One day in 2001, Ms. Xu, who lives in Shanghai, suddenly disappeared, and according to her husband, she went out to work, and Ms. Xu's parents believed it at first. However, for the next eight years, Ms. Xu did not have contact with her family.
The anxious parents immediately reported the case to the police, and the first person to attract the attention of the police was of course Ms. Xu's husband Wu. But what the police did not expect was that at this time, Wu mou suddenly died in a car accident, and the case was suddenly cut off.
It was not until 2020 that the police discovered the suspicious point through a detail in the file, and dug up the remains from Ms. Xu's home along the lines...
Ms. Xu, who suddenly ran away from home
Ms. Xu and her husband Wu live in Shanghai's Songjiang District and are both Shanghai natives. After marriage, the couple had a son and a daughter, and although the family life was not rich, the small family with both children and daughters was still happy and happy.
However, the good times did not last long, and after spending a period of time of harmony between husband and wife, the two families also began to develop a gap. As the saying goes, "poor couples Pepsi lament", the couple with low income, the life has been tight, coupled with the need to raise two children, all day in the face of these "oil, salt, sauce and vinegar" life chores, so that the two no longer have the original tenderness and honey, often because of some small contradictions to quarrel.
Because the two children were still young, they looked at their noisy parents all day, and instinctively they were only afraid and did not dare to come forward to persuade them. Although Ms. Xu's parents love her very much, and her daughter has not let her suffer a little grievance from childhood to adulthood, the old saying that "the daughter who marries out spills out the water", today is different from the past, as a mother's family, they are only kind to the couple, let each other understand each other, and consider the growth of the child.
In this way, the contradiction between Ms. Xu and her husband Wu Mou has been unable to be adjusted, but it has become more and more escalated, quarrels and even hands-on fights have become commonplace, and the marriage between the two has also come to the brink of breaking.
Fast forward to 2001, on an ordinary weekend, Ms. Xu's father suddenly received a call from her son-in-law, Wu, who told his father-in-law in a guilty tone on the other end of the phone that after their daughter quarreled with him, she went out to work in a huff.
Hearing Wu's words, Ms. Xu's father, in addition to being surprised and worried, also had a feeling that something was wrong. Why didn't my daughter say a word to her parents and suddenly make the decision to leave home to work?
Besides, migrant workers generally work from underdeveloped areas to rich places, Shanghai, as one of the most developed cities in China, not only has many employment opportunities, but also the salary and treatment are among the best in the country, is it necessary for the daughter to go somewhere else?
The more he thought about it, the stranger Xu's father hung up the phone, and then quickly took his wife to his son-in-law's house. After arriving at the Wu family's bungalow, the old couple saw that the son-in-law was sitting in the courtyard with a haggard face and smoking a cigarette, and Ms. Xu's parents were a little surprised, because they knew that the son-in-law did not touch the cigarette at all except for the occasional small drink, and it seemed that he had smoked a lot of cigarette butts under his feet.
Looking at the father-in-law and mother-in-law who came in, Wu immediately squeezed his cigarette to meet him. Xu's father did not ask his son-in-law how he started smoking, he only cared about where his daughter had gone now.
In the face of Xu's father's questioning, Wu Mou said to him with a guilty face: "Dad, we had a fight that day and she said that she was going to work in other places, and I didn't care about her when I was still angry." The next day, I called her to indicate that the machine was down, and I haven't turned it on for the past few days. ”
"What? She's been gone for a few days, how did you tell us! Listening to Wu's words, it means that her daughter ran away from home a few days ago, Xu Father immediately said eagerly. He, who cares about the whereabouts of his daughter, did not hear the details of Wu's name for him, due to the deterioration of the relationship with his daughter, Wu has not called him "Dad" for several years.
At this time, Wu Mou said somewhat hesitantly, "This... I really... alas! He didn't say anything for half a day, and finally just let out a long sigh. Xu's father, Xu's mother, saw his unspeakable look, and suddenly felt that his daughter's departure seemed to have another hidden feeling.
"Xiao Wu, you tell me, what is the situation?" Father Xu asked sharply. "Well, let's go inside and say, Mommy and Daddy." Wu was silent for a moment, as if he had made some decision, and stomped his feet to Xu Father Xu Mother.
Wu's family's bungalow
The daughter has not been heard from for eight years, and the son-in-law of the "Emperor of Shadows" is suspected
In the house, Wu told the second elder the causes and consequences of his wife Ms. Xu's run away from home. In his description, the whole incident is like this: Some time ago, Wu suddenly found that his wife and a man were ambiguous. He questioned his wife what the relationship between the two was, but her wife said that the two were colleagues and dealt with him.
Wu mou believes that his wife is cheating on him, but he has no conclusive evidence, just let his wife stay away from the man, the wife continues to argue with him, and the two eventually break up.
A few days ago, Wu found that his wife was still entangled with the man, so he had a big fight with his wife over this matter. Wu told his father-in-law and mother-in-law that when the two argued, his wife actually admitted that she had cheated.
So he slapped his wife in anger, and after being beaten, his wife simply cleaned up and ran out of the house, and before leaving, his wife said to him loudly, "I can't stay in this home, the old woman goes out to work!" ”
According to Wu's account of Xu's father and Xu's mother, at that time, he was angry with his cheating wife, only saying that she would go wherever she liked, and did not stop his wife from running out. After the two children returned from cram school, they asked his mother where he had gone, and Wu, who was still angry, only said that his mother would go to his grandmother's house for a few days.
He didn't call his wife until the next day to discuss the divorce with her, but found that his wife's PHS was down. In the next few days, Wu did not go to work, but kept looking for his wife, but he searched all over his wife's classmates and friends and still did not see his wife, and the mobile phone could not be reached.
Thinking that his wife was really likely to go out to work, he felt that this matter could not be hidden from his father-in-law and mother-in-law, so he informed them of the matter. Speaking of this, Wu actually shed tears at Xu's father and Xu Mother, and said with great guilt that he blamed him for not pulling his wife at that time.
Looking at Wu Mou, who was in tears, Xu Father did not know what to say for a while. If it is really as the son-in-law said, this matter is really not to blame Wu, after all, there is a man who is willing to wear a green hat on his head. Wu did not tell the old two at the first time, perhaps because his daughter cheated on each other for fear of embarrassing each other.
However, Father Xu still felt a little strange. Although the daughter and the son-in-law husband and wife are not in harmony, as a father, he still knows his daughter very well, and his daughter is definitely not the kind of woman who is inconsistent, how can he cheat in marriage.
But when Xu Father saw Wu's sad and remorseful expression, coupled with the description of the matter, Xu Father couldn't help but be a little shaken in his heart, was his daughter really cheating?
Father Xu paced back and forth in the house with a full heart, when he suddenly noticed that a new layer of cement had been laid on the bedroom floor in the northwest corner of the living room. Due to the problem of the terrain, the floor of the two bedrooms in the southwest and northwest directions of the son-in-law's home is twenty or thirty centimeters lower than that of the living room, and Xu Father has come to the son-in-law's house many times, and naturally knows this situation.
At this time, the floor of the bedroom on the northwest side was paved with new cement, and the floor of the living room was parallel to the ground, while the bedroom on the southwest side was still the same, obviously much lower. Looking at the ground that had not yet completely hardened, Xu Father knew that it should not be long after it had been laid, and then showed a puzzled expression.
Wu Mou was sadly saying something to Xu Mother, and his eyes flickered to see xu Father being stunned at the northwest side bedroom door. Seeing this, he hurriedly stepped forward to take Xu Father's hand, explaining that after his wife left, he also had no intention of going to work, so he took a few days off, and after looking for his wife without success, he went home to see the low-lying ground in the bedroom, and thought that his wife had not muttered about him, so he took a time to start filling in the ground. But at that time, due to the tension between him and his wife, he did not pay much attention to the matter and put it on hold.
Therefore, he first paved the floor of the southwest bedroom in these days, and the northwest bedroom had not yet had time to pave. One is that I have no intention of going to work to pass the time, and the other is that I think that my wife will reveal her a reconciled attitude to her one day after she returns with a change of heart.
Xu's father had also heard his daughter say this in his ear before, saying that the floor of her husband's home had not been paved for many years, and the husband and wife quarreled many times because of the low-lying floor of the bedroom. It seems that the daughter's departure really made the son-in-law change his nature, and he now hopes that his daughter will come back as soon as possible, and the two will freeze their previous suspicions and live a peaceful and beautiful life.
Wu Moujian dispelled the doubts in Xu's father's heart, and then quickly patted his chest to ensure that he had originally thought of divorcing his wife, but in the past few days he also figured it out, as long as his wife returned, he was willing to reconcile with her, and change the previous bad problems, and in later life, he would be more considerate of his wife and do his best to manage this marriage.
Hearing Wu's vows, Xu's father and Xu's mother felt a little sorry for their son-in-law. No matter what he was before, now his daughter "cheated" first, and the son-in-law has such an attitude of not considering the previous suspicions, which makes the old couple feel relieved at the same time, but also can't help but complain about the daughter's willfulness in their hearts.
Therefore, the old couple returned home after comforting the son-in-law for a few words, and Wu also sent the two to the door. However, looking at the distant back of his father-in-law and mother-in-law, Wu Mou, who was still a look of guilt just now, instantly changed into a vicious face...
In the days that followed, Xu's father and mother had been looking forward to their daughter's quick return, but they still did not wait for their daughter to return home, and her daughter's mobile phone was always down. In the blink of an eye, it was the Spring Festival of 2002, and this Spring Festival could not wait for the daughter's Xu father and xu mother to live a little desolate.
On the second day of the Chinese New Year, Wu took two children to his father-in-law's mother-in-law's house. During the banquet, Wu frequently toasted to Xu's father and told him that his wife was likely to change a mobile phone card, so he could not contact her for more than half a year.
Yesterday, he made a special trip to the Taoist Temple and asked his wife for an old Taoist leader.
The old taoist said that his wife was now living in peace and did not suffer hardships. As for when his wife will return, the old master replied that he should go with the flow, and if her family missed her more, the more likely it was that Ms. Xu would be bound by obsession and would not return home in this life. If the family slowly forgets this matter, the providence in the underworld will make Ms. Xu appear in front of their eyes.
In fact, Wu mou just went out for a walk on the first day of the Chinese New Year, and did not go to the Taoist temple he said. Listening to this remark may not be believed by others, but Wu mou knows that Xu's father and Xu mother are very superstitious, so they deliberately told them this lie while drinking.
Hearing Wu's mysterious words, Xu's father and Xu's mother immediately believed it. No wonder their two old families prayed in front of the statue of the god at home every first and fifteenth day of the first month to pray that their daughter would return home as soon as possible, but for more than half a year, the daughter did not even hear from her, according to the old Taoist chief, it turned out that it was their concern that caused their daughter not to come back.
Looking at the old couple's very convinced appearance, Wu Mou was smug in his heart: These two old guys are really deceitful, and feudal superstitions can really resist him for ten thousand words!
Since then, the superstitious old couple has forcibly put down the fact that their daughter ran away from home, hoping that god can send her daughter to them. But in 2009, a careless remark from his grandson made Xu's father suspicious of his daughter's "part-time job away from home."
One day, Xu's father said to his grandson that he didn't want his mother for all these years, but the grandson said that at home, his father never let them mention his mother, and as long as he and his sister said that they wanted to think of their mother, their father would be very angry. Therefore, he took advantage of Wu's absence and secretly went through a drawer in the bedroom, which contained a picture of his mother, as well as her mobile phone and ID card, and saw these things as if his mother was around them.
The speaker did not have the intention of listening, and Xu's father noticed that his daughter's mobile phone and ID card were still at home, which made him suspicious. According to the son-in-law, the daughter ran away from home after simply packing up, so why did she leave the two things that she carried at home, such as mobile phones and ID cards?
At this time, he also thought that his daughter had not called home in all these years, even during the New Year, and her daughter was usually very filial to them, and it was impossible to go out to work and forget her father.
Thinking of this, Xu Father suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart...
The suspect was suddenly killed, and the clue was interrupted into a suspenseful case
Whether it is the daughter who ran away from home after cheating, or the old Taoist calculating, all this was said from Wu's mouth, they did not see it with their own eyes, and then combined with the daughter's departure, Wu suddenly seemed to change his temperament, Xu Father got a sad conclusion in his heart: The daughter was most likely killed by Wu!
The tearful Xu father did not have time to grieve, so he rushed to the Songjiang District Public Security Bureau, reported the disappearance of his daughter, and designated his son-in-law Wu mou as a major suspect.
When the police received the report, they were first surprised. Why did Ms. Xu disappear for eight years before her family came to report the crime? In the face of the police's questioning, Xu's father was also ashamed, and he was blinded by Wu Mou, who was superb in acting, and then told the doubts about Wu Mou one by one.
After listening to Xu Father's words, the reception police also had a sinking heart, according to the old man, Ms. Xu was really very likely to have been killed.
As a result, the Songjiang police immediately summoned the suspect Wu Mou. In the face of police questioning in the police station, Wu was also very surprised, but after a while he calmed down and insisted that his wife had indeed run away from home. As for why the wife did not even take away her mobile phone and ID card, it may be that she was too emotional to leave in too much hurry and forgot to bring it.
Wang Tao, director of the Criminal Division of the Songjiang Branch Bureau, with many years of experience in handling cases, felt that Wu's statement was full of doubts.
First of all, even if a person who goes far away is emotional, it is unlikely that he will forget his ID card at home, and she will not be able to buy a ticket without an ID card, nor can she stay overnight, even if she works part-time, she can only work as a black worker. Therefore, even if she forgot to bring her ID card, Ms. Xu will definitely go home to get it.
Secondly, since Ms. Xu's mobile phone was at home, why did Wu still tell her father-in-law and mother-in-law that she couldn't get through the phone, creating an illusion that Ms. Xu turned off her mobile phone herself.
In the end, whether it was Ms. Xu cheating or the old Taoist, all this scene was said by Wu himself, and the second elder was not present. What's more, the words of the so-called old Taoist are more like Wu Mou's fabrications, deliberately misleading Xu's father and Xu Mother, so that they can forget their daughter's affairs.
Combined with the above inference, Wang Tao felt that Wu mou was likely to have killed his wife 8 years ago, and used acting skills and some means to hoodwink and mislead his father-in-law and mother-in-law.
However, speculation is speculation after all, and the police should pay attention to evidence in handling cases. Just like Wu Mou said impatiently to the police: "If you want to prove that I killed her, you will show the evidence!" In the face of Wu's words, the police are really helpless.
Now that Ms. Xu has not seen anyone dead or dead, it is impossible to convict Wu based on inference alone. Because there was no arrest warrant, the police had no choice but to let him go home. However, based on his suspicion of major crimes, the Songjiang Public Security Bureau still conducted a secret investigation of Wu.
Through visiting and investigating Wu's neighbors, someone reflected that he was repairing a bicycle at the door eight years ago, and heard an unusually fierce noise coming from Wu's home, which he was deeply impressed by because of the loud noise. Later, the noise in Wu's home stopped, and he repaired the bicycle and did not see anyone come out.
This clue undoubtedly aggravated Wu's suspicions, making the police speculate that he most likely killed Ms. Xu at home. Just as the police were gradually making progress, there was a news that they did not expect - Wu mou was killed in a car accident!
The sudden death of the suspect has put the police who have already had a clue in a dilemma, and the case has been difficult to carry out. At this point, this disappearance case has become a headless unsolved case, leaving only the pain of Xu's father and Xu's mother and the unwillingness of the police...
There are secrets in the dust files, and the truth appears under the cement
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is 2020. Just when Ms. Xu's parents thought that they would never find their daughter again in this life, the Shanghai police accidentally discovered a secret message by combing through the case file, and it was this secret information that made Ms. Xu's disappearance turn around.
One day in December 2020, Wang Tao, director of the Criminal Investigation Institute, was going through some of the files of some suicide cases in the archives room. By chance, he turned to the case of Ms. Xu's disappearance. The unsolved case of the sudden disappearance of the suspect is still impressive even after so many years.
Wang Tao, who was a little sighing, was about to turn over the file when a line on the file caught his attention. Only to see that what was written above was a statement from Xu's father: Wu had poured cement in the bedroom on the northwest side after his daughter disappeared.
Thinking about this ordinary sentence, Wang Tao suddenly thought of an assumption that made him creepy. With this hypothesis, he immediately went to Wu's home and met Wu's son.
Since Wu's death, the courtyard has been inherited by his son. Wang Tao walked into the house and saw that the bedroom floor and the living room on the northwest side were basically parallel, while the bedroom on the southwest side was obviously twenty or thirty centimeters lower, such a scene made Wang Tao's throat dry, his heart beat faster, and the truth of 19 years ago may be buried under this cement floor.
Wang Tao informed Wu's son of his thoughts, looking at the shocked expression of the other party, Wang Tao waited for his mood to calm down slightly, and then told him that he hoped to carry out excavation work. After a long ideological struggle, Wu's son finally agreed to this request.
Looking at the cement floor under his feet, Wu's son has both expectation and fear in his heart, looking forward to seeing his mother again, afraid of getting the news of his mother's death, as a son, his heart is very contradictory.
On December 21, 2020, this day ushered in the winter solstice. As the saying goes, "the winter solstice is as big as the year", on the winter solstice the family usually gets together, unlike the northerners who eat dumplings, most of the southerners will eat tangyuan, which means reunion.
However, on this day that should have been reunited, a group of people were "digging three feet into the ground" in Wu's home. Considering the age of the bungalow, the police did not use large appliances, but used electric drills, chisels, shovels and other tools to dig the cement floor little by little.
Excavation site
After more than an hour of construction, the bedroom on the northwest side was dug down by more than a dozen centimeters, and the cement block alone filled several bags. Even in the cold environment, the construction crew is still sweating.
At this time, suddenly someone dug out a layer of plastic paper in the bedroom near the window. Looking at the tattered plastic paper embedded with cement, Wang Tao felt very abnormal, even if it was to prevent moisture, why did the plastic paper only exist in this area?
So he immediately asked the construction workers in other areas to stop moving and excavate the place under the plastic paper. When the construction workers, like archaeologists, carefully cleaned the cement blocks mixed with plastic paper, several steel bars were exposed underneath.
After patiently digging out all the steel bars, Wang Tao found that the length of the six steel bars was not consistent, and boldly speculated that these steel bars were likely to be locally sourced materials, unlike those used uniformly when building houses. And the area where the six bars are located is much cleaner than other areas, without too many bricks and gravel. This also shows that the cement in this area is watered at different times than in other areas.
After half an hour, an opening appeared in front of the construction crew. At this moment, everyone present raised their hearts to their throats, and a kind of excitement and worry close to the truth filled their hearts...
Eventually, the construction crew dug up a corpse under the hole, and the forensic doctor present preliminarily concluded that it was the bone of a middle-aged woman, and that a wire was wrapped around her neck. The police immediately pulled the bones back to the police station for autopsy, and extracted the DNA of Wu's son and compared them with the bones.
After putting the bones together, the forensic doctor found that there were no traces of trauma on it, and looking at the wire wrapped around the neck, the cause of death was self-evident.
Then the test results also came out, and this body was Ms. Xu, who had been missing for 19 years! Xu's father and mother, who received the results, cried bitterly on the spot, although they had been mentally prepared for many years, but when they faced this scene, their hearts still collapsed in an instant.
And their grandson was in tears at this time, and he couldn't believe that his mother, who had waited for 19 years, had been sleeping at his feet. A human tragedy is literally unfolding.
In the end, the police combined with many evidences, and basically determined that Wu Mou, who died in a car accident, was the murderer of his wife, Ms. Xu. The police speculated that on the day of 2001, Wu strangled Ms. Xu with wires during the quarrel, and in the next few days he dug a hole in the northwest bedroom, put Ms. Xu in it, and then poured it with cement. The two young children did not know that the father who was working in the house was burying their mother.
After completing the work of burying the body, this called to inform Ms. Xu's parents, and "drama essence" disguised all this as the illusion of going out to work after Ms. Xu's cheating was discovered, and even used the superstitious characteristics of Xu's father and Xu mother to cover up the possibility of being suspected.
It's just that people are watching in the sky, maybe the heavens can't look at Wu Mou in a frenzy, so that he died in a car accident in 2009, which can be described as retribution.
This wife killing case, because the suspect Wu Mou died early, was not tried by the court, but the heavens have already pronounced a verdict on this demon, which can also be regarded as karma.
epilogue
On the winter solstice of 2020, Ms. Xu's parents and children finally ushered in a "reunion" with their relatives, but the reunion that had been waiting for 19 years turned out to be a farewell. In 19 years, relatives reunited again, her parents were dying of old age, her children had grown up, and she was a bunch of dry bones...
It is reported that Ms. Xu has now been cremated and buried. The parents and children were very tacit in not burying her in the cemetery where Wu was located, which was probably Madam Xu's last wish in the Spirit of Heaven.
Finally, I would like to give a thumbs up to the police comrades of the Songjiang Branch of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau, represented by Officer Wang Tao, whose perseverance has allowed the drowned truth to surface.
The heart of the forgiving, the soul of the deceased! Worthy of the people's police!