In September 2007, a 3-year-old girl was deliberately abandoned at Melbourne Station, and the police investigated and found the girl's biological father.
To the surprise of the police, the girl's father, Xue Naiyin, had already fled New Zealand for the United States, while her mother, Liu An'an, died in the trunk of the Honda car driven by her father.
The case is full of doubts, why did Xue Naiyin abandon her 3-year-old biological daughter? How did his mother, Liu An'an, die, and why was she in Xue Naiyin's trunk?
Small pumpkins at Melbourne Station
On September 14, 2007, an employee of a travel agency in Melbourne, Australia, received a strange guest.
The man looked to be in his 50s, burly, Asian, and beside him stood a little girl of about 3 or 4 years old.
The little girl's eyebrows vaguely looked a bit like a middle-aged man, and the staff wondered: Are they father and son? Or uncle or grandfather?
At this time, the middle-aged man told the clerk that he needed a ticket to the United States and that he had to leave immediately on the same day.
The clerk apologized, saying, "I'm sorry, but the plane tickets to all parts of the U.S. are sold out on this day." ”
After listening to the news, the middle-aged man's face showed an anxious and uneasy expression.
The clerk thought to himself that he must have something urgent to do and needed to go to the United States immediately.
At this time, the middle-aged man walked up to the map hanging on the wall and pointed to it: "What about London?" What about Santiago? ”
The clerk shook his head and wondered: Where is this man going? How do you seem to be randomly choosing a destination?
At this time, a Chinese employee named Kemi Lin came to help, and she communicated with the man in fluent Mandarin, and finally persuaded him to buy a plane ticket to Los Angeles at 10:45 a.m. the next day (September 15).
The middle-aged man told Kemi that he would go to South Africa after he arrived in Los Angeles and where to "look for business opportunities" where to go.
Kemi enthusiastically reminded the compatriot: "Where is the security is not good." ”
The middle-aged man disagreed, and even said somewhat triumphantly: "It doesn't matter, I am a martial arts master!" ”
During this time, the cute little girl did not make a sound, but just looked blankly into the distance.
The next day, the middle-aged man led the little girl to the Southern Cross Station.
Only to see him walk to the escalator in a panic, let go of the little girl's hand, and leave alone.
It wasn't long before an elderly couple spotted the Asian girl wandering alone under the escalator, and they thought she and her family had dispersed, so they called the security guards at the station to call the police.
However, the police could not learn anything from the little girl about her or her parents.
Because the coat worn by the little girl belongs to the children's clothing brand of "PumpkinPatch", and the word "pumpkin" means pumpkin, the police temporarily used "pumpkin" as the code name for the little girl.
As the case progressed, the code name quickly became a household name in Australia, and even after the police confirmed the true identity of the little girl, major media still reported the case with the name "Little Pumpkin".
Although it was a little strange that little pumpkin had not spoken all the time, she was in good health, and it could be seen from her dress that this little girl had been properly cared for and there was no sign of abuse on her body.
Therefore, the Melbourne police believe that she is most likely separated from her relatives, and then issued a search notice.
However, the police in Melbourne waited for a whole day, and no one came to claim the small pumpkin, and by noon on the 16th, the police used the word "abandoned" in the latest notice.
According to surveillance footage at the station, the little pumpkin was accompanied by a dark-haired man wearing a gray blazer and black trousers, who was holding a suitcase in one hand and a small pumpkin in the other.
On September 16, Victorian police contacted the welfare department and released several requests for help, hoping that someone would provide clues about the man and the little girl's relatives.
Soon the information for help was returned, and the police identified the man, Xue Naiyin, a 53-year-old Chinese man, and His daughter, Named Xue Qianxun, who was named Xiao Pumpkin.
The father and daughter arrived in Melbourne on the evening of 13 September 2007 from Auckland, the capital of New Zealand.
They stayed two nights in a hotel downtown, and around 8 a.m. on Saturday, Xue Naiyin abandoned the pumpkin at the Southern Cross station and flew to the United States alone.
After determining Xue Naiyin's identity, the Victoria Police in Australia sent the information they had to the New Zealand Police, the United States Police and Interpol.
Australian police also found the identity of Little Pumpkin's mother, a 28-year-old Chinese woman living in New Zealand named Liu An'an.
The police then contacted two major Media outlets in New Zealand, hoping they would help find Liu An'an.
These two sections of the media responded quickly, and on the afternoon of the 17th, all the original front-page headlines were replaced, and the news of "looking for Liu An'an, the mother of the little pumpkin", was at the top.
At the same time, Auckland police in New Zealand also came to Xue Naiyin's residence on Gistonda Street in the Roskil Mountains on the outskirts of Auckland.
They found Xue Naiyin's Honda car, which appeared to have been parked outside the house for several days.
After a police investigation, Xue Naiyin's wife, Liu An'an, the mother of Little Pumpkin, and her mother in Changsha, China, last called on September 11, and Liu An'an's mother could no longer contact her.
At 21:00 on the 18th, the police applied for a search warrant for Xue Naiyin's house and car.
At 13:00 on the 19th, they found the body of a young woman in the trunk of the Honda car.
Due to the high degree of decomposition of the body, it can only be determined that the deceased was killed by him, violently killed, suspected of mechanical suffocation.
New Zealand police quickly identified the deceased, who was Liu An'an, the mother of the little pumpkin.
Soon, Xue Naiyin was listed as the first suspect, and on September 20, Xue Naiyin's arrest warrant was issued and sent to Interpol in the United States.
At this time, it has been a full 10 days since Xue Naiyin fled to Los Angeles, and he has long disappeared into the vast sea of people.
Xue Naiyin's family of three
The tragedy of the marriage of an old man and a young wife
Liu An'an was born in 1979 in Changsha, Hunan, China, to a family that was not in a bad situation.
Before Liu An'an went abroad, he had a very good job, but working in a bank was to study abroad at his own expense.
In April 2002, Liu An'an came to New Zealand to study, she first studied English in a language school, but she has not been able to pass the language barrier, and then because she is not familiar with traffic rules, she has a car accident, and when she applied for a visa extension, she was defrauded by the study abroad agent, and all the money in her pocket was defrauded.
She had to drop out of school to work, live in the car at night, and when Liu An'an saw the shared apartment advertisement published by Xue Naiyin, she was overjoyed.
According to netizen comments, why didn't Liu An'an contact his parents in China and let them play money, or they could return to China to continue their development?
Probably because although Liu An'an's family is well-off, in the early 00s, with a study abroad fee of 600,000 yuan, Liu An'an's family may not have any left.
And Liu An'an went abroad for less than half a year, he "spent" the money, it is said that Liu An'an has a very strong personality, so he did not open his mouth to his parents.
Liu An'an
At this time, Xue Naiyin cared for Liu An'an and provided another "way out", and Liu An'an was also moved when he wanted to come.
Xue Naiyin, who has a New Zealand identity, is a desire in Liu An'an's dream, so in July 2003, Xue Naiyin and Liu An'an married, and in the same year gave birth to a daughter Xue Qianxun, a small pumpkin abandoned at Melbourne Station.
This "martial arts master" Xue Naiyin was born in 1954 in Fushun, Liaoning Province, with his ancestral home in Juye County, Shandong Province.
In 2002, Xue Naiyin got a New Zealand green card and lived in Auckland.
He holds a Chinese Kung Fu Martial Arts Conference every year, and describes himself as "a great martial artist who has become a successful media person."
Xue Naiyin was actually married and had children before going abroad, and his feelings broke down after he went abroad.
His eldest daughter Grace immigrated to New Zealand with him, and Xue Naiyin claimed that he "abandoned her daughter to study alone for 3 years in order to spread Chinese kung fu." "Causing the daughter to run away from home in anger.
However, shortly after the little pumpkin case, Xue Naiyin's daughter Grace took the initiative to contact the police, claiming that she was because of her father's brutal abuse, which took advantage of Xue Naiyin's escape when she went abroad.
After they gave birth to a small pumpkin, Liu An'an and Xue Naiyin separated and slept.
In early 2006, after Liu An'an got a New Zealand identity card, he stopped pretending to please Xue Naiyin.
In 2006, Xue Naiyin attacked Liu An'an with a knife.
Liu An'an immediately charged Xue Naiyin and was imprisoned, but later did not know why Liu An'an withdrew the lawsuit.
Xue Naiyin's statement of this domestic violence is that the incident was completely a false accusation by Liu An'an.
In November 2006, after the domestic violence, Liu An'an returned to his hometown in Changsha with a small pumpkin, and Xue Naiyin took advantage of this time to meet a girlfriend from Shandong.
In March 2007, Liu an'an returned to New Zealand with her daughter.
In June 2007, Liu An'an again accused Xue Naiyin of committing domestic violence, and Xue Naiyin not only beat Liu An'an but also beat his daughter Xiao Pumpkin, and took out a Taiji sword to threaten Liu An'an.
However, this accusation was not established, and although the court withheld Xue Naiyin's passport and Taiji Sword, it still released Xue Naiyin.
This time, Liu An was determined to leave Xue Naiyin and took his daughter Little Pumpkin to Wellington.
Xue Naiyin was furious and immediately found Liu An'an, who lived in Wellington, and he held an axe and waved it wildly, but thanks to the landlord's gun warning, Xue Naiyin finally left.
On the evening of September 11, Xue Naiyin drove his Honda car to speed and crossed the road.
After the police stopped Xue Naiyin, they simply confirmed that he was not drunk and drove, and then let him leave.
At this time, in the trunk of Xue Naiyin's car, Liu An'an's body was already placed.
Xue Naiyin went to the Henderson police station to retrieve a Tai Chi sword and his passport that he had previously seized when he was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence.
Because Xue Naiyin claimed that the family relationship had been harmonious and had not been charged again, the police returned the matter to him.
On September 13, Xue Naiyin, who got her passport, took her daughter Pumpkin to Melbourne, Australia.
The "Taiji Heavenly King" was arrested
On October 5, 2007, there was still no trace of Xue Naiyin, and the U.S. Marshals Service announced that the person who provided Xue Naiyin's traces would receive a $10,000 bounty.
Around mid-February 2008, Xue Naiyin came to a small city in Georgia called Cheberley and changed his name to Tang Ligao.
After only half a year of escape, Xue Naiyin spent all his money, so he went to a local Chinese employment agency to find a job, claiming to be a masseuse from Tangshan.
The owner of the employment agency surnamed Yuan is quite enthusiastic and lets "Old Tang" live in his apartment.
Also living with him was a chef named Wu Guisen.
According to Wu Guisen afterwards, Xue Naiyin did not even move the luggage in the car into the house, probably ready to run at any time.
This "old Don" is quite low-key, saying nothing about his own life, and often uses the excuse of finding a job to disappear.
On February 22, "Old Tang", who had disappeared for a while, suddenly returned to the apartment, while Wu Guisen and four other Tianjin compatriots were eating dumplings, and "Old Tang" greeted them and then went out again.
Xue Naiyin was found by the police in Texas on February 23, and he rushed back to his apartment.
On Feb. 25, Xue Naiyin's wanted photos had already made headlines, and Wu Guisen found that the wanted man was particularly similar to his often disappearing roommate when he watched the newspaper.
Then Wu Guisen thought about it again and again, and felt that the various behaviors of this "old Tang" before were very suspicious.
He immediately summoned the 4 fellow villagers who had eaten together two days ago, and they all felt that "Old Tang" was Xue Naiyin, and decided to call the police.
Since they hardly spoke English, on February 27, they tried to call the police several times, but no one could explain it, so several people decided to simply go on the scene and arrest people.
Because they heard that Xue Naiyin's martial arts were very powerful and they were afraid that they would not be able to fight, they made a careful plan.
On February 28, the five people officially began to implement the plan to arrest Xue Naiyin, and Wu Guisen first called the police station in front. The other 4 people took advantage of Xue Naiyin's back to them and arrested Xue Naiyin.
So after that, the media called them "Tianjin Four Jie".
Tianjin Sijie
30 minutes later, the police arrived and they found the "martial arts master" subdued lying on the ground.
At this time, Xue Naiyin also tried to deny his identity, but the police quickly collected direct evidence, and Xue Naiyin could not deny it.
On March 10, 2008, Xue Naiyin, who was deported to New Zealand, was tried, but he refused to plead guilty.
On June 20, 2009, Xue Naiyin was found guilty.
After hearing the verdict, Xue Naiyin waved his fist and shouted "unfair."
In July 2009, Xue Washiyin was sentenced to life in prison without parole for 12 years.
After Xue Naiyin was imprisoned, his behavior was quite active, not only wrote a book "I am not a murderer" to "complain" for himself, but also painted in prison, and even reportedly held a painting exhibition.
Little Pumpkin Foundation
The little pumpkin's encounter touched the hearts of many people, and 3 couples from various countries took the initiative to write letters to the police and welfare agencies, expressing their willingness to adopt her.
Little Pumpkin's half-sister Grace, who also wants custody of her sister, also established the "Little Pumpkin Foundation" on September 26, calling on the Chinese community to donate to her sister's maintenance.
Grace's Little Pumpkin Foundation has received more than NZ$40,000 ($27,265.99) in donations, but Grandma Liu Xiaoping has refused to accept the money.
On October 4, the family court in Auckland finally awarded custody of the little pumpkin to her grandmother, Liu Xiaoping.
On October 6, 2007, Xue Qianxun and her maternal grandmother returned to Changsha, Hunan Province, with her mother's ashes, and have never returned to New Zealand.
After returning to China, Little Pumpkin lived with her grandparents and grew up healthy and happy, and her grandmother Liu Xiaoping hid her mother's unfortunate experience from her.
However, it is said that the little pumpkin has already gone through the Internet and has seen all the reports about the incident.
Those words of sympathy, hypocrisy, sincerity may remain in her heart for the rest of her life.
Xue Qianxun and grandma
epilogue
Xue Naiyin killed his young and beautiful wife because of love and hate, or abandoned his 3-year-old daughter at Melbourne airport because he did something wrong, the piles are all outrageous.
In any case, the child is innocent, the mother is killed by the father, and the self is tragically abandoned, what can a 3-year-old child do for himself?