China's most awesome death row prisoner, stealing police cars, cheating banks, and escaping from prison three times. On the night before the death penalty, a cross-century patent inventor went from death penalty to life, inventing all the way to commuting his sentence, which is legendary!
What kind of legendary life does Li Hongtao, who can be called the best death row prisoner in China, have?
This has to start with the reason why Li Hongtao went to prison for the first time.
At that time, as a top student who graduated from Zhejiang University in the last century, he and his wife formed a happy family in Kunming.
It's just that the good times didn't last long, and he soon couldn't hold back his inner desires, and found a female college student behind his wife's back, and the two were secretly cheating.
Li Hongtao's character file
In the face of his wife's painful questioning after finding out, Li Hongtao's performance was also quite greedy.
He not only longs for the red flag at home, but also enjoys the fun of fluttering colorful flags outside, which can be called a "model" of both wants and wants.
Perhaps in the constant tugging between his wife and lover, Li Hongtao's fatigue continued to increase, and the whole person's mental state was also in a trance.
It also happened that in such a situation, he subconsciously agreed to a friend's invitation to start a business together.
However, the young man who has just entered the society has no entrepreneurial capital in his hands.
Li Hongtao and his friends were full of ambition to start a business, and when they saw that they were about to die without start-up capital, he had an idea and soon had an idea.
At that time, information technology was far less developed than it is today, and the security and management mechanisms of some classified units were not as perfect as they are today.
Driven by the desire to start a business, Li Hongtao seized the loopholes in the bank's management and first opened a fake account in the bank through a fake name and identity created temporarily.
Then, by forging the seals of other legitimate companies, the public funds of other companies are transferred to the accounts that were originally opened.
However, although this behavior was not immediately discovered, the police still succeeded in arresting Li Hongtao and his friends.
However, Li Hongtao, who entered the detention center, was not idle, and it is not difficult to see from his behavior of using fake accounts to obtain public funds from other companies that he is extremely bold.
Having worked with equipment in factories for a long time, he could see at a glance the construction of handcuffs in the police station.
Therefore, he easily uncuffed himself, escaped from the police station, and began his own escape with a ticket to Guiyang.
Photo: Photo of handcuffs
Replaced by ordinary fugitives, all kinds of cautious and low-key people on the way to escape are different, but Li Hongtao is different.
Not only did he not panic, the first thing he did after fleeing was to return home to destroy evidence, and saw that the police who had caught up dared to hide on the roof of his house and watch the police return in vain.
The escape began, and he was still on the way, taking a parked Audi.
The cause of the incident was that he saw a brand-new Audi in front of the hotel where he settled in Guiyang.
He looked at it for a while, pretending to talk to the owner of the Audi casually, until he saw the owner of the Audi take out the keys and open the door.
What no one expected was that in such a short period of time, Li Hongtao actually remembered the shape of the car key taken out by the owner, and successfully customized an identical key with his memory, and drove away the free Audi that night.
It's just that the car has it, and the driver's license doesn't appear out of thin air.
Li Hongtao, who picked up the car for free, drove the Audi unskillfully, and finally ended the first trip to steal the car by planting the car in a ditch with people.
It was also about the first time that stealing a car gave Li Hongtao inspiration, and he had always been arrogant and bold, and after he had cultivated well, he actually started the idea of a police car.
He not only succeeded in stealing the police car, but also drove the police car back to Kunming with great arrogance, which is where he was arrested for the first time.
Not only that, but he often drove this stolen police car to the campus where the female college student was on a date, which was quite ostentatious.
However, it was precisely because of his lust that the police had a second chance to arrest him.
Surprisingly, this criminal, who has a super high IQ and an extraordinary mentality, followed the police back to the police station obediently this time.
In the face of police questioning, he was quite frank and confessed to his crimes such as stealing public funds from other companies and stealing cars.
However, in the face of criminals like Li Hongtao, the authenticity of the confession is really questionable.
Therefore, in order to prove the authenticity of the incident described by Li Hongtao, the Kunming police launched an ongoing investigation against him. During this period, Li Hongtao was also kept in the detention center for as long as five months.
Stills from "The Shawshank Redemption".
But Li Hongtao is indeed not a peaceful person, in the face of the police investigation, he did not have the slightest nervousness, but said nonsense.
"I'll give you three months at most to interrogate me, or I'll run away again. ”
The police naturally regarded this remark as a dead duck with a hard mouth, and what no one expected was that Li Hongtao actually staged a "The Shawshank Redemption" in the Kunming Detention Center.
No one knows what kind of remarks and interests he used to impress the other two inmates who were also in the detention center, so that these two suspects helped him dig a way to escape with a small hoe.
On the night when the three of them successfully escaped from the detention center, Li Hongtao immediately called the Kunming police and once again announced his promise to them.
escaped from prison twice in a row, and now Li Hongtao immediately became a "celebrity" who was keen to report in the news media at that time.
In order to end this farce as soon as possible, the Kunming police even set up a special task force, and with the joint efforts of many parties, they successfully arrested Li Hongtao again within a month.
In order to avoid the scandal of the prison break, it appeared again.
This time, the police also increased the supervision of Li Hongtao unprecedentedly, and in the shortest possible time, Li Hongtao was tried for his crimes.
On November 1, 1993, the Kunming Intermediate People's Court sentenced Li Hongtao to death.
If it were an ordinary person, I am afraid that the story would end here, but the protagonist of this story is Li Hongtao.
In prison, he knew that this time he was already inescapable, so he simply gave up the prison escape plan and concentrated on his old job - researching brushless motors.
Although this name is a little unfamiliar, you must know that the bus cards, new energy trams, and other fields involved in industry, medical equipment and other fields are inseparable from brushless motors, so you can imagine the criticality of this technology.
And God seems to be particularly kind to him, on December 31, 1993, that is, the day Li Hongtao was about to be executed, the brushless motor he had been studying hard actually ran successfully.
With the sound of the machine, the hope in Li Hongtao's eyes was enlarged little by little.
Upon learning of this news, the director of the Kunming Police Station and the director of the Public Security Bureau also personally interceded for him, and Li Hongtao's death sentence was also suspended, and he successfully won a two-year reprieve with the patent of this technology.
As soon as this news broke, it also caused heated discussions in the media at that time.
Picture: Media reported at the time
Headlines such as "The day before the death penalty was invented to compose a suspended death sentence" appeared in the headlines of major newspapers.
It is worth mentioning that while in prison, Li Hongtao seems to have finally realized that "the bottom line of the law is sacred and untouchable".
Not only did he change his ways, but he also continued to patent inventions in prison, from revoking the death penalty to commuting his sentence, and finally was successfully released after 14 years in prison.
After being released from prison, he even became an engineer and continued to work on various technology patents.
Although Li Hongtao's story is bizarre, it also reminds us that not everyone in this world is Li Hongtao.
The day before the death penalty, it can be called a miracle to change one's life against the sky, but instead of betting on a miracle that I don't know if it will come, it is better not to touch the bottom line of the law from the beginning.
Be an honest person, let alone be like Li Hongtao, in order to be greedy for a while, he makes mistakes again and again.