Chapter 2 a rape case

This is a vicious case I encountered not long after I embarked on a forensic career. Every year I come into contact with hundreds of criminal and civil cases, with an average of more than one case a day. Many cases will be forgotten by me with the passage of time, and I will never think of it again, but I think I will remember this case for the rest of my life, not only because of the bloody nature of the case and the cruel method of the perpetrator, but also because of the unforgettable It was the victim, the admirable resistance of a weak woman. Even, sometimes I would like to ask her, now, how are you?

We received the report in the early morning that day, and when we arrived at the Feiling Automobile Factory in Lezhou City two hours later, the sky was already bright. I have long heard that Lezhou is an old industrial base with many outstanding and well-known large state-owned enterprises, but the scale of Feiling Automobile Factory still surprised me when I first arrived: when we drove to the gate of the factory It’s not time to go to work yet, but the workers on the square have already formed a crowd, at least 10,000 to 20,000 people. I looked at my watch, and it’s just after seven o’clock. Factories usually go to work at eight o’clock. Workers don’t go to work so early. Waiting to go to work at the gate of the factory, and the crowd is a little restless, which is not caused by the anxiety of waiting for the door to open.

Everyone's face was serious, discussing something in groups of three or four, and the two women not too far away from me covered their mouths with their hands, their eyes stared like copper bells, apparently they had heard some news that shocked them; And a few men on the right hand farther away are waving their fists to the sky, it seems that they are a little bit filled with righteous indignation. I sighed. It seems that the news of the murder has been leaked. I hope that the police officers who protect the scene are more effective. In many cases, the biggest damage to the scene is nothing but the onlookers.

What I know is this: the case happened yesterday afternoon, and the victim is the daughter of the director of the factory's public security department. Her colleagues clearly remembered that she left the factory when she got off work, but she did not return to her not-too-distant home. The anxious father called all her friends, but got nothing. It was a thunderstorm in this city last night, one can imagine the ominous premonition that a night of thunder exploded in his father's heart. But even though he was a police officer, he could only suppress his anxiety, and he had to comfort his wife not to worry—it's not time to report the crime yet.

But at two o'clock in the morning today, a shift worker found his daughter outside a small abandoned building that was almost demolished outside the factory wall. At this time, his daughter's eyes had been gouged out, and her trachea was cut open. What's more, the daughter dipped her own blood and wrote down the home phone number on the ground. It was this number that let the father know the cruel news in the first place. As soon as I heard the identity of the victim, I was very sensitive. The Public Security Department is an offending place. It's hard to say what kind of enemies her father will make at work.

I briefly understood the general environment of the factory: there are more than 100,000 employees and family members in this factory, and the factory is divided into a district in the city. , I feel that this factory has everything a small country should have except the army. Later I learned that many people have worked in this factory for generations. Many people are husband and wife or father and son work in the same unit. This is also the case for the victim in this case. It's hard to judge whether it's luck or misfortune that the girl didn't die. The incision did not hurt the common carotid artery and the external jugular vein, and air could still enter the lungs through the incision, so she did not die.

She is really a very weak woman, less than 1.55 meters tall. I even clearly remember that I lifted her to the bed easily with one hand during her examination. But what happened to her and how she reacted to it was so disproportionate to her stature that it never occurred to me that she should be so small. After she was sent to the hospital, the ENT department performed a tracheotomy on her, through which air would flow in and out through a small metal tube. Since the incision was below the vocal cords, we had no choice but to block the opening with a cork, otherwise she would not be able to pronounce.

From her intermittent narration, handwritten supplements from time to time, and the blood splattered everywhere in the stairwell of the abandoned small building on the scene, it is not difficult for us to imagine what happened yesterday. After get off work, the girl walked alone on the small road outside the factory wall. A smile appeared on the corner of her mouth when she thought of the sumptuous dinner after returning home. Her footsteps became more brisk, and the footprints on the ground told us that they were simply bouncing. The fluff of the dandelion in the girl’s hair told us that she also picked off the little flowers on the side of the road and blew them in all directions in one breath. The scattered seeds were like the girl’s happy mood, permeating the air...Suddenly, she She was hit hard on the back of the head, judging from the scars, it was undoubtedly a blunt weapon, and the force of the blow was enough to knock her into a short-term coma due to a concussion, and then she was dragged to the abandoned building by a pair of evil hands, The blood everywhere in the room tells about everything that happened here: the girl was woken up by the severe pain of gouging out the eye, and the blood shot out from the ophthalmic artery at a high speed was splashed drop by drop on the opposite white wall; her hands instinctively Covering her eyes, the blood immediately soaked through her hands, and then slowly flowed down her elbows to the ground, forming two small pools of blood; the blood accumulated in her eye sockets flowed down her cheeks to the ground.

This helps us determine the injury at the position of her head: before she could make any sound, her mouth was covered, and a jagged sharp object easily slit her throat, and the sharp object swung extremely fast , it splashed the blood from the girl's neck to the ground under the stairwell. There is no doubt that we judged that the murderer was left-handed, because the blood was thrown from right to left; Climbing out of the small building, the clothes mixed the pool of blood under her body with the dust on the ground, leaving a series of drag marks on the ground, which let us know that the direction of her movement was towards the door.

As soon as she climbed out of the small building, she tried to shout, but the cut throat made her unable to make any sound, so she had to write a string of Arabic numerals with her own blood... The news of the girl's misfortune spread like wildfire, and the whole factory area seemed to explode. People who work and don't work are talking about this incident. Those evil hands cast a shadow over everyone in the factory. In the shadows, the women dare not walk alone on the road, and the men pick up their wives and daughters more diligently than before; the onlookers at the scene cannot be stopped by a few police tapes, and almost all the people from the security brigade came to maintain order; The soft-hearted woman was crying on the spot, cursing the murderer to die; a voice from the crowd shouted: "Catch the murderer!" The inspection box refers to the trunk of the police car.

In fact, who knows about such a case, the mood is not much better, and I am the same. I understand the voice of the masses, but as a forensic doctor, all we can do is to collect evidence as much as possible and reproduce everything that happened at that time. God helped to keep the girl alive. The first scene was covered by a roof that was not damaged by the heavy rain. We did a perfect job in rebuilding the scene. As for whether we can catch the murderer, it depends on the criminal police. From the information we have, there is no doubt that this is a vicious criminal case. Sure enough, after receiving the news that morning, the Provincial Public Security Department immediately registered to supervise the handling, and dispatched capable criminal investigators and police dogs from the province, and the Municipal Public Security Bureau also sent additional manpower. Hundreds of police officers conducted a carpet search around the scene that afternoon, and soon the murder weapon was found. It was a slightly curved branch that hit the back of the head, and a hacksaw blade that cut the throat. We knew from the cut on the victim's neck that it was a saw blade, so when we saw the blood on it we didn't even need to do a DNA comparison to be sure it was the murder weapon. However, the grass at the scene was leveled, and hundreds of policemen left piles of mineral water bottles and instant noodle boxes around the scene, but the gouged out eyes were still not found. When identifying the scene, we found the pair of eyeballs in an abandoned dry well. Vicious cases in our country are under great pressure to solve the case. Generally, the main leaders of the public security bureau will be responsible for such cases, and the division of labor and cooperation among multiple police departments is the most interesting. The provincial department will supervise the handling of the case, and sometimes even the Ministry of Public Security will supervise the handling of some cases with great influence. This kind of policy is a bit like the "chasing competition" in ancient times. The police will be punished if they don't solve the case for a long time. It seems that Qin Qiong used to live such a life and was forced to sell his horse in the end. Therefore, the case discussion meeting that day was so smoky that even I, a heavy smoker, felt that I could hardly keep my eyes open. But soon the opinions were divided into two opposing factions. One faction believed that this was a revenge case. The reasons were simple. First, the victim’s father was the director of the Public Security Department, and decades of work inevitably offended many people. For example, the endless theft cases in the factory area and the occasional fights and even homicide cases; second, it seems to be more convincing, the perpetrator's methods are outrageous, reaching a level that is impossible for ordinary rape cases. Those who hold this opinion are mainly colleagues in the factory's public security department. They know the local conditions best, and obviously their arguments are convincing. Several young people who spoke at the scene were filled with righteous indignation when they spoke. One of them even had a choked voice and red eye circles. Later, after inquiring, it turned out that he and the victim's father were life-and-death friends. If it wasn't for the victim's father who rescued him, he would have passed away long ago. I completely understand his emotions. Although I was sensitive to the fact that the victim's father was the director of the Public Security Department at the beginning, after the on-site inspection, I found that such an analysis of the case was not logical. My thoughts are this, this case is not like a typical revenge case. The general retaliation case is "hit and run", for example, cover the victim's head and run away after being beaten with a stick, because the criminal suspect does not want to reveal his identity; otherwise, some psychopathic criminal suspects will also It is fun to torture the victim, but no matter what the situation is, the criminal suspect often does not have the idea of ​​revenge for a day or two. He should carefully prepare the tools and choose the place to commit the crime, which is not in line with this case at all. The first is that the murder weapon does not meet the requirements. The person who hit the head was a slightly bent branch picked at random. If there is a preparation process, there are many options for hitting the head, such as a water pipe or a baseball bat; the saw blade does not meet the requirements. Sometimes it is more logical for the suspect to take out a knife that has been sharpened for a long time. The second is that the location of the scene is inconsistent. If it is fun to torture the victim, the precondition is that the place where the crime was committed is hidden, but this time the case happened not far from the fence of the factory area, which is not logical, so I think it is an ordinary rape. case. The people from the Public Security Department of the factory obviously listened to my speech patiently. As soon as I finished my last sentence, one of the impatient people slapped the table and shouted at me: "It is enough to kill people and cut their throats. You How do you explain that the victim's eyes were gouged out?" I was at a loss for words. It’s true that I couldn’t explain why the victim’s eyes were gouged out, but I was young and vigorous, and I was absolutely unwilling to admit defeat. Once I realized it, I said, “Then how do you explain that the murderer took a branch and a saw blade to retaliate against people?” go back. The discussion suddenly fell silent, and everyone was obviously overwhelmed by the two questions we asked. The air in the meeting place was so dull that it seemed to freeze. After a long time, the deputy director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, an old criminal investigator, said, "The soldiers are divided into two groups. The deputy director of the Public Security Department of the People's Horse Factory on the first road takes the lead, and mainly investigates those who have committed crimes in the factory area." People, especially those who have been released after serving their sentence, you should be familiar with this area, pay attention to contact the prison where the prisoner is located to see if there is any escaped prison recently; on the other hand, the captain of the Renma City Criminal Investigation Brigade takes the lead and mainly checks out low-income people, such as migrant workers. Now We are also well aware of the situation. There is no need to risk going to jail for things that can be solved with money. In addition, pay attention to the criminals who have been running around in the urban area recently, especially those who are ruthless and have a criminal record. The possibility of them committing crimes is not small. "Everyone has nothing to say about this arrangement. It was indeed said by an old criminal investigator, and it was very thorough. Without further ado, everyone immediately split up and shouted three or five times. The people from the factory's public security department quickly left the meeting room, while the people from the city bureau stayed in the meeting place to assign specific tasks. I know that the police officers at the factory's public security department had some disturbing behaviors in those few days, and it seemed that anyone who disliked them was a rapist. I can understand them, because I can completely understand that the daughter of a comrade-in-arms has been hurt to such an extent, but I am a professional person who protects people's personal and property safety. I will also be very excited under such a strong psychological impact. After a while, the people dispatched by the city bureau were also arranged. Some people cooperated with the traffic police to set up checkpoints at various traffic arteries for strict investigation. . What's interesting is that God gave clues to the criminal to the factory's public security department: a migrant worker who was doing infrastructure construction in the factory disappeared that morning, and his disappearance immediately became a clue. The police found out from the workers that he was left-handed. The criminal police immediately became excited. After careful investigation, it was found that he had left home just half a year after he was newly married, and recently frequented pornographic video halls; and there happened to be a saw blade missing in his toolbox. It's exactly the same... The next thing is logical. The city bureau sent criminal police to the suspect's hometown. In order to ensure that the criminal was captured alive, they and the local police found the suspect's home in the middle of the night. If there was any reaction, several burly men rushed forward and pinned the suspect firmly on the bed... No one had any doubt that the criminal was him. The characteristics of Lefty and the explanation of the crime plot are exactly the same as our on-site reconstruction results, and he found the eyeballs that hundreds of people couldn't find when he arrived at the scene, but everyone still doesn't understand why he gouged out the victim's eyes Finally, a curious little policeman couldn't help asking him this question. The criminal raised his head numbly and said, "I know that what people see before they die will remain in their eyes." "How do you know that what you see before you die will remain in your eyes?" The little policeman was shocked and angry. This is simply nonsense! "That's what the old people in the village say." The criminal is still so plain... The cracking of the case did not bring me much joy, nor did the ensuing reward from my superiors excite me a little. Several other colleagues are still discussing things like eyeball transplantation, but as a doctor, I know very well that this girl will lose her light forever. Even if time can heal the wounds in her heart, the darkness will undoubtedly Accompany her all her life. A month later, when the public arrest meeting was held in the local area, almost all the people belonged to this factory. Everyone was very angry with the suspects. Although everyone knew that the only waiting for criminals was the death penalty, many women still spat at him. And rushing forward, several people even passed through the police's defense, biting and beating the suspect, the meeting had to end hastily, and the armed police formed a human wall to take the pale suspect away from the venue, but this could not stop The police car that was already in motion was punched by a brick flying from the crowd. On the contrary, the girl is the most optimistic of all. She enriches herself in the dark. A few days after the incident, she asked her boyfriend to play music for herself and "chat" with her friends with a pen, because she was still unable to pronounce for the time being. Half a month later, her endotracheal tube was removed, and her joyful laughter was often heard in the ward. The laughter mixed with the music seemed to cheer me up just passing by, even the sky , seems to have become more sunny. Recalling all this, I can even feel the fragrance brought by the sun shining through the windows of the ward after the rain. A few years later, I went back to this place for business reasons. I heard that her boyfriend broke up with her. I was silent for a while, thinking that this man can still understand, because this is a too closed community. This matter will become the topic of conversation for generations, I really want to ask if she is okay now?But in the end, he pushed his lips twice, but didn't ask...