Lin Yuhui, a two-year-old girl from Lijiang who was abducted for 13 years, painted her 15-year-old portrait.
Cover journalist Hao Ying
In 2008, a two-year-old girl named Mao Wen was abducted from Lijiang, Yunnan.
In the past 13 years, the memory of mother Peng Fanglian has always stayed on the day when she lost her child. With the passage of time, Mao Wen’s childhood characteristics have lost their value as clues on the road to finding relatives.
After seeing the news that Sun Zhuo came home, Peng Fanglian turned to Lin Yuhui, a "detective with a magic pen" who had painted the YINGYING ZHANG case and the Mei Yi abduction case, and obtained a simulated portrait of Mao Wen at the age of 15.
For her, this means new hope-"finally seeing her daughter at the age of 15."
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2-year-old girl abducted for 13 years
Detective Magic Pen painted her at the age of 15.
After a lapse of 14 years, Sun Haiyang, the prototype of the film Dear, found her abducted son Sun Zhuo in her childhood. The picture of family reunion gave Peng Fanglian hope again. "They must have paid a lot to find a child, so I think that as long as we work hard, the child can get it back."
Take away the surveillance picture of Mao Wen’s woman
On October 28th, 2008, two-year-old daughter Mao Wen was abducted in Lijiang, Yunnan. Peng Fanglian and his wife have been searching for a daughter for 13 years. They have traveled to more than ten provinces including Xinjiang and Xizang, and also paid attention to the dynamics of other abducted families. In the numerous reports about the Sun Haiyang family, she once again saw the name of Lin Yuhui, a senior engineer in the audio-visual room of the Material Evidence Identification Center of the former Shandong Provincial Public Security Department, who was engaged in simulated portraits and was called "Detective Magic Pen".
In August, 2018, Shenzhen police invited Lin Yuhui to draw a simulated portrait of Sun Zhuo when he grew up. For children who were abducted in childhood, their growth and changes made it more difficult for their parents to find someone. Sun Haiyang used portraits to collect relevant clues. One month before Sun Zhuo returned home, Lin Yuhui had just completed the second cross-age simulated portrait.
Prior to this, in March 2018, Wang Qifeng (original name), a girl living in Jilin, saw that the simulated portrait on the searching for you was surprisingly similar to herself, so she called her father Wang Mingqing and was able to reunite with her family.
Wang Qifeng was abducted at the age of 4, and left no photo in her childhood. Lin Yuhui drew what she looked like when she grew up through the comprehensive reasoning of her parents’ stories and family members’ looks. This is also the first case of finding a missing child through a simulated portrait in China.
Peng Fanglian recalled that her daughter had heard of Lin Yuhui when she was abducted in 2008. "At that time, I wanted to ask him to help me paint the woman who took my child, but I was probably too busy to draw it." Seeing the news that Sun Zhuo went home, she contacted Lijiang Public Security Bureau, hoping to ask Lin Yuhui to draw a cross-age portrait for her daughter. "I just want to try it no matter what way, if I have hope."
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"Memory is her two-year-old appearance.
I finally saw her grow up. "
On January 12th, Peng Fanglian arrived in Jinan, Shandong Province from Hunan. Lin Yuhui had already drawn the first draft. After seeing Peng Fanglian and referring to the photo of Mao Wen’s father, Lin Yuhui adjusted the portrait again. "I drew them all in advance, so it’s not easy to find children’s families, which saves them time and money," Lin Yuhui said.
Mao Wen took a photo with her mother when she was young.
Cross-age portrait is a kind of reasoning, which needs to collect the details of relatives’ appearance characteristics and adjust the children’s facial bones on this basis.
"A child’s face is round. In the process of growing up, the structure of the lower half of the face begins to change, and the bones below the nose begin to stand out. Who she looked like when she was young, she will adjust according to her parents’ appearance." Lin Yuhui said.
Mao Wen in the portrait is already a 15-year-old girl, and Peng Fanglian shed tears while holding the painting. "I remember her when she was two years old, and now I finally see her grow up."
Lin Yuhui’s 15-year-old simulated portrait of Mao Wen.
Lin Yuhui has painted 110 cross-age portraits of abducted children, and more than 10 of the children he painted have returned to their parents. However, he said that it is extremely difficult to find children through portraits, and many efforts are still needed. It is more of a dream for these parents to paint their own portraits of families. "In their memory, the children will never grow up. When I draw what the children look like now, they will feel that if they see their children grow up, they will not feel strange if they can recognize their relatives in the future." Once, a father told Lin Yuhui that he hung the portrait of his child on the bedside, feeling that he could sleep alone with the child.
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"I hope that children will know their identity when they grow up.
Can go to the public security organ to register. "
As Lin Yuhui said, in the 13 years since she left her daughter, Peng Fanglian’s memory remained when her child was lost. My daughter wanted to eat potato chips that day, so she asked her husband to go to the supermarket opposite the trade city to buy them, and she stayed in the clothing store to greet the guests.
Peng Fanglian still regrets. "I thought she followed her father to the supermarket. The supermarket was very close. It was only a few minutes. When I bought potato chips, I found that my child could not find it."
Looking around for no results, they saw a woman in purple clothes taking away the child in the surveillance of the trade city, and her daughter was still eating a lollipop. The police accompanied Peng Fanglian to stare at the station for several hours, but still no trace of the child was found.
In the seven or eight years after Mao Wen was abducted, Peng Fanglian and her husband took turns to look after the store and find the children. On the farthest trip, she took the train alone, from Yunnan to Xinjiang, and got off at Sichuan and Gansu. When she got to a crowded place, it was convenient to distribute searching for you with Mao Wen’s photo. She told strangers that she had short fingers and a birthmark the size of a soybean on her shoulder. "I can’t remember sitting on the train for a few days, I feel that it has been a long time, and I don’t feel hard. I just want to go out more, and I can hope more. I don’t feel anything when I think about my children."
Enthusiasts once provided clues that a little girl begging on a bridge in Wenzhou looked like Mao Wen, but when Peng Fanglian arrived, she couldn’t find the child. As time goes by, even such specious clues are no longer there. Peng Fanglian prays every day that when the child grows up, he may know that he has been trafficked and can go to the police to register DNA information, so that he can reunite immediately.
"I think about it every day, especially during the holidays. I especially want her to come back and the family can reunite." Peng Fanglian said.
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