At around 7pm on June 30, 2003, a group of people suddenly appeared on a quiet country road outside Xinhe Village, Beichen District, Tianjin. The leader was none other than Lao He, the village party branch secretary. Just ten minutes ago, the Xinhe Village Committee was preparing to convene a meeting of party members. Lao He listened to the discussion of several committee members and said that he heard from people walking in the village that there seemed to be a corpse floating in the canal outside the village. The secretary asked if he was looking. Dazzled? The other party replied, "I'm not sure, I just listened to their nonsense."
Human life is at stake! Lao He announced on the spot that the meeting was temporarily adjourned, and the participants immediately followed him to the scene to find out what was going on.
The ditch finally appeared dimly in people's sight. With the light of flashlights, several people used branches to forcefully pull away the rotten weeds. Lao He and everyone present were almost timidly convinced that the villagers were Discussion, because a mutilated skeleton was revealed under the scattered rotten grass.
A few minutes later, the confirmed news was reported to the Beichen Branch of the Tianjin Public Security Bureau through 110. After receiving the report, branch director Xing Wei and deputy director in charge of criminal investigation Nie Manshui immediately instructed the criminal police and Shuangjie Police Station to dispatch personnel quickly. Deputy detachment leader Xu Cheng immediately mobilized criminal investigation and technical personnel to rush to the scene, and then relevant personnel from the Municipal Criminal Investigation Bureau also drove to the scene.
The scene is located outside a village in Shuangjie Town, Beichen District, in an abandoned ditch to the east of the Beijing-Tianjin Highway. After preliminary identification by the forensic doctor, the body was female, about 1.60 meters tall, and aged between 25 and 30 years old. The body was highly decomposed and had been burned. Both arms had been cut off and the face had been injured with a blunt instrument. Most of the soft tissues of the body were cut off with knives. From the analysis of the situation at the scene, it can be concluded that this is not a murder scene, but a place where the body was dumped after the murder.
Judging from the location of the scene, the ditch is located to the east of the Beijing-Tianjin Highway, far away from the village. If it is assumed that the murderer came here specifically to dump the body, then he probably came north from the urban area.
Except for the intuitive things at the scene, there are basically no other clues for criminal investigators to refer to.
After several days of detailed investigation by the local police station and case investigators in Beichen District and the villages around the place where the body was dumped, it was found that there were no missing persons in the surrounding areas that matched the body in the recent period, basically ruling out the possibility that the deceased was alive. The possibility of living in Beichen.
So why did the murderer dump the body in this remote suburban ditch? Could the first murder scene be somewhere in Beichen District? Or the murderer has a certain internal relationship with Beichen.
Determining the identity of the deceased is the key to deciphering this mystery. The task force immediately turned its focus to various districts in the city and quickly issued a joint investigation notice to all districts in the city to find missing women who met the conditions of the deceased in the near future.
At this time, the technicians who conducted the on-site investigation made a major discovery: from the mouth of the corpse, the technicians unexpectedly found that the molar of the upper right tooth of the deceased was inserted back. After technical inspection, it was found that this The dentures are made of porcelain and metal, and the three dentures on the lower left tooth are also made of porcelain.
With this important discovery, the investigators visited several well-known dental hospitals in the city. The final conclusion of the dental expert is: First, the four dentures embedded in the deceased's mouth cost about 600 yuan each. The total cost should be more than 3,000 yuan; secondly, judging from the health condition of the deceased’s teeth, it is possible that the deceased often went to the dental hospital regularly for dental care and oral health care; thirdly, from the metal and porcelain composite tooth According to the above analysis, doctors who can place such teeth must have certain technical standards and equipment. It is difficult for unlicensed dentists on the street to achieve such professional skills.
If you can interview the dental implant doctor, you will definitely be able to recall some of the deceased's life, because the dentist has a deep impression of this high-spending patient.
This conclusion shows that the deceased's living conditions were good during his lifetime, and his economic income should at least reach the white-collar level. It is by no means an ordinary working class or working class.
With this clue, the task force immediately dispersed and began to visit more than a dozen dental hospitals in Tianjin to investigate.
But a few days passed, and there was basically no progress in the investigation.
While the work of visiting dentists was in full swing, a piece of information about a missing person caught their attention: According to the report record of Tianjin Hexi Branch: On June 20, 2003, Chen, a resident of a community in Hexi District, A police officer reported that his wife Liu Ling suddenly disappeared on June 18 and was driving a white Xiali car when she disappeared. Ask the police for help in the search.
In addition, an unowned white Xiali car was found in a community near a party school in Nankai District. According to reports from the surrounding people, this car drove in a few days ago and was driven by a man. A woman, the man was about 30 years old, carrying a pocket bag and walking in a mysterious manner, the woman was about 20 years old. After they drove in, they got out of the car and left, and they have not been seen again since.
After verifying the license plate with the Municipal Traffic Management Bureau’s Vehicle Management Office, it was confirmed that the owner of the car was Liu Ling, who had been missing for many days. Liu Ling, now 27 years old, married, graduated from a university in Tianjin, and was a cadre of the personnel department of a bureau in Tianjin during his lifetime.
So, is this mutilated corpse the missing Liu Ling?
The investigators soon found Liu Ling’s mother, whose mother’s testimony confirmed that Liu Ling had indeed gone to a dental hospital to have several dentures placed, and they were advanced dentures made of metal and porcelain. For the sake of accuracy, they conducted DNA testing on the deceased and Liu Ling's mother, and finally determined that the deceased was Liu Ling, who had been missing for many days.
According to Liu Ling’s husband Chen, before Liu Ling disappeared, the two were divorcing due to emotional discord. Liu Ling himself was busy going through various immigration procedures, and his mood was basically stable.
On July 4, a "6·18" murder case task force was established, composed of the Municipal Criminal Investigation Bureau and Beichen and Hexi criminal police.
After extensive investigation into the deceased’s social relationships during his lifetime, the police did not find anyone with whom the deceased had debts or emotional grudges. It was just that before Liu Ling disappeared, she was busy handling some matters related to going abroad, and had asked many colleagues and friends to borrow money. Basically, the possibility of love killing can be ruled out.
At noon on the day Liu Ling disappeared, someone from the unit saw Liu Ling driving her Xiali out of the yard of the unit. No abnormality was found. However, starting from the evening of the 18th, Liu Ling's mobile phone began to be turned off.
Colleagues in the unit also reported this. On June 17th and 18th, a Mandarin-speaking man called Liu Ling's work three times. Liu happened to be away at the grassroots level for inspection at that time. From the tone of the other person's tone, he seemed to be a quiet man.
According to the analysis of the corpse at the scene, the reason why the murderer brutally dismembered the body after killing and even disfigured the face of the deceased shows that the deceased was familiar with the murderer before his death, and his purpose was to prevent the police from confirming the true identity of the deceased. , in order to escape legal sanctions, which does not rule out the possibility of killing for money.
Is there really such a mysterious man who is out of sight of the police?
In people's daily lives, everyone's social relationships are intricate, such as close friends, close friends, classmates and old friends. Even the closest people can't explain clearly. And Liu Ling, who has complicated social interactions, is even more difficult to explain clearly. Just when the investigation of the case was at a stalemate, an important clue brought a new turning point to the investigation of the case.
At about 2 o'clock in the night on June 18, Xiao Yan, a villager in Beichen District, was driving his motorcycle back home when he found a car parked quietly on a rural road near the Beijing-Tianjin Highway. In the dark shadow on the roadside, Xiao Yan almost hit him head-on because he had no headlights. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and got out of the way, but in his panic, Xiao Yan saw two people in the car. The driver was definitely a man, but the people next to him didn't see clearly. Yan, who usually likes playing with cars, recognized it as a Geely car at a glance. Just because it was dark, I didn't know the color of the car correctly. It was probably gray or light yellow.
According to Yan’s on-site identification, the place where he met the car was only a dozen meters away from the scene where the body was dumped. At this point, it is certain that those involved in the killing or dumping the body were a man and a woman. But what is difficult to explain is that the white Xiali car that was abandoned by the deceased was a light-colored Geely car that appeared at the scene? It seems that the murderer has some connection with this mysterious Geely car.
During the investigation surrounding the deceased's social relations during his lifetime, several men who were in the police's sight were successively excluded. Finally, suspicions about a man named Lu Peng were quietly rising.
28-year-old Lu Peng and the deceased Liu Ling were high school classmates. He graduated from Nankai University with a bachelor's degree. He is unmarried and works as a salesman in an import and export company in Tianjin. According to police investigations, Lu and Liu have been interacting frequently in recent times. Especially before and after the incident, there were many suspicious things about Lu Peng's personal activities.
First of all, Lu Peng himself did not go to work at the workplace on the afternoon when Liu Ling disappeared, but when the police asked him about his activities that day, he said that he had been at work at the workplace all day, which was obviously a lie; secondly, the case Before the incident, he had frequently kept in touch with Liu Ling on the phone, but when the police approached him to learn about the situation, he tried his best to avoid or even deny it. Lu Peng's girlfriend Song Yan works for a company in the Beichen Development Zone. Judging from the location of the unit, the Tianjin-Beijing Highway is a must-pass. Lu Peng often picks up and drops off his girlfriend between the city and Beichen, so he is not familiar with Beichen's geography. The location is not unfamiliar.
When Lu Peng, who had never had any dealings with the police, faced the police for the first time, he still seemed quite polite and even calm. It seemed that he had already expected that the police would find his head. , so he tried his best to excuse himself from the perspective of a bystander
"Liu Ling and I are just ordinary friends, and we usually only communicate on the phone. This spring, she came to me and asked me to borrow money. I had money but didn't want to lend it to her, so I kept making excuses. On the morning of June 18, she called me again to ask for a loan. I was determined to refuse her, so I called her in the afternoon to tell her. I heard Liu Ling’s phone ringing suddenly. I didn’t know who was calling her, but she just said hello and hung up the phone.”
The implication is self-evident: Call Liu Ling. In addition to him, Ling called, there was another mysterious man who might have had a phone call with her.
However, the police were not fooled by the illusion he set up. Because the "suspicious things" he offers confirm exactly where the emptiness lies within him. This undoubtedly heightened his doubts.
It is understood that Lu Peng himself has a vacant house in the city center, and he claims to have lent it to his single friend Zhao. On the day of the incident, Zhao did not come back, but Lu Peng came here with a strange young woman.
One morning in late June, Lu Peng suddenly made a fuss in the house. Hygiene, use a clean water mop to scrub the floor, causing water all over the corridor; what is even more strange is that a puppy raised by the neighbor downstairs suddenly ran upstairs abnormally and desperately sniffed the water stains on the ground
While investigating Lu Peng, a young woman named Wang Li also came into the police sight. Wang Li, 28, graduated from a well-known university in Tianjin and is married. After graduation, she worked in a company in the city responsible for foreign trade import and export. She and Lu Peng had frequent contacts, and she usually drove a metallic yellow Geely car.
After investigation, it was confirmed that Wang Li drove a Geely car to Lu Peng's home on the day of the incident.
On July 8, according to the unified deployment of the task force, two groups of people acted simultaneously and captured the suspects Lu Peng and Wang Li respectively in their workplaces. Lu Peng, who had been summoned by the police, remained calm and composed on the surface, but he could not hide the extreme emptiness and fear in his heart. After seven hours of head-to-head confrontation, in the face of a large amount of evidence and exposed lies, at dawn, the mystery of the case was finally revealed. The murderer was Lu Peng, and Wang Li helped him transport the body. accomplice.
The growing environment of Lu Peng, who was born in 1975, should be said to be better than that of his peers. Growing up in a Kochi family, he has hardly experienced many setbacks in life. In 1994, he was admitted to the Department of Economics of Nankai University, and his career and family almost simultaneously created a smooth sailing for him. After joining the workforce, his economic income and social status are also among the best among his peers. The sunshine of life shines unstintingly on his just-started life.
Lu Peng’s father is the CEO of a state-owned enterprise in Tianjin, and his mother is a senior teacher in a middle school. In this family with a superior living environment, Lu Peng received strict tutoring and formal education since he was a child. The parents also had great hopes for this only child.
From elementary school to high school, he was always the best among his peers.
As he grows older, the psychological communication between Lu Peng and his parents gradually decreases. His father, who is busy working all day, rarely cares about his budding son. Only his mother will intervene in some conflicts between school and classmates. thing. As a result, he gradually became estranged from his parents and began to look for another kind of care. He learned to smoke and began to fall in love with a girl in the same grade. But for the talented man, these distractions did not stop him from heading to college. In 1993, he was admitted to Nankai University in Tianjin, majoring in economics. His love affair with Song Yan began when he was in college, but his relationship with Liu Ling should be traced back to high school.
At that time, they were classmates in the same grade. Liu Lingren was very smart, lively and active, and was keen on various social interactions. Although they had dated many times in high school, they were just normal interactions between male and female classmates, leaving almost no heart-warming or touching memories for each other.
After graduating from high school, Liu Ling was admitted to a university in Tianjin. They almost lost touch because they were both busy with their studies. In his sophomore year, Lu Peng was invited to attend a family banquet held by his classmates and accidentally met Liu Ling. Although the separation was not long, he was still moved by the reunion of old friends.
This meeting allowed them to reconnect with each other. For example, asking Lu Peng to buy some hot-selling goods, or asking him to give some advice on some matters, so phone calls or occasional gatherings gradually deepened the mutual trust. Despite this, the relationship between them did not improve. The horse is free from the reins. Because Lu Peng has a deep relationship with his classmate Song Yan. Therefore, Liu Ling was just an ordinary friend to him.
These days continued until Lu Peng was in his junior year. One day, Liu Ling, whom he had not seen for a long time, suddenly came to the dormitory to find him and said that he had a bag of valuable things that he wanted to keep for him. Lu Peng asked what it was? Liu Ling said you don’t need to ask, just return the things to me when the time comes. After that, he handed him a tightly packed plastic bag.
Lu Peng was always puzzled by her mysterious behavior. Although he hid the package in the most secret place in the dormitory, he always had a sense of fear in his heart. He began to suspect that the package might be drugs. , if this is the case, if the Public Security Bureau finds him, he may not be able to explain clearly if he is full of words. With a sense of self-protection, one night half a month later, he poured all the white powder into the toilet and flushed it with water.
One night more than ten days later, Liu Ling suddenly called and said he would come to pick up the things in the evening. He had to lie and claim that he had accidentally thrown it away, and the other party became furious after hearing this. Ask him why he destroys other people's things privately? Lu Peng explained and apologized repeatedly, and the other party finally angrily forgave him.
After that, they lost contact for a while. It was not until they graduated from college and found jobs that an accidental class reunion allowed them to resume their relationship.
Lu Peng likes to surf the Internet, play football and chat with friends in his spare time. Although he has passed the age of starting a family and has a girlfriend with whom he has been in love for many years, he still chooses a carefree life. . I don’t want to get into marriage too early.
Due to business contacts, he met Wang Li, a female salesperson from another foreign trade company. Although it is a business partnership, the level of trust between them is very high.
The thing that made Lu Peng most uncomfortable was Liu Ling. After contacting him, she would often call him suddenly, vaguely revealing her understanding and sympathy for him in her conversation, and occasionally mentioning the package. The white powder washed away by him.
This always left a shadow of fear in Lu Peng's heart. He tried to escape, but all efforts failed.
One day in April 2003, Liu Ling suddenly called Lu Peng and said that he wanted to borrow some money from him. Lu Peng wanted to shirk, but the other party's tone became tougher and he asked to borrow 40,000 yuan. Lu Peng initially refused, but the other party immediately reopened the old score and said that it would be of no benefit to anyone if the matter came out. She even threatened him by saying that Lu and Wang Li had a close personal relationship.
After Lu Peng heard this, he suddenly felt angry. He didn't know how the other party knew his details through what channels.
He thought that if his girlfriend knew everything, the consequences would be disastrous; but what made him tremble the most was the mysterious packet of white powder. If the Public Security Bureau investigates, he won't be able to explain clearly even if he is full of words. His fragile psychological defense was crumbling at this time.
After more than a month of repeated thinking, he made up his mind to spend money to settle the matter. So she verbally agreed to meet and talk. That morning, Liu Ling drove to her work to find him. Lu Peng was afraid that her colleagues would know the negative impact, so they sat in her car and talked. Her main purpose was to borrow money, and Lu Peng almost agreed in an extremely unbalanced state.
The next afternoon, Lu Pengzhi took away the friend who was borrowing the house and invited her to the house in the city center. He wanted to have a good talk with her to lower the price, but who wanted to talk to her about it? There was no concession, but the talks soon fell apart.
Liu Ling turned around to leave angrily, but Lu Peng, who felt guilty, pulled her back and said she wanted to talk again. But the other party refused to let go of the price. The angry Lu Peng cursed, are you still a fucking human? After that, he kicked her right in the stomach. Liu Ling fell on her back, and her head hit the corner of the table. A hole was broken in her head, and she fell to the ground motionless with blood on her face.
Lu Peng sat guarding Liu Ling until dark. Liu Ling did not recover, and Lu Peng panicked. When he found that Liu Ling's nose had no breath, he was really stupid. He never expected that it would be such a terrible ending. He smoked half a pack of cigarettes in a daze, and decided to dispose of the body first. So he found a knife from the kitchen, dismembered the body, and then put it in boxes and bags.
He could not move the body away by himself. In desperation, he thought of Wang Li, whom he trusted most, and immediately called Wang Li. After Wang Li entered the door, he first blindfolded Wang Li. Then he pulled her into the room and told her the story of his murder. Wang Li was very nervous after hearing this. But he still agreed to help dispose of the body.
They studied until midnight, and finally Lu Peng decided to dump the body near Beichen District, far away from the city.
In the middle of the night, Lu and Peng drove the car and pulled the body straight towards Beichen. On the way, they bought gasoline and drove around the wild for a while. Finally, they found a ditch in the wild. Just as they were about to start, they suddenly saw the light of a motorcycle in the distance. They were so frightened that they hid in the car for a long time. After burning the body and dumping it in the ditch, they quickly drove away from the scene
After disposing of the body, Lu Peng and Wang Li found an opportunity to throw the white Xiali that Liu Ling drove into a building in Nankai District.
One day in February 2004, the reporter met Lu Peng, who was detained in the detention center. Across the closed fence, Lu Peng looked a little haggard in front of reporters. He lowered his head and kept smoking. Judging from the logic of his conversation, it was not difficult to feel that he had received a good education. He said that his parents were extremely strict in his education at home. Even after working, he did not dare to smoke in front of his mother at home. So he is a well-behaved and filial son in front of his parents.
Lu Peng’s girlfriend Song Yan was his classmate in college. The two of them dated from college until he entered the detention center. Their emotional foundation was solid. In Lu Peng's eyes, Song Yan's kindness and purity seemed to surpass all other girls. Before the incident, Song Yan was hospitalized due to illness, and Lu Peng accompanied her at the hospital bed many times day and night.
Without this human tragedy, life might go on normally. How could his parents and girlfriend have thought that the gentle-looking Lu Peng would one day kill people and cut their bodies into pieces? How could her husband and colleagues believe that the thin and quiet Wang Li would become an accomplice in a murder? No one thought about it, but the tragedy happened so cruelly. Lu Peng, Wang Li and the murdered Liu Ling were all former students of higher education. However, in the golden years when they spread their wings to fly and realize their life dreams, they folded their wings on the stage of life. The deceased is gone, and the murderer will be severely punished by the law. But the alarm bell that this case has sounded for us should ring in everyone's heart.