Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 424 Doubts
the second?
Jin Zhihai and several comrades from the Dianhai Criminal Investigation Section simultaneously looked down at the notebooks in their hands.

The person Chen Guohua testified against was named Lu Daming, a worker at Dianhai Electric Motor Factory, and he was 52 years old.

These are not the key points. The key point is that these people had been preliminarily questioned when they were brought in. Although it has not been finally confirmed, according to these people, they all have alibis on the night of August 28th.

Of course, this is just what they said, and whether it is still necessary to implement it or not.

But if it's true...

If it is true, who did Chen Guohua see that night?
Why could he insist that the person he saw was Lu Daming?

"Comrade Guohua, don't be anxious or nervous. Look more carefully."

Thinking of this, Jin Zhihai raised his hand and patted Chen Guohua on the shoulder, motioning him to take a closer look.

"Comrade Public Security, I will definitely not make a mistake. It is definitely him. The second person from the left to the right, it must be him that I saw that night."

Many people now know what happened on the night of the 28th. Chen Guohua has of course also heard about it. At this time, his hand was shaking as he pointed at Lu Daming, and his face was full of anger.

From ancient times to the present, there has never been anyone who has not felt angry at those who do such things.

"Okay, thank you. You can go down and rest with our comrades first."

Seeing that he was sure that the person he saw that night was Lu Daming, Jin Zhihai did not ask any more questions. He nodded to an investigator from the Criminal Investigation Section of Dianhai Branch, signaling him to take Chen Guohua away first.

After the others were led away, he asked the chief of criminal investigation of Dianhai Branch to walk a few steps to the side with him.

"You arrange for someone to verify the truth of what the six people said. I will bring someone to formally question the six of them again."

"No problem," the criminal investigation chief of Dianhai Branch agreed very readily.

Although the case has been handed over to the Municipal Bureau, it happened in their jurisdiction after all. Although this case may be related to a series of cases ten years ago, this is only their internal statement.

The current district and city leaders don’t care whether it is related to the case from ten years ago, as they had not yet taken office at that time. They only know that since such a vicious case happened during their tenure, it must be solved quickly to give justice to the deceased and an explanation to the people.

Jin Zhihai immediately arranged for his subordinates to question the six people separately again, and he sat in front of Lu Daming.

"Comrade Lu Daming, please tell me again what you did on the night of August 28th."

"Ah? Comrade...comrade Gong'an, didn't you just...just tell me this? Why are you repeating it again?"

Lu Daming looks like an honest man. Just looking at his face, Jin Zhihai really doesn't believe that he committed the crime.

Thinking of this, he glanced at Lu Daming's feet calmly again.

The height of Mr. Lu was consistent with the estimation of the footprint expert, 1.72 meters, but his feet...

There was no need to measure or compare. Jin Zhihai knew at a glance that this guy's feet definitely did not match the footprints left at the scene.

Because people with the surname Lu are the typical type of people who are not very tall but have very big feet, and it looks like they have a boat on their feet.

However, Jin Zhihai did not care about the difference between Lu Daming's feet and those left at the scene. Chen Guohua just saw that the man surnamed Lu might have pulled the victim with a cart, but he did not see him commit the crime with his own eyes.

What if there are two perpetrators?

The man surnamed Lu was responsible for getting people over, and the other man committed the crime at the crime scene.

After glancing at Lu Daming's feet, Jin Zhihai tapped twice on the table with his fingers.

"Comrade Lu Daming, I am not discussing with you, but asking you to repeat what you said before."

"Uh..." Lu Daming seemed to realize at this time that he was now in the Public Security Bureau, not in the factory. The public security bureau was investigating the case. When he left the factory just now, the leader said that he must cooperate unconditionally.

He smiled a little embarrassedly: "Hey...hey, sorry, Public Security Comrade, I'll tell you right away, right away."

At this point, Lu Daming swallowed carefully, paused for a moment and then continued, "On the afternoon of August 28, after I got home from get off work and had dinner, I played chess with Da Zhuang and a few others in the No. 7 courtyard next to our house. We played until almost nine o'clock, then went home to rest.

Public Security Comrade, when I returned, several neighbors in our yard saw me. I talked to Xie Laosan for a few words and smoked a cigarette together before going back into the house. "

Although I don't know why the police suspected that he was the one who committed the crime that night, the six people who were in the same house just now looked at each other and found one thing in common, that is, they all had bald heads.

Could it be that the murderer is also bald?

This is the only explanation. Otherwise, they couldn't understand why they were suddenly taken to the police station while they were at work.

Anyway, for Lu Daming, although he was scared when he was suddenly brought here, he was not particularly scared. He felt that he was upright and had done nothing wrong. The police would not force him to do something he did not do.

Listening to him, Jin Zhihai looked down at the notebook in his hand. What the man surnamed Lu said this time was almost the same as the first time. It didn't look like he had memorized it on purpose.

But he still had some doubts in his mind. Why did Chen Guohua insist that it was this guy after seeing it?

"Comrade Lu Daming, how many brothers do you have? Brothers from the same mother."

"Uh... I have another brother named Lu Dachuan." Lu Daming was stunned for a moment, not knowing why the police suddenly asked this question again, but he still answered honestly.

"How old is your brother?"

"He is ten years older than me and is already sixty-two this year."

"Do you two brothers look alike?"

Now Lu Daming finally understood why the police asked this, and his eyes widened.

What does that mean? Could it be that...

"Comrade...Comrade Public Security...Comrade Public Security, this...this is not right. Why...why do you suspect...suspect that we are the ones who did this heinous thing?

I… I heard someone tell me who died, and that girl was only a few years older than my granddaughter. No matter what I do, I can’t possibly do such a beastly thing.”

Because of nervousness and shame, Lu Daming's face turned red and he spoke haltingly.

"Comrade Lu Daming..." Jin Zhihai calmly pressed his hand down, signaling him to stay calm.

"We are investigating the case. All you have to do is cooperate with us and accept the investigation. If it wasn't you, we certainly won't frame you. If it was you, you can't get away with it. Now please answer my questions seriously."

"I……"

"Bang Bang Bang"

Seeing that he wanted to say something else, Jin Zhihai tapped the table a few more times with his fingers.

"Comrade Lu Daming, answer my question, does your brother look like you?"

"When he was young, he looked like me, but my brother is ten years older than me. He definitely doesn't look like me now. His hair is almost completely white." "Where is your brother's home?"

"In Taifeng"

"Taifeng?" Jin Zhihai felt a little surprised when he heard that the man named Lu Dachuan's home was in Taifeng.

"Comrade Lu Daming, I remember your hometown is Dianhai, why did your brother go to Taifeng?"

These days, population mobility is very poor. Except for those who were forced to leave their hometowns for some reasons, the educated youth who went to the countryside to work in the fields, and the workers who went there to support the Third Front Construction, other people could not leave the area of ​​ten kilometers for decades.

Although Dianhai and Taifeng are adjacent to each other, they belong to two districts, or two counties. Under normal circumstances, it would not happen that two brothers would live in different districts.

"My brother is... a live-in son-in-law."

So that's how it is. No wonder.

Hearing Lu Daming's explanation, Jin Zhihai raised his eyebrows.

"When was the last time you saw your brother?"

"The last time I saw him..." Lu Daming rolled his eyes and thought for a while: "The last time I saw him was in June. He came back. Oh, the house I live in now is my family's old house. After my parents passed away, my brother lived in Taifeng, so our family lived in the old house.

My brother comes back every year to take a look around. He doesn’t stay at home, but comes back for lunch. We brothers chat for a while, and then he goes back.”

"Do you have any pictures of your brother at home?"

"There are photos, but they are from more than ten years ago. There are no current ones."

"Is his hair like yours?" Jin Zhihai raised his hand and pointed at his head.

Lu Daming knew what he wanted to say, shook his head and said, "My brother's hair is fine. I remember that when he came back in June, his hair was white, but not like mine, with patches missing here and there."

"How long have you been here?"

"Oh, it's been at least a year, and I don't know why it became like this. It looks like it was chewed by a dog, so ugly. I have no choice but to wear a hat."

As he spoke, Lu Daming raised his hand and took off the hat on his head.

His baldness was much more serious than those five men. The others only had three or five bald spots on the sides and back of their heads, but he even had them on the top of his head. There were at least a dozen spots, big and small, which was really ugly.

In fact, in his case, he can just shave his hair off a few times and the hair will almost grow back. This is much more effective than taking medicine.

But for people of this era, baldness? Only convicted criminals would do that. Which good person would have a bald head? Therefore, Lu Daming would rather have a bald head and wear a hat in the summer and sweat, rather than shave his head.

"Where were you on the night of the 29th?"

After listening to the complaint, Jin Zhihai smiled faintly, with the smile not reaching his eyes, and suddenly asked another question.

This question made Lu Daming stunned for a long time. Maybe he was thinking about what he was doing on the 29th.

After a while, his eyes lit up: "Oh, I remember now, the 29th was Friday, and our factory was showing a movie that night, and we were all watching the movie."

"What movie did you watch?"

"Tunnel Warfare"

"Which row are you sitting in?"

"Uh... our factory shows open-air movies, not in the workers' club. I brought my own stools from home. If you ask me which row it is, I don't really know. It's pretty close to the front anyway."

"Who is sitting next to you?"

"This... my wife and my son's family."

"Comrade Lu Daming, we need to verify everything you said. Are you sure you are telling the truth? You should know that lying to us is a serious crime."

"That's not possible. That's not possible." Lu Daming waved his hands quickly.

"Comrade Public Security, you can verify what I said at will. If I lie to you about one word, you can lock me up."

"Okay, you rest here first. My colleagues have gone to verify what you said and will be back soon. As long as what you said is okay, we will let you go."

Jin Zhihai closed the notebook in his hand, stood up, took out a cigarette and threw it to Lu Daming, then walked out of the interrogation room.

After arriving outside the interrogation room, he looked around and saw that the other people had not finished questioning, so he stood under the eaves and lit a cigarette.

In terms of interrogation experience, he certainly doesn't have as much experience as Li Yancheng, but after working in public security for so many years and dealing with so many criminals, he can still tell whether a person is lying or not.

He could basically conclude that Lu Daming was not lying, but the question was, why did Chen Guohua insist that the person he met on the road that night was this person?

According to Lu Daming, he did not leave the alley at all on the night of the 28th. His home was also quite far away from the crime scene, almost equivalent to one being on the west side of Dianhai District and the other being on the east side. He could not get there in a short time, which also eliminated the possibility of taking advantage of the time difference.

Thinking of this, Jin Zhihai frowned. Could it be that the problem was with Chen Guohua?

Don't tell me, it's really possible.

So far, he is the only witness, so whatever he says is the final word.

According to what he said, Lu Daming was pulling a cart with an unconscious young woman lying on it for quite a distance. This should have attracted a lot of people's attention, but no other witnesses were found.

The fact now is that what Chen Guohua said is very likely wrong.

This mistake was either intentional or a memory error.

If it was intentional, why would he do it?
Could it be that he was really the murderer? Was he doing this to confuse them and to provoke them?
Jin Zhihai never minds assuming the greatest malice towards a person.

Now that I think about it, what Chen Guohua said about his movements that night was actually quite vague in terms of timing.

Their factory did not have a fixed time requirement for temporary overtime work that night. Even if he left ten minutes early, no one would know, and it would be difficult to verify.

Ten minutes is neither long nor short. If you are well prepared, it is enough to do a lot of things.

But there is still a problem.

How did Chen Guohua get the footprints from ten years ago and leave them at the crime scene.

His height, weight and footprints were all different from the conclusions drawn after the on-site investigation.

What the hell is going on here?
(End of this chapter)