On October 4, 65438, Hunan’s “Corpse Burial Case in the Playground” once again appeared on the hot search list, with 120 million views. Information from the Hunan Provincial People's Procuratorate's official website and official WeChat account 1.3 show that the procuratorial system conducted an in-depth analysis and seriously investigated the "playground burial case" that had been sealed for 16 years, and filed a case against five judicial department staff who had neglected their duties. All 24 people involved in the lawsuit were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment or above. This case was included in the 2021 work report of the Supreme People's Procuratorate and was selected as a classic case.
On the same day, Deng Ling, the daughter of the victim Deng Shiping, announced on the Internet platform, "Over the years, I have never been able to find my father. Under various difficulties and the most difficult circumstances, I brought him Locked in the office, crying by the bedside.”
Three years have passed since Deng Shiping’s body was exhumed and the first criminal Du was executed. In a few days, it will be the 19th anniversary of Deng Shiping's death. For Deng Ling, this news represents the complete end of the case.
On March 26, the six-episode political and cultural feature film "Cracking Down on Gangsters and Evil—For the Prosperity of the Country and the Safety of the People", led by the National Anti-Pornography and Anti-Illegal Affairs Office and produced by CCTV, was launched. The first episode of the feature film tells the story behind the corpse burial case in a playground in Xinhuang, Hunan. Deng Ling, the daughter of victim Deng Shiping, left the country for the first time and recalled her growing experience from writing letters to Supervisory Team 16 to seeing her father's body exhumed in the playground.
After the feature film was broadcast, the "Corpse Burial Case in the Playground" once again attracted attention. On March 28, a reporter from Red Star TV called Deng Ling, the daughter of the victim Deng Shiping, and Zhou Zhaocheng, the defense lawyer for the relatives of the victim in the "playground burial case". Deng Ling said that since her father was buried in the Longevity Garden of the Tang Dynasty in Changsha, Hunan Province on March 24 last year, the whole family has long returned to a peaceful daily life. However, this time she went abroad to be interviewed for a feature film, she just did not expect to encounter the same misfortune as her father.
The feature film "Eradicating Evil - For the Prosperity of the Country and the Safety of the People" was released. On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2003, Deng Shiping went to work at Xinhuang No. 1 Middle School as usual. From that day on, Deng Ling never saw her father again. In the following 16 years, Deng Ling's grandfather, grandmother, mother, relatives and friends all wrote letters of complaint, hoping to investigate the case, but no results were obtained from beginning to end. Until 2019, the Central Anti-Pornography and Anti-Illegal Affairs 16 Supervision Team was stationed in Hunan. On April 30, Deng Ling wrote a letter of accusation to the Central Supervision Group.
On May 31, 2065, the police in Huaihua, Hunan Province announced the prosecution of Du's case of burying the body in the playground. In the feature film, Tang Shengli, director of the National Anti-Pornography Office, introduced in detail, "Relatives of the deceased Deng Shiping wrote to the inspection team to report (the situation). After receiving clues about the case, the central inspection team hopes that Hunan Province will speed up the review and organize the backbone. Regulations The city must solve the case as soon as possible.”
Peng Guofu, the former mayor of Huaihua Municipal Committee, revealed that many people did not expect the investigation at the time, thinking that it would damage Huaihua’s brand image, and even Peng Guofu himself would be dragged into the vortex of public opinion. But at the time he said he would check it out.
The staff members who were investigating the case at the time also revealed that when it was gradually excavated on June 19, everyone was very uneasy. The excavation began gradually at 8 a.m. that day and continued until 9 p.m. The entire day and night of excavation did not find anything at all. It was not until around 5 noon the next day that the police found the human head and human bones under the stadium. Later, during re-excavation, almost all the bones were found.
“After digging for a day and a night, I felt uneasy at home. At about 5 p.m., everyone suddenly gathered around me, and I began to feel anxious. At that time, everyone was shouting, and I was still crying hoarsely. I was Think, Dad, let me take you out." Deng Ling's memory.
In order to seriously investigate and deal with the "evil forces" behind the case, the working group of the National Anti-Pornography and Anti-Illegal Affairs Office took turns stationed in Hunan to provide on-site supervision. The feature film mentioned that the "corpse burial case in the playground" shocked all parts of the country, and what was hidden underground was not only Deng Shiping's body, but also "personal relationships" that helped Du lie.16
On June 20, 2020, Du was executed for intentional injury, and the "evil forces" behind him were also brought to justice.