On May 2, 2011, a massacre occurred in the home of Zhou Zixiong, director of the local tax bureau of Hezhou City, Guangxi Province, and all four members of the family fell in a pool of blood, and the scene was very tragic.
The first to find out about this was Zhou Zixiong's mother, Mrs. Zhou, who was so frightened by this scene that she almost fainted, or the nanny supported her, and then trembled and called the police.
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After the police arrived at the scene, they found that Zhou Zixiong and his wife Ling Xiaoyun, as well as their son, daughter and two children, had died of exhaustion.
Apparently, this is a murder that has been planned for a long time, and judging from the traces at the scene, it is very likely that it was an acquaintance who committed the crime.
Because the doors and windows of Zhou Zixiong's home are intact and have no traces of being pried open, the murderer should have the key, that is to say, the relationship with the deceased should be very good.
However, it was not easy to investigate the case, and the murderer took care of the scene, resulting in the police not extracting any valid fingerprints.
This undoubtedly increases the difficulty of solving the case, coupled with the fact that the monitoring system of that year was not as comprehensive as it is today, it is indeed difficult to solve the case quickly.
The source network | the scene of the murder
However, the police eventually passed through the two footprints at the scene, exposing the killer's feet and successfully catching the murderer.
After seeing the true face of the murderer, everyone was stunned. This pathetic and hateful woman could do such a heartbreaking thing.
If there is a clue that seems to be nothing
The deceased, Zhou Zixiong, was the director of the Hejie Branch of the Local Taxation Bureau of Hezhou City, Guangxi Province, a deputy section-level cadre, who was 44 years old at the time.
Some people rumor that his family is rich, has a lot of real estate, and is addicted to gambling, but this is all rumors.
In fact, Zhou Zixiong's power is limited, interpersonal relations are not complicated, and it is not a matter of great resentment to invite murder.
Figure | Ling Xiaoyun
On the contrary, the murderer did not come for money at all, nor did he come for Zhou Zixiong, but for his wife Ling Xiaoyun.
His wife, Ling Xiaoyun, was 46 at the time, a self-employed businessman who usually ran a cement business.
The Zhou family's family conditions are really good, there is a lot of cash in the drawers of the family, there are many valuable items such as gold, silver and jewelry in the cabinet, and there is a safe with a passbook in the room.
However, these things have not been passive, indicating that the murderer did not enter the house with the purpose of robbery.
Moreover, judging from the injuries of the deceased, although they were all hit in the head by blunt objects, there were more than two kinds of murder weapons.
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This means that there were at least two murderers present at the time.
Apparently, these two men had come to seek revenge, and they did not spare even the two children in the family.
The eldest daughter of the deceased couple is 16 years old, the second son is 15 years old, one has just entered high school, and the other is still in the third year of junior high school.
Because the family is relatively wealthy, the two children are studying in a good local school, and the living conditions are also very good, and the relationship with their classmates is also very harmonious.
So, who exactly did this family of four form a vendetta against, and want the other party to take revenge like this?
Picture | Ling Xiaoyun's family of four
Just when the investigation team was at a loss, Ling Xiaojuan, the sister of the deceased Ling Xiaoyun, came up to provide clues to the police.
She said that Zhou Zixiong was not her sister's first husband, and the relationship between the husband and wife was not as harmonious as it seemed, and her sister had told her many times that her husband was having an affair.
And Ling Xiaoyun himself is also related to other men, and this couple is just a seeming separation.
Outside, the two seem to be a loving couple, but as soon as they get home, they quarrel, which Mrs. Zhou and the nanny can also testify about.
Indeed, Ling Xiaoyun often complained to the nanny that her husband often came back in the middle of the night, but he was not allowed to do so, so the two had a big fight.
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The police conducted a more detailed investigation and found that although the two often quarreled, they were not a big problem.
Although both of them had people outside, they did not plan to divorce or abandon their families.
Therefore, the possibility of love killing is not very large, and their respective lovers can never enter the house and knock on the door to enter the house, right?
If it's not because of love, will it be because of money? The murderer may have had some economic disputes with the couple.
But Ling Xiaoyun was a meticulous businessman, very business-minded, well-documented in the ledger, and those business partners, even if they occasionally owed her money, had no motive to kill.
However, when it comes to her sister's management of money, Ling Xiaojuan is quite critical.
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Her husband, Li Ling, was supposed to work at the passenger transportation center, but Ling Xiaoyun just happened to have a lack of an interior director in charge of the construction site, so he recruited him.
But Li Ling found that working under Ling Xiaoyun's staff, he was not only too busy every day, but also couldn't get a few dollars.
He once opened his mouth to his sister about the salary increase, but he did not expect that Ling Xiaoyun would not give this face even if he was a relative, and he was stunned not to give him a chance.
Just the day before the incident, Ling Xiaojuan also called Ling Xiaoyun, talking about the matter of raising her husband's salary.
The police investigated Li Ling and found that he did not have time to commit the crime, and he had sufficient alibi.
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The case seems to have entered a dead end, who is the murderer who came to seek revenge and murder?
Strange footprints
With the in-depth investigation, the two footprints at the scene of the crime attracted the attention of the police.
The first footprint appeared in the utility room on the sixth floor, because the Zhou family had a solid foundation, so the seven-story building all belonged to their family.
How could this dusty utility room suddenly have a footprint, and it was a footprint wearing socks.
Figure | footprints found
Similarly, at the murder scene on the fourth floor, the police also found an inconspicuous footprint that could only vaguely see its edge.
Apparently, this is a clue that the killer did not deal with when cleaning up the scene.
Through comparative analysis, the footprints in the utility room on the sixth floor belong to men, and the height is not too high, about one meter six.
The footprints on the fourth floor belong to the women's slippers that the nanny usually wears at home, and the shoes of size 37 indicate that the murderer is a woman, and after that, the slippers were taken away from the scene.
After that, the two also carefully cleaned up all the fingerprints at the scene, which made it more difficult for the police to solve the case, and it seemed that it was premeditated.
Pictured | ladies' slippers
It was an elaborate homicide.
The whole building has seven floors, except for the first floor that was rented out by Ling Xiaoyun as a shop, only the fourth and fifth floors were occupied, and the other floors were empty.
The murderer not only entered the building, but also the room of the owner of the house on the fourth floor and the utility room on the sixth floor.
That is, they have a whole set of keys.
According to the police investigation, Zhou Zixiong's family has a total of five sets of keys, one set for husband and wife, one set for two children, and one set for Mrs. Zhou.
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There is also a set of spare keys, which have been kept at home, and Zhou Zixiong is very cautious that even the nanny is not equipped with a key.
These five sets of keys were all found by the police and were not lost.
That is to say, the murderer must have gotten the keys to the Zhou family and re-equipped them with a set.
Who will be the person who can reach the Zhou family and successfully get the keys to his house?
The police quickly launched an investigation into various relatives of the Zhou family, at which point Ling Xiaoyun's mother provided an important clue.
Five months ago, she lived in the home of her second daughter, Ling Xiaoyun, for a while and got the keys to the house.
But she didn't stay long, she felt unaccustomed, or went back to live with her little daughter Ling Xiaojuan.
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As for the key, she entrusted Ling Xiaojuan to help and return it to Ling Xiaoyun.
That is to say, Ling Xiaojuan has the time to contact the key alone, and there is also the opportunity to match the key.
The police turned their suspicious eyes to Ling Xiaojuan, the murderer of a family of four, will she be one of them?
Murder that has been conspired for a long time
Will this Ling Xiaojuan, as Ling Xiaoyun's sister, be her enemy?
The police do not know, but according to her height and shoe size, it is indeed quite consistent with the information left by the female prisoner at the scene.
The source network | the police to investigate the case
Moreover, the day before the crime, Ling Xiaojuan also called Ling Xiaoyun to ask for money, and then called a man named Liu Shengming at night.
The Ling family has a total of five brothers and sisters, and this Liu Shengming is the boyfriend of Su Jie, the daughter of their late eldest sister.
That is to say, Ling Xiaojuan is Liu Shengming's sister-in-law.
Ling Xiaojuan looked for him many times in the middle of the night, and what was it for?
Moreover, the height and physical signs of this Liu Shengming and the male murderer at the scene of the crime are also quite consistent.
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The most crucial point is that Su Jie's brother Su Kezhang also appeared near the Zhou family on the night of the crime.
Many people saw him that night, because he had a disability in his leg and walked with a limp.
The police targeted the men and immediately began arrests, whose performance confirmed the police's suspicion that they had all fled.
The soldiers divided into two roads, traveled around, and ran several cities, but they were eventually arrested and arrested by the police.
Under the interrogation of the police, the crowd confessed everything.
Pictured| prisoners are interrogated
The first to confess was Su Jie, who said that Ling Xiaojuan had already killed her a year ago, but he persuaded her to stop.
As for her ganging up with her boyfriend to commit the crime this time, she was completely unaware of it.
The key to the Zhou family was given to Su Jie by Ling Xiaojuan and let Su Jie match it.
What kind of deep hatred does Ling Xiaojuan and Ling Xiaoyun, these two sisters, have?
A long-standing grudge
In the face of police interrogation, Ling Xiaojuan did not hide it, but generously admitted it.
Pictured| Ling Xiaoyun and Ling Xiaojuan
She said bluntly that the idea of killing the second sister's entire family came up a long time ago.
In Ling Xiaoyun's eyes, as long as the second sister's family is dead, then her family's inheritance will be inherited by her mother, so that she can also get a share of the pie.
At the same time, the old lady Zhou and the nanny who lived on the fifth floor, Ling Xiaoyun did not want to let go, but at that time, they just went out to buy vegetables, so they escaped the disaster.
Ling Xiaoyun said that he hated the second sister.
Among the five brothers and sisters, there are three sisters, Ling Xiuping, Ling Xiaoyun and Ling Xiaojuan.
Pictured| Ling Xiaojuan when she was young
The eldest sister Ling Xiuping has been in poor health since childhood, has fallen ill, has no way to walk freely, and can only rely on a wheelchair to travel.
Although she married and had children, the whole family was still very poor.
As for Ling Xiaoyun and Ling Xiaojuan, it is because of their beautiful appearance and lively and cheerful, which is loved by many people.
But they have different lives apart.
Ling Xiaoyun's first marriage was very unfortunate, so he married Zhou Zixiong for the second time, and lived a happy life together through hard work, and the family foundation was very solid.
And Ling Xiaojuan's first marriage is very happy, the other party is the traffic police of the car management office, she is held like an empress at home, even the sister has to come to ask for her own help.
Picture | Ling Xiaojuan
At that time, Ling Xiaoyun still had no money, and when doing business, he still looked for himself to turn around.
However, this marriage ended in divorce, Ling Xiaojuan married a small worker, and the family conditions suddenly became poor.
Looking at her increasingly wealthy sister, Ling Xiaojuan couldn't help but feel angry in her heart, and the entire Ling family circled up and down around Ling Xiaoyun.
Her former position in the family is gone, and now her sister Ling Xiaoyun is the hero of the whole family, which makes Ling Xiaojuan very jealous.
Even her own husband had to work under Ling Xiaoyun, which made her feel very humiliated.
Picture | Ling Xiaojuan
Over time, this feeling becomes more and more intense.
In addition, there is another thing that Ling Xiaojuan has always held in her heart, that is, the death of her eldest sister Ling Xiuping.
Ling Xiaoyun was the richest in the Ling family, but he was also the least angry and the most spicy.
Ling Xiaojuan and the eldest sister Ling Xiuping have a good relationship, and the eldest sister has also helped her a lot before.
But the eldest sister has been in poor health, a few years ago because of a serious illness into the hospital, need a lot of money, at that time Ling Xiaojuan was helping to raise money.
She found Ling Xiaoyun and hoped that the second sister could pay to save the eldest sister, but Ling Xiaoyun did not agree.
The source network | woman in a hospital bed
After not scraping together enough money and missing the opportunity for treatment, Ling Xiuping eventually died in a hospital bed.
At that time, Ling Xiaoyun did not help the eldest sister, and now when he was down, Ling Xiaoyun did not help himself.
Therefore, her heart was indignant, and a wave of hatred overflowed her heart, and she finally decided to kill Ling Xiaoyun.
Ling Xiaojuan found the eldest sister's children and proposed a plan to kill everyone in the Zhou family, but Su Jie said that she would not agree to anything.
But Ling Xiaojuan did not give up, she found the opportunity to return the key, Let Su Jie help herself with the key, and also encouraged Su Kezhang to kill people with herself.
On May 1, Ling Xiaojuan had called Ling Xiaoyun to borrow money, but Ling Xiaoyun said that she would not borrow anything, which made Ling Xiaojuan even more murderous.
Pictured| Ling Xiaojuan, who was arrested
In front of the second sister, he seemed to be a beggar who asked for food, and he was so depressed.
That night, she called Su Kezhang and Su Jie's boyfriend Liu Shengming, and asked them to kill people with her for 100,000 yuan each.
Together, the three of them used the key to open the door, and then killed all of Ling Xiaoyun's family...
On the morning of November 9, 2011, the Hezhou Intermediate People's Court sentenced Ling Xiaojuan, Su Kezhang, and Liu Shengming to death.
On January 24, 2013, the three were executed, ending their sinful lives.
In Ling Xiaojuan's eyes, the second sister was the culprit who caused her misfortune.
Figure | prisoners on trial
But what makes her life so unsatisfactory is herself, and she can't blame others.
People familiar with the Ling family know that Ling Xiaoyun often pays to help her family, but Ling Xiaojuan is addicted to gambling and loses the family's wealth.
But Ling Xiaojuan blamed all the suffering on the second sister, because the second sister was too good.
Because of this, she killed the killer and killed all four members of the family.
This result is not because of Ling Xiaojuan's misfortune and difficulty, but because of her ignorance and greed.
She only saw that the second sister Ling Xiaoyun had money, but she didn't see the money, which she earned step by step.
She only saw her own misfortune, but did not realize that the source of these sufferings was her own greed and laziness.
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Text/Han Ling
Resources
1. Guangxi News Network: "Three Perpetrators of the Hezhou "5.2" Gate Killing Case Were Executed"
2. Phoenix Network: "Zhou Zixiong, director of the He street branch of guangxi hezhou land taxation, a family of four was killed"
3. Xinhua Net: "Analysis of the Reasons for the Tragic Annihilation of the Family of Zhou Zixiong, Director of the Hezhou Local Taxation Branch of Guangxi Province"