Court trial video revealed: Dalian man claims to have lost 20 million yuan in Bitcoin investment and takes his wife and daughter with him

On the afternoon of the 13th, an article titled "A family of three fell from the Xinghai Bay Bridge and was tried! He lost 20 million and killed his daughter before jumping into the sea with his wife" was circulated on the Internet.

Wu said that the blockchain found the trial record on the China Trial Open Network of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China, and the trial record confirmed the authenticity of the content of the article. The author V is suspected to be a personal account of a legal reporter in Liaoning Province.

In the court transcript, the man Zheng Dawei claimed that he had been investing in Bitcoin and other digital currencies. Of the more than 20 million yuan in investment, more than 500,000 yuan came from his wife; 3 to 4 million yuan came from his parents; the rest of the money came from his own savings from "speculating in digital currencies" and loans from relatives. After losing more than 20 million yuan, Zheng Dawei originally planned to "go alone", but later decided to go with his wife and daughter. Therefore, on June 18, he killed his daughter first, and then jumped into the sea with his wife to commit suicide. Zheng Dawei landed on the base of the bridge pier and survived by chance. He surrendered after being taken away by the coast guard.

It is currently impossible to confirm the specific reasons and methods for Zheng Dawei’s investment losses. It may be necessary to read the judicial documents disclosed in the future to find out.

The following content comes from "V Eyes on Dalian":

Case details: On June 18, Zheng Dawei first stabbed his 3-year-old daughter's carotid artery with a knife. When his daughter stopped breathing and had no heartbeat, he wrapped the child's body in the towel blanket that his daughter often covered, and went out with his wife. They drove the car onto the Xinghai Bay Bridge and parked near Pier 18. The couple first threw the child's body into the sea, and then jumped off the bridge together. Zheng Dawei landed on the base of the pier and survived. Zheng Dawei, who was sent to the Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University for treatment, told a doctor nearby: Call the police for me, I killed my daughter. Then I threw her into the sea. On December 8, 2020, Zheng Dawei was tried in the First Criminal Court of the Dalian Intermediate People's Court on charges of intentional homicide.

The prosecutors accused Zheng Dawei of intentional homicide and, considering the circumstances of his crime, recommended that the court sentence him to life imprisonment or above. Zheng Dawei's defense lawyer said that it was his wife Wang Yanping who first proposed to leave the child to someone else to raise, as she was worried about it, so she took the child away with her. It was his wife Wang Yunping who first proposed to kill their daughter, and it was also Wang Yunping who took the knife from the kitchen to the bedroom.

The defense lawyer said that Zheng Dawei had always listened to his wife in his life. His wife had the dominant power and decision-making power in the family. At first, Zheng Dawei only wanted to commit suicide, not to commit suicide with others. It was because of his wife's instigation that the couple jumped into the sea after killing their daughter. The lawyer believed that the cause of this case was the failure of investment and the inability to bear the huge debt. Considering that he was worried about leaving the child to others to raise, he killed the child. The nature of the crime was not particularly bad. In addition, Zheng Dawei tried to commit suicide many times in the detention center, proving that he had deeply repented and blamed himself, and asked the court to impose a lighter sentence. However, Zheng Dawei denied all the defense opinions raised by the lawyers, and only asked the court to sentence him to death so that he could reunite with his wife and daughter.

Full text of V’s View of Dalian: https://new.qq.com/rain/a/20201212A0EUG400

Video recording of the trial: http://tingshen.court.gov.cn/live/16344632