[0:00]At 8:00 a.m. on August 22nd, 1974, a young man named Leo Fong sat on a long bench inside of a public mortuary in Hong Kong. He was sitting with about a dozen of his closest family members, and they were all facing the front of the room, looking at an open wooden coffin. Inside of the coffin was the body of Fong's older sister, 34-year-old Liu Fumin. So, one week earlier, Fong's sister, Fumin, had been found strangled to death in a hotel room in Hong Kong. She had clearly been murdered. But that was not what had made her case such big news. What had made it news was the fact that her killer had cut off her eyebrows, her eyelids, her nose, and her lips. But for Fong and probably the rest of his family, the worst part of all of this was the police response. They hadn't arrested anyone for the crime yet. His sister's murder was still unsolved. But he had actually come up with a plan that he believed would help him solve his sister's murder. And today, he was going to put that plan into action. Fong sat quietly with his family throughout the funeral service. And then finally, when it was time for everybody to say their final goodbyes to his sister, Fong walked up to the front of the room, he reached into the pocket of his jacket, and he pulled out a giant knife. The next evening, on August 23rd, a police officer was doing her regular nighttime patrol through a neighborhood in Hong Kong. And as this policewoman was walking along, she glanced down an alleyway, and she saw a guy who was just laying on the ground, and when she walked up to him, he looked like he had fallen from a great height. And unbelievably, she found he was still alive. And so she asked him what happened? And the guy said a woman had pushed him. But there was no evidence of a woman or any kind of struggle at all, there just was no sign that anything had happened. It was not until the police went to the hospital and reinterviewed the injured man, and he gave them a fuller statement about exactly who this woman was, that they understood why. So, when the injured man sort of came to in the hospital and the police showed up and asked him to give more information about who pushed him off the roof, this was his description of the woman. He said she had no eyebrows, she had no eyelids, her nose was gone, her lips were gone. She looked horrifying. Obviously, he was basically describing the murdered woman, Liu Fumin. And so the police are like, that's not possible. A dead woman could not have pushed you off the roof. But wait, the murdered victim's brother, Liu Fong, at the funeral when he pulled out that knife, he then went on to perform this ancient Daoist ritual where he stabbed the knife into his sister's wooden coffin, which he believed would unleash her spirit so it could go find and take revenge on her killer. And apparently, it worked, because the man in the alleyway then gave a full confession, saying he was her killer. He would say that the reason he did it is because she rejected his marriage proposal. Fumin's killer was ultimately arrested, convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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