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Edited | Yue Yue Kan history
On May 28, 1879, the first electric light was lit in the Shanghai Public Concession.
Since then, electric lights have begun to enter the eyes of the Chinese people, and in the following decades slowly replaced kerosene lamps.
After the founding of New China, pear-shaped incandescent light bulbs accompanied generations of people at night.
It was not until November 1, 2011, that the relevant state departments began to put the "retirement matter" of incandescent lamps on the agenda.
As of October 1, 2016, all incandescent lamps of 15 watts and above are not allowed for sale in China.
However, there is still an incandescent light bulb in the public security bureau of Longnan County (which will be withdrawn from the county after 2020).
Not only that, this incandescent lamp has also become a "treasure" that the police station is focusing on up and down.
Since 1997, wave after wave of police officers has expended countless efforts on it.
What is so special about this ordinary incandescent lamp? What is the purpose of the Longnan County Public Security Bureau's persistence for more than ten years?
The police station was relocated three times, and the light bulb did not fall once
Before 2020, Longnan City was called Longnan County, which was under the jurisdiction of Ganzhou City. Later, after becoming a county-level city, the affairs of Yiying were always managed by Ganzhou City.
The current police station address is located on Longxiang Avenue. Between 1997 and 2016, the police station was relocated three times.
The change of work address is a major event, and all information and objects in the police station cannot be left behind. Among them, an old incandescent light bulb is particularly eye-catching.
Officer Ling, who was the commander of the criminal investigation brigade at the time, said: "Three times before the relocation, before each move, this light bulb must be given thousands of instructions." ”
This light bulb has extraordinary significance for the entire criminal investigation brigade and public security cadres and policemen.
After opening a layer of plastic boxes, there is another layer of paper boxes; when the paper boxes are opened, you can see the incandescent light bulb that is fixed to the base.
The base and the original light bulb are not matched, but were specially bought by the police to prevent it from rolling around.
After fixing it, they used tape to firmly glue the base to the bottom of the box to ensure that the incandescent lamp would not shake in the slightest.
Before each relocation, the officers hold it in their arms like a treasure. Even when sitting in the car, it will definitely be placed smoothly on both knees.
In these 19 years, the elderly retired, the newcomers on top, the Longnan County Public Security Bureau has undergone several personnel transfers.
But no matter how it was moved, this light bulb was always well kept.
In particular, the Kansai Town Police Station under the jurisdiction of the Public Security Bureau. As soon as new officers take office, their superiors will ask them to understand the ins and outs behind the light bulb.
So, what is the hidden feeling behind this light bulb?
It turned out that it came from a homicide 19 years ago. At the scene of the crime at that time, the police only found this one piece of evidence.
Several fingerprints are distributed on the surface of the bulb. As time passed, the blood on the fingerprints gradually withered and dissipated.
But under the observation of the microscope, the direction of the fingerprint is still incomparably clear.
These fingerprints do not belong to the victim, they come from the murderer. This is the only evidence left by the murderer at the scene of the crime.
For 19 years, this unsolved murder case has been a "heart disease" of the Longnan County Public Security Bureau.
If the case is not solved one day and the murderer is not caught every day, all the police station personnel will not give up for a day.
This is not only the duty of being a people's policeman, but also a consolation to the victims and their families.
As the deputy director of the Longnan County Public Security Bureau said: "This light bulb is directly related to this case, and it is the key place where the case can be successfully detected." ”
19 years later, this incandescent lamp is long old and broken. Even if it is reconnected to the circuit, it will no longer emit light.
But it still has light. This light, present in the hearts of all the officers, guided them through the long night.
The flower girl was brutally killed, and the murderer committed the crime
In the eastern part of Long'an County, there is a place called Kansai Town.
The natural and cultural landscape of this place is very beautiful, and the residents of the town are also very simple and kind.
In late June 1997, it coincided with the summer vacation.
A young girl named Xu Cuihua and her sister-in-law Xu Ling jointly opened a small department store in the town.
The advent of summer vacation can bring them many customers. So during that time, the two young girls had been busy getting stockpiles.
Even at night, I didn't go home, but slept directly on the second floor of the department store.
At that time, Xu Cuihua was just 18 years old, and Xu Ling was only 21 years old.
Originally, the family was a little uneasy. After all, it is the family of two girls, what if something happens?
However, it happened that both of them had big ideas, and they made the family agree to this matter.
In their opinion, everyone grew up in this town. Who doesn't know who doesn't look up every day?
Besides, department stores are not so far from home. If there is something really wrong, go back.
So, the two aunts and nephews stayed in the shop.
On June 22, Xu Ling and her boyfriend who had been in love for a long time became engaged. The two families gathered to celebrate that day, so the two little girls did not return to the department store.
However, after only 3 days, Xu Cuihua and Xu Ling's lives ushered in earth-shaking changes.
On the night of June 25, the two closed their doors as usual and went to sleep on the second floor. But soon after, they heard the sound of Siddhartha from the first floor.
Could it be that he is a thief?
Xu Cuihua quickly crept on the light, still holding a small sharp knife in his hand for self-defense. After Xu Ling heard the movement, she was also ready to get up and go downstairs to check.
But accidents always come unexpectedly. Before they could go downstairs, a strange man rushed into their room.
In the course of the fight between the three, the strange man grabbed the sharp knife and stabbed Xu Cuihua, and then stabbed Xu Ling.
With a few screams, the two girls fell one after another. When the strange man saw this, he immediately hid the murder weapon in his arms.
Then Rummaged around the room, as if trying to find something. But he ended up finding nothing.
Before leaving, he raised his hand and screwed down the incandescent lamp overhead. The incandescent lamp with blood-colored fingerprints was placed at the head of Xu Cuihua's bed.
Because it was close to the early hours of the morning, the sleeping people did not hear these terrible screams.
Under the cover of night, the strange man jumped out of the back wall of the department store and rode his bicycle by the wall all the way out of the village.
A few hours later, a badly injured Xu Ling awoke from her coma. As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Xu Cuihua lying in a pool of blood.
Xu Ling, who was seriously injured, crawled over with her hands and feet, and kept shouting in her mouth: "Hua Hua, Hua Hua..."
But she never got a response. Xu Cuihua, there is no pulse heartbeat.
This little girl, who was only 18 years old, was inexplicably deprived of her life.
Xu Ling couldn't figure out why. Their family had never had a vendetta against anyone else, so why would anyone be so cruel to them?
Grief-stricken, Xu Ling immediately chose to call the police, and then dragged her seriously injured body down to the second floor.
When the villagers on the road saw her like this, everyone was shocked. Everyone immediately gathered around and asked what had happened.
But Xu Ling no longer had the strength to speak, only tears kept flowing down.
By the time the police arrived at the Kansai Town police station, Xu Ling had already been taken to the hospital by enthusiastic villagers.
At the crime scene on the second floor, the police did not find any useful evidence except for the mess and the incandescent light bulb.
There are also signs of being turned over at the counter on the first floor. But strangely enough, the store's sales money was not lost.
Why is it that a strange man sneaks into a department store in the middle of the night and kills someone but does not rob the money?
Didn't he come for the money?
The beloved daughter is not eager to live, and it is difficult to find the real murderer by checking fingerprints
At the same time, the Xu family's parents also learned the bad news of their daughter's murder.
At the moment of seeing their daughter's body, they could not accept the reality, and they both fainted from crying.
This tragic case of one death and one injury also caused an uproar in the entire Kansai town.
No one knows what happened or why they were killed. Everyone's heart is confused and regretful.
Xu Lingfu had a big life and took back a life; but Xu Cuihua's life could never come back, she was only 18 years old!
What kind of hatred and resentment, to go down such a cruel hand?
And when something like this happens, the saddest thing is that in addition to the parents and relatives are the police officers handling the case at the police station.
However, due to the bad nature of the case, the Kansai Town Police Station immediately reported to the Longnan County Public Security Bureau.
Therefore, the criminal investigation brigade of the Longnan County Public Security Bureau intervened in the case at the first time and worked with the police at the police station to arrest the real culprit.
On the surface of the incandescent light bulb, police extracted a complete fingerprint, but several other fingerprints are still mutilated.
After investigation, this complete fingerprint did not belong to Xu Cuihua nor to Xu Ling. Therefore, it can only be left by the murderer.
And after the crime, his escape route was straight outside the village, without the slightest panic and confusion.
This is enough to show that the murderers were either natives of Kansai Town or immigrants familiar with the situation and terrain of the area.
Without further ado, the police immediately conducted a large-scale screening and investigation in Kansai Town. As long as it is an adult man, all people need to be fingerprinted.
In addition, all those who have committed crimes in Longnan County have also been investigated.
But after comparing all the fingerprints, the police did not make much progress. Because, there is no fingerprint similar to the one on the incandescent lamp.
The murderer is not among these people.
"At the time of the crime, the Beijing-Kowloon Railway was under construction, so during that time, this migrant worker came and went very frequently."
The police speculated that perhaps the real murderer had escaped from Longnan County, or even from Jiangxi Province.
But China is so big, relying on a fingerprint match is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack!
Moreover, the crime-solving technology of the 1990s was far less than that of today, decades later.
At that time, the fingerprint databases in various places had not yet been connected, and it was very difficult to arrest the murderers across provinces.
Therefore, the police can only focus on the two victims.
Starting from their social relations, we began to investigate the suspects, and then followed the vine to find the melon.
However, Xu Cuihua's social relations and interpersonal interactions are very simple. After graduating from junior high school, she stopped studying, but returned to Kansai Town and opened a department store with her aunt.
In addition to her former teachers and classmates, she only dealt with the old neighbors in the town who had known each other for many years.
And the relationship between them is very harmonious, and no one has a motive to commit the crime at all.
The Xu family's parents also did not believe that the daughter had made an enemy outside. Xu Cuihua has been very well-behaved and simple since she was a child, and she is unlikely to provoke right and wrong.
Mother Xu Manli cried and said: "Everyone's evaluation of her is very good, Man Zhenzi you can go and ask, she is really a good child..."
And his father, Xu Jinglai, always tried to pretend to be strong when facing the interview, but the trembling in his tone betrayed him.
"It's just touching your heart day by day, staying up like this day by day." Heartache, but there's no way..."
It was hard to pull the daughter up, but before she could get married and have children, it was the white-haired couple who sent the brunette first.
What parent wouldn't be devastated!
As soon as Xu Cuihua was mentioned, Xu Manli's eyes would immediately fill with tears. Since her daughter left, there has been no more light in her eyes.
When Xu Jinglai mentions his daughter, he will have a shallow smile under his eyes. But that smile is always shrouded in a layer of sadness.
From all aspects, Xu Cuihua is unlikely to have a vendetta outside. So, will the problem appear in Xu Ling?
She had more experience than her niece and had just been engaged a few days earlier. Is it difficult to succeed, what emotional problems are involved?
The other party had come to take revenge on her, but accidentally killed Xu Cuihua?
Regarding this question, all the case-handling personnel and Xu Jinglai at that time thought so. However, after an investigation, no suspicious characters were found.
Although Xu Ling is older, her range of activities is basically in Kansai Town. Before she got engaged to her fiancé, she didn't have any emotional entanglements.
The case reached this point and suddenly fell into a dead end.
Staring at the incandescent light bulb, all the case-handling personnel fell silent.
Is it to let the murderer go so far? No, absolutely not.
If you can't catch the murderer, you are sorry for the police uniform on your body, you are sorry for the victim's family, and you are even more sorry for the state and the law.
If you don't solve a case for a day, you stick to it for a year; if you don't solve a case for a year, you stick to it for ten years.
No matter how many years, the criminal must be brought to justice!
Under the inheritance of this belief, the police officers of the Longnan City Public Security Bureau have followed one after another. Fingerprint matching work is repeated day by day, year after year.
Keeping the clouds open to see the moon, the case was finally solved after 19 years
"Whenever a thief or other suspect is caught, we will compare his fingerprints with those on the incandescent lamp."
Unfortunately, however, such efforts have not been exchanged for substantial progress.
It wasn't until August 15, 2016, after repeated disappointments, that the Longnan County Public Security Bureau finally waited for a piece of good news.
The police officers handling the case matched the fingerprint with the fingerprint database uploaded in Guangdong Province and accidentally found a suspect suspected of being a real murderer.
This person was in Longnan County at that time.
Who is he and why are his fingerprints entered into the Guangdong province's system?
On August 16, police arrived at the factory where the suspect was located. His name is Xu Rongshan, born in 1966.
The police found him with the photo and asked, "Are you Xu Rongshan?" ”
After seeing the other person nod, a pair of cold handcuffs immediately locked his wrists. Xu Rongshan was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly he suddenly realized.
He did not resist or speak, and obediently followed the police with his head bowed.
But this scene was seen by his colleagues. Everyone's eyes widened, as if they had seen something unbelievable.
What happened to Lao Xu? How did you get caught by the police?
Soon after, however, they understood the truth of the matter, including Xu Rongshan's wife, Zhong Xiaoying.
The police officers handling the case were divided into three ways, one was responsible for interrogating Xu Rongshan, one way to the factory to understand the situation, and the other was to Zhong Xiaoying's home.
After learning that the tragic case of one death and one injury 19 years ago was a crime committed by Xu Rongshan, colleagues could not believe it for a long time.
We've been working together for more than a decade. In the eyes of everyone, Xu Rongshan is a kind and honest man, how can he have such a cruel past?
And Zhong Xiaoying seemed to have heard the fantasy. Regardless of whether the husband is before or after, the husband is a good man who is filial and considerate, how can he kill anyone?
In the face of the police's questioning, Zhong Xiaoying said something with tears: "I have been married to him for 21 years, whether it is good for my parents or my grandfather, he is filial piety in every way." ”
"A few years ago, my grandfather was paralyzed, and none of the three grandchildren came back to take care of him, and my husband was waiting at the bedside."
Whether it is an honest man in the eyes of a colleague or a perfect husband in the mouth of his wife, it seems that he has nothing to do with the murder of that year.
But the truth cannot be refuted, Xu Cuihua was indeed killed by him, and Xu Ling was indeed injured by him.
As for why, Xu Rongshan gave such an answer: Xu Cuihua scolded him for a neurosis.
Xu Rongshan was born in Kansai Town in 1966; in 1995, he joined the Zhong family in Dujiang Township.
At the same time, he also moved his hukou to the past, which is why the police did not find him that year.
He is not a resident of Kansai Town, and he is not a suspect with a previous criminal record.
According to him, "On June 1997, I planned to go back to Kansai To see my parents because I was about to go out to work. ”
While passing by the department store, he went in and bought a packet of laundry detergent and two packets of brown sugar. Several pieces of goods added up to more than ten pieces, and Xu Rongshan took out a fifty-dollar note.
But when looking for change, Xu Cuihua only gave him more than twenty yuan, and gave him ten yuan less.
So Xu Rongshan opened his mouth to beg.
"She had a very bad attitude, reluctantly slapped ten dollars on the counter, and scolded me for being neurotic."
It was this sentence that made Xu Rongshan have the heart to kill. That night, he sneaked into the department store from the back wall.
After killing people with knives, he was afraid of being discovered by others, so he unscrewed the light bulb.
Early the next morning, he boarded a train to Guangzhou. After working there for several years, he dared to sneak back, and he rarely returned to Kansai Town after that.
And the entry of that fingerprint is also a coincidence. Guangzhou was registering its temporary resident population at the time, and all migrant workers were required to take fingerprints.
If the Longnan County Public Security Bureau could match the Guangzhou side as soon as possible, it might not have to wait for 19 years.
However, the police obviously did not believe this confession.
If it is really just a moment of anger and kills the machine, then it is not the end of going directly upstairs. Why pry the counter on the first floor, and why do you have to rummage through the rooms on the second floor?
Combined with the traces of the scene and the latest information learned, the police believe that Xu Rongshan's primary goal is to steal money rather than kill people.
"Before the accident, his family was not in a very good condition. The family urgently needs money, and the elderly and children need it. ”
In the process of buying something, he accidentally saw the sales money in the counter drawer, so he had a bad idea.
But xu Cuihua and Xu Ling would put the money in another place before going to bed, and then put it back on the counter after the door was opened the next day.
Therefore, Xu Rongshan did not find money on the first floor.
And the situation on the second floor was also unfamiliar to him, plus he didn't dare to stay long after killing people, so he casually turned over and ran.
In the end, he didn't get a penny, and he was saddled with a human life debt.
epilogue
The legal net was restored, and the omission was not leaked. In the face of justice and the law, there is no escape from evil.
Sooner or later, there will be a day when they will be arrested.
And Xu Rongshan became a demon at the thought. Just because of a small evil thought, he buried his innocent life and happy family.
A better future should be created by relying on industrious hands, rather than pinning hopes on crooked doors and evil ways.