On the evening of February 24, 1984, the New Orleans State Police reported to the police that his wife had been killed and that he himself had been seriously injured. Hearing of the murder, the police immediately drove to the man's home.
When the police arrived at the scene, they found the man's home in a mess, blood everywhere, and his wife's head was blurred and long dead, and the man said that it was his good friend who broke into the house and killed his wife with a baseball bat.
His own arm was also broken, but he also succeeded in stabbing the murderer, and the police followed the man's guidance and found the murder weapon baseball bat, and then the police surveyed the scene while sending the man to the hospital.
At the same time, the police immediately dispatched police forces to arrest the murderer identified by the man, and it took no effort to successfully arrest the murderer who was receiving treatment in a hospital.
At this point, the case seems to have been solved, according to the man who called the police, the police combed through the history of the case: the murderer broke into the home and killed his wife, and when he protected his wife, his arm was broken by the murderer, and he also stabbed the murderer with a knife.
According to the preliminary investigation results of the scene and the statement of the man who called the police, it seems that the case can be successfully closed as long as it is handled in accordance with the prescribed procedures.
But in fact, in the course of the trial, an unimaginable situation occurred - the jury members all abstained on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence, and then the case became a pending case, and it was suspended for seven years.
It was not until seven years later, when the Chinese detective Li Changyu intervened, that the truth of the case was completely restored and the real culprit was brought to justice.
Hello everyone, I am a student of history to know the present, today we will talk about a classic case cracked by the Chinese detective Li Changyu - the price of impulse: who is the murderer?
Here, let's first clear up the character relationship, the man who called the police is named Kerry Mayer, his wife named Jenna Mayer, and the murderer he originally identified was named Bill Fonden.
So why can't this seemingly clear case be tried? It turned out that during the court trial, Carey said that after his wife was knocked unconscious by Bill with a baseball bat, he found Bill and resisted, stabbing Bill with a knife.
But Bill said that when he arrived at Carey's house, he found that Kerry had knocked Jenna unconscious with a baseball bat, and in order to prevent Kerry from committing the crime, he went to grab the baseball bat, and accidentally broke Kerry's arm, and he was also stabbed by Kerry with a knife.
As can be seen from the above statements, Carey and Bill are completely consistent except for their inconsistent statements about who hit Jenna.
Moreover, the two people's descriptions of what happened next were surprisingly consistent, according to the two, after they began to fight, they hit from the door to the living room, and then from the living room to the corridor.
The most amazing thing is that the fight between the two lasted for nearly ten hours, during which they were tired and had a short intermission several times, during which the two not only drank drinks together, but also watched TV together.
When they regained their strength, they continued to fight, and the fight ended after ten hours, until Bill was injured and escaped, and during these ten hours, neither of them went to see Jenna.
Kerry waited for Bill to escape before he remembered to see Jenna, only to find that Jenna was already dead, so he rushed to the police, and the scene at the beginning of our article appeared.
After an autopsy on Jenna, the police determined that Jenna had died from a baseball bat, but after an inquest on the bat, they found that the baseball bat had both Kerry's fingerprints and Bill's fingerprints.
Combined with the testimony of Carey and Bill, it is generally true that Jenna was at the time of her death, and both of them should have been present, but since both of them touched the baseball bat while fighting for the baseball bat, it is impossible to determine who used the baseball bat to kill Jenna.
Moreover, in addition to the three of them in the room at the time of the incident, only Kerry and Jenna's two children were there, but the two children were two years old and the other was only a few weeks old, and it was obvious that the two children could not provide any help in the case.
Moreover, the police did not find enough evidence to prove who was the real culprit, so the case was not enough evidence, resulting in the jury members all abstaining and becoming a suspense case.
The man is dead, and he can't find the real murderer! So the police racked their brains to find all kinds of evidence, and even did multiple lie detector tests on Kerry and Bill, but still did not find any useful information.
In this way, the investigation of this case lasted for seven years, and when the time came to 1991, the police really had no choice, so they found the Chinese detective Li Changyu and asked him to assist in the investigation.
In fact, when asking Li Changyu, these policemen did not hold out hope, to some extent, they have been tortured by this unsolved case to the point of madness, looking for Li Changyu actually has the meaning of throwing the pot.
However, after Li Changyu took over the case, he quickly discovered the problem with the police, Li Changyu believed that the direction of the police investigation was wrong from the beginning, and the police had been entangled in the testimony of Kerry and Bill.
But both are suspected of homicide, so their testimony is not the key to solving the case, as a criminal forensic expert Li Changyu believes that it is necessary to find evidence and use evidence to speak, otherwise it is absolutely impossible to solve the case.
So how do you find evidence? Lee Chang-yu first arranged a large number of police forces to conduct an in-depth investigation into the social relations of Kerry, Bill and Jenna, hoping to find the motive for the killing.
Soon the police found that the three of them had been good friends from childhood to adulthood, and when the three grew up, Carey and Jenna were married, and Bill also found his own happiness.
However, although the three have played from childhood to adulthood, their circumstances are different, especially Carey and Bill, who have obviously changed their status after entering the society.
Carey is particularly good and has a stable job, while Bill is relatively miserable, Bill not only does not have a stable job, but also has a very bad financial situation.
Because they are good friends, Kerry often helps Bill, and even when Bill encounters various crises, Kerry can always step forward and help his old friend solve problems.
But what Kerry did not expect was that Bill had an affair with his wife Jenna, and it was difficult for Carey to accept that his brother and wife had betrayed him at the same time.
Therefore, after Kelly learned of this situation, he ran to Bill's house at the first time and had a big fight with Bill, but because the two were good brothers before, Kerry and Bill did not do anything.
However, Kerry's arrival also made Bill's wife know about her husband's extramarital affair, and Bill's wife was also very broken, she not only broke up with Bill, but also told Bill never to see their children again.
In this way, Bill's home was completely scattered, and in the face of the sudden situation, Bill also collapsed, and after smashing his home to pieces, he came to Kerry's house, and then the tragedy occurred.
The above is all the situation that has been investigated, basically there is no problem, but even if the investigation is out, it seems to be useless! Who hit Jenna with a baseball bat, we still don't know.
Because, Kerry and Bill both have motives for committing crimes, and Kerry killed his wife due to his wife's betrayal, which is in line with the cognition of normal people, after all, being betrayed by his wife is the most intolerable thing for a man.
But Bill also has a motive for committing the crime, and the breakdown of his own family is also caused by an extramarital affair with Jenna, and if he hates Jenna because of this, it seems reasonable to kill Jenna.
Although both situations may occur, Li Changyu focused on Kerry in the next case, and Li Changyu believed that it was more likely for Kerry, as a husband, to do this according to his years of experience in solving cases.
So, Li Changyu began to investigate Kerry, but after a period of investigation, almost everyone said that Kerry was polite, even Jenna's father said that Kerry was very good to Jenna, and everyone did not believe that Kerry could do such a thing.
Li Changyu did not give up in the face of almost identical statements from everyone, he believed that a person's gentlemanly demeanor could not prove that he would not do something out of the ordinary, and the people's statements were not necessarily the truth.
Therefore, Li Changyu next continued to conduct an in-depth investigation of the relationship between Kerry and Jenna, and soon discovered new clues, when a neighbor of Kerry and Jenna suddenly said the opposite thing to Li Changyu's description.
The neighbor said that the relationship between Carey and Jenna was not as harmonious as outsiders seemed, and that she had seen Kerry commit domestic violence against Jenna, and that she had persuaded Jenna to leave Kerry, but Jenna said that she loved Kerry too much and was reluctant to leave.
In addition, the neighbor also said that Jenna cheated on her after a domestic violence, Jenna felt grief-stricken, and there was no one to tell, so she drove alone to Bill's house, trying to tell her playmates from childhood to adulthood about her pain.
But what Jenna didn't expect was that when Jenna arrived at Bill's house, Bill's wife and children were not even at home, and the two were alone in the same room, jenna was extremely sad, and the two accidentally crossed the line...
The neighbor said that some of what he told was what he saw, such as the domestic violence that Jenna suffered, and some of which he listened to Jenna after the fact, but the neighbor believed that what Jenna said was true.
After listening to the neighbor's words, Li Changyu and everyone's eyes lit up, if Kerry often abused Jenna, then everything made sense, Kerry was likely to start a crazy domestic violence against Jenna and beat Jenna to death after discovering that Jenna was cheating.
At this time, Li Changyu had a question, according to the neighbor, Bill knew about Kerry's domestic violence against Jenna, but why did Bill not mention this when he confessed? If Bill had said this in advance, it would have been more beneficial to him!
Therefore, Li Changyu took this question and began a journey to find evidence, and he led people to the scene that had been sealed again to conduct a careful investigation.
In this investigation, Li Changyu found a lot of strange things, such as according to the previous police investigation, Jenna died in the bedroom, and Li Changyu also concluded that the bedroom was Jenna's death scene according to the blood spray on the bedroom wall.
But Li Changyu noticed that in addition to the bedroom, the other rooms in the house, whether it was the kitchen, the corridor, or the walls, floors, and furniture, had subtle blood stains on them, and although these blood stains were not many, they also attracted Li Changyu's attention.
Although the police had found these blood stains before, they believed that Kerry and Bill had been fighting for almost ten hours, and these blood stains should be those of Kerry and Bill, so they did not care.
But Li Changyu believes that he cannot rely on inertial thinking to solve the case, and must test these blood stains, and cannot take it for granted that these blood stains are Kerry and Bill's.
Li Changyu's caution was indeed very reasonable, and after testing, the blood stains belonged to Jenna, and this result also surprised the police, because it showed that although the fatal blow to Jenna was in the bedroom, Jenna should have been beaten in different rooms for a long time.
That is to say, the person who beat Jenna should have started a small fight after arguing with Jenna, and that person probably did not want to kill Jenna at first, and in the end, he may have been too excited, or he may have lost his hand, and only then did he beat Jenna to death.
Who is more likely to evolve from a normal fight to a deadly attack in a dispute with Jenna? Combined with Kerry's previous domestic violence situation, it is clear that Kerry is the most suspicious.
Subsequently, Li Changyu tested the blood stains on the clothes that Kerry and Bill were wearing on the day of the incident, and although the police had found blood on their clothes before, they did not take it seriously.
Because the police believe that the two fought for so long and were both injured, it is normal that there is blood on the clothes, so the police did not test the two clothes.
But Li Changyu did not miss a single detail, he used the high-tech means at the time, carefully inspected the two clothes, and the result came to the conclusion that surprised everyone: most of the blood stains on the two clothes were Jenna's, and they were still splashed.
Lee told police that the only way to form this splatter of blood can be formed by a living person when she is beaten, so when Jenna is beaten, Carey and Bill are at the scene, and one of them also watches the other person seriously injure Jenna.
And, during the time of Jenna's death, Carey and Bill were in the room and even watched the whole process intuitively, that is, Carey and Bill lied when they confessed to the police and the court about the progress of the case.
The forensic doctor's autopsy report on Jenna also showed that Jenna was seriously injured and fell to the ground after the attack, but did not die immediately, but died in extreme pain after a period of time, because there was no effective treatment.
At this point, Li Changyu believes that it is impossible for the two to fight for ten hours, and the reason why the confessions of the two are so consistent, and they did not report the crime until ten hours after Jenna's death, the biggest possibility is that they have used these ten hours to study how to get away with it.
In the end, the two decided to identify each other and deliberately injured each other, so that in the course of the court trial, it was impossible to determine who was the murderer and no one could be convicted.
Although Li Changyu's reasoning is very reasonable, there is no evidence, and it is not known who is the real murderer, or whether the two conspired to do this.
Therefore, Li Changyu further investigated the blood stains at the scene of the crime, and based on the blood spilled on the wall after Jenna was attacked and injured, and after repeated experiments, Li Changyu basically restored the attack on Jenna after being beaten to the bedroom.
After Being Beaten to the Bedroom, Jenna was standing when she suffered the first blow, and when Jenna fell to the ground, she was hit by the murderer many times in succession, and according to the distribution of blood on the wall, Li Changyu also judged where the murderer and Jenna were standing.
Li Changyu judged from this that the murderer was left-handed, because only left-handed people would cause such an effect in that standing position, while Kerry was left-handed, Bill was a right-handed person, and it was self-evident who was the murderer.
Subsequently, according to the photos of the room objects taken by the police at the time of the crime, Li Changyu used a very meticulous logical thinking to completely restore everything that happened that day, and told these to Kerry and Bill respectively.
After Kyle and Bill listened to Li Changyu's story and saw the various evidences presented by Li Changyu, the psychological defense line finally collapsed, and they confessed everything that happened that day:
On the afternoon of February 24, 1984, Carey went to Bill's house, and after a big fight at Bill's house, he returned home in a huff, and as soon as Kerry got home, he saw Jenna doing laundry in the kitchen.
At this time, Carey is still in a rage against Jenna's cheating, so Carey begins to scold Jenna, and the two immediately quarrel, because Carey has often abused Jenna before, so this quarrel quickly evolved into Kerry's beating of Jenna.
Moreover, in the process of beating Jenna, Kerry also picked up a baseball bat and hit Jenna, Jenna could not beat Kerry, and could only run while hiding, and Jenna also picked up an ashtray and smashed it at Kerry in the process of dodging.
This also stimulated Kerry's anger even more, so Kerry beat Jenna more wildly, and Jenna could only run around to escape, which is why Li Changyu later found that the home was full of Jenna's blood.
When the two come to the bedroom, Bill suddenly comes, Bill has just been dumped by his wife, and he is very depressed, but he did not come to Carey's house to quarrel with Kerry.
Since Bill had been taken care of by Kerry before, in a way, Kerry was Bill's benefactor, and Bill realized that it was indeed his own fault to green his benefactor, so Bill wanted to apologize to Kerry and save the friendship.
But when Kerry saw Bill, he didn't think so, after beating his wife badly, Kerry's anger had been half gone, but Bill's arrival aroused Kerry's anger, he lost his mind, and swung his baseball bat at Jenna with all his strength...
In this way, Kerry, in a state of extreme uncoolness, beat Jenna into a serious injury. Subsequently, looking at Jenna's bloodied head, Kerry slowly calmed down, he did not know how seriously Jenna was injured, nor did he dare to send Jenna to the hospital.
So Kerry asks Bill for help, and Bill, because he is full of guilt for Kerry, and Jenna has been seriously injured, so he decides to help Kerry get rid of the crime.
The two men left Jenna, who was badly injured, in the bedroom, and then went to the living room to study countermeasures, and the two men studied for almost ten hours before they decided on this plan to provide contradictory testimony.
At this point, this seven-year unsolved case was finally successfully solved with the help of Li Changyu, and Kerry was sentenced to life imprisonment as a murderer, although Bill did not directly do it, he helped hide everything, so the second-degree murder was established and sentenced to 21 years in prison.
Although, after seven years, the murderer was duly punished and justice was done, it was a total tragedy.
Just because of domestic violence, Jenna cheated, and then Kerry killed his wife in a very uncool situation, not only ruined his wife, but also destroyed himself, but also destroyed his two children who had not yet understood things.
Bill also paid a terrible price because of his own impulses, and if he could restrain himself from having an affair with his benefactor's wife, perhaps neither family would have had such a tragedy.
In fact, this case also tells us a truth, that is, when couples get along, they must understand and tolerate each other, especially in the face of various unexpected situations, they must remain calm, do not be momentarily dizzy, and do irrational things.
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