Source: Rule of Law Dabie Mountain
The massacre at the Eight Immortals Hotel was a sensational murder case in 1985. The suspect Huang Zhiheng is suspected of killing the owner of the Eight Immortals Hotel in Macau and his family of ten. The deceased were aged from 7 to 70 years old. When the murder was revealed the following year, rumors spread that the murderer cooked the body of the deceased into barbecued pork buns and sold them in restaurants. The case caused a sensation in Hong Kong and Macau.
Original address of Baxian Hotel
At noon on August 8, 1985, eight mutilated limbs surfaced at Apo Yang Beach, Black Sand Beach, Coloane. Swimmers immediately notified the marine police. After counting by the police, there were four right soles, two left soles and two palms. At that time, the stump was severely rotted and had been immersed in sea water for more than two days. Since there were four right soles, it was concluded that the number of victims was at least four.
The Macau police suspected that the stowaway had encountered a shark, but the incision on the limb was very complete, and the fingers on the broken palm were crushed, as if someone had deliberately destroyed the fingerprints. Two days later, a wild dog bit the palm of a woman's left hand in Grannyang Beach. Three days later, the police found a woman's right paw, and a swimmer also found a right heel.
Faced with 11 mutilated limbs, the judicial police quickly set up a task force; during the investigation, the judicial police invited mainland forensic officers to come to Australia to help analyze the severed limbs and leave records, but there was no progress in the murder investigation.
In April 1986, eight months after the body was discovered, the Macau Judicial Police Department and Guangzhou Interpol received letters from the Zheng Lin brothers, the owners of the Eight Immortals Hotel, which became an opportunity to solve the case.
said in the letter: "Brother Yu Zheng Lin has been in Macau for many years and established a career through hard work, but he suddenly disappeared in early August last year, and his Eight Immortals Hotel and properties in Macau were taken over by another man named Huang. Recently, Macau Coloane Another human body mutilation was found on the sea surface of Heisha Grannyang. I am afraid that my brother and his family have been killed. I hope the police will try their best to help find the whereabouts of brother Yu."
Zheng Lin's brother pointed out that his brother brought two young girls back to his hometown of Zhongshan in July 1985. Since then, No news at all. At that time, they suspected that their brother's wife, Cen Huiyi, was having an affair with Huang Zhiheng, so the two conspired to kill Zheng Lin. They also speculated that the murderer and Cen had turned against each other afterwards, so they killed her and her family. The ten missing persons mentioned in the letter include:
Eight Immortals Hotel owner Zheng Lin (more than 50 years old) and his wife Cen Huiyi (42 years old)
daughters Zheng Baoqiong (18 years old), Zheng Baohong (12 years old), Zheng Baowen (10 years old) , Zheng Baohua (9 years old) and son Zheng Guande (7 years old)
The hostess’s mother Chen Lilong (70 years old) The hostess’s ninth aunt Chen Zhen (also known as Chen Lizhen, 60 years old)
Eight Immortals Restaurant chef Zheng Boliang (61 years old)
Although the circumstances of this series of cases could not be confirmed, the letter caused the police to launch an investigation into Huang Zhiheng.
After receiving the letter, the police officer re-examined the stumps seized last year and found that a female fingerprint was similar to that of Chen Lizhen, the missing person from the Eight Immortals Hotel. The police officer then monitored Huang Zhiheng and interviewed about 20 people who were missing.
At that time, a chicken and duck dealer at the Baxian Hotel said that on the afternoon of August 4, 1985, he received a call from Zheng Lin to place an order. When the clerk delivered the goods, everything in the store was as usual; when the clerk delivered the goods again the next morning, everything was normal. I discovered that the Eight Immortals Hotel suddenly posted a notice saying "Closed for Three Days." The chicken and duck merchant once visited Zheng Lin's residence. At that time, a strange man answered the door and said that Zheng Lin had gone to Zhuhai with his family.
Also on August 5, another missing person, the female proprietor Jiuyi Chen Lizhen, also disappeared mysteriously. Her neighbor pointed out that in the early morning of that day, a man about 30 years old came to see Chen Lizhen, saying that Zheng Lin's youngest son had a fever and asked her for help. The two left in a taxi, and Chen Lizhen never returned.
These two confessions convinced the police that the Zheng Lin family disappeared from August 4 to 5, 1985; because Huang Zhiheng was 50 years old, the police suspected that a young man was involved in the murder.
Suspect Huang Zhiheng
On the afternoon of September 28 of the same year, Huang Zhiheng left the Eight Immortals Hotel in a hurry and wanted to enter mainland China. The police immediately stopped him after discovering it and led the investigation. The police discovered that after the disappearance of Zheng Lam's family, Huang Zhiheng not only took over the Eight Immortals Hotel and replaced it with new employees, but also rented out Zheng Lam's property on 4th Street in Areia Preta. Huang Zhiheng lived with a son in his 20s. In another unit, the car driven by his son at the time was also owned by Zheng Lin.During the cross-examination of
, Huang Zhiheng said that he only wanted to send his contracted daughter back to the mainland, and denied absconding. He also pointed out that he bought Zheng Lin's property with real money and earned the money from smuggling. That night, he said his asthma relapsed and he was so emotional that he threatened to bite his tongue and commit suicide. The next day, the Divisional Police officially issued photos of the 10 missing persons in the Baxian Hotel and asked residents to provide relevant information.
After that, Huang Zhiheng confessed again, claiming that Zheng Lin owed him 600,000 yuan in gambling debts, and handed over all his property to himself. Zheng Lin's family then immigrated, but the police did not find any departure record of Zheng Lin's family. At this time, the police found in Huang Zhiheng's wallet the key to Zheng Lin's safe at the Hongmarket Branch of Nantong Bank, the return permit, and copies of the birth certificates and student ID cards of his four children.
On October 2, 1986, Huang Zhiheng was formally charged and transferred to the Criminal Prosecution Court for questioning. It was ruled that the evidence was established and he was remanded to the Macau City Prison pending trial.
On October 6, 1986, Huang Zhiheng disclosed the incident in prison. It was all due to Zheng Lin's unwillingness to repay gambling debts that led to the murder. Huang Zhiheng has known the owners of the Eight Immortals Hotel, Zheng Lin and his wife, for many years, and they often gamble together, usually playing mahjong and sometimes sand crabs.
One night one year before the incident (1984), Huang gathered to play sand crab with Zheng Lin, his wife and the chef in a hotel. Zheng's wife's ninth aunt Chen Zhen was also watching. Huang Zhiheng competed with Zheng Lin with a gambling capital of 2,000 patacas. After a round of fighting, Huang won nearly 180,000 yuan. Zheng Lin promised to pay off his gambling debt within one year and verbally promised that if he could not repay the money, he would voluntarily surrender. The Eight Immortals Hotel was mortgaged to Huang. In the year before the incident, Huang repeatedly tried to collect debts from Zheng Lin and his wife but was rejected, and was unable to collect any money from them. It was not until the night of the incident (August 4, 1985) that after the Eight Immortals Hotel closed down, Huang Zhiheng went to the hotel to collect debts from Zheng Lin. Zheng also refused at that time because Zheng had promised to give up the Eight Immortals Hotel to Huang if he could not repay the gambling debts. Therefore, Huang Zhiheng had already found another chef and a team of waiters at that time, and notified them to start work on August 8. However, Zheng Lin rejected the plan to give up the hotel.
According to Huang Zhiheng, he originally wanted to ask Zheng Lin to repay 20,000 to 30,000 yuan first, and the remaining balance could be paid back gradually. At this time, Zheng Lin said: "What is the return? You don't have an IOU." (Repay what? You There was no IOU. Yao Zi), put a broken bottle against his neck and ordered everyone to be silent.
Although a total of 9 people from Zheng Lin's family and the chef were present at the time, because Zheng Guande was the only son of Zheng Lin and his wife, no one dared to act rashly. Huang Zhiheng ordered everyone to tie each other with ropes and gag their mouths with cloth strips. Finally, Zheng's wife, Cen Huiyi, and Zheng Guande were left tied up. Huang then ordered Cen to tie up his youngest son with a rope. At this time, Zheng's wife suddenly became angry, shouting loudly and trying to pick up her son. Huang Zhiheng rushed up and threw a broken glass bottle at Zheng's wife's neck. Cen was killed on the spot. Huang then became furious and then threw the remaining people to death with broken bottles or strangled them with his bare hands.
Among the nine victims in the house at that time, the youngest son of Zheng Lin, Zheng Guande, was the latest to be murdered. Before he was killed, he said to the assailant Huang Zhiheng: "Nine Aunts will call the police and arrest you!" Huang Zhiheng later went to Ninth Aunt Chen Zhen. He pretended that Zheng Lin's youngest son had a fever, lured her to the Eight Immortals Hotel, and then killed her. Huang Zhiheng admitted that he spent 8 hours dismembering the body, then put it into two layers of black plastic bags several times, and discarded them in the trash can one by one.
Huang Zhiheng committed suicide twice after his arrest. On the afternoon of October 4, 1986, he used a metal trash can in the city jail to cut his left wrist straight and then saw it crosswise. He was discovered by prisoners and survived after five hours of rescue.
In early December of the same year, he met with his female companion Li Shi many times in prison. During the last meeting, both parties burst into tears. His eldest son A Yuan, who was in his twenties, also visited his father during the same period, and the two looked solemn.
In the early morning of December 4, Huang Zhiheng sharpened the ring of the soda lid and cut his veins again at the wound where he committed suicide before. At 8 o'clock that morning, the prison guards distributed breakfast and found that he was no longer breathing, and his wrists were covered by a quilt stained with blood. .At that time, he was living in the No. 5 warehouse downstairs in Building A of the city prison building. A total of 28 people were detained in the warehouse. Some prisoners later pointed out that they saw Huang Zhiheng sitting on the bed that night, using the light coming from the outside to do glue flower crafts, thinking that he was just Kill time. Afterwards, the police found a suicide note, asthma medicine and several pornographic magazines next to Huang Zhiheng.
Before his death, Huang Zhiheng sent a confession letter to the newspaper. This was Huang Zhiheng's only document explaining the case, and the writing was rather awkward.
The letter said:
Please vindicate this unjust case for me. Please think that a dying person can still lie. There is a reason why I admit everything in front of the judge.
At two o'clock on September 28, the Judicial Department said they wanted to know something. I sat there for more than ten hours. During this time, I guess they were observing my state of mind, because I had never done anything right in Macau. It’s a place where people don’t live, so I thought I was in a good mood. When they asked about the Eight Immortals Hotel, I told them the truth, that is, how I met Zheng Lin and how I took over the business. I asked them for two nights. For three days, four people asked these questions at the same time. Finally, at 0:00 on October 1, they said they wanted to accuse me of murdering Zheng Lin's family. I was extremely tired at that time.
When the incident happened in Hong Kong, I decided to die to thank the world. Originally, I thought Chen Ziliang was dead, and when the children faced their father, they had already died, so I cut off the mold of my finger. At that time, At the beginning, I changed my mind. Not only would I not do bad things, but I would not even think about breaking the law. Everything has a motive. And I have been doing this for more than ten years. My child has just graduated and entered the social work. I should enjoy my old age in peace. .
As early as 1984, when Zheng Lin owed me 188,000 yuan, I had already planned to acquire the Eight Immortals Hotel. This was proved by someone. All in all, I will never be able to commit this case, so what if I admit it? Besides, Mr. Editor, when you see this letter, I am no longer alive.
My wife and seven-year-old child are now desolate. The public opinion is very unfair to her. Could it be that I have changed my ways, started a new life, and want to live a happy old age, but it was shattered by what happened more than ten years ago? My wife is the most innocent. I was a bad person in the past, and I should bear all the consequences. But my wife is a country woman, knows nothing, and is definitely a good person. How can society not extend a sympathetic hand to her and help her?
I solemnly declare that my self-liberation is not a fear of sin, but multi-faceted. I suffer from asthma, and I don’t want to suffer anymore. This time I will finally achieve it.
When a person is about to die, his words are also good.
After Huang Zhiheng committed suicide, the police have not found the remaining body parts of the 10 missing persons, nor have they confirmed that they were killed. Among the only batch of 11 human body parts seized, only one had a fingerprint similar to that of the missing old woman Chen Lizhen. However, the outside world has always believed that this batch of body parts belonged to Zheng Lin's family of ten. What happened to the other body parts? It has caused speculation for many years.
It was midsummer when the crime occurred. If the body was not disposed of in time, it would emit a foul odor. However, no one complained about the odor problem at the time.
In this unsolved case, the outside world has been speculating that the body of the deceased in the case was made into "human flesh barbecued pork buns". This plot has been adapted by many movies. Among them, in addition to the 1993 "Human Head Bak Kut Teh Noodles" starring Dina , the 1993 "Eight Immortals Restaurant: Human Meat Barbecue Pork Buns" starring Anthony Wong and Lee Xiuxian is the most famous. Huang Qiusheng even won the Hong Kong Film Award for this film The Academy Award for Best Actor. The play heavily uses the story of the Eight Immortals Hotel, and people under the age of 18 are prohibited from watching it when it is staged in Hong Kong. The shocking and topical nature of this film was the key to its success, which led to many famous Hong Kong cases being made into similar films and released one after another. In 1988, the Hong Kong Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd. drama "Never Bow Down" alluded to the case. In 2005, Hong Kong Asia Television also made the case into a TV series " dangerous person ".
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