His hope was that the injury would get him out of the military service, but the blood splatters were not in the shape of exclamation marks. Rather, they were neat little circles. According to a local police officer involved in the investigation, "It was obvious that he had sat there slowly cutting himself. You could tell right away that he was lying."
翁景惠指出，過去有個阿兵哥，自斷小指謊稱被搶，希望造成受傷事實，可以不再當兵，但是在「血跡噴濺」的鑑識下，血跡不是呈驚嘆號點狀的中速血點，而呈面狀的轉移血跡型態，「分明是自己慢慢割，而非被歹徒剁下來的，一眼就可以判斷他說謊」，一位派出所員警說。