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The victim is Hu Qi, 37 years old.
He's a props maker here in the studio.
He chose to kill in an enclosed environment.
Could he have been planning this for a long time?
This is a homemade shotgun.
It's his gun.
Judging from the marks on this muzzle
the gun used to shoot the victim is the gun that he made.
The wound was made at close contact.
We can determine that the victim left home that night with his gun.
The gun went off and he shot himself.
He died from exsanguination.
It wasn't an accident. This was a homicide.
How can you prove it?
[Medical Examiner Dr. Qin] [Episode 12]
[Criminal Investigation Team]
[Autopsy Room]
There really are other injuries.
In addition to the gunshot wound on his leg
I can feel a hematoma in his occipitalis muscle.
There's a slight abrasion on the skin.
There's no wound.
But there's an abrasion and a hematoma.
This could have been caused by a blunt object.
A wide, heavy, flat, and slightly rough object.
He could have fallen backward
or he was hit with something.
If he was hit with something
there might be residue from the object in the victim's hair.
It seems that we have found the object. These look like particles from a brick.
- Do we need to open up his skull? - Yes.
Otherwise we can't determine the cause of death.
- The gunshot wound or the head injury? - Yes.
Captain Lin!
We've found new clues!
There's a problem with this brick.
Of all the bricks, how can you be sure that it's this one?
Only this brick is stained with blood and hair.
There is indeed a contusion on the occipitalis muscle.
But there are no wounds on the forehead.
If there's no contrecoup injury
it means that he fell backward after he was hit by the brick.
There was a biological reaction.
That means that he was hit by the brick before he was shot.
We can't rule out multiple suspects
or that one suspect attacked him multiple times.
I just don't understand why the unsub would hit the victim
with a brick when he had a gun?
The victim was shot in the thigh with a scattergun.
His femoral artery was ruptured and he bled out.
At the same time, he suffered blunt force trauma to his occipitalis muscle.
This is a homicide case.
Here is what we know so far.
Around 9:30 p.m. last night
the victim went home to pick up some money before going out again.
About 20 minutes later
he went back home to get this gun out of his storage.
Around 10 p.m., he was killed.
During the preliminary examination
we found 460 yuan in the victim's pocket.
We have deduced two possible scenarios.
The victim had a fight with someone.
He went home for the gun to pick a fight.
During the fight, the gun was snatched away from him.
He ended up getting shot.
The second possibility is that
the victim was drunk and argued with other mahjong players
so he went home to get his gun.
However, he was killed on his way back to the mahjong game.
The four men who played mahjong with him are still listed as suspects.
The four of them could have covered for one another.
We have yet to rule out multiple suspects
or a single suspect who attacked multiple times.
This Hu Qi...
There might have been an economic dispute.
Since there are conflicts between the mahjong players
bring those men in for questioning first.
- Xiao Hei. - Present!
- Get it done. - Yes!
Here are the lab results.
The victim's blood alcohol content was 280 mg per 100 ml.
80 mg is considered drunk.
His blood alcohol content was high enough to kill him.
It indicates that the victim was heavily intoxicated.
With such a high blood alcohol content
he would have had trouble with his physical coordination and control.
If he was in a fight he could have barely fought back.
In addition, the particles found in the victim's hair
match the brick found at the crime scene.
Unfortunately, the surface of the brick is too rough.
We could only find finger marks but not fingerprints.
What about the gun test?
We did a comparison with the gun parts.
We found out that the gun is the one made by the victim.
We have also examined the surface of the gun.
We didn't find any useful fingerprints.
Have you done a firearms examination?
It's under way.
We'll get the results soon.
Officers.
Cases involving guns are major cases.
Since we don't have any other clues
we'll discuss further tonight after interrogating the four mahjong players.
All right, you may be dismissed.
I'll type out the autopsy report.
Qin.
Come and take a look at the brick.
We smoked it to check for fingerprints.
There are very few finger marks and no fingerprints.
There are just some marks of knuckles.
One finger mark is on one side of the brick.
It's a thumb and there's only a print of a knuckle.
Three finger marks are on the other side.
Index finger, middle finger, and ring finger.
- There's about half a knuckle. - Exactly.
I find it strange as well.
Wouldn't most people use one and a half to two knuckles when holding a brick?
There are very few marks and they are very small.
Pick up a brick with the tips of your fingers?
How inconvenient is that?
We can only give that up if there aren't any fingerprints.
Hello? Qin Ming.
Firearms Test Center.
I got it.
Sure.
Thanks.
The firearms test results are back.
The gun is just an ordinary homemade scattergun.
However, whoever made the gun didn't do a good job.
There's an issue with the gun.
What does that mean?
They said that there's a gap between the trigger and bore of the gun.
Whenever the gun is fired
gunpowder seeps out from the trigger.
That's a huge discovery.
I checked the victim's hands for gunpowder residue but there wasn't any.
Didn't we already rule out the possibility that the victim shot himself?
But the unsub would have gunpowder residue.
It's a clue and evidence.
I've also thought of that.
However, the murder took place last night.
Even if there was gunpowder residue
wouldn't it have been washed off by now?
Some guns leave gunpowder residue on the hands of the shooter.
But the murder weapon is too long.
When you fire such a long gun
the gunpowder doesn't get on the shooter's hands.
But I didn't know that the gun has a faulty design.
The gunpowder actually leaks.
You still didn't tell me if gunpowder residue can be washed off.
When the gun is fired the gunpowder is ignited.
If it hits someone's hands it leaves burn marks.
Gunpowder would then be concealed by the burns.
You might be able to wash off the particles on the hands
but not those that are concealed.
Are they easy to spot?
We just need a magnifying glass and an adhesive tool to collect them.
Get ready to review the crime scene.
Hand me the brick.
Look.
We know that there are fingertip marks on this brick.
However, there aren't any from the finger pulp.
A standard brick is 12 cm wide.
An adult male can hold it very easily.
If I were to hold this brick with just my fingertips
it's more difficult and unreasonable.
This indicates that the unsub has very small hands.
It could be a woman.
But we can't rule out that the unsub is a man with small hands.
The unsub hit the victim on his occipital bone.
But I've examined the victim's head.
There's only a hematoma on the scalp and underneath it.
Not only is the skull intact but the brain tissue was only mildly damaged.
This indicates that the unsub could be quite frail.
To sum up, I still think that the unsub is likely a woman.
But we already investigated it.
Hu Qi didn't have an affair.
What woman would want to kill him?
We'll discuss that later.
Let's reconstruct the crime scene first.
Hello.
I'm Li Da Bao from Longfan City's Forensic Center.
Hello, Officer Li.
Is something the matter?
Are you Hu Qi's wife?
Yes.
I'd like to ask you some questions.
What would you like to know?
I'd like to ask some questions about you.
The victim was hit on his occipital bone.
Then he fell to the ground.
His gun dropped to the side.
At that moment, the unsub picked up the gun
aimed at his leg, and fired.
You mean that the victim was on his back when he was shot?
There's another possibility.
The victim could have been standing.
If so, the shooter would have been lying down.
The trajectory and the femur formed an angle.
This gun is 60cm long.
It was also a close-range shooting.
If the shot was fired from below, that angle could also be valid.
Hu Li Miao said that no cries for help were heard.
It could mean that the victim wasn't scared of the shooter
and thought that he wouldn't be shot.
After he was shot
due to great panic, loss of blood, and intoxication
he couldn't cry out.
On the night of the murder...
the roll-up door to the studio was open.
It means that the unsub doesn't have to work in this studio.
If the unsub didn't work here
the escape route would have been in that direction.
If the unsub ran this way
the wall would block line of sight.
Hu Li Miao was playing mahjong so he wouldn't have noticed.
This is an important discovery.
We'll see where this takes us.
Where's Li Da Bao?
Have some water.
Thank you.
You...
What would you like to ask me?
I'd like to hear from you what your husband was like.
My.. My husband...
He was a nice man.
He was very honest.
He got along with our neighbors as well.
I... I married him when I was 18 years old.
We... We were also very close.
What about those injuries on your face?
Your knuckles have gone pale.
It means that you're very nervous.
Your posture is defensive.
Your face is slightly yellowish.
That means that you've been mentally anxious for a long time.
The injuries on your face were caused by repeated beatings.
Those cans at the door...
Those were your security alarm.
You didn't get along with your husband as well as you claim.
You were very scared of him.
Especially when you were asleep.
Hu Qi often beat you up.
Am I right?
Why did you lie?
Whenever he got drunk he became someone else.
He would beat me up when he got home.
I was so scared every day.
I was so frightened whenever the door opened.
That's why I placed those cans in the doorway.
That way at least I would know when the door was opened.
I couldn't sleep night after night.
Why didn't you leave him?
I thought about it.
I wanted to divorce him.
I even wanted to kill myself.
But I couldn't...
My son is still so young...
He's so obedient and thoughtful.
His father often...
He didn't even cry when his father beat him.
He was afraid that I would be upset...
Can you tell me in detail what happened last night?
You put those cans up so you'd know when I come home every day?
How dare you be wary of me? How dare you?
I'll kill you all.
Hu Qi! Hu Qi!
Get lost!
Hu Qi! Don't go there. I'm begging you--
Get lost!
I'll kill them all.
Get lost!
I'll kill them all!
I'll kill them all...
I'll kill them all--
How dare you hit me?
I'll kill you all...
Go on!
Shoot me!
Shoot!
You took into account that he treated you well when he was sober
so you didn't shoot him in the head.
That's why you opted for his leg, right?
But--
But you didn't know that the femoral artery
is one of the main arteries in the body.
Hu Qi...
Hu Qi?
Hu Qi!
What happened?
Yue Yue! Yue Yue!
What happened?
Mother...
- Hu... - Tell me!
Hu Qi is dead!
He's dead?
I... I shot him...
I shot him...
Mother...
I never meant to do that...
- Mom, I didn't mean to-- - All right...
All right, lower your voice.
Yue Yue.
Come home with me.
Quickly. Get up.
I don't want my son.
You will be my daughter from now on.
Let's go.
Let's go home.
Although you confessed to the murder
we won't cuff you until we confirm that you're a suspect.
Our forensic investigators need to examine you for gunpowder residue.
Such coarse hands...
It's no wonder that we couldn't find any fingerprints.
Officer!
I'm begging you!
Don't arrest Xiao Yue!
She didn't do anything wrong.
It was all my son's doing. Please?
Xiao Yue...
Involuntary manslaughter?
That makes it not a murder case.
First of all, Zhang Yue suffered from domestic violence.
What's more, she aimed at the victim's leg.
She had no intent to kill.
I understand.
They are both equally weird.
Qin Ming!
Da Bao is buying us dinner. Why aren't you going?
Dinner?
Why?
She said that we closed the case and worked hard.
It's just dinner.
Where?
She seems to be waiting for you behind the building.
What about you?
I'll join you when I'm done with the case report.
Get going.
[Chi Zi’s Kitchen]
Qin, thanks for buying us dinner.
Aren't you buying us dinner?
Why are you so stingy?
How could I afford to buy you dinner with my salary?
Was Da Bao very surprised?
What are you?
You would have me buy you dinner?
Was Da Bao very surprised?
Buy you dinner?
[Get lost.]
Lin Tao...
That's right. He told me that he'd be here soon.
He's not here yet.
Has he stood us up?
Sorry to interrupt.
- Your flowers-- - Give them to me.
What else would you like?
It's fine.
[To my most beloved Da Bao, Qin Ming.] Okay.
I knew that no one would get me flowers.
Did you get the flowers?
Is the food to your liking?
Is it very romantic?
Is it your birthday?
No.
It's the anniversary of Lin Tao's death.
Don't leave it there! That's evidence.
If pollen gets on the evidence
Trace Evidence Division will complain again.
Since you're so interested in the corpses of flowers
you can bring this home to Baby.
Otherwise, I'll have you on my autopsy table.
No, we're--
Gay?
I give you my blessing.
Goodness, it caught fire.
Come on out here!
Who's out there? Who lit the fire?
Goodness! Who lit the fire?
Hurry up!
This doesn't look right!
- What's wrong? - What's not right?
Do you think it looks human?
Are you drunk?
Could this be some act of blasphemy?
That's impossible.
At most, Mercury is in Retrograde.
Or do you have bad eyesight?
Take a good look!
Come on.
We'll take a look later.
If it's not a human body you have to buy us a meal.
Sure! If you lose the bet
not only do you have to buy me a meal but also some gear.
Sure! That's a deal!
Really? It's a person!
Captain Lin.
I heard that there's an abandoned transistor factory around here.
But I've never been here.
Who knew that there was such a huge sports field in here?
It's been deserted for years.
They were going to dig it up and build a playground.
For some reason, it's now on hold.
The entrance isn't easy to spot.
Usually, no one comes here.
How did the informants find this place?
They are children who live near this deserted sports field.
They know that the dormitories are vacant
so they connect wires and hang out here.
They saw the fire from here.
They thought someone was here so they took a look.
There aren't any street lights.
That's why the light from the flames stood out.
Without street lights not many would have come here.
You're right. Only a few people came here to work out.
No one would visit at night.
This place is surrounded by unused factories and houses.
The entrance is hard to locate. This is an enclosed location.
The unsub must have known this place well
and have known that it is usually vacant.
So the body was dumped here.
If it weren't for such a bright moon
we wouldn't be able to see a thing.
Let's take a look at the main crime scene.
Over here, Captain Lin.
They must have used those sacks to put out the fire.
The victim is in a fighter's stance.
It's caused by high temperatures in fire
resulting in muscles stiffening and shortening
characterized by the flexing of elbows, knees, hip, and neck,
and the clenching of the hand into a fist.
Hence, it's called the fighter's stance.
What is it? A girl or a boy?
We're not in the labor ward.
It's a male victim.
Can you tell if he was burned alive or if it was postmortem?
We can't determine that yet.
We have to do an autopsy first
to observe the level of carboxyhemoglobin
in his respiratory tract and blood.
- Flip him over. - Sure.
Try to determine the nature of this case soon.
Then we can take the next step.
Strictly speaking, this isn't a fighter's stance anymore.
This is a curled position.
Before the body was burned into a fighter's stance
it had already shrunk into a curled up position.
His knees are almost at his chest.
Fire wouldn't cause this.
High temperatures do cause muscles to shorten
but they can't make the body curl up to the joint's maximum position.
The victim could have been restrained before he was burned.
Hold on.
All right.
Captain Lin.
I think that we need to run a physical and chemical test.
There might be an oxidizing agent.
Sure, I'll do it tonight.
Take a look at this.
Metallic... It's very light.
It's black and long...
It has edges...
The handles from a suitcase?
The fabric of the suitcase was burned away, but not the handles.
The unsub transported the body here in a suitcase.
This isn't the primary crime scene.
[Autopsy Room]
The unsub burned the body
to either destroy the evidence or cover up the murder.
Although the body was burned to this state
we have to identify the victim as soon as possible.
Sometimes the more a corpse is handled by an unsub
the more evidence might seem to be concealed
but the more exposed the unsub's motive is.
The corpse is a very flexible and pliable object.
Its ability to endure the fire is beyond our imagination.
High temperatures, chemical denudation
or explosions applied to destroy the corpse aren't effective.
Unless the victim is an infant.
If not, only the high temperatures at crematoriums
and steel mills can turn corpses into ashes.
What's more, it's more effective to burn bodies
in a small space than an open space.
Bodies with clothes on also burn faster then naked ones.
Obese victims burn faster than slim ones.
Those with oxidizing agents also burn a lot faster.
Indeed.
If the fire could burn a suitcase to this state
there must be oxidizing agent, right?
It will require more of an effort.
When does our great Dr. Qin ever have to make an effort?
That's not what he means.
He means that it's a lot of work to examine the body.
We have to let the corpse...
Straighten out.
Speaking of which
there's a wound on the chest of the corpse.
Will you be able to differentiate the old wounds from the new ones?
You've underestimated us.
It's very easy to differentiate between antemortem and postmortem wounds.
Antemortem wounds would be bloodstained and they would turn red.
The skin and fat of postmortem wounds turn yellow.
This is defining it from biological reaction.
What's more, injuries inflicted before the autopsy
be they antemortem or postmortem
would have curled up skin from the high temperatures
and the texture would have stiffened.
The cuts from an autopsy won't curl up.
So it is easy to tell.
Hey, Qin.
Do you think the sound of someone breathing is interrupting us?
I just remembered that there are some tire tracks and foot prints
I have to go check on. I'll get going.
[Criminal Investigation Team]
Sometimes, corpses that are very badly burned
have intact skin under the arms.
It's possible to find fragments of clothing under the arms.
Let me take a look.
Almost every inch of his skin has been destroyed.
We can't determine any superficial injuries.
Judging by the wounds on his chest
the victim was pierced in the chest by a sharp object.
Because of the high temperature, his ribs are very brittle.
Luckily his organs weren't burned.
There's no hyperemia in his trachea.
There's no evidence of smoke inhalation.
The high temperature vaporized the blood.
There's not much blood left in the chest.
The aorta is ruptured.
We have the cause of death.
One stab to the heart.
What is this?
This zipper...
It should have the name of the brand.
There's a card.
Only this side is still visible.
It says Feng Business P...
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