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

Chapter 257 I was wronged!

Yang Jianhui clung to the iron bars of the window, sobbing uncontrollably, and kept wailing.

Two police officers ran up, pulled him back, and sternly reprimanded him: "If you cause any more trouble, I'll take you away right now!"

Startled, Yang Jianhui nodded hurriedly and carefully sat down in the chair.

"Xiaowen, did your aunt ask you to come? Tell your superiors that I really didn't kill anyone, and they can't frame me. I heard from the people inside that murder is punishable by death, and I don't want to die."

Yang Jinwen stared at him coldly and said, word by word, "It was Yanzi who asked me to come, not your wife."

"swallow?"

"Tell me the whole story from beginning to end."

"Okay, okay! Let me think about it."

Yang Jianhui swallowed hard and continued, "On May 30th, the mine was closed for half a day. After lunch, I thought I'd go to town for a bit..."

"What are you playing?"

Yang Jianhui lowered his head and replied, "It's about playing around with women."

"I heard from Yanzi that you've only been working at the coal mine for half a month. Where did you get the money?"

"I……"

"to be frank!"

“I traded a few baskets of coal with some of my brothers at the mine.”

To the south of Caochang Town is Danan Coal Mine, which is state-owned, and to the west is Danxi Coal Mine, which is semi-private.

Yang Jianhui works in a small coal mine in Danxi as a short-term worker, and he has to go home to farm during the busy farming season.

"Go on."

Yang Jianhui licked his lips and replied, "I went to Hongyunlou at 8:30 pm on May 28th."

Half of the women living in Hongyunlou are prostitutes. I know one of them, Yu Jing, who lives on the third floor.

After I went upstairs, I saw that her door was ajar, so I pushed it open and went in. Then I saw Yu Jing lying in the room, her clothes all off, and her body covered in cigarette burns..."

As Yang Jianhui spoke, he gestured: "Her head was resting on a small stool, a low stool, like...like the kind of small stool your grandma sits on when picking vegetables. She was looking up, staring intently at the ceiling."

Moreover, there was a puddle of urine on the ground.

When I saw that the person was dead, I was scared and I was going to run away, but when I saw the gold necklace she was wearing, I thought about taking the gold necklace with me.

Moreover, I smoked a cigarette to calm my nerves. After only a few puffs, I ran away without even closing the door.

Xiaowen, believe me, I really only took the gold necklace and some money.

"I didn't kill anyone! I really didn't kill anyone!"

Yang Jinwen crossed his arms and stared intently at Yang Jianhui.

When faced with interrogation by the police, every person who has committed a crime will more or less choose to conceal some information.

The truths confessed by truly innocent people will certainly be doubted by the criminal police handling the case.

From any perspective, Yang Jianhui entered the crime scene, his footprints and fingerprints were collected, and he also admitted to burglary. This charge is undeniable.

Even if Yang Jianhui continues to protest his innocence, and even if he didn't kill the person, he will still have to go through several years of labor reform.

Given Yanzi's mother's personality, she would definitely not stay with the family once Yang Jianhui went to prison.

In any case, Yanzi and her brother's lives will be completely changed.

"Xiaowen, you have to help me! I really didn't kill anyone. Please tell them to let me go. Uncle Yang will kneel down for you."

Yang Jinwen waved his hand and stood up: "No, I can't accept that."

Yang Jianhui was stunned: "You..."

"Whether you killed the person or not is not for me to decide. Besides, you can't escape the theft charges; you'll either go to jail or be executed, so don't beg me."

Seeing Yang Jinwen about to leave, Yang Jianhui stood up from his chair, ran to the window, and shouted hoarsely, "I didn't kill anyone! If I did, may I be struck by lightning and die a horrible death! Xiaowen, don't go, please help me!"

"If I die, what will happen to my family? What will happen to Yanzi?"

"I will take good care of Yanzi, don't worry."

Yang Jinwen left a message and took the cat with him as he left the detention center.

When Fu Mingyuan, who was waiting outside, saw them come out, he stepped forward and asked, "Captain Yang, how did it go?"

"Captain Fu, it doesn't seem like he killed the person."

"No way?" Fu Mingyuan frowned. "You mean we arrested the wrong person?"

“That’s not what I meant. Yang Jianhui has confessed to the theft. As for the murder, there are some suspicious points.”

Could you explain in more detail?

"Can I see the case files?"

Fu Mingyuan thought for a moment and said, "If you're not in a hurry to go back to the city, I'll take you to the crime scene and explain it to you verbally."

"Then trouble you."

Fu Mingyuan and his apprentice, a female criminal police officer named Lü Weiwei, took Yang Jinwen and Maozi to Caochang Town.

Caochang Town is nestled in a mountain valley. A railway line connects the town to the outside world. This railway was built to transport coal. In addition, there is a station where large freight cars gather, which are also used for transporting coal and oil tankers.

The buildings and streets of the entire town were covered with a thin layer of coal dust. Fortunately, it was located in a mountain valley, so on windy days, the coal dust would block out the sun.

Yang Jianhui said that half of the female tenants in Hongyunlou were prostitutes, and that's true.

Yang Jinwen followed Fu Mingyuan up the corridor. The walls and wooden handrails were covered with small advertisements for selling silver, and there were all kinds of them.

The cat also saw a dragon, and was surprised, wondering what this dragon was.
If Jiang Jianbing and Xu Guoliang were here, he wouldn't even need to ask; they would explain to him how miserable it is to be entangled with a dragon.

It was only then that Maozi realized that working on cases with Jiang Jianbing and Xu Guoliang was quite interesting, and he could learn a lot of profound knowledge.

It was afternoon, and most of the women who worked at night had woken up. So when Yang Jinwen and his group went upstairs, they encountered several scantily clad young women of various ages, showing off their long, white legs.

These kinds of things are commonplace, and there's no way to manage them all. As long as they are adult women, Fu Mingyuan is too lazy to care.

Cat was inexperienced in such matters, and when he saw several women flirting with him, he felt as uncomfortable as if he were being scratched by a cat's claws.

He asked in a low voice, "Someone died in the building, why aren't they afraid?"

His reply was from Lü Weiwei: "You'd rather have money than your life."

The cat looked at her as if she were a goddess of justice.

Lü Weiwei clearly disliked these women; her face was tense from the moment she went upstairs. Room 306 was the room where the murder occurred.

The door was sealed with a stamp from the county bureau, indicating that it had already been inspected.

Fu Mingyuan gently tore off the seal. Before coming, he went to the police station to get the key. After opening the door with the key, Yang Jinwen put on foot covers and shoe covers.

Fu Mingyuan looked at him in surprise: "Captain Yang, you still carry these with you?"

Yang Jinwen nodded: "Just in case."

"Are there any more? Give me two pairs."

After Yang Jinwen handed it to him, he and Lü Weiwei got dressed, and the four of them filed inside.

The room is a one-bedroom apartment. A bright green beaded curtain hangs in the middle of the left side, inside which is a large bed. The kitchen and bathroom are on the right side.

The living room is in the middle. There is a small round table against the right wall, and a long sofa, more than two meters long, is placed where the door of the round table opens.

On the cement floor of the living room, a human figure was drawn in chalk, depicting the posture of the victim, Yu Jing, when she was murdered.

The posture is in a starfish shape, with the legs spread apart, about half a meter wide, and both arms stretched out in front of the head.

Judging from the image, the victim was at most 1.6 meters tall.

Fu Mingyuan began, "According to the forensic report, Yu Jing was murdered between 7:30 PM and 9:00 PM on May 28th..."

This matches the time Yang Jianhui confessed to the theft; he told Yang Jinwen that he entered the house at 8:30.

If he wasn't lying, the time would be even shorter, probably between 7:30 and 8:30.

"The victim was completely naked..."

Fu Mingyuan pointed to the bed inside the beaded curtain: "Her clothes were all thrown on the bed. Her face, chest, and lower body were burned by cigarette butts."

Especially from the lower body, half a Hongmei cigarette butt was extracted; with the filter, it was four centimeters long.

"Were fingerprints extracted from the cigarette butt?"

"Yes, there is a partial fingerprint. The fingerprint line at the front matches Yang Jianhui's fingerprint. Also, Yang Jianhui smokes the same brand of cigarettes, the soft pack Baihongmei."

"Can fingerprints be extracted?"

"Is there anything wrong?"

“I asked Yang Jianhui, and he said that there was urine residue on the ground when the victim was killed. So, was this cigarette butt stuffed in after the death?”

"This……"

Fu Mingyuan hadn't considered this at all. As the captain of the criminal investigation team, he had several cases under his jurisdiction. This case was being investigated by his subordinates. Although he had been to the crime scene and had seen the confessions and investigation materials, he was unaware of these details.

Seeing his embarrassment, Lü Weiwei immediately replied, "It must have been stuffed in after he died, so the cigarette butt wasn't completely wet."

What was the cause of death?

"Mechanical death, also known as strangulation."

"What was used to strangle him?"

"Based on trace evidence, it was a steel wire rope about the thickness of a chopstick."

"Has the weapon used in the crime been found?"

"No."

After Lü Weiwei finished speaking, she added, "It's not that there weren't any. We interrogated Yang Jianhui three times, and he resisted each time, saying that he didn't kill the person and refused to plead guilty."

Steel ropes are available in coal mines and are easily obtained.

"It means that the murderer strangled the victim with a steel rope, causing her to lose control of her bladder. The murderer also smoked a cigarette and stuffed the cigarette butt into the victim's body..."

Lu Weiwei said, "That's right, the murderer is Yang Jianhui. Whether it's the motive, the physical evidence at the scene, or the witnesses we interviewed, all the evidence shows that he has committed the murder."

Yang Jinwen pondered for a moment and said, "Yang Jianhui confessed that the victim's head was resting on a small stool?"

"Yes."

Lü Weiwei pointed to a small stool placed in the corner of the wall, which was at most 20 centimeters high and half a meter long.

"There should be signs of a struggle inside the house, right? Since it was strangulation, the victim would definitely have struggled, and it's impossible for his head to be placed flat on the stool."

“We asked Yang Jianhui, and he said that he lifted the victim’s head and took the gold necklace from her neck, which is consistent with burglary and robbery.”

Who called the police?

"The victim's boyfriend."

"What time did he discover the body?"

"Four o'clock in the morning."

The cat asked in confusion, "Four in the morning? Why so late?"

Lu Weiwei didn't know how to answer this question, so Fu Mingyuan chimed in: "He calls himself a boyfriend, but he's actually a pimp who organizes prostitution. This guy has several girlfriends, all of whom are involved in prostitution in this building."

He came at four in the morning to collect the day's stolen money. He opened the door and found Yu Jing dead, then called the police. We received a call from the town police station at seven in the morning and arrived at the scene.

Yang Jinwen asked, "Where is this person?"

"I live in this building."

"Could you please bring them here?"

Seeing Fu Mingyuan nod, Lü Weiwei pointed to the cat and said, "You're coming with me."

The cat shrugged and followed behind her.

Fu Mingyuan looked at Yang Jinwen: "Captain Yang, what are your thoughts?"

Yang Jinwen squinted and replied, "It's hard to say. We need to see the body and the information from the forensic examination."

Yang Jianhui said that he smoked a cigarette at the scene, but before he finished smoking, he stole the valuables and ran away without even closing the door.

As Lü Weiwei just said, Yu Jing's boyfriend came in through the door, so the door was locked.

If it wasn't Yang Jianhui who killed the person, then someone else must have entered the crime scene, left, and closed the door.

"Really?" Fu Mingyuan thought Yang Jinwen's thinking was a bit far-fetched.

Yang Jinwen looked around the room carefully and found that the only places where a person could hide were the wardrobe and under the bed.

There's one thing he didn't mention: if Yang Jianhui's confession is true, he didn't kill the person, but the cigarette butt he smoked ended up inside the victim's body.

That means that when Yang Jianhui committed the theft at the scene, the murderer was most likely hiding inside the house, quietly watching him!
Otherwise, it's impossible to explain why the cigarette butt he smoked would end up inside the victim's body, and why his fingerprints were found on the cigarette filter!

(End of this chapter)