On July 13, 2010, in Sunji Township, Shanghe County, Jinan City, Shandong Province, there were several village descendants who had nothing to do during the summer vacation, so they went to hunt birds with a few slingshots.
The place to hunt birds is generally chosen in the inaccessible places, and there are many trees, they came to an abandoned farmland outside the village, just about to hunt birds, but a small partner found that the wellhead of the machine seems to have a person's foot.
When I got closer, I found that it was a dead body, which frightened my friends and ran home with a cigarette, and went to the police station to report the case.
After the police investigated the scene, they found that the diameter of the well was not large, and the deceased was placed in the well with his head down, but he was stuck, and the police spent a lot of effort to get the deceased out of the small shaft.
Due to the long time of death of the deceased, it is impossible to see the face clearly, the police through the scene of the preliminary judgment, the deceased is about 30-40 years old, 1.83 meters tall, weighing about 90 kilograms, otherwise it will not be stuck on the wellhead.
Although the police have carefully investigated the scene, they have not found any useful clues, because this is a long-abandoned farmland, deserted, overgrown with all kinds of weeds, if it were not for the summer vacation, these children came here to hunt birds, I am afraid that they would not be found for a while and a half.
After the body was removed from the wellhead, the police found a tool axe at the bottom of the shaft, which should have been a murder weapon, but there was no blood or fingerprints on the axe.
After an autopsy, the forensic doctor concluded that the deceased had been hit with an axe from the back of the head, resulting in a comminuting fracture and died 3 months to 1 year ago, that is, from July 2009 to April 2010.
Despite the limited clues found, the police quickly sorted out three points:
First, there is nothing left around the deceased, indicating that the murderer does not want the identity of the deceased to be exposed;
Second, after the murderer committed the crime, he dumped the body of the deceased in an inaccessible place, indicating that the murderer was familiar with the environment of the area, and that he was not a native but also a person who had lived at least locally;
Third, the deceased was 30-40 years old, and should be physically strong enough to kill such a person, and the murderer was likely to be a more powerful character.
According to these three clues, the police believe that if they want to solve the case, the most important thing is to find the source of the body, and the general police will find clues according to his social relations after confirming the identity of the deceased when the case of the nameless corpse is determined.
As a result, the police began to investigate whether there were missing people in the surrounding villages and towns of Sunji Township from July 2009 to April 2010.
Sunji Township is not large, even counting the surrounding townships do not have many people, the police responsible for finding missing people in this period quickly found the missing people in that time, a total of 17 people, but after comparing the DNA information, it was found that they did not match the deceased, even if it was compared with the DNA in the national missing persons database, there was no success.
This shows that the line of trying to solve the case after the identity of the deceased has been interrupted, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty of solving the case.
In such a situation, the police had to put the direction of the investigation on the axe, in fact, this axe is not simple, and the difference with the usual axe is that this axe has a reinforcing iron piece between the axe and the axe handle, which is different from the general axe, not like the axe used in rural areas.
So the police immediately went to the hardware store near Sunji Township to investigate, and sure enough, there were very few such axes sold, only one shop sold them, and the boss said that the price of this axe was relatively high, only 13 were entered, but I can't remember who they sold to.
A criminal police officer with rich experience in handling cases suddenly asked, "Are these axes the same batch?" ”
The boss replied, "Yes, I'll go find the purchase order." ”
After a while, the boss took out a purchase order, showing that the axes were all purchased at the end of 2009, which is also a very important clue, which shows that the murder occurred at least after the end of 2009, thus determining the time of the deceased's murder between the end of 2009 and April 2010.
But this is only an auxiliary clue, and without a key clue, it is still in vain.
In the case that the investigation of the deceased and the axe left at the scene of the crime has failed to make a breakthrough, the detection of the case has fallen into a bottleneck, is this case really a suspense case?
At this time, the old policeman in charge of investigating the missing people put forward a new idea, he said, according to the situation of the dumping of the body, the murderer should be a person who is very familiar with the surrounding environment, and most likely a local.
For normal people, after committing a homicide, the first thing they think about is to escape, so it may also be a missing person.
Of the 17 missing people, a local named Wang Xiyuan disappeared in early 2010, which is quite strange...
Wang Xiyuan is more than 30 years old, opened a chicken farm in the local area, it happens that the chicken market in those years is not good, he lost a bottom to the sky, he owed a bunch of foreign debt, at that time the money owed was the uncle, according to the theory, he should not run, but he disappeared out of thin air during the time of the crime, will it be a simple coincidence? Is it possible that he absconded after murder?
After turning over Wang Xiyuan's file, some policemen handling the case immediately said that he could not be the murderer, because this person was only one meter sixty-five, and in this place in Shandong, it belonged to a very thin man, how could such a person have beaten a dead person of about one meter and eight meters?
The old policeman thought that Wang Xiyuan's disappearance was very strange, and even if it had nothing to do with the case, it should be investigated.
His suspicions were based on the fact that Wang Xiyuan bought a brand-new Santana sedan half a year before his disappearance, but he drove the sedan to the repair factory for a "whole car spray paint".
People with cars know that for cars, the original paint is a very important indicator to measure the value of a car, when selling second-hand cars, the car is the original paint of the original factory, it means that there have not been many accidents, if there is spray paint everywhere, it may be a story.
Therefore, the new car is not painted, most of them are because of the age of use, or accidents, resulting in damage to the body, in order to cover the rubbed place, only need to spray paint.
The most important thing is that spray paint is not cheap, like Santana's car, the whole car sprayed down, but also has to be three thousand pieces smaller, Wang Xiyuan is not only not a big money, but also owes a bunch of famine, how can it be done such an illogical thing?
After he sent the car to the repair shop to be painted (it takes 3-5 days to get better), Wang Xiyuan disappeared and the car was thrown in the garage.
If a person wants to escape because of debt, why buy a new car, buy a car and paint it, and even play missing without taking the car?
The police rushed to the garage and found the Santana sedan, which had been parked for more than half a year, but fortunately, the car was parked next to the garage and no one moved.
After searching the car, the police found a dead leaf in the corner of the trunk of the car, and a little dark red substance on the leaf attracted the attention of the police.
The police immediately judged that this leaf was probably brought to the car by Wang Xiyuan half a year ago, because the investigation was in the summer, the leaves were green, and no one in the car had moved.
One policeman speculated that it would be spray paint. This Santana is red, will it be sprayed on the leaves when it is sprayed?
Experienced police officers immediately dismissed this speculation, saying that anything stained with paint would become very hard when it dried, while the leaf was very soft, most likely blood.
Therefore, the police carefully loaded the leaves and sent them to the physical evidence department for identification, because the blood stains were too small, the staff has tried 4 times, and finally extracted the complete DNA information, and after comparing with the body, the comparison was successful, which shows that the car carried the deceased.
From this point of view, the missing Wang Xiyuan is likely to be the murderer, even if it is not a murderer, he also helps to transport the body, if the murderer is more than one person, it can explain that the thin Wang Xiyuan cannot complete the killing of the deceased alone.
Under such circumstances, as long as Wang Xiyuan is found, there will be a major breakthrough in the case, and the focus of the next investigation will be placed on the search for Wang Xiyuan.
But Wang Xiyuan has been missing for many months, and if he could find it, the disappearance would have been solved long ago, which made the police handling the case feel troubled.
The police's clue about Wang Xiyuan is that when Wang Xiyuan first disappeared, he once sent a text message to his family and friends, saying that he was in debt, wanted to go out to hide debts, and would not come back in the short term.
At that time, everyone thought that Wang Xiyuan was in debt, and if he really met someone who received usury, it was normal to run out and hide.
However, combined with the car parked by Wang Xiyuan in the repair shop, it can be concluded that it is definitely not so simple, and hiding debts is a shameful thing, how can it be sent to relatives and friends in groups?
With doubts, the police let the technicians retrieve the call records of Wang Xiyuan's mobile phone, and found that Wang Xiyuan contacted the two mobile phone numbers of Tianjin's belonging place more frequently before he disappeared, which is obviously abnormal, you are a rural person in Shandong, there is no deal, what phone calls do you make with two Tianjin people all day?
The police immediately investigated the two mobile phone numbers and the owner, one of the owners of these two mobile phone numbers was deactivated half a year ago, the time is very consistent with the time of the death of the deceased at the head of the machine well, through the inquiry, the police confirmed that the owner of the phone number is Han Benli, a Tianjin native.
In order to determine whether Han Benli was the deceased, the police immediately rushed to Tianjin, and with the cooperation of the local police, they came to Han Benli's home.
Han Benli's family said that Han Benli disappeared half a year ago and could not be contacted.
Through the description of Han Benli's appearance by his family, it is very similar to the deceased next to the well, and the preliminary determination is that the two are the same person, for the sake of prudence, the police compared it through DNA, and finally determined that the victim was Han Benli.
Why did a man from Tianjin die in a deserted well in Shanghe County, Shandong Province? The development of the case is too confusing, which makes the police feel strange.
The best way to find out why Han Benli went to Shanghe was to find another Tianjin person who had contacted Wang Xiyuan, and this person was named Han Baoshan.
After the police found Han Baoshan, they summoned him, Han Baoshan originally wanted to hide, but the police successfully broke through the psychological defense line, and finally explained the reason why they went to Shanghe.
It turned out that Han Baoshan and Han Benli went to Shanghe because someone had paid them to kill a person, the employer was Wang Xiyuan, and the target of the killing was Zhang Benling, who ran a funeral business in Shanghe County.
The appearance of Zhang Benling makes this case more complicated, Wang Xiyuan is the owner of a chicken farm, and Zhang Benling is doing funeral business, the two people have no business contacts, Wang Xiyuan and Zhang Benling not only have no enemy relationship, but are still relatives, why does Wang Xiyuan not hesitate to spend huge sums of money to hire killers to kill Zhang Benling?
After investigation, the police learned that the reason why Wang Xiyuan wanted to murder was to get Zhang Benling's wife, Zhang Hongxia, and that there was an improper relationship between wang Xiyuan and Zhang Hongxia, in order to live together for a long time, so Wang Xiyuancai
Through the introduction of others, he invested 100,000 yuan to hire Han Baoshan and Han Benli from Tianjin to murder Zhang Benling.
After Han Baoshan and Han Benli arrived in Shanghe, they tried to kill Zhang Benling many times, successively by causing car accidents and even installing explosives on Zhang Benling's car, but without success.
In the case of several actions without success, Han Baoshan and Han Benli asked for more money, and in desperation, Wang Xiyuan and Zhang Hongxia raised the remuneration to 140,000 yuan, but still did not succeed.
Under such circumstances, there was a disagreement between Wang Xiyuan and the two killers, on the one hand, Han Baoshan and Han Benli repeatedly asked Wang Xiyuan to add money, on the other hand, Wang Xiyuan thought that the two killers were unprofessional and had come to cheat money.
Under such circumstances, Wang Xiyuan secretly called out Han Baoshan one day and said that the remuneration was so much in total, if you could get rid of Zhang Benling, the two of you would leave after dividing the money, if you felt that you could not kill Zhang Benling, you would kill Han Benli, so that you would leave with the money yourself.
Han Baoshan saw the wealth and thought that even if he killed Zhang Benling, he would not get 140,000 yuan, so he simply killed Han Benli and swallowed the money alone.
Han Baoshan then took advantage of Han Benli's lack of attention to kill Han Benli with an axe, and after committing the crime, Han Baoshan informed Wang Xiyuan to come and help him throw away the body, so Wang Xiyuan drove the Santana sedan and transported Han Benli to the outskirts of the city and threw him into an abandoned machine shaft.
According to the content of Han Baoshan's confession, the police immediately arrested Zhang Hongxia and Zhang Hongxiang, who introduced the killer, but still did not find Wang Xiyuan, so that the context of the case was once again cast a shadow, and even let the case-handling personnel not quite believe that the truth is so.
Two years after Zhang Hongxia and Han Baoshan were arrested, the court sentenced Zhang Hongxia, who hired the murderer, to intentional homicide and sentenced her to 11 years in prison, and sentenced Han Baoshan to intentional homicide with a two-year suspension of execution, and continued to pursue Wang Xiyuan, who was still at large.
However, after two years, after countless investigations and secret visits, the police could not find Wang Xiyuan who was on the run, which made the police feel incredible.
With the advent of data informatization, it is impossible for a person to hide without a trace, Wang Xiyuan's bank account number and ID card have not been used once since he disappeared, he is like evaporating in the world.
After the police re-sorted out the information about Wang Xiyuan's disappearance, they once again found that there was a problem with the text message sent by Wang Xiyuan's group, and the content of this text message was "Brother, I am going out to hide my debts, and I will not come back in a short time." ”
The police visited Wang Xiyuan's senders, some of whom were of the same generation as Wang Xiyuan, but there were also older people who were Wang Xiyuan's elders.
This is a problem, Shandong is the hometown of Confucius and Meng, generational division is a very important thing, some rural areas, no matter how old people have to kowtow to the elders during the New Year, Wang Xiyuan in the village elderly text messages, also called "brothers", this is a very unruly thing.
Under such circumstances, the police suspect that perhaps the person who used Wang Xiyuan's mobile phone to text was not Wang Xiyuan himself at all, and Wang Xiyuan was probably not missing, but was killed.
Thinking of this, the police immediately interrogated Han Baoshan, and they believed that it was possible that Han Baoshan killed Wang Xiyuan in order to kill Han Benli after killing him.
But Han Baoshan said, "If I had killed it, I would have admitted it two years ago, so why wait until now?" The results are not all the same. ”
The police believe that Han Baoshan's words are reasonable, and when Han Baoshan was first tried, it did not take much effort, almost equivalent to taking the initiative to confess, and there was no need to hide it at all.
No clues were found here in Han Baoshan, and the police believed that Zhang Benling, who was related to the case, seemed to have a lot to do with the matter.
In the 2010 murder of Han Benli, the police went along with the vine and learned from Han Baoshan that they had been hired by Wang Xiyuan to kill Zhang Benling, so they investigated Zhang Benling.
When assisting in the investigation, Zhang Benling said: These two idiots still want to up, if I do, burn him. ”
At that time, the direction of the police investigation was not that Wang Xiyuan was killed, but that Wang Xiyuan had run away, so he did not feel that there was anything wrong with this statement, and now it seems that Zhang Benling already knew about Han Baoshan and Han Benli's going to kill him, so he could escape many times in the assassination of the two.
The disappearance of Wang Xiyuan also seems to be related to Zhang Benling, and it is likely that Zhang Benling learned that Wang Xiyuan had put a green hat on himself and hired someone to kill him, which made him have a sense of revenge.
So, how would Zhang Benling deal with Wang Xiyuan? The sentence in the transcript reads, "If it were me, I would have burned him." "Let the experienced case-handling staff shine, Zhang Benling is in charge of funerals, he runs funeral services locally, and an important job is to pull private people from surrounding villages to the funeral home for cremation, which is basically monopolized."
Could it be that Zhang Benling killed Wang Xiyuan and cremated him? The police officer in charge of the case felt chills at the thought of this.
But in our country, cremation is a very strict procedure, unnatural death requires the police to issue a death certificate, even if the natural death also needs many departments to issue a death certificate, so that with the death certificate, the funeral home can be cremated.
Suppose that Wang Xiyuan did not disappear, but was killed by Zhang Benling, that time is around the time when he sent a group text message.
In addition, after many police searches, one villager recalled the last day he met Wang Xiyuan, the local weather was accompanied by heavy fog and light snow, but he could not remember the specific day.
In the northern region, although it snowed frequently, it was not frequent, especially foggy, and the police immediately approached the local meteorological bureau to check the local snow and foggy weather, which was only the case on March 9 in early 2010.
That is to say, the day wang Xiyuan disappeared should be after March 9, and the police rushed to the local funeral home again to inquire about the information of the personnel who were pulled by Zhang Benling to the funeral home after March 9.
Because funeral home cremation has strict procedures and all procedures are archived and preserved, the police quickly found five files that Zhang Benling had pulled for cremation on March 9, and these files had complete cremation procedures and there was no problem.
The police are once again stuck in the bottleneck, is all speculation wrong, Zhang Benling did not kill people?
Bold assumptions, careful verification is an important means in the process of solving the case, according to logical reasoning, if wrong, we must overturn all the previous assumptions.
But the police think that there must be a problem with this Zhang Benling, in order to find out the problem, the police will zhang Benling in recent years to handle the cremation of the list all out, suddenly, in december 2008 list, there is a Ding name character attracted the attention of the police, because this Ding surname appeared on the cremation list on March 9, 2010, it was Zhang Benling who was cremated!
Could someone have a duplicate name? No way! The information of the two people is basically the same, according to this clue, the police immediately found the home of the old man surnamed Ding and asked about the old man's situation.
The family of the old man surnamed Ding said that the old man died of illness in December 2008 and was cremated!
So, if you were cremated on March 9, 2010, it can't be this old man surnamed Ding, if it wasn't an old man surnamed Ding, then who would it be? The case-handling personnel invariably thought: Wang Xiyuan!
Previously, because there was no evidence, the investigation of Zhang Benling had been carried out in secret, and now with a major clue, he immediately launched a summons to Zhang Benling, and searched his home, found a little black blood in a corner, and after DNA testing, it was proved that the blood stain was Wang Xiyuan's.
Originally, Zhang Benling did not admit that he killed Wang Xiyuan, but when the police asked him to explain, who was the person he sent to the funeral home for cremation on March 9? What is the explanation for the blood stains found in Wang Xiyuan in his home?
In the unexplainable situation, Zhang Benling's psychological defense line was quickly broken, and finally confessed to the facts of his crime, it turned out that when he was assassinated by Han Baoshan and Han Benli, he had already realized this matter, and discovered the improper male-female relationship between Wang Xiyuan and Zhang Hongxia.
Zhang Benling, who can monopolize the local funeral business, prides himself on being a man on the road, and more or less wants to teach Wang Xiyuan a lesson, and on March 9, his buddy Li Wenxi escorted Wang Xiyuan to his home and punched and kicked Wang Xiyuan, and Zhang Benling lost his hand and beat Wang Xiyuan to death.
In order to dispose of Wang Xiyuan's body, Zhang Benling immediately used the excess blank cremation certificate to send him to the funeral home for cremation.
Until here, the case was solved, and all the police officers involved in the handling were relieved, Wang Xiyuan hired a murderer to kill Zhang Benling, the two murderers killed each other for reward, and the employer Wang Xiyuan was also killed by Zhang Benling.
On April 25, 2014, the Jinan Intermediate People's Court ruled on the case, sentencing Zhang Benling to life imprisonment for intentional homicide and Li Wenxi to nine years in prison.
Some police officers involved in handling the case said bluntly: It is difficult to encounter such a complicated case in a lifetime as a criminal policeman, and even TV dramas dare not act like this.
However, the legal network has been restored without leakage, and no matter how complicated the case, it is a floating cloud in front of the public security.