On the morning of October 22, 1973, members of the Ministry of Public Security entered the conference room of the Public Security Department one after another. At the first two meetings, they debated the content of the year-end report and even slapped the table excitedly.
In order to prevent further escalation of the conflict, Minister Li Zhen urgently called off the meeting and agreed to continue the discussion this morning. Seeing that ten minutes had passed since the meeting, Minister Li Zhen had not yet appeared, and Vice Minister Yu Sang couldn't sit still and was about to go out to look for it.
At that moment, he was about to step out of the house, but a panicked police officer broke in, shouting loudly: "Minister Li Zhen has died!".Everyone was stunned by this sudden news, and their hearts were full of doubts: what the hell is going on?
In 1973, China's technological level was relatively backward, and many industrial facilities required regular manual maintenance, especially sewer pipes that were prone to clogging.
The body was found that morning by two Beijing sewer workers while carrying out routine maintenance. Workers at the time recalled that as soon as they entered the mouth of the well, they smelled a very pungent smell, a foul smell of food waste mixed with rot.
While inspecting the sewers, two plumbers discover a terrifying scene. They saw the corpse of a man, and the stench was overflowing. The two immediately notified the nearby police, and when the police arrived at the scene, they were surprised to find that the deceased turned out to be the biggest leader of the Public Security Department at that time, Li Zhen, who was then the Minister of Public Security.
This incident caused a huge sensation, and it is rare for such a thing to happen in the office building. The police immediately notified their superiors and conducted an on-site investigation, hoping to find out the truth as soon as possible.
Li Zhen's pale face was shocking. In the damp sewer pipes, his body was already swollen, and the rancid smell was unbearable. Yu Sang and the others hurriedly ran over, they knew that this must be a big deal.
In the police department, people heard the news and gathered one after another. However, due to the narrow sewer pipes and too many people, only experienced criminal police cadres such as Yu Sang and Liu Fuzhi bravely entered the scene.
Yu Sang held a flashlight in his hand, and the sight in front of him shocked him.
Yu Sang had a very high opinion of this diligent boss, and his heart was full of grief for his death. However, in order to maintain his professionalism, he endured the sourness in his heart, put on gloves and foot covers, and began to investigate the scene.
The scene was located at the corner of the sewer pipe, narrow and dark, and Li Zhen's body was in a half-kneeling and half-lying state, with a rope tied around his neck, and based on the bruises on his neck, it can be inferred that he may have died due to suffocation.
His military uniform appeared to be in perfect condition, with no damage to his shoes and clothes. Yu Sang carefully searched through Li Zhen's pocket, but found nothing but an empty bottle of sleeping pills.
Forensic doctors quickly arrived at the scene and conducted an in-depth examination of Li Zhen's body. The results revealed that he had sleeping pills left in his body, and no other trauma or toxic substances were found.
Based on this, it is speculated that the cause of Li Zhen's death may have been suicide. Li Zhen was a brilliant figure, and after graduating from Tsinghua University, he became an important high-ranking revolutionary general of our party in his youth.
In 1955, he was awarded the title of Founding Major General. However, why did he choose to commit suicide?
This is deeply puzzling. This conclusion shocked everyone, including ***, who suspected that there might be some hidden secrets in it.
**For the first time, an investigation team led by elite public security personnel led by Vice Minister Yu Sang was ordered to conduct an all-round investigation into Li Zhen's case and strive to find out the truth. Yu Sang led the investigation team to conduct a carpet search of the scene of Li Zhen's death and several places he had entered and left before his death, and interrogated in detail all those who had seen Li Zhen before the crime, and did not let go of any possible clues.
The public security officers involved in the investigation actively cooperated, and all those involved in the case were investigated, including the guards and patrol officers, who had little contact. However, after careful investigation, almost none of these people were suspected of committing crimes.
Even Li Zhen's personal secretary went home from work normally the day before the crime, and there was a clear alibi, so it was impossible for him to be a suspect.
Yu Sang's heart was full of doubts, although the clues of the case had been investigated countless times, there was still no new discovery. Three days later, all personnel and evidence were carefully examined, and there was no suspicion that it pointed to suicide, and the cause of Li Zhen's death was undoubtedly suicide.
Although Yu Sang was reluctant to accept this result in his heart, he knew that he could not ignore the facts and waste police resources, so he reported the result to *** After learning the result, ** was silent for a long time, and then ordered everyone in the Public Security Department to be notified to convene a meeting to announce the details of the case.
At the conference, Yu Sang recounted the content of the case and the investigation process in detail in accordance with the instructions of ***, without missing any details.
Despite this, many people still have difficulty accepting this reality, especially Health Minister Liu Xiangping. She worked with Li Zhen in Taihang Mountain during the Anti-Japanese War, and the two had a deep revolutionary friendship.
She thought that Li Zhen was a very strict and serious comrade, and he was fearless even in the face of enemy guns. Therefore, it is hard for her to imagine that he would choose to commit suicide in peacetime, the most glorious moment of his life.
She had seen Yu Sang destroy the scene with her own eyes, so she suspected that Yu Sang and the others might be the real culprits behind it. Liu Xiangping's words immediately caused a tense atmosphere at the scene, and some cadres from the army also echoed her, believing that Li Zhen did not commit suicide and suspecting that Yu Sang and others had something to do with the case.
Why did Liu Xiangping make this statement?It is all because Yu Sang and others have only recently returned from the Public Security Department, and there are conflicts with newly transferred military colleagues due to irregular ideas in their work, and Li Zhen is also one of them.
Yu Sangji disagreed with Liu Xiangping's accusation, resolutely denied hurting his colleagues, and accused him of slander. The two sides have their own views and are at a stalemate. In order to ensure the fairness of the case and to calm the public opinion, ** announced at the scene that Yu Sang and others were temporarily dismissed, and they were temporarily detained, and the investigation team was reorganized to investigate.
** This is not a distrust of Sang and others, but to prevent the argument from exacerbating the conflict and preventing them from being harmed. When the case is clarified, they will naturally be released.
Due to the particularity of this case, ** was extra cautious in setting up the investigation team, and selected the backbone members at that time, with Wu Zhong as the team leader, leading Luo Qingchang, Guo Yufeng, Shi Yizhi, Liu Xiangping and others to re-investigate.
If this matter is a "homicide", the public prosecution department will be involved, and the positions of these people may be difficult to handle, so *** also sends *** to participate in the whole process as a supervisory assistant.
Liu Xiangping and the others went all out, trying to find evidence of his killing, and they entered as soon as they entered"Meticulous"The attitude is fully committed to the investigation. They first interrogated people close to Li Zhen, such as secretaries, hygienists, and guards, all of whom Yu Sang had repeatedly questioned during the initial investigation.
In consideration of possible strangeness**, they also expanded the scope of the review to include members of the entire public security department, including police officers who travel a lot and old detectives who do not often stay in the dormitory, and they will all be investigated.
Despite the various questions they asked, they did not reveal any useful information or reveal any loopholes. Their answers have nothing to do with the time or place of Li Zhen's death.
Just as they are in trouble, ** is also investigating the case at his own pace. When he arrived at the Public Security Bureau, he did not immediately consult the report of the first investigation, but immediately rushed to the scene of the crime.
Judging from the actual situation, no traces of the destruction scene mentioned by Liu Xiangping were found. Mr. Li's death was marked by signs of suicide, and only the rope he used was the only suspicion, as it was common in the National Police Department and could have involved insiders.
Instead of blindly accepting the conclusion of suicide, he continued to follow the clues to investigate the possibility of homicide. After all, there are many people within the Public Security Bureau who believe that he killed him, and as long as there is suspicion, it is possible, and even if the evidence points to suicide, the investigation must continue.
In criminal cases, the biggest clue is usually not at the scene, but on the body, because the fatal wound on the body is the key to the case. Considering that different forensic doctors may have different autopsy angles, ** asked *** for instructions, and transferred top forensic talents from major police stations from all over the country to re-examine Li Zhen's body.
In order to ensure impartiality, the forensic doctor conducted the examination independently and did not know the identity of the deceased. Soon, the forensic report came out, and no one thought it was **, and all of them were determined to be suicides.
At the same time, Li Zhen's blood test results showed that his blood contained the same sleeping pill ingredients as the on-site medicine bottle. In the face of conclusive evidence, Liu Xiangping and others still insist that it is **.
Despite *** patiently listening to opinions, when he asked them to provide evidence, none of them could give a definitive answer. These people were stubborn and had no choice but to report to their superiors, who then reported the results of the investigation to ***
After Li Zhen's case, ** was very concerned about this matter, and took the initiative to find *** many times to understand the situation. He learned that although many people have agreed that Li Zhen was not killed by him, there are still some people who are skeptical about it and believe that further investigation is needed.
The decision was well thought-proved, and he believed that even if the case had been verified many times, if there were still people who had doubts, it would easily cause unnecessary ** and could even lead to large-scale unrest in the hearts of the people.
Therefore, the final outcome of the case is important, but it is more important to be recognized by the public. Therefore, the case needs to be investigated and cannot be hastily closed.
During three thorough investigations as instructed by ***, *** was found and the task of forming a new investigation team was given to him. ** Knowing that this case cannot be delayed any longer, the chaos in the public security department must be quelled as soon as possible.
Considering that the members of the previous case team were already very good backbones, ** decided not to break up and reorganize, but to add two members, Yang Gui and Zhu Jiayao, and appointed Yang Gui as the new person in charge, fully responsible for this investigation.
Yang Gui, a veteran party member with more than 30 years of party experience, not only has rich experience in local work, but also has unique insights in the field of criminal investigation.
This time, he chose a different way of investigating, assuming that Li Zhen was "killed by him", and then verifying whether all the other killing plans were feasible, so as to extrapolate whether Li Zhen was really killed by him.
This method is more complex than previous investigations, requiring elaborate conception and planning, and requiring more effort. However, his new way of thinking did bring new gains, and after ruling out all other murder options, there was only one possibility left, and that was suicide.
Whether it is an in-depth investigation along the clues or a reverse verification of the possibility of his murder, it fully proves that Li Zhen's suicide is undoubted. After the conclusion of the investigation, the plenary session was reconvened and the results of the third survey were announced at the meeting.
As expected, Liu Xiangping and others still couldn't accept this fact, and although the facts were already in front of them, they still insisted that Li Zhen did not commit suicide. **Adhering to the principle of seeking truth from facts, although respecting their opinions, the innocent Yu Sang and others were released according to the results of the investigation.