Some time ago, there was a bizarre and bizarre case in Japan.
A housewife who lives in Wakayama City dialed 119 to say that she and her ex-husband's 16-year-old eldest daughter, Shin sakura, suddenly fell to the ground and vomited blood at home.
By the time the ambulance arrived at the scene, the girl had died of excessive blood loss, while her mother, stepfather and half-sister were missing.
According to the forensic medical examination, the girl was beaten to death by her parents in shock. The girl's mother also had a history of abusing her children in her early years with her second husband.
Just when the police extracted the evidence from the scene of the case, they received another alarm from the masses, saying that they saw that the girl's mother and her young daughter had committed suicide by throwing themselves into the sea, and the stepfather also hanged himself nearby.
In less than half a day, all those involved in the death of the girl were killed.
At this time, the busy Wakayama police suddenly found that the housewife suspected of committing suicide seemed to be somewhat familiar with her name and appearance.
Looking through the previous files, I found that this person's mother was the "first poisonous woman in Japan" Hayashima who committed the crime of causing several deaths and the collective poisoning of dozens of people twenty years ago.
In the hands of two generations of mothers and daughters in this family alone, dozens of innocent lives have been persecuted. Such seemingly coincidental events, all colliding together, have to make people think more.
Some netizens who eat suspense melons and eat headwind attacks can't help but question: Is the murder also genetic?
Dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and the son of a mouse will punch holes.
Following this folk saying, the director touched on many cases of family-style crimes that occurred in various countries in the world.
In 2013, Yunnan "Hannibal" Zhang Yongming was executed for intentional homicide.
It has been confirmed that Zhang Yongming killed 11 teenagers by mutilating corpses, burning, and burying them. It is suspected that it is related to the Zhang case, but there are still 20 or 30 people who have not been recovered.
Zhang Yongming is not the only villain in the family.
Long before liberation, his mother had been imprisoned for attempted murder. When his second brother was buying vegetables at the wet market, he cut off the neighbor's head without a word.
Coincidentally, three generations of Weaver's grandchildren living in Oregon, USA, have completed a BE-style reunion in prison for robbery, rape and murder, and drug trafficking and murder.
It can really be described as "a three-generation criminal offender, a father and son soldier who commits many evils."
These violent crimes, which are far more ferocious than ordinary people imagine, but they appear repeatedly in the same family, and the reasons for this have aroused the interest of criminologists.
Is there really a "murderous gene" in the world that leads to violent crime?
In the beginning of man, nature was inherently evil.
More than 2,000 years after Xunzi first put forward this idea in the Warring States period, an Italian criminologist Lombroso proposed the concept of a "born criminal" in 1876.
Lombroso, a prison doctor, took advantage of his work to dissect the skulls of 383 Italian criminals and found that they all had a noticeable depression in the occipital bone. The shape of the head is more similar to that of primitive animals than ordinary people.
In addition, there are features such as raised brow bones, deep eye sockets, strong jaws, protruding chins, and excessively long arms.
Mentally, most of these criminals also have a lack of pain similar to that of primitive animals, visual acuity, laziness and irritability, and no shame and compassion.
To put it simply, the longer a person looks like an ape, the more likely he is to commit crimes and kill people. Lombrosso speculated that in the genes of criminals, there is a biological defect similar to the act of returning to the ancestors.
This instinctive impulse brought about by the bones is bound to produce conflicts in modern civilized society, which also leads to a higher probability of their future crimes.
The study of these people's "portraits" will also largely eliminate their criminal possibilities.
Obviously, Lombrosso's theory is suspected of a "presumption of guilt", so as soon as it was proposed, it was immediately criticized from all walks of life.
But in the more than 100 years since then, there are still many people who have studied various aspects of the theory of "natural homicidal maniacs", hoping to find flaws and conclusive evidence from it.
It wasn't until 1995 that an American expert, Jim Fallon, made the theory convincing.
As an expert focused on brain neurology, Jim Fallon's daily job is to observe and study a variety of abnormal humans.
In his previous work, he found that the internal structure of the brain of some serial killers was significantly different from that of ordinary people.
To confirm his suspicions, he flipped through the MRI maps of countless human brains over a decade. From these samples, it can be seen that in the area directly above the orbit and in the frontal orbital cortex of the brain, normal people are bright and active, while psychopaths after brain damage are dark.
With this new discovery, Jim Fallon became even more interested in mrI maps of the human brain.
Whenever he had time, he would go through the samples sent from the hospital repeatedly. By the end, Jim Fallon's level of naked-eye brain detection had reached the point of pure fire.
In a bunch of MRI maps, he could pick out the suspect's one with just one look.
With the two trump cards of genetic inheritance and brain damage, will Jim Fallon be able to put a final word on the "born killer"?
A few years later, when a "family scandal" accidentally befell Jim Fallon, he realized that the problem was not so simple.
After years of sample collection, Jim Fallon basically estimated the data of a "born killer" brain model.
When the finished product was made, Jim Fallon felt that the more he looked at it, the more familiar it became. After comparison, it was confirmed that this is not my own brain?
Jim Fallon, who did not believe in evil, found the MRI of the brains of other family members to compare them one by one.
In front of the analysis chart, he had to admit that the murderer was actually myself.
After eating the melon on his body, Jim Fallon announced the discovery to his family.
Jim Fallon's astonishing conclusion did not have the effect of "shocking my mother", and the family history that Fallon's mother subsequently told made her son break out in a cold sweat.
Among Fallon's paternal ancestors was Thomas Thomas. Cornell, a murderous maniac in the North American colonies, was eventually hanged for killing his mother.
Another old grandmother who killed her mother with an axe, Lizzie · Borden, because the life story is too bizarre, has also been adapted into a number of film and television works.
In the next 100 years, the family also gave birth to cold-blooded killers with different crimes and different motives, such as wife-killing criminals, extremists who murdered Jews, and serial murderers who raped and killed nuns.
This bloody family, which lasted for more than 400 years, has also provided countless materials for crime and murder novels throughout North America, and is an out-and-out anti-social model of the local area.
Listening to his mother's words, Jim Fallon, who had read ten years of books, suddenly felt that the research of the first ten years was blind.
As the most representative of the sample, why in his own generation, the gene of bloody violence has not been turned on, but has lived peacefully to the present?
After Jim Fallon told his wife about the idea, they gave him an even bigger "surprise".
In his wife's view, Fallon and psychopaths are only a line apart. Usually, he is emotionally out of control for a small matter, and often solves problems in a violent way, and the children in the family are afraid of him.
Jim Fallon also recalls showing a violent and antisocial side of his childhood. From making explosives to theft and robbery, he has been involved in all plans. And even when he was caught by the police, he never felt remorse but had a stronger sense of revenge.
From a murderer's reserve to a respected expert and scholar, how did Jim Fallon cross the red line safely?
It turned out that as the only child in the family after multiple miscarriages, Jim Fallon was cherished by his parents from birth.
Fallon's parents, who are well aware of the glorious deeds of their ancestors, never mentioned this family history to their son, but patiently guided him out of the way again and again, and used the love of the original family to influence and educate him.
It was precisely because of these interventions that Jim Fallon was unable to follow the path of his ancestors.
Drawing on his past research and first-hand knowledge of his family history, Jim Fallon finally came up with a "triangle stool theory" that was well recognized by the industry.
In his view, the formation of abnormal psychology mainly requires three factors: innate genes, brain damage, and the external environment.
Jim Fallon, who inherited the first two prerequisites of his ancestors, "lost" in the final level, and thus failed to grow into a perverted murderer.
In order to make this theory known to more people, Jim Fallon also made a cameo appearance in the American drama "Criminal Minds", "I play myself".
Jim Fallon's experience shows us the power of love to even stop a centuries-old family "curse" and change a person's innate nature.
In the face of the love of the original family and family, the four words "man will triumph over heaven" may not be an empty phrase.