Three people and one ghost solved 43 mysterious cases.

On the last day of 2000, Yao Ruolan drove to work in the crime team.

When the car drove to the door, he saw a middle-aged woman standing there. Yao Ruolan had some impression of this person. This middle-aged woman should have been here three or four times this month.

Every time I stand at the door, carrying a basket of vegetables, and don't go in.

Yao Ruolan got out of the car and asked the middle-aged woman, "What's the matter with you?"

The middle-aged woman recognized Yao Ruolan. Are you the famous psychologist Dr. Yao on TV?

"I, I", the middle-aged woman hesitated to speak.

Yao Ruolan invited the middle-aged woman to the office, poured her a cup of tea, and said, just tell her if you have anything, maybe I can help you.

The middle-aged woman took out a sealed bag from her pocket and took out a yellowed photo. The photo was very old and was black and white.

The photo shows a handsome young man and a woman who seems to have a good temperament.

These two people should be a pair of lovers, and they are very suitable for each other.

This photo is very old, at least several decades old.

This woman is a housewife who lives in a nearby village and passes by the crime team every morning when she buys groceries.

She said, "Well, I, I don't have any money, and I don't know if I can ask you to help me investigate this case, after all." She sighed, "This case really seems to be a murder case with solid evidence. "

"Please tell me. If there is any suspicion, our detective team will definitely help find out the truth."

The middle-aged woman pointed at the photo and started talking.

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The handsome man in this photo is named Chen Shumin, and he is the fourth cousin of the middle-aged woman.

The elegant woman in the photo is named Ye Wen, and she is Chen Shumin's fiancée.

And this is a murder that occurred in 1920.

Chen Shumin's hometown is in Taoyuan Village. He opened a chicken farm in Taoyuan Village to make a living.

Ye Wen lives in a big city more than 100 kilometers away and is a typist in a foreign trade company.

The two of them met as pen pals and had been dating for more than a year. They were in a long-distance relationship.

Ye Wen takes a few hours of train ride from the big city to Taoyuan Village every week to spend the weekend with Chen Shumin.

And one day in December 1920.

Ye Wen suddenly disappeared. Before she disappeared, she told her friends that she would take the train to Taoyuan to meet Chen Shumin today.

The police approached Chen Shumin for questioning, but Chen Shumin denied it, saying that he had not seen Ye Wen this week.

The police treated the case as a missing person case.

Ye Wen's family was very anxious and kept publishing newspapers to find Ye Wen's whereabouts. How could such a well-behaved girl disappear for no reason?

One day, Ye Wen's photo in the newspaper was seen by a villager in Taoyuan Village.

The villagers went to the police station to report a situation. Indeed, one day they saw Ye Wen coming to see Chen Shumin. It seemed that the two had some unpleasant quarrels.

The police launched an investigation and found out.

The relationship between Chen Shumin and Ye Wen has broken down recently. Chen Shumin wants to terminate the engagement, but Ye Wen disagrees.

The police went to find Chen Shumin again and launched a search near his home.

Soon, they made a discovery. In a piece of land behind the chicken shed, they found that the soil was very loose, so they dug up the soil.

A severed hand was dug up.

Then all the bodies were dug up one after another. A total of 16 yuan.

It was pieced together into a headless female corpse.

Then under a tree, a large biscuit box was found with a human head in it.

After examination, it was confirmed that the female corpse was Ye Wen.

Ye Wen was murdered, then dismembered and buried next to the chicken shed.

This case was very sensational at the time because the evidence was conclusive and it was obvious that it was Chen Shumin who killed Ye Wen.

Regarding this case, Chen Shumin vaguely admitted part of it.

He told another version of things.

他 说:

Yes, Ye Wen and I had a relationship crisis, and I decided to break off the engagement.

Ye Wen came to see me that day. She seemed surprisingly calm and said, "It's okay. After we break up, we will be good friends and have a meal with me."

So I bought some food and had dinner with Ye Wen at home.

We drank a lot of wine during the dinner. I was so drunk that I fell asleep on the bed.

And when I woke up, I saw a shocking scene.

Ye Wen is dead.

She found a rope and hung herself from the beam of my house, her body swaying.

I...I was so scared.

I'm afraid that the police will think that I killed Ye Wen. I don't want to go to jail or die.

So...I...I had a strange thought in my mind at that time.

He found a knife, dismembered Ye Wen's body, and buried it near the chicken shed.

Then, you came to me and asked me if I had seen Ye Wen, and I could only say no. I lied to you.

"Comrade police, what I said is true. I did not kill Ye Wen." Chen Shumin said in the interrogation room.

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After hearing this, the police felt that this reason was too ridiculous.

If Ye Wen committed suicide by hanging, then Chen Shumin could just call the police and leave it to the police to investigate.

Why did he want to dismember the body?

Moreover, the time that Chen Shumin mentioned for dismembering the body was about an hour after Ye Wen died. Could he have done such a stupid thing within an hour?

But since he said it, the police asked a forensic doctor to verify it.

In 1920, forensic technology was very scarce, and the forensic doctor could only judge that Ye Wen died of suffocation.

As for whether he committed suicide by hanging, this cannot be determined.

Because Ye Wen's body was dismembered and the head was placed in a biscuit box.

In addition, the body was later buried in the soil, and it was impossible to identify whether there were any strangulation marks on the neck.

Even if there were marks of strangulation, it was possible that Chen Shumin strangled Ye Wen to death with a rope.

At the same time, the police also found a woman who was Chen Shumin's new love.

Chen Shumin promised this woman that he would make it clear to Ye Wen, propose a breakup, and then marry this woman.

Then the motive of the case is very clear.

Chen Shumin wanted to break up, but Ye Wen didn't agree. During the quarrel between the two, Chen Shumin strangled Ye Wen to death by mistake and then cut her body into pieces.

The evidence was conclusive and Chen Shumin was taken to court. More than a month later, the court held a hearing and made a verdict in half an hour.

Chen Shumin was found guilty of murder. Sentenced to death by hanging.

Three days later, Chen Shumin was sent to the execution ground. Hundreds of citizens came to watch and threw rotten vegetables and rotten eggs at the execution ground.

A thick rope ended Chen Shumin's life.

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"The above is the full picture of this case."

At this moment, in the office of the crime team, a middle-aged woman was talking about the fate of her fourth cousin.

Yao Ruolan thought that in this case, Chen Shumin admitted that he dismembered the body, but did not admit to killing. He said that Ye Wen hanged herself.

Yao Ruolan asked the middle-aged woman, "Do you have any evidence to prove that Chen Shumin was wronged?"

"No." The middle-aged woman shook her head.

She said that she heard this matter from her family, and the family seemed to have acquiesced that Chen Shumin was the murderer.

And she just saw this photo of Chen Shumin and Ye Wen.

She just felt that Chen Shumin and Ye Wen in the photo looked like very good people. Chen Shumin didn't look like a bad person. She just intuitively believed that Chen Shumin would not kill Ye Wen.

Yao Ruolan sighed. If there is no evidence, this case seems to be difficult to investigate.

She also believed that this should be a murder that was not suspicious.

A normal person would think that if he saw a person commit suicide in front of him and he was innocent, how could he not call the police?

What's even weirder is that the body was dismembered quickly within an hour, which really doesn't make sense.

"I, I have a letter. I don't know if it can be regarded as evidence."

The middle-aged woman took out a copied letter from the sealed bag. This letter was a suicide note written by Chen Shumin before he died.

He left these words in the suicide note, "I did not kill Ye Wen, let time and the future prove it for me."

This letter was written in hundreds of words, and Yao Ruolan was reading it.

Handwriting can reflect a person's true psychology. The lines and size of the words can all reflect a person's state when writing.

Yao Ruolan has a PhD in psychology. When she looked at the letter, every word in the letter seemed powerful and the radicals were deliberately amplified.

It just shows Chen Shumin’s excitement and despair when he wrote this letter.

After reading the letter, Yao Ruolan thought to herself that this Chen Shumin might not really kill Ye Wen.

So what is going on with this mystery that has been buried in dust for 80 years?

The crime team began investigating.