Those old people who often visit Tianya Forum must be familiar with "Tianya Top Ten Unsolved Cases", and the Gansu Baiyin case is one of the top ten unsolved cases. The brief introduction of the case is as follows:
From 1988 to 2002, a series of murder cases involving rape and maiming of women occurred successively in Baiyin District, Baiyin City, Gansu Province. It has been 28 years since the first case. During the period, a similar case also occurred in Kundulun District, Baotou City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The criminals' methods of committing crimes are very cruel. They not only rape and kill women, but also cut female genital organs and human tissues with knives. The youngest victim is only 8 years old. The social impact is extremely bad, causing serious panic in the local area. In August 2001, the case was listed as a supervised case by the Ministry of Public Security. On August 5, 2004, the Ministry of Public Security organized experts to conduct a consultation on the case, and the two cases in Baiyin and Baotou were combined and identified as the "8.05" series of rape, murder and maiming of women in Ganmeng. Although the public security organs at all levels have made every effort to investigate the case, the case has not made a substantial breakthrough for a long time.
It has been 28 years since the occurrence of this case. Over the years, the public security department has not given up on the investigation, and has invested a lot of manpower and material resources. Finally this year, because the suspect's distant relative was arrested, the police found that his DNA and the perpetrator of the Baiyin case belonged to the same family, and finally identified the suspect Gao Chengyong through investigation.
Judging from the information given by the media, Gao Chengyong was a migrant worker from an ordinary family in his real life. His arrest surprised many people. Even his wife never thought that her husband was a murderer.
This can't help but remind me of the last scene of the Korean movie "Memories of Murder":
After many years, Agent Park arrives at the site of the first case. A little girl passed by and told him that an uncle (murderer) came here some time ago, and wanted to see what he did back then. Detective Park asked the little girl if she could see his face, and the little girl repeatedly emphasized that she was an ordinary-looking uncle. Detective Park, who heard this, was shocked.
"Memories of Murder" is adapted from the real case "The Hwaseong Serial Murder Case in South Korea", which is still pending. Although the name of the film is "Memories of Murder", the film does not analyze the murderer's motive, nor does it detail the process of committing the crime, or even tell the audience who the murderer is. However, it is great, and it is telling that such vicious cases have irreversibly changed the fate of the characters involved.
This change in fate is most evident from the three detectives.
1. Detective Park played by Song Kang-ho. Although the handling of the case is simple and rude, he is confident in his own judgment and passionate about his job as a police officer. During the investigation of this case, he confirmed time and time again that he had caught the murderer, but failed again and again. After catching the suspected "murderer" for the last time, he was no longer confident in his judgment. At the end of the film, he stopped being a police officer and became a breadwinner businessman.
2. Detective Su, who was deployed from Seoul, is good at using rigorous reasoning to sort out the case and use evidence to lock down criminal suspects. When the little girl he knew was brutally murdered, he gradually lost his mind. Ultimately, when DNA comparisons didn't point to the criminal he identified. He broke down and tried to use violence to solve the problem.
3. There is also Detective Cao who started fighting every time they disagreed. Every time he wanted to find the suspect by punching and kicking, he was amputated because of this case and became disabled.
In addition to these three detectives, there are the fools who died under the train wheels, the erotic maniacs in red panties who were hung up and beaten, and the survivors who lived in panic. Although these people are not the direct victims of the case, they bear blame that they should not have had because of this case.
I appreciate the angle chosen for Memories of Murder, which is depressing but real enough. The crimes committed by serial killers never end with the lives of their victims. It implicates the victims' families, case handlers, and the material and spiritual dimensions of society as a whole.
No matter what kind of upbringing the killers had, or what motives they had, their crimes are not worthy of forgiveness.
Finally
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