This week, many people saw the murder of the wife of a Google programmer in the United States!
The former champion of the college entrance examination, Tsinghua Xueba, in the prime of life and promising 27 years old, beat his wife to death with one punch, which is too terrible and cruel, completely beyond the group's cognition!
Many people are talking to this hot spot, what kind of hatred does they have to deal with this ruthlessness?
All kinds of rumors are flying all over the sky, making the whole case confusing!
From the very beginning, this case was very strange and misinformed, a double homicide occurred in Los Altos, California, USA, the deceased was a Chinese couple who were laid off by Google, which led to a tragedy.
But soon, the story takes a turn for the worse.
According to the local police report, the two were indeed Google employees, and someone did die, but it was not because of layoffs, but because of the husband Chen, who beat his wife Yu to death with his hands.
When the police arrived at the scene, his wife, Yu, was dead, with obvious severe blunt force trauma to the head, and blood stains on the floor, walls and door panels of the room.
And the husband Chen was kneeling on the ground, motionless, his hands were raised in the air, his right hand was swollen and purple, covered in bloodstains, his eyes were dazed, and there were no weapons at the scene.
Police car at the scene
The informant was a friend of Chen, because the friend had dinner with the couple the day before, and found that Chen's behavior had changed significantly.
When I called the other party the next day, no one answered, and when I arrived at the door of the other party's house, no one answered the door, but I saw Chen's eyes glazed, so he hurriedly reported the case, and after the police entered to check, they detained Chen, and his wife Yu had died, and the time of death was 11:37 a.m. on January 16, only 27 years old.
At the door of the house for two, there are also Christmas decorations
This happy atmosphere is incompatible with the scene
This house was bought by the two of them at a price of 2.05 million US dollars last year, and the house number of 714 seems to reflect metaphysics.
The house where the two live in the heart of Silicon Valley
Before the accident, the LinkedIn accounts of the two showed that both were Google employees, both were students of Tsinghua University's 18th class of electronic information engineering, and later went to the University of California, San Diego to study for a master's degree in computer science, and they were about 27 years old.
Chen entered Google as a software engineer in March 2020, and then in June of the following year, his wife Yu also jumped from Amazon to Google as a software engineer.
From this point of view, the two are definitely the dragon and phoenix among people, and after many revelations from netizens and classmates, the facts have also been verified.
Liren Chen, Chen studied in Sichuan's ace high school, Chengdu No. 7 Middle School, Sichuan IP children's shoes must know the gold content of this high school, the cradle of famous universities, and is often selected as one of the top ten high schools in the country.
Opposite the No. 7 Middle School is Sichuan University, and the students of the No. 7 Middle School often joke: "If you don't study hard, you can only go to the university across the road." ”
While studying at Tsinghua University, Chen was interviewed by West China Metropolis Daily as a scholar and shared his learning experience.
After the homicide, Chen's high school classmates were shocked, how could such a gentleman evolve into this?
In everyone's impression, Chen is usually taciturn, but he is not introverted and polite to people, but he is tall and 1.9 meters tall, which can be said to stand out from the crowd in the southwest region.
People are also very good, they like sports and travel every day, and before the homicide, they often posted photos of skiing, rock climbing and other sports with their wives on social platforms.
According to the account that Chen opened for the two cats that netizens broke the news, he frequently posted two cats at home, and there were also photos of skateboards, which was consistent with his classmates' statements
Chen also dated a girlfriend in high school, and the two were really models of early love, and they were both admitted to Tsinghua University during their relationship. The ex-girlfriend even said that the other party had never beaten someone during the relationship, and she didn't know why he became like this, and she was also very distressed by his murdered wife Yu.
The teachers and classmates of the victim Yu were also shocked and saddened after learning the news.
Yu was their pride, she studied in Songyuan Experimental Middle School in Jilin City, as a girl, she was the top science student in the local college entrance examination, her grades were very outstanding, teachers and parents never worried about her, and the results of each subject were balanced development.
Yu's interpersonal relationship is also very good, and teachers and classmates praise her for being cheerful and lively, good at communication, and strong comprehensive ability.
Yu in Chen's INS
Chen and Yu's growth experience and life trajectory are extremely similar, and they are an excellent template for "other people's children" in the mouth of parents.
After graduation, he came to the United States for further study and work and settled, work is the ceiling in the minds of the Chinese, Google, a world-class Internet company, the welfare is all top-notch, and the work is relaxed and free.
There is also a big house, and the city of Los Altos, where they live, is a well-known high-housing area in the South Bay District, with good security and school districts, and the neighbors are all high-income and high-quality people.
A house of 2.05 million US dollars is not something that ordinary people can easily struggle for, not to mention that they have just entered the society, they are only 26 years old.
Although both of them are excellent manufacturers, such an expensive house is said to have been bought by both parents after paying a down payment together, and it can be seen that this is a marriage that is very symmetrical and suitable for both parents' families.
Before the age of 30, he has completed the life that 99% of others can't struggle for in their lifetime, and this life is also complete, but now this bloody case has shattered the dream.
At present, the case is still under trial, and Chen was first sent to the hospital when he was arrested because of an injury to his right hand.
Chen's family hired a very good Jewish lawyer for him, from January 24th, 25th, the trial has been delayed again and again, Chen has been refusing to appear in court on the grounds of health, the latest trial date is February 5, Chen is for what to kill his wife, his own statement, can only be delayed again and again.
At present, his lawyer is doing a mental state test for him, and if he can be verified to have a mental problem, it may also be a reason for him to be exonerated from the crime.
On January 1 this year, the two parties also ate steak together, and Chen was still wearing a wedding ring on his ring finger
A lawyer said that Chen is likely to be imprisoned for life, and if he is charged with first-degree murder, there is also the possibility of the death penalty, but the possibility is not high, after all, California has not had the death penalty for many years, and based on human rights issues, the death penalty is like an ornament.
At present, all kinds of outrageous and unbearable news on the Internet are all kinds of outrageous and unbearable news on the woman's side, similar to cheating, it is said that she met a local Aquaman who started with V, or was too close to the teacher......
Not to mention that these are all unverified news, even if these are all true, it is not an excuse or reason for her to be beaten to death by her husband!
It turns out that even in the 21st century online, women have to be "perfect victims" in order to be able to gain sympathy. It's really scary, it's chilling!
This case reminds me of a case from many years ago.
Both husband and wife are also top students at Tsinghua University, and they both came to the United States to work and settle down, the same murderer and the victim are husband and wife, and the same murderer did not carry out the death penalty. Moreover, by the end of next year, the murderer will have served his sentence and will be released from prison. This case is more shocking and bizarre than what I want to say above.
The protagonist of the case, the murderer and the victim
The story begins in 2005.
On August 26, 2005, in Shanghai Pudong International Airport, the border police found a strange person, she flew from the United States to China, and she turned out to be a woman disguised as a man and entered the country with a fake passport!
Shanghai Pudong International Airport
Although her photo is pasted on the passport, in the passport information, it is a man named He Lei.
After the police found out about the situation, the woman still had the act of escaping, and the police quickly arrested her on suspicion of entering the country with a forged passport.
However, in the detention center, because this woman couldn't stand the inner torture, she confessed everything that had happened, and the crime that could be solved by just detaining and imposing a fine was actually involved in a case of killing her husband and dismembering and throwing her body?
The police listened to the woman's words, looked at each other, and did not dare to let go of any detail.
It turned out that this woman's name was Chen Danlei, graduated from Tsinghua University, and she and He Lei, the man in the passport information, were husband and wife, and the two studied and worked together in the United States.
Chen Danlei herself
Just a few days before she flew back to China, she brutally murdered her husband He Lei, lived with the body for a week, and then dismembered the body, dumped it in the garage, and then used the other party's passport to enter China.
The police didn't dare to imagine that this was the first murder case done by a woman who looked weak and thin and had a high degree of education!
A few days later, news also came from the United States that a highly decomposed and dismembered man's body was found in a parking lot near Chicago's O'Hare Airport, and the police suspected that the murderer was his escaped wife, Chen Danlei!
The United States, Tsinghua, Xueba, love killing, dismemberment, throwing corpses...... These words are linked together, but it really makes people's hairs stand on end, how much contradiction do two people have, to commit such a crime that even ordinary people dare not commit?
Chen Danlei herself
First of all, let's talk about the murderer Chen Danlei, the real student among the top students.
In 1995, 18-year-old Chen Danlei was admitted to the Department of Chemical Engineering of Tsinghua University with the fifth place in the overall score of the Sichuan Provincial College Entrance Examination.
After graduating, because of her excellent grades, Chen Danlei was sent to graduate school, and after half a year of graduate school, at the beginning of 2001, Chen Danlei won a full scholarship from Purdue University in the United States and went to the United States to study for graduate school;
Purdue University is a public university with a history of 155 years in the United States, and its engineering majors are well-known in the United States, including Armstrong, the first astronaut to land on the moon, Deng Jiaxian, the famous father of the two bombs on the mainland, and Liang Sili, the first-generation rocket expert
In 2003, she stayed on as a research assistant and began working on her PhD.
To tell the truth, in Tsinghua University, which is full of scholars, Chen Danlei is definitely a rare existence like a green light all the way, and the scholars are also divided into levels, some of them enter the circle of scholars and quickly become ordinary people, while Chen Danlei obviously belongs to the level of the god of learning, dazzling.
And in her heart, what was even more dazzling was her boyfriend at the time, He Lei, who was also a student at Tsinghua University and from Shanghai.
In the photo of He Lei and Chen Danlei, Chen Danlei's smile is particularly obvious, a woman immersed in love
Chen Danlei is a very loveless girl, she was born in a single-parent family, her parents divorced when she was a child, she saw that her mother's life after the divorce was particularly hard, and she was deeply affected by her mother.
So she swore that her future married life would never repeat the mistakes of her parents, and He Lei was the light that shone in her life, and she must firmly grasp it.
An interview with Chen Danlei herself
And He Lei, the only son from Shanghai who grew up in a first-tier city, is a very talkative and cheerful person, and almost everyone agrees with him when they see him.
He Lei himself, plaid shirt, flat head, very thoughtful appearance, high education, height of nearly 1.8 meters, is also a sweet spot in the blind date market today
He Lei and Chen Danlei are active and quiet, attracted to each other, and with a common hobby, they soon came together.
Both of them like to watch history and animation, and they often talk for most of the day, laughing when no one is around, and others can't interject at all, Chen Danlei believes that He Lei is her soulmate (soul mate).
After Chen Danlei studied in the United States, she was anxious to register with He Lei, applied for a visa for him to accompany him, and came to the United States as her husband.
The wedding photos of the two, I don't know if they were taken in too much of a hurry, the makeup and background are very sloppy, and the tone is also very weird, and it looks very underworld.
In November 2001, He Lei obtained a student visa and also successfully enrolled in Purdue University as a graduate student in the School of Mechanical Engineering.
During this period, Chen Danlei paid almost everything to He Lei, including the monetary contribution, He Lei not only came to the United States through her connections, but also paid for the initial study in the United States with her scholarship.
thought that after giving their best to their husbands, the two could live a good life in the United States, but when He Lei got a scholarship from Purdue University and had friends, the relationship and relationship between the two quietly changed.
As mentioned earlier, He Lei is good at talking, has strong social skills, and came to the United States like a fish in water, quickly integrated into it, and often participated in various gatherings and activities.
On the other hand, Chen Danlei is very weak in social interaction, and she is very good at handling interpersonal relationships, and she had conflicts with her classmates when she was a cadre on duty, and she decided to go abroad in a hurry because her relationship with her mentor was stiff and she wanted to escape.
Friends who know Chen Danlei said that her interpersonal relationships were handled very poorly
After coming to the United States, she ran into walls everywhere in interpersonal relationships, one moment she quarreled with her professors and almost couldn't graduate, and the other time she had a bad relationship with her colleagues, and everyone disliked her.
Many people who know Chen Danlei comment that she is a person who will quarrel with others because of a trivial matter.
Even the prison guards and cellmates later said that Chen Danlei was a particularly difficult person to get along with, and if she accidentally touched her, she would lose her temper
Chen Danlei and He Lei often quarrel because of social activities, He Lei thinks that they have made an appointment with friends, and it is not good to release pigeons, while Chen Danlei is angry, the two are obviously newlyweds, but they rarely have time alone, even on weekends, He Lei is tired of being with his fox friends and dog friends, maybe, it is for those beautiful girls at the party!
These quarrels made Chen Danlei's desire to control stronger and stronger, He Lei's sense of suffocation became stronger and stronger, and his resistance became stronger and stronger, not only did his attitude towards Chen Danlei become colder and colder, but even attacked her proudest place and belittled her to worthless.
Chen Danlei paints well, many people will praise her when they see it, He Lei turned a blind eye to it, and instead attacked her character: "Look at how others are wives among so many international students, you are the worst one among them!"
When mentioning her husband's contempt for "him", Chen Danlei subconsciously turned her head, on the one hand, she was disgusted with the other party's behavior, and on the other hand, she may also be imitating the other party's behavior at that time
Chen Danlei, who was not good at words, was silent at first, quietly listening to her husband's accusations against her, and sometimes she couldn't bear it anymore, so she began to smash things, drop things, and even start beating people.
Chen Danlei knew that she didn't have a good-looking skin, but her knowledge and talent were something she was proud of, but her husband He Lei turned a blind eye to it, which made her more and more inferior, more and more afraid, and there were psychological problems.
Sometimes the quarrel between the two is bumped into by mutual friends, which is very embarrassing.
Friends said that when He Lei quarreled, his speech was very extreme, and he would say that no matter what the husband and wife divorced, it was always the wife's fault, it was normal for the husband to have an affair, and the third party was not wrong.
He Lei will also say to Chen Danlei: "If I return to China, there will be more girls with better conditions to pursue, you, just watch it yourself." ”
He Lei is also a good cook, and before the accident, he had a house with his name on it in Jinshan District, Shanghai, and in 2005, his monthly salary reached 5,000 US dollars.
What He Lei said happened to be what Chen Danlei was most afraid of and worried about, the despondency of her mother after the divorce and the tragic situation of ending up depressed are still engraved in her mind.
And He Lei was completely unaware of this problem, and repeatedly attacked Chen Danlei in her weakest point, making the other party's psychology worse and worse, and finally collapsed.
In the early morning of Christmas in 2004, the two quarreled again, Chen Danlei directly picked up a knife and stabbed He Lei twice in the chest, and because of this, Chen Danlei was not only arrested by the police, but also expelled from Purdue University, during which she was forbidden to have any contact with He Lei.
At this time, He Lei completely showed the image of a good husband, thinking of the old relationship, he not only did not file a lawsuit against his wife, but before the wound healed, he spent $5,000 to bail his wife out, hired the best lawyer to fight a lawsuit for Chen Danlei, and the two also met and had dinner together, and even moved in together.
Even the police feel that He Lei is a good husband in a sense
After being stabbed, He Lei faced the reporter's interview and defended Chen Danlei everywhere
This affection also made Chen Danlei particularly moved, regretting her impulsive behavior very much, and even fantasizing that when the case is over, she will definitely live a good life with He Lei and never lose her temper again.
On He Lei's side, anyone with a discerning eye can see that it is impossible to recover with Chen Danlei again.
Chen Danlei has a case and is about to open on August 26, 2005, and is likely to be sentenced to probation and deportation, and will not be able to enter the United States for life.
On the night of August 20, 2005, after a big quarrel, He Lei filed for divorce, and Chen Danlei was like a thunderbolt from the sky, stunned on the spot, did not sleep all night, and when He Lei woke up, Chen Danlei asked him the last question: "Are we really going to divorce, do we have no room for recovery?"
After He Lei nodded and replied, and insisted on getting a divorce, Chen Danlei, who was already desperate, took out a pistol from the bedside table and shot the other party in the back of the head, killing him with one blow.
The pistol was purchased by Chen Danlei in advance, she was disheartened after her husband filed for divorce again and again, she couldn't accept life without her husband, and she couldn't accept that after the divorce, her husband found a new love, and she was lonely, depressed, and finally died of old age alone.
She simply didn't do anything, killed her husband, he could completely belong to herself, or she was killed by her husband, then she didn't need to see her husband's happy appearance, and there was a kind of thing she was most willing to see, that is, the two died together, they couldn't live together, but they could die together, and the relationship between husband and wife was also complete.
Chen Danlei, who killed her husband, neither felt scared nor sad, like walking with a corpse, muddy.
Her husband's body was in the bedroom, and she also lived in the bedroom, so she quietly watched the other party fall asleep, got up, didn't eat, didn't go out, stayed for a whole week, until the corpse smelled, she didn't recover.
According to Chen Danlei's confession, she spent $2,000 to find a netizen Jack, and only asked him to help dispose of the body and put it in the refrigerator. And Jack came to her house and asked her to go to the supermarket to buy plastic bags, deodorant and other items, and then let her leave the house.
When she came home after wandering outside for a long time, she found that her husband's body had been liberated into the refrigerator.
The evidence found by the police shows that the records of the guns she purchased can be found, but in her laptop and desktop computer, there is no chat or email exchange between her and this Jack, is this Jack real, or is it a fictitious person in her heart?
If it is really fiction, then how did Chen Danlei, who is less than 160cm tall, coexist with her husband's stinking corpse without changing her face? And how did she calmly dispose of the corpse, move the broken corpse from the refrigerator to the car, and then throw it into the parking lot? Just thinking about it makes people's hairs stand on end!
Even the police were terrified when they heard it
After killing her husband, Chen Danlei did not die as calmly as she imagined.
The police found in her search records that on August 21, the day after the murder, she had already begun to plan her escape from the United States, flight information, return routes, how to cash out her husband's credit card, how to pass the customs, how to rent a house in Shanghai, life and other follow-up issues, she had already arranged.
The statement she gave was that she thought about committing suicide and going with her husband, but she wanted to come to her mother's grave to repent before she died, so she decided to take a risk and return to China.
So, there was the opening scene, Chen Danlei in disguise took a forged passport and slid onto the plane from the United States, without arousing the suspicion of the local customs at all.
Because the United States and China do not have extradition regulations, and Chen Danlei was captured in China, the final trial and prison sentence were all in China.
On July 10, 2006, Chen Danlei, who had been detained for nearly a year, was tried at the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate People's Court, where she was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, for intentional homicide, and ordered Chen Danlei to pay the victim, He Lei's parents, more than 440,000 yuan in civil compensation.
And Chen Danlei was also detained in Chengdu Women's Prison, from a suspended death sentence to life imprisonment, and then to an indefinite sentence, and experienced 5 commutations.
In 2017, CCTV also interviewed her and made a program.
In the show, she is pseudonymous Tian Yu, in fact, I think she should be pseudonymized "Tian Yu", her husband's name is He Lei, and her name is Chen Danlei, but this change should be to protect privacy
In September 2019, because of her good behavior during her sentence, her sentence was commuted again, and she can be released from prison on November 29, 2025.
Tsinghua graduates, who are studying for a doctorate in the United States, have fallen to such a point, which is really sad and lamentable, and it is embarrassing!
In fact, in the Chinese homicide cases that have occurred abroad over the years, especially in the United States, it is really not uncommon for the pride of heaven to go out in China.
is not only the female doctor Chen Danlei, Google engineer Chen Liren, but also the sensational a while ago and shot his mentor Dr. Qi Tailei;
The case occurred in August last year, when Qi Tailei shot and killed his own mentor Yan Zijie near Caudill at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, causing an uproar in public opinion, citing the fact that he studied at Wuhan University and his mentor studied at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and also sparked a dispute between the two schools.
Including the two cases in my impression, one is in a café, where he used a kitchen knife in public to hack to death his failed student sister Zhu Haiyang;
Zhu Haiyang, graduated from Shanghai Ocean University, this name is really appropriate. Studying for a doctorate in agricultural and applied economics at Virginia Tech, English is particularly outstanding, TOEFL 663 (out of 677), participated in the National College Student English Competition, compared other college students, won the first prize, met Yang Xin, who also came to study here, in the United States, greeted her, and gave her apartment to live in the other party, but the confession failed, held a grudge, and hacked the other party to death in public.
The other is Li Xiangnan, an international student who stoned his girlfriend to death with a dumbbell, and he also belongs to this type.
Li Xiangnan, from Wenzhou, a wealthy family, met his girlfriend Shao Tong in the TOEFL English training class, and after the two established a relationship, they also came to the United States to study together, and he also specially transferred from the Rochester Institute of Technology to Iowa State University in the United States, but because of a misdialed phone call, he heard his girlfriend's complaint about it, and decided to kill his girlfriend in retaliation.
At home, he is the pride of the sky, but when he goes abroad, or the United States, he becomes a vicious murderous demon, or he is ruthless to his loved ones, why?
In fact, the reasons are very simple, and the analysis is nothing more than a few points:
01
The paranoia of his own personality, the pursuit of perfection, and the fact that he can't see his talent being devalued and despised by others
In this world, there are children who are born to learn better than others, but this kind of top school top student is definitely not just born smart.
It is to calculate day after day, work hard, and pursue the perfect personality of oneself, which is the advantage is the quality, but the extreme must be the opposite, and the other side of the advantage is the disadvantage.
Especially in a learning-oriented environment, any top student, from elementary school to junior high school, to being admitted to a top university, successfully studying abroad, and settling overseas, which one has not grown up in the praise of parents, teachers, parents, and even strangers around him?
People who have been accustomed to praise, recognition, and pursuit since childhood cannot accept failure. And the biggest trap set by life for the top students is that in school, there is only the only criterion of grades, and life is not, there are many requirements and standards!
No one can always be the first in all aspects of life. And this kind of pain is unacceptable to students who have never experienced failure.
They are accustomed to living above the clouds, and they cannot accept becoming ordinary people, and they are exposed to the joys and sorrows of ordinary people!
02
Not good at dealing with interpersonal relationships, often not having a good relationship with colleagues and friends
Scholars can deal with complex calculations and explore the mysteries of the universe, but spending all their time and energy on academics will inevitably be simpler and less thoughtful in reality.
I don't know how to deal with quarrels with friends and colleagues in real life, how to spy on the uncertain minds of mentors and bosses, and I don't know how to coax and apologize in order to have a happy result.
also let us see that in Chen Danlei's case, when there was a conflict, she blindly avoided it, went to the United States to study, and refused to face her husband's divorce;
And Qi Tailei, who shot his mentor, chose to use posts with bad grammar on the Internet to vent his inner emotions, instead of confiding in his friends.
The fundamental difference between humans and animals is that they are social, need to socialize, and need to live in a circle with friends, lovers, and family members to be a complete individual.
03
The foreign circle is too small, and the more it lives, the more closed it becomes
There is a characteristic of the foreign Chinese circle, everyone will live in a circle, just like a small village, once a little wind and grass, it can spread almost all over the local Chinese circle.
Living in a foreign country, language is a problem, not that you can become a local after taking the TOEFL and IELTS tests, after the language, culture is a very big barrier, you can meet a lot of foreign friends, but it is really rare to be able to make friends.
Not sociable, having no friends abroad, being far away from parents, no one to enlighten, a stronger sense of loss, and it will make people more and more closed, more extreme, living in their own world, and stubborn.
Also at Purdue University, an international student who knew Chen Danlei also said the same
In this case, love often becomes their lifesaver at this time, but love is a two-way street, once there is any problem, plus some countries are still a criminal paradise, guns are proliferated, because of love and hate, passion kills, so they commit irreparable mistakes.
In this world, there are two sides to everything, and there is no one absolutely correct explanation. Xueba should never be deified, let alone planned and mass-produced.
Li Bai said a thousand years ago that I am born to be useful and live my own life.