Background: The Eight Immortals Hotel is located in Areia Preta in northern Macau. It opened in about the 1960s and is run by the Cheng Lam family.

Zheng Lam was originally a barbecue hawker, but he got the support of a chicken and duck stall owner in the market, who loaned him money to open a restaurant. In 1973, he married his wife Shum Huiyi, and they had four daughters and one son. The family lived in Areia Preta, No. 4

street.

According to the neighbors, Zheng Lin is an honest man and is popular with the neighbors, but his wife loves playing sparrows, often goes to casinos, takes money very seriously, and is not very popular.

The suspect in the case, Huang Zhiheng, whose real name is Chen Ziliang, was about 50 years old at the time of the incident and lived with a son in his 20s. He was from Shulou Village, Nanhai, Guangdong, and his nickname was Ah Qi. His family was quite wealthy, and he later came to Hong Kong with his family.

He settled down and was soon imprisoned in Hong Kong for 5 years due to a crime. After serving his sentence, he married a lady named Huang and had 2 sons and 1 daughter.

After the massacre at the Eight Immortals Hotel, the police discovered that he had been involved in another murder case.

On November 15, 1973, he went to King's Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong, China to borrow NT$10,000 from a man named Li He but was refused. So he tied up and chopped Li He, his wife and his sister, and put them in the bathtub.

Li He drowned and tried to set a fire with an LPG stove. Fortunately, Li He, his sister and his wife escaped in time.

His name at that time was Chen Ziliang. He fled to the countryside of Pingnan, Pingzhou District, Nanhai County, Guangdong, and lived in the home of his former servant Li. He fell in love with the Li family's daughter, and the two smuggled to Macau.

In order to evade police pursuit, he cut off a section of his left index finger and burned it to destroy his fingerprints.

In 1986, after the Eight Immortals Hotel case was revealed, Li and his family recognized him as Chen Ziliang.

Facts of the case: Body parts found. At noon on August 8, 1985, eight body parts surfaced at the beach in Hesa, Coloane. The swimmers immediately notified the Marine Police.

After counting by the police, there were four right soles, two left soles and two palms.

At that time, the stump was severely rotted and had been immersed in sea water for more than two days. Since there were four right soles, it was concluded that the number of victims was at least four.

Macau police officers suspected that the stowaway had encountered a shark, but the incision on the limb was very complete, and the fingers on the broken palm were crushed, as if someone had deliberately destroyed the fingerprints.

Two days later, a wild dog bit the palm of a woman's left hand in Grannyang Beach. Three days later, the police found a woman's right paw, and a swimmer also found a right heel.

Faced with 11 mutilated limbs, the judicial police quickly set up a task force. During the investigation, the judicial police invited mainland forensic officers to come to Macao to help analyze the severed limbs and leave records, but there was no progress in the murder investigation.

The missing person letter was revealed. In April 1986, eight months after the body was found, the Macau Judicial Police and Guangzhou Interpol received letters from the Zheng Lin brothers, the owners of the Eight Immortals Hotel, which became an opportunity to solve the case.

The letter stated: "Brother Yu, Zheng Lin, has been in Macau for many years and established a career through hard work. However, he suddenly disappeared in early August last year, and his Eight Immortals Hotel and properties in Macau were taken over by another man named Huang. The recent blackmail in Coloane, Macau

Human body parts were found in the sea in Shah Po Yang. It is feared that my brother and his family were killed. I hope the police will try their best to help find the whereabouts of brother Yu." Zheng Lin's brother pointed out that his brother brought two policemen back to his hometown of Zhongshan in July 1985.

No news at all.

At that time, they suspected that their brother's wife, Cen Huiyi, was having an affair with Huang Zhiheng, so the two conspired to kill Zheng Lin. They also speculated that the murderer and Cen had turned against each other afterwards, so they killed her and her family.

The ten missing persons mentioned in the letter include: Zheng Lin (more than 50 years old), the owner of the Eight Immortals Hotel, and his wife Cen Huiyi (42 years old); daughters Zheng Baoqiong (18 years old), Zheng Baohong (12 years old), Zheng Baowen (10 years old), Zheng Baohua

(9 years old) and son Zheng Guande (7 years old) The female proprietor’s mother Chen Lilong (70 years old) The female proprietor’s ninth aunt Chen Zhen (also known as Chen Lizhen, 60 years old) Eight Immortals Restaurant chef Zheng Boliang (61 years old) Although this series of cases

It could not be confirmed, but this letter caused the police to launch an investigation into Huang Zhiheng.

Investigation After receiving the letter, the Divisional Police re-examined the stumps seized last year and found that a female fingerprint was similar to that of Chen Lizhen, the missing person from the Eight Immortals Hotel. The Divisional Police then monitored Huang Zhiheng and interviewed about 20 people who were missing.

At that time, a chicken and duck merchant at the Baxian Hotel said that on the afternoon of August 4, 1985, he received a call from Zheng Lin to place an order. When the clerk delivered the goods, everything in the store was as usual;

I found that the Eight Immortals Hotel suddenly posted a notice saying "Closed for three days."

The chicken and duck merchant once visited Zheng Lin's residence. At that time, a strange man answered the door and said that Zheng Lin had gone to Zhuhai with his family.

Also on August 5, another missing person, female proprietor Jiuyi Chen Lizhen, also disappeared mysteriously.

Her neighbor pointed out that in the early morning of that day, a man about 30 years old came to see Chen Zhen, saying that Zheng Lin's youngest son had a fever and asked her for help. The two left in a taxi, and Chen Lizhen never returned.

These two confessions convinced the police that the Zheng Lin family disappeared from August 4 to 5, 1985; because Huang Zhiheng was 50 years old, the police suspected that a young man was involved in the murder.

Apprehending the Suspect On the afternoon of September 28 of the same year, Huang Zhiheng hurriedly left the Eight Immortals Hotel and wanted to enter mainland China. The police immediately stopped him after discovering it and led the investigation.

The police discovered that after the disappearance of Zheng Lam's family, Huang Zhiheng not only took over the Eight Immortals Hotel and replaced it with new employees, but also rented out Zheng Lam's property on Fourth Street in Areia Preta. Huang Zhiheng lived with a son in his 20s.

In another unit, the car driven by his son at the time was also owned by Zheng Lin.

During cross-examination, Huang Zhiheng said that he only wanted to send his contracted daughter back to the mainland, and denied absconding. He also pointed out that he bought Zheng Lin's property with real money and earned the money from smuggling.

That night, he said his asthma relapsed and he was so emotional that he threatened to bite his tongue and commit suicide.

The next day, the Divisional Police officially issued photos of the 10 missing persons in the Baxian Hotel and asked residents to provide relevant information.