Lei Qiao Lan’s Life stopped in 2005, died at the age of 15, her body floated in the river for two days before it was recovered, after forensic identification, she was raped before being killed.
In 2020, through DNA matching, the suspect was arrested and Leilong’s dream finally had an answer. A knot has just been untied, for the murderer should be subject to what kind of punishment, and became another knot for Lei Long and his Family.
The victim’s family refused to pay compensation
On March 9, 2021, 15-year-old girl Lei Qiaolan was raped and thrown away in the second trial in the Jiangxi High Court. During the trial, the prosecution, which filed a protest, argued that the court of first instance was lenient in sentencing, and that the murderer should be sentenced to death and executed immediately.
In 2005, Lei Qiaolan’s body was found in a piece of water in Jiangxi Guangfeng, the forensic identification, the girl had been raped, was asphyxiated and thrown into the water.
The court also found that the defendant’s death sentence was for rape, with a two-year reprieve, and compensated the victim’s family for funeral expenses of $38,065.50. The court held that the defendant Zeng Shuliang raped a minor under the age of 18 by violent means and caused the death of the victim, his behavior constitutes the crime of rape. But Zeng Shuliang confessed to the facts of the crime, the confession, according to the law to mitigate the punishment.
This is Lei Qiaolan family can not accept the results, they signed the “sentencing transcript” written on the verdict, “hope that the court according to the crime of rape, intentional homicide, sentenced Zeng Shuliang death penalty and immediate execution, another appeal on the civil part.” The family of Lei Qiaolan to the Shangrao City Intermediate People’s Procuratorate to file a protest application was supported, the case was then transferred to the Jiangxi Provincial High Court for trial.
Zeng Shuliang’s defense lawyer Liu Weiguo told a reporter, the second trial, he again repeated the first trial of the defense, Zeng Shuliang did not know Lei Qiaolan is a minor, and cover Lei Qiaolan mouth and nose to death is negligent, subjective malice is not deep. In addition, Zeng Shuliang after the crime can truthfully confess the facts of the crime, with a confession, and then take into account that he is now 65 years old, the court recommended that Zeng Shuliang lighter punishment.
Liu Weiguo also mentioned that during the meeting in the detention center, Zeng Shuliang repeatedly expressed remorse for his crime. Before the second trial, Liu Weiguo tried to express his intention of compensation to Lei’s family through the court, but was refused by Lei’s family. Lei Qiaolan’s sister Lei Li confirmed this statement, she and her family believe that Zeng Shuliang 15 years after the crime to return, the nature is very bad, and the practice of Lei Qiaolan dumped in the river is also very cruel, “we have no intention of discussing compensation matters.”
March 9, after the second trial hearing, the Jiangxi High Court will be the day to pronounce judgment on the case.
March 9, the second trial in the Jiangxi High Court
Forever left in the 15-year-old sister
In the impression of older siblings, Lei Qiaolan’s smile has always remained in her fifteen years old, one meter five-eight body, beautiful, smart.
In her hometown in Ziyun County, Guizhou, Lei Qiaolan was able to walk 25 kilometers alone to her grandmother’s house, where she was a complete stranger, shouting “I’m hungry” and eating three bowls of rice in a row. She was able to speak well, and when she went out to play, she was able to help with work in exchange for convincing people in nearby villages and towns to feed her.
The only thing that worried her family was that Lei Qiaolan’s academic performance was not good, and she repeated the third and fourth grade twice in a row. Her intelligence and cleverness in “doing the right thing” does not seem to be obvious, when doing farm work Lei Qiaolan always distracted, let her herd the cattle on the horns to the tree, sneak away to play.
But in the sister Lei Li’s impression, Parents still very spoiled this little sister, the family will not be rich, by digging herbs to subsidize the family, but parents would rather eat their own roasted potatoes fruit, but also to the best meal for Lei Qiao Lan. “Then my mother died at the age of 39, relying on my father alone to try to bring up his sister, in fact, quite difficult.”
One day in December 2004, her father, Lei Baodong, went to town to catch up with the market. Before leaving, he asked Lei Qiaolan to herd cattle, after returning from the fair, the cattle were still in the pen, but Lei Qiaolan was nowhere to be found. Her clothes, luggage, and dozens of pounds of corn in baskets at Home, also disappeared together.
The family went to nearby villages to look for and no results, a relative said to Lei Baodong, Lei Qiaolan left home that day, she saw the girl and three or four men together on the bus, the direction is Changshun, Guiyang direction, may be to go to the provinces.
After leaving home, Lei Qiao Lan had called his brother Lei Long, “she did not tell me where she was, she told me and Dad do not go looking for her, let the phone hang up”, said Lei Long, he then followed the phone to call back, but found that it was a pay phone.
Three months later, when the news came again from Lei Qiaolan, she was no longer alive. At that Time, poor communication, a neighbor told Lei Baodong, the police station is looking for the identity of a female corpse, looking a little like Lei Qiaolan. Lei Baodong went to identify the photo posted on the wall of the police station and saw the not-so-obvious black mole on his daughter’s right cheek.
Lei Qiaolan died in a murder case in Jiangxi Guangfeng, was raped before he was killed, but the killer is not yet known.
Lei Li and Lei Long, who are working in Guangdong, rushed to Jiangxi to accompany their father to identify the body. In the funeral home, the freezer pulled open, the first to reveal the leg, Lei Long immediately recognized the scar on it – that is the sister in the field by the corn stalks left after the cut marks. “Don’t even need to look at the face, it’s her.”
The whole body was pulled out immediately afterwards. Lei Qiaolan’s body had been soaking in the river for several days, absorbing water and swelling, and her face had been deformed, but the black mole on her face was still recognizable. Lei Li almost fainted from crying, Lei Long also felt that he was going to “fall in the morgue”.
Lei Qiaolan family members wrote the first trial opinion
“Scattered” family
Lei Long always felt that, after the death of his sister, the family seems to be “scattered”.
After identifying the remains in Jiangxi, Lei Baodong alone in his hometown of Ziyun County, Guizhou, to continue farming. During the time of the accident, Lei Baodong always sharpened a pig killing knife, the murderer of his daughter has not been arrested, Lei Baodong’s anger has nowhere to vent.
Lei Li went back to Guangdong to continue working, she also wanted to do more for her sister’s case, looking for units are very close to the radio and television stations, convenient for her to seek help from the media. She also learned the computer, print out the case materials and send them to the relevant departments. Once, because she used the unit’s computer to prepare the materials, she “scared” the leaders and was fired directly.
Lei Li once felt her life was “trapped” in her sister’s case, to the age of 26 has not been in love, until through the hometown group met her current husband, things have changed. Her husband asked her out to play, bought her a computer, encouraged her to take various exams, and also supported her in seeking justice for her sister.
For years, Leilong has also been working outside, he also wanted to contribute to his sister’s case, but did not know how to start. Lei Long always felt that it was a shame for him that his sister was killed in that way. The family has always been unable to lift their heads in the village, no face, the family out of the youngest daughter was raped and killed, every time you go back, the village people have to ask, the killer caught.
After enduring a decade of talk in his hometown, in 2015, Lei Baodong died because of a car accident. Lei Long remembered that his father had told him that if Lei Qiaolan was still on earth, she should also be with her brother and sister in general high. Later, every time Lei Long went to his parents’ grave, standing in front of the grave, he could not help but ask: “Can you tell me in a dream, who is the murderer of my sister?”
Thirteen years, Lei Li from the logistics company clerk all the way to the boss, set up his own logistics company, bought a number of properties in Shenzhen. Leilong also in the sister’s help, in Guangzhou mortgage bought a house, running their own truck business. Both siblings have formed their own families, have children, but they can not forget the little sister Lei Qiaolan.
Lei Long and Lei Li once felt that finding the killer was a “luxury” until 2020, when they received a call from the Jiangxi police.
June 3, 2020, Shangrao City Public Security Bureau Institute of Criminal Science and Technology to Guangfeng District Criminal Police Brigade feedback: through the Y-STR criminal science and technology test comparison, found that the “March 26, 2005 rape case” in the scene of the biological samples left behind in the community of Guan Tong, Guangfeng District, under the Creek Street, the Zeng family male left. The police through the investigation, found that the family of Zeng Shuliang has a major suspicion of the crime. 2020 June 9 night, Guangfeng District Criminal Police Brigade will be arrested Zeng Shuliang, while the collection of biological samples of Zeng Shuliang sent for testing. After interrogation, Zeng Shuliang truthfully confessed to the crime of rape. The next day, the public security authorities on Zeng Shuliang criminal detention.
The murder of Lei Qiaolan became clear, according to the first trial verdict, at the end of December 2004, Lei Qiaolan was taken from his hometown, introduced to Jiangxi Guangfeng a man surnamed Liu as his wife. 24 March 2005, Lei Qiaolan escaped from the Liu family. In the evening of the same day, Lei Qiaolan met in the local yellow car pulling Zeng Shuliang.
Zeng Shuliang confessed that he thought he had a customer to pull, so he rode close to Lei Qiaolan. After approaching, Lei Qiaolan asked him if there was a hotel nearby where he could spend the night, she had no money on her. Zeng Shuliang heard Lei Qiaolan said is Mandarin, hands and carry a few bags, obviously foreigners, so the idea of wanting to have sex with Lei Qiaolan. Zeng Shuliang later lied about taking Lei Qiaolan to a hotel for the night, so she got into his yellow car.
At 8pm that night, Zeng Shuliang took Lei Qiaolan to a secluded place he was familiar with and tricked Lei Qiaolan into getting out of the car, hugged her and tried to take off her pants. Lei Qiaolan shouted “help”, Zeng Shuliang worried about being heard, with the left hand covered Lei Qiaolan’s mouth and nose, so that it can not make a sound.
After a few minutes, Lei Qiaolan no longer struggle, the body is also soft. Zeng Shuliang let go of his hand, Lei Qiaolan fell to the ground. Zeng Shuliang said he used his hand to test Lei Qiaolan’s nose, that she had broken off, but still raped Lei Qiaolan. After that, Zeng Shuliang pulled Lei Qiaolan to the river’s railings gap, unhooked the yellow car on the wire, Lei Qiaolan and her bag tied together, pushed into the water, and fled the scene.
Two days after the crime, Zeng Shuliang is still pulling yellow cabs near the Guangfeng District. At one point he was stopped by the police when picking up customers and asked to identify the photo of Lei Qiaolan’s remains. At that time, Zeng Shuliang denied that he had ever seen the girl.
“I don’t want to care about that person’s death anymore.”
The former wife, Pan Fengxian, said she had Shuliang “hate to the bone”, “if he could be shot, I no longer want to care about that person’s life or death.”
Pan Fengxian was born in a local peasant family in Guangfeng, did not read a few years, in addition to their names, so far can not write a few words. A few decades ago, parents think, back from the military Zeng Shuliang, after all, should not be “messy”, and arranged for Pan Fengxian to marry Zeng Shuliang.
Pan Fengxian said she gave birth to two sons and a daughter for Zeng Shuliang, but Zeng Shuliang never gave the family a penny. Pan Fengxian had to go out to work. She worked in a factory in Zhejiang, and also did babysitting for other people’s families, all the way to the son into the university.
“When I saw him, he would beat me”, in Pan Fengxian’s memory, what could not be erased was the repeated domestic violence against her by Zeng Shuliang, who had told her that he hated her. Her arm had been broken by Zeng Shuliang, “my son was also beaten by him, so my son does not want to mention him to this day.”
Her father had advised Pan Fengxian to divorce Zeng Shuliang, but because she couldn’t let go of her children, she chose to endure for the time being, “I’m getting through it day by day, and it’s been very hard.”
Eventually, Pan Fengxian still divorced Zeng Shuliang, and took her children to live elsewhere. Now, Pan Fengxian is in a foreign son’s home with her grandson. The recent situation of Zeng Shuliang, she has no idea, “in my heart, Zeng Shuliang is just a very hard-hearted person.”
“It’s good that he died all of a sudden,” she said Zeng Shuliang harmed himself and his son, but at the end of the interview, she couldn’t help but ask, “How is he now?”
According to Yang Kegao, the head of the villagers in the community where Zeng Shuliang lives, Zeng Shuliang’s yellow car business stopped a long time ago, and in recent years, his respiratory disease has become more and more serious, and he can no longer go hauling passengers.
In Yang Kegao’s opinion, Zeng Shuliang usually do not talk much, personality is relatively strong, but also relatively eccentric, rarely deal with people. Yang Kegao heard early on that Zeng Shuliang beat his wife and children, but because it was a family matter, it was not good to intervene too much, and later learned that the couple had divorced.
At the end of 2020, the first trial of the case through remote video court, that was the first time Lei Long and Lei Li met Zeng Shuliang. Despite the poor video signal, Lei Long recalled Zeng Shuliang’s large size and high nose, impressed, “looks like a very fierce person.”
Lei Li also remembers that Zeng Shuliang said in court that he would be well reformed in prison and strive for an early release, as if he was certain he would not be sentenced to death. In the case of the passion fruit girl who was also raped and killed by an underage girl, the murderer, Yang Guangyi, made a gesture of shooting himself in court, as if he was “determined to die”. In comparison, Lei Li’s heart felt very complicated.
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