Chapter 12 half life

half life(1) A girl from the same village was raped and murdered, and his clothes were found at the scene, and the case was settled. He was sentenced to death three times, but he kept calling for injustice.He was also a suspect, and the other escaped in handcuffs. He was not pursued for six years, and once he was arrested, he was sentenced to death. 8 years of unsolved case, who is the real murderer? In the early morning of August 7, 1998, in Xingzhuang Village, Huatuo Town, Bozhou, Anhui, 64-year-old villager Xing Lushi was suddenly awakened by a noise outside his house.She got out of bed, went out to check the movement, and pushed open the door of the west room next door. She was shocked to find that her 17-year-old granddaughter Xing Hongyan had cold hands and died naked on the bed... After investigation by the police officers, it was found that Xing Hongyan had had sex with someone before her death. .The police found several suspicious items at the scene: a blue T-shirt with vertical white stripes on the northeast corner of the bed, a pubic hair and several red fibers on the reed mat, and a pair of white plastic slippers on the ground along the east edge of the bed and two towels at the west end of the table.Early the next morning, the public security organs gathered all the young and middle-aged people in Xingzhuang to the village south primary school to investigate one by one.Zhao Xinjian, a 19-year-old who lives in two households next door to Xing's house, discovered that the T-shirt, slippers and towels on Xing Hongyan's bed were exactly what he had lost the night before.Zimo: Do ​​you remember what happened on August 7, 1998?

Zhao Xinjian: That night, I was resting at home. At about two or three o'clock in the morning, my father heard someone crying in the east of the village. He got up to watch. When he came back, he woke me up and said, "You are still sleeping, the second sister of the East courtyard If something goes wrong at home, you don't go to see it.When I woke up, I went to get dressed, but the T-shirt was gone, and when I went to put on my shoes, the shoes were gone. Zhao Jianhua (Zhao Xinjian's father): I was woken up by the noise in the east courtyard. After waking up, I went to see it. There were too many people to squeeze into the courtyard, so I had to look outside the courtyard wall.After watching it for about half an hour, when I came back, I said, Xinjian, you slept too much, Xing Hongyan in the East Hospital was killed.I woke him up, and when he woke up, he went to get the undershirt, but found that the undershirt was gone, and then went to put on his shoes, and the slippers were gone.The kids don't know what's going on.

Zhao Xinjian: At about five or six o’clock the next morning, the Bozhou (Qiaozhong) Sub-bureau and the Huatuo Town Police Station asked all the men over 18 years old and under 50 years old in the village to attend a meeting at the village primary school, and I also went.As soon as I went, I recognized it as my slippers, my T-shirt. Zimo: Did the police tell you where those clothes and shoes were found? Zhao Xinjian: It was discovered at the scene. Zimo: Did you admit that the thing was yours? Zhao Xinjian: I admit it.I said the slippers were mine and the T-shirt was mine. Zimo: Didn’t you think about the possible consequences of such recognition?

Zhao Xinjian: No idea.Zhao Xinjian was then shackled and taken back to the police station.In the police station, he was beaten and forced to confess by five or six police officers. The interrogation lasted for three days and two nights.During this period, he did not eat, drink or sleep.Overwhelmed, Zhao Xinjian finally admitted that he "killed and raped corpses".Zimo: On the way to the police station, would you be afraid? Zhao Xinjian: No, I think I lost my shoes and T-shirt, but I did not kill anyone or commit a crime. I cooperated with them (the Public Security Bureau) to investigate.Investigating things is also a matter of course, which is what I, a farmer, should do.

Zimo: What happened after arriving at the police station? Zhao Xinjian: The director of the police station asked me, is this T-shirt Zhao Xinjian yours?I said yes.Where are the slippers?I said, the slippers are mine too.Do you dare to say that you have nothing to do with the crime?I said, it doesn't matter.Am I a criminal if I lost a pair of slippers and a T-shirt?He said I was sophistry and began to insult my personality. Five or six people beat me with their hands, burned my legs with cigarette butts, twisted my arms, stepped on my face with their feet, told me to lie on the ground, and hit me with a chair. They used various instruments of torture to force me.My head was bled and my nose was beaten so badly that I lost my sense of smell.Now this nose can't smell the fragrance.

Zimo: Is it true that the police tortured you to extract a confession? Zhao Xinjian: It is completely true, without any exaggeration.They treated me like a murderer and forced me to tell what happened at the scene.I know absolutely nothing, so where do I start?In that case, they hit me.Tired from the beating, he changed players, he went to rest, and then he found someone else to beat me.It was really difficult at that time. I was beaten so hard that I really had no choice, so I made a statement at the police station and admitted the matter, but what I confessed did not match what they thought.They reminded me, asking which direction Xing Hongyan slept in?How many rooms does her house have?Then tell me that her house has three rooms, and she sleeps in the west room.Sleeping on the bed, there is also an east, west, north and south. I said east, but he said it was wrong, so I said west. Anyway, there are four directions in total, and there is always one direction that is right.After confirming the direction, I asked how I killed her, and I said I killed her with a knife.He reminded me that there was no blood or wound on Xing Hongyan's body, so I didn't know what to say.How can you kill without blood and wounds?After hesitating for about ten minutes, I said it was strangled to death.After admitting his "crime," Zhao Xinjian was sent to a detention center, where he was held for 87 days.In the meantime, the police made an inspection report on the physical evidence taken at the scene—the victim Xing Hongyan had type A blood, and the sperm spot detected on her vaginal swab was type A substance, and the suspect Zhao Xinjian had type A blood.However, the pubic hair extracted at the scene was type O, and the blood type of another suspect Li Weifeng captured by the police was type O.However, Li Weifeng escaped from under the nose of the police with shackles, and the police did not investigate further. On September 17, 1998, the Bozhou Municipal Public Security Bureau submitted a request to the procuratorate to formally arrest Zhao Xinjian. Ten days later, the procuratorate refused to approve the arrest on the grounds that the facts were unclear and the evidence was insufficient. On October 3, 1998, Zhao Xinjian was released.After staying at home for more than half a year, he went to Tianjin to work, thinking that he and this matter had come to an end.

The release of Zhao Xinjian greatly irritated the victim's grandmother Xing Lushi.In her eyes, Zhao Xinjian is "not a good person". In 1994, Zhao Xinjian was sent to a labor camp for two years for stealing silver dollars from the villagers.In this simple-minded village in northern Anhui, this brought him a notoriety of stealing chickens and dogs.Xing Lu believed: "The clothes, slippers, and towels were all made by Zhao Xinjian. When the police asked him to confess, he also admitted that he killed him. Who was the murderer?" Xing Lu began to petition everywhere: twice to Beijing, several times When she went to Hefei, the provincial government, public security department, court, and procuratorate, she went to sue one by one; whenever there was a petition reception day for government leaders, the old man would also go to complain.All targets were aimed at Zhao Xinjian.More than two months later, Zhao Xinjian, who was working in Tianjin, was arrested thousands of miles away by the police. On August 16, 2000, Zhao Xinjian's case was opened in the Bozhou Intermediate People's Court, and Zhao Xinjian was sentenced to death in the first instance of the intermediate court.The court did not accept the opinions put forward by Zhao Xinjian and his lawyers on some major doubts in the facts of the case.Zimo: Do ​​you think there is anything unreasonable about this case?

Huang Yingchun (lawyer Zhao Xinjian): Yes.The first unreasonable thing is how Zhao Xinjian entered the home of the victim Xing Hongyan on the day he committed the crime.For this process, his confession is unreasonable.The Zhao family and the Xing family were separated by another family before. According to the route of Zhao Xinjian's confession, he could not enter the victim's house.The second suspicious point is that Zhao Xinjian said that after he entered Xing's house, he had a conversation with the victim for several minutes: I patted her (Xing Hongyan) on the arm, she woke up, sat up, asked who, I said I , she asked me what you are doing here, and I said I came to find you.At this time, she stretched out her hand to pull the lamp, and I watched her pull the lamp, so I did the same.Two people pulled, and the light cord was pulled off.Then she said you can go?I said I'm not leaving.She said that if you don't leave, I will call my mother.She opened her mouth and was about to yell, but before she could yell out, I covered her mouth with my right hand...

——Excerpt from Zhao Xinjian's confession If this conversation really existed, the case would not have happened, because the victim's grandmother was sleeping in the adjacent room.The third point of doubt is Zhao Xinjian's description of the crime scene. He said that the victim's top was not taken off at the time, and that she put on her briefs after the rape, but in fact the victim was naked, without an inch of clothing on her body.In addition, Zhao Xinjian's blood type was type A, but the pubic hair found at the scene was type O. The court did not pay attention to this major doubt.

Zimo: Did you raise the issue of blood type in court? You yourself have type A blood, and Xing Hongyan also has type A blood, but physical evidence of type O blood was found at the scene? Zhao Xinjian: I mentioned it. My lawyer defended me, but they didn't accept it.The public prosecutor always felt that Zhao Xinjian had to be shot.After the first trial, Zhao Xinjian filed an appeal, and the Anhui Provincial High Court revoked the original judgment on the grounds that the facts were unclear and the evidence was insufficient, and the case was remanded for retrial.As a result, on June 12, 2002, the Bozhou Intermediate Court sentenced Zhao Xinjian to death for the second time.Zhao appealed again, and the Anhui Provincial High Court once again revoked the original judgment and sent it back for retrial.Zhao Xinjian: The second trial is still the death penalty. Our family is not doing well financially, and the murderer cannot be caught. I will always be a scapegoat.I started a hunger strike at that time, and the hunger strike lasted until the fifth day. Everyone persuaded me, saying that your death is nothing, but not to mention the financial burden you bring to your family, and your reputation is unbearable. You are sorry for your family.I thought to myself, too, since there was no murder, why the death penalty?Why don't you eat?I decided to appeal.Even if there is no hope, I will appeal.My parents petitioned me for this matter, went to Beijing, Hefei, and Bozhou, and ran here and there. They petitioned, and I had to appeal.

half life(2) Zimo: How much did your family spend on your petition? Zhao Xinjian: It cost tens of thousands of yuan. The family is in financial difficulties. Zimo: Where did the tens of thousands of dollars come from? Zhao Xinjian: Loans, usury. Zimo: Do ​​you believe what Zhao Xinjian said?He said he didn't kill anyone. Zhao Jianhua: I believe, he is not usually a slutty kid.My own child grew up beside me, can I not know it? Zimo: Zhao Xinjian has been here for 8 years, how much influence has he had on the family? Zhao Jianhua: The loss is too great.Zhao Xinjian squatted in it for 8 years, and I ran for 8 years.At first, they ran in Bozhou for two years. They kept pushing. The criminal police team pushed to the Public Security Bureau, the Public Security Bureau pushed to the court, the court pushed to the procuratorate, and pushed each other back and forth.In the end, I went to Beijing and looked for the Supreme People's Court, looking for a place for letters and visits. There was a huge crowd of people there. When I asked, some stayed there for half a year, and some stayed there for several months. Like me, an old farmer, it seemed that there was no way. My heart said that even if I died in this place, this matter would not be done. Zhao Xinjian: I am sad and sorry for my family.I can't tell what it feels like.I shed too many tears in the detention center, and now I can't shed any more tears.My family members could only persuade me to stay inside and take care of myself.They went here and there year after year to petition for me. I had to eat, go on a hunger strike, and tell my family to give up hope.Zhao Xinjian said that because he cried too much in prison and in the detention center, his eyes are not working well now.He is afraid to see the sun, and also afraid of strong lights.In interviews, he kept saying that the camera lights made it hard for him to keep his eyes open.A few days ago, because he couldn't see clearly, he bumped his head against the glass wall. On April 12, 2004, the Bozhou Intermediate Court sentenced Zhao Xinjian to death for the third time, with a two-year reprieve.This time, Zhao Xinjian did not appeal, and he was sent to Suzhou Prison in Anhui Province to serve his sentence.Zhao Xinjian: In the end, I was sentenced to death with a reprieve. Will I appeal?I said appeal.However, our family's financial situation is difficult, and the deadline for appealing is 10 days, and the family did not have enough money to hire a lawyer. Zimo: How much does it cost to hire a lawyer for an appeal? Zhao Xinjian: Two thousand yuan is needed.By the time the money was collected, the deadline had passed.Zhao Xinjian was not sentenced to death, which made Xing Lushi, the grandmother of the murdered girl Xing Hongyan, very dissatisfied.She continued to petition everywhere. In August 2004, under the pressure of her repeated appeals, the police arrested Li Weifeng, another suspect in the case. Not long after the murder occurred on August 7, 1998, the police brought Li Weifeng, a villager in Zhouzhuang, which is adjacent to Xingzhuang, to the criminal police team for questioning and extracted Li's hair.After testing, Li's hair was the same type O as the pubic hair extracted at the crime scene.However, Li Weifeng escaped from under the nose of the police wearing shackles, and the police seemed to have forgotten this major suspect in the subsequent detection process.Li Weifeng later absconded to Shandong, married a wife and had children.Zimo: Li Weifeng from the neighboring village was also a target of suspicion, but why was Zhao Xinjian completely pointed at in the end, while Li Weifeng was ignored for such a long time? Huang Yingchun: It seems that Zhao Xinjian and Li Weifeng were arrested at the same time. Li Weifeng escaped during the detention period. After the escape, the public security organs did not investigate further.Zhao Xinjian's clothes and shoes were found at the scene of the case, and the public security agency believed that there was direct evidence in the case that could prove Zhao Xinjian committed a crime, so they gave up arresting Li Weifeng. Zimo: How did Li Weifeng get caught? Lawyer Huang: There are two reasons. One is that after Zhao Xinjian was sentenced to death with a reprieve, the victim’s family was dissatisfied and petitioned many times, demanding that Zhao Xinjian be sentenced to death immediately. Second, Zhao Xinjian’s family also kept petitioning.Under such circumstances, the public security organ believed that there might be problems in the case. During the review process, it was found that the case was settled with indirect evidence and the reasons were not sufficient. Therefore, a special case team was formed to investigate and Li Weifeng was arrested again. Zimo: What is the reason for the criminal police to suspect him (Li Weifeng)? Zhao Xinjian: Since the day he escaped in handcuffs, he has not returned home, nor returned to his parents.And on October 16, 1998, he was going to start a family and get married, but he didn't come back.Why did you escape without breaking the law?You didn't do anything wrong, why didn't you go home?You didn't even come back on the day of the engagement.This makes people more suspicious. Zimo: Assuming Li Weifeng is the murderer, why did your T-shirt and slippers appear at the crime scene? Zhao Xinjian: I told the criminal police team that my things were lost.Is there no one who will frame me?According to the "Southern People Weekly" report, shortly after his arrest, Li Weifeng explained the process of committing the crime: at 10 o'clock in the evening on August 6, 1998, he couldn't sleep, so he fled from Zhouzhuang to Xingzhuang, sneaked into Xing's house, and came to Xing Hongyan The bedside wanted to do something wrong, so Xing reached out to pull the light cord, but Li tore it off. Fearing that Xing would yell, Li grabbed Xing's neck with his hands until he stopped moving, and then raped Xing.Afraid that the matter would be exposed, Li Sui had the idea of ​​blaming Zhao Xinjian for stealing silver dollars from his neighbor Zhao Xinjian, who had just been released from a forced labor camp. Lu returned to Xing Hongyan's home, put the T-shirt on the bed, and put the slippers under the bed. On January 6, 2006, the High Court of Anhui Province revoked the ruling on Zhao Xinjian's case and sent it back to Bozhou Intermediate Court for retrial. On June 23, the Public Security Bureau of Qiaocheng District, Bozhou City released Zhao Xinjian on the grounds that he had "no criminal facts".When he was just released, the 27-year-old Zhao Xinjian, who was 1.76 meters tall, weighed only 76 kilograms. After 8 years in prison, his body has been completely broken down.Zimo: When you walked out of the detention center, what did you think of? Zhao Xinjian: I wonder if my family will come to pick me up.In the end, the family went to pick me up. Zimo: Did Mom and Dad pick you up? Zhao Xinjian: Mom didn't go, she's out of her mind. Zimo: How did you live after you came out, and what is your daily life like now? Zhao Xinjian: After returning home, I found that the house called Xing Hongyan's family had been demolished.My parents haven't lived at home all these years, but live with relatives.After I got home, I bought tiles and rebuilt the house so that it didn't leak when it rained.My parents were very sad to see me.I couldn't stand up at all, I couldn't see the sun, I couldn't eat, I also had stomach problems, I was dizzy, I didn't want to eat, and I would vomit after a while. Zimo: How much do you eat for a meal now? Zhao Xinjian: I drink some porridge in the morning and sometimes make a bag of instant noodles at noon, so I can't eat much.After I came out, relatives in my family began to drop water (diagnosed injections) for me. Some dropped three bottles a day, and some dropped two bottles. It took a long time before the water stopped. Zimo: Can you do farm work or other jobs? Zhao Xinjian: I can't do farm work. Zimo: Who will support you in life? Zhao Xinjian: My father and my mother, my mother can't support me, I can only rely on my father. Zimo: How will you live your life in the future? Zhao Xinjian: How did you live?Only at home, I don't know if I can work. Currently only my father is doing farm work. Zimo: Did you ever think that you would be released? Zhao Xinjian: In the detention center, they called me and wanted to let me out.I asked, why let me out?He said because there was no criminal fact.I said, I was locked up for 8 years, and I was released on the basis of no criminal facts?I don't want to come out yet.In our rural areas, I still don't know the difference between having no criminal facts and being released without guilt. Zimo: What you want is an acquittal, right? Zhao Xinjian: Yes, what I want is reputation.I entered the police station at the age of 19 and came out at the age of 27. No one has come to this youth.An acquittal can prove my innocence, and it can be regarded as my innocence. Zimo: Are you going to ask for compensation? Zhao Xinjian: Compensation is required, after all, it has brought losses to me personally and to my family, and my innocence is gone. Zimo's Comments: After 8 years of imprisonment and 8 years of youth, Zhao Xinjian is still waiting for the word "acquitted" to restore his own reputation.In addition, he is also preparing to apply for state compensation to repay the family's debts.I hope Zhao Xinjian doesn't have to wait another 8 long years to realize his wish.Another suspect in this case, Li Weifeng, is still in prison. He has been sentenced to death three times and is still appealing. According to what Li Weifeng said when he retracted his confession in court, he and Zhao Xinjian committed the crime together.The Anhui Provincial High Court has not identified Li Weifeng as the sole murderer of Xing Hongyan.The case is not over yet...