Reference: Henan People's Publishing House, "The Contest between Good and Evil" (some of the names in the text are pseudonyms)
At about 9 o'clock on Sunday, May 9, 1982, Baogong Lake in Kaifeng City, Henan Province (located in Gulou District, Kaifeng City, formerly known as Baofu Pit, located in the southwest corner of Kaifeng Ancient City, it is said that this is the original site of Kaifeng Fufu), a group of children fishing by the lake, one of the children's fish hook seems to hook a heavy thing, the small friends also thought that they caught a big fish, so they worked together to pull it out of the water, it turned out that this was not a big fish, but a package. Curious children surrounded the package thinking it was a good thing, opened it and looked at it suddenly frightened and colorless, what a good thing this is! It is clearly a male torso without a head and limbs.
People fishing on the shores of Baogong Lake today
The old photos of the police in the 80s reflect the mental outlook of the police at the time of the crime
An hour later, the Kaifeng Municipal Public Security Bureau dispatched more than 100 cadres and policemen to the scene for investigation. The body's torso was highly decayed, emitting a disgusting corpse odor, and the forensic doctor extracted fragments of some intimate clothing from the body's torso, as well as eight strands of the woman's hair. Autopsies and autopsies confirm that the deceased had not eaten before his death; that the neck and sections of the limbs of the torso should have been cut by a not-so-sharp hacksaw; that the items that wrapped the body were an old white plaid sheet on a green background and a quilt, although there was only a small amount of blood on the sheet, and there was no trace on the quilt, and two black shoelaces were bundled and no traces were found on it; apart from that, no other findings were found at the scene.
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At about 15:00 p.m., when the criminal investigation police of the Kaifeng Municipal Public Security Bureau were about to end the on-site investigation of this side of Baogong Lake, another group of children fishing on the banks of Yangjia Lake (located in the Longting District of Kaifeng City, where yang Jiajian's mansion Tianbo Mansion was located) also pulled up an artificial leather handbag from the bottom of the lake. The police who came out of the scene rushed to Yangjiahu Lake without stopping, and after forensic examination, the male torso found in Baogong Lake and the male head found in Yangjiahu belonged to the same person. The skull was found to have been crushed by forensic examination, and the wounds caused by the blow of the blunt object were found in many places on the head, and since no fatal wounds were found on the torso, it can be determined that the direct cause of death of the deceased was caused by multiple blows to the head by the blunt object.
Yangjia Lake today
On the evening of the same day, the Kaifeng Municipal Public Security Bureau issued the "Announcement on Identifying Corpses", and the Kaifeng City Radio Station broadcast this announcement three times in a row, and the ancient capitals of the Eight Dynasties (successively the Xia Dynasty, the State of Wei in the Warring States Period, the Later Liang, the Later Jin Dynasty, the Later Han Dynasty, the Later Zhou, the Song Dynasty, and the Jin Dynasty in the Five Dynasties period) instantly exploded in Kaifeng, and the citizens talked about it one after another, and for a time people were panicked.
Based on the facial features of the human head and the fragments of clothing left on the torso, it is preliminarily judged that the deceased was a native of Kaifeng City. Based on this preliminary judgment, the Kaifeng Municipal Public Security Bureau quickly took action and quickly organized various police stations and neighborhood committee public security organizations to mobilize the masses to identify the bodies. Soon, several employees of the Kaifeng City Water Supply Company recognized the deceased as chen mouyun, a company sketcher who disappeared after work on May 6, and then the police called Chen Mouyun's family, classmates, neighbors, colleagues and girlfriends to identify the body, and finally confirmed that the body was Chen Mouyun. According to their reflections, Chen Mouyun talked and laughed freely for a period of time before his disappearance, and there was no abnormality, and Chen Mouyun's colleagues and leaders said: Chen Mouyun left work on time at 17:00 on May 6; Chen Mouyun's brother recalled: On May 6, Chen Mouyun went home as usual, but went out again before dinner, and after that, neither his family nor his colleagues got any news of Chen Mouyun.
Chen Mouyun's brother also revealed that his brother rode his bicycle when he went out. After Chen Mouyun disappeared, his family searched for him, and as a result, at more than 0:00 a.m. on May 8, he found the discarded Chen Mouyun's bicycle in Nanguan, but Chen Mouyun did not know where he went.
At 4 o'clock on May 10, in the conference room of the criminal police brigade of the Kaifeng Municipal Public Security Bureau, the veteran director with more than 30 years of criminal investigation experience personally attended the first case analysis meeting on this case, and finally formed the following consensus:
1. The deceased went out before dinner on May 6, and the autopsy confirmed that the deceased did not eat before death, indicating that the time of death was on the evening of May 6.
2. From the autopsy results, it can be confirmed that the deceased was first killed by a blunt instrument, and then split by a hacksaw.
3. There is only a small amount of blood on the sheet used to wrap the body, indicating that the blood of the body has coagulated at this time; coupled with the fact that the deceased's bicycle was found in the early morning of May 8, the time of dismemberment and dumping of the body should be on the night of May 7.
4, the bed sheets, quilts, shoelaces and artificial leather bags used to pack the head are commonly used in the family, indicating that the scene of killing and dismemberment should be indoors, which is likely to be a single-door courtyard or unit building.
5. The total distance between the two places where the body was thrown and the place where the bicycle was discarded was as long as 10 miles, and the routes passed were all secluded streets in the city, indicating that the murderer was very familiar with the urban area of Kaifeng City, and the murderer was likely to be a native of the city.
6. According to the brother of the deceased, the deceased did not carry valuables and a large amount of cash when he went out, so the purpose of the murderer's crime was not like robbing money, so the possibility of vendetta and love killing was greater, and it was very likely that the relationship between the murderer and the deceased was different, and it may be an acquaintance who committed the crime.
In the next two days, the mobilized crowd provided more than 300 relevant clues to the police, and the investigators also collected about the same number of clues through inspections, and after screening one by one, three suspicious objects were circled.
The first object of suspicion was a young woman who sold paintings. According to the introduction of Chen Mouyun's brother, the younger brother has a hobby of painting, especially a good cat drawing, because the cat image drawn is vivid and vivid, so many intermediaries who sell paintings are trying to help him sell the cat drawings he drew, selling them to foreign tourists who live in foreign-related hotels and hotels and are very popular. A week before Chen Mouyun disappeared, there was a young woman with a sign who had gone to the house to get a painting, the woman's name, address and work unit were unknown, only that she and her brother always mentioned the word "hotel" in the conversation, and Chen Mouyun had told his brother two days before his disappearance that this woman had not paid for the painting, and Chen Mouyun was preparing to get married with his girlfriend at the time and needed money, Chen Mouyun said that he had gone to this woman several times before to paint money without success. The police analysis may be that on the day of the crime, Chen Mouyun came to the door again to ask for money, and the woman who had no money to give was forced to be anxious, colluding with others to kill Chen Mouyun and split the body. In this way, the few female hairs in the body dumping package also have a reasonable explanation.
The second object of suspicion is a gambler, through the investigation of the person's background, it is found that the person is involved in a gambling gang that includes people released through labor, hooligans and social scum, and Chen Mouyun has participated in their gambling activities. When the police questioned them, the gang looked nervous, especially the gambler, who was shaking like chaff. The police analyzed that on the day of the crime, Chen Mouyun may have gone to gamble with them again, possibly because of the casino dispute over who "came out of the old thousands", and the gamblers accidentally killed Chen Mouyun and split the body.
But soon, the first and second suspicious objects were ruled out successively. Because after investigation, the young woman selling paintings is a teacher in a middle school in Kaifeng City, on May 6, 7 and 8, someone provided her with an alibi to prove that she did not have time to commit the crime; at the same time, after investigation, Chen Mouyun did not go to the casino on May 6, 7 and 8, and the nervousness of these gamblers was also because they were afraid of the public security to catch the gambling, and careful inquiry also said that they had not gambled with Chen Mouyun for a long time, and they did not have the conditions to commit the crime.
The third suspect was Guo Yanping, a female statistician in the pipeline team of the Kaifeng City Water Supply Company, who was 24 years old at the time. Chen Mouyun also worked in the pipeline team before he was transferred to the drawing staff. According to colleagues, the two had close contacts when they were colleagues, and even ate and lived together for a period of time, eating and drinking, so that everyone suspected that they were in love, but both of them denied it. During this time, colleagues reflected that the personal style of both of them was not very checked. In early 1982, Guo Yanping and Zhang Qingmin, the head of the municipal machinery factory workshop, registered their marriage, but the wedding had not yet taken place.
However, a water supply company employee recalled: Before leaving work on the afternoon of May 6, the day of the crime, Guo Yanping came to the company to deliver reports, and once stayed alone with Chen Mouyun in the office for two hours, which was the last person Chen Mouyun had contacted before his death in addition to Chen Mouyun's family, which in itself was very doubtful. It is not excluded that Guo Yanping was resentful of Chen Mouyun for abandoning her and colluding with her husband Zhang Qingmin to kill Chen Mouyun.
However, at the second case analysis meeting on the night of May 11, many comrades expressed doubts about the claim that Guo Yanping was a suspect. First of all, Guo Yanping is petite and thin, and her height is only 1 meter 48. The wrist is only the thickness of a walnut, standing as if a gust of wind can blow her onto the roof, the appearance is not general, thrown into the pile of people can not recognize, several orders of magnitude worse than Chen Mouyun's current girlfriend, Chen Mouyun will be for this woman's old love and provoke the disaster of killing?
In addition, Guo Yanping's husband Zhang Qingmin also has a reputation for "political reliability, discipline and law-abiding" in the unit, and has been rated as an advanced producer for two consecutive years since 1979, once represented the unit to attend the advanced producer congress of the urban construction bureau system, and is now the head of the workshop of the Kaifeng Municipal Machinery Factory, and has a lot of prestige among the workers. To tell the truth, even the old chief and the captain of the criminal police brigade could not convince themselves to believe it.
The case fell into a dead end for a time.
On May 12, the Kaifeng Municipal CPC Committee and the Kaifeng Municipal Government, which were highly concerned about the case, listened to the kaifeng Municipal Public Security Bureau's case report, and Comrade Shao Qiu, then secretary of the Kaifeng Municipal CPC Committee, immediately made a decision after hearing the report and decided to convene a meeting of leading cadres at and above the municipal party branch and the security cadres of various factories and mining organs in the auditorium of the Kaifeng Military Sub-district of the Henan Provincial Military Region on the afternoon of the same day.
Comrade Shao Qiu, then secretary of the Kaifeng Municipal Party Committee
On May 13, the comrades responsible for continuing to search for the rest of the deceased at Baogong Lake finally salvaged the deceased's left arm (with palm), right leg and right foot after painstaking needle hunting at the bottom of the lake. The limbs were wrapped in a floral cloth women's cotton blouse and tied with four black shoelaces.
The straps were all brand new black shoelaces, a detail that attracted the attention of the police, who then inspected all the shoe factories in Kaifeng City and found that only one shoe factory in Kaifeng City could produce such black laces. Coincidentally, Guo Yanping's mother was an employee of this factory, and Guo Yanping had also worked as a temporary worker in the Kaifeng Leather Shoe Factory before entering the municipal water supply company. During the previous visit to the deceased's family, Chen Mouyun's mother also found and handed over several identical black shoelaces in her home, saying that Guo Yanping had given them to the deceased before.
The women's cotton blouse has been identified by several experienced old tailors, which is hand-sewn, and its size length and fat and thin are almost tailor-made for a petite figure like Guo Yanping.
Guo Yanping's suspicions suddenly increased, so the captain of the criminal police brigade made a decision and used special intelligence forces to collect Guo Yanping's important biological evidence - hair.
On the evening of May 13, Guo Yanping's hair was taken and compared with eight women's hairs found at the scene, and the results were encouraging: the blood type, thickness and curved style of the two groups of samples could be identified as the same, and could be identified as owned by the same person. The commander of the criminal police brigade, who was greatly excited, immediately ordered that Guo Yanping and Zhang Qingmin be fully controlled immediately, and their social relations should be inspected.
The investigators were so efficient that on May 14, the results of the investigation were placed on the desk of the criminal police captain. Guo Yanping's neighbor A reflected that he could confirm that Guo Yanping's family had used white plaid sheets on a green background that were the same as the corpse-wrapped bed sheets; Guo Yanping's neighbor B reflected that Guo Yanping did have a women's cotton blouse sewn after finishing work; Guo Yanping's neighbor C reflected: Guo Yanping's husband Zhang Qingmin had sensed that the relationship between his wife and Chen Mouyun was ambiguous, and he was very angry, and once threatened to "leave a mark" on Chen Mouyun's "little white face" face in front of many neighbors in front of Guo Yanping's quarrel.
In the 1980s, the Courtyard of Kaifeng Residential House can be used to make up for the scene of Guo Yanping's neighbors persuading Zhang Qingmin in such a courtyard
After listening to the report of the criminal police captain, the old bureau chief decided to summon Guo Yanping and her family members the next day, and at the same time to find out all the possible locations where Guo Yanping and Zhang Qingmin could stay in Kaifeng City, so as to confirm the first scene of the murder and fragmentation as soon as possible.
On the morning of May 15, after Guo Yanping went to work, the police came to her and asked to see the new house that Guo Yanping and Zhang Qingmin had just divided. Guo Yanping touched his pocket when he came to the door of the new house with the investigator and said: "This is Zhang Qingmin's brother's house in the unit, I only came occasionally, and Zhang Qingmin took the key yesterday." ”
The investigator knew that Guo Yanping was dragging out the time, and did not puncture it, but only said that he would come back tomorrow and asked Guo Yanping to come over that night. Subsequently, during the surveillance of Guo Yanping, it was found that she had been in a state of high tension, and the investigators were ordered to arrest Guo Yanping as soon as she behaved abnormally.
At noon on May 16 (another Sunday), investigators monitoring the surveillance point near Guo Yanping's home found that Guo Yanping was trying to move a stool under the electric gate, and immediately judged that she was trying to commit suicide by electrocution, so she immediately decided to notify the police on standby to arrest Guo Yanping immediately. When several investigators broke through the door, Guo Yanping was already stepping on a stool and preparing to touch the main gate with her hands, and was immediately dragged down and handcuffed by the investigators.
In the afternoon of the same day, when Zhang Qingmin, who was on duty at the unit, was preparing to leave the office for work, he was also arrested by the public security officers who blocked the door.
According to Guo Yanping and Zhang Qingmin's confessions, Guo Yanping and the deceased Chen Mouyun had a rash and improper relationship between men and women when they were working together in the plumbing team of the water supply company, but the two had no intention of marrying. When Guo Yanping and Zhang Qingmin registered their marriage and lived together, Zhang Qingmin was furious when he learned of this matter, and almost had to do something to Guo Yanping, but he did not move under the bitter persuasion of his neighbors, but he held a grudge against Chen Mouyun, thinking that he was "green" and must find an opportunity to teach Chen Mouyun a good lesson. On the afternoon of May 6, Guo Yanping went to the unit to send a report, Chen Mouyun heard that the "old lover" was about to hold a wedding, so he proposed to go to the night to "see the new house" (this point to see the meaning of the new house belongs to Sima Zhao's heart is well known), Guo Yanping shirked but had to agree. After leaving the water supply company, he ran to the municipal machinery factory to tell Zhang Qingmin about this matter, and Zhang Qingmin was immediately furious, and the two immediately made a "decision" to kill Chen Mouyun in the new house. At 19:40 that night, Chen Mouyun rode a bicycle to Guo Yanping's new house, Guo Yanping took him to visit the new house, Chen Mouyun got up halfway, took advantage of Guo Yanping's inattention to turn off the lights, and then hugged her, Guo Yanping's plan did not expect Chen Mouyun to come to this hand, suddenly helpless, can only passively fight. About 20 o'clock Zhang Qingmin arrived, turned on the light just to see Chen Mouyun pestering his wife, couldn't help but be angry, one hand took out a prepared empty wine bottle from the artificial leather bag and rushed forward to look at the back of Chen Mouyun's head is a wine bottle smashed down, the wine bottle shattered in response, and then Zhang Qingmin took out a brick from the bag and slammed it on Chen Mouyun's head, Guo Yanping did not know where the strength came from at this time, and dragged Chen Mouyun to prevent him from having a chance to resist, and finally Chen Mouyun was hit by five. After six slabs of bricks, he finally fell to the ground and did not move. After confirming that Chen Mouyun was out of breath, the two hid his body in the large closet and left.
On the night of May 7, the two came to the new house again, dismembered Chen Mouyun's body with hacksaws, put his head into Zhang Qingmin's artificial leather bag, and tied his torso with white plaid sheets on a green background and bread and tied with two black shoelaces; his left arm, right leg and right foot were wrapped in Guo Yanping's cotton blouse and tied with four black shoelaces; his right arm, left leg and right foot were also tied with four black shoelaces with another bread.
Subsequently, Guo Yanping rode the bicycle left by Chen Mouyun and hung the bag containing the human head on the handlebar, and Zhang Qingmin sat on the rear shelf of the car with three large bags of limbs, respectively, and threw the limbs and heads into Baogong Lake and Yangjia Lake at night, and then abandoned the bicycle in Nanguan and returned home on foot. Guo Yanping also confessed that after the investigator asked her for the key to the new house on May 15, she invited Zhang Qingmin to the eastern suburbs to discuss countermeasures that night, when she wanted to turn herself in, Zhang Qingmin resolutely opposed surrender, and finally the two agreed that in case there was any dangerous situation, they would be electrocuted and committed suicide when they returned home.
So far, the case of the mutilated corpse at the bottom of the lake that shook Kaifeng was revealed after a week of investigation by the Kaifeng Municipal Public Security Bureau. Convicts Zhang Qingmin and Guo Yanping were sentenced to death and shot by the Kaifeng Intermediate People's Court in 1983 for intentional homicide and insulting corpses.