When he was young, Xia Keming mixed in an organization, the beginning of the reform and opening up in the 80s of last century, was sentenced to 3 years in prison for the crime of speculation. After his release, he went to Shenzhen and other places to do business, the 1990s earned the first bucket of gold hundreds of thousands of dollars, hit the road back to Beijing to engage in foreign trade business.
Because of the business dealings, in 1996, Xia Keming met the company's female boss Du Mou. Each has a home of the two, developed into a lover relationship, "we have had a real relationship." Xia Keming said in a confession.
Du came from a family of teachers, both parents are teachers, and her husband's family history is also very common.
But according to informed sources, Du and Xia Keming know less than thirty years old, but social skills, business ability is very strong, especially in the government agencies have a very deep network, some of the heads of functional departments are familiar with them, y attracted "hold your breath want to be successful" Xia Keming.
Xia Keming confessed that at the end of the last century, Du faced operational difficulties, the company is almost disintegrated. He will earn his first bucket of gold to Du Mou to fill the hole. After that, the two closer and closer, to maintain an improper male-female relationship for more than 10 years.
In Du help, Xia Keming came to Beijing level through the office equipment limited company (hereinafter referred to as the level through the company) as the manager of the business department, responsible for the company's foreign trade business. In this company, Xia Keming began the "murderous journey".
Liu Mou is Xia Keming speculation in prison when the cellmate, when the level through the company needs to import a number of cables and connectors from abroad, Liu Mou in which to help. But the goods were seized by Customs, Xia Keming also suspected of smuggling by the Tianjin Customs Anti-Smuggling Bureau detention.
Xia Keming is worried that Liu will confess more things about himself, he wanted to let Liu evaporate, "I was in a detention center in Tianjin, Du Mou looked for a director, arranged for a police officer to give me a cell phone, I take the phone and my brother, Xia Kezhi contact."
"Father did not have early, the family listened to his brother." Xia Kezhi said he had also been sentenced to prison on three separate occasions, and was surrounded by friends Yang Hui and Tao Chun, all of whom have criminal records.
The court found that in December 1999, Xia Kezhi gathered Yang Hui, Tao Chun and other people, Liu was held hostage and detained for a few days and brought to Fangshan District, near the town of Shidu. Yang Hui used strangulation to kill Liu and incinerate the body, and then transported the body to Fengtai District, a unit room in the body, and finally threw the body fragments to the Nandaihe sea and the nearby woods.
Yang Hui confessed that the three drove Liu to Fangshan Shidu in the mountains, murder, incineration, crushed body, body dumping, "and then drove to the Beidaihe, walking along the seashore to throw (body parts), driving to the bridge out of the Nandaihe has been basically thrown out".
To this end, Xia Keming paid 100,000 yuan as compensation.
At 1 a.m. on April 27, 2000, in the Haidian District, Guancheng Park District, the security guard saw the female owner, Li, into the elevator, waiting for the elevator to five or six floors suddenly screamed. "Screamed about 1 minute after the elevator stopped at the 21st floor." The security guard recalled that he rushed to press the elevator, and so on back to the first floor, the elevator room is only a pair of shoes and the ground with scuff marks. Li is the boss of the ground-level pass company, Xia Keming's boss.
Xia Keming was investigated by Customs for six months and paid a fine of 1.8 million to regain his freedom. He later heard that Customs returned the money to the Ground Level Pass company, so he looked for the company's female boss, Li, to get the money. Li Mou gave 1 million yuan after a variety of reasons to stall, Xia Keming and thought of using murder to solve the problem.
According to the court, Xia Keming and Li Mou economic disputes, instructed Xia Kezhi, Yang Hui, Tao Chun kidnapped and killed Li Mou. They rented a separate set of rooms in advance in the district where Li rented, 1:00 am on April 27, 2000, Xia Keming and others tracked Li to the district, Yang Hui and others will be held hostage to a pre-rented room, holding Li to the Beijing-Shenyang Expressway will be strangled to death, and then crushed and thrown to the Chaobai River.
"In the first kill Liu, Xia Keming and others had hesitation. Later they felt that doing it together was also a death sentence, doing it again was still a death, so they were more carefree." One of Xia Keming's designated defenders said, "four people's fate has been tied together, thinking character has long been mutated, people block kill, Buddha block kill Buddha."
Xia Keming was getting bolder and killing people like an addiction.
Tao Chun in the confession also once mentioned, sometimes Xia Kezhi called him and said "to work", or Yang Hui said Xia Keming let them rent a house somewhere, he knew that Mr. Xia is going to kill again.
Engineer Mi was the third person Xia Keming killed.
According to Xia Keming's confession, he met with Mimou not long ago and discussed the construction of villas. Prior to talk about the share, after the fact, Mimou and want to get a piece of the soup, "the more I think the more angry", he instructed Xia Keji gathered Yang Hui, Tao Chun and others will be Mimou to do away with.
The dossier shows that Xia Keming's business involvement in the field, including villas, import and export, and even in the "SARS" period also seized the opportunity to engage in 300 respiratory machines and 10 CT machines, "he is very economic minded, and his own special desire for success." Informants said.
Xia Keming confessed, "SARS" before, he and his business partner Wu set up a company, through this platform for fraud, a few business down the company has accumulated two to three million funds. Later, Wu wanted the money back, the money has been Xia Keming's lover Du got Hong Kong and Macao to buy bonds. Xia Keming would like to simply take out Wu and his girlfriend Gao Mou thing.
"You haven't done it before, it's not particularly difficult." Yang Hui has said to the defense attorney, the killing process, are often Xia Keming head of the victims about a place, and then by the Xia Kuji with people specific implementation,
Killing Wu and Gao Mou, Xia Keming will be two people about a place, unsuspecting Gao Mou and Wu Mou just greeted with the Xia Keming, "Xia General", was behind the A rope was strangled alive behind them.
Xia Keming confessed to his brother's behavior, once said "they have become accustomed to, anyway, are in accordance with the same pattern strangulation, body, dumping the body".
With the increase in the number of killings, Xia Keming accumulated more and more wealth, hundreds of thousands of dollars of the first bucket of gold into the investment capital of 99 million medical companies.
The medical company, located near Jianguomen, is not directly under Xia Keming's name, and the legal representative is Du.
Xia Keming has always trusted his lover Du, until July 2005, when he was kidnapped. Although ultimately safe, but he suspected Du, "was wanted by the police, the outside world is impossible to know the whereabouts, Du certainly with this matter can not escape". At the same time, Xia Keming believes that these years killings Du Mou know, sooner or later will run from her mouth wind.
According to Xia Keming, Du should be his "most hesitant" once. From April to May 2006, the idea was born, to January 2007, tangled in more than half a year. Further stimulation of Xia Keming is that the legal representative of the medical company changed from Du Mou to Wen Mou Du Mou's husband.
"I do not kill her, she may find someone to kill me, the company from the beginning of the business to later I invested a lot, including killing people, injecting funds, to later I can not get anything." The afternoon of January 25, 2007, Xia Keming will Du Mou and Wen Mou about a rental room in Jianguomen, claiming to introduce people to help Du Mou's son to go to school. As soon as the two men entered, they were killed by Xia Kezhi and others following the same set of patterns.
After Du disappeared, a family friend called the police and revealed to the police that Du had secretly feared before his death, "Xia Keming is a very dangerous person, Xia Keming will find his younger brother Xia Kuji, Xia Kuji and then look for people in the community, and people in the community has also been to the company more than once to have to do away with the person's payment."
March 30, 2007, the police will Xia Keming and other four people control.
From killing the first person in December 1999 to being controlled in March 2007, why did Xia Keming get away with it for nearly eight years?
Xia Keming's defense said that the first victim Liu disappeared after the public security organs at the time to find Xia Keming, but only as the direction of the investigation routine questioning. Xia Keming acted unusually calm, put things off, confusing the police, coupled with the fact that most of the bodies in this case were broken, burned or cooked, but also exacerbated the difficulty of detection. At the same time, some cases including business partners Wu and his girlfriend Gao, due to the person himself was engaged in the life of the business is not honorable, before the accident had also instructed the family to run abroad, so until 2008 the family went online to read the news to know Xia Keming was arrested, only to know that their loved ones have long been killed. After arriving at the case, Tao Chun for life, whistleblowing revealed on February 5, 2005, Yang Hui killed his wife Song, together with his best friend Xia Keji dumped the body. Xia Kezhi also explained another episode of killing a business partner, but no charges were filed because it was difficult to check.
June 30, 2008, Xia Keming, Xia Kezhi, Yang Hui, Tao Chun was indicted in 1999 to 2007 because of various reasons to kill eight people, committed the crime of intentional homicide, burglary, illegal possession of firearms, etc. December 4, 2008, the court sentenced the four to death in the first trial.
After the first trial, the defendants in order to save their lives continue to whistle-blowing and uncovering new information, there have been two officials were involved, the second trial court twice remanded the case.
On Aug. 1, 2012, the second-instance court found the four defendants guilty of committing eight murders, bribing two officials and illegally possessing firearms. In the end, the court sentenced Xia Keming to death for intentional homicide, theft and bribery, Xia Kezhi to death for intentional homicide and helping to destroy evidence, Yang Hui to death for intentional homicide, theft and illegal possession of firearms, and Tao Chun to death for intentional homicide, and also ruled that the four defendants should pay more than 5 million yuan in joint and several compensation to the families of the 14 deceased.
Subsequently, Xia Kezhi appealed, and the case went to a second trial, and in early January 2013, the second trial verdict was upheld.