On the evening of September 5, 1991, a fall from a building occurred in Yokohama, Japan, and a young woman fell from the 14th floor of the apartment and died on the spot.
After police investigation, the deceased's name was Mika Ono, a flight attendant of Japan Airlines, whose father died of illness when she was a child, and she has been living with her mother, who runs a grocery store.
Although the family conditions are not good, Ono Mika has always been very competitive, after graduating from university, she was admitted to Japan Airlines, became a flight attendant, and she was repeatedly commended by the company for her excellent work performance.
After the incident, the police conducted a meticulous investigation of the scene and investigated Ono Mika's personal belongings, including personal belongings, letters, diaries and so on.
In Mika Ono's diary, police found records of her interactions with a married man.
The man's name is Xu Mingyuan, born in Taiwan, he and his wife Lin Mo came to Yokohama from Taiwan more than a decade ago, started an antique and tea business, after the business became bigger, Xu Mingyuan was involved in computer chips, real estate, textiles and other industries.
By the early 1990s, Mr. Heo's Sankei family business was among the top 50 Japanese companies.
In Mika Ono's diary, she wrote that the first time she met Xu Mingyuan, she fell deeply in love with him, and repeatedly mentioned her emotional entanglement with Xu Mingyuan.
Since no traces of beatings were found at the scene of the crime, and strong evidence of the crime could not be found from personal belongings, the police finally concluded that Ono Mika's fall from the building was a martyrdom suicide.
However, Ono's mother, Keiko Ono, has been unwilling to admit that her daughter committed suicide, and with her intuition as a mother, the matter is by no means so simple.
On September 10, 1991, three days after Mika Ono's funeral, she declared to the media: "My daughter was murdered!" ”
Keiko Ono contacted the police again to apply for a re-investigation of the case, she said: "There are many doubts in this case, because the day before her daughter died, she bought a bouquet of dahlias to go home. Moreover, an hour before she died, she called me and asked me to go to Paris to buy an lv bag; what was more suspicious was that she was wearing a nightgown when she died, and Mika usually loved beauty, how could she commit suicide in a nightgown? ”
However, after listening to her, the police told her: "You must come up with strong evidence, these intuitions alone are meaningless!" ”
Keiko Ono is frustrated and tries to find clues in her daughter's belongings, but there is no clue.
On November 1, 1991, when she moved the coffee table in her daughter's room, she unexpectedly found that there was a golden lighter under the coffee table, which was engraved with an English letter "m", m was the beginning of her daughter's English name.
But she quickly came back to her senses, because her daughter usually does not smoke, what is she going to do with the lighter? Moreover, people whose names begin with the letter "m" are not necessarily daughters.
Through this lighter, you may be able to find out the truth about your daughter's death!
Keiko Ono immediately found her daughter's address book, looked for people who began with the letter "m", and then contacted them one by one by phone, and even took the initiative to visit the door, but did not get any relevant clues.
In the end, the only person in the address book who begins with "m" is Xu Mingyuan, but Xu Mingyuan is the last person she wants to see.
In order to find out the truth about her daughter's death, Keiko Ono still asked him to meet in Kyoto.
When she saw Xu Mingyuan, her mood was very complicated, because Xu Mingyuan was also very uncomfortable about the death of her daughter. At the same time, because of this incident, Xu Mingyuan was also involved in the whirlpool of public opinion, becoming the object of accusations by many women, believing that he was extremely immoral.
After Xu Mingyuan saw Keiko, he knelt in front of her and said with tears in his eyes, "I feel very sorry for Mika's death!" ”
Keiko also burst into tears, causing Xu Mingyuan to get up, and then pulled out the lighter engraved with the "m" letter and said, "Alas, I don't know when Mika learned to smoke!" ”
Keiko continued, "I believe Mika must have died by him, not by suicide!" ”
Xu Mingyuan was very surprised after hearing this.
Keiko tells her reason, and After hearing this, Heo Mingyuan feels that Keiko is suspicious of him, so he assures her, "I will never hurt Mika a hair, even if I break one of my arms!" ”
Xu Mingyuan also offered to propose an investigation case to Keiko, but Keiko refused.
On the drive back from Kyoto, Xu Mingyuan could not calm down for a long time, and he kept thinking about the lighter engraved with the letter "m".
Thinking about it, his heart couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat: "Could it be her?" He slammed the throttle so hard in shock that he almost hit the guardrail.
After returning home, Xu Mingyuan asked his wife Lin Mo: "Ah Mo, why haven't you smoked lately?" ”
Lin Mo replied coldly, "I don't want to smoke, it's not good for my body." ”
Because of Ono Mika's affair, Lin Mo silently endured her husband's cheating, but she always refused to divorce her husband because she did not want to give up her children and family business.
Xu Mingyuan then asked, "Have you ever lost a lighter recently?" ”
Hearing this, Lin Mo was shocked: "What do you ask this for?" ”
Xu Mingyuan seemed to know something, so he sighed and twisted his head out of the window.
Lin Mo lowered his head and told her husband with tears that the whole thing had happened.
On the night of September 5, 1991, because of her husband's cheating, Lin Mo originally wanted to have a good talk with Xu Mingyuan at home, but her husband came back drunk and collapsed on the bed.
Seeing her husband like this, nameless anger ignited from Lin Mo's heart, and she immediately ran out the door, piloted her own helicopter, and rushed to Yokohama to find Ono Mika.
After Lin Mo saw Mika, he had a fierce quarrel with her.
Lin Mo angrily rebuked Meijia's third party for interfering in their marriage, but Meijia said that she and Xu Mingyuan were true love, and she would not leave Xu Mingyuan when she died.
In the course of the conflict, Lin Mo was angry, picked up the vase on the table and smashed it on Ono Mika's head, and Mika fainted on the spot.
Seeing Mei Jia fall to the ground, Lin Mo was still angry, and she simply did not stop and pushed Mei Jia directly from the 14th floor.
Then, Lin Mo quickly took the vase away and left Mika's residence. Because he was in too much of a hurry to leave, Lin Mo left his lighter in the room.
In fact, of course, the police suspected that Xu Mingyuan and his wife had committed the crime, but the servants confirmed that they were resting at home, had testimony that they were not at the scene of the crime, and because it was late at night at the time of the crime, the train to Yokohama had long been stopped, so they were excluded from committing the crime.
What the police did not expect was that Xu Mingyuan and his wife owned a helicopter, and they were usually parked in a very hidden location in the mountains and forests, and basically no outsiders knew.
On December 8, 2006, 15 years after Keiko's fall from a building, Xu Mingyuan, who was already suffering from terminal cancer at the time, heard his wife Lin Mo's confession from his hospital bed.
Xu Mingyuan trembled with tears after hearing this: "For 15 years, I know that you have been carrying fear and self-blame, but all this is because of me, I am guilty!" In the last moments of my life, let me make you a little compensation! ”
Two days later, in Japan's most influential newspaper, the Asahi Shimbun, a statement of guilty plea by Mr. and Mrs. Hayashi published a confession from Mr. and Mrs. Ono, detailing the murder of Mika Ono, offering compensation of 1 billion yen (about 70 million yuan) to her family and apologizing to Keiko Ono.
During these 15 years, Keiko Ono filed thousands of applications to file a case in order to seek justice for her daughter, but all of them were rejected by the Yokohama police.
According to Japan's criminal law, criminal prosecution is valid for 15 years, and beyond 15 years, it will escape justice.
Asking what is the world's situation, this sensational case in Japan is all caused by love. Although Xu Mingyuan and his wife got rid of the punishment of the law, they did not escape the inner trial, took the initiative to explain the case to the public, and did not lose their conscience.
bibliography: Taiwan's rich couple media plead guilty, revealing the mystery of the "suicide" of flight attendants 15 years ago, Family Life Guide, 2007.6