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This is a mass murder case that took place in Luoyang City, Henan Province.
A family of four, living in a modest house within an orchard, fell victim to a brutal suspect who showed no mercy even to an infant under one year old.
However, when you learn about the suspect's motives, you would surely want to tear him apart yourself.
Date: August 1, 2011.
Location: Caoyao Village, Yiyang County, Luoyang City, Henan Province.
On this day, the police received a report that the Wang Shixian family of four had been murdered.
According to the reporter, they had come to visit their brother-in-law but could not find their sister's family after searching everywhere. They then noticed that the pigs in the pigpen had escaped and hurriedly returned them to their enclosure.
After waiting for a long time without seeing their sister's family, they asked nearby neighbors if they had seen them, but the neighbors also said no. They then inquired with relatives but received the same response.
By this time, it was already afternoon, and a sense of unease began to settle in. They called their cousin for help. They searched around the front and back of the house again but found nothing and returned to the orchard to continue looking.
However, in the southeast corner of the orchard, they discovered freshly turned soil beneath an apple tree. Approaching it for a closer look, they were horrified by what they saw and stumbled back in shock. Buried there was a body lying face down. They immediately called the police.
Upon receiving the report, law enforcement quickly organized a team and arrived at Caoyao Village's orchard to secure the scene. The officers unearthed the exposed body and confirmed it belonged to Wang Shixian's eldest son. Following this discovery, police and family members expanded their search within the orchard.
Before long, another chilling scene emerged; not far from where they found the first body was another mound of fresh soil covered with branches. Upon excavation, they uncovered the bodies of Wang Shixian and his wife, tightly embraced.
Preliminary examinations by forensic experts suggested that the victims had been dead for approximately three days due to asphyxiation, with Wang Shixian showing clear signs of external injury. In just one day, three bodies were discovered in this small mountain village, causing an uproar among its residents.
Subsequently, the police discovered a bloody knife at the scene. DNA testing confirmed that the blood on it belonged to Wang Shixian. Given this evidence, the police concluded that this was a very serious criminal case.
The Wang Family was left in shock at the sight before them.
According to relatives of Wang Shixian, he had a daughter who happened to be visiting relatives at the time of the incident. It was confirmed that the girl was the only member of the Wang Family not involved in the incident.
At this moment, what puzzled the police was the absence of a six-month-old child who could not walk. Where could the child have been taken?
Due to the severity of the situation, the police immediately established a special task force composed of third-level public security criminal investigation personnel and began working overnight to solve the case while intensifying efforts to locate the child. The police split into multiple teams to conduct investigations.
Meanwhile, an officer responsible for investigating Wang Shixian's social connections gathered a lead: Wang Shixian was the only person in the village who owned an orchard, which was quite large, yet they lived in extreme poverty. Their living conditions were among the worst in the village, nearly akin to begging.
With many children to care for and having suffered from a disability due to illness years ago, Wang Shixian walked with a limp. His wife also had some intellectual challenges, and their orchard's annual income barely covered medical expenses and debts. Even the formula for their six-month-old baby was funded by contributions from his brothers.
Additionally, officers conducting interviews learned that Wang Shixian was an honest man who had no enemies in the village. His wife, due to her intellectual issues, rarely interacted with others. Consequently, the police ruled out motives of financial gain, revenge, or passion.
At this point, while conducting thorough investigations into the case, the police continued searching for the child's whereabouts.
However, three days passed without significant progress in the case, leading to a stalemate in their investigation.
Later on, officers learned that while alive, Wang Shixian had mentioned to his brother Wang Shiliu that he contemplated selling his child due to their inability to afford raising her.
With this new lead, the police shifted their investigative approach. Given that the child was missing, if she had indeed been sold, then potential buyers might be significant suspects.
Based on this information, the police expanded their search area and conducted a thorough search of the orchard once again.
However, the event that the police dreaded occurred; they found the child's body in the orchard.
Upon investigation of the scene, it was discovered that Wang Shixian's family of four had been murdered and buried in three separate locations within the orchard.
The police analyzed that the perpetrator likely committed the crime in multiple instances, suggesting that the suspect must be extremely familiar with the area. The likelihood of a local being involved increased, leading to a significant turn in the case's investigation.
Consequently, the special investigation team decided to change their approach and expand their inquiries to include the village and surrounding areas.
They particularly focused on meeting with and locating young men aged 18 to 60, intensifying their investigations into recent returnees and those who had left after the incident. They also posted a Reward Notice in nearby villages and organized representatives from each village to encourage residents to report any leads actively.
At this time, villagers began providing numerous tips to the police, but all were systematically ruled out by the officers conducting interviews.
Nevertheless, the police remained convinced that the suspect was either from their village or nearby. Due to rain, the crime scene had been severely compromised.
Forensic personnel examined every brick on the floor of the deceased's home and ultimately extracted direct evidence identifying the suspect from the central scene. They also set up checkpoints at major intersections in the village to prevent the suspect from escaping.
Finally, on August 12th in the afternoon, after technical identification, a villager named Peng from Group Three of the same village emerged as a prime suspect. The police organized forces to apprehend him at his home. On August 13th in the afternoon, faced with irrefutable evidence, Peng confessed to killing Wang Shixian's family of four in three separate incidents and burying their bodies.
This outcome shocked everyone; how could someone who had grown up alongside Wang Shixian and maintained a good relationship with him commit such a brutal act of exterminating his entire family, sparing not even a child? Wasn't this method excessively cruel?
On August 16th, under police escort, Peng identified the crime scenes where he murdered Wang Shixian's family. The officer responsible for interrogation described Peng's motive for murder.
During interrogation, Peng explained that on July 28th, feeling idle, he went to his good friend Wang Shixian's orchard and happened to encounter Wang Shixian's son. The boy claimed that his father had thrown his toy into a nearby pit and asked Peng for help retrieving it.
Since the pit was too deep for him to descend, he tied a rope around Wang Shixian's son to lower him down for retrieval. Unexpectedly, an accident occurred when the rope slipped, resulting in Wang Shixian's son's suffocation and death.
At that moment, he felt an overwhelming sense of fear. Although it was not his intention to kill, the child was dead.
Fearing that Wang Shixian would question him about the incident and that he would have no explanation, he concocted a lie, claiming the child had gone out to play. He was also afraid that Wang Shixian would discover the child's body, so he continued to stay at Wang Shixian's house.
When Wang Shixian, who had risen early to work, found his son's body, he asked what had happened. After receiving no satisfactory answer, he decided to call the police using his own phone.
In fear of being exposed, he then turned to murder. Grabbing a knife, he killed Wang Shixian.
After killing Wang Shixian, he heard his wife calling for him at the orchard gate. Afraid that her cries would attract nearby villagers, he deceived her into coming to where Wang Shixian's body lay and strangled her from behind with a rope. He then hurriedly buried all three bodies.
Returning home, he found the child lying on the bed and thought about selling him to make some money. He began searching for buyers but found none after two days.
When he returned to the orchard again, he discovered that the child had fallen off the bed and was barely alive. Without much thought, he found a pit and buried the child there.
Thus, the heinous murder case in Caoyao Village was successfully solved by the police.
While one might initially forgive an accidental death of a child, his subsequent actions were utterly incomprehensible.
In just two days, he had buried his good friend's entire family and even live-buried a dying child; such actions were simply inhumane.
Now, Peng would face the severe consequences of the law.
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