What are some famous serial or perverted murder cases that actually happened?

After satisfying his lust, he threw her into the cellar.

In that 6-meter-deep cellar, 42 dead bodies were piled up one on top of the other.

Some earth-shattering cases, when exposed to the world, seem like very insignificant little things.

This is the case with Nehe.

October 23, 1991, Hangzhou, Zhejiang.

In the interrogation room of the Yongjin Police Station of the Shangcheng District Public Security Bureau, a young policeman had just finished interrogating a pretty woman from Northeast China. He lowered his head to do some final work of taking notes while asking a routine question: Apart from this case, is there anything else you want to confess?

The woman looked dazed, hesitating to speak. After hesitating for a long time, she finally uttered a word.

As soon as these words came out, the policeman sitting opposite her was immediately shocked. He suddenly raised his head, stunned, with an expression of disbelief.

The woman said…

More than 20 people? What kind of case could kill so many people? If it really happened, it would have caused a big uproar. How could Hangzhou not know about it? Besides, no matter how you look at it, she doesn’t seem like someone who can pull off such a big case.

At first, the police didn’t take the woman seriously. She just relied on her pretty face to seduce men who wanted to have a romantic encounter, so that they would follow her and then be robbed.

There were two other men who did this with her. After questioning, the police initially determined that they had indeed committed a crime, but at most they were just selling their sex lives to “set up a trap”.

This was originally just a trivial interrogation. The guards were lenient and the interrogation was not intense. If she was telling the truth, the main culprit in such a shocking case would be killed after being found out, so why would she confess voluntarily?

The policeman once again carefully recalled every word the woman said slowly. He heard it correctly. She said:

Is she crazy?

The young policeman was full of suspicion, but he still did not dare to neglect it and quickly reported the situation to his superior. The superior considered various possibilities and decided to confirm the authenticity of the information provided by the Northeastern woman.

The reason is very simple – if what the Northeastern woman said is true, then this will be a shocking case that will shake the whole country. Whoever misses such a case due to work mistakes will be the sinner of the people. No one can bear this responsibility.

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Upon receiving the order, the police from Yongjin Police Station sent an urgent telegram to the Nehe County Public Security Bureau, charging 1.4 cents per word, just to confirm whether there was such a case.

Nehe, where the Northeastern woman and her two accomplices came from. Nehe was in Heilongjiang, and at that time it was just a county, and the nearest big city was Qiqihar.

The next evening, Nehe called back. It contained only four words:

Although Hangzhou did not get a satisfactory answer, they were not too disappointed because after obtaining the basic information of the case from the woman, they also interrogated one of her accomplices.

The woman’s name was Xu Lixia. Her two accomplices were Jia Wenge and Li Xiuhua. The police chose Li Xiuhua as the breakthrough point because according to Xu Lixia’s confession, Jia Wenge was the backbone of the gang and his mouth would not be the first to be pried open.

After some persuasion, Li Xiuhua was finally captured and confessed to the crimes they had committed in Nehe, including the circumstances of the murders, the locations where the bodies were buried, and so on.

This information basically matches what Xu Lixia said. The two people were interrogated separately, and the results were consistent, which strongly proves that these things really happened.

Such terrible things really happened.

An incredible detail is that both Xu Lixia and Li Xiuhua claimed that the people they killed were all hidden in a cellar dug in their kitchen to store vegetables.

Dozens of bodies, including those killed more than a year ago, were thrown in there, rotting and stinking. Just thinking about this scene makes one’s scalp tingle.

The Yongjin Police Station went to the Telecommunications Building again, this time sending a telegram to the Qiqihar Public Security Bureau. Soon after the telegram was sent, a long-distance call from the Qiqihar Public Security Bureau was made to Hangzhou.

The version given by Qiqihar was completely different from that given by Nehe. They told their colleagues at the Shangcheng District Branch that the authenticity of the case was beyond doubt because more than a dozen bodies had been dug out from the scene.

When Li Yanzhen, the wife of Jia Wen’ge, the main culprit in the case, learned that the police came to her house, she committed suicide out of fear of punishment. Jia Wen’ge was the second man arrested at the same time as Xu Lixia. This name must be remembered because he was the culprit.

The accomplice Sun Wenli was also in Nehe, but he failed to escape and was arrested.

Qiqihar also said that the Heilongjiang Provincial Public Security Department immediately formed a special task force led by the deputy director and rushed to Nehe. They will also send people to Hangzhou to coordinate the escort of the suspect back to Heilongjiang.

The Hangzhou police were relieved because the criminal clues they had were confirmed and their work was not in vain; but they were also worried for their colleagues in Heilongjiang, because the complexity of the investigation of such a major case could be imagined.

But everyone still underestimated the difficulty of this matter.

The difficulty in solving the Nehe case is not to make the murderer confess. After all, the ironclad evidence is in front of us and cannot be refuted.

So what is the difficulty?

The purpose is to find out the course of the crime and the number and identity of the victims. The crime scene of the Nehe case can be said to be the most horrific crime scene in the history of contemporary Chinese crime, and the tasks of corpse collection, dissection and examination undertaken by the forensic doctor are also the most difficult.

Dozens of highly decomposed corpses were piled up into a mountain. The older they were, the more decomposed they were, so the work became more difficult and disgusting the further down they went.

In the words of a forensic doctor who participated in the work, when digging up a corpse, “as soon as you touch it, there is a sticky green mud, which is the result of decomposition of the corpse”, not to mention the huge visual and olfactory stimulation that you can imagine without description.

The forensic team leader at the time was Choi Do-sik, a bullet trace inspection expert from the Heilongjiang Public Security Department. Later, he would become one of the first specially invited criminal investigation experts from the Ministry of Public Security to receive the National Public Security Science and Technology Outstanding Contribution Award. As soon as the Nehe case surfaced, Choi Do-sik drove from Harbin for 6 hours overnight to Nehe and immediately started the on-site investigation.

The police initially told him that they estimated the number of victims in this case to be around 10. In fact, even with this estimated number, many people expressed their disbelief – how could 10 people be killed in such a small bungalow and no one have discovered it?

However, as soon as he opened the cellar, Choi Do-sik immediately made a decision: he suggested to his superiors that police forces be drawn from several surrounding cities and counties to be divided into investigation teams, corpse-digging teams, recording teams, drawing teams, and physical evidence search teams.

There was no other reason, just because he could see at a glance that there were more than 10 victims. He knew that this case would shock the whole country and was rare in the history of crime.

The only female forensic doctor in the task force is Gao Xinyu, who is currently working in the laboratory of the DNA Testing Brigade of the Criminal Technology Brigade of the Qiqihar Municipal Public Security Bureau.

She had just graduated from the Department of Forensic Medicine of China Medical University when she was assigned to the special investigation team. She worked with Choi Do-sik for more than 20 consecutive days, dissecting bodies during the day and writing autopsy reports at night.

Because she was in a hurry to receive the task and did not bring a thick coat, she was too cold to bear at the crime scene, so she simply threw the dead person’s clothes on herself and continued to work.

Yu Wenjun, a forensic doctor from the local public security bureau in Nehe, was also at the scene. He felt guilty about the crime in his hometown, so he rushed to do the dirty work.

His description decades after the incident is still vivid and makes people feel as if they were there.

In this way, dozens of bodies, some in shape and some in disfigurement, were brought to light, some still wearing handcuffs, shackles, chains and ropes put on them by the murderers.

The forensic doctors built a temporary work shed in the yard where the temperature was more than ten degrees below zero, used wooden boards as workbenches, and began to perform autopsies on the bodies.

Next to them, there were five or six large iron pots. They needed to clean a large number of bones to facilitate the measurement of bone data in order to identify the identities of the bodies.

In the boiling water and steaming mist, the white bones float up and down, appearing and disappearing from time to time.

This scene is the most tragic one in the Nehe case.

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This is the Nehe case.

The crime lasted for more than a year, with at least 42 victims, and the crime was committed in a busy residential building surrounded by neighbors – the bloody facts warn us: never take it lightly, evil may be around you and me.

The large number of victims, the brutal methods used by the murderers, and the horrific scene of the crime have caused this series of organized crime cases to rank at the top of the list of China’s major murder cases that are beyond the ordinary people’s cognition for many years.

Among the six main culprits, Xu Lixia was the most special one. She went from being a victim who escaped death to an accomplice who helped the tyrant to commit atrocities. Although it was her confession that led the police to Nehe, it still could not atone for her crime.

How did this regrettable change of identity happen?

Xu Lixia was born in 1964. When the incident happened, she was only 27 years old. She lived in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province, and worked as a nursery worker in a factory worker family area called Jianhua Factory.

Although Nehe is under the jurisdiction of Qiqihar, it is still 150 to 160 kilometers away, at least three hours’ drive. Xu Lixia has no relatives or friends there, so how could she end up there?

Thinking back to these days, Xu Lixia felt so regretful that she wished she could go back to the time when everything was stable and live a mediocre life. But she couldn’t go back to the past, and she could only recall her first half of her life over and over again.

Her parents died when she was young, and the four sisters depended on each other for survival. She was raised by her eldest sister. After graduating from high school, she went to work in a factory, got married, and had children, but she and her husband had a bad relationship and they always quarreled. At first, she would run to her eldest sister’s house when they quarreled, and her eldest sister always advised her to be patient for the sake of her son.

That time, and only that time, she didn’t want to listen to her elder sister’s nagging anymore, so she didn’t look for her elder sister, but went to the bustling Qiqihar Railway Station to kill time.

That was in November 1990, 31 years ago.

That’s how she met the devil.

His name is Jia Wenge, he is one year older than Xu Lixia and is a worker at the Nehe Agricultural Machinery Factory.

Since 1988, Jia Wen-ge and his friends have been working together in nearby towns such as Laolai, Longhe and Changfa to buy, slaughter and sell cattle. The business was pretty good. Later, when he had enough capital, he opened a candy factory, rented a factory building, and obtained a license. He was the legal person.

But no one knew why he always went to crowded stations, as if he was looking for something.

Amid the huge crowd at the train station, Jia Wen’ge chose Xu Lixia. It could be because she was good-looking or because she was tall and stood out from the crowd. There is also a saying that Jia Wen’ge mistook her for a prostitute soliciting customers.

In short, she was locked by him and could never escape from his grasp again.

He approached her and started talking to her, asking her questions. Xu Lixia was simple-minded and had a good impression of this handsome young man, so she started talking.

Jia Wen’ge found out her background and knew that she wanted to leave Qiqihar, so he said, “Why don’t you come with me to Nehe? I can help you find a job there, or you can come to work in my factory.”

The seemingly simple routine, in that distant era, in that remote city, could make people believe it. But that’s what happened. Xu Lixia, as if possessed, followed Jia Wen’ge on the train from Qiqihar to Nehe.

Jia Wen’ge’s home is very close to Nehe Railway Station, less than one kilometer away, in an alley near the Nehe Seed Management Office. It is a three-room bungalow, only about 50 to 60 square meters.

The house was rented, and the landlords were an elderly couple who lived in the west room next door. In addition to Jia Wen’ge, the people living in the rented east room also included his wife Li Yanzhen.

Now, no one in the world can tell us what Xu Lixia saw, what she guessed, and what kind of feeling surged in her heart when she first entered that dim room.

That night, Jia Wen’ge raped her.

In that room where no one could see or hear, Xu Lixia endured Jia Wen’ge’s wanton abuse alone. After venting his lust, what did Jia Wen’ge do? He tied Xu Lixia’s hands with a wire and then strangled her neck tightly.

Jia Wen Ge wanted to kill her. To him, he had already gotten what he wanted from her, so this body in front of him had no value at all, and the only outcome was to dispose of it like garbage.

Xu Lixia fainted.

Jia Wen Ge dragged her to the kitchen, opened the cellar, and pushed her inside. After doing all this with ease, he only felt the satisfaction of satisfying his sexual desire and killing desire at the same time, as well as emptiness.

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But Xu Lixia woke up miraculously.

The first sense to recover was her sense of smell. The thick stench surrounded her like a solid wall, madly drilling into her nose, trachea and lungs.

That was the stench of corpses, coming from many bodies that had been rotting for who knows how long.

The bodies were piled up beneath her, one on top of the other. Some were extremely rotten and sticky like mud, and her hands would slip if she tried to push them up.

There was only a faint light coming from above her head, but it was enough for her to recognize her surroundings. She was in a cellar. This cellar had become a mass grave, and almost all the space was filled with corpses.

She saw that just a few centimeters away from her face, those faces that looked hideous and strange due to the great pain they suffered before death were grinning, rotting and stinking, as if they were whispering countless injustices to her.

Then she felt a sharp pain. Her hands and feet were tightly bound by wires, which penetrated deep into her flesh, leaving a bloody mess.

But she was not afraid of stench, death, or pain. She no longer felt nausea or fear, her stomach had long been emptied, and her heart was empty.

She just wanted to survive.

She couldn’t die with these bodies.

The cellar was 6 meters deep, and it was not easy to get out. She tried her best to stand up straight and pushed the lid of the cellar hard. Something pressing on the lid flipped over and broke on the ground. It sounded like a water tank. She immediately felt the lid become lighter, and with another push, the lid was flipped over.

She used up her last bit of strength and climbed out of the cellar.

Now, she came to a larger space. The stove, pots and pans, brooms, coals… everything showed that this was a kitchen. This should be the warmest place for an ordinary family, not a living hell that hides the darkest sins in the world.

“Are you a human or a ghost?” a man’s voice came from behind.

She looked back. It was him, the man who had raped her.

Jia Wen’ge’s face was full of surprise, as if he couldn’t believe that anyone could crawl out of that deep cellar and return to the world.

She couldn’t shout, she just wanted to crawl away. The farther away from that devil, the better, she would rather die beside him.

At this time, she fainted again.

During the time when she lost consciousness, she didn’t know how to crawl out of the cellar, which bought her one more year to live, but also made her a sinner who sold her soul.

What she is about to experience is a life worse than death, a life neither human nor ghost; what she is about to witness is beastly behavior that breaks the bottom line of human nature.

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When Xu Lixia woke up again, Jia Wen’ge was sitting next to her.

The strange thing was that the look in his eyes when he looked at her was not just pure lust and murderous intent. There was another meaning in it that she couldn’t understand, but it frightened her even more.

He said to her, “I never thought you could crawl out from there. You are really brave and capable. I am optimistic about you. Since you have come out, I will let you go, but there is one condition – you don’t go back, just stay here and work with me.”

What? She heard every word, but she couldn’t understand it at all.

She asked stupidly, “Fuck you? What do you mean?”

He smiled and pointed to the ground.

Have you seen all of the following? I want you to follow me, do whatever I tell you to do, bring the people here, and then I will –

She understood immediately. She was educated and had good penmanship, so she knew the idiom “to be an accomplice to the tiger”. What he wanted her to do was to be an accomplice.

He wanted her to be bait, an accomplice, and an accomplice to help him harm others.

She shook her head vigorously. She thought, this man must be crazy, how could he make such a request to someone he just wanted to kill? How could I agree to him? I would rather die.

Seeing her shaking her head, he smiled again. He said, “Do you know what I did when you fainted last night? I took a lot of photos of you naked. Do you want to see them? I will develop them and post them everywhere, and even send them to your husband and your son. How about that?”

Only then did she realize that her body was almost completely exposed, and her lower body was also in tearing pain. The shame that had just subsided temporarily surged into her heart again.

When she thought that he might be telling the truth and that her husband and son might see those disgusting postures and movements, she felt ashamed and extremely panicked.

No, don’t do this. She was about to cry.

He ignored her and continued. He said, “Don’t forget, you told me where you work. I sent someone to Qiqihar and found your home. Your husband and your son still live there. I know everything clearly.”

He also said, if you don’t fight me, I won’t be polite to you. I have killed so many people, and they are no different. Do you believe it?

I believe it, I believe it. She cried uncontrollably.

The man in front of her was a devil. He knew what she feared most and her greatest weakness. She might not have had a good relationship with her husband, but she would not watch him suffer an unprovoked disaster, which was caused by her.

She would never allow anyone to hurt her son. This was her only hope in life and her last bottom line.

Please, please don’t hurt them. I will do whatever you say, just don’t hurt them.

She knelt before him and gave her soul.

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From then on, Xu Lixia lived a miserable life that others could not even imagine.

She was forced to abandon her most basic sense of shame and use herself as a tool to seduce male travelers from other places who came to Nehe and bring them into the clutches of Jia Wen’ge.

She also had to satisfy Jia Wen’ge’s animal desires all the time. She, Jia Wen’ge, Jia Wen’ge’s wife Li Yanzhen, and Jia Wen’ge’s other mistress Wang Yanling maintained a very abnormal relationship and lived together under the same roof.

At the same time, she was forced by Jia Wen’ge to witness his crime process. She watched the innocent victims resist in vain, struggling like a chicken, and finally had to accept the fate of death.

The most shameful and the most horrible, these two psychological feelings can easily destroy a person’s normal mind. Xu Lixia is like this, sinking into this situation every day.

The only way to keep from going crazy is to shut down your feelings and become a zombie.

During the time that Xu Lixia was with Jia Wen-ge, she had tried to escape. Once, she ran away, but was caught and beaten, and then thrown into the cellar and locked up with the dead.

In order to stop her from reporting the crime, Jia Wen-ge made her hands stained with blood: he forced her to participate in the murder and stabbed a victim to death. Jia Wen-ge used this method to torture her, threaten her, and completely destroy her will to resist.

In the end, she finally became an accomplice to murder who was no longer innocent.

Many years later, a detachment leader of the Nehe Public Security Bureau provided the following information: A father and son who were selling soybeans were deceived into Jia’s house. They attacked the father first. The father resisted fiercely and shouted to his son outside the yard to run away. The son had a chance to escape, but he rushed into the house and fought desperately to save his father. Xu Lixia and another accomplice helped Jia Wenge subdue the son, stabbed him several times, and killed the father and son.

When Xu Lixia participated in the murder of the father and son, did she struggle and hesitate in her heart? Did she think that if she helped secretly, she could help the equally miserable father and son escape?

All we see is that she has willingly become an accomplice and sold her soul to Jia Wen’ge.

There is no greater sorrow in the world than this.

When Xu Lixia met Jia Wen’ge and was firmly controlled by him, it was right in the middle of Jia Wen’ge’s criminal career, which was the transition stage between the two criminal patterns.

The former crime pattern is that Jia Wen-ge committed deception, rape and murder on his own. The latter crime pattern is that he became more and more daring and found accomplices willing to work with him through various means to carry out group crimes.

Xu Lixia broke into his life just when he was looking for an accomplice, which was one of the important factors for Xu Lixia’s survival.

So, how many victims were there before Xu Lixia?

Jia Wen’ge’s killing began around July 1990.

In the second half of this year, 20 women were lured into his home, and Jia Wen’ge killed them by strangling, strangling, and stabbing.

He buried 19 of the bodies in the kitchen cellar. For unknown reasons, the 20th body was transported to the urban construction nursery in Nehe Town and buried.

After keeping Xu Lixia by his side, Jia Wen’ge was determined to recruit more people to commit crimes together. Xu Lixia came in November 1990, and he had already formed a team in early January 1991. From then on, Jia Wen’ge never acted alone again.

Slowly, Xu Lixia recognized all the members of this small gang:

Li Yanzhen, Jia Wen’ge’s wife. After graduating from junior high school, Jia Wen’ge’s first job was as a sand dumper. At that time, his master in the factory was Li Yanzhen’s adoptive father. The two may have fallen in love through this relationship.

After the marriage, Jia Wen-ge lured people to his home, raped and killed people. Li Yanzhen saw it all. She knew that the man next to her was an extremely perverted criminal, but she dared not say a word.

Wang Yanling, 27 years old, is a coal miner in Fangzheng County, Heilongjiang Province. She is Jia Wen’ge’s mistress and his most loyal partner since the beginning of his crime. Before Xu Lixia appeared, she was the one who sold his body;

Li Xiuhua, 24, unemployed; Sun Wenli, 23, a worker in the wholesale department of a vegetable company in Nehe. Li Xiuhua had done some petty thefts with Jia Wenge long ago, but he and Sun Wenli probably joined the gang in March 1991.

That day, another young woman, like Xu Lixia, was deceived into Jia Wen’ge’s house.

In Jia Wen’ge’s eyes, the girl surnamed Zeng was the token of loyalty for Li Xiuhua and Sun Wenli to join the gang. He ordered Li Xiuhua and Sun Wenli to gang-rape Miss Zeng.

After the two of them finished, Jia Wen-ge said to Sun Wen-li, “Kill her.” Sun Wen-li put a rope around Zeng’s neck and strangled her. Seeing that he had been doing this for a long time, Jia Wen-ge became impatient and took a knife and stabbed deeply into Zeng’s chest. Twice.

Just like that, another cold body was pushed into the dark and almost bottomless cellar.

From January to July 1991, Jia Wen’ge, Xu Lixia and Li Xiuhua successively lured 22 people to Jia Wen’ge’s house and harmed them. No one escaped.

22 people, 22 bodies, all met the same fate as the 20 female victims before them. In that 6-meter-deep cellar, 42 dead bodies were piled up one on top of the other.

However, the murderers still ate and slept in this house as if nothing had happened.

Jia Wen’ge and Li Yanzhen also had a daughter who was about 7 years old at the time. It is chilling to think how they could do such a shameless thing under the eyes of this innocent child.

Maybe it’s better not to guess how everything happened in that house. We can’t get the answer anyway, but at least it can prevent us from waking up from nightmares.

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The killings came to an end in July 1991.

Not because of conscience, but because summer is coming.

Firstly, summer is the off-season, so fewer people come to Nehe to do business, and fewer targets for murder. Secondly, the weather is getting hotter, and the 42 bodies in the cellar begin to emit a strong stench.

For a while, people outside may not be able to smell it, but the noses of people inside cannot bear it – although they can bear it mentally.

So Jia Wen’ge decided to go to other places. He also wanted to take Xu Lixia and Li Xiuhua with him, while Li Yanzhen and Sun Wenli stayed in Nehe.

Li Yanzhen was used to being submissive and obeyed her husband’s arrangements completely, even though the dead man in the cellar scared her to death. She couldn’t fall asleep every night after taking sleeping pills, and could only go to the movies all night to numb her nerves.

Jia Wen’ge, Xu Lixia and Li Xiuhua went southwards and successively traveled to Suzhou, Hangzhou, Jinhua, Ningbo, Sanming, Fuzhou, Xiamen, etc. They still used the old method, asking Xu Lixia to lure single men and take them to remote places for robbery.

The unfamiliar environment made them afraid to kill casually. Therefore, when they were found suspicious by the police at Suzhou Railway Station and taken away for detention, they did not attract much attention. The police just treated it as an ordinary small case.

No one would have thought that these three people were responsible for such a shocking murder.

The police found more than 3,000 yuan in cash, several ID cards from other places, some oral anesthetics, etc. on them. After contacting the public security bureau where the ID cards were located, they found out that among the ID cards from other places, a man named Xie from Xiaoshan, Hangzhou, had reported to the police a few days ago that he was seduced by a group of people in Hangzhou and robbed of his money.

According to the provisions of the public security organs on the jurisdiction of the case, this case was naturally transferred to the Hangzhou Public Security Bureau. After returning to Hangzhou, after a careful search, two more ID cards were found, one of which belonged to Zheng from a flour mill in a certain city in Jilin, and the other to Zhang from a coal mine in Heilongjiang.

After checking with the local public security bureau, the Hangzhou police discovered that both of them had been missing for a long time. This aroused their vigilance. The Yongjin Police Station immediately decided to intensify the investigation.

It was on that night that Xu Lixia said in a calm but shocking tone: “We killed more than 20 people in the Northeast.”

It was on October 23, 1991 that the Nehe case, which had been hidden for more than a year, had the first chance of being uncovered.

Xu Lixia had been waiting for this day for a long time. Saying this was a long-suppressed desire deep in her heart. She knew that once she said it, she would be dead, but she still said it without hesitation.

This is her cry for help, and also her salvation. This is her only chance in the rest of her life to become human again.

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In the early winter of 1991, in Nehe, in the yard of Jia Wen’ge’s house, next to the terrible cellar.

After unimaginable hard work, the forensic doctors of the task force finally mastered the physical characteristics of all 42 bodies. The police then compared them with missing persons reported across the country during the same period and identified the identities of more than 20 of the victims.

The subsequent legal procedures went very fast. Solid on-site investigation evidence became the decisive force in sending Jia Wen’ge and others to the execution ground. On January 8, 1992, the Qiqihar Intermediate People’s Court found Jia Wen’ge guilty of murder and robbery and sentenced him to death, depriving him of political rights for life, and sentenced him to six years in prison for rape and ten years in prison for theft. It was decided to execute the death penalty and deprive him of political rights for life.

Li Xiuhua was found guilty of murder and robbery and sentenced to death with deprivation of political rights for life. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for rape and 3 years in prison for theft. It was decided to execute him and deprive him of political rights for life.

Xu Lixia was found guilty of murder and robbery and sentenced to death with deprivation of political rights for life. It was decided to execute the death penalty and deprive her of political rights for life.

Sun Wenli was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death with deprivation of political rights for life. He was also found guilty of rape and sentenced to 10 years in prison. It was decided to execute him and deprive him of political rights for life.

Wang Yanling was found guilty of robbery and sentenced to 13 years in prison, depriving her political rights for 2 years. She was also found guilty of theft and sentenced to 4 years in prison. The court decided to sentence her to 17 years in prison, depriving her political rights for 2 years.

Jia, Li, Xu, Sun and Wang were dissatisfied and appealed to the Provincial High People’s Court. The Provincial High People’s Court rejected the appeal on January 20, 1992, upheld the original verdict, and approved the death sentences of Jia, Li, Xu and Sun in accordance with the law. Jia, Li, Xu and Sun were executed in accordance with the law.

These ugly souls were wiped out from the world.

Of the lives lost in their hands, we have been able to identify more than 20 people, but for the remaining half, we will never know who they are or where they came from.

Their families can only grow old in longing day by day, month by month, year by year, and never get the answers they want.

Such harm was brought upon them by the murderer, who was not only Jia Wen-ge, but also Xu Lixia.

Of course she knew that.

From the moment she was pushed into the cellar, her heart was dead; the first time she assisted Jia Wen’ge in killing people, her humanity also died; being shot later was only her third death.

Even if she was unwilling to accept such an ending, she had no reason to complain. Before being executed, Xu Lixia wrote a 12-page suicide note to her eldest sister:

Xu Lixia certainly deserves sympathy, but she also deserves condemnation for what she did later. However, whether we sympathize or despise her, there is still a question that lies before each of us:

If it were you, at the most desperate situation in your life, faced with the distinction between life and death, good and evil, man and ghost, what choice would you make?

What kind of answer can you give?

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If Xu Lixia participated in these crimes mechanically and passively, with her heart full of resistance and unwillingness, then Jia Wen’ge, the instigator of all this, undoubtedly enjoyed his killing very much.

Why would this ordinary worker despise life and the law so much?

Ever since the case came to light, this question has been plaguing the shocked world.

Because the case was solved very quickly, and the subsequent trial and execution were carried out with the high efficiency unique to that era, we lost the opportunity to explore Jia Wen’ge’s dark heart. There will never be an answer to this question.

We can only try to get as close to the truth as possible based on the little information that exists and make guesses based on the facts.

Jia Wen-ge ate the organs of his victims, which has been confirmed by many sources. One is the local chronicle: Nehe City Chronicle (1986-2005) records that Jia Wen-ge “took out the internal organs of the victims and cooked them together.”

Another person who has had in-depth contact with the case. Xu Lixia’s defense lawyer, Xu Guixia, who is now the secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of a bank in Qiqihar City, said that Jia Wen’ge was a perverted murderer, “He killed people in order to eat them.”

There is also a popular saying: “It is said that Jia Wen’ge had very poor sexual ability before, and he could not get an erection after trying with his wife. Later, he heard that what you eat will replenish what you gain, so he started killing people based on this belief. After killing people, he cut off their genitals and cooked them to eat… After eating the genitals, Jia Wen’ge’s sexual ability really improved miraculously.”

Although Nehe is not big, it has always been the “Hometown of Potatoes in China”, the “Hometown of Sugar Beet in China”, and the main producing area of ​​high-quality soybeans. Commercial activities are relatively frequent, and there is a lot of passenger flow.

These travelers from all corners of the world came here with tens of thousands of dollars in cash to look for business opportunities. Jia Wen’ge targeted this group, perhaps because he saw the lucrative opportunities.

As early as June to July 1989, before he met Xu Lixia, Jia Wen’ge robbed RMB 616 in a grove near Nehe Railway Station.

From October 1989 to January 1991, he committed 11 thefts, stealing three color TV sets and cattle and sheep, valued at RMB 12,600;

Between January and July 1991, he robbed RMB 9,630 by using Xu Lixia’s sex appeal to lure victims to his home and then assaulted them.

From September to mid-October 1991, he roamed around Liaoning and Jilin, and robbed RMB 4,940 and five gold rings.

It can be seen that Jia Wen’ge’s crimes gradually escalated from robbery and theft to rape and murder. Later, killing may bring him greater pleasure, but he still has a great desire for money.

After committing numerous crimes in Nehe, we can also see that Jia Wen-ge led his gang to the south. In the south, they did not kill people, but only cheated. Of course, this may also be related to the fact that they were unfamiliar with the place and did not have the right conditions to commit crimes.

This can be seen from Jia Wen’ge’s treatment of Xu Lixia.

Did he have to spare Xu Lixia’s life? Not necessarily. If he needed someone to offer her body as bait, he already had a mistress, Wang Yanling. Why did he choose Xu Lixia, who was obviously not absolutely loyal to him?

His accomplices also had opinions about this. As it turned out, it was Xu Lixia who made their crimes exposed.

But Jia Wen Ge still insisted on his own opinion and kept such a time bomb by his side. The only explanation is that he used this method to show that he was in control of the overall situation and could kill or live whoever he wanted.

Another example is that in order to train his courage to kill, Jia Wen-ge forced Sun Wen-li, who had joined the gang, to kill people with his own hands, and they cooked and ate the victim’s internal organs together. Isn’t this showing his accomplices “you must obey me”?

It is now completely impossible for us to know when Jia Wen’ge’s first desire to kill was ignited and what triggered it.

All we know is that from June 1989 to January 1991, he successfully attempted theft and robbery. Through such “practice”, he became more and more courageous and his methods became more and more brutal.

Under the combined effect of the above three factors, Jia Wen’ge broke through the most basic bottom line of being a human being and degenerated into a devil abandoned by both humans and gods. Not only did he degenerate, he also induced the evil nature of others and dragged them into the abyss of human nature.

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31 years have passed, and to this day, Jia Wen’ge is still the most feared name among the people of Nehe, and Xu Lixia’s experience still makes the people of Nehe sigh with emotion.

The place where all this happened, the yard where Jia Wen’ge and his gang killed people, has become an abandoned house with broken windows and collapsed walls. No one dares to live there anymore.

Only the kitchen floor, which was completely sealed with cement, exuded an ominous atmosphere.

There, 42 wronged souls once wandered.

There, a woman with a tragic fate was once imprisoned.