CCTV News:On October 20th, due to overwork, Zhang Xin, a first-class hero model of the national public security system and a criminal investigation expert of the Ministry of Public Security, died unfortunately. He was only 58 years old this year.
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If you don’t know Zhang Xin, you may have heard of the "silver serial murder case". The simulated portraits of the three murderers involved were written by Zhang Xin. After more than 30 years as a policeman, he devoted himself to the study of simulated portrait technology. Through simulated portrait and analysis and reasoning, he helped local police to solve more than 800 major criminal cases and created miracles in the investigation of many criminal cases. Therefore, Zhang Xin is also known as the "magic pen and horse" in the criminal investigation field.
It is a very demanding job to restore the appearance of criminal suspects as much as possible by vague language description. In order to be able to draw the portrait closest to the suspect, Zhang Xin not only re-entered the Academy of Fine Arts for further study, but also walked around the streets regardless of commuting time, carefully observed the physical characteristics of all kinds of people and drew hundreds of thousands of sketches of all kinds of people.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. With the maturity of Zhang Xin’s painting method, the number of cases solved by portraits has increased, and he has gained popularity in Shanghai and even the whole country, and the number of cases attracted by him has gradually increased. Among them is the "silver serial murder case".
Zhang Xin: "In my more than 30 years of working experience, it should be said that this means of committing crimes in this case is quite cruel, and it should be said that it has never been encountered for me. Another is that the time span of his crime is quite long, and the other span involves quite a lot of people. " "When I came into contact with these cases, it was unprecedented in difficulty."
Zhang Xin once said: "If you are strong, you will be strong." The greater the difficulty, the more motivated he will be. Although the time span is long, there are few witnesses, and what the witnesses saw in panic still has some conceptual consciousness. For example, witnesses described the suspect’s appearance as fierce and his smile as neurotic, which was a kind of crafty smile. Zhang Xin also needs to use a brush to express such a description with subjective imagination. He still has to discard the false and keep the true, distinguish which is subjective and which is objective, and consider the psychological feelings of witnesses. Every stroke of his is crucial, because it is providing a basis for the subsequent investigation. Should that sentence, the difference is a mile, and it is a thousand miles away.
Zhang Xin: "We say that different face shapes and different fatness are related to this person’s five senses. That is to say, a fat person like you can’t grow a thin nose, and a thin person can’t grow a fat nose. It is impossible for a narrow eyebrow frame to grow a big eye, so we still have to do it according to this scientific relationship, that is, a scientific law of different facial features and faces. Then that is to say, to discard the false and retain the true is to judge which descriptions are credible and which are subjective through the fat, thin and specific face shapes and widths she describes. "
It took Zhang Xin three days to complete these three portraits. You know, with his current skill, it only takes him ten minutes to an hour to draw a simulation. His time is spent on carving details, even a line on his face, a scar, etc., and even what special expressions will appear on the suspect’s face, which may bring important help to solving the case.
In order to draw a good simulation, he specially taught himself criminal psychology, criminal investigation, preliminary examination, trace inspection and so on. In order to do this job well, he devoted too much heart and energy, and the word responsibility was too heavy in his heart. No one thought that such a hero would leave us so early. While mourning, we also pay tribute to all the people’s policemen who struggled in the front line. I hope you will be safe! I hope this hero, Zhang Xin, has a good journey.
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