On June 12, 2020, a team of public security officers and archaeologists came to Tomb Bay with ropes, cutting tools, hoes, etc.
Tomb Bay is a hill in Rongding Town, Mabian County, Leshan City, Sichuan Province, the reason why it is called Tomb Bay is because it has long been a place where the dead are buried, so there are only dead people in Tomb Bay, no living people.
It's hot summer, but grave bay is a little chilly.
The group came to a Qing Dynasty tomb, which had been stolen many times in the early years and is now an empty tomb. Under the guidance of archaeologists, public security personnel excavated the ancient tomb.
Excavation of ancient tombs
Soon the huge cover above the tomb was removed, and the burial chamber was completely exposed to people's eyes. The burial chamber is small, only able to fit, it is 0.86 meters wide, 2.5 meters long, 1 meter high, and there is a lot of silt inside.
With the gradual cleaning of the silt, bones in different parts of the human body have appeared one after another, and along with the bones are men's leather shoes, satchels, clothes and other items.
The police carefully sealed the bones and belongings and brought them back to the police department laboratory, and the results of the test came out, and the man had been dead for nearly a decade and still had wounds in the shoulder blades and upper limb bones.
Obviously he was not the original owner of the tomb, but he was the one the police had been looking for for ten years?
Who is this person? Why did he die in the tomb? Why did the police look for him for ten years?
One
On the morning of December 18, 2011, a woman rushed into the Martin Public Security Bureau's Rongding police station, saying that her brother Hu Qiang had suddenly disappeared.
Hu Qiang, a 39-year-old from Ganwei County, Leshan City, has a daughter with his wife, opened a construction company in Qianwei County, and has not had any news since coming to Mabian County on December 17, the mobile phone is also in a shutdown state, the family contacted overnight, and the mobile phone has not been turned on.
Report
According to Hu Qiang's sister, Hu Qiang usually has a busy work and a lot of socializing, but he has never been able to go all night and cannot be contacted.
According to the approximate time of Hu Qiang's disappearance, the police recalled the surveillance video of the main traffic checkpoint in and out of Mabian County, and found that at nine o'clock in the evening of the 17th, Hu Qiang took a taxi and got off the car in Rongding Town, and then did not appear in the surveillance video again.
The police learned that Hu Qiang did not operate a project in Mabian County, so what was the matter with him coming to Mabian County? Is there anyone he knows here?
Immediately, the police conducted a visit and investigation of Hu Qiang's social relations, and in the process, a relative of Hu Qiang provided a new clue to the police.
According to the relative's recollection, on December 17, 2011, Hu Qiang was originally having dinner at his house, but at about 18:00, Hu Qiang suddenly received a phone call from the other party, who asked him to meet in Mabian County, saying that there was an important matter to discuss.
After hanging up the phone, Hu Qiang left in a hurry, and before leaving, Hu Qiang had told his relatives to go to The Second Brother Li on the side of the horse to collect the account.
So is this caller the second brother Li mentioned before Hu Qiang left? If Hu Qiang rushed to the side of the horse to see Second Brother Li, then Second Brother Li must have an important connection with Hu Qiang's disappearance.
Investigative visits
Who is Second Brother Li? When did Hu Qiang meet him, and what kind of relationship did they have?
At this time, Second Brother Li became the object of suspicion by the police. In order to avoid striking grass and snakes, the police conducted a secret investigation of Second Brother Li.
Li Tao's second brother's name is Li Tao, is a small and famous businessman in Rongding Town, Martin County, with a very good economic situation, a wide range of social relations, a relatively righteous person, that is, a little grumpy, and has a hobby of gambling.
At the same time as Li Tao's investigation, Hu Qiang's more complex identity also surfaced.
In addition to the ostensible construction business, Hu Qiang is also suspected of opening underground casinos and organizing online gambling, in order to expand the business of underground casinos, Hu Qiang once planned to set up a den in Mabian County.
It was at this time that Hu Qiang met Li Tao at the casino, and Hu Qiang believed that Li Tao had a wide range of interpersonal relations in Mabian County, which was conducive to the expansion of the den, and wanted to develop Li Tao into a partner.
Li Tao was already good at gambling, and after learning of Hu Qiang's idea, he gladly agreed, so Li and Hu became partners and jointly opened an underground casino illegally in Rongding Town, Mabian County.
Online gambling
Li Tao used to gamble, just playing poker in reality, winning or losing is not too big, and then Hu Qiang introduced him to a new form of gambling - Online gambling, Li Tao was addicted to it, and the bet was getting bigger and bigger, losing more and more.
In a short period of time, he lost all his value in the casino opened by the partnership, and also borrowed a lot of money from relatives and friends around him, including Hu Qiang's tens of thousands of yuan.
According to the analysis of the investigation police, Li Tao did not contact online gambling before knowing Hu Qiang, and now that he has lost a large amount of money in online gambling, he is likely to resent Hu Qiang, so Li Tao should have a strong motive for committing crimes.
Although the whereabouts of Hu Qiang have not been found at this time, the investigating police speculate that Hu Qiang is likely to have encountered an accident.
If Li Tao killed Hu Qiang, the body should be buried nearby, then it would leave a trace of dirt renovation.
According to this detective idea, the Public Security Bureau organized a large number of police officers to search several hills within the area where Li Tao lived, but never found any suspicious traces.
Although no evidence of Li Tao's crime was found, with the in-depth investigation of the police, Li Tao's suspicions became more and more large, and the police decided to contact Li Tao head-on.
However, at this moment, a bad news came: Li Tao disappeared.
Two
Could it be that the police's investigation operation missed the wind and alarmed Li Tao? The police carefully reviewed the before and after process and ruled out this possibility.
So what's going on?
After a meticulous investigation, the investigating police learned that Hu Qiang's family had contacted Li Tao from relatives and friends, and they rushed to call Li Tao in a hurry.
After Li Tao prevaricated Hu Qiang's family, he may have sensed an abnormal situation and fled.
With the disappearance of Li Tao, the investigation of the case reached an impasse, and for a long time afterwards, the Mabian police used various ways to find Li Tao's whereabouts, but they never gained anything.
This bizarre case eventually became an open case.
Later, Hu Qiang's wife was heartbroken and went out to work, hu Qiang's parents were devastated, and they died one after another, leaving only a child under the age of ten alone, and a happy family completely fell apart.
This case is not solved, there is no explanation for the victim's family, and the Mabian police have always been grumpy, so for many years, the Mabian police have not given up the investigation of Hu Qiang's disappearance.
Case analysis
In the past ten years, the Mabian Public Security Bureau has changed three criminal investigation brigade leaders, and after each brigade leader came, he would conduct a detailed analysis of the case, and would also summon some of the police officers handling the case at that time to discuss, but there was no result.
As the years passed, the police's case handling ideas were also constantly changing, and in the blink of an eye to 2020, the police found a new suspicious point in one simulation experiment after another.
Hu Qiang is upright and mature, has a certain ability to resist, and it will certainly be difficult for Li Tao to kill him and hide the body alone, according to which it is inferred that this is not a single crime, and Li Tao may have helped him at that time.
Following this line of thinking, the police handling the case soon found that Li Tao had a good friend named Liao Guohua who grew up together, and after the incident that year, Liao Guohua's behavior suddenly became somewhat abnormal, afraid of dealing with people wearing police uniforms, and never went to the police station to handle affairs.
Liao Guohua has been doing business with Li Tao until 2011, which can be said to be Li Tao's left and right hands in his career, and the two are inseparable in daily life, but after December 17, 2011, Guohua and Li Tao have never been in contact again.
In June 2020, with the technical support of the Leshan Municipal Public Security Bureau, the Mabian police finally found the hiding place of the suspect Li Tao, and the special case team immediately decided to arrest Li Tao and Liao Guohua at the same time.
After his arrest, Li Tao refused to speak, but after learning that Liao Guohua had confessed, his psychological defenses immediately collapsed.
Li Tao told the police that he and Liao Guohua had killed Hu Qiang.
Three
When Hu Qiang asked Li Tao for cooperation, he felt that he could make a lot of money doing this, so he agreed without hesitation.
Later, in addition to partnering with Hu Qiang to run an underground casino, Li Tao also participated in online gambling under Hu Qiang's deception, lost all his property, and also owed Hu Qiang tens of thousands of yuan
Hu Qiang asked Li Tao to pay off the debt, and in the face of Hu Qiang's debt collection, Li Tao was dissatisfied, and soon after, Li Tao accidentally heard about an incident, which aroused his hatred for Hu Qiang.
Regardless of whether the internet gambling loses money or wins, the operator has a certain rebate, which is not a small number, which should be counted as the common profit of the casino.
However, This rebate thing Hu Qiang has not told Li Tao, which is equivalent to secretly Eating this part of the profit.
Li Tao knew that the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and finally told his friend Liao Guohua about the before and after the incident, Liao Guohua felt that his eldest brother was bullied, and he must have to do something, so he suggested that Li Tao clean him up, and the two began to act after discussing it.
On-site identification
On December 17, 2011, Li Tao bought a new bearer phone card and called Hu Qiang, claiming to have paid it back.
Hu Qiang didn't think much about it when he received a call from Li Tao, so he went out to the appointment.
After Hu Qiang arrived in Mabian County, Liao Guohua immediately took Hu Qiang by motorcycle to a remote hill in Rongding Town, where Li Tao was waiting for him.
Hu and Li held the last negotiations.
Li Tao said that the due rebate share was not needed, and the money owed was not repaid, and Hu Qiang resolutely disagreed. The two did not speculate because of their words, and then they wrestled together.
Liao Guohua, who had parked his motorcycle, saw this scene and was afraid that his eldest brother Li Tao would suffer a loss, so he immediately picked up a brick from the ground and smashed it on Hu Qiang's forehead.
Hu Qiang was blinded by this sudden blow and lost his resistance, Li Tao took the opportunity to put the rope around Hu Qiang's neck and pulled it hard, and soon Hu Qiang lost his breath.
Looking at the dead Hu Qiang, Li Tao and Liao Guohua were a little flustered, thinking about how to deal with the corpse?
Liao Guohua often herded cattle around this area since he was a child, and he was very familiar with the environment, and he thought of an abandoned ancient tomb halfway up the nearby mountain, which should be very hidden.
After the two discussed, they threw Hu Qiang's body and belongings into the ancient tomb.
Culprit
After the incident, Li Tao knew that the police were fully investigating the case, and Li Tao, who was already worried in his heart, immediately packed his bags, slipped away, and began a life of anonymity after receiving a questioning call from Hu Qiang's family.
Li Tao hid everywhere, did not dare to use his ID card, did not dare to contact anyone, and once he heard the siren or encountered the huge fear of the police car, he survived for ten years in pain.
On June 17, 2020, under the design of suspects Li Tao and Liao Guohua, the police exhumed a corpse from the Qing Dynasty tomb. After DNA identification, this person is Hu Qiang.
Four
In May 2021, Leshan City rendered a judgment on the case.
Li Tao committed intentional homicide and was sentenced to death.
Liao Guohua was sentenced to death for intentional homicide with a two-year suspension.
The murderer deserves to be punished, but Hu Qiang is not innocent.
Gambling itself is a harmful thing, but Hu Qiang uses the opening of casinos as a means to make a fortune, and he does not take the right way to get rich, and eventually dies tragically in other places, and is thrown into the wilderness, which is worth reflecting on.
All laws are empty, but cause and effect are not empty.