On the afternoon of June 17, 2003, the fourth day after Wang Lijuan's disappearance, a Thai construction worker working in a successful industrial zone in Malaysia found that the ditch was blocked.
The workers followed the stench along the ditch, suspected that an animal had died unexpectedly to block the ditch, and finally found the corpse of a woman. The body was covered by wooden planks that blocked the hole in the ditch, and the deceased was face up, his mouth open, and he was pressed with two concrete-filled tires, which were burned alive.
When the Malaysian police received the workers' reports, they immediately went to investigate. It was found that the legs below the knees of the deceased had been burned off, and the burned foot plate was near the deceased. The body was charred and its mouth was wide open, confirming that it had been burned alive.
Judging from the degree of decay of the body, it happened at least three days ago, and the cremation site was only 2 kilometers away from the place where Wang Lijuan disappeared four days ago.
After identification, this body is Wang Lijuan herself, and the "Wang Lijuan disappearance case" is now finally going to be revealed——
The mysterious disappearance after the feast
Wang Lijuan, who was 28 years old at the time of her disappearance, is a Malaysian-American who has obtained a black belt in taekwondo. At the age of 25, Wang Lijuan married a young Chinese from Singapore and later settled in San Diego, California.
On June 1, 2003, Wang Lijuan returned to Malaysia overnight to visit her father because her father suddenly suffered from cancer, and bought a ticket for the 14th return flight in advance.
As a result, at 10:30 p.m. on June 13, after Wang Lijuan's family had dinner at Bangsar Mall in Malaysia, an accident occurred.
The family had settled in scattered places, and it was hard to have the opportunity to have this dinner, so they ate late that day. After the banquet, Wang Lijuan went to the underground parking lot to pick up the car, and Wang Lijuan's mother and sister were waiting at the main entrance of the shopping center.
Judging from the CCTV in the underground parking lot, Wang Lijuan had just opened the door of the car and was sorting out her things, when suddenly a masked man pushed him into the car and beat Wang Lijuan.
After investigation, the man's name was Najib, 27 years old, a company director responsible for cleaning aircraft. Mr. Najib's wife, a senior bank employee, now has a 3-year-old child and a 3-month-old baby in her belly. When Najib's wife finally learned about it, she wasn't surprised.
When Najib beat Wang Lijuan in the car, Wang Lijuan could hardly resist. Because in a small space, her taekwondo black belt skills could not be used at all, and she was even more powerless to resist.
Najib took out a sharp knife from his arms and threatened Wang Lijuan, who was frightened and did not dare to make any resistance. After tying Wang Lijuan's hands and feet, Najib hurriedly drove Wang Lijuan and fled the scene. When exiting the parking lot, he even broke the lever of the door, causing the right tire of the vehicle to be broken.
Wang Lijuan's mother and sister waited for half an hour to no avail, and no one answered the phone, and when they arrived at the parking lot, they found that she was not there, so Wang Lijuan disappeared with her Proton Crown car.
Missed opportunities for help
According to the police investigation: two hours after Wang Lijuan was abducted, Najib drove to a quieter and darker place and stopped the car, intending to violate Wang Lijuan.
At that time, a patrol car belonging to the Lingshi Police District passed by, and the patrol officer found that there were two people in the car in the middle of the night, so he raised his flashlight and looked inside. There was a man and a woman in the car, but the environment was too dark to see too many details, and the patrol did not find that Wang Lijuan's hands were tied.
The patrolman asked the two for ID cards and showed the gun at their waist. After Najib handed over his identity documents, he found Wang Lijuan's ID card and handed it to the police.
The patrolman saw that the two were acting suspiciously, so they asked the two to get out of the car to cooperate with the investigation. At this time, Wang Lijuan could have shouted for help, because Najib did not seal her mouth and nose. But Najib panicked for a moment, stepped on the accelerator and fled the scene, while the ID card remained in the hands of the patrolman.
The patrolman immediately pulled out a gun and fired at the tire of the Proton Crown, but missed it, allowing Najib to escape the pursuit. However, the patrol did not report the matter to his superiors in time, did not submit his ID card, did not write down the license plate, etc., so that Najib fled the scene.
At 7 p.m. on June 14, police in Yuling City, Chenggong Industrial Zone on Old Klang Road, found the Proton Crown car that Wang Lijuan was riding in when he disappeared. It was determined that the car contained male semen, a lot of blood, and blood-stained high heels. It is suspected that Wang Lijuan has been violated and injured by gangsters.
However, after the Lingshi police discovered the abandoned vehicle, they did not further deal with the incident because of a computer failure, but only realized on June 16 that it was the vehicle that Wang Lijuan was riding in when she disappeared.
On June 15, Wang Lijuan's 64-year-old father Wang Meizhong spent the most painful Father's Day of his life. Wong's mother and sister found out the next day that they had no success in seeking the local police, so they approached the MCA Public Service Complaints Unit for help, and offered a large reward for Malay dollars to find out Wong's whereabouts.
It was not until the afternoon of June 17 that the police received a report from the workers in the Chenggong Industrial Zone and finally found Wang Lijuan's body 2 kilometers away from the crime site. A special operation group was established on the same day, and the case must be solved within two days.
On the same day, the police also obtained the ID cards of Najib and Wang Lijuan from the patrol police, and locked the suspect on Najib, but still did not directly choose to arrest.
The next day, the Lingshi police found that Wang Lijuan's lost mobile phone was still being used, and locked up the three suspects through the police's technical means, and all of them were arrested on the same day.
After interrogation, one of the suspects confessed that the mobile phone chip was bought from Najib. When the two clues were combined, the police determined that Najib was a serious suspect and went to Ban Thi Daran to find Najib's residence.
At 5 a.m. on June 19, police burst into the house and locked the sleeping Najib to his bed. After the Ling City police explained their intentions, Najib and his wife did not resist and appeared unexpectedly calm.
At Najib's home, the clothes that Najib was wearing at the time of the crime were collected and handed over to the appraisal department to confirm whether it was stained with Wang Lijuan's blood.
Mr. Najib's house also turned up a backpack containing ropes, condoms, sharp knives and scissors, tools that Mr. Najib had prepared specifically for the crime.
After investigation, Najib was involved in rape cases on several occasions, often carrying a backpack used for the crime, and then premeditated the crime. It is reported that in the early morning of June 14, Najib drove Wang Lijuan to a construction site seven miles from Old Klang Road to commit an assault.
After the brutal assault on the car, it even caused Wang Lijuan's lower body to be seriously damaged. Mr. Najib also stabbed Wang in the stomach with a sharp knife, made him jump into a 3-foot ditch, and pressed him underneath with two concrete-filled tires to prevent escape.
On the evening of June 14, in order to prevent the police from discovering it, Najib poured gasoline on Wang Lijuan and burned him alive.
In this regard, Xinhua News once published an article saying:
The abduction of Wang Lijuan's body comes after a number of similar murders and incinerations occurred across Malaysia in the past two months. The media believes that the Lingshi police made three obvious big mistakes:
First of all, the police did nothing after learning about Wang Lijuan's lost vehicle. The CCTV in the underground garage filmed the entire crime of the gangsters, and the people in the monitoring room could be indifferent, even obstructing the police investigation.
Secondly, the abandoned vehicle found on June 14 was not dealt with in time, and it was only realized two days after it was discovered that it was Wang Lijuan's lost vehicle.
Finally, after the patrol police obtained the suspect's ID card, even if they could not think that the gangster committed the crime, they still did not make corresponding countermeasures, let the gangster escape, and did not make a roadblock to intercept.
If the patrol police had chosen to track it down at that time, Wang Lijuan would have been able to avoid this innocent disaster.