酿成谋杀案的各个环节是通过一系列倒叙手法来表现的。

The events that led up to the murder were shown in a series of flashbacks.

倒叙，闪回镜头一种文学或电影的表现手法，往往在一段按正常时间顺序记叙的叙事中插入一件以前发生过的事情

A literary or cinematic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological order of a narrative.