In 2005, in Huarong County, Yueyang City, Hunan Province, firefighters found a corpse while cleaning up a fire scene, the deceased was a woman in her 30s, wearing only underwear, lying prone on the bed, the upper body of the body was covered under the quilt, basically charred, the head had been hit marks, but not fatal injuries. After the quilt on the bed was lifted, there was a cutting board that broke into two pieces, and fragments of beer bottles were scattered. There were also fragments of beer bottles scattered on the floor of the bedroom.
The bed broke into two pieces of cutting boards
The accident was a two-bedroom house, and only the master bedroom was on fire. The quilt on the bed burned the most severely, and the point of ignition should be here. After investigation, the firefighters ruled out the possibility of a fire on the wire, so it is likely to be artificial arson.
The deceased's name was Li Yu, a tenant here, and the mobile phone, gold necklace, gold ring, and change in the bag were missing, which was very much like a robbery and murder case.
Firefighters destroyed the scene when fighting the fire, failed to extract footprints, fingerprints, etc., there was no trace of damage to the doors and windows, and no traces of pry climbing were found. When the firefighters arrived, the door was locked from the inside, and it was the landlord who called the police upstairs who helped open it with the key.
The landlord's name is Yu Huapei, who lives upstairs in the deceased Li Yu, he said that he got up at night to pee, saw the smoke billowing inside the house, and found that the smoke was upstairs on the third floor, when it was about 1 a.m.
At the time of the crime, the four-story building where the center site was located was undergoing demolition and transformation, and there were no other buildings around the small building, let alone monitoring probes.
The four-story building where the crime occurred
The forensic doctor found the man's bodily fluids in Li Yu's body, which shows that Li Yu had just had a relationship with someone a few hours before he was killed. Li Yu's husband and 10-year-old child are far away from their hometown in Hubei Province, and usually only Li Yu lives alone in Huarong County to work, who should be the person who has a relationship with Li Yu?
The autopsy results showed that Li Yu died of carbon monoxide poisoning, in other words, Li Yu was still alive when the fire broke out. There were scattered glass and beer bottle debris at the scene, and there were glass residues in Li Yu's hair, and there were traces of being pinched on Li Yu's neck, which showed that the murderer was likely to set Li Yu on fire after beating li Yu unconscious.
Li Yu was wearing underwear and underwear, and his outer clothes were placed on the cabinet at the head of the bed, there was no trace of being torn, it looked like the murderer came after Li Yu slept, in this case, the person who could enter Li Yu's room should be a person who knew Li Yu very well.
Li Yu, who was only 35 years old at the time of his murder, worked in a hotel and usually rented the apartment alone, and the landlord Yu Huapei reflected to the police important details of the night of the crime. Yu Huapei said that when he passed by Li Yu's door at about nine o'clock on the night of the crime, he heard Li Yu and her good friend Liu Yuelong laughing in the living room, because Yu Huapei had seen Liu Yuelong before, so he could hear his voice.
But when the police found Liu Yuelong, who was famous in the local cotton business, Liu Yuelong insisted that he did not know Li Yu at all, and that he was sleeping with his wife at home at the time of the crime. But Liu Yuelong's wife said that Liu Yuelong was not at home at the time of the crime. This is very suspicious!
After some further questioning, Liu Yuelong revealed where he really went on the night of the crime, and it turned out that he and a few friends were gambling that night, afraid that he would be dealt with by the public security organs after saying it. And he did have a few relationships with Li Yu, and the reason why he didn't say it was because he was afraid that his family would know.
After verification, some people can prove that Liu Yuelong was indeed playing cards with friends on the night of the crime, so it means that the landlord Yu Huapei may have deliberately told a lie. Could it be that the landlord is deliberately diverting attention? And Yu Huapei said that the fire was found because of the smoke billowing in the room, but according to the situation at the scene of the crime, the smoke of the fire downstairs did not directly enter the upstairs room, so how did Yu Huapei find the fire downstairs?
At this time, the police got a message, after the incident, Yu Huapei handed over one of his passbooks to an old lady on the first floor for safekeeping, and said that the police would definitely come to investigate. Yu Huapei was 65 years old at the time of the crime, had been single, and two months before the crime, he subleased the rented house to Li Yu and moved to the third floor himself. After his suspicions rose, the police extracted his DNA and compared it with the male DNA extracted from Li Yu's body, but the comparison was not successful.
Yu Huapei also explained the act of transferring the passbook, saying that he and Li Yu had a sexual relationship, and they were afraid that the police would seal and punish his property if they found out, so he transferred the passbook. Although it was not Yu Huapei who had a relationship with Li Yu on the day of the crime, it cannot be ruled out that he was suspected of killing people and setting fires.
The police continued to touch li yu's acquaintances and friends, and constantly extracted DNA for comparison, and finally found another person with sexual relations with Li Yu a month after the crime. The man's name was Sun Jian, a butcher who worked at a meat shop in Huarong County, and he had sex with the deceased on the afternoon of the crime.
The next interrogation work also encountered the same problem, Sun Jian insisted that he had not been to Li Yu's house on the day of the crime, for Li Yu's murder, he himself did not know, and that day they were not in the rental room of the relationship, it was in the hotel, the police found the hotel owner to confirm that there was indeed a man to open the room. The staff of the hotel confirmed that Sun Jian was in the room opened with Li Yu at about 15:00 on the day of the crime, and left the hotel at about 17:00, and Sun Jian's family can prove that Sun Jian has been with them on the night of the crime and is not at the scene of the crime, and Sun Jian's suspicions have declined.
Since the incident, investigators have all carried out investigations around Li Yu's social relations, but one by one suspects have been excluded, and Li Yu's landlord Yu Huapei has more and more suspicious points, especially Yu Huapei's description of how he found the fire has not been able to convince the investigators, if there is a similar object, if it cannot be ruled out, then the investigators do not have the confidence to investigate the next suspect.
In order to be able to point out the direction of the investigation work, the investigator decided to conduct a lie detector test on Yu Huapei, although the result of the lie detector cannot become direct evidence to point out the suspect, but it will often exclude some interference for the investigator. The lie detector began at 9:30, rested for two hours at noon, and the results came out after 5:00 p.m., and the lie detector experts told the investigators very clearly: It was not him, and the suspicion of Yu Huapei's involvement in the case was temporarily ruled out. In this way, the investigator must adjust the direction of the investigation of the case and re-sort out the clues of the case.
The Huarong River, which flows through Huarong County, also has a name called Tuojiang. It originated in the Yangtze River, meandered south, and finally flowed into the 800-mile Dongting Lake. The river has flowed for thousands of years, nourishing the land of fish and rice on both sides of the river, and also witnessing the development and change of this small county town by the river. The small building where Li Yu was killed has long been converted into a leisure square, and ten years have passed, and people have forgotten the murder case in the small building.
After the case, after the confirmation of Li Yu's family, Li Yu's mobile phone, gold necklace, and gold ring were missing, which was probably taken away by the murderer. So the investigators investigated the large and small gold shops and jewelry stores in Huarong County.
At the same time, the investigators did not give up the investigation of those who had contact with Li Yu, and continued to investigate according to the condition of the mobile phone, and all those who had contact with the deceased had to be investigated. Li Yu's family retrieved the transcripts of her life, and investigators had to find the people who spoke to Li Yu one by one to confirm whether it was related to Li Yu's death. The first thing to investigate was the last person to talk to Li Yu on the night of the crime: the deceased's friend, Yang Xiaofei, about 40 years old, doing a small business in the local area, this phone call was 21:45 on the night of the crime, about three hours before Li Yu was killed, and the investigators quickly found Yang Xiaofei.

The investigators found Yang Xiaofei
Yang Xiaofei said that at that time, he wanted to go outside with his girlfriend to take a bath, and because Li Yu was working at the hotel, he wanted to ask Li Yu to go over and help open a room. At that time, Li Yu said that there were guests at her house and did not go, Yang Xiaofei was the last person to call Li Yu, he did have a certain suspicion, but soon the investigators learned from the hotel that Yang Xiaofei had indeed been staying in the hotel with his girlfriend on the night of the crime, and there was no time to commit the crime. The owner of the hostel knows Yang Xiaofei and his girlfriend, and can confirm what Yang Xiaofei said. But Yang Xiaofei reflected an important situation that attracted the attention of the investigators, that is, the reason why Li Yu did not go to the bath that night was because there was still someone in the family, this person was not Yu Huapei, not Liu Yuelong, who would it be?
Time passed day by day, and everyone who had been in contact with Li Yu was taken to the public security bureau for questioning and investigation, and the suspect did not open his mouth, you had to fix it with evidence.
On this day, investigator Zhang Meng heard Liu Yuelong's voice again when he passed through the interrogation room. Zhang Meng suddenly thought, more than once heard Yu Huapei say, he heard the deceased and xianghao laughing in the living room, the voice was a little hoarse, as if with a Hubei accent, Zhang Meng remembered that this Liu Yuelong did not have time to commit crimes, but why did the police come to talk to him again this time. Out of curiosity, Zhang Meng found an opportunity to push open the door of the interrogation, he did not expect that it was not Liu Yuelong himself who came to investigate, but a person named Wen Youhua, Zhang Meng was both surprised and excited, because his voice and Liu Yuelong's voice were strikingly similar, Zhang Meng communicated with Liu Yuelong many times during the investigation, and was deeply impressed by his voice.
Communication records show that Wen Youhua called Li Yu at about 19:00 on the night of the crime, and the call time was more than 3 minutes, which shows that Wen Youhua and Li Yu knew each other, but when the investigators contacted Wen Youhua, he said that he had been in his hometown in Hubei Province, and only recently returned to Huarong County to work, Wen Youhua was responsible for procurement work at a supply and marketing cooperative, and later was expelled from the unit because of economic problems, Wen Youhua was sick and could not do heavy physical work, the conditions were not very good, a person with a child, in the early years, Wen Youhua and his wife divorced. A man who supports himself and his young son by doing odd jobs, with no house, no property, and no skills, the investigators increase Wen Youhua's suspicions. This is why Yu Huapei swore that it was Liu Yuelong and Li Yu who said it on the day of the crime, and that is because the two talked too much. The next task is to find more direct evidence.
The police officially interrogated Wen Youhua, the interrogation progressed smoothly, out of the huge pressure after the crime, Wen Youhua quickly admitted that he was the murderer of Li Yu, and confessed the details of using a cutting board of Li Yu's family to hit Li Yu, which made the police more convinced that Wen Youhua was the murderer, but the conviction could not rely entirely on confessions, and more conclusive evidence must be found.
Restore the cutting board
The police began to ask about the whereabouts of the rings and necklaces taken from Li Yu's family, and at first Wen Youhua said that he had thrown them into the river, but the police judged that Wen Youhua's family was not in a good condition, and what he said was not necessarily the truth. After some further interrogation, Wen Youhua finally confessed and sold it to Junshan. The police found the owner of the gold shop who bought Wen Youhua's jewelry at that time to do the identification, and the boss recognized Wen Youhua at a glance.
Subsequently, the police found the shop where Wen Youhua sold mobile phones and retrieved the mobile phone of Li Yu that Wen Youhua sold.
The case is solved, but how did Wen Youhua and Li Yu meet? On the day of the crime, why did Wen Youhua want to poison Li Yu painfully?
Here's the thing: In 2000, Wen Youhua lost his job and divorced, and when he came to Huarong to work, he met a girlfriend, Zhang Mou, and Li Yu was Zhang's close friend. There is a woman surnamed Ouyang, often outside to say bad things about Wen Youhua's girlfriend, that day Wen Youhua went to Li Yu to get Li Yu to help retaliate against this woman surnamed Ouyang, the two talked for a while, Li Yu said that there was no chance, Wen Youhua was ready to go back, saying that the girlfriend was still waiting. Li Yu said, you are not married, so afraid of what she does, stay a little longer.
Wen Youhua did not refuse Li Yu's retention, but did not expect Li Yu to keep him on the bed, the two did not have sex, lying for two or three hours, Wen Youhua wanted to leave, Li Yu said you give money, at least give 50 yuan, Wen Youhua said that he did not bring it.
Seeing that Wen Youhua insisted on leaving, Li Yu went forward and grabbed him, saying that he would tell Zhang to go without giving money, and Wen Youhua went to break Li Yu's hand, at this time Li Yu took out a beer bottle from a paper box at the head of the bed and hit Wen Youhua, Wen Youhua was angry, he grabbed the beer bottle and hit Li Yu a few times, and then the two of them had a fight on the bed, Wen Youhua was worried about Li Yu shouting, so he covered her head with a quilt and pinched her neck with his hand until Li Yu was motionless on the bed.
Wen Youhua was about to get out of bed and put on his shoes, and then he heard Li Yu sigh, he was worried that Li Yu was not dead, he saw that a cutting board more than a foot wide had been erected in the corner of the wall in the room, so he picked up this cutting board with his hand, hit Li Yu's head, hit it through the quilt, broke the cutting board into two pieces, and threw it on the bed.
Zhang Meng did not tell the details of the cutting board to the person in charge of interrogation, and when Wen Youhua took the initiative to explain this detail, Zhang Meng was even more convinced that Wen Youhua was the murderer!
Wen Youhua was afraid that Li Yu was still not dead, so he lit the quilt, but as soon as he lit the quilt, Li Yu's mobile phone on the bedside rang, and Wen Youhua was startled, and quickly buckled the mobile phone battery and took it away with Li Yu's ring and necklace.
In the end, Wen Youhua was sentenced to death by the Yueyang Intermediate People's Court!
With the revelation of the truth of the case, Yu Huapei found that the real reason for the fire downstairs was finally known. It turned out that next to the bed in Yu Huapei's bedroom, there was a rain cloth that opened the rain, and there was a small hole, which was just facing the bed of the deceased, that is to say, the deceased Li Yu's every move in the bedroom was clearly seen by Yu Huapei.
Yu Huapei said that he usually peeked through this hole to peek at Li Yu on the bed. On the night of the crime, he wanted to peek again when he found the bed on fire.