Whether Zhan Huanxiong was the murderer of Luo Xiangfu, there is no conclusive evidence yet. He was fully motivated. He appeared at the murder scene when the incident happened, and had time to commit the crime, but insisted that he had seen the whole process of Luo Xiangfu's murder.
In the case of an incomplete chain of evidence, the suspect's confession is very important. As long as Zhan Huanxiong does not plead guilty, the serious crime team has to continue to investigate. And even if Zhan Huanxiong pleads guilty, there may be a situation where the confession is reversed in court.
So for every criminal police officer in the serious crime team, this is a tough battle.
Zhan Huanxiong was temporarily detained at the city bureau.
Since he is suspected of illegal entry, this "temporary" is very maneuverable. Unlike ordinary suspects, the police must release the person after the detention time limit has passed.
After the long and tense interrogation, Mingshu found a small conference room with no one, and sat alone, seemingly in a daze, but he was actually recalling every word and expression of Zhan Huanxiong.
Fang Yuanhang believed that Zhan Huanxiong had fabricated a story, and the man in the raincoat in Zhan Huanxiong’s mouth was Zhan Huanxiong himself.
He actually thought so too.
Assuming that the murderer is someone else, how could Zhan Huanxiong be so coincidental that he happened to be at the scene
But in criminal investigation, coincidence is not the basis for judging whether a person is guilty.
Mingshu leaned back on the back of the chair, his eyelids closed, his eyebrows wrinkled tightly, and the bright light splashed on his eyelids, showing a dark red.
Soon, the dark red moved a bit, as if someone approached and gently blocked it with his hand.
He opened his eyes immediately.
"Why are you sitting here alone?" Xiao Yuan carried a police uniform jacket in his hand.
It was only then that Ming Shu realized that the movement in front of him just now was Xiao Yu'an wanting to put on a dress for himself.
"Officer Xiao." He looked at the door, the door was not closed tightly.
It was night when Zhan Huanxiong was arrested. After a few hours of trial, it was already two in the morning—the most sleepy time.
In a place like the Criminal Investigation Bureau, although many team members live their days and nights upside down, at this point in time, the corridors are still much quieter than during the day.
Mingshu wiped his face and straightened his back, "I'm thinking about Zhan Huanxiong."
Xiao Yu'an moved a chair, "That's right, let's analyze it together."
Mingshu stared at Xiao Yu'an as if he was distracted, and didn't speak for a long time.
Xiao Yuan asked, "What?"
Mingshu looked away, "... um, nothing."
He didn't meet Xiao Yu'an very often these days, and the short meeting was just to discuss business affairs. A few days ago, he went deep into Shetu Town with Yi Fei and Xu Chun. The work of the serious crime team was entirely supported by Xiao Yu'an. Both of them were busy and communicated very little. After returning to Dongye City, he focused his energy on arresting Zhan Huanxiong, and now it was the first time he had been alone with Xiao Yuan recently.
Xiao Yuan laughed, very low, but he immediately understood what he was thinking, Xiao Yuan could see clearly.
He cleared his throat and said seriously, "Let's get down to business."
Xiao Yuan nodded, "What do you think of Zhan Huanxiong's confession?"
"Zhan Huanxiong must be the most suspected person now. What we lack is only key evidence." Mingshu said: "He came to Dongye City to take revenge on Luo Xiangfu, but he witnessed Luo Xiangfu being killed by others, which is too coincidental."
"It's a coincidence." Xiao Yuan said, "So you think Zhan Huanxiong is the murderer?"
"I..." Mingshu paused, pressing his right hand on his eye socket.
"You can't make judgments easily." Xiao Yuan said, "mature than your little apprentice."
Mingshu raised his eyes and bumped into Xiao Yu'an's gentle gaze.
"Actually, I came to see you, just to remind you that even if Zhan Huanxiong looks like a murderer, don't make judgments lightly." Xiao Yuan said, "Once you have a judgment in your heart and think that Zhan Huanxiong is the murderer, your The focus of the investigation will be completely deflected, and while stubbornly stubbornly stubbornly slapped on his confession, we will look for key evidence that may not exist. If Zhan Huanxiong is the real murderer, there is no problem. But if Zhan Huanxiong is not, we will give the truth. A chance to breathe - once we thought TA might be a serial killer, then when we focus on Zhan Huanxiong, TA might do it again."
Mingshu's light sleepiness has disappeared, and his eyes with scattered red blood are bright and serious, "I understand. If you want to check Zhan Huanxiong, you can't give up your previous ideas."
"Well." Xiao Yu'an said, "When you interrogated Zhan Huanxiong, I was watching the surveillance next door. His suspicion was indeed very high, but his behavior was actually in line with his own logic."
Mingshu also thought of this, but facing Zhan Huanxiong at the time, he was tense, and it was definitely not as clear as Xiao Yuan's.
"Xiao Bureau, I want to hear your thoughts."
"First, why didn't Zhan Huanxiong call the police?" Xiao Yu'an said: "A normal person will call the police if they witness a murder. Even if they don't call the police immediately, they will tell their family and friends around them. But about the murder of Luo Xiangfu, Zhan Huanxiong did not follow up. No one has said that. Because in Dongye City, he has no trusted people, and in his current status, he should be very reluctant to contact the police. Once the case is reported, the police station is likely to find that he entered the country illegally, and he must be deported. "
"In addition." Xiao Yu'an continued: "He was born in Shetu Town and fought in neighboring countries all the year round. In his consciousness, maybe he didn't call the police at all."
Mingshu held his chin, "Zhan Huanxiong has an attempt to kill Luo Xiangfu, and has followed Luo Xiangfu. After reporting the case, he will be exposed to the police's sight."
"Secondly, Zhan Huanxiong described the details of Luo Xiangfu's murder." Xiao Yu'an said, "He said that the murderer took a picture of Luo Xiangfu before hitting Luo Xiangfu's neck with a slender stick."
Mingshu's eyes were still, "Xing Mu said during his autopsy that the murder weapon was a three-sided cylinder with one side of 1.3 cm. Zhan Huanxiong saw a slender stick, which is true."
"There are only two possibilities now, one is that Zhan Huanxiong is the murderer, and the other is that Zhan Huanxiong saw the murderer." Xiao Yu'an said patiently, "Let's make an exclusion method. The case that Zhan Huanxiong is the murderer is made up by him. , With his skill, he can break Luo Xiangfu's neck directly, instead of hitting him repeatedly with a slender stick, right?"
Mingshu nodded, "Yeah."
"Okay, let's put this one aside for now. It's still the case that he is the murderer. Will he take pictures of Luo Xiangfu before he dies?" Xiao Yuan asked.
Mingshu raised his hand, "Wait, he said that the photo was taken, and none of us know if Luo Xiangfu was photographed."
"Maybe there is." Xiao Yuan said.
Mingshu asked, "How do you know?"
"Luo Xiangfu's T-shirt has a large area of sweat and saliva on the abdomen." Xiao Yu'an said: "Sweat is easy to say, the weather is so hot, and the abdomen will sweat. But under what circumstances will there be a lot of saliva in that position?"
Mingshu had already stood up, walked to the window to blow the air, turned around after half a minute and said, "The murderer lifted Luo Xiangfu's T-shirt and covered his face! Shooting Luo Xiangfu's naked body! Luo Xiangfu was sweating because of fear. This must have included the face, and then in intense fear, Luo Xiangfu bit the cloth!"
Xiao Yu'an said: "Then this is in line with Zhan Huanxiong's eyewitness testimony."
Mingshu said, "I'll think about it again."
Now only the murder weapon is clear, and it is impossible to determine whether the murderer took Luo Xiangfu's photos or not.
Zhan Huanxiong fully described the murderer's act of taking pictures, either he really saw it, or he fabricated it, or he took it himself.
The third exclusion, as for the second, if it is fabricated, why would it be fabricated to take pictures? Why not make up something else
Only the first possibility is the greatest!
Xiao Yu'an asked, "Have you figured it out?"
Mingshu was excited, "Yes!"
"Okay. I'll talk about the third point." Xiao Yu'an said: "If the murderer is Zhan Huanxiong, then his method of handling the body is too hasty."
Mingshu remembered that when he first arrived at the scene, he felt that it was strange that the murderer buried the body under the gravel.
There are more hidden places in the popular science playground. If the murderer has the intention to hide the body, it will not be easy for the police to find it. But the murderer just buried the body in a shallow layer, and it will be discovered in ten days and a half.
The killer seemed to be playing a game with the police.
"Zhan Huanxiong won't play games with us." Mingshu said, "After he killed Luo Xiangfu, he must find a safe place to dispose of the body. How could he leave such a big flaw?"
Xiao Yu'an said: "And I think he really wants to stay in Dongye City. If that's the case, it is even more important to deal with the dead body. We have not released the information of the deceased, but many people living in Xicheng District know about the popular science playground. When the accident happened, Zhan Huanxiong was working in a bar, so he was more informed. He knew that the police found Luo Xiangfu's body, would he still dare to stay in Dongye City?"
Ming Shu shook his head, "Even if he likes it here, he should leave temporarily."
Xiao Yuan folded his hands together, "So I think it might just be a coincidence - Zhan Huanxiong came to Dongye City to take revenge, but he saw the scene of his enemy being killed."
Mingshu put his hand in the pocket of the police uniform for a while, and then took it out again, feeling a little disappointed and excited. These two completely different emotions all appeared on his face, and a series of sweat beads had already turned out from his heroic hairline.
"If Zhan Huanxiong is not the murderer, then our efforts will be wasted during this time." He said, "The case still has to return to the previous progress, I..."
"It's not in vain." Xiao Yu'an stood up and walked towards him, "We found crucial witnesses. This is the result of your investigation in Shetu Town."
Mingshu took a deep breath, a kind of power unique to the detective grew rapidly in his body.
"A piece of information he provided actually corroborates our previous guess." Xiao Yu'an said: "The murderer not only took pictures of Luo Xiangfu, but also deliberately lifted Luo Xiangfu's clothes and took pictures of his body. It was street photography that caused trouble for Luo Xiangfu."
Fang Yuanhang did not participate in the discussion and still believed that the murderer was Zhan Huanxiong.
He rushed to the "Hei Ye Thorn" bar to ask Xian Zai. After a moment of confusion, Xian Zai said, "Brother Xiong did find me that day and wanted to switch classes back with me. But I am going to go to work soon. As soon as the trouble broke out, I would definitely not be happy, so I didn't change it with him."
"So whether Zhan Huanxiong will appear in the popular science playground that day depends on the young boy." Yi Fei said.
"Hey, hey, don't jump to conclusions so early!" Fang Yuanhang was anxious, "Zhan Huanxiong may have guessed that Xianzi doesn't want to change shifts, so he deliberately asked Xianzai and asked Xianzai to endorse himself. Do you think , if I should rest today, and the Ming team suddenly changed my shift and told me to go to work today and rest tomorrow, I was ready to go to work, and I also arranged what to do when I had a rest tomorrow, and I was about to go out. When I went to work, Team Ming told me to rest as originally planned. Wouldn't my plan be disrupted? Of course I don't want it, no one wants it. This is a psychological tactic! Zhan Huanxiong has long known that, Xianzi won't agree to change it back!"
Mingshu chuckled.
"Master, what are you laughing at?" Fang Yuanhang said, "My analysis is wrong?"
"No, that's right." Mingshu said, "Knowing doubts and using logic to support this logic is worthy of praise."
Fang Yuanhang's eyes lit up, "Then..."
Mingshu added: "But this time, Zhan Huanxiong may not really be the murderer."
Zhan Huanxiong was brought into the interrogation room again, and Wen Li sat vigilantly opposite him.
Compared to the night, Zhan Huanxiong was much calmer. He stared at Mingshu faintly and said, "What else do you want to ask?"
"You said you saw the murderer." Mingshu said, "In addition to wearing a hat and raincoat, what other characteristics does TA have?"
Zhan Huanxiong was silent for a long time.
Wen Li thought that Zhan Huanxiong didn't understand and was about to translate, but Mingshu raised his hand to stop him.
Mingshu is good at observing people, and he can see that Zhan Huanxiong is not not understanding, but thinking.
As for what to think about...
Suddenly, Zhan Huanxiong grinned, "You want me to help you find the murderer?"
Mingshu sneered, "You want to tell me the conditions?"
"Okay!" Zhan Huanxiong's Mandarin mixed with vernacular, speaking very fast, Wen Li immediately translated: "He said he could help, but after finding the murderer, you can't send him back, let him continue to live in winter Ye City."
"You are also worthy of me?" Mingshu put his hands on his chest and looked down at Zhan Huanxiong.
Although he grew up in the same environment, his temperament is quite different from that of Xiao Yuan. Xiao Yuan is gentle and dignified, but he has a very deep ruffian spirit in his bones. This ruffian spirit is mostly restrained and hidden, but occasionally confronts suspects. , criminals, it will suddenly burst out.
Zhan Huanxiong obviously didn't expect that the delicate-looking and overly particular policeman in front of him would have such an arrogant side. Subconsciously, he wanted to convince himself that this person was just bluffing, but he suddenly remembered that yesterday outside the bar, it was this person who ran wild and robbed him.
A tough character.
Zhan Huanxiong swallowed his saliva and lowered his momentum, "What do you want?"
"Listen to me." Mingshu said, "You are working in Shetu Town. I can't control you for the time being, but someone can take care of you. Have you heard of the special operations team of the Ministry of Public Security?"
Cold sweat broke out on Zhan Huanxiong's back.
Mingshu continued: "Now that you're on my territory, you can't help but talk about conditions. You can answer whatever I ask, understand?"
Wen Li had never seen Ming Shu speak in such a tone, so he became anxious.
Zhan Huanxiong opened his mouth for a long time, and finally said, "I, I will cooperate."
Mingshu leaned back in his chair, "Tell me the characteristics of the murderer."
According to Zhan Huanxiong's confession, the murderer was between 1.62 and 1.65 meters tall. Because he was wrapped in a poncho and his face was covered, it was impossible to tell whether he was a man or a woman. The poncho was loose, the chest and abdomen were fluffy, and the body shape could not be identified, but the shoulders were almost close to the body. It could be seen that the murderer's shoulders were relatively thin, and the possibility of being a woman was relatively high.
"In line with our previous inference." Yi Fei distributed the lunch to everyone, and when it was his turn, he found that there was only one box left.
The serious crime team, from the captain and deputy team to the trainee team members, has an amazing appetite. Usually, they are full when eating in the cafeteria. Mingshu felt sorry for everyone, and ordered a box lunch from a nearby braised pork restaurant, probably because the quantity was wrong, and in the end there was one less box.
Yi Fei didn't say anything, Ming Shu glanced at him and handed over the second copy that he had not yet opened.
"You eat it yourself." Yi Fei said, "I'm enough for one serving."
"That's enough, who lost the skill competition last time without having enough food?" Mingshu said in a boss-like manner, "Don't be long-winded, take it."
Yi Fei smiled: "What about you? You can't eat enough, right?"
"Let's talk about it when you're hungry." Mingshu returned to his position, listening to the team members discussing while cooking.
"I don't think we should be preconceived." Fang Yuanhang said: "If we believe that the murderer is a woman, then if - I mean, if the murderer is a man, then it will be troublesome? In fact, this situation cannot be completely ruled out. Men are suspected of committing crimes, right? Men can also be under 1.65 meters, and men can also be very thin."
"But the skeleton is different." Xing Mu said, "No matter how thin a man is, his shoulders and backs are wider and thicker than women's."
"Zhou Yuan is very thin." Fang Yuanhang said: "Looking at the back, the police flower of the special police detachment next door is stronger than him. And we can't fully trust Zhan Huanxiong, the deviation of the body shape description is too great."
Mingshu smiled, "That makes sense."
Fang Yuanhang became more and more interested, "Master, I'll add chicken drumsticks for you!"
"There are more and more thoughts recently, keep this kind of enthusiasm for questioning." Mingshu turned his eyes around, "The murderer had his legs spread apart and his feet stood on Luo Xiangfu's waist to take pictures. Just now I asked Xiao Yun and Zhou Yuan to be in Zhan. Huanxiong tried the same move in front of him, and Zhan Huanxiong thought Xiaoyun's posture was more like the murderer he saw."
Xiao Yun is a female member of the SWAT detachment, tall and beautiful.
Fang Yuanhang was puzzled, "This..."
"There are many differences in the body movements of men and women." Mingshu said: "Some are determined by differences in bones, while others are determined by factors such as living habits, physical strength, and body shape. They are all small differences, but sometimes enough to affect key judgments ."
Quickly get rid of the meal, and everyone goes back to work. In the evening, when it came to the normal off-duty time for general occupations, Xiao Yuan suddenly appeared in the serious crime team.
Mingshu thought there was going to be another meeting, so he hurriedly said: "Xiao Bureau, wait for me for a minute, here I am..."
Xiao Yuan walked up to him and said in a low voice, "No meeting. Don't work overtime tonight, I'll take you somewhere."
"Huh?" Mingshu was surprised.
Not working overtime? Don't work overtime as soon as the case progresses
He was ready to sleep in the bureau.
"Where?" Mingshu asked.
Xiao Yu'an said, "Go on a date."