Chapter 22 Xiao Qiang

I think the only thing that the forensic doctor can do in this case is to scratch the head. The case files that have been dragging on for nearly five years are piled up more than two feet high. It took me a week to make a general sense of the vast amount of text. After clarifying what happened: the two brothers seem to be that the elder brother has a stronger personality, and likes to take advantage of trivial matters such as sister-in-law disputes. This time, his father just passed away, and the elder brother also wants to take a little advantage in the division of inheritance. The younger brother is ready to swallow his anger, but the younger brother's two bloody sons think it is tolerable and unbearable. It seems that the two boys are loyal enough-they both hide it from their families. One said they were going to play cards with friends, and the other said they were going out for a walk. Go, one after the other left home.

What is exasperating and ridiculous is that the two brothers are actually going to the same place: the uncle's house, and the time difference between their arrival at the uncle's house is less than half an hour, which is confirmed by the uncle Wang next door. And he also saw his elder brother go in first with a brick, and his younger brother with a hammer. All that was left was that his uncle was found dead on the bed the next day with scars on the left and right sides of his head. I'm afraid there's no way of knowing what happened—Uncle Wang didn't see through eyes, and the two brothers argued that they killed Uncle himself, and they were alive and well, as if it was true.

But I know that a person can only die once. Analyzing this matter from a legal point of view is a bit like a tongue twister: if two people agree to commit a murder together, the case is very simple, and both of the joint crimes will be sentenced as intentional homicide. Now the two brothers committed the murder without telling each other, and they thought that they were the only ones who had been there until the crime happened, so obviously they cannot constitute a joint crime. Then if the elder brother who went in first killed his uncle, the younger brother who went in later killed his uncle, so he was simply a hypothetical crime and would not bear criminal responsibility; but if the uncle who was killed by the younger brother who went in later, The elder brother who went in should be guilty of attempted homicide, while the younger brother should be guilty of intentional homicide.

After analyzing the bunch of tongue twisters, my head started to feel a little dizzy. When I saw the forensic report at that time, I could only sigh: it only stated that the cause of death was a left craniocerebral injury, but did not deduce what tool caused it. Yes, so this case is the first trial and second trial, and now the procuratorate has initiated a retrial, so there are already a lot of troubles. The case has been dragged on for a long time, and the two brothers have been detained for a long time, and the streets and alleys have filled the city. If I had been there at that time, maybe I could have done something: the blow of the brick should have left some debris in the wound, right?But now, the body has already been cremated, and a lot of evidence must have disappeared with the passage of time. This kind of case called "documentary identification" in our circle is not qualified to accept it in China except for a few highly respected old forensic doctors like Mr. Zheng. of.

But I still don't understand why Mr. Zheng took over this non-existent case. Even if it was entrusted by the court, we have enough reasons to shirk it. This case did not happen in our jurisdiction at all, and now that the case has entered the trial process, the public security forensic doctor has sufficient reasons to ignore it: don’t the procuratorate and the court also have forensic doctors?Could it be that Mr. Zheng has a habit of solving headless cases?Doesn't Mr. Zheng know that the reputation he has accumulated over the decades is not easy?This kind of case is not encountered every day, I decided to take a good look at how Mr. Zheng handles this case.

I don’t know how mysterious the work of forensic medicine will be, but in fact, what I have been exposed to the most are some ordinary “rich diseases”, such as coronary heart disease, stroke, etc., but they often happen too suddenly and will It was mistaken for various cases, followed by "water drifting". The rivers in Dinghai City are crisscrossed, and as many as one or two hundred unknown corpses are picked up from the water every year. But I didn't find anything unusual about Mr. Zheng. What should he do during the day? Even if it's a small case where the neighbor's grandmother quarreled and sprained his ankle, he didn't tire of it. It's just that I found that the two-foot-high dossier would lose one file every night. The next morning, I put it back quietly, and at night, I replaced it with a new one.

These days lasted for nearly ten days, and when everyone was about to forget about this case, Elder Zheng asked everyone what they thought about this case. "This kind of case can only be solved by a national authority like you. I never accept a death case without a case." When he said this, Director Chen lowered his head and looked for the official seal of the forensic office in his briefcase. Ri giggled. Weicheng looked down at the desktop, and said hesitantly: "There is no good way to solve the loss of evidence caused by this time." After he finished speaking, he turned around and looked for something in the bookcase behind him.

Mr. Zheng's eyes turned to me, and I thought about how to word it for a while. To put it bluntly, the initial inspection of this matter was not done properly. First, the forensic doctor did not check the wound carefully. If it is not correct and seriously deformed, it cannot reflect the damage characteristics at all. But it's not easy to blame anyone for this matter. Many forensic doctors are half-way monks, and their level and experience vary. This is the status quo. I guess the camera was taken temporarily from some photo studio. He didn't understand the difference between criminal photography and art photography at all.

This photo was taken at the most obvious part of the wound at a very close distance and at an oblique angle. There was no ruler necessary to reflect the size of the wound. Accurately, clearly, and invariably reflect the characteristics of the subject, instead of expressing the shock of his first time seeing a terrible wound. Although I thought about it for a long time, the only thing I said was: "I am afraid that this case can only be done if new and strong evidence is collected." A pile of old papers. Mr. Zheng didn't say a word, but I thought about it, where does the new evidence come from?The two brothers who knew the situation refused to tell the truth, and it is impossible for others to know the situation. There is no hope for witnesses to testify. Inseparable Ten: The damage characteristics of bricks and hammers are fundamentally different.

I know that Mr. Zheng has done several document appraisal cases and finally made judgments based on the photos. He even saw the scene photos of a traffic accident and said that the tailgate of the escaped truck was not closed properly. This detail is true. Judgment of the facts of the case played a crucial role. Let's talk about that story next time. I have to admit that this is very difficult, and my skill is far from enough. In fact, many characteristic photos of real objects cannot be reflected at all, such as three-dimensionality and some very small debris. This is indeed only a well-informed old forensic doctor like Mr. Zheng can do this.

The problem is that this trick is now also out of order. It seems we are at the end of our rope. I was almost buried in this huge pile of files. Some of the early papers had already started to turn yellow and brittle. When I opened them, I could smell the unique smell of time from the pile of old papers. When I was taking a shower yesterday, I suddenly thought of a detail, so I couldn't wait to confirm my idea in the file early this morning. Sure enough, there was such a thing: first, the old mother of the deceased found that the door of the son's room was not closed properly, and then went in and found that the son was dead. The problem is that the old man can't accept this fact at all psychologically, and forced the "120" to drag his son to the hospital for "rescue". According to the doctor, he was already hard when he arrived at the hospital, but he was really forced by the old mother. While declaring to the old man that he died early and the rescue was a waste of money, he treated the corpse as a living person. What can I expect from a doctor?When I posed this question to Mr. Zheng, Mr. Zheng pointed to his drawer. The "rescue" medical records at that time had long been there. I held these thin sheets of paper as if I were holding the last straw. It can be said that the doctor’s handwriting on the medical records is probably one of the most illegible words in the world. Fortunately, I have also been a doctor myself. This kind of ghost painting can also be figured out by guessing. At this time, a line of small words from the doctor caught my attention, "CT showed left skull fracture and left subdural hematoma". No hospital will do a CT scan on the deceased. I think such a strange thing will happen only because of the strong request of the old mother, but no matter how strange the matter is, the doctor's words can't solve the problem. The damage had already been confirmed by autopsy, and these few words did not provide new information. But I found that Mr. Zheng is in a particularly good mood today. After staying up late for so many days, his pale face has a touch of rosiness, and even his wrinkles seem to have smoothed out a lot. Could it be that he has already thought of a solution to the problem?Could it be that Mr. Zheng found the CT film?I immediately called the family members, but I was still disappointed. The family members had moved three times after the incident, and the CT data were long gone. Friends who have seen it should still remember that a set of software that can reconstruct CT data in 3D has made great contributions in that case, and now I think of it again, but if the CT data is gone, no matter how amazing this software is, it’s hard for a woman to cook without rice. . The emotion of failure once again enveloped me. Seeing my bewildered face, Mr. Zheng couldn't help laughing: "The family is gone, so the hospital should still have it. Every CT data produced by the CT machine will be automatically numbered and backed up on the computer." After speaking, Mr. Zheng opened the He opened the computer beside him, and it turned out that he had obtained the CT data!I can only think that this is a miracle: it is the first time I have seen a person who has died in the hospital and was forced to do CT by his family; we also have to thank this CT machine five years ago for not being scrapped, maybe it is a mystery I don't want any unjust cases to happen, anyway, we have a chance now. Mr. Zheng is operating the computer by himself, and it seems a little difficult: it is not easy for a person who is almost seventy years old to do this. There are so many people in their early forties who can’t use computers. They all asked us to help him with computer processing, but Mr. Zheng always said that we still have our business, and insisted on his "two-finger Zen": he can only use two index fingers to operate the keyboard, and we joked about a The name of "Two Finger Zen". This operation is not small for Mr. Zheng. The CT data stored in the hospital are all in DCM format. This format cannot be recognized by general image viewing software. Selecting the required image, setting parameters, and 3D imaging, any step in the entire operation process is wrong. I will let all the work go to waste and have to start all over again. Watching Mr. Zheng repeat the operation over and over again, I think of the story I heard when I was a child. The net, but the legal net that captures criminals. Mr. Zheng, who had failed more than a dozen times, finally succeeded. Everything was clearly displayed on the computer: the fracture of the left skull clearly showed in three dimensions that it was composed of three straight fracture lines converging to one point. It shows that a corner of the brick hit this place, and the fracture on the right has an obvious arc. Looking at this arc, I even understand that the crime tool is a round nail hammer: neither a spherical nipple Hammer, not a big oil hammer either. The results of the autopsy have already told us that the left side is the fatal injury, that is to say, the elder brother holding the brick is the real murderer, while the younger brother’s murder target is just a corpse. I think his acquittal may not be a problem. Good thing: It's better than his family never ending. The smile on Mr. Zheng's face seemed to make him ten years younger suddenly, but I really wanted to ask him a question: "What if it's not such a coincidence this time and we didn't solve the problem?" Mr. Zheng didn't seem to understand. My words seem to be answering my question: "Isn't it over if you write 'I don't know'?" I couldn't help laughing. The reason why things are complicated is mostly because people think it is too complicated. "Know what you know, don't know." Because you don’t know, you know.” Didn’t Confucius say this truth thousands of years ago?