Chapter 38 Section ten

Two days after Wu Qida was arrested, on Monday, July 8, 1985, the Alberta Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Calgary City in Canada charged him with four counts of robbery, attempted robbery, illegal possession of a firearm and attempted murder .At the same time, journalists from the United States and Canada traveled around the world, scrambling to discover stories about Wu Keida and Leonard Luck. Wu Qida's father went through wars in his youth and suffered from displacement.After getting rich, I only have one wish, which is to let my children receive the best education.It is said that after giving birth to two daughters, Wu's mother, Mrs. Gu, wanted to be sterilized. It was Wu's father who begged her in every possible way to give birth to another son for the Wu clan to continue the incense.A few years later, the heavens were as they wished, and the Wu family and his wife were happy to have a son, named Wu Qida.

Wu Qida has been different from other children since he was a child. He doesn't like to talk, rarely smiles on his face, and always has a vicious look in his eyes.When he was old enough to go to school, he was sent to the most expensive private school in Hong Kong at that time, just like his two older sisters.But his grades are not very good, and he has no interest in reading.There is only one thing Wu Qida cares about, and that is martial arts.He admires martial arts star Bruce Lee very much, calling him "Big Brother Big Dragon" and himself "Little Dragon Brother".The boxing skills that Wu Qida learned were all used in fighting. Whenever he got into trouble outside, he returned home and let his parents scold and scold him in every possible way. father.Wu's father was eager for his son to become a dragon, and hated that iron could not be made into steel. Several times he even tied up his only son, beat him to death with sticks and whips, so that his mother and sisters couldn't stand it anymore, and knelt down to beg his father for mercy.Wu Qida has another problem, which is stealing.It is said that his parents have never treated him badly, and there is nothing he wants that cannot be fulfilled.He has never had a hard time, because he is an only child, he can always get more pocket money from his parents than his two sisters, but he can't help but do some sneaky things , regardless of whether those things are useful to you or not.Due to his aggressive, stealing and disobedient character, Wu Qida was expelled from several schools in Hong Kong, and finally his family had to send him to his uncle in Yorkshire, England.Not long after, Wu Qida was expelled from school again because he stole from his classmates and a local store.

After returning to Hong Kong, Wu Qida stayed at home until he was 17 years old and obtained a student visa to the United States.He enrolled in Belmont Notre Dame College in California, but he could no longer adapt to student life and dropped out of school after only one semester. In September 1979, Wu Qida was arrested by the police for a traffic accident in San Francisco. In October, he lied about his identity and joined the US Marine Corps. In the first half of 1981, Wu Qida, who had been in the army for less than two years, had been promoted to a first-class soldier, but his military career ended soon.In November of the same year, he was arrested for gang robbery of an armory.A few days later, Wu Qida escaped from prison, met Leonard Luck in California, and moved with him into the residence of the Lucks in the "Indian Creek Ranch" until he was captured by the FBI at the end of April of the following year.

In June 1984, Wu Keida lived directly in Leonard Luck's Blue Mountain Road cabin after he was released from the Livingwood Military Prison.In less than a month, these two murderers, determined to be enemies of society, joined forces to kick off their massacre of blood.According to the information held by the FBI, the first murder after the two reunited occurred in July 1984. Wu Qida killed professional jockey Don Yoleti and wounded his companion while attempting to burglarize Richard Karratha.Later, Richard testified in court about the case, and the police also found the gun used by Wu criminal in the crime on Lanshan Road.

Leonard Luck's family background is quite different from Wu Qida's. Leonard was born in San Francisco on October 29, 1945. His parents were always bickering and fighting, and even the arrival of a new life could not ease even a little bit of internal conflict in the Luck family.The young Leonard was sent to various relatives' homes for a "temporary stay" until he was 6 years old, and finally found a permanent place to stay with his grandparents.Friends and relatives say childhood experiences conditioned Leonard Luck to a lifelong sense of humiliation, resentment and insecurity about being rejected and rejected, a feeling that was reflected in his diaries.

At 19, Leonard Luck enlisted in the Marine Corps.Unlike other young people who seek excitement and adventure, Leonard's move is more to break away from the family and change the status quo.Leonard is a radar operator in the army. Although he has been awarded many times for his serious and responsible work, his mental state is actually extremely unstable.Shortly after being sent to the Vietnam War for the first time, he was admitted to the hospital because of "the first symptoms of mental illness".After a period of treatment, Leonard was sent to Vietnam again. A few months later, he was discharged early due to "unexplained syndrome" and received psychological treatment for a long time at the Honorary Military Hospital in Oakland, California. Tried to take a few courses at Cal State San Jose, but quickly gave up.Leonard rented Indian Creek Ranch on the outskirts of Philo after marrying Corala Blaze in 1981.A friend said that it was in that orange orchard that Leonard Luck started growing drugs and stockpiling arms and other materials for the so-called upcoming nuclear war, which was one of the reasons why he was later arrested.

In June 1982, Leonard Luck took refuge in a cabin on Blue Mountain Road in the wilderness.According to family members' testimonies and diary records, Leonard secretly killed his brother Donald Luck and his friend Joss Gunner in the following year, 1983, in order to obtain the money necessary to maintain his fugitive life. The news of Wu Qida's arrest brought excitement and excitement to the San Francisco and Calaboro police lasted only three days. On Tuesday, July 9, 1985, Canadian Justice Minister John Cosby announced that he would formally reject the U.S. request to extradite Wu Qida because Canada had abolished the death penalty. The Chinese government will continue to refuse to extradite any criminal who may be sentenced to death.

When the relevant departments in the United States finally recovered from the shock, two detectives from the special task force of the San Francisco Police Department were sent to Calgary to interrogate Wu Qida in prison.As the police expected, Wu Qida put all the blame on Leonard Luck, who was dead and untested, saying that he was the mastermind and murderer, and his own connection with the case was just "in the past". over there".Wu Qida finally only admitted that he had helped Leonard "dispose of" the body of Paul Casnon. While the U.S. side was preparing to launch a new round of offensive against the Canadian Ministry of Justice based on the interrogation records, the Alberta Provincial Legislative Court was in full swing to start the trial of Wu Qida’s crimes in the local area, and claimed that during the trial, he did not accept Any official document on the extradition of the prisoner from the US side will not deal with any related matters.Later, Wu Qida was sentenced to four years and six months in prison in Canada.

Perhaps he already had a premonition that sooner or later, he would inevitably face the trial of "the large-scale series of kidnapping, rape, robbery, slavery, and murder on Blue Mountain Road". Attitude and research spirit, eager to study the relevant laws of the United States and California.After all, life and death are at stake, so don't be careless. At the same time, the United States has relentlessly launched a six-year official correspondence and court debate battle with the relevant Canadian authorities on the case.After more than a dozen appeals and seemingly never-ending hearings, the Canadian government finally granted the request of the California state government to extradite Wu Qida to the United States for trial.

On September 26, 1991, the McClelland Air Force Base was surrounded by guard posts.After a special military plane slowly landed, several police cars that had already been waiting on the runway slowly approached the gangway descending from the cabin door, and Wu Qida, who was still wearing a Canadian gray prison uniform, was directly deported from here to the capital of California, Saudia. Folsom Prison on the outskirts of Carmendo. From this day to the official hearing of the "Wu Qida case", seven long, boring and exhausting years have passed.Wu Qida used the legal knowledge he acquired in prison to speculate and sell it now, so that the date of the trial was changed again and again.

The earliest proposed venue for the trial was San Andres, the regional capital of Calaborough.Wu Qida first continued to submit various formal complaints to the higher court through his lawyer, covering everything from three meals a day to medical treatment.Whenever such complaints are submitted to the court, the normal legal procedures must be temporarily suspended until the relevant facts are clarified or the relevant departments come to a conclusion before proceeding. For example, once, when Wu Qida returned to the prison after his pre-trial appearance, it was past the meal time. The food served to him by the guards was a bit cold, and Wu Qida immediately went on a hunger strike. Another time, Wu Qida said that he had caught a cold and asked the prison doctor for a pill.The hypnotic effect of this drug was very strong. The prison doctor was worried that he would feel dizzy and drowsy when he appeared in court the next day, so he prescribed other drugs.Unexpectedly, in court the next day, Wu Qida challenged the judge in public, saying that the prison doctor refused his medical request, which made his condition worse.The judge had to announce an adjournment. Wu Qida was listed as a "high-risk criminal" in prison.He was originally a serious criminal, but also has a strong physique and martial arts skills. Even with handcuffs and shackles, the guards sometimes feel frightened. In 1992, the court once used a special cage, and Wu Qida was locked in the cage when the court was adjourned.This later became the grounds for his appeal.According to Wu Qida, this cage made him feel deeply terrified and humiliated. He had nightmares and couldn't sleep at night, so that his body and mind were hurt, and so on. Wu Qida's other trick is to constantly dismiss and replace the lawyers officially appointed for him.According to court records, Wu Qida changed lawyers 12 times before and after.Whenever a new lawyer takes over a case, all investigations, planning, preparations, etc. have to be started from scratch.This alone not only won Wu Qida more time, but also cost the state government more funds.Wu Qida is dissatisfied with any lawyer who has represented him, and can point out all kinds of mistakes.At one point, he even sued his defense attorneys for $1 million in damages.Another time, he filed a motion in the San Andres court asking to represent himself as defense counsel, but the court rejected it. Wu Qida's lawyers conducted a local poll, and the results showed that 95% of the residents in the Calaboro area believed that Wu Qida was "guilty", and only 5% said that the prosecution and the defendant should submit evidence to the court. judgment can only be made afterwards.The defendant immediately demanded an ex situ trial on the grounds that it was impossible for Wu Qida to obtain a fair verdict in San Andres.The motion was submitted to the California Supreme Court, and on April 8, 1994, the court ordered that the venue of the "Wuqida case" be moved to Santana in Los Angeles. After more than four years of various hearings and extensions, on October 26, 1998, the "Wu Qida case" was heard in Santana Court. Wu Qida was charged with 12 counts of premeditated murder.Of the 13 victims at the Blue Mountain Road scene, police are convinced that Donald Luck and Joss Gunner were killed in 1983, when Wu Keida was serving his sentence at Livingwood Military Prison, so had no connection to the two cases.But apart from Blue Mountain Road, Wu Qida should also be responsible for the murder of Don Yoleti in July 1984. As Judge John Ryan allowed cameras into the courtroom, some footage of the "Cassie/Blanda" tape played by Chief Prosecutor Charlene Hanaja during her opening remarks appeared on the national news on the three major television stations that day, It aroused great repercussions and public outrage among the public.Afterwards, a middle-aged woman in the jury told reporters that during the trial, the images on the video tape caused her to have nightmares every night. Charlene Hanaga pointed out in her speech: "The defendant and Leonard Luck turned Blue Mountain Road into a bloody murderous den and a huge, eerie tomb." "12 living people disappeared from the face of the earth The accused and Leonard Luck were the executioners who planned and executed this series of murders." In his opening statement, William Kelly, the defense's lead attorney, rebutted the contents of the videotape: "Please note, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, Wu Qida is indicted in this court for murder, not for murder. Rip someone's clothes." "You can see this or that on that tape, but one thing you never see is murder." Each side spent about half of the next three months calling witnesses, presenting evidence and laying out their cases.The defendant's defense is still based on the fact that Leonard Luck did everything, he is the real culprit in this case, and Wu Qida is only at the scene sometimes.Meanwhile, on January 18, 1999, Wu Qida stated in court that if the prosecution gave up the cross-examination, he would testify in court for himself.Judge John Ryan rightfully dismissed this absurd claim. On January 25, after the defendant's hearing, Wu Qida handed over a letter to his defense lawyer Louis Carrap and asked him to read it in court.In the letter, Wu Qida insisted that the court remove his lawyer, which was dismissed by the judge. On January 26, the prosecution played the "Cassie/Blanda" tape for the third time in its concluding remarks and reviewed the evidence and testimony they presented to the court one by one.Charlene Hanaja emphasized that according to California law, all criminals who participated in the planning or implementation of the same case, regardless of their specific actions, should be considered guilty of the same crime.She said it was clear from the tape that the defendant and Leonard Luck had a "relationship that was extraordinary, the level of cooperation and mutual trust that allowed them to be on camera and in front of a Confess another murder to the victim's face." "Both the accused and Leonard Luck were involved in these 12 homicides. Whichever of them pulled the trigger, in the eyes of the law, both All criminals are equally guilty." On January 27, the defendant's lawyers posed in front of the jury and were about to start their concluding speeches. Wu Qida again asked to change lawyers.After being dismissed by Judge John Ryan, he immediately wrote a note for the bailiff to forward to the judge.After reading the gavel, Judge Ryan adjourned the court and took Wu Qida to his office. After the resumption of court, John Ryan returned to the judge's bench to sit down and announced an unexpected provisional decision to the jury: allowing Wu Qida to testify on the witness stand. Afterwards, Wu Qida's chief defense attorney, William Kelly, told reporters: "No matter what we think, and regardless of the consequences of his testifying in court, in a word, this is his right given to him by the Constitution." On January 28, Wu Qida stepped onto the witness stand and began his three-day self-defense.Leading his testimony was his attorney, Louis Carrap. Wu Qida said: "No matter what I do, I have a standard, or a limit. Simply put, I will never do some serious crimes, such as murder." "Since my arrest, the media and pretty much everyone has decided that ... there's no way this guy is innocent." "One day Leonard came to me and said he wanted me to do something for him..." Wu Qida then explained, the first thing is to move two bags from Dabos's house, and the second thing is to bury the bodies of Lonnie Bond and Robin Starley.Leonard told him that Lonnie Bond was dealing drugs, and that if he didn't kill them, sooner or later he would call the police. "Lonnie Bond's body was hidden under the balcony and Leonard wanted me to handcuff him, put a rubber gag in his mouth, and put him in a sleeping bag. Leonard wanted them to look like they were killed Killed by the drug gang." Louis Carrap asked: "Did you know he buries things in the mountains?" "That was part of his plan to survive a nuclear war," Wu Qida said. "He thought it was safer to be buried underground." "Did you know he imprisoned sex slaves in it?" Lewis showed jurors a photo of the steel and concrete bunker. "No idea. All he said was that it was for protection against nuclear war, to protect himself and his valuables." "Did you know that some women are kept like prisoners in here?" "I remember him saying there was a secret room in there. But it was his place, his personal space. He never let me in." Then came the prosecution's cross-examination. Charlene Hanagar: "If I told you that your fingerprints were on the 'one-sided window' in the bunker chamber, what would you say?" Wu Qida: "I don't remember going in." Charlene Hanaga inserted the "Cassie/Branda" tape into the VCR again, and the screen showed Brenda O'Connon sitting in handcuffs on a chair.Charlene held up two more photos of the dead bodies of Lonnie Bond and Robin Starley, "You saw these two dead bodies, don't you think Leonard Luck would kill this woman and her baby ?" "I didn't know at the time that they were her husband and friends." When Wu Qida on the screen said, "You can cry and scream, or struggle and resist, just like some other people", Charlene Hanaja lightly pressed the "pause" button to freeze the screen.She asked, "What do you mean 'some other people'?" "There was no 'someone else' at all, and I was just making up nonsense to scare her." "Why did you tear off her bra and say 'everything about you is ours'?" "I'm just trying to please Leonard because Leonard hates her." "Did you rape her?" "I wanted to have sex with her but I couldn't and I sympathized with her situation. Honestly, I really regret doing these things." Wu Qida pointed to the TV screen, "This is the only time in my life that I completely lost the ability to judge independently and was led by Leonard. I regret that I should not have agreed to help Leonard. I said to him It's all too much, and I don't want to get myself into trouble like this." "So why, six weeks later, are you still with him stealing a $75 vise?" Charlene Hanaga took a stack of comics and asked the jurors to circulate them. They were all drawn by Wu Qida in the Calgary Prison. There were more than 150 comics in total. Cruel and outrageous. Wu Qida said: "I can fully explain these cartoons to you. All the pictures are imaginary, and there is no real element at all. At that time, I was in Kargary Prison, and the prisoners there called me 'the executioner'," Rapist', because that's what the newspapers said. I just drew these cartoons based on what the media accused me of." Charlene Hanaga showed the jurors a photo of Wu Qida in the cell of Calgary Prison. In addition to various cartoons on the background wall, there were a few lines of characters: "No gun, no fun (No gun, no fun)", "No kill, no thrill (No kill, no thrill)". Wu Qida said: "This is when we were in the Marine Corps, the officers always taught us 'no pain, no gain (No pain, no gain)', and then we made up these jingles." When asked by lawyers about his relationship with Leonard Luck and Corala Blaze, Wu Qida said: "I am closer to them than to my biological parents in Hong Kong. I know my family People love me and always try to send me to the best school, but to be honest, there is almost no communication and affection between us, or at least, they don't know how to communicate with me, how to express love and affection. When I met When it came to Leonard and Coralla, I finally had a sense of belonging, they were more like family to me...Leonard was the only person I could open up to...the reason I did that What a disobedience, just because I can't refuse him." Charlene Hanaja glanced at the 12 jury members with trusting eyes and began her second concluding speech. "No one can blame Wu Qida? Everything is the other person's fault?" Charlene Hanaja pointed to the "Cassie/Blanda" video that was playing silently on the TV screen, "These real pictures Says more than the testimony of the defendant on the witness stand." "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you have seen and heard with your own eyes, these unmistakable words, these unmistakable evidence, have conveyed unmistakable information. And the defendant Wu Qida has no idea about all of this. Can’t give a clear and unmistakable explanation.”〓 "The question you have to answer is, is the defendant involved in the 12 murders? I think the answer is unequivocal." In his concluding remarks for the defense, Louis Carrap said: "Wu Keida was indeed involved in the kidnapping and persecution of certain victims, but there is no evidence that he knew that Leonard Luck was going to harm them, nor that he specifically Participated in the murder." "Truth is often not what it appears to be," Lewis said of the tape. In the end, Wu Qida's chief defense attorney William Kelly pointed out to the jury: "You may not like my client, but when deciding a person's fate, you must put aside your personal likes and dislikes. Wu Qida Did you murder or participate in the murder of the 12 victims? I believe you will draw a negative conclusion."