CCTV News: In a community office hall in Urumqi, Xinjiang, several police officers from the Dongguan Municipal Public Security Bureau are quietly approaching a person, and their target for this operation is a middle-aged man. This man has been tracked down by the Dongguan police for 20 years, so who is this man? What kind of cases are on his back? What kind of scene will happen?
In a community office hall in Urumqi, as usual, people came and went, and everyone was in a hurry, but a group of police officers from Dongguan, Guangdong Province, sat quietly in the hall in plain clothes, waiting for someone.
Police: Hou Junxian, your name is Hou Junxian, isn't it?
Criminal suspect Hou Junxian: No.
Two policemen, one left and one right, swept past and took control of the man. Before the man could react, he was handcuffed.
So what did the Dongguan police go to Xinjiang to arrest this criminal suspect? It all started with a homicide in 1998.
This building in the urban village of Liaobu Town was the site of the crime that year. Now it has been rented by others and converted into a small garment processing factory.
On July 31, 1998, in a room on the second floor of the building, a man was stabbed with a knife and lost too much blood.
Zhou Fenjian, police officer of the command center of the Liaobu Branch of the Dongguan Municipal Public Security Bureau: At that time, many traces of the rental house had been cleaned.
At the time of the crime that year, Zhou Fenjian was the deputy captain of the criminal police brigade of the Liaobu Branch of the Dongguan Municipal Public Security Bureau. He was one of the first civilian police officers to arrive at the scene of the crime and was involved in the entire investigation of the case. In this room, the police who investigated the scene found something.
Zhou Fenjian, a police officer at the command center of the Liaobu Branch of the Dongguan Municipal Public Security Bureau: An envelope was found.
A name was written on the envelope by the recipient, and based on this clue, the police quickly verified the relevant information and finally confirmed the identity of the deceased.
Zhou Fenjian, a police officer at the command center of the Liaobu Branch of the Dongguan Municipal Public Security Bureau: Confirmed that the deceased's name was Du Mou, and he opened a clothing store in Shenzhen.
So why was he killed in the rental house, the police found the landlord of the rental house to find out. But the landlord said that he did not know this Du mou, nor had he ever met him, and the tenant of the room was a young woman.
According to the records of housing rental data at that time, the female tenant was named Hou Xiaohua, a native of Langzhong City, Sichuan Province. The police immediately investigated Hou Xiaohua, and the results of the investigation surprised the police.
This Hou Xiaohua turned out to be Du's wife. The envelope found at the scene was written by Hou Xiaohua to her husband Du. But at this time, this Hou Xiaohua had long since disappeared.
The police investigation found that Hou Xiaohua and her husband opened a clothing store in Shenzhen before the incident. According to Hou Xiaohua's communication records, the police found that Hou Xiaohua had frequent contact with a man named Hou Junxian.
Hou Jun was first Hou Xiaohua's older brother and also worked in Shenzhen. Just when the police were investigating this Hou Junxian, Hou Junxian actually disappeared. As soon as Du Mou had an accident, his wife and his wife's brother disappeared together, which was obviously very unusual.
Zhou Fenjian, a police officer at the command center of the Liaobu Branch of the Dongguan Municipal Public Security Bureau: Therefore, coupled with the comparison with the entire scene, it was confirmed that his wife Hou Xiaohua and his brother Hou Jun were suspected of committing crimes first.
The police actually made this judgment based on some other evidence.
Hou Xiaohua's friend reflected that in fact, Du rarely came to Shenzhen, and the clothing store was taken care of by Hou Xiaohua alone. At that time, there was a man who was very close to Hou Xiaohua. The man was a renovation contractor named Ah Rong.
Hou Xiaohua's neighbors had heard Ah Rong's conversation with Hou Xiaohua. The two once discussed how to deal with du after returning to Shenzhen, before the police have always had a question, Hou Xiaohua opened a clothing store in Shenzhen but why did he run to Dongguan to rent a house? The police judged that it should be for this man named "Ah Rong".
After the investigation, the police found that "Ah Rong" had already been married and had children, but he was recently divorcing his wife.
Although several suspected perpetrators were quickly identified, further investigation of the case was not smooth.
Ah Rong, like Hou Xiaohua's brothers and sisters, disappeared after the crime. The Dongguan police immediately launched a vigorous investigation and issued a co-investigation notice to the whole country. But the case has not progressed.
The three disappear overnight and get a clue years later
Since the incident, the Dongguan police have not given up the pursuit of these criminal suspects. But what the Dongguan police did not expect was that they received another clue about the case, and it was 6 years after the incident. In 2004, police in Guangyuan, Sichuan Province, sent a message that they had found a man suspected of Hou Junxian in a database.
Familiarizing themselves with the files of old cases is a compulsory course for the new police officers of the criminal investigation brigade of the Liaobu Branch of the Dongguan Municipal Public Security Bureau, and it is also a kind of encouragement and inheritance of the older generation of criminal police to the new generation of forces.
Wang Jiahui, deputy commander of the criminal investigation brigade of the Liaobu Branch of the Dongguan Municipal Public Security Bureau: I saw this case in my first year of joining the police when I was combing through the case file. Because this case was more impressive to me, although there were very few clues, I think the criminal police at that time did a particularly meticulous job of this case. As long as they can think of it, as long as they can extract it, they have all done it, and they have done it without your imagination. Therefore, it gives our descendants a wealth of information to break through this case.
Wang Jiahui is currently the deputy commander of the criminal investigation brigade of the Liaobu Branch of the Dongguan Municipal Public Security Bureau. Her first mission after joining the police was to go to Sichuan to track down this clue.
However, after the police rushed to Sichuan, they found that the man's information was not correct except for the same photo as Hou Junxian.
After detailed verification, this person is not Hou Junxian, but he looks very similar to Hou Junxian, which has caused a misjudgment by the local police.
The case was shelved again, and the years passed, but the police never gave up.
It wasn't until 2007 that an important clue appeared in front of the Dongguan police.
Sichuan police seized a man who illegally possessed a firearm and found a driver's license with Hou Junxian's name on him.
Is this person the criminal suspect Hou Junxian, who the police have been looking for? In order to further confirm his identity, the police immediately rushed to Sichuan to investigate.
However, after interrogation, the hopes of the investigating police were once again dashed.
So how could Hou Junxian's driver's license be in his hand?
Wang Jiahui, deputy commander of the criminal investigation brigade of the Liaobu Branch of the Dongguan Municipal Public Security Bureau: His explanation to us is that he picked up this driver's license on the airport ground in Urumqi, Xinjiang.
After repeatedly deliberating on the suspect's words, everyone noticed a detail.
Wang Jiahui, deputy commander of the criminal investigation brigade of the Liaobu Branch of the Dongguan Municipal Public Security Bureau: We made a bold speculation, that is, maybe the person we are looking for is really in Xinjiang. Among the foreign population in Xinjiang, the permanent population went in batches to compare some of his data.
The direction of the investigation of the task force has become more clear, one is a Sichuanese, and the other is to go to Xinjiang. As long as they have both points, they are the object of their attention.
Three generations of criminal police perseverance Photos lead to clues
This investigation is another 11 years, the case is still not progressing, although several criminal suspects have no trace, but the Dongguan police have never stopped pursuing the murder. In July 2018, another clue once again came into the eyes of the police.
Zhou Shaoling, a police officer of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Liaobu Branch of the Dongguan Municipal Public Security Bureau: I found that there was a person whose ID card photo was very similar to Hou Junxian, but this person's name was not Hou Junxian's name chen kun.
Zhou Shaoling entered the criminal investigation brigade of the Liaobu Branch of the Dongguan Municipal Public Security Bureau in 2017, and she is also very familiar with the file of this case, and she is already familiar with the names of Hou Junxian.
Several ID photos have laid a solid foundation for this clue in 2018. Through big data comparison, the Xinjiang police found that the suspected Hou Junxian was named Chen Kun and his household registration was Heze, Shandong.
Zhou Shaoling, a police officer of the criminal investigation brigade of the Liaobu Branch of the Dongguan Municipal Public Security Bureau: Although Chen Kun is registered as a Shandong citizen, he has never had any trajectory of activity in Shandong. His social relations overlapped with those of Hou Junxian.
Police investigations found that the family of Hou Junxian, a suspect who had been absconding for many years, had traveled to Xinjiang several times to contact Chen Kun.
On July 28, 2018, the special case team sent a group of investigators to Xinjiang, and for the Dongguan police, this trip to Xinjiang was full of too much uncertainty.
On July 31, 2018, the police called Chen Kun to the community on the pretext of improving community information. Then came the scene at the beginning of the show.
Coincidentally, the date of the crime was July 31, 1998, and the date of Hou Jun's first capture was also July 31, a full 20 years apart.
After some questioning by the police, Hou Junxian finally confessed his sister Hou Xiaohua's current information. Hou Xiaohua has settled in Qingdao, Shandong.
The police immediately rushed to Qingdao, where they met Hou Xiaohua in a small supermarket in Qingdao. At this time, she is the lady of the supermarket.
The wife gives her husband a hard hand, and what is the reason for the opposite?
The two suspects were arrested one after another, and they also confessed to the facts of the crime that year. But there is a question that makes everyone puzzled, more than 20 years ago, Hou Xiaohua worked in Shenzhen, accidentally met the victim Du Mou, and married him, after marriage, the husband and wife also worked together to run a clothing business, the business is also doing a prosperous job, why should she poison her husband?
During the interrogation, Hou Xiaohua talked about the past between himself and Du.
Hou Xiaohua
Hou Xiaohua, who went from the countryside to Shenzhen to work, wanted to change her life, and what she did not expect was that it was not long before she was pursued by a very generous man. Soon the two people established a romantic relationship, because in Hou Xiaohua's eyes, Du mou at that time was a rich man.
But soon after she got married, her husband began to commit domestic violence against her. At first, Hou Xiaohua could still endure her husband's scolding. However, the subsequent trip to Du's hometown made Hou Xiaohua's phoenix dream completely shattered.
Thinking about it, Hou Xiaohua decided to end her married life, but she did not choose to divorce, but took advantage of her husband's return to his hometown to close the clothing store they opened in Shenzhen, and moved to Dongguan with Ah Rong, who had just met.
Although she left Shenzhen, Hou Xiaohua was still entangled and threatened by her husband, so after moving away for a month, she made a phone call to her husband Du and asked her husband to go to Dongguan to pick her up, and this phone call also opened the curtain of the conspiracy, and after a few days of talking, Du came to Dongguan City. Waiting for him was the Hongmen Feast set up by Hou Xiaohua's brothers and sisters and Ah Rong.
Wang Jiahui, deputy commander of the criminal investigation brigade of the Liaobu Branch of the Dongguan Municipal Public Security Bureau: I bought some sleeping pills, crushed them, and poured them into the beer of the man surnamed Du and let him drink it.
Not long after, Du fell asleep on the bed, and after waiting for a while, Hou Jun first and Ah Rong first laid hands on Du who was lying on the bed. That day was July 31, 1998.
Based on the confessions of the criminal suspects and the evidence extracted at the scene, the police connected a complete chain of evidence. At present, the case has been transferred to the court for further trial, and the criminal suspect Ah Rong is still under investigation.