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Chapter 17 Who is she (2)
Lao Cui said: "The police can only issue a notice to identify the corpse, and they cannot force people to identify the corpse. If you want to ask the family members of the drug addicts you are investigating to identify the corpse, the procedure is a bit troublesome. This case has happened for so long and no one has reported it. I think the deceased either had no family or the family didn’t care about her life or death at all. Even if someone is willing to come to identify the body, such a damaged body cannot be recognized, and a DNA comparison must be done, which requires an application for approval.”

What Lao Cui said was right. Some drug addicts could not be contacted. Xiao Wu tested whether his family knew whether he was alive or not.

"Then what should we do? There is no support, so when will we be able to solve the case?" Xiao Wu recalled the "skull restoration" denied by the captain, and he asked Old Cui if this technique was feasible? "Ah, I heard about this many years ago, but I have never tried it. It may be difficult. There is still part of the face of this corpse. A high-level portraitist may be able to restore the face of the deceased." "Portrait of our branch The teacher can't paint." Xiao Wu told Lao Cui how he invited Wang Dan's portrait.Lao Cui Impression once read a report on advanced deeds. The Shanghai Railway Public Security Bureau had a portrait artist with a high level of skill, who could simulate the corrupted and deformed faces of the dead.However, Old Cui said again: "I guess the team would not want to make such a big noise about this kind of sudden drug-taking case."

Xiao Wu was annoyed: "Then why does the Xia team want me to run around? Isn't it to kill time!" Xia Yan arranged for Lao Cui and Xiao Wu to continue investigating the 8 female corpse case.Old Cui is old, weak, sick and disabled, Xiao Wu is a rookie, such a partner of one old and one young is obviously ready to give up.Old Cui can understand, changing him is also to arrange to handle important cases first.But in reality, it is impossible to tell the truth. Old Cui patted Xiao Wu on the shoulder: "It can't be said that, the clues are all obtained by people. This kind of investigation is a basic skill. You have just started to work, and you need to exercise more."

"Did you see early on that this case is not important, that you didn't make a fuss, and you deliberately asked for leave?" "I'm not so courageous." Old Cui took out his cigarette again.

He learned from the forensic doctor that the final cause of death was a heroin overdose. Lao Cui was not surprised by this cause of death, but he was somewhat disappointed.

When he went to the police on August 8th, Lao Cui was still very excited. In his 12-year career as a criminal police officer, except for the life and death moments of hand-to-hand combat, murder cases are always the most exciting.

I have been in the squadron for a while, and this is the first time I encountered a murder case.To be honest, the criminal police have been working for a long time, and they are tired of small cases that go through the process.But when the female corpse was turned over for inspection, Lao Cui felt lost. This is a drug addict.

Over the years, he has seen too many corpses of sudden drug addicts.Although the rotting surface of the corpse covered up many symptoms of drug abuse, the two obvious indentations in the groin and the bruised blood vessels still clearly exposed her identity.Another drug addict died, and Lao Cui pointed out this characteristic to the forensic doctor Zhao Zhuowen who was in charge of the scene investigation.According to Lao Cui's experience, most of the dead bodies of drug addicts were dumped by their drug friends who lived with them.Maybe another addict, what's the point of catching such a person?Sentenced for several years, he might have to detoxify him.Come out and relapse, then die suddenly, it's the next turn to throw the body for him.

This is roughly the fate of addicts.It could be three or five years sooner, or more than ten years later, they will always come to this point.After years of drug abuse, the viscera are unbearably decayed, and sudden death is just the final ceremony, announcing the premature end of life.

People who have been in the serious crime team often feel that only major and important cases are exciting and worth solving.It doesn't seem to be of much value to spend a lot of effort to solve a corpse dumping case.

Does it make sense to rack your brains to identify a dead drug addict?
At 20:11, Lao Cui stepped into the treatment room.For the past two months, Lao Cui has arrived at this time almost every day.The outpatient department closes at eight o'clock in the evening, and Lao Cui is special, so he can come later.Dr. Zhang asked a few questions as usual, and then issued a dosage card with red letters on a white background.Lao Cui paid ten yuan and came to the medicine room with the dose card.The medicine-taking room was divided into two rooms by an iron fence door, and Lao Cui handed the dose card through the window to the nurse inside.The nurse was taking off her overalls, and she motioned for Cui to sit down first.Old Cui didn't sit down, he glanced at the surveillance probe on the wall, and lowered his head subconsciously.The nurse handed out the registration book, and Lao Cui signed a name on it, which was not his real name.Old Cui handed the registration book back to the nurse, and the nurse handed him a small cup of medicine.Old Cui picked up the small paper cup and drank it down, then opened his mouth to the nurse.The nurse looked at him coldly without saying a word.Old Cui drank another half glass of water from the water dispenser, then threw the medicine cup into the trash can in the corner, turned and left.Putting on a mask, he walked out of the small building of the outpatient department. The sign behind him read: ××Community Drug Maintenance Treatment Outpatient Department.Drug maintenance treatment is actually methadone maintenance treatment. There are now ten such methadone maintenance treatment clinics in Beijing, and more than 1700 drug addicts receive methadone maintenance treatment in the outpatient clinics every day.

Lao Cui is also one of them.Methadone, similar to morphine in drug effect, has analgesic effect, and can produce respiratory depression, miosis, sedation and other effects.In the early 20s, it was discovered that this drug has the medicinal effect of treating heroin dependence detoxification and replacing maintenance therapy.

There was an old Jetta parked across the street with my wife in the passenger seat.All these years, Cui Ziwen has a clear conscience towards the organization, his colleagues, and his work.For the family, it is full of guilt.Having worked as a criminal police officer for more than 20 years, there is hardly a day when my wife is not worried.He was even threatened for his personal safety by revenge-seeking gangsters.After becoming addicted to drugs, if it weren't for his wife's persistence and care, Lao Cui might have been abolished long ago.

Five years ago, Lao Cui was contaminated with white powder during an anti-drug mission.Three years ago, on the eve of being promoted to the captain of the anti-drug brigade, Old Cui was reported.The organization is still kind, because of his illustrious military exploits, only his official position is dismissed, the police rank and treatment remain the same, and then he is forced to take sick leave and drug rehabilitation.

Since then, the anti-drug captain who has dominated the world has become a frequent visitor to the drug rehabilitation department of the mental hospital, and the psychological gap can be imagined.Old Cui was decadent.

When he was most powerless and desperate, Lao Cui even wanted to give him a powerful injection, so he just passed away unconsciously.At this time, it was his wife who saved Lao Cui, and she sent him to a compulsory drug rehabilitation center.After the compulsory detoxification was over, the wife asked the old leader to arrange a job for Cui, hoping to use the work to dilute the addiction and drive away the poisonous demons.

The original unit is no longer suitable, and the farther away from the original environment the drug addicts are, the better.The leader transferred Lao Cui to the criminal police team of the Suburban Public Security Bureau and encouraged him to regroup.Of course the position is gone. Now that Lao Cui doesn't seek an official position, it is God's blessing to be able to become a normal person again.

Squadron leader Xia Yan was much younger than Old Cui, so he didn't know much about Old Cui's situation. He only knew that it was the arrangement of the big leader, and he was very polite to Old Cui.The big leader said that Lao Cui had a work-related injury and needed to rest more.Xia Yan tried to arrange as little work as possible for Lao Cui, so Lao Cui was the only criminal policeman in the squadron who got off work on time every day.

There is no way to do this. Lao Cui must go to the methadone maintenance treatment clinic every day to take medicine.The wife insists on accompanying and supervising every day, which is a dead promise.

On August 8, the day when the police were dispatched for the female corpse case, the on-site investigation was delayed too late, and the mobile phone signal in the wilderness was not good, and Lao Cui did not show up after the appointed time.His wife couldn't get in touch with Lao Cui, so she was so worried that she was knocked down by an electric bicycle on the side of the road, and her head hit the ground, causing a concussion.

Seeing his wife hurt like that, Lao Cui burst into tears.After his accident, he realized that the so-called contacts he had managed were not working at all.

Xiao Wu said that he didn't pay much attention to the 8 female corpse case at all, which is actually true.Knowing that the squadron was short of manpower, Lao Cui still took two weeks off to take care of his wife.In the past, after old Cui settled his wife, he would definitely return to the front line immediately.Now, he has almost lost everything.The only one who really cares about you in this world is the one around you, and you can't lose her anymore.

4. Dead bodies can talk

Zhao Zhuowen told Lao Cui that there were some differences between this female corpse and other drug addicts.First, although a small number of drug addicts suffer from endocrine disorders and become overweight due to out-of-control weight, most addicts generally describe themselves as haggard at the end of their lives.The woman was 1.7 meters tall. Taking into account blood loss, corruption, and insect bites, it was estimated that her weight at the time of death was between 48 and 50 kilograms.Although she is thin, this weight is still normal compared to those models who are over 1.8 meters tall and weigh less than 50 kilograms.Moreover, during the autopsy, the pathological examination of internal organs did not reveal any abnormal lesions.Except for tuberculosis, skin ulcers, hepatitis, and endocarditis, which are common among drug addicts, were not found in this woman.The physical signs of the deceased are different from those of general drug addicts who commonly carry various inflammations.

Second, benzylamine (meth) and heroin and stabilizing ingredients were found in the body of the deceased, but the content of methamphetamine was so low that it would not be fatal.The high content of heroin should be the cause of death (maybe the combined effect of the two mixed inhalation caused death).Heroin is mainly divided into two ways: nasal inhalation and injection. Injection generally chooses arm and groin veins.The woman had obvious injection marks in her groin, but no needle holes could be found in her arms.Strange isn't it?

The forensic doctor's interpretation of the first doubt is that the deceased is likely to have relapsed after quitting drugs.Some of the lesions caused by bacterial infections that are common in addicts have been treated during withdrawal.

For example, the autopsy found that the deceased had had tuberculosis, which is also a common disease among drug addicts, but the tuberculosis of the deceased had been cured.

Lao Cui agrees with Zhao Zhuowen. Due to the impurity of drugs and the dirty drug equipment, drug users are easily infected with various bacteria and infectious diseases, and symptoms of inflammation such as suppuration and ulceration often appear on the body surface.After detoxification and related treatment, these diseases are controlled and treated.The vast majority of drug addicts are dead, and the weight of the deceased is also very likely to be restored during detoxification.Therefore, people look much healthier, even no different from ordinary people.

However, the difficulty in detoxification lies in the difficulty of detoxification, and the relapse rate of drug addicts is extremely high.After a long period of detoxification, the tolerance to drugs decreases, and relapse often uses the amount of drugs used before detoxification in pursuit of pleasure, especially those who use intravenous injection, are particularly prone to death due to drug overdose.

If the deceased had detoxified in a compulsory drug rehabilitation center, it is possible to find out the identity of the deceased as long as he checked the list of persons undergoing compulsory drug rehabilitation in the past two years.If you are rehabilitating yourself in a private drug rehabilitation center or at home, it is still very troublesome to find.Lao Cui believes that there is another possibility that the deceased paid more attention to personal hygiene and did not mix injection syringes with others.Many infectious diseases are transmitted by sharing syringes.Moreover, the deceased probably had a good family background, and medical treatment was guaranteed once he became unwell and contracted a disease. Therefore, the inflammation that is common in ordinary drug addicts has already been treated in the deceased.Another thing is that the drugs bought by the rich are relatively high quality and less polluted, which can also reduce the incidence of certain diseases.

But the second doubt is why there is no injection needle hole on the arm, which is not easy to explain.Inhalation of white powder generally starts with nasal or hot inhalation, and then transitions to intravenous injection.Intravenous injection is usually started from the arm and back of the hand, because it is easier to find blood vessels here.Injection in the groin, commonly known as opening the skylight, is said to be particularly intense.

Old Cui used to snort and scald himself. Fortunately, he was discovered before he developed injections, so it is easier to quit now.No intravenous injection means that he is still sane, and it is basically hopeless for those who develop to intravenous injection.

It is said that the most powerful thing is to inject directly into the artery, which feels like burning, and it is not far from "sudden death" after playing like this.

If you detox for a long time, the needle holes on your body will gradually heal and disappear.But for a short period of detoxification, within half a year, the old needle holes formed during the original injection are not easy to disappear, and the bruises and scars caused by infection and other factors are difficult to eliminate, and the damage to blood vessels is almost lifelong.It is rare for people to start with groin injections.The injection needles of the deceased were all concentrated in the groin, and no injection needles were found on the arm, which is really strange.

...Old Cui and Forensic Zhao discussed for a while, but had no idea.

Old Cui asked Zhao Forensic Doctor: "Can we do another autopsy carefully? Maybe we can find more clues, the corpse can talk."

"Corps can talk", forensic doctors like to say this sentence most.It takes the dead body to say for itself: WHO AM I?

The purpose of Lao Cui looking for Zhao Zhuowen again is to hope that the technical department of the sub-bureau can conduct a detailed inspection of the corpse again, in order to find new clues and narrow the scope of the search for the identity of the deceased.

But the autopsy results of the female corpse case have come out, and the technical department is unwilling to waste time on this case.

And the body has already been sent to the funeral home. According to Zhao Zhuowen's words: "Our work is done, it's your job to find someone."

Old Cui has no power to order forensic doctors to work for them.The point is that the squadron leader Xia Yan did not particularly support their ideas.

Old Cui had been an official himself, and he knew that a suburban criminal police team like this usually only charged a few thousand yuan for a small case.On average, the handling fee for a criminal case is about [-] yuan.If it is not a major or important case, and the investigation has been fruitless, it will be temporarily suspended.Xia Yan's thinking must be that drug use is not worth the effort, otherwise he and Xiao Wu would not have been arranged to continue the investigation.This kind of case without an owner is the most difficult to handle. Every clue needs a lot of time to verify. There is no support, no funds, and it will take two people to work until a monkey year?
Old Cui was a little discouraged.

At the scene of 8, Lao Cui soon discovered that the deceased was a drug addict. At that time, he had a premonition that the deceased might overdose and be fatal. This kind of situation is common in Lao Cui's career.But the abandoned corpse has been disfigured and fingerprints destroyed, and it seems like a big deal for a drug addict who died suddenly.

Since the corpse is destroyed, why not destroy it thoroughly?More than half of homicides involve mutilation.Cutting, boiling, and burning are all common methods of mutilating corpses. It is relatively rare to destroy only the face and fingerprints in this case.Although addicts are often in a trance and often do unreasonable things, in Lao Cui's 20-year career, this situation has only been heard but never seen.

Old Cui had an intuition that there might be something strange behind this case.Why are you afraid that this addict will be recognized?Is she a person of status?Still have a case?What might be hidden behind the throwing of the corpse?If a drug gang was involved, the case would be worth pursuing.However, according to experience, nine out of ten cases of this kind are caused by drug overdose.Throw out the homicide, and the case doesn't feel like much fun.After taking drugs, he lost interest in many things.

In many cases, it doesn't matter whether they are solved or not.The cases are always there, never ending, and there are always new cases coming one after another.

I am getting more and more numb, and I am used to many things, and I feel that it doesn't matter.No stimulation, no force, no desire to do it.The more immersed in this emotion, the more unable to extricate himself.The more sluggish you are, the more you want to find stimulation.

Should I go see a psychiatrist again?Old Cui felt a sudden heat between his fingers, and the smoke had already burned his buttocks.There is a voice in my head calling: Hey, Lao Cui, you have to cheer up!Old Cui didn't want his emotions to affect Xiao Wu, so he pressed the cigarette butt on the ashtray, and said to Xiao Wu in a loud voice: "Don't care if the case is important or not. You are a newcomer, and important cases will not be entrusted to you. .I can tell you that the difficulty of this no-head case where the missing person cannot be found is definitely higher than that of ordinary homicide cases. If the identity of the deceased is known, the case will not be far from being solved. Think again, is there a breakthrough? You If this case can be solved, it can be made positive in advance.”

5. On-site teaching
Xiao Wu thought of a trick: ask his alma mater for support.Old Cui frowned: "If I remember correctly, your school doesn't have a forensic department, right?" Xiao Wu graduated from the Criminal Investigation Department of Public Security University.Public Security University does not have a Department of Forensic Medicine, and only recruits graduate students in forensic medicine.

(End of this chapter)