One evening in July 1995, when the sun was about to set, Xiao Liu, a clerk at a bank in Jiamusi, Heilongjiang Province, was counting the bills in his hand and preparing to leave work on time.
Just then, a young woman in a white duck-tongue hat ran breathlessly to the bank counter and anxiously told Xiao Liu that she was going to withdraw twenty thousand yuan.
Then she took an old crumpled passbook from her blouse pocket and handed it over with trembling hands, her expression very panicked.
Taking a look at the passbook, there were exactly 20,000 yuan inside, and Xiao Liu carefully checked the information of the passbook. Inadvertently, she gave a glance to her colleague Xiaofang on the right-hand side, and then continued to handle the withdrawal business for the woman.
In just ten seconds, more than twenty police officers poured in from behind the bank counter and outside the gate, and subdued the woman in white who was withdrawing money on the spot.
It turned out that this woman was no one else, she was ma Yanhong, the "first female bandit in northeast China" who killed four innocent people in one year.
Most infuriatingly, in the subsequent trial, Ma Yanhong was sentenced to death for intentional homicide. However, towards the end of the trial, she forcibly extended her life for three years based on a lie!
So, what exactly did Ma Yanhong say, and can it have such a big effect? Why did she kill four innocent people and lead herself to a dead end? Hello everyone, I am Ruomu Xiaoji, today we talk about a big case that occurred in Jiamusi, Heilongjiang in the 1990s - the case of the female demon Ma Yanhong:
In April 1967, a baby girl was born in a family surnamed Ma in Huachuan County, Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province. Because she was born in the spring when a hundred flowers were in full bloom, her father named her "Bright Red", which was in the hope that she would be able to look as good as a flower in the future, and her life would be as bright and wonderful as a hundred flowers.
Ma Yanhong's home is located in a remote mountainous area in the south of Huachuan County, and is a poor peasant family. Her grandparents died early, her parents were down-to-earth farmers who made a living by farming, and there was a younger brother who was five years younger than her.
When she was a student, Ma Yanhong studied very hard, achieved excellent results, and was also beautiful, and was the focus of the class. Because she lived in poverty since she was a child and her material conditions were not good, since Ma Yanhong understood things, she has always wanted to change her fate through reading and live a rich life in the future.
However, this dream was shattered in her sophomore year of junior high school. This year, the family's harvest was not good, and they could not afford to support their two children to go to school. Originally focusing on the uselessness of reading for men and girls, Ma Yanhong's father forced her to drop out of school, leaving the 15-year-old to go out to work alone to subsidize the family.
After coming to Huachuan County, due to her young age, no education, and no technology, Ma Yanhong could only do some basic work such as waiters and receptionists.
This type of work is dirty and tired, the key is to earn very little money, which makes Ma Yanhong's psychology have a huge gap. She had thought about working hard little by little through her own efforts, but in exchange for repeated efforts, she had failed again and again.
After tossing and turning for three or four years, Ma Yanhong was disheartened. She felt that she wanted to get rich just by working honestly, it was simply more difficult than ascending to the sky, fortunately, she was beautiful and in good shape, simply find a rich man to marry, is not it two birds with one stone.
Since then, Ma Yanhong has shifted her mind of working hard to earn money to another aspect - directly marrying a rich person by posture.
In 1986, 19-year-old Ma Yanhong met Wang Kai, a young man from a neighboring village in Huachuan County. Although Wang Kai is six years older than Ma Yanhong, when they first met, Ma Yanhong was attracted by Wang Kai's generous shots. Similarly, Ma Yanhong, who has a good figure and good looks, also deeply fascinated Wang Kai.
The two sides have their own needs, one shot and two, only a few months after knowing each other, Ma Yanhong, who just turned 20, married Wang Kai.
After marriage, Ma Yanhong's life is very happy, her husband Wang Kai is not only obedient to her, but also her in-laws are very good to her, at this time Ma Yanhong seems to have changed from a poor family girl to a wide wife with no worries.
In this way, after another four years, Ma Yanhong gave birth to two children for Wang Kai, and the life of this family of six seemed even sweeter and happier.
Not only is it the obsession with money, but also the young heart is undecided, Ma Yanhong is not satisfied with her current life. One day, she and her husband said:
"Akai, I don't have anything to do at home, I want to go out and do business and share the worries of my family!"
After Wang Kai listened, he directly refused and said:
"Woman, it's better to stay at home honestly, and now that my family's life is still passable, you don't have to go out and show your face." Not to mention that you are not suitable for business! ”
Although this refusal temporarily prevented Ma Yanhong from going out to do business and earn money, the idea in her heart has not been abandoned.
One night in May 1993, while her family was asleep, Ma Yanhong, with some savings from her marriage, abandoned her husband and two children and came to Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province, alone.
In Jiamusi City, Ma Yanhong first rented a small room to give herself a place to stay, and then began to fantasize about showing her fists in the commercial sea.
However, Ma Yanhong's previous husband was absolutely right, she was not suitable for business at all. Her idea is very good, that is, to start from a small business, resell some socks, toys and other items, and make the difference.
However, without any market research, Ma Yanhong blindly invested, and eventually her first business ended in a fiasco.
With this failure, Ma Yanhong became cautious, and she began to find partners to do business together. However, only half a year later, due to the unladylike encounter, the partner ran away with all the funds, and Ma Yanhong was deceived into losing all her money.
Years of savings have been lost, and Ma Yanhong's even eating in Jiamusi City has become a problem, let alone renting a house and doing other things. After pondering in the rental house for a few days, Ma Yanhong had a plan, that is, to win the sympathy of the landlord and his wife by selling misery.
Ma Yanhong's landlord, Xu Xueli, is a middle school teacher at a middle school in Jiamusi City. Xu Xueli's wife is an accountant at a local bank, and the two have a son, about seven or eight years old, and the family of three lives in the downtown area of Jiamusi.
Xu Xueli's family conditions are better, in addition to this new house in the downtown area, in the old city, there is a bungalow left to him by his parents, and Ma Yanhong rented one of the bungalows.
When renting a house before, Ma Yanhong lied that her name was Wang Lan and she came to Jiamusi to do business with her husband, so Xu Xueli and his wife did not know the real situation of her. They only think that Ma Yanhong is beautiful and well-behaved and sensible, so they have always regarded her as a sister.
On the evening of August 21, 1994, Ma Yanhong bought some fruit and came to the landlord Xu Xueli's house, and she pretended to be very embarrassed and very aggrieved:
"Brother Xu, I'm really sorry, my husband and I originally made some money doing business, but he actually hooked up with a working waitress and ran away with all the money, I am now penniless, I can't even eat." The matter of rent, you see if you can slow down..."
Speaking of emotions, Ma Yanhong actually cried with pear blossoms.
Xu Xueli and his wife were originally kind-hearted people, and after hearing about Ma Yanhong's unfortunate encounter, they said on the spot that the rent made her not to worry, and when she had money, she would give it again. They also reduced Ma Yanhong's original monthly rent of 100 yuan to 50 yuan per month.
In view of the fact that Ma Yanhong could not even afford to eat, Xu Xueli, after obtaining his wife's consent, took out a stack of hundred yuan bills from his wallet, randomly drew out two and handed them to Ma Yanhong, asking her to save an emergency first.
This was originally a kind act, but it was this act of leaking money that actually caused Xu Xueli's family of three to die.
After returning to the rental house, Ma Yanhong's heart was not grateful for Xu Xueli's generosity, but about the thick stack of hundred yuan bills he pulled out. According to her estimates, this stack of money is about 5,000 yuan, if you can take it for yourself, it is worth a year of hard work.
After another five days, Ma Yanhong was just about the time for lunch at noon, and once again came to Xu Xueli's house to see if he could have the opportunity to steal money.
This time she bought two packs of cheap candy, claiming that she had found a job, and this time she came to thank the couple and reassure them.
Because it was the meal, Xu Xueli's wife just made lunch, so she politely asked Ma Yanhong to eat together, and Ma Yanhong did not resign, and the four of them sat down to lunch together.
At the dinner table, after Xu Xueli and Ma Yanhong exchanged greetings, their trust in her was further enhanced. Chatting and chatting, Xu Xueli said to Ma Yanhong:
"Sister Wang Lan, tomorrow at noon I will take my wife and children to the provincial city to see relatives, about a week or so, you don't have to worry about the rent." In addition, please help to look at the point home. ”
At that time, the social security situation was not very good, and the situation of thieves burglary occurred from time to time, and it was normal for Xu Xueli to have such worries and make a request to Wang Lan to look after the family.
Seeing that there was such a heavenly opportunity, Ma Yanhong thought about it for a moment and then counted it in her heart, and she said to Xu Xueli:
"Brother Xu, I am very grateful that you and your sister-in-law have been so kind to me, and now that you are going to go out, I really should send you off!"
After saying that, she ran out and bought a few beers and came back. Considering that Xu Xueli's children were still young and could not drink alcohol, Ma Yanhong also specially bought him a bottle of milk.
What Xu Xueli's family of three did not expect was that Ma Yanhong bought several sleeping pills in addition to beer and milk.
In September 1994, several police stations and substations in Jiamusi received alarms from the masses that human parts had been found in farmland, garbage dumps, and other places.
The police immediately dispatched police forces to collect all the parts found, and after summarizing and putting together, it was found that there were still some parts that had not been found, such as the victim's head. However, judging by the existing parts, it was a man, a woman and a child who were killed.
After investigating the scene where the human body part was found, the police found that it was the site of the body dumping, not the first crime scene. Coupled with the fact that the abandonment was too scattered and there was no victim's head, the criminal investigation technology at that time was relatively backward, so the police could not confirm the identity information of the three victims, and the case was even more clueless.
But smart you may have already thought that these three victims are Xu Xueli's family of three!
At noon on the same day, after Ma Yanhong used sleeping pills to stunned Xu Xueli's family of three, she successfully found more than 5,000 yuan in Xu Xueli's wallet.
She originally wanted to take the money and walk away, but thinking about it, after Xu Xueli woke up, she found that she had lost so much money, and she would definitely suspect herself. When the time comes, he will call the police to track down and pursue him endlessly, and he will not be able to live in peace.
In just a few minutes, Ma Yanhong was evil and fearful, and she decided not to do anything and not to stop, killing all three members of Xu Xueli's family and never having any trouble.
So she went to the kitchen and got a kitchen knife and brutally killed Xu Xueli and their seven- or eight-year-old child. In order to destroy the corpses, Ma Yanhong divided the bodies of the three people, and the corpses were thrown to different locations many times, and the heads were buried in a secret place.
After doing this, Ma Yanhong honestly stayed in the rental house and listened to the wind. Due to the lack of clues, there has been no progress in this case, and Ma Yanhong is also assured to boldly take out the bloody wealth of more than 5,000 yuan and squander it.
Just a few months later, Ma Yanhong squandered the huge amount. At this time, she has long relied on this method of quickly making money, and she has no intention of working to make money honestly.
After running out of money on his body, Ma Yanhong repeated the trick and prepared to find a suitable "prey" to start with.
This time, Ma Yanhong was looking at the Information Department, because there was more information gathered here, and it was easy for him to find a rich man and do a big vote.
So what is the Ministry of Information? At that time, the Ministry of Information was equivalent to the current intermediary, but in terms of field, it was not as meticulous and obvious as the current intermediary division.
Because the traffic and communication information of that era was not developed, there was often a situation where "sellers could not find buyers, buyers could not find sellers", and this kind of information department that provided information platforms for transactions such as buying, selling, leasing, and services came into being.
As soon as she stepped into the information department, Ma Yanhong told the staff that she had come to register for marriage. She said that her name was Ren Xiu'e, and she had been married before, but because her mother-in-law thought she could not have children, she threw her out of the house. Speaking of the "sad" place, Ma Yanhong cried again.
The staff of the Information Department saw that she was beautiful and had such an unfortunate encounter, and the sympathy was aroused, and decided that she must find a good condition for her. As a result, Dong Daqing, a public security officer who has also experienced divorce, is one meter tall and eight meters tall, and has a large body, has become the best candidate.
With her own posture and extraordinary storytelling ability, Ma Yanhong soon gained the favor and trust of Dong Daqing. Less than two months after the two of them knew each other, she moved into Dong Daqing's house to live together and began to talk about marriage.
One day, Ma Yanhong felt that the time was ripe and was ready to implement her plan. In small talk with Dong Daqing, she deliberately expressed how her ex-husband would make money and how rich her previous life was. In addition, she also said that the amount of money earned directly represents the ability of men.
After hearing this, Dong Daqing was deeply stimulated, and he decided to show his ability to Ma Yanhong, so he went back to the room without any defense and took out his passbook to show Ma Yanhong.
In this demand savings passbook, Ma Yanhong saw that there were dozens of deposits on it, adding up to 20,000 yuan, which Dong Daqing had painstakingly saved up a little bit.
Dong Daqing said that although he did not earn much, he had been trying to save money, and he also promised Ma Yanhong that when he got married, he would definitely give her a beautiful wedding.
On June 1, 1995, Dong Daqing and Ma Yanhong went outside for Children's Day together, and the two played until late before returning.
The next morning, Ma Yanhong first tangled with Dong Daqing for a while, then asked Dong Daqing to sleep a little longer and get up to prepare breakfast by herself.
Dong Daqing was happy for his fiancée's kindness, but he did not know that this was a death feast.
After making a delicate and hearty breakfast, Ma Yanhong called Dong Daqing to get up, and went downstairs to buy two bottles of cold beer, of course, the indispensable sleeping pills.
After drinking a few drinks with joy, Dong Daqing's head became heavier and heavier, and finally he planted his head on the dining table, and no one knew.
In mid-June 1995, jiamusi police again received multiple alarms, saying that scattered human parts had been found in the ditches of the rice fields of the Agricultural Research Institute and under the Sanhe Bridge.
After several days of searching, summarizing, and stitching, the police found that it was an adult male who was killed. Since the victim's head was also not found, it was not possible to directly identify him.
Based on other features of the human body, the police roughly deduced the following information about the victim:
The victim was between the ages of 32 and 35, about one meter eight tall, with a large and stout figure and a visible scar on his left wrist.
In order to find out the true identity of the victim as soon as possible, the police thought hard and found a clever way. That is, to ask the TV station to insert an advertisement in the name of an individual:
"A man who was injured and is being rescued in the hospital, about one meter eight tall, about 30 or 40 years old, with a large body and obvious scars on his left wrist, if you have anyone in the know, please call to contact ..."
Shortly after the advertisement was broadcast, an old man surnamed Dong called and said that his son Dong Daqing had not come to see him for several days. No one answered the phone to his son, called his unit, the unit did not know where he was, and his identity characteristics were very similar to those broadcast on the advertisement.
The police believed that the information provided by the elderly surnamed Dong was very valuable, so they found the old man and launched an investigation into Dong Daqing's situation.
After visiting Dong Daqing's unit, neighbors and family members, the police learned some basic information about Dong Daqing.
Dong Daqing is a 33-year-old middle-aged man who works as a police officer and has a scar on his left wrist that was scratched by a wine bottle during a previous fight. He had a failed marriage, lived alone after the divorce, and his father last saw him in late May, when he heard him say he was in love with a girl surnamed Ren.
The neighbor last saw Dong Daqing on the night of June 1, when he and his girlfriend were home together, and the neighbor happened to run into it when he went downstairs to throw out the garbage. However, the neighbors and Dong Daqing's girlfriend did not have much intersection, but only a few times I heard Dong Daqing call her "Xiu'e".
Subsequently, the police went to the place where Dong Daqing lived to investigate, and the result was that the doors and windows were locked. With his father's consent, the police used tools to pry open the lock of the door, and before the door was opened, a strong smell of blood came over his face.
I saw blood everywhere on the floor and walls of the house, and on the dining table, there were some bones and rotten pieces of meat.
After the police extracted the blood stains at the scene and compared them with Dong Daqing's blood type, they found the same. Therefore, the police basically determined that the deceased was Dong Daqing.
As for why blood group comparison is used instead of DNA comparison, this is mainly because DNA technology at that time was just applied in the field of criminal investigation in China, and the technology and conditions were not yet mature, and the blood type comparison was very advanced and reliable at that time.
The identity of the victim is confirmed, then Dong Daqing's girlfriend Ren Xiu'e, who has just met and then disappeared, has a major crime suspect.
However, Ren Xiu'e is a fake name used by Ma Yanhong, so the police have used this name for a long time, and the results are that there is no such person.
The road did not work, and the police carefully asked Dong Daqing's family, colleagues and friends to see if anyone could know the woman's details, and it turned out that a friend really knew that Dong Daqing and Ren Xiu'e met in an information department.
After learning this clue, the police investigated all of the more than 200 information departments in Jiamusi City, and finally found the names of Dong Daqing and Ren Xiu'e in one of them called the "Sunshine Information Department".
Subsequently, according to the information provided by the personnel of the Information Department, coupled with the description provided by Dong Daqing's friend who had seen Ren Xiu'e, the police quickly made a simulated portrait of Ren Xiu'e and posted it throughout the city.
Two days later, an old lady saw a simulated portrait on a telephone pole and said without thinking:
"Hey, isn't this the handmaiden of the old Ma family in li village?"
The police immediately tracked down this clue and finally found the "old Ma family" in Huachuan County, which is Ma Yanhong's hometown. Under the explanation of Ma Yanhong's father, the police finally learned that Ren Xiu'e's real name was Ma Yanhong.
However, Ma Yanhong did not return to her hometown after committing the crime, her family has not seen her for more than half a year, and there is no way to contact her. This clue is broken at this point!
Just when the police were at a loss, Dong Daqing's father said that when he was sorting out his son's belongings, he found a passbook of 20,000 yuan missing. The police judged that Ma Yanhong was likely to approach and murder Dong Daqing for this huge amount of money.
By investigating the passbook, it turned out that the money inside had not been taken away. Since Ma Yanhong was committing a crime for money, she would not give up the twenty thousand yuan easily. During this time, the passbook was not used to withdraw money, surely because Dong Daqing caused a local sensation after being discovered, and Ma Yanhong was afraid to expose herself and did not dare to take it.
She was waiting for an opportunity to settle the matter and then act on her own.
Thinking of this, the police decided to focus on the passbook and carry out control at various bank outlets in and around Jiamusi City to wait for the rabbit.
After waiting for more than half a month, finally on an evening in July, Ma Yanhong cast herself into the net! This is the scene we talked about at the beginning of our article.
After being arrested, Ma Yanhong confessed to her crime. She not only confessed to killing Dong Daqing, the corpse, but also confessed the whole process of killing the corpse Xu Xueli's family of three.
Led by Ma Yanhong, the police dug up four heads in a remote grove. After inspection, they belong to the three families of Dong Daqing and Xu Xueli.
At this point, the case of four people killed and divided into corpses in Jiamusi City was finally solved!
Soon after, the court tried Ma Yanhong's case and finally sentenced her to death for intentional homicide.
Upon hearing that she had been sentenced to death, Ma Yanhong shouted at the end of the trial that she had been wronged. She argued that her previous confessions had been coerced and induced by the police and could not be counted.
Ma Yanhong's defense lawyer also said:
"As a weak woman, she has no power to bind chickens, how can she murder Xu Xueli's family of three alone?" In addition, Dong Daqing is a policeman, tall and burly, how did Ma Yanhong subdue him? ”
Hearing this, the people at the scene of the trial also had doubts about the details of the case.
Seeing that there was a gap to take advantage of, Ma Yanhong turned on her superpower of lying.
She said that she was forced to do things for others, and that the mastermind behind the curtain was a man surnamed Wang. Wang instructed and helped her to seek wealth and kill her, and most of the money she got went into his pocket.
The reason why she confessed all the facts of the crime and shielded Wang was mainly because she was afraid that Wang would retaliate against her family...
Subsequently, she also said how to meet Wang, what kind of place she was in at that time, how the two discussed how to commit the crime, how to divide the loot, and how Wang threatened and intimidated her very real and meticulous, which can be called watertight.
After the police investigated what she said, they did find that there was a fugitive named Wang Mou in Huanan County, who was murdered.
Therefore, in line with the principle that "it is not appropriate to close the case before the important parties are arrested", Ma Yanhong is temporarily detained in prison awaiting trial.
In this way, after three years, the wang finally fell into the net.
However, after interrogation, the police found that Wang and Ma Yanhong did not know each other, let alone commit a crime. Everything Ma Yanhong described before was just a lie made up in a hurry!
In May 1998, Ma Yanhong's case was reopened, and this time the court again sentenced her to death.
At this time, Ma Yanhong had no excuse to continue her life!
In November of that year, 31-year-old Ma Yanhong was executed by firing squad.
The Tao Te Ching says: "The five colors are blinding, the five tones are deaf, the five tastes are refreshing, the hunting is maddening, and the rare goods are obstructive." ”
At first glance, Ma Yanhong is because of her family's financial difficulties and after dropping out of school as a teenager, she has gradually gone to the abyss. But in Ma Yanhong's heart, there has never been a correct view of the value of money and the way to obtain it.
She blinded her eyes to money, took revenge for money, killed four people in a row in a year, ignored morality and law, lost her kindness and heart, and eventually ended up miserable and shot!
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