"If you are completely submerged in water, hold your breath, stay still, don't swim, you can hold on for two or three minutes, and there is one minute before you lose consciousness, even if you stop breathing, your heart can still beat within three minutes, and as long as you are rescued during this period, there is still hope. ”
"Human beings, in fact, are very tenacious. ” 』
The body finally came to the Jinning District Funeral Home. The funeral parlor was far from the city, and except for the sound of the wind and leaves, everyone was light and no one spoke loudly. This is where forensic doctor Zhang Jianxing completes the autopsy: "In criminal cases, after the autopsy is completed, the body will be transferred to the funeral home for systematic autopsy to find out the cause of death. ”
Zhang Jianxing is a criminal investigation police officer of the Jinning Branch of the Kunming Public Security Bureau, and a forensic doctor with 33 years of police experience, responsible for the scene investigation of criminal cases, autopsies and on-site inspections of unnatural deaths and safety accidents.
He looked at the reporter seriously and said that he hoped not to mind that he spoke "coldly". Actually, he is a passionate person, but he is not good at expressing himself.
"I can use 'ordinary' to describe the work of forensic medicine - forensic medicine itself is a very niche profession, and people may have always misconcepted that forensic medicine is like wearing a suit or wearing a protective suit to arm the whole body like in a movie or TV show. In fact, the forensic doctor is also dressed in police uniforms, which is not much different from other police officers, and perhaps the biggest difference is that he often deals with corpses. Zhang Jianxing said.
"When I joined the company, I asked myself if I was afraid? In fact, how could I not be afraid, I slowly got used to it. The forensic profession is sacred, and the search for the truth, giving an account to the living, and justice for the dead is in itself respecting life. ”
/ I was really afraid that the rope would break /
"If you are completely submerged in water, hold your breath, stay still, don't swim, you can hold on for two or three minutes, and there is one minute before you lose consciousness, even if you stop breathing, your heart can still beat within three minutes, and as long as you are rescued during this period, there is still hope. ”
"Human beings, in fact, are very tenacious. ”
This is a line in the TV series "Unnatural Death", before meeting Zhang Jianxing, this drama provided many people with all the imagination about forensics and death.
In July 1991, Zhang Jianxing graduated from the Department of Forensic Medicine of Kunming Medical College and was assigned to work in the Jinning Branch of the Kunming Public Security Bureau.
In the past 33 years of forensic medicine, Zhang Jianxing has traveled to villages and villages in Jinning District, and has participated in the completion of more than 1,400 corpse examinations and issued more than 1,000 autopsy appraisals, conducted more than 280 forensic physical evidence examinations and issued more than 240 inspection reports, conducted more than 2,150 live injury examinations and appraisals, and issued more than 1,800 injury appraisals.
Many times, Zhang Jianxing's work will be a little bloody, and he often needs to face very harsh conditions at the scene of the crime. From on-site investigation and evidence collection to autopsy and identification, sometimes, no matter how many layers of protective clothing are put on the outside, the smell of the corpse will still stain the underwear. If the smell is particularly strong, the garment has to be thrown away.
When he first joined the work, Zhang Jianxing, like all young forensic doctors who graduated from the Department of Forensic Sciences, looked forward to bringing the suspects to justice through his professional appraisal when he encountered a major case, and sent all the evils to prison with a judicial sword, so that all grievances could be revealed.
But the reality is that in the 80s, forensic science was just starting, and it was not until 1988 that the Department of Forensic Science was established in Kunming Medical College. Zhang Jianxing, who has just entered the industry, must be careful and careful every time he does an appraisal, and the high-intensity work and harsh working environment constantly "polish" his willpower and endurance. In addition to the cause of death, which is very difficult to judge, there are also the families of the victims who are anxiously waiting for the results.
It is often not the horrific scene of the crime that they dare to look directly at, but the eyes of the victims' families.
The terrible smell of corpses can be tolerated, and the horrific corpses can also be tolerated, but what cannot be endured is the inference of the cause of death that you can't put your brains in, and the conditions at the crime scene or the inadequacy of forensic physical evidence will all become factors affecting the examination of forensic physical evidence.
Those who have experienced the harsh winter cherish spring the most.
Therefore, every time he went out to the police, Zhang Jianxing carried out inspection and analysis with a rigorous and serious scientific attitude, and thousands of inspections and appraisals were done carefully and meticulously, the procedures were legal, and the qualitative was accurate, and there was no case of error or omission.
Until now, he still can't forget a case he encountered when he had just worked for a few years:
"A highly decomposed male body was found in the well, and in order to examine the body up close, I had to go down to the well by a rope. At that time, the smell of corpses was surging upwards one after another, and I couldn't stop it even with a mask. ”
"At that time, I was really afraid that the rope would break......"
/ For the rights of the living, for the words of the dead /
Forensic professionalism is something that our society should highly praise and respect. Zhang Jianxing is a member of this team, they are fearless of life and death, just to reveal the truth behind death, use science to solve the mystery, speak for the deceased, and fight for justice.
Zhang Jianxing said that in one case, through the judgment of the placement of items at the scene of the crime, the doors and windows, and the injuries to the victim's body, it was inferred that the perpetrator should be a person who was relatively close to the victim, and after further investigation, it was found that there were traces of cleaning at the scene, hidden blood on the mop, and other signs, and the analysis concluded that the perpetrator was an acquaintance or even a relative of the deceased, so the scope of the investigation was narrowed, and the suspect was successfully arrested on the second day of the crime.
In a case of injury and death, the police were able to quickly identify the suspect and successfully crack the case by analyzing the sequence of injuries caused by the deceased, the mutual position relationship between the deceased and the suspect when he was injured, and the inference of the injured object.
For Zhang Jianxing and his colleagues, there are many, many more ......
We often avoid death, but for Zhang Jianxing, dealing with corpses every day seems to have the ability to "talk" with corpses.
"The living may lie, but the dead don't, and certainly can't speak. So we become the ones who 'speak' for the dead. Zhang Jianxing said.
In the 33 years since he entered the industry, Zhang Jianxing has received various bizarre cases and encountered many difficulties, but there is one belief that has always accompanied him to this day - "Our work is a process of finding the truth, so we must be careful." Being responsible for the profession, the unit, the society, and the family of the deceased is the most basic professional ethics of forensics. ”
All-media reporter Han Yan Shen Shihui
Editor: Mao Ming
Editor: Fang Weilin
Review: Feng Jing
Final review: Zhao Ming