On July 16, 2006, a huge murder occurred in Hanyin County, Ankang City, Shaanxi Province, which shocked the whole country.
A total of 10 people were brutally killed at the Phoenix Mountain Taoist Temple in the county, including the smashing of the heads of four Taoist staff and the slitting of six tourists, including a child as young as 12 years old.
Among them, the most creepy is the death of the bear Wancheng, whose head was not only smashed, but also cut into the heart and lungs, cooked and sliced, and the eyeballs and tendons were also cruelly picked out.
On July 31, another burglary and robbery occurred at Wanfudian Farm in Suizhou City, seriously injuring three people.
After police investigation, the perpetrator is the same person as the murderer of the 7.16 Phoenix Mountain murder.
From the time of the case to the end, the case shocked the world with "surprise" and "strangeness".
The "shock" of this case lies in the fact that the murderer's modus operandi was extremely cruel, not only dissecting the deceased, killing the person and then setting fire to destroy the corpse, but also leaving shocking blood words such as "Ancient ancestors do not commit adultery and lawbreakers are killed, and the saint is not allowed to kill adulterers and adulterers" and "should be killed".
The "strangeness" of this case is that, according to the account of the murderer who was later arrested, his murder was caused by suspicion that his daughter was not his own child.
What is even more bizarre is that this criminal was later revealed to have a family history of mental illness, but he behaved calmly and clearly at the trial, and once said in front of everyone that he did not regret killing people.
Mentally ill people do not regret killing people?
The two things added together instantly triggered public opinion, and many people even began to panic. Because according to the mainland criminal law, mentally ill persons who violate the law do not apply to the general criminal law and enjoy immunity.
Many Chinese people said that such a mentally ill murderer with a clear thinking can still be safe and sound after killing, and it is chilling to think about.
So, what is the context of the case? What is the final outcome of the murderer?
Suspected that the woman was not biological, she caused a dispute and killed 10 people in the Taoist Temple
Qiu Xinghua, a farmer in Yixin Village, Houliu Town, Shiquan County, Ankang, met his wife He Ranfeng in the town when he was young, and the two eloped to give birth to two daughters and a son.
According to his wife He Mou and an insider who knew Qiu Xinghua, Qiu Xinghua was very concerned about his family in his early years, but he was a traitor and a complete local scoundrel.
It turned out that Qiu Xinghua was proficient in repairing machinery, and even the most difficult home appliances to repair in the 90s were also played, and at the beginning, many people in the village and nearby villages and towns came to him for maintenance.
But gradually, everyone found that his hands and feet were very unclean, and he liked to do things when repairing, let others repair more, bring him a steady stream of business, and slowly, no one came to him to repair things.
The maintenance industry can not continue, coinciding with the birth of three children one after another, family planning in that era, superbirth is to be fined, so Qiu Xinghua can only take his wife and children to hide in Tibet, there has been no stable job, the income can not be talked about.
In order to support their three children, they also owed a bunch of foreign debts, when Qiu Xinghua and his wife and children had to hide from both family planning and creditors.
During the escape, Qiu Xinghua and He Mou finally came to Wusi Village, Daheba Township, Foping County, and fished for 2 years. During the two years, Qiu Xinghua went out early and returned to the land every morning and evening to fish and sell money at stalls, sleeping only a few hours a day at most.
However, the "God of Wealth" did not seem to care much for this family, and Qiu Xinghua found that no matter how hard he tried, the money was not enough, but he could not make ends meet.
Gradually, Qiu Xinghua began to give up on himself and began to smoke and drink all day. Sometimes he came back and was angry with his family for no reason, talking to himself in the room.
Soon, Qiu Xinghua was imprisoned for stealing, and after he was released, he stole again and then went to prison. In this cycle, he has completely become a social scum.
However, his wife He Mou recalled her husband's efforts over the years, and after all, she still couldn't bear it, so she didn't leave him.
He Mou did not expect that it was his own inability to abandon it, but instead laid the foundation for Qiu Xinghua's earth-shattering crime.
In April 2006, the couple went to work together at a highway construction office in the county, but this time they did not make any money. From this time on, Qiu Xinghua and He Began to disagree, often quarreling, and sometimes punching and kicking each other.
One day, the couple was hanging out together in Shiquan County, when suddenly an old man with a white beard pulled Qiu Xinghua aside and said to him: "Seeing that you have a heavy heart, do you want to count for you?" ”
After calculating, the white-bearded old man said to him: "You are unlucky, just go to the Phoenix Mountain, find two stone tablets of your ancestors, and usually burn some incense to transport." ”
On June 14, 2006, Qiu Xinghua and He Mou came to Phoenix Mountain in Hanyin County with the attitude of being suspicious of the letter. Unexpectedly, they found two stone tablets engraved with the surnames of their ancestors in the Taoist Temple of the Iron Tile Hall on the mountain.
At this point, Qiu Xinghua was convinced of the fateful theory of feng shui.
He found that the two stone tablets had been used by the Taoist Temple as stepping stones, which made Qiu Xinghua even more suspicious that the Taoist people had damaged his family's feng shui, so that he was unlucky.
Therefore, without consulting with the Taoist Temple, Qiu Xinghua dug up the stone stele without authorization and moved it to be placed under the eaves of the Temple.
Qiu Xinghua's behavior quickly aroused the dissatisfaction and suppression of the staff of Guan Nei, and on the grounds that "the stone stele is the object of Guan Nei", he ordered him to put the original object back.
For this reason, the two sides caused a dispute, almost to the point of fists and feet.
At that time, there were not only 3 staff members in the Taoist Temple, but also 6 believers to help, and Qiu Xinghua saw that the husband and wife were slightly disadvantaged, so he could only put the stone stele back with resentment.
After the stone stele was put back, Qiu Xinghua took the opportunity to rely on the excuse of providing for the Taoist Temple, but the staff inside the Taoist Temple saw that he wanted to secretly move the stone stele away, so he quarreled with it again.
At this time, when Xiong Wancheng, the abbot of Guannei, rushed back from the field, he wanted to reconcile the contradictions between the two sides and called Qiu Xinghua and He Mou together to speak.
However, for the stone stele, Qiu Xinghua was very stubborn, that is, to move away. Xiong Wancheng was helpless, and the contradictions between the two sides could not be reconciled.
At this time, Qiu Xinghua's mood was already very irritable, and what made him most angry was that he found that Xiong Wancheng seemed to be secretly looking at his wife He Moumei.
Subconsciously, Qiu Xinghua suspected that his wife He Mou had an adulterous affair with Xiong Wancheng, and his inner violence also completely broke out, shouting in front of Xiong Wancheng to make them look good.
At that time, the people in the view felt that Qiu Xinghua was a little abnormal, talking crazy, and did not go to his heart much.
On the same day, Qiu Xinghua and He Mou went down the mountain to leave, and because of their dissatisfaction with his wife, Qiu Xinghua fought with He Mou again.
After that, the husband and wife parted ways, and He did not know that her husband Qiu Xinghua did not go down the mountain, but took a detour to return to fulfill his devilish vow of terror.
After descending the mountain, Qiu Xinghua did not know where to find a dog and went up the mountain again.
After entering the temple, everyone had already gone to sleep, and Qiu Xinghua secretly found the machete he had hidden before, went to the room of Xiong Wancheng and 4 other sleeping Taoist staff, and slashed several knives at the heads of several people.
None of the four of them reacted, and they had already swallowed their breath.
After that, Qiu Xinghua remembered the 6 believers who helped during the day, and then came to the believers' room and cut their throats with machetes one by one.
At this time, Qiu Xinghua still did not understand the hatred, and thought that Xiong Wancheng might have an affair with his wife, and returned to the room of the 4 dead Guannei staff, and used a machete to cut out Xiong Wancheng's heart and lungs, and picked out the eyeballs and tendons.
What is even more creepy is that Qiu Xinghua sliced Xiong Wancheng's heart and lungs, sautéed them in a pot, placed them on a plate, and fed them to the dogs he brought.
After doing all this, Qiu Xinghua burned all the murder weapons he had killed, and then came to the Guannei Hall and wrote the shocking word "should be killed" everywhere.
Outside the gate of the main hall, Qiu Xinghua each wrote the words "Ancient ancestors do not commit adultery and kill violators" and "Saints are not allowed to adulterers and adulterers", and then took the money and wealth of Xiong Wancheng and others and left.
As soon as the murder case came out, the whole country was shocked, and the leaders of Shaanxi Province attached great importance to it and ordered the public security department to solve the case as soon as possible, bring the murderer to justice, and return justice to the victim's family.
On July 26, the Ministry of Public Security issued a Class A arrest warrant offering a reward of 50,000 yuan for the arrest of Qiu Xinghua, a 47-year-old fugitive suspect.
After Qiu Xinghua killed people, he knew that he would be wanted and hunted down, so he did not return home, but traveled to various places to start a career of escape.
Butcher knife up again 1000
On July 31, 2006, Qiu Xinghua fled to Suizhou City, Hubei Province, where he found a friend he had known in business at Wanfudian Farm in Zengdu District.
At that time, the network was not as developed as it is today, and the channels for low-level workers to receive news were very closed, so when Qiu Xinghua came to find Wei Yikai, he also warmly entertained Qiu Xinghua.
That night, Qiu Xinghua deliberately used the excuse of doing dried fish business to pull Wei mou to drink with him, with the intention of drunking Wei mou and killing people.
After drinking and eating, Wei was drunk and unconscious.
When the night was dark and the wind was high, Qiu Xinghua once again swung a butcher knife and used a machete to slash several knives at the heads of Wei Mou and his wife and children, and the three of them were directly seriously injured and unconscious.
After committing the crime again, Qiu Xinghua grabbed 1302 yuan in cash from the box and cabinet, and once again flew away.
Only this time, Qiu Xinghua only sought wealth and did not have a vendetta, and it seemed that there was room for killing people.
Among the three people, only One of Them, Wei Mou, died on September 9 after being sent to the hospital, and although Wei's wife and child were seriously injured, they were fortunate to save their lives after the doctor's full rescue.
In this way, Qiu Xinghua persecuted 11 people in half a month, and after grabbing cash, he began to take the train back to Ankang again. Since then, many people have called the police to claim that they have rubbed shoulders with the demon, but Qiu Xinghua is very cunning.
From July 16, the crime, to August 19, before the arrest, for more than a month, the police could not find any trace of Qiu Xinghua, and they could not arrest him for a long time.
Drag the net to pursue the murderer
On August 2, 2006, Qiu Xinghua fled back to his hometown of Houliu Town, Shiquan County, and has been hiding in a nearby mountain for a long time without showing his face.
At more than 6 p.m. on the same day, a peasant woman in the village who went up the mountain to fight pig grass found Qiu Xinghua hiding on the mountain, and then called the police, and the police were able to learn the information that Qiu Xinghua had fled back to his hometown, and soon began a dragnet operation against his activity area.
In the early morning of August 3, the Ankang Municipal Public Security Bureau immediately mobilized the police forces of Hanyin and Shiquan counties, plus dozens of armed police officers from the municipal armed police detachment, and a total of more than 200 police officers began to search and arrest qiu Xinghua's activities.
In addition, the government also mobilized all cadres from nearby mountain villages to take the villagers up the mountain to help the police lead the way, set up cards and search for arrests.
Although in the process of searching and arresting, the police found a number of suspected hiding places of Qiu Xinghua, and also found many clothes, food and living utensils similar to Qiu Xinghua's hiding and escaping, but they could not see Qiu Xinghua's figure.
Seeing that there had been no trace of Qiu Xinghua for a long time, the police were also caught in a dilemma, and they had a headache for a while.
At this time, some enthusiastic people suggested that Qiu Xinghua grew up here, and he was familiar with every grass and tree in the mountains, and if he wanted to hide, it would be too difficult to catch it, and he could let his family come forward to try it.
The police also found Qiu Xinghua's wife, He Mou, through He's introduction, the police were able to learn that Qiu Xinghua had been very fond of his family, especially the two daughters, and they may be able to become the help of the police to find Qiu Xinghua.
So the police persuaded them to go up the mountain together to find Qiu Xinghua, trying to lure the snake out of the hole.
On August 5, hundreds of police officers were still searching for Qiu Xinghua in a dragnet on the mountain, and from time to time on the mountain, the voice of Qiu Xinghua's daughter shouting at her father with a microphone was heard: "Daddy, I and my mother and brother have come to find you, you have been surrounded, you come out, we still want to see you, Dad..."
However, the careful layout of the police still had little effect, and Qiu Xinghua still did not appear.
On August 10, in order to call on nearby villagers to actively participate in the police arrest plan and arrest Qiu Xinghua as soon as possible, the Public Security Department increased the reward for Qiu Xinghua's arrest to 100,000 yuan.
At the same time, the police once again increased the number of police officers, and the scope of the search became narrower and narrower, shrinking to 20 square kilometers in two nearby townships.
After Qiu Xinghua committed the earth-shattering murder of 10 people, he still escaped and failed to be arrested, which caused a lot of panic in society.
With the prolongation of time, the impact has become worse and worse, especially in the nearby townships where Qiu Xinghua committed the crime, which has caused panic among the people.
Television stations, newspapers and online media broadcast daily reports on the pursuit of Qiu Xinghua, and many people are closely following the follow-up news about Qiu Xinghua's case, expecting the police to arrest the "demon" as soon as possible.
Just when the police could not find Qiu Xinghua's hidden tracks for a long time, the staff of the Shaanxi Provincial Public Security Department suddenly received a mysterious phone call.
The person on the other end of the phone claimed that he had special information about Qiu Xinghua that could be provided to the police to help the police solve the case as soon as possible.
The caller is Liu Xiwei, chief physician and professor of a mental health center in Jiangsu. Since the qiu xinghua case, he has been paying close attention to the latest developments in the case.
When he learned in the newspaper that Qiu Xinghua's whereabouts had been erratic and that the police had been unable to arrest him for a long time, Liu Xiwei roughly deduced the trajectory of Qiu Xinghua's activities from the details of his crime and the description of his information by the police.
Qiu Xiwei told the police: "You had better go to a place that Qiu Xinghua is familiar with and try to catch it!" ”
Through an analysis of Qiu Xinghua's series of information, Liu Xiwei believes that Qiu Xinghua's behavior is highly similar to that of a mentally ill person. Therefore, he boldly followed the activity habits of mentally ill people and provided the police with Qiu Xinghua's possible whereabouts.
After receiving Liu Xiwei's special information, the police did not dare to be careless, and immediately organized the police force to be dispatched to Qiu Xinghua's hometown and his rented home for strict control.
At the same time, the search and capture net for the nearby hills where he had appeared was also further reduced, and all the places where Qiu Xinghua might take food and water were tightly controlled, with the purpose of striking grass and snakes and forcing Qiu Xinghua to return to his familiar place to hide or obtain food.
On the afternoon of August 19, the police received a report that Qiu Xinghua was suspected to have appeared near daheba Town.
At about 8 p.m., Qiu Xinghua took advantage of the cover of night to return to his rental house and was arrested by 4 police officers on the spot.
In the process of arrest, Qiu Xinghua's wife and children were also there, and when they saw that Qiu Xinghua was about to be arrested, they actually shouted loudly in an attempt to interfere with police law enforcement.
Finally, under the persuasion of the police at the scene, they gave up the action of interfering with police law enforcement.
In the process of being arrested by the police handling the case, Qiu Xinghua also bit the right arm of the cadre police officer Li Fei fiercely, during which he also shouted loudly to his family: "Quickly find me a kitchen knife, find a kitchen knife!" ”
His family could only plead bitterly on the side to beg him not to do evil again, and persuaded him to give up resistance and cooperate with the police in handling the case.
What surprised everyone was that at this time, Qiu Xinghua was unusual, and when he left, he bitterly exhorted his three sons and daughters to behave in a disciplined manner in the future, abide by discipline and the law, learn from his good side, and never learn from his bad side.
A high-sounding excuse to kill
After Qiu Xinghua was arrested, when the police interrogated him, Qiu Xinghua not only confessed to his murder, but also looked calm and calm like an outsider throughout the whole process, which made the police with many years of experience in handling cases shudder.
According to Qiu Xinghua's account, the reason why he killed the ten people of the Taoist Temple was entirely because of hatred.
In particular, the cruel dissection of the corpse and cook the master Xiong Wancheng was entirely due to suspicion of revenge for his adultery with his wife He Mou.
As for the later cruelty to Wei's family, it was completely forced to seek wealth under helplessness.
Before finding Wei, he had tried to borrow money from many villagers without success, and he needed money to help him escape and evade the police, so he chose the Wei family to start.
On October 19, at the trial site of Qiu Xinghua's case, Qiu Xinghua began to look left and right and did not say a word since entering the scene. It wasn't until I saw a familiar reporter in the crowd that I smiled and nodded to him, and then sat down steadily, and the scene made everyone look at it and sigh secretly.
During the trial, in the face of questions from the presiding judge and the prosecutor, Qiu Xinghua actually talked about it the whole time, as if it was not he who killed someone else.
He claimed to have witnessed the adulterous affair between his wife He Mou and the spectator Xiong Wancheng, and repeatedly insisted that he killed people for the sake of "the dignity of a man", for reasons that sounded grand, as if he regarded human life as a grass.
The most surprising thing is that after committing such an inexcusable crime as the 10-point murder case, Qiu Xinghua actually filed an appeal on the last day of the statutory deadline for filing an appeal at the end of the trial, and the reason for the appeal surprised everyone.
Qiu Xinghua insisted that his appeal was not for fear of death, but for his dignity and reputation, and no matter what, he would make his wife He Mou and the dead audience bear Wancheng pay the price and be discredited.
The court agreed to his appeal and began gathering information to prepare for the second hearing.
Shooting controversy over "mental illness"
In the process of arresting Qiu Xinghua, who had escaped, the police constantly had psychiatric experts think that Qiu Xinghua was suspected of being mentally ill and put forward suggestions for arrest.
After Qiu Xinghua was arrested, psychiatric experts in China came forward one after another to say that Qiu Xinghua's murder was suspected of being a case of mentally ill people, and suggested that the judge should be cautious in sentencing, in the words of expert Liu Xiwei: "The people on the mountain have come down to move!" ”
As soon as this argument came out, it set off a heated discussion among the Chinese people on the Qiu Xinghua case, but how to sentence it was still up to the judge to decide.
In the end, in view of Qiu Xinghua's cruelty in killing and his clear thinking on the crime, the judge held that Qiu Xinghua's case was not suitable for the case of mentally ill people, and sentenced him to death in the first instance.
While waiting for the second trial, a number of psychiatric experts once again made public statements holding that Qiu Xinghua's performance was extremely abnormal, and there was a typical "crazy robbery" performance of mentally ill people, which was both cruel killing, residual killing, and indiscriminate killing of innocents.
Another characteristic is the delusion of non-blood, jealousy, and persecution, which obviously has been confirmed by Qiu Xinghua, who advises judges to be cautious in sentencing and not to cause unjust, false and wrongly decided cases.
Because Qiu Xinghua appealed after the death sentence was pronounced at the first instance, his wife also supported and cooperated with Qiu Xinghua's appeal for Qiu Xinghua's death, and broke the ground that the Qiu family did have a history of mental illness.
According to He Mou, the police took the certificate, Qiu Xinghua's mother He Shichun reached middle age, suddenly went crazy, scolded people all day for no reason, and when he was alone, he was crazy and crazy, and he was a "crazy woman" known near and far.
Ruan Shiliang, a villager close to Qiu Xinghua's grandmother's house, introduced that Qiu Xinghua's grandmother Huo Shi was also a madman, and he Defu, a nephew of He Shichun, suddenly went crazy after starting a family, which shows that their family has a family genetic disease.
According to family genetic diseases, if the situation is conclusive, then Qiu Xinghua may indeed suffer from family inherited mental illness.
According to mainland law, the murder of mentally ill persons is not punished by criminal law.
That is to say, It is very likely that Qiu Xinghua will not only be able to avoid the death penalty after brutal killing, but even be exempt from sanctions.
"Qiu Xinghua is either mentally ill or will he be exempt from sanctions?!" The report once again detonated public opinion.
"No regrets!"
At the second trial, the presiding judge again pronounced a verdict upholding the original judgment of the first instance on the grounds that "Qiu Xinghua was cruel in killing people, had a clear line of thought in committing the crime, was meticulous in evading the pursuit of the case, and did not measure the case of the murder of a mentally ill person.", and immediately executed Qiu Xinghua.
When everyone stood up and listened to the presiding judge read out the results, Qiu Xinghua once again showed a strange smile.
The presiding judge thought he had not heard clearly and asked him: "Defendant Qiu Xinghua, did you hear the outcome of the trial?" ”
Qiu Xinghua's reaction throughout the whole process was not like any criminal who had been sentenced to death in the past.
He was not hysterical, nor did he cry or roar, but accepted all this very calmly and silently, and no one knew the truest thoughts in his heart.
When Qiu Xinghua was about to get on the car and escort him to the execution site, a reporter chased after him and asked loudly: "Qiu Xinghua, do you regret it?" (Refers to whether he regrets killing people.) ）
At this time, all the reporters and people waiting at the scene were all holding their breath and waiting for Qiu Xinghua's answer, and even the criminal police stopped to listen to the last voice in the heart of the murderer who shocked the whole country.
Unexpectedly, Qiu Xinghua once again replied with a surprising and faint voice- "No regrets!" ”
Recalling the original Magaju case, Magajue also suffered from mental illness, and as a result, the investigation was completely unsuccessful, and the judge sentenced him to death in court.
In the face of the law, the heavenly reason is clear, the sky net is restored, and anyone who commits a crime and kills a person will be punished by its thunder and pay its due price.
The Qiu Xinghua case once again shows the world that "mental illness" is no longer a place of escape and refuge after the prisoners kill people, and it may also be a utopia that the murderers have committed adultery.
Resources:
"Documentary of the 'Big Case' Suspected Woman's Non-Biological Causes Dispute to Brutalize 10 Taoist People, And Was Shot to Cause Controversy Over Whether they Are Mentally Ill" - Shaanxi Legal Network
"The demon Qiu Xinghua, who killed 10 people in a row in one night, may be acquitted if he is suspected of being mentally ill" - Oriental Today