Chapter 23 different dream

When I walked into the police station in the morning, I happened to see him being escorted out of the interrogation room by two policemen. Looking at his face, I always felt as if I had seen him somewhere before. Where is it?I can't remember anything. My question was finally answered during lunch, not by the police, but by a few women who were whispering to each other. Although they looked as if they knew some shocking secret, their voices were loud as if they were afraid that no one would hear them—a famous TV presenter who had a divorce not long ago killed his wife who had been newly married for less than half a year.

It's no surprise that I don't recognize a TV presenter, since I barely watch TV. What's more, his depression and his high spirits on the TV show are completely different now. I wonder how such a case is not involved in the forensic?Such a thing is not absolutely impossible. For example, if the suspect is caught directly at the crime scene, or there is sufficient evidence at the scene, then compulsory measures can be taken against the suspect first, but the interrogation cannot exceed 24 hours , and more evidence is needed for arrest. That's why forensic doctors' cell phones are always on 24 hours a day.

While thinking wildly, the phone rang. The call was made by the captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of District L. This case was not in his jurisdiction. The reason why he called was that the deceased was his niece. He briefly reported the case on the phone: 110 received a report from the masses at 7 o'clock this morning, saying that a woman in a residential area fell from a height and died on the spot. After the police went to the scene to investigate, they found that the deceased was a resident on the fifth floor of the residential area and the newlywed wife of a news program host.

The place where the deceased fell was not far from the balcony of his home. His right eye was bruised and purple. He was only wearing a T-shirt and underwear. He didn't even see his shoes or socks, but the soles of his feet were clean. The police immediately became suspicious, and when they arrived at the deceased's house, they saw that the male owner was flustered, and a broken vase had not been cleaned up. Although the hero kept saying that he was wronged at this time, the police had no choice but to ask him to "assist in the investigation". Finally, he added: "As far as I know, the husband of the deceased had an affair with other women recently." As expected of the captain of the criminal investigation, he stated the facts of the case without any emotion. The sentences were concise, but each sentence pointed to the point.

If what he said was true, then this would be a perfect chain of evidence for Gao Chuan's case: the deceased's husband had an affair with someone else, the couple had disputes (broken vase) and even fights (right eye bruise), and then The husband who was born with evil will throw his unsuspecting wife (the deceased is disheveled) off the balcony of his home (if it is suicide, it is impossible to not wear shoes and socks and have clean feet). But after all, this time he is the family member of the deceased. I smiled wryly: the deceased was the niece of the captain of the criminal investigation, and the husband of the suspect deceased was a public figure. Before I took over the case, there were already discussions all over the city, but the cause of death was a headache for every forensic doctor. Fall high.

What is the real situation?Doubt hangs over everyone's head, including myself. Sure enough, I soon received the task of going to the scene in the afternoon. I was thinking wildly throughout the noon, maybe because I have been a surgeon for six years, I often compare these two professions unconsciously: sometimes the work of forensic medicine and surgeon is a bit similar: I often encounter various a contingency, and you have no choice about it. But there are still many differences between being a forensic doctor and being a surgeon. Forensic medicine is a branch of medicine, but it is very different from other branches of medicine: other branches of medicine, such as clinical, nursing, pharmacy, prevention, etc., are all oriented to diseases, and they are the means by which human beings resist the invasion of diseases. Weapons; while forensic medicine is oriented to the law, a weapon for human beings to resist illegal infringement by others and defend their own rights to life and health.

Take this case as an example. If I were still a surgeon, what I need to figure out is where the injury on the deceased is fatal, so as to make a clinical diagnosis or a diagnosis of the cause of death. This is often very simple, usually at a glance. The worst injuries of the deceased were seen. But as a forensic doctor, the most important task is to find out the method of death, that is, whether we usually talk about suicide or homicide. This question involves the knowledge of many other disciplines: scene, traces, logic, psychology... Sometimes I think this is simply impossible. It is an assessment of the comprehensive quality of forensic medicine.

Once the judgment is wrong, it may mislead the direction of the reconnaissance, and the biggest failure lies in insulting the dignity of the law. This difference is what makes forensic work so challenging and why I love forensic work. Cranky thoughts are all nonsense, but I still have to gather my spirits to meet this challenge. I made a decision that surprised everyone. Before going to the scene, I visited the suspect first. I finished the inspection just when everyone was still confused. In fact, it is worthless to put it bluntly: if this case is a homicide, the perpetrator is likely to be the husband.

But don't underestimate the resistance of women. Their nails and teeth are often the best weapons. I even saw a woman who was desperately resisting abuse bit off the tongue of a criminal. It was this half of the tongue that finally caught the criminal. But I found nothing. When I boarded the car to go to the scene, I was still thinking, this doesn't mean anything, maybe she didn't resist in time, or the resistance was too slight to cause obvious damage to the suspect. I observed the deceased carefully: I thought that the wives of celebrities in the entertainment industry should be glamorous, but what I saw was a round face with no makeup under short hair, which even made me think she was a little childish .

What the captain of the criminal police said was very accurate: her right eye was bruised, her clothes were disheveled, and she didn't wear shoes, but the soles of her feet were very clean. And I just saw the broken vase in the room where the incident happened. Its original location should be on the TV cabinet, but now it flew more than two meters and smashed beside the coffee table. Everything seems to imply that a cold-blooded murder took place here. But I still can't let go. The main reason why I can't let go of my heart is because of the scars on the deceased's left wrist: we call it "Try Cutting Chuang", which seems a little funny to me.

In fact, apart from a lovelorn boy, I seldom see people who commit suicide by slicing their wrists to solve the problem with only one knife: the most common is three to four knifes, and these few knives often cross on the aiming point of the suicide, The reason is simple: people are afraid of pain, and those who decide to commit suicide are no exception. Even the boy who was broken in love failed to commit suicide. He used too much force and almost chopped off his entire hand, and the location was extremely inaccurate: the knife landed on his own palm. Today the dead man has such scars on his hands. I know this only proves that she tried to commit suicide, not that she will commit suicide this time. But it was enough to make me suspicious of the manner of her death. What's more, she still has several unexplainable injuries on her body. The first is that there is an electric shock mark near the palm of the left index finger (friends who read my blog should know that we call it "electric spot"). The second was an impact injury on the front of her right calf, which wasn't severe enough to break a bone, but enough to cause a bruise. I have to explain it all perfectly. But I don't know how to explain all this. I came to the room where the crime happened for the second time, and even the onlookers were whispering about my "weird behavior" today and my "not doing my job" that I didn't do the autopsy. I just turned a deaf ear and continued to do what I should do. I even took off my shoes and walked a few steps barefoot on the balcony - the balcony was not enclosed and the dust on the ground immediately stained my feet. I stood on the balcony and looked down. The dead body was just below the balcony and slightly to the left. Instantly I saw a black line. Before I had time to put on my shoes, I ran out of the room and ran up the stairwell on the left side of the balcony. On the roof, I looked towards the black line again. In an instant, I was so happy that I almost cheered: it was the first floor on the sixth floor. An exposed wire. In fact, when I saw the electric spot on the left index finger of the deceased, I suspected that it was caused by grasping. The position close to the palm is really suitable for this situation, but no one dared to say that before seeing the wire. This explains at least two problems. First, the deceased was conscious before landing; second, the place where he fell was not the balcony on the fifth floor, but the rooftop on the top of the building. After taking two steps to the left, I searched for something carefully. "Must let me find it!" I shouted in my heart, and my breathing was a little short. Have!I was a little ecstatic. There was a red lady’s slipper between the insulation board and the roof railing. The white under the slipper reminded me of some paint left by the residents’ renovation in the stairwell on the seventh floor. Everything that happened at that time Floating in front of my eyes: the deceased ran up to the roof from home after quarreling with her husband, and jumped down a little to the left of the balcony in a fit of anger. I can even imagine her instinctively waving her left hand when she saw the wire before landing. She must have regretted her decision at that moment, but the electric shock quickly made her let go of her hand, and she started falling again before she landed. The soul has drifted away... Just when I was about to be proud of my judgment, the question came back to my mind: why is it a shoe?What about another one?What happened to the bruising around the eyes of the deceased?The huge doubt immediately swallowed my joy, and my brows were wrinkled again. The hot summer sun made my back ache a bit, and the sweat kept dripping from my chin to the roof. My stomach felt a little overwhelmed, and I realized that I might have a bit of heat stroke. But I can't believe that a shoe can walk by itself. If it's not on the ground, it must be hanging somewhere-I found a telescope to watch carefully. At this time, an air conditioner that was slightly higher than the wires attracted my attention: a corner of its cover was deformed, and when I looked carefully, I found a red thing between the outdoor unit and the wall. Looking at it from another angle, it really is another shoe!In this way, the process of her fall was basically clear, and the cause of the bruising of her right eye was also clarified after the autopsy: skull base fracture. You should know that there is only a thin layer of bone between the eyeball and the brain. In severe craniocerebral injury, blood will flow into the eye socket along the fracture line. This is called "panda eye sign", which is actually not uncommon. All the evidence that the captain of the criminal police provided that was inclined to homicide has been eliminated one by one after the on-site inspection and autopsy. Everything I can figure out, such as the take-off point and the fall process, has been completed, and the process of the whole thing is now clear. The ground appeared in front of me: the husband who hadn’t come home all night tiptoed into the room, unexpectedly, the wife with a strong personality had already been waiting for a long time. Faced with his wife's questioning, the husband could only sit on the sofa and smoke a stuffy cigarette without saying a word. The angry wife picked up the vase and threw it at the husband. The husband avoided the vase with his head; The husband's anger was blown out, and he probably had a physical conflict with his wife; the wife saw that her husband dared to do something, slammed the door and said "I will make you regret it forever!" and rushed to the rooftop. The reason why she chose the rooftop instead of the balcony at home was that she hoped that her husband would come out and hold her back?I am afraid that only she in the kingdom of heaven can answer this question. After taking off from the rooftop, her right calf hit the air conditioner, and a shoe fell off, and it happened to stay in such a hidden place; at the same time, the impact slowed her down a bit, so she had time to instinctively grab Hold the wire, and her calf should not have completely left the air conditioner when she grabs the wire-this can form a closed circuit. The question is, who can guarantee that all the evidence is not carefully forged by the husband?He might have collected the painted slippers long ago, and maybe he wanted to make a surprise move by hiding the shoes behind the air conditioner... There is no middle ground between suicide and homicide that I can escape from, and I have to draw a definite conclusion. When a judgment is related to the fate of another person's life, it is impossible to be too cautious: I came to ask the teacher for help again, and I brought all the files and my concerns, including the impact of the case, Including the criminal police captain and the relatives of the parties involved. Teacher Zheng took off his presbyopic glasses, carefully folded them and put them into the glasses case. After a pause, he asked me: "What evidence is there for suicidal tendencies?" I thought for a while, and replied: "The deceased had a history of suicide, which shows the tendency and possibility of suicide; the paint on the shoes proves that the deceased should be himself. Run to the rooftop; the electric spot on the deceased’s hand proves that the deceased should have been alive before he fell.” Teacher Zheng walked to the window, looked into the distance, and asked again: “So what evidence is there to prove that it was homicide?” I was at a loss for words After a while, there is indeed no evidence to directly prove the homicide. After a pause, I immediately said: "But the husband of the deceased had an affair and had a quarrel with the deceased..." Teacher Zheng interrupted me with a wave of his hand, "That is all indirect evidence. Can’t directly explain the problem.” “But no one can guarantee whether the paint on the shoes, the electric spots on the hands of the deceased, etc. are all caused by the suspect’s deliberate deliberation, maybe he is very cunning…” I retorted. Mr. Zheng smiled, very kindly: "Do you have any evidence to prove it? The principle of presumption of innocence!" When Mr. Zheng said the words "presumption of innocence", he tapped his fingers on the table vigorously. I was lost in thought, and it is true that this case will have two completely different results if the principle of presumption of guilt or innocence is adopted: if the principle of presumption of innocence is adopted, that is, we first treat the suspect as innocent and use evidence to prove his innocence. If there is no evidence to prove his crime, we should draw a conclusion of suicide; but if we adopt the principle of presumption of guilt, that is, treat the suspect as guilty and prove his innocence through evidence, then the present There is no sufficient evidence to prove that he is indeed innocent, we should conclude a homicide. Mr. Zheng went on to say: "Although forensic medicine was born out of medicine, it is already independent after all. The way of thinking of the two is different: one more word than medicine makes us pay more attention to evidence. Time has passed like this. At that time What should I do if I don’t know what happened? The first thing you can do is to collect evidence as comprehensively as possible, and the second is to measure the evidence that is more inclined to which side, and then make a judgment based on the evidence. This is the so-called 'One piece of evidence speaks for itself', as for other things such as social influence, young man, the world is big, don't be dazzled by it!" After finishing speaking, Mr. Zheng laughed heartily. I seemed to understand something, and seemed to fall into deeper thinking. The netizen comments selected in this book are to keep the original ecological style of the web text as far as possible, and some web language will not be modified.