In 2003, the mysterious disappearance of Deng Shiping, a logistics manager at Xinhuang No. 1 Middle School in Huaihua, Hunan, uncovered a 16-year-long tragedy.
The endless search and shouting of the family, the indifferent handling of the police, and the conspiracy of Du Shaoping and the principal Huang Bingsong behind the scenes made the case confusing and difficult to proceed.
It wasn't until the 2019 anti-crime special operation that this unsolved case was revealed...... In 2020, Du Shaoping, the initiator, was executed in the crematorium, ending his life of crime eight minutes later.
So what's the story? Today, let's talk about this struggle between crime and justice.
Deng Shiping's dedication to duty brought disaster
On a January morning in January 2003, the air in Xinhuang County, Huaihua City, Hunan Province, was filled with the cold of winter, as if to signal that something big was about to happen.
Deng Shiping, the logistics manager of Huaihua Xinhuang No. 1 Middle School, got up early as usual to start the day.
His wife was busy preparing breakfast for the whole family in the kitchen, while his daughter was packing her schoolbag in her room to prepare for school.
He is not only responsible for the logistics management of the school, but also serves as the engineering supervisor to ensure the quality of the campus construction project.
Walking into the campus, we were greeted by a few colleagues who arrived early, and everyone said hello to each other, and then they got busy. The task of the day was heavy, to check the progress of the construction of the school playground and to ensure that the quality of the works was up to standard.
Du Shaoping was a fairly powerful figure, not only the person in charge of the school's playground project, but also the nephew of the principal, Wong Bing-song.
However, this person has an arrogant style of not having the right outlook, and often relies on his relationship with the principal on weekdays to command the employees of the engineering team.
After the playground project was contracted, he was bent on how to get more benefits from it, and in the process of project implementation, in order to save costs, he repeatedly cut corners on materials, which made Deng Shiping, who was responsible for supervising the project, very dissatisfied.
Deng Shiping found many serious quality problems in the project, and did not hesitate to put forward rectification suggestions, but Du Shaoping did not listen at all, and even warned not to meddle in things.
In his position, Deng Shiping always adhered to his principles and was unwilling to compromise on such a matter, and as time passed, the contradictions between Deng Shiping and Du Shaoping intensified.
On this day in January 2003, he found the problem again at the construction site and decided to report the situation to the principal, Wong Bingsong.
Huang Bingsong listened to his opinions on the surface, but in fact secretly colluded with Du Shaoping to conceal these issues, and Deng Shiping did not know that he had been quietly targeted by the pair of uncles and nephews.
That afternoon, Deng Shiping returned to the office from the construction site, sorted out some documents and planned to go home, but just as he was about to leave, Du Shaoping and his subordinate Luo Guangzhong suddenly appeared, stunned him with the medicine prepared in advance, and then hit him on the head with a murder weapon......
Du Shaoping and Luo Guangzhong drove to the playground construction site of Xinhuang No. 1 Middle School, there were only a few dim lights on the construction site, and it was dark all around.
They dragged the unconscious Deng Shiping out of the car and carried him directly to a large dirt pit at the construction site, where Du Shaoping picked up an iron rod and struck Deng Shiping on the head several times to ensure that he would never wake up.
Immediately afterward, the two quickly threw Deng Shiping's body into a dirt pit and used an excavator to cover it with a large amount of earth. In order to prevent the body from being found, Du Shaoping also ordered the workers to work overnight to completely fill in the soil pit.
The family's search and fruitless reporting
At the same time, Deng Shiping's wife was very anxious when she found out that her husband had not returned for a long time, so she contacted her husband's good colleague and learned from the other party that her husband had left school in the afternoon. In that case, why didn't Deng Shiping go home?
My colleague's surname is Yao, according to him, he was playing chess with Deng Shiping that day, and suddenly someone called him away, saying that he had something to discuss, and this walk was more than 3 hours, and when he came back, Deng Shiping was no longer in the office.
I thought that the other party didn't care if he left after work, but it wasn't until Deng Shiping's wife inquired that she learned that he didn't come home.
Worried, the wife and her family began to search for the school and the neighborhood, but the husband was nowhere to be found, and the family decided to call the police for help, but the police response disappointed them.
The police only promised to find someone on the surface, but did not take actual action, and Deng Shiping's family also repeatedly emphasized the contradiction between Deng Shiping and Du Shaoping.
The police still did not pay attention to it, and only symbolically sent people to walk around the school, and then put the case aside on the grounds that there was "no evidence".
In the months that followed, Deng's family repeatedly appealed to the police for more help and support, but the police never took any substantive action, and when they asked about the progress of the case, the answers they received were always perfunctory.
Deng Shiping's younger brother had proposed to inspect the school playground, because the playground was rushed to work overnight on the day of his brother-in-law's disappearance, speculating that there must be something wrong with it, but this request was not supported by the police.
Deng Shiping's family was angry and disappointed by the police's attitude, but they had no evidence and could only wait helplessly, and even if they later made trouble in the city, the police were only forced to send a few people through the scene, and they could not find out anything substantive at all.
At the same time, Du Shaoping was still uneasy in his heart, knowing that Deng Shiping's family would not give up easily and would definitely continue to search for the truth.
In order to ensure his own safety, he strengthened his personal connections, and used Huang Bingsong's identity to intervene in all parties to ensure that no one would investigate the disappearance case in depth.
Deng Shiping's family has always been suspicious of Du Shaoping, and Yao once mentioned that Du Shiping had given the two of them a bottle of water that day, which is very different from the usual arrogant attitude.
What's even more strange is that the playground was supposed to stop work on the day of the rain, but Du Shaoping seemed to be in a hurry, and ordered the construction team to fill in the playground that night.
As mentioned above, there is no conclusive evidence in the first hand, and secondly, no one has any power and power, so they can only watch the case be shelved and turned into an unsolved case.
At that time, the mainland's legal system was not perfect, and many people relied on money and connections to confuse black and white and evade legal sanctions.
The anti-crime operation uncovers the truth
In 2019, the nationwide anti-crime special operation was in full swing, and the relevant departments decided to conduct a thorough investigation of the remaining major cases, and Hunan Province was naturally no exception.
Du Shaoping did not realize his mistake after the killing, but he also contracted several large projects successively and lived a life of making money every day. Usually, he still relies on the network behind him to do whatever he wants, and even involves pornography and black, and many people are persecuted by him.
After the arrival of the anti-crime and anti-evil group, Du Shaoping still did not change his arrogance in the past, and as a result, he and related people were all arrested. Deng Shiping's family has not given up for many years, so the case attracted attention at the time, and Du Shaoping and his network were gradually revealed.
The police re-examined Deng Shiping's disappearance and conducted a detailed investigation into the playground of Xinhuang No. 1 Middle School, and finally found Deng Shiping's body under the playground.
In the face of conclusive evidence, Du Shaoping confessed to the fact that he had murdered Deng Shiping, described in detail how the murder was planned and carried out, and also exposed the collusion between himself and the principal Huang Bingsong.
Du Shaoping's confession gradually made the ins and outs of the whole case clear, and the police also saw the intricate network behind it, and arrested Luo Guangzhong, a co-perpetrator of the crime, and other people involved in covering up the truth.
In Du Shaoping's confession, Huang Bingsong was undoubtedly implicated as a key figure, as Du Shaoping's uncle, he used his power to cover up his nephew's crimes, so that Deng Shiping's disappearance case remained unsolved for a long time.
In addition, the police also launched relevant investigations and found that Huang Bingsong had many abuses of power and corruption during his tenure, and was finally arrested and sentenced for harboring Du Shaoping and other illegal and criminal acts.
In 2020, the case of Deng Shiping's disappearance was officially tried, and Du Shaoping, as the main culprit, was prosecuted for intentional homicide.
In court, he faced the gaze of the victims' families and the media, confessed his crime in detail, and was cold-blooded and cruel, which made everyone present angry.
After many court trials, the court finally sentenced Du Shaoping to death and deprived him of political rights for life, and the criminal acts of Huang Bingsong and the other people involved in the case were also made public and punished by the law, so that the public could see the majesty of the law and the power of justice.
After the verdict was handed down, Du Shaoping appealed, but was rejected by the court of second instance and upheld the original verdict, and his fate was irretrievable by this time.
In January 2020, Du Shaoping was escorted to the crematorium to await the execution of the execution, and he was taken into the execution vehicle amid the cries of his family, and his life ended only 8 minutes later.
In general, after 16 years, Deng Shiping's disappearance case was finally revealed in the anti-crime operation. Du Shaoping used his network to escape legal punishment for many years, but in the end it was difficult to escape justice, which shows that although justice is late, it will eventually come.
Du Shaoping's execution was not only a punishment for his own crimes, but also an important declaration of social justice.
Over the years, Deng Shiping's family has been relentless in their search for the truth, experiencing countless setbacks and pains. Now that the real murderer has been caught, the victim's grievances have been rehabilitated, and there is more comfort in my heart.
However, the arrival of justice could not erase the pain of losing loved ones, Deng Shiping's wife and daughter burst into tears in the courtroom, and their lives were greatly changed by Deng Shiping's departure.
Deng Shiping's story reminds us that no matter how evil tries to conceal the power of law and justice, the truth will eventually be revealed and social justice and peace will be maintained.
What do you think differently about this?
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The first-instance verdict of the "playground burial case": Du Shaoping, death penalty! -China Court Network (chinacourt.org)