At 11:00 p.m. on May 19, 2010, a panicked flat-headed man slammed the door of a resettlement house in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. The middle-aged man in the room opened the door impatiently and shouted at the flat-headed man: "Xiao Heng! Where are you going to fool around again! Coming back so late? ”
The flat-headed man did not reply, but bowed his head and went directly to the bedroom, but locked the door. The middle-aged man seemed to be surprised, and he shouted into the bedroom door: "You are 26 years old, you still don't go to work, see if you have any girls in the future!" After scolding, the middle-aged man went back to his room and went to sleep.
The flat-headed man who rushed into the bedroom trembled uncontrollably and muttered, "I killed someone..."
Who is the flathead man? What does this stabbed 16-year-old girl have to do with him? Are the flat-headed men who killed people arrested today?
"An accident occurred on the way to a friend's house"
Wang Yameng was born on February 17, 1994 in Wangjia Village, Xinmi City, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. Shortly after Wang Yameng was born, her father died unexpectedly in a car accident, and her mother did not want to raise her alone.
On February 18, 1996, on the day after Wang Yameng's second birthday, Wang Yameng's mother abandoned Wang Yameng at her grandmother's house on the mountain.
Wang Yameng's grandfather died long before Wang Yameng was born, and only Liu Shiqiong, who was over sixty years old, was left in the family.
Liu Shiqiong has no education and has been raising his children and grandchildren by farming in his hometown all his life. Fortunately, the villagers in the Wang family village are all related to each other, and many villagers look at their mother-in-law and grandson as pitiful, and occasionally they will provide relief.
Under the care of her grandmother and the help of the villagers, Wang Yameng can also be regarded as a smooth growth without disease and disaster.
Although Wang Yameng has always been studying, her grades are always at the bottom of the class, and after graduating from junior high school, considering that she is really not a reading material, Wang Yameng decided to follow her fellow villagers to the city to work.
Wang Yameng has no culture, but Sheng is young and beautiful, and after being introduced by others, Wang Yameng came to a beauty salon in Pingdingshan City as an apprentice. Wang Yameng is very able to bear hardships and is very pleasing to the store manager and the master in the store. The master once praised Wang Yameng, saying that she would be able to become a teacher in less than two years.
Wang Yameng's biggest dream when she was an apprentice in a barbershop was to open her own beauty salon in her hometown in Xinmi City after completing her studies, and then take her grandmother over.
Every time she came home for the New Year's Holiday, she would lean on her grandmother's knee and tell her that when she opened the shop, the first thing she would do was to dye her white hair black.
Because the store manager is pregnant with her second child and is about to go into the pot, the store needs to close. On May 18, 2010, 16-year-old Wang Yameng took a long-distance bus from Pingdingshan City to Xinmi City.
Not long after she arrived home, her friend asked her to go to her home for barbecue, and Wang Yameng thought that she had not seen her friend for more than a year and immediately agreed.
The next day, Wang Yameng first got up early in the morning to rent a disc in xinmi city, and she planned to stay at home to watch TV dramas for the rest of the holidays. After that, Wang Yameng called a taxi to Qingping Mountain.
Wang Yameng's friend's home is in the back of Qingping Mountain, but the mountain road is muddy, and the taxi driver is reluctant to go any further when he drives down the mountain. Wang Yameng did not argue with the driver, she paid and got out of the car.
If you take the road on the mountain of Qingping Mountain, it takes a big detour to reach your friend's house, and Wang Yameng thought that when she was studying in the past, her friend had taken her to walk the path of houshan many times. Although it was sparsely populated, Wang Yameng had long memorized the path.
Looking at his watch, it was almost time to agree, and Wang Yameng decided to take a small road to his friend's house. But what Wang Yameng never expected was that it was this choice that pushed himself into the abyss of death.
When it was time for lunch, Wang Yameng's friends could not wait for Wang Yameng to come at home, and Wang Yameng did not answer the phone. The friend decided to go out to find Wang Yameng, perhaps the other party got lost in the Qingping Mountain.
But when my friend looked all the way from the path, he saw the police pulling up a police cordon on the road. She didn't know, so she hurriedly asked the aunt who was watching the liveliness around her, "Auntie, what happened in front of you?" ”
The aunt opened the floodgates: "Oh, it is said that a little girl was killed in the mountains, I don't know if people have been rescued, I don't dare to take this road in the future..."
The aunt was still talking about something, but the friend couldn't listen to it anymore. Beads of sweat slid down her forehead, and a thought flashed through her mind: This victim will not be Wang Yameng!
Uncle found the victim, and the police quickly dispatched the police
Qingping Mountain is not high, only 600 meters, from the top of the mountain to the south can see the panorama of Xinmi City, every morning there are uncles and aunts in Xinmi City who choose to come to Qingping Mountain for morning exercise.
On May 19, 2010, Uncle Zhao, who lives in Xinmi City, rode his bicycle to Qingping Mountain to exercise.
At about 10:00 a.m., he locked the car under Qingping Mountain, and then chose to copy the path of Qingping Mountain as usual. But without taking a few steps, Uncle Zhao found that there was a person lying on the ground in front of him!
When Uncle Zhao came closer, he saw a teenage girl lying on the ground, and there was a blood hole in her stomach that kept pouring out blood.
Uncle Zhao was frightened, and he quickly took out his mobile phone and called the police on 110. When the police arrived at the scene, they found that although the murdered girl had been stabbed several times in the body, she still had weak breathing. The police immediately dialed 120 and made a simple bandage for her.
Police found a brown satchel with splattered blood on it at the scene, and inside the satchel was a CD-ROM, a folding umbrella and some daily necessities commonly used by women. In the grass, fifty meters away from where the victimized woman was lying, the police also found a purse with blood stains.
The wallet seems to have been rummaged through and thrown in the grass, and the wallet zipper is opened, and there are no large bills in it, only eight dollars of change. Since the surface of the wallet is a relatively rough material, no fingerprints can be extracted.
The police never found the victim woman's mobile phone during the process. The phone was missing, the wallet was rummaged through, and the police initially determined that it was a robbery and murder case.
Later, the police determined the identity of the victim, Wang Yameng, who lived in Wangjia Village in Xinmi City. Wang Yameng's social relations are simple, kind, coupled with the forensic doctor's autopsy report, the police ruled out the possibility of vendetta and rape, and the case was characterized as a robbery and murder case for the purpose of embezzling money.
Before dying, he said four big words, which became the clue for the police to solve the case
After Wang Yameng was admitted to the hospital, her vital signs dropped rapidly and she died soon after. However, at the time of his death, Wang Yameng once said four words to the police around him: "Four children."
The police believe that this is Wang Yameng's indication of the murderer, and the "four children" are likely to indicate that the murderer is a gang crime, and the four of them committed a crime against Wang Yameng together.
There is no surveillance in the mountainous area of Qingping Mountain, and the last information revealed by Wang Yameng before her death may be the only clue to the police.
After receiving this clue, the police immediately launched a visit to investigate the people near Qingping Mountain. However, according to the nearby public, on the day of the crime, several young people were not seen hanging around the mountain.
The visit was fruitless, and the police immediately took the surveillance along the road, but it was still fruitless. The police decided to increase the scope of surveillance and inspection, and they checked the monitoring of the road section from the urban area to Qingping Mountain that day.
The police first found the taxi driver who took Wang Yameng to the foot of Qingping Mountain that day. According to the driver's recollection, Wang Yameng did ride in her own car that day, and she went from the city to the back mountain of Qingping Mountain. But the mountain road was too steep, and the driver didn't want to earn this troublesome money, so he let Wang Yameng get out of the car and walk over.
When Wang Yameng got out of the car, the driver returned to the same way. According to the surveillance, the driver told the truth, and the place where Wang Yameng got off the car at that time was only two hundred meters from the scene of the crime. The police asked the driver if he had seen any suspicious people at that time, and the driver said that he was not impressed.
Later, after the police investigation, it was found that there was a silver-gray van that was very suspicious that day, and had traveled from the city to the vicinity of Qingping Mountain at the time of the crime. Police immediately locked the van.
After finding the owner, the police found that the owner was a school bus driver at a junior high school in Xinmi City. According to the driver's account, he went from Xinmi City to the village under Qingping Mountain to pick up students on the same day, received students and sent them to the school in the city, and then drove home alone.
The police questioned the students who were picked up and dropped off that day and confirmed that the driver had been staying with the students when he was near Qingping Mountain that day.
Subsequently, the police speculated that the criminal gang may have arrived in the territory of Qingping Mountain as early as the 19th, stepping on the ambush in advance and waiting for the victim to pass.
According to this line of thinking, the police transferred the surveillance of the days before the incident, but they never found the "four young people" in the surveillance.
The police later even checked the suspected vehicle personnel, but still did not find any trace of the four suspects. At this time, half a month has passed since Wang Yameng was killed, and the case has reached an impasse.
Change the thinking of investigation and catch the suspect
On June 20, 2010, the Xinmi police, who had not gained any results, held another case analysis meeting on the murder of Wang Yameng.
At the meeting, the police combed through the results of the investigation since the previous month, focusing on the analysis of the four words left by Wang Yameng before his death.
During the meeting, the police officers present split and reorganized the words "four children" in an attempt to grasp the information of the murderer revealed in the four words. At this time, a local police officer surnamed Zhang in Xinmi City had a thought: "Four children" will not mean "a child"?
The local dialects of Xinmi City are often indistinguishable, and it is possible that what Wang Yameng said before his death was not "four" but "yes".
At this point, the whole case has made a huge breakthrough. If it is "a child", then the message that Wang Yameng wants to leave behind is that the person who killed him is a young man.
The police began to change their thinking in the investigation, and they began to investigate the men who appeared alone near Qingping Mountain that day.
After several days of screening, the police finally locked in a young man with a flat head.
The flat-headed man, wearing a brown shirt and a pair of blue jeans, went up the hill before the crime and left alone before the police arrived, which coincided with the time.
What is more noteworthy is that the pedestrians who come and go in the surveillance are more purposeful, and they all look forward and do not look east or west.
But this flat-headed man walks very idle, always looking at others, as if looking for something, and sometimes the man will pull the telephone pole on the side of the road, or kick the stones under his feet, looking very boring.
Based on the police's years of experience in handling cases, it can be inferred that this man is either a suspect in the case or an eyewitness to the case.
Soon, the police printed out the man's photo and searched the man comprehensively in Xinmi City. But the police searched for a month and could not find any trace of the man.
Subsequently, the police released information about the man's reward in Henan Province, and the police kept vigil in front of the bounty call day and night, afraid of missing any clue about the flat-headed man.
On August 16, 2010, nearly three months after Wang Yameng was killed, the police received a call from a man to report it. The man said on the phone that the flat-headed man in the bounty appeared to be in Zhengzhou and lived near his home.
The police rushed to Zhengzhou based on the informant's clues and found the home of the flat-headed man. According to Xiao Heng's stepmother, Xiao Heng is 26 years old, has no job at present, and has been unemployed at home.
When her stepmother married Xiao Heng's father, Xiao Heng was almost seven years old. When he was a child, Xiao Heng showed a good and lazy personality, he did not like to read, and often went out to fight with his senior classmates. After graduating from junior high school, Xiaoheng went to a vocational high school and never went out to look for a job after becoming an adult.
Every time his parents advised Xiao Heng, Xiao Heng said that he was going to find a way to live for money. At first, his parents were still concerned about Xiao Heng's work, and later found that Xiao Heng could not bear the pain and always wanted to eat a bite to become a big fat man, and his parents did not care to teach Xiao Heng, allowing him to nibble at home.
Based on the clues provided by Xiao Heng's family, the police found Xiao Heng in a black Internet café near his home. When he saw the police, the flat-headed man was relieved and said to the police: "Is there anything wrong with that girl?" ”
It turned out that Xiao Heng had been unemployed at home, and felt sorry for his parents, so he thought of robbing this road of no return. He took a car to Xinmi City and followed the women who had fallen behind all the way, but the people who were followed were very alert, and it didn't take long to notice Xiao Heng's abnormality, only Wang Yameng was different.
Wang Yameng carried a bag that day, Xiao Heng followed her for tens of meters, and the distance between the two was less than two meters, but Wang Yameng had not responded. Halfway through, the two passed by a family, and Wang Yameng did not think of going to the rescue, and even cast a curious eye.
When it came to the corner at the time of the crime, Xiao Heng immediately subdued Wang Yameng and asked the other party to give him money. But Wang Yameng had been resisting, and Xiao Heng used the knife he carried with him to stab Wang Yameng several times.
After Wang Yameng was stabbed, he began to bleed heavily, Xiao Heng panicked, and he immediately fled the scene of the crime. Before leaving, he did not forget to take Wang Yameng's mobile phone and the 50 yuan in her wallet.
After Xiao Heng was arrested, the incident of Wang Yameng's murder was finally revealed, and Xiao Heng was sentenced to death at the first trial.
According to the report, shortly after the verdict was pronounced, Xiao Heng filed an appeal, and sentenced the two people to the previous performance, and also claimed that he was manslaughter, not murder.
On May 29, 2011, with the help of his lawyers, Xiao Heng provided key proof, one was the rating report of mild depressive tendencies of the Second People's Hospital of Xinmi City, and the autopsy report of Wang Yameng, which showed that the blunt object did not hurt Wang Yameng's vital points, and the direct cause of death was excessive bleeding.
On January 15, 2013, the Xinmi Municipal People's Court pronounced a final judgment, in view of the fact that Xiao Heng was in a state of depression when he committed the crime, and he actively cooperated with the police in the future, the sentence was changed to life imprisonment, and the result of the sentence was once controversial in the local area.
Wang Yameng's grandmother
Since Wang Yameng was killed, her grandmother Liu Shiqiong washed her face with tears every day, and the police caught the murderer and gave Liu Shiqiong a thought to live. After many enthusiastic people in the society learned of Wang Yameng's incident, they all expressed their willingness to fund Liu Shiqiong to spend his old age.
Now, almost 12 years have passed since the case, and Liu Shiqiong still lives in his hometown in Wangjia Village. From time to time, she still thinks of her sensible granddaughter, and every night, the elderly Liu Shiqiong always holds the photo of her granddaughter and silently sheds tears.
After Xiao Heng was imprisoned, Xiao Heng's parents also expressed sadness over Wang Yameng's murder, and they repeatedly apologized to Liu Shiqiong. Every year during the festival, Xiao Heng's parents will also come to Wangjia Village to visit the elderly Liu Shiqiong.
On December 30, 2022, members of the Qingping Mountain Neighborhood Committee and social benevolent people came to the home of the elderly Liu Shiqiong. They brought condolences and helped the elderly Liu Shiqiong to wash and cook and spend New Year's Day together.
Although Xiao Heng was brought to justice, he could not save Wang Yameng's life in the end, and he hoped that there would be fewer passionate criminals like Xiao Heng in the society. And when we encounter dangerous situations, we must also have a sense of prevention and strive to save ourselves!
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