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"We were 99 percent sure that he was the murderer, but he just didn't admit it."
This is a homicide case that is called a perfect crime by the majority of netizens, even though all kinds of evidence point to the same person, but because the first crime scene cannot be determined, the suspect was finally acquitted by the court.
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The tragedy emerges: the hidden story behind the disappearance of the live-in girlfriend
Early one morning in March 2012, the calm of Kunming was shattered by a phone call to report the case. The policeman anxiously reported to the police that his fiancée, Hu Zuying, was missing, his voice was full of panic and despair, and he told the police that Hu Zuying had not been heard from since he had dinner with friends the previous afternoon.
Hu Zuying and the policeman Chen Hui are boyfriend and girlfriend, Chen Hui is the assistant director of the Yunnan Provincial Navigation Administration, the director of the comprehensive planning department, and Hu Zuying is unemployed. Both are divorced with children, have been living together for 3 years, and are recently preparing to get a marriage certificate. But what I never expected was that before the wedding was held, Hu Zuying disappeared......
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Tracing and Questioning: Unraveling the mystery of the disappearance
Hu Zuying's family rushed to Kunming in a panic when they learned of her disappearance. The family tried to contact Hu Zuying by phone, but there was no answer. Anxiety gradually turns to uneasiness and fear. In desperation, they chose to report to the police after searching for no results.
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After receiving Chen Hui's report, the police quickly launched an investigation. The police first learned about the specific situation before Hu Zuying's disappearance. Chen Hui provided the police with the last text message Hu Zuying sent to him, saying that she had met an old friend of many years, had dinner with them in the evening, and asked Chen Hui to help pick up the child. This text message seems ordinary on the surface, but it hides many suspicious points.
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The police found that the tone in the text message was not like Hu Zuying, and she and Chen Hui were already in a cohabitation relationship, why were they so polite when asking the other party to help pick up the child? What's more coincidental is that through the investigation, this text message was sent and received at the base station of Chen Hui's work unit.
A few days later, in a villa area more than 100 kilometers away from the city, Hu Zuying's brother discovered an anomaly. There was a freshly turned piece of land there, and one couldn't help but wonder. When the police arrived at the scene, they dug up the new pile of soil, and a curled corpse appeared in front of everyone.
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This scene may be unforgettable for everyone present. Hu Zuying's body was wrapped in a black plastic bag around her head, she was wearing pink pajamas, a large patch of blood on her chest, and her hands, feet and neck were wrapped in duct tape. The results of the forensic examination showed that Hu Zuying died of a head injury caused by a blunt object blow to the head, which was undoubtedly a case of deliberate murder.
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Suspicious: Key doubts in the case
The police quickly set their sights on Chen Hui. After all, as a live-in boyfriend, he has enough time and conditions to commit crimes. Moreover, Chen Hui's series of behaviors before and after the case were quite suspicious. Just five days after Hu Zuying's disappearance, Chen Hui was arrested by the public security organs.
First of all, Chen Hui was extremely sad after Hu Zuying's disappearance, as if he already knew something bad. Secondly, on the second day of Hu Zuying's disappearance, the community security guard saw Chen Hui unusually parking his car in front of his unit, and also took something from the car and went upstairs. What is even more suspicious is that at about 10 o'clock on the night of the crime, Chen Hui drove to the villa more than 100 kilometers away, and returned to the city at 2 o'clock in the morning.
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The most critical evidence was the fingerprints found on the duct tape that wrapped the body. The police extracted 6 fingerprints from the tape, all of which were Chen Hui's, and 2 of them were blood latent fingerprints. This seems to directly link Chen Hui to the case.
The case did not end there. Instead, it becomes more confusing. Because the police did not find any physical evidence in Chen Hui's home or car, whether it was blood stains or traces of fighting, they found nothing.
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Even more puzzling is the background of the case. It turned out that the relationship between Hu Zuying and Chen Hui had already cracked. Chen Hui is suspected of having a new love, and Hu Zuying has urged Chen Hui to get married many times for the sake of the livelihood of himself and his children. She even gave Chen Hui an ultimatum, demanding that he must obtain the certificate before March 12, otherwise he would report Chen Hui for "accepting kickbacks and opening a company to launder money". To some extent, this threat provided Chen Hui with a possible motive for committing the crime.
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The Mystery of Evidence: Missing and Challenges of Direct Evidence
Although the police collected a large amount of circumstantial evidence during the investigation, the lack of direct evidence has become a major problem in the investigation of the case. Chen Hui has always denied his actions, insisting that he is innocent and that he can give plausible explanations for the accusations and evidence presented by the police.
He pointed out that the time of death given by the police was not rigorous, and the range of about 5 days could be 4, 5, or 6 days, which could not be determined. There is also the location where the text message was sent, even if it was sent from the same base station, it can only prove that the two are very close, but it cannot prove that Duan Ning was written and directed by him. And driving out late at night is to find his girlfriend, not to throw the body at all. He also raised the question of why there were no signs of a fight in the home if, as forensically examined, the deceased had suffered blunt force injuries before his death?
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In particular, the fingerprints on the tape became the key evidence in the case. The police found that Chen Hui's fingerprints were left on the tape that bound Hu Zuying, and there were blood stains on the fingerprints. However, Chen Hui's lawyer questioned this, arguing that it was unconscionable that only fingerprints had been left on the tape at the scene and not elsewhere. They further speculated that it was possible that the killer stole Chen Hui's fingerprints in an attempt to frame him.
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In addition to this, the police have not been able to find the tools to commit the crime, which has also greatly weakened the chain of evidence in the case. Without the murder weapon, Chen Hui's guilt could not be directly proven. This lack of direct evidence became a key factor in the court's decision, which ultimately affected the outcome of the trial.
Difficulty of trial: lack of evidence and legal limitations
In court, the police were almost convinced of Chen's accusations. They believe that the evidence in the case has formed a closed chain of evidence, which is enough to prove that Chen Hui is the murderer. However, the rigor of the law requires that the evidence must be beyond a reasonable doubt. Although the police have a 99% grasp of Chen Hui, the uncertainty of the 1% has become the key to the court's decision.
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After hearing the case, the Kunming Intermediate People's Court finally acquitted Chen Hui due to insufficient direct evidence. During his three years in detention, Chen Hui recorded 14 confessions during interrogation, but no matter what kind of evidence the police presented, he perfectly explained and was finally acquitted.
The verdict was unacceptable to Hu's family, who found it difficult to understand that a man who was clearly a serious suspect had escaped punishment because of the technical details of the law.
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Epilogue:
After Chen Hui's acquittal, his life does not seem to have been affected much. He is in the process of applying to return to his original job. For Chen Hui, life seems to be slowly returning to the track before the case. However, for Hu Zuying's family, the sudden tragedy changed their lives forever.
Hu Zuying's mother was extremely dissatisfied with the court's verdict, and she could not accept that her daughter had died unjustly while the murderer was at large. The Hu family's mood is understandable, they are looking forward to justice coming, and they are looking forward to the real culprit getting the punishment he deserves.
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The case has become an unsolved case due to the lack of direct evidence, and although the police still have this case in their hearts, there has been no breakthrough so far. The case has become the focus of public attention and has also triggered in-depth thinking about the legal system and criminal investigation techniques. People are looking forward to the progress of science and technology and the improvement of laws in the future, which can bring a ray of life to such unsolved cases.
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