On October 17, 2008, a mother and her son returned to the company office at night to get their keys. After the elevator door opened, a spherical object rolled to the mother's feet and turned out to be a bloody human head. The mother was so frightened that she stamped her feet and screamed loudly; the child
With dull eyes, she pointed at the elevator in horror. My mother took a closer look and saw that there was a headless corpse in the elevator. The strange thing was that the headless corpse was actually standing in the elevator.
The walls of the elevator were splattered with blood, and blood flowed down in a snake shape. The lights were dim, and a headless woman stood in the middle of the elevator.
This horrifying scene scared the mother almost to the point of fainting. She wanted to leave with her child in her arms, but her body was limp and she had no strength. With trembling hands, she pressed the phone button several times before dialing 110...
The 110 command center quickly issued instructions to the police in the jurisdiction, and the local police rushed to the scene. The building safety supervisor and the security department actively cooperated to comfort the frightened mother and son, and immediately cut off the power supply to the elevator where the crime occurred.
The police are divided into two groups, one group is responsible for taking interrogation notes, and the other group conducts on-site inspections.
The survey work went on all night.
The special case team arrived early the next morning and saw that the crime scene was very well protected. A police officer named Zhou served as the person in charge of the scene. He frustratedly expressed to the special case team that despite working all night, he could not yet determine
Is this case a suicide, homicide, or accidental death, so the special case team is requested to assist in the investigation.
Hualong said: If my head is lost, can it still be suicide?
Officer Zhou said: I have never seen such a strange case. Do you believe in ghosts?
The name of the deceased was Wen Xiaowan. She was an editor. The publishing company was located on the 42nd floor of the building, which is also the top floor. On the day of the incident, she worked overtime alone until late at night. When she came home, she died in the elevator. Her head was missing and her hands were missing.
She was tied behind her back with a silk scarf. Although her head fell off, her body remained standing. At that time, a mother and son on the 40th floor were about to take the elevator downstairs. They accidentally discovered a murder in the elevator and called the police.
Based on eyewitness accounts and preliminary autopsy reports, police determined:
Time of death - around 11 o'clock at night.
The place of death - the elevator, this is the scene of the first crime.
Cause of death - unnatural death.
Officer Zhou introduced that after investigation, the deceased Wen Xiaowan broke up with her boyfriend a few days before the incident, was depressed, and had suicidal tendencies. On the day of the incident, due to a work error, the editorial leader ordered her to work overtime and died in the elevator when she returned home.
Here. The child among the witnesses had seen her standing in the elevator. The police speculated that she should have been hanging in the elevator at that time.
The child only saw a woman hanging in the air and no one else in the elevator.
The police thought it might be suicide, but no ropes or wires were found during the on-site investigation. Strangely, no signs of heavy objects hanging from the top of the elevator were found.
The reason why the body was separated was due to violent pulling by external force. Such tragedies often occur in elevator accidents. Based on the traces of blood spatter, the police basically ruled out the possibility of accidental death. The wound on the neck was not caused by cutting with a sharp weapon. It looked like it was caused by a rope.
Either the steel wire is strangled around the neck of the deceased, and the head is forcibly strangled, or the deceased is suspended in the air, and then the deceased is hugged.
The legs used their own strength to forcefully pull the deceased's head off.
Hualong said: How is it possible? Even if the murderer is extremely powerful, it would be difficult for him to cut off a person's head.
Officer Zhou said: The traces of blood splatter on the four walls of the elevator showed that the deceased was the only one at the time. When her head was severed, there was no one around. If there were people, they would have blocked the splattered blood. The police will definitely be able to inspect the inner wall of the elevator.
Discover.
Su Mei said: Many women are afraid of taking the elevator alone, afraid of ghosts, and afraid of being trapped in the elevator.
Bao Zhan asked: Whose silk scarf was the deceased’s hands tied behind his back?
Officer Zhou said: The silk scarf belonged to the deceased and was not tied tightly. It is still unclear whether the deceased tied himself or the murderer did it. From this point of view, we believe that this case is most likely a homicide. But in the past
There are also precedents of suicides hanging with their hands tied behind their backs or jumping into rivers. Further investigation is needed to confirm this.
Professor Liang said: My intuition is that this is a homicide, an impossible crime, a crime that is impossible both superficially and logically. The murderer has a high IQ and understands the characteristics of secret room murders.
The results of the on-site investigation showed that the murderer seemed to have disappeared from the air, or in other words, the murderer had never appeared at all. There were no fingerprints, no shoe prints, no weapons, and no clues left to solve the case.
Like a ghost or an evil spirit in the elevator, it suddenly grabbed the woman who was riding alone in the elevator and pulled her head off with incredible force.
Su Mei said: This is the first time I have seen a standing dead person.
Officer Zhou said: Yes, this dead man standing still has no head. Let’s go and listen to the forensic doctor’s explanation.
The forensic doctor said that standing after death is a special cadaveric spasm, a rare phenomenon of rigor mortis.
Cadaveric spasm occurs at the moment of death, and the posture or expression at the time of death is fixed due to muscle contraction and rigidity.
Cadaver spasm is an extremely rare muscle stiffness phenomenon. It occurs when a person dies without muscle relaxation, but at the moment of death, the muscles immediately contract hard and quickly form rigor mortis, fixing the limbs in the position of death.
Posture. It often occurs when people are under high mental stress or brain injury. It also occurs when the medulla oblongata is severely mechanically damaged.
Cadaver spasm can be local or systemic. Local cadaver spasm preserves the contraction state of certain muscle groups in some parts of the body at the last moment before death. This kind of local cadaver spasm is more common. For example, some people use a knife to cut their necks and hold on.
Those who have committed suicide by gunshot still hold the death tool in their hands after death. Those who have strangled themselves still hold the rope with both hands. Those who drowned before death have their hands in the shape of eagle claws, holding water plants and sand tightly in their hands. Some poisoned victims can still be left behind.
The expression of pain at the time of death. The whole body's body spasms fixed the body's whole body posture before death. On the battlefield, some soldiers, although dead, still retain the posture of shooting with guns, or the posture of hugging the opponent tightly and dying together with the opponent.
When cadaveric convulsions occur, they are mostly local cadaveric convulsions, and only a few are systemic cadaveric convulsions.
The head of the deceased Wen Xiaowan was severed, but at the moment of death, due to the phenomenon of corpse spasm, her stiff body did not fall, but remained standing. Her head rolled down in the elevator, and the mother and son on the 40th floor
call elevator, call
When the elevator stopped, the head rolled out of the door due to the vibration of the elevator.
The space in the elevator was small, so the police quickly completed the investigation of the crime scene, and the body was transferred to the autopsy room of the police in the jurisdiction for further autopsy analysis.
The four members of the special case team were standing at the elevator entrance on the 42nd floor. At that time, the deceased Wen Xiaowan entered the elevator from here.
Professor Liang asked the building safety supervisor to turn on the power of the elevator where the incident occurred, asked Officer Zhou to record the elevator running time on the first floor, and asked the safety supervisor to call the elevator on the 40th floor. He planned to conduct an elevator running time test.
The elevator door opened, but the blood stains had not been cleaned yet, and there was a strong smell of blood inside.
Su Mei waved her hands and said: Do we have to take this elevator? Can we not...
Bao Zhan seemed to smell something. The smell of blood in the elevator was mixed with a strange smell, a burnt smell.
Bao Zhan warned: It is best not to go in, there is something wrong with this elevator.
Hualong laughed at the two for being timid and pushed Professor Liang in the wheelchair into the elevator. Bao Zhan and Su Mei had no choice but to follow them in. Professor Liang informed Officer Zhou on the first floor and the safety supervisor on the 40th floor to start recording the time.
, the elevator door closed quickly.
The lights in the elevator were dim, and the four members of the special case team did not speak. They thought that the deceased was also standing in this elevator at that time.
Professor Liang observed carefully that the bloodstains on the four walls of the elevator looked very scary under the light. The carpet under his feet was hard and had not been replaced for a long time. The carpet was also soaked in the blood of the deceased. The exhaust fan on the top of the elevator was broken and there was no elevator installed.
Fire protection devices.
The elevator stopped at the 40th floor. The safety supervisor pressed the stopwatch and told Professor Liang the running time of the elevator.
Professor Liang nodded, the elevator door closed quickly and continued to descend.
Suddenly, the lights in the elevator flickered a few times, and there was a power outage, leaving the elevator in darkness. This over-aged elevator fell rapidly from the 40th floor without any warning. Many people thought that when the elevator was in first aid, it could be rescued as soon as it landed.
Jump up instantly to avoid disaster, but under weightless conditions, people cannot jump up at all...
On the line between life and death, if the elevator falls to the ground floor, that is, the first floor, the four members of the special case team will be thrown into pieces. Su Mei screamed, painted a long eye with quick hands, pressed a few buttons of the elevator in the crisis, and fell rapidly
In the middle, the four of them stumbled, and the elevator suddenly stopped on the first floor.
Elevators generally have a self-locking device. If the falling speed exceeds the limit, the elevator car will lock.
In the dark elevator, the four of them felt like they had saved their lives.
The light flashed a few times, then came back on, and the elevator automatically activated its emergency backup power supply.
When the elevator door opened, Officer Zhou looked surprised and asked strangely: Why are you so fast?
The four members of the special case team were terrified, and everyone broke into a cold sweat.
Hua Long wiped the sweat from his forehead, pushed Professor Liang out of the elevator, and said: He came back from hell.
Bao Zhan supported the pale Su Mei and then walked out. He said: There is a fault in this elevator and it has stopped running.
Professor Liang said: The murder weapon has been found.
Officer Zhou said: Where?
Professor Liang said: This elevator is a murder weapon!
