Chapter 1107 - 1038: 5 Fingers
Jiang Yuan took the fingerprints, began marking, and then moved on to comparison.
Meanwhile, Miao Ruixiang, acting as the assistant, stared at a pot of used cooking oil and the remaining half-barrel of Golden Dragon Fish oil, lost in thought.
Oil that had been used to deep-fry just one finger actually still looked pretty clean. Other than a bit of white froth at the edge of the pot, which could be skimmed off... frying another hundred or so fingers wouldn’t really be a problem.
"Senior, should we pour out the leftover oil?" Miao Ruixiang asked hesitantly.
Jiang Yuan, engrossed in fingerprint comparison, paused in confusion: "What else? You planning to take it home?"
"No, no, it’s not like it’s rabbit meat." Miao Ruixiang quickly shook his head: "I just thought, in case later you want to fry more fingers—or maybe toes..."
"Pour it out. There aren’t nearly that many fingers to fry. Toes won’t be necessary either." Jiang Yuan waved dismissively.
Finger deep-frying isn’t an obscure fingerprint extraction method. In fact, it can be performed routinely if one has solid Level 2 technical skills. If there are any limitations, it’s mainly that the fingers need to meet specific conditions. Only fingers with the dermis layer intact and the epidermis layer severely damaged warrant the frying process.
Among the ten fingers on the corpse laid out on the autopsy table, only one met the required conditions. However, forensic doctors over different eras have developed various methods to handle different states of fingers. For instance, slightly less decomposed fingerprints can be extracted using skin gloves, and in cases of even lower decomposition, injections can be employed.
In short, forensic science has dedicated tremendous effort over the past century to unravel the mysteries posed by human corpses.