Some time ago, the movie "Wading through the Angry Sea" was released.
Lao Huang, the author of the original book, said in an interview before that this novella ** was written in 2015, and he was inspired by a case that happened in the United States not long ago: a male student killed his girlfriend and fled back to China, and his mother assisted him in harboring for 8 months.
After the incident, the details also shocked the entire study abroad circle and the public, let's pick it up together today.
The old rules, introducing the protagonist of the event, the woman Shao Tong, was born in a happy family, is the only daughter in the family, can play the piano, and has been determined to become a biologist since she was a child.
After graduating from high school, she decided to go abroad for further study, and in 2011, she went to an English test class, where she met Li Xiangnan, a male classmate who was three years older than her.
The two quickly became friends, and before they left the country, Shao Tong's mother met him once, and his mother recalled that the impression of that meeting was that the boy was very shy, and although he appeared to have a good family, Shao Tong's parents did not think he was suitable for their daughter.
In 2012, Shao Tong was admitted to Iowa State University (ISU) to major in chemical engineering, a choice that her family was proud of, as there were not many women studying the subject, which was enough to show that Shao Tong was excellent.
In December 2012, the two established a romantic relationship, and almost at the same time, the two went to the United States to study.
Xiangnan Li studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology, and Tong Shao studied at Iowa State University. It's a long way off, and it takes 17 hours to drive to see each other.
In order to get closer to Shao Tong, Li Xiangnan later transferred to a university in Iowa. In this way, it only takes 2 hours to drive, and the two can meet.
For many Chinese students at the school, Li Xiangnan is a "mysterious figure":A person rents a house off campus, has a few friends, and spends most of his time dating Shao Tong.
Although Li Xiangnan sometimes invites others to his apartment to play, his personality is not extroverted in the eyes of friends, in contrast, Shao Tong likes to socialize and party, and when he has free time, he teaches Chinese to his classmates, and his grades are always at the top.
In the eyes of friends,Li Xiangnan is the weaker party in this relationship, and he keeps a close eye on Shao Tong, and will keep asking Shao Tong who is in **, who is with him, extremely possessive and afraid of losing.
Usually on weekends, Li Xiangnan will pick up Shao Tong to live in the apartment, and then send Shao Tong back after the weekend, on the day of the incident, that is, on the afternoon of September 5, 2014, Li Xiangnan's friend Yang received his **.
He said that he had called Shao Tong **, and for some reason, the other party didn't realize that he had connected **, about 30 minutes,Li Xiangnan heard her talking to another boy about him, including about wanting to break up with him.
After listening to Shao Tong's ** complaints, Li Xiangnan posted "**my life" in Chinese on the Renren page, which was his last post on the **.
Still, the two spent some time together the following weekend.
On Sept. 5, the two stayed at a budget hotel off Highway 30 near Nevada. The car they drove was a 1997 beige Toyota Camry, which Shao Tong purchased during his summer internship in Kentucky.
Patel, the hotel's owner, recognized the two men, as he had seen them twice before on holiday weekends.
On the evening of Sept. 6, Patel said he saw Shao Tong come to the hall alone, which was also Shao Tong's last appearance in public.
Also that night, Shao Tongyuan's father in China sent her a text message to ask if his daughter had changed her glasses, because Shao Tong told her father a few days ago that she had lost one of her glasses. Dad got a text reply saying she had borrowed a pair from a friend.
Dad then asked if they could ** chat and received a text reply saying that she was too busy at the time.
On the morning of September 7, Patel saidHe woke up to find that the Camry they had driven to the hotel was gone, and they had missed their 11 a.m. check-out time. He felt a little strange, so he went to their room to check, and it was empty.
At the same time, around the same time, Shao Tong's roommate received a message from Shao Tong, which was sent from Li Xiangnan's mobile phoneMs. Li is returning to China due to an "emergency" and that she will take a bus to Minnesota next week to visit some friends, Ms. Li said.
But a week later, Shao Tong's roommates didn't hear from herThey reached out to her friends in MinnesotaThey all said they hadn't seen her, and "that's when we started to get really worried." ”
On 18 September, they reported her disappearance to Ames**.
Subsequently, the local ** began to investigateNaturally, they didn't find any evidence that Shao Tong took the bus to Minnesota, and then they spent a week searching Shao Tong's apartment and found the receipt for the Toyota Camry that Shao boughtOn 26 September, they provided information and license plate numbers for the car to other police departments.
That same night, Iowa City** found Li Xiangnan's BMW, which was parked near his apartment off Highway 6 in the eastern suburbs of the city.
Nearby residents said the car had been parked for some time and complained about the stench coming from it.
After obtaining a search warrant, a suitcase was found in the trunk, and when the box was opened, it was found that there was a body inside! Due to exposure to the high temperatures of late summer, the decomposition of the body accelerated, and the forensic doctor later confirmed that the body was Shao Tong, who had been missing for many days
*Found after an autopsyThe cause of death was asphyxiation and blunt force trauma, possibly caused by another personThe head of the corpse was tightly wrapped in a towelThe same towel from the Nevada budget hotel where Shao Tong and Li Xiangnan stayed
Next to the body was a 15-pound barbell, and travel documents were found in the trunk showing that Lee had booked a flight south from Eastern Iowa Airport near Cedar Rapids to Chicago and then to domestic on Sept. 6.
Cell phone records also show that the text messages to Shao Tong's roommate were sent by Li Xiangnan from Chicago when he was transiting there.
Three days after the bodies were found, a search of the two men's Nevada hotel room was conducted, in which they found "all sorts of splashed and dripping dry liquids," as were Li Xiangnan's posts on Renren.com.
A friend of Lee in Iowa also reported at a party a month before Thao went missingLee had asked how long it would take to know if a person was missing, and they thought it was weird.
*also saw a creepy scene through **surveillance.
On September 6, in a nearby TJMAXX, Li Xiangnan was buying suitcases, and he stayed in the store for a long time, comparing the size of each box, and squatting down from time to time as if to compare his body shapeAnd this suitcase is the one that ** found containing Shao Tong's body in the trunk of his car.
At this point, there is no doubt who it is.
Afterwards, Li Xiangnan in the court also responded to his reason for killing, he saidOn the night the two checked into the hotel, Shao Tong suddenly told him that he was in love with another boy.
She told me at the time that she wanted to be with that guy Monday through Friday, Zhou.
6. Stay with me on Sundays. Hearing Shao Tong say such words, Li Xiangnan claimed to be shocked and sad, "I have paid so much for her, in her heart, I can only be regarded as a weekend boyfriend at best."
The two had an argument over this matter, and Li Xiangnan claimed that he was completely enraged at this time and scolded a very dirty word.
After that, the two naturally started to move, Li Xiangnan said: "She covered me with a pillow so that I couldn't breathe, so I pinched her neck hard, and then I sat up, pressed her under me, and kept pinching her neck with my hands." ”
Li Xiangnan also said in courtShao Tong resisted at first, but after a minute or two, there was no movementI called her name, but she didn't respond, and when I calmed down and turned on the light, I found that she was already motionless.
On September 11, 2014, after Li Xiangnan entered the country, he transferred to find his friend Zhang Yong (pseudonym), it is reported that when Zhang was a graduate student in the United States, Li Xiangnan happened to be an undergraduate at the same school, so the two met.
This time he suddenly returned to China, and Li Xiangnan did not behave abnormallyZhang Yong was not suspicious, and used his ID card to help Li Xiangnan open a hotel room and exchange some renminbi for him
After two days at a friend's place, Li Xiangnan told Zhang Yong that he was going to another place, and the two never contacted each other since.
And Li Xiangnan took a bus to his hometownHe hit ** and told his mother Guo Haiqing (pseudonym) that he killed his girlfriend, Li Xiangnan was an only child, and Guo Haiqing immediately arranged for his son to go out to hide.
On September 26, Shao Tong's body was found and Li Xiangnan was wantedLi Xiangnan is nowhere to be found, but he was hiding in a herdsman's house in Qinghai under the arrangement of his mother.
* It is believed that Li Xiangnan's parents should know his whereabouts, and continue to carry out ideological work on them, so that they can persuade Li Xiangnan to surrender until May 11, 2015After nearly 8 months of incognito in Qinghai, Li Xiangnan finally surrendered to Wenzhou**.
Waiting, the United States has submitted a series of complete evidence to China, so that Li Xiangnan can no longer escape.
In court, he still insisted, saying that it was Shao Tong who attacked him first, and that he himself was "defending".His behavior was "irrational and impulsive", saying that he had loved her, but could not accept that she could not give him 100% loveHe denied that he had planned the crime in advance, saying that he planned to return to China anyway because he was under too much pressure.
His parents also paid Shao Tong's family 2 million yuan in compensation, and wanted to ask the court for leniency on this ground.
But since ancient times, the principle of defying life has never been overturned, so in August 2016, Li Xiangnan was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Shao Tong's life also stopped forever in the peach and plum years.