Strange Case of
Funeral Parlour: Murder for Hire and
Murder for Murder: Counting the Motive and the End
of the Crime This is a serial murder case related to funeral parlour in 2010, and it is also the most complicated and confusing case that Skynet has ever broadcast. The plot of
this case is so strange that it is difficult to solve the case. It can be called a strange case. You don’t know who is the murderer until you see the end. Some people
even say that the plot of Detective Conan has never dared to make up like this.
Even the police involved in the investigation of the case said: “a lifetime of police, it is not likely to encounter such a case.”. At the end of
2009, Shanghe County
, Jinan, Shandong Province, was approaching the end of the year. Lao Zhang, a 40-year-old middle-aged man, felt that this year was particularly unlucky. First, in October, his Xiali sedan was blown up. The door, glass, and dashboard were blown to pieces. The murderer was not found. Then in November, a bomb was found in his funeral car.
It seems that someone is trying to kill himself.
Yes, Lao Zhang drives a funeral car, because his job is quite special, he runs funeral services, so he often drives to pull corpses. He has been doing it for more than ten years, and he has never offended anyone. Since the car was bombed, he has always felt very uneasy.
…
More unfortunately, his wife, who had been married for many years, had a bad relationship with him and ran away from home after a big quarrel.
The county is not big and there are many acquaintances. Lao Zhang asked an acquaintance to help him get his wife’s mobile phone records and other information. He wanted to see who his wife had contacted after she ran away from home, hoping to find her back.
But the call records cooled Lao Zhang’s heart. He did not know that for a long time, his wife often talked to a man on the phone, spending hundreds of yuan a month, and the frequency was staggering.
Lao Zhang felt that his wife might have had an affair, took some printed phone records, said nothing, and turned away. On July 13
,
2010,
a villager in Sunji Township, Shanghe County, strolled in a barren farmland and suddenly smelled a foul smell. Following the source, I found an abandoned motor-pumped well. When I looked at it, I was so frightened that I almost cried out: a pair of white feet were exposed at the mouth of the well! And the stench emanated from this well!
Villagers immediately called the police, the police quickly arrived, after salvage, found a highly decomposed body of a man in the well. The body of the
man was not wearing any clothes. He was 1.83 meters tall and weighed 90 kilograms. He was between 30 and 40 years old. He was “stuffed” into the well with his head down.
Why “plug”? Because the mouth of the well is very narrow, only 30 centimeters. The well
where the man’s body was
found.. The face of the man’s body, which was
found in the motor-pumped well
, had been decomposed beyond recognition. After the body was “pulled out”, the police found an axe at the bottom of the well, but there were no other clues.
Because the scene of the crime was very remote, in the barren farmland far away from the residential area, few people came, so after the rainfall, the well was overgrown with weeds, and the traces of the scene were seriously damaged.
After autopsy, the deceased died of a comminuted fracture caused by a blow to the back of the head. The time of death was judged to be between three months and one year ago, that is, between July 2009 and April 2010. There was no blood or fingerprints on the axe found
at the scene, but it was not an ordinary axe. Between the head and the handle, there were pieces of metal reinforced on both sides.
This kind of reinforced axe is not used by ordinary people. From the analysis of the old and new degree, the purpose of use and the conditions of being deliberately wiped, this axe is used to commit murder.
So the police immediately divided into two groups:
all the way to the surrounding hardware stores to investigate, to see which shops sell this axe.
All the way from the local missing persons, to investigate and find the source of the body. The clothes of the
deceased were stripped and no identification was left. It is likely that the murderer deliberately concealed the identity of the victim and did not want to be recognized. As a result, clues may be found in local missing persons.
Sure enough, the police found the same axe in a hardware store. The proprietress of the store said that there were 13 such axes in total, which were purchased at the end of last year, but it was not clear who they were sold to.
This clue compressed the victim’s death date by five months.
The police went to the hardware store to look for clues
.
The police went to the hardware store to look for clues
, and then a villager’s words provided another effective clue to the case: on January 28 this year, he had seen something dark red, similar to blood, in the abandoned farmland near the motor-pumped well.
Therefore, the police speculated that the time when the deceased was killed should be six months ago, that is, during January 2010.
Let’s talk about the police searching for missing persons. Shanghe County police dispatched hundreds of police officers to conduct a five-day search and found that there were 17 missing persons in Sunji Township. However, none of the 17 missing persons was the dead in the well, and the source of the body could not be confirmed.
At this time, it has been 10 days since the incident, and there has been no progress in solving the case through the source of the corpse. The police went into reverse thinking and realized that there was no victim in the missing persons, but maybe there was a murderer?
So they began to investigate the criminal suspect and found a suspicious person, Wang Xiyuan, in the missing persons. The time of his disappearance is close to the time of the death of the man’s body in the well.
Wang Xiyuan himself
.
Wang Xiyuan
Wang Xiyuan, male, 36 years old, runs a chicken farm in the local area. He divorced his wife two years ago and owed more than 1 million loans to the bank.
He disappeared at the beginning of the year and was said to have gone out to avoid debts.
Before evading debts, he sent a text message to the old and young men in the village who were familiar with him: “I’ll stay outside for a few days, thank my brothers for taking care of me, and we’ll play together when I get back.”.
This man is 1.65 meters tall and very thin. If he is the murderer, can he beat the victim who is more than 1.8 meters tall?
But what is strange about Wang Xiyuan is that he bought a brand new red Santana half a year before he disappeared, but within a few months of driving it, he sent it to the repair shop for “painting the whole car.” After he disappeared, the car has been in the repair shop and no one has picked it up.
Wang Xiyuan’s Santana car
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Wang Xiyuan’s Santana car
, the police thought that they might be able to find some unknown secrets from the car, so forensic and trace technicians conducted a detailed search of the car, and found the clue!
They found a leaf under the spare tire in the trunk. There was a very fine and unusual mark on the leaf. It didn’t look like paint or oil. After four attempts, the police extracted the complete human DNA on it. The mark on the leaf was the blood of the deceased in the well!
This is enough to prove that Wang Xiyuan is closely related to the case and is a major suspect.
According to the police investigation, Wang Xiyuan and his ex-wife divorced shortly after giving birth to their third child. His ex-wife went out to work and had not seen each other for two years.
Wang Xiyuan’s telephone records show that two Tianjin mobile phone numbers have had frequent contact with him. One of the numbers went missing on January 24 and has not been heard from since.
The police called the number, but it was turned off anyway.
So could the holder of this mobile phone number be the deceased?
Shandong police immediately got in touch with Tianjin police, after investigation, the shutdown mobile phone number holder is male, named Han Benli, 32 years old, his height is exactly 1.83 meters! Medium in stature. Moreover, according to his family, Han Benli never came back after he went out to work with his fellow villagers half a year ago. When
Shandong police learned the news, they rushed to Tianjin and extracted DNA from Han Benli’s family and compared it with the DNA of the man’s corpse in the motor-pumped well.
So, who is the fellow-townsman who went out to work with Han Benli? It was another person who frequently talked to Wang Xiyuan on the phone: Han Baoshan, a native of Tianjin.
Han Baoshan faced the police investigation
.
Han Baoshan faced the police investigation
, the police immediately found Han Baoshan, but Han Baoshan said he knew nothing about it. But the police still caught him: Han Benli’s wife had asked Han Baoshan where her husband had gone. Han Baoshan said he had seen Han Benli after January 24. Han Benli might have gone to work somewhere else, and he could not be contacted.
At this time, the DNA comparison results came out, the dead in the well is Han Benli! The date of
Han Benli’s death is likely to be the day when his phone records were lost: January 24.
But Han Baoshan said he had seen Han Benli after January 24, indicating that Han Baoshan was lying!
In the face of irrefutable evidence, Han Baoshan finally confessed the truth: he killed Han Benli.
And his motive for the murder is hard to imagine: Wang Xiyuan, a native of Shandong, offered 100,000 yuan to let the two Tianjin people kill their rival in love, but the two Han never succeeded.
Wang Xiyuan was afraid that the matter would be exposed, so he ordered Han Baoshan to kill his accomplice, thus reducing the risk of exposure.
Do you think this is the end of it? No, the biggest puzzle in this case is, where did Wang Xiyuan go? Is there a case within a case? Let
‘s first talk about Wang Xiyuan’s murder for hire.
Wang Xiyuan has a lover’s concubine. The woman is a married woman named Zhang Yanli (a pseudonym). Because the woman is not divorced, they have had the evil idea of killing Zhang Yanli’s husband since March 2009.
Six months later, Wang Xiyuan contacted Han Baoshan and Han Benli in Tianjin through a person and hired a murderer at a price of 100,000 yuan. The two Han immediately came to Shandong and tracked her husband according to the whereabouts provided by Zhang Yanli.
Two Han made adequate preparations for the killing, planning to kill the man by car, shooting and other means, but has not found the right opportunity to start. In October
2009, Erhan installed a time bomb on the man’s Xiali car, but because the technology was not in place, the bomb exploded ahead of schedule.
Hearing this, I think you have already thought that Wang Xiyuan’s rival in love, the person who Erhan wants to kill, is Lao Zhang, who is in the funeral business. His real name is Zhang Benling.
Zhang Benling never thought that the person who wanted to kill him was his wife and rival in love.
The first car explosion failed, and the next month, the two Koreas installed explosives in the funeral car driven by Zhang Benling to kill him by remote control, but Lao Zhang was so lucky that he found the explosives in the car and survived.
In this way, the two Koreas could not kill Lao Zhang again and again, so they told Wang Xiyuan that the funds were not enough, and asked Wang Xiyuan to raise the commission to 140,000. If Wang Xiyuan did not agree, they would tell him about the murder.
Faced with threats, Wang Xiyuan can only compromise, but he is not stupid, thinking that if the next can not kill Zhang Benling how to do? So I had a plan.
Wang Xiyuan first found Han Baoshan and said to him, “If you can’t kill Zhang Benling, you can kill Han Benli. So few people know about this, and all the money belongs to you.” Later, he said the same thing to Han Benli, provoking the relationship between the two Koreas.
So Han Baoshan and Han Benli went to the hardware store to buy the reinforced axe and prepared to kill Lao Zhang with explosives, but unfortunately, they did not succeed.
Eventually, in order to get a commission of 140000, Han Baoshan killed Han Benli first, and then together with Wang Xiyuan, he used a Santana car to transport the body and dump it in the motor-pumped well.
Then, Han Baoshan fled back to Tianjin, and on the 16th day after Han Benli’s body was found, Han Baoshan was arrested by the police.
But the police did not end the investigation, because Wang Xiyuan never saw anyone alive or dead. Where the hell did
he go? The Shandong police began to search for him, but they did not expect that the search would last for two years. The
police case seminar
.. During the
police case seminar
, it also caught up with the “net-clearing operation” launched by the national public security organs in 2011, and the local public security organs arrested all kinds of criminal suspect on the run with the strength of “national pursuit and police pursuit”.
At that time, there were 154 fugitives in Shanghe County, Shandong Province, and the arrest rate reached 97%. Even so, Wang Xiyuan was still missing. Where on earth did
he go? Since his disappearance, his ID card and bank card have not been used. Suspicion has been hanging over the minds of the police in Shanghe County. They will not stop until they catch Wang Xiyuan. Once again,
the police went deep into the grass-roots level to investigate. At this time, the text message that Wang Xiyuan had sent in groups in that year once again attracted the attention of the police.
As we mentioned earlier, Wang Xiyuan had sent a mass text message to the familiar old and young men in the village before he left home to avoid debts. According to the testimony of Wang Dahai, a villager who helped him take care of the chicken farm, Wang Xiyuan disappeared without even saying hello. A few days later, Wang Dahai received a text message from Wang Xiyuan on his mobile phone, because the chicken farm had no feed. He immediately called back according to the caller’s number, but the other party turned off the phone.
Another villager once said that on March 8, 2010, Wang Xiyuan borrowed money from him. On the evening of March 9, he took 5000 yuan to Wang Xiyuan’s home, but Wang Xiyuan was not at home.
Five or six days later, his mobile phone also received a text message from Wang Xiyuan’s mobile phone, and he immediately called back, the other party’s phone could not be connected, and he never saw Wang Xiyuan again.
All phenomena show that Wang Xiyuan was not prepared to go out to avoid debts. The real time of his disappearance was March 9, 2010. In fact, the favorable clue to solve the case is not here, but in the name of Wang Xiyuan’s text message.
He sent text messages to several old and young men, but a considerable number of them were not his peers, but their elders. The police, who
did not let go of any clues, noticed that there were two words in the text message that were not right. Wang Xiyuan called everyone “brothers.”.
Shandong people or friends familiar with Shandong know that Shandong is the hometown of Confucius and Mencius, paying special attention to etiquette and etiquette, especially in inland areas.
In the local area, there is no such thing as the younger generation calling their elders “brothers.” This kind of etiquette has been deeply ingrained in the bones of Shandong people, just as when Shandong people invite guests to dinner, they will certainly take their seats according to the “regular practice” of the main escort, the deputy escort, the big guest, and the second guest.
Therefore, the police suspected that the mass text message was not sent by Wang Xiyuan, but by another person using his mobile phone, because that person did not know which person in the address book was the same generation and which person was the elder!
Will it be Han Baoshan? Maybe after he killed a fellow countryman and got a commission, he did it to Wang Xiyuan?
Facts have proved that not only did Han Baoshan deny it, but Tianjin police also provided evidence that Han Baoshan was not in Shandong in March 2010.
The matter has come to this point, Shanghe County police also thought of changing the detection ideas, if the detection of Han Benli corpse source when using reverse thinking, then the search for Wang Xiyuan, should not do the same?!
If Wang Xiyuan is killed, who wants him to die most?
Therefore, the police transferred the suspect’s target to the victim Lao Zhang, that is, Zhang Benling!
At the same time, a police officer also remembered a sentence that was extremely frightening after careful consideration.
In the process of communicating with Zhang Benling, Zhang Benling once said that the killer surnamed Han was stupid. If he killed someone, he would never throw the body into the well. It would be better to burn it directly without leaving any trace.
Burned? Burn it! Isn’t
Zhang Benling’s job to take the body to the funeral parlor and burn it?
Don’t you say? Zhang Benling.
The police feel that they are getting closer to the truth.
Was the victim of the old Zhang-Zhang Benling
… Zhang Benling, a
former victim, was found again by the
police, but with an innocent expression on his face, he insisted that he was the victim, how could he kill someone?
But the police’s suspicion of Zhang Benling is getting deeper and deeper, because he has too much motive and condition to commit a crime. In addition to selling wreaths, shrouds and other items in the store, Zhang Benling often drives to transport corpses.
Moreover, in the local area, if a villager dies normally, he does not need a certificate issued by the public security organ, but only a cremation certificate issued by the village committee, which can be taken to the funeral parlor for cremation.
The police suspect that Zhang Benling killed Wang Xiyuan and cremated his body.
Thinking of this, the police immediately rushed to the local funeral parlor in Shanghe County and carefully checked the cremation records of the ten days before and after Wang Xiyuan’s disappearance.
The results showed that during that time, the bodies cremated by local funeral parlors were the deceased themselves, and there were complete certificates.
But the police immediately thought that if the procedures were complete, not only in the local, but also in the funeral parlor in Linxian County, the body could be cremated.
The police immediately took the records of four or five surrounding counties and cities, and found that during that time, Zhang Benling did pull the bodies to the local and other county funeral parlors for cremation, a total of five bodies. When
Zhang Benling took these corpses for cremation, he left death certificates. Those certificates were true and the procedures were complete. Was the police’s suspicion wrong?
There was only one door left, and as long as they broke through, the case could be solved. The police rushed to the funeral home again and pulled out the cremation records of previous years.
Finally, an important clue came out! In December
2008, an old man surnamed Ding was taken by Zhang Benling to a funeral parlor in Shanghe County for cremation after his death, and the name of the old man appeared in the cremation record of a funeral parlor in Linxian County on March 9, 2010! Can
an old man be cremated twice in two years?
It’s obviously impossible! Is it Zhang Benling who
pulled the body to Linxian County?
No, it’s a man named Zhang Zhaoqi.
But the police soon figured out that Zhang Zhaoqi was actually Zhang Benling! Because when he transported the body, the name on the copy of the motor vehicle driver’s license left by the funeral parlor was false, but the red fingerprint at the signature could not be false, which was consistent with the fingerprint of his right index finger.
Zhang Benling left a corpse carrier to prove (false name, real handprint)
…
Zhang Benling left a corpse carrier to prove (false name, real handprint) that
Ding Laobo was cremated for the second time on March 9, 2010, the day Wang Xiyuan disappeared!
Police quickly rushed to Ding Laobo’s home, and Ding Laobo’s relatives confirmed that the old man did die in 2008 and was cremated in the funeral parlor in Shanghe County. Who was the person who was cremated by Zhang Benling in Linxian County on March 9,
2010? The suspicion of the
police is right, it is Wang Xiyuan.
Just a few days after Wang Xiyuan ordered Han Baoshan to kill Han Benli, he was killed by Zhang Benling. The
truth came
out, Zhang Benling confessed everything
.
Zhang Benling confessed everything
. At the end of 2009, after Zhang Yanli and Zhang Benling had a big fight and ran away from home, Zhang Benling found that his wife had an abnormal conversation with Wang Xiyuan by collecting Zhang Yanli’s mobile phone call records. He suspected that the relationship between Wang Xiyuan and his wife was abnormal.
Zhang Benling planned to find Wang Xiyuan first and subdue him, so as to understand the truth of the relationship between Wang Xiyuan and his wife, and told his friend Li Wenxi about this idea. After hearing this,
Li Wen-hsi agrees and is willing to help Chang Pen-ling subdue the “adulterer.”. On the morning of March 9,
2010, Zhang Benling invited Wang Xiyuan to his sales department, where Li Wenxi had been waiting.
In the sales department, Wang Xiyuan did not admit that he had an improper relationship with Zhang Benling’s wife, and then they had a quarrel. Zhang Benling and Li Wenxi cooperated with each other and hit Wang Xiyuan several times on the head with a stick, causing Wang Xiyuan’s death on the spot.
Originally, Zhang Benling thought that he just knocked Wang Xiyuan unconscious and would wake up later, so he carried him to a bench. Unexpectedly, Wang Xiyuan never woke up, and the cushion on the bench was covered with blood. After the
discovery of Wang Xiyuan’s death, at the suggestion of Zhang Benling, Zhang and Li decided to cremate Wang Xiyuan’s body, then put the body into a body bag, packed up the scene of the crime, and threw away the blood-soaked cushion on the bench. In the
afternoon of the same day, the two men used the letter of introduction from Dongjie Village, Zhengdian Town, Leling City, which Zhang Benling had left in his hand when he helped people reissue the cremation certificate, and falsely used the name of Ding Laobo to transport Wang Xiyuan’s body to the funeral parlor in Linxian County for cremation.
The local cremation process is that the person carrying the body sends the body to the cremator, and then goes to the business room to do the cremation procedure. At the same time, the cremator sends the body to the cremator for cremation.
According to the local custom, the corpses from the surrounding counties were cremated with their faces covered and wrapped in body bags. Whether the faces were exposed or not was handled by the person who delivered the corpses, regardless of the cremation industry.
Therefore, Wang Xiyuan’s body was cremated so easily. After getting the ashes, Zhang Benling drove to the Shanhua Bridge and threw Wang Xiyuan’s ashes into the Majia River.
It is true that no one is alive and no one is dead. No wonder the police have been looking for Wang Xiyuan for more than two years. A
few days later, Zhang Benling was afraid that things would be exposed, so he used Wang Xiyuan’s mobile phone to send some text messages, thinking that everything was done seamlessly, and finally he fell into the net of justice.
The police then extracted human blood from behind the bench of Zhang Benling’s sales department. The individual who left the human blood was related to Wang Xiyuan’s eldest daughter. That is to say, the human blood behind the chair was Wang Xiyuan’s. In the
final trial
, Zhang Benling was convicted of intentional homicide and sentenced to life imprisonment and deprivation of political rights for life.
Zhang Yanli was convicted of intentional homicide and sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment.
Han Baoshan was convicted of intentional homicide and sentenced to death with a reprieve.
Li Wenxi was convicted of intentional homicide and sentenced to nine years’imprisonment. When members of the
“Personnel Observer Group” looked up the verdict of the case, they found that Zhang Benling’s defender believed that Wang Xiyuan had maintained a lover relationship with Zhang Benling’s wife and had repeatedly tried to hire a murderer to kill Zhang Benling, and that there was a major fault in the cause of the case, so Zhang Benling could be given a lighter punishment, but it was not accepted.
At this point this absurd case in the case finally ended, the lover hired a murderer, but did not expect to be killed, and the killer? Kill each other for money.
Had it not been for the police’s persistent and meticulous investigation, the crimes committed by Zhang Benling by taking advantage of his position might have been hidden from the world. Source of
this case:
Criminal Judgment
of First Instance of Zhang Benling and Others for Intentional Homicide, Skynet, 0810, 2014
Record No.: YX01lYlBXX6RWpX
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