In the late 1990s, a bizarre "suicide" occurred in Yingshan County, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, in which a woman was forensically identified as a suicide by taking poison, and the police had to close the case because there was no other evidence.
However, the woman's father did not agree with the conclusion, not only did he never give up "complaining" for his daughter, but even his daughter's body was never buried, making it a "non-rotten dry corpse".
Tang Deqing
So what is the matter, what is the cause of the woman's death, and how can her body become a dry corpse without decay?
The woman's name is Tang Deqing, born in 1973 in a poor family in Yingshan County, her father Tang Shuquan is an ordinary farmer in the village, there are four brothers and sisters in the family, Tang Deqing is the second oldest, so it is also known as Erwa.
There are still four children in such a family situation, and the days of the Tang brothers and sisters can be imagined, they do not have enough to eat and wear on weekdays, not to mention that they are not warm, and they only read to primary school.
According to the development of this life trajectory, Tang Deqing's future life is bound to be the same as ordinary rural girls, who will live a hard life at a glance, but this is not the case in reality.
When he reached adulthood, Tang Deqing's appearance completely grew, completely different from the black, black and thin Erwa when he was a child, and anyone who looked at it had to praise "Mei Nizi", and Tang Deqing's life by relying on his appearance also underwent earth-shaking changes.
When she was eighteen, Tang Deqing's parents found a very well-equipped in-laws for her. The man's name is Liu Yonghe, a regular railway worker in the field, whose monthly salary is more than double that of his peers in the village, and the man's parents are retired workers of state-owned enterprises, and they can receive a pension of thousands of yuan at home every month.
This kind of family situation is a world away from the Tang family, so the Tang family is quite satisfied with this marriage. Seeing that everyone in his family agreed, at that time, his thinking was still relatively feudal, and Tang Deqing, who believed that "the words of his parents' fate" were natural and righteous, naturally had no reason to refuse, so it was not long before she married into the Liu family.
Liu and Tang's married life was booming, Tang Deqing gave birth to two children for the family, and Liu Yonghe's career was also thriving. It can be said that in addition to Liu Yonghe's small number of returns home for work reasons, this family can definitely be regarded as a happy home that countless people envy.
In this regard, Tang Deqing's father, Tang Shuquan, was very pleased, and seeing that his daughter was happy, he had a lot more energy to work than before. This went on for five or six years, but on the night of October 28, 1998, with a call to the police, everything changed.
A family of three
That night, the Yingshan County Public Security Bureau in Sichuan Province received an alarm call, because it was called late at night, and the operator also paid more attention.
After all, there are generally no special circumstances in the countryside, there are few accidents at night, once there is an accident, it is a big thing, so the operator immediately asked the policeman what happened, and the person hurriedly said:
"I am a villager from a certain village in Yingshan County, and the dead man next door to my house is a woman named Tang Deqing.
As soon as they heard that there was a murder, the wiring police did not dare to delay, and immediately reported the situation to the superior criminal police team, and after getting the detailed address, a group of cadres and policemen rushed out, and it took less than half an hour to arrive at the scene of the crime.
After arriving at the village where the crime occurred, the police entered the scene under the guidance of the reporter. According to police observation, the situation at the outside scene is still relatively calm, there is no sign of fighting in the courtyard, and there is no sign of prying open the doors inside and outside the house, but when the police enter the house, the situation is different.
Pushing open the door into view is the deceased Tang Deqing, her death is very tragic, nose and mouth bleeding, urinary and urinary incontinence, bloody smell mixed with the smell of excrement, it is really suffocating.
"What is the cause of death, how can it be so miserable?"
This idea became the common idea of the criminal police officers present for a while, but before everyone could think about it, a letter and a bottle of pesticide under Tang Deqing explained the answer for everyone.
This letter is clearly a suicide note left by the deceased, which reads roughly:
"I really love you, and I can't do without you, but I don't want you to be so tired, so disappointed, I'm dead, you must not be sad for me...", seeing this suicide note, the role of pesticides is self-evident.
"It turned out to be suicide"
It is no wonder that the police speculate on such an obvious and conclusive scene, but even so, such a major matter of life cannot be seen alone, so the investigation of the case must continue. To this end, the police found the first person to find, that is, a village cadre named Yang Jianchun, and learned the specific situation from him.
Yang Jianchun
According to Yang Jianchun, the reason why he was the first to discover Tang Deqing's death was actually because the two were lovers. Because Liu Yonghe was often not at home, Tang Deqing took the initiative to hook up with himself a few weeks ago when he was very lonely, and the same was true on the night of the crime.
The two of them had just had a relationship, hugging each other and sleeping together, and did not think of it at about twelve o'clock in the morning, Tang Deqing did not know what kind of madness, he actually found a bottle of pesticide, while saying:
"I'm sorry for my husband"
While desperately drinking the pesticide, it was useless to let Yang Jianchun block it. Seeing that his lover wanted to commit suicide, Yang Jianchun naturally would not stand idly by, so he hurriedly got some soapy water and desperately poured it into Tang Deqing's mouth.
In the process, Yang Jianchun's arm was scratched by Tang Deqing, and Tang Deqing's neck was also "accidentally" pinched by Yang Jianchun. But even so, in the end, Yang Jianchun could not save Tang Deqing's life, so he watched the other party lose his breath, so he found a neighbor and called the police together.
After hearing Yang Jianchun's explanation, everyone present showed a look of "so it was", and even a group of cadres and policemen believed his tight testimony.
Therefore, when the police took Yang Jianchun back to the police station and began further interrogation, due to preconceptions and confirmation that the suicide note was indeed the handwriting of Tang Deqing's life, the trial process of the case was also carried out in the direction of suicide.
Then, since it was a suicide, Yang Jianchun's suspicions were naturally cleared up quickly, and on the fourth day after the crime, he returned home under the escort of the police.
Yang Jianchun returned home, which means that Tang Deqing really committed suicide because of the guilt of stealing affection, which allowed the villagers to open the conversation box instantly.
For a while, there were all kinds of things to say, some said that Tang Deqing was born promiscuous, and had already stolen more than one man, and some said that Tang Deqing and Yang Jianchun sang at night and did not care about the feelings of their families at all.
These rumors instantly reached the ears of Tang Deqing's mother-in-law's family, and since the semen component was indeed detected from Tang Deqing's body at the time of the crime, the family also acquiesced to the derailment of their daughter-in-law, not only ignoring other doubts about the case, but even having the idea of moving away from the village.
So is it possible that a human life is so lost? The answer is no, because others don't care and feel ashamed, but there is one person who is not, and this person is Tang Deqing's father, Tang Shuquan.
Tang Shuquan
When Tang Shuquan learned the news of his daughter's death, the whole person collapsed, he couldn't believe that such a gentle and virtuous daughter could cheat, nor did he believe that she, who was still happy the day before, would choose to cut herself off.
Therefore, combined with the relevant evidence, Tang Shuquan came up with a conjecture, that is, his daughter did not commit suicide, but was raped and killed by Yang Jianchun, disguised as a poisoning scene.
Why do you think so? In fact, Tang Shuquan did not come out of nowhere, but only came to a conclusion based on the clues given by the police and the village doctor who was present at the time.
Clue 1: Tang Deqing's reasons for suicide are insufficient
Indeed, it is reasonable to say that if a person wants to commit suicide, he must have experienced an unbearable event or suffered for many years, but Tang Deqing is not.
After Tang Deqing got married, there was no financial pressure, and the second in-law's mother-in-law's family also took care of her in every way, and she did not have any psychological trauma, and she was definitely a healthy and normal person.
Does a normal person commit suicide because he has an improper relationship with someone else because he feels guilty? Divorce, apology, severing improper relationships, there are many ways to solve it, how can not commit direct suicide.
Clue two: Yang Jianchun's confession is doubtful
According to Yang Jianchun's description, he had an improper relationship with Tang Deqing entirely because tang Deqing took the initiative to seduce him, but Tang Shuquan asked everyone in the village, and everyone's views were very unified, yang Jianchun often peeked at Tang Deqing, and Tang Deqing ignored him. So this doesn't make sense, how can two people who can be said to be unrelated suddenly come together?
Taking ten thousand steps back, even if Tang Deqing rises on a whim, from the occurrence of relations to the writing of a suicide note to the suicide of medication, this time interval is too short, right? What kind of person can suddenly think of suicide within a few hours, and how to stop it will not help?
Clue three: the witness of the village doctor
When the forensic doctor examined Tang Deqing's body, the village doctor named Liu Xiaochu had been by his side to assist, but what he saw was far from the conclusion given by the forensic doctor.
Liu Xiaochu saw that there was no vomit around Tang Deqing, and there was indeed a strong smell of pesticides in her mouth and nose, but when the forensic doctor opened her stomach, there was only a peculiar smell, and there was no smell of too many pesticides.
This situation is very strange, but there is only one possibility, that is, Tang Deqing is a pesticide that was injected after death.
Combined with these doubts, it is no wonder that Tang Shuquan believes that his daughter was raped and strangled by Yang Jianchun, and not only him, but also many people in the village suspect that yang Jianchun's poisoners after hearing about this matter.
Therefore, shortly after Yang Jianchun was released, in order to clear his daughter's stigma, Tang Shuquan rushed to the county public security bureau and informed the police of his doubts.
In this regard, the police who received the case attached great importance to it, and the criminal police team also began an in-depth investigation, but the results of the investigation were not satisfactory. According to the forensic autopsy, Tang Deqing did have pesticide ingredients in his body, and the criminal police handling the case did not find any traces of Yang Jianchun killing Tang Deqing.
Therefore, on November 23 of that year, the police had to issue a "notice of non-filing" and rejected Tang Shuquan's appeal request.
When Tang Shuquan saw this "notice of non-filing", the whole person seemed to be ten years old, and he did not believe or believe this fact.
So in the following time, he not only began to appeal again and again, even the body of his daughter he did not choose to bury, but bought a good coffin to park in the courtyard.
Since 1998, Tang Shuquan has asked the police for explanations countless times, and the police have also worked hard for this case, not only testing Tang Deqing's organs many times, but also doing many injury appraisals on the bruises on the neck.
The results are very clear, bruises are not the cause of death, Tang Deqing's body does indeed have pesticide ingredients, as for the village doctor's statement, the forensic doctors have also clarified many times, saying that it may be that the food Tang Deqing took before his death affected the judgment at the scene on the same day.
All kinds of evidence were enough to prove Yang Jianchun's innocence, but Tang Shuquan still ignored it and stubbornly identified his own claims, and Tang Deqing's body had been parked in the courtyard of the Tang family and had never been buried for twenty-four years.
To this day, the coffin where the body is parked has decayed, but Tang Deqing's body is still very well preserved, and on weekdays, Tang Shuquan often stares at his daughter's body and silently weeps, and often kneels down to apologize to his daughter, promising to return her justice.
However, it is worth noting that after many years, when the local media learned of this matter and came to interview, they found a miraculous thing, that is, Tang Deqing's body had never decayed, and even after a long period of air drying, it seemed to have become a dry corpse.
This surprised the reporters, but Tang Shuquan did not have any surprised look, and the reason was very simple, he had always believed that his daughter's death was unjust, so he did not want to rot after death, thinking that it was normal to one day witness the day when he had been wronged.
This is really an old father's obsession, and many people understand it after learning about it. However, it is clear that these people who expressed understanding have not been in close contact with such "terrible" things, and Tang Shuquan's move still has a great impact on the people around them.
The first is Yang Jianchun, who has always been identified as a murderer by Tang Shuquan, and Yang Jianchun has not actually made trouble with Tang Shuquan's accusations. After all, if Yang Jianchun's confession is true, he is indeed partly responsible for Tang Deqing's death, even if not, the lover died alive in front of him, saying that Yang Jianchun did not have guilt in his heart is also false.
Therefore, Tang Shuquan has parked Tang Deqing's body for no burial, and even the body has become a situation of non-decomposition and dry corpse, which has the greatest impact on Yang Jianchun.
Just after being released by the police, the gossip in the village crushed the backbone of the Yang family, and Yang Jianchun thought that when the police returned his innocence, everyone would gradually forget about it in a year and a half.
But it did not happen, even if the police gave the "notice of non-filing" and did many autopsies, Tang Shuquan did not give up, and Tang Deqing's body has not decayed for several years, which can make Yang Jianchun's family bear great psychological pressure.
Therefore, in order to get rid of the shadow in his heart, Yang Jianchun resigned from the position of village cadre and went to work alone in other places, and rarely returned home to this day. The departure of her son made Yang Mu miss a disease, her health has been bad, and the Yang family, which was originally prosperous, has also decayed.
The second is the Tang family's neighborhood neighbors. You must know that in the countryside, the thinking of the older generation is generally more feudal, and it is the unanimous view of everyone to go into the soil for safety, and it is better to be far away from the Tang family, but try to bypass it, but a few neighbors of the Tang family are not so lucky.
Yang Jianchun's mother
The courtyard was full of coffins, and a corpse that had never decayed, even if he couldn't see it and think about it, his back would be cold, plus Tang Shuquan often cried in the middle of the night, which was really not to blame the neighbors for being afraid.
Therefore, since the occurrence of the case, several neighbors of the Tang family have all been relocated, some have moved to the mouth of the village, and some have borrowed money to move to the city. Leaving the old house where they have lived for decades, the hearts of these families must be uncomfortable.
Then the question arises at this point, why is this Tang Deqing's body not rotten? Is it really, as Tang Shuquan said, that it is unjust and incorruptible?
Obviously, the answer is no, tang Deqing's real reason for incorruptible is actually very simple, roughly three points.
First, the ventilation conditions in the Courtyard of the Tang Family were better, and the water in Tang Deqing's body evaporated rapidly after his death; second, in order to find out the truth, the forensic doctor took away most of the organs in Tang Deqing's body, and without organs, the corpse was even more difficult to corrupt; third, the corpse contained a large number of pesticide components, and pesticides were highly toxic and naturally had the effect of sterilization and antiseptic.
These three reasons add up, Tang Deqing's body is difficult to decompose, of course, this third point can also corroborate the conclusion given by the police from the side, and prove Yang Jianchun's innocence.
By 2022, 24 years have passed since Tang Deqing's death, and the police and forensic doctors who handled the case have already retired and left their jobs, but even so, Tang Shuquan himself has not given up hope.
This persistence seems absurd to many people, but I hope that everyone can also understand the father's difficulty, after all, no one except his parents will wait for an uncertain outcome, right?