On the afternoon of April 17, 2015, the door of Pan Meixia's home in Weijiazhuang, Pingxiang County, Hebei Province, was hidden, and the female owner Pan Meixia had collapsed in a pool of blood when she was found, and from the scene, Pan Meixia was definitely not a normal death.... When the police arrived at the scene and immediately blocked the surroundings of Pan Meixia's home, because the police found that Pan Meixia had more than 40 knives in her body, such a tragic scene was rare for investigators who had been from the police for many years.
The mistress who died tragically
Although Weijiazhuang Village in Pingxiang County is not a village with outstanding spirits and beautiful scenery, in recent years, every family has lived a life of hard work and prosperity with both hands, and the people in the small village have been living peacefully, but after the news of Pan Meixia's death came out, this village with a population of more than 4,000 suddenly boiled up, and people talked about it, who is the murderer? What vendetta with Pan Meixia should be so cruel?
Pan Meixia was only 40 years old when she was killed, the house she lived in was built more than a year ago, her husband is currently running a factory with people in Shandong, so the family conditions are OK, on weekdays Pan Meixia lives alone in the family, she has two children are in boarding school. On weekdays, Pan Meixia's life is also very simple, and she will close the door and sleep one night, but such a woman died with more than 40 knives in her body, and there was a kitchen knife not far from her falling to the ground, indicating that this was a murder weapon.
After the police came out, through the scene investigation, it was found that Pan Meixia died on the ground of her bedroom, from the door to the bedroom, the middle needs to pass through 3 doors, and according to Pan Meixia's family, she is timid, she will close the door at night, and will lock the door and then sleep, and people who do not know at night shout the door she will not open. However, the police at the scene found that the door of Pan Meixia's house and the door into the bedroom corridor were open, especially the door, although closed, but there was no latch from the inside.
In addition, the door lock of the gate has no trace of prying, and this shows that there may be three situations: one is that Pan Meixia did not lock the door that night, so the suspect can enter freely; second, pan Meixia opened the door to the suspect that night; third, there is the key to Pan Meixia's home; whether there are other possibilities, such as climbing over the wall into the house, which has been denied by the police, because Pan Meixia's home is newly built, the wall of the courtyard is very high, and there is no trace of climbing from inside and outside the wall.
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In addition, on the ground at the scene, the police found some traces of wearing socks on the ground, through which the suspect was judged to be about 1.7 meters tall and thin; the wardrobe and drawers in Pan Meixia's home were not opened and turned, and the gold and silver jewelry and belongings in the home were not lost. Combined with the situation of the scene investigation, the police analyzed: the suspect entered through the door in a "peaceful way" and then somehow fought with Pan Meixia.
Because Pan Meixia shows no signs of being sexually assaulted, it can be ruled out that she was killed after sexual assault, and it can also be ruled out that it was a thief who killed for money. At this time, all kinds of questions appeared in the minds of the police: How did the suspect enter the house? Why did he kill Pan Meixia? In response to these mysteries, the police initially judged that it was more likely that an acquaintance had committed the crime, but it was difficult to characterize the motive of the crime. After that, the investigators began to explore Pan Meixia's interpersonal relationships.
Pan Meixia's mother-in-law said that the victim, Pan Meixia, had lived with her husband in Shandong before, and only returned home to live after the new house was built a year ago, so there were not many familiar people in the village, and there was never a conflict with anyone. After that, the investigators limited the age of Pan Meixia's relateds to 18-50 years old, and there were more than 2,000 people in the platoon, and none of them were harvested, and at this time, half of the population of the village was rejected; so they expanded the age limit to 14-60 years old, but still did not gain.
What's going on here? Investigators feel that such a massive investigation has yielded no results, either because the suspect came from outside that night, or because the investigators themselves are wrong in their thinking, of course, they prefer the latter. So they changed their minds and started to sort out again, so of course this new starting point should start from Pan Meixia's family. And it was this restart that gave the investigators a humble clue.
That's an inexplicably lost key to the gate!
A lost key
The above mentioned police analysis that the murderer entered the door in a "peaceful way" before killing Pan Meixia, so what is the "peaceful way"? In front-line case handling, it refers to entering the room without violently breaking the door of the scene. The above content also shows that the police handling the case analyzed three ways for the suspect to enter the house:
- First, Pan Meixia did not lock the door that night, so the suspect was able to enter freely;
- Second, the door that Pan Meixia opened to the suspect that night;
- The third is the key to Pan Meixia's home;
Nearly a month after the crime, on May 16, 2015, when investigators were re-combing their family statements, they heard Pan Meixia's mother-in-law say such an inconspicuous situation, saying that in September 2013, after the house was renovated, her daughter-in-law Pan Meixia said that a key on the big iron door had gone nowhere. The outermost door of Pan Meixia's house is a red-painted iron door with 6 keys, which was later confirmed by the door seller.
The original 6 keys were missing after the door was installed, and now there are only 5 keys, all of which are currently in the hands of their families. In fact, it is common to lose the door key now, sometimes it is forgotten somewhere, sometimes it is lost in the pocket, so pan Meixia's family did not take this matter seriously, so the door lock has not been changed. Who knows, it is this matter of saying that it is not small, saying that it is not a big key that makes Pan Meixia lose her life.
Unorthodox janitor old man
Because investigators have analyzed that the door of Pan Meixia's house was opened, there is a possibility that the suspect opened it with a key, and now Pan Meixia's mother-in-law has provided this clue, and the local public security organ has divided a group of police forces to find out the ins and outs of this key. It is understood that Pan Meixia's husband initially ran a factory in the north of the village, and later moved to Shandong to run it with friends.
At that time, the workers in the factory included people from the village, some doing short-term work, some working long-term, and Pan Meixia's family was also familiar with it, there was no contradiction between them, and then the factory moved away, and some of the workers were dismissed, and when the investigators did not intend to ask about these workers, Pan Meixia's family provided an important clue, that is, among these workers, there was an old man who watched the factory gate with a bad life style, and he once did an ugly thing.
The old man who guarded the door was Zhang Yongmin, who was 65 years old at the time, married, and Pan Meixia was from a village and had a good relationship with the two families, and this person was not within the scope of the investigation before. This old man did something shameful in 2013. That year, Zhang Yongmin took advantage of the night to enter the home of a woman living alone to plot against her, and the woman's husband went out to work, and this woman did not dare to speak up after that.
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As a result, zhang Yongmin entered the solitary woman's home again late at night, this time being bumped into by the woman's husband and beating him up. The investigators learned that Zhang Yongmin used to see a spare key in front of the woman's house, he secretly took it and hid it, and then used the key to open the door to enter the woman's home. The investigators wondered, is there any relationship between Zhang Yongmin and the loss of the key in Pan Meixia's home?
Along this line, investigators brought Zhang Yongmin into the line of sight of the investigation. At this time, Zhang Yongmin was working in a stroller factory not far from his house, working as a janitor who watched the gate. After that, it is to comb the trajectory of Zhang Yongmin's case, to say that there is such a coincidence in the world, this baby car factory has a monitoring of the upper right corner can see Zhang Yongmin's home, although it is particularly vague, but this monitoring has also become an important clue.
Zhang Yongmin has a habit, that is, at night before going to bed, the door will be lit, around 12 o'clock on the night of the crime, through the fuzzy monitoring to see Zhang Yongmin has been busy at home, and then the figure flashed away, the investigators guessed that it should be out, so they combed the surrounding monitoring, the result was found in another other person's monitoring in the monitoring of another person's home found a blurred figure, and most likely Zhang Yongmin, but at this time can not be determined, investigators do not dare to easily find Zhang Yongmin to understand.
Zhang Yongmin went out at about 12 o'clock on the night of the crime and returned home at about 2 a.m., of which he was outside for two hours, what was he doing at the time? Did you go to Pan Meixia's house? With such doubts, investigators expanded the time of the investigation, combed the trajectory of the period before Zhang Yongmin's case, and by expanding the scope of the video investigation, they found an important situation.
What did Zhang Yongmin do that night?
By taking the surveillance of the days before the incident, the investigators found that Zhang Yongmin rode to the east of the village many times before the crime, and his family lived in the west of the village, and Pan Meixia's family lived in the east of the village, which is questionable. Engaged in public security work for many years, I know that in 2015, the video construction was not perfect, and there were not many distribution points, so it was impossible to sort out Zhang Yongmin's whereabouts through video, and all methods were exhausted, and investigators thought that Zhang Yongmin could be contacted.
On May 27, 2015, investigators approached Zhang Yongmin, who was sitting on a stool with Erlang's legs crossed, and the investigators asked what he answered, very calm, and there was no trace of panic. Could it be that the investigators misjudged that Zhang Yongmin was not a suspect?
But when the investigators asked: When did you hear that Pan Meixia was killed?
Zhang Yongmin replied: I listened to my wife that day.
When? The investigator asked again
"At noon".
The seemingly unquestionable answer was actually wrong at one point in time, that is, Pan Meixia's murder was found to be at 1:30 p.m. on April 17, and if it spread to the west of the village, it should have been after 14:00 p.m., but Zhang Yongmin said that his wife told him at noon. Investigators found Zhang Yongmin's wife, but she said that she told Zhang Yongmin in the afternoon, and it can be analyzed that Zhang Yongmin lied.
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After that, Zhang Yongmin was taken to the interrogation room of the public security organs, and by increasing the intensity of the interrogation, Zhang Yongmin answered more and more loopholes, and finally he could not bear the huge psychological pressure to admit that Pan Meixia was killed by him. Pan Meixia was 40 years old, Zhang Yongmin was 65 years old, the two families had a good relationship, there was no contradiction, it seemed that Zhang Yongmin had no reason to kill her, but Zhang Yongmin said that he had coveted Pan Meixia's beauty for a long time.
Zhang Yongmin then explained the process of committing the crime, and it turned out that the key to the gate that Pan Meixia's family had lost was taken by Zhang Yongmin and waited for the opportunity to commit the crime. On the night of the crime, Zhang Yongmin prepared gloves, hemp rope, tape and other crime work to go to Pan Meixia's home and opened the door of her home with a key, and then entered Pan Meixia's bedroom, Pan Meixia, who was sleeping at the time, was awakened by Zhang Yongmin's actions, and asked two questions in the dark night: Who are you?
Zhang Yongmin did not answer Pan Meixia, after which Zhang Yongmin and Pan Meixia got into a fight, during which Zhang Yongmin hit Pan Meixia's head with an electric kettle, Pan Meixia pushed Zhang Yongmin away and fled to another room to lock the door to hide, Zhang Yongmin kicked the door unsuccessfully and pretended to leave, but went to Pan Meixia's kitchen to get a kitchen knife and the driver lurked in Pan Meixia's bedroom. Pan Meixia, who did not know the truth, thought that Zhang Yongmin had left and came out and entered the bedroom.
After that, Zhang Yongmin fought with Pan Meixia again, this time Zhang Yongmin gave a dead hand and used the kitchen knife in his hand to commit murder, and more than 40 knives in Pan Meixia's body died in a pool of blood. Zhang Yongmin was very regretful after being arrested, saying that he had personally destroyed two families, and his descendants of two or three lifetimes could not lift it, and such remorse was so pale and powerless in front of him slashing a woman with more than 40 knives.
At this point, this case from the occurrence of the case to the cracking of the case to catch the murderer Zhang Yongmin experienced about a month, in this nearly 4,000 people in the village, the investigators painstakingly, relying on their legs to almost touch half of the rural personnel, and finally started with a key lost a year ago, found the breakthrough, and arrested the murderer, the hardships of which are beyond doubt, the public security cadres and police officers who participated in the war Leili's work style is admirable.
At the same time, we must also see the problem behind the case, that is, how much risk is behind the loss of a bunch of keys! A small and inconspicuous thing that kills a person is of course rare, but if it happens suddenly, we should be careful.
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