Wu Xie Yu was a veritable "scholar" before the case, and his grades were very good from childhood to adulthood. In his third year of junior high school, he participated in the National Junior High School Applied Physics Knowledge Competition and won the third prize in the Fuzhou Division. In the high school entrance examination, he was admitted to Fuzhou No. 1 Middle School with a score of 437 points and the first in the school.
In 2010, after Wu Xieyu's father died, he studied harder; In his sophomore year of high school, he also won the "Sanmu Star" scholarship (the highest scholarship in Fuzhou No. 1 Middle School) of his school.
In 2012, he was admitted to the School of Economics of Peking University through independent enrollment at Peking University. After entering Peking University, Wu Xieyu's academic performance is still outstanding. In his freshman year, he was awarded the honorary title of "Three Merit Students" of Peking University; In his sophomore year, he won the Liao Kaiyuan Scholarship of Peking University; In the first semester of his junior year, he ranked second in his class in terms of academic performance and served as class president.
In 2014, Wu Xie Yu began to prepare for the GRE exam and planned to study abroad; In the same year, in the GRE test, he scored 165 points in verbal (vocabulary), 170 points in quantitative (mathematics), and 4 points in analytical writingA distinction of 5 points is awarded a scholarship from a training institution.
However, behind his excellent academic performance, Wu Xie Yu was pessimistic and misanthropic, and had suicidal thoughts, and after his father died, he thought that his mother Xie Tianqin's life had lost its meaning.
So in the first half of 2015, he had the idea of killing his mother, and bought tools for the crime online, including knives, tarpaulins, plastic sheets, isolation gowns, doctor's suits, etc., among which only knives purchased kitchen knives, scalpels, carving knives and saw blades. At the beginning of July 2015, during the summer vacation of his junior year, Wu Xie Yu returned to his home in Fuzhou after packing up his personal belongings.
Next, tragedy struck.
On July 10, 2015, while his mother Xie Tianqin was returning home to change her shoes, Wu Xie Yu slammed her mother to death on the head and face with a dumbbell bar, and placed 75 layers of covering, such as bed sheets and plastic film, as well as activated charcoal packets and refrigerator deodorant, on the corpse. After the crime, he stayed in a hotel near his home, went home every day to clean up the crime scene, and installed cameras and alarms at the entrance door of his home. Around mid-July 2015, his mother's relatives received text messages from Wu Xie Yu, saying that he was going to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an exchange student in his senior year, and his mother was going to accompany him. During this period, Wu Xie Yu borrowed money from many relatives and friends through mobile phone text messages, QQ and other means, with a total loan of 1.44 million yuan.
In August 2015, Wu Xie Yu photocopied his mother's diary, cut out some of the words, and forged his mother's resignation letter to submit his resignation to his mother's school. In addition, Wu Xie Yu also organized a resignation banquet for his mother, inviting his mother's former colleagues to attend. The relatives and friends around him believe that Xie Tianqin went to the United States to accompany his son to study.
From August to December 2015, in the six months after committing the crime, Wu Xie Yu was active in Fuzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Henan and other places. During this period, he continued to buy a lottery shop for more than a month for 580,000 yuan, and also met a Henan sex worker working in Shanghai, and the two developed a boyfriend and girlfriend relationship.
In December 2015, because he did not take the final exam in the second semester of his junior year, he knew that he had failed the course, so he returned to the dormitory to consult with his classmates about the make-up examination.
Around February 5, 2016, Wu Xie Yu sent a text message to his uncle, saying that he and his mother were coming back from Boston, USA, and would arrive at the Putian high-speed rail station in Fujian Province on February 6, hoping that his uncle would pick up the mother and son to go home for the Chinese New Year. According to the agreed time, the uncle did not receive their mother and son, went to their house, and found that there was no one at home, so he went to the local police station to report to the police, and after ** analysis, there were many suspicious points, so on February 14, the relatives took the police to pry open the door of the dormitory, and entered the room to find that the body of his mother Xie Tianqin was in the master bedroom, wrapped in plastic for multiple layers, and activated carbon was also put into the gaps of each layer.
On April 20, 2019, when Wu Xie Yu went to the T2 terminal of Chongqing Jiangbei Airport to see a woman on board, he was captured and locked by surveillance equipment in the explosion-proof safety inspection area of Entrance 3, and was arrested after investigation and interrogation. When he was caught, he was carrying more than 30 ID cards purchased online.
On August 26, 2021, Wu Xie Yu's first-instance verdict in the case of intentional homicide, fraud, and buying and selling identity documents was publicly announced, and the punishment for several crimes was combined, and it was decided to carry out the death penalty.
On August 30, 2021, Wu Xie Yu was dissatisfied with the first-instance judgment and appealed.
On May 30, 2023, the Fujian Provincial High People's Court publicly announced the second-instance verdict in the case of Wu Xieyu's appeal for intentional homicide, fraud, and buying and selling identity documents, ruling to reject the appeal, uphold the original verdict, and report the death sentence to the Supreme People's Court for approval in accordance with law.
On January 31, 2024, Wu Xie Yu was executed.
It is understood that Wu Xieyu's mother was a local middle school history teacher before his death, and his father was a leader of a state-owned enterprise before his death, and his father died of cancer in 2010. After the death of his father, all the burden was on his mother, and in order to treat his father's illness, the family spent almost all their savings, and the school and unit gave her mother a pension, but her mother refused to do so. She put all her energy on her son Wu Xieyu.
Lao Zhan thinks that it is not easy to raise a child to go to university, and it may be his mother's long-cherished wish to find a relatively satisfactory job after graduation, live a good life with his family, marry a wife and have children. However, on July 10, 2015, all her long-cherished wishes were shattered, and her mother did not know that her life would be "ended" on that day, let alone the son who had always been proud.
We don't know why Wu Xie Yu, who has such a high IQ, feels that his mother's life has lost its meaning since his father's death? Why is it that after entering Peking University, he is still pessimistic and misanthropic, and finally embarked on the road of killing his mother and fleeing?
We are not the parties, we do not speculate too much about the psychological activities of the parties, and the parties are no longer alive. As we go through this case, we have to ask ourselves:
Are grades the most important?
Do we empathize with our children?
Do you observe your child's daily behavior?
How to enter the hearts of children and become a good partner for children's healthy physical and mental growth?