Girl went missing in boarding school, found dead in a LOCKED boy’s restroom 33 days later

[Music] bada bing badao the winters were brutal at the lynu boarding school in China by January it's usually around 20° fah it is dry frigid and the wind makes it feel even colder than it actually is so it probably feels like 10° Fahrenheit the sun sets really really early and sometimes the wind is so freaking strong it sounds like someone is outside your window just screaming at you this particular winter was probably the worst though because one of the most popular girls in the entire boarding school had gone missing the last person to see the missing student was her best friend Dei and I think that it's safe to say that Dee has not been the same since the day that her best friend gal vanished neither of them actually dormed at the boarding school because they both lived 10 minutes away from campus so it just didn't make sense to pay the boarding fees and their parents wanted them to stay home so that night of January 9th it's a Sunday night Dei sleeps over at ga's house this is their first ever sleepover and I guess both of them are busy staying up late enjoying each other's company neither of them woke up to their alarm the next morning so Monday morning alarm goes off they got to make it to school and they're sleeping in is this a middle school high school high school they're both 16 so instead ga's dad is shaking them awake like get up get up you're late come on start getting ready they check the time on the clock it is 6:00 a.m. in the morning they need to get to school by 6:15 they're throwing on their uniforms as fast as they can they're grabbing their textbooks shoving it into their backpacks they skip breakfast they run out the door without even properly saying goodbye to ga's parents they have exactly 15 minutes to get to school and get in line for the morning assembly side note about the morning assembly in China it is a very serious thing every single morning students have to stand in line next to their classmates on the campus field usually the line order is even determined so it's not like you can just sneak sneak in and stand at the end of the line it's by height the class president of each class is usually standing at the front regardless of their height you stand there at attention while the national anthem plays and the flag is being raised and then every single student runs a few laps around the campus okay this like jogging experience isn't really that fun I mean it's more enjoyable than taking an exam for example but this is the last thing that kids want to do at 6:15 in the morning especially in The Frigid cold winter of northeastern China it's like 10° outside they don't want to do this almost all the schools in China do these sort of laps around the campus the Chinese government makes some form of light exercise mandatory in all public schools the jogs typically range from a quar mile to 3/4 of a mile so it's not a marathon by any means but missing this assembly without a teacher approved reason is like the equivalent of skipping class GA and Dee decide to both just hop onto de's bike to save time they didn't even talk all the way to school it's like they blacked out just focused on getting to campus they end up reaching the edge of campus at exactly 6:13 a.m. and they know this because there's always a warning Bell of sorts that Rings 2 minutes before the assembly actually starts it's like a nice little hint get your ass to the assembly now but bikes are not allowed on the actual school campus so they have to get off of DD's bike and walk the bike to the designated bike location on campus then run to the field they got to do this in 2 minutes they're rushing when they finally make it after sprinting to the designated bike parking spot Dee's sweating her best friend gal is grabbing her purse and textbooks from the bike basket and she tells Dee she's going to head up to class her home room teacher gave her a pass to skip this morning's assembly because she's been sick for the past few days and it's outside in Winter Dei is like half listening she's chaining up her bike and then she's thinking wait I'm going to the assembly my best friend G is not going so she can just take my stuff up to the classroom so that I don't have to carry all of this to the assembly because I'm already late right this whole thought process is happening within like 3 seconds Dei turns around and she's like wait G she's gone they were standing in a pretty open area she just walked off like 2 seconds ago she isn't even walking off in the distance Dei literally can't see her anywhere she's gone just vanished into the morning fog it was weird but DD's like okay maybe she's sprinting that's odd Dee rushes to get the rest of her stuff and she makes it to the assembly Dee would not see gal the rest of the day which is normal since they don't have any classes together and they normally don't even cross paths with each other during like meal breaks so nothing is out of the ordinary at least not until class is over so the boarding school kids that dormed on the campus they go wash up they go to their dorms they've got strict rules that everybody has to be in bed at a certain time be knocked out by 10: p.m. meanwhile the non-boarding students they find their own rights home and de's out there waiting for G because she's thinking you know I'm the one that brought her to school so I should be the one to drop her off at school I can't just like leave her hanging so she's waiting she sees all the non-boarding kids walk out and gal's not there and de's kind of like poking her head around to see is she in the crowd and then a girl passes by this is a girl from gal's Home Room class and she's like what are you doing dee oh I I'm trying to wait and see if gal needs a ride home what she wasn't at school today Didi was so confused I literally just saw her I I was the one that dropped her off at school that's so strange so coupled with gal's random Vanishing act this morning Dei felt like she's losing her mind she almost started second guessing herself did I even come to school with gal this morning like maybe I was so sleep deprived that I hallucinated all of that wait but that doesn't even make sense gal would never come back to school she was officially missing some of the students at the boarding school thought gal ran off with some new boy from a different School others thought that she ran away to scare her parents into I don't know caring more about her giving her more allowance they all had their own little theories but I don't think that anyone was expecting that 33 days later ga's body would be found in the restricted area of the boarding school she would be found half naked brutally assaulted tortured murdered and even after she passed there was evidence that the killer or the killers continued to essay her corpse the boarding school was not only dealing with a killer now but a necrofilia she was found 30 ft away from the dorms in the main building and everyone in that school staff teachers students her boyfriend her best friend the class presidents they would all become [Music] Suspects [Music] we would like to thank today's sponsors who have made it possible for rotten mango to support the Innocence Project the leading nonprofit in Criminal Justice Reform they've been working for over three decades to free the innocent prevent wrongful convictions and create Fair compassionate and Equitable systems of justice for every one this episode's Partnerships have also made it possible to support rotten mingo's growing team of dedicated researchers translators while they focus on shedding light on stories from all over the world we'd also like to thank you guys for your continued support as we work on our mission to be worthy Advocates of these causes and as always show notes are available at Rotten Mingo podcast.com today's case happened in China we had our Mandarin speaking researchers and translator help with Gathering of the data on this one but if there is anything that's Lost in Translation miscommunicated or if you have any additional information please let us know in the comments now just one quick disclaimer before we get started almost everyone involved in this case was given an alias so we don't actually know any of the witnesses real names and a lot of the alias' surnames were really similar or if not the same so just to avoid any confusion we will be giving them aliases of our own so with that being said let's get into it the man was sitting down watching TV this is like the only time during the day that he can truly escape and just forget about everything that's going on in his life if he had a choice he probably would not be watching this particular Channel he was not really a true crime fan but there were a ton of other people in the room with him and so it's not really up to him so he sits there watching this true crime documentary the focus was on a high school boarding student who went missing years ago there were so many twists and turns in her case it made for a good documentary until they finally caught the killer he was a man who read a horror story and got so inspired by this fictional creepy story about murder death and lust that he wanted to recreate the same exact scene with a real life person he wanted to participate in sa torture and necrofilia and the man watching the TV he was the man that they were talking about he was watching from prison just 5 years ago the lynu boarding school was in full chaos I mean concerned parents are calling the school some students are transferring to new safer schools classes are being interrupted as police officers are rushing through the main building going room by room dorm by dorm searching for 16-year-old missing gal they're checking the closets they're checking under the beds they even search the teachers dorm rooms but something about the search it felt like the police wor looking for a body and for whatever reason they believe that g the missing student was still on campus now ga's parents they're very wealthy so the police are going to leave no stone unturned so gal's dad he's a prominent business owner who owned this mechanical company but he also has a strong political influence he served as a representative of the people's Congress in ly y so the fact that his daughter is missing like this is a big deal and gal she was the flower girl in her class out of all the girls in school a lot of the students said she was top three in terms of how pretty she was so like the flower girl in Chinese schools refers to a girl that is not only the prettiest in class which she's usually very smart usually comes from a good family and she has no idea that she's the flower girl most of the time or maybe she just doesn't have call it class flower or School flower the school flower yeah she was the school flower she was smart which is important her parents were wealthy and prominent she just had everything and side note she's not spoiled or rebellious by any means like so don't think like a neppo baby her family actually had a chauffeur full-time chauffeur GW never got chauffeur to school she's like that's kind of dumb because then I would have to sit in traffic for 15 20 minutes but if I just rode my bike I'd be at campus in like 10 minutes so no I I don't need to sit in this fancy car Dad and that's just who gal was and she was very likable and very very responsible of a person and her parents were very present in her life so they're not just like these wealthy business owners that have no idea what's going on in gal's life on January 10th the day that gal vanished gal's parents were very quick to notice that things were weird this is the day of so every single day without fail gal would come home for their lunch break at 12:20 p.m. that day she didn't come home she didn't even call to tell her parents that she was going to stay behind and study or anything this is very unlike her gaal's house staff they noticed that her food was getting cold so they called gaal's Dad who's at work and they're like hey we don't know what to do she's not here is it because she didn't bring her bike to school so maybe she can't come home for lunch because no one can give her a ride so in that case should we send the driver to go pick her up and the dad's like you know it's a little weird but she's a 16-year- old you know and she's at school maybe she's having lunch with someone at school it's no big deal you know what forget about it we'll talk about it over dinner they hang up now this part was shocking but the boarding school ends class actually at around uh 9:20 p.m. so they get a really long lunch and that's why gal goes home for lunch but they've got these nighttime classes study sessions where you can get homework done and it officially ends at 9:20 p.m. G was always home at 9:30 p.m. on the dot every single night like she is a creature of habit she's got a routine that she sticks to 9:30 p.m. on the dot she would walk in the staff or her parents would have a glass of warn milk on the table for her she would grab it walk into her room exhausted and start changing at 9:40 p.m. 10 minutes after she's supposed to be home ga's dad makes it out to the kitchen area and he stops dead in his tracks when he sees on the table is the glass of milk maybe it's Father's intuition we don't know but he felt that something was very very very wrong he went out looking for his missing daughter and then the next day something really odd happened so gaal's still not home nobody's seen her in school he has no answers he starts searching gal's room looking for anything any sort of clue right or something that could Point him in the right direction of where his daughter could be because nobody's helping everyone's like I don't know I just didn't see her DD's like I dropped her off and then I was running to the assembly and she vanished he's Scavenging through her room and he finds a folded up piece of paper it's got a phone number and an address on there he does not recognize this address but it's in sheo County which is about 200 mil away to get there that's like a 3 and 1/ half hour drive ga's dad gets in the car and he starts driving for 3 and 1/2 hours he keeps wondering to himself what is my daughter doing with this kind of address like this is not a you know you're 16 you don't just drive 3 and 1/2 hours you don't just take public transportation and get somewhere 200 Mi away when he pulls up to the address he Parks the car looks out the window and he's like is this the right place it's a barbecue restaurant not even a famous one it's just like a random hole-in-the-wall barbecue restaurant G's dad goes inside and talks to the owners the owner's daughter actually knew G and said you know GA is actually talking to one of my guy friends at my school they had met onine and that's how I know gal but they've never actually met in person and I don't think they've even spoken on the phone in the past few months that's all the information he got yeah but why would she have the address on the paper exactly so it's the question of did she not throw away the restaurant address why did she have it in the first place did she plan on going to meet him or was there something going on with this boy like what what's going on is this where she came the day that she went missing gao's dad didn't really know what to make of this but he knew that he needed to find his daughter right so he posted a $42,000 reward for anyone who could help locate his daughter this is a crazy amount of money in this local town I mean it's a crazy amount of money anywhere but the average monthly salary in this town was around $116 the reward is $42,000 a bowl of noodles only costs about7 for this town $42,000 is life-changing money it's not even retirement money it's generational wealth money side note it's actually so much money that there was a heated discussion in the community about the wealth Gap because of how much WoW the reward was yeah I'm sure it's even more now if you factor in inflation cuz this took place in 2005 so with that amount of money on the line I mean a lot of tips are coming in all sorts of crazy plots conspiracies shadowy figures organizations lots of people throwing random ideas out there but for some reason ga's par parents they feel like someone in that school knows what happened to their daughter it's not going to be some random person in the community it's going to be someone in that school February 11th 2005 janitor lamb was walking down the empty Halls of this boarding school the dorms the classrooms the hallways they're all empty which I don't know maybe it's more peaceful maybe it's more eerie I'm not sure the students at all gone home for Lunar New Year break they're all due to come back in just 4 days so it's janitor Lamb's job to get the entire School cleaned up before school is back in session so that's why he's in school on the third day of Lunar New Year that year typically this is a big celebratory day that he's supposed to spend with family but instead he's walking through the hallways trying to figure out what needs to be cleaned there typically isn't too too much to clean in the boarding school the students in China are mostly in charge of maintaining their own classrooms and their own dorms but the shared spaces so the hallways the restrooms that's where janitor lamb is going to focus on today and he just had this sneaking suspicion that the old restrooms the out of service restrooms are going to be the hardest part to clean now I'm going to quickly give you the lay of the land the main building is the academic building as they call it it's five stories high and it consist of all the classrooms teachers offices and about half of the dorms so it's a mixed used building then on campus you have another building that's got a few other offices and rooms but it mainly serves as a primary dorm building and I believe that's where all the girls are and of course you've got the basketball court the the field the parking lots all of that but the academic main building is the one that we're going to focus on today so each floor of that building has old and new restrooms most of the old bathrooms in the building are considered restricted and students are not allowed to use them anymore but you are allowed to go in and use the sink which makes it sound like it's not that restricted right but let me give you some context so the bathroom layout is a bit different from what we're using used to you know how in most public restrooms you walk in and there are a few sinks out in the open then you have almost this hallway of toilet stalls that are lined up next to each other on either side and then you have to walk out of that little hallway out of the stall to wash your hands well at this school the old restrooms had that but they also had a door blocking the actual restroom stalls from the sinks okay so separate the hand washing and the actual toilet yeah and it's like a full-size door so you know it's not going to have the giant Gap at the bottom or the top like it's like a full fullframe door where every part is covered so if you want to use the restroom you would have to open that door and then you would be facing all of the toilet stalls and because that door is there and all the toilets are out of order due to water pressure issues the janitors they went through and they padlocked all of the doors that lead into the toilet stalls so truly you can only go in and use the sinks you can't even go hang out in the toilet stalls it's padlocked well well before the break the students considered the sink area of the old bathrooms their personal closet their personal trash can so before break everyone's like go clean your dorms and the kids are like you know what I'm going to go just dump all of my trash in the sink area of the bathrooms that's what they were doing so I mean I guess you could argue that they thought it was okay most of the trash were do you know what wheat husk is in Korea we have these pillows as well where they're like almost grain pillows yeah yeah yeah like like dry weed type of pillow yeah yes so they would have all of that stuffed in their pillow and I guess they're trying to get rid of it before the break is over cuz the teachers are like get rid of your pillow stuffing so they threw a bunch of the pillow stuffing down the sink cuz they're like oh this is organic matter it should be okay it was a little odd so janitor lamb starts cleaning and his cooworker janitor hang so the these are the two janitors that manage the entire campus right uh janitor Hong told him hey if it's messy in the old bathrooms again like it is every time before a break just throw everything out the window what it's a little odd but bear with him janitor hang is saying most of the time they're throwing away like the wheat straws the wheat husks right it's organic matter so just sweep it all up into a broom and then throw it out the bathroom window since it's a little odd since all of the bathrooms are on the same spot on each floor plan of every single floor there's no other windows beneath the old bathrooms so instead of like lugging around a giant trash bag and then like putting in the weed husk just throw it at the window we can have a pile at the bottom of the window on the ground floor outside I will funnel it into these trash bags and then go take it to the dump site okay I mean that makes sense yeah so janitor Hong is like Hey whenever you get a chance during break go in and do that and then before school starts I'll come in and clear up all the debris janitor lamb goes in alone and he starts you know it's it's an efficient idea he thinks okay this is smart so he starts going from bathroom to bathroom now here's the thing the window is at the opposite restricted area so you know how that door leads to the toilet stalls and then at the very end is the window there's no other window so he has to unlock every single padlock and then drag it through the toilet stalls and then out the window janitor lamb gets to work on the old's bathroom on the first floor it was messy just like they suspected and once he was done he made his way up to the old restroom on the second floor and then the third he gathered up all the trash around the sink area on the third floor old restroom but when he went to go unlock the padlock to get to the window it's not opening and he's like oh my gosh is this the wrong key he tries another key and then another key because he has one of those like stereotypical janitor keys where it's just like 50 million keys and he tries every single one of his keys and none of them are working and none of this is making sense janitor lamb had been the one personally the one to install all of these metal padlocks in the restrooms and he distinctly remembered adding a key onto this keychain this is the only keychain chain he has and he's standing there for a brief moment hands on his hips confused like is there some sort of glitch in the universe this is so odd but then he notices wait that's not the padlock that I left it's a different padlock maybe it's a different brand maybe it looks different he's like I just know that's not the one that I had so who would do that why would they take away my padlock how would they even get my padlock open and then replace it with their own padlock H yeah they have to remove it first yeah and he's like okay weird but maybe janitor Hong replaced it because it broke or something and he just forgot to tell me who knows janitor lamb went to the storage room and found a pair of pliers he runs back to the old restroom on the third floor and starts working to break off the metal lock he gets it open in maybe like 3 4 minutes the door slowly creaks open and the toilet area somehow has been completely trashed this restricted area that nobody's allowed in is trashed the area is filled with random junk pieces of wood clothing fabric glass unwanted papers empty water bottle Lids plastic bags random empty tubes of toothpaste but even through all this trash janitor lamb could see at the very last stall near the end sticking out from the stall was just a pair of white pale legs on the ground and they were not moving once he processes that information he u-turns it out of there and starts running down the hallway the school is so empty he keeps running all the way to the teachers offices just in hopes that some of the teachers had come into to work to prepare for the kids coming back soon after break he runs to the other side of the building swings open the teacher's office door and they're like what is going on there's like one teacher in there you look like you've seen a ghost he gets two teachers he's like we need to find everybody else he gets two teachers to come back to the third floor restricted restroom with him and he's like okay maybe the pair of legs are gone now now right that would be the best case scenario maybe I thought someone is dead but it's just all a harmless prank or maybe it's like a drunk student that somehow got into the restricted area passed out I opened the door and then they got up and walked off right the legs were still there an emergency call was placed at 2:04 p.m. from the boarding school because it was Lunar New Year only one police officer was able to make it out to the school the School faculty rushed him into the restroom and on the third stall on the left there was a dead body the body belonged to gating the 16-year-old student who was missing since January 10th for over a month students at lynu second High School were studying and living amongst a dead body for 33 days she had been in the restricted restroom on the third floor just 30 ft away from the dorm rooms she was found in the bathroom stall face down naked from the waist down above her waist she was wearing a two-layer thermal bra the rest of her clothes clothing was off but someone had wrapped her torso in like a white plastic bag and around her neck was her scarf the scarf was still tied very tightly around her and it looked like someone did or tried to strangle her with her own scarf the bottom half of GAO was covered in dirt underneath gao's body was a red puffer jacket her blue Kashmere sweater and a red pole it looked like a mop handle without the mop head so like think of like a broomstick and all over the bathroom stall there was just a ton of blood there was blood on the clothes on the walls on the floor some of the dried blood stains had hair clumps of hair just dried up in it just going off forensics and the Damage Done to Yao's body a really just strange dark picture starts to emerge so ga is found naked from the waist down someone strangled her with her own scarf G's left cheek had four visible finger indentations on them so it looked like someone had either slapped gal with so much force that it left an imprint on the side of her face or it looked like someone was grabbing her face like gripping her face her skin had abrasions and bruising all over her face and in the center of her forehead she had a wound that contained tiny glass fragments inside most of the injuries were on her forehead and on the right side of her face near her temples it was clear that she put up a fight when forensics later unwrapped her from the white plastic bags she had these neat meticulous cuts on her torso there was a vertical incision on her stomach in between her breast so it started up in between her breasts like literally in the center of her torso and then it went all the way down to the top of her belly button it was about 7 in in length it's like they wanted it to be very very very straight there was another much shorter vertical cut right next to the main one and on ga's lower abdomen there was a fully open wound that went from underneath her belly button diagonally towards the right side of her groin it was deep you could basically see her internal organs from how deep it was and all over her thighs she had these smaller vertical and horizontal Cuts they were not as deep as the one on her abdomen but they were just like crisscrossing each other it is clear that whoever did this is very sadistic but it gets a bit stranger so initially authorities assumed that the essay was going to focus on a very specific region in her body like the one that you would immediately think of and they did find evidence of assault but they stated that her Heyman was still intact and they believed that there was no full penetration prior to death some experts stated that perhaps whoever did this had plans to assault her but then realized that he wasn't able to sustain the correct amount of blood flow down there and they theorized that someone wanted to assault her could not maintain the correct amount of blood flow got very angry and started punishing gal for his own capabilities by slicing up her body and ultimately strangling her with her own scarf another forensic detail that could maybe be used to bolster this theory is translated reports state that her private back region was in a quote open State and that the muscles around her region were quote loose this indicates that after her death gal had been essayed back there by foreign objects the reason being that if it happened before her death more likely than not her muscles would have contracted back to her normal resting state but they didn't because she's not alive wow authorities are pretty certain that the red broom handle that was found underneath her body was used so you're talking full-on necrofilia lastly there were red large red patches covering her waist thighs and butt everywhere and ga's belongings were also found in the restrooms her English textbooks were neatly placed on the left side of the toilet like stacked on top of each other and she had two textbooks so the bigger textbook was underneath the smaller textbook so it just felt very organized someone placed it there yeah and side note these are squatting toilets so they're less like a chair-shaped toilet but more like a more or less a hole in the floor with plumbing and her textbooks are found next to that on the floor her shoes are found pointing towards a wall side by side very neat almost like you take them off when you enter someone's home inside each shoe was a sock her shoe and her socks had dirt on them as if in some sort of fight she slipped off her shoes her socks got dirty and then someone organized it afterwards because there's no reason for someone to take off your shoes and your socks in a restroom but why would someone organize that afterward exactly as for her jeans they were found draped over the stall wall with dirt around the knee area now this is interesting but inside the toilet there were also other things so the toilets like I said there was water pressure issue nobody was flushing anything down this sewage line so they were found stuffed in the toilet but they weren't taken down into the septic tank there were four new plastic bags when they opened up one of the bags ga's underwear was found and a poem some sort of letter it was addressed to G and it reads if a drop of water represents a blessing I give you the East China Sea if a star symbolizes happiness I give you the Milky Way if a tree signifies a longing I give you a whole Forest if a stone embodies health I give you mount Tha may you receive my new year wishes I hope for your joy and happiness happy New Year and the name it's not signed so it's a love letter yeah that was wrapped up in the plastic bag with her underwear did they keep that they study the right handwriting cuz that's like stalker Behavior right yeah and gal would have died before Chinese New Year now gal's parents refused to pick her up from school they wanted answers and they wanted Justice and they beli the fact fastest way to get that was to leave her body on the third floor restroom for as long as possible there would be no way for the school to brush it under the rug or come up with some sort of excuses or move on with life as normal and I know some people might think that this sounds really callous like why would you want your loved one to be in that state for any longer like they need to be laid to rest right so we can all have our own opinions on this but it did get the job done there was immense pressure on the school the police department to figure out who did this to gal and they had four main suspects ga's boyfriend and the four male roommates that lived in a dorm 30 ft away from the restricted restroom to give you context that's like walking 12 steps 30 ft sounds that's 12 steps 12 steps away from the restroom let's start with Brian the boyfriend now those who knew the couple said Brian was uh not a great boyfriend technically GA could have any guy that she wanted in the school like you said it's a class flower she was the class Flower Boys from other classes would even go out of their way to walk past her classroom just to get a glimpse of her and yet Brian never treated her like a flower side note they are called boyfriend and girlfriend a lot in a lot of sources but for a lot of Chinese high schoolers they're usually not officially a boyfriend and girlfriend so dating in Chinese high schools might just means that they're talking to each other more than others they're sharing lunches and waiting for each other in the hallways but they don't really go on dates they don't really like do stuff outside of school so G and Brian they weren't getting along it speculated by classmates that Brian cheated on GA and dumped her for another girl so 2 to 3 weeks before ga's disappearance GA asked her class president so the president of her little classroom to pass a letter on to her boyfriend since he's not in the same class as her and I guess the class president read it and told some people about it because it was G scolding Brian about how he shouldn't play with her emotions and she doesn't like him being with other girls so you're saying the information was leaked yeah so their friends thought that gal was very very much into Brian but he was just this toxic toxic boy and he would hit on other girls knowing that GA would find out and gaal's mood would just swing back and forth depending on how her relationship was going they said it was very weird because Brian was the one that relentlessly pursued her but now they're together and he's honestly treating her like trash now another interesting detail is Ya's classroom is on the second floor she was found dead on the third floor where Brian's class is it was speculated that maybe gal went to go see Brian and see if he's in class instead of the assembly but instead she ran into her killer whoever that may be Brian or not but to the police for some reason they didn't really want to base their investigation off of relationship rumors they're like first of all we don't even know that they were dating and second of all you don't just like kill someone after you cheat on them that's weird especially a high school kid and they couldn't really find evidence against Brian at the time I don't know if he was at the assembly that morning or not but they couldn't find evidence against him so they start following other leads like the four roommates of the dorm closest to the restroom Albert Peter Jason and Sammy they're immediately suspects because their dorm room is so close but also because authorities went into their dorm room to do another indepth search so remember how they were searching all the dorm rooms prior when gal was missing they were just looking for gal so they're like looking under the bed looking in the closet they're looking for a person or a body and you're they're not looking at minute details on the wall this time they do an in-depth search and they find that one someone moved the bunk beds they thought that was weird why why did you move the bunk beds like kids usually just don't like randomly rearrange their rooms at least not in these dorms and second of all there was blood splatter on the walls near one of the lower bunk beds so the new running theory was that gal was killed in the dorm room and then dragged into the restroom afterwards but when they tested the blood on the walls it wasn't gout and as for the bunk bed being moved one of the roommates had a very pretty legitimate reason of like why he had to move it because he had to move luggage around it was a whole thing and his parents were there when he moved it so the police dug a bit deeper into these four roommates and most of them they were in gal's Home Room class they had been interviewed when gal went missing and they all said they had no information on where gal could be like they knew nothing they knew nothing but after finding ga's body now they knew something now they're like you know what actually I do know something something side note Samy was quickly ruled out as a suspect because he was at the assembly that morning Albert Peter and Jason were not at the assembly that morning so let's start with Albert Albert told authorities that the morning of January 10th he was in the dorm room he was given explicit permission to skip the school assembly because of a foot injury that he had so he can't run laps around the campus he was laying in bed and then around 6:23 a.m. the other students are jogging and it's quiet he hears a a series of increasingly loud screams coming from outside it sounded like someone was in distress and at the very end he said that he could hear someone screaming something along the lines of what are you doing Albert wanted to jump up and run outside but foot injury remember it was going to take him quite a bit of time to put on his shoes thankfully his roommate Peter is in the dorm room with him Peter is fine he puts on his jacket runs outside to investigate Albert puts on his shoes as quickly as he can but he's like he's following out after Peter he's late once he opens that door he can see Peter standing in front of the restricted restroom talking to two male students now if you had to take a guess it looked like the two guys had gotten out of the restroom and they're trying to act chill outside of the restroom it was kind of weird and Peter was asking them hey did you guys hear the screams and Albert can't really see them he can't really hear them he's just limping closer and closer to them and by the time that he gets there the two guys had walked away so now he's alone with Peter again and apparently it was just nothing much to see Albert didn't really think much of it he just kind of shrugged it off he went back to the dorm room and started getting ready for the first class of the day so they live on the third floor but their main classes are on the second floor so they've got to take the stairs down and while they're going down he said that he ran into another student named Zen everyone had at least heard of Zang cuz he was the class president for class number 24 and Albert had actually gone to middle school with Zang anyway Zang lived on the second floor and he had his classes on the third floor so they meet on the stairs they run into each other and they cross paths and Albert casually asks Zing like hey were you at the assembly this morning because I wasn't and I heard some Screaming did you hear any screaming he said that Zang said yes and that was it he was like that's so interesting because it seemed like the screams probably weren't loud enough to be heard on the second floor and also why wasn't Zang at the assembly at the time then police asked Albert was Zang one of the guys that Peter was talking to in front of the restroom I'm not sure all I remember is I think that one of the guys was really tall maybe like 5 six the other one was a bit shorter like 5'4 so he knows their heights but he doesn't know any other identifying factors about them so Albert injured his leg Yeah he didn't see the two people no but Peter did Peter was talking to them so why didn't they just ask Peter I guess Albert oh the police are going to ask Peter in a second but I guess Albert didn't ask Peter cuz he's like I don't know who they were yeah he's like I don't know it was way too early in the morning and the lights in the hallway were dim so I didn't get a good look at the boys but Peter did he's the one talking to them so Peter tells authorities that he was skipping the assembly that day too they're like why he stated because he's a little chubby that's what he stated he's plus size he struggles with body image and his teacher lets him skip the morning jogs so he's staying in the dorm room with Albert and just like Albert at around 6:23 a.m. he hears screaming and he said there would be like a scream and then 10 seconds of silence and then a scream and then 10 10 seconds of silence and then finally the last scream was something along the lines of what are you doing help by that point Peter was already putting on his clothes to go investigate so he runs out of the dorm room and he says I saw two guys standing in front of the restricted restroom and one of them was Zang but the other guy Peter was like I don't really I'm not familiar with this guy he's not in any of my classes all I remembered was that it's a guy that wears glasses later Peter would be shown class photos to ID the second guy outside of the restroom and it was a student named Kenny so Kenny and Zang are standing outside the restroom but it looked like they're kind of facing the rest like it looked weird it's like what are you doing outside this restroom right now there's an assembly going on why aren't you at the assembly Peter said he asked them what are you doing and Zang just responded we're not doing anything Peter thought it was so strange that he kind of stuck his neck into the restroom the restricted restroom and the main door to the toilet still appear to be closed he didn't see if it was padlocked or not because you know why would he but everything seem normal in the restroom so he turned to the other two guys outside and said who was the one who just screamed and he said that Zang responded so bizarrely he said just some female ghost what female ghost or some beautiful girl Peter's like what are you saying and then he's like I'm kidding it's probably nothing and then they walk off and Peter thought they were so weird like maybe they just have an odd sense of humor but that's so weird he didn't even have a proper response and then Albert catches up Zang and Kenny leave and Peter's like weird later that day he runs into Zang again and asks him once more what were you doing in front of that restroom on the third floor and you just said oh you know goofing around with my girlfriend last Peter remembered Zang didn't have a girlfriend so he's like what is this guy saying it was just weird initially Albert and Peter seemed like very credible Witnesses right both of their stories I mean they're a little bit different because Albert didn't see anyone or didn't see the exact people standing outside the restroom but the event seemed to be the same but what is weird is that both of them completely failed to mention a third roommate that's in the dorm room with them at the time like it's very odd you would think that that's something you remember they just took it out of their testimonies you would have no idea that Jason was laying in bed in the dorm room he wasn't even asleep he's right there with them why would they not mention that he was in the room didn't he run out too he just lay there the whole time Jason's Story doesn't add up either Jason was questioned by the police and he said that he was skipping the school assembly because of a stomach ache he said he was laying on the top bunk waiting for classes to start and that's it yeah that's it then he went to class he makes no mention of any screaming no mention of people running out his dorm mates he's like I don't know what you're talking about I was just laying there and then classes started so I went I didn't hear any screaming it was just weird is Jason lying are the others lying was Jason so sick that maybe he tuned out the screams police didn't really know but they did want to investigate Zang and Kenny the two boys outside the restricted restroom so Zang is 15 he is a year younger than Gaal he was the opposite of GA in terms of family wealth he came from a not so wealthy family they often struggled to put food on the table but Zang was kind of their hope in life he studied really hard to get good grad and even became the class president so his parents put a lot of faith in him and it was shocking to him when February 13th at 1:00 in the morning police start bursting in through the family door and they're surrounding 15-year-old zang's bed and arresting him for murder he was brought in for questioning and initially Zay and Kenny they're denying the whole thing but the officers are basically telling him look The Jig Is up after a 30h hour interrogation they both confess to the heinous crime wow there is a short story book series in China called horror stories it's really popular my husband said that you read the series yeah it's like a weekly or monthly yeah I'm trying to find like an American equivalent but yeah I it's like a weekly series there's many volumes and the short stories of random little things right Zang said that he was reading horror stories a little short Story collection and in there there's a short story called vampire and he's like come on this is all going to make sense it's about a group of friends at school who keep hearing a girl screaming from the restroom and initially they think oh it's just a prank maybe one of the guys snuck in there and is screaming trying to freak people out but throughout the day more students hear the screaming and they all think about investigating but they're all kind of scared so they don't by the end of the day most of the students have heard the screams and they're all Whispering about okay well let's come up with some spooky theories at the end of the story the students find out that one of the girls in their class was in the restroom when her body was abducted by a ghost a ghost took her soul and her body was just left behind lying lifeless on the toilet that's what they said but the truth was when police came to investigate it was not a female ghost that sucked the soul out of her the police concluded that the victim was killed by a male student who wanted to fulfill his perverted wishes and kill a girl in the restroom this is all a story yeah okay which sounds like a lot of eerie parallels here right is it a strange coincidence or was G's murder inspired by this story Zay confessed the morning of January 10th he woke up late so he missed the morning assembly and since he already missed it he might as well hang out in his dorm before classes start so he's sitting there flipping through you know pages of his Horror Story book and he starts getting excited by the explicit content in the book and it makes him want to try it out for himself he wanted to have relations with someone and he said after reading horror stories I wanted to have intercourse so he ran up to the third floor he ran into gting and look he's not seeking her out or anything it was just a happy coincidence at the time he didn't even know her name but he thought that she was pretty he reached into his pocket and grabbed his pencil knife so pencil knives are used commonly in China it's like a box cutter but it's used to sharpen wood pencils he creeps up behind her and he holds it to her neck drags her into the restricted restroom pins her down on the ground and he said she started screaming what are you doing help two or three times so he quickly used his left hand to cover her face like grip her face and she stopped breathing he also used another hand to strangle her with her own scarf he was just trying to get her to stop screaming that was his main motive afterwards she's not screaming anymore he tugged her pants down and squatted above her trying to essay her but quote because it was my first time I didn't really know how to do it so I was struggling but then her two hands started coming grabbing up on me and I placed my left hand more firmly against her nostrils cuz now she's like fighting back again and I realized that she had stopped breathing so at the time I was very scared he said he was so freaked out he decided that he was going to put her body in the restricted stall of the restroom he got up and started kicking the metal padlock until the door latch fell off so the padlock was in place but the latch fell off all he would have to do is nail the latch back on with a new padlock what that's what he said he dragged ga's body inside brought in all of her things and he rushed out of the bathroom and ran straight into Kenny now thankfully Zang and Kenny had been friends since middle school and Kenny was curious he's like what are you doing in there Zang told him what happened he's like I just wanted to saay a girl but she ended up dying and zang's like I just have a quick favor please can you just watch the door while I go buy a new padlock for the bathroom Kenny agrees and stands guard near the toilet stall Zang brings in a new padlock locks it up and the two go back to their morning classes that afternoon Zang said that he bought like one of those white plastic bags from his classmates it's a big bag it's kind of like a burlap sack but it's white so imagine like a like a rice bag that size he brought it went back into the toilet to wrap G's upper body in it but he didn't stop there the next day while everybody else is in class Zang said that he went back to the restricted restroom and he just couldn't help himself so he engaged in necrofilia forced activities with The Corpse's mouth the body's mouth then used a m to sodomize the corpse he started using his pencil sharpening knife to make Cuts all over her body and he said I was annoyed because I wanted to have intercourse with her and all of the other things like using the blades to cut her the necrofilia all of those were learned in the book he continued eventually this is after she's passed eventually I have finished and I wrapped it all up in a tissue because I was afraid that someone might find out and I learned that from a TV show that was his confession March 3rd only a month after ga's body was found Zang was tried and sentenced to life in prison for a motivated homicide Kenny got 3 years for obstruction of justice and my question is can a mother ever accept the fact that her 15-year-old son is a necrophiliac that she raised a necrophiliac that's capable of essay and murder zang's Mom just wanted to know how and why because she couldn't believe it like she's crying but she can't believe it I mean she would argue with people he is a piece of meat that fell from me he's kind he's timid I know he wouldn't do such a thing some people felt bad for her for being so blind to her own son others just felt angry for raising a son like this and still taking his side enabling him this is the reason he turned out the way he is because you can't see the truth in your own kid zang's mom remembers no but it just doesn't make sense during parent teacher meetings that winter she was walking through the hallways with z and she was feeling anxious because all the other parents were talking about the missing girl that was from the school so she turned to him and said hey honey have you heard anything about this missing girl from school should I have anything to be worried about are you going to be okay and he said I don't even know the girl I don't know what you're talking about but now he's in prison for her murder she's like something's not adding up every chance she got she would visit 15-year-old Zang in prison and every meeting was the same she would sit there in front of him with a crumpled up tissue begging him to just tell me what happened on January 10th just what happened and he would sit there he wouldn't even look at her not a single sound was coming out of him just tears quietly streaming down his face and for 6 years he didn't tell her a single thing about January 10th until 2011 he saw himself on the crime show on the TV prison and he realized this is what the whole world probably thinks of him a monster and he just couldn't do it anymore he was listening to these reporters and documentary makers talk about how he essayed and murdered a teenage girl girl and how he hid her body in the school bathroom but that wasn't him he never did that the next time his mom came to visit a now 21-year-old Zang told her for the first time in 6 years mom I didn't do it I didn't do it I was framed and his mom believed him for the next 10 years the two of them would appeal his sentence just to give you a timeline the crime took place 2005 2011 Zen decides to speak up against what he believes was a wrongful conviction 2012 their first appeal was rejected 2012 their second appeal was rejected 2018 their appeal was finally accepted by the Supreme People's Court for a hearing but that hearing was postponed over and over until the court finally saw his case January 13th of 2020 9 years after he told his mom I didn't do it and that's after 6 years of already sitting in prison at this point Zang was 30 years old and he had spent half of his life in prison the Shandong H People's Court reviewed his case Zang and his attorneys who were really competent by the way and his attorneys were taking his case pro bono he had two attorneys that believed in his innocent so much that they actually self-funded the case and spent like $100,000 of their own funds to fight for him and they argued a few key points to the appeal judge he they said first of all forensic and authorities have agreed that ga's murder likely happened while everyone was at the morning assembly Monday morning the timing made the most sense but also ga's stomach was empty which if you remember she and Dee were running late so they didn't have time for breakfast so again very likely the murder occurred during the morning assembly Zang was one of the class presidents he was in attendance at the morning assembly but he skipped the jogging part because it was his duty to bring his classmates jackets back up to the classroom because they get hot when they jog the morning jog starts at around 6:20 a.m. so Zang starts heading back to the main building at 6:20 a.m. with all of his classmates jackets Albert and Peter said they heard screams at 6:23 a.m. that would have been very difficult physically very difficult for Zang to even run to the main building and run up three floors in just 3 minutes and then fully attack gal to the point where she's screaming for help yeah and and earlier they said that he didn't attend the assembly he was in the dorm so that's not true exactly and Peter stated he put his jacket on First and maybe that took about 2 minutes right so let's add an extra 2 minutes to the 3 minutes that's five minutes and then he sees Zang just standing outside the restroom looking all chill already had killed GA so he ran from the lap area into the building up three floors killed gal in four minutes maybe five what did he do with all the other jackets that doesn't make any sense he not only killed her but he kicked open the latch of the locked door and dragged her body into the toilet area walked out and then him and Kenny were standing there without even breaking a sweat but let's say he could who's to say that gal is even able to get to the third floor by that time so gal got to school at around 6:13 a.m. she was still with Dee at the bike area which is on the outskirts of the campus so let's be fair let's say she ran to the man building even though she was sick and allowed to skip assembly but let's say she ran for whatever reason it would take her at least 5 minutes to get to the main building so now we're talking about like 6:18 a.m. remember Zang was bringing up the jackets around 6:20 a.m. so he would have likely made it into the main building after GA and now GA is running faster booking it up like stair Master level three flights of stairs that would still take a while but the roommates heard screams at 623 a.m. it just doesn't make sense that either of them are on the third floor by 6:23 a.m. and to add to that there was evidence tested from the crime scene biological evidence and none of them matched Zang there was literally no physical evidence tying Zang to the crime scene or the crime which was honestly really messy so it's not like someone meticulously wiped down every little thing and made sure nothing was left behind it was just odd so now Witnesses can't even pinpoint him there at the right time cuz the timing doesn't make sense DNA can't pinpoint him there so nothing can pinpoint him to be in the restroom at that time to kill gal the second point that the attorneys made is the police stated Zang went to go buy a new padlock from the school store before morning classes while Kenny was standing guard but the school store doesn't open until 7:15 a.m. which is after morning classes are over and there's a whole padlock Saga online not only did it not make sense how he was able to buy a padlock when the store wasn't even open but forensic evidence seemed to point in the direction that the crime itself likely happened in the toilet stalls where gal was found not near the sinks so there wasn't really signs of struggle near near the sink and just psychologically speaking experts said most Killers choose secluded areas to commit their crimes they want to feel comfortable especially if it's their first time so that means someone would have had to unlock that door first whether by breaking it or having the key then drag GA in there then assault and strangle her which that doesn't make sense in terms of timing so he's super speed he's running up three floors getting there unlocking the door then grabbing gal then dragging her like what that's just crazy like you're in a school you know there's people walking around like everywhere and the assembly is about to be over the assembly does not last exactly and there's always students that skip assemblies yeah there's teacher there's like workers yeah according to zang's confession he kicked open the padlock door which people have a hard time believing that neens start doing experiments with similar padlocks and door latches they try kicking and kicking and half of them said it's possible but not likely the other half of them said it was impossible without at least damaging the door itself and there were no reports that the door was damaged and think of how hard it is to get the padlock open remember janit or lamb he still had to use tools multiple times to get the padlock open the new one I mean sure maybe the new one is better than the old one but still and if the latch on the door had been broken like zang's confession claimed it would still have been pretty loose when janitor lamb went in to break the new padlock so the latch would have broken before he broke the padlock but it didn't leading zang's attorneys to believe that the padlock had to have been unlocked with a key and not broken and Zang would not have a key to that right and third Point has to do with the two main witness statements from Albert and Peter they aren't the most reliable those two didn't even mention that there was another roommate in the room with them who by the way the other roommate stated that he didn't hear any screams that morning and another thing about their statements zang's attorney argued in Albert's state M he said that he didn't even know who was standing in front of the bathroom he just could see their height that was the only defining characteristic that he could give he said the tallest one was 5'6 Zang was £59 and2 200 the attorneys argued he's pretty recognizable in the school adding to that Zang and Albert were friends in middle school so it'd be kind of strange that he wouldn't even be able to recognize him even if it was a little dark in the hallway and the last issue with the two quote witness statements was when gal went missing they never mentioned any of these things not the screams not the rest room not seeing Zang nothing it was only after her body was found 30 ft away from their dorm rooms that they were like you know what we did see two guy standing outside the bathroom and we heard screaming going by Common Sense if someone went missing and you heard weird screams that morning wouldn't that be the first thing that you tell the police yeah and there is another thing smaller detail than the others but you know how Zen confessed that he was turned on after reading the sexually explicit content in the horror stories book there is no sexual content in that book it's your typical high school horror book the titles are like the new student doesn't have legs it oh it's like scary stories in the dark you guys know that series that's what that's what I'm saying like there's no way like these books are mainly purchased by like middle schoolers high schoolers like there's no seually explicit content the titles are like ghost mirror the creepy School fortune teller don't take pictures at the graveyard these are the types of stories we're talking about none of it was sexual it seemed like the police didn't even read the book and they just thought you know what we'll blame the book like how some adults will try to blame violence on video games they're like well I don't have an answer so let's just blame it on that just say he read the book and say he got turned on that's what the attorneys believe but what about the confession everything else can be argued back and forth but Zang himself admitted to the crime why is he suddenly taking it all back 6 years later Zen's attorney argued that he was coerced by the police into confessing he was interrogated as a 15-year-old for over 30 hours with no parents or attorneys present Zang said in the 30 hours he was stuck in in that room he was beaten electrocuted slapped and abused he said he was so beat up that he couldn't even stand on his own by the end of it his body was covered in bruises and electrocution marks he said that the police would ask him a question and if he answered honestly and they didn't like his answer they would beat him up then they would keep asking him the same question over and over again beating him up non-stop until he gave them whatever answer they wanted for instance they asked him what color jacket gal was wearing that day Zing had no clue he didn't even know her he never saw her that day so he guessed white the police took off their shoes and slammed it across zang's face with the bottom of their dirty Souls they were slapping him so hard he was seeing stars and they're like let me ask you again what color was her jacket he just kept guessing random colors until he finally guessed red if Zang pleaded with them to stop and said please I just don't remember they would nicely State while saying we're trying to help you remember and then they would slap him but it wasn't just the police there forensic technicians were also there to either guide Z in the right direction or even change their reports to match his quote confession they're basically writing hist story after his arrest Zang would meet up with prosecutor so this is not the police but they work with the police you know prosecutors and he's trying to tell them please like I want to recant my entire confession I was coerced into making it I I'll give you my DNA like you can can you please prove that this isn't me it's not me they refused and they dragged him back to the police who smacked him around some more Kenny zang's accomplice went through the same thing he got three years and he stated that his confession was coerced he said it was like quote filling in the blanks for the officers eventually Zang confessed to the entirety of the crime when he was 15 after 30 hours of physical and mental torture Zang said even when he heard the full confession come out of his mouth he wanted to die he said to confess to those types of crimes at 15 16 years old do you know what that's like if they let me go at that time I think I would have just wanted to die anyway like really what's the point of living after admitting doing something like that Zang was now a free man after being labeled an R worder killer necrophiliac for 15 years the judge cleared his name Wow when he stepped out of court he yelled to the reporters Zen is innocent and the first thing that he did was go back to his old family home that he grew up in and it had been 15 years since he had been back they were recording his reaction and I don't know what I was expecting I guess I was expecting sadness but also some sort of Silver Lining like he's home now right it is such a depressing clip he's walking through the old house and he starts tearing up almost panicking and at first he just says I can't remember anything but the more he walks into the house he almost becomes scared and frantic he just keeps crying I can't remember anything I can't remember this I can't remember anything I can't remember Mom I can't remember and zang's Mom runs over and hugs him and says it's okay it's okay it doesn't matter if you don't remember my son it's okay this clip is one of the reasons that this case went viral recently the murder itself took place in 2005 and it was widely talked about amongst True Crime community ities and Zang was released in 2020 and because of this emotionally charged clip everyone wanted to know the backstory again but nobody expected the backstory to be still full of mystery after Zang was freed another question developed then who the hell did it cuz they've been free for 15 years it didn't seem like the police were investigating anymore nor could they really be trusted so neens came up with their own list of suspects nzen suspect number one was the best friend Dee she was the last one to see see G alive she said that she just vanished when she was putting her bike away that's weird how does someone just vanish or do you just not have a better explanation so you come up with this very loose description Dei was the last person to hang out with GA maybe she secretly hated her maybe she was jealous of her another odd thing was Dee kept insisting that the last time she saw ga ga was wearing a yellow winter jacket but ga's body was found with her red puffer jacket underneath not yellow red which added confusion to the investigation at one point the investigators because of DD's jacket discrepancy they thought maybe gal left the campus that's why she disappeared and she went to go meet up with a boy maybe barbecue restaurant boy she liked making friends online maybe Dei knew that gal was going to leave the school and run away to be with a guy and maybe Dee had a plan to help her skip classes to go run off with him and now she's too scared to talk that's why she remembered a yellow jacket but after leaving G got dressed in a red jacket was murdered and and then brought back on campus a lot of things don't make sense with this Theory one everyone who knew GA said that she would never run off with a guy her parents were wealthy she was not easily swayed or impressed by some money and if it was love it probably wasn't because she was head over heels for Brian so like why would she run off with another guy it just didn't make any sense two if she did run off with another guy why would they bring her body back to campus it's a boarding school like why would you risk that wouldn't it make more sense to hide a missing student's body say somewhere deep in the woods versus the restricted restroom that hundreds of students pass by every single day and three even if D was involved in helping gal run off with a guy I would hardly say that's a crime and she does seem like a good friend it it just doesn't seem like there's any reason for her to not say anything and about the jacket color discrepancy maybe it's just too dark to remember then we have suspect number two janitor lamb was the one who found the body netizens had questions about why janitor lamb chose to come in on that specific day to clean the restrooms it was the middle of the New Year break everyone was spending time with family and lunar New Year is taken very seriously in China why did he leave his family to come clean bathrooms when he could have maybe done it a day before the school opened did he want to make sure that he was the first one to find G make it seem more natural since nobody else would be around so he doesn't have to put on a show it was also argued that the janitors of the boarding school they don't just maintain the cleanliness of the school they have a lot of other duties and they're actually pretty involved in the students lives like they have to enforce curfew when they're on their shift they sleep in The Faculty dorms as well so maybe he knew gal and maybe he liked her and he had planned all of this he has the key to the third floor restroom and maybe he thought this was the Perfect Crime janitor lamb would argue that his family were big Drinkers and they were always pushing drinks on him so he left Lunar New Year celebrations to skip that and it was really really cold at the time so it would make sense for janitor lamb if he had killed gal to wait until it gets a bit hotter so that the body can decompose and be discovered later and there would be way less evidence preserved so he was kind of ruled out by most netizens but what about janitor hang the other janitor he also has keys to the padlocks he was suspect number three now there isn't really much evidence towards him I think neans had to consider him purely based off the fact that he had a set of keys to the restroom but other than that he was one of the janitors that really wanted to clean the restrooms ASAP so it just didn't make sense for him and if he was the one that killed GAO he would probably want to find ga's body and not let Jan lamb do it then we have the liar suspect number four Peter Peter the guy who saw Zang outside the restroom 30 ft from his dorm room one of the strongest witnesses that put Zang Behind Bars well he was a little liar Peter isn't even just some student that resides 30 ft away from the crime scene he was the class president of ga's class Peter was ga's class president and it's so interesting because he has two completely different statements during the course of the investigation when G initially went missing she she was just a missing person and Peter's statement was oh yeah a few days ago before G went missing there was a shift in her demeanor I thought that she looked kind of like she was under a lot of pressure she always looked shaken up constantly putting her head down on the table you know trying to lay down it was weird I used to always be able to joke with her but a few days before she vanished she got mad anytime I tried to hang out with her when I called her by her nickname which is TOA T Grass Grass Grass Grass she was annoyed she always thought it was funny but like random she's annoyed just seemed like she was on edge you know personally I don't think that anything happened to gal I think that she ran away or maybe she went into hiding when police asked him why he said he didn't know that was just his theory just one thing I want to point out calling someone nickname like Tata like so Chinese what they do is like let's say your your name is three letters we will usually take the last letter and double it so it's almost like a nickname your parents will call you someone very close call you endearingly like your little nickname it's like Stephy Steph like even more like Steph St Steph step like like that very cute I you don't call that just a classmate that you kind of know you must be really close to them for for you to call them that or not really close like you got to have somewhat of a relationship you don't just come to someone and say what's your name oh Steph step like you don't do that yeah okay interesting and that makes it more interesting because this is what he's saying after gal Go's missing no mention of screaming in the restroom no mention of anything right he's just like oh yeah she seemed on edge I called her grass grass and she didn't seem happy about it and then now that gal's body is found he's got a whole other story about being in the dorm room investigating screams coming out of the restroom and running into Zang when authorities asked him why didn't you tell us about the screaming earlier he just said for the teachers good for the teacher's good and everyone was like what does that even mean the police didn't even further ask questions like why would he say that like what does that mean he doesn't elaborate further so neans came up with their own Theory suspect number five The Home Room teacher Mr Foo the night that gal went missing ga's dad had rushed to the school because of her milk that was left on the table remember yeah and one of the first people that he wanted to talk to was Mr Fu and not necessarily because he thought Mr Foo was bad or had anything to do with gal's disappearance Mr fu is gal's Home Room teacher now just to give you some context Home Room teachers in China are basically your parent at school because you know how in the US you go from class to class as a student and your teachers constantly change and you maybe spend like 30 minutes with your home room teacher in China you stay in the same class with the same group of people and the teachers go class to class so you're at the same desk with the same neighbors same kids same Home Room teacher everything is like very stable and your home room teacher almost becomes like your parent so if you are late you're tardy you're absent you go to your home room teacher yeah and the right hand man man or woman for this Home Room teacher is the class president so we can assume if anyone was close to Mr Fu it would be Peter so if he was talking about any teacher and any teacher's good it would be Mr Fu so G's dad is trying to talk to Mr Foo that night but turns out Mr Fu left early School officially ends at 9:30 p.m. but he left at 5:00 p.m. he gets Mr foo's number from the administrators and he's not picking up his phone they even pulled Mr Fu's emergency contact list to ask hey family members of Mr Mr Fu where's Mr Foo and nobody is getting responded calls the next morning January 11th Tuesday morning Mr Fu shows up to work and ga's dad has been waiting for him he starts asking him about yesterday where was GA what happened yesterday why didn't you pick up your phone last night to which Mr Fu apologizes for not picking up his calls he said that he went to his girlfriend's house and didn't think to check his phone and as for G she wasn't in class yesterday which was Monday and I haven't seen her since Friday so before the weekend what later Mr Fu was interviewed by the police and he stated that he did notice some weird behavior from gal before she went missing he said a few days before she vanished she received a letter remember the letter in the toilet how would he know that that's not something students share with teachers yeah but he said he saw it he said I don't know who or where the letter came from but she looked very serious and then tore it to Pieces that's all that's all we have on that when police asked what he thought happened to G he said I personally think the odds of her leaving on her own without telling anyone are high this is when she was just missing I don't think she had enemies I don't think anyone would want to hurt her so all of this I mean nothing's really that creepy but neens now analyze Mr foo's statement about what he did on January 10th he said on January 10th I woke up at 6:00 a.m. when the school's wakeup bell rang the school gathers for the flag raising ceremony at 6:15 every Monday and that morning I had a headache and I woke up late so when I got got up the flag raising ceremony had already ended and students had already started the morning jog they had already run like half a lap I joined the run at the very end but I didn't see goutin and I didn't pay much attention after the morning exercise they had morning classes Mr Fu did not see goutin but he just assumed well she had been sick the past few days so maybe she just didn't make it to school after breakfast he went back to afternoon classes and she's still not there and then in the afternoon Mr Fu decided I'm going to leave early at 5:00 p.m. to go visit my girlfriend now he went to go stay with his girlfriend that night he slept over that's why he didn't check his phone and he came back via the bus the next morning to attend to his classes on surface level maybe it's normal like nothing to see here but a few odd things his girlfriend lives in a town that would take 2 hours by public transport to get there no freaking way probably even more so like a 2 and 1 half hour at Journey 2 hours like now I'm sure back then the transport wasn't as good so he said he arrived at his girlfriend girl's house around 8:00 p.m. he left the school around 5:00 p.m. then he would have to show up to school the next day at 6:15 a.m. so just to be safe he would have to leave his girlfriend's house the next morning at 3:30 a.m. would he really spend 6 hours traveling just to spend 8 hours with his girlfriend on a school day nen said it's very hard to imagine a teacher doing this considering that it was just the weekend so wouldn't he have just spent time with her through the weekend but maybe he missed his girlfriend so much still a bit strange why would he still not at least contact ga's parents to ask ask if she was at home or if she was feeling okay when she's gone from class that's the standard protocol for Home Room teachers yeah so Mr Foo the day gal went missing not only did he not alert gal's parents but he ditched school at 5:00 p.m. when the day officially ends at 9:30 p.m. he took a three-hour train ride to visit his girlfriend turned off his phone and knew nothing about what happened to gal yeah that makes no sense then remember the padlocks how the janitors have the keys well they have three sets of keys and each padlock has three keys so they put a key on each one and these janitors don't really take these keys home they have them locked in the staff room which a lot of staff could have access to and the blunt force trauma on ga's head it stated that it could have been inflicted by an object like a flashlight remember how I said there was little pieces of glass embedded into her forehead the glass cover of the flashlight this one is iffy not a lot of neens believe in the flashlight Theory even if they think that Mr fu is guilty they think that he could have committed that type of trauma injuries with other things but some people think that he was trying to hit her with the brunt end of the flashlight and then when it wasn't working and she was still screaming the flashlight he turned it over and started hitting her with the glass part the glass shattered and some of it embedded into her forehead now why is a flashlight important typically The Home Room teachers at the boarding school they all had flashlights on them all the time because they were in charge of monitoring the Halls at night to make sure that no students were out of bed or sneaking around I don't believe in The Home Room teacher doesn't answer phone call Theory cuz my aunt is a Home Room teacher it's like they're kids basically you're responsible for everything about them yeah especially boarding school like I just don't see that happening yeah and from what I can tell I wonder if it's kind of like Korea so I know in the US like in the Western World when you're off you're off like that's kind of the sentiment in so in China Home Room teacher is always responsible if you're out you always have someone replace you so you'll have like a math teacher saying hey he will be the Temporary Home Room teacher so anybody needs anything approval you need to go home early you you have emergencies talk to this person they're that important yes you don't just leave in the middle of the day and expect nobody needs anything cuz there's always something needs approval from your teacher yeah and the phone thing yeah the phone thing is kind of weird especially if you leave early you would pay attention to your phone cuz you're like I left early man what if something happened regardless all of this is I guess circumstantial evidence but the weirdest part is that after G disappeared before her body was found students reported Mr Fu telling them passionately that if anyone asks about ga's incident they should just tell them that gal ran away the nean theory is that Mr Fu took a liking to gal and perhaps he even wrote that letter we don't know or he found that letter and was upset that gal was seeing someone else and he felt territorial over her so that he decided he was going to assault her he knew that she wasn't going to the morning assembly that day because she had gotten his permission last night or like the weekend before because she was sick he could have easily asked her hey can you help me upstairs on the third floor with something he could have already unlock the padlocks to the third floor restricted restroom and he would start assaulting gal and lead to her death is the theory perhaps Peter and Albert did hear some Screaming but Mr Fu told Peter that if he shuts his mouth Mr Fu will give him privileges and help him become successful and get him into a better college and in places like China going against your home room teacher can result in your academic life going down in the gutter so maybe he made up a random story to give to the police which explains why he never mentioned screaming when the police first investigated gal's disappearance and he's switching up his story he's throwing Zang under the bus like none of it is adding up then Mr Fu replaced the padlock just to make it harder for the other teachers students or janitors to get in if they wanted and even visited GA after her passing to commit more heinous acts is the theory but because the police aren't really investigating Mr fu is a free man and we don't know if he did it or not it's just a theory and he still a teacher wow and everybody else still free experts say that whoever committed this crime the necrofilia aspect the slicing of the knife it pointed to a very scary profile of a killer likely someone who has some sort of erectile dysfunction or performance anxiety who tried to assault G but failed and that triggered this rage inside of them so to further feel that power and humiliation they killed and performed acts of necrophilia to redeem themselves from being weak and unable as for Kenny and Zang the two wrongfully convicted of the murder Kenny spent 3 years in prison which isn't as long as zang's 15 years but the course of his life completely changed he couldn't go to college he couldn't get hired for any real jobs he could only do hard manual labor and not saying that's not a real job but I'm saying like it's a rough job yeah just the whole life is ruined yeah I mean his whole family was shamed you know in Asia it's like your family is part of you too he's he's a criminal yeah and not just a criminal like it's a bad crime as for Z his life isn't any easier now his father passed away from brain cancer his grandparents are dead his only living grandfather doesn't even recognize him because he's like I don't remember you that was so long ago and he looks so different now and the only one that ever believed in his innocence his mom she's got a full head of gray hair and she spent most of her life in pain he said every one of their passings was like torture to me even though I didn't commit the crime my case contributed to their early death I can't even see them one last time that's my biggest regret Zing filed for financial compensation for the wrongful conviction he requested a million for 15 years which isn't a lot and a reputation trashed he was only given $465,000 and when he was handed a check from the court they literally just looked at him and said sorry about [Music] that wow I'm just no remorse no understanding nothing and in prison he had to work 10 hours a day every single day since he was 15 it was rough and he said the worst part is for 6 years he never told his mom that he was innocent because how would that help he knew that the police were terrifying he knew that the prosecutors were in on it so were the forensic experts if he told his mom his mom would only feel more heartbreak feeling the Injustice it's one thing if your kid did something wrong and they're now paying the consequences but if your kid didn't do it and they're paying the consequences and in Asian culture a lot of parents blame themselves if they're not financially capable they feel like if I just had some money if I was a better parent and could provide more money maybe I could have lawyered up and they wouldn't be here so he didn't want that for her that's why he didn't say anything he also said it was um kind of a wakeup call he said it's like waking up in a fantasy land he went into prison 15 in 2005 and he came out in like 2020 and he's like I don't know any of this technology stuff I feel like living in the future like you see those movies and you don't know how to use any of these like flying cars that's what it feels like but at least the world knows that he's not a monster 12 officials were investigated in the connection to this case and we still don't know who killed gting because whoever did it is free please let me know your thoughts in the comments please stay safe and I will see you guys on Wednesday for the main episode bye

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Length: 80min 48sec (4848 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 28 2023