References: Mass Publishing House, The Third Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, Selected Criminal Investigation Cases 4
At the confluence of the Huangpu River and Suzhou Creek in the 1980s (the famous Waibaidu Bridge is in the picture), part of the body in this case should be found in the water area
On June 6, 1981, the criminal investigation team of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau Shipping Public Security Bureau received a report that a section of male corpse from waist to knee and wearing a pair of flat-legged shorts was fished from the center of the river at the confluence of the Huangpu River and Suzhou Creek, and the body was highly corrupt when it was picked up. Due to the large number of boats coming and going in the waters of the incident, many boat people saw the corpses, and many citizens who walked on the platform of the Bund embankment also witnessed the whole process of salvaging the corpses, so the case was quickly spread, causing a certain panic among the citizens.
In this regard, the Shanghai Municipal CPC Committee and the Shanghai Municipal Government attach great importance to this and demand that the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau immediately organize crack troops and strong generals to solve the case as soon as possible. The deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau in charge of criminal investigation has dispatched a group of capable criminal investigation technicians from the Public Security Department to the scene of the body dumping, and has set up a case-solving command center in the Floating Public Security Bureau to be fully responsible for the investigation and handling of the case.
The police of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau, who are undergoing pistol shooting training, have a good embodiment of the spiritual outlook of the male and female policemen in Shanghai at the time of the crime
But there were very few clues in front of the task force: all at hand was a highly corrupt hip-to-femur piece, a pair of flat-legged shorts, and a hacksaw strip. But there is always better than nothing, the forensic and technical detective police of the city bureau are based on the present, with great enthusiasm and perseverance into the work.
After an autopsy of the amputated mass, it was re-determined that the amputated fragment belonged to an adult male, and X-ray photographs of the hip and femur inferred that his age was around 27 years old, and the latitude and right latitude was 1 year old, that is, between 26 and 28 years old. According to the anthropological bone measurement of the femur, the height of the person was estimated to be 175.77 cm, and the height range was set to be between 1 meter 74 and 1 meter 78; the blood type was determined according to the muscle and hair; according to the degree of decay of the corpse and the actual situation in Shanghai at that time, it was inferred that the time of death of the person should be 4 to 5 months ago.
At the same time, the technicians also inspected the flat-legged shorts and hacksaw blades, and hired senior personnel from related industries to participate in the inspection process.
Flat-legged shorts by the Shanghai Cotton Spinning Company Research Office and Shanghai Clothing Wholesale Department identified as the game brand boxers, the fabric for the eight factories of the cotton production of twenty medium gray cotton single gauze card cloth, this brand of boxer pants because it is very popular, respectively handed over to more than ten garment factories in Shanghai production, the annual output of more than 2 million pieces, in the city's major department stores and clothing stores are sold.
The total length of the 6.9 cm steel saw blade fragments by the Shanghai Steel Saw Blade Factory and the Hardware Supply Station after the steel, tooth angle, tooth pitch, tooth bottom and other inspections concluded that the shanghai steel saw blade factory produced by the fourteen teeth coarse tooth saw blade, the output is also very large, in the city's hardware stores have sales.
Based on the results of the autopsy and the results of the inspection of trench coats and hacksaw blades, as well as the waters where the bodies were found, combined with the flow rate data of the Huangpu River and Suzhou River, the special case team preliminarily determined that the deceased should be a native of Shanghai, and the place of killing should be within the scope of Shanghai.
At this time, some investigators recalled a case report on February 12, when a boat on the Section of the Suzhou River near the Wuzhen Road Bridge was dropping anchors, the anchor hook accidentally hooked a travel bag, the boatman fished up the travel bag and opened it to see that a human leg was exposed inside, and the boat people who were immediately frightened half dead and scattered did not care what else was in the travel bag, and kicked the travel bag back into the Suzhou River. The task force estimates that the body pieces found in the Huangpu River are likely to have also been floated out of this travel bag by the impact of the river.
Suzhou Creek in the Wuzhen section of the 1980s
Therefore, in addition to continuing to search for and salvage other pieces of corpses in Suzhou Creek and Huangpu River, the special case team urgently triggered a joint investigation and notification to the city's grass-roots public security organs and security departments to introduce the case, and mobilized the masses to provide information on missing persons, especially the information on male missing persons wearing gray boxer pants at the time of disappearance.
For four or five consecutive days, there was no progress at all, and some members of the special case team began to question the wrong direction of the investigation, but Duanmu Hongyu, the "old master" of criminal investigation of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau, reviewed the case analysis report submitted by the special case team and judged that the previous thinking of the special case team was correct. With the affirmation of "Big Na", the special case team continued to continue to investigate along the existing ideas.
Duanmu Hongyu and his wife in their later years
On the evening of June 12 of the sixth day, good news finally came: the Yongjia Road Police Station of the Xuhui Public Security Bureau provided a message of missing persons - Lu Guding, a 27-year-old man who lived in Lane X, Lane 495, Yongjia Road, disappeared on January 27 of that year, this person was 1 meter 78 tall, and his characteristics were similar to those of the deceased in the investigation report. Upon hearing this, the special case team was invigorated and immediately dispatched investigators to Lu Guding's house overnight to check on the evidence. Lu Guding's mother described to them several unique characteristics of her son: he was wearing 90 cm gray flat-legged shorts when he disappeared, because he bought two identical boxers at one time at that time, and there was still one at home; Lu Guding had a 200 CC blood transfusion at the Railway Hospital (now shanghai Tenth People's Hospital) because of his illness when he was three years old; Lu Guding was blind in his left eye, suffered from glaucoma in his right eye, and long-term use of "Tian Thiamycin" led to his body gaining weight. These circumstances provide a good reference value for verifying whether the corpse is Lu Guding or not, but whether it is Lu Guding or not still needs to be carefully and deeply investigated.
First of all, the investigators rushed to the railway hospital and found Lu Guding's medical record card, which recorded that Lu Guding's blood type was A, which coincided with the blood type of the corpse.
Former site of Shanghai Railway Hospital, picture taken from "White Phase Shanghai"
Secondly, the flat-footed shorts retrieved from Lu Guding's family and the flat-foot shorts on the corpse block were analyzed by the laboratory chemical reagents of the printing and dyeing company and the trace analysis of the spectrometer of the Institute of Organic Chemistry to confirm that the molecular structure of the dye was completely consistent and could be identified as the same batch of products; and the scientific instrument identification of the textile science academy and the cotton spinning company laboratory showed that the two flat-foot shorts were completely consistent in terms of the number of cotton yarn branches, longitude and latitude density; subsequently, Infrared spectroscopy testers used by the Institute of Materia Medica and the Institute of Public Security science detected the word "90" invisible to the naked eye from the trademark of the flat-footed shorts on the corpse block. It was confirmed that the flat-legged shorts on the corpse block and Lu Guding's other shorts were the same batch of products.
Finally, after consulting senior professors of the First and Second Medical Colleges, it was learned that long-term use of hormones such as "Tian Thiamycin" will cause osteoporosis in addition to obesity. According to this, the forensic doctor also took a film to observe the bone mass of the corpse, and found that there was indeed osteoporosis, and it was unanimously determined by thirty-four relevant technical departments that the owner of the corpse block was Lu Guding.
After confirming the identity of the corpse, the special case team immediately conducted a large-scale investigation and visit around Lu Guding's personal, family and social relations, and according to the results of the visit, the special case team analyzed several possibilities for Lu Guding's murder:
1. Adultery and murder. The reason is that Lu Guding has a girlfriend of 25 years old at the time, Zhang Moumou, who is an employee of the municipal building materials construction company, and his family lives in Wuzhen Road near the Suzhou River section where the body was first found. She had a rogue record (in today's parlance, a "sister"). The two were introduced to each other and interacted in 1978, but Zhang Moumou stepped on several boats and interacted with several other men while interacting with Lu Guding. Therefore, Lu Guding often quarreled with Zhang Moumou. Zhang Moumou disliked Lu Guding's bad eyes, and there was no fixed occupation, and he once revealed the idea of getting rid of Lu Guding. The day before Lu Guding disappeared, that is, on January 26, Lu Guding and Zhang Xx went together to buy gifts to go to Zhangjia to visit the New Year, and as a result, Zhang Puting released Lu Guding's pigeons, after which Lu Guding received a call from a woman at home at night, and Lu disappeared the next day; as a result, Zhang Xxx carried two bottles of gifted wine in the Afternoon of the same day and stayed at Lu's house for 6 hours, and afterwards, Lu Guding's diary in the drawer, Zhang and Lu's correspondence letters and photos of the two people disappeared. The special case team summoned Zhang moumou three times, and Zhang moumou was vague about his whereabouts on January 26 and January 27. The special case team suspected that Zhang Moumou might be tired of the new and the old, and wanted to find another new joy, so he colluded with others to kill Lu Guding and threw the body in Suzhou Creek.
2. Kill people. The third-floor neighbor of Lu Guding's family was Xu Mou, a 39-year-old employee of the Shanghai Science and Technology Information Institute at the time, who was taking long-term sick leave at home because of hepatitis, but in recent times his economic situation has been abnormal, the home telegram and telephone are continuous, there are many people coming, busy all day, there is a major suspicion of buying short and selling short, speculation and turnover. And Lu Guding knew some of Xu's inside story, and once said to Xu's son after playing cards with Xu on January 26: "Your father is a big smuggler, I want to expose him." On January 27, Lu Guding disappeared, and the special case team suspected that Xu had the possibility of killing Lu Guding in order to kill him.
3. Brothers kill. Lu Guding lived in the same house as his mother and brother, and his life was basically supported by Lu Mother. According to Lu Mu, Lu Guding and his brother Lu Guyun once participated in a hooligan murder case in 1976, but the two were not the main criminals, at that time, Lu Guyun was in the middle of the junior high school graduation assignment, Lu Guding in order not to affect the future of his brother, one person was sentenced to two years of re-education through labor. In 1978, after Lu Guding was released, he was unemployed and idle at home, and Lu Guyun, who worked in a certain unit, often had conflicts, Lu Guding thought that he had suffered from his brother's crime that year, and he was benevolent to his brother, and the second quarrel took this as a threat, the two sides once used a kitchen knife, and Lu Guding threatened to die with Lu Guyun more than once. Therefore, the task force suspected that Lu Guyun was likely to have accidentally killed Lu Guding in the process of a mutual fight with his brother, or that he had deliberately killed Lu Guding in order to reduce the economic burden and monopolize the housing.
In the subsequent investigation process, Zhang X and Xu X were successively excluded from suspicion because they did not have time to commit the crime, but Xu provided an important clue under the patient education guidance of the investigators: One day after Lu Guding's disappearance, he met Fa Xiao Zhao, who lived nearby, on the road, and Zhao X told him that Lu Guding was "little old worm (Shanghainese 'little mouse')". "Little Old Worm" is Lu Guyun's nickname in this area since childhood. At that time, Xu's son Xu Moumou also heard this. The investigators brought Xu's son, Xu, to inquire, and Xu blurted out that he heard it. Subsequently, the investigators immediately rushed to Zhao X's unit to verify the situation with Zhao X, and Zhao X said with great certainty: "In this matter, Huang Changming of the Nanjing 9424 Factory came back to visit his relatives during the Spring Festival and said at my house: The 'little old worm' once talked to him about killing Lu Guding. ”
Based on this, the special case team believes that Lu Guyun is suspected of committing a major crime.
The Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau immediately contacted the Nanjing Municipal Public Security Bureau to help investigate Huang Changming's situation and sent someone to Nanjing overnight on July 21 to visit the 9424 factory where Huang Changming worked. According to the comrades of the Security Department of the 9424 Factory, Huang Changming behaved very badly in the unit, and had many previous convictions for theft and crime; after returning to the factory after returning to Shanghai to visit his relatives, Huang Changming once boasted with his good co-workers that he had sold a piece of steedan material army civilian clothes to a consignment store in Jing'an Temple in Shanghai three or four days before the Spring Festival, and made a small profit.
Jing'an Temple in the 1980s
After receiving information from Nanjing, the task force sent someone to Jing'an Temple on July 22 to verify, and the Result was that the Yonghua Daily Necessities Dispensing Shop of Jing'an Temple confirmed that Huang Changming sold a piece of Saffron army casual clothing to the store for 24 yuan on January 30. Previously, the special case team had learned from Lu Mu that Lu Guding also happened to have a saffron army civilian suit. After Xu Mou identified, this jacket was Lu Guding's. The special case team immediately informed the comrades in Nanjing of this result, asking them to immediately take control of Huang Changming and search his residence. That night, investigators in Nanjing, with the assistance of comrades from the Nanjing Municipal Public Security Bureau, took Huang Changming under control and found lu Guding's used fleece clothes, pants, scarves, belts, and other items at his residence. After escorting Huang Changming back to Shanghai with people and materials, the special case team rushed to Lu Guyun's work at noon on July 23 to control Lu Guyun, and when the police arrived, Lu Guyun was ready to pack and plan to escape, and was bumped by the 803 criminal police!
At the beginning, Lu Guyun and Huang Changming had an arrogant attitude, biting to death and not admitting guilt, even if the physical evidence was currently silent. The task force changed its strategy to avoid the most die-hard Huang Changming, and instead specialized in Lu Guyun, taking advantage of his weakness and guilt in killing his brother, successively letting Xu and Zhao confront him, and properly meeting some of his reasonable requests (such as agreeing to write letters to his mother and girlfriend), and finally took less than five hours to pry open Lu Guyun's mouth, making him confess to the crime of colluding with Huang Changming to kill his brother Lu Guding and then using a hacksaw to split the body and throw the body in Suzhou River. Subsequently, the task force used Lu Guyun's confession to force Huang Changming to surrender his weapons.
According to the two men's explanations: After repeatedly arguing with Lu Guding and using the knife several times, Lu Guyun had the idea of killing Lu Guding. On January 18, Lu Guyun's hair, Huang Changming, returned to Shanghai from Nanjing to visit his relatives, and Lu Guyun consulted Huang several times to kill Lu Guding, but gave up because he did not have the opportunity to attack. In the early morning of January 27, Lu Guyun called Huang Changming to his home, took advantage of his mother's early rise to go out to buy vegetables, Lu Guding was still asleep and joined forces to strangle Lu Guding alive, and then hid the body under the bed, and Huang Changming wore Lu Guding's military clothes, fleece clothes, scarves, hats, belts and watches, etc., causing the illusion that Lu Guding ran away from home and fooled his mother and Zhang Moumou, who came to the door with wine that afternoon to make reparations for the first day of lu Guding pigeons. At 1 p.m. on January 28, Lu Guyun took a half-day vacation, bought two 90-centimeter travel bags at the Sixth Department Store in Xuhui District, and went with Huang Changming to the Suzhou River to select a place to dump the body. On January 29, Lu Guyun took another half-day off, and returned home in the afternoon with Huang Changming to divide Lu Guding's body into seven pieces with a hacksaw in the pavilion on the half floor, and together with the body splitting tools, he divided it into two travel bags. At 2:00 a.m. on January 30, the two men each rode a bicycle and each took a bag to the Hengfeng Road Bridge and threw the two bags into the Suzhou Creek.
Hengfeng Road Bridge in the 80s
Subsequently, the Municipal Bureau of Public Security, the Pre-Trial Department and the Criminal Investigation Team of the Shipping Public Security Bureau inspected the half-pavilion of Lane X, Lane 495, Yongjia Road, and obtained a large amount of criminal evidence such as blood stains, small pieces of meat and small bones that could not be cleaned up (all of which belonged to Lu Guding after examination). At this time, although other pieces of the body are difficult to find again, it has not affected the conviction of Lu Guyun and Huang Changming. At this point, the truth of this major murder and dismemberment of corpses was revealed after 48 days of investigation by the Shanghai police, and the criminals Lu Guyun and Huang Changming were sentenced to death and executed by shooting the Shanghai Intermediate People's Court for intentional homicide and the serious and heinous circumstances of the crime.