Chapter 19 1. Start with the North Korean woman's big bag and the "flower case"

I asked Lao Song about the case, and he didn't remember the details of the report, such as who called and what was said, but what he could remember was the case. After listening to another friend in the police circle, I understood the reason.The criminal police are very annoyed when the phone rings, because they must know that there is another case, and having a case means staying up late again, and another inhuman life.Policemen are human beings too, so they don't yearn for this kind of life.Especially for those who already have a lot of cases in their hands, it is even more annoying. The policeman who is as excited as a chicken blood when the phone rings comes out of a TV series.

Lao Song was asked to handle this case because he was in his jurisdiction, but it happened that Lao Song happened to be the captain of the criminal police who had the most broken corpses in the Beijing police at that time.There were not many such vicious cases in Beijing at that time. According to Lao Song's experience, the criminals who dismembered the corpses actually had a subconscious fear of being exposed, so once they came to the door, almost all of them would collapse on the spot.Therefore, once the clues to the murderer are found in the dismemberment case, it will basically be taken down.

Of course, there are also individuals who resist to the end. Once Lao Song encountered such a case of mutilating a corpse, and the love triangle developed to the highest stage. The couple married by a classmate killed another old classmate together, chopped the body into ribs and threw it into a patch of reeds. After the suspect was arrested, both of them refused to confess, as if they had an offensive and defensive alliance. Lao Song watched carefully all night, and then interrogated the woman. "Your mouth has already been put down..." The woman thought the police were cheating her, so she didn't speak.

Lao Song ignored her, patted the crook of his left arm with his hand, and said, "He admitted that he chopped off the man's arm first, but you killed him, so you are the main culprit." That woman's face turned pale in just one sentence—it was all chopped into pieces of meat. The police had no reason to know that my husband chopped off his arm first. Next, it is the question of who is the principal culprit. After the interrogation, Lao Song asked the scout to take the transcript and show it to the man: Your wife is already dead, don't carry it to death. The man who co-authored did not confess at all.Lao Song looked at it all night, looking at the materials and body parts.Looking at it, let him see something wrong.Lao Song discovered that the victim's left forearm should have been cut off while he was still alive.

I asked Lao Song how to identify it, and Lao Song said a very simple truth: if it is cut after death, the incision is flat, and when it is cut before death, the skin will shrink due to nerve reaction, forming a special phenomenon of "shrinking line". .He just saw this phenomenon on a piece of corpse, so he was sure that the knife was cut during his lifetime. After finding and putting together the pieces of surrounding tissue, it was found that the knife basically cut off the left arm of the deceased. From this strength, Lao Song deduced that the person who chopped it should be that man.Thus, the breakthrough in this case was found.

Therefore, Lao Song has an advantage in taking over this case. After inspection, there were more than one hundred broken bodies in the travel bag, which should belong to an elderly male victim.The corpse was wrapped in a plastic sheet and put into a travel bag, and it had not decomposed yet, indicating that the death time was very short. The method of cutting up the corpse was clumsy, and it didn't look like it was done by a professional. The specific situation had to go through a forensic examination to get a more detailed conclusion. After repeated checks by the scouts, they finally had to draw a conclusion in frustration: there were no traces or clues that could be used on the travel bag and plastic sheet that wrapped the body.

Lao Song sighed, it seems that luck is not particularly good in this case. The reason why I say that luck is not particularly good is because the first corpse case in Beijing since the founding of the People’s Republic of China—the murder case of Chen Kehao and Liu Jingzhi—was exposed because the criminal left a phone number on the plastic wrapping the corpse. In fact, before liberation, there was a case quite similar to the Chen Liu murder case. This case happened in 1943, and it was called the "Flower Murder Case" in the newspapers. At that time, Peking had been occupied for more than six years.At that time, a bogus policeman surnamed Zhao was patrolling the station at the Beijing Railway Station, when he suddenly saw a North Korean woman in trousers sitting on the side of the road, leaning on a big bag.

As for this person, due to different life experiences, most of them have different personalities, and their likes and dislikes will also be different.This policeman surnamed Zhao hates North Koreans the most. Policeman Zhao is originally from the Northeast. He was often bullied by the second devil who was called "Gaoli Bangzi" in his hometown, so he couldn't stay longer and went to Beijing to join his relatives and become a policeman. .So when I saw this North Korean woman, I immediately decided to go up and find trouble. Policeman Zhao pointed at the big bag with his baton: "Whose property is this?" The North Korean woman hesitated for a moment, nodded, and said that it belonged to me (the report in the newspaper at that time also added a Korean prefix, what is it? Sarah doesn't remember).

"Your? What's in it?" "Oh, sweet potatoes...clothes...children's clothes...oh, the mess." Policeman Zhao poked the big bag with his baton and felt that it was heavy, not like clothes, so he ordered the bag to be opened for inspection. North Korean women quit, saying that there is nothing serious and there is no need to check. At this time, the Japanese military police at the station came over.At that time, the Chinese were regarded as third-class citizens in their own country, lower than the Koreans who had been colonized earlier.When the North Korean man saw the Japanese military police, he immediately murmured and babbled. It seemed that he didn't speak well of Zhao Zhao, so the "Taijun" came up and "slapped" Zhao Zhao.

This policeman Zhao is also stubborn, and he was not convinced after being beaten.He thought that there must be something wrong with the North Korean woman carrying such a heavy thing. He presumably dumped the rice. At that time, rice was forbidden for ordinary people in Japan, but some people took the risk to smuggle it. So he quarreled with the Japanese military police.The noise alarmed the surrounding Chinese pseudo-policemen and ordinary people, and in a blink of an eye they were surrounded by three floors inside and three floors outside.Policeman Zhao saw that there were too many people, and he insisted on opening the package for inspection.The noise also alarmed the Japanese station master, who came to have a look and agreed to open the bag for inspection.

The North Korean woman had no choice but to open the big bag gropingly, and then she screamed. Policeman Zhao pulled her away and looked into the bag, but he almost didn't cry out on the spot - it turned out that what was in the bag was not smuggled rice at all, but a cut body wrapped in a large roll of butter cloth. A female corpse in pieces! The onlookers fled in all directions, but the first thing that came to their senses was the Japanese military police. Firstly, they were brutal, and secondly, they felt that the North Korean woman had been fooled by the face. The saber with the sheath started to fight without thinking. What happened next was hilarious.This matter was not under the control of the gendarmerie, but the Japanese gendarmerie didn't care about that. They called a boring car with one phone call, and threw the North Korean woman who scared two souls out of three souls into the car, and sent the gendarmerie directly to court. . The rest of the people on the station stared dumbfounded at the big bag of meat. The "Taijun" took away the living suspects, and the fake police can only deal with the dead ones, but how to deal with them?Finally someone came up with the idea: Send it to Xiehe Hospital, let them put it together first, they have cold storage, and freeze it for storage.At that time, the fake police seemed to have no forensic doctors, so they had to let the living doctors in the hospital make up the number. In this way, a truck pulled all the fragments of the corpse to Xiehe, scaring away many patients, and even occupied the largest freezer in the hospital. However, the doctors of Xiehe are really good. After spraying a lot of formalin for embalming, the doctors managed to restore the female corpse basically. The deceased was in his 20s, petite, his face had been chopped to pieces, and he had no clothes or jewelry... At this time, the Japanese Gendarmerie came and said that this case will be handed over to you Chinese police, and you should solve the case earlier, Yoshi? Well, didn't the prisoner ask you to take it?How else do we solve the case? The Japanese military police gave a wry smile and had no choice but to tell the results of the interrogation. As far as the Japanese military police are concerned, there are not many ways to interrogate Li Yuhe, but they are more than enough to deal with this North Korean woman who dared to deceive herself.It is said that the Japanese military police, who thought they had been deceived, became enraged and tortured as soon as they came up. The North Korean woman was knocked unconscious on the spot, woke up and kept begging for mercy, showing no sign of resistance. However, the beginning and end of her confession made the Japanese military police who thought they had easily solved a big case dumbfounded. According to the North Korean woman, she was more wronged than Dou E.She had no idea whose bag it was. Then why did she tell policeman Zhao that it was hers? Purely because of petty gain.It is said that this North Korean woman was going to go out of customs by car. When she was sitting in the waiting room waiting for the bus, she saw this quite new bag alone on a bench.No one cares for a long time, this North Korean woman has traveled far and wide, and she has a lot of knowledge. Her thinking is similar to that of Zhao Patrolman.If you want to do this, you can count yourself as a small fortune. After another half day, still no one cared, the caring North Korean woman went up to lift it up, and felt that the bag was quite heavy, weighing about a hundred catties—that is, the weight of a person, not a hundred catties?Press and feel that the bag is soft, not like rice.Could it be that he ran into a beef smuggler?Then this small fortune is even more fun. The North Korean woman was secretly proud of herself, showing the hard-working spirit of the Hanjiang people, put the bag on her head after a struggle, and ran to the platform with a small walk. The problem is that Yongdingmen Railway Station is not well repaired, and there is still a long way to go from the waiting room to the platform. After all, the hard-working spirit of Hanjiang people has a limit. After walking for a while, the North Korean woman had to stop to rest when she was weighed down by a hundred catties. That being said, the question is, is what she said true?In some cases, the gendarmerie's confessions were as unreliable as the decoctions of the Daqing Tai Hospital and the documents of the Imperial Academy.For example, Sun Daolin was also caught by the Japanese Gendarmerie back then. The future actor did not change his face, and used his kung fu to fool the Japanese Gendarmerie, and finally released him because of his "naive" and "ignorance". thing.In the end, the Japanese did not understand that this "little" college student with a baby face was actually an "old" Communist Party member who joined the party before the Anti-Japanese War. This North Korean woman is not the Communist Party. She has neither Sun Daolin's ability nor Jiang Jie's backbone. She is frightened to death when she sees colorful instruments of torture.However, the Japanese military police became angry because they felt that they had lost face in public, and they greeted them harshly. The North Korean woman who was crying for her father and mother not only confessed immediately, but no matter how interrogated, her confession did not come or go.In the end, the "Bricks" of the Japanese Gendarmerie also believed that she was telling the truth. Now the Japanese military police can sit on the wax - according to the division of labor, the original task of the Japanese military police is to compete with the anti-Japanese organizations, and they should not handle criminal cases at all. The Japanese military police felt that they had lost face and wanted to take revenge. , lawless; secondly, it may not be easy to solve a case of corpse dismemberment, to show that the "imperial army" is very capable. What now?Send the gendarmerie to break up the corpse case?Isn't that the same as letting a pig climb a tree?They don't know this at all! After much deliberation, the Japanese military police decided to kick the ball to the fake police, and let it go. Now, it's really a no-brainer. The pseudo-police in Peking has a certain ability to detect.Most of these pseudo-police officers were retained by the Beiping city government in the Song Zheyuan era. In the early days of the Republic of China, Beiping was the "capital", and some efforts were made in police construction.When Beiping fell during the Anti-Japanese War, a lot of policemen ran away, but some stayed behind, most of them were like the white inspector in the movie, or the old policemen in "This Life of Me", just messing around for their jobs, but these people have the ability to solve crimes There are still. This time, after putting together the dismembered corpses found, it was found that the victim had suffered from sexually transmitted diseases.From this, it is inferred that the victim may have been a prostitute. In fact, this is really an accurate inference. The victim had indeed worked as a prostitute, and her stage name was "Huahua".Her death is still a rather bizarre and lamentable thing. According to the reporter's report after the case was solved, this flower was sold to Beiping from the South in the early years.Although she has fallen into prostitution, she is a strong person, and she has expressed to her sisters many times that she hopes to start a good family.At that time, Peking brothels often used the method of luring them to smoke opium to deal with this kind of half-hearted cash cow, so that they could not get rid of the prostitution life, and the flowers were not willing to do so, and they secretly saved some money.The mother of the brothel, Sang, ordered her men to steal her savings.Hua Hua was desperate and tried to commit suicide, but was rescued by a guest named Liu.This guest surnamed Liu was very righteous. Hearing what happened to Huahua, he generously offered money to redeem him on the spot. In fact, this Liu has some origins. He is from Benxi in the northeast, and he participated in the Volunteer Army in his early years.After the failure of the Volunteer Army, he was exiled in the customs. After the Japanese army occupied Beiping, Liu had no means of living. Relying on his courage and connections, he started the underground opium business and made a fortune from it.Liu Hui was still single when he delivered the flowers, so he simply married her.Huahua is naturally grateful to Liu, and she pays her back. She is good at female celebrities and keeps the house in order.Liu is old, and he loves his young wife very much. Even though he was under the occupation, his life is quite impressive. However, after two years, Liu suddenly brought back a woman. Speaking of it, Liu was not a bad person, he did business in the hall, and happened to meet a prostitute named Xiuzhen, who was trafficked and refused to receive customers, and was beaten by his mother Sang.Liu felt that Xiuzhen was pitiful, so he took money to redeem her.At that time, there was no crime of bigamy, and when Liu redeemed Xiuzhen, he naturally made her a concubine, monogamy and one concubine, which was also a blessing for Qi Ren. However...unexpectedly, Huahua reacted extremely strongly to this matter, arguing and cursing every day, trying to drive Xiuzhen out.At that time, the traffic between the north and the south was cut off, and Xiuzhen had no relatives, so she could only wash her face with tears.Seeing her pitiful, Liu couldn't help covering her up, Hua Hua became more and more angry, and often had quarrels with Liu. Now it seems that this is just that Huahua cares too much about the good life that he finally got, and he is afraid of losing it, and he is unwilling to share it with others. However, unexpectedly one day during a quarrel, Huahua scolded: "Don't think I'm afraid of you, it's a big deal, and I'll tell the Japanese about your opium business..." As a result, Liu was frightened immediately.At that time, the Japanese sold drugs on a large scale, but at the same time they dealt with underground drugs very harshly.If the flowers really go out, it will be a terrible thing for Liu! Huahua only saw Liu's gentle side to her, but forgot that he was originally a ruthless character in the arena. This sentence made a big mistake. After thinking about it, Liu suddenly found that Hua Hua already knew too much about him.If it was an ordinary couple, even so, they would have to think of other ways, but Liu is a quack, and quacks have their own rules, so he immediately decided to kill them. Liu found Xiuzhen and asked her if she would like to be a dewy couple with him, or a long-term couple?Of course Xiuzhen expressed that she would be a long-term husband and wife due to the kindness of Liu's redemption.Then, Liu said that the time has come for you to repay your favor, and if we want to be a long-term husband and wife, we have to make flowers.So and so, you do as I arrange. Xiuzhen was terribly frightened, but had nowhere to go, so she prepared wine and invited flowers to eat, saying that she decided to leave.Hearing this news, Hua Hua turned from anger to joy, had a good talk with Xiuzhen during the dinner, and wished the sisters called each other, and also sympathized with Xiuzhen's experience, and Hua Hua also apologized for not allowing her to stay.As a result, Xiuzhen became shaken, but thinking of her own future and Liu's kindness, she gritted her teeth and drugged Hua Hua's wine, and spread a bed in the room according to Liu's request. An impermeable butter cloth.When Hua Hua entered a coma, Liu appeared... After the attack, Liu chopped up the face of the flower, dismembered the body into pieces, wrapped it in a butter cloth, put it in his pocket, and took it to the train station.Originally, he wanted to put the body on the train, so that it would be difficult to trace. However, at the train station, Liu was as frightened as a bird, not daring to stay longer, and finally chose to throw the body bag in the waiting room. After the case was solved, although Xiuzhen was not sentenced to severe punishment, she was already insane. After writing this case, Sa couldn't help sighing—in this case, none of the people were bad at first, so who did it wrong? Closer to home, how did this case get solved? It turned out that a detective had examined the butter cloth in detail.He found that on a corner of the butter cloth, there was a blurred handwriting written with alum, which he identified as the words "Zhong Xiuzhen". The police immediately asked people to search for a prostitute named "Zhong Xiuzhen" in the whole city. The question is, who would write that name here with alum? You have to leave your own name when you kill someone, and no one will do that except Master Wu's blood splashed on Yuanyanglou. It was later found out that the name seemed to be written by the owner of a shop selling butter cloth.When Xiuzhen bought the butter cloth, the store was out of stock, so she made an appointment to pick it up two days later.After the boss bought the goods, he wrote the customer's name with alum on the cloth to avoid mistakes, but it turned out to be a clue to solve the case. At that time, the household registration management in Beiping was quite organized, and two prostitutes named "Zhong Xiuzhen" were quickly found out. One is a private family who runs his own business, and after investigation, it does not seem to be the perpetrator of the crime; the other is this Xiuzhen who has just been ransomed.The case was thus solved. Lao Song had worked hard on all kinds of criminal cases in history, so he naturally knew about this case.However, the most amazing thing is the ending of these two murderers.Forget about Xiuzhen, ordinarily, killing Liu and selling opium is a capital crime anyway, but this capital crime cannot be sentenced, because some people have been trying to prevent it from being sentenced quickly. Who is it? It was the reporters from the major newspapers in Peking.At that time, the Japanese puppets were rampant, and it was very difficult for newspapers to report on current affairs. Those who praise the Japanese, firstly, the common people don’t like to watch it, and secondly, the imperial army on Huaishuling has all come to the village to beg for food, no matter how you look at it, it’s going to be over.The reporters are all quick-witted guys, according to Gazi's words, don't look at the fun now, be careful about making lists in the future.However, most journalists did not dare to write anti-Japanese content.Putting it on the Internet to provoke some friends who don’t know the world’s fireworks, it’s just to give you lectures online, at most it annoys you and doesn’t want to go online, just to spend more time with your wife and children.But during the Japanese Occupation, you would provoke the imperial army, drink chili water, sit on a tiger bench, or even be buried alive.As a result, themes such as "Flower Murder" are the most popular among veteran journalists.This kind of theme can attract readers without taboo. All the newspapers in Peking made a special feature of this case and reported it in lengthy articles, all of which were inevitably exaggerated and quoted from many sources. They only wrote that Liu was like a devil in the world, Xiuzhen was like a girl with a red thread, and flowers were like a chastity child who was born early... That being the case, how can the judge easily close the case?Isn't that smashing the jobs of dozens of newspaper friends?In this way, both soft and hard, no matter what the reporter friends can't let Lao Liu just give a sentence like this. As a result, the case was tried from 1943 to 1945. Those who didn’t know it thought it was so complicated, but they didn’t know that Lao Liu supported a group of well-dressed veterans and their wives, children, and nanny "mistresses". It's good deeds. By 1945, there was really nothing to delay and had to be sentenced.In the end, Lao Liu was sentenced to death, and Xiuzhen was sentenced to life. Ordinarily, it would be interesting for the reporters to hold on until now. Besides, at least ten days and a half months can be reported for the old Liu Xingfeng's ceremony, right? However, this time the reporters were more regretful—Lao Liu didn’t give them this chance because——Japan surrendered. In the chaos after Japan's surrender, Liu escaped from the prison together with a large number of prisoners. He once ate at a fellow villager's house and said he would return to his hometown in Benxi, but he has since disappeared.Considering that a large number of professionals with historical problems were dug out after liberation and there was no news about Liu, this person either died in the subsequent war, or he was too smart, even the Communist Party could not dig him out. Judging from this person's experience, the possibility of the latter is not low. I talked about the "flower case" for a long time, not only because this case, like the case of Chen Yonghao and Liu Jingzhi, was broken on the unintentional handwriting left on the package, but also because it had a little familiarity with the Longtan Lake corpse case, We will see this later.