Attending ex-girlfriend's wedding, arresting the groom's officer on the spot

Upon hearing the news of Wang Xuebing's death, Zhao Qiang pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses, with a shocked expression on his face: "Boss Wang has an accident? It's so sudden! We were talking on the phone last night about a batch of orders for the factory. The customer suddenly asked to change the design, and the deadline was tight. Boss Wang got really angry on the phone."

"During the call, did he mention anything unusual? Or behave in any way that seemed strange?" Wang Shuai stared into Zhao Qiang's eyes.

Zhao Qiang recalled for a while and shook his head: "No, I was just worried about the order. Mr. Wang is usually under a lot of pressure and has a bad temper. I'm used to it. But before hanging up the phone, he said, 'Don't bother me, I have something important tonight.' I thought he was talking about handling the order."

After leaving the furniture factory, Wang Shuai contacted Zhou Li again. Zhou Li's voice was tearful: "Xue Bing and I just chatted about family matters and asked about the children's studies. He said that business has been bad recently and asked me not to worry. I never thought that this would be our last call."

At this time, Zhang Hui called and said, "Aunt Li confirmed that Li Juan is the woman in the red dress! She said that Li Juan often came to see Wang Xuebing, and every time she came, she was dressed up and the smell of perfume could stay in the house for several days. Once when she was cleaning the bedroom, she found a woman's long hair on the bed. It was not black, but dyed burgundy."

"Let's go check Li Juan's information." Wang Shuai and Zhang Hui met at the police station and found out through the household registration system that Li Juan was 28 years old, unemployed, and her registered address was an old residential area in the city. The two drove there immediately, but found that Li Juan was not at home.

The neighbor lady enthusiastically provided clues: "Xiao Li, I haven't seen her in the past half month. She is usually dressed brightly and beautifully, and she takes taxis when she goes in and out. I don't know what she does for a living. Oh, by the way, a man came to see her a few days ago, driving a black luxury car. He was very mad, banging on the door and shouting for Li Juan to pay back the money."

"Did you see what the man looked like?" Zhang Hui asked.

"He was wearing sunglasses, so I couldn't see his face clearly. He must be about 1.8 meters tall and dressed in black. He looked quite scary." The middle-aged woman said, patting her chest.

Wang Shuai and Zhang Hui looked at each other and decided to start their investigation from Li Juan's social relationships. They visited Li Juan's friends and classmates and learned that Li Juan came to Haizhou from her hometown three years ago and worked as a waitress in a bar at first. Later, she suddenly lived a luxurious life and her circle of friends was full of photos of high-end restaurants and brand-name bags.

"She said she found a rich boyfriend." One of Li Juan's best friends secretly told them, "But I've never seen her bring her boyfriend out. When I asked her, she said her boyfriend was very busy and was a big businessman. But in the past six months, she didn't seem to be doing well. She didn't update her Moments anymore. When people asked her to borrow money, she always said she had no money."

Back at the police station, the technical department sent a message that, through base station positioning, Li Juan's mobile phone signal appeared in a park near the Jintaiyang community at 9:45 on the night of the incident. Wang Shuai and Zhang Hui came to the park again and retrieved the park's surveillance video. In the video, at 9:30, a woman in a red dress sat on a bench, constantly looking at her phone with an anxious expression. At 9:40, she received a call, her face changed drastically, and she hurriedly left the park. Although the picture is a bit blurry, it can be basically confirmed that it is Li Juan based on her figure and clothing.

"She left right after she answered the phone. She was probably going to meet Wang Xuebing," Wang Shuai analyzed. "And the last text message on Wang Xuebing's phone was sent at 9:40. It said 'see you at the old place.' This old place might be his home."

The case seemed to have a clue, but new questions arose: What was the relationship between Li Juan and Wang Xuebing? What did the two say on the phone on the night of the incident? Who was the mysterious man who came to Li Juan to pay back the money? Could he be related to Wang Xuebing's death? With these questions, Wang Shuai and Zhang Hui continued to investigate. They found that Li Juan suddenly began to transfer money to Wang Xuebing frequently six months ago, ranging from a few thousand to tens of thousands, with a cumulative amount of up to 500,000. And all this money went through different accounts and eventually flowed to an underground casino.

At the same time, Yang Sen also made a new discovery during the on-site investigation. In the trash can of Wang Xuebing's study, he found a torn IOU. After piecing them together, he found that it was written by Li Juan to Wang Xuebing, with a loan amount of 300,000 yuan and a repayment date of the day before the crime.

All clues point to Li Juan, who seems to be a major suspect in the crime.

In the conference room, Lu Chuan organized a relevant case analysis meeting.

The projector was emitting a faint blue light. Lu Chuan stood in front of the whiteboard and drew circles around Wang Xuebing's photo with a red pen. The clock pointed to eleven o'clock in the evening. Twenty or so tired faces were grayish under the cold white light. The cigarette butts piled in the ashtray and the files spread out on the table silently told of the anxiety of the past few days.

"Let's start with the on-site investigation." Lu Chuan pointed his laser pen at the big screen, and the on-site photos switched one by one. "Yang Sen, is there any new progress in the bloodstain analysis?"

Yang Sen pushed the forensic goggles and brought up the 22D reconstruction model: "According to the correction of the splash angle, the fatal injury time is accurate to 03:5 minutes ± 1.78 minutes." He zoomed in on the fan-shaped bloodstains on the wall, "The main spray point is at a height of meters. Combined with the dragging marks, the murderer dragged the body to the window after the crime. This abnormal behavior is worth noting."

"Could this be a fake home robbery?" Zhang Hui quickly wrote down in his notebook.

"It's unlikely." Yang Lin interrupted, holding up the evidence bag, "The shoe prints at the entrance show that the murderer took off his shoes and entered the room, and wore gloves the whole time. If it was a random crime, there would be no such anti-detection awareness." He called up the surveillance screenshots, in which a figure wearing a baseball cap walked out of the apartment building with a travel bag, "The stride of this person is exactly the same as the shoe prints at the scene, but all the surveillance shows that he deliberately changed his gait."

Lu Chuan tapped the timeline on the whiteboard with his pen tip: "Zhang Kai, can the autopsy conclusion support the current speculation?"

A photo of the dissection table appeared on the screen, and Zhang Kai's voice came through the microphone: "Zolpidem was detected in the deceased's stomach contents, and the concentration was enough to reduce the reaction speed. Combined with his history of heart stents, his ability to resist when attacked was greatly weakened." He switched to a close-up of the wound. "The fatal wound was at a tricky angle. The murderer is familiar with the human body structure. The blade avoided the ribs and pierced directly into the heart. This is not an ordinary revenge method."

王帅突然举手：“我调查通话记录有重大发现。“他将三张便签纸贴在白板上，“9点05分，王学兵与家具厂副总赵强讨论订单纠纷；9点20分和妻子的通话内容正常；最关键的是9点45分，与李娟的1分17秒通话——这个号码近一个月联系47次，基站定位显示当时她就在案发现场附近。“(本章完)