Before 2009, the slightly weird plot of "hiding corpses on the wall" usually appeared in novels, film and television works, but it was not until this incident really happened in United States colleges and universities that people gradually felt the extremely terrifying sense of "virtual reflection into reality".
The case known as the "Yale Wall Female Corpse Case" has caused a great sensation throughout United States, and everyone on campus is in danger for a while, which also puts a lot of pressure on the police, if the case becomes an unsolved case, it is estimated that the United States police will become the target of the media.
Female doctor in the wall
On September 8, 2009, Anne, a female doctor from Yale University, entered the lab, and there was a record of her card swiping when she entered the lab.
Since then, she has completely evaporated from the world, and the access card outside the laboratory shows that Anne has never come out.
At first, it was his fiancé Jonathan who discovered the anomaly, because there were still 5 days left for him and Anne to be happy, and all the invitations had been sent to relatives and friends, but they still couldn't wait for Anne's reply.
He contacted Anne's roommate, who said that Anne had not returned.
Jonathan was a little flustered, and contacted several of Anne's friends, who generally said: "Anne is about to become a wife from a student, and I am a little apprehensive in my heart, which is certain, and we have heard her say that we can feel that she has some premarital phobia, and may have gone out for a walk." ”
Until the next day, Anne still did not move, at this time Anne's roommate said to Jonathan: "Why don't we call the police, even if Anne has something in her heart, but she has never been at night, and that is not her habit." ”
So, Jonathan and Anne's roommate went to the police station, and the police took the disappearance on campus very seriously and immediately rushed to the scene to investigate.
According to preliminary findings, the lab Anne was visiting was located in the basement of Yale University's G13 building, and a card had to be swiped to get in and out, suggesting that it was difficult for Anne to leave the lab in other ways.
After interviewing a large number of Anne's friends, the police also found that Anne was a very popular person on weekdays and never offended anyone, and her doctoral supervisor also proved that she had experiments to do at hand, and the university had relatively high requirements for the results of the experiments, which also explained why Anne went to the laboratory at night.
The veteran police officer who has been handling the case for many years immediately realized that Anne was probably still in the laboratory and had already encountered an accident.
Adhering to the attitude of "seeing people alive and seeing corpses when dead", the police turned the laboratory upside down, but did not find any clues about Annie, and the equipment in the laboratory also showed that Anne did do experiments on the night of her disappearance.
In this way, 4 days have passed, and there is still no trace of Anne.
Jonathan can only dismiss all this as "Annie's joke", and he still decides to hold the wedding as promised, expecting Annie to suddenly appear on the wedding day.
On the day of the wedding, Jonathan put on a handsome groom's dress, but the wedding dress he prepared for Anne could not wait for the host, and the guests came as promised.
A phone call came, and Jonathan quickly looked down to see that the call turned out to be the police.
With apprehension, Jonathan answered the phone, and the other party said, "I'm sorry sir, Anne has been found, she has passed away." ”
It turned out that on the day Anne was supposed to get married, the police dog suddenly barked at the position of the ceiling, and the police looked up and found that there was a ceiling tile on it that showed signs of moving, so the police found a ladder to check, and first found Anne's black gloves and white socks.
Laboratories often have animal remains, and the police didn't take the stench of corpses seriously at first.
After these discoveries, the police immediately demolished the entire ceiling, and sure enough, they found a female corpse, and sure enough, it was Anne.
At this time, Anne, who had been "sleeping" in the ceiling for 4 days, was naked, her panties were also hanging on her ankles, her blouse was over her head, and almost the whole person was hung from the ceiling.
This discovery shocked the police, and the wedding belonging to Anne and Jonathan instantly turned into a funeral, which may be difficult for anyone to accept for a while.
The students of Yale University also learned about the situation through various channels, and for a while, everyone was in danger, and few dared to go out alone in the middle of the night.
Many media began to follow up on the report, which also brought a lot of trouble to the police, they know very well that if this kind of case is difficult to solve in the first place, the more it drags on, the more difficult it will be, and this kind of vicious homicide has appeared on the campus that should be safe, and the social impact will inevitably be huge.
For each additional day of the investigation, netizens blamed the local police for one more point.
The body was quickly transported back for forensic examination, and the medical examiner was able to determine the cause of Anne's death with just one glance: strangulation and assault.
At first, there were overwhelming voices on the Internet saying that the fiancé killed people before the wedding, but the police also found through a large number of inquiries that the relationship between the two has been stable, and there has been almost no quarrel, and Jonathan was busy preparing for the wedding before Anne disappeared and when he encountered an accident, and there was an alibi, this suspicion was quickly ruled out.
At this time, a key figure appeared: United States Chinese detective Li Changyu.
Mr. Lee, who works not far from Yale University, had heard about it from the beginning, and when he gave advice to the police, he said, "You should start with the access card." ”
The police immediately opened their eyes and immediately began an investigation.
The murderer was brought to justice
The reason why Li Changyu said that he should start with the access control card is related to the design of the G13 building laboratory.
Due to some important scientific research equipment in the laboratory, it is difficult for outsiders to enter the laboratory, and those who can enter the laboratory are staff, teachers and students.
And Anne not only entered the laboratory, but also showed that she had experimented at the scene, which shows that the murderer either knew Anne or held an access card, which was Li Changyu's suggested idea.
The police immediately collected records from the school about the entry and exit of Anne's laboratory on the day of her disappearance, and found that all the people who entered and exited were acquaintances with Anne, and two of them were very suspicious: one was Larry, a staff member in the equipment maintenance room, and the other was Raymond, a small animal breeder for experiments.
Larry's suspicion is basically ruled out, because the time he has been in and out of the laboratory for a short time is impossible to complete the complicated steps of assault, killing, and hiding the body, so only Raymond is the only one who is suspected.
In a quiet situation, the police secretly monitored Raymond's whereabouts all the way to prevent him from being startled; The other police went to investigate the communications related to Raymond, and sure enough, they found an anomaly.
Before the crime, Raymond often sent messages to Anne, mostly of the type who had nothing to say.
For example, when Anne didn't get rid of the mice after the experiment, Raymond immediately emailed Anne to complain, and Anne replied that she would pay attention next time.
In fact, according to the relevant regulations of the Yale University laboratory, the students are only responsible for conducting experiments, and Raymond should be responsible for cleaning up the remains of experimental animals, and it is obvious that he is deliberately making trouble for Anne, or this is another way of accosting.
However, Raymond talked to Anne several times, and Anne's attitude was very cold, or polite, indicating that Anne was not interested in him.
What made the police feel even more "settled" was that on the day Anne disappeared, Raymond went in and out of the laboratory 11 times.
Calling up his previous entry and exit records, he used to keep the number of times he entered and exited less than 3 times, and that day in the middle of the night back and forth so many times, which means that Raymond must have a ghost.
When sorting through all the physical evidence at the scene, the police also found a green fountain pen, and the staff said: "This fountain pen is Raymond's, and the ink in the pen is green, so he will use this color." ”
The day after Anne's disappearance, the lab entry and exit records indicate that Raymond entered the lab again, possibly to find the pen that was left behind at the scene, but it was not recovered.
The chain of evidence was almost over, and the police immediately found Raymond.
Seeing the arrival of the police, Raymond also pretended to be calm, he said: "I am only responsible for handling the remains of small animals, Anne's death has nothing to do with me, and I did not find anything unusual that day." ”
Due to the speed of the investigation, the police also found a nail scratch on Raymond's arm, but Raymond insisted that it was a cat's claw.
Raymond's skin remains are also in the nails of Anne's body, and this correspondence can be said to be ironclad.
Seeing that the police had investigated everything, Raymond had no intention of resisting anymore, and simply confessed the truth.
In fact, Raymond's popularity at Yale University is still quite good, although his job is only to deal with small animals, he can speak well, and he has made a lot of friends on campus, so when Anne was found murdered at first, no one suspected him.
Even when the evidence was sufficient, the police interviewed some people who knew Raymond and Anne at the same time in order to restore Raymond's motive for committing the crime, and they all said: "Raymond can't have committed a crime, are you mistaken?" He was very polite to everyone he met. ”
At a time when everyone is saying that Raymond is a "nice guy", his ex-girlfriend Mary stands up.
She revealed to the police: "When we were dating in the past, I quickly found out that he was different from what he usually showed, he was a very controlling guy, even such a small thing as a lipstick number had to take care of it, and once I didn't listen to his advice, he locked me in the bedroom for several hours, and when I came out, I chose to break up." ”
However, Raymond and Anne are not in a relationship, and Raymond also knows that Anne is about to get married, so how can he control his desires? Could it be that Raymond likes Annie?
Some classmates confirmed that Raymond did like Anne a little, but his original intention was a "one-night stand" or something, and he didn't want to have a long-term relationship with Anne.
Raymond also did not mention a deeper motive, and he had already pleaded guilty with a sufficient chain of evidence, and the matter could have been settled.
The media also reported the ins and outs of the incident, and it seems that the matter has passed, and only Jonathan is suffering from the great pain of losing his fiancée.
But the relevant discussions on the Internet are still fermenting, and people want to fully analyze Jonathan's motives for committing the crime from a psychological perspective: Obviously Anne is about to get married, why did Raymond choose to brutally kill her?
Soon after, an unnamed person posted online who claimed to know both Anne and Raymond.
He said: "Raymond does have a strong desire to control, his desire to control not only includes his girlfriend, but even everything he has, including the guinea pig he raises and the green pen that belongs to him, and he doesn't want to share everything with others, so no one but him can write with a green pen; Anne did not deal with the mouse after the experiment, which made Raymond very angry, and he reminded Anne with mixed emotions, but Anne not only ignored it, but also did not correct the way of dealing with the guinea pig, plus his girlfriend proposed to break up, which made Raymond murderous. ”
In the end, Raymond was sentenced to 44 years in prison.
Resources
- A delegation of presidents of Fujian Provincial University visited Yale University and Li Changyu School of Criminal Investigation People's Daily Online
- "The First Chinese Detective", is it really planted this time? The Paper