The Paper's senior reporter Li Jing correspondent Gu Chengxiao
On the evening of July 23, 2021, Aunt Liu, who lives in Songjiang, walked home and found a note with a word on the door of the house, which she took off and took to the room to see because the corridor was dimly lit. After entering the house, Aunt Liu looked at the contents of the note and was really shocked.
This is a blackmail note with a crooked writing: "Hello XX, I am looking for you to borrow 300,000 yuan, please put it in your corridor before 10:00 a.m. on July 24." Ten percent interest is attached to the return. That is, the dead person saves money, if you do not cooperate, call the police, etc., I will directly find your son XX and your grandson to operate..."
The other party also said that "dare to call the police, you will kill your children and grandchildren in this life", and knows some of Aunt Liu's family situation.
Aunt Liu quickly called her husband and son to see if there were any suspicious objects, and they repeatedly confirmed that there was no foreign debt or offended, and quickly asked her son to call the police.
The police arrived at the scene to understand the situation and check the community monitoring, and did not find suspicious people entering and leaving the residential building where the crime occurred. Later, Aunt Liu and her family recalled two details: First, in the evening, Aunt Liu's husband had ordered takeaway, and contacted the takeaway staff by phone to confirm that there was no note on the door at that time. Second, after the meal, Aunt Liu's daughter-in-law took her little grandson home, and the child once saw a note pasted on the door. Investigators speculate that the note should have been posted within 45 minutes of the takeaway and the child being picked up.
The limited time to commit the crime, coupled with the absence of suspicious persons entering and leaving, further narrows the scope of suspicion. At this time, Aunt Liu provided an important clue: the house she now lives in was moved in at the end of last year, and she is not familiar with the surrounding neighbors, and Shen Mou, who lives upstairs, is the only person who knows the names of Aunt Liu and her son. It turned out that Shen had been engaged in housing agency, and it was under his introduction that Aunt Liu bought the current house, and later Shen happened to rent upstairs to Aunt Liu, and the two families became neighbors.
According to this clue, the investigators checked the situation with Shen, and sure enough, there was a breakthrough. Under the interrogation of the investigators, the nervous Shen quickly showed his horse's feet and admitted that he was the person who posted the note.
According to Shen's confession, he resigned at the beginning of this year to go it alone, and borrowed 250,000 yuan of start-up funds, seeing that the agreed repayment date was approaching, but because he was addicted to online gambling and lost a lot of money, it was difficult to repay, so he came up with the idea of writing a threatening letter.
"I suddenly thought that the downstairs was through the house I bought, less than a year according to the market price has risen by more than 1 million, I feel that I have a little credit, ask her for some money is also deserved, but if I know that I want her to definitely not give, so I think of extortion ..." So, Aunt Liu became the object of extortion, fortunately she called for help from the police in time, did not cause economic losses.
In August 2021, the Shanghai Songjiang District People's Procuratorate reviewed and approved the arrest of the case, and after review, the criminal suspect Shen Mou extorted other people's property for the purpose of illegal possession, and the amount was particularly huge, suspected of extortion and extortion. After the court initiated a public prosecution, the court recently sentenced Shen to three years and six months in prison and fined him 5,000 yuan for the crime of extortion.
Responsible editor: Xu Xiaoyang Photo editor: Hu Mengxi