"Let me go!" I'm a murderer! ”
At first, the crowd did not believe it, thinking that this was just Zhao Deyong's statement that he wanted to escape "punishment".
"If he leaves, who will he bully in the future?"
But then, the gang of thieves gradually sensed that something was wrong: their accomplice Zhao Deyong did not cover and protect himself with his hands as usual, and his eyes were unusually cold.
They did not expect that this middle-aged man who looked honest and promiscuous, and who was thin and small had a frightening "killing memory". He killed his former lover with his own hands and hid like rats and ants on the way to escape. The forensic doctor deduced the time of death through maggots, and the police pursued the murderer for many years and never gave up...
18 years, very long, can make a person "makeover" to start over; 18 years, very short, generations of police officers persist in pursuing the determination has never changed. Below, we will restore from three aspects a corner of this murderous escape for eighteen years -
My name is Zhao Deyong, in 2001, I was 43 years old.
That year, I went from being a worker in a state-owned enterprise in Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, to an "unemployed vagrant." With the compensation of more than 100,000 yuan for "buying out the working years", I have the capital to do nothing, playing mahjong and chess, which is the best way for me to kill time.
At the smoky, day and night mahjong table, I met Su Hua.
This woman has style, can dress, and her eyes flutter, and I quickly developed a cohabitation relationship with her.
She knows me too well and the days together are always full of sweetness. Soon, I got a marriage license with her. In order to show my respect for Su Hua, I also changed the house to her name.
From frugality to luxury. After marriage, I continued the style of spending money lavishly when I fell in love, and 100,000 yuan was quickly squandered.
From luxury to frugality. After the money is spent, I can't make ends meet, and I am a good face, and I often make some unfulfilled promises.
The differences between Su Hua and I are getting bigger and bigger. The endless quarrels, on the divorce papers a year later, finally came to an end.
After the divorce, although Su Hua and I still maintained contact, I always felt resentment in my heart:
Losing my family, losing my savings, losing my house, all of this is Su Hua's fault, it's all because of her, I became like this.
Later, I found a job as a security guard, but the psychological gap caused by such a poor life was too big.
Looking back, this kind of life is simply a luxury for me now, at least then I lived a frank and open life, bright and upright, and did not have to hide in Tibet.
That day, Su Hua came to see me at the unit, and I boasted in front of her and colleagues:
"Now the job is to find something to do, I still have more than 40,000 yuan in my hand, and I am looking for project investment."
Unexpectedly, Su Hua actually invited me to her house for dinner.
I was a little happy, but I was soon poured a basin of cold water: after the meeting, Su Hua said that I should share half of my 40,000 yuan deposit.
The long-simmering resentment and anger rushed to the top of the skull, and Su Hua and I had a fierce quarrel, after which I raised my sharp knife and killed her.
At noon on May 7, 2003, I personally killed Su Hua. In order to destroy the evidence, I have disposed of as many traces of me and her in this room as I have ever been.
It was LiXia, and after disposing of the body, I fled in a hurry, locked the door of Su Hua's house, and also locked the door of my life.
Since then, 18 years of long escape have begun.
My name is Xia Yanbing, and in 2003, I was one of the first police officers to rush to the scene of the murder.
At that time, I was working at the Nova Police Station in Saltu District, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province. In early June, we received a report from a middle-aged woman that her sister Su Hua was missing and had not been able to contact Su Hua for more than twenty days.
The phone was turned off, there was no one at home, and her sister Su Fang felt that something was wrong and rushed to the police station to report the case.
Just by turning off the phone, it is impossible to judge the disappearance of a person. After obtaining Su Fang's consent, we found a lock unlocker and went to Su Hua's house to check the situation.
The unlocker later told me that this was the first time in his life that he had encountered such a scene, and it was also the most memorable one in his life.
The moment the door was opened, a foul smell came over the face, and people couldn't help but take a few steps backwards.
What came into view was a corpse lying on the living room floor, with knife wounds on the chest and abdomen, because of the long time of death, the blood had coagulated and blackened, and at this time it was summer, the body was highly decomposed, giving birth to a large number of maggots...
At that time, I had just joined the work, had never experienced such a murder, and my stomach involuntarily began to turn upside down. Enduring the discomfort, I guarded the door and did not let anyone else into the room.
There was only one thought in my mind: the scene must not be destroyed.
More than ten minutes later, when the criminal investigation police of the Saltu substation arrived at the scene, I ran outside the house to change my breath.
The forensic technicians immediately conducted on-site investigation and autopsy work: there were no traces of theft or obvious fighting in the deceased's home, the doors and windows were intact, and the killer used a mop to clean up the blood on the ground after committing the crime.
In order to speculate on the time of death, we forcibly endured the discomfort, extracted the maggots from the corpse, and handed them to the forensic doctor.
Forensic identification analyzed the biological data and found that maggots had multiplied to the third generation. The forensic doctor said: "The development of flies goes through four stages. At room temperature, the development time of the egg stage generally lasts 1-2 days, the maggots last about 6-10 days, and the pupal stage generally lasts for one week to more than ten days, and the incubation and growth rate is faster at high temperatures. ”
Through the analysis of comprehensive factors such as temperature, humidity, light, and the condition of the corpse, the forensic doctor deduced that the time of death should be more than one month ago.
Next, it is to arrest Zhao Deyong and seek justice for the victim.
Over the years, some of the civilian police officers responsible for investigating this case have retired, and some have been transferred to other positions. However, the Daqing police's pursuit of Zhao Deyong has never stopped, and whenever the police who handle the case are transferred, they always have to give a special account of this case file.
A few times it was close at hand, but it was only a little bit worse:
In the fall of 2003, the police received a tip that Zhao Deyong had sneaked back to his eldest brother's house. But when we arrived, the alert Zhao Deyong had already escaped from Daqing. The eldest brother, who was later sentenced to the crime of harboring, said that Zhao Deyong had already spent all the money on his body, and he squatted in the brown rice field until the middle of the night before he dared to run to the eldest brother's house to ask for money...
In 2011, inner Mongolian police caught a theft gang, and in order to seek meritorious commutation, they confessed that there was a murder fugitive in the gang, whose characteristics were very consistent with Zhao Deyong. Through the clues they provided, we found the rental house where Zhao Deyong once lived, but it was already empty, leaving only the crooked handwriting on the wall: "Zhao Deyong came here for a visit"...
My name is Zheng Hong, and in 2021, I finally brought Zhao Deyong to justice.
Ten years ago, I took over the bag of criminal police officers who were in charge of pursuing the case. Nowadays, the Daqing Municipal Public Security Bureau has undergone police reform, and the Nova Police Station of that year has long ceased to exist, and I have become the deputy captain of the intelligence brigade of the Daqing Municipal Public Security Bureau under the organizational arrangement.
Changing the guard does not change responsibility. Zhao Deyong's absconding has always been a piece of my "heart disease", and once there is a clue, I will take the initiative to participate in the research.
On the evening of September 26 this year, my colleagues and I learned that Li Mou, who was doing odd jobs at a construction site in Tianjin's Xiqing District, was very similar to Zhao Deyong, who had absconded.
The picture shows Zhao Deyong after being captured. Courtesy of the Public Security Bureau of Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province
That night, the leader of the sub-bureau organized an emergency meeting of the criminal investigation department to determine the members of the arrest team, and demanded that they go directly to Tianjin early the next morning to arrest them, and at the same time contact the Tianjin police and ask the local police to take control first to prevent Zhao Deyong from escaping.
On September 27, the arresting police rushed to Xiqing District, Tianjin, and with the cooperation of the local public security organs, it was quickly determined that "Li Mou" was the suspect Zhao Deyong.
The next morning, when Zhao Deyong was riding an electric car and preparing to go out to buy something, the ambushed police suddenly attacked and arrested the suspect who had been absconding for 18 years.
Where has Zhao Deyong gone all these years? What have you been through? In the face of a series of powerful evidence held by the police, Zhao Deyong could only confess truthfully.
The picture shows the scene of the interrogation. Courtesy of the Public Security Bureau of Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province
After the incident, he fled overnight to Qiqihar City, Tongliao City in Inner Mongolia, baicheng City in Jilin Province, etc., and then fled to Tianjin, but each place did not dare to stay for a long time.
"I was nervous when I heard the sirens, and I was scared when I saw the police. I didn't dare to contact people, I could only make a living doing odd jobs, and my life was not a ghost. ”
In Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, he ran out of money and had to spend the night on a park bench. A gang of thieves found him and pulled him in.
But Zhao Deyong did not dare to steal, he was afraid of being discovered and fell short, so every time there was a "task", he always found various excuses to escape. Over time, it is inevitable that he will be bullied and bullied, and even the newcomers will dare to kick him twice.
In order to be able to get rid of this gang, Zhao Deyong revealed his identity as a murderer.
Because he did not dare to use his IDENTITY card, Zhao Deyong hid his name and used his pseudonym Li to the outside world, and his source of livelihood mainly relied on entering the construction site to do odd jobs.
Getting up at 3 a.m. and returning to the shed to sleep at 6 o'clock, Zhao Deyong chose to lie out at night in order not to appear in front of people, because he could not get the sun, and his skin became a little white.
"This construction site is not alive, so I follow the other workers to other places, even if I encounter a boss who is in arrears of wages, I can only choose to swallow my anger."
He also taught himself the Tianjin accent, just to pretend to be "a little more like."
When he committed the crime in 2003, Zhao Deyong was 45 years old; 18 years later, at the age of 63, he could not escape justice.
Su Hua's daughter was only 17 years old at the time, and because she was studying abroad, she could not see her mother for the last time.
Her daughter, who has settled abroad and is now a mother, was grateful to hear that the suspect who killed her mother had been arrested, and asked her relatives in her hometown to send a pennant to the Saltu police in Daqing City.
Relatives of the victims sent pennants. Courtesy of the Public Security Bureau of Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province
This year, I am also 46 years old, and Zhao Deyong's arrest is like a stone that has been hanging in the mouth of the heart for a long time, and now, it has finally fallen.
(The names of the persons involved in the article are pseudonyms except for the civilian police)
Acknowledgements: Ping An Longjiang Network Heilongjiang Provincial Public Security Department
Daqing Municipal Public Security Bureau
From: An Jian, Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission