The development of science and technology has made great changes in our lives. But not all of these changes are for the better. Big data shows that each netizen has an average of 1,426 data interactions a day, and the security risks brought by this information are often hidden in our daily lives and ignored by everyone, and some people even lose their lives because of it.
Private Girl
Kwok is a Chinese-Thai mixed-race who, like most young girls, is beautiful, lively and talkative. She had a good grades in school and a talent for languages, claiming on social media that she could speak Cantonese, English, Thai, Japanese and Korean, but her parents did not approve of her love of cosplay, that is, role-playing.
Eventually fell out with her family, and dropped out of high school and ran away from home in her first year of high school, after which she began to live with her boyfriend Ah Le, earning living expenses by working as a waiter in a maid restaurant in Mong Kok, and she would also participate in some cosplay performances of anime activities in her spare time.
She also opened a column on social networking sites to exchange cosplay experiences, and was the fastest newcomer in the industry at the time. Exquisite dress, cute appearance also attracted the attention of many photography enthusiasts, so, slowly someone invited her to take a private photo, which can not only take pictures but also make money for Guo Huiming is not bad, with the invitation to shoot more people, she simply quit her job as a waitress and concentrated on being a private model.
On December 3, 2014, she received a message inviting her to shoot on social platforms, the other party asked her height and weight, and agreed with her to pay 500 Hong Kong dollars for two hours of shooting, with a half-hour break in between.
However, due to Guo Huiming's other things that day, the negotiation with the other party was finally postponed to December 8. The person who invited her to shoot was none other than Liu Zhanghui. On the day of the appointment, Guo Huiming went out after getting ready, however, this time he went into the mouth of a sheep and never returned.
Seeing that his girlfriend had not returned for a long time, Ah Le immediately posted a missing person notice on social media, asking netizens to help provide information about his girlfriend, but found nothing.
Mystery Bag
December 9, 2014 was an unforgettable day for Auntie Chan, a cleaner at Portland Street in Mong Kok. On this day, she was also busy at the garbage station as usual. At about eight o'clock in the morning, a small man approached her and borrowed a trolley from her, claiming that he was staying in a nearby hotel and that he had some things to throw away, but they were too heavy to move. The man was in his 30s, looked honest and spoke politely.
Aunt Chen lent him the trolley. The man did not break his promise, and about 15 minutes later, he returned with a red, white and blue plastic bag. The bag looked very heavy, and the man pushed it with great difficulty, and the whole person was panting. Seeing this, Aunt Chen asked casually, are you loading bricks, so heavy. The man replied that it was just some miscellaneous items.
Subsequently, Aunt Chen asked him to carry the bag into the trash can by himself, and looking at the man's panting appearance, Aunt Chen thought to herself that she should help him. So, the two worked together and finally threw the bag into the trash. After doing all this, the man seemed to have completed a major task, he thanked Aunt Chen, and left with a relaxed face.
But Aunt Chen was suspicious, why? Because this bag is so heavy, and it is soft to the touch, what is inside? What kind of clutter would be such a big bag, or such a touch? So, after the man left, she opened the plastic bag to find out.
When she opened it, she saw that there were four layers of bags wrapped inside, which made her even more confused, and then she used a fruit knife to cut open these bags to check further. However, what kind of debris was inside, and what was presented in front of him was a cold corpse.
Aunt Chen was so frightened that she shouted, and the screams attracted the attention of other colleagues. She reported the incident to the supervisor, who immediately called the police. Police and ambulance crews arrived at the scene quickly, at 8:40 a.m.
After an inquest at the scene, the deceased's head was covered by two black garbage bags, and five other garbage bags wrapped around his feet, and there were some blood stains on the bags. After forensic examination, the deceased was a young Chinese woman with a tight tape from her head to her neck, and a large amount of tape around her ankles, some of which were even so deep into the surface of her skin.
The deceased was wearing a black suspender on the upper body, naked on the lower body, in a bag like a fetus in the mother's womb, and corpse spots had appeared on the thighs, and the forensic doctor initially estimated that the time of death was more than a day.
At this time, not long after the man who threw the body left, Aunt Chen accurately described the other party's characteristics to the police, and informed the police that the man had revealed that he was staying in a nearby hotel. Following these clues, the police began a carpet search, investigated six nearby hotels, and called up all the surveillance video in the neighboring block, and finally found a guest with similar characteristics at the Haopan Hotel, three blocks away from the garbage dump.
Confessed
The man who was locked up is Liu Zhanghui, 37 years old, unemployed. According to hotel guest information, his home is on Kam Fong Street, not far from the Howe Pan Hotel.
From the road surveillance video, it can be seen that at 3:39 p.m. on December 8, 2014, Liu Zhanghui wore a black hooded sweatshirt and a long-haired girl wearing a black top/red short skirt on the building where he lived.
Hotel surveillance video shows Liu Zhanghui dragging his suitcase into the room, and about half an hour later, he came out of the room and left the hotel to return home. The next morning, he went to the garbage station to borrow a trolley from Aunt Chen, returned to the hotel, and then dragged a red, white and blue plastic bag from the room, dragged it out of the hotel along the lobby, put it on the trolley and went to the garbage station, and then discarded the plastic bag with the assistance of Aunt Chen and returned to the hotel.
The police arrived at his home at 1:45 p.m. on December 9, but he was not at home at this time, so the police laid an ambush nearby. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Liu Zhanghui came back and was arrested by the police on the spot, he did not resist, and said to the police: "I know, I deeply regret that I killed the other party by mistake." ”
At his residence, police found a mobile phone wrapped in scotch tape, a glass bottle of tomato juice stained with blood and hair, as well as a lubricant and a pink digital camera.
The person he killed in his mouth was the missing Guo Huiming, but at this time he didn't know the other party's name, only that her screen name was "Little B". After being arrested, Liu Zhanghui confessed to his criminal acts, and the whole process of his confession made those present feel terrified.
Liu Zhanghui has been unemployed for a long time, and usually relies on his wife to earn money to support the family, and in order to save expenses, the couple even borrowed to live in his mother-in-law's house. On December 8, when he and Guo Huiming made an appointment for shooting, he took out 6,000 Hong Kong dollars in advance and went to various stores in Mong Kok to buy clothes for filming, but he either didn't think the pajamas were old-fashioned, or he felt that the style was too sexy, and finally he didn't choose a satisfactory dress.
After meeting Guo Huiming, he planned to take her directly to choose clothes. But Kwok also felt that these clothes were too sexy to choose, and she told Liu Zhanghui that she had prepared a Christmas outfit for the photoshoot, and then the two left the mall.
Originally, the shooting location agreed by the two was in a public place, but Liu Zhanghui told Guo Huiming that he was worried about being released and did not carry heavy photographic equipment with him, so he asked her to go home with him to pick up the camera.
Guo Huiming is a very cautious girl, she was reluctant to enter Liu Zhanghui's house at first, but she couldn't resist his repeated invitations and persuasions, and finally entered the house together. At this time, Liu Zhanghui's wife and mother-in-law were not at home.
Sensitive nerves
After entering the room, he asked Guo Huiming to change his clothes and shoot, but was refused. Liu Zhanghui was displeased, he felt that he had such a low request, why would the other party refuse?
So, he began to complain to Guo Huiming, saying that he is unemployed now, and he was very unhappy when he worked before, and his colleagues always deliberately excluded him, insulted him, ridiculed him for being short, and so on.
Guo Huiming, who was at a loss, faced the complaint of this strange man, just thinking about how to echo him, respond to him, and said casually, don't look at us as private photos, it seems that it is easy to make money, but in fact, it is just a superficial scenery, and my money comes and goes quickly.
But it was such a very ordinary sentence that completely angered Liu Zhanghui, and when he later said that when he heard this, he didn't know if he was triggered by that nerve, thinking that the other party was cheap and behaved, and regarded Guo Huiming as a colleague who excluded him, and vented the frustration and anger he had suffered since he was a child on her. So, he grabbed a glass bottle of tomato juice and hit her head wildly.
Guo Huiming, who was attacked, instinctively began to resist, but this did not stop Liu Zhanghui, but intensified, and he found the tape to tie Guo Huiming's hands and head. Next, he made an abnormal perverted behavior. Guo Huiming once pleaded, saying that he would meet all his requests, as long as he didn't hurt her again. Liu Zhanghui was unmoved, poured the deer antler tonic wine into his body, and plugged it with a bottle stopper.
The medical examiner later found the stopper in the body of the deceased. At that time, Liu Zhanghui found that the wine was still leaking, so he forcibly poured it into the other party's throat. As for why Liu Zhanghui did this, it was because he felt that Guo Huiming would lose his memory when he was drunk and forget what had happened, so his wife would not know all this.
But he didn't expect that Guo Huiming was not drunk, but sober, and in this case, he was in a hurry. Because an hour has passed by this time, and if the family comes back, then all this cannot be hidden.
In order not to be discovered by his family, he took three pieces of tape and strangled Guo Huiming's neck until the other party did not move again. Then he stuffed Guo Huiming into a fluorescent green suitcase, cleaned up the messy room, and dragged the suitcase out the door. Later that day, his wife and mother-in-law returned home, unaware of the horrific murder that had taken place in the cozy living room.
Numb and cold
Liu Zhanghui, who dragged his suitcase out, walked to the Guangdong Daohaopan Hotel not far from his home and stayed on the fourth floor of the hotel. After entering the room, he carried Guo Huiming in the suitcase to the bed, but he didn't expect this pervert to be lustful again, he later confessed that the matter had come to this point, and insulted the corpse in the spirit of not wasting it. He said that he didn't think Guo Huiming was dead at that time, but only thought that the other party should have been in a coma.
After finishing the incident, he took Guo Huiming's clothes with him and threw them in the public trash can outside, and then he began to think about finding a place to hide the body. However, the high cost immediately sobered him up, and the price of the hotel was 580 Hong Kong dollars for one day, and 5,800 for ten days, which was unaffordable for him, an unemployed person.
So he paid attention to the rental advertisement of the house, which was 1,600 yuan a month for long-term rentals and 2,000 yuan for short-term rentals, with only enough space for a bed and a TV. After unsuccessfully bargaining with the landlord, he abandoned the idea. Liu Zhanghui then returned to the hotel, insulted the body again, and then took a shower as if nothing had happened, and then called his wife and asked her to have dinner with him.
There was still some time before dinner, he returned home, cleaned the living room again, scattered Guo Huiming's belongings into multiple trash cans, and then went out. When he was watching TV in the living room with his wife that night, his wife noticed that he had injuries on his body, and he replied that he had accidentally fallen.
His wife said to him: "I look forward to seeing you every night, it doesn't matter if you make money or not, it doesn't matter if you don't have a job for the time being, just be a good person, you are a part of the family, don't let the family worry about you." These words made Liu Zhanghui toss and turn all night and couldn't sleep all night, but the big mistake has been made, what's the use of regretting it?
After seven o'clock the next morning, after his wife went out to work, Liu Zhanghui prepared plastic bags and other tools and returned to the hotel, ready to abandon the body. When he entered the room, he found that there was already a peculiar smell in the house, and the source of the smell was Guo Huiming, so he hurriedly wrapped her body, and at this time the suitcase could no longer be filled, so he had to go to the garbage station to borrow a trolley.
After discarding the body, he returned to the hotel and opened the window, intending to dissipate the smell. At this time, Aunt Chen had already discovered the secret in the red, white and blue plastic bag. Liu Zhanghui, who thought that the matter had been resolved, called his mother to ask him to go to breakfast, and he thought that if he could pass the test this time, then he would be a good person in the future.
After breakfast, he went to the game center to watch others play games, and when he returned home, the police were already there, the law was restored, and he had to pay for what he had done. And from his experience since childhood, he may also be able to find out the reason for his perverted cruelty.
Motivation speculation
Liu Zhanghui grew up in a violent family, his mother was often beaten by his father, and the two divorced. His mother and eldest brother also had mental problems, and his eldest brother had planned to commit suicide by jumping off a building, but was seriously injured and paralyzed, and died many years later.
As the second child, Liu Zhanghui has been treated as a "superfluous" child since he was a child, and is often ignored by his family, when he was a child, he was molested by strangers in a public toilet, but he never revealed it to anyone.
When he was a student, he was in the worst class, and he was often bullied and ridiculed by his classmates, saying that he was short and a waste, and even teachers sometimes made fun of him. After entering the society, this situation has not changed, he is still excluded and suppressed in the workplace, and he does not have many friends.
After 2000, he began to indulge in gambling, losing more than one million Hong Kong dollars over the years, and in 2003, when he met his future wife, he became a hard worker, even worked multiple jobs, and saved money to buy a house.
In 2007, he moved to HSBC to work as a vault security guard, but was also bullied by his colleagues, which he believes is also the reason why his salary has only increased by 1,000 yuan in the seven years he has worked here, and he has never received any promotion.
In November 2014, Liu Zhanghui was laid off by HSBC, and in order to save money, he and his wife moved to live with his mother-in-law, who was also very strong, and Liu Zhanghui was very afraid of her. After that, he never found a job, and spent his days wandering around game centers, delving into gambling techniques until the case occurred.
Although the case was solved quickly, the trial did not begin for the first time until December 23, 2017. While in custody awaiting trial, Mr. Liu's mental state deteriorated, and he refused to admit the police charges against him, believing that he had only manslaughter. He claimed that at the time of the crime, a devil had come on him and instructed him to perform a series of horrific acts.
He stated that the devil told him to throw the dead into the sea, but then the angel came and told him not to do it. He also said that he was a son of God and could travel to hell, but when asked for details, he couldn't answer. He later claimed that there were nine lights in the courtroom and that if all nine lights were on at the time of the trial, he would have been acquitted.
However, the psychiatrist believed that he was not mentally ill at the time of the incident, and according to his wife, he had never seen the defendant depressed to the point of being unable to function his mind, and that the defendant was very calm and normal when he had dinner with her on the night of the incident.
At 11:37 a.m. on March 13, 2018, the prosecution and defense made their closing arguments, and the judge announced that they would leave the courtroom for deliberation, and three hours later, a jury of five men and two women unanimously convicted the defendant Liu Zhanghui of murder.
The judge said that his behavior was extremely ugly and inhumane, and that the circumstances of the murder in this case were horrific and ruthless, which seriously affected social stability, and that he must be sentenced to life imprisonment in accordance with the rules. The prosecution was also reminded to contact social media operators to follow up on any improvement measures, such as issuing warnings to young users, to prevent similar situations from occurring.
Although the case was quickly solved by the police, there was no room for too much speculation, but the elements of cosplay and private photos that were not recognized by the public, as well as somewhat ambiguous social networks, were mixed together, making many people think that these entertainment activities were closely related to eroticism, and some people even maliciously speculated that Guo Huiming was doing immoral business in the name of cosplay through the Internet, and photographers and private photos were labeled as special labels.
In fact, Liu Zhanghui had never taken a private photo shoot before he asked Guo Huiming, he just borrowed a name and wanted to hunt for beauty.