Source: Xinmin Evening News
Editor's note: "May Day" International Labor Day is approaching, Xinmin Evening News all media launched a special edition of "Life Ferryman", focusing on 3 professions that deal with death: forensics, palliative care social worker serving the dying patient, and funeral planner.
Look at the professional glory in the eyes of these people, feel the cold and warm of life together, and pay tribute to the ordinary but hard-working workers like them!
"The living are good at disguise, and the dead refuse to lie!"
The lancet is her weapon to cut through the truth,
The lab is her battlefield to unravel her mysteries.
She is Wu Feng, a 37-year-old forensic doctor at the Yangpu Public Security Bureau.
It is also the only one in Shanghai at present
One of two female forensic doctors.
From the police for 11 years,
She inspects more than 50 sites of various types every year.
More than 500 prosecution cases,
He has participated in the detection of more than 500 cases.
She loves to solve puzzles and loves her profession.
recently
She won the 2020 year
"Shanghai Youth May Fourth Medal".
Produced by Xinmin Evening News "Shanghai Moment"
The scene is "more exciting" than the horror movie
The TV series "Forensic Records" filled forensics with a highly cold and intellectual professional aura, and also made Wu Feng apply for the forensic medicine department of Sichuan University. Now, she can't help but "spit" some plots: "Even if you are a professional forensic doctor, it is impossible to determine the number of months and days of death just by looking at the corpse." We need to aggregate and analyze all aspects of information to come up with a relatively accurate time range..."
However, the putrefaction, bloodshed and cruelty on the scene are far more exciting than in the film and television drama, and she said that she is not afraid of corpses, and the living people who are at large are "more terrible".
When the police receive a report and find a body in a certain place, the forensic doctor needs to immediately go to the scene to investigate, extract traces, physical evidence, and take the body back to the examination room for follow-up inspection. She remembers the first time she went to the scene of the autopsy: there were maggots squirming on the body, and her heart "clucked" a little, but she still quietly completed the work. In the face of the corpse odor of "lingering aftertaste", her "psychological construction" is: "Nausea is very common. High rot disgusting, garbage dumps are also disgusting, nothing special. ”
Summer is the "natural enemy" of forensic work. In the heat, when she turned over for the deceased, she found the skin of the highly decomposed corpse sticking to the floor tiles. In order to avoid leaving her biological traces on any physical evidence, even in the face of 40 ° C, she must wear a full set of protective clothing, hood, mask, gloves are fully armed. "I don't dare to wipe it with sweat on my face and neck."
She no longer watches horror movies, which evokes too many memories. She and her colleagues often "laugh at themselves" in the office: "The police often face the darkness of human nature, while what forensic doctors see is no light, almost all death." "But the love of work has not changed. However, she also wants to remind women to choose this profession carefully, because female forensic doctors face physical challenges. On call 24 hours a day, working overtime, and rarely taking holidays, in her words: "Murders never happen on the hours of work." "Sometimes, kneeling next to a corpse is three or four hours, and numbness in the legs is commonplace. More difficult is the handling of corpses. At 1.65 meters tall, she has faced male dead people who hang themselves, and after death, their muscles are stiff, and the dead bodies are "heavier" than the living.
Boring experiments "very stress-relieving"
Wu Also undertakes bioimetric evidence work, which is one of the forensic subdivisions and needs to be done in the laboratory. "There are faster ways to target suspects these days, but biometric evidence remains the strongest evidence to bring them to justice," she said.
There are 18 years of unresolved murder cases rely on biological evidence to "hammer the final sound". On the evening of November 7, 2001, a life case occurred on Guangzhou Road, and chen Mou, the driver of "Mo", was killed. Yangpu police extracted more than 20 fingerprints from others on the dropped helmets and blood-stained knives, but the murderer disappeared, and this knife-wielding murder case became the only unsolved murder case in Yangpu public security in 2001. Until May 2019, when Wu Feng re-examined the sample, he found that the relevant information of a man surnamed Man was completely consistent with the biological traces extracted at the scene that year. On June 4, the man was arrested by the special case team in Pengzhou, Sichuan Province, and admitted that he and Chen Mou had a verbal altercation over the driving route problem, and he impulsively stabbed the other party with a knife. Wu Feng said that the most rewarding moment for forensic medicine is to receive feedback on the closure of the case.
Behind the water is also a massive sample and the ultimate test of patience. Despite the assistance of instruments and equipment, many times it is necessary to rely on the forensic doctor to complete the whole set of experiments by hand. For example, to complete the experiment of 30 samples, Wu Feng needed to replace 3 rounds of test tubes, that is, 90 test tubes were handled, and different reagents were added. Each round of test tube replacement operations must strictly follow the process and cannot tolerate the slightest deviation. "Some samples are smaller than the tip of a needle." Faced with the precision of rows of test tubes, she felt "very stress-relieving". "It might be a bit like someone who likes to play cross stitch or a coloring game. When I was stressed, my colleagues and I would shout, 'I'm going to do an experiment.' ”
Another way to decompress is to accompany your 3-year-old daughter. With frequent overtime, she especially cherishes the time spent with her daughter at dinner, bathing and falling asleep. When she took her daughter out, she also held the child's hand tightly. Her husband teased her for being "overprotective," explaining that she had witnessed too many accidents.
After becoming a mother, she also greedily hoped that not only her daughter would be healthy and safe, but that thousands of families would be able to live a good life. For the right of the living, for the dead, is her pursuit.
Source: Xinmin Evening News (reporters Li Ying, Xiao Qianying, Li Mingyan)