On June 30, 2017, on the top of the hill next to Nanmu Village in Shuilianpo Town, Li County, Hunan Province, the villagers who collected mushrooms found a barefoot person lying in the grass, covered with branches and weeds, and there were splashes of blood on the surrounding leaves.
The tragic death of the fungus-picking widowed old man
The place where the crime occurred, Li County, named because the Lishui water runs through the whole territory, belongs to Changde City, located at the junction of Hunan and Hubei provinces, with complex landforms and more mountainous areas. This county belongs to the labor export type, young and middle-aged people go out to work on weekdays, the people who stay at home are some old people, women and children, and there are several villages under the foothills of the crime site, and on weekdays, in addition to doing some farm work, the villagers are busy in the vegetable field, and the days are calm and satisfied.
But after the police came to this village, everyone knew that a corpse was found on the mountain where they were collecting mushrooms on weekdays, and this incident was like throwing a stone on the calm water, and the calm village boiled up at once, and people were talking about who died? Why did he die on the mountain? At the same time, they are also worried that if the police can't solve the case, will it be dangerous to go up the mountain to collect fungi in the future?
After the local public security organs received the police, the police cars drove to the bottom of the mountain one by one, which also indicates that this matter is not so simple. According to the reaction of the villagers who called the police, the location of the body is in a remote part of the top of the mountain, it takes about 2 hours to climb up from the foot of the mountain, the summer is hot, because now there are few people on the mountain, so there is no road, the police officer with a sickle, a tool in one hand to follow the policeman up the mountain.
When the police arrived at the scene of the crime, there were beads of sweat on their foreheads and their clothes were soaked. Unable to bear the slightest slackness, the civilian police immediately began their work. After inspecting the crime scene, basically located on the top of the mountain, and the location is also very remote, the general fungus pickers rarely arrive here, and the body on the ground is back down, face up, covered with branches and weeds, after cleaning up these cover-ups, the police found that the deceased was a man, gray hair, barefoot.
The villagers who led the way at the scene recognized the identity of the deceased at a glance, it turned out that the deceased lived in Hekou Village at the foot of the mountain, named Chen Mou, 73 years old, is a five-guarantee old man, unmarried and childless, living in an abandoned pig farm next to a reservoir in Nanmu Village on weekdays, because of his age, it is impossible to go out to work, he will give small jobs to nearby villagers, earn some small money to live, so such a helpless old man, who will kill him with a cruel hand?
The murder weapon is a scythe
Through the autopsy, it was found that Chen's fatal injuries were in the back of the head, neck and other places, and the wounds in these places were suspected of being injured by a blunt instrument, because the skull was fractured, so the strength used by the murderer was very large; in addition, there were many injuries in his back, armpits and other places, and from the shape of the wound, it should be injured by sharp objects. The deceased had blunt and sharp wounds on his body, so what was the perpetrator of the crime? Are there more than two tools for committing crimes?
In addition, there are many wounds on the body of the deceased Chen, and the wounds in the head and neck positions are very strong, and experienced investigators speculate that the possibility of male crimes in this case is very large, and through autopsy, it can be judged that Chen was killed on the morning of June 30, and the place where the deceased lay was the first scene. After the investigation of the center site, investigators spread from the center to look around to see if they could find other clues, and not far from the deceased, there were very fresh fungi scattered on the ground.
Investigators deduced that Chen mou may have been killed when collecting fungi, and then looked for about 10 meters to the outside, a bloody sickle was found in the grass, and the appearance of the sickle also solved the mystery of the murder weapon that killed Chen, because the back of the sickle knife and the wound on the back of the deceased's head were consistent, so that the sharp wound on the back and armpit of the deceased was the blade of the sickle. Because the crime scene is on the mountain, the woods and weeds are overgrown, the search is difficult and slow.
After nearly an hour of searching, at the cliff tens of meters away from the scene, a pair of old rain boots appeared in the line of sight of the investigators, and through the identification of the villagers, they recognized that this was the boots worn by the deceased Chen Mou on weekdays. Here, it is not difficult to imagine that this pair of rain boots that should have been worn on Chen's feet should have been thrown here by the murderer, so why did the suspect throw away the shoes of the deceased? Investigators are not informed.
Time passed minute by minute, night fell, the original quiet and peaceful small village because of Chen's death cast a shadow of fear, villagers have spoken out their own thoughts, they think that Chen was killed when picking mushrooms, and this season to the mountains to collect mushrooms people have local, there are also people from other places, so want to catch the murderer is like finding a needle in a haystack. And the villagers' discussion also made the investigators who have been busy like needles.
solve a case! We must also return a certain justice to Chen, and return the tranquility of the countryside as before.
The old man of Wubao was killed for his wealth?
On the night of the crime, at the meeting of the case, the investigators of the motive for the suspect's murder expressed their opinions, some people thought that it was a vendetta; some people thought that it was an emotional contradiction that could not be ruled out; of course, some people suggested that it may be that a contradiction occurred in the process of collecting fungi and temporarily harmed people. However, after the investigation teams reported on the situation, they found that the case was really full of doubts, and it was difficult to solve the case.
On the day of the crime, in addition to arranging for investigators to search on the mountain, the local public security organs also arranged for personnel to sort out Chen's relationship network, and through groping, the investigators found that Chen had always been a resident, and no villagers responded that he had a life style problem and an improper relationship between men and women, of course, a five-guarantee widow and widowed elderly man did not have a vendetta with people, so basically the possibility of love killing and vendetta could be ruled out.
In addition, by checking the villagers in the surrounding villages to pick fungi on the mountain, and combined with what the villagers said, they basically do not go to the scene to collect fungi in such a remote area, coupled with the possibility of killing the 73-year-old man due to small contradictions, the possibility of Chen Mou being killed due to the contradiction between picking fungi and people has also been ruled out. Then there is only one possibility left, and that is to kill for money.
How much money can an old man with five guarantees be targeted and killed? Seemingly absurd speculation, in fact, the investigators are not unfounded. It is understood that Chen Mou usually helps the surrounding villagers to do some farm work and earn some small money, and he has a habit, that is, he will carry money with him. Because he was older and had trouble depositing money in the bank, he was not at ease with putting the money in other people's places, so he always carried it with him.
However, the police did not find cash on Chen's body, and they also did not find cash in his home, so where did the money that Chen saved on weekdays go? Could it be that someone else targeted his money and killed him? After this speculation, the question arises again, if it is eyeing Chen's money, then is it a long-planned crime, or is it accidentally exposed and killed while picking mushrooms? These questions cannot be answered for a while.
And just as these problems plagued the investigators, a message was passed down by a search team on the mountain: a sunhat had been found.
A sunhat, is it a woman who commits a crime?
The day after the crime, on July 1, the investigators searching on the mountain did not rest for a moment, they launched a carpet search, the hot summer sun made people panic, but the kung fu did not live up to the heart, they found a visor 300 meters from the center site. It was a red women's visor, and what excited the investigators was that there were speckled blood-like marks on the hat, which was identified as Chen's blood.
At this time, the investigators faced another problem, as mentioned earlier, at the beginning, according to the strength of the wound blow and normal thinking, the suspect was more likely to be a man, but whether the appearance of this female visor indicates that the investigator's initial deduction was wrong, and the suspect was actually a woman. Of course, at this time, it cannot be judged, because it is not excluded that the suspect wearing a women's hat deliberately left at the scene to confuse the public.
The clues of the fragments are constantly summarized from the investigators, how to work? What is the center of the work will determine whether the case can be successfully solved. After that, the commander of the case decided to investigate around the money and wealth of Chen Mou, because this is related to the motive, and according to the motive, the suspect may be found. So Chen Mou is a five-guarantee old man, how much money can he have? Since then, a villager has reported a situation.
According to a villager, Chen mou is illiterate, so he does not know how much money he has, and Sun Mou, a woman in the same village a few days before the crime, had counted money for him, so How much money Chen had Sun Mou should be clear. According to this clue, the investigators went to Sun's home, but at that time, the door of Sun's house was locked, and she was contacted by phone, and she said that she was sick in a health room in the next town and went home in the afternoon to cooperate with the police.
But in the afternoon, the police went to Sun's home again, Sun still did not go home, and then the police called her, showing that no one answered, so the police went to the health room mentioned by Sun, and it was understood that Sun did go to this clinic that morning, because of a cold, you can go to the doctor and leave, and now people are not in the health room. Sun Mou did not go home, where did he go? The police took the monitoring around the health room and found that Sun Mou left in a three-wheeled electric vehicle after leaving.
Sun Mou left but did not go home, and waited until the evening, sun Mou still did not return. In any case, Sun's situation is too abnormal. The next day, the police came to Sun's home again, but the door of her home was still locked, when she was contacted again, her phone had been turned off, at this juncture, the phone was turned off, and she did not go home at night, which had to make the police suspect that Sun had a problem, so how was Sun Mou really?
Sun Mou is 54 years old, his husband and son are working outside, a woman stays at home, this ordinary rural woman does farm work at home on weekdays, and the villagers reflect that she is very responsible, and helpful, caring for the elderly in the village. The evaluation is so good, so is there any relationship between Sun and Chen's death? She just helped Chen count the money once, why didn't she want to face the police's inquiry and chose to hide?
In fact, in this case, no matter what, the police must find Sun Mou and ask the truth. At the same time, the red visor hat was found, and after the villagers identified it, this hat was what Sun Mou wore on weekdays. At this time, it can be basically concluded that There must be a connection between Chen's death and Sun's. At present, finding Sun Mou has become the work that all investigators need to do. However, on the evening of July 2, Sun mou finally returned home.
Is Sun a murderer?
Will Sun Mou be the murderer? When the police asked her why she hadn't met, she said she was afraid she would be implicated. Ask her where she was at the time of the crime? She was torn apart and only said that she had done nothing? Denying that he harmed Chen, he said that he would not pick up mushrooms, would not go up the mountain, etc., and his attitude was once very tough. However, the situation she said was obviously inconsistent with the situation that the investigators had at the scene, so Sun Mou must be lying.
After a long period of ideological work, Sun admitted to killing Chen, but she said that Chen was plotting against her on the mountain and wanted to sexually assault her, so she did it. However, from the perspective of the injuries on the body of the deceased Chen Mou, there are fewer positive injuries, more injuries on the back, and the fatal injuries are also behind the back, which is in line with the injuries caused by others hitting behind them. If Chen really wants to sexually assault Sun, and Sun accidentally kills Chen during the fight, then the injury will be another situation.
Because sun mou said that there are many loopholes, unable to justify themselves, and finally under the powerful psychological offensive, Sun surrendered his weapons and surrendered, explaining the whole process of her crime, she said: Killing Chen is actually looking at his money. It turned out that before the crime, Chen Mou worked for Sun Mou, and when he was resting, Sun Mou saw Chen Mou's pocket bulging, so he asked Chen What it was, and Chen Mou said that it was money, because he did not know how many, he wanted Sun Mou to help him point out how much.
After Sun took a stack of 100 yuan, she counted and found that there were more than 6,000 yuan, and at that time, Sun Mou's family was short of money, so she started Chen's idea. After that, on the morning of June 30, she took the initiative to invite Chen to go up the mountain to collect mushrooms, and Chen, who knew nothing, took the money as usual and then went up the mountain. After that, under the guidance of Sun Mou, Chen Mou was taken to the remote mountain top, when Chen Mou walked in front, Sun Mou walked behind, and Sun Mou pushed Chen Mou.
Chen Mou crawled face down on the ground and Sun Mou used the back of the scythe in his hand to cut Chen Mou's head and neck. At the same time, Chen asked Sun: Why cut him? And Sun Mou at this time can not care so much, in order to get Chen's 6,000 yuan, he rode on his body again, with a sickle to cut, smash Chen, resulting in his death, and then she took out the money bag inside Chen's clothes, hurriedly fled the scene, because of the extreme fear in her heart, the hat on the head fell on the ground in a hurry and did not notice, and this also became a "life hat".
In addition, Sun Mou confessed that the reason why she wanted to take off Chen's boots was because she was afraid that Chen Would not die, and she could not walk on such a mountain road without taking off her shoes and barefoot, which meant that Chen, who could not walk, would eventually die on the mountain. A rural woman who is praised by people on weekdays, but covets the 6,000 yuan of money of the old man wubao and asks him to go up the mountain and kill the killer, wanting to say that her cruelty is absolutely unforgivable!
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Written in the end: although the case was successfully solved, but some of the things behind the case are worth thinking about, now there are more and more elderly people left behind, and they will put some valuable things around for convenience, and this also allows a miscreant to have an opportunity, so it is recommended that everyone, if there is an elderly person in the family, be sure to tell them, if there is cash, it is best to deposit in the bank.