During his detention, Huang Zhiheng committed suicide by cutting the pulse with a soda bottle, and did not admit to killing people from beginning to end; The way in which the remains were handled in the case and whether the suspect was assisted by the same party are still a mystery. This case has been adapted into movies, TV series and comics for many times. As the plot mentions "pork buns with human flesh", it is said that the sales of pork buns in Hong Kong and Macao will drop whenever the film is staged.
background
The Eight Immortals Hotel, located in the Black Sand Ring of Macau (now the current site of Victoria Hotel), was opened in about 1960' s and operated by Zheng Lin's family. Zheng Lin used to be a roasted meat vendor, but he was helped by the chicken and duck stall owner in the market and borrowed money to open a restaurant. 1973 He married his wife Cen Huiyi, and they had four daughters and one son. The family lived in the fourth street of Heishahuan. According to the neighborhood, Zheng Lin was honest and popular with the neighborhood, but his wife was addicted to mahjong, frequented casinos, attached great importance to money and was unpopular.
The suspect in the case, Huang Zhiheng, was originally named Chen Ziliang. He was about 50 years old at the time of the incident and lived with a son in his twenties. He is a native of Shulou Village, Nanhai, Guangdong Province. His birth name is Aqi, and his family is quite rich. Later, he came to Hong Kong to settle down with his family. He was imprisoned in Hong Kong for five years for breaking the law. After serving his sentence, he married a woman surnamed Huang and had two children 1 daughter.
After the killing of the Eight Immortals Hotel, the police found that he had been involved in another murder. 1973 1 1 month 15, he went to King's Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong to borrow 1 10,000 yuan from a man named Li He, who was refused, so he tied up Li He and his wife and their sister and chopped them, drowned Li He in the bathtub, and tried to do so. At that time, his name was Chen Ziliang. After that, he fled to Pingnan country, Pingzhou District, Nanhai County, Guangdong Province, lived in the home of Li, an old servant, and fell in love with Li's daughter. They sneaked into Macao. In order to escape the police, he cut off a section of his left index finger and burned his finger to destroy his fingerprints. 1986, after the Eight Immortals Hotel case was exposed, Li and his family recognized him as Chen Ziliang.
facts of a legal case
1 1 piece of residual limb
1At noon on August 8, 985, eight pieces of residual limbs emerged from Apoyang Beach, Heisha Beach, and the swimmers immediately notified the Marine Police. After counting by the police, there were four right foot soles, two left foot soles and two palms. At that time, the residual limb had been badly decomposed and immersed in seawater for more than two days. Because there were four right paws, it was concluded that at least four people were killed.
Macao police once suspected that illegal immigrants met sharks, but the incisions on their limbs were very whole, and the severed fingers were squashed, as if their fingerprints had been deliberately destroyed. Two days later, a wild dog bit the palm of a woman's left hand in Apo Yangtan. Three days later, the police found another woman's right palm, and the swimmer also found a right foot.
Project investigation
Faced with 1 1 pieces of residual limbs, the police quickly set up an ad hoc group; During the investigation, the superintendent invited mainland forensic officers to come to Australia to help test the severed limb and leave records, but there was no progress in the murder investigation.
turning point
1April, 986, that is, eight months after the discovery of the limbs, the Macao Judicial Police Department and Guangzhou Interpol successively received letters from Zheng Lin, the owner of the Eight Immortals Hotel, which became an opportunity to solve the case. The letter states: "My brother Zheng Lin went to Macau for many years and made a career through hard work, but he suddenly disappeared at the beginning of August last year, and his Eight Immortals Hotel and property in Macau were taken over by another man named Huang. Recently, human limbs have been found on the sea surface of Heisha Apoyang in Macau Road Ring Road, fearing that my brother's family will be killed. I hope the police will try their best to help find the whereabouts of Brother Yu. "
Zheng Lin's brother said that his brother 1985 took two young girls back to his hometown of Zhongshan in July, and there was no news since then. At that time, they suspected that their brother and wife, Cen Huiyi, were having an affair with Huang Zhiheng, so they conspired to kill Zheng Lin and speculated that the murderer and Cen turned against each other afterwards, so they killed her family. The ten missing persons mentioned in the letter include:
Zheng Lin (over 50 years old), the owner of Baxian 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).
Chen Lirong (70 years old), the mother of the proprietress, and Chen Zhen (also known as Chen Lizhen, 60 years old), the ninth aunt of the proprietress.
Zheng Boliang, Chef of Baxian Hotel (6 1 year)
keep watch on
Although this series of cases can't be proved, this letter caused the superintendent to investigate Huang Zhiheng.
After receiving the letter, the police inspector re-examined the residual limb collected last year, and found that the fingerprint of a female was similar to that of Chen Lizhen, a missing person in the Eight Immortals Hotel. So the police inspector monitored Huang Zhiheng and visited about 20 street interviews of the missing person.
Two confessions
At that time, a chicken and duck merchant in Baxian Hotel pointed out that on the afternoon of August 4, 1985, he received a call from Zheng Lin to place an order for goods. When the staff delivered the goods, everything in the store was as usual; The next morning, when the waiter delivered the goods again, he found that the Eight Immortals Hotel suddenly posted a notice of "closed for three days". The chicken and duck dealer visited Zheng Lin's residence, when a strange man answered the door, pointing out that Zheng Lin's family had gone to Zhuhai.
Also on August 5, another missing person, Chen Lizhen, a female proprietor, also mysteriously disappeared. Her neighbor said that in the early morning, a man about 30 years old came to Chen Lizhen's house, saying that Zheng Lin's youngest son had a fever and asked her for help. They left by taxi, and Chen Lizhen never came back.
These two confessions convinced the police that Zheng Lin's family disappeared on August 4-5, 1985 at/kloc-0; As Huang Zhiheng is 50 years old, the police suspect that a young man was involved in the murder.
Catch a suspect
On the afternoon of September 28th of the same year, Huang Zhiheng left the Eight Immortals Hotel in a hurry and wanted to enter the mainland of China. When he found out, he was about to be stopped and taken to the department for investigation. The police found that after Zheng Lin's family disappeared, Huang Zhiheng not only took over the Eight Immortals Hotel and replaced it with new employees, but also let Zheng Lin's property on the fourth street in Heishahuan. Huang Zhiheng lived in another unit with a son in his twenties, and the car driven by his son was also owned by Zheng Lin.
When questioned, Huang Zhiheng pointed out that he only wanted to send his wife back to the mainland and denied absconding. He also pointed out that he bought a property in Zheng Lin with real money, which was earned from smuggling. That night, he pointed out that he had a relapse of asthma and was emotional, threatening to go to bite the tongue. The next day, the police officer officially issued photos of the eight immortals hotel 10 missing persons, asking residents to provide relevant information.
After that, Huang Zhiheng changed his confession, claiming that Zheng Lin owed him 600,000 yuan in gambling debts and handed over all his property. Zheng Lin's family emigrated after that, but the police officer did not find the departure record of Zheng Lin's family. At this time, the police found Zheng Lin's safe key, re-entry permit, birth certificates of four children, and copies of student ID cards in Red Market Branch of Nantong Bank in Jiawan, Huang Zhiheng.
198612, Huang Zhiheng was formally charged, handed over to the criminal prosecution court for investigation, and ruled that the evidence was established, and was remanded to Macau Prison for trial.
The cause of the crime and the killing process
198616 October, Huang Zhiheng disclosed the incident in prison, which was all caused by Zheng Lin's refusal to repay gambling debts. Huang Zhiheng and Zheng Lin, the owner of the Eight Immortals Hotel, have known each other for many years, and they often gamble together, usually playing mahjong and sometimes betting on sand crabs. One night one year before the murder (1984), Huang gambled with Zheng Lin and his wife and chef to play sand crabs in the hotel, and Chen Zhen, Zheng's wife's ninth aunt, was also watching the battle. Huang Zhiheng fought Zheng Lin with a bet of 2,000 patacas. After a round of confrontation, Huang won nearly180,000 yuan. At that time, Zheng Lin promised to pay off the gambling debt within one year, and verbally promised to voluntarily mortgage the Eight Immortals Hotel to Huang if it could not be repaid. Within one year before the incident, Huang repeatedly refused to collect debts from Zheng Lin and his wife, and failed to collect any money from them. It was not until the night of the murder (1August 4th, 985) that Huang Zhiheng went to the hotel to collect debts from Zheng Lin. At that time, Zheng refused. Because Zheng had promised that if he could not repay the gambling debts, he would give up the Eight Immortals Hotel to Huang, so Huang Zhiheng had already found another chef and a group of reporters, and had informed them that he was going to work on August 8th, but the plan of giving up the hotel was also rejected by Zheng Lin. According to Huang Zhiheng, he wanted to ask Zheng Lin to pay back 20,000 to 30,000 yuan first, and the balance could be paid back slowly. At this time, Zheng Lin said, "What's the matter?" You have borrowed money again. " (What else? You don't have an iou. X is Cantonese swearing), so there was a dispute between the two sides. Huang Zhiheng picked up the beer bottle on the stage, smashed the bottom of the bottle and became a half-broken weapon. He held Zheng Guande (Zheng Lin Mo Zi) standing beside him with one hand and held it against his neck with a broken bottle, telling everyone not to raise their voice. Although Zheng Lin's family and chef ***9 people were present at that time, because Zheng Guande was the only son of Zheng Lin and his wife, everyone dared not move. Huang Zhiheng ordered everyone to tie each other with ropes and gag their mouths with cloth. Finally, Zheng's wife Cenhuiyi and Zheng Guande were tied. Huang then ordered Censhi to tie up his youngest son with a rope. At this point, Zheng's wife suddenly challenged, shouted loudly and wanted to pick up her son. Huang Zhiheng rushed up and threw a broken glass bottle at Zheng's wife's neck, and Censhi was killed on the spot. Huang became mad, and then threw a broken bottle to death or strangled the rest with his bare hands. Among the nine victims in the house at that time, Zheng Guande, the youngest son of Zheng Lin, was the latest victim. Before he was killed, he said to the murderer Huang Zhiheng, "My aunt will call the police and arrest you!" Huang Zhiheng later went to the home of his ninth aunt Chen Zhen, pretending that Zheng Lin's youngest son had a fever, lured her to the Eight Immortals Hotel, and then killed her. Huang Zhiheng admitted that it took eight hours to dismember the corpse, and then put it into two layers of black plastic bags several times, one by one, and discarded it in the garbage bin.
Suicide, suicide note
Huang Zhiheng committed suicide twice after his arrest. 19861On the afternoon of 4 October, he used the tin dustbin in the city jail to cut his left wrist directly and then saw it horizontally. He was found by the prisoners and saved his life after five hours of rescue.
In the same year1early February, he met his female companion Li many times in prison. At the last meeting, both sides burst into tears. His eldest son, Ayuan, who was in his twenties, also visited his father at the same time, and they looked solemn.
1In the early morning of February 4th, Huang Zhiheng Mofeng covered the ring with soda water, and cut the vein again in the wound that committed suicide before; At 8 o'clock in the morning, the prison guard distributed breakfast and found that he had no breath and his wrist was covered with a quilt stained with blood. He was living in No.5 warehouse downstairs of Building A of the City Prison Building, and there were 28 people in the warehouse. Some prisoners later pointed out that he saw Huang Zhiheng sitting on the bed that night, using the light from outside to make plastic flowers, thinking that he was just killing time. The police found a suicide note, asthma medicine and several pornographic magazines beside Huang Zhiheng afterwards.
Before his death, Huang Zhiheng sent a confession to the newspaper office, which was the only document in Huang Zhiheng that explained the case, and the writing was rather crude. The letter said:
“
Please rehabilitate this unjust case for me. Please think that a dying person will lie. There is a reason why I bear everything before the judge.
At two o'clock on September 28th, the Justice Department said that it wanted to know something. I had been sitting there for more than ten hours. During this time, I estimated that they were observing my state of mind. Since I had never been in a place where people didn't live, my state of mind was not bad. Until they asked about the Eight Immortals Hotel, I told them truthfully, that is, how I knew Zheng Lin and how to take over business. I asked them for two nights and three days, and four people asked the same question.
When it was discovered that something happened in Hong Kong, I was determined to die to thank the world. Originally, I thought that Chen Ziliang had died, and his father had died long before the children faced them. This was because I cut off my finger mold pain. Since then, I have turned over a new leaf, not only can't do bad things, but I don't even think about illegal things. I have a motive for everything, but I have kept it for more than ten years. My children have just graduated and stepped into social work, so I should enjoy it.
As early as 1984, when Zheng Lin owed me 188,000 yuan, I had the intention to buy the Eight Immortals Hotel, which was proved by some people. In a word, I can never do this case, so what if I admit it; Besides, Mr. Editor, when you read this letter, I am no longer alive.
My wife and her seven-year-old child are miserable now, and public opinion is unfair to her. Have I turned over a new leaf, turned over a new leaf and lived a happy old age, and crushed me because of what happened more than ten years ago? My wife is the most innocent, and I used to be a bad person, so I should bear all the consequences, but my wife is a country woman who knows nothing and is definitely a good person. Can society not extend a sympathetic hand to her and help her?
I solemnly declare that my self-liberation is not a fear of sin, but in many ways. I have a chronic asthma disease, so I don't want to suffer any more, and this time it will come true.
Dying men speak true.
"
Macao Prison has the custom of "sending ghosts" today, which is the reason for this case. The prison guards believed that people who died in prison would be deterred by the murderous look of the prison, and the ghost was trapped for a long time and could not rest in peace. At that time, the prison guards went through the formalities of "getting out of prison" for Huang Zhiheng, one holding a black umbrella and the other holding incense, and sent Huang Zhiheng out of prison.
Body whereabouts
After Huang Zhiheng committed suicide, the police still haven't found the remaining limbs of 10 missing persons, nor can they confirm that they have been killed. In the only batch of *** 1 1 human residual limbs, only one of them has a fingerprint similar to that of the missing old woman Chen Lizhen. However, it has always been believed that these residual limbs belong to Zheng Lin's family of ten, and how to deal with the remaining residual limbs has caused speculation for many years.
The current popular version is mainly based on the speculation of the media at that time. Some Macao media have pointed out that Huang Zhiheng disclosed the incident to other prisoners in prison. Huang Zhiheng gambled with Chen Lizhen on sand crabs at the Eight Immortals Hotel before the incident, and Chen lost180,000 yuan. Afterwards, Huang Zhiheng repeatedly asked Zheng Lin to pay back. On the night of the incident, Huang Zhiheng made another debt collection, picked up a wine bottle, threatened Zheng Lin's youngest son, and ordered Zheng Lin's family and employees to tie themselves and gag themselves.
At this time, Zheng's wife made an attack and picked up her young son to rush out of the door. As a result, she was killed by Huang Zhiheng. Finally, Zheng Lin's young son shouted before he died: "Nine aunts (Chen Lizhen) will call the police to pull you!" After Huang Zhiheng went to Jiuyi's wife's house, she pretended that Zheng Lin's youngest son had a fever, tricked her into the Eight Immortals Hotel, and then killed her. The newspaper also said that he later wrapped his limbs in black garbage bags and discarded them in batches; Part of it is used to make soup and sold in the Eight Immortals Hotel.
Known evidence
At the time of the crime, a 30-year-old man went to Chen Lizhen's house. This man was not Huang Zhiheng.
According to the results of residual limb test, the deceased was not poisoned.
It was midsummer at the time of the crime, and if the body was not treated in time, it would stink, but no one complained about the smell at that time.