Chapter 27: Psychological Defenses

"If my estimate is correct, that night ten years ago, Ayu received a gift from Ms. Juko Uragaki, and immediately came to Futu Temple to pick up Miyu, who was hiding here. But when Ayu arrived here, he saw the body of the deceased Miu, and of course, you who stayed with the corpse - Mr. Yamazaki Ichikosuke!"

Lin Xiuyi actually knows very well in his heart, ten years have passed since this case, and the relevant evidence has long been annihilated, and now the physical evidence that can convict Yamazaki Ichikosuke is not sufficient, and in the absence of witnesses, the only hope is for Yamazaki Ichikosuke to confess his guilt.

But how can it be so easy to get Yamazaki Ichikosuke to confess. If most of the suspects are not forced into a desperate situation where there is no hope, they will never give up resistance, and only by completely destroying all the hopes of the suspects can they break through the suspect's last psychological defense.

The best way to destroy a suspect's psychological defenses is to describe the entire crime process as if he were there, until the suspect begins to doubt himself and wonder if the police already know everything about him. Once the suspect begins to doubt himself, the fear of being seen will continue to torment the suspect, and he will continue to imply that the police may know more things, and in the end, this inextricable fear will make the suspect finally give up on himself, and even at the moment of confessing to his crime, most suspects have a sense of relief.

Lin Xiuichi looked at Yamazaki Ichikosuke, and then he continued as if he was talking to himself:

"At that moment, Ayu's mood can no longer be understood, maybe because of the death of a friend who is too sad, the things that Ayu brought were seen by you who were bent on finding treasures. And you recognize the value of these things at a glance. This is also the direct cause of Ayu's death in the end!"

"Suppose that there were a total of three people in the temple at that time, you, Ayu, and Miyu, who was seriously ill. Among the three people, Mei Yu is terminally ill and extremely weak, so she has no ability to kill Ayu at all, and the forensic doctor can know from the perspective of entering the knife that the person who killed Ayu is a person who is more than ten centimeters taller than him, so you are the only one of the three people who can be the murderer!"

"Maybe it's because Ayu brought the financial goods that you coveted, and in the process of the dispute, you killed Ayu with the coercion that Ayu brought. For the sake of Ayu lying in a pool of blood, you probably didn't believe that you could do such a thing at that time!"

Lin Xiuyi looked at Yamazaki Ichikosuke, a layer of cold sweat broke out on Yamazaki Ichikosuke's forehead, perhaps remembering the fear he had when he killed someone, when Lin Xiuyi and Yamazaki Ichikosuke met their eyes, Yamazaki immediately avoided Lin Xiuyi's gaze.

"It's not hard to imagine what happens next, but in order to get away with it, you start cleaning up the traces left at the crime scene. And at this moment, Mr. Kengo Yamamoto, who was in charge of guarding the temple, happened to arrive here. ”

"Mr. Kengo Yamamoto found that the gate that was supposed to be closed had been opened, so he stepped on the snow in the courtyard to the Buddhist hall, and you were hiding behind the Buddha statue with Miyu's corpse. ”

"Mr. Yamamoto was frightened at the time, and quickly ran down the mountain to get the help of the police!

"In that situation, what should I do? Flee directly? The footprints on the snow will lead the police to find you, and besides, there is only one way down the mountain, and it is likely that after going down the mountain, the mountain will already be surrounded by the villagers of Futu Village. So at that time, it seemed that there was only one way to go in front of you, and that was the cliff behind the Buddha Hall!"

"When the Yamanashi Prefectural Police first conducted a search, I asked my colleagues from the Mountain Search and Rescue Team of the Yamanashi Prefectural Police Headquarters to try to climb down the cliff, but it turned out that climbing with ropes with bare hands was an impossible task, even with trained professionals. And you, as the murderer, were still in the Buddhist hall when Mr. Yamamoto went down the mountain. Of course, the time left for you is far from enough. ”

"But your situation at that time was a little different, although you couldn't go down the mountain alone, but with the help of Miyu's corpse, it became easier to do so. And all you need is a long enough rope ......"

As soon as Lin Xiuyi said this, Yamazaki Kazusuke suddenly asked in horror:

"How do you know?"

Lin Xiuyi ignored Yamazaki's question, and he continued:

"If I'm not mistaken, you first use the rope you brought up the mountain to hang Miyu's body off the cliff, then use the weight of the corpse to make it easy for you to descend to the bottom of the cliff, and finally you slowly lower Miyu's body again, as long as the rope is long enough, all this is completely doable. ”

"And before you left the temple, you thoroughly cleaned all the traces, maybe you thought about taking the valuable Sengoku Wakicha, that's why Mr. Yamamoto felt that the corpse had been turned over. But in the end, you chose to leave Miyu's fingerprints on the murder weapon, because by doing so, the police investigation will always revolve around the bloody fingerprint, and it is this bloody fingerprint that has become the most direct reason for the failure of the police search"

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"Don't say it!" Yamazaki Kazukosuke pleaded in a low voice, and Lin Shuichi described his real crime process vividly as if he had experienced the whole case. However, Lin Xiuyi will stop there, and if Yamazaki doesn't give up for a moment, he will continue to put more pressure on Yamazaki.

"The rest of the matter is even simpler, because Miyu did die of illness, and you easily cremated Miyu's body through legal means, and sent Miyu's ashes back to her hometown as her boyfriend, so that Miyu's family would not continue to track down Miyu's whereabouts. And that blood fingerprint will never have a person to compare with. ”

"You used the four gold pieces in the treasure to get a job as a researcher in Koshu Castle from Professor Saito, and Professor Saito became a star in the academic world because of the excavations that year. After the police announced that the search failed, the two of you immediately falsified the excavation site and completely whitewashed the 4 gold sentences. ”

"However, there is one thing you didn't tell Professor Saito, and that is the notebook that records the whereabouts of Shingen's buried gold!"

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"Don't talk about it! I admit that I killed people...... Yamazaki held his head in pain and lay on the table in the interrogation room crying bitterly.