[English]
Justice may be late but it will never be absent
Hello everyone, I am Lao Z
There was a period of time when kidnapping cases were very rampant in Taiwan
Mainly because the number of criminal tools suddenly increased
And the kidnappers all know how to evade police pursuit
Plus there are hostages in hand
Family members and the police do not dare to act rashly
However, the police's detection rate is still quite high
It's all done behind the scenes Unimaginable effort
Then I followed Old Z back to the day of the incident
The location of the incident was in the area around Yilan City County Government Center
In the early years, this area was a large area of farmland
Later, the government planned to conduct land expropriation
Some farmers who had worked hard for most of their lives
were able to enjoy their retirement life
Back to January 19, 2005
Lin Songji, a retired farmer
Biking through the intersection of Jianlan South Road and Kaixuan Road
I was suddenly hit by a domestic car at high speed
But this was not a simple car accident
Lin Songji was actually abducted on the street
On the afternoon of January 19
Lin Songji had just finished eating at a food stall
On his way home by bike
He was suddenly stopped by a white car
Four gangsters rushed out of the car
After beating the victim severely, they forced him into the car and took him away.
The family immediately received a ransom call from the gangsters the next day.
The gangsters asked for a ransom of 30 million.
At the beginning, they asked for 30 million, which means you.
Your family. This hostage is in my hands.
He died after being kidnapped for ransom.
He is a 65-year-old Yilan landowner
He is an honest farmer
Yilan has just developed the county government center
He lives there
At that time, the government should be handling expropriation
He said there was expropriation and the government expropriated some land from him
So the economy is better
Lin Songji, the Yilan landowner who was kidnapped and voted out
is 65 years old this year In the early days, he started farming
His daily life was simple
Even for meals, he only went to nearby cheap snack bars
A meal only cost a few dozen yuan
He was right next to Kaixuan Elementary School and had more than 60 acres of land
It was planned by the county government center
Land like this was expropriated
Lin Songji received about 80 million in compensation
However, the money was first used to build two large houses
for the family to live in, and the remaining money was used to support 5 children
After starting a family, there was almost no cash on hand
An old farmer, where did the 30 million come from
The kidnappers didn't seem to think so
They kept calling to bargain with the family members
The suspect spoke Taiwanese with a fierce tone
There was also a severe nasal sound
After more than 20 phone calls
the ransom was finally reduced to 3 million
Of course the family members had already reported the case
but were tricked by the gangsters
He withdrew money 5 or 6 times
3 or 4 times 5 or 6 times I have an appointment with the first one
There are people from Taichung and Taipei One at a time (cancelled)
He meant to make the family collapse
The ransom was reduced from 30 million to 3 million
But the kidnappers kept playing tricks on the family at the place where the ransom was delivered
On January 26, the family was ready to pay the ransom
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The gangster first asked the family to go to Taipei Station
After the family arrived at Taipei Station, they called to change the location
Asking the family members to transfer to Kenting by train
to pay the ransom in Kenting in the south
After Lin Songji's family members arrived in Kenting
the gangsters did not show up. The family members waited for 3 days
The gangsters only gave 1 phone call and asked the family members sarcastically
Is Kenting fun? The behavior was quite abominable
Called the family members and said
You took the police to the south for a whole day
He is back. He is a very arrogant gangster.
The family members are required to know the whole province.
Each call made by the gangster does not exceed 20 seconds.
The gangster uses either a foreign worker card or Lin Songji's mobile phone. They were all chosen during the peak traffic period and it was difficult for the police to follow along the way.
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We found that these phone calls
were all using foreign worker cards.
The foreign worker cards are probably used up and thrown away.
It is very difficult to continue tracking.
Why are the kidnappers so arrogant?
It is because the foreign worker cards are too difficult to trace.
This is an easy-to-pay card used by migrant workers to come to Taiwan to work.
The key point is that there is no limit on the number.
One person may apply for thousands of them
They can also exchange and trade with each other, which is profitable
Criminal groups often purchase a large number of foreign worker cards
Call once and throw away one
The police's method of checking the location of Tonglian is almost ineffective
By the time the NCC announces this kind of foreign worker cards in 2024
there will be 2.21 million cards
However, only 880,000 people registered to use it
Most of them fell into the hands of fraud groups
The functions are always the same
Used to create a breaking point for crimes
It was not until the 15th day of Lin Songji's kidnapping
when the kidnappers made the 31st phone call
that they really wanted to collect the ransom
Ask the family members to drive the vehicle onto National Highway 2
Go south and suddenly stop after 15.7 kilometers
Instruct the family members to throw away the ransom money
The kidnappers who were waiting under the bridge immediately took the money away
From then on, the kidnapper never made any calls
and the money was already given to people
The family waited hard for 6 days
Until the New Year's Eve dinner
The family was still waiting for him to come back
Until the next day when he didn't show up
I had a bad feeling
Because he was kidnapped on January 19
Only briefly on the 5th day by phone
After that, I never heard a sound again
(Family) asked the hostage to make a sound
He said you are so verbose
Then forget it and just hang up with him
The family members just want to protect him, he is afraid that the hostage will be ripped off
So generally the family members of the victims are
Forget it, just remit the money
After receiving the money, there will be no message?
No, there is no news since the money was confiscated
Since the location where the package was lost is quite close to the Chiang Kai-shek Airport
The police once suspected that the gangsters may have absconded out of the country after obtaining the ransom
and the meat tickets may have been killed
And the snack bar owner who is familiar with the landlord said
The landlord surnamed Lin comes here to dine every day
His daily routine is very normal and he will be kidnapped
It should be done by acquaintances
His life schedule is very fixed
The gangster should know him very well
He also knows what he does during the day
What time and where he will go at night. The gangster may know
Otherwise how to block it
This landlord kidnapping case
Although the prosecutor targeted specific persons for investigation
The investigation took more than a month
But there was nothing to do
Paying the ransom was constantly being played with
In the end, the contact channel was even lost
Lin Songji still had no news
He lost his wife and lost his army
Is it really necessary to declare failure
Can the police accept such a shame
After the family members learned that their father had been kidnapped
The whole family was uneasy
He even went to the Five Grain Temple, which Lin Songji believed in, to seek fortune and fortune.
Unexpectedly, it was a bad omen.
Lin Songji even told his family in a dream that
the funeral arrangements would be done at the Five Grain Temple.
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But the kidnappers are really cunning
The ransom calls were all made using Lin Songji's mobile phone
The contacts between accomplices were made using foreign worker cards
Tracking was difficult
But the task force never gave up
A key clue was obtained from the kidnapper's ransom calls
He had that babbling voice when he spoke
Just spoke on the ransom call
They all made a buzzing sound
At that time, our task force determined that it was
It should be cleft lip
But with so many people having cleft lip in the country
we still need to have further investigation direction
During the police investigation, they found another valuable message
The service lady who sold the house
happened to say that she found a car
Parked there for 3 or 4 days
She thought she was here to steal things, steal steel bars from the construction site
Or items, etc.
So she had the impression that she remembered the last two numbers
and wrote them down
This was a very critical piece of information
Before Lin Songji was kidnapped
A construction project next to the Yilan County Assembly
Suddenly a strange car stopped
The female accountant at the construction site felt strangely alert
So she wrote down the license plate number "6127"
With the car number, the police immediately adjusted the monitor
Sure enough, the suspect profiled in the criminal profile
caught the eye of the police for the first time
The public phone of our supermarket in Yilan area
A suspected gangster appeared
The key to chasing Chen Chunfu out
It is the victim's second daughter who is very alert
When answering the call from the gangster, it was discovered that the suspect's accent was leaking
The police pursued the direction of congenital defects
Sure enough, in the supermarket video
the main suspect Chen Chunfu was found to have a harelip
The witness recorded the car number "6127"
Then checked the monitors along the road where the kidnapper spoke
I have photographed a vehicle with the last number "6127"
It was found that the owner's surname is Qiu and he lives in Minxiong Township, Chiayi
The car has been stolen
It was also robbed and blackmailed by a car theft group
Call the owner and say
Your car is here, please wire 50,000 yuan
It happened that the car owner did not pay Just when he said, eh
When we went to check the owner of his car, right
When my car was lost
A person called and said that my car was lost.
In his hands, he asked me to remit 50,000 yuan
He didn't remit it, so we transferred his communication
Let's analyze it. The phone came from here
Maybe it was the victim's blessing
Before the car kidnapping and ransom group handed the car to the kidnappers
Because of greed, they called the owner of the car and asked for another payment
So they left the communication record and the police immediately went online to monitor
There was another exciting discovery
It happened that he had contacted the kidnapper named Chen again
After the contact, the voices of the two of them talking
One of them had a harelip sound
When the two voices were compared with the kidnapper's voice
It was very likely that he was the gangster
We locked him
After 58 days of investigation
The police reviewed millions of communications
At 9 o'clock in the evening on March 16, the troops were divided into multiple routes.
First, they arrested the 29-year-old mastermind Chen Chunfu in Yunlin.
Then they caught other accomplices in Taipei County.
As soon as they were arrested, they confessed. The corpse turned out to be strange
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At 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, the Criminal Bureau, together with the Yilan County Police
arrived at Guantian, Tainan with the kidnapping suspect
and prepared to find the landowner named Lin who was murdered
Due to the vast area and the dark sky
the police deployed searchlights and it took more than an hour
to find the mound where the landowner surnamed Lin was buried
Just after the prosecutor arrived, the official excavation
opened the mound, and the smell of corpses filled the scene
Everyone wore masks and excavated carefully
To the police's surprise
Although the loess covered his body lying on his side
one of Lin Songji's fingers
was exposed outside the mound. The situation was very strange
When he saw the rope, it was wrapped around his little finger
Bury one foot like this and another under the ground
The condition of the body is that there is no plastic bag on the body
Only the head is there
According to the police's verification results
The date of death is about 40 to 50 days ago
It should be about 40 to 50 days
The main suspect in the kidnapping case squatted on the ground
Looking at the rotting corpse with an expressionless face
At 4:10, the feet of the deceased were unearthed
The prosecutors also speeded up their pace
However, in order to keep the body intact
it still took nearly an hour
to lift the deceased out of the mound
His feet were curled up and then he was lying on his side
With two hands behind him, this is what you see now
Because he was covered in dirt
5:30 in the morning Family members
who came from far away from Yilan also came to identify the body. They lowered their heads
Seeing the tragic condition of their father, some people covered their faces and cried bitterly
Some people suppressed their grief and remained silent
The identification was confirmed and covered with a white cloth
The family members burned paper money and offered incense to worship
It was 6:30
The ambulance took the body of the deceased to the funeral parlor
But the miracle that the family expected Didn't show up
I could only go home with sadness
The police arrested accomplices from Beixian, Yilan and Yunlin
But Chen Chunfu shouldered all the blame
Emphasizing that he was responsible for killing and abandoning the corpses
As if to show the spirit of gangster friendship
When facing the media camera,
did not flinch at all
Do you regret it at all?
Why Why Not Regret
After Chen Chunfu was arrested
He admitted that he had received a ransom of three million
First, he used 1 million gang accomplice Lin Qianyao to pay off the debt
800,000 was given to Yu Yuming
The remaining 1.2 million was spent by himself
He had no regrets for committing the vote-robbing case
He was imprisoned for a few days The victim kept asking for help
kept screaming, kept screaming
In addition, he couldn't agree on the ransom
and the 30 million yuan was always reduced
He said he would lock him in the trunk
He was afraid of being intercepted by the police
Because he was wandering around like this in Yunlin Tainan
So I just called him down when he was in Tainan
Beat him up
Drag him under the Guantian High-Speed Railway
Dig a hole and bury him
He was born in Huwei, Yunlin
He has a history of banditry and robbery
Recently, he has become the most powerful car snatching group in Yunjianan
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Didn't you get the money? Why did you kill him
I haven't gotten the (ransom) yet Let him die
The body was wrapped in a garbage bag
Wrapped with several layers of garbage bags
When I dug, a finger just happened to come up
I dug until I saw the finger, which confirmed that
the victim was buried here
Not only was the deceased Lin Songji tied with strings all over his body
His hands were tied behind his back, and his feet were also tied
The head is still covered with a plastic bag
There is even tape wrapped around the neck
The hyoid bone of the tongue is fractured
The hyoid bone is fractured
That is based on the preliminary judgment of the forensic doctor
This should be the comparison of the ropes on his body
It should be strangulation
But before this, Chen Chunfu only had a criminal record of interfering with freedom
He also had a disability certificate for facial disfigurement
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He only graduated from a junior high school
Why is he so cruel and cunning
He even saw through police ambushes many times
He said it was because of his difficult life
Long-term funding from accomplice Lin Qianyao
Later, it was discovered that Ah Yao had transferred a debt of 1 million to accomplice Zhong Anshun because of running a hotel
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He planned to "repay the favor" and help him pay off the debt
As for why he chose Lin Songji
Lin Songji served as a committee member of this Five Grain Temple
Donated 12,000 yuan, and his name was engraved on the wall
Friends said that when Lin Songji was young
he worked very hard
Later, because his ancestral land of 2,000 to 3,000 pings was expropriated
he changed from a landlord to a wealthy man
Lin Songji was just like any other old man
He would ride an old motorcycle when he had nothing to do
Go to this Five Grain Temple where Emperor Shennong is worshiped
Find friends to make tea and chat when they heard the news of his murder
Make old friends sad and cry
If you want money for kidnapping, give him the money and don't kill anyone
Killing him after taking the money is really unreasonable
But Lin Songji usually likes to have a drink with friends
After a few cups of yellow soup, he likes to brag about his wealth
This may be because of this, people have bad thoughts
He likes to joke and will go out for drinks
Where can I invite everyone to have fun like this
While dining, I heard the next table talking like this
So-and-so has sold land and made some money
This so-and-so often comes to this restaurant
After he locked in on him (Lin Songji)
I often come here to inquire about his comings and goings
He has taken care of me for more than 20 years
From the time I started doing business to now
He takes good care of me and loves me very much
We need to use the method of making a fairy dance
Use the method of fairy dance to defraud him of some money
But it didn't work. The fairy dance didn't succeed
So after they returned to Taipei and the south,
they made a new plan. That's the plan.
Use the method of kidnapping people for ransom
Memories of a dinner party 2 years ago
It became the motive for killing Lin Songji
There is an innocent soul
What is strange is that when the family went to the Five Grain Temple
to ask for a signed poem, it had already been written
See you in the south, and those who go will not return
When the family found a hearse to transport the body back to Yilan
there were actually two cars with unexplained malfunctions
Later the police asked the prosecutor
Can you untie the rope that tied his hands first
The third hearse allowed him to go home smoothly
Lin Songji was unfortunately killed in the end
The Lin family traveled south to Tainan all night
to transport back the body of the elders
Maybe Lin Songji died with his eyes closed
The hearse actually broke down three times on the way
When we went to bring him back yesterday
As everyone can see, time is very fast
So he should calmly
return to the embrace of our home
We are all sad. Do we have any grudges with people outside?
No, he is very nice
So we are very reluctant
At the beginning, we felt very strange
How could such a thing happen
Because the police suspected that the deceased was abused by the suspect before his death.
In the morning, the prosecutor invited a forensic doctor to further dissect the body
to confirm the cause of death
As for Chen Chunfu, we believe that he was involved in the crime of
Article 348 of the Criminal Law with intent to kidnap someone for ransom and intentional homicide. In addition, Lin Qianyao
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who participated in the planning of the crime was asked to be sentenced to 10 years in prison.
The Yilan District Prosecutor's Office said that the defendant Chen Chunfu showed no remorse during the interrogation
and avoided the important.
He also intended to help his accomplices to escape guilt. Therefore, he specifically requested the death penalty.
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However, the family members of the victims believed that
should all be sentenced to death.
Do you think it is fair? Of course it is unfair.
After entering the court trial
Chen Chunfu was sentenced to death six times because of his brutal methods and no regrets
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Unexpectedly, he reversed the situation in the fifth trial
The judge believed that he had apologized to his family in the second trial
and it was not because he had a heavy criminal record
And he "gave him something to eat" during the kidnapping
Also because he led the police to dig up the body
Not to the point where the crime is culpable
The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and sentenced to prison after three trials
The above is today's story
No matter how vicious the bad guy is
As long as he does a little bit of reasonable behavior
The judge thinks that the conscience is still intact. Do you agree?
I am Lao Z. See you in the next episode