On August 9, 2015, Li Sida of the Communication University of China was suspected of luring Zhou Yunlu, a master's student in the Department of Art at the same school, to a rental house in Sunshine Homes, and brutally murdered her after an attempted rape. On December 30, 2016, Li Sida was sentenced to death for intentional homicide.
What was the reason that led Li Sida to lure a girl from the same school to a rental house and brutally murder her? Was it a vendetta or a psychopath? Please follow the editor into the Communication University of China murder case and explore the truth behind the case together.
Character introduction
Li Sida was born in Xinxiang City, Henan Province in 1992. His father teaches at Xinxiang College and his mother is a teacher at Xinxiang No. 2 Middle School. He studied at the Primary School Affiliated to Henan Normal University from 1998 to 2004, the Middle School Affiliated to Henan Normal University from 2004 to 2005, transferred to the junior high school of Xinxiang No. 2 Middle School in 2005, and studied in the high school from 2007 to 2010.
In 2010, Li Sida was admitted to the Recording Department of the School of Film and Television Arts, Faculty of Arts, Communication University of China. He did not complete the credits required by the school during the undergraduate semester and gave up participating in the 2014 undergraduate graduation thesis defense. The Academic Affairs of Communication University of China The Research Office revoked Li Sida's bachelor's degree and graduated in the same year.
Li Sida is taciturn, and in his world art is everything. Li Sida smiles like Lu Zhishen in Peking Opera. Li Sida takes a selfie with a sharp knife, his hand wrapped with Buddhist beads and he stares angrily at the sky and raises his middle finger.
Weird Behavior
Li Sida likes to be called "Uncle Da". He plays the piano well, but is very weird and will suddenly giggle or yell. During the recruitment season, Li Sida went to a 4S store and played the piano for customers in the center of the exhibition hall from 10 to 11:30 am and from 1 to 3 pm every day. Because I was reminded by the staff about my attire, I changed into a tuxedo. Li Sida left after playing for half a year.
In addition to being eccentric, Li Sida is very talented. He has his own ideas in filming, editing and guest actors. He once served as a judge for the school's "Drama Night". He writes various poems, novels and scripts online, mostly related to criminal investigation.
A classmate recalled that during military training, Li Sida was taciturn and prone to violence. When he was in military training as a freshman, he once hid a sharp knife.
The course of the case
On August 9, 2015, Li Sida deceived Zhou Yunlu into a rental house in Sunshine Home in Chaoyang District, Beijing, in the name of filming a micro-movie. Li Sida attempted to rape, but after resistance, he picked up a prepared sharp knife and slashed Zhou Yunlu's neck.
Zhou Yunlu covered her bleeding neck and called for help. Li Sida snatched the phone and lied about his address to deceive the other party. Zhou Yunlu eventually lay on the ground with his left internal jugular vein ruptured and died of hemorrhagic shock.
Case trial
On the evening of August 10, 2015, the police captured Li Sida in a hotel not far from Communication University, while he was sleeping soundly. When Li Sida was interrogated, he calmly stated that Zhou Yunlu was an innocent victim and that he only killed people to "vent."
On August 3, 2016, the Psychiatric Forensic Identification Center stated that Li Sida was not mentally ill and was fully capable of identification and control when committing the crime. At the end of August 2016, Li Sida was prosecuted on suspicion of intentional homicide.
Written at the end
On December 30, 2016, the City’s No. 3 Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Li Sida to death for intentional homicide and compensated Zhou Yunlu’s parents 52,000 yuan. On October 31, 2017, the Beijing High Court upheld Li Sida's original sentence, approved the death penalty, and was deprived of political rights for life.