On July 3, 2012, the Shanghai Municipal Railway Public Security received a report that a serious theft had occurred in the south square of Shanghai Railway Station.
Mr. Liu, the reporter, claimed that one of his briefcases was inadvertently stolen, which not only contained 60,000 yuan in cash, but also carried important items including his own unit seal and bank card, and that if he lost it, it would be a heavy loss for him.
Considering that the case had just occurred, the Shanghai Railway Public Security immediately retrieved the surveillance video around the scene of the crime, and the police locked the suspect in the surveillance video.
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A few days later, the police arrested the suspects Li Dajun, Hong Houyu, He Zuoguo, and Wei Qiu, and during the interrogation of this case, the abnormal behavior of the suspect Wei Qiu aroused the suspicion of the police.
This Wei Qiu claimed to be from Yueyang, Hunan, but the southerners generally preferred rice, but Wei Qiu loved noodles alone.
In addition, this Wei Qiu claimed to have lost his father at an early age and had wandered the country at the age of 8, and according to the confessions of his accomplices, Wei Qiu's wife and son had come to Shanghai to visit him a few days ago.
If what his accomplices said was true, then why did this defender lie to the police?
With such doubts in mind, the police immediately launched a very detailed investigation into Wei Qiu, and the results of this investigation led to the death penalty for the crime of theft! What's going on here?
Prison "regulars" are full of doubts
This man who called himself "Wei Qiu" behaved extremely abnormally when he first entered the police station, and he was not the main criminal in this case, not only did he give a clear account of his criminal experience, but even the activities he had done a few days ago were also shaken clean to the police, and the performance of "Wei Qiu" in the whole interrogation process could be described as extremely cooperative, and the confession attitude was extremely good, but this good confession attitude aroused the suspicion of the police.
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According to the police investigation, this "weiqiu" is a down-to-earth prison "regular".
Since 2004, he has been arrested and sentenced by the public security organs six times, and the last time he was sentenced to a year for a crime, he was arrested again shortly after he came out.
In this way, the police became curious about Wei Qiu, why didn't this "Wei Qiu", who was helpless in Shanghai like a "lone ghost", go back to his hometown? To the police's questioning, Wei Qiu replied bluntly:
"I don't have a home, my dad died when I was 8 years old, my whole family died."
In July 2012, in order to confirm the claim of "Wei Qiu", the Shanghai Railway Public Security searched for the personal information of "Wei Qiu" on the national population inquiry system, and the results obtained were only four big words - "No such person".
At this time, Zhang Jianguo, a veteran criminal policeman with many years of experience in handling cases, vaguely felt that this "wei qiu" was not simple, and there must be other secrets hidden behind him.
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After that, the police started from the other three accomplices of "Wei Qiu" to get some information about him from the mouths of these three people, and a confession of Hong Houyu, who had a good personal relationship with "Wei Qiu", gradually gave the police a clue.
According to Hong Houyu, in early June, Wei Qiu's wife and son came to Shanghai to see him, and several people sat together and ate.
During the banquet, Hong Houyu once asked the little boy why his father did not go home, but the little boy told him:
"My dad can't go home, and he'll be arrested as soon as he gets home."
Why did Wei Qiu hide his home from the police? Why was "Wei Qiu" arrested as soon as he returned to his hometown?
In order to solve the many mysteries on "Wei Qiu", the police immediately conducted an in-depth investigation of him, and in "Wei Qiu's personal belongings", the police found a suspicious bank card.
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Although this bank card is in the pocket of "Wei Qiu", its signature is an 18-year-old young man named "Niu Pengyong", which makes the police very strange, why is the bank card of "Niu Pengyong" in the pocket of "Wei Qiu"? With doubts, the police launched an investigation into this "Niu Pengyong".
According to the police investigation, this "Niu Pengyong" is just an ordinary young man in Hancheng, Shaanxi Province, without any bad cases, but this "Niu Pengyong" also has a father named "Niu Kangbin", this person is a bit not simple.
When the Shanghai police searched for the personal information of "Niu Kangbin" in the national population inquiry system, the information displayed on the computer screen really frightened them. According to the data, this Niu Kangbin was listed as a "fugitive" by the police in 1995 for intentional homicide, and what surprised the police even more was that the appearance of this "Niu Kangbin" was exactly the same as the "Wei Qiu" they had just captured!
On August 3, 2012, "Wei Qiu", who was wearing a prison uniform, was once again taken to the interrogation room by the police, who had thought that this interrogation was also the same as before, "taking a form", and he had already thought of the words to deal with in his heart, but when "Wei Qiu" just sat down, the words spoken by the chief police officer Zhang Jianguo made him sweat and stand upside down and his face changed dramatically. Only to see Zhang Jianguo say lightly to "Wei Qiu":
"Should I call you today?" Or should you be called Niu Kangbin? ”
Hearing Zhang Jianguo say such a thing, Wei Qiu's eyelids jumped, and he couldn't even say a word, he had a premonition, he felt that his identity that had been hidden for 17 years was finally exposed.
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Without waiting for wei qiu to respond, Zhang Jianguo said to him categorically:
"You don't call it 'Wei Qiu' at all!" Your real name is Niu Kangbin, and you are not from Yueyang, Hunan, you are from Hancheng, Shaanxi! You're not alone! Because you still have a son named Niu Pengyong! I still have your ID number here, do you need me to read it to you? ”
In the face of overwhelming evidence, "Wei Qiu" had nothing to say at all. After 20 minutes of silence, "Wei Qiu" finally spoke, only to see him cover his head with his hands and say remorsefully:
"I'm going to die!" I'm going to die this time!" ”
The silence of "Wei Qiu" and the last words he said already represented his attitude, but what kind of crime did he commit 17 years ago? In these 17 years, how did he escape the police? It all started from that summer 17 years ago.
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Mystery within mystery, case within case
In 1995, the 25-year-old Niu Kangbin had just been married for more than a year, and his wife gave birth to a big fat boy for him, and the family was very happy.
The Niu family has several acres of land in the local area, and on weekdays, Niu Kangbin and his brother and father go down to the field to cultivate the land to feed the whole family, and the Niu family's field is close to the neighbor Feng family's field, and the relationship between the two families is good, but it is often inseparable because of the junction of the field.
On this day, the old man of the Feng family came to the door, he said that Niu Kangbin's father had erected the "boundary stone" on his family's field to occupy his family's land, Niu Kangbin's father heard old Feng say that he occupied the land and was angry, and then the two old people quarreled, and the young people of the two families also participated in the quarrel.
The sons of Niu Kangbin and Old Master Feng were fighting for their respective fathers, and they were about to fight. In the quarrel, the flesh-and-blood Niu Kangbin picked up the hoe on the ground next to him and struck a blow at Old Master Feng's son, and he fell to the ground in response to the unsuspecting voice, and then the blood flowed to the ground.
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Seeing that Old Master Feng's son had fallen in a pool of blood, Niu Kangbin panicked instantly, and he and his brother rushed home and spent 4 days in panic and uneasiness.
On the fourth day after the incident, a bad news reached the Niu family - Old Master Feng's son died!
Niu Kangbin and his brother knew that they had broken into a terrible disaster, and at that time, the family persuaded their brothers to take the initiative to surrender themselves, but the panicked Niu Kangbin said that he would not say anything.
"Killing people to pay for their lives, paying off debts" is a matter of course in his impression, and now that he has killed people, even if he turns himself in, he will only die. Therefore, in order to survive, Niu Kangbin and his younger brother Niu Kangmin escaped from their hometown overnight.
Niu Kangbin's younger brother was captured by the police shortly after his escape, and Niu Kangbin, who escaped the disaster, went to Zhengzhou, Henan Province, where he lived a life of anonymity and no fixed home.
In order not to be caught by the police, Niu Kangbin did not dare to find a job at all, and could only wander around the railway station all day long, where he could do some sneaking chickens and dogs.
In those days, Niu Kangbin's life was even worse than that of a dog, he could only sleep in the public seat of the train station every day, and when he was hungry, he even ate the leftovers in the garbage can.
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Long-term life like ants has made Niu Kangbin's heart change, he gradually became less verbal, violent personality, watching after such a long time the police did not find themselves, Niu Kangbin's fluke psychology became heavier and heavier, and finally driven by desire, Niu Kangbin once again picked up the "hoe" full of blood!
On May 25, 1998, a small, remote house on North Railway Station Road in Zhengzhou became the target of Niu Kangbin. After several days of squatting, Niu Kangbin and several other accomplices had roughly understood the basic situation of the family, there was only a young couple living in the family, and it was remote, and there were almost no pedestrians on the side of the road in the middle of the night.
Late that night, Niu Kangbin and others took advantage of the night to break into the room, Niu Kangbin kicked open the simple wooden door, picked up the machete in his hand and slashed at the body of the man, only to see the man fall in a pool of blood after issuing a few screams.
After solving the man's problem, Niu Kangbin shifted his gaze to the hostess, who was already paralyzed with fright. Niu Kangbin looked at this woman and suddenly became distraught, and he rudely removed the hostess's pants and wantonly vented his animal lust.
On May 26, 1998, early in the morning, Yang Guirong came to her sister's home on North Station Road, but when she walked to her sister's door, she was surprised to find that her sister's door was not closed, and when she pushed the door open, everything in front of her surprised her.
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He only saw his brother-in-law lying in a pool of blood, as if he had lost his life, and the sister on the other side was also covered in blood, but unlike his brother-in-law, his sister was still breathing weakly at this time.
Yang Guirong immediately called the 120 emergency number and the 110 police number, but unfortunately, in the end, his sister still died of her injuries.
At that time, the bloody scene in the house left a deep impression on Yang Guirong, and even today, Yang Guirong would still feel shocked!
"At that time, this thing scared me for several years, and I was afraid when I thought about it, and I was afraid when I thought about it!" ——Yang Guirong
Due to the bad nature of the case, the Zhengzhou police attached great importance to the case, and after a week of hard work, the suspects in the case, Suchao Xiukuan and others, were all arrested and sentenced to death shortly thereafter.
According to the police investigation, there should be 4 people who are responsible for this murder, and this person named Niu Kangbin disappeared like evaporation in the world after committing the crime.
The Zhengzhou police then launched a large-scale search for Niu Kangbin, but in the end they could not catch him, and Niu Kangbin once again escaped from the police's net.
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Since then, Niu Kangbin, who has carried 3 lives on his back, chose to go to Shanghai, and still chose to operate near the railway station, still relying on illegal activities to make a living, which is why he was arrested by the police more than once and returned to the police station.
After so many arrests, did the police not find out his true identity? It turned out that in order to hide his identity as a murderer, Niu Kangbin had his own "magic tricks".
First of all, in order to hide his identity, Niu Kangbin gave himself a pseudonym called "Wei Qiu", and every time he was arrested, Niu Kangbin would report a pseudonym, so that the police would not associate him with the murderer Niu Kangbin.
Secondly, after each arrest, Niu Kangbin actively confessed the facts of the crime and put on a good confession attitude, which avoided the police's questioning of him, and the "peace and quiet" of the first six prisons also confirmed that this "magic trick" really worked.
But there is an old saying that "often walk by the river, where can not wet shoes", this perennial under the cat's mouth to steal the rat, one day will be in a different place ah.
What Niu Kangbin did not expect was that his son's inadvertent words sent him to the guillotine, and this time his "magic trick" failed, and this time his evil mouse finally burrowed into the cat's mouth.
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Carrying 3 lives, Niu Kangbin has a huge psychological burden, in these seventeen years of fugitive life, he has hardly slept a solid sleep, always afraid that the next second will be caught by the police.
Today, Niu Kangbin, who was sentenced to death, is much more relaxed, and when this dream that he dreamed of countless times in his nightmares becomes a reality, Niu Kangbin's heart, which has been mentioned for 17 years, has finally been released.
Later, when the TV reporter asked Niu Kangbin how he felt at this moment, Niu Kangbin's answer was only two words - regret.
epilogue:
If you knew that, why did you do it in the first place? If Niu Kangbin, who was holding a hoe at that time, could calm down a little more, he would not be locked up in a cold prison today;
If Niu Kangbin, who had fled in the beginning, could have surrendered himself, perhaps he would have already lived an ordinary life today; if Niu Kangbin, who was standing in front of the hut door, could wake up in time, perhaps his life could still be saved.
But the biggest regret in the world is that there is no if, niu Kangbin's story tells us to be calm when things happen, and to think twice about doing things!