On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month in 2003, people in Chengguan Town, Fugou County, Henan Province have begun to buy new year's goods. The Spring Festival will be in a few days. But Liu's family members did not have any joy of celebrating the New Year, because Liu did not go home that day. His family searched everywhere Liu could go, but still could not find it.

Liu, male, in his 50s, works in a hospital in Fugou County. His family runs a leather shoe store, and Liu often helps take care of it in his spare time. Just in the past few days, they were planning to return the shoes to the manufacturer because of quality problems with the shoes sold in the store.

At around 2 pm on January 25, two strange men came to Liu’s office. Liu found that one of them was Ding who had contacted him a few days ago to return the goods, and the other was unknown to him. . Ding was the manager of a shoe company in Luyi County. After chatting with a few people for a while, Liu went out with them and said he wanted to go to the warehouse to inventory the goods. But after leaving, Liu never came back.

On the afternoon of January 26, Liu’s family’s phone suddenly rang. A man claimed to have kidnapped Liu and asked Liu’s family to prepare a large amount of cash to redeem him as soon as possible. Frightened, Liu's family members chose to call the police.

After receiving the report, the Fugou County Public Security Bureau immediately launched investigation work. However, the Fugou County Public Security Bureau sent people to various places for investigation many times. Due to the limitations of the detection technology at the time, there was no progress in the case. However, the Fugou County Public Security Bureau never gave up the investigation of the case.

In 2009, the Fugou County Public Security Bureau, in accordance with the unified deployment of the Ministry of Public Security, further increased its efforts in detecting old backlog cases, and promptly adjusted its special forces for the 2003 Liu kidnapping case. After research, the Fugou Public Security Bureau decided that Zhang Jianbo, captain of the Fourth Squadron of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Fugou County Public Security Bureau, and Li Yapeng, deputy captain, will be specifically responsible for the investigation work and vigorously tackle the problem.

Six years have passed since Liu’s kidnapping case. Where should we start now? The investigators first sorted out the cases of that year. On the afternoon of January 25, 2003, the day Liu disappeared, Ding and another man came to see Liu. There was a man among them who neither Liu nor his wife knew. So who is this strange man? Is this man related to the kidnapping case? If you find the man, can you follow the clues and find Ding?

According to Liu’s wife, the man who followed Ding entered the house that afternoon and kept his head down without speaking. When Liu and the two of them were about to go out to the warehouse, Liu's wife originally wanted to follow, but then the strange man stopped her. She accidentally discovered that the man was about 30 years old and looked very fierce.

After research, Zhang Jianbo and Li Yapeng decided to start the investigation from the people who had interacted with Ding and the phone calls made to Ding. Although this method is very primitive, it remains true to its roots and often yields results. Unexpected effects. One day a fixed phone number caught the attention of investigators. According to the investigation results, although the call appeared in Bozhou, Anhui, Anhui's Bozhou was only a few dozen kilometers away from Baima Town, Dancheng County, where the kidnapping and extortion call was made. The investigators had a hunch that there was a certain connection between this landline phone and the kidnapping case. The investigators immediately moved to Bozhou, Anhui Province and found the owner of the phone. Results from the telecommunications department showed that the owner of the phone was Yu, a taxi driver in Bozhou City. According to people who visited the local area, after the Spring Festival in 2003, Mr. Gui was never seen again. Later, after Liu's wife identified the photo, it was determined that this person was the strange man who came up with Ding to look for Liu.

It seems that Yu is still suspected of committing a major crime, and the task force decided to arrest Yu immediately. But just as the task force was deploying police forces and preparing to arrest, Yu fell into a trap. It turned out that after the incident in 2003, Yu was so frightened that he abandoned his wife and children, hid in Tibet, and worked in Guangzhou, Dongguan and other places. After several years of panic, Yu thought that nothing happened, so he quietly sneaked back to his hometown in Bozhou, Anhui Province in March 2009. But what he never expected was that the very day he arrived home, he would be squatted there. Caught by the police.

At this time, the cunning Yu took a chance and refused to explain any details related to the 2003 kidnapping case. He only admitted that he drove Ding on the day of the incident and knew nothing about other circumstances. Yu's excuse was completely expected by the investigators. The police had previously learned that Yu entered society relatively early, had a very complicated circle of contacts, and was a well-known gangster in Bozhou. In addition, this person has been attacked by the public security organs many times and has certain counter-investigation capabilities. It is difficult to get an explanation from such a person without strong evidence.

Just when the investigators were worried about how to get clues from Yu, the outside scouts fed back a very valuable clue. A few years ago, when Ding was selling leather shoes in Harbin, he met a local woman. Zu. So will Ding be in Harbin? The investigators decided to immediately go north to search for Ding.

At this time, Yu has been detained for many days. According to relevant regulations, if no conclusive evidence of Yu’s crime is still found, he will have no choice but to be released. The investigators are under great pressure. of. Li Yapeng and another policeman boarded the train heading north. It was the peak of May Day tourism, and the two policemen stood all the way to Harbin Railway Station.

After arriving in Harbin, Li Yapeng quickly contacted the local police and took the time to search for Zu in the household registration files. After a lot of work comparisons, the police finally targeted a family in a certain district of Harbin City. There was an eighty-nine-year-old girl in this family. The police analyzed that she was probably the daughter of Ding and Zu.

In order to avoid alerting the enemy, the investigators, with the cooperation of the local police, secretly conducted in-depth and detailed interviews while splitting up and observing around the community.

A few days passed, but the investigators never found Ding and Zu, so the investigators found the school where the little girl attended, and found out from the files that the little girl’s parents were Wang Ze and Chen Jane. The contact address is Mudan District, Heze City, Shandong Province. Chen Zhen is most likely Zu, so could Wang Ze be Ding? Investigators quickly rushed to Mudan District, Heze, Shandong Province. With the cooperation of the local public security organs, they found more than 10 people named Wang Ze of the same age group in their household registration files. The investigators sent all the photos back to Fugou. After identification by the victim's family, Liu's wife recognized Ding who was hiding in them at a glance. It turned out that Ding’s pseudonym was Wang Ze and he was originally from Shandong.

The investigators also found the call record with a number in Shandong based on the phone records of Zu’s home. After an in-depth and detailed investigation and interviews, the Fugou police finally located the suspect Ding in Jinan City, Shandong Province. In front of a low and dilapidated hut in a remote and narrow alley in Jinan City, Shandong Province, an unkempt shoe repairman always sat strangely facing the wall with his back to the street.

At 10:00 am on May 21, 2009, two policemen came to the shoe repairman calmly and called out softly: "Ding"

"Alas" Xio Shoemaker instinctively agreed, and the awl in his hand suddenly fell to the ground.

Detailed history

Ding started as an apprentice and ran an unknown small shoe factory into a large company. As the business scale continued to expand, he himself also became a Got a boss with a net worth of hundreds of millions. However, due to extravagant spending and poor management, the business gradually declined. By 2003, Ding owed a lot of foreign debt. In order to maintain his business and prop up his appearance, he purchased defective leather shoes at low prices from Luoyang and other places, affixed his company's trademark and wholesaled them to dealers. Among them was Liu. .

Seeing that the Spring Festival is coming soon, how can I make some money? Ding thought of Liu. Liu had been in business for several years and should have some savings. Ding, who had evil thoughts, found Yu, who then found Sun from Baima Town, Dancheng County, and Sun found Sun from the same village. The four of them hit it off immediately, and Ding promised that he would be rewarded heavily when the project was completed.

The four of them rented a van, with Yu driving the van, and arrived at Fugou County, Henan Province at around 10 a.m. on January 25, 2003. At 2:00 pm, four people drove to the entrance of a hospital in Fugou County. Ding and Yu went to the hospital to find Liu, while the other two were waiting in the car. After a while, Liu followed the two men downstairs, got into the van and was controlled.

Then they drove to Hanzhuang Village, Baima Town, Dancheng County. They took Liu behind an abandoned hut and forced him to call home to ask for money, but Liu refused. . The next day, four people drank at Sun's house. After they were full, Sun took advantage of the drunkenness and went to threaten Liu again. After a while, an accomplice came out and reported: "No, Sun stabbed Liu to death."

Several people came to the scene of the incident together and saw Sun unconscious with a sharp knife stuck in his chest. So the other three people wanted to run away, but were blocked by Sun.

"I killed the person, but the four of us are grasshoppers on a rope. No one can escape. I will stab whoever escapes," Sun said viciously.

The next night, the four of them worked together to carry Liu to Sun's field and buried him. They fled to Bozhou, Anhui in the morning.

Ding already has no money, how can he pay the commissions of the other three people? He was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. If he didn't give them money, Sun would kill him. So Ding took advantage of several people to take a bath in the bathhouse and ran away.

After Ding was caught, Yu’s psychological defense was broken. Based on the confessions of the two, the task force decided to immediately find another key suspect, Sun.

The investigating police immediately went to Baima Town, Dancheng County. After extensive interviews, the investigators learned that Sun had a violent temper and was lawless, and had been repeatedly attacked by the local public security organs. Investigators analyzed that Shen would do some illegal and criminal things during his absconding days. For this reason, in June 2009, Fugou police issued a co-investigation notice to public security agencies across the country. On July 28, 2009, news came from the Guangxi police that Sun had been arrested by the local police on suspicion of theft in July 2009. Unfortunately, after the Fugou police went to Guangxi, the principal culprit Sun had committed suicide out of fear of crime.