On April 1, 2005, She Xianglin was released from prison.
He was convicted of intentional murder of his wife and was sentenced to death in the first instance, which was later commuted to 15 years' imprisonment.
After sentencing, She Xianglin insisted on appealing, saying that he had been wronged.
The court dismissed and affirmed the original judgment.
In the 11th year of She Xianglin's detention, a bizarre scene happened:
His wife, resurrected.
She Xianglin was completely cleared of the crime and acquitted.
Only, 11 years have passed since he was arrested.
After 11 years in prison, after all the sufferings of the world, how to repay the lost life?
And how did his wife come back from the dead?
It all started in 1986.
She Xianglin is a native of Yanmenkou Town, Hubei Province, and he met his wife Zhang Zaiyu on a blind date.
After marriage, the two had a harmonious relationship and soon gave birth to a daughter.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long.
Due to work, the two got together less and separated more, and over time there was a conflict.
By chance, She Xianglin met a young lady surnamed Chen, and under the ghost fascination, the two had a relationship.
There is no impermeable wall in the world, and this matter quickly spread in the town, and naturally it also reached Zhang Zaiyu's ears.
Zhang Zaiyu was angry and quarreled with She Xianglin, and the relationship between the husband and wife reached an impasse.
The sudden change of fate occurred on January 20, 1994.
That night, the two quarreled again, and Zhang Zaiyu chose to run away from home in a fit of anger.
She Xianglin thought that his wife had returned to her mother's house, and when her anger subsided, she returned.
Who would have thought that after a night of delay, he began to panic.
"After we had a fight, she ran out and never came back.
The next day, I went to her mother's house to look for it, took all my relatives and friends to look for it, and found the end of the village from the head of the village, but I didn't see anyone.
Later, someone said that she may have been abducted by human traffickers, but I didn't expect it..."
I didn't expect to die in the pond of the village.
In the early morning of April 11, a villager was on his way to school when he saw an unknown object floating on the pond.
This look frightened him almost lost his soul, and what floated on the pond turned out to be a corpse!
The villagers immediately called someone over and called the police.
According to the forensic medical examination: the deceased was a woman, 155 cm tall, had childbearing experience, was about 30 years old, and died at a time of more than two months.
Because the body was soaked in water for too long, the face was swollen and decomposed, and the identity of the deceased could not be confirmed.
But the medical examiner revealed a crucial clue:
The female corpse was not accidentally drowned, and there were obvious marks of serious blunt injuries on her body.
In other words, this may be a case of intentional homicide of a very egregious nature.
As soon as the autopsy results came out, the police quickly locked up Zhang Zaiyu, who had been missing for several months.
Zhang Zaiyu's mother cried bitterly at the first sight of the corpse: "This is my daughter!" ”
Zhang Zaiyu's mother dares to be so sure because there are traces of cesarean section on the stomach of the corpse, and her daughter is also a cesarean section, and the two are the same height.
Most importantly, Zhang had a black mole on Jade's chest, consistent with the autopsy.
She Xianglin, who learned that his wife was killed, was sad and regretful in his heart.
Knowing this, he should not have cheated, let alone quarreled with his wife.
But then again, without DNA identification, how can it be proved that the female corpse in the lake is his wife?
Just as he was thinking about it, the police came to the door.
"She Xianglin, you have major suspicions in this case."
The man cheats, the husband and wife often quarrel and drop things, and the daughter is scared several times and does not dare to go home...
The police learned about the family situation from neighbors and believed that this was a typical case of "cheating and killing his wife and marrying a mistress".
On April 12, the criminal police of the task force took She Xianglin to a local hotel and placed him under residential surveillance.
At the beginning, She Xianglin firmly stated that he was wronged and believed that his wife had not died.
Unexpectedly, after only ten days, She Xianglin's attitude took a 180-degree turn.
He admitted that he was the murderer of his wife, and also admitted that he killed his wife in order to marry Miss Chen.
This result was fully consistent with the police's presumption, and the person was formally arrested on 22 April.
Later, She Xianglin wrote in the complaint materials:
"I was brutally beaten by corporal punishment for 10 days and 10 nights, numb, already in a state of lethargy, and my whole body was scarred, unable to walk and stand.
I only wish to take a break as soon as possible, and as long as I can take a break, I will not hesitate to comply with whatever they ask. ”
On October 13, 1994, the Jingzhou court rendered a first-instance verdict in the "case of killing his wife and throwing his body", and She Xianglin was sentenced to death for the crime of intentional homicide.
This year, he was 28 years old.
The villagers rushed to tell each other, scolding the cheating and killing of his wife and man for not dying well, and he really deserved to be sentenced to death.
Only She Xianglin's mother could not accept this fact.
She didn't believe her son would kill her daughter-in-law, and she couldn't forget that her son kept repeating that he didn't kill when he was taken away.
The She family was very dissatisfied with the first-instance verdict, so they appealed to the Hubei Provincial Higher Court to overturn the original verdict.
The road to appeal is full of hardship and blood and tears.
She Xianglin's mother posted notices everywhere to find Zhang Zaiyu's whereabouts.
Whenever she was over, she took out the printed photo and asked with hope in her eyes: Have you seen this woman?
Although no one was found, after continuous efforts and petitions, four years later, She Xianglin was commuted to 15 years in prison.
Unfortunately, She Mu could not see this scene.
According to She Xianglin's brother She Suolin:
"My mother was detained for months by the police because of her constant petitions and complaints, and I was detained for more than 40 days, threatening me not to file a complaint when she released me.
My mother died shortly after being put back. ”
Her mother died depressed, and her granddaughter was even more unbearable.
The murder of the mother, the murderer or his own father, this is an unbearable blow for any child.
She was scorned by her classmates and became introverted and withdrawn.
Because the family redressed his father, he spent all his savings and couldn't even pay the tuition fees.
The elderly grandfather took his granddaughter to school and asked for a waiver of tuition and fees, but was refused.
Village officials believe that the children of murderers should not be given special treatment.
With no money to pay school fees, the 14-year-old girl was forced to drop out of school, leave her hometown and go out to work.
And She Xianglin's prison life continues.
It is worth mentioning that he performed well in prison and won a reduction of 3 and a half years of his sentence.
He spent 11 years in prison, just four months away from his release.
After so much time has passed, She Xianglin has long been numb, no longer saying that he has been wronged, counting the days every day and waiting to be released from prison.
But God seems to like to tease people.
It was at this time that his late wife was resurrected.
On 28 March 2005, a middle-aged woman arrived at the Yanmenkou Town Police Station.
Her appearance frightened everyone.
Because her name is Zhang Zaiyu, she also said that her husband was wronged.
The police took Zhang Zaiyu for a DNA test, and the test sheet showed that she was not lying.
"What is it called when someone who has been dead for 11 years suddenly appears?"
Facing everyone's doubtful or shocked eyes, Zhang Zaiyu said the truth of the matter with a complicated feeling.
It turned out that she suffered from mental illness in her early years.
On the night she ran away from home in 1994, the more she thought about it, the more angry she became, and the disease recurred.
She didn't know who she was, so she walked aimlessly.
With no money and no ID card, she could only beg for a living, and came all the way to Shandong.
In Shandong, she met a gentle man, and the two got married and had children.
Happy after marriage, Zhang Zaiyu gradually remembered the past.
She sent letters home saying she was doing well, but they were all lost.
It was not until 2005, when Zhang Zaiyu returned to his hometown with his husband with guilt and complicated feelings to see his parents, that he learned what happened to his ex-husband She Xianglin.
The truth came out, and the court immediately acquitted She Xianglin.
As for the unknown female corpse in the lake, because of its age, it is difficult to find new clues, and the result is also impossible.
Today, She Xianglin has finally waited for belated justice.
The first thing he did after his release from prison was to kneel in front of his mother's grave to worship.
His brother said: "When our mother left, her eyes never closed, she believed that you were innocent, and she wanted to see you again." ”
She Xianglin knelt in front of his mother's grave, crying desperately.
After the incident, he proposed 10 million yuan in compensation to the state, and finally obtained 700,000 yuan in state compensation.
Although he was freed and compensated to a certain extent, for She Xianglin, these were not enough to offset the humiliation and suffering he had suffered in the past 11 years.
The mother died depressed, the daughter dropped out of school early, and she was left ill.
Some people say: She Xianglin cheated, maybe this is his retribution.
Some people also say: I have been wronged for 11 years, but I just think about it from another perspective, and I feel unbearable.
The cheating led to the breakdown of the couple's relationship, and She Xianglin's fault is beyond doubt.
We can condemn him on a moral level, but this is by no means a reason to wrongfully kill him.
There is no crime unless expressly provided in the law, and no punishment is imposed unless expressly provided in the law.
Bacon once said: A crime pollutes the flow of water, and an unjust justice pollutes the water.
But today is different.
With the development of technical means, many cases that could not be solved in the past can now be detected.
For example, surveillance, fingerprints, DNA and other scientific means, these are difficult to do before.
Coupled with the principle that the state administers according to law and has mistakes that must be corrected, the law is becoming more and more perfect, and there will naturally be fewer and fewer people who exploit loopholes in the law.
While the country is progressing, it has not abandoned the wrongful convictions of the past.
For example, the Yu Yingsheng case, as well as the Zhang Yuhuan case, which caused a sensation in the country before, etc., will eventually be reopened one by one.
All this shows that the country is working hard not to wrongly treat a good person or spare a bad person.
The "tragedy" has happened, and what we can do is to do our best to listen to the voices of the helpless and pay attention to these unjust cases.
Only by facing them bravely and showing solidarity can these tragedies be reduced and everyone saved from them.
If I don't complain about others today, who will complain for me tomorrow.
Write to the end, I hope that there will be no more wrongful cases in the world ...