasoned forensic doctor with about three years of experience would handle.

Thus, even with the system’s provided skills, Jiang Yuan was still consciously accumulating autopsy experience.