Fang Rui contacted the hospital staff, who dispatched several medical personnel to assist the police in searching the bodies.
The bodies in the freezer were all stored in body bags.
This time, they pulled out all the bodies from the freezer, opened the bags one by one for inspection, and eventually found Yangyang's body in one of the compartments. Yangyang's body was placed in the same body bag as an elderly man's body, positioned near the man's legs. If they hadn't opened the bag, they wouldn't have noticed that a child's body was hidden inside.
During the first inspection, they had opened the body bag and saw the elderly man's body, so they didn't check further, never realizing that Yangyang's body was inside.
Zhang said, "Could Yangyang's death really have been a medical accident? Otherwise, why would the doctor hide the body?"
Li analyzed, "It's also possible that someone disguised as a doctor to steal the body. Look, the white coat he was wearing was too big and didn't fit well."
Fang Rui said, "Zhang, Li, you two go investigate this matter."
"Okay."
Mu Mian took out a new body bag, placed Yangyang's body inside, and took it back.
Fang Rui invited Li Ruiqing to the interrogation room.
"Mr. Li, we have found your son's body."
"Is... is that so? That's great, great." Li Ruiqing said absent-mindedly.
He sat nervously in the chair, his head lowered in guilt, not daring to meet Fang Rui's gaze.
"Mr. Li, don't you want to know who hid your son's body?"
"Who was it? Could it be the doctor? They didn't want my wife to cause a scene, didn't want you to find out the cause of death, so they hid my son's body." Li Ruiqing speculated.
"Mr. Li, where were you yesterday at noon?" Fang Rui asked.
"I... I was with my wife. I was afraid she would get emotional and try to commit suicide, so I stayed with her, trying to console her."
"Did you buy a wig?"
"No."
"The owner of the wig shop closest to the hospital said you bought a wig there, claiming it was for your wife who has terminal cancer. The hospital's surveillance footage shows you sneaking into the doctor's office yesterday at noon. Did you steal the doctor's white coat?"
"I..."
Confronted with various pieces of evidence, Li Ruiqing could no longer argue.
"Mr. Li, why did you hide your child's body?"
Li Ruiqing hugged his head, his expression pained. His mouth opened and closed, and finally, he admitted, "Yes, I hid the child's body. Yesterday at noon, I took advantage of the doctors going to a meeting and stole a white coat to disguise myself as a doctor, then hid my child's body in the freezer. It was me. You can arrest me."
"Why did you hide the child's body?" Fang Rui repeated.
Li Ruiqing remained silent.
"Because you knew the child didn't die a natural death, but was murdered, right?"
Li Ruiqing still didn't speak.
"If you continue to remain silent, we will have no choice but to suspect that your child's death is connected to you."
"I... I have nothing to say." Li Ruiqing opened his mouth, as if to say something, but then closed it again.
Fang Rui detained Li Ruiqing temporarily on the charge of stealing a corpse.
Zhang wondered, "I don't think Li Ruiqing killed Yangyang. He wasn't even there the day Yangyang died, but why did he hide the body?"
Fang Rui said, "He might have been protecting someone."
When Feng Xiaonan learned that her husband had hidden their child's body, her emotions flared up again. She muttered to the air, "Li Ruiqing killed Yangyang. He has another woman outside, he doesn't need this child anymore, he thinks Yangyang is a burden..."
"You mean he cheated?"
"It must be so."
Feng Xiaonan's mental state was too poor, so Fang Rui and the others had no choice but to contact her parents to take her back.
In the autopsy room.
Mu Mian carefully read the death record provided by the doctor.
The cause of death given was: Intracranial infection leading to increased intracranial pressure, resulting in brain herniation.
The death diagnosis was: Severe traumatic brain injury, left temporal subdural hematoma; bilateral frontal, temporal, and right parietal lobe contusions; traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage; scalp hematoma.
The death record showed: On August 9th, at 19:52, the patient's vital signs became abnormal, with cardiac arrest, cyanosis of the lips, difficulty breathing, and dilated pupils. After resuscitation, the patient died at 20:46 that evening.
After the body was thawed, Mu Mian began the autopsy.
The deceased's face and fingers were cyanotic, and there were pinpoint hemorrhages in the conjunctiva, which could initially suggest that the deceased likely died from asphyxiation, or at least experienced a period of asphyxiation.
Mu Mian examined the deceased's mouth and nose, finding no foreign objects. However, she discovered some black ash-like substances in the respiratory tract. These substances were small, blocky, and very thin.
Mu Mian used a cotton swab to wipe some of the black ash and examined it closely under the light.
Mu Mian said, "This seems to be the residue of something that has burned."
Chen Xue observed for a while and then said, "It looks like plant ash. Could this stuff have blocked the deceased's airway, causing his death? Who put this into Yangyang's airway? That's too malicious! Isn't this premeditated murder?"
Mu Mian cut open the deceased's abdominal cavity, starting with the trachea and lungs, where she found a small amount of black substances.
Mu Mian then removed the deceased's stomach, cut it open, and found many black substances attached to the gastric mucosa.
Chen Xue said, "There's also stuff in the lungs and stomach? Could it be that when someone fed the deceased these things, some accidentally fell into the airway, causing asphyxiation?"
Chen Xue suddenly thought of something. "Could it have been his family who fed him this?"
