October 5, 2014: Confirmed the client's mother had died. Cause of death: traffic accident. Attached: crime scene investigation materials.
Several crime scene photos showed a horrific traffic accident.
Like pieces of a puzzle, the photos fit together to form a panoramic view.
The vehicle that hit her was a private car. Its front end was badly damaged, the airbags had deployed, and there were bloodstains on them.
Beneath the wheels lay a shared bike. Its frame was badly deformed, with one end tilted up and the other pinned beneath the car's chassis. The bell and some fragments of the bike lay nearby.
Blood stained the deformed front end, then trailed along the road in scattered drops for several meters.
At the end of the blood trail was an elderly woman's body.
She lay in a pool of blood, her arm visibly broken and a gash split open in her skull. Blood, brain matter, and bits of flesh had spilled out. It was a horrifying sight.
The next few photos showed enlarged details.
Even without knowing anything about traffic accident scene investigations, it was clear that the crash had likely been caused by the elderly woman crossing the road in the middle of the night and the driver speeding.
In a separate photo of the shared bike, a small advertisement could be seen stuck to the crossbar. Blood obscured most of it, but they could make out that the scrap of paper had been stuck over the character meaning "ride" in "Ride Fast Bikes."
Besides the photos, there was also a surveillance video.
In the video, the elderly woman rode into view from the lower-left corner and continued straight ahead. On the right side of the frame, the car sped past. They had only just seen its headlights when it appeared