This crazy killing man also has a hometown and a childhood. Runanbu Township, Zhengyang County, Henan Province, is Yang Xinhai's hometown. The hometown of Huang Yong, the killer of 17 teenagers, Pingji County, is separated from Zhengyang County by the Ru River. The two places are separated by dozens of kilometers. Shangcai Xincai, where a large number of farmers contracted AIDS from selling blood, is part of the same Zhumadian city as these two counties.
If road traffic is any indication of the state of a region, any passing stranger will say it is among the poorest and most remote villages in China.
Yang Xinhai's family lives in Yangtao village in Runanbu township, which is not served by any buses. The village is only 3 kilometers away from Runanbu township, but the road is so rugged that it is difficult for an ordinary three-wheeled vehicle to travel on a sunny day.
In May 2003, a motorized tourist passing through the area described the journey from Zhengyang to Zhumadian this way: I drove almost on the ridge, very slowly, very carefully, but still could not avoid the violent bumps. Except for off-road vehicles, no vehicle can cross here smoothly, the speed of the big trucks on the road is only 20 kilometers per hour at the most, and my Charley drives slower than walking, and the road is splattered with mud just after the rain. In the evening it was hard to get to Ru Nan, I thought I had left the nightmare country road, but the county road is not much better, the road is full of puddles of mud, the vehicle is like doing a roundabout training like the front, the overloaded trucks a one by one, I'm afraid that they will be avoiding the puddles and the rollover, so we have to try to be quicker to avoid them, lest as a padded back!
The CCTV Legal Online reporter also recalled the road: Yang Xinhai lives in Zhumadian City, Zhengyang County, a place called Yang Taozhuang, which is a more populated village, the geographical location is not as remote as we initially imagined, but the process of Yang Xinhai's home is unexpectedly difficult, from the Beijing-Zhuhai high-speed road down to the Zhengyang County, a section of thirty kilometers, we walked a full four hours. We walked for four hours. According to the local people, the road has been repaired for more than two years, but it is still in a state of disarray, and in the rain of the day before, the ground slurry, so the vehicle almost can not drive.
Poverty really can't be a reason to commit crimes, but we can probably understand that Yang Xinhai always fled on foot for dozens of miles in the dark of the moon after each crime, once even wearing only a pair of shorts. This is the plains of the countryside he has been familiar with since he was a child, those dirt-flecked roads.
Yang Xinhai, who attended school until his senior year, was the most educated person in their family. From elementary school to junior high school, his schoolwork was not bad, was the top of the class, loved to draw and sing, Yang Xinhai's sister still remembers that this younger brother draws like anything, he was the family's hope at that time, in order to let him go to school, his sister dropped out of school. But high school life is obviously not pleasant. When he lived at the high school in Yufangdian Township, he was in more dire straits than the rest of his class. While his classmates brought food from home in exchange for food stamps to eat, Yang Xinhai often had to cook wild greens or just about anything else. His grades were poor, his body was thin, and he was ridiculed at school. It was even more difficult for his family to continue his education, and he used to argue with his father about it, when he could have continued his studies. One day, when Yang Xinhai sent a letter that he had no more meal tickets, his father carried two bags of wheat to give to his son to exchange for meal tickets, and when he arrived at school, the teacher told him that Yang Xinhai had not been at school for a week. The sudden departure of students from school is not uncommon here, and at the same time there are several students from the same village, the wheat harvest, these children went home to collect wheat, there is no Yang Xinhai. The children said they had gone to a coal mine in Jiaozuo to dig coal. When the companions returned to Jiaozuo, Yang Xinhai was no longer there. That year, Yang Xinhai was about 16 or 17 years old.
A year later, the family suddenly received a letter, he was in Taiyuan, cooking in a construction team, told the family not to miss, the father took a day and night train to Taiyuan to see his son, see his son's hard life, as a father can not say more words, told his son to take care of his health, and then left.
In the middle of the Yang Xinhai returned home, working in the village brick factory, Yang Xinhai's sister is 43 years old, she remembers her brother at that time, in the brick kiln, bare-chested, wearing shorts, very hard. Less than a month later, Yang Xinhai was gone.
Father saw his son again again a year later, in Guangzhou, Yang Xinhai was sheltered, wrote to his father to pick him up, his father took a longer train ride, from the shelter to pick up his son, father and son on the train home, in Xinyang station, Yang Xinhai resolutely refused to go again, this time only his father returned to Yangtao village alone.
Another year or so, no news of Yang Xinhai finally wrote home, said he was in Chengdu, a guest house, when his father rushed there, did not see him, this is the last time Yang Xinhai told his family his news, to the family, since then, Yang Xinhai really no news.
Yang Xinhai's parents, are now more than 70 years old, his father suffers from very serious bronchitis, treatment also owed hundreds of dollars, coughing when talking, feet without socks, he said they have not eaten meat for many years, their house is their own adobe thatched roof, the wall is Yang Xinhai's father in the village side of the brick kiln to pick up the broken bricks on the bricklaying, the rains to the roof covered with plastic film, the house is not only a dilapidated pinewood, but also the roof of the house, the roof of the house, the roof of the house, the house is a small house, the house is a small house. There is no decent furniture in the house except for a worn-out pine bed. Father said, this bed was made 20 years ago, he and his partner covered the quilt and mattress from that time until now. There are 10 bags of peanuts piled up across the bed. They have planted 3 acres of land, and the peanuts have not yet been harvested and sold. The old couple's bed is directly opposite the cattle pen, and as soon as you enter the house, you can smell a pungent smell of cow dung. There is only one 15-watt incandescent bulb in the house, and when there are no guests, the light will not be turned on.
In 1988, Yang Xinhai was sentenced to two years of re-education through labor in Xi'an's Baqiao Public Security Bureau for theft, and in 1991 was sentenced to one year of re-education through labor in Shijiazhuang's Chang'an Public Security Bureau for pickpocketing. 12 years later, one day, Yang's father recalled to a reporter who came to interview him about the last time he had seen Yang, "I received a notification from the police asking me to go to the identification site, and I rushed there to see from afar that he was brought out, and they didn't let me see him. He was brought out, they do not let me speak, nothing to tell me," said the father, Yang Xinhai then looked at him, said nothing.
Yang Xinhai was interrogated, said in 1991, when he was pickpocketing Shijiazhuang Municipal Public Security Bureau Changan Branch of reeducation-through-labor, a girl swore to him that she would wait for him to come back to get married. A year later, he was released just in time for the girl to marry someone else, Yang Xinhai felt that the reason why the woman did this was to make a fool of him, so that he could not hold his head up in front of people.
In 1996, the lonely Yang Xinhai ran into a woman in a remote place in the county, and the evil fire of desire was ignited at once ...... In the end, not only did the woman run away, but the tip of his tongue was bitten off a piece of it, and in order to heal his wounds, he contained a few days' worth of egg whites, and he was charged by the court with the crime of attempted rape, and spent four years in prison labor for four years (sentenced to five years and released a year early). In this way, the 28-year-old Yang Xinhai has had seven years of prison life.
These experiences slowly turned Yang Xinhai into a horrible and twisted person who had no feelings for others and especially hated women, and he began to roam the countryside, which was as poor as his hometown, picking and choosing who to kill from among people who were just like his parents and townspeople.
After his release, Yang Xinhai had partnered with others in a campaign of begging and theft. He didn't seem comfortable doing it in a partnership, and after one slip-up, he began to go solo, killing, raping, burglarizing and robbing, killing 65 people in Henan, Shandong, Anhui and Hebei between 2000 and 2003.
On the night of Sept. 19, 2000, in Guozhuang Village, a separate bungalow at the west end of the village in Chuanhui District, Zhoukou City, Henan Province, an elderly couple, similar in age to Yang Xinhai's parents, was killed, Yang Xinhai's first murder.
October 1, 2000 in Fuyang City, Anhui Province, Yingzhou District, Wangdian Town Xiao Ying village Tsubaki Zhuang, dawn after the rain stopped, people found 62-year-old woman Qi Junying and her 7-year-old grandson Zhang Yatao and 12-year-old granddaughter Zhang Yateng in the rainy night was killed in the home - Qi Junying's right temple smashed with a large hole, right jaw appeared to have been stabbed with a knife, also a hole, with teeth exposed. Xiaoya Tao's neck was stabbed, but the wound is not deep, a piece of rope straight into the flesh of his neck. Xiaoya Teng died in her own bed in the inner room, without clothes, the front of the head was smashed in the middle of a big hole. There are signs that the body was raped. This is Yang Xinhai's second murder case.
Yang Xinhai 26 murders of most of the victims with Qi Junying family similar situation, and even Yang Xinhai's own home has a few similar, remote village, remote and simple houses, no fence, or fence is very low, the door is very easy to set aside, there are little girls in the house, Yang Xinhai is always in the dead of night sneak in, with a hammer, knife or rope as the murder weapon, kill every one of the house. people, and then sexually assaulted the bodies of the women and girls, and sometimes the boys as well. Then, in the thick of the night, a bloodied Yang Xinhai often fled on foot for dozens of miles, stopping to catch his breath only when he felt safe.
When he first started killing, he too had been unable to sleep for days at a time, the sound of his victims' skulls cracking, their muffled gasps as they died, and the smell of blood had taken his breath away, but soon he became a bloodthirsty demon who would not stop.
Police officers involved in the hunt and interrogation used the term "hard-working" to describe Yang Xinhai's ability to survive in the wilderness, where he was able to roam for long periods of time in the wilderness like a wild animal, and when he was hungry, he went to the field where he had planted sweet potatoes to dig up some of the things that had been left out. When the first snow fell in 2000, Yang Xinhai found a frozen snake in the field, he dug a pit and buried the dead snake, but the evil in him was still active. And, more and more exuberant.
August 15, 2001, Luohe City, Linying County, spinning wheel Liu Village, villagers Di Zhixian (female, 42 years old), daughter Liu Feifei (14 years old), son Liu Zhitong (11 years old), a family of three were killed in their home, was a strip of blunt force on the head hit to death, died suffered a sexual assault. The modus operandi is skillful and cruel, and the target of the crime was chosen to be a farmhouse without a fence, and there were signs of a lot of rummaging at the scene.
One night in the fall of that year, Zhoukou City, Xihua County, Kanglou Township, there was a murder, no walled yard, there are two people brutally murdered.
One night in the winter of 2001, in a village southeast of the county seat of Ye County in Pingdingshan, another farmhouse with a low fence was ransacked, and 2 people sleeping in the house died.
Six months later, in the early hours of July 28, 2002, Menglou Township, Dengzhou City, Bailou Village was once again shrouded in blood. Zhang Baogian (male, 77), his wife Shang Qunying (female, 69), and granddaughters Sun Huiling (16) and Zhang Huiya (12) were killed in their home. The young victims were sexually assaulted and the interior was turned upside down.
On Oct. 22, 2002, Fan Chunhe (male, 34), a villager from Maozhai Village, Songji Township, Xiping County, and his daughter Fan Junli (6) were killed in their sleep.
On the night of Nov. 8, 2002, five more people were killed in Liuzhuang Natural Village, Gao Li Village Committee, Shao Dian Township, Shang Cai County.
In the early morning hours of Nov. 16, 2002, Zhang Guihua, 65, a woman, and her granddaughter, 14, were killed in a tragic manner in Liuzhuang Village, Zhang Shi Township, Yushi County.
On Dec. 1, 2002, a family of three in Yanwan Village, Wangpiliu Township, Luyi County, was smashed to death in their sleep with a round-like blunt object.
December 13, 2002, Yang Xinhai again in Yanling County, Ma Lan Township, Si Jia Village, two human life debt.
On the night of December 15, 2002, Li Xinde (male, 42 years old), daughter Li Yangli (12 years old), and son Li Yangyang (8 years old) were killed in Houfan Village, Qiaomiao Township, Linquan County, Anhui Province. Yang Xinhai had entered the yard over a low wall and damaged the nose of the unlocked door to get inside. The murder weapon was a hammer and the girls were sexually assaulted in a gruesome scene.
After that, in 2003, in Henan province, Yang Xinhai committed a succession of murders in Xiping County on Jan. 6, Tongxu County on Jan. 27, Xiangcheng County on Feb. 5, Xihua County on Feb. 18 and Minquan County on March 28, killing 19 people and seriously injuring one.
On April 2, 2003, Yang Xinhai killed two people and raped one in Sanlizhai Village, Taoyuan Township, Cao County, Shandong Province, by climbing over a wall into a courtyard and rattling a door.
At this time, Yang Xinhai's evil course was suspended by SARS for four whole months, in order to prevent the spread of the epidemic in the vast countryside, all the counties, villages and towns have strengthened the control and management of outsiders, an unfamiliar face in any one of the countryside, it is impossible not to attract attention and suspicion. For several months, Yang Xinhai stayed in Zhengyang County, Henan Province, although not far from home, he did not go back, in order to minimize the number of times he was questioned, he was around the edge of the county during the day, and at night slept in the square outside the bus station.
When the epidemic passed, he left Henan in a public ****car, where he committed 17 bloodbaths in one ****, killing 51 people and raping 17. In many places in the city and countryside of Henan, posted on the suspect's notice, according to Henan police sources, in May and June 2003, the police that began to the countryside to carry out investigations, to have had a criminal record and often do not return to the person gave special attention, Yang Xinhai was then locked into one of the key suspects. They went to Yang Xinhai's father's house several times to take blood tests and learn more about him. Yang Xinhai, perhaps feeling the approach of the end, or perhaps this period of hibernation made it difficult for him to endure, came to Hebei in August and committed two murders in three days, killing eight people and raping three, among them four children.
Hebei Xingtai County, Zhu village town Li Dao village, Sun Shengjun Li Shuzhi couple is a local farmer, farming for a living, daughter Sun Yuanyuan and son Sun Hongbo in Xingtai County, West Dashu Middle School. 2003 August 5, Sun Shengjun, Li Shuzhi and 15-year-old daughter Sun Yuanyuan was killed, son Sun Hongbo at that time did not have with his parents and sister, was able to not die. He was the first to see the bodies of his relatives that morning. The scene was horrific, Li Shuzi on the bed, head in side, head full of blood, blood has condensed in the hair, dry. Quilt from the bed to the ground, people who came in lifted the quilt, saw Sun Shengjun curled up on the ground, the back of the head out of the brain. Wrenching the body over, they found that he had been cut at his right eye and his face was covered with blood. In another room, Sun Yuanyuan was lying on his back on the bed, with no clothes on his lower body, and his legs were half-hanging on the edge of the bed.
Yang Xinhai was arrested and confessed that the axe used to cut people was stolen from a villager's house in the village that night. On the night before the night of the murder, Yang Xinhai had ridden his bicycle from Xingtai City to Li Dao Village, entered Sun's house and went inside to touch Sun Shengjun's coat pocket, saw no money and left. The next day, Yang rode his bicycle to Li Dao Village again, put his bicycle far away from the edge of the village, walked into the village from the fields, and estimated that Sun Shengjun's family was asleep before entering the courtyard. Sun's yard corner of a cucumber rack, Yang hid under the cucumber rack for about 50 minutes, heard Sun Shengjun snoring, before entering the house poisoned. The night of the murder, he did not turn over the money. He chose Sun Shengjun's family to kill because there was a little girl in the family.
Xingtai City police a scene investigation and analysis of the material shows that the crime, Yang Xinhai from the yard wall fence under a hole drilled into the yard, "into the yard with a piece of plywood will be under the fence after the hole blocked, into the room after the light switch rope cut, with white gloves began to murder. The crime scene of the main house two windows, were criminals were covered with a quilt cover and bed sheet, after the crime with a lock to the crime scene of the house door after locking, from the yard west fence against the north distance from the main house of about 1.5 meters over the wall out of the yard, along the wall outside the alleyway to the north to the west to escape out of the village."
Mom, dad and sister were killed, Sun Hongbo's heart, there will be what kind of nightmare, no one knows, he lived in his uncle Sun Shengqi's house, accompanied by Sun Shengqi, Sun Aijun two people to sleep with, to go to the toilet also have to be accompanied. After the murder, he did not go to school again.
The Sun family keeps two cats. Sun Shengjun mother said, that would have been granddaughter Yuan Yuan raised, after the unfortunate murder of Yuan Yuan, she took the cat back, for her granddaughter to keep. The old man said, her favorite is the granddaughter, "round people smart, and can talk, every test is the top five in the class". Before the murder, Yuan Yuan has just been admitted to the first year, the school issued a new book, she is waiting to start school. "After the accident, I asked someone to take the new books to Yuanyuan."
The nightmare has also long pressed on the hearts of everyone in Lidao village. After the Sun family's accident, within a day or two, the whole village built up the courtyard wall, and now, the courtyard wall of every house can be seen in two distinct sections, the bottom two meters or so of old bricks, and the top of the new bricks that are one meter high. Almost every house has installed security doors and windows, and no one dares to go to bed without closing the door when it is hot again. People in the village hardly go out at night anymore.
Two days after the murder of the Sun Yuan Yuan family, Yang Xinhai brought bloody death to another family. It was the last in a series of killings by Yang Xinhai, who killed a family of five.
Wei Xianzeng's family, originally from Wei Jiatun Village in Jindian Township, Neiqiu County, Xingtai, Hebei Province, came to Donglianghang Village in the Qiaoxi District of Shijiazhuang and rented more than 4 acres of land to grow vegetables. And other nearby more than 10 vegetable farmers, they live next to their own vegetable fields, three huts are built with bricks picked from the nearby garbage heap, they have two daughters in junior high school, there is a just read high school son, August 8, 2003, Wei and his wife Fan Yuhua, daughter Wei Yuzhi, Wei Yuhui, his son, Wei Yubin, a family of five were killed in the hut next to the vegetable fields of the self-built.
Weekdays, every morning at two o'clock, Wei now increase will ride a tricycle with neighbors to Shijiazhuang to sell vegetables, on the morning of August 8, neighbors half a day to call not open the door of Wei's home, they came to the window with a flashlight to see the house of the tragedy: the big bed, Wei now increase and his wife, as well as his son, Wei Yubin three head to the west, inward side of the body, wearing shorts only, body and head full of blood, hitching in the The quilt on their legs are also black and red; in a small room on the west side, Wei Xianzeng's two daughters leaning back on the bed, with no clothes on, their heads are full of blood, and their legs are hanging down toward the bed."
Shijiazhuang police investigation of the scene of the analysis shows that Wei now increase the family of five is hammered violently hit the brain to death, Wei Yuzhi and Wei Yu Hui have been raped traces of the body.
Before the murder, Wei's son Wei Yubin just received Xingtai County Dongpang Coal Mine Yucai Middle School's high school acceptance letter, before the intense review so that he was eager to come out of the air, from Xingtai to Shijiazhuang to visit his parents who have not seen two months. Neighbors said with tears in their eyes, "This child, really shouldn't have come".
Five people's lives have disappeared, and the lives of their relatives have been destroyed. Wei's parents are similar in age to Yang Xinhai's parents, and are also in their seventies. In June 2003, Wei had returned to his hometown in Xingtai to plant corn, and that was the last time his parents saw their son.
Wei Xianzeng's mother had been living with her grandson, watching the house for Wei Xianzeng. After the murder, the old man knew that his son's family is gone, a cry can not be stopped, Wei Xianfeng's wife could not persuade his mother-in-law, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law crying together.
November 3, 2003 at 10:00, Yang Xinhai in Cangzhou City, Hebei Province, was arrested. February 1, 2004, Henan Luohe Intermediate People's Court of Yang Xinhai robbery, intentional homicide, rape, intentional injury case according to law.
Yang Xinhai left almost no traces of himself at the crime scene, including semen. When he ejaculated he took it away in a piece of cloth and did not leave it in the victim's body. His main murder weapon was a hammer, which he replaced with a new one after each crime. Sometimes he would put another pair of socks over his shoes to avoid leaving footprints. He has also been known to commit crimes wearing white gloves.
In his parents' and townspeople's impression, Yang Xinhai was quiet and reticent, but he was very expressive during interrogation after he was captured, speaking about the killings in a high-pitched voice, talking at great length and showing an amazing memory. According to a police officer in Henan Province, Yang was able to recall even the details of his crimes from years ago after his arrest. When he began to confess to the crimes he had committed, always piled up a smile on his face, when the police in the interrogation process, asked him to recount all the facts of the crime of robbery, theft, Yang Xinhai through a face of disdain, said that those trivial things and say it for what? The purpose of his crime is to kill and rape, there are several times, he was in the house after the murder, robbed a few dozen dollars in change. Once he felt out of danger, he tossed them to the wind again without a second thought.
One policeman had asked him who he was grateful to, and he said he was grateful to the police, who had bought him two suits of clothes after he was caught, and that he hadn't been cared for like that since he was a child. On the morning of the day he was escorted to the court for trial, Yang Xinhai actually smiled when he saw a large number of police officers in the detention center, and even nodded his head frequently in the face of the surrounding area, "hard ah, hard!" After getting on the car, Yang can still laugh and talk loudly, a moment to complain about the time too early sleep deprivation, a moment to joke with the bailiffs escorting him ...... A police officer said, when the court police for many years, "have never seen a suspect with such a calm state of mind, and he was not afraid at all."
After the court hearing, the first trial of the defendant Yang Xinhai to the crime of robbery sentenced to death, deprivation of political rights for life, and confiscation of all personal property; intentional homicide sentenced to death, deprivation of political rights for life; rape sentenced to death, deprivation of political rights for life; intentional injury sentenced to five years of imprisonment; the several crimes were punished together, decided to carry out the death penalty, deprivation of political rights for life, and confiscation of all personal property. All personal property.
Yang Xinhai said in court that he would obey the verdict and would not appeal. He wished not to have the service of process sent to his parents, was this out of a sense of compassion for his elderly parents? In the course of killing so many parents and children, he must have passed by his remote and poor hometown, did he hesitate?
Yang Xinhai's case has shocked people, shocked at his blood and brutality, shocked that this blood and brutality is so close to us. Indeed, when we want to avoid or overcome an evil, we should start with understanding, a process that also involves danger. Nietzsche says that whoever wrestles with these monsters needs to understand the process before they become monsters. At the same time, when you look into the bottomless pit, the bottomless pit looks back at you.
Spanning the four provinces of Anhui, Henan, Lu and Hebei murder 26 cases, killing 67 people injured 10 people raped 23 people Yang Xinhai in the morning of February 14, 2004 was executed.