You're supposed to be a security officer, what case are you solving?

Chapter 216 Confession!

at night.

The meeting room of the Municipal Bureau.

After a day of searching and investigation, the information was compiled.

Zheng Kang said: "At 10:30 last night, Jin Chao left Qiaotou Community and went to a hair salon called 'Urban Beauty'."

The hair salon owner confessed that Jin Chao did not go to get a haircut, but to buy a wig. In addition, he also shaved his beard.

We asked around the hair salon, and several residents in a building behind it also had their clothes stolen from where they were drying outside. Jin Chao definitely changed clothes and fled.

He Jinbo added, "We didn't find any signs of him fleeing at the bus station or train station. He must have escaped on a motorcycle."

Chai Tao said, "We set up checkpoints on highways and national roads and searched all day, but we still couldn't find anyone."

Yang Guochang clenched his fist and slammed it hard on the conference table.

The people in the meeting room remained silent.

After a moment of silence, Wen Mo said in a low voice, "Director Yang, the most important thing now is to issue a notice for assistance to the surrounding municipal bureaus."

Furthermore, the four captured criminals must be interrogated quickly. Once the interrogation is complete, the provincial department should be notified so that it or a relevant ministry can issue arrest warrants.

Yang Guochang leaned back in his chair, sighed heavily, and spread his fingers: "Five lives, and the main culprit got away. How are we going to explain this to our superiors? How are we going to explain this to the people?"

Wen Mo nodded: "We really didn't do our job well, and I'll be the first to apologize."

Yang Guochang waved his hand: "It's not a problem for you frontline investigators, but a problem for the local police stations, patrol teams, and public security teams!"

Upon hearing this, the leaders of the branch bureau and the police station responsible for their respective jurisdictions all had complicated expressions.

Yang Guochang continued, "Jin Chao and others were released from prison on January 20th, and committed the crime on the 24th. They've only been out for four days. Why is there inadequate supervision of released prisoners?"

The prison releases him back into society. Who will he be handed over to? We will!

Where is Jin Chao's household registration located? Who is responsible for it?
Furthermore, we only discovered the first crime committed by Jin Chao and others on the night of the 24th on February 5th! Who is in charge of the Yanzigou area?

In addition, there is a second case where a woman's head was found dumped in a culvert. Whose jurisdiction is this?
If we had discovered it sooner, could we have let Jin Chao escape?
I think we need to really reorganize our subordinates!
Putting everything else aside, Yan Bin, the Municipal Public Security Bureau must severely punish those people who carried out the arrests! To make such a basic mistake and almost lose their lives—I don't want to see this happen again!

Yan Bin lowered his head: "We will follow the leader's instructions."

"You should also write a self-criticism."

"Yes."

Yang Guochang paused, then spoke again: "Go and interrogate him now, see if you can find Jin Chao's whereabouts! If you can't find him, none of us will have a good life!"

After the meeting, all the criminal investigation teams rushed into the city bureau's interrogation room.

By this time, Chen Zhen had been sitting in the interrogation room for eight or nine hours.

During this time, he neither ate nor drank water, nor went to the toilet, and no one spoke to him.

When the interrogation room door opened, he saw a tall detective walk in, along with an older detective who was slightly hunched over.

He thought there were only those two people, but then a lot more people poured in.

He had seen all these people before; they were all police officers who had arrested him.

Moreover, they are all shrewd and cunning, and are eyeing us covetously.

After Zheng Kang sat down, he said directly, "Chen Zhen, let's not play games. Just give me one sentence: can you cooperate?"

Chen Zhen glanced at Yan Bin, shrank back, and replied, "I'll confess."

"Alright, I'll ask you, where did Jin Chao go after he fled?"

"He said he wanted to go north."

"There are several cities to the north, which one is it?"

"I really do not know."

"If you had to think about it, where do you think he would go?"

"Okawa City?"

Why did you go here?

I can't explain it.

Who does Jin Chao know in the north?

"I do not know."

"Jin Chao is your older brother. You two were inseparable in prison, so close that you even committed murder together. You're telling me you didn't know?"

"I am telling the truth!"

Zheng Kang, He Jinbo, and Chai Tao used every means at their disposal to relentlessly interrogate Chen Zhen, Du Jiang, Du Zhen's mistress, and Bai Yu, who had been arrested earlier, but none of them knew where Jin Chao had escaped to.

The interrogation then moved to the next stage, where the details of the case were explained.

Chen Zhen was almost worn out, and he was also a criminal with a criminal record. He was barely able to keep up, let alone Du Jiang and Bai Yu.

Immediately, these people revealed the details of the case.

Chen Zhen said, "When he was in prison, Jin Chao wanted to take revenge on Zhou Qiuju because he raped her and she reported him to the police. He was imprisoned for seven years, and he felt that the punishment was too harsh."

While he was in the labor camp, he repeatedly said that he wanted to kill Zhou Qiuju.

At first I thought he was joking, but I didn't expect that after the 20th, he would contact me immediately and ask me to work with him.

I agreed. I have a criminal record and want to start a new life, but I can't find anything to do, and life is very difficult for me.

As for Du Yang, Du Jiang, and my brother-in-law Bai Yu, they are all our brothers, and they worked together as well.

The killing of Zhou Qiuju and Liao Kai took place on the night of the 24th, when we went to Bai Yu's house for drinks.

They drank until evening, and when they were all drunk, on a whim, they went to the convenience store with Jin Chao.

At that time, it was my brother-in-law who knocked on the door. He was very familiar with Liao Kai. When he heard his voice, Liao Kai pulled up the roller shutter and let us in.

Once inside, we tied Liao Kai up and dragged him into the inner room…

"Du Yang and Du Jiang held Zhou Qiuju down... Her husband was shouting and crying, begging us... After it was all over, the first one to be killed was Liao Kai, Jin Chao did it."

After killing him, Jin Chao strangled Zhou Qiuju and then chopped her with an axe...

Cut off their heads...

Yang Jinwen said coldly, "Not only did you kill them, but why did you cut them down..."

Chen Zhen pursed his lips and remained silent.

He Jinbo walked over and pointed at his nose: "Answer the question! Why?"

"because……"

"Say!"

"Jin Chao said that the police could detect our identities from Zhou Qiuju's mouth..."

Even a seasoned detective was stunned by these words!
Zheng Kang asked, "Where did they throw their heads?"

"The window outside the toilet overlooks the Yanzi River. Jin Chao put it in a travel bag and also put a few stones inside."

Who wrote the note stuck on the roller shutter door?

"I write."

"There's a culvert on the side of the Sports Highway leading to the South City District. Inside that culvert is a woman's head. Where did you kill her?"

"In the woods on the hillside."

"What's this woman's name?"

Chen Zhen shook his head: "I don't know."

"do not know?"

"On the eve of the Lunar New Year, Jin Chao and I were riding our motorcycles when we encountered a woman."

She was riding her bicycle home after get off work at the department store in the south of the city, so we followed her. After crossing the bridge, we stopped her.

Then we got out of the car and dragged the woman into the woods…

"Just Jin Chao and you? No one else participated?"

Chen Zhen shook his head: "No."

Where was the body buried?

"One kilometer past the bridge, on the hillside to the right, it was covered with branches and weeds when we walked there."

"February 2nd, the sixth day of the first lunar month, at the Sports Park, what happened to those two people you killed?"

"We drank alcohol at noon that day, in my mistress's house, until about 3 p.m., and then we went out for a ride on our motorcycles."

It was snowing that day, so I wanted to go out and see the snow.

Du Yang needed to use the restroom, and since there was a restroom right next to the sports park, we parked the car and went to find one.

Then I ran into that man and woman. Because they had been drinking, they were bold and, in addition, they needed to urinate. Once their bladder was full, they became agitated.

Jin Chao saw that the woman was very pretty and looked educated, so he made some flirtatious remarks.

The man started fighting with us, and Du Yang pulled out a knife and stabbed the man.

We dragged the woman to the toilet...

The woman was screaming very loudly, but there weren't many people in the park at that time..."

Suddenly, Yang Jinwen remembered the two boys lying in the snowdrift behind the public toilet.

He asked, "Could you elaborate on the specific details?"

Chen Zhen nodded and gave a detailed account of how he committed the assault, how he beat and killed the female victim, and how he decapitated her.

Jin Chao was the one who made the move again.

Yang Jinwen then asked, "Not only did you cut off the victim's head, but you also cut it off... doing such a cruel thing?"

A flicker of fear crossed Chen Zhen's eyes. He avoided everyone's gaze and said with his head down, "I didn't do this, Jin Chao did it. He said he'd never seen anything so beautiful..."

"Where did you take the heads and body parts of the two victims?"

“Outside the Qiaotou residential area, there is an abandoned manhole by the river. People throw things into the manhole.”

He Jinbo pointed at him: "Chen Zhen, can you take responsibility for what you said?"

"Yes, you can. If you don't believe me, go ask Du Jiang. He knows."

“We would have asked even if you hadn’t told us.”

Chen Zhen pursed his lips, raised his head, and asked, "Officers, how do you intend to sentence me?"

He Jinbo sneered: "Does this question even need to be asked?"

Chen Zhen's throat bobbed, and he stopped speaking.

The interrogation continued, and in addition to Chen Zhen, Du Jiang, Bai Yu, and Chen Zhen's mistress were also involved.

At daybreak, criminal investigation teams from various districts rushed to the locations where the victims were murdered and where the bodies were disposed of.

Yan Bin and his team found the heads of the two victims from the sports park, as well as the body parts of the female victim, along with their clothes, shoes, and other personal belongings in a manhole on the south bank of the Yanzi River.

Fortunately, it was winter; if it were summer, the next rain would have washed it into the river.

The Jiaxing Criminal Police Brigade found the body of another female victim in a forest near the bridge. The body had begun to decompose and showed signs of being eaten by wild animals.

On the banks of the Yanzigou River, Zheng Kang and his men retrieved the heads of Zhou Qiuju and Liao Kai.

Yang Jinwen gazed at the wide Yanzi River, trying hard to recall any memories related to this major murder case, but he couldn't remember a single clue!

At this point, all body parts of the five victims have been found.

Although this major serial murder case has been solved, the culprit Jin Chao is still at large!

(End of this chapter)