Xiufeng Forest Farm, 52.49 degrees North latitude, the northernmost point of China.
Train timetable, there is no embroidery peak this station name. Railways in the Greater Hinggan Mountains were built mainly to mine virgin forests to transport timber. The mohe to Tahe section is roughly parallel to the border 100 kilometers away, and most of the stations are “commuter points” like Xiufeng, a record of the logging industry’s glory days.
“What are you doing here? Embroider the peak what all have no.” A commuter rail worker looked incredulous.
On the afternoon of January 11, 2017, the temperature is minus 26 degrees centigrade, the sight is full of snow, bleak and loose birch forest, the wire across the sky, the adobe house with the scarlet roof, we came here.
On April 1, 2015, the Government issued the “ban on logging”, which ended the 63-year logging history in The Greater Hinggan Mountains. The industry pattern of “one tree stands for a day” in the forest region was completely overturned, and a large number of forest farms rapidly declined.
This winter, dozens of residents remain in Xiufeng, the town’s former seat of government, with few chimneys belching from their camp-like homes. There are few people on the path, blue snow connected with the blue sky, from early autumn to the deep winter snow, until the summer will fade.
“Say who you want, and I’ll call you.” Lao Li of the concession stand said he knew all the people left here.
“Ding Zhiquan? He left long ago and has settled down in Guangdong. He will not come back.”
“Xu You? A few days ago, went to qinhuangdao daughter’s home to spend the New Year, may come back in spring.”
Zhang Lun, described by Lao Li as a tall, thin, handsome man who killed a man in a fight and served 16 years in prison, got married and left after his release. “It is not clear whether he will work in the Tahe river or go to the south to work.” Lao Li obviously had reservations. After a while, he added: “Since Zhang Lun was released, it means he had nothing to do with the Ding murder.”
Lao Li’s family has long since moved to The Tahe river, but there is nothing to do there. Xiufeng this small shop in the end is a business, so a family here looking at the stall, ready to go.
Ding family old third Ding Zhiyou still stay in xiufeng, the current job is to clean up the “loggers” forest farm residual waste wood, he said, living alone where there is not too much difference.
Through the frozen snow, Ding zhiyou points to the ruins of what was once his new home. Sixteen years apart, two of the Ding family’s daughters-in-law died here. In addition to the equally gruesome deaths, the two cases remain unsolved.
‘It wasn’t because it was a haunted house,’ Mr. Ding said. ‘It was just too old to be lived in.’ But he looked at the ruins of the soft eyes, as if here is still the most beautiful town xiufeng house.
Xiufeng police station director Zheng Yafeng confirmed that After Zhang Lun was released from prison in 2008, he soon got married and moved away. Lao Li is reluctant to say more, but he does have practical concerns. The killings have also been taboo for local police.
The lame and the drunkard
In 1992, the forestry economy was booming.
Daxing ‘anling Forest Group Corporation is the only enterprise directly under the State Forestry Administration, and Daxing ‘anling Administrative Office is accredited by heilongjiang provincial government.
In ancient times, tahe was named “Small Gushi”, which means “abundant water and grass” in Olunchun. Camphor pine, larch and birch are the main tree species here. In the 1980s and 1990s, tahe county was extremely prosperous due to forestry mining. Depending on timber marketing and transportation, hotels and restaurants were all built up, and even the red-light district was famous everywhere.
“You can pull a truck from the mountains for a thousand dollars.” Back then, the taxi driver’s eyes glisten, “The taxi does not like to pull people, a few pieces of wood to send chopsticks factory than pull people to make money.
It was also ding Zhiquan’s happiest time.
Ding Zhiquan was disabled by polio when he was young, and the nickname “Ding Cripple” stayed with him for the rest of his life. Also because of disability, the college entrance examination was not qualified brush, employment units are not willing to accept, repeatedly hit.
But by virtue of having culture, be willing to work hard, 1992, just passed and the ding Zhiquan of 30 years old already became the deputy factory director of the embroider peak integrated processing plant with best benefit, marry Yuan Lihua is wife, live in the house that decorates the most beautiful in the street, also be the figure with a head and head in place.
Despite his physical disability, ding Zhiquan, the eldest son of the family, remained the pillar of the family. Parents and brothers settled home in Xiufeng town, two younger brothers and a younger sister’s job are arranged well, even the wife of rural household registration, also all received Xiufeng town.
Four younger sister Ding Zhihua says, the registered permanent residence of yuan Lihua oneself and parents is bought with money, yuan Lihua’s job is bought with money, even yuan Lihua’s younger brother goes to the university to look for a job to also want to spend, “her younger sister changes farm to do registered permanent residence 2500 yuan already paid, still did not fall on…”
Years later, Ding still stressed that as a disabled person, it is not easy to start a family. After seven years of marriage, he has done his best to help his wife’s family, “which is natural and obvious to all.”
But the two are not without friction. It is said that the daughter-in-law carrying Ding Zhiquan to her family mail money, was once seen by Ding Zhiquan. Ding Zhiquan to daughter-in-law showdown: “I am not regardless of your home, but you can’t back me.” Daughter-in-law stubborn, not admit mistakes. The matter escalated from a quarrel to a fight.
Of course, ding zhiquan’s family is generally harmonious and belongs to the “upper class society” in the town.
Xiufeng Forest Farm, 52.49 degrees North latitude, the northernmost point of China. Xiufeng Forest Farm, 52.49 degrees North latitude, the northernmost point of China.
The town’s Zhang Chunsheng home is the other extreme.
Many say that Zhang chunsheng, nicknamed Zhang Balding, loves to drink. Woodland men do not love to drink, but “love to drink” as a character description, it implies “no ability”, “alcoholic” meaning.
Zhang Chunsheng is an electrician whose main job is to repair poles. He has two daughters and a son, the eldest daughter Zhang Feng, the second daughter Zhang Ping and the youngest son Zhang Lun.
Zhang Chunsheng and the same love to drink cui Wei when comrades, after turning to the forest farm more intimate relationship, often drunk together. However, Zhang Chunsheng only left a love to drink, and Cui Wei to drink out of the fame: “the son to solve the work, he took the bomb bag on the compound said to blow up the army captain, a few days after everything was resolved”; “In the New Year season, Lao Cui’s head is carrying two fish. Big officials give big fish, small officials give small fish.
Different people tell the story of Trevi’s life in different ways. Some people guess that Lao Cui head has a backer, some people say that Lao Cui head is with dare to do, and some people say that Lao Cui head is nosy, always can catch the small handle of an official, an official is really afraid of him.
Therefore, when Cui Wei moved his family to Pine Ridge, xiu Feng people think that an official gave him a better life: “Lao Cui tou wants to move, the official sent a car for him, dare not say no.”
killing
On February 20, 1992, the fate of some residents of Xiufeng town was changed forever.
The Spring Festival in The Greater Khingan Mountains is particularly long. After the Lantern Festival, there is the “People’s Day”, or “people’s Day” : the seventh day corresponds to children, seventeen corresponds to adults, and twenty-seven corresponds to the elderly. It is said that people can use noodles to “tie” their legs, so as to keep their families healthy, prolong their lives and live longer.
One renshen year on the 17th lunar month, after the first day of work, four sister Ding Zhihua at noon back to mother Han Fengyun home to eat “day noodles”, and about the sister-in-law went to the town after work to take a bath.
The person that is familiar with Ding Jia can shout Ding Zhihua “floret”, shout Yuan Lihua “big flower”. Sister-in-law is similar in age, xiaohua face thin, two short eyebrows under the eyes narrowed into a seam. She was a new mother with a child of just over five months. Ding Chao, the daughter of Yuan Lihua and Ding Zhiquan, was already in school and living with her grandmother, Han Fengyun. Even though the two houses were only a hundred metres apart.
On that day, Yuan Lihua wore a red sweater, gold earrings and a watch on his wrist, which was popular at that time. The house where Yuan Lihua and Ding Zhiquan live is very ostentatious in the town. After the house was built, Ben said it would be ding laosan’s wedding house, which was later given to the eldest brother. At that time, they had lived in it for only about two months. The house was about a hundred square meters, carefully decorated, with the most luxurious ornate boards of the present day, the whole house was covered with marble lines, the room had been installed with a bathtub, and the sewer had not yet been installed. Most of the house decoration by the unit, Ding Zhiquan only for the board money out of 7000.
Ding Zhihua said that after the shower two people go home, and did not feel any different.
On winter nights in the Greater Hinggan Mountains, families close their doors early. But because it is the first day of work, Ding Zhiquan and other comprehensive processing plant leaders gathered together a table of mahjong, play late into the night.
The weather was cloudless, the moon shone on the snow, and the earth was crystal clear. Spread the ding Zhiquan of mahjong field child and workmate Li Youping go home together, two people walk chat. At the corner of Dongfanghong Street, Li Youping turned in the opposite direction to Ding Zhiquan. Ding limped up a hill on his way home alone, concentrating on the icy road. Three passersby loomed past him quickly.
Ding Zhiquan later recounted, he returned home after the discovery of the abnormal, hurried to the parents’ home 100 meters away, on the way to see his wife Yuan Lihua covered in blood fell on the roadside. Ding said he knocked on the door of the nearest factory secretary, Liu Rukui, and the dog barked a few times, but no one came out. Then he ran to his parents’ house behind Liu Rukui’s and knocked the door open and ran into the house. Wait for old couple to put on good clothes, come roadside a see, Yuan Lihua already gave up breath. Ding Zhiquan then ran to Liu Rukui home phone alarm again.
But his story was discredited.
The public Security Bureau of Tahe County later wrote in its complaint as follows:
Ding came home at about 22:30 on February 20, 1992, after playing mahjong with others at work. Ding had an argument with his lover Yuan Lihua. Ding slapped Yuan Erji in the face. After fellow gathers up to the front yard in the barn, butyl horse stool from inside the barn the door pick up the dagger (not find dagger) will be stabbed, yuan yuan from becoming a monk, from the roadway in the north and the south on the northern side of the house is ding, ding with knives to the yuan’s face, neck, chest, back, arms and legs and even more than 50 knife, later, dean’s legs and grabbed yuan back drag is 6.9 meters.
In less than half an hour the town police arrived. Unable to explore the scene at night, the police asked Lao Ding home for a quilt, covering the body above, leaving a few guards to watch.
Ding Zhiquan was taken to the police station for writing.
He never came back. When he finally looked back, he saw his wife bending over the snow, her coat covered with frost and snow.
The lawyer got caught
As one of only two lawyers in Tahe County, Wang Yunhua was then a state functionary.
By the time he took over the case, “Ding Zhiquan killed his wife” had become a household name in the area. 48 days after the incident, tahe TELEVISION’s “Tahe News” rolling broadcast: “Tahe County public Security Bureau cracked a huge murder! Under the powerful offensive of the public security organs, Ding Zhiquan finally acknowledged that he was the murderer who killed Yuan Lihua…”
As a result of the huge impact of the case, the local joint task force was set up. After the case was solved, in addition to the public Security Bureau was commended, a number of officers from different departments of meritorious service and promotion. Local lawyers are not willing to “participate” in such “iron case”, the first trial, Ding Zhiquan invited an old mudanjiang lawyer.
In mid-July 1993, When Wang Yunhua, who was on duty in the unit, received Ding Zhihua’s brother and sister, he did not know that the case had been pronounced. The Ding family is sorry to say that they have no choice but to find her: there are only two days left before the family can get the verdict, so it is too late for them to go to other places for a lawyer. They know that Tahe County Law Office is the judicial branch of the government like the public prosecutor’s law, so they just ask the lawyer to write an appeal to avoid delaying the deadline of appeal.
After reading the verdict and listening to the narration of ding’s brother and sister, Wang Yunhua felt that the lawyer’s experience made the case doubtful: “A murder with such a bad influence was sentenced to death with a reprieve? And a reprieve and a cry for redress?”
Wang Yunhua accepted the commission of ding’s brother and sister and collected 150 yuan of lawyer’s fee.
But he didn’t just write an appeal.
Wang Yunhua Ding Zhiquan meeting, to examine the case files, an inquest, after questioning the witnesses at the scene, to the heilongjiang province high court filed a “word Ding Zhiquan no crime time as the core” of justification: many witnesses and evidence, Ding Zhiquan workers with their colleagues Li Youping separate 30 minutes at a time of 10, ran to the parents home to 10 to 50 points, disabled he will not be finished in 20 minutes “walk home, quarrel quarrel, fighting crime, drag the corpse, home away a weapon, ran to the parents’ house” a series of behavior; In addition, Yuan Lihua was stabbed 57 times all over his body, with only 10 wounds on his left upper limb. The red sweater fell off to his shoulder, and his trousers, knees and the ground were all covered with blood. After removing the body, there was a pool of 20 cm of blood. In addition, the prosecution also did not provide blood clothes, weapons and other important physical evidence.
The Heilongjiang Provincial High Court accepted Wang Yunhua’s defense opinion and sent the case back to the Greater Hinggan Mountains Intermediate Court for retrial on the grounds of “unclear facts”.
Before hearing again, the case produces major change however.
Ms. Wang said she had received information that Mr. Zhang, who is serving time in prison, confessed to killing Ms. Yuan when he confessed to the rest of the crime. She tried to verify, then went to the prison of Tai to zhang Lun, but did not see Zhang Lun, only the prison guard confirmed zhang Lun’s account; She again toss and turn in the detention house found because of theft arrested zhang Lun “iron brothers” Zhao Xianfeng, Zhao Xianfeng issued testimony confirmed that Zhang Lun had recounted to him the process of killing Yuan Lihua.
At this point, Wang Yunhua thinks that “Ding Zhiquan killed his wife case” will be the truth. After she mailed the evidence to the Heilongjiang High Court, she put the matter behind her.
However, more than a year later, on April 18, 1995, with ding Zhiquan’s case still unclear, Wang Yunhua was criminally detained and subsequently approved for arrest.
Public security organs believe that Wang Yunhua suspected of the crime, through the way of buying, let Zhang Lun ding Zhiquan take the blame. “Wang Yunhua was the mud taken out by the Public security bureau during the supplementary investigation into Ding Zhiquan’s murder,” said the then head of Tahe County’s public security bureau.
In April 1995, tahe County Public Security Bureau and Procuratorate sent five people to Songling District detention center for investigation. Yu Yunxing, the warden, said that around the Spring Festival of 1993, a woman lawyer and a man from Tahe County came to meet Zhang Lun with a letter of recommendation from the law firm. Investigators produced photos of the female lawyer at The Tahe County law Firm, and police identified Wang Yunhua as the director of the Songling District detention center. When zhang was interrogated by the public security Bureau, Zhang confessed that a man in a black leather jacket about 1.8 meters high had sent him a letter, asking him to admit that Ding Zhiquan’s wife, Yuan Lihua, had been killed. The letter was not convenient for him to keep in custody, so he tore it up. Zhang Lun said, When Wang Yunhua met him, he asked: Did you read the letter you sent? Do you agree? Zhang replied that he agreed. According to the public Security Bureau, When Wang Yunhua went to tahe County detention center to meet with detained Zhao Jian, he induced Zhao jianfeng to say that Zhang Lun had told him that he was the one who killed Yuan.
— Adapted from the Report on the Arrest of Lawyer Wang Yunhua by the Justice Bureau of the Greater Hinggan Mountains Administration
Mr. Wang was first detained in Tahe Detention center before being transferred to the Xinlin Detention Center in the Greater Hinggan Mountains five months later. It was late autumn when wang Yunhua was escorted to the hospital. The Greater Hinggan Mountains were already in winter. Wang Yunhua wore little clothes and had a history of heart disease. The condition was aggravated by the poor conditions and the lack of supplies and medicines. to xinlin after two days, Wang Yunhua again received the transfer notice, went to The Jiagedaqi detention center, then, and changed to the Qiqihar detention center.
Mr. Wang has always refused to plead guilty. In the early spring of the second year, he was taken back to the tahe detention center.
Suspects and death row
At the Tahe detention center, Wang Yunhua met her agent.
At this time she just know, he was caught a few months later, ding family family in addition to the second Ding Zhifa lucky escape to the field, and illiterate father Ding Yueshe, mother Han Fengyun, younger sister Ding Zhihua, two daughter-in-law Zhang Shuqin, old ding Zhiyou and three daughter-in-law Shang Shufang were arrested, the charges are suspected of the same crime of protection with Wang Yunhua.
The report issued by the police said that the Ding family in order to escape the crime for Ding Zhiquan, bribed the lawyer Wang Yunhua, Tahe detention center wu Haichun and Songling detention center surnamed discipline, instigate because of intentional injury of the death of zhang Lun replaced the crime of killing Yuan Lihua.
In a transcript of the interview, Zhang said:
After arriving at the classroom, Wu said to consult with you about something. He said ding Zhiquan killed his daughter-in-law, is for Ding Zhiquan to come, you need not be afraid. I’ll tell you what. He said you take the blame for Ding Zhiquan, after the matter is completed, his family to your good. I don’t know what to say about his family. I don’t know how to take the rap. He gave me a piece of paper and said, you just do what it says, if you ask me anything else, you can’t remember.
I asked him when, here or in a few days, and he told me to speak when I was in prison. I asked him whether he would give me more punishment when I was in prison. Wu said that he would not give me more punishment when I was in prison. Besides, you are not old enough. He also told me that you must hide the note and that no one should know about it, and I said yes.
Wu Haichun was also put into the tahe detention center, suffered. Detainees in the detention center most hate discipline, Wu Haichun, after entering, became the same inmates vent object, “let him kneel, and then beaten, insulted.”
The people of the ding family have been put away, leaving only the old mother Han Fengyun and little sister Ding Zhihua was arrested after a long term detention. Han Fengyun is old, the detention center pity her, allow her to sit cross-legged, arranged her cleaning work, more space than others.
With this advantage, Han fengyun can offer some help to other detainees. Later, accusing Ding and Wang Yunhua of one of the witnesses zhao Xianfeng was also escorted back to the Tahe detention center, Han Fengyun very take care of him, gave him a sweater to keep out the cold.
While Han Fengyun and Wang Yunhua were still in detention, on 19 August 1996, the Intermediate Court of Greater Hinggan Mountains pronounced the sentence of “Ding Zhiquan’s murder of his wife” on the first instance, and this time the death penalty was executed immediately.
Send punishment wine to drink, heilongjiang high court sends decision book again however, still with “the fact is not clear” ground is sent back greater Xing ‘an Ling area intermediate court is retried.
A bloodletter
Han Fengyun hoped That Zhao Xianfeng can tell the truth about the tragic death of his daughter-in-law, also his son innocent.
Day after day, Zhao Xianfeng unexpectedly how many had some to move, painted the appearance of the murder weapon in the prison, said to have seen from zhang Lun. Later, he secretly gave Han Fengyun a group of note, Han Fengyun opened a look, is a letter of blood.
Ding Niang: Ok. Zhang Lun came here in August of ’93. Here are two letters, brought back together. One is zhang Lun wrote, one is the reform-through-labor team police wrote, the main content of the letter is, Zhang Lun in the reform-through-labor team thought pressure is big, through the reform-through-labor team police patiently education and help, just put… Tell me about it…
Hold court of what I say you also know, this a few days bureau chief wants to come me again with them good talk. If I can see the director, I’ll tell him. He’s probably coming these days.
Ding Niang, you need proof. I’ll testify when the time comes. I can prove that Zhang did it. Because he told me in May, 1992, now I am the only one in the know is an outsider, Zhang Balding is here, his son is in the reform-through labor team, The Zhangs also have a daughter-in-law, two daughters, so this case…
When Zhang Lun committed the crime was wearing a set of horse pants, clothes are all blood, his sister to wash. This police station can find out. Then Zhang Lun finished his work and hid the knife under the floor in his courtyard. In 1993, Zhang Balzi found a knife, now I do not know whether there are, I have seen that knife, Zhang Lun finished the case, his father sent him and his sister to songling district where Old Cui Tou, where he killed others sentenced to life imprisonment, to the reform-through-labour team he confessed the case, also reported me for a lot of crimes.
Butyl niang, the case for such a long time, also is not so easy to check, if you want to do good, don’t light meaning to make a decision, this article can’t call others to see, and I also don’t think so, all I want to say that (which) that (which) you want to tell, now also can’t say that, if they don’t put people how to do, my case can be finished by the end this year. You may know that I’m facing the death penalty, and if your case isn’t complete by then, death will never tell. This bar is not going to do anything.
Zhang Lun’s family doesn’t… Lao Cui head also knows to (road) this, so Lao Cui head return root (hate) his daughter, so Zhang Baldzi kill a person to kill a mouth, July 20 a few kill Lao Cui head, in August he and the police of reform-through-labour team come, say there he confessed all crime, murder and steal.
Don’t worry, Ding Niang. If someone comes to check on me, I still have a lot to prove, zhang Lun killed the person, I will also say Zhang Baldness killed Cui. Tell me all that I know.
Actually, I told you the truth… I have told you that it has come to this. I think your case will be a long time before I make a decision. I don’t understand what you are saying. I will remember what I wrote to you in the future. Also by long (often) beat and scold me, I…… It was a plot to kill Mr. Cui’s head.
Don’t worry, Ding Niang. Gaofa, I told him (again), I have a solution
Ding Niang, thank you for your concern for me. It’s nothing to die. I’ve been open for a long time.
Zhang Lun he is in Heilongjiang province Tai lai new student automobile factory a brigade 2 squadron, this we public security bureau all know to (road), public security bureau also visited 2 times to look for Zhang Lun, other nothing.
Zhang Lun he (already) in labor reform sincere confession (admission), he now do not want to sincere confession (admission), he was afraid to bring back the death penalty, other more talk, I wish Ding Niang as soon as possible until innocent home.
Another story
In the incoherent, misspelled blood letter, Mr. Zhao tells a different story than the court’s decision.
Xiufeng town, Zhang Lun has a lot of stalking brothers. Zhao Xianfeng is Zhang Lun’s “brother”, they and cui Jiufeng of the son of old Cui head relation also is very iron, a few people often meet together steal, crouch a son — in their opinion, the man that did not crouch a son does not have ability, even when talking about marriage talk to marry also very hard be liked by the girl.
Zhao Xianfeng took a fancy to the second sister of Zhang Lun, this lets Zhang Lun and Zhao Xianfeng’s relation also more subtle. Two people have repeatedly planned to ding home theft, because Ding Zhiquan is a factory director, the house is built conspicuous.
The path where Yuan Lihua died leads to Ding’s mother’s house in front and the couple’s new house in the back, which is the haunted house. Both houses have now been knocked down. The path where Yuan Lihua died leads to Ding’s mother’s house in front and the couple’s new house in the back, which is the haunted house. Both houses have now been knocked down.
On the night of the 17th lunar month, Zhang Lun drank a little wine and took a boning knife with him and went straight to Ding Zhiquan’s home. He went into the courtyard, bent over the window to look, yuan Lihua alone at home.
Zhang Lun wants to wait for Ding Zhiquan to come back, kill Ding Zhiquan first, enter the house to kill his wife again, then whole money again. But more than half an hour passed, Ding Zhiquan did not come back. Zhang Lun can not wait any longer, go knocking at the door of ding’s house, Yuan Lihua asks, “Who is it?”
“I want to speak to director Ding, something.”
“He’s not at home. Come back another day.”
Zhang Lun saw her concern and said quickly, “I am a child.” He stood under the window again, his knife tucked under his crotch for Yuan Lihua to see. Yuan Lihua looked and opened the door.
As soon as the door opened, Zhang pressed her shoulder. “Where’s the money?” she asked with a knife. To frighten her, Zhang began to cut Yuan’s face and hands with a knife.
Yuan Lihua was afraid, pointed to a few places at will, want to take advantage of zhang Lun turn over money when escape. But Zhang Lun keeps the heart, after discovering to be cheated more furious. Yuan Lihua had to say that the money was in a box in the barn.
Came to the barn, zhang Lun intuition such broken box is impossible to save money, did not go to turn over, again pressed Yuan Lihua. Yuan added, outside in the firewood pyre. Zhang Lun took Yuan’s shoulder to go toward firewood pyretic walk, Yuan Lihua breaks loose suddenly, run to go out quickly, and loudly shout, help, kill, rob!
Zhang Lun carries the knife to chase, jilted a knife to stab yuan Lihua’s left waist. And he saw her falling to the ground, and stabbing continually at her loins and at her bosom. To prevent Yuan Lihua to escape again, Zhang Lun pierced her eye. Two cuts in each eye.
Yuan Lihua leaned over in the snow, breathing faintly. Zhang tried to drag her into the house so that she would not be found. But suddenly there was a sound of footsteps behind them, and a figure moved in this direction. Zhang took to his heels.
When he got home, his father, Zhang Chunsheng, was watching TV. Zhang Lun put the knife in the yard, there is blood on the knife. Later, Zhang lun left the knife under the gate.
Zhang Lun’s blood clothes were washed by elder sister Zhang Feng.
Zhang Lun could not conceal the murder from his family. when he heard that the next day also went to the scene to see the police move the body, Zhang Chunsheng was shocked, quickly arranged to accompany him to escape to songling old comrade Cui Wei home.
Cui Wei has Zhang Lun’s friend Cui Jiufeng at home, so he is very comfortable in Pine Ridge.
More than confess sin
The police investigation and evidence collection lasted for forty or fifty days.
During that period of time, yuan vacated the empty house, to find a place to live in the embroidery peak investigation of the police. And the Yuan and Ding families have been torn. Ding Zhihua said: “is it the eldest brother who killed, the public security bureau is there to check, you don’t always bite him! Ding Chao also needs to be taken care of. The child has no mother, so she has no father?” Yuan’s family responded: “My eyes are gone, don’t have eye sockets!”
After 11 days of the wake, Yuan insisted that Ding Lao Er fell into the mourning basin. According to etiquette, should be by the children fall mourning basin, meaning filial piety. The relatives of the “murderer” took the fall on his behalf, showing reparation and penitence.
“Ding Zhiquan killed his wife case” was handled by the police into the “iron case” the news from embroidery peak to Pine ridge, Zhang Lun and his family hanging heart gradually put down. However, the cui Wei that learns inside information came to have a fancy to zhang Lun however elder sister Zhang Feng, buckle not to let her return embroider peak. They were more than thirty years old apart, but Cui Wei said that Zhang Feng would not be his wife, he went to report Zhang Lun. Zhang Feng gave in and obediently waited on Cui Wei in Pine Ridge.
The quiet days were less than a year. One day in the autumn, the beautiful Zhang Feng in the pine ridge street was molested, Zhang Lun immediately picked up the knife stabbed each other.
This time the case was clear and simple. Zhang Lun was caught and, as a minor, sentenced to life imprisonment on 21 December 1992 for intentional injury resulting in death, and was sent to Tailai Prison to serve his sentence.
In prison, it is an important job to excavate the remnants of crimes by means of family affection and legal education. Under these circumstances, Zhang confessed to prison guards in mid-July 1993 that yuan Lihua, the victim of ding Zhiquan’s murder of his wife, had been killed by him.
case major, Tai lai prison police comfort Zhang Lun said at the time of the crime he was a minor will not be further sentenced, while quickly with the ta River police to verify contact.
Zhang then wrote a letter to his father, Zhang Chunsheng, telling him that he would confess the matter and not worry about it. The prison said it would protect him without additional punishment. Zhang Chunsheng is literate not much, ask neighbour make friend to read, “Zhang Lun is to kill yuan Lihua true murderer” the news spreads in embroider peak from this.
Lawyer Wang Yunhua learned of this situation, went to the prison to find Zhang Lun, did not see. Xiu Peak to find Xu You, Xu you told her two insider is Cui Wei and Zhao Xianfeng.
Wang Yunhua asked people to find Cui Wei, the local police station found that he has been missing for several months. again because of theft was held in detention center Zhao Xianfeng was very easy to find, Wang Yunhua gave him recorded testimony.
It was this testimony that opened the door for Wang Yunhua to live in the detention center.
The death of Old Tritou
The Wang Yunhua that changes detain frequently in different detention house does not know, the action that she looks for Cui Wei to come, still opened another murder case.
Zhang Lun was sentenced to prison soon, Zhang Feng left pine ridge, secretly ran back to embroider peak home. Cui Wei sent her several messages to return to Songling, probably because he thought Zhang Lun was in prison and Cui could no longer blackmail her. Zhang Chunsheng and Zhang Feng ignored him.
In desperation, Cui Wei to personally arrived at xiufeng, looking for Zhang Chunsheng VIP.
In the spring of 1993, Cui Wei appeared in the town of Xiufeng which had not been seen for a long time. He greeted his acquaintances affectionately and said loudly that he wanted to drink with his comrade Zhang Balzi.
But Instead of going directly to Zhang’s house, Cui went to Ding’s first. Several people who saw Trevi were impressed by his big, creaking boots.
Years later, the second brother of the Ding family recalled that Cui Wei came to the house and shouted, “If you ask your mother to buy me a drink, I will tell you who killed the Daughter-in-law.” Before he knew it, Trevi was striding away. Ding Lao Er was only joking but did not take it to heart. I didn’t see Trevi for a long time, and the matter was gradually forgotten.
Just a few days ago, Zhao Xianfeng escaped from prison. After two days in the mountain, the cat stopped living and also came to Drink at Zhang Chunsheng’s house. The Zhangs have a rare collection of two sons-in-law. According to Zhao’s account of ding’s family at the detention center, Zhang’s killing of Cui Wei was “premeditated murder to silence”, but the judgment only concluded that a “trivial quarrel” had arisen.
That night, all three drank too much, or only Trevi came to drink too much. Talking about Zhang Lun and Zhang Feng, Zhang Chunsheng and Cui Wei lai exchanged insults and then fought. Zhang Chunsheng strangled Cui Wei, and Zhao Xianfeng together with a rope to hang him to the beam. The body was buried in the corn field in the backyard of the Zhang family.
In the Greater Hinggan Mountains, a missing person would not attract much attention. It wasn’t until Wang Yunhua visited songling police and Cui’s family that they thought of looking for him.
By the time zhang Chunsheng was locked in the case, it had been more than half a year since Cui Wei’s death.
Many residents of Xiufeng town went to watch the police dig the body. It was so cold that the earth froze, so the police piled up straw on the ground, burning and digging, digging for a day and a night.
When the body was dug out, it was too scorched to recognize its face. But embroider peak person recognizes the pair of thick big leather boots on corpse foot, it is old cui head.
Before that, Zhao Xianfeng went through the process of being captured, giving Testimony to Wang Yunhua, and then escaping from prison. From the thief to murder suspect, the police this time to his extraordinary attention, “harboring suspect” charges arrested his sister-in-law, forced him to surrender.
Zhao xianfeng, who almost made his home in the detention center, never left it.
Lawyer who
Mr. Wang was held for 736 days.
According to the justice of the big xingan mountain area, to heilongjiang province on August 5, 1995 reports of justice and the all China lawyers association, the case of tahe county public security bureau and tahe’s procuratorate jointly handling, caught after Wang Yunhua, want to press the embezzlement crime, but after asking, because lawyers are not of the judicial personnel, eventually procuratorate according to the crime of concealing the murder. ‘
Tahe procuratorate identified Wang Yunhua committed the crime of concealing the murder for main fact that long before as Ding Zhiquan defenders in February 1993, Wang Yunhua met ays to pine ridge jail, “zhang admitted killing Yuan Lihua embroidered peak is he instigated by”, the evidence was ays of confession, ays to Wang Yunhua to identify the record’s testimony, as well as the pine ridge, director of the detention house, the guards recognize Wang Yunhua met ays’s testimony and etc.
In order to prove this “main fact”, police from tahe County public Security Bureau questioned Wang Yunhua repeatedly about how many times she had been to songling detention center, which puzzled her.
The haunted house was razed to the ground, leaving only snowdrifts. The haunted house was razed to the ground, leaving only snowdrifts.
The investigation by the Greater Hinggan Mountains Justice Bureau concluded that Wang Yunhua had visited Songling detention center only once in the summer of 1993, when Zhang Had been sent to Tailai prison to serve his sentence. Wang Yunhua went to Tailai prison, but the prison refused to meet him on the grounds that he was neither an agent nor a relative. The conclusion: Wang Yunhua had never met Zhang Lun.
But the Tahe county public Security bureau and the Tahe County Prosecutor’s office stood by their conclusions, twice trying to take Wang Yunhua to court and twice being turned back by the Greater Hinggan District Court.
Finally, under the continuous attention of the Greater Hinggan Ling Justice Bureau and the Heilongjiang Provincial Bar Association, Wang Yunhua was released on bail on April 25, 1997, pending trial.
Ding zhiquan’s younger sister, Ding Zhihua, was released on bail of 2,000 yuan on March 8, 1996 and held for 160 days. Ding’s mother, Han Fengyun, was also released on bail of 2,000 yuan on May 7, 1997 and held for 587 days.
Han Fengyun did not wait until Ding Zhiquan was released from prison and died, but the hands of zhao Xianfeng blood she thought that the case has been exposed, the eldest son’s grievances will be cleared.
But she was wrong. On September 26, 1998, the Intermediate Court of Greater Hinggan Mountains issued a written judgment on Ding Zhiquan for the third time, still confirming that Yuan Lihua was killed by Ding Zhiquan. This time, the sentence was life imprisonment.
The third killing
and Zhao Xianfeng to Han Fengyun wrote blood, there may be moved by her composition, but more, or in order to save his life.
The police inspector at the detention center had promised him that it was meritorious service for him to expose zhang Lun’s murder and that he would not be sentenced to death. However, when the court again sentenced Yuan to life in prison for ding zhiquan’s murder, his whistleblowing was not considered meritous.
So, Zhao Xianfeng had one last attempt to save his life. He revealed that zhang Chunsheng, his father-in-law, had killed his father, Zhang Lun’s grandfather.
His whistleblowing was acknowledged by Zhang chunsheng, who said the reason for the killing was that “the family was poor and fed up”.
Xiufeng town again appeared a large number of police excavation. According to Zhang chunsheng identified the location, the police dug a lot of big holes, but nothing. Find Zhang Chunsheng again, then dig, still no harvest. According to police analysis, because of a long time, zhang Chunsheng may have forgotten the burial place, or the environment may have changed.
The killing, which did not appear in Zhang Chunsheng’s judgment, certainly did not belong to Zhao Xianfeng. Neither lived through the new century, and they were executed on the execution ground.
After Han Fengyun dies, the ding Zhihua that is put out becomes the main force that cries injustice for elder brother.
Ms. Ding acknowledged her despair when Mr. Zhao’s blood failed to prevent a guilty verdict against Mr. Ding. But for the sake of her eldest brother in prison, she braced herself to continue to ask a lawyer to appeal.
In July 1999, the Heilongjiang High Court sent the case back to the Middle Court of Greater Hinggan Mountains for retrial for the third time on the grounds of “unclear facts”.
The case never went to trial. Ding Zhihua was on the move, petitioning in turn in the provincial, district and county level public security departments, but nothing happened.
The number of people involved in the case is dwindling in prisons and jails. In addition to Ding Zhiquan kept in prison to shout grievances, only Zhang Lun was held in isolation to protect – he is still considered an important witness prison.
Duan Jiewei, lawyer
In the spring of 2002, Ding zhihua found Duan Jiwei in Harbin.
As a well-known local lawyer, Duan Jiawei felt a little strange when he heard Ding Zhihua’s description: the facts are so clear and the evidence is so abundant, and the previous six lawyers’ innocent defense is very strong, how can we not correct an obvious wrong case?
Duan Jiewei began to investigate and collect evidence. He traveled to all levels of the public prosecutor’s office, looking at the year’s on-site investigation records and autopsy reports. Eventually, he met With Zhang in the Harbin prison and obtained a transcript of Zhang admitting to killing Yuan.
It has been ten years of the case, has not been closed, all day long to go back and forth, resulting in this difficult case, I have caused a lot of losses. I have been remolded for more than 11 years, and now My life is basically no more. Now that he had come to this point, he was valued, what was false was false, and what was true was true, and he could not have been wronged any more.
In addition to the detailed account of the killing, Zhang said that after he confessed to yu’s crimes in prison in 1993, police from the Preliminary examination Section of tahe County Public Security Bureau and the criminal police interrogated him for eight consecutive days and forced him to admit that he had been instigated to take the blame for Ding Zhiquan. Under the threat, he was afraid and fabricated a story instigated by Lawyer Wang Yunhua, whom he had never met.
Zhang Lun said that for years, the chief of the prison section was afraid of outsiders hurt him, to protect him. Zhang Lun has no culture, in prison, from primary school to junior three lessons learned from the ground up, but also learn electrician, learn spray technology.
Despite getting a transcript of Zhang’s confession, Duan continued to spin around the public prosecutor’s office, with no agency willing to take over.
Finally, he sent an urgent “situation report” letter to the secretary of heilongjiang Province’s political and Legal committee, which attracted attention. With the intervention of the political and legal Committee, the Greater Khingan Ling Procuratorate withdrew the case and Ding Zhiquan was released on bail.
On December 5, 2002, Ding Zhihua finally got a paper of release certificate, on which was written “problems to be investigated”. The paper was exchanged for Ding Zhiquan’s freedom.
The Ding Zhiquan that sat nearly 11 years is in prison after be released from prison became old petitioning door, embroider peak police station was equipped to him “special monitor person”. Ding still calls himself a suspect.
Ding zhiquan’s petition said, “These ten years have spring, autumn and snow, how can an innocent person spend? Is my fate bad? In the past ten years, I have no idea what the trees are like, what the flowers are like and what the air is like. I don’t even know my daughter’s ten years of growing up.”
In front of the reporter, Ding zhiquan complained: “In those days, I raided my home, searched my house and seized all my belongings. At the later stage of the seizure, the furniture and electrical appliances were returned, but the cash and gold and silver jewellery were not returned, so they were swallowed. When my wife died, she wore a pair of gold earrings in her ears and a watch on her wrist. They were there when she entered the dissecting room, but they were missing when she left, and I still haven’t found them…”
Ding zhiquan received more than 400,000 yuan in compensation. Despite his displeasure, he gradually gave in over time and traveled all the way from north to south to Canton. Later, introduced by people, know the wife now, rarely back to the embroidery peak.
After wang Yunhua was released from prison, he lost his job as a lawyer in the justice bureau and waited at home for the final outcome of Ding Zhiquan’s case. Many years later, in the name of backpay, by the county finance funds, the 736 days of “wages” replenished her. When she took the case, her salary was 150 yuan a month.
Later, she also left Heilongjiang province to live with her daughter in Yingkou and become a deputy director of a small partnership law firm. But she did not stop petitioning, complaining or defending her rights. Her pension, she says, is too low.
They all left the sad tower river.
Ding Zhiquan is out of prison, so is Zhang Lun. What Zhang Lun renews confession again 2002 did not get cognizance on the law, after 6 years, the Zhang Lun that gets out of prison leaves embroider peak.
Legally speaking, the murder of Yuan Lihua has become an unsolved case.
Legally speaking, the murder of Yuan Lihua has become an unsolved case. Legally speaking, the murder of Yuan Lihua has become an unsolved case.
Another unsolved case
The most impressive thing about tahe county today is the empty taxis that go round and round.
They crawl slowly over iced coffees, even late at night. Taxi circles spread a saying: “no good man after zero”. This means that every night after seeing off passengers to catch a train, only gamblers, Johns and drunks are left to pick up.
The Ta River is not safe. People used to fight, but now they quit because the fines were too harsh. Money makes people green with envy. Once a taxi driver teamed up with a grain depot security guard to kill an elementary school accountant. While the three were playing mahjong, the other two got angry and thrust the iron and hemp hoop used to brush the pot into the victim’s throat. They turned up only three thousand ducats.
Embroidery peak once had more than one thousand families, now only dozens of families. The sunset, the west hanging sunset, the east hanging the moon, are round.
Still live in xiufeng ding Laosan looked at the ruins said, this house is his new house, to the eldest brother husband and wife live, sister-in-law was killed, such as his husband and wife moved back to live, the wife was killed.
It was 2008, and Ding lao-san was in Gaguadach with his college kid when he got a call from the police force. Back to embroidery peak to see, his wife’s body has just been put in the yard ready to anatomy. The brain was already flowing; There were scattered cuts on his chest, and on his face; The kitchen knife was still stuck in the neck and could not be pulled out. Ding Lao SAN held his daughter-in-law’s hand and found that all ten fingers had been cut off with a knife.
Autopsy reports showed seven or eight fatal knife wounds.
The police showed him several shiny pieces of iron, which they pulled out of the body. Ding Laosan thought for a long time, feel like the middle of a knife hilt. Strangely, the broken blade got stuck in the meat, and the broken point disappeared.
The third daughter-in-law was the town school secretary. Dozens of police station police stationed in the village the next day, began to search for suspects. All the men in Xiufeng were asked to have their hair pulled out one by one for DNA tests, and even to use a lie detector so they could truthfully report their trip on the night of the crime.
Most men hate it. They had to give a detailed alibi, which caused conflicts and estrangement for many families. Some men went to other women’s homes, some in Internet cafes, KTV, and some to the mountains to collect black wood.
Even so, tahe ended up with nothing. The public security bureau let Ding Lao SAN to take physical evidence, nothing more than some wearing blood sheets and clothes. After walking out of the public security bureau, Ding Laosan conveniently threw away.
The case, together with the murder of Yuan Lihua, became an unsolved case in history.
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