Adhithya Sakthivel

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Adhithya Sakthivel

Crime Thriller Others

THE FORENSIC TEAM

THE FORENSIC TEAM

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NOTE: This story is based on Author’s fiction. It does not apply to any historical references or real-life incidents. But a small white hair, which revealed a women’s death mystery after months, and this a story about it. It created a new chapter in the forensic history.

OCTOBER 7, 2021

KANNIYAKUMARI, TAMILNADU

A girl in a vacant for next to her house, called the police and said that a suspicious car was parked there for a long time. When the police came there and saw, the car had no license plate. So they saw what is inside the car. When they were looking like that, they came to understand that they were looking at a crime scene.

Because in the car windshield and window glasses, like this the inside of the car was covered with drops of blood. In forensic it is called as Medium impact blood spatter. That means it is an impact that occurs when a subject was hit by a heavy object. When the police traced the car with the serial number, they came to know that the car belong to 32 year old girl Samyuktha.

So when the police went there and investigated, Samyuktha who was mother of an one-year old girl was missing for four days. Thousands of police, army and the local people, all of them was searching her for lots of months.

Kanniyakumari is a famous place known to all people in the country. Since it is a very famous area between Tamilnadu-Kerala borders almost everyone living there knows each other very well. All the people lived there very happily.

32 year old Samyuktha had one child. It was during this time the police found her address and went there to see. There was no Samyuktha. Instead it was her father Rajan, who’s watching his granddaughter.

When they asked him he said: “Samyuktha went missing four days before.” The police thought that, she went missing four days ago. But no one filed a missing complaint. This made them very doubtful. But since before this, she had a habit of going out for 4-5 days without telling anyone. They thought that this is just like that.

Samyuktha was little bit short. Since she was only five feet, whenever she drives, she kept a pillow on her seat and then only she will start driving. The pillow she used was found at a place a short distance away from where the car has been found. There is blood all over the pillow. So now to find whether it was Samyuktha’s blood, they took a DNA test with her father.

Always for a baby 50% genetics from father, and 50% genetics from mother. Together, these two make up the child’s genome. When they check like this, the blood in the car matched with Samyuktha’s father. It was 50%, which means it’s confirmed that it was her blood.

Not only that. The forensic team found another thing in the car. They found that the blood in the car from another place is not Samyuktha’s blood. Because it doesn’t match with her blood. Then is the blood belongs to another victim or Samyuktha’s killer?

Now police did massive search to find out Samyuktha. In the history of Kanniyakumari it was the biggest search. They started searching inch by inch in both land and water. Like searching like that, from where Samyuktha’s car was found, exactly a kilometer away, a spade is found under a bushy place. Apart from that, they saw two black hairs on that shovel.

Now what the forensic team did is, the hair which was found in the shovel and the hair from Samyuktha’s comb were matched. It was confirmed that it was the same. The search was not stopped. It was continued for months.

Now they got another important evidence. From where Samyuktha’s car was found, exactly 25 kilometers away, they saw two shoes and one leather jacket in a bag. They saw blood stains on the found leather jacket. The forensic team matched it to Samyuktha’s DNA profile. It was confirmed that it was her blood.

However, the jacket was not Samyuktha’s. As it was too big, it’s definitely not her jacket. The police thought it must be surely a man’s jacket. Now the police started investigating Samyuktha’s father.

When they asked if she had enemies who wanted to kill her, what he said, shocked everyone.

“If I had killed her, it could have been the best for my daughter. Because my daughter could have been alive now. And I would have gone to jail for my daughter. But my daughter is dead now.”

Now the one who he’s mentioning is Samyuktha’s husband Ajay. He said that, surely he must have killed his daughter. Ajay is a Civil Engineer. He was not with Samyuktha for the past one year.

The relationship between him and Samyuktha is, for the past one year it was in on again and off again relationship. That means, they will fight and get separated. After that, they will live together for some days and again they will fight and separate. In those one year, police came to know that Ajay physically abused Samyuktha.

“Whoever in the abusive relationship, it will finally end in murder” said Rajan. Now finally police started investigating Ajay. But he said that, he doesn’t have anything to do with it.

Now the police started asking many questions.

“Where were you that day and what is your shoe size?”

“My shoe size is nine.” Police started doubting. Because, a little far away from Samyuktha’s car, inside a plastic bag, a blood stained leather jacket and two shoes were found. And the size of that shoe was also nine.

Now the police wanted to know whether it was his shoe or not. So the forensic team found a way for that. Each one put their shoes differently, and mostly there will be size variation or shape variation.

But what did the forensic team said is, “Each one’s walking style will be different and it will make some changes in their shoes. From that, we can find it.” So the police took his foot’s mold.

Now the taken mold, was compared to the patterns of his shoe patterns. According to the pressure of the foot in the shoes while walking, the pressure points pattern will be created. It will be unique for everyone. According to that, his foot are hyper flexed. This is his two big fingers which will be lifting up. So the finger made some changes in the upper part of the shoe. His both foot are curved inwards little bit.

Now the forensic team with the shoes they got, compared to the reports they got. It also had the pattern of hyper flex. It is confirmed that the shoe was beamish. But when the police investigated him, Ajay said: “I don’t know why the shoe came there. Not only that, the leather jacket was also not mine.”

Even though they had a doubt, that someone might have put this shoe deliberately.

The police saw another shocking thing, now. The leather jacket which was found with bloodstain, had 20 white hairs in it though it’s not Samyuktha’s.

The police thought that the jacket belongs to the killer and if they test the hair in the jacket they can find the killer. When the forensic team analyzed the white hair under the microscope, they were very shocked. Because, they came to know that it was not human hair. In human hair, medullas will be very thin. But it has thick medullas. So they found that it was an animal hair.

But which animal does it belong to? Then the investigator remembers one thing. It was something that he saw when he went to investigate Ajay. We will see many things like this in a day. After that we will forget it. Like that, when they were investigating Ajay, he saw a cat going out of Ajay’s house. It was not an ordinary cat. It was a pure white cat and it’s name was snowball.

The investigator then remembered another thing. While leaving after investigating him, that cat cuddled with his leg. Like all other cats, and some of the hairs got stuck in the investigator’s pant. That hair looked similar to the hair in the leather jacket. If the hair belonged to snowball means, they can say that the jacket belongs to Ajay.

The police thought that they could confirm that he was the killer. Now what was the only way to investigators means, to confirm that the hair in the jacket belongs to snowball. Hence, they started to look for a scientific way. The investigators started calling the experts from Kerala to analyze the hair. But until now, no one had done forensic test on cat’s hair.

But luckily, the police, came to know about Suresh. In Thiruvananthapuram’s Cancer Centre, he has been researching a type of disease in cats in genetics for many years. When they said him about this case, he asked for snowball’s blood sample. So the investigators went to Ajay’s house to catch snowball.

But it was scared and hid when it saw them. Finally some how they caught snowball and took it for blood test. They took snowball’s blood in front of two police officers. Because there is a thing called chain of evidence. In that till the evidence is submitted someone must monitor it. Because someone might change the sample in between. So in lot of place they use this chain of evidence.

The hair in the blood stained leather jacket, and snowball’s blood sample, both of them was given to Suresh directly. In the jacket one hair alone had root in it. So they cut it into many pieces and put that in a buffer solution. What this solution do is, it leaves the DNA, and dissolve everything else.

Now they amplify the DNA. Then only the scientist will receive testable amount of DNA. Now the DNA profile taken from that, and the DNA profile taken from snowball’s blood sample was compared. It was perfectly matched.

Even though what the police thought is, “It was a city. What if there is another cat with same DNA.” Because now only they done a forensic test on cat’s DNA. Suppose if there is even a 10% of chance, or if one in 100 cat had the same DNA, all the test which was conducted these many days will be in vain. So to knew the uniqueness of snowball’s DNA, and to find it’s DNA profile frequency, they took the samples of 20 cats in each places and sent it to Doctor Suresh.

When they checked the DNA of those 20 cats, it was found that their DNA differs. That is, every cat has it’s own DNA. Chances that the hair found in the leather jacket was snowball, like 1 of 100, 1 of 1000. They say that 1:70 million i.e. one cat might have the same DNA among 7 crore cats.

Then it is 100% confirmed that it belongs to snowball and the investigators also expected this only. Now after searching for 7 months(since Samyuktha went missing), a fisherman found the last piece of evidence.

28 WEEKS LATER

After Samyuktha went missing, 28 weeks later, when a fisherman was walking near Kodaiyar river, he saw a dead body in a bush like area. It’s none other than 32-year old Samyuktha. Then the police found another thing. If the fisherman didn’t find this, after one month, Samyuktha’s body will not be found anymore. Because the surface was filled with water and the body might be covered with sand.

Police know that finding Samyuktha alive was not possible. Now Samyuktha’s body was sent to autopsy. In the autopsy report cause of death, is Blunt Force trauma. That is, beaten by a heavy object and die because of that. It is known by the blood splattered in her car. That is why her car was splattered with blood. Not only that Samyuktha’s jaw and nose was broken. One of her front teeth was stuck in her lungs.

Ajay and the snowball owner Victor finally confess to the police that they only did this murder. Now, Ajay was arrested and the investigators found that the blood in the car was Ajay’s, and the photo he took with the leather jacket before the day Samyuktha went missing was also found.

What was the motive of the murder means, since Samyuktha took her child’s custody with her, he was too angry. That’s why he did like this. To hide the murder, he put the jacket shovel and shoes, and hit it like a smarty. But he doesn’t know that his car is going to bring his true color out. He was sentenced 18 years in prison. The forensic has used many technologies to find the killer.

 

 



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