On January 21, 2009, two Chinese students, Zhu Haiyang and Yang Xin, shared dinner at a café at the University of Virginia in the United States. On that day, there were only three staff members and six or seven students dining, and the whole environment seemed very peaceful, only the occasional conversation broke the silence.
In a corner of the café, Zhu Haiyang and Yang Xin sat quietly at the dining table, the people around them were immersed in their own world, and no one noticed the presence of the Chinese students.
Suddenly, Zhu Haiyang took out a wide-body kitchen knife from his pocket and slashed at Yang Xin, a female student sitting next to him. Yang Xin instinctively covered his vital parts, but he couldn't stop Zhu Haiyang's continuous attacks, and finally fell to the ground.
During the whole process, Zhu Haiyang swung the knife a total of 11 times, and Yang Xin had no signs of life after he fell to the ground.
Zhu Haiyang's cruelty is not only reflected in the fact that he killed Yang Xin, but also that he cut off Yang Xin's head and walked around the café with her head, his empty expression made people feel extremely terrifying.
The incident happened suddenly, and everyone had no time to stop it, ** happened in front of everyone, everyone was frightened and fled the scene, and the staff of the café immediately called the police.
Zhu Haiyang did not run away after completing these acts, but stayed in the café to wait for the arrival of the police, and when the police arrived, they were also startled by the sight in front of them.
Yang Xin's body was lying on the ground, to be precise, it was a headless female corpse, not far from the corpse, Zhu Haiyang was holding Yang Xin's head, his face was expressionless, and his whole body was covered with blood.
According to the police officers involved in the disposal, it was like a scene from a horror movie. Because Zhu Haiyang did not resist, the police quickly controlled him and took him to the police car. From Zhu Haiyang's killing of Yang Xin to being taken away, the whole process only took a few minutes.
In April 2007, South Korean student Cho Peng-hee shocked the world when he killed himself by injuring 32 people at gunpoint at Virginia Tech.
In response to similar incidents, the State of Virginia** has established emergency mechanisms to respond quickly. Despite the swift response, tragedy struck.
There was a student assassination at Virginia Tech, and the killer has been arrested. In the following days, the ** reports about the case began to heat up, and the heat of the case continued to rise.
In one case, the Washington Post initially embellished the details of the case. Some people thought that if they had reported the matter truthfully from the beginning, it might have diluted the atmosphere of the inauguration of the then American ** Obama, so they decided to take it with a grain of salt.
However, the Washington Post later publicly explained that the reason they hid some of the details was to avoid secondary harm and humiliation to the victims' families. Zhu Haiyang** was later sent to Montgomery Penitentiary in Virginia, where he was charged with intentional homicide and could be sentenced to life in prison without bail.
At the same time as arresting Zhu Haiyang, another group of police officers also rushed to his and Yang Xin's residences, and searched their rooms and found invoices for Zhu Haiyang's purchase of the murder weapon and a check for $40 issued by Yang Xin to Zhu Haiyang.
An unsent letter, leaving only a red lip print. It is impossible to know the recipient of this letter, but everyone wants to know the reason for this ** and whether there is an inextricable hatred between the two people.
Yang Xin only studied in the United States for 13 days, but her death sparked an extensive investigation. At first, it was thought that it might be because of a feud between the two. However, the results of the investigation revealed that both were each other's emergency contacts, suggesting that their relationship was extraordinary.
As the investigation deepened, there were more and more suspicious points.
In Yang Xin's life, there are two important people, one is her mother, and the other is Zhu Haiyang. At the moment when Yang Xin arrived in the United States, Zhu Haiyang appeared at the airport to pick her up, help her solve the accommodation problem, and accompany her through the enrollment procedures.
However, in these short thirteen days, what happened to make Zhu Haiyang end Yang Xin's life in a cruel way? As far as we know, Yang Xin was born in Beijing in 1987 and comes from a family of highly educated intellectuals.
He has been smart and sensible since he was a child, and his academic performance is excellent.
In 2008, Ms. Yang completed all of Memorial University of Newfoundland's undergraduate accounting program in just three years, compared to the four years it would normally take to complete.
In addition, she successfully enrolled in the GMAT Graduate Program in Economic Business Management. It can be seen that Yang Xin is a knowledgeable scholar. Because of her excellent comprehensive quality, she received an admission letter from the University of Virginia in 2008 and enrolled in the Master of Accounting program.
At the moment when Yang Xin received the admission letter, she was studying on a campus in Canada. Originally, she could fly directly to the United States to continue her studies, but she decided to get off the plane in Canada and return to China.
In October of the same year, she got off the plane in Canada, returned to Beijing, and took her mother to ** tour. This trip was a very pleasant experience for the mother and daughter, during which Yang Xin also took a lot of ** photos and recorded this pleasant time.
However, neither she nor her mother expected that these **s would be the last memories she left for her mother.
After the New Year of 2009, Yang Xin packed her bags and embarked on a flight to the United States with unknown expectations. Her fate has changed since then, and it all originated from a man named Zhu Haiyang on the other side of the ocean.
Zhu Haiyang was born in Ningbo, China, to a university professor father and an education mother, and the family is widely regarded as a scholarly family. Since he was a child, Zhu Haiyang's academic performance has been very good, he passed the fourth and sixth level exams in his sophomore year, and by the time he graduated from his senior year, he almost passed the TOEFL and GRE exams with perfect scores.
In 2005, Zhu Haiyang went directly to the School of Economics and Trade of Shanghai Ocean University for graduate studies.
According to the memories of the classmates next to Zhu Haiyang's dormitory when he was a graduate student, Zhu Haiyang performed very well in both study and life, and his English level was also very good, which was deeply loved and appreciated by the teachers.
His heart is delicate, his life is well organized, and his personality is gentle and rational. In 2008, Zhu Haiyang successfully obtained admission to the Virginia Tech University in the United States, majoring in Agricultural and Applied Economics, and if he successfully completed his studies, he would receive a Ph.D. from the same university.
However, a year later, Zhu Haiyang was arrested for the incident with Yang Xin**. After that, both in the United States and at home, there was controversy about Zhu Haiyang's personality, but in the eyes of his friends, he was always an optimistic person.
His roommate recalled that on one occasion he brought back a Japanese knife to play with, but was strongly opposed by Zhu Haiyang, which showed the depth of Zhu Haiyang's antipathy to violence.
After studying in the United States in the fall of 2008, Zhu Haiyang quickly made many friends at the school, and even became a teaching assistant to a professor at the school, who had a very good impression of Zhu Haiyang.
In an interview, the professor commented that Zhu Haiyang is a pleasant and helpful big boy, who always smiles whenever and wherever he is. Both classmates and professors regarded Zhu Haiyang as a friendly and sunny person, and until the afternoon of the incident, some people saw Zhu Haiyang talking and laughing with his classmates.
Therefore, when everyone heard that Zhu Haiyang beheaded Yang Xin, they couldn't believe it. Later, the United States ** reported on the incident, and a friend of Zhu Haiyang said that ten days before the incident, Zhu Haiyang had told him that he liked Yang Xin very much and hoped to become her boyfriend, but he didn't know whether Yang Xin liked him.
This story is even more puzzling, Yang Xin has just arrived in the United States for less than two weeks, and the two of them have not had any disputes before, not to mention that Zhu Haiyang likes Yang Xin so much that there is no reason to kill her.
Although the U.S. immediately launched an investigation, they would not disclose any details of the case. At the time, there was a lot of discussion and speculation on the Internet, with one of the hottest posts making it clear that it was a typical love homicide.
The poster claimed to be a good friend of Zhu Haiyang in the United States, and the content of the post was: "I have seen this Miss Yang in Zhu Haiyang's apartment, she is very good-looking, very good at interacting with people, and even seems a little sleek. ”
After Yang Xin left, Zhu Haiyang told me with a smile that she was going to live in my apartment for a few days: "After hearing this, I also joked that you have to seize the opportunity and try to chase her." ”
Zhu Haiyang did not express a clear opinion on this sentence, but judging from his expression, he did not seem to be disgusted. A few days later, when his friend met Zhu Haiyang again, he was surprised to find: "I have already had a relationship with this girl, and I didn't expect things to progress so quickly." ”
However, when people thought they would be a couple, things took a new turn. Zhu Haiyang told his friend: "Yang Xin said that she was not voluntary at the time, so she asked me to compensate her, otherwise she would complain to ** and the school." Later, Zhu Haiyang's friend posted after the incident: "Zhu Haiyang was very irritable at that time. ”
If what the post says is true, then it can be concluded that there is an extraordinary relationship between the two, and the cause of the incident may be Yang Xin's use of Zhu Haiyang for blackmail, which is shared by many people.
For a time, this matter caused a stir in the country, and some people even created a limerick poem based on it: "It is difficult to distinguish between men and women, the war is burning for ten days, the beauty Yang Xin suffers bad luck, and the United States is like Iraq." ”
This limerick is obviously a joke by netizens, but it is inappropriate to joke on such issues. Thinking about it from another angle, the authenticity of this post is still quite controversial, and while people are hotly discussed, there are also many people who doubt it.
After a big data search, netizens quickly found some new clues. In the blog suspected of Zhu Haiyang, there are three logs, the content is full of world-weary and extreme emotions, showing that the person who posted the post is extremely emotionally unstable.
One of the articles mentioned Zhu Haiyang's ** investment problem, he said that due to the seriousness of ***, he may have to start eating pickles, and it will continue for three years, showing that he was under huge financial pressure at that time.
In addition, Zhu Haiyang also said that he is also facing a lot of pressure in his studies, and he said in an email to his domestic classmates that he regrets his current major (agricultural economics) and believes that this major has no future.
When his career and love suffered a blow, Zhu Haiyang's reason seemed to collapse completely.
It has been observed that many people believe that Zhu Haiyang was under multiple financial, emotional and academic pressures before the crime, which made him feel confused about the future. However, just when everyone thought that the truth was about to be revealed, a news about Zhu Haiyang's Weibo being fake once again attracted people's attention.
Some netizens found a screenshot of the Weibo on January 5 before the incident, showing that the user is a woman, lives in Haidian, Beijing, and the name is not the so-called Zhu Haiyang. What's more, the contents of the log have been tampered with after the incident.
Therefore, it can be concluded that this so-called Zhu Haiyang Weibo was temporarily forged in order to create heat and hype. Previously, some people speculated that Zhu Haiyang committed the crime because of his failure, academic pressure and bleak future, which seemed reasonable, but as the Weibo involved was confirmed to be a fake just to rub off on the hot spots and hype, this statement began to become implausible.
In the United States, locals generally interpret Zhu's behavior as a mental problem, perhaps insane.
Because the locals in the United States were apprehensive about the University of Virginia** case that occurred two years ago, they made various speculations about Zhu Haiyang and his incident, and even thought that he might be suffering from paranoia of murder and that he might have a sharp knife hidden in his backpack at any time, thus inferring that there was something wrong with his mental condition.
Despite the lack of evidence, American netizens have made various speculations about Zhu's background, including whether there is a family history. However, these speculations lack any basis and constitute a great insult to Zhu Haiyang's family.
Of all the speculations, the information provided by Zhu Haiyang's landlord is probably the most informative, he believes that Zhu Haiyang's image inside and outside the school is very different, and he also uses himself as an example to illustrate Zhu Haiyang's rough and aggressive.
In the cold winter of 2008, when Zhu Haiyang rented his house, in order to save money, he refused to use the heating, and even put wood on the floor to heat it. The landlord considered that if the heating was not turned on, Zhu Haiyang's heating pipe might be frozen, so he forced the heating valve to be opened.
However, what the landlord didn't expect was that Zhu Haiyang directly cut off the heating pipe. This move strained the relationship between the two parties, and as a result, the landlord concluded that Zhu Haiyang was a rough and aggressive person.
The apartment administrator was also aware of Zhu Haiyang's unusual behavior and described a trivial matter. Zhu Haiyang ran to the administrator's office a few days before the incident to complain, saying that the staff stole his shoes.
The administrator retorted that there were two other roommates in the dorm room, and that they might have done it. However, Zhu Haiyang disagreed, and the two sides parted unhappily. Although the accounts of these two may confirm Zhu Haiyang's "violent tendencies", it is still too early to draw conclusions based on these small things.
However, one thing can be confirmed, Zhu Haiyang attended the trial in the Virginia court.
Although his expression was still calm and peaceful, and he still had a habitual smile on his face, in order to verify Zhu Haiyang's mental condition, the court conducted a special appraisal. The results showed that Zhu Haiyang's mental state was normal, and no mental abnormalities were found.
However, since the details of the investigation have not been made public, all conclusions can only be speculation. No matter how it is explained, the fact that Zhu Haiyang killed his compatriots by cruel means cannot hide his cruelty and inhumanity.
Although there are some "victim guilt theories" about Yang Xin on the Internet, we should look at it rationally instead of blindly following the trend. Most of these statements stem from the posts of some so-called exclusive whistleblowers, but the evidence they provide is not convincing.
One of them, who identified himself as a Canadian, described his contact with Ms. Yang in the post and said that her assessment seemed "fair". He said that Yang Xin worked very hard when he was in Canada, taking six courses a week, studying while working, and taking various exams.
During the conversation, Yang Xin said that she had to get ahead in order to return to China, which can be seen in her ambition. However, as soon as the conversation changed, he began to say that Yang Xin was very inappropriate in making friends, and even had a nickname called "socket".
However, it is not known whether these statements are true or not, and we should be cautious.
The post caused quite a stir online, with many people contacting and cross-verifying the post and previous claims that Ms. Yang had threatened Mr. Zhu with a man or a woman.
Some people even compared this incident with "Song Jiang angrily killed Yan Poxi" in "Water Margin". In general, these statements can only be attributed to irresponsibility. The reason is simple, the deceased is no longer able to defend himself, but the family of the deceased will see these comments that Yang Xin's parents have lost their closest people.
The United States** pays attention to the emotions of Yang Xin's family when reporting on the case, while some people have no reverence for life and no mercy for the deceased and their families. According to the prosecutor in charge of Yang Xin's case, Zhu Haiyang wrote a message after entering prison, saying that he loved Yang Xin very much and courted him many times, but he was rejected and told that he had a boyfriend and plans to get married, which made him feel demonic.
Although the state of Virginia, where Zhu Haiyang is located, retains the death penalty, it was spared death because he did not resist arrest and has pleaded guilty to the law.
Zhu Haiyang's parents apologized to Yang Xin's parents in tears, but Yang Xin's parents did not accept it. No apology can make amends for this tragedy. Originally, the future of the two outstanding young people was unlimited, whether it was in the United States or returning to China, there was a good possibility.
However, tragedy unfolded all this.