One afternoon in September 2013, a middle-aged water delivery man clashed with a passing water station owner in a residential community in a prefecture-level city in Guizhou Province for no apparent reason. Unexpectedly, the water delivery worker quickly put the male owner on the ground, and the owner struggled desperately.
The fight between the two soon drew the attention of the surrounding residents, and someone called the police, who arrived and took the water delivery man and the injured owner together to the police station for questioning and disposal.
In the police station, the water delivery worker quickly confessed to his “assault and battery” illegal behavior, but then, the police forensics of the injured owner lasted a full 20 hours.
In the end, the water delivery worker was acquitted, but the injured owner was criminally detained after completing the DNA collection comparison.
A day later, the city police sent someone to the local area, picked up the water delivery worker and the injured owner. At this point, the city’s 2002 “8-22 vicious burglary into robbery, rape causing serious injury case” was finally declared solved, and the suspects were all apprehended.
In early 2014, the “8-22 case” sentencing, the water delivery worker was pressed to the ground the “owner” was finally sentenced to death, and that nearly half a hundred years of water delivery worker, but also finally ended his four years of displaced life.
In the face of the police, he smiled and shook his head, then packed his bag and boarded the northbound train.
“There’s nothing to do in the future, so don’t contact.” Before the departure of the train, the water delivery worker said to the police who sent off, but he turned his head to add: “Please tell Secretary Yang, the three brigades mission accomplished.”
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The waterman’s real name is Cheng Bing, was the city’s Public Security Bureau Criminal Investigation Detachment three brigade captain, in August 2002, he was sentenced to eight years in prison for intentional injury causing death, dereliction of duty, in March 2009 to reduce the sentence released from prison. September 2013, he assisted the public security organs, the capture of the 2002 “8-22 case” In September 2013, he assisted the public security authorities in the arrest of Wang Eryong, a suspect in the “8-22 case” in 2002.
It was a year after I saw this resume. That day, Cheng Bing’s colleague Zhang was sitting in the police station duty room, he lit a cigarette and told me the story of Captain Cheng that year.
“August 22, 2002, I was on duty in the third brigade of the Criminal Police Detachment, received an alarm that a girl in the district had an accident at home.” Old Zhang recalled.
Captain Cheng led the police out that day, the crowd rushed to the scene of the crime, the scene of the room so that all present blood rushed up: a 17-year-old girl lying naked on the bedroom floor, there is an obvious wound on the head, blood accompanied by brain tissue flowed all over the floor. After the 120 doctors who then arrived put the girl in the ambulance, the technical team of police continued to investigate the crime scene.
According to the girl’s parents, the two went out to visit relatives that day, and the girl said she was not feeling well and wanted to rest in bed so she did not go with them. The couple played cards at their relatives’ home until the early morning, and did not want to come home, but found that their daughter had an accident at home.
The crime scene is located in the more remote location of a residential building 4 floor, after investigation, the technical police found that the suspects have a total of 2, is to cooperate with each other from the first floor to climb the security net and air conditioning unit to reach the 4th floor after picking open the screen window into the room.
Later confirmed by the victim’s family, the family’s belongings were looted that night, the economic loss of about 60,000 yuan, and the most distressing or their daughter – by the hospital’s full treatment, although the girl saved her life, but due to severe trauma to the brain, become a vegetable.
This is a typical burglary conversion robbery, rape causing serious injury case, from the burglary techniques, should be a repeat offender to do.
“At that time, Captain Cheng in the brigade conference room to listen to the case report, the state is a little wrong. He was iron blue, staring, hands constantly clutching the cigarette case, the pack of cigarettes were clenched into a twist, talking to people like a quarrel ……”
The police who were present could see the anger of Captain Cheng, who also had a 10-year-old daughter at home, was spoiled by him like a pearl in the palm of his hand, perhaps the tragic situation of the murdered girl made him think of his own daughter – that anger is both from the police, but also from the father.
At that time, Captain Cheng to the deputy director of criminal investigation Yang set a military order to solve the case within 5 days. Deputy Director Yang worried about the lack of time, want to stretch the time, but Captain Cheng insisted that as long as 5 days, the deadline if the case is not solved, he took the initiative to resign from the captain of the post, to the dog park (police dog base) to raise dogs.
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“At that time, the captain of this military order, because he has a number of ah!” Old Zhang sighed.
Cheng captain 21 years old from the “provincial public school” after graduation will become a police officer, from the household register, the section of the police, to 2002, has been a police officer for 16 years, accumulated a lot of experience in handling cases. That time, from the suspect to climb the window into the room on the method, he identified a group of Sichuan burglary gang did.
“In those days, the city has a number of roving theft gangs, gangs around have their own means, Henan gangs like ‘slippery door’, Guizhou gangs good at picking locks, and the usual ‘climbing window’ into the room, basically the Sichuan side. “
Forensics from the body of the victim girl extracted the sperm spot, and from the balcony window frame collected fingerprints. The comparison verification, fingerprint comparison is a previous theft, and the public security authorities cracked down on the Sichuan suspect Wang Dayong, DNA comparison is Wang Dayong’s brother Wang Eryong.
Wang Dayong, then 32 years old, had been sentenced for theft; his brother Wang Eryong is also a repeat theft offender, the brothers had worked as air conditioning installers, good at climbing the window into the house theft.
The Public Security Bureau immediately issued a wanted notice for the brothers Wang Dayong, just two days later, the brothers unit came to the news that the brothers surprisingly continue to commit crimes, Wang Dayong was caught at the scene – that day he and Wang Eryong after climbing the window theft, the same attempt to make aggression against the hostess, but unexpectedly the hostess’s husband and brother suddenly came home, confusion Wang Eryong escape, the victim’s relatives caught Wang Dayong, beat him up and then called 110.
“Wang Dayong was brought to the third brigade, has been beaten by the victim’s family, we recognized the photo for half a day, to determine that it was him.” Old Zhang said.
Public security organs have long had “civilized law enforcement” requirements, but in the face of the immediate Wang Dayong, the police who were not able to keep the bottom line, especially Captain Cheng, met Wang Dayong’s “meet and greet”, is an old fist.
“At that time there was no synchronized audio and video recording of the interrogation room, the interrogation of suspects are conducted in the police office.” Zhang went on to say.
That day, Zhang was arranged by Captain Cheng in the office next door to the duty room on duty, not personally involved in the interrogation of Wang Dayong. But from the screams and curses coming from next door, he knew that his colleagues were giving Wang Dayong “on the means”.
“I sent materials into the next door in the middle of a trip, Wang Dayong is on the window ‘back sword’, next to a police officer with an electric baton in his hand, asked his brother Wang Eryong where to go, he did not say ……”
Old Zhang said, I don’t know if that night was his own luck – later Wang Dayong died, all involved in the interrogation of Wang Dayong’s three brigades of police were disciplined, the lightest was also transferred from the public security organs, only he was not involved in torture to extract confessions, after the three brigades were abolished, transferred to the police station.
“You also thankfully did not participate, is considered the three brigade ‘the only survivors’ ……” I said to him with mixed feelings.
But the old Zhang sighed: “a case, the suspect did not catch the end, the brothers on the case first ‘in’, the police are also people with families and mouths, who have no personal enmity with Wang Dayong, but he died, the whole three brigades written off, they have been in the three brigades since they joined the work, the team is gone, although they are still a police officer, but always feel like an ‘outcast’ ah ……”
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Wang Dayong died at 23:10 on the night of the interrogation, the old Zhang said that time he remembered very clearly.
“Wang Dayong said to go to the toilet, was taken out of the office, he went to the toilet and sat on the sofa in the hall, sweating, shivering, expression very painful, I have previously seen uncooperative suspects were ‘cleaned up’, but have not seen such a heavy, I reminded them to play a little lighter, but that colleague is also a face of anger, said the mop pole are broken three, but Wang Dayong died without speaking, but also in front of the police to say sarcastic words ……”
The police had intended to let Wang Dayong “slow” a little, and then continue to “clean up” him, but unexpectedly sitting on the sofa Wang Dayong not only did not “slow” over, but shaking more and more powerful, and then gradually became a convulsion, from the sofa to the floor.
Two police officers saw the situation and dragged Wang Dayong to the sofa, but also scolded him a “don’t pretend”, but soon, Wang Dayong again slipped to the floor, and began to foam at the mouth.
Three brigades of police officers rushed to report to Captain Cheng, Captain Cheng came to Wang Dayong looked in front of, feeling bad, let the police put Wang Dayong flat on the ground, hurry to notify the hospital.
Unfortunately, Wang Dayong did not last until the doctor arrived. A few minutes later, he screamed strangely, a violent convulsions, and then lost his breath.
“Later, the prosecutor’s office organized a forensic identification, Wang Dayong died of severe cranio-cerebral injury and liver and kidney failure ……,” said Lao Zhang.
“They shine Wang Dayong head ‘greeting’?” I feel some incredible.
Old Zhang laughed helplessly and said he didn’t know, but I guess not. Because that era of the police “on the means” is a skill, no one will take the whole thing to death. The biggest possibility, or Wang Dayong in the previous victim’s family there by the beating.
But Wang Dayong is dead in the Public Security Bureau, the entire back of the blue and purple bruises also make Cheng captain and others can not be justified. Thus, seven hours after the death of Wang Dayong, in addition to the old Zhang on duty, Captain Cheng and the entire third brigade of police were brought collectively to the Prosecutor’s Office of Job Crime Investigation Section.
“At that time, there were two squadrons below the three brigades, plus the housekeeping a total of four offices, before they were called away by the Procuratorate that day, but also said to me, let me help organize the office, and then come back to accept the Bureau of Internal Affairs inspection. I worked all day in the team, the result is that none of them came back, but the prosecutor’s office came in several waves.”
Looking at the empty office area, Zhang’s heart could not say what it was like, and later, even he was called to the prosecutor’s office for questioning. And those colleagues of the third brigade, from then on, never appeared in the office area as police officers.
Please tell the director that the mission is accomplished
After the incident, the Public Security Bureau leaders and the families of the victims of the two burglaries went to the prosecutor’s office to plead for mercy. The bureau leaders pleaded with the prosecutor’s office to consider Wang Dayong’s case and to give lenient punishment to Cheng Bing and others, which was rejected by the prosecutor’s office. The parents and relatives of the victim of the “8-22 case” a group of people, also knelt in front of the Procuratorate, requesting exemption from the criminal punishment of Cheng Bing and others, also rejected by the Procuratorate.
“Later still sentenced, intentional injury resulting in death, a total of five sentenced, Cheng captain 8 years, Xiao Liu 5 and a half years, Zhang Haizi 3 years and 9 months, the old Xu the heaviest, 12 years, the other does not constitute a criminal offense, but also by disciplinary action after ‘undressing’.” Old Zhang sighed inexorably and lit a cigarette.
Back then, Cheng Bing and others torture to extract a confession to the death of the suspect Wang Dayong case, the entire Public Security Bureau and even the city’s political and legal circles have caused a big stir. Cheng Bing 5 people were sentenced, the Bureau of criminal investigation work in charge of the Deputy Director Yang also resigned, followed by the Bureau of large-scale document study and discipline education.
Wang Dayong brothers burglary, robbery, rape causing serious injury cases were taken over by other brigades, although the police are still doing their best to investigate, but no one dares to mention “5 days to solve the case” this matter.
Wang Dayong died, the Public Security Bureau tried to contact his relatives, and even sent a special trip to the Wang brothers’ hometown in Sichuan, but Wang Dayong’s parents have long since died, only an aunt married early in the northeast, has also broken off contact, looking around, the Public Security Bureau has not found people.
And the whereabouts of Wang Dayong, has also become a mystery.
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Wang Dayong refused to give an account of where his brother had gone, but put the blame for raping and hitting the girl on the head with a heavy object to cause serious injury, all on Wang Eryong. He may think that he can escape the law, but according to the current law, even if you can not catch Wang Eryong, Wang Dayong intentional injury to cause serious injury is also inescapable crime.
Just Cheng Bing a moment of recklessness, in the end, they also set themselves in.
“Then what is he doing as a water delivery worker? Catch Wang Dayong, is it by chance or he planned?” I asked Old Zhang.
“Coincidence? Can happen so coincidentally?” Old Zhang smiled and said, “Once a person’s heart is iron, there is nothing that can’t be done, Wang Dayong determined not to let the police catch Wang Eryong, to the death of a word, Cheng captain is determined to catch Wang Eryong, even if it is not the police, he still wants to catch!”
After the return of Wang Eryong, Cheng Bing to the police detailed account of their own after release from prison to track Wang Eryong, the tracking and arrest of the “information”, was also attached to the “8-22 case” of the file, by the police in the case in mind.
“Cheng Bing was released from prison, the Bureau also made plans. He was imprisoned in a special case, and so many years as a police officer, professionally trained, the Bureau both pity his situation, but also worried that he took a detour outside, so help him introduce a job.” Old Zhang said.
After Cheng Bing was imprisoned, his wife divorced him by agreement, and his baby daughter was raised by the woman, after his release from prison, Cheng Bing’s entire fortune is left in a local house, nothing else. Leaders to Cheng Bing introduced the job is in the Public Security Bureau under the security company, as a logistics work, which not only helped him solve the problem of work, but also to allow him to be “closer” to the public security system, easy to manage.
But Cheng Bing refused the bureau’s arrangement, saying he wanted to go out to work to earn money, the bureau could not help, said out can, but the first five years out of prison must also comply with the “key population management regulations”, regular return to the police station where the household registration talk, Cheng Bing said he knew the procedure, no problem.
After that, he left the city, and then the community police regularly called him back to do a talk record, he will also come back, ask him where he works, what specific work, but also the truth. Sometimes, Cheng Bing will also ask about the “8-22 case”, the community police thought he was just curious, and told him that he was still investigating.
From 2009 to 2013, four years, Cheng Bing to the community police in the domicile location of part-time jobs in Hunan, Sichuan, Chongqing and Guizhou area, the type of work is also very mixed: the night market, did porter, night taxi driver, courier, and even did the Internet cafe security, community janitor, etc..
Some police officers who know Cheng Bing asked him, others are working to the “North, Guangzhou and Shenzhen“, you work how to always run to less developed areas? You used to be at least a criminal police captain, college degree, you see what you net find some work?
Cheng Bing just said he was old, work is not easy to find, in the public security system for many years, fed up with the constraints and controls, want to find a free point of work. Hearing him say so, who is not good to say anything else, not to mention, he went to those places, just to find Wang Eryong.
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Cheng Bing exactly how to find Wang Eryong, Zhang told me a version, but later I heard several other versions in the mouth of others, and sometimes colleagues get together to mention Cheng Bing, will argue, he used to track Wang Eryong in the end what method.
The “8-22 case” file has long been filed, I could not see the captain’s own account of that day, only after combing through several versions of colleagues, roughly sorted out a general clue.
Cheng Bing is likely to serve his sentence, it will be in the prison friends inquired about Wang Dayong, Wang Two Yong theft gang information. The same “eat a bowl of rice” people, the detained burglars are likely to tell Cheng Bing intentionally or unintentionally.
After being released from prison, Cheng Bing first went to a city in Guizhou in accordance with the clues, a local courier, hoping to use the opportunity to send courier, to collect information on the surrounding households, but may not be successful, may also be successful in obtaining some new clues. In any case, after six months of being a “courier brother”, he went to Chongqing.
In Chongqing, he worked as a night cab driver for 5 months, driving around the city every night, talking to passengers and asking everything he wanted to know in various ways.
After 5 months, he may have obtained any new clues, he quit the night shift cab driver’s job and entered the after-sales service department of an air conditioning brand in Chongqing, still driving, but that job he only did for two weeks, and resigned to go to Deyang, Sichuan.
Cheng Bing in a district in Deyang applied for a property security, daily registration of people and vehicles, that job he did for seven months, almost mastered the entire district of household information, and then resigned. The property manager retained him and said he wanted to raise him as the head of security, doubling his salary, but Cheng Bing politely refused the property manager’s retention, and went to Yiyang, Hunan.
He worked in an Internet cafe near Hunan City College for six months as a handyman, sometimes responsible for cleaning, sometimes responsible for guests to recharge the machine, and sometimes as a night security guard. Six months later, Cheng Bing went to Changsha, in a home furnishing city as a delivery driver, night to the night market stalls.
At the end of 2011, Cheng Bing once again quit his job as a delivery driver, night market, daytime delivery, and so on for nearly a year after he went to Guizhou for the second time.
“Choose to be a water delivery worker estimate is also Cheng Bing weighed some of the decision, and other occupations in the past, the biggest advantage of the water delivery worker is to ‘enter the house’, Cheng Bing has been carrying a photo of Wang Eryong, as long as he appeared, Wang Eryong turned into dust, Cheng Bing can recognize. ” A colleague told me.
At that time, Cheng Bing carried a notebook detailing the information he inquired about the residents of the district, from name, age, telephone to time away, economic status, hobbies and specialties everything. Once, his notebook was found by the owner of the water station, asked him to record these things to do, he said it was to better sell the drinking water to the residents of the station.
“Cheng Bing is also a talent, he said to the boss, record the customer’s name and age is to answer the phone when it is convenient to address each other, to record the time out is to try to avoid sending water to the door when no one at home, the boss really believed him, and then after Wang Eryong was arrested, we find the boss to do witness materials, he said Cheng Bing when the water delivery workers this 9 months, his barrel water sales rose by 50%. ” Another colleague said.
Finally, the work does not pay off, after nine months as a water delivery worker, Cheng Bing finally identified Wang Eryong, and his arrest.
“Captain Cheng spent four years of work to find Wang Eryong, when he found Wang Eryong’s whereabouts, why not directly notify the local police to arrest him, he has been a police officer for 16 years, would not not know, notify the police will be much less effort than his own to find?” I do not understand.
“This matter, we later asked him, he said, he had made a ‘military order’ in front of Deputy Director Yang, he wanted to catch Wang Eryong himself.” Colleagues said.
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Wang Eryong was caught, simply can not believe that he was pressed to the ground, is that many times to deliver water, kind face, but also took the initiative to talk with their own cigarettes “old Cheng” water delivery workers. He did not expect that this “old Cheng”, is 11 years ago to host his brother Wang Dayong’s case and imprisoned “Cheng police officers”.
He understood how much he had committed back then, and knew that his brother had died as a result of torture to extract a confession, and then heard that all the police officers involved in interrogating his brother had been imprisoned. Wang Eryong said he knew very well that the police would never let him go, so for the past 11 years, he has tried every way to hide around.
He changed his name, found someone to spend a lot of money to do a fake ID card, and married a wife with a false identity, gave birth to a son, and used his wife’s name to buy a house.
Wang Eryong did not dare to steal again, for fear of being caught by the police to find out his true identity. He did not dare to drink, afraid to get drunk and say something, did not dare to take the train, afraid to buy a ticket to reveal the horse, and did not even dare to argue with people, fearing that the matter will attract the police.
He worked around, frequently changing jobs, couriers, night taxi drivers, janitors, supermarket stockers, webmaster, may Cheng Bing did the work he did. But never dare to do long, more afraid to take a chance in the work, as long as there is a slight wind, will be decisive flee.
Wang Eryong and Cheng Bing distance nearest time, is when he was in Chongqing, the air-conditioning brand after-sales service department as an installer. Wang Eryong had previously done air conditioning installation, technically sound, and in the company and work hard for a year, the company is ready to sign a 5-year employment contract with him, let him bring his ID card the next day. He thought again and again, or worried about his identity exposed, and finally found an excuse to give up the job.
The day he left the job, it was the day Cheng Bing got a clue to go to the induction.
After his arrest, Wang Eryong had thought that the case has been 11 years, and he was not caught on the spot by the police, so he tried to play deaf and dumb to get by, and put all the blame on his brother.
The police did not give him “on the means”, but will be a variety of evidence one by one in front of him, when seeing their own sperm spot DNA comparison results left in the body of the victim girl, Wang Eryong completely collapsed, and then explained the entire process of the crime.
Late at night on August 22, 2002, the brothers came to the location chosen in advance to commit the crime, the family did not security net, and the men and women will leave home every evening, only to return in the early morning.
At around 11 p.m., the lights of other households upstairs were basically out, and the brothers began to climb from the first floor along the burglar-proof windows and air conditioning units, and soon reached the fourth floor window.
That day, the victim girl happened to turn off the air conditioning, open the window ventilation, do not want to give Wang Dayong brothers to enter the room to provide a convenient, the two easily pick open the screen window, jumped into the room.
The victim girl is the jurisdiction of a high school boarding students, usually live in school, the day because of ill health to go home to rest. Wang Dayong brothers did not expect that there would be people at home at this time, in order to hurry to find the belongings, rummaging through boxes and cupboards, the hand action is very large.
The sound they made woke up the girl, she sleepily thought her parents home to find something, unsuspectingly turned on the light, everyone was startled.
The girl soon began to scream, Wang Dayong an arrow step forward to pounce on the girl, covering her mouth with his hand to try to cover the sound. Wang Eryong also rushed forward to help, the two brothers put the 17-year-old girl who was still sick soon muffled the past.
They saw the girl fainted, hastily put away the stolen property ready to leave, but when they went out, and glanced at the girl who fell to the ground unkempt, the brothers had evil thoughts.
However, in their implementation of sexual assault, the girl suddenly woke up, and began to cry out for help, the two brothers casually copied the items on the ground to the girl’s head, until the girl no longer cry for help.
As for the fatal wound on the head of the girl, 11 years ago Wang Dayong said his brother Wang Eryong did it, 11 years later Wang Eryong said his brother Wang Dayong did it. The heavy object that hit the girl’s head is a copper pendulum, after the technical survey, covered with the fingerprints of Wang Dayong and Wang Eryong two, who actually did the killing, but there is no way to verify.
Of course, this does not affect the final sentencing of Wang Eryong.
Postscript
In early 2018, I went to Beijing on a business trip and tried to contact Captain Cheng to say hello and to hear his story about how he tracked down Wang Eryong.
But after the phone call, he and I exchanged pleasantries, expressed gratitude, and did not tell me his specific address, also refused to meet, the same reluctance to talk to me about the past.
“Let bygones be bygones, you’re still young, be a good cop, do a good job on the case, and protect yourself!” Captain Cheng said. After hanging up the phone, these words kept repeating in my mind.
I also seemed to hear the words before he boarded the train, “Please tell Chief Yang that the Third Brigade’s mission is complete!”
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