I believe that many readers have seen such a plot, and even relished it: the men and women who were originally in love broke out of contradictions because of some unexpected changes or things in life, and finally made a lot of trouble. It is true that disputes between men and women like this have always been one of the most eye-catching bridges in all kinds of film and television dramas, but if such a plot really happens in reality, no matter which side it is, it will often be very uncomfortable.
The case of the body in the Cixi Loft in Ningbo, which occurred in 2006 and caused an uproar in public opinion at the time, traced back to the source, also because of the contradictions in the relationship between men and women. The victim Hu Jianming and the murderer Xu Dan were originally a loving couple, but later because of Xu Dan's parents' interference in the relationship and Xu Dan's own irresponsible behavior, a conflict broke out between the couples, and finally Xu Dan killed Hu Jianming, decomposed his body, and hid it in the attic of the house.
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This hiding is ten years. For ten years, Hu Jianming's family has always thought that he ran away from home and went to work in other places to earn money, but he did not expect to die in his girlfriend's home. The Hu family, who knew the truth, found it difficult to accept the truth, and they angrily sued Xu Dan in court, and the judge gave Xu Dan the trial he deserved.
Many people have different questions about this case. Quarrels between couples are very common things, and sometimes it is not very rare for both parties to move their hands, but what kind of contradictions led Xu Dan to kill her boyfriend? Or even to split the body after killing? How did Xu Dan explain to the Hu family in the past ten years? The bones were hidden above the attic, why had the Xu family not found them?
With these questions in mind, we have to start from the day the Xu family's mother found the bones, and piece together the whole picture of this confusing case little by little.
Cleaning the attic found amazing skeletons, the identity is surprising
March 7, 2006, Cixi, Ningbo. It was about 10 o'clock in the morning, and a family surnamed Xu was doing a comprehensive cleaning of their house. The xu family's conditions are quite good in the local area, and a three-story cottage was built twelve years ago. There is also an additional loft on the top of this small villa, but this loft has not been used since the villa was built. Today, in order to clean up inside and out, Xu's mother came back to the attic for the first time.
After opening the door, a foul smell came from inside. Mother Xu searched for the smell and found three old-fashioned woven bags in the corner of the attic. One of the bags contained a wooden box, and it was from here that the stench came from. Xu's mother didn't know what was in it, so she first moved everything downstairs, packed it all up, and then opened it.
By noon, Xu's mother had almost cleaned up the house, and Xu's father had returned. The couple thought about opening the strange box. But I don't know if I open it, and I am shocked when I open it. Inside the box was a pair of bones with worn-out leather shoes, an axe for chopping meat and a pair of scissors. The two old men had seen such a scene and quickly called their son back. The son was also shocked when he returned, and called a friend who was familiar with the skeletal structure to see what it was.
In the end, it was concluded that this pair of bones was a human leg bone! At this point, the family quickly called the police. The police quickly arrived at their house, and based on the clues provided by Xu's mother, they searched for a fourth woven bag in other corners of the attic. After pouring out all the contents of the pouch and cleaning it up, the police quickly pieced together an incomplete human skeleton on the ground. Some of the bones still have remnants of muscle, crawling with creeping maggots.
There are still some remnants of clothing on these skeletons, and it is possible to distinguish cardigans, suits and other clothing, most of which are fragmented. One or two worn-out business cards and blurred IDENTITY cards were found from the tattered suit, but the name of the owner of the ID card was still faintly visible: Hu Jianming.
The two elderly people of the Xu family were a little surprised to hear this name, because Hu Jianming was their daughter Xu Dan's ex-boyfriend who had been missing for ten years!
Missing for ten years, daughter Xu Dan's ex-boyfriend. The police grasped these two key points of information, so they sent the remains of the remains to the forensic department for examination, hoping to dig out more clues from them, and followed the information on the remaining business cards and ID cards to the home of the suspected deceased Hu Jianming to investigate.
The police intervened to investigate the background of the deceased, and the facts of the case were confusing
After the police came to the Hu family, they asked the two elderly people of the Hu family about Hu Jianming's situation. Hu Jianming's father seemed a little excited, and waited for the police to explain his intentions before slowly calming down. This change in mood caught the attention of the police, but first asked for some information related to Hu Jianming.
From the old man's mouth, the police learned something more detailed. Hu Jianming is a veteran who became deputy director of a local plastic factory after demobilization. Xu Dan, the daughter of the Xu family, is his girlfriend, and the two are classmates in junior high school and high school, and secretly talked about love when they were still in school. After graduation, Hu Jianming joined the army, and Xu Dan was admitted to the normal school.
Hu Jianming
Later, the two people also met each other's parents, and the second elder of the Hu family still remembered that when Hu Jianming took Xu Dan home, they were quite satisfied with the other aspects of the girl in addition to having some opinions about the fact that the two children were in early love. When he thought that the couple would soon get married, Hu Jianming suddenly ran away from home.
The word runaway from home used by the Hu family's father made the police a little confused. When they were investigating the Xu family before, the Xu family said that they were missing. It seems that there is indeed something catty behind this. So the police asked why he confirmed that Hu Jianming had run away from home and not disappeared.
Hu Jianming's father confessed that although Hu Jianming had not returned home in the past ten years, he would always pass on some news from time to time. And the person who delivered the news for him was his girlfriend Xu Dan. It is precisely because there have been people passing on the letter, so Hu Jianming's father thinks that his son is just busy in the field, and when he sees the police to investigate his son's background information, he thinks that he has committed something before he is a little excited.
The same person was mentioned in both investigations: Xu Dan. The police officer in charge of the visit believed that the woman should be the key person in the case, so he decided to leave for Xu Dan's home after the investigation of the Hu family and asked her about some things at that time. However, they first sampled the DNA of the Hu family to confirm the true identity of the owner of the body.
Soon, the results of the forensic department's examination came out. After DNA comparison, it was confirmed that the owner of the skeleton was Hu Jianming. When the news reached the Hu family, it immediately caused the second elder of the Hu family to fall into a collapse. They always thought that Hu Jianming just went out to work, but they didn't expect him to die. Hu Jianming's mother also often cleaned the room that belonged to Hu Jianming, and maybe he would come back one day.
However, after confirming that Hu Jianming was dead, Hu Jianming's family began to suspect that if he had been dead for ten years, then why did Xu Dan lie to them? So they relayed to the police the whereabouts that Xu Dan had told them about Hu Jianming's whereabouts over the years.
After a quarrel, he ran away from home and almost never heard from him
Hu's father told police that He had disappeared after attending his cousin's wedding. Logically, After the wedding, Hu Jianming was going home, but in the evening Hu Jianming still did not go home. So Hu Jianming's father tried to contact Hu Jianming with a pager, but he never got in touch.
It wasn't until the next day that a friend who had attended the wedding with Hu Jianming also found out that he was missing, so he told Hu Jianming's father that he had seen Hu Jianming go to the home of his girlfriend Xu Dan. Hu Jianming's father then called to ask Xu Dan what had happened, and Xu Dan told him that the two people had a fight, and she drove Hu Jianming away in a fit of anger. Hu Jianming's father felt at that time that the two young people had a conflict, and it was understandable that Hu Jianming had left in a negative mood.
Not long after, Xu Dan called again to say that Hu Jianming had contacted her, saying that after the previous night's quarrel, he wanted to go out to do business and make money, so xu Dan went to the Industrial and Commercial Bank to get six thousand yuan to lend him, and he would wait for her there.
Originally thought that it was because of emotional contradictions and did not go home for a while, but now I have to go to work in other places. Hu Jianming's father quickly called a few of his sons' friends, chartered a car and rushed to the place agreed upon by Hu Jianming and Xu Dan, hoping to persuade this strong son again and let him think about it again.
However, when they arrived, there was only Xu Dan there. When I asked, I learned that Hu Jianming had been waiting for Xu Dan here for a long time, and as soon as he took the money, he went to the station to buy a ticket. Hu Jianming's father had no choice but to take a group of people to the station to find Hu Jianming, but after looking for half a day, he still did not find Hu Jianming's figure.
Since that day, the Hu family has not seen Hu Jianming in person. However, sometimes Xu Dan will convey some news about Hu Jianming to the Hu family, and the general content is basically that he is doing business in other places and is in a busy period of career, so he rarely cares about contacting his family. The Hu family slowly calmed down. Of course, they also asked Xu Dan what the two of them had quarreled that night, and Xu Dan basically perfunctorily put this question into the past.
Hu Jianming's family was interviewed
Although Xu Dan has always told the two old men that Hu Jianming just went out to do business, he never went home because he felt that he had not made enough money, and when Hu Jianming made enough money and felt that he could face his parents proudly, he would naturally go home. But the two old men have not been very reassured. What's more, Xu Dan married someone else a month after Hu Jianming ran away from home, and such a change made the two old people wonder.
Later, they also asked friends in other places to look for Hu Jianming, but they never found them. Over time, the Hu family became accustomed to running away from home and doing business in other places without contacting their sons. They had been waiting for the day when he would come home. It wasn't until this time that the police came to the door that they realized that something might have happened to their son. Later, when the DNA comparison results were told to the two old people, it was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day.
The investigation of the visit to the Hu family ended here, and then the police began to investigate another key figure, Xu Dan. At the same time, the police also investigated and collected evidence in the Xu family's single-family villa, trying to get more clues.
After several investigations into the truth of the matter, the clouds were finally cleared
However, to the surprise of the police, in the face of police questioning, Xu Dan honestly admitted that she split Hu Jianming's body, but he committed suicide himself. At the same time, she also told the police about another look of the matter. The facts told by Xu Dan are quite a bit of a current dog blood emotional drama. It turned out that the reason why Hu Jianming would go to Xu Dan's house after his cousin's wedding and have a big fight with her was because Hu Jianming found that she was stepping on two boats.
Hu's father was in front of Hu Jianming's bed before his death
Let's turn the clock back to when Hu Jianming and Xu Dan took each other to see their parents. When Hu Jianming took Xu Dan home, the Hu family was relatively satisfied with Xu Dan, and even set up a table of good wine and good dishes to welcome her. But when Xu Dan's parents saw this demobilized man who was the deputy director of the plastic factory, they were not very happy in their hearts. Because the Xu family's parents are both civil servants, they are relatively high status in the local area, while the Hu family is relatively average, so the Xu family believes that Hu Jianming is Gao Pan.
After that, the second elder of the Xu family often talked to Xu Dan, feeling that Hu Jianming was not worthy of her, and resolutely opposed the marriage of the two people. At first, Xu Dan would still argue for her boyfriend twice. However, after a long time, Xu Dan's heart also shook. In the face of the so-called door-to-door civil servant introduced to her by her parents, Xu Dansi thought about it and decided to hide hu Jianming from him first. The two were even engaged a year before Hu Jianming's death.
During this year, Hu Jianming never knew that his girlfriend around him stepped on two boats. It wasn't until after Hu Jianming's cousin got married that he and his friends went out to celebrate that one of them told him that not long ago, when he saw Xu Dan and another man taking wedding photos again, Hu Jianming realized that Xu Dan might have lied to himself.
Later, Hu Jianming, who was drunk, went to Xu Dan's house that night to ask for an explanation from her. As a result, Xu Dan also felt that he should make it clear, so he admitted that he stepped on two boats and was going to marry the civil servant boyfriend soon after. Poor Hu Jianming couldn't understand why his girlfriend, who had been talking for so many years, had become someone else's fiancée in the blink of an eye.
Hu Jianming's parents
He punched Xu Dan in a huff, and took out sleeping pills to try to threaten Xu Dan. But Xu Dan was already determined to marry his civil servant boyfriend at this time, even if he was afraid of his threat? Hu Jianming had to really eat all the sleeping pills. To know that a whole bottle of sleeping pills plus the effect of alcohol, there is a huge harm to the human body. Soon after, Hu Jianming fell into a deep coma, and he couldn't wake up no matter how he called.
Xu Dan explained that she couldn't wake up when she saw How Hu Jianming screamed, thought he was dead, and was afraid that the body would be misunderstood by others in her own home, so she bought meat axe scissors and woven bags, cut Hu Jianming's body into a bag, and then threw it in the attic where no one had ever gone to hide it.
But is this really the case? The police who investigated in the Xu family villa and the forensic doctors who examined the corpses gave different answers.
The police who conducted the investigation at the scene first surveyed the attic, and finally confirmed based on the marks on the ground and the degree of wear of the woven bags that the bodies had not been displaced since they were moved to the attic, indicating that Hu Jianming did die in the Xu family villa and was dismembered here.
The scene of the first crime was quickly found by the criminal investigation police. In a room on the second floor, some tiny red dots were found against the wall of the floor. According to the size and location of these traces and the appearance of various factors, after comprehensive analysis, it is basically determined that this red dot is a splash-type blood stain. And the blood stains were covered with a layer of varnish, which appeared to be done by the murderer to cover up the blood stains. But in fact, the varnish preserves the blood stain very well, and the blood stain after peeling off the varnish is as complete as new.
The edge of some of the blood stains on the floor has an extension, which is generally the phenomenon that the blood is splashed on the floor and dried, and then comes into contact with the sticky water object and produces relative movement formation. That is to say, the murderer once dragged this trace with a wet mop.
So now it is obvious that this room is the first scene where Hu Jianming was dismembered. Coincidentally, this room was exactly the room where Xu Dan had lived in that year. At this time, Xu Dan said during the interrogation that he had split Hu Jianming's body, and there was evidence to echo it.
At the same time, after analyzing the results of the forensic examination of the skeletons, it is not difficult to find that there are basically many cut marks in the separation of these skeletons. The shape of these cuts coincided with the shape of the blade of the meat chopping axe found in the woven bag, that is to say, the murderer was holding the meat chopping axe to split Hu Jianming's body. The cut marks are relatively shallow, the location is also very inaccurate, and the separation of each piece of corpse is obviously cut a lot before it is completely separated.
This shows that the murderer is a person with less strength, after all, the strength is slightly larger, and an axe can basically achieve the effect of separating the limbs. It can be inferred from this that the murderer was a woman, and her body was relatively small, and she was more panicked when she divided the body.
But did Hu Jianming die after drinking alcohol and taking an overdose of sleeping pills, as Xu Dan said? This question is still answered by a forensic doctor.
The deceased Hu Jianming was 1 meter 75 tall and weighed 65 kilograms, according to Xu Dan's description of the dose of sleeping pills that Hu Jianming took at that time, combined with the reduction of the remaining tranquilizers in the skeleton, the forensic doctor found that with Hu Jianming's body shape and the speed of metabolism, sleeping pills could not cause him to die, even if he ingested alcohol. Not to mention that his friends proved that he hadn't drunk a lot that night.
Then it is not suicide, it must be that he killed. First of all, it is excluded to be killed by Xu Dan's bare hands, after all, there are restrictions on body size. It is impossible to be killed by Xu Dan with a meat chopping axe, as mentioned above, Xu Dan's strength is relatively small, even if it is so laborious to cut a corpse that cannot move, how can it be possible to wield an axe to kill a man who is one head taller than her? But what if Hu Jianming took sleeping pills and then killed him with an axe? The autopsy results showed that this was also impossible, as there were no marks of fatal wounds on the bones.
However, a telephone line was also found in a woven bag containing a meat chopping axe and scissors. The role of the meat chopping axe is to split the body, and the role of the scissors is to cut the clothes on Hu Jianming's body, so the telephone line must have played a certain role. Judging from hu Jianming's loss of consciousness after swallowing sleeping pills, Xu Dan should have strangled Hu Jianming in a coma using a telephone line.
Faced with this evidence, Xu Dan knew that he could not hide it, so he admitted the fact of the killing. And confessed the method of killing and her motives.
The court tried the murderer to pay for the murder, but unfortunately the prodigal son did not return
It turned out that the sleeping pills were not brought by Hu Jianming himself, but were secretly fed to Hu Jianming by Xu Dan in the water. At that time, Hu Jianming was righteous in his head, beat Xu Dan not to say anything, and threatened to publicize Xu Dan's two boats. The Xu family is a civil servant, and if such a scandal is exposed, it is very likely that they will lose their jobs.
So Xu Dan made up his mind and thought of killing Hu Jianming with an overdose of sleeping pills. However, although Hu Jianming has been in a coma, he still has vital signs. Xu Dan did not stop for a second, and used a telephone line to tightly strangle Hu Jianming's neck and suffocate him. The day after Hu Jianming's death, Xu Dancai bought various tools and woven bags, and after a while of hard work, he dismembered Hu Jianming's body and put them in woven bags in the corner of the attic where almost no one went.
The truth of the case has now been revealed. Two months after Hu Jianming's body was found, the court indicted Xu Dan and pronounced the verdict after a two-month trial, and Xu Dan was convicted of intentional homicide and the circumstances were relatively bad, and sentenced him to death with a two-year suspension of execution. Xu Dan appealed the verdict, and the Zhejiang Higher People's Court immediately accepted her appeal and conducted a second-instance trial. On November 30 of the same year, the trial result was announced, rejecting Xu Dan's appeal and upholding the original judgment.
Although Xu Dan finally got the punishment she deserved, Hu Jianming would never be able to return to his home, and the room reserved for him could never wait for the return of the man.
After the police briefing later, the residents around the Xu family villa reflected one by one that they could smell the bad smell on the side of the Xu family villa every summer heat a few years earlier, and the Xu family themselves had complained about it. But just ten meters behind the villa, there is a small river, and there is a restaurant on the river that often tries to easily pour some animal offal and dirty blood into the river. So everyone always thought that the smell was wafting up in the river.
Looking back at the entire case, it can only be said that this is a murder and corpse splitting case caused by emotional contradictions. In the face of his parents' opposition and ridicule, and reluctant to his first love boyfriend, Xu Dan finally chose to step on two boats, and Hu Jianming also chose an irrational way to threaten Xu Dan. People who were supposed to love each other should have had a more dignified ending, but because of a momentary impulse and irresponsible choice, it led to such a tragedy, not to mention Xu Dan's later family was also hit hard.
Love is really a confusing thing, it is so beautiful, but it is also equally deadly. I hope that on the road of life in the future, we can face the contradictions and problems of love more rationally and avoid the recurrence of tragedies such as Xu Dan and Hu Jianming.