Department of Psychology Forensic

Chapter 122 Suspended Death
Longwan Hotel, Room 202.

At this time, the door has been cordoned off, which is the warning tape in the warning tape.

There were two policemen standing beside the cordon, responsible for guarding the scene, and people from the trace inspection department came in and out.

Under the leadership of Zhao Lei, Zhou Zheng and Cui Jun came to the entrance of the scene. Under the visual effect, there was indeed a feeling of a murder scene. People in uniforms with serious expressions were doing the things in hand in an orderly manner.

"Zhou Zheng, get something." Cui Jun said in a low voice.

"Okay." Zhou Zheng put the inspection box on the ground, opened it immediately, took out the disposable items inside, handed one of them to Master, and began to put it on by himself.

After a while, Zhou Zheng and Cui Jun had already put on disposable masks, hats, gloves and shoe covers.

"Zhou Zheng, since you knew the deceased, you are in charge of the video recording. You don't need to participate in this on-site inspection." Cui Jun said in an unquestionable tone.

"Understood." Zhou Zheng nodded. He naturally understands this kind of procedure. With his professionalism, he may not make mistakes, but at least there is such a possibility. It is human nature to put emotions into a case, and it takes more practice and experience to master it slowly.

Zhou Zheng picked up the camera and adjusted it to video mode. He had no emotion at all about Master's words.

This, on the contrary, allowed him to look at the case from another perspective.

At least, before there is no clear basis, Zhang Xin and Zhang Chi belong to two independent and different murder cases.

No matter how much he believes in his heart that it was the same murderer, he must find evidence that can support the joint investigation.

Zhou Zheng used the camera to record everything on the scene seriously. When he entered the room, he saw some scattered things, especially at the door, there was a circle of broken glass.

"This piece of glass is..." Zhou Zheng asked suspiciously.

"The fragments of the hotel cup, there should have been a dispute at the scene, and the cup was thrown here and shattered." A colleague from the trace inspection department said.

"Why didn't you put it away?" Zhou Zheng was even more puzzled.

"There are not enough physical evidence bags. I went downstairs to get them, and I will put them in when I come back." The colleague from the trace inspection department replied.

Zhou Zheng nodded and didn't ask any more questions. However, he also made some judgments based on these words.

There should be a lot of fragmented items on the scene.

The people from the trace inspection department arrived at the scene before them, and took the lead in taking pictures of the evidence on the scene. Generally speaking, they would carry enough evidence bags with them. Now there are not even enough evidence bags, which just shows that the evidence at the scene More broken things.

It seems that the fight between the victim and the murderer was fierce!

Zhou Zheng was thinking silently in his mind. He walked carefully through the hallway and into the living room, staring at the ground on tiptoes along the way, bypassing the scratched objects.

After arriving at the living room, his eyes immediately focused on the living room, where lay a dead body with its head down and a small pool of blood at its mouth.

From this angle, no specific appearance can be seen.

Cui Jun stayed in front of the corpse, squatted down, looked down at the head of the deceased, and found that he could only see the ears, but could not see the face at all, and his brows frowned even tighter.

"Zhao Lei, come here."

"Forensic Cui, what's wrong?" Zhao Lei squatted over quickly.

"How did you determine that the deceased was Zhang Xin?" Cui Jun expressed his doubts, and said, "From this angle, you can't see the face of the corpse at all!"

"The service staff of the hotel checked the customer's registration information, and the ID card scanned at that time belonged to Zhang Xin." Zhao Lei replied.

"Next time there is such a situation, we must identify the source of the corpse very clearly, otherwise don't say that this may lead the investigators to have preconceived words." Cui Jun said coldly, this is a very serious matter, once preconceived It is very likely that some details will be overlooked, which will make the case develop in a bad direction.

"Yes, yes!" Zhao Lei blushed when Cui Jun said this, but it could be seen that he was not emotional. Instead, he was silently writing down, trying not to make similar mistakes next time , Immediately afterwards, he asked cautiously: "Forensic Cui, isn't the deceased Zhang Xin?"

Not Zhang Xin?

Zhou Zheng was taken aback for a moment, and his eyes suddenly focused on Master's face.

I have to say that Zhao Lei's words really made him very concerned.

He had just heard Zhang Xin's story in the morning, which made him not want anything to happen to this lonely big man.

"It's hard to say right now."

Cui Jun shook his head. Pointing to the face of the corpse, he said, "There are already faint spots around the edge of the deceased's cheek. Judging from the time of formation, the death time is at least 2 hours or more."

As Cui Jun was talking, he suddenly changed the subject and said, "This type of corpse spot belongs to the subsidence period corpse spot. According to the information we have, the deceased had chatted with Zhou Zheng in the morning, so the death time should not be long enough." 6 hours, if the position of the corpse is changed within this time point, the original plaques will gradually disappear, and new plaques will appear in the new low uncompressed parts, so I am not special It can be determined whether the body position of the deceased has been moved."

"It hasn't been moved!" Zhao Lei said categorically: "We asked the cleaning lady who called the police, and she made it clear that she immediately called 110 after seeing the messy fighting marks on the ground and the fallen person."

"She hit 110, but not 120, didn't she?" Cui Jun said suddenly.

"This..." Zhao Lei was stunned. He hadn't thought of this question either.

"If she had called the 120 emergency center, the ambulance would have arrived before us. At least it would have done a preliminary examination on the deceased to make sure that there were no vital signs. However, she directly called the police to say that someone had died, and she How did you know?" Cui Jun sent out a soul torture.

"I'm going to ask her now!" Zhao Lei's face suddenly became serious. From Cui Jun's words, he faintly felt that the cleaning lady was not telling the truth.

Immediately, Zhao Lei quickly ran out of the scene. The reporter did not leave, but was still taking notes with the police. He could catch up.

"Master, do you think the body has been moved?" Zhou Zheng pursed his lips. He was constantly absorbing the nutrients from his master and learning experience quickly.

"It's hard to say, it may or may not have been touched, but at least we need a clear message. I don't think the cleaning lady can confirm that this person is dead by looking at it from a distance." Cui Jun shook his head and said: "This is Things that we forensic doctors can't do, after all, there is a phenomenon of suspended animation."

"suspended animation……"

The concept of suspended animation quickly emerged in Zhou Zheng's head.

The phenomenon of suspended animation refers to a person whose circulation, respiration and brain function activities are highly inhibited, and his vital activities are extremely weak. Using general clinical testing methods, the person seems to be dead from the outside, but is actually still alive. state.

Suspended death is a very special manifestation. Heartbeat, respiration, and tissue cell metabolism are all at the lowest level allowed for life-sustaining activities. Suspended death may recover after active rescue, and some may even recover naturally without any treatment.

This is a very special state, which belongs to the special state that is impossible to achieve deliberately.

Generally speaking, the causes of suspended animation include mechanical asphyxia, sedative and hypnotics poisoning, carbon monoxide poisoning, electric shock, high and low temperature injury, concussion, epilepsy, massive bleeding, severe dehydration, uremia, diabetic coma, severe malnutrition and strong mental stimulation. etc.

Relatively speaking, it is a relatively common scene, and it is also a scene that often appears in movies. After drowning, there is no vital sign, but the protagonist and others insist on doing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and they may still be rescued. The situation is the suspended animation caused by mechanical asphyxiation.

Of course, the state of suspended animation often results in real death because of failure to receive timely rescue.

There are five common methods of testing suspended animation.

The first is to prick the finger with a needle. If the finger turns blue and swells, it means that there is arterial blood and it is alive.

The second is the weak breath detection method. Put cotton fiber or hair in front of the mouth and nose to observe whether it is blown and judge whether there is weak breath.

The third is the electrocardiogram examination, which is often only available in hospitals, and can visually check the bioelectrical response of the human heart.

The fourth is X-ray chest X-ray to see if there is a heartbeat.

The fifth is eye examination. Compressing the eyeball causes the pupil to deform. If the pupil recovers after the compression is released, the patient is suspended animation. If there is no change, the patient is already dead.

However, these five methods are clinical tests. For forensic doctors, the most intuitive way to determine whether a person is dead is to check whether the person has rigor or cadaver spots.

"When I was young, I went to the scene once. It was a farmer in the countryside. The old man was not breathing. I did a preliminary inspection on him and found nothing special. Then I put him in a body bag and brought him back to the funeral home for preparation. Anatomy, my conditions at that time were not as good as yours now. There is no forensic center. They were all dissected in funeral parlors. I put the old man on the dissection table, but the old man opened his eyes. I still remember that scene. Almost sent me away!" Cui Jun still sighed with lingering fear in his tone.

"This... this..." Zhou Zhengnao made up the picture of the old man "cheating the corpse", and the place of reunion was in the funeral parlor. Just thinking about it makes one's hair stand on end.

"Later, I forgot the specific reason, and the memory of that period was blurred, but I still can't remember the look in the eyes of the old man. If I think about it carefully, if he didn't wake up, I would directly dissect him. It’s life.” Cui Jun said with a sigh.

"Master taught me a lesson!" Zhou Zheng couldn't help but sighed, if the master really dissected the old man, it wouldn't be considered intentional homicide, but manslaughter can't escape.

As a forensic doctor, he is well aware of how difficult it is to identify such "medical malpractice". Any experienced forensic doctor can see that the incision of the anatomy has a life response, and it is easy to find the cause of death.

This cannot be concealed!
As long as it is done, there will be traces.

At that time, even if there will be no particularly severe punishment, I will bid farewell to the path of forensic medicine in the future.

Zhou Zheng kept in mind Master's instruction in his heart. Before examining any corpse, he must first confirm that it is a corpse. The victim has died before anything else can happen.

"Take a good photo!" Cui Jun recovered from that memory and looked towards Zhou Zheng.

"It's done." Zhou Zheng nodded.

"Then I started to flip." Cui Jun touched the corpse with his hand, and just when he touched the shoulder of the corpse, his movements stopped, and suddenly his brows frowned even tighter, and he turned to stare at the corpse. Zhou Zheng asked in a low voice: "Zhou Zheng, can you see the mouth of the deceased?"

"Well... I can't see it." Zhou Zheng shook his head.

"What about this side?" Cui Jun motioned to the other side.

"Let me take a look." Zhou Zheng walked around to the end farther from the door. He looked down at the face of the corpse, and he could see half of the blood-stained face, with his open mouth pressed against the ground. With the sunlight outside the window, he could Clearly seeing that the mouth was full of blood and no teeth, he nodded and said, "I can see that there are indeed no teeth."

"This is interesting." Cui Jun did not examine the corpse immediately, but narrowed his eyes slightly, and deduced: "If the cleaning lady really didn't move the corpse, there are two things that don't make sense. First, she didn't move the corpse." Second, how could she know that the victim had no teeth in his mouth?"

"I understand!" Zhou Zheng's eyes lit up immediately, and he said, "Master, what you mean is that the cleaning lady lied. She didn't call the police immediately after seeing the victim at the door, but walked in. She was confirming the death of the victim." Later, I called the police, and she saw that the victim had no teeth from my position, so she must have gone around to the other side of the victim's body."

"Huh?" Cui Jun asked curiously, "Why don't you think the murderer is Miss Cleaning?"

"Judging from the fragmentary traces at the scene, the victim and the murderer had a fierce fight. I guess the victim must have a life-like fighting injury on his body. This is obviously not something that the cleaning lady can do. Besides, if it is really the cleaning lady doing it Yes, she doesn't need to call the police in person." Zhou Zheng analyzed.

"Well, what do you think is the reason why the cleaning lady didn't say anything?" Cui Jun's eyes were shining brightly. He was not only asking Zhou Zheng, but also testing Zhou Zheng. This was training his successors.

"If my inference is correct..." Zhou Zheng's eyes became serious, and he said, "Ms. Cleaning should have come to confirm the victim's injury first. After she came to my position, she found that the victim was dead. However, she should I saw other things, such as the victim's belongings!"

(End of this chapter)