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Autumn in Jinan is getting stronger. Lotus Mountain Funeral Home is on the negative floor, and the cold is filled with a strong smell of disinfectant water.
This floor is used to store the remains, and one of the dissection rooms of the Jinan Traffic Police Detachment is also located here. Ma Zonggang skillfully put on a white protective suit, put on a head cover, goggles, and then put on two layers of masks and gloves, and finally a shoe cover.
Ma Zonggang is the deputy director and chief forensic physician of the Traffic Accident Handling Department of the Traffic Police Detachment of the Jinan Municipal Public Security Bureau, and has been working in the forensic position for 26 years. Traffic fatalities sometimes involve suspicious points or the perpetrator fleeing, which requires forensic doctors to solve the case through autopsies or scene details. Recently, qilu evening news qilu one-point reporter followed Ma Zonggang to understand how he cracked the "death code" and searched for the truth.
Anatomical room at night
On this day, the traffic death case that Ma Zonggang handled did not have doubts and controversies, and only needed to do a routine autopsy. Although the air conditioner was turned on to a cold wind of more than ten degrees, this set of operations, his goggles were still covered with a thick layer of water vapor. The negative layer of the night is particularly quiet, the sound of breathing and footsteps seem to be amplified, creepy, and he is still calm on the side.
In addition to the investigation of the early accident scene, Ma Zonggang's work was basically carried out in the funeral home and hospital morgue. In the eyes of outsiders, no place is "easy". But in his opinion, the working environment is much better than before. It turned out that the dissections were all performed in the wild. Especially in the summer, the environment is harsh, there are a lot of flies and mosquitoes, in addition to the unpleasant odor, the forensic doctors also wrap protective clothing, and when the dissection is completed, the plastic gloves can pour out the water. In the winter, the temperature is low, and after two or three hours, Ma Zonggang's fingers are frozen and cannot bend.
General autopsies require examination of the oral, thoracic, and abdominal cavities. The fractured part also needs to be opened for careful study, and the direction of the vehicle's impact and the impact site are judged by the characteristics of the fracture. An autopsy generally takes two or three hours, and it takes longer to encounter complex ones, such as the elderly's own diseases and complex texture.
Autopsies are common at night. Some difficult cases require preliminary inspection results to be issued overnight. This kind of thing has been seen a lot, Ma Zonggang's courage has been trained, and when he works, he needs a high degree of concentration, and he can't think about it. However, in his words, "I often walk by the river, and I don't get wet shoes."
I remember a winter night when there was a traffic fatality that required an overnight autopsy. Ma Zong had just arrived at the funeral home, and as soon as he stepped into the corridor, he instantly inhaled a cold breath and put down his steps. In front of me, a long row of corpses wrapped in bags filled the corridor. Only the autopsy room was lit up throughout the morgue, and the dim light reflected on the body bags through the corridors. Ma Zonggang did not dare to move forward again, and even shouted a few times, "Director Bi, Director Bi." ”
At the end of the corridor, Director Bi slowly agreed, "Alas..." The afterglow echoed in the corridor, and Ma Zonggang suddenly felt his hair stand up and his back cold. Director Bi is a beautician at the funeral home, and because he often works in the morgue, the two of them are familiar with each other. It turned out that the remains were to be cremated the next morning, so the staff placed them out in advance.
Who the hell is lying
Fatal traffic accidents are sometimes mixed with lies. This requires forensic doctors to puncture it.
Once, three people went to a friend's house in the next village to drink, and the three were the owner of the car, the wife of the owner, and the friend of the owner. On the way back, it was late at night, drunk driving, dark light and difficult to walk on the country road, and the driver flipped into the ditch while driving. The accident resulted in the death of the owner's wife on the spot. Both sides who survived called the other the real driver. What was supposed to be a traffic accident with a clear cause became confusing because someone lied.
According to eyewitness accounts, the three people left that night while the owner was driving. But the owner of the car said that he went to the toilet in the middle of the way, and his friend took the initiative to ask to drive for him.
At that time, three appraisal agencies participated in the appraisal of the case, but came to very different conclusions. The case is deadlocked.
Who is the driver? Through a small detail, Ma Zonggang solved the case.
The accident occurred in a van, and the case-handling personnel repeatedly checked the accident vehicle and found nothing. Just when everyone was confused, the case took a turn for the better. At the air-conditioning outlet in the back seat of the van, Ma Zonggang found a hair with fur. Examining the injured areas of the two men, it was found that the DNA and size of the hairs coincided with one of the men.
Ma Zonggang deduced that whoever had the hair was the co-pilot. Depending on the degree of damage to the van and the direction of the force, only the co-pilot will be thrown into that position.
In the end, the case was solved. It turned out that at the beginning, it was indeed the owner of the car, and the driver was changed in the middle.
A controversy
Was it an accidental traffic accident or an intentional homicide?
Was it intentional homicide or a traffic accident? Sometimes the appearance of a case is not factual.
Once, someone called the police to say that someone had been killed near Airport Road. The deceased was lying on the road, and the investigators initially speculated that it was a hit-and-run case. However, the next further investigation was full of doubts. According to the monitoring, there were no large cars passing by during the time of the accident. And there was also blood in the grass next to the road, which indicated that the deceased was injured before entering the road.
Some forensic doctors believed that the fracture of the skull on both sides of the deceased required a large external force, and the artificial force could not be reached, so it was inferred that the deceased was hit by a vehicle and died.
But Ma Zonggang didn't think so. There were no obvious brake marks at the scene, and the injuries of the deceased did not look like they had been hit and crushed. A key detail was that the deceased's ankle was injured, which was "too low" for this part. Depending on where the deceased fell to the ground, the position of the fracture after being hit by a large car was in the knee or knee up.
From this, Ma Zonggang made a bold inference that this was an intentional homicide case. The deceased was beaten and fractured in the ankle and crawled from the grass onto the road, followed by another skull strike to death.
Subsequent investigations quickly validated his inference.
Three stones were found at the scene, and after splicing, it was found that one, like after hitting something, it was broken. This stone is the murder weapon.
In this direction, the case was quickly solved. It turned out that the murderer and the deceased had known each other before, because of some things, on the day of the accident, the two met in a restaurant, and after the dispute, the murderer chased the killer until he was finally killed. The deceased finally happened to fall on the side of the road.
"Stupid Kung Fu" chases after the perpetrators
In Ma Zonggang's office, there is a cool mat, which can be judged from the appearance that it has been many years. This cool mat has accompanied him for more than 20 years, and he is already an old friend. Whenever a hit-and-run truck is checked, Ma Zonggang will take it with him. Sometimes the key evidence is hidden in small traces or rice grain-sized blood, which requires forensic doctors to lie on their backs and examine them a little bit. For more convenience, Ma Zonggang carried a cool mat with him.
Chasing and escaping also requires "stupid kung fu". Some of the accident cars will be artificially cleaned, in order to find blood, you need to spray the bottom of the car with Luminol reagent to find clues. The front 4 of the big trucks, the 8 at the back, a total of 12 tires, sometimes have to be unloaded one by one for inspection.
One year, when it Chinese New Year's Eve was raining, and Ma Zong had just finished eating and was preparing to rest, the phone rang. Near the shop overpass in the Huaiyin section, a large truck hit and killed people and fled. Surveillance blind spot, witnesses only saw a large truck but did not see the license plate number because it was dark.
Upon hearing the news, he immediately rushed to the scene. This is a blind spot, and finding escape vehicles is undoubtedly a needle in a haystack. Critical leads were interrupted.
After two days and two nights of investigation, the police finally locked the suspect vehicle, but the owner denied it. On rainy days, many traces of the vehicle have been washed away. The case is once again at an impasse. Ma Zonggang carefully inspected the suspect vehicle, checked from the front bumper to the outside of the tire, and found nothing. He didn't give up, and got into the bottom of the car to check it out little by little.
Luminol reagents can show blood, but one condition is that they must be performed in a dark environment. He used it for two nights in a row, spraying the entire bottom of the car and the tires without finding any traces of blood. Finally, the 12 tires were removed and sprayed a little bit, and finally in the position between the two tires, two drops of blood the size of a grain of rice were found. After testing, it was determined that it was left by the deceased.
In the end, the perpetrator confessed his crime in the face of ironclad evidence.
The highest pursuit is forensic unemployment
Speaking of choosing this profession, Ma Zonggang bluntly said that it was "yin and yang".
Having a police dream since childhood, he chose the criminal investigation major of the China Criminal Police College when he volunteered, but he was transferred to the forensic evidence major. Dealing with the dead, in the '90s, was especially avoidant. After Ma Zonggang learned the news, he planned to retake the exam for a year, but after repeated persuasion by his family, he had to come hard.
At that time, Ma Zonggang's class was only 28 people, all of whom were men. Either can't stand this hard work, or can't stand the strange vision, or can't face the tragic death scene, there are few left who are still in the forensic position.
Especially in previous years, saying that there is no strange vision is self-consolation. In the past, Ma Zonggang rarely took the initiative to shake hands with people, and sometimes his hand was outstretched, and he could feel that the other party had some hesitation. Ma Zonggang did not blame them, because at first, he also had some diaphragm in his heart, and when he went out to introduce, he would always intentionally avoid talking about his profession. "At first, my daughter-in-law only knew that I worked in the traffic police and was married for several years before she knew what I was doing." Ma Zonggang quipped that his daughter-in-law still jokes from time to time that she was deceived.
In the eyes of his apprentice Wang Dongming, Master Ma Zonggang was approachable and always happy. Often faced with tragic deaths, no pressure is false. Sometimes the pressure is high, Ma Zonggang shouted at him to go to the playground to walk around or play ball, "the playground is empty, there are many trees around, and bad emotions are easy to release." ”
Now Ma Zonggang can say his profession very calmly and even with a little pride. Society is progressing, people have a better understanding of the meaning of the forensic profession, of course, he also realized the meaning of the profession from the bottom of his heart, "for the dead to speak, for the right to live." ”
In recent years, due to the improvement of the traffic environment and the improvement of laws, traffic fatalities have become lower and lower. Having seen too many tragic scenes and the misfortune of the family behind the death, the two masters and apprentices often sigh together, if there is no traffic accident, how good.
Ma Zonggang said: "I really look forward to the day when there will be zero traffic accidents." ”
Wang Dongming replied with a smile: "Then aren't we unemployed?" ”
The two masters and apprentices looked at each other and smiled. This is their ideal pursuit.