References: Mass Publishing House, Third Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, Selected Criminal Investigation Cases 3
Anshan Xinhua Cinema in 1983
At 23:30 on December 22, 1980, the police station in front of the Tiedong Branch of the Public Security Bureau of Anshan City, Liaoning Province, received a report from Tang Shiming, an instructor of a company of the Haicheng Garrison of the People's Liberation Army: he had found a locked handbag (that is, a leatherette handbag) that he was carrying with him when he was preparing to leave after watching the late movie at xinhua cinema (now Anshan Zhongying Xinhua Cinema Tiedong Xinhua store), and that he had a Type 54 pistol, 11 rounds of ammunition in his pocket. A raincoat and a copy of an important document.
Type 54 pistol
After receiving the report, the station police station on the one hand to report the situation to the Tiedong substation, on the one hand to send the police to the scene, when the first batch of police arrived at the scene, there are 40 to 50 spectators in the cinema screening hall, the movie has long been dispersed, most of the people have left, in this case, the police in front of the station had to protect the scene first, the audience that has not left the scene temporarily, waiting for the Anshan City Public Security Bureau and the Tiedong Branch of the criminal investigation technicians to come to the scene for on-site investigation and personnel inspection.
Xinhua Cinema is located in the downtown area under the jurisdiction of the Anshan City Station Police Station, which was one of the larger cinemas in Anshan City at that time, and the auditorium seats were divided into two floors, with a total of 21 rows of 497 seats on the first floor and 12 rows of 247 seats on the second floor, for a total of 744 seats. Tang Shiming, the reporter of the crime, said: He borrowed the opportunity to come to Anshan City on a business trip that afternoon to see his girlfriend living in Anshan City, and after the 2 people had dinner together, they went to the Xinhua Cinema to watch a movie, buying two seats on the 20th row of No. 4 and No. 5 on the first floor, when they entered, the movie had begun to be screened, Tang Shiming took a seat and conveniently put his black artificial leather tote pocket under the seat, until the movie was almost finished, he found that the handbag was missing. When he went out of the cinema to report the case to the police station in front of the station and got up to look back, he found that the 2 young people who had been sitting in the back row of him were missing, and it was not clear when they left.
Civilian police who came out of the scene in the early 1980s
Tang Shiming's girlfriend recalled: Behind us nineteen rows of No. 4 and No. 5 sat two young people, when watching the movie, someone used their feet to pedal the backrest of my seat, I looked back, as if these two people were a big, a small one, because the light was very weak, did not see the physical characteristics of these two people.
Since the film had already dispersed when the police arrived, the audience had already walked most of the way, and the scene had been seriously damaged, the scene investigation did not extract any valuable trace evidence. Therefore, the police questioned the theater attendants and the audience who did not leave one by one in order to obtain clues.
Old photo of the theater waiter, the photo is the group photo of the first batch of waiters in the Nanning Theater in 1974 (the 4 little sisters in the first row have a good appearance)
The waiter Su Rongfang provided a very important clue to the police: at about ten o'clock (22 o'clock) in the evening (movie), I was cleaning in front of the theater door, and I saw two young people leaving the scene halfway, walking in a hurry, as if they were still carrying this thing in their arms. The two men were one big and one small, both about twenty years old.
According to this, the cadres and policemen who came out of the scene preliminarily analyzed that the time of the crime was about 22:00, and the two young people who sat behind Tang Shiming and left the scene should be criminals.
Police officers riding motorcycles
Since tang Shiming's description of the lost items included pistols, bullets and copies of important documents, in the case analysis meeting held by the 12.22 Gun Theft Case Task Force held at the Tiedong Branch Bureau, the cadres and policemen of the special case team discussed whether the criminal purpose of the criminals was to steal guns or stolen goods or steal confidential documents, and the results of the discussion ruled out the possibility of stealing guns and stealing confidential documents. Because Tang Shiming confirmed that the pistol and bullet were placed in the pocket when they came out of the army, they were never taken out at the time of the crime, nor were they seen by anyone, even his girlfriend did not know that there were pistols and bullets in the pocket, and as for the copy of important documents, he had not moved in the pocket, so the possibility of the criminals knowing what items were in the pocket could be ruled out. In addition, there is also a raincoat in the pocket, which is braced and bulging, which is likely to give the criminals the illusion that there is a lot of money or military uniforms inside; the pocket is stolen under the seat, which shows that the criminal's criminal purpose is only to steal things.
After confirming the nature of the crime, the special case team analyzed whether the case was committed by a local or a rogue criminal, and finally agreed that the possibility of the local people committing the crime was extremely high: the criminal left the scene after committing the crime, indicating that he was more familiar with the surrounding environment of the theater, and it had been snowing that day, and the snow was as deep as 1 foot, so it was unlikely that the criminal would run far, so it was very likely that the foothold would be in the area near the theater; most of the audiences in the evening movie were locals (a considerable part of them were local "social youth"), Even fielders are procurement personnel. Therefore, the special case team set the focus of the investigation of criminals as the young men in the three urban areas of Anshan City, especially the social youth who often participate in nighttime activities.
Anshan station station house
Anshan Long-distance Passenger Terminal
Subsequently, the special case team was personally deployed by the director of the Anshan Municipal Public Security Bureau, and at about 2:00 a.m. on December 23, the police forces that could be mobilized throughout the city were mobilized to intercept and search for the criminals in three ways: the first road control Anshan Station (located in the second-class station in the Tiedong District of Anshan City, Liaoning Province), the Anshan Long-distance Passenger Transport Station, and the main intersections in the city to prevent the criminals from escaping with guns; the second road was in all hotels in Anshan City, baths for accommodation, overnight restaurants, telegraph buildings, Hospitals and other places to check on personnel who meet the characteristics of criminals; the third way mobilized the household registration police to go deep into the hukou area, with the cooperation of street public security cadres, door by door to house, to implement the personnel who watched the December 22 Xinhua Cinema evening movie, from which criminals were found (in order to get the criminals out as soon as possible, many police officers who were sick at home and female police officers who were originally doing internal work were also all on the battlefield, wearing coats and stepping on the snow to participate in the investigation work).
Old photos, female police officers in the early 80s
With the efforts of the cadres and policemen of Anshan City, the special case team grasped the more than 370 spectators who watched the Xinhua Cinema evening movie on December 22 and the seat numbers they sat in in less than 2 hours, and found that the audience sitting in seats 4 and 5 in the eighteen rows on the first floor was 2 buyers from other places in Anshan, and then found these 2 people in a dormitory bath. According to their recollections, sitting in front of them, seats 4 and 5 in the nineteenth row, were two young men, one large and one small, with a local accent, speaking flirtatiously and vulgarly, often turning their heads and ears when watching movies, looking back and forth, as if they were going to do something, and before the movie was over they left the scene at about 22:00.
The investigation was carried out until about 5:00 a.m. on December 23, and the suspicious range was gradually concentrated in the jurisdiction of the station-front police station closest to xinhua cinema, which had a total of 5,609 registered households, with a complex demographic structure, many "social youth", many people who did not return at night, and many people who loved to watch night movies, and the investigation was extremely difficult.
A group photo of the police at the police station taken in 1980 (Xiakou police station)
The 11 police officers of the police station in front of the station have investigated 1680 "key households" with cases in the past three hours with the cooperation of Fu Baozhen and Fan Guilan, directors of the five neighborhood committees in front of the station (2 people are old public security directors with nearly 20 years of street public security work experience, and have great prestige in the street resident group, and many "social youths" have been "reformed from evil" and "washed their hands in the golden basin" and turned back by the prodigal son under the various educations of these two old ladies). Among them, 57 people who watched the Xinhua Cinema evening movie on December 22 and 41 people who did not return at night were excluded one by one through careful inspection.
Old photo, police officer and neighborhood committee director of the police station in the early 80s (big mother)
At about 5 o'clock, when fu Baozhen and Fan Guilan, two old directors who visited the streets and visited the home of "social youth" Lü Bin, found that Lü Bin was sleeping in bed at this time, he first explained his intentions to Lü Bin's father, who said that Lü Bin and his classmate Wang Jingtao went to the Xinhua Cinema yesterday (December 22) to watch a late movie, and it was very late when he returned home. Fu Baozhen and Fan Guilan instantly had a bottom in their hearts, and asked Father Lü to wake up Lü Bin and ask him, "Where did you go last night?" Lü Bin said, "I went to the People's Art Theater (People's Theater) to see a play." ”
Anshan People's Theater
Upon hearing this, Father Lu's face sank, and he slapped the table and pointed at his son and shouted, "You little crippled calf!" You didn't go to the Xinhua Theater with Wang Jingtao last night, why didn't you go? ”
Lü Bin was drunk by his father like this, and instantly became unable to talk, acting very nervous, the two old directors immediately went to persuade Lü Bin's father, who had prepared the "family law", a good word stabilized Lü Bin's mood, and then quickly informed the police station in front of the station, and after receiving the report, the director personally led someone to Lu Bin's house to take Lü Bin to the police station for questioning. After several rounds of tug-of-war, Lü Bin, who was a thief with a weak heart, quickly confessed the facts of the crime.
"Last night, classmate Wang Jingtao asked me to go to the Xinhua Cinema to watch a movie, and there was a Platon army in the front row who put a handbag under the seat, and the pocket was bulging, which may contain a military uniform, and Wang Jingtao and I took the opportunity to steal it, hid it in our arms, and hurriedly left the cinema. When I came out to see, the pocket had a lock, and I didn't open it for half a day, so I put the (pocket) in a tunnel near the movie theater, ready to smash the lock the next day and take away the things inside. ”
According to Lü Bin's confession, the police rushed directly to Wang Jingtao's home and arrested Wang Jingtao, who was still sleeping in bed, and Wang Jingtao quickly confessed to the crime of stealing the pockets of the People's Liberation Army with Lü Bin. At 5:30 a.m. on December 23, under the designation of Lü Bin and Wang Jingtao, the police seized Tang Shiming's lost hand pocket in the tunnel near the Xinhua Cinema, and the items inside were just as many, and they were returned to Zhao.
The theft of guns from military personnel was cracked in just 6 hours with the joint efforts of the Anshan police and public security cadres.