In 1992, 16-year-old Xie Wen Jing left home on her red bicycle for what should have been a simple errand - to collect a lottery ticket from her father’s trusted friend. She never returned. Days later, the quiet town of Anshun was shaken as fragments of her body surfaced along the Perak River, revealing a crime so brutal that it left the community scarred for decades.

What investigators uncovered was even more horrifying: the man she trusted, Zhang Zhen Shun, had drugged her, assaulted her, killed her, and dismembered her body in a desperate attempt to hide the truth. A betrayal committed not by a stranger in the shadows, but by someone welcomed into the family’s home.

This episode retraces her final moments, the twists in the investigation, and the highly controversial court decision that reduced a murder charge to manslaughter. It’s  ...