In Nanchong, Sichuan in the 1990s, there was a young couple, the husband was a railway worker, the wife was at home to teach her husband and children, although life was busy, it was also full of happiness.
However, an accident broke this beautiful family, the wife was found dead at home, and had sexual relations with men in the same village before dying, this bizarre death attracted the attention of the whole village, and the forensic autopsy made the whole case confusing, and the whole case ended with the woman taking poison to commit suicide.
The woman's father firmly believes that his daughter died unjustly, and the murderer is the same village man who raped him! He has kept his daughter's body unburied for 24 years, insisting that the police's autopsy was wrong, that his daughter was guilty of crimes before she died, and that he was determined to correct her name.
Tang Deqing
In 24 years, the house has collapsed and the coffin has been dilapidated, but my father has never left, and has been guarding the coffin. The body was sealed in a coffin, and after 24 years, instead of decaying, it became a dry corpse, attracting many curious experts and journalists to find out.
So what happened to the couple before they died? Can the father find out the truth and find out the culprit? Why did the woman's body not decay for 24 years and become a dry corpse?
The mystery of the cause of death
In the 1990s, a young couple lived in a small mountain village in Yingshan County, Nanchong, Sichuan Province, and in order to support their family, their husband Liu Yonghe followed their fellow villagers to work in other places and found a job as a railway worker, while his wife Tang Deqing took care of two young children at home.
The husband sends back 500 yuan of living expenses every month, and Tang Deqing's father-in-law also has a retirement salary of one or two thousand per month, which basically satisfies the living expenses of the family. The fly in the ointment may be that the husband works outside the home all year round and only returns home to reunite with his family at the end of the year.
On the evening of October 28, 1998, Tang Deqing's neighbor Yang Bizhen had gone to bed early, but suddenly there was a sharp slamming sound outside the door, and a man outside the door called her name anxiously, as if there was something urgent.
Yang Bizhen felt in her heart that something was not good, the people in the village generally slept very early, and knocking on the door late at night was afraid of what was urgent. Yang Bizhen got dressed and opened the door for the man, and the man who slammed the door was actually Yang Jianchun, a cadre in the village, who looked frightened and uncertain, and was still gasping for breath in his mouth.
Yang Jianchun
"Tang Deqing is dead."
Yang Jianchun spoke amazingly, Yang Bizhen was also stunned in the same place, her neighbors still laughed and played with themselves on weekdays, how could she suddenly die without illness and disaster? Yang Bizhen's heart was very flustered, and she actually cried out in a hurry.
The crying woke up Yang Bizhen's father-in-law, and he also came out of the house to check the situation, and after Yang Jianchun briefly explained the situation, the three of them decided to go to Tang Deqing's home together to check the situation.
Several people came to Tang Deqing's home and found that Tang Deqing was already lying on his side on the ground, his head was leaning against two cabinets containing grain, he had long since lost his breath, and there was still feces oozing out from under his body, causing Yang Bizhen to vomit for a while.
Yang Bizhen immediately called the police, and then more and more villagers came to hear the news, and the courtyard of Tang Deqing's family was surrounded by villagers one after another. After the police arrived, they found a torn letterhead and a bottle of pesticide at the scene, and Yang Jianchun, who was the first to find Tang Deqing's death, was also taken away by the police to make a record.
The next day, Tang Deqing's father, Tang Shuquan, learned of his daughter's death, this news was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, stimulating Tang Shuquan's heart, his daughter was taking care of the child every day, why would he suddenly die at home, Tang Shuquan's heart was ten thousand disbelief.
Tang Shuquan hurried to the scene, looking at his daughter's cold corpse, Tang Shuquan's heart also cooled for the most part, and his body could not stop trembling. According to the evidence at the scene, Tang Shuquan vaguely felt that his daughter was most likely brutally raped and killed.
Three or four days after Tang Deqing's death, Yang Jianchun was released and returned home, and the Yingshan County Public Security Bureau sent police forces to the local township government to announce that Tang Deqing committed suicide by taking drugs and that the criminal part of the case could not be established.
Tang Shuquan was very dissatisfied with the reply given by the Public Security Bureau, and his daughter's mental condition had always been very good, and she had no motive for suicide at all. Tang Deqing's neighbor Yang Bizhen also confirmed this view, and Tang Deqing was still laughing with himself the day before, and it seemed that there was no discomfort.
In addition, Tang Deqing's family also has no economic pressure at all, the living expenses given by the husband and the pension of the father-in-law are completely sufficient, the feelings of the husband and wife are also harmonious, and the two children have become Tang Deqing's concern, how can they commit suicide for no reason?
The elderly Tang Shuquan also found liu Xiaochu, the village doctor in the village, who arrived at the scene of the crime earlier and assisted the forensic doctor in completing the autopsy.
"The man was lying on his side on the edge of the bedroom cabinet, there was no vomit at the corner of his mouth, and there were no water stains on the ground." Liu Xiaochu recalled what he had seen and heard that day. Liu Xiaochu, a village doctor, also signed the forensic doctor's autopsy record sheet, and he also described the results of the forensic autopsy to Tang Shuquan.
The forensic doctor took away Tang Deqing's throat tube and whole stomach, and wrote on the autopsy record: "The throat tube site is intact, there are no broken marks, the stomach is also snow white, and there is no smell of pesticides." ”
Village doctor Liu Xiaochu clearly remembers that the list of pesticides only uses the word "peculiar smell", and Wang Quansheng and other villagers who were present at the time did not smell the pesticide smell in their stomachs.
"There is no pesticide smell in the stomach, how can we be sure that my daughter committed suicide by taking poison?" Tang Shuquan's inner doubts were getting bigger and bigger. In addition, there are some short hair and cigarette butts left at the scene, and the daughter has no habit of smoking at all, and she has long hair, and there must be other people on the scene.
Tang Shuquan again asked Yang Jianchun to understand the situation, and Yang Jianchun confessed to Tang Shuquan that he had a "lover relationship" with the deceased, that the deceased had had sexual relations with himself before he died, and that the semen of Tang Deqing's lower body and the hair left in the room were indeed his own.
According to Yang Jianchun's description, Tang Deqing and her husband are at home for many years, it is inevitable that they will be lonely for a long time, that night Yang Jianchun went to her home at the invitation of Tang Deqing to discuss the purchase of fertilizer, and the two were also unbearable and lonely at night, and they had sex with the trend, but all this happened after Tang Deqing agreed.
But in the early hours of the morning, Tang Deqing rummaged through the boxes and cabinets at home, found out a bottle of pesticides, and drank the pesticides despite Yang Jianchun's persuasion. This frightened Yang Jianchun, and in a panic, Yang Jianchun found soapy water and poured it into Tang Deqing's mouth.
In this process, Yang Jianchun and Tang Deqing had a fierce dispute, and the bruises on Tang Deqing's neck were also caused at this time, but the pesticides that Tang Deqing drank were enough to be fatal, and the soapy water did not work, which still led to Tang Deqing's death.
But Tang Shuquan was half suspicious of Yang Jianchun's words, his daughter and husband's family were harmonious, how could he commit adultery with Yang Jianchun, even so Yang Jianchun did not explain the reason for Tang Deqing's suicide, the more Tang Shuquan thought about it, the stranger he became, he felt that Yang Jianchun was lying.
The torn letterhead was then pieced together by the police, a letter resembling a "suicide note" in which it was written in a crooked tone: "Do you know, I really love you, I can't live without you... I don't want to make you so tired, I'm dead, you don't cry for me..."
The police compared this "suicide note" with Tang Deqing's handwriting, and after the identification of the relevant departments in Nanchong, the police determined that this "suicide note" was indeed written by Tang Deqing before his death.
Combined with multiple evidences, Tang Shuquan believes that his daughter was first violently raped by Yang Jianchun, and then killed by Yang Jianchun, and the bruises on her daughter's body and neck were caused by the atrocities against Yang Jianchun.
Most of the local villagers also supported Tang Shuquan's views, Yang Jianchun's adultery was disgusting and far-fetched, and the villagers were subjectively more willing to believe Tang Shuquan's ideas.
So Tang Shuquan began to complain to the police that "Yang Jianchun intentionally raped and killed", and on November 23, 1998, a "notice of non-filing" was presented to Tang Shuquan by the Yingshan County Public Security Bureau. On December 7 of the same year, the "Decision on Non-Filing reconsideration" was issued again, and Tang Shuquan's appeal was finally rejected.
Notice of Non-Filing
The police still insisted on the original appraisal conclusion: "Tang Deqing's death was poisoned by the organophosphorus pesticide 3911 poisoning himself." Tang Shuquan could not accept the police's arguments, so he bought a pine coffin for his daughter after her death, and the body was buried inside, but did not choose to be buried.
In 1999, the forensic doctor conducted a second autopsy on Tang Deqing and removed part of Tang Deqing's liver, intestines and other tissues. The autopsy took longer and removed more organs, and finally the Ministry of Public Security issued a physical evidence inspection report, which clearly pointed out that Tang Deqing's liver had detected pesticides.
The Yingshan County Public Security Bureau also made a public explanation of this matter, and through autopsy analysis, it can basically be ruled out that others hit and died or covered their mouths, noses, or even strangled, strangled, and stuck in the neck, causing Tang Deqing to suffocate and die.
According to Tang Deqing's bilateral pupil reduction, there is a peculiar smell in the mouth, the nasal cavity is filled with a large amount of secretions, a large number of foamy secretions block the trachea; the gastric mucosa has congestion, bleeding, and can also smell special odors, indicating that Tang Deqing is poisoned and causes death.
Tang Shuquan
At the same time, the police made a "fact sheet" that the organs used in the first autopsy were sent to the local criminal technology department of the public security bureau, but the technical ability at that time was limited, and despite the toxicification identification, the pesticide was not found in the gastric tissue.
And the bruises on the neck of the deceased, there is no evidence to prove whether there was a fierce fight at the scene, or whether the deceased was poured soapy water to try to detoxify as Yang Jianchun said, only Yang Jianchun knew whether he had lied.
Although the second autopsy was more authoritative, Tang Shuquan still firmly believed that his daughter could not have committed suicide by taking poison, and in order to seek justice for his daughter, he decided to preserve her daughter's body and tried to do a third autopsy, so he never buried.
Tang Shuquan's condemnation of Yang Jianchun has made more and more villagers support Tang Shuquan, and Yang Jianchun, who was still a village cadre, could not continue to live in the village, and could only leave his hometown and go to work in other places to seek a way to make a living.
However, Yang Jianchun's own attitude is also very intriguing, seeing that Tang Shuquan has made more and more trouble with this matter, the local village branch decided to mediate between Tang Shuquan and Yang Jianchun, hoping that the two sides will not make a big deal out of the matter and can solve the matter privately.
After mediation, Yang Jianchun decided to take out 8,000 yuan to compensate Tang Shuquan, Tang Shuquan accepted this compensation, but did not sign the mediation document, he determined that the murderer was Yang Jianchun, and did not believe the conclusion made by the police, so the dispute agreement, both parties did not sign.
But this 8,000 yuan is by no means a small amount, for the economic level at the end of the last century, most urban people can not take out 8,000 yuan at a time, not to mention Yang Jianchun, who has been staying in the countryside.
However, the village cadre in charge of mediation made it clear that there was no subsidy in the village for this matter, and all the money was paid by Yang Jianchun alone. Yang Jianchun himself undoubtedly could not get this compensation on his body, so he also went to the local credit union and paid 8,000 yuan in compensation after handling the loan.
Yang Jianchun would rather borrow money than pay this "spiritual compensation" to Tang Shuquan, which attracted the attention of many villagers in the village, some people felt that he wanted to calm people down and save money from disasters, and some people thought that he was indebted and ashamed.
At this time, Yang Jianchun had already gone to work in other places, and only Yang Jianchun's mother remained at home. The old man defended his son: "His son did not commit a crime, it was Tang Deqing who wanted to conceive another child, which found Yang Jianchun." ”
Yang Jianchun's mother
As for why Yang Jianchun would give Tang Shuquan a compensation of 8,000 yuan, Yang Jianchun's mother said that he went out to work because he could not stand the gossip in the village, and this compensation was to block the mouth of the Tang family.
It has not decayed into a dry corpse for 24 years
Now, 24 years have passed since the whole thing happened, and in the past 24 years, Tang Shuquan has been guarding his daughter's coffin, even if Tang Deqing's room is only a broken wall, her coffin has been dilapidated, but the body is still very well preserved.
Tang Shuquan took the initiative to open the lid of the coffin when talking to the reporter, and from the appearance, Tang Deqing's hair had fallen out, his face was black and brown, and Tang Shuquan also covered the body with a layer of quilt.
Tang Shuquan has not taken embalming measures for many years, and his daughter's coffin has been quietly placed here, and time has passed, and the body has not decayed, but has been dried into a dry corpse.
"At that time, I really didn't think that my daughter's body would never be corrupt." Tang Shuquan also felt very strange at first, it was reasonable to say that the corpse would stink, but Tang Shuquan had never smelled a stink. Tang Shuquan felt that his daughter was blind, wanted her father to do justice for her, and did not want to go to another world, so it has not decayed.
In order to accompany his daughter, Tang Shuquan's food, clothing and living were all transferred to his daughter's house, although the whole house had collapsed into disfigurement, leaving only a load-bearing wall and a few bare beams, Tang Shuquan hung his quilt on the beam.
During the day, Tang Shuquan went out to work and returned to his daughter's side at night. The house can no longer cover the wind and rain, and Tang Shuquan's life is also very difficult, but Tang Shuquan is still unwilling to move away, no matter the wind and the sun, he must always stay by his daughter's side.
Of course, Tang Shuquan is also trying his best to find help from the relevant departments, over the years Tang Shuquan has been under tremendous pressure, the villagers think that Tang Shuquan is a cruel father, so he has put his daughter outside, but Tang Shuquan still insists that he will never let his daughter fall into the ground.
Tang Deqing's body has not been decayed, and in the village, it is not a secret horror story of the villagers, most people have heard of it, and even become the talk of tea and dinner.
The neighbor Wang Quansheng's home is not far from Tang Deqing's coffin, and the two families are only less than 20 meters apart. Over the years, as long as Wang Quansheng went out, he couldn't help but look at this coffin a few times.
"I was scared at first, but now I'm almost used to it." Wang Quansheng's family was very repulsive to Tang Shuquan's behavior, "It is a big thing for people to die in the ground for safety, and the coffin has always been placed in the house. ”
In the very beginning, Wang Quansheng stayed away from the coffin placed in the house, and was very evasive about the corpse and the coffin. Usually, when I return home after doing farm work, I would rather walk for a few more minutes and take a detour around the road than pass by Tang Deqing's tile house.
Later, when he heard that Tang Deqing's body had not decayed, Wang Quansheng felt even more creepy and couldn't stop thinking in his heart, sometimes in the middle of the night, Wang Quansheng would not be able to sleep, and the family's life was greatly affected.
In the end, Wang Quansheng decided to build a new house in another location in the village, away from Tang Deqing's coffin, and soon Wang Quansheng's family all moved out of the old house, and the panic that haunted them gradually dissipated, and their lives were able to get back on track.
Nowadays, Wang Quansheng has been relieved about the various things of that year: "Saying that I am not afraid of being a lie at all, these years have passed, Old Tang is indeed very hard, I only hope that the whole thing can be solved as soon as possible. ”
24 years after his death, Tang Deqing's body became a dry corpse, and Li Liangwen, an associate professor at Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, gave an explanation. After a detailed understanding of the storage of Tang Deqing's body, Li Liangwen believes that this phenomenon is the result of a combination of factors.
Li Liangwen said that if Tang Deqing did take an excessive amount of pesticides before death, these pesticides can play a very good role in killing bacteria in the digestive tract after entering the body, which is very similar to the effect of formalin that has been used in medicine, and can play a good role in the preservation of corpses.
At the same time, Tang Deqing died in the autumn, when the weather was relatively cool, plus the preservation location ventilation is better, the water inside the corpse is rapidly evaporated, and a dry corpse is quickly formed, which also plays a certain role in blocking the invasion of external bacteria.
In addition, Tang Deqing was removed from a large number of organs after his death, and the parts of the body that bred bacteria were correspondingly reduced. Moreover, the body remains sealed after being put into the coffin, and the coffin itself is also far from the ground and can remain dry for a long time, which are the factors that Tang Deqing's body is not decomposing.
Even now, Tang Shuquan is still running around for the truth of his daughter, although the object is not human, the evidence is only the body of his daughter, but Tang Shuquan still has not given up this only hope, he believes that one day he will be able to find out the truth and let his daughter be buried in peace.