investigative chronicle

Chapter 109 Confession
"I haven't seen any murderer who admits to killing. If you don't say it, I'll go back if you don't. It's a waste of everyone's time at night. If you have that time, you can sleep well."

"Really, I haven't slept for so many days. Let's go, the case is solved, go back and catch up on sleep." Said the master turned around again.

"No, officer, don't go, I... I really didn't kill that girl. I... I just wanted to snatch her electronic watch... When I left, she was still alive..., she really I'm still alive..." Before he could finish speaking, the thief started to sob.

Seeing this scene, the master sat down with Li Muzi and Yuan Mu, quietly waiting for the thief to calm down.

After he calmed down a bit, the master opened the bottle cap and drank the tea in his mouth and said unhurriedly, "Tell me, what's going on."

"A few days ago... when I went out to exercise at night... I saw a girl wandering in the alley. At night... I was afraid that she would not be safe alone, so I thought about going forward to help her. As a result, she threw me He treated me as a bad guy and slapped me. That’s how the injury on my neck came about..."

Yuan Muben had been threatened by them before, and the thief would tell the truth about the case, but he didn't expect him to make up such a set of lies full of loopholes.She was shocked by the other party's shamelessness, and couldn't find the words to continue the interrogation.

"Then that girl's death has nothing to do with you, does it?" the master asked sarcastically.

"Well, yes, yes." The thief nodded and immediately argued: "Officer, I really didn't kill the person. I just had a good intention. She was fine when she left."

"Yang Tiankui... Who are you fooling! Who can you fool with your rhetoric?" The master stared at him closely.

Seeing the other party call out his name, the thief trembled. "You...you know me?"

The master looked at him contemptuously: "Otherwise? If I don't even know the suspect I want to arrest, what kind of criminal policeman am I?"

Hearing their conversation, Yuan Mu was shocked. It turned out that the cunning criminal was still testing them.This is a contest. The criminals want to find out the cards in their hands, and they want to swindle the secret of the other party's crime.

The thief's face was pale, but his lips were tightly pressed together.It seems that he won't say anything without some pressure.

"It's fine if you don't want to. We can also convict you."

After speaking, Yuan Mu stared at his right hand and continued: "That hand is the best evidence."

The thief lowered his head, his body was shaking uncontrollably, and he was struggling with his thoughts.

"Do you know why you were arrested?"

"We installed surveillance in that area. The newly installed...is to catch you...."

"The road and bridge killer, with several lives on his back... If you weren't strong enough, the application for surveillance wouldn't have been approved so quickly."

Li Muzi told the truth about the surveillance, making the thief even more frightened.

"It's not... me. I... I'm just kind."

Seeing that he was still trying to quibble, the master threw the book on the table, picked up the cup and called them to leave.

"Don't...don't...don't go, officer. I was really kind at first. But then I saw that she was wearing an electronic watch, and I just wanted to steal her watch. I I really just robbed her watch. I didn’t know she was dead until I saw the news... I really didn’t kill anyone..." Out of fear, the thief finished his sentence quickly like pouring beans from a bamboo tube.

Hearing his words, Yuan Mu was a little disappointed. If what this guy said was true, he was indeed not the murderer.

"The evidence now points to you, and you still want us to believe you based on your words?" The master sat relaxed on the chair, but did not take his eyes off the thief for a moment.

Seeing that the policeman didn't believe him, the thief's face became even paler.Although he had never seen the policeman in front of him before, he had heard a lot about his name and deeds.Crazy Zhang does not interrogate easily, but anyone interrogated by him is a felony...

"This time... this time I'm telling the truth. You've got to believe me...."

The thief used honorifics when he was nervous.

The master felt that the fire was almost ready, so he signaled Yuan Mu to prepare to record.On the other hand, he asked unhurriedly: "You will answer whatever I ask next. I will judge whether you have committed a crime or not based on the evidence. This is your last chance. Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't tell me. Psychopaths aren't interested."

"I said, I said, I must tell the truth." The thief cooperated a lot this time.

"When and where did you meet Yang Ping?" asked the master.

"At around 10 o'clock in the evening on October 20, I was taking a walk near the Second Lane of Xilujiao when a girl suddenly ran out of the alley."

"It's not safe for a girl to walk outside at night, so I want to help her."

The thief looked at the disdainful expression on the face of the policeman opposite, and said anxiously:
"Although I'm not a very good person, I still have this principle. I will never engage in adultery." When I said this, I was quite righteous.

"What happened next, what happened next?" The master did not refute the principle mentioned by the thief, but continued to ask questions around the case.

"Next... Next, the girl doesn't believe me and keeps going." When he said these words, the thief lowered his head, completely lacking the righteous and awe-inspiring look just now.

"Then...then...I saw that the girl's watch was pretty good, so...I got a little weird idea."

"Not that way, though. I... I just want that watch."

Yuan Mu couldn't help but snorted coldly. With this kind of virtue, he still had the nerve to flaunt his principles.

The thief knew he was wrong and lowered his head.

"What about after? If you don't give the girl to you, you will kill her?" Seeing that he was about to remain silent, the master prodded him again.

"No...I didn't. I just grabbed her hand to grab the watch... I didn't expect the girl to be young and strong. She scratched the wounds on my hands and neck..."

"Then the strap snapped and she yelled for help and I ran away in fright."

"But when I left, she was still alive, really alive." The thief argued vigorously.

"Where is that performance now?" asked the master.

"Thrown by me..."

Fearing that they would not believe me, the thief raised his head and said in a panic, "Later I saw the news that the girl died. I was afraid that you would think that I did the crime, so you would throw the watch into the trash can."

"You said the girl didn't die at that time, do you have any proof?" the master said.

"Yes... I actually didn't run very far. I parked behind the wall at the corner of Second Alley. I watched the child run towards the river across the road."

"You watched her run into Luqiao District [-]?" Yuan Mu raised his head, his eyes piercing into people's hearts like ice cones.

The thief scratched his head and said, "I didn't expect her to run that way."

"Speaking of which, there is a problem with the planning of the city god. The road and bridge are so messy inside, but the road outside is wide and the street lights are bright. She must have run there because of these..." The thief knew that he was wrong, and his voice became smaller and smaller.

After so many days of investigation and visits in Luqiao District, Yuan Mu already knew the situation there well.That road was newly built by the government in order to prepare for the next step in the reconstruction of the road and bridge area. Although the infrastructure such as street lights has been installed, there is no time to install cameras.Criminals take advantage of this loophole....

(End of this chapter)