As the saying goes, "the details make or break". In criminal investigation work, often a subtle point that is not detected by others can become the key clue to solve the case.
In 2012, such a representative case occurred in Shanghai. An accomplice in an ordinary theft case raised suspicions from the police simply because he claimed to be a Hunan native but never ate rice. When the police, out of caution, went down the road to investigate, they were involved in two old murders, as well as a murderer who had been on the run for 17 years.
The thief does not eat rice, which alarms the police
Early in the morning of July 3, 2012, a Mr. Chen panicked and ran to the Shanghai Railway Public Security Office to report that he had met a thief.
It turned out that the night before, Mr. Chen was sitting in a chair in the south square of the Shanghai Railway Station, waiting for his shuttle. Because he drank some wine while talking business with customers that day, Mr. Chen fell asleep unconsciously when he was drunk and sleepy. When he woke up, the luggage bag around him was missing.
You know, that bag not only contains 60,000 yuan in cash, but also Mr. Chen's bank card, check, seal and other important items. Not to mention the huge losses, if those identity objects are stolen by thieves, the consequences are even more unimaginable. For this reason, Mr. Chen was so anxious that he was about to cry.
Fortunately, because it was in the early hours of the morning, there were only a few pedestrians. After retrieving the surveillance video, the police successfully locked the suspect. Only to see that at about 1:20 on the same day, 4 men were divided into two groups and sneakily approached Mr. Chen, who was sleeping. After stealing the bag, the 4 people also neatly shared the booty directly on the road.
Immediately after, the police locked the face of a suspect, Li Dajun, through the surveillance footage of the bank's ATM, thus eliminating the theft gang.
As a high-speed theft case, although the amount of theft by the 4 criminal suspects (Li Dajun, Hong Houyu, He Zuoguo, and Wei Qiu) is particularly huge, because the case was solved in a timely manner and all the property was recovered, the criminal circumstances are not very serious, so they should face the punishment of how many years of imprisonment.
However, what was strange was that Wei Qiu, one of the accomplices, had a worried and cramped appearance, looking even more nervous than the main criminal, Li Dajun. With a highly sensitive case-handling intuition, the police believe that there must be other problems behind wei qiu's abnormal performance of excessive tension.
The police interrogate Wei Qiu
Adhering to the purpose of "preferring to waste effort and not miss one", the police immediately launched further interrogations of the other three suspects, and the interrogation content was about Wei Qiu's situation.
"We only know that his name is Mao Beard, and when we came here, we knew that his name was Wei Qiu."
"He's a fierce man, he's outside, and he has a knife on him all year round. When he blackmailed people, they hid two hundred dollars in their mouths, and he pried open their mouths with a knife and took out the two hundred dollars. ”
"He was often arrested, and after a few months or a year outside, he was taken away."
In the descriptions of the 3 accomplices, Wei Qiu is very mysterious on weekdays, has a very many criminal records, and acts in a rather fierce style. All this confirms the police's speculation - wei qiu's origin is definitely not simple. Of course, the most decisive clue is a passage that Hong Houyu inadvertently mentioned.
"He (Wei Qiu) said he was from Hunan, but we called him 'Shandong.'"
"I said you're not from Hunan, because he never eats rice, he eats steamed buns, bread, and so on."
According to Wei Qiu himself, he was a native of Yueyang, Hunan, but his parents died when he was young. Orphaned by the death of his father at the age of 8, he began wandering the country. Because of this, Wei Qiu does not speak with a Hunan accent.
At first glance, Wei Qiu's life seemed to be no problem. In addition to being too tortuous, it is enough to explain that he has no accent, and that he has mistakenly embarked on the road of crime. However, the dietary preferences shown by Wei Qiu really made the police very concerned.
You know, China has always had the saying that "the south eats rice, and the north eats noodles". Although it is not possible to "kill a boat of people with one shot", Wei Qiuton's way of eating steamed buns and using strips under green onions is really like a native of the north.
In this way, the police finally decided to ask Wei Qiu to the bottom and understand his identity information, past experience, and criminal history. But who would have thought that when the police opened the national population information system and entered "Wei Qiu", there was no such person. Wei Qiu even had a fake name!
Wei Qiu's real body was exposed, and the double corpse murder case was brought out
"My dad can't go back, and he'll be arrested as soon as he goes back." This was a time when Wei Qiu's family came to Shanghai to visit him, Wei Qiu's son accidentally said a sentence.
He has been convicted of many convictions, has been imprisoned many times, is cruel and fierce, conceals his real name from his accomplices and the police, and even faces being arrested when he cannot return home.
Who is this "wei qiu"? What big thing did he do? Soon, the appearance of a bank card unveils all the mysteries.
During the inspection of the "Wei Qiu" carry-on items, the police found a bank card. However, the owner of the bank card is not "Wei Qiu" himself, but Niu Pengyong. According to the investigation, Niu Pengyong was born on January 8, 1994, just turned 18 years old, and is a native of Hancheng, Shaanxi.
Why did the bank card of a Shaanxi teenager fall into the hands of "Wei Qiu" in Shanghai? Even if it is stolen, it is inevitably stolen too far. Subsequently, in the further investigation of Niu Pengyong's peripheral relations, the police were surprised and shocked to find that his father Niu Kangbin looked like "Wei Qiu" with nine images, and Niu Kangbin was also a major murder suspect who had been on the run for many years.
In an instant, the fog that hung over "Wei Qiu" dissipated - "Wei Qiu" is Niu Kangbin, who absconded after killing people- he had brutally killed a young couple.
It was May 25, 1998, in a remote hut on North Station Road in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, Yang Guirong was preparing to call his sister and brother-in-law to go shopping together, but when she came to the door, she found that the door was not closed.
Yang Guirong recalled: "When I opened the door, I saw that the quilt was on the ground, and there was blood on the ground. ”
At first, Yang Guirong, who lived in a simple living environment, subconsciously thought that whether someone was fighting here was already the most terrible thing she could think of. However, when she entered the back room, she saw her sister and brother-in-law lying in a pool of blood.
Yang Guirong said: "After 110 came, my sister was not dead at that time, she still had feelings, and the man died on the spot. However, her sister also died of her injuries. ”
The tragic death of his family and the bloody and horrific murder scene caused a serious psychological shadow on Yang Guirong. For many years after that, whenever she dreamed back in the middle of the night, she would have nightmares.
Presumably seeing this, everyone guessed it. The main culprit in this cruel and bloody crime was None other than Niu Kangbin. Niu Kangbin proposed to the 3 accomplices to get a sum of money to spend, and then carried out the criminal action. It is not known whether they were rushing to grab it or accidentally bumping into the victim during the theft. In short, Niu Kangbin not only killed the killer, but also beat the man before killing and raped the hostess. As for the purpose of the initial pursuit of wealth, Niu Kangbin only took a pocket bag, which contained only 200 yuan.
Police transcripts
For 200 yuan, two people were brutally killed, and even tortured and humiliated the victims to the extreme, and the evil deeds of Niu Kangbin and others are undoubtedly uncountable.
However, it is indignant that Yao Xiukuan and the other 3 accessories were arrested within a week after the crime. Only Niu Kangbin, who planned and led all this, escaped and escaped, and it was 14 years.
The police never imagined that such a vicious murderer, as if evaporating in the human world, would actually surface after more than 10 years because of an ordinary theft case.
Land disputes at home, embarking on the road to crime
After his true identity was revealed, Niu Kangbin appeared very guilty. While saying: "I miss home, I miss my wife, I miss my mother, I miss my children"; at the same time, he kept saying that he was sorry for the victims and his family, and he had a look of sincere remorse. Moreover, Niu Kangbin's sad face and vicissitudes make it difficult for people to associate him with a theft, rape, and murderer.
According to the investigation, Niu Kangbin was born in 1969 in Hancheng City, Shaanxi Province, and his family lived in Qiaozi Xuanliu Village, Zhiyang Town. Niu Kangbin's family has land and land, no debts, the relationship between brothers and sisters is very good, he also married and had children early, and formed a happy and happy family.
Coupled with the simplicity of the local folk customs in Xuanliu Village, Niu Kangbin did not have any black history of mixing in the streets and causing trouble in his youth. Obviously, Niu Kangbin's life is really far from the terrible elements such as murder and crime.
So what exactly caused Niu Kangbin to transform from an honest and responsible rural youth into an outlaw with bloody hands?
On this question, Feng Laobo, a neighbor of Niu Kangbin's hometown, gave the answer: "Because of the edge of the land, he (Niu Kangbin's father) said that I put the edge stone to his side, and the land of the two families, who is willing to let him stand, to tell the truth, is because of me." ”
In fact, the young couple who died tragically in 1998 were not the first people Niu Kangbin had killed. The starting point of Niu Kangbin's evil life is what Feng Laobo called the "edge of the land", that is, the boundary between the land and the land.
The Feng family and the Niu family were originally neighbors, both said that "distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors", the relationship between the two families has been very harmonious for a long time, and you and I come and go very frequently. It wasn't until 1995 that relations between the two families took a sharp turn for the worse.
The cause was probably that Old Uncle Feng had secretly moved the stone used to prove the demarcation line to the Niu family.' When Niu Kangbin's father found out, he immediately became angry and pointed at Feng Laobo's nose and angrily scolded him for encroaching on his own land. You must know that in the countryside, there is a proverb that "to occupy the edge of people's land is to cut people's flesh". Because of the problem of the edge of the ground, the two families are arguing endlessly, and the smell of gunpowder is getting stronger and stronger.
At that time, Niu Kangbin was only 26 years old, just in the age of youthful vigor and flesh and blood. As soon as he got angry, he directly took his younger brother Niu to resist the people, picked up the guy and rushed to the Feng family.
In the violent clashes that day, Niu Kangbin and Niu Kangmin beat Feng Laobo's son alive with a hoe.
To this day, looking back at the horrific scenes of that year, Old Uncle Feng is always in tears and grumpy.
Obviously, Niu Kangbin's first crime was really done out of impulse. He originally wanted to beat up the Niu family and teach them a lesson, but he definitely did not think of killing people, nor did he expect that he would kill people too hard.
After learning that Feng Laobo's son died of serious injuries, Niu Kangbin's family persuaded him to turn himself in, admit his mistakes, repent well, and strive for leniency. However, in Niu Kangbin's cognition, "killing people is to pay for their lives." He was afraid, he didn't want to die, he didn't want to go to jail. So he chose to take his brother and run away.
Then the familiar scene was staged, and niu Kangmin did not escape far before he was arrested and sentenced to 6 years in prison. Niu Kangbin successfully escaped the police pursuit.
Sin has been on the run for 17 years, repenting of what he has done
From 1995 to 2012, Niu Kangbin went unpunished for 17 years. However, with most of the fugitives, they are like rats in the gutters. The situation of hiding and hiding and not seeing the light is different, but Niu Kangbin lives a fairly high profile.
In 1998, he fled after burglary, rape and murder of a young couple.
In 1999, he was re-educated through labor for 2 years for theft.
In March 2004, he was sentenced to four months' detention for theft.
In July 2004, he was re-educated through labor for 1 year and 6 months for theft.
In 2007, he was re-educated through labor for 1 year and 6 months for theft.
In 2009, he was re-educated through labor for 1 year and 9 months for theft.
In 2011, he was sentenced to one year in prison for theft.
Niu Kangbin's criminal resume can be described as beyond the reach of ordinary small thieves. It can be said that in the 17 years he fled, he spent most of his time in prison, and he played the "most dangerous place is the safest place" to the extreme.
Seeing this, I believe that everyone must have many questions in their hearts. Why is it that Niu Kangbin, who only negligently killed people, will be transformed into a villain who is mad and does nothing wrong? Why has he been arrested and jailed so many times without a single police officer investigating his true identity?
In fact, regarding the deterioration of the nature of Niu Kangbin's crime, in the final analysis, it is the "fear" mentioned above. Niu Kangbin preconceived that if he killed someone, once he was caught, he would not be able to escape the punishment of the death penalty. After a long time, Niu Kangbin came up with the idea of "breaking the jar and breaking the can" - anyway, he will die in the end, commit a crime and do countless bad things, and finally it is a result, then give up on himself and let go of himself.
Of course, there are also reasons behind this to survive. After all, as a murder fugitive, Niu Kangbin must flee everywhere and hide his name, and he cannot do anything legitimate to make a living, and can only rely on pits to abduct and rob and steal money.
In this way, in the past 17 years, Niu Kangbin has committed crimes everywhere. Usually, they are caught as soon as they commit a crime, and after being released from prison, they immediately return to their old ways, and then they are imprisoned for theft, and the cycle repeats.
However, what is puzzling is that in the face of such a criminal, those police officers who handled the case did not even check his real name and identity information, allowing Niu Kangbin to go in and out of the police station and prison with a fake name, following up on his own door.
On this issue, on the one hand, it should be related to the relatively loose case handling process and the imperfection of the relevant systems in that era. But the most important thing is still derived from Niu Kangbin's "attack on the heart". During the escape, Niu Kangbin deeply implemented the purpose of "giving up small and protecting the big", once caught for theft, he would never argue, actively cooperated with the police, and confessed all the facts of the crime at the first time. This creates the illusion that the police have a good attitude of confessing guilt and sincere remorse, so that the police can relax their vigilance and avoid being investigated in depth.
In short, by confessing to the crime and diverting his attention, Niu Kangbin was imprisoned several times, but he was not recognized.
Fortunately, "the Skynet is restored, and it is not leaked." Niu Kangbin did not expect that the Shanghai Railway Public Security Department would investigate an ordinary theft case so meticulously, and even doubted his true identity because of his eating habits of not eating rice, and took the opportunity to involve the two old cases.
With his true identity and past crimes exposed by the police, Niu Kangbin appears unusually calm and relaxed. He said: "I am here now, to put it bluntly, I left earlier and was relieved earlier, and I don't want to suffer this sin, because I know the evil I have done." ”
It turned out that in the past 17 years, although Niu Kangbin had been committing crimes continuously, he had not reached a state of madness. On the contrary, Niu Kangbin clearly knew his crime, regretted it, and was worried all the time.
Especially in 2011, he couldn't restrain his inner thoughts and secretly returned home. But I found that the family has long been wrong, the father and brother have died, the wife and the child have long remarried, leaving only the old mother alone. And the tragedies in his family are also the evil retribution for his evil deeds.
Therefore, when all the truth came out, Niu Kangbin felt the ease of being absent for a long time. He said to the camera: "This money (stolen money) to be able to withdraw the case, this money to the victim side of them, how much to give a little compensation, even if my conscience found, I am now the only one, there is nothing else, I also know that I am wrong, but also know regret, but the mistake is also missed, regret is useless, how much is a little compensation." ”
From an ordinary young man with a happy family to a murderous fugitive who committed heinous crimes, Niu Kangbin's life is a step mistake and a step mistake. During this period, he originally had countless opportunities to surrender himself and turn back to the shore, but he firmly moved all the way on the road of crime.
In this regard, it can only be said that people must not be impulsive, and think twice before doing anything. Of course, if it is a bad thing that violates the crime, no amount of thought can do it.
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