Recently, the whole United States is discussing the disappearance of a beautiful internet celebrity Gabi, which is caused by Gabi and her fiancé Brian traveling in a motorhome, the original update of normal Gabi suddenly stopped, and her family did not receive any information from her. The family suddenly discovers that Brian has quietly driven Gabi's motorhome back to his own home alone, and when Gabi's mother approached Brian to inquire, they remained silent. In the end, Gaby's mother chose to call the police, and when the police came to question, Brian remained silent.
Netizens are speculating that Brian must have done something, but the police just can't do anything about him, because according to the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution, Brian has the right to silence. Police later found Gabby's body, but Brian was also missing. So sometimes the law is not omnipotent, and many times the criminal suspects begin to drill loopholes in the law. The story we tell today also happened in the United States, where the criminal suspect knows the loopholes in the law and lets the American police take him no way. In the end, dr. Li Changyu, a Chinese detective, had to be invited. So is this last case solved, let's look down together.
The story takes place on November 30, 1986 in Connecticut, which is supposed to be the day that the flight attendant Helen boarded the plane, but the supervisor saw that Helen was delayed in showing up and did not ask for leave, so he called her husband Richard and asked if he knew where Helen was. Richard talked lightly to his supervisor and said that he had seen Helen out with her luggage the other day and thought it was on the plane. But please don't worry, Helen is not a fool, if you don't go to work, you should go back to your mother's house!
The supervisor wondered what Helen's family was doing in Denmark at this time. Although he was very confused, he still called Helen's family to inquire, and only then did he learn that Helen had never returned, so the more the supervisor thought about it, the more uneasy he became, and he called the police. Since Helen is a flight attendant and her husband, Richard, is a pilot, the couple is very influential in the local community, so the police pay attention to it. When the police arrived, they learned that Helen had been missing for 10 days. Police questioned Richard's nanny, and on November 19 she had dinner with Helen and the couple, and never saw Helen again.
But curiously, by the time the police found the nanny, she had already resigned and returned to her hometown. According to the nanny's recollection, she said that after everyone had eaten together on the night of November 19, she went out to party with friends and later arrived home at 12 a.m. When she got home she heard a loud noise in the upstairs bedroom, but then there was no more sound, so she didn't go up to check it out. It wasn't until 5:30 a.m. the next morning that Richard woke everyone up and said there was a sudden power outage in the house and that he was going to take her and the child to his sister's house, and he would come back to check the line.
At this point, the nanny could no longer see Helen, so she asked Richard where Helen had gone? Richard said she had gone to her sister's house first, but when they all came to her sister's house, she found Helen not there. At this time Richard said that he had misremembered and that Helen should go to work. Richard did not pick them up at the agreed time, but arrived five hours late. When they got home, the nanny noticed that the carpet in the bedroom was gone, and some of the furniture had changed positions. At this time, the nanny was a little scared, so she resigned and returned to her hometown.
From the description just now, you can probably guess what the nanny is afraid of. As the police investigation deepened, the police approached Richard and asked him if he knew where Helen had gone. At this time, Richard said that in fact, he suspected that his wife was having an affair and had a close relationship with a man. The police investigated the man again, and the man explained that he and Helen were just ordinary friends, and according to the police's later investigation, the man was telling the truth.
At this time, Helen's girlfriend Lola told the police that the real affair was not Helen but Richard. Because Helen once told Rosa that Richard had abused herself, but fortunately, now she had found evidence of Richard's infidelity and was ready to divorce and fight for custody of the children. According to the investigation Helen through the private detective has mastered the favorable evidence of Richard's infidelity, this private detective can also prove. Later, the police found another person, that is, Helen's lawyer. The lawyer proved that Helen had previously consulted about the divorce.
All these doubts add up, and it's hard not to think about where Helen is now? But because Helen was born and did not see people, she did not see corpses. Due to the law in the United States, Helen is only missing, and it is not easy to investigate Richard, only to question him. Of course, the police did not believe what the husband said, so they called for a lie detector, intending to make the man's lies self-defeating.
Unexpectedly, however, when the police used a lie detector against him, it showed that Richard was not lying. At this time, the police also panicked, and did not find anyone to check, but now they proved that the husband was not lying. But as Helen's disappearance has gotten bigger and bigger, Helen's colleagues and nannies have banded together to demand that the police find Helen. The police were now in a dilemma, so they had to hire a Chinese detective, Dr. Lee Chang-yu.
We may have seen Dr. Li Changyu through "Challenge the Impossible", but we don't know the real strength of Dr. Li Changyu. Li Changyu was hailed by the U.S. police as the king of the scene, the modern Sherlock Holmes. Because Li Changyu first set a precedent for convicting criminals with criminal evidence, it can be said that the CSI forensics of American dramas have all been used by him as the ancestor. Dr. Lee Chang-yuk was the first Chinese chief to hold the highest position in the state-level police force. He was involved in cracking the Kennedy assassination, 9/11, the Clinton scandal, and more. So with the arrival of Li Changyu, the police restarted the investigation.
After Li Changyu arrived, he did not rush to solve the case first, but did some investigation, first to find out what Was going on in Richard's lie detector test. Later, after investigation, it turned out that this Richard had been a member of the CIA before becoming a pilot and had also participated in a series of major operations. For those of them who have experience working as CIA agents, lie detectors are of little use to them.
In fact, Dr. Li Changyu can also do it, everyone is interested in watching an episode of CCTV's "Challenging the Impossible", that program invited a very powerful mind-reading expert, but in the end was deceived by Dr. Li Changyu. Without further ado here, we will return to the facts of the case.
So Dr. Lee Chang-yu formulated a policy that he did not intend to interrogate Richard again, but was ready to speak with substantial evidence. It was December 25, 1986, and Richard was out with the kids for Christmas. Dr. Lee applied for a search warrant and conducted a carpet search of Richard's home.
Li Changyu's search method is also different, he first found the photos in the previous home to compare with the scene, and restored the placement of items in the room. There has been no change in the living room kitchen and other places, combined with the testimony of the nanny, indicating that the first scene should be the bedroom. Unfortunately, the bedroom furnishings have changed, but there are no photos of their home that can be referenced. So the police found Rosa, who had helped Helen decorate the bedroom together.
Rosa led the police to restore the bedroom furnishings, and after comparing the towels and sheets, it was found that blood was indeed found on these items. Later, 7 splatters of blood were also found in the corner of the mattress. These few drops of blood either penetrated the fabric of the mattress and were not easy to wash off, or they would not even have these. However, this only shows that Helen is indeed injured, and does not prove that Helen is dead.
Now that the priority was to find Helen's body, Li Changyu began to think about where the body would be. Rosa then recalls that Richard had bought a large freezer a few months earlier, big enough to fit a person, but now it was missing. So the police began to search the freezer, trying to find the freezer in the garbage heap near Richard's house, but to no avail. So the police brought in infrared cameras and aerial photographic equipment, ready to find out which piece of land in Richard's backyard had a place to rot and dissipate heat or where the grass was more lush, but they did not find it.
Although he always found nothing, Li Changyu did not give up, but began to visit and investigate. He believed that in just one short day, Richard would definitely meet someone if he wanted to deal with the scene. Finally, the effort paid off, and the police met a snowplow driver.
The driver recalled that it was 3:30 a.m. on November 20, and he was driving a snow shovel on the road because he had to clear the snow before dawn and he had to work in the early morning. And at this time, there will be no vehicles passing by. But on this day, he saw a man driving a small truck towing a wood crusher.
So he greeted him and said, "Hello, what are you doing so early?" It was originally a simple greeting, but the other party replied angrily: "Shut up your ass, bastard, get out of the way." Finally, he also drew a middle finger to the driver, because it was the eve of Thanksgiving, and the driver did not want to be unhappy, but he was impressed by this.
At this time, the police were overjoyed and quickly pulled out a photo of Richard for the driver to identify. The driver quickly recognized Richard, and the police then asked him if he remembered where the car had gone. The driver replied that he was walking along the river, so everyone set the riverside as the scene of the dumping of the body.
When you think of the wood crusher, it is self-evident. So Li Changyu selected a number of open spaces by the river that could accommodate trucks and wood crushers as search locations. Then began the tedious work of melting snow and searching for corpses, and Dr. Li Changyu found hundreds of people to work at the same time, screening them one by one. At the same time, Li Changyu began to search for the whereabouts of the wood crusher, because the snowplow driver described the wood crusher as a large one rather than used by ordinary families.
Through the investigation of the rental business of the wood crusher, the police soon returned the news that there was really a person who rented a wood crusher on November 15. The owner is also very puzzled, generally on the eve of Thanksgiving is the off-season for leasing, and there are few people to rent. And when the man returned, the machine was cleaned. Although the police did not find a useful clue on the broken wood, it can be determined that Richard rented it.
Three weeks later, good news came from the team salvaging the snow by the lake. In the river, they found a tooth, 56 broken bones, 2660 broken hair, a pair of dentures, a piece of blue fiber, a finger coated with red nail polish, a piece of shredded paper, and a piece of underwear fiber.
The police took 360 comprehensive photos of this tooth alone, and finally compared it with Helen's dental tablets left by the dentist, confirming that the tooth was Helen's. The 56 pieces of broken bone are only a quarter the size of normal bones, and they are all of different shapes, which match the knife edge of the wood crusher. Dentures were also confirmed by dentists, the same ones he had given to Helen.
The blue fibers confirmed from the nanny that they were the same color as Helen's pajamas, and the nail polish on the finger coated with red nail polish was the same as the composition of the nail polish found in Helen's home, and it was confirmed that it was from the same bottle of nail polish. Words such as "Helen" and "Traftz" (Richard's last name) loomed on a piece of shredded paper. A piece of underwear fiber also proved to belong to Helen.
Don't look at the many human tissues that have been salvaged, but these only account for one-tenth of the human body, and the only thing that can be proved is that these are the parts that the human body cannot be missing. In other words, the human body cannot survive without these parts, and these human tissues come from Helen. Immediately after that, the police salvaged a chainsaw from the bottom of the river.
However, the number of this chainsaw has been polished, fortunately, Li Changyu is doing criminal forensic work, and he thought of restoring the chainsaw number by electrolyte reduction. Through the seller directly found out, this chainsaw is Richard's. Later, after interrogation, Richard had already planned to kill his wife and was ready to live with his lover. He mentioned renting a wood crusher and buying a freezer, and after killing his wife on the day of the crime, he hid the body in the freezer. Later, the body was decomposed with a wood crusher, and in the river of abandonment, the chainsaw erased the number and discarded. Finally, he returned home and cleaned up the scene with the nanny and family.
At this point, the human evidence and physical evidence are clear, can Richard be sued at this time? It was not enough, so Li Changyu did several more experiments, and the results of the experiment were presented to the procuratorate before the real evidence was conclusive. What experiment did Li Changyu do?
Li Changyu first took the skeleton of a pig and threw it into the wood crusher, and the fragments produced were compared with the bones of Helen that were salvaged, and the scratches were the same as the cuts. Later, he cut long hair from his daughter's hair and threw it into a wood crusher, and the hair breaks the same tensile marks as 2660 hairs. And Dr. Li Changyu recorded the whole process and submitted it to the court, and finally handled the case as an iron case. Eventually Richard was convicted and sentenced to 50 years in prison.
At this point, this sensational wood crushing machine wife murder case has come to an end, which is also the case of Dr. Li Changyu's fame. Dr. Li Changyu then established the best forensic laboratory in the United States, and he also created a history of scientific forensics.