Over the past decade or so, Yang Guixi had been a minor star in his circle. He sold shoes, ran marathons, became a coach and collected disciples, and even accepted an interview with a local TV reporter. Some people lamented, "How can I not expect to be around to hide a murderer, this is a latent time bomb ah."
Yang Guixi was interviewed by a local TV station. Picture from video screenshot.
Yang Guixi, the 54-year-old owner of a sporting goods store in Yingkou City's Mackerel Circle district, was pounced on and handcuffed by several men who came to "buy shoes. A few minutes ago, a few strange men to buy shoes, opening is 100 pairs. Zhang Xia (a pseudonym), the boss's wife, saw Yang Guixi heard from the inside room came out, and suddenly was controlled by a few people. Zhang Xia froze on the side, only to hear a "police".
At that time, Liu He, the owner of the restaurant next door (a pseudonym), saw a group of people gathered in front of his neighbor's door, and not long after, a man was pushed out: his head was covered with a black hood, and his hands were handcuffed behind his back.
Liu He instantly recognized Yang Guixi, who was still wearing the black leggings he usually wears to the gym. He was pushed into the car, Liao B, a Dalian license plate number.
On Nov. 1, the Dalian Municipal Public Security Bureau's official micro-signal "Dalian Public Security" released an article saying that between 1994 and 1995, Yang Guixi had raped and killed four women in a row in Zhuanghe, Dalian, and confessed to the crime.
Yang Guixi's arrest in the mackerel circle of the "horse" circle caused a shock. In the past ten years, Yang Guixi was a well-known star in the circle. He sold shoes, ran marathons, coaching disciples, and even accepted an interview with a local TV reporter. Some people lamented, "How can I not expect to be around to hide a murderer, this is a latent time bomb ah."
And in Zhuanghe, 130 kilometers away, most people have no memory of the series of tragedies more than 20 years ago, a generation grew up, a generation of old people, the city's rapid development of the footsteps of the nineties quickly left behind the fear of the dust.
Zhuanghe murder past
Early November, Yang Guixi net news broadcast in Liaoning station's evening news program, 72-year-old Zhuanghe people Lao Xu and his partner sitting at home watching TV, each other lamented a few words "too inhuman", turn off the TV and go to sleep.
Lao Xu was not immediately on the number, one of the four women killed 23 years ago, is his workshop girl Xiao-Zhong.
In 1995, Lao Xu was working at the Dalian Velvet Weaving and Printing and Dyeing Factory. He was the secretary of the weaving workshop, and Xiao Zhong was a workshop worker, 31 years old that year, responsible for loading the weft and assisting the weavers in weaving.
Dalian Fleece Weaving and Dyeing Factory was the largest factory in Zhuanghe at the time, housing more than 2,000 employees, referred to by the locals as the "Cotton Weaving Factory", is a state-run unit that is crowded. In the various sub-factories, the weaving sub-factory is the largest, with more than half of the employees; in the weaving sub-factory, the weaving workshop is the most important, with nearly 500 workers.
Small Zhong belonged to the ordinary majority, with an average job, an average look, an average figure, and almost hardly remembered by name if not for the accident.
On Sept. 2 of that year, Xiaozhong worked the night shift, which began at 4 p.m. and ended at 12 midnight. The three shifts were relatively hard work, and many city girls didn't want to do it, so they recruited temporary workers from the countryside, who were "willing to work hard and not lazy".
Smaller Zhang rents a bungalow about 1.5 kilometers from the factory, where her family lives together and has a child of eight or nine years old.
The family building of the cotton weaving factory, where Xiao Zhong, one of the victims, had rented a room nearby that year. New Beijing News reporter Wang Shuangxing photo
The tragedy happened on the way home from work. There were no witnesses, and people only knew that early the next morning, someone found Xiaozhong's body in a sorghum field, which was a necessary route to the factory, a dirt road with no lights, and crops growing taller than people.
The news spread quickly through the factory. The factory had never been in trouble before, and it was a peaceful place; after Xiaozhong's murder, there was a lot of panic, and "those who worked the night shift didn't go away, and they looked for a place to cat in the factory until dawn."
Lao Xu did not know is that the death of Xiaozhong is not a lone case, in August 13, 1994, August 3, 1995 and November 1, 21-year-old girl Yu, 18-year-old hotel waiter Zhang and 20-year-old college student Yu was raped and killed one after another.
Citizen Lao Wu remembers that there were a lot of rumors at the time, and it was hard to tell what was true from what was false. Some people speculated that the victims' fiancées had committed the crime, or that they had made some kind of enemy outside.
Lao Wu retired from the army in 1978 and went to work in the defense section of Zhuanghe Agricultural Machinery Factory. "We all know that someone was killed, but we can't figure out why. At that time, not to mention female comrades, male comrades were afraid."
The whole of Zhuanghe was shrouded in gloom. Wu will repeatedly tell his lover before going out to work, no matter who comes knocking on the door are not allowed to open; parents are instructing their children, after school in addition to the parents of other people who come to collect are not allowed to go; the school's end of the class time was advanced, not allowed to be released after dark, and the traffic team will be sent in front of the school to escort the students; the radio is also broadcast from time to time: commuting to and from work, to and from school to pay attention to the safety of as far as possible, do not travel alone! ......
The place where Xiaozhong's body was found is now a sorghum field repaired into a road, a cotton mill turned into a new neighborhood, and a public toilet near the crime site was demolished.
23 years later, the Dalian Daily published the news of the arrest of serial killer suspect Yang Guixi, Lao Xu pointed to the newspaper, "Zhong, 31 years old," and kept repeating: "It's this one, it's this one, from our workshop."
Reading to the suspect information, aside from the old companion patting his leg: "Oh my God, is the TV broadcast that, lean, tall, in the Spanish mackerel selling sporting goods, but also run a marathon it."
Mackerel Dragon
Zhang Xia also used to be Zhuanghe cotton weaving factory workers, three shifts, busy with work, and boyfriends do not often meet.
Her boyfriend is Yang Guixi.
Zhang Xia recalls that she and Yang Guixi met in 1994, because both people like fitness, came together.
Zhang Xia said, Yang Guixi had a previous marriage, but also had been sentenced to imprisonment, according to her understanding, was in 1987 in his hometown of Jilin, Baicheng, Yang Guixi because of the robbery was imprisoned in 1991, released on medical parole. But she "does not ask about his past, as long as the future good life on the line".
According to police reports, between 1994 and 1995, Yang Guixi frequently committed crimes. Zhang Xia said she did not find anything unusual about Yang Guixi. She recalled that during that time, she worked in the cotton factory, Yang Guixi moved around Zhuanghe selling goods, selling red beans, also sold apples, but are not very profitable.
Yang Guixi's younger brother Yang Guichang (a pseudonym) told the Beijing News reporter, I can not remember is nine years, Yang Guixi secretly left home, no one knows where he went. Yang's family has nine brothers and sisters, Yang Guixi ranked the fourth, in the subsequent two decades, he had little contact with his family.
Zhang Xia said, in 1996, her factory "yellow", himself and Yang Guixi together left Zhuanghe, to work in Haicheng, etc. In 2004, the CBA Liaoning team's home in the mackerel, Yang Guixi like basketball, the two went to the mackerel to watch the game, and then stayed there.
From the map, the Liaodong Peninsula like a sword into the Yellow Bohai Sea, and Yingkou and Zhuanghe are located at both ends of the blade, one east and one west, each near the sea.
There is no train from Zhuanghe to Yingkou Mackerel, only a bus. Every morning at seven o'clock, the blue bus left the mackerel circle, facing the sun towards the east, along the winding mountain road traveling 130 kilometers or so, arrived at Zhuanghe; 1:00 p.m., and then from the Zhuanghe back, towards the west, still facing the sun, panting back to the mackerel circle.
In Mackerel, outsiders like Yang Guixi are not rare. Here was originally a small fishing village, became a precinct of Yingkou City in 1984, set up a national economic and technological development zone in 1992. The young port city has grown rapidly, with foreigners taking root along with new buildings, and locals estimate that the total number of outsiders even exceeds the number of locals in Mackerel.
In order to make a living, Yang Guixi and Zhang Xia resold CBA tickets and did melon seeds and seafood business until May 2016, when they had their own store selling sporting goods
Yang Guixi and Zhang Xia operated a sporting goods store. on November 5, the store was closed. New Beijing News reporter Wang Shuangxing took photos?
The store is a neighborhood basement, not far from the Mackerel Century Plaza, near the street, sandwiched between a slew of stores, vegetable stores and pharmacies, with an annual rent of 13,000 yuan, and a 65.5-square-meter space partitioned into several pieces to be used as a store, a bedroom and a kitchen, respectively.
After Yang Guixi's arrest, people were naturally reminded of the "Baiyin murder case" two years ago: serial killings, brutal methods, the suspect has been at large for more than 20 years, and the police eventually relied on scientific and technological power to find the suspect. Some media even referred to Yang Guixi's case as the "Dalian version of the 'Silver Case'". But unlike the hidden life of Gao Chengyong, a suspect in the silver case, Yang Guixi is much more high-profile.
People know very little about his past, and those who are familiar with him know that he is from Jilin, and more people don't even know his real name. But when it comes to "Dragon", almost everyone you meet at Century Square knows it.
Zhang Xia recalled that when Yang Guixi first arrived at the mackerel circle, he had long hair and a lean body with pectoral muscles. Yang thought he looked like Bruce Lee, but also to "Bruce Lee" self-proclaimed, over time, people began to call him "Dragon".
He likes long-distance running and has participated in marathons in Harbin, Beijing, Qinhuangdao, Panjin and other places, and posted certificates and photos online.
On the Internet, you can also find some information about Yang Guixi, such as he was awarded the first place in the 5000 meters of the men's group in the township of Haicheng City's fourth National Games in 2004, and in the Panjin Marathon in 2015, he had a halfway record of 1 hour, 45 minutes and 51 seconds.
In 2015, Yang Guixi announced the establishment of training courses in Qzone, calling himself the chief coach Bruce Lee, and the training included basketball, long-distance running, martial arts, sparring, and women's self-defense.
That same year, he became active on social media, posting several updates almost every day, including marathon notices, running photos and more. In social media, he is known as chief coach Bruce Lee, a national-level social sports instructor, a marathon enthusiast, and an organizer of the Mackerel Long Distance Running Club.
Every morning at 6 a.m., Yang Guixi appears on Century Square, his soft green tracksuit standing out in the crowd. He has five or six members, we often train together, they will hold up a red flag with the word "Dragon" written on it, and run in a circle on the square. Yang Guixi whistled as he ran, and sometimes lifted his cell phone to take small videos to send to his friends.
On June 1, 2018, before the opening of the Mackerel International Marathon, Yang Guixi also appeared in the local TV news program, where he was introduced as a "national level coach and professional middle-distance runner, who settled in Mackerel after his retirement in 2004". He accepted the interview as a marathon enthusiast, running technique importer: "Whether I run or not, all the technology I will unreservedly pass on (pass on) to everyone, not to say that you have to have a big achievement, so that they can have the spirit of the marathon, can transcend themselves, to improve themselves, and to reach their own potential to dig out, which is what I should do coach. "
June 3, the day of the marathon, Yang Guixi accepted an interview with reporters, but also posted a group photo to the microblogging.
Eccentric "double-faced"
Early winter in Liaoning, the ginkgo trees fall a golden yellow. Every night, mackerel circle century square corner, scattered around the square dance, shuttlecock, practice tai chi citizens, the most conspicuous are four "walk" team, that is the spontaneous organization of the "happy walking" activities, each team of more than two hundred people, 19:00, music, thousands of people. At 19:00, the music started, thousands of people began to march in rhythmic steps, occupying most of the space in the square.
Before the net, Yang Guixi is also a member of the team, he belongs to the "outdoor hiking red team", in the impression of teammates, he is enthusiastic, and often help to organize the team to gather, and occasionally responsible for pulling the sound.
Yang Guixi and his teammates, fourth from left, pose for a photo. Image from Yang Guixi's microblog
Teammate Wang Wei (a pseudonym) said Yang Guixi was active in the square, mainly to sell shoes. At first, he would put out his sneakers before walking and put them away when people started walking. Later, business slowly took off, he turned the "stall" into a "sales pitch", walking a few laps every day down, take a stack of business cards to start sending around. Yang Guixi voice high, can talk, "my shoes good, comfortable, but also inexpensive", many people on the square have bought shoes in his place.
"Buy whose shoes are also buy, and his wife has a heart condition, sickly all day, quite poor, people are taking care of his business." Wang Wei said. The blue sneakers he was wearing on his feet were bought from Yang Guixi, 200 yuan, and worn for two years.
A runner who is familiar with Yang Guixi said, Yang Guixi is flamboyant, staggering, happy to show himself, hoping to get everyone's attention, and loves to brag about how many competitions he has participated in, how many apprentices he has taken, and how many kilometers he runs every day. After the news of the fall, he speculated, "He may be using this method to cover up the kind of emptiness in his heart."
Some people also felt that Yang Guixi was warm and enthusiastic. Sometimes, when Yang Guixi saw people running in the square, he took the initiative to go over to "teach skills", such as how to protect their knees, how to adjust their breathing, and what position to use to run is not easy to get tired.
But in Zhang Xia's eyes, Yang Guixi has two faces. Outside, she is enthusiastic and optimistic to outsiders, but when she comes home, she reveals her eccentric side.
Zhang Xia said Yang Guixi was born in 1964, nine years older than himself. She thought her older husband would be a pain in the ass, but "he never loved me". Yang Guixi bad temper, love to get angry, "not a little bit of small things he also angry, sometimes dinner is not allowed to talk, sometimes the dishes do not like to eat immediately change face, for no reason inexplicable."
Zhang Xia's biggest and most beautiful vision of married life is: two people together from work, cooking together, washing dishes together, walking together, together, but these Yang Guixi will not do with her.
"I'm a little bit not like a family with him, there is no sense of that kind of kinship, he is very warm to others outside, but back home to me on a different face."
Liu He, the owner of the restaurant next door, has seen Zhang Xia sitting by the small square behind her house crying more than once.
Mackerel Century Square. Photo by Wang Shuangxing, Xinjing Newspaper
Liu He has also seen Yang Guixi when he is short-tempered. "Once he took a 15- or 16-year-old kid to train, and because the kid remembered his shoelaces wrong, he stood there and cursed for half a day." Liu He said, "Sometimes after elementary school, kids were playing in the neighborhood, and when the commotion got too loud, he yelled at them to 'hurry up and get out of here'."
In Liu He's eyes, Yang Guixi likes to talk to the opposite sex, in the public **** occasion to talk about women's physiological period, once, a girl in her 20s in and Liu He's wife complained about gossip, on the road when he met Yang Guixi, the other words frivolous: "old girl you look quite beautiful." Liu He said Yang Guixi is 54 years old, older than the girl's father.
"Unsolved cases" solved
The city limits are expanding in circles, with new buildings opening up and the public security bureau and government moving to new locations. The cotton mill where the murdered woman worked was razed to the ground, and a new neighborhood called Oriental Waterfront was built, with European-style roofs and bright windows.
23 years, a generation old time. Zhuanghe City Public Security Bureau of the case of the police a crop of police change, many people have been transferred or even retired; criminal police brigade has changed five captain, but in the Public Security Bureau, this "unsolved case" is also like a baton as a baton to pass, the police have not given up the efforts to detect.
Lao Xu recalled that last spring, there are police to the cotton factory family building to find him, to understand the situation. The other said, "(The case) is a bit of a headache now."
According to an article released by the Dalian police, on Aug. 13, 1994, after the first case, the police found a deformed fingerprint, which was left by the suspect, during the scene investigation. Subsequently, the police relied on this fingerprint to investigate and visit the scene, has mapped and compared more than 5,000 people, but has never been able to find suspicious traces.
The following year, 18-year-old hotel waitress, 31-year-old textile worker Zhongmou, 20-year-old college student Yumou was raped and killed one after another. The police concluded that the four cases were committed by the same suspect, based on an analysis of the suspect's targets, modus operandi and characteristics of the crime, as well as an examination of relevant physical evidence. But because of the limited clues to identify and expose the suspects, the case has never made a breakthrough.
In the Ministry of Public Security organization of the fingerprints of the murder case focused on comparing the special action, the municipal public security bureau of the criminal investigation detachment police will be 23 years ago Zhuanghe murder scene extracted deformation fingerprints to recalibrate, corrections, from the nationwide screening. 8 October, to get the important clues: Yingkou City, Mackerel District, a sporting goods store owner Yang Mou has a major suspected of the crime. Yangmou after the arrival of the police extracted biological evidence of Yangmou, confirming that he was the year of the suspect.
During the interrogation, Yang initially pleaded his innocence, but eventually confessed to the crime of raping and killing four women in a row during his work in Zhuanghe City from Baicheng City, Jilin Province, in 1993.
Zhang Xia said that after 24 years together, the two never got a license. "At first he said his ID card expired and never went back home to do it."
After Yang Guixi's arrest, Zhang Xia found it difficult to support the store by herself, so she printed "Clearance Sale" on octavo paper and pasted it on the glass at the door.
Zhang Xia returned to her rented house to clean up the trash, and the store would be sublet the next day. In less than a month, she lost ten pounds.
Not long ago, Zhang Xia received a phone call from Yang Guixi, with few words and a calm voice, telling her, "Discard the store." Yang's friend on the trekking team also received a call from him, saying, "Take care of your sister-in-law, Long folded."
The Century Square in Mackerel, the hiking team's stereo rings as usual at 7 o'clock in the evening, and the sneakers that everyone bought from Yang Guixi are hidden in the crowd.
It's winter, and the wind is pouring into my clothes. In the WeChat group, there are still people sending messages related to Yang Guixi. The link to click on, is a video of him identifying the scene, Yang Guixi wearing tight sweatpants that he did not have time to change when he was taken away, frowning, reaching out and pointing to the cornfield on the side of the road ......