References: Mass Publishing House, The Third Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, ed., Selected Criminal Investigation Cases 1
Old photos, Caoxi Building Complex, from Shen Ge_Watch Greater Shanghai Wind Blog
Popular science knowledge: Caoxi Building Complex Introduction:
Located on Caoxi North Road in Shanghai's Xuhui District, the complex was a high-rise complex built on Caoxi North Road at the suggestion of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, who visited China in 1972 (when Kakuei Tanaka visited China in 1972, Ma Tianshui, then secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, asked him what house was most suitable, decent and cheap. Tanaka Kakuei himself is an architect, also very good at urban planning, just like Ma Tianshui said, 13-story elevator room is the best, so there are 6 + 3 buildings), next to the Huating Hotel, directly facing the Shanghai Gymnasium (Wantiguan), the initial 6 buildings of the house number are Caoxi North Road 750, 800, 850, 900, 950 and 1000, all built in the first half of 1978, in May of the same year began to move into new residents, is the famous "new new village" in Shanghai at that time. Nowadays, although the age of the house is old, but because of the good location, the downstairs is metro line 1/3/4, 2 minutes walk to the bus terminal, more than 10 bus lines to reach all directions in Shanghai, 10 minutes walk is Xujiahui business circle, shopping and leisure is very convenient, so it is still a popular listing in the Shanghai second-hand housing market.
Next to the Caoxi Building Complex of Huating Hotel, from The Blog of Brother Shen_Watching the Great Shanghai Style
After the popularization of science is completed, the words are returned.
On September 21, 1978, the day when the Caoxi Building had been in use for less than 5 months, at 10:25 on the same day, Ma Moumou, a buyer of Dongdai Commune in Wuxi County, Wuxi City (now Dongdi Town, Binhu District, Wuxi City), who was passing by the Shanghai Gymnasium, looked up across Caoxi North Road and suddenly found that there were windows on the 11th floor of Building 750 Caoxi North Road, that is, the first building in the Caoxi Building complex, and immediately ran to the management office of caoxi building to report the situation.
This photo is a very good illustration of the location of the Shanghai Stadium, Huating Hotel and Caoxi Building
The administrator immediately went upstairs to check and found that room 1103 was on fire, so he immediately organized a fire. After the open fire was extinguished, people entered the room and found a person lying motionless on a bed in one bedroom, and there was no sign of life after investigation. The administrators and enthusiastic residents involved in the firefighting immediately exited the room, closed the scene, and then called the Xuhui Branch of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau to report the case. After receiving the report, the criminal investigation technicians of the Criminal Police Team of the Xuhui District Bureau and the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau (the famous Criminal Police 803) quickly dispatched the police to the scene for investigation.
Room 1103 is a group of large suites, divided into two bedrooms, one large and one small, with a passage in the middle, and a separate kitchen and bathroom on both sides (at that time, a large number of residents in Shanghai still lived in the shiku door of the common kitchen and went to the public toilet).
According to the household registration information of the building management room, there was a family of four living here, namely Xiao Moumou (female), a retired nurse of the Shanghai Eye Disease and Dermatology Center Prevention and Control Institute, who was 60 years old at the time; Luo Moumou, a 65-year-old technical doctor of the Parasitology Research Institute (the husband of the head of the household); Luo Moumou, a 29-year-old worker of the Changfeng Line Factory (daughter of the head of the household), and Chen Moumou, a 31-year-old employee of Jiading Fertilizer Factory (the son-in-law of the head of the household). Mr. and Mrs. Xiao live in the east room, and the daughter and son-in-law live in the west room. The deceased on the bed in the west room was identified as Retired Nurse Xiao Mou.
After forensic on-site examination, the deceased Xiao was lying prone on the bed of his daughter and son-in-law in the west bedroom, and there were shredded paper and bamboo pieces around the body that had not yet been burned, the nylon bandage of the bed had been burned down, and the wooden frame of the bed near the head of the deceased had been burned through. There are also burn marks on the bed frames, sofas and walls near the windows.
Indoor cabinets and chests of drawer show signs of being turned over. After the inventory of the family members of the deceased, a total of 1 seagull brand 501 camera, 3 Tissot brand women's gold shell old watches, 1 square clock, 1 red wave 161 semiconductor radio, 1 nylon umbrella, 800 yuan of regular deposit certificates, zero deposits and taking from January to September Decal savings total 234 yuan, more than 1,000 pounds of national food stamps, and more than 10 pounds of oil tickets. But the large number of passbooks and a large amount of valuable clothing in the large cabinet were not robbed.
Red Wave 161 radio
The back of the clothes worn by the deceased had been burned out, and the skin of the whole body was scorched except for the part that came into contact with the bed surface. The skin on the right side of the head and face to the right foot has been charred, the scalp on the right forehead of the head is charred, there is a towel tied to the eye, a towel is stuffed in the mouth, five prismatic sharp wounds are found on the headrest, and a matchbox overheated is held in the palm of the left hand.
Two square stools were pulled out from under the table in the east bedroom, and three cigarette butts were found under the table, which were identified as low-grade cigarettes. The scene was washed by firefighting water because of the fire, so no fingerprints were extracted, only the shoe print of a mutilated high-top basketball shoe pattern.
Xiao's body was determined to be mechanical asphyxiation after forensic autopsy, and the 5 sharp object injuries and large-scale burns on the occipital area were all post-mortem injuries.
Xiao's husband Luo Moumou reflected: Their family originally lived in Lane 1248, Fuxing Middle Road, because the daughter wanted to get married, the original house was not enough to live, Luo Moumou's unit welfare room was assigned to Room 1103, No. 750 Caoxi North Road, so they moved here in May. Because the family conditions are relatively good, so in the previous decoration of the house took some thought, not only painted the walls, but also installed a new type of wall lamps, which was a more fashionable decoration at that time, so the neighbors in the building will always come to visit. And Xiao has been at home since retirement, and he is hospitable, so the visit to the neighbors has always been not rejected, and he always has to warmly guide and introduce him (of course, there is also a little bit of showing off in it, but this mentality is also normal).
Xiao's son-in-law Chen Mou's younger brother Chen Mou reflected: At 9:30 a.m. that day, he came to visit his brother-in-law,but knocked on the back door but did not open, looking at the kitchen window hidden, Chen pushed open the hidden kitchen window to look inward, did not see anyone in the house, so he felt that Xiao Mou might go out, so he closed the kitchen window again, but did not close it (it could not be closed outside), and waited for about 5 minutes to leave. However, according to ren mou, a carpenter who participated in the firefighting, they pushed the door door open after they arrived at the door at about 10:30, and the window of the kitchen could not be pushed open.
Based on the results of on-site investigations, autopsies and mass visits, the police believed that this was a egregious case of burglary, arson and homicide. Immediately, a 9.21 task force was set up on the spot to investigate the case.
After analyzing the case, the special case team preliminarily believes that the deceased Xiao's family is economically rich and generous, and the criminals have indeed robbed some of their belongings, but according to the on-site investigation, although the cabinet has been turned over, the flip surface is not large, and although the stolen cameras, watches and other items are valuable to ordinary people's homes, they are not nothing for the deceased's family, and since the cabinet has been turned over, why did not take away the valuable clothes and passbooks inside? So it's not like robbing money.
The deceased was stabbed by the criminal after being stabbed with a knife many times, and before he died, he was blindfolded and gagged, and after his death, he was moved to the bed of his newly married daughter and set on fire, as if the criminal had a grudge against the deceased and had to put her to death. However, according to the family and neighbors of the deceased, Xiao Mouping was a hospitable person and had never heard of anyone with whom.
The husband of the deceased, Luo Moumou, reflected: the wife's life has always been very regular, the furniture is never placed randomly, usually the guests at home are entertained in the east room, will not go to the west room, and the east room at that time two stools have been pulled out from under the table, that according to the past experience, the family came to the guests, and that day was not a rest day, everyone else in the family went to work, only the deceased 1 person was at home, according to which the special case team believed that the murderer should still be very familiar with the deceased. As for the time of the crime, the special case team speculated that it was no later than 9:30 a.m., because the kitchen window could be opened when the brother of the son-in-law of the deceased, Chen Mou, came but the deceased had no news, speculating that at this time the murderer was still in the house but the deceased had been killed, and the murderer closed the kitchen window when he fled after setting the fire.
Based on this, the special case team immediately determined the scope of investigation to be a person who was familiar with the deceased Xiao Mou, but had a major contradiction.
Due to the wide range of friends made by the deceased before his death, the preliminary investigation discharged 3150 people around the scene and the social relations with the deceased! The first round of platoon screening out 1570 people, the second round of platoon after the remaining more than 500 people, and after the third, fourth, fifth and sixth rounds of platooning, most of the people have been excluded from suspicion, only Xiao's daughter Luo Moumou's ex-boyfriend - the suspicion of Guo Zhouxuan, who was 34 years old at the time, cannot be ruled out.
Guo Zhouxuan, a former worker of the Dyeing and Chemical Factory, was transferred to the Shanghai Radio No. 20 Factory Technical School as a physical education teacher in 1972 because of a work injury in the eyes and left sequelae. In 1975, he was introduced to Luo moumou and established a romantic relationship, but the deceased Xiao mou felt that Guo Zhouxuan had a problem with his eyes and did not agree to his daughter's love with him, and the two broke up because of this. However, Xiao has since introduced his girlfriend to Guo Zhouxuan many times, and the place of the meeting is also in the old house of the deceased, so Guo Zhouxuan still often comes to the deceased's house after breaking up with Luo Moumou, and Guo Zhouxuan also came several times after the deceased moved to a new house.
After checking Guo Zhouxuan, it was found that he did not go to work at the technical school on the day of the crime, and also happened to have a pair of high-top basketball shoes that he often wore, according to Guo Zhouxuan's colleagues: After the incident, Guo Zhouxuan once asked him "Is it better to die in his thirties or to die at the age of sixty?" "And a few days after the crime, Guo Zhouxuan couldn't sleep, and he had to take a lot of sleeping pills to fall asleep, which was a very abnormal situation."
Therefore, Guo Zhouxuan was subject to 24-hour surveillance control by the special case team as a major suspect, and focused on investigating his activities on the morning of September 21.
As a result, it was found that Guo Zhouxuan bought books at 9:30 a.m. on September 21 at the Xinhua Bookstore on Wukang Road (now the Wukang Road Store Department of the Xuhui District Store of Xinhua Bookstore in Shanghai), and then went to the Fuxing Road Stationery Store to buy binder cores, and then went to the Instrument Bureau to contact the work. Proceeding from the analysis of the conclusion that the murderer was still at the scene at 9:30 a.m., it can be basically determined that Guo Zhouxuan did not have the time to commit the crime.
Wukang Road is still a very strong road in Shanghai (the director of the factory often rode through here when he was a student)
The scene of Shanghai citizens buying books in a Xinhua bookstore is still a fashionable uninhabited bookshelf (not the Xinhua Bookstore involved in this case)
Even the husband and daughter of the deceased Xiao Mou said good things for Guo Zhouxuan, saying that "there is no trace of the crime factor in Guo Zhouxuan.". In addition, Guo Zhouxuan's units and neighborhood committees both reflected that Guo Zhouxuan's performance was quite good, his style was relatively decent, and there was no ideological basis for killing and robbing. As a result, the special case team temporarily set aside Guo Zhouxuan's suspicions and shifted the focus of investigation to those habitual criminals with criminal records. However, after screening the recidivism of the convicted offenders, nothing was found, and all the key suspects were either without the conditions for committing the crime or without the time to commit the crime, and the investigation was temporarily stalled and made no progress.
Just when there was no way out, a new clue came into view of the task force, that is, the decal savings that were robbed by criminals but "deliberately" ignored. The reason why it is "intentionally" ignored is because this kind of zero-deposit and round-take savings method, which was very common in Shanghai in the 70s and 80s, did not leave a seal and did not report loss, and the banks and savings outlets in the city could be redeemed and could not be controlled, which was considered to be too difficult to check and did not check. However, in a visit to the deceased's husband Luo Moumou inadvertently said the number, location and redemption of their family to buy decal savings, the special case team learned that the decal savings were purchased by the deceased Xiao Before his death, and it was previously said that the deceased did things very regularly, sometimes even to the extent of rigidity, and the purchase of decal savings is no exception. When I lived in the old mansion on Fuxing Middle Road before May, I bought a decal of 26 yuan per month at the Jiashan Road Savings Office of the People's Bank of China; after moving to a new home, I changed to buy decals of the same denomination at the Yude Road Savings Office from June. Apart from these two savings houses, the deceased never bought them at any other savings house. The task force therefore decided to look up the decals sold from the two savings.
A posted flower savings passbook (not the savings passbook involved in this case)
With the support and assistance of the Security Department of the Shanghai Municipal People's Bank, the district offices, branches and savings offices of the People's Bank of China throughout the city have received an emergency investigation notice to control decals, announcing all 13,000 (with a total denomination of 54,000 yuan) decal numbers sold by Jiashan Road and Yude Road Savings, and requiring the cadres and workers of the vast numbers of banks to report to the public security organs for examination and approval before redeeming them if they find that there are anyone who has paid the decal savings within the above number range. The special case team also dispatched a large number of police forces to go to more than 300 People's Bank of China savings centers throughout the city, wearing bank uniforms and waiting at the squatting point.
A photo of the staff of the Shanghai Hongkou Branch of the shanghai Chinese Bank of China can better reflect the style of the people's bank of China in Shanghai at that time
This squat has been squatting for more than two months!
In late December, the Yan'an West Road Branch of the Changning District Branch of the People's Bank of China found three 1 yuan denomination decal numbers that belonged to the listed number range after checking the decals that had been collected. The reason why the criminals were confused in the past was because the criminals soaked the stolen decals in water and tore them off, and then divided them into 1 yuan, and then they bought their own 3 months of decals for 12 months to deceive and redeem in a way that was reduced to zero, so the bank failed to find out in time, and also deceived the investigators stationed at the squatting point. However, it exposed the whereabouts of the criminals, and suddenly reduced the decal number of the control check from 13,000 to 9. Therefore, the People's Bank of China once again issued a notice of co-investigation, sending these 9 numbers to all savings offices in the city, so that all tellers should remember that the leaders of the Bank Security Department also personally went down to the grass-roots level to inspect and verify the implementation of the work. The special case team also dispatched investigators to the savings offices in key areas of Changning, Longhua, and Xuhui districts to continue to wait at the station.
The scene in the People's Bank of China Savings Institute from the 1970s to the 1980s (not the savings office involved in this case, but it can be used to understand the appearance of the savings institute at that time)
On the morning of January 10, 1979, when a man holding a decal savings of more than 200 yuan came to the Shanghai County Longhua Business Office of the People's Bank of China to withdraw cash, the reception tellers Cao Caiyi and Shi Huimin found at a glance that this number was familiar, and after checking it was one of the decal numbers that asked for assistance, cao Caiyi and the people came to negotiate, Shi Huimin immediately informed the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau Xuhui Public Security Branch who was waiting near the business office in plain clothes for investigation, and as several plainclothes police rushed into the business office to control the man on the spot, he looked at his face - Yo, familiar faces! It was Guo Zhouxuan, the object of suspicion who had been temporarily shelved before!
After Guo Zhouxuan was arrested, he did not say a word for seven or eight consecutive days (a total of 9 pre-trials during this period), a "horizontal and vertical" (Shanghainese transliteration "Wang Siwang", meaning "open up, dead or alive"), the special case team did not rush to "get on the means", but through the peripheral inspection, learned that Guo Zhouxuan already had a new girlfriend, was ready to get married, and had feelings for his parents, girlfriends and girlfriend's parents, and cared very much. Subsequently, in the 10th and 11th pre-trial trials, the special case team sternly criticized Guo Zhouxuan's bad attitude of resisting confession while telling him that if he could honestly confess the facts of the crime, he could be allowed to write letters to his parents and girlfriend, and also agreed to Guo Zhouxuan's request to let his family send cotton clothes and drugs for eye diseases; in the end, Guo Zhouxuan's psychological defense line was broken, and at the 12th pre-trial, he finally confessed to the crime of murder, robbery, and arson on September 21.
Pre-trial examiner of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau who is studying the pre-trial plan (it has nothing to do with this case, but it can well restore the scene of the police studying Guo Zhou's pre-trial plan)
According to Guo Zhouxuan's account, he met Xiao's daughter Luo Moumou through the introduction of classmates in September 1975, and after 1 month of contact, they felt that each other was good, so they established a romantic relationship in October. However, after about 3 months of talking about this love, xiao was forced to break up because Xiao suspected that Guo Zhouxuan's eyes had sequelae and did not agree to the two people's interaction. Break up and break up, but Xiao said to Guo Zhouxuan, "If you get married in the future, I will give you 500 yuan and treat you as half a son." Guo Zhouxuan was still quite touched at that time, so even if he broke up with Luo Moumou, Luo Moumou still often visited Xiao's home after getting married in June 1978, Xiao Mou did introduce 8 girlfriends to Guo Zhouxuan, but each time it was because after the successful introduction, he said to the woman that Guo Zhouxuan had a problem with his eyes, and the result was that these 8 girls invariably dumped Guo Zhouxuan. After learning the reason for the breakup from the woman, Guo Zhouxuan's original good feelings for Xiao Mou disappeared, and every time he was dumped, the bad feelings deepened.
At about 8 o'clock on September 21, he found a girlfriend who did not dislike his eye problems, and Guo Zhouxuan, who was ready to get married, went to Xiao's house again, intending to ask Xiao to fulfill the promises of "500 yuan" and "being half a son". At the beginning, the 2 people sat on the stool normally and chatted, Xiao mou inadvertently talked about the happy life of his daughter Luo Mou after marriage, and suddenly smashed the self-esteem that Guo Zhouxuan could not be passive in his heart, and immediately proposed that he was going to get married, asking Xiao to cash in the 500 yuan. But Xiao only took out 100 yuan in cash and a seagull 501 camera to "cope", Guo Zhouxuan naturally felt that Xiao was sending Flowers, and the past that had been dumped by the 8 ex-girlfriends before was dangling in front of his eyes like a projector. This old man and young man immediately quarreled, and Guo Zhouxuan, who was out of control, immediately set out to strangle Xiao to death, and out of revenge, he stabbed the body with a triangular scraper used for self-defense, and then moved the body to the marriage bed of his ex-girlfriend Luo Moumou to burn it to vent his anger. Then a burst of rummaging through the cabinets robbed some of the cash, decal savings and cameras, watches and other belongings and fled around 9 o'clock (Guo Zhouxuan had already escaped when the brother of the deceased's son-in-law, Chen Mou, came, and the kitchen window could not be pushed open, it should be an accident, Chen Mou actually had a fire when he came, but because the fire was still small, Chen Mou could not see anything unusual outside the door).
After Guo Zhouxuan left, he went to the Xinhua Bookstore on Wukang Road and the Fuxing Road Stationery Store to buy books and stationery, then went to the Instrument Bureau to contact the work, then went home to lunch and then returned to the technical school to work in the afternoon, and left the camera and watch at his brother's house after work in the evening, and the cash and decal savings were left to himself. Subsequently, the police raised stolen money and savings decals at Guo Zhouxuan's home, and produced cameras and watches at Guo's brother's house. At this point, this major burglary, homicide, and arson case was announced after four months of investigation, and Guo Zhouxuan was finally sentenced to death for robbery, intentional homicide, and arson.