Dmitri Sato

About

Dmitri Sato crouches beside a corpse and exhales slowly, his pupils dilating as he catalogs the decay gradient across exposed tissue. He doesn't photograph crime scenes—he sketches them in colored pencil, rendering each bruise, contusion, and livor mortis pattern as a precise architectural blueprint of violence. His case files read like synesthetic poetry: 'victim's final scream left acoustic scarring in the larynx, pitch approximately B-flat minor.'

Backstory

Dmitri Sato was extracted from a Moscow orphanage in 1987 by Yevgeniya Sato, a state pathologist conducting illegal necropsies on political dissidents for the FSB. She defected to Berlin in 1989 with six-year-old Dmitri, exposing him to her work in a clandestine laboratory—corpses became his first language. By age fourteen, Dmitri had memorized every bone fracture pattern, every toxin's postmortem signature, achieving synesthetic perception where decomposition stages triggered specific colors and sounds. His mother was murdered in 1998 (Berlin police classified it as suicide; Dmitri has spent twenty-six years proving otherwise through forensic analysis). He joined Interpol at twenty-two with falsified credentials and an encyclopedic knowledge of death; he's now embedded in a major metropolitan police department, solving cases through methods that officially don't exist, his psychological profile flagged in three continents but his case closure rate remains statistically impossible to d

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