The Captain I Married by Chance novel Chapter 151

“What?”

The Chief thought he had misheard.

“You’re saying the killer took the victim’s daughter? You mean her body?”

The other officers were just as confused.

“Yeah, wasn’t the entire Carter family of five burned to death?”

“Dr. Hayes, you performed the autopsy yourself!”

Nora heard their questions and nodded. “Yes, but I just saw in the file that Robert’s youngest daughter, Zoe, was only eight years old.”

“However, when I examined the body, the one identified as Robert’s youngest daughter appeared to be at least ten.”

“I had a bad feeling about this from the start. They weren’t burned one by one; they were almost certainly burned together, because the degree of decomposition on Robert and the others was nearly identical.”

“But the burns on his youngest daughter were much less severe. Although she was also carbonized, some of the denser bones in her body were preserved intact.”

“Based on the state of the pubic symphysis, we can determine the deceased’s age, and it doesn’t match the information in the file.”

“To prove this, we just need to run a DNA comparison on the liver tissue to get a precise result.”

“Unless Robert’s daughter wasn’t biologically his and the information was registered incorrectly from the start, this body identified as Zoe is not actually Zoe.”

“I have a reasonable suspicion that Zoe isn’t dead at all. She was taken by the killer.”

After Nora presented her theory, the conference room fell silent for a long time.

Finally, the Chief spoke. “Follow up on your theory immediately.”

“If it’s confirmed that this victim isn’t Zoe, the situation is even worse.”

It meant that one of the victims was still in the killer’s hands.

“Yes, sir.”

Nora didn’t delay and went straight to the forensics department.

Liver tissue wasn’t ideal for DNA comparison.

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