In 2006, an elderly couple in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, was cleaning their attic when they accidentally discovered the remains of a dismembered male hidden in three mysterious wooden boxes. After investigation, it was confirmed that the deceased had been dead for at least 10 years.
The fact that the elderly couple had been under the same roof for ten years with a skeleton was terrifying, but the incomprehensible scene of the house had never been rented out since it was built in 1994 and no strangers had broken in.
So, who is this unidentified deceased? Why is it hidden in this attic? Let's reveal the truth together through this issue of Historical Literature. One day in March 2006, Hu Chunxin and Hu Laohan from Donghe Village, Henghe Town, Cixi received a letter from a police station.
* The police officer on the other end said that there was some information about his son, Hu Jianming, and that he needed to have a face-to-face conversation with him.
Hu Chunxin and his wife Yang Caifeng received a **, which made them have mixed feelings in their hearts. The first thing that came to their mind was that maybe their son was causing some trouble outside.
But at the same time, I rejoiced because I hadn't heard my son's voice for a long time. Hu Jianming was a soldier when he was young, and after retiring from the army, he served as the technical deputy director of the "Cixi Henghe Chunchao Rubber and Plastic Seals Factory".
However, one day in 1996, he had an argument with his girlfriend, ran away from home in a fit of rage, and went to work hard in other places. This made Hu Chunxin and his wife feel angry and annoyed.
They originally thought that their son was just running away from home for a short time, but after 10 years, he still didn't come back, and he didn't even get a **. At the beginning of Hu Jianming's disappearance, the old couple was almost crazy, and they did not hesitate to spend all their savings to find their son, but in the end they were not found.
When Aunt Xu was cleaning the attic, she found a white skeleton, and it turned out that after 10 years of separation, their long-awaited son Hu Jianming had died. Although Hu Jianming was later contacted by Xu Dan, after learning the news, the old couple still felt relieved in their hearts, because they knew that at least they had news of their son.
In an interview, Hu Chunxin said that he went to the police station with the best attitude, at most his son was outside, or something small happened. However, the reality is much more cruel, and their son has turned into a white skeleton, which is unacceptable to them.
Aunt Xu was the leader of a local middle school when she was young, and later transferred to the teaching commission, and her husband's job is also very decent, which can be regarded as a local rich family. In 1994, they spent a lot of money to build a very imposing three-storey independent building.
Due to the size of the house, there is no shortage of space to use, and the stairs leading to the attic are very narrow and steep. Most of the building materials in the attic are unused when the house was built.
So since the house was built, almost no one has gone up for more than 10 years. Now, Aunt Xu is retired and has nothing to do, so she decided to clean up the attic. On this morning, as soon as Aunt Xu climbed up to the attic, a strange and familiar smell came to her nose.
It turned out that in the early years, every time it was hot in summer, Aunt Xu's family could always smell a pungent fishy smell in the house. They complained to their neighbors about it.
It's just that there happens to be a stinky river not far from the Xu family's small building, and the restaurant that opened upstream often kills chickens and ducks by the river. Therefore, everyone thinks that the owner of the restaurant has no sense of public morality and directly throws animal internal organs and dirty blood into the river, which leads to this rotten and unpleasant smell.
However, after cleaning up, Aunt Xu found that the source of the smell was actually old building materials piled up in the attic.
Aunt Xu never expected that the smell that had plagued the whole family for a long time would reappear in her attic. Or maybe the stench is coming from the attic.
After tracking, Aunt Xu found the source of the odor in the southwest corner of the attic - it was full of wood chips and other debris, and at the bottom was a large wooden box. When Aunt Xu carefully uncovered the lid of the wooden box, she was horrified to find two white bones with shoes on them.
Aunt Xu, who was so frightened that she had no master, immediately notified her husband to call the police. The police from the Hushan Police Station quickly arrived at the scene, and after investigation, they found three large wooden boxes in the attic, and the white bones scattered in the boxes were pieced together to form a complete male human skeleton.
The medical examiner preliminarily judged that the deceased had been dead for at least 10 years.
Through the separated bones, axes, ** lines and other physical evidence, as well as the situation at the scene of the crime, it can be inferred that this case involved serious crimes such as **, dismemberment and concealment of corpses.
Generally speaking, this kind of old case without clues, the scene is seriously damaged, the investigation is very difficult, and it may not even be possible to determine the identity of the deceased, and it becomes an unsolved case.
However, fortunately, ** found the identity card and business card in the clothes of the deceased, with Hu Jianming's name clearly written on them, which provided important clues for the investigation of the case.
Hu Jianming has been missing for 10 years, and his remains were found in the attic of Xu's house, and after an investigation, it was determined that the deceased was Hu Jianming. His first girlfriend Xu Dan became the subject of investigation because she was implicated in Hu Jianming's death.
Xu Dan is a clerk at the Cixi Municipal Education Bureau and is married and has a 9-year-old son. The timing of her marriage coincided with the time of Hu Jianming's disappearance, which contradicted her previous statement that she had told the Hu family as Hu Jianming's girlfriend.
* Hence greater suspicion of Xu Dan.
After an in-depth investigation, Cixi** determined that Xu Dan was the real culprit of the "Loft White Bone Case" and revealed the truth of the case. The incident occurred on the evening of December 18, 2006, after Hu Jianming attended his cousin's wedding banquet in the song hall, his friend told him that he had seen Xu Dan taking wedding photos with others.
Hu Jianming and Xu Dan are junior high school classmates and first love, their relationship has always been stable, and everyone thinks that they will get married naturally.
Xu Dan and Hu Jianming's road to love is not smooth. Although the two have been in love for many years, their family backgrounds are very different. The Xu family was wealthy, while the Hu family was poorer.
Xu Dan is unwilling to spend her life in poverty, so she decides to step on two boats, while having a deep affection with Hu Jianming, while looking for a new boyfriend who is the right person. However, her behavior was eventually discovered by her friends, and Hu Jianming felt very distressed after learning about it.
The quarrel between them became more and more intense, and it eventually ended in a breakup.
In the moment of emotion, Xu Dan said impulsively: "I'd rather not marry him than marry you." Hearing this, Hu Jianming's emotions were out of control, and he even slapped Xu Dan hard.
The atmosphere became increasingly tense. Seeing that things are getting bigger and bigger, Xu Dan is worried that his neighbors will find out and spread rumors. So she tried to calm herself down, and brought Hu Jianming into her room, ready to talk.
However, when Hu Jianming walked into the room, he saw a letter of introduction for Xu Dan's marriage registration with others on the table. This discovery completely broke him down, and he cried out, "I don't want to live anymore." ”
In a later confession, Xu Dan clearly recalled what happened next: Hu Jianming saw her marriage introduction letter with someone else and said that he didn't want to live anymore. She immediately took out a bottle of sleeping pills and gave it to him, saying, "You go and take a rest, I'll let you drink it after I've brewed the medicine." ”
Seeing him lie still in bed after drinking the medicine, she felt very angry and thought, "You can't die in my house for no apparent reason." So she strangled him around his neck with a ** thread and hid his body in the attic.
Hu Jianming was confused after drinking, and Xu Dan was nervous, worried that his commotion would attract the attention of others. In order to calm him down, Xu Dan poured him a glass of water containing a lot of sleeping pills.
After that, in order to eliminate the future troubles forever, Xu Dan directly strangled Hu Jianming, bought axes and other tools, and hid the body in the attic for 10 years. After the murder and dismemberment, she did not show any signs of weakness and absconding in fear of crime, but lived at home for so long with peace of mind.
This kind of behavior is really beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and I don't know how shocked and frightened Xu Dan's family will be when they learn the truth. The truth is finally revealed, and murder must be paid for.
On the evening of December 18, seeing that Hu Jianming had not returned home for a long time, Hu Chunxin was very worried about his son's safety, so he immediately contacted Hu Jianming's friend to inquire about the situation.
After learning that Hu Jianming had gone to find Xu Dan, Hu Chunxin immediately rushed to Xu Dan's home.
Xu Dan knew about Hu Chunxin's arrival, she calmly walked towards Hu Chunxin, and skillfully narrated the long-prepared rhetoric. Xu Dan told Hu Chunxin that Hu Jianming had indeed come to her before, and the two had an argument due to emotional problems, and Hu Jianming left angrily after arguing a few words at the door.
With an upright attitude, Xu Dan successfully sent Hu Chunxin away. However, she suddenly realized that once Hu Jianming "disappeared", the Hu family would definitely call the police, so that she would be found sooner or later.
So early the next morning, Xu Dan hurriedly called Hu Chunxin, saying that Hu Jianming contacted her and wanted to start a business in other places, and borrowed 6,000 yuan from her. Xu Dan has always been a gentle, kind, and knowledgeable girl in the eyes of the Hu family.
She often came to the house to play when she was in junior high school, and later became Hu Jianming's girlfriend and knew the situation of the Hu family very well. Therefore, although Hu Chunxin and his wife were confused by their son's sudden departure, they still chose to believe Xu Dan.
Mr. and Mrs. Hu Chunxin have been concerned about their missing son, Hu Jianming. Although Xu Dan revealed a lot of news about Hu Jianming, they never dared to ask Hu Jianming directly
Since Xu Dan was married and had children, Hu Chunxin and his wife's apologies to her made them unbearable to trouble her. They believed that Hu Jianming had something unspeakable, so they chose to wait patiently and not rush him.
For ten years, they have been missing their son and have never left their hometown, hoping to welcome him back at any time. Yang Caifeng cleans Hu Jianming's room every week, looking forward to his return.
Hu Jianming's parents never imagined that their son would have died on the day of his disappearance and would be dismembered. And they, as parents, have been kept in the dark for a full 10 years, trusting and grateful to the ** who killed their son.
Faced with such a cruel reality, the Hu family's heart was like a knife, and they couldn't help but die. Hu Chunxin fainted on the spot when he saw his son's body, and Yang Caifeng cried bitterly and was in a trance.
But they still brace themselves and bring a group of friends and family to the courtroom. They held banners that read "Murder pays for life" and knelt in front of the courthouse, begging for severe punishment by the law and seeking justice for their son.
During the trial, Xu Dan abruptly changed her confession, claiming that she and Hu Jianming were not in a romantic relationship, and that Hu Jianming unilaterally pestered and beat her.
She also emphasized that the sleeping pills were taken by Hu Jianming on his own initiative, and the thread was used to strangle the hands and feet instead of strangling the neck. Xu Dan said that all she did during the whole incident was to dismember and hide Hu Jianming, who died by suicide.
Therefore, although she had previously admitted all the facts of the crime, she now insists that she did not kill and hopes that the judge will give a lenient sentence.
Xu Dan was sentenced to death for intentional homicide, with a two-year reprieve, deprived of political rights for life, and compensated for the victim's economic losses. Her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 2009 and to 18 years and three months in prison and deprived of political rights for eight years in 2011 for her outstanding performance during her time and several provincial rehabilitation activists.
After several years of hard work, she received several commutations of her sentence due to her excellent attitude of repentance. However, love and bread often can't be both, don't be too greedy. If she chose bread, she shouldn't have stepped on two boats and continued to pull Hu Jianming.
Even after the other party broke the truth, in order to protect his face and happiness, he did not hesitate to kill the killer. I hope that this tragedy will arouse everyone's wake-up call and not allow greed and selfishness to lead to irreparable consequences.