Hebei Serial Murder Case: A shoemaker raped and murdered 24 women in 3 years and raised the victim’s daughter. What happened next?

“Man’s nature is inherently good at the beginning.” Throughout the ages, people have always believed in the theory of good nature, but Xunzi, the spokesperson of Confucianism at the end of the Warring States Period, also proposed the “theory of evil nature.” The "evil nature theory" mentioned by Xunzi does not mean that human nature is inherently evil, but that the essence of human nature is "original and simple" natural human nature that does not matter whether it is good or evil. It has the possibility of developing into evil as well as good. possible.

Wu Jianchen, the murderer of a serial murder case in Baoding, Hebei Province in the 1990s, profoundly embodies this point.

In 1958, Wu Jianchen was born in a small village in Baoding County, Hebei. At that time, most children from poor families had few opportunities to study. Wu Jianchen, too, dropped out of school before graduating from elementary school. During adolescence, most children are in an ignorant stage and are shy when getting along with the opposite sex, but Wu Jianchen is very different. He often peeks at women in the same village bathing and using the toilet. He was caught many times and was beaten many times by his father. He scolded and refused to change despite repeated admonishment. He still went his own way and continued his despicable behavior.

Perhaps due to the lack of effective education, when he grew up, not only did he not restrain himself, but he intensified his behavior. In 1978, he was finally caught peeping on women going to the toilet many times and was sentenced to two years of reeducation through labor for being a hooligan. However, there was still little success and he did not repent. In 1983, the crackdown was even stricter and he was sentenced to several years in prison for molesting women.

After he was released from prison, Wu Jianchen seemed to have learned well. Although he still idled around all day, he did not return to his previous bad habits. His parents were so happy that they gave him a shoe repair shop. Stall, hoping he starts a new life. In this way, he became a shoemaker.

However, what is unexpected is that these are just his disguises. The lay people pretended to be honest, but in fact they went too far and did even more irritating things.

In 1990, Wu Jianchen committed a crime for the first time. He met a woman on the road, became lustful and violated her. In order to prevent the woman from reporting the crime, he brutally murdered the woman and dumped her body in the wilderness. In the end, although the police found the body but not his head, he managed to escape death.

The first time he committed a crime without being discovered, he tasted the sweetness and fueled the devil in his heart. From then on, he started committing crimes continuously.

In May 1993, the police station received a report from a 20-year-old named Wang Li. According to her recollection, she arrived at Baoding Railway Station in the afternoon and originally wanted to take the train to Qinghai for work, and then she met Wu Jianchen by chance. Wu Jianchen said that he was the foreman of a large clothing factory and was recruiting female workers. On the pretext of introducing a job, he lured her to the wild, then took out the dagger he had on him and threatened and assaulted her. Wu Jianchen did not kill anyone immediately, but first took the valuables from Wang Li's luggage, and Wang Li took this opportunity to escape quickly. Because Wu Jianchen was bow-legged, he was unable to catch up with Wang Li.

On August 30, a female body was found in a cornfield. On the morning of September 22, a female body was found in a ditch at a skydiving training ground. She was also raped and then murdered, with the same modus operandi. On October 13, a female body was found in Xincheng County. On October 27, a female body was found in Qingyuan County. The next day, another female body was found in the county. The cause of death was exactly the same as that of the female body that had appeared before.

Wu Jianchen’s crime frequency is getting higher and higher, and the time intervals are getting shorter and shorter.

With the help of the physical characteristics of the perpetrator provided by Wang Li when she reported the crime, the police spent a long time at the train station and finally found a person who matched all the characteristics of the suspect in November. The police swarmed and caught him in one fell swoop.

During the subsequent interrogation, Wu Jianchen never admitted his criminal behavior. The police proposed to use DNA testing, and Wu Jianchen had already confessed truthfully. From Wu Jianchen’s mouth, we learned that from 1990 to 1993, he committed 28 crimes in one incident, killed 24 girls in the country, and even raised the daughter of one victim in his own home.

At the end of 1994, Wu Jianchen was shot.

Wu Jianchen violated 28 women and then brutally killed them. His viciousness is difficult to describe. But not all 28 women were killed. Four women escaped, but only the last woman to escape, Wang Li, went to the police. I can’t imagine that without Wang Li, many innocent women would have been brutally treated by her.

Women are much inferior to men in strength, which is why girls are taught to protect themselves since childhood. However, to avoid the occurrence of tragedies and promote social progress, we cannot rely solely on women's self-protection. We must also do a good job in educating boys. As for girls’ education, it can’t just be about “protecting yourself”. It also requires the courage to take up legal weapons and fight against evil forces.