With regard to autopsies, under normal circumstances, all unnatural deaths, including suicide, homicide, sudden death, accidents, etc., require the police to go to the scene for investigation and forensic medical examination.

But not all unnatural deaths require an autopsy, and there are usually three scenarios:

The first is to determine that it is a homicide.

Second: After on-site investigation and autopsy, there are suspicious points that cannot be explained, and the cause of death may be complex and doubtful.

In both cases, the police have the right to conduct an autopsy and inform the family to be present. If the family does not come and does not agree, it is enough to explain it in the record, but the autopsy must be done.

The third type: after the examination of the corpse and the investigation of the scene, homicide can be ruled out, and no suspicious points are found. If the family disagrees with the cause of the deceased's death, they may request that the public security organ conduct an autopsy on the corpse, and the public security organ's forensic doctor is obliged to perform an autopsy.

Now we are in the third situation.

This time, the family was skeptical about the cause of death of the deceased, and we had to do an autopsy for him, and this autopsy was carried out by Ren Qiushi, the head of the forensic medical department.

"What happened to the deceased? Why do families suspect the cause of death of the deceased? I asked.

Jiang Tingbai's brain short-circuited for a while, and he forgot the name of the deceased: "The deceased's name is Liu ...... What's Liu Yu's name? ”

"Liu Yuzhou." Xue Hang on the side spoke.

Liu Yuzhou...... I think I've heard it somewhere. I repeated it a few times, and the more I listened, the more familiar it became.

Lin Zifan said that he also felt this way, and always felt that he had heard this name somewhere.

Xue Hang looked at our strange appearance and said with a smile: "Do you remember Liu Bei in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", when he was leading the pastor of Yuzhou, the people called him Liu Yuzhou. ”

"Hahaha, yes, yes, I said where have I heard it!" Lin Zifan and I looked at each other and smiled, and finally remembered.

"And then? And then what? This autopsy aroused Li Meng's curiosity, and she asked vigorously.

Xue Hang took over and recounted the specific situation meticulously: "The deceased Liu Yuzhou, male, forty-six years old, the owner of a software studio, went to a party last night, it is said that he attended a pool party hosted by a returnee doctor. On the way home, because he drank alcohol at the party, he found a substitute driver, and on the way, Liu Yuzhou got out of the car to go to the toilet, fell into the river, and drowned. ”

"What about the results of the police investigation?" I asked.

Liu Yuzhou's car had a dashcam, the whole process was recorded and videotaped, Liu Yuzhou's death had nothing to do with the substitute driver, there was no trace of anyone else by the river where Liu Yuzhou fell, and there were no external injuries on the deceased's body, it was indeed accidental drowning. As for why the family insisted on the autopsy by the police, I don't know what the reason was. Xue Hang said lightly, with his character, he seemed to be indifferent to everything, but there was something to hand over to him, and he was absolutely serious.

"Dr. Returnee's pool party? Parties are more common, pool parties, it sounds so high! I laughed and said casually.

Li Meng looked at me with disdain, and said with some disdain: "What's so lofty about this, when I was studying abroad, I often met people holding open-air pool parties." ”

"Foreigners are really open, a large group of people in swimsuits are driving together in a Pa

ty, dancing in the pool with champagne in hand, this picture is still a little eye-catching when you think about it. Jiang Tingbai smiled, and his mind was full of pictures of foreign babes dancing in bikinis.

"You're just dirty, and you have to say that people are open. Haven't you ever been to a swimming pool? And the beach, where everyone doesn't wear swimsuits to play together? Li Meng said angrily.

"Sister Li Meng, have you ever participated in a pool party abroad?" Jiang listened to the vernacular and asked with a hippie smile.

"I won't tell you!" Li Meng gave him a blank look, turned his head, and continued to eat the apple in his hand.

……

In the autopsy room of the forensic department of the Ningzhou Public Security Bureau, forensic doctor Ren Qiushi and intern forensic assistant Zeng Lan are preparing to conduct an autopsy on the drowned body.

According to the normal process, the entire process of dissection will be recorded, and a video recording will be left. The first step of the autopsy is to take a picture of the deceased's body, which is usually done by the technicians who investigate the scene.

"Take a picture and keep it." Ren Qiushi said lightly.

Zeng Lan asked puzzledly: "The technicians who investigated the site have already taken pictures, should we still take pictures?" ”

Ren Qiushi nodded: "This is the prescribed procedure." ”

"Okay."

Zeng Lan turned around and fetched a camera, took a picture of the corpse's body, and the two worked together to flip the corpse that had been stiffened over and take a picture of the back.

Ren Qiushi looked at Zeng Lan's serious work, and said in a deep voice: "In criminal cases, there are many injuries that are not obvious when the deceased has just died, but will be more obvious when the corpse forms zombies and corpse spots. Do you remember the headless corpse of the deceased in our previous autopsy, the case of the loss of the deceased's internal organs? It was only after the body had been refrigerated and severely stiffened that it was discovered that the deceased's chest wound had left obvious acupressure marks, and it was through this acupressure mark that the murderer was judged to have killed with a knife with his feet. ”

Zeng Lan looked at Ren Qiushi seriously and nodded.

"After the investigation by the criminal police, the identity of the deceased has been determined, his name is Liu Yuzhou, male, age 46. The deceased drowned at two o'clock in the morning today, and the deceased's driver called the police, and at the same time called an ambulance. ”

After summarizing the results of the criminal police's on-site investigation, Ren Qiushi began the autopsy work, first checking the autopsy table.

"The deceased was obese, overnourished, with thinning hair, a pale face, and foaming stains on his mouth and nose.

The skin of the deceased was pale, the time of death was within six hours, and the corpse spots were light, but the corpse was already very obvious.

Judging from the foam stains on the mouth and nose, this is the drowning fluid in the time of pulmonary edema, the mucus secreted by the mucosa of the respiratory tract and the air mixed with each other to form a foamy fluid in the mouth and nose, which is a kind of life reaction, and the obvious mushroom-like foam. ”

"This is a classic sign of drowning, and the deceased was drowned." Zeng Lan immediately added.

Ren Qiushi nodded: "Judging from the current situation, it is indeed a drowning death, which is also in line with the investigation of the crime scene." However, the family of the deceased has doubts about the cause of death, and we, as forensic doctors, have the obligation to conduct an autopsy on the body. ”

He looked at the band-aid on Zeng Lan's left finger, and said in a deep voice, "I'll still be in charge of the surgery." ”

Seeing this, Zeng Lan understood Ren Qiushi's concerns, and immediately tore up the sticker, and said seriously: "Section Chief Ren, I can do it." ”