The sudden death of a child is a heavy blow to any parent.
If the cause of the child's death is still unclear, it is even more worrying that parents will make every effort to find out the truth.
Fourteen years ago, the three children of Mr. and Mrs. Deng in Yunnan died tragically.
But what puzzled them was that the child had almost stripped off his clothes when he died, so why did the police give a cause of death for a cold death? Do people take the initiative to take off their clothes when they die cold?
They wanted the police to give a more reasonable explanation.
Bizarre death
On the afternoon of April 22, 2008, Deng Li and Shen Kaiying, who were working in Kunming, received a call from their hometown.
Hanging up the phone, worry and anxiety filled the minds of Mr. and Mrs. Deng— three of the four children they had left in their hometown had been missing all day.
They never expected that they would place their children in their hometown for 3 months, and something would happen to the children.
There have only been children in the hometown recently abducted, and their children have disappeared at this point in time, so it is difficult not to make the couple feel worried and afraid.
Hurriedly handling the affairs of Kunming, Deng led the couple to pray that the child was okay, and at the same time, they quickly took the train to their hometown of Zhaotong Zhenxiong County.
After returning to their hometown, Mr. and Mrs. Deng immediately found the grandfather who took care of the child to understand the situation.
After talking to their grandfather, Mr. and Mrs. Deng learned that the three children had disappeared on their way to school.
The child's way to school is very close, and it is only about ten minutes to walk from home to school, so Grandpa has not picked up on weekdays, there has never been anything before, and the family has never worried about anything.
But on the 22nd, there was an accident, and when he received a call from the teacher this afternoon, Grandpa learned that the children had not gone to school, so he went to the school to ask for information.
After some inquiry, Grandpa learned from the children's classmates that the three brothers and sisters said that they had gone to Grandma's house to play.
After hearing this news, the big stone in Grandpa's heart fell, the child was just playing skipping class, and people were fine.
But as soon as I contacted my grandmother, my grandfather's heart that had just been loosened was immediately lifted.
It turned out that the child was not with the grandmother.
After realizing that the big thing was not good, Grandpa immediately contacted Deng Li and his wife.
After understanding the information, Deng And his wife were not in the mood to blame anything, so they rushed to the police and contacted the township neighbors to help find the child, but there was no trace of the child.
On April 24, two days after the child disappeared, Mr. and Mrs. Deng finally got a trace of the child when a villager found a suspected child's school bag near Ryuoo Mountain.
After hearing the news, Deng Li and the others immediately rushed to the Dragon King Mountain.
After confirmation, Deng Li was sure that it was his child's school bag, but the contents of the bag surprised Deng Rate, which contained stationery and books commonly used by children.
In addition, there are complete sets of quilts, why should children bring quilts to school?
Although they had many doubts in their hearts, Deng Li and his wife, who were eager to find their children, did not think much about it, but immediately launched their friends in the township to start searching around the Dragon King Mountain.
Early the next morning, the police also organized manpower to join the search team.
On April 26, 2008, after four days of disappearance, the three siblings were finally found near Longhu Mountain.
Unfortunately, the Couple of Deng Li who found the child was not greeted by the child's eager embrace, but the cold corpse of the child.
The eldest sister Deng Bilian is 10 years old, the second sister Deng Yan is 9 years old, and the third brother Deng Hao is 7 years old, they are still very young.
Later, recalling the scene when she found the child, her mother Shin Kaiying was very sad, she said:
"At that time, I ran over desperately, thinking that if I needed it, I could also give the child some artificial respiration, but as soon as I went, I found that the child was gone, people had begun to deteriorate, and the naked eye saw that the body was purple, and I directly fainted at that time."
Deng Li was also very sad about the scene of the child's death, he described the situation of the child at that time, first found the second daughter and the third son in a slope, they were face down, no coat, the son did not even have pants, the clothes were hanging on the nearby branches, and an adult man could not take it off when he jumped up.
"There are no obvious scars on the second daughter's body, but there are several bruise marks on the son's abdomen, as thick as his thumb." Deng Also described the child's condition.
The body of the eldest sister was found hundreds of meters away from the brother and sister, and unlike the elder sister, the eldest sister died with her face facing upwards, her eyes rounded, her face showing a frightened look, her clothes were complete, and there were no obvious traumas on her body.
For the death of the child, Deng Li and his wife are very puzzled, they do not know what happened to the child will have such a bizarre way to die, they now only expect the police can give them a satisfactory answer.
On the morning of April 27, the day after the children's bodies were found, more than a dozen investigators and forensic doctors came to the scene to explore, and after the exploration was completed, the police collected the bodies of the three children and performed an autopsy.
In the autopsy report, the police gave the reason for the death of the three siblings: "Death due to physical exhaustion caused by hunger, cold, fatigue, panic and other factors." ”
Because of the cause of death, the police did not file a case.
On April 28, 2008, the bodies of the three siblings were buried halfway up the mountainside of Ryuoo Mountain.
In front of the grave, mother Shen Kaiying ignored the dirt and paper ashes, crawled on the ground and wept bitterly, and constantly shouted the child's name.
Father Deng Li forced himself to hold back tears to comfort his wife, but his eyes were full of reluctance for the children, and for them, the sudden death of the three children was a huge blow.
Death suspects
The burial of the child did not let the Deng couple feel relieved, in their view, the death of their own child has too many doubts, and it is not a simple freeze to death and starvation that can be explained.
In the view of the mother Shen Kaiying, there must be other reasons for the child's death: "First of all, they say that the child died of cold, so why do they have to take off their clothes?" ”
Shen Kaiying believes that there is no river near Longwang Mountain, and there was no rain in those days, so it is impossible for children to have their clothes wet and need to take them off, and since the clothes are not wet, how can children take off their clothes if they are cold.
For the statement that the child was starved to death, Shen Kaiying also did not agree: "How can my child be starved to death, others can carry many days when the earthquake is over, why did my child only resist for four and a half days and then die?" ”
Finally, Shen Kaiying was also puzzled that the child's body was found in the same place as the school bag: "If it is the child's own reason, then why is their school bag not with them?" There's no reason for them to put their bags down and go somewhere else! Moreover, there is no direct way to the location where the bag was found and the location where the body was found, and it needs to go down the mountain to spare it from the other side, and the police explained to me that the child was lost, I don't believe it, who gets lost will take off their clothes and lose their things? ”
When asked what the husband and wife thought the cause of the child's death was, Shen Kaiying replied: "I don't know, some people say poisoning or something, some can't find out." ”
Her husband, Deng Li, felt that the child's death might be related to traffickers.
Deng Li said that when the child's body was found before, there was a man of about one meter and seven meters on the mountainside watching the scene, and when they looked at the man, he crouched down and hid, and stood up when he did not look at his side.
When asked why he didn't ask, Deng Replied: "I wanted to go up and ask, but the police stopped me." ”
Deng Li felt very sorry that he did not leave evidence at that time: "Unfortunately, no photos or videos were taken at that time. ”
For her husband's conjecture, Shen Kaiying also agreed: "It is likely that our local people colluded with human traffickers to sell their children, but they did not sell them for some reason, so they gave up on the children." My relatives said that in the days when the child disappeared, there was a flashlight on the mountain at night, and it was a time when the farmers were busy, and if there was no special thing, no one would go up the mountain at all. ”
Talking about the previous abduction incident in the village, Shen Kaiying added: "I know one, ten days before my child's accident, there was a girl and a foreigner who left, and her family shouted that she should not be, and then they drove the outsider away, and then shouted at the girl, and then woke her up." Not long after this incident, my three children disappeared, and a neighbor told me that on the day my child disappeared, they went home and took the bag and went out, he greeted the child and ignored it, like someone was waiting for them, and I wondered if my child was also on the drug. ”
When asked about the couple's intentions, the two said they hoped the police would give a more reasonable statement, as the child's parents, they wanted to find the truth about the child's death.
Thoughts become ill
Because of doubts about the death appraisal given by the police, Deng And Shen Kaiying have been running for the matter for all these years, hoping that the police can reopen the case for investigation.
On July 24, 2014, six years after the death of the child, the Zhenxiong police showed the couple a "Notice of Non-Filing of a Case", which read:
"In April 2008, Deng Li filed a complaint against the death of three brothers and sisters, and after review, our bureau found that there were no criminal facts, and according to the relevant regulations, decided not to file the case."
For this notice, Deng and his wife did not approve, so the couple continued to work in Kunming while filing a reconsideration, hoping to find the true cause of the child's death.
For this journey, Shen Kaiying said: "We have been reflecting this case all these years, in order to run the child, we have spent all our savings, and we still owe some foreign debt, but this matter has not been resolved, halfway they still plan to give me money, let me forget it, I said I am not for money, as the mother of the child, how the child died, I want to know the truth." ”
Talking about the impact of the death of the three children on the family, Shen Kaiying wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and said: "We don't dare to go back to our hometown now, for fear of thinking of them when we see the children's house and the mountains in our hometown." ”
The child's 66-year-old grandfather Deng Zhenshu mentioned that the child was also very sad, thinking that the three grandchildren died because they did not take good care of themselves, Deng Zhenshu was very remorseful: "I am sorry for them, I should have paid attention to it at that time, and there will be no children to beat my back again!" ”
On September 21, 2021, in an interview with reporters, the reporter asked Shen Kaiying how long it took to accept the fact that the child died.
Shen Kaiying replied sadly: "After several years, I barely felt better, I couldn't sleep at all at night in the past, as soon as I closed my eyes, I would think of the scene of the child being dissected by the forensic doctor on the operating table, it was too scary, it was my mother who didn't do a good job, let them suffer so much at such a young age." ”
Shen Kaiying misses her children very much, and every time she sees her relatives' children, she thinks of her own children, thinking that if they had not left, they should be so old now.
For the child's past, even after so many years, Shin Kaiying still has a clear memory, she recalled the last time she spoke with her eldest daughter:
"That was our last call, she called me before and said she didn't want to study, I was very surprised, because her grades were very good, continue to ask her, she did not say the reason, and then I learned that she broke the cousin's watch, she is very sensible, knows that our family is difficult, do not want me to be embarrassed, so I called later to tell her, take it to repair is, how much to lose."
The child often appears in Shen Kaiying's dreams: "I often dream of my children, in which they do not talk to me, I feel so guilty in my heart, I feel sorry for them." ”
Because of excessive thoughts about children, Shen Kaiying suffered from nervous tinnitus and often could not sleep.
Shen Kaiying also felt useless to the doctor's advice: "The doctor asked me how I had nervous tinnitus when I was young, I told him about my child, he told me, you have to change your mentality, I replied to him, I can't change, unless I die." ”
The death of the third sister and brother not only made Shen Kaiying more and more emaciated, but also had a great impact on their fourth sister.
At that time, the fourth sister had not yet gone to school, so she did not go out with her sister and brother, but the fourth sister, who had begun to remember, could not let go of her sister's death.
Even after several years of junior high school, the fourth sister has not been able to get out of the shadows, staying in the room every day and not coming out, and not talking to her parents.
Later, during the psychological treatment, when asked if she had ever thought about suicide, the fourth sister replied, "I have thought about it." ”
Talking about her sister and brother, the fourth sister said that every time she closed her eyes, she seemed to see her sisters and brothers coming to her covered in blood.
For the situation of the fourth sister, Deng Li and Shen Kaiying are very sad, they do not want their children to bear so much pressure.
More than ten years have passed since the child's death, but these times have not diluted the Deng family's thoughts about the child, every year qingming and July 15, they will return to their hometown Longwang Mountain to sweep the grave of the child, and talk to the child at the child's burial place.
In Shen Kaiying's view, the children's deaths were too unjust, but unfortunately, their families could not find the truth of the children's deaths with all their strength, and hoped that the children themselves would find those who killed them.
At present, Deng's family only hopes that the police will file a case as soon as possible, find the real cause of the death of the child 14 years ago, and then pursue the responsibility of the case-handling personnel that year.
On September 20, 2021, the relevant staff of the Zhenxiong County Public Security Bureau told the media in an interview with the media that they attach great importance to this matter and are going all out to deal with the matter.
In 2022, Deng Li and Shen Kaiying are still running for their children's affairs.
As for the fourth sister, she still has not been able to get out of the shadow of her brother and sister's death, and has so far undergone psychological treatment with the help of professional doctors.
On this matter, netizens have expressed their views.
For the case of children freezing to death but undressing, some netizens explained: "Forensic science has a professional name called abnormal undressing phenomenon, which specifically describes the hallucination that the frozen deceased will have his own hyperthermia due to excessive cold before death, so that he will take off almost all of his clothes. ”
For this view, some people retorted: "Abnormal undressing generally occurs when the person is single, and the three brothers and sisters are together, and normally they should hug each other for warmth." ”
For the cause of the child's death, some netizens speculated: "Will it be that the children want to go into the mountains to camp, with sheets for this, but after going in, they got lost, the road felt that the quilt was too heavy and lost the bag, the temperature in the mountains at night was very low, it was normal for the children who went to primary school to carry it, and the bruises and purple scars were also likely to be injured when the children climbed the tree." ”
Lawyer Xie Xin is more concerned about the prosecution of this case: "According to the criminal law, if this case is a child abduction or intentional homicide, the prosecution period is 20 years, and it is still within the prosecution period, and then if it is determined that the judicial organ should file the case but has not filed the case, it can be exempted from the time limit." ”
Sources of information:
Wuhan Morning Post "Yunnan 3 sisters and brothers were found to freeze and starve to death, the police issued a notice of non-filing after 6 years, mother: cold death Why did you take off your clothes?" Dreaming that the child does not talk to me"
Henan Business Daily "Yunnan 3 sisters and brothers disappeared from school after the corpse of Chen's body in the wilderness, was found to freeze and starve to death, the family is not convinced: hope for a thorough investigation"
Times new observation "Yunnan 3 sisters and brothers died mysteriously 13 years ago, the police determined that frozen and starved and died not to file a case, the family questioned"
Spring City Evening News "The bizarre death of 3 brothers and sisters shocked the small mountain village"