18 years after the 26-year-old deputy director was murdered, the suspect who had been a monk was arrested
Eighteen years ago, Deyang's 26-year-old Xie Moumou was killed at home, becoming a sensational case. There are two reasons. One is that he is 26 years old and he is young and promising. He is the deputy director of a branch of the State Taxation Bureau of Deyang City. The other is that despite the great efforts of the police, the case has not been resolved.
In July this year, 18 years later, the suspect Zhou Mouting was finally captured by the police. Little-known plots behind the case surfaced one after another. For example, why did the deputy director who had no grudges become his target? Why did he become a monk during his 18-year escape? Why did he stay with his mother for a long time?
On July 15, the Deyang police informed the West China Metropolis Daily and the cover reporters about the case, and Zhou Mouting was formally arrested by the procuratorate on the same day.
Frustrated people to do "big things" to choose a house with garden
Zhou Mouting, 55, is from Luojiang District, Deyang City. In his early years, he became a lathe worker after graduating from a technical school. After working for a year or two, he decided to go to sea. However, reality gave him a merciless slap, whether it was selling wool, clothes, or as a sales manager, futures manager, or borrowing money, mortgage real estate loan registration company to sell audio, in the past few years, although involved in multiple industries, but he did not A success.
The failure not only left Zhou Mouting in debt and separated friends, but also made him resentful. "As a disappointed person, his psychology began to distort." The police handling the case said that Zhou Mouting decided to do something "big" and get some money back. The so-called "big thing" is theft or robbery. After making the decision, Zhou Mouting stepped around, the main targets were officials and rich people.
During a step on the spot, Zhou Mouting discovered a house with a garden. After inquiring, I learned that it was the dormitory building of the Deyang Taxation Bureau. "This house looks higher than the surrounding grades, he thinks the residents should be richer," the police said.
The owner of this residence is Xie Moumou, deputy director of a branch of the Deyang State Taxation Bureau, who was 26 years old.
26-year-old deputy director was robbed at home in the morning
After selecting the target, Zhou Mouting began to prepare the crime tool. "I read some books and TV series about solving crimes at that time, and mentioned many tools." He used the prepared tools to test: the ropes and the like were not easy to use, they used iron rings to wear ropes to make rope ladders; Because the stun gun is not easy to carry, it was changed to an stun gun with an electric baton.
Such thoughtful thinking and strong practical ability surprised the police. "This is inseparable from his experience as a carmaker." The police said, and Zhou Mouting's determination was firm, and he did not waver in the whole process. "He feels that he has entered a dead end, this thing must be done."
In the early morning of April 5, 2002, Zhou Mouting, 37, came to the house with a garden with tools. After observation, he turned into the wall. At this time, Xie Moumou had not slept, the two met in the front of the back door, and then there was a fierce fight. Xie Moumou had several knives and died of excessive bleeding.
During the wrestling, Zhou Mouting was also injured, but he still searched inside the house, and fled in vain after finding nothing.
Escaped the investigation, escaped the heart-robber and became a monk
At 2 o'clock in the morning, the police rushed to the scene after receiving the alarm. At this time, Zhou Mouting had fled, and this disappeared for 18 years.
According to the analysis of the police, the case has not been detected for two main reasons: first, because the criminal investigation technique was relatively simple at that time, and it was impossible to determine the name and length of the suspect; and second, the suspect had never had a case before.
Where did that court go that week? According to his explanations later, after committing the crime late at night, he went to his sister's house, because there were almost no pedestrians on the way, there was not much blood on his clothes, and there was no doubt on the way, even his family did not know. Three or four days later, Zhou's wound on his left chest was a little inflamed, so he lied to see a friend and went to Chengdu to find a clinic to bandage and prescribe medicine.
After returning from Chengdu, Zhou Mouting lived in her sister's house again, and went to a temple in Chengdu in 2006 to become a monk. According to his explanations afterwards, there are two main reasons for becoming a monk: on the one hand, because he killed someone, he felt that he had done bad things, and wanted to confess his atonement; on the other hand, because he had been idle for a long time, he met the cold eyes of many people. Nostalgia."
"After I became a monk, I tried to forget everything and devote myself to studying Zen and Buddhism." Zhou Mouting told the police that after Master passed away in 2007, he often traveled all over the country to attend school.
Missing my mother's company and staying in the side of the week
However, in the seemingly uncontested life of Xianyunyehe, Zhou Mouting, who is responsible for the murder case, has always been in the back, "Forcibly not thinking, but often thinking."
One day in 2012, Zhou Mouting returned to Deyang because of his eagerness to love her mother. Seeing her mother's health is much worse, and seeing that her relationship with her sister-in-law is not good, when the mother let Zhou Mouting stay, he agreed on the spot.
The mother and son rented a house to live. From 2012 to 2018, moved several times during the period. "Worried about exposing his whereabouts, Zhou Mouting has been living in a simple way, even dare not go shopping on the street." The police said that because there was no case, and because he had no job, Zhou Mouting also applied for a set of companies in 2018. Rent.
Without income, Zhou Mouting lives on his mother's pension. He stays with his mother. Every day, he reads, writes, and meditates. He basically has no communication with the outside world.
Evidence that the new information case was finally arrested after 18 years
According to the police who handled the case, in the 18 years since the incident, although the police have changed one after another, the detection of the case has never stopped. In 2020, the Ministry of Public Security deployed a concentrated case of homicide cases, which was designated as a provincial governor's case.
With the application of various new technologies, the evidence extracted on the spot at that time was analyzed with more and more clear directivity. In March of this year, the Deyang police analyzed important clues and set up a special task force again to start arranging thousands of people. Deyang, Mianyang, Panzhihua... The police handling the case went to six or seven cities, and the scope of suspects gradually narrowed.
On July 1, Zhou Mouting finally surfaced. In order not to frighten the snakes, the police squatted outside the public rental housing community for a day and night, and finally captured it in the public rental housing on the 18th floor of Zhou Mouting on the afternoon of July 2. "When he was arrested, he was still writing in writing." The policeman who handled the case said that Zhou Mouting confessed that it was for meditation, "he said that he had not deliberately hid for so many years, it was in this state, waiting for being caught at any time. Grab."
So far, the sensational murder case 18 years ago was successfully resolved.
West China Metropolis Daily-Cover News reporter Wang Pan Wang Xianglong