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

Chapter 283 The Death of a Stranger! (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

"I got home at 10 p.m. that night. Because it was snowing on the way, I drove for a long time. I had my house key with me, and when I opened the door, I saw..."

"Please wait."

Yang Jinwen pointed to the door in the entryway and asked, "What time exactly?"

“Just past ten o’clock.” Zhong Aihua nodded and confirmed again, “I gave a statement earlier, it should have been a little after ten o’clock, but I didn’t pay attention to the exact time.”

What were the circumstances at the time?

"The lights were off inside. Usually, Yin Hong would have already finished get off work by this time. I was puzzled, so I turned on the light and saw a woman I didn't recognize lying in the living room, foaming at the mouth. She was already dead."

I was terrified and ran to the bedroom to look for Yin Hong, but she wasn't home. I called her workplace, but the department store was already closed and no one answered the phone.

Then I immediately called the police. Officers from the local police station and the criminal investigation team arrived, and I cooperated by giving a statement.

Yang Jinwen glanced at the statement he had obtained from the Criminal Investigation Brigade and compared it with the contents.

"You claim that Yin Hong ran away from home?"

Zhong Aihua nodded: "Yes, our suitcase is gone, as are our few winter clothes and personal belongings."

"Did Yin Hong really go to work on the morning of January 22nd?"

Yao Weihua sat down at the coffee table, holding a document in his hand, and replied, "My colleagues from the criminal investigation team went to the department store counter to ask. Yin Hong rode her bicycle to work at the department store that morning and arrived at eight o'clock."

From 8:00 to 11:30, she works at the counter, greeting customers.

From 11:30 to 1:30 in the afternoon is break time. Yin Hong and a close colleague ate a bowl of noodles at a noodle shop next to the mall, and Yin Hong paid for it.

After that, the two returned to the mall to rest.

From 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm, Yin Hong went to work as usual. According to her colleagues, she did not show any abnormal behavior.

From 5:30 to 6:30 pm, she and her colleague went to the third floor of the mall, bought a men's scarf and three pairs of men's socks, and then rode their bicycles home.

The criminal investigation team questioned the property management and security guards of the residential complex, who confirmed that Yin Hong returned home after 7 p.m.

After that, Yin Hong's whereabouts became unknown, but her Forever brand bicycle was still parked downstairs.

"Was it checked at the train station?"

Yao Weihua shook his head: "It wasn't mentioned in the investigation report. The neighborhood is only two kilometers from the train station; it takes less than fifteen minutes by taxi..."

Yang Jinwen nodded, and Yao Weihua shut up.

After all, it's not appropriate to go into too much detail about the case in front of Zhong Aihua.

Yang Jinwen turned his gaze to him again and asked, "Where do you think Yin Hong went?"

"I do not know."

"Is she from Jiangcheng?"

"Yes."

"The specific address?"

“Uh…” Zhong Aihua frowned: “I, I don’t know.”

"You don't know?" Yang Jinwen squinted and flipped through the transcript in his hand.

Indeed, Yin Hong's identity information does not include a specific address, only her age and approximate place of origin.

Yang Jinwen looked up and asked, "You haven't seen Yin Hong's ID card? Your marriage certificate also has a specific address on it."

"Let me think about it." Zhong Aihua was a little embarrassed: "My husband has always kept the marriage certificate, and I haven't paid much attention to it."

Yang Jinwen looked at Maozi: "Brother Mao, call Captain Fu and have him contact the Civil Affairs Bureau to check."

"Okay." The cat nodded.

“Zhong Aihua, think carefully, where exactly did your lover Yin Hong go?”

Zhong Aihua replied, "I think she must have gone home."

"Didn't you say she has no one at home? Her parents have both passed away."

“If she hadn’t gone back to her hometown, I really wouldn’t know where she could have gone. I wanted to go to Jiangcheng to look for her, but the criminal police team told me not to leave Dannan County.”

Yang Jinwen stared at him for a while, but couldn't detect anything unusual.

As expected of the mining bureau's favorite son, his social experience is worse than that of an ordinary person; he doesn't even know where his wife's hometown is.

Last night, Zhong Weiguo asked him to clear Zhong Aihua of the suspicion of murder. He had no concern for his daughter-in-law's disappearance or the strange woman who died in his son's house.

Yang Jinwen called Zhong Aihua to the scene this morning. After a brief inquiry, there was no progress in the investigation of the case; it was still the same information as what the county criminal police team had found.

As for whether Zhong Aihua committed murder, we'll have to find out by finding Yin Hong's whereabouts.

Compared to Zhong Aihua, this woman is more suspicious.

Seeing that he couldn't get any information out of her, Yang Jinwen sent Zhong Aihua away.

This room is the crime scene; Zhong Aihua definitely cannot live here.

He lives at his workplace now and came here from there today.

Zhong Aihua pleaded, "Captain Yang, I beg you, you must help me find my lover."

"Of course," Yang Jinwen replied indifferently.

As Zhong Aihua was about to leave, Yang Jinwen asked, "You didn't take anything from inside, did you?"

“I took the scarf and socks that Yin Hong bought for me.”

"You'll come back."

"Why?" Zhong Aihua asked loudly, "Is this related to the case?"

"What do you think?"

Looking at Yang Jinwen's cold eyes, Zhong Aihua compromised: "Okay." After he left, Yao Weihua clicked his tongue: "This kid is bewitched by a woman. He doesn't even know where his wife's hometown is, and he still married her."

Cat nodded: "In our hometown, we need a matchmaker and the birth dates to get married, unlike in your city, where there are no rules for marriage."

"roll!"

Yao Weihua retorted, "I'm from the countryside too. All I had for my wedding was a bicycle, nothing else. Look at this house, it's full of brand-name goods, the TV and washing machine are all foreign brands."

"You think you can compare to the mining bureau's own son?"

"No, Cat, have you been through something lately? Why are you being so sarcastic? Let me tell you, I'm a whole generation older than you, and you keep calling me 'Old Yao' all the time, and I haven't even bothered with you. Watch your mouth."

Cat nodded: "Okay, Lao Yao."

Yao Weihua rolled her eyes at him and followed Yang Jinwen around the house.

This is a two-bedroom apartment. In addition to the couple's bedroom, there is also a decorated children's room.

The children's room is full of things, and there is a row of plush toys on the bay window, which is very cute.

Next to the bed was a cradle bought from a shopping mall, with a bean-pod-shaped bell hanging from it.

In addition, there was a rocking horse at the foot of the bed.

These things are all prepared for unborn children.

Yang Jinwen asked Zhong Aihua, who claimed that all these things were bought by his lover Yin Hong, but Yin Hong showed no signs of pregnancy and it was all in advance preparation.

There wasn't much to see in the house. Yang Jinwen looked around the master bedroom and found that apart from the clothes and personal belongings that Yin Hong had taken, there were very few things related to her in the bedroom. On the contrary, there were many things belonging to Zhong Aihua, such as designer clothes, shoes, game consoles, game cartridges, and so on.

In addition, the kitchen and bathroom were very clean, and everything, from toothbrushes and towels to soy sauce bottles and salt shakers, was neatly arranged.

This is enough to show that Yin Hong is a thrifty and hardworking woman, and not lazy.

Yang Jinwen looked around carefully, then returned to the living room and saw Yao Weihua and Maozi staring at the wedding photos on the wall.

"Old Yao, you have to admit, this woman is really beautiful."

Yao Weihua nodded: "I admit that. If it were me, I would also like a woman like that. Cat, what about you?"

"Have some shame. You're a whole generation older than me."

"This is love, you don't understand."

Just as Maozi was about to retort, she noticed that Yang Jinwen was also staring at the wedding photos.

"Team Leader Yang."

Yang Jinwen nodded in response. Lao Yao and Maozi were indeed right. Yin Hong was a beautiful woman with an oval face, fair skin, and captivating eyes that seemed to steal one's soul.

Yang Jinwen's impression of her was that she was completely reserved.

If this woman turns bad, then it's really something.

Zhong Aihua's mother was right, she is too beautiful!
"Let's go back to the team."

"Okay," Old Yao and Cat replied.

The three people locked the door and took the elevator downstairs.

Upon arriving at the main gate, Cai Ting and Qi Bin ran out from the property management office.

Cai Ting said, "Captain Yang, we asked the property management and the residents in the community, and no one saw Yin Hong leave the community on the night of January 22nd."

However, the security guards at the duty room weren't very reliable either; they didn't pay much attention to people coming in and out at night.

“It’s impossible that there were no traces left. Yin Hong must have gone somewhere. We’ll investigate that later. Let’s go to the funeral home first and see the deceased’s body.”

Forensic doctor Wei was already waiting in the autopsy room. When Yang Jinwen arrived, the body was taken out of the freezer and placed on the autopsy table.

This was the first time Yang Jinwen had seen the strange woman who had died in Zhong Aihua's home.

Because it had been frozen in the freezer for half a year, the body was waxy yellow, possibly because the blood in its body had been drained.

Her face was bluish-purple, and there were traces of sutures in her abdominal cavity.

A card covered by a plastic shell was hanging on the body bag. The card read 'Unidentified Corpse' and the specific time of receipt.

The time was 1 PM on January 22, 1998, which was half a year ago.

The forensic doctor, Wei, asked his assistant to move the light stand over and place it over the head of the corpse, then turned on the light.

White light shone on the face of the deceased.

The deceased's face was clearly visible.

Yang Jinwen and the others surrounded the autopsy table, staring at the female corpse that was emanating a chill from her body.

Holding the autopsy report in his hand, forensic doctor Wei slowly recounted, "The body's age is between 24 and 26 years old, with signs of childbirth. After the autopsy, we extracted gastric fluid and blood, and found 1,1-dimethyl-4,4-bipyridine cationic salt in the body..."

The cat was completely confused and interjected, "What is this?"

Yang Jinwen casually replied, "Pesticide, paraquat."

Forensic doctor Wei looked at Yang Jinwen with some surprise: "Yes, that's right, this is the cause of death."

Yao Weihua took a breath: "Wait a minute, did this woman commit suicide or was she murdered? Who would use pesticide to kill someone?"

Forensic doctor Wei frowned: "This is none of my business. Anyway, the deceased suffered a lot of pain before his death, and that's all..."

The forensic doctor, Wei, pointed to the deceased's mouth and continued, "I have examined the deceased's tongue and vocal cords; she could not speak before she died."

As Yang Jinwen stared at the deceased's face, he asked, "What does this mean?"

"It's what we usually call a mute."

"A deaf-mute?" Yang Jinwen frowned, his mood gradually becoming heavy.

(End of this chapter)