After the end of the air-raid shelter dump case, Jiang Chen and I finally rested for two days, today at noon the city bureau called again, a remote village has another murder, and it happened that this time Jiang Chen has to go out on other tasks, this time I cooperated with Officer Miao, 16:30 I arrived at the scene of the crime, the house in front of me is backed by the mountain, in the most remote part of the village, there is only a neighbor nearby. I saw Officer Miao standing at the gate of the courtyard, who was leading a team to investigate the scene. Next to Officer Miao stood a yellow-skinned, shabby woman with a calm expression, who only glanced up when she saw me coming, and her eyes were dead silence that I couldn't understand. Officer Miao and I entered the house, the dilapidated room was a little dirty, and there were still leftovers on the table in the middle of the hall. There was a man lying on the bed in the back room, and the sheets under the man were soaked in red blood. There were blood stains on the bed in the room, a bloody apron, and a blood-stained kitchen knife. The blade of the kitchen knife was broken, and it was preliminarily identified as the murder weapon, and there were traces of struggle on the bed. In the center of the room was a table of unfinished meals, liquor, two sets of used cutlery, and three wine glasses. In addition to the fingerprints of the deceased and his daughter Li Meimei, multiple sets of fingerprints were extracted from the murder weapon, wine glasses, and tableware at the scene. There is a mobile phone on the cabinet, and the call record shows that this is the mobile phone used by Li Meimei to call the police. Blood traces were found in the kitchen sink, which were left by the suspected killer after cleaning up the scene. Based on the bloodstains at the scene, it is speculated that this house was the first crime scene, and the body was not moved. The deceased, Li Daqiang, male, 50 years old, was the head of the family, widowed, a villager in Baijia Village, and worked as a farmer.

Officer Miao asked Li Meimei: "What is your relationship with the deceased?" ”

Li Meimei replied: "He is my father." ”

Officer Miao then asked, "Your age?" ”

Li Meimei said: "23 years old. ”

Officer Miao asked again, "How did you find the deceased?" ”

Li Meimei said: "Today he asked his next-door neighbor, Old Man Chen, to drink, and after cooking, I went to Sister Xiaofang's house to sew clothes together." Around three o'clock in the afternoon, I saw Old Man Chen coming home drunk, and I thought they should have finished eating and went home. When I got home, I found my father lying in a pool of blood. ”

Li Meimei seemed very calm when answering the question, without the slightest sadness or nervousness, and I couldn't help frowning.

I asked, "Are the black aprons and kitchen knives at the scene your own?" ”

Li Meimei replied to me: "It belongs to my family, and he wears an apron when he feeds the chickens and works, and usually hangs it in the kitchen." This kitchen knife was newly bought by my father two days ago, and today Sister Xiaofang came to my house to help cook, and she just took it out and used it. ”

I asked her, "Is there anyone else in the family besides you and your father?" ”

She said she had two younger brothers, and when I asked her how old they were, she said, "Both are in preschool, one is 6 and the other is 4. ”

Officer Miao contacted the Public Security Bureau to obtain Li Daqiang's household registration file, and found that Li Daqiang's household registration book showed that he was widowed, and that he and his wife were married in 2005, and his wife confirmed that he was dead in 2006, and he did not remarry after that. The time of the marriage is normal and does not seem to be relevant to this case. Li Daqiang's wife died 15 years ago, Li Jian was 6 years old and Li Kang was 4 years old. How could his wife, who died 15 years ago, leave Li Daqiang with two such young sons?

Li Meimei said that the three of them were all adopted by Li Daqiang, and that Baijia Village is located in a remote area, and there is no direct vehicle to enter the city, so you need to walk or drive to the next village to have a bus. In addition, the situation of overbirth is serious, and many villagers are reluctant to report their children, in this case, many "black households" were born. Li Meimei is young, but she doesn't cry or be afraid in the face of a corpse, and she is even surprisingly calm. As the first discoverer, she has a certain suspicion, but I can't think of what her motive is if she is the murderer. Li Daqiang's death was between 2:30 and 3 p.m. According to Li Meimei, Old Man Chen had been drinking with the deceased before the crime, and this man was an important suspect. Officer Miao used the village committee as a temporary case handling point and brought the important suspect Chen Lao Tou for interrogation. Old man Chen had just woken up after being drunk, and he was still confused when he was called to the village committee. He is 50 years old, also a farmer, grows peaches for a living, and has a 7-year-old son with his wife, Xiaofang.

I asked Old Man Chen: "You had dinner with Li Daqiang today, right, do you remember what time you returned to your house in the afternoon?" ”

Old man Chen said, "It's about three o'clock." I remember coming home when my wife accidentally pressed the digital watch and I heard the time chime. ”

Officer Miao asked again: "Li Daqiang died at home, the time of death was before you arrived home, we found the suspect's fingerprints on the murder weapon left at the scene, and now we need your cooperation."

Sampling and verification. ”

Old man Chen looked at us in surprise and said, "Dead? How is it possible, I was fine when I left, what kind of picking, you won't suspect that I killed it, right? ”

Officer Miao said again with a straight face, "Please cooperate with the investigation." ”

As the person who drank at the same table with the deceased before the crime, Old Man Chen was seriously suspected, but his behavior of sleeping calmly after the murder was unreasonable, and while waiting for the results of the investigation, we went to his home and conducted a search. Old man Chen's wife, Xiao Fang, was a timid and thin woman, and I noticed that there seemed to be a faint slap mark on her face. During the police search, she reluctantly stood aside. I saw an electronic watch on the cabinet in her house that chimes the time at the touch of a button. We also found a kitchen knife in the kitchen that was the same as the murder weapon at the scene. What's even more strange is that there are no other babies in Old Man Chen's house except for a 7-year-old boy, but we found a few baby girl clothes in the closet. The woman looked at the small clothes that had been rummaged through, her face was sad, and when I looked over, she hurriedly hid her expression, and when she raised her hand, I noticed that there were bruises of different shades on the woman's arms. After the investigation, we took Xiaofang to the village committee for an investigation. Officer Miao took Xiaofang into the village committee, and the old man Chen, who was being guarded, suddenly became emotional and wanted to rush out and take away his wife, but the police officer in the house quickly pressed the old man Chen on the table and stopped his movements, he yelled: "What can she know as a woman!" Don't ask her! She's got to work! I didn't kill people, don't waste my time! Old man Chen had a terrifying expression and glared fiercely at his wife at the door, while Xiao Fang was also frightened and hid behind me, and the abnormal behavior of the two made the police vigilant. When Xiaofang was brought into the next room for questioning, she relaxed a lot, and I said to her: "There is no one else present now, you don't have to be afraid, I just called you to cooperate with the investigation." She said, "Well..."

I said, "Tell me about noon today." ”

Xiaofang began to think and said: "Today I went to Meimei's house to help cook, the men of our two families were going to drink together, after cooking, Li Meimei and I gossiped at my house, about three o'clock when my husband came back, Meimei saw him come back and left, but it didn't take long for the police to suddenly come, and I knew that something was wrong." ”

I asked, "When did you and your husband get married?" ”

She replied to me, "Twelve years ago, in the summer of '09, my husband was in the village to set up a banquet. ”

Xiao Fang thought for a moment, and as she did, her eyes turned to the upper left, as if she was reminiscing. After investigation, it was confirmed that the marriage certificate of Xiaofang and Old Man Chen showed that the two were indeed married in 2009. I asked her how Li Meimei was adopted, and she said: "I heard from the people in the village that Li Meimei was lost when she was a child and came to our village, so Li Daqiang took her home to raise her." As Xiao Fang spoke, her fingers tugged at her clothes, and her eyes turned to the upper right. At this time, Officer Miao entered the house with the fingerprint comparison results, in addition to the fingerprints of the deceased and the deceased's daughter Li Meimei, the fingerprints of Old Man Chen and Xiao Fang were tested on the murder weapon, and the fingerprints of Old Man Chen were also found on a set of tableware and wine glasses at the scene, and there was a third wine glass at the scene, but the fingerprints on it did not match any of the people who had been investigated.

Officer Miao asked, "What's the matter with your fingerprints on the murder weapon left at the scene?" Xiaofang said that it should have been left when she went to help cook, and Officer Miao asked: "You were in the yard next door at the time of the crime, did you hear any noise, such as quarrels or screams?" She hesitated for a moment and said, "I was chatting with Li Meimei in the house, and I didn't pay much attention." I said to her with a serious face: "I hope you can understand that if your confession is false, it is a crime and you will be held legally responsible." She went so far as to say: "I know that perjury is punishable by up to three years in prison, and if the circumstances are serious, it is punishable by between three and seven years." I... I've been to school before, and I've seen it on TV. I looked at Xiaofang's determined expression, why is a rural woman so familiar with legal punishment? Is it really as simple as seeing her serious nostalgia on TV? Two people drink but put three wine glasses, the neighbor's house actually has the same kitchen knife as the murder weapon, and there are many fingerprints on the murder weapon, as the daughter of the deceased, she is unusually indifferent, and the clues are complicated, who is the real murderer who killed Li Daqiang? As I pondered, the police brought another important suspect into the village council. By investigating the call records of the deceased, before calling the police, Li Daqiang had two call records with another person, at 11:55 and 12:50. This number belongs to Zhao Li, a villager in this village, and according to Li Meimei, this person is very good with Old Man Chen and Li Daqiang.

Officer Miao asked, "Hello, you are Zhao Li, right?" What is your relationship with Li Daqiang? ”

Zhao Li said: "Li Daqiang often comes to my shop to buy things, and he is an old acquaintance. ”

Officer Miao asked again: "Why did you call Li Daqiang twice at 11:55 and 12:50 today?" Zhao Li said that she was asking Li Daqiang how he was doing, and chatting casually for a while. I asked her where she was today from 12:00 to 15:00 and she said she was at the commissary all the time. After verification, Zhao Li's fingerprints matched the fingerprints on the third cup at the scene of the crime, and the police also found that Zhao Li's mobile phone frequently contacted some unsigned foreign numbers.

Officer Miao asked: "Li Daqiang was killed after drinking at noon today, and the fingerprints on a cup on the wine table match yours, how do you explain it?" ”

Zhao Li said, "What? He's dead? When I left, I had a good drink with Old Man Chen. ”

Lies are lies, and who is telling the truth. Li Daqiang and Old Man Chen were drinking, Zhao Li was present, why did Old Man Chen and Zhao Li hide this, and what were the ulterior secrets between them?

I said, "Didn't you say that you were in a small shop, why did you go to Li Daqiang's house again, when did you leave?" Who was in the house at the time? Please tell us the truth! ”

Zhao Li said: "I ...... It's not good for me to drink with two old men as a woman, so I said I didn't go. I went there at about one o'clock, sat there for a while, drank a small half glass and left, and when I left, they were still drinking, and there was no one else. ”

I asked, "Why are you going to them for a drink?" ”

Zhao Li said: "Old man Chen is very happy to make a lot of money and wants to celebrate. We have a good relationship, so we invited me to join us. ”

Old man Chen said that he drank happily because he "made a lot of money", and old man Chen made a living by growing peaches, and the ripening season of peaches was from June to September, and April was not the ripening season for peaches, so his large income seemed to have another source. After questioning Zhao Li, I investigated other foreign numbers in Zhao Li's mobile phone, and compared the recent incomes of Zhao Li, Chen Laotou and Li Daqiang, and found that the three of them had multiple capital incomes synchronized, coupled with Zhao Li's concealed attitude, I speculated that the three of them may have illegal transactions. What's even more suspicious is that Zhao Li has had a deposit record of 1-30,000 yuan every 2-3 months in the past ten years, and the source of funds is unknown, which does not belong to the money exchange between the purchase and sale of goods in the commissary. And Old Man Chen happened to deposit 50,000 yuan into the card the day before the case. Old man Chen's windfall, Zhao Li's unknown income, and old man Chen's baby clothes, these clues are connected together, and I have a bold idea. The police searched Zhao Li's house and found important evidence that could prove that several people trafficked children! At the bottom of the closet, there are actually a few birth certificates that have been hidden! These birth certificates are for both boys and girls, and the births are all in a small county hospital. The birth certificate is not real, but is forged by some means. Zhao Li's involvement in the forgery and trafficking of birth certificates is ironclad, and the trafficking of birth certificates is often accompanied by human trafficking! In the face of ironclad evidence, Zhao Li confessed with a miserable face that she was abducting and selling women and children as an intermediary and forging and selling birth certificates, while Li Daqiang and Old Man Chen both sold their daughters through themselves. It turned out that Zhao Li thought that the police had come to investigate the abduction and trafficking of women and children. She agreed with Li Daqiang and Old Man Chen that if the police came to ask, they must disassociate themselves from each other, which caused a situation of overlapping lies. Now Zhao Li has recognized the current situation, like a bamboo tube pouring beans, the illegal and criminal acts that have been done over the years are explained one by one, in addition to buying and selling children, fake ID cards can also be handled, and some women in the village who bought marriage to ask for ID cards are handled by her hands. In some places, poverty and remoteness limit development, and the people there are ignorant and ignorant, and they give preference to sons over girls and buy women because the village is too simple to marry a wife, and so on. I grabbed a key point from Zhao Li's confession, Li Daqiang also sold his daughter through her. Li Daqiang's wife is dead, and there are only adopted Li Meimei and Li Kang and Li Jian in the family, so who gave birth to the daughter he sold? Officer Miao took Zhao Li back to the village committee and asked the two policemen accompanying him to take her back to the police station for trial. Looking at the police car that drove away, we knew that the real murderer was right in front of us...... Just as we were about to arrest and interrogate Li Meimei and Xiaofang, the two women came to the village committee hand in hand. Li Meimei said: "I want to turn myself in, I killed Li Daqiang." On the way to the outside of the village, the tail lights of the police car disappeared little by little, and the calmness on Li Meimei's face gradually collapsed, revealing sadness and painful emotions, tears gradually slipped down her cheeks, let us listen to her story: "Seven years ago, I was abducted here and sold to Li Daqiang, I am not an adopted daughter but a bought wife, but I was still a minor at that time, for fear that outsiders would be suspicious, Li Daqiang said that it was a daughter." I tried many ways to escape, to contact my parents, but there were so many of his accomplices in the village who told him that I couldn't escape. Later, he simply locked me in the house with chains. I was tormented every day, and after I gave birth to two sons, I also thought about accepting my fate, but until I gave birth to my daughter, she was sold by the mad man in less than six months, and I couldn't help but wonder if that child would become a pathetic fertility machine in the mountains like me, and I was so sad that in the end, I made up my mind that even if I wanted to use my life, I would resist. In order to kill him, I pretended to be very well-behaved in the past six months, in exchange for a certain amount of freedom, and there were fewer injuries on my body, which could reduce my suspicion, and also had a chance to start Two days ago, Sister Xiaofang's daughter who was less than one year old was also sold by Old Man Chen, and Old Man Chen took the money and planned to have a good drink with Li Daqiang at noon today. I know this is an opportunity, as long as we use our fingerprints to blame Old Man Chen, we will have a chance to escape from here! The kitchen knife was changed in advance. I asked Sister Xiaofang to find a way to leave Old Man Chen's fingerprints on the kitchen knife in her house, so that I could use my fingerprints to blame Old Man Chen, Li Daqiang and Old Man Chen are both alcoholics, Li Daqiang will sleep when he drinks too much, that is one of the few times I can not be abused. I asked Sister Xiaofang to set the clock forward by half an hour, and pressed the time button when Old Man Chen came home, so that he could confuse the time for half an hour, and the time when he actually went home was around 14:30. I watched him lie down and fall asleep before leaving, put on the prepared apron, held a kitchen knife with Old Man Chen's fingerprints, and moved his hand. The first stab didn't kill him directly, he woke up in pain and got up to resist, but he drank too much alcohol and reacted slowly, I immediately made up a few more stabs, and he soon ran out of gas. Fortunately, Old Man Chen was asleep at this time and didn't hear it, and Sister Xiaofang wouldn't say anything even if she heard it...... It was I who instigated Sister Xiaofang, and she lied and concealed it for me. ”

Li Meimei's eyes were full of pleading, and she calmly took all the blame and saved another woman who was suffering for her life.

I said, "We will judge the specific legal liability after the investigation is clear." We also need your real information, how did you get trafficked? ”

Li Meimei said: "One night after self-study in my sophomore year of high school, a girl ran after me on the way home and said that a boy in the class was following her and wanted me to give her a while. When we came to an intersection, suddenly a van stopped and two men got down and pushed me into the car. I was brought here like this, my name is Zhang Ruolan, and my parents' name is ...... I'm still in high school. ”

Li Meimei, no, Zhang Ruolan covered her face with both hands and couldn't cry. Through the information provided by Zhang Ruolan, the police found information that matched her in the national missing persons information database.

I said, "Please trust the police, we will help you find your family, your child will make proper arrangements, and then you need to cooperate with the investigation, and we will try our best to find your daughter." ”

Xiao Fang on the other side also explained the whole story of the case to Officer Miao: "Meimei asked me to find a way to leave Old Man Chen's fingerprints, but usually he didn't go to the kitchen at all, I pretended to twist my wrist and couldn't cook, so he went unwillingly, and I couldn't escape being beaten afterwards, and then I secretly handed over the kitchen knife with Old Man Chen's fingerprints to Meimei and replaced her kitchen knife back... After cooking that day, Meimei and I went back to my house, I turned up the clock, and pretended to accidentally press the time button when Old Man Chen came back, deliberately letting him hear the time, and then set it back after he fell asleep. ”

As soon as I wanted to speak, Officer Miao said, "Why are you helping Li Meimei?" ”

Xiaofang said: "Last year I watched Meimei's daughter being sold, a few days ago, my daughter was also taken away and sold, I want to get my daughter back, she is so young, Meimei put forward an idea, although I am timid and hesitant, but I don't want to continue to live like this life anymore, so we thought of killing, we can't get out of the village, we can't contact the police, this is also a last resort." Meimei said that even if the police come and can't find out about the trafficking and Old Man Chen is arrested, we can take the opportunity to seek help from the police, at least as long as the police car takes us out of the village, we can go to the city to contact our parents. ”

I didn't expect Xiaofang to be abducted, she seemed to know that we would ask her how she was abducted, and continued without waiting for us to speak: "13 years ago, during the summer vacation of school, a man on the way home accosted me, he really didn't look like a bad person, I didn't think much about it and said what his name was, I didn't expect him to suddenly take my hand and call my wife, let me go back with him, people passing by thought it was a husband and wife who were awkward, not to mention that he could accurately say my name, and an old man and an old lady suddenly came out of the roadside, saying that it was my parents, Dragged me to the car with the man..."

Ironically, Xiaofang is a law student, so she can say exactly how many years of perjury are in prison. However, such a talented college student was imprisoned by this cannibalistic village for more than ten years. Xiaofang said that she was originally from Fujian, and she can still accurately remember the contact information of her parents for more than ten years.

Xiaofang cried and said, "I will be responsible for my actions.... Please be sure to help me find my family. And my children..."

Fortunately, the old couple did not dare to change their mobile phone number for more than ten years, and they were also waiting for news from their daughter.

Who would have thought that a murder case in this remote rural area would involve a more than ten years of abduction and trafficking. The police car drove away from Baijia Village, and I looked at the backward scenery in the rearview mirror, and finally left this resting village. There are many deep-seated reasons for the abduction and trafficking of women and children, and over the years, the state has actively carried out anti-trafficking operations, and although the number of abduction cases has been decreasing year by year, the abduction and trafficking have not completely disappeared, and the rights and interests of women and children are still trampled on and violated. Bad guys are everywhere, what we can do is to improve our awareness of anti-abduction, we can be "good", but we must also be careful of the "evil" in this world!

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The Case (END)