(2) Lu Tian and Chen Xiong came to Ji Chuan’s house to drink at about 7:30 pm on the 12th. Three neighbors can prove it. Lu Tian and Ji Chuan drank together until dawn the next day (3:30), and then left Lu Tian and three neighbors to stay in Ji Chuan. Sleep until 7:30 in the morning.
(3) Chen Xiong. Left Ji Chuan's house at 11 p.m. I took a taxi to my lover's house at 11:30 and slept until dawn.
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Hao Dong pointed to the place with black dots on the paper and asked: "The black dots have been added in these twenty minutes. Isn't it a questionable time?"
Tian Chunda nodded: "Yes. These twenty minutes were the only blank time that Lu Tian did not have a third party to prove during Meng Xiangyu's murder."
Hao Dong said: "However, it is obvious that the crime scene was at the Huimin Road coal storage yard. The victim seemed to have inhaled coal powder in his nostrils and lungs before death, which was probably similar to the carbon quality of this coal storage yard. are the same. The results of the test will be known soon. In this way, even if there is a twenty-minute blank time, it is simply impossible for Lu Tian to rush from Jichuan's house to the Huimin Road coal storage yard. We It took fifty-six minutes to take the police car from the Huimin Road coal storage yard to near Ji Chuan's house. Even if it was faster, it would probably take forty minutes! The round trip would take eighty minutes, and there would be extra time. It’s time to commit the crime. This twenty-minute blank time probably won’t play any role in solving the case.”
47
The results of the two investigations ordered by Tian Chunda came back.
The first is a report from a university. Test results proved that the pulverized coal collected by Tian Chunda from the scene and the pulverized coal inhaled by the victim were of the same carbon quality.
"The scene of Meng Xiangyu's murder was the Huimin Road Coal Storage Yard. Now it's time to be sure!" Hao Dong said.
However, Team Leader Tian Chunda was unhappy.
Hao Dong understood his mood. If the scene of the crime was the Huimin Road Coal Storage Yard, then neither Lu Tian nor Chen Zhiming had the time to commit the crime.
The second is the reply from the weather station. Before dawn on the 13th, the rainfall in the Huimin Road area occurred between 3:00 and 4:50.
"Yes! That's the problem, Hao Dong."
Tian Chunda said and handed the rainfall schedule to Hao Dong.
"That's the breakthrough."
"What? Breach?"
After hearing the team leader's words, Hao Dong couldn't help asking a strange question.
Tian Chunda said: "Didn't the little girl who picked up the bag say that the bag was not wet? The policeman who received the handbag from the girl also said that it was not wet. Isn't this strange? The little girl picked it up around eight o'clock, so There is no doubt that the handbag should and must have been soaked by the rain for nearly two hours. However, the handbag was not wet at all. What is the reason?"
"By the way, the handbag was thrown away when Meng Xiangyu was killed. Logically speaking, it should have been wet by the rain that started around three o'clock!"
"Then, why didn't you get wet?"
"That is to say, the handbag was left at the scene after the rain stopped, that is, after five o'clock."
"Yes, that's exactly it. Objective logic can only be like this."
"But, team leader, the deceased was murdered between ten o'clock and midnight, but the handbag was dropped at the scene after five o'clock. This is not logical."
"Yes, that's what I just said is unreasonable. However, objective facts are difficult to overturn. We can only say where our reasoning is wrong."
What exactly went wrong?
All of these are facts, disjointed and independent of each other. It's like a set of out-of-sync gears that don't fit together and can't move.
"However, although these clues are not related to each other, they do not seem to be false. Especially the handbag, which was left at the scene after five o'clock, is a bit unexpected, but it is this that is the breakthrough of this case.
48
That evening, Hao Dong was called to the team leader's room again.
Team leader Tian Chunda seemed particularly happy. As soon as he saw Hao Dong come in, he immediately said with a smile:
"Hao Dong, that handbag is indeed a breakthrough! I looked through the previous inquiry transcripts again and found something new."
"Oh? Tell me quickly."
"Ah, come on, look here."
The team leader pointed to a section of Chen Xiong’s interrogation record, which read:
At around 5 a.m. on the 13th, Meng Xiangtian left Ai Yuting's house saying he had a quarrel with Ai Yuting. "
"Ah! That's it."
The handbag was left at the scene just after the rain stopped at five o'clock.
"These two gears finally closed their teeth at five o'clock." Tian Chunda said excitedly:
"It only takes about twenty minutes by bus from Ai Yuting's home to the Huimin Road coal storage yard. I left Ai Yuting's house at five o'clock and arrived at the Huimin Road coal storage yard at about 5:30. "
"Are you saying that Chen Xiong put Meng Xiangyu's handbag there?"
"Yes. Send someone quickly to ask Ai Yuting if Chen Xiong was carrying something when he went to Ai's house."
The criminal policeman who was sent to Ai's house soon came back to report: "Ai Yuting said that when Chen Xiong came for a tryst that night, he brought a newspaper bag that looked like a big lunch box. Ai Yuting asked him what it was, and Chen Xiong I ignored her. Ai Yuting couldn't ask any more questions."
After listening to the criminal police report, Tian Chunda was very happy, and his expression suddenly became clear. However, he was a little angry and couldn't help nagging regretfully: "It would have been better if the criminal policeman who initially went to investigate Ai Yuting had asked about this earlier. It seems that he forgot to ask Chen Xiong whether he had brought anything with him at that time. This is an important issue."
Immediately, Tian Chunda ordered Hao Dong again:
"Call Chen Xiong over right away and ask what's in the newspaper."
Chen Xiong was called by the criminal police. However, no matter how Tian Chunda questioned him, he denied it.
"I didn't bring anything like that. Ai Yuting remembered it wrong."
He seemed dissatisfied with calling him here just for such a trivial matter, so he puffed up his cheeks and shouted loudly.
"If you don't know, I'll tell you! What's wrapped there is the handbag of the victim Meng Xiangyu!"
Although Tian Chunda's reprimand was very severe, Chen Xiong just rolled his eyes indifferently and said to Tian Chunda: "Stop joking! How can I take his handbag? Are you saying I snatched it somewhere? ?”
Instead, he turned defensive and did not answer the question directly. Tian Chunda continued to ask: "Where did you go after you left Ai Yuting's house at around five o'clock in the morning? Did you go to the Huimin Road coal storage yard? Did you take your handbag with you?" He left it at the coal storage yard on Huimin Road and left as if nothing happened, right?"
"That's unreasonable. No matter what you say, I don't know."
Chen Xiong said and turned his face to the side. His face turned pale, and his dim eyes became even more dull. However, he could not hide his shaken expression. Tian Chunda kept watching every change in his expression.
Chen Xiong refused to let go, saying that he didn't know anything about the handbag. Tian Chunda temporarily suspended the interrogation.
"Team leader, it must be Chen Xiong who left the handbag at the coal storage yard on Huimin Road! Don't look at him pretending not to know, yes, it must be him." Hao Dong said to Tian Chunda.
"Yeah." Tian Chunda nodded. He added: "To be on the safe side, we will first detain him as a theft suspect."
"But where did Chen Xiong get Meng Xiangyu's handbag? If you don't figure it out, he will have to be released before evidence can be obtained! Also, why did Chen Xiong deliberately throw the handbag at the coal storage yard? Woolen cloth?"
"Perhaps the prisoner moved the body to location B after committing the crime in location A because he wanted to hide the scene of the crime!"
"Then, why did you deliberately throw the handbag to the scene later? Isn't it true that there is no silver in this place?"
At this moment, Tian Chunda suddenly remembered the scene of putting the coal powder in an envelope and taking it for testing. He couldn't help but blurt out: "That's right! Can't you also bring coal powder in an envelope?"
"The team leader said that the criminals used envelopes to bring coal powder. That is to say, the criminals put the coal powder from the Huimin Road coal storage yard in envelopes and brought it to Ji Chuan's house. Then, before killing Meng Xiangyu, he asked him to A large amount of coal powder was inhaled. The tied victim could only watch the air and inhale the coal powder into his lungs. So, the Huimin Road Coal Storage Yard was a fake scene disguised?" Hao Dong looked at the team leader and said.
Tian Chunda nodded: "Yes, the criminals have thought carefully. They know that we must dissect the victim's body for examination. When coal powder is found in the lungs, they will definitely think that the victim inhaled it himself. No Some people think that someone else cheated. Therefore, as long as you find a place with the same carbon quality as the coal powder in the body, it will definitely be considered a crime scene."
"Then why did you put your handbag in the coal yard?"
"It was for people to pick it up and hand it over to the police. In other words, the criminal wanted to tell the police through this handbag: 'This is the scene.' Otherwise, he would have fanned coal powder into the victim's mouth for a long time without letting him know. If people know that there is a place with this kind of coal, wouldn’t it be a waste of effort?”
"Well, their purpose is to create evidence that there was no time to commit the crime."
"Yes. The criminal wanted to explain that it was impossible to go back and forth between Jichuan's house and the Huimin Road coal storage yard in a short period of time. No matter how fast you drove, a round trip would take one hour, two to thirty minutes. Therefore, Lu Tian's twenty-minute outing without circumstantial evidence cannot be included in the scope of suspicion."
"So they took Meng Xiangyu to Ji Chuan's house?"
"Exactly. The houses near Ji Chuan's house are relatively scattered, and even if they make louder noises, they will not be heard by outsiders. As for Meng Xiangyu, after he and Lu Tian arrived at Ji Chuan's house around seven o'clock in the evening, they must have been He was tied up, forced to inhale coal powder, and then strangled to death. His body was placed in a warehouse outside the house. After that, Ji Chuan invited his neighbors to his home for dinner so that they could give them an alibi."
"Well, that should be the case." Hao Dong thought for a while and nodded.
Tian Chunda continued: "Chen Xiong wanted to put his handbag at the coal storage yard on Huimin Road, so he left Ji Chuan's house at eleven o'clock. At midnight, Lu Tian went out for twenty minutes on the pretext of buying cigarettes. In fact, he left Ji Chuan's house at eleven o'clock. First, he transported Meng Xiangyu's body to the woods in his own car. After that, he returned to Ji Chuan's house and drank with Ji Chuan and his neighbors until 3:30 before dawn. At around 7 o'clock in the morning, when When the neighbor women came to look for her husband who was sleeping at Ji Chuan's house, Lu Tian walked out calmly, rubbed his eyes, and pretended to be sleeping like them until now."
"This guy is so cunning." Hao Dong couldn't help but exclaimed.
"We are going to search Ji Chuan's home right now! I think they have already cleaned up and eliminated traces. However, if one or two small coal particles are left in any corner, that will be strong evidence. "
Tian Chunda led the criminal police to search Ji Chuan's home. Tian Chunda believed that Meng Xiangyu was probably forced to inhale coal powder in the kitchen. He searched the kitchen carefully with a magnifying glass and found a few tiny grains of coal powder in the corner. I also found half a fingerprint on the wall that had not been cleaned.
After laboratory analysis, the composition of the coal powder found at Ji Chuan's home was exactly the same as that of the coal powder Meng Xiangyu inhaled. The half-fingerprint found on the wall of Ji Chuan's warehouse was compared and proved to be Meng Xiangyu's.
The criminal police interrogated Ji Chuan. Under Tian Chunda's questioning, he had to confess completely. His confession proved that Team Leader Tian Chunda's reasoning about the case was completely correct.
Regarding the motive for the crime, Ji Chuan said that he and Chen Xiong were ordered by Lu Tian. Lu Tian was their boss, and each of them gave them 60,000 yuan, so they obeyed.
The criminal police arrested Lu Tian, and under questioning he had to confess the true motive for killing Meng Xiangyu. From this, the truth about Qu Lili’s disappearance became clear.
