Wen Shichun's peaceful life of collecting waste
At the beginning of the morning, the 65-year-old man Wen Shichun got up in a hurry, and after washing up, he pushed the tricycle to the market. This has been the rhythm of his life for 20 years.
The frequent movement and the joy of fulfilling the mission injected him with the upward spirit of the old man. Looking at the scrap hanging on the tricycle, Wen Shichun showed a relieved smile.
This means that he has made a modest contribution to the environment of the village.
For the villagers, Wen Shichun is like a familiar relative. Every festival, there are always caring people who send rice cakes and eggs, and they greet each other warmly. Because of this, Wen Shichun's work of collecting waste products has become extremely happy and meaningful.
"Wife, I'll go to Zhang Gaofeng's to collect some things and cook some noodles for dinner. After Wen Shichun told his wife, he pushed the cart to Zhang Gaofeng's house. It was one of his most frequented sources of scrap.
Zhang Gaofeng has always been hospitable, even if he was a little cold today, Wen Shichun didn't take it to heart. After all, he accidentally mentioned the sad past of Zhang Gaofeng's brother's disappearance.
The two chatted, and Wen Shichun quickly scavenged waste cardboard, broken patina and other waste products.
Strange voices in the courtyard of the Zhang family
"Knock knock", a rapid crashing sound came faintly from the dry well deep in the courtyard. Wen Shichun's heart froze, and he looked around in horror, for fear that a wild dog would sneak attack.
After a few seconds, the sound stopped abruptly and was replaced by a "rustle" sound of wings flapping.
"Crows?" Wen Shichun narrowed his eyes, trying to see what was going on in the dry well at the end of the yard. I saw a black shadow rushing out of the well, almost rubbing off his straw hat.
If you look closely, the crow is holding a small piece of rotting flesh in its mouth, dripping with blood and emitting a fishy smell.
"This crow can't have a human body out of a dry well!" Wen Shichun vaguely realized that something was wrong, and he hesitated to call Zhang Gaofeng over to take a look. However, after thinking about it, he accidentally mentioned Zhang Gaofeng's family ugliness as soon as he came today, and now he may be misunderstood by him as a deliberate faultmaker.
So, Wen Shichun plucked up his courage and cautiously came to the side of the dry well, lying on it and peeping down. I saw a wail from the depths of the well, as if rats were snatching each other's food.
I saw three terrible male corpses lying crookedly at the bottom of the well, ragged and unrecognizable.
Three bodies were found in the well
"Oh my God!" Wen Shichun rubbed his eyes, wondering if there was something wrong with the flashlight on his mobile phone. However, the cold and cruel picture was in front of him, and he was not allowed to quibble.
The three corpses of the men, who had long since decomposed, were lying motionless in the mud, emitting a pungent stench.
Wen Shichun looked carefully, and two of the corpses were badly swollen and unrecognizable, making it difficult to distinguish. Only the corpse on the right was slender and wearing patched old overalls, which was Wu Suiping, who had been missing in the village for more than a month.
What is even more unbelievable is that the three corpses have seven feet combined! One of the corpses has only one broken leg left, and there is no trace of it under the knee.
"No, I only counted three corpses, how could the number of feet be wrong?" Wen Shichun muttered to himself. At this moment, the sound of heavy footsteps came from behind itself.
Zhang Gaofeng's history of revenge and murder by hiding and throwing corpses
Zhang Gaofeng originally ran the only gas station in the village, and his business was booming. However, the good times did not last long, and the powerful people in the village began to borrow usury from him in large amounts, and then defaulted on them for a long time.
Especially Wu Suiping, every time Zhang Gaofeng went to ask for debts, he always prevaricated and was justified.
One day in 2000, Zhang Gaofeng's wife went to ask Wu Suiping to repay her debts, but she was insulted by him and rushed home in disheveled clothes. Zhang Gaofeng was furious, and he suddenly realized that the money he had accumulated through hard work all the time had actually made the capital of these scum wantonly squandering and oppressing the good people! This made him want to take revenge and cry, and finally turned into a crazy idea of revenge.
"Since they don't plan to pay back the money and can't run away, it's better to just give them a ride. Zhang Gaofeng sneered and muttered to himself. He began to intensify his ferocity, and successively brutally murdered Wu Suiping, who owed the most debts.
The corpses were thrown into the dry well in their yard and left to rot, never to be cared for again.
In seven years, Zhang Gaofeng killed five people. There are his younger brothers who were killed for stealing, and there are also outsiders such as village transport drivers. The methods are extremely cruel, mostly sneaking attacks from behind, hitting the head with a stick and throwing them into a dry well.
He knew that the bottom of the dry well was covered with sharp stone chips, which could speed up the decomposition of the corpse and cover up the evidence of the crime.
Zhang Gaofeng's murder process was exposed and arrested
After Wen Shichun accidentally discovered the inhumane secret in the dry well, Zhang Gaofeng knocked him unconscious and pushed him into the well in order to prevent the truth from being revealed. Within a few days, rumors broke in the village that Lao Wen had disappeared.
The wife was worried, and with the help of the villagers, she posted missing person notices everywhere.
In mid-September, my wife couldn't wait, so she had to call the police. The police quickly investigated and collected evidence, and found that the last time Lao Wen appeared before collecting waste was at Zhang Gaofeng's house.
This immediately attracted great attention from the police. In Zhang Gaofeng's yard, Lao Wen's tricycle was also found.
Faced with the questioning of the police, Zhang Gaofeng behaved extremely unnaturally from the beginning. He racked his brains to conceal and talk nonsense in the conversation, and even tried to escape. This undoubtedly shows that the evidence of his guilt cannot be escaped.
In the end, under the patient investigation of the police, Zhang Gaofeng confessed to his cruel acts in the past seven years. The discovery of the body also confirms his horrific history of murder.
The death penalty ended Zhang Gaofeng's brutal crimes
According to the forensic examination, the three corpses found in the dry well had different degrees of decomposition, indicating that the time span of the corpses was large, which confirmed Zhang Gaofeng's terrible act of mutilating the villagers for a long time.
What is particularly cruel is that the methods of violence are extremely barbaric, and most of them are slammed on the head from behind with steel bars or wooden sticks, causing people to faint to death, and then thrown into dry wells.
In the courtroom, Zhang Gaofeng was expressionless, no longer like he initially denied. He calmly confessed how he had been murdered and dumped over the years, as if he were telling the story of another family.
Apparently, the long killing had numbed his nerves, and he lost his basic empathy and became the walking dead.
The judge and the jury were deeply shocked. In their view, Zhang Gaofeng's behavior has deviated from the bottom line of human nature, completely disregarding life, and seriously threatens social stability.
If the punishment is not severe, it is likely that the lives of others will be endangered again.
On 23 May 2007, the court convicted Zhang Gaofeng of serious intentional homicide, deprived of political rights for life, and executed. The final announcement of the death sentence put an end to Zhang Gaofeng's brutal crime and brought comfort to the innocent victims and their families who lost their lives.