In 1994, director Chen Shengli directed and filmed a 384-minute TV series "918 Major Case Records". The TV series was divided into eight episodes. There were no actors in it, and all real police officers participated in the filming.

"918 Major Case Records"

In 1994, director Chen Shengli directed and filmed a 384-minute TV series "918 Major Case Records" . The TV series was divided into eight episodes. There were no actors in it, and all real police officers participated in the filming.

This TV series is not fictional. The protagonist Liu Nongjun, who is known as the world's number one thief king, is indeed a real person. The major crimes he committed involved an amount of 600 million. In New China, where the per capita monthly salary is dozens of yuan, this figure is shocking enough. Everyone.

In order to arrest this thief king, the police used almost all the local police force at that time, and then they barely managed to bring him to justice. So what ability did the thief king Liu Nongjun have to commit crimes under the nose of the police and yet escape?

Liu Nongjun was born in 1964, and his hometown is in a village in Wuhan, Hubei Province. ’s family background is not considered petty bourgeoisie, but he can still make ends meet, especially his parents who love this child deeply.

As long as Liu Nongjun asked, his parents would definitely do their best. This kind of doting has reached the extreme. Fortunately, Liu Nongjun is smart enough. He can learn everything since he was a child, and his grades are among the best in the class.

Liu Nongjun is not only smart in mind, but also physically stronger and more flexible than his peers. He can climb to the top of a six-meter-tall elm tree in a flash and perform various dangerous actions on it. His movements are more flexible than that of a monkey.

Liu Nongjun

As the saying goes, his parents' doting on him was entirely out of the hope that Liu Nongjun would be able to honor his ancestors when he grew up. People around him also praised him a lot, and gradually Liu Nongjun's mentality also changed.

With his inexperience in the world and his child's natural rebelliousness, Liu Nongjun's initial enjoyment gradually evolved into arrogance, which resulted in his disgust towards the people around him. He often fantasized that he could accomplish great things in the future.

Not only that, Liu Nongjun's vanity also gradually emerged. If he has a favorite toy, he will ask his parents for it. It's okay once or twice, but often his parents can't support it.

Liu Nongjun stills

Liu Nongjun started to have evil thoughts. This was also his first time to "commit a crime". As a teenager, he tried to divert the boss's attention in a toy store, and then took away the toy he wanted in an instant.

did not have monitoring at that time, and the boss did not notice that one item was missing until he ordered the goods.

After taking the toy home, Liu Nongjun's parents also guessed that it was either stolen or robbed, but they didn't take it to heart at all. How much sin can a child "touch" a small toy have?

But this incident was of great significance to Liu Nongjun. He discovered that what he liked was not the toys in his hands at all, but the pleasure of trying his best to steal the toys. His evil personality has taken over everything in him since then.

More importantly, this "committing crime" made him feel very relaxed about stealing. He did not feel that this matter was disgraceful. Instead, he felt that his parents had acknowledged his behavior. That thief A small touch doesn't matter at all.

As the saying goes, you see what you grow up from childhood, The character and temper of childhood often affect a person's life.

Although Liu Nongjun was not a good boy, he had to say that he was indeed very smart. At that time, he easily passed the college entrance examination to the local public security school in Wuhan, and his major was criminal investigation.

Public Security School

You must know that the public security school was not easy to pass at that time. It can be said that it is only one in a thousand, especially the criminal investigation major.

But is it really a good thing for a born thief to enter the public security system?

In school, it is more convenient for Liu Nongjun to study theft. One of the subjects he studied was called criminal psychology . Liu Nongjun was very obsessed with this subject, and his grades were among the best in the class.

Liu Nongjun's second hobby in the public security school was reading, and he only read one book called "Criminal Yearbook". This book was published internally by the public security system and could not be seen by the outside world.

The contents of the "Criminal Yearbook" are all major and important cases across the country over the years. It contains very detailed records from crime to detection to interrogation.

"Criminal Yearbook"

It can be said that this book is quite to Liu Nongjun's appetite. Although he learned a lot of experience in committing crimes, he does not look down on these methods of committing crimes at all. Every time he reads a paragraph, he will sigh contemptuously: " Real food! "

And Liu Nongjun is destined not to stay in Public Security University for too long. Liu Nongjun, who doesn't steal anything, even feels a little itchy.

It happened that his parents did not send him any money for a month, Liu Nongjun committed a crime in the school, stole two police headlights and sold them to exchange for money.

But this was a public security school, and it didn’t take long for Liu Nongjun to be caught. But the amount involved was too small to convict him, so the school expelled him as punishment.

's great future was ruined, but Liu Nongjun didn't think so.

Liu Nongjun originally planned to be a "wild thief", but in order to save face for his parents, he picked up books again and was admitted to Jianghan University that year.

At Jianghan University, Liu Nongjun was not idle. After learning his first lesson, he decided not to do it himself while at school, but instead trained a group of "underlings", that is, local gangsters, and taught them theft techniques. .

With the blessing of "technology", the little gangster can return home with a full load every time, and then "dividend" to Liu Nongjun. Although Liu Nongjun did not do it himself, this made him feel extremely proud and satisfied.

It was at that time that the title of "The Number One Thief King in the World" was born. Liu Nongjun himself was also very popular. The local gangsters saw Liu Nongjun as if they were seeing a god.

A few years later, Liu Nongjun graduated from college. Because he had hardly done any stealing in the past few years, his family felt that he had embarked on the right path. But in fact, it was because Liu Nongjun had learned to "build plank roads openly and build warehouses secretly."

At that time, the country was founded In the past thirty years, construction was going on vigorously, and cultural things such as antiques had not yet been freed up to manage, but Liu Nongjun was the first to discover "business opportunities."

News reports from that year

In the past, Liu Nongjun only knew that gold was valuable, but he never expected that a good antique would be worth dozens of times more than gold.

Liu Nongjun immediately began to learn antique knowledge and locked himself in the room all day long. His parents were relieved to think that their son had enlightened and planned to study archeology.

After studying day and night, two years later, Liu Nongjun's level of appreciation of cultural relics reached the level of Dacheng. It is a pity that was not used in the right way.

At that time, there were many cultural relics among the people, some real and some fake. Many people would collect cultural relics from the private sector at low prices and then resell them. A cultural relic might be resold more than three times. eventually fell into the "industrial chain" of Hong Kong or Macau. .

But Liu Nongjun's routine is different. As long as there is a cultural relic that he likes, he will hardly miss it. He will steal it directly when others are not prepared, and then go to Hong Kong and Macau to take action. The whole process can be said to be zero cost.

Museum

Of course, his approach is very dangerous. You must know that the Hong Kong underworld is not so easy to deal with. Killing the goose to obtain the egg often happens. But Liu Nongjun is quite shrewd. He often tricks the other party around and eventually takes the money and leaves.

His methods put many Hong Kong gangsters to shame, and they all called him a "human computer." But gradually, Liu Nongjun discovered that these folk cultural relics were either seriously damaged or not very profitable, which made the greedy Liu Nongjun evil. Be brave.

When it comes to treasures, they must be lying in museums. Liu Nongjun also noticed this. He began to target various local museums and recruited teammates who were good "business" players he had known.

At the same time, he began to learn legal knowledge and the history of museums, including the topography of major museums, the number of front doors, back doors, and security equipment used in many museums. Liu Nongjun just talked about it, so he studied it. nearly two years.

In the end, Liu Nongjun set his sights on the Kaifeng Museum . This museum was actually very difficult to steal, but the quality of the cultural relics inside was also the best. Liu Nongjun firmly believed in the principle of finding wealth through danger, so he decided to give it a try.

Kaifeng Museum

A bold plan was instantly generated in Liu Nongjun's mind. In addition to himself, Liu Nongjun found three other recidivists. The huge profits made several people's brains congested. You must know that if it succeeds, several people will be deprived of food and clothing for the rest of their lives. It’s not an exaggeration to worry.

It is worth mentioning that among the friends of , there is a man named Liu Jin. This man only dug a small hole and stole an old scalper without anyone noticing. is called "theft" on the road. "God", but he is perverse and neurotic.

Although Liu Jin is capable, Liu Nongjun is the initiator of this operation, and Liu Nongjun is more skilled, and he is calm and calm in situations, so he naturally became the boss of several people. After people gathered together, they also started The first step of action.

First of all, Liu Nongjun took an accomplice to "check out the sites". Each time he took different accomplices to conduct the inspection in several times. used the "Middle and Lower Yellow River Seminar" as an excuse to conduct "reconnaissance".

In addition, he also gave himself the pseudonym "Chennault" and claimed that he was a university professor. These were all leaks from Liu Nongjun's early days.

Liu Nongjun

But it was precisely these flaws that were not suspected by the security personnel. Instead, they introduced the museum's security equipment to him without reservation. After several visits, Liu Nongjun found that the biggest difficulty was the infrared alarms around the cultural relics.

He also mapped the topography of the Kaifeng Museum, including the location of the infrared detector , using the knowledge learned by the police, and developed a crime route and multiple evacuation routes.

In order to deal with infrared detectors, he bought one at home and tested it with cloths of various materials. Finally, he found that red velvet red cloth could effectively block the infrared rays emitted by the detector.

Infrared laser detector

For this crime, Liu Nongjun took great pains. He instigated his accomplices in advance to steal a white Santana and hid the car near the crime site for running around.

On September 17, 1992, when the night was dark and windy, Liu Nongjun and four other people began to commit the crime. According to the plan, Liu Nongjun and another accomplice were secretly commanding the lookout outside and were ready to respond at any time. The other two accomplices sneaked into the Kaifeng Museum to commit the crime.

White Santana

The accomplices in the room, under the calm guidance of Liu Nongjun, committed the crime very smoothly. The infrared detector was also covered with red velvet, and it suddenly became scrap metal.

Within an hour, the four people worked together to transport 68 cultural relics. Liu Nongjun was also very knowledgeable. The stolen cultural relics included national first-class, second-class and national treasure-level cultural relics. He ordered his accomplices not to touch those of lesser value. , to avoid leaving fingerprints.

After loading the cultural relics into the car, several people hid the stolen goods first. Liu Nongjun asked them to go back to their homes first, and told Liu Jin, who drove away last: "Be sure to dispose of the car on the road, throw it into a river, or blow it up."

But this white Santana became an important clue for the police to solve the case.

The next morning, September 18, the museum employees went to work as usual. When they opened the door, they couldn't help but gasped for air-conditioning. Dozens of cabinets were swept away, but the scene was not a mess. It can be seen that Liu Nongjun Several people are very purposeful.

Dozens of cabinets were swept away

The staff called several security guards on duty. The security guards had no idea what happened last night because there was no movement at all. At the same time, the staff also reported the case to the police.

This case was not an ordinary petty theft. The police were shocked when they arrived at the scene. They immediately escalated the case and invited Wu Heping, the then famous director of the Public Security Bureau, to take charge.

Who is Wu Heping? He was a well-known criminal investigation expert before he became the director of public security, and he also wrote novels based on the cases he had experienced. He is as interested in theft as Liu Nongjun, but the difference is that Wu Heping is It's to catch thieves.

Wu Heping

Wu Heping mobilized more than 200 police officers to set up a task force. This was almost the first time since the founding of the People’s Republic of China that so many police forces were mobilized for a case. This also attracted the attention of the national media. This news was uploaded to the society of overwhelming.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves. Even Liu Nongjun did not expect that this short one-hour crime would lead to such a big "page".

When the police extracted information at the scene, they found that only two people had committed the theft. Based on the analysis of the footprints, the height and weight of the two people gradually became clear, but these were far from enough to solve the case.

Museum

Wu Heping immediately took measures and issued a reward order on TV. The reward for important information was 50,000 yuan, which was enough to replace a Xiali at the time.

This trick really worked. A nearby worker provided an important clue. That night, he saw a suspicious white Santana on the north wall of the Baofukeng gas station on Zhongkeng South Ring Road. What was even more suspicious was this car. The license plate turned out to be a military license plate starting with K.

White Santana

Wu Heping immediately detached a part of the police force to search for the vehicle, and continued to search for clues himself. At the crime scene, actually the greater difficulty was the interference of various information, such as why the museum's police dog did not play a role that night, and the detection on the detector. red cloth.

Even many police officers believed that the red cloth was simply to provoke the police, but Wu Heping had a new idea. He gathered the crime tools left at the scene, including glass knives , to find manufacturers and sales channels.

finally targeted Wuhan through precise positioning. This can be said to be half the success. then the police began to investigate the information of Wuhan accommodation personnel. At that time, they did not focus on the white Santana.

The police believed that the thief would not be stupid enough to still drive the car after committing the crime, but exactly three months after the crime, plainclothes accidentally saw this white Santana with military plates on the street.

Why did Liu Nongjun ask Liu Jin to get rid of the vehicle, but this vehicle still appeared on the street?

It turned out that Liu Jin was a man who was greedy for petty gains. He felt that it would be a pity to destroy such a good car, so he drove back to Wuhan and took a different woman out every day to have fun.

Liu Nongjun and his accomplices

were unable to find the vehicle without any effort, so they followed the white Santana all the way to the customs gate.

In the end, the police found the car near the customs gate, but the people inside were missing, and the person who escaped by chance was Liu Jin.

Originally Liu Jin had escaped, but in one move he fell into a trap. As a young man, he actually asked another accomplice, Yang Changming, to ask the police for information about this car. This shows how much he loves this Santana.

The police directly followed the lead and arrested Yang Changming. Yang Changming also explained the entire process of the case, and the name of the thief leader Liu Nongjun also surfaced.

But Liu Nongjun is indeed very capable of counter-reconnaissance, and he was also the last one of the four to be arrested. On the day of 's arrest, Liu Nongjun had just sold stolen goods in Macau, and hid in Qingdao to prepare to go abroad for plastic surgery.

In this way, the four-month investigation ended, and the 918 major case was successfully solved.

Liu Nongjun and several others were captured by the police.

The police recovered 67 cultural relics in Macau with the information provided by Liu Nongjun. One of them had been lost overseas and could not be recovered. Due to the seriousness of the case, Liu Nongjun and four other people were sentenced to death in the following year. .

After being arrested, Liu Nongjun was still brooding about the case he committed, and proudly said: "If it weren't for that idiot Liu Jin, you would never have caught me!"

Director Wu Heping learned that Liu Nongjun was a former police officer When he was a student at the school, he also admitted that he was a talent, but it was a pity that he had not taken the right path, otherwise he would have been a capable policeman.

Court

On the day Liu Nongjun was shot, he also left the world forever holding his title of "the best thief king in the world", but he had just turned 29 that year.

Such a young person has a smart mind but made a huge mistake. It is a pity that people can't help but sigh that "poor people must be hateful."

But having said that, is only 29 years old and enjoys stealing. This shows the importance of family education . As the saying goes, don’t do evil for small things. If Liu Nongjun’s parents understand this sentence, Liu Nongjun’s life may be saved.