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This is a case that has become a "nightmare for many"—a Major Criminal Case.
Imagine this scene: the walls of the living room are adorned with dried human skin, a metal tray on the table holds chunks of meat, and a bottle filled with over forty eyes sits nearby. In the kitchen, cured legs hang from the ceiling, and on the counter lies a dismembered body, freshly chopped into dozens of pieces, with blood and entrails spilling everywhere.
Do not think this is merely a film set for a horror movie; such a scene has actually existed in real life, and it was part of a shocking crime that occurred not long ago. Even more terrifying is the revelation that after the incident, it was reported that the perpetrator had sold leftover meat as ostrich meat.
Locals who had purchased "ostrich meat" discarded all their cooking utensils and even rebuilt their kitchens, too frightened to sleep at night with the lights off.
Who is this horrifying and chilling murderer?
Date of the incident: April 26, 2012.
Location: Jincheng Town, Jinning County, Yunnan Province.
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On that morning, a middle-aged woman hurriedly exited the bus station in Jincheng Town. Her name was Cheng Lianyan, and she was anxious because she had received a call from her son Han Yao's supervisor the previous night, informing her that Han Yao had been missing for an entire day.
Han Yao, 19 years old, was an intern at an engineering company in Kunming. On the morning of April 25, his manager had asked him to return to his dormitory to retrieve some documents, but he never returned to the construction site.
Strangely enough, the construction site was only a twenty-minute walk from the dormitory. How could an adult suddenly go missing without any apparent reason? After searching nearby without success, Han Yao's colleagues went to report his disappearance at the police station. However, since he had been missing for less than 24 hours, the police did not initiate an investigation.
Cheng Lianyan believed her son was responsible and would never simply vanish without a word. So she and Han Yao's colleagues returned to the police station to file another report.
By this time, Han Yao had been missing for over 24 hours. According to regulations, the police should have opened an investigation. Yet the station chief offered various excuses to avoid taking action and advised everyone to continue searching elsewhere.
Left with no choice, Cheng Lianyan called upon relatives from her hometown. Dozens of people roamed the streets of Jincheng Town, calling out Han Yao's name. At that moment, a concerned citizen informed her that Han Yao might have been abducted and forced into labor at Hei Zhuan Yao.
In the vicinity of Jincheng Town, there were dozens of Hei Zhuan Yao, where most of the laborers were abducted children and adults tricked into forced labor. Although some occasionally managed to escape, the Hei Zhuan Yao remained untouched.
It was evident that there were some unspeakable interests at play behind this situation, and the people of Jincheng Town had grown accustomed to it.
Cheng Lianyan feared that her son might be suffering in a Hei Zhuan Yao, so she immediately gathered her relatives to search for him in various Hei Zhuan Yao. However, each Hei Zhuan Yao was guarded by numerous thugs, and being unfamiliar with the area, they found it impossible to even approach the places without being chased away.
With no other options, they returned to the police station for help. Although the police finally opened a case this time, they dismissed them with the excuse that investigations take time and told them to wait for news at home. Seeing the police's indifferent attitude, Cheng Lianyan realized that relying on them was futile and decided to take matters into her own hands.
Days later, as Cheng Lianyan and her relatives wandered around town like headless flies, they stumbled upon some alarming information. It turned out that in Nanmen Village, near where Han Yao had gone missing, several children had disappeared over the past few years. The last known sighting of these children was with an old man named Zhang Yongming.
The special investigation team immediately launched an inquiry into Zhang Yongming and brought him in for questioning on May 7.
Despite being a frail old man with graying hair, Zhang Yongming consistently responded with "I don't know" or "I'm not sure" to any questions posed by the investigators. It was clear he was a tough nut to crack and not easy to deal with.
Taking advantage of the time before the legal detention period expired, the special investigation team quickly applied for a search warrant to inspect Zhang Yongming's residence.
However, when they pushed open a ramshackle black shed made of broken wood, the scene inside left all officers forever haunted. The living room walls were adorned with what appeared to be dried human skin, while an iron tray on the table held chunks of meat emitting a foul odor. Astonishingly, there were also jars containing animal eyes soaking in liquid.
Even more revolting was the sight of strings of unknown black cured meat hanging from the kitchen eaves and dozens of decaying meat pieces scattered across the countertop.
During their preliminary search, officers discovered a plastic bag in the corner of the living room filled with numerous clothes along with mobile phones and bank cards. What sent chills down everyone's spine was finding a plastic bucket in the kitchen filled with entrails and two human hands. Looking around the house confirmed their worst fears.
The special investigation team quickly realized they were likely at a crime scene involving dismemberment. Soon after, forensic experts entered the premises. Preliminary examinations confirmed that the dried skin, foul-smelling meat chunks, preserved eyes, and black cured meat were all human tissue.
To their shock, after four days of searching and collecting evidence, the special investigation team uncovered various human limbs in Zhang Yongming's home—some relatively fresh while others were severely decomposed; there were even pieces of cooked meat.
In addition, the police found six large sacks filled with various clothing items. After examination, it was determined that these clothes belonged to at least a dozen different individuals. In the vegetable garden of Zhang Yongming, forensic technicians unearthed a significant number of bones; however, strangely, they could not find a single human skull.
Despite the seriousness of the case leading the special investigation team to seal off the information immediately, the discovery of bag after bag of dismembered body parts being removed from Zhang Yongming's home caused a sensation throughout Nanmen Village. The villagers could hardly believe that this reclusive old man could be a deranged murderer.
Meanwhile, the special investigation team conducted a second interrogation of Zhang Yongming. Although he faced overwhelming evidence and readily confessed to his crimes, he remained unwilling to disclose his motives for killing or how he disposed of the skulls.
What was even more chilling was that Zhang Yongming could not remember how many people he had killed, only stating, "For every set of clothes you find, that's how many people I killed." This left the investigation team to unravel the mystery of how many victims there were and why he committed these murders.
Thus, the team began a thorough investigation into Zhang Yongming's past. It turned out that he had grown up in a violent household. According to an elderly neighbor, his mother had severe violent tendencies and was rumored to have killed a liquor salesman.
Living in such an environment shaped Zhang Yongming into an extremely introverted individual. Apart from one elementary school friend named Lu, with whom he had a relatively good relationship, he had no other friends.
However, in 1974, Zhang Yongming suddenly raised a knife against his only friend Lu in the middle of the night. Although Lu managed to escape and call for help, he was left with scars on his head that would last a lifetime. Following this incident, Zhang Yongming was sent for six months of labor education, and upon his release, no one wanted to associate with him anymore.
Unfortunately, in 1978, a man from another village named Yang was unaware of Zhang Yongming's dark history and analyzed his work, family environment, and personality.
Given that both his mother and older brother had previously committed murder, it was widely believed that Zhang Yongming did not suffer from mental illness but rather had a genetic disorder known as Supermale Syndrome.
This syndrome is rumored to have some hereditary traits; individuals afflicted with it tend to be aggressive or reclusive and are prone to violent behavior. This suggested that Zhang Yongming might have been predisposed to murder from birth. Whether there is any scientific basis for these rumors remains unknown.
I personally believe that the primary reason Zhang Yongming became a killer is closely related to his family background and the societal environment in which he lived.
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