Chapter 4 pressure

It was also shortly after I started my forensic career. This is the first time I have encountered this kind of situation. Although there have been many similar situations in my subsequent career, the conflict between the two sides has never reached such a large scale, and the pressure on me has never been as great as that time... The story takes place in a small mountain village, a very remote place. I once came to this place because of a case where two brothers died suddenly and suddenly at the same time. What does it mean for the sudden death of only two strong laborers of a mountain family?It was no different from the sky falling, and the gray-haired old mother reported the case.

Regarding that case, we quickly analyzed the reason: the two deceased died in contact with each other in a rice field, and there were mountain people next to the private power grid to prevent wild boars from intruding. There are typical electric current spots on the corpse, which are the unique changes caused by the strong electric current breaking through the skin: in the center is a blackened and hardened current entrance and exit, and the surrounding skin bulges like a crater. It is more obvious under the microscope. The entrance and exit of the current often have metal shavings melted by the electrode, usually green copper, which can help us judge the metal composition of the electrode; the original messy squamous epithelial cells will be as if they have been combed by a comb. It becomes neat, thin and long; and the underlying protein will solidify and lose its original structure.

Seeing this, we concluded that one of the two brothers was electrocuted, and the other immediately went to try to pull them apart, but they died tragically together. This is something no criminal can simulate, no matter how cunning. But I can only sigh at the two brothers because of their lack of common sense about electricity use, because in this situation, it is tantamount to committing suicide to pull away people who have been electrocuted by hand. In fact, it is very difficult to pull away, even if you are not afraid of electricity ——At this time, the muscle spasm caused by the electric current made the deceased unable to do without the electrode, and the force of this spasm was far greater than that of ordinary muscle contraction.

The correct way is to cut off the power or use a wooden stick to push it away; if you know a little about cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the follow-up work, the chances of survival for the person who was shocked will be much higher. A punch in the parts can also be beneficial. What left a deep impression on me at the time was not only the brothers' lack of knowledge about electricity usage, but also the poverty of the small mountain village. Many people still live in adobe houses and don't even have a decent piece of clothing. Frankly speaking, the entire wealth of many families is not as good as the Nikon f-100 camera we used to fix the evidence.

I also want to rap a few words, in our country the penalty for privately setting up a power grid to cause death is very serious, and it is even more likely than if you intentionally beat someone to serious injury or even death. This may be a bit difficult to understand, but our country first thinks that this situation is intentional. Although it is not intentional to kill a person, children can know that electricity can kill people, so it is a kind of intentional letting go. The first possibility (putting a "Dangerous Electricity" sign will not help much); second, although it is not intentional to kill a certain person, but the life and property of an unspecified number of people are endangered, not just one person, so this In this case, there is a very scary charge: the crime of endangering public safety in a dangerous way, and the crimes of arson, poisoning, and breaking an embankment.

This time fate brought me back to this small mountain village. Early in the morning, while I was still in a daze of sleep, I received a call to dispatch urgently (my mobile phone is always on 24 hours a day). Then I circled the winding mountain road in a daze, and when I got out of the car, I was almost stunned: the police car pulled us to the town hall. The town government is in a valley, and it is in a mess: none of the glass on the first floor is intact, office supplies are scattered all over the place, many cabinets have been smashed, and the corpse of an old man is placed on the desk of the mayor's office!That's not what surprised me the most.

What surprised me the most was that the hills on both sides of the valley were full of mountain people holding hoes and pickaxes. There were at least a few thousand people, and there must have been tens of thousands of people watching the excitement. Although all the police forces available in the county were mobilized at the scene, the dozens of people were scattered in the crowd like pepper noodles and could not be seen. Besides, they had to pay attention to their own safety. There were hardly any policemen; at this time, two old patriarchs who were obviously the leaders came over, bowed to us, and shouted: "Qingtian, you must be the masters for us!" I swear to God, On that day, several buddies in the county did not first truthfully introduce the case to me in accordance with the general principles.

I was almost tricked by them. But once I come, I can't leave, and I can't leave. We soon figured out the general reason. This area is already very poor, and tax collection has always been a problem. Recently, the villagers have a lot of opinions on the tax reform fee, and there have been several skirmishes with the government. It can be said that it was a powder keg, but this time it was because of problems with the family planning work. A few years ago, the family planning work was indeed a bit too strict. The so-called "No way, three minutes, and a tornado in three minutes", there are all kinds of houses and land.

Of course, the old man had already passed the age of childbearing. It was his daughter-in-law who gave birth to the child. The daughter-in-law went to work outside as a guerrilla for childbirth. The family planning working group came to find the old man but couldn’t find it, so they took the old man away. The old man was sitting in family planning The motorcycle of the working group left, but never came back. There are different opinions on the latter matter. The common people think that the old man was usually healthy, but he had been working in the fields the day before, so how could he die suddenly?When the old man was taken away, he just pushed and shoved, and he must have beaten the old man when he left the village.

The family planning working group insisted that there was no such thing, and they sent the old man to the hospital for active rescue. Who is right?It is impossible to understand without an autopsy, so the county called us over early in the morning. But the family members are outraged, can an autopsy work?We set off in the morning and arrived in the afternoon. It was time for dinner. The secretary of the county political and legal committee invited us to dinner. The meal was not good, I know. However, the Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee must be better than the old patriarchs. First, he talked about how the three major groups in the county valued it. Really thought provoking and concise.

What he said was: "At present, stability and unity are the overall situation!" I have to admit that I am an ordinary person, and I was really thinking about it when I was eating. First of all, I slandered a few brothers who tricked us here. From that point of view, I can’t leave now. I can only bite the bullet and do it. How can I do it?I threw away my job after eating a couple of mouthfuls of rice, and first went to convince the old patriarch that an autopsy is necessary to find out the situation. Generally, I always insist on autopsy when encountering such situations, not because there is a legal provision that "the public security organs have the right to decide on autopsy for corpses with unknown causes of death", but because I feel that the truth of the matter must be clarified to truly be worthy of the deceased. Dead is also muddleheaded!Our country has a strong sense of feudalism, and we are always a little bit stuck on this issue. The old patriarch was convinced, and of course I had to assure him that I would handle the case fairly, so we took him to see the parent officer!Explained in front of both parties, I am what I see, and I will never reverse black and white!Then, the two sides sent representatives to supervise my actions. There are two advantages. First, if there is any doubt, I will be pointed out on the spot to continue the autopsy. Second, no one should worry about anyone else!Of course, a little forensic knowledge must be popularized before the autopsy. The village doctor was sent by the villagers, and the criminal investigation captain was sent by the county. The two witnessed together. Let me explain first that I haven't seen the corpse yet, but some phenomena that are easy to misunderstand by ordinary people need to be explained clearly. For example, corpse spots, human blood is constantly circulating, once dead, it will stay in the lower parts, such as lying down, it will be on the back, waist and other places that are not under pressure. If the corpse spots have been fully formed before moving the corpse, we will It can be seen that the body position does not match the body spots, and we have solved several murder cases through this simple reason!But as far as the current situation is concerned, corpse spots can easily be mistaken for blows, so you have to tell them clearly that there is a difference between the two. The first is the different parts. Corpse spots can only be in the lower parts. The second is that the incision is different. The bruises on the skin are due to the broken blood vessels. The blood has already penetrated into the tissues and cannot be wiped off. The blood spots on the corpse are still in the blood vessels according to the time of death, and they will be wiped off immediately!I will always remember that autopsy. The Municipal Public Security Bureau sent two cars of riot police. The two cars of riot police got off the two military vehicles neatly and ran to the designated location in unison. The crowd immediately dispersed automatically. They formed a human wall and protected us in the town government compound for autopsies. With a neat height of 1.7 meters and a neat helmet, at this time, people can deeply appreciate the majesty of the state machine!I can't tell where the courage came from at that time. I was the center of a scene where hundreds of policemen plus a secretary of the county political and legal committee, but these three axes made my work easier. up. Some things are actually like this. When you think it is extremely complicated, it is you who make it complicated. The old man died of a cerebral hemorrhage. There is no trauma, but the family planning working group is not completely without responsibility. This is the first time that the elderly have been taken to "see an official", although I still haven't figured out what level of official the Family Planning Working Group is. Nervousness and fear agitated him, his blood pressure soared, and a blood vessel in his brain burst, causing him to die soon. In this case, our forensic analysis of the cause of death is as follows: the direct cause of death is cerebral hemorrhage, and photos and tissue sections can be used as evidence. But the fundamental cause of death is cerebral atherosclerosis, because there is no underlying lesion of cerebral atherosclerosis, a normal person will not suffer from cerebral hemorrhage due to emotional excitement. Then the responsibility of the family planning working group lies in promoting the development of the disease with rough working methods. Without this matter, the elderly may live a few more years. We call this an inducement. The final treatment is mainly civil liability, which simply means losing money. However, the villagers smashed the town office, which disturbed public order. If it is small, it can be detained criminally, and if it is big, it may be sentenced. It may be the so-called "law does not blame the public", or the county did not want to make matters worse, so after more than a month, a few young people were detained for two days symbolically. It's hard to say how much this incident affected me. But since then, it has become my habit to invite both parties to be present when encountering civil cases. Understand the situation face to face, face to face autopsy, have any opinions, both parties face to face. Unexpectedly, this method has become a magical way to resolve conflicts. When both parties know that the problem will be resolved fairly, most people are reasonable. And this has become a reliable guarantee for practicing the saying "never turn black and white". Watching forensic doctors make mistakes and get off the job every year, I know that this sentence is easy to say but hard to do. In my later career, I have encountered similar situations many times. Frankly speaking, the Chinese "death is the most important thing", and forensic medicine is often the eye of the storm in conflicts. But since then, no matter how hot the scene is , I never felt the slightest panic.