Chapter 29: Ishihara confesses
"Now, I have nothing to hide! Mr. Policeman, I killed Nakamura, and those thefts were also committed by me and Nakamura......"
Just after Ishihara ate the lunch specially prepared by Lin Xiuyi with tears in his eyes, he was finally willing to confess his crime to the police. Lin Xiuyi was originally just on a whim, wanting to experiment with how much influence that mysterious package had on Ishihara, but he didn't expect that he would suddenly open Ishihara's heart knot.
"I used to run a clothing store in Yokohama, and the business is not very good, but it is completely sufficient for my life. But later, I accidentally got into trouble with the people of the Tsurumi group, and my whole life went on an irreparable path. ”
"I remember I was having a headache when I couldn't sell a batch of goods, and one day a group of mobs broke into my shop. They took a few things of unknown origin and said that they were deposited here for me to sell for them! I was in a bad mood and wanted to get rid of them, but I didn't want to get into a conflict with them. Since then, their people have come to my shop every day to make trouble, and now business has become even worse. ”
"Needless to say, you know what happened next, I had no choice but to join the Tsurumi group and help them deal with the stolen goods. Later, I was arrested by the police and put in prison. ”
Lin Shuichi and Ishihara sat face to face, listening attentively to Ishihara's story. To be honest, he doesn't have any sense of accomplishment in solving the case now. In the police profession, Lin Xiuyi, who is a two-life person, has already experienced too many things. Although some of these criminals who have violated the criminal law do deserve their crimes, and they are innocent of death. However, the examples of ordinary people who have embarked on the road of no return because of temporary evil thoughts still account for a considerable part. At that time, Lin Xiuyi was engaged in anti-drug work in China, and how many female college students took risks to embark on the road of crime because of their poor families, serious illnesses of their relatives, and even for a love that they thought was pure, and finally lost their entire lives.
"After I got out of prison, I came to Tokyo! I planned to find a job here to earn some money and then go back to my hometown to reopen the shop! But I ran into even bigger trouble, I was set a trap by a friend from the past, and somehow became his guarantor for loan sharks, and I owed a lot of money. When I was desperate, I wanted to find a way to make a quick living. Once, when I was working with Nakamura, I accidentally talked about myself, and he told me that he also owed a lot of money to loan sharks, and he couldn't live anymore! ”
"I've seen them burglary in the Tsurumi group and know some basic methods and what to look out for. In addition, Nakamura and I work to deliver advertisements from door to door in various wards of Tokyo, and our company has a rule that if some residents' advertisements have not been cleaned up, it means that the residents have not been at home for a long time, and the company asks us not to waste resources and energy on these residents. But we happen to be targeting these people. ”
"We decided on our goals during the day and then came over at night because I used to be in the clothing business and knew a little bit about brands and knew that it was easiest to sell, so we made a lot of money very quickly. But I didn't dare to spend the money, so I hid it with Nakamura in a locker at the Bunkyo Gymnasium. ”
"Until one day, I found out that Nakamura had taken all the money for himself, so I went to him for a reason, and I hit him with a wrench to repair the car in a fit of anger. You'll know what happened after that......"
Hearing this, Lin Xiuyi took the initiative to ask: "Ishihara-san, can you tell me how you attacked Nakamura and where the wrench hit him, please try to be as specific as possible." ”
"I hit him from behind with a wrench and hit him in the back of the head. I was so angry that I didn't expect to kill him in one fell swoop. At that time, he had a large hole in his head, and blood was pouring out. I was so frightened that I hurriedly disposed of his body. Wrapped him in plastic sheeting and threw him in the trash. ”
As soon as Lin Xiu heard this answer, he compared it with the existing evidence in his heart. Ishihara's statement is a good explanation of the source of the housefly eggs in Nakamura's wounds. This confession should be basically true. So Lin Xiuyi continued to ask: "Ishihara-san, please tell us the detailed location of the crime?"
"Where did we put all the stolen things in an abandoned construction site near Mimachime, Kuromeji, Minato-ku?"
The Shenmu Police Department, which had been observing the situation through the single-way mirror glass, heard that the prisoner had confessed the location of the crime, and immediately ordered his subordinates to notify the forensic division to investigate the scene. His frowning brow finally relaxed, and a vague smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Ishihara-san, I want to ask again where is the wrench you used to attack Nakamura?" Lin Xiuyi knew that the current confession was enough to send Ishihara to court. However, testimony is unreliable, and if Ishihara retracts his confession in court, the police will have to re-investigate. Therefore, the safest thing is to find the murder weapon at the same time, as long as there is a murder weapon, the entire chain of evidence will be much more complete. Even if the time goes to court, it will not be so easy for the defender of the suspect to challenge the results of the police investigation.
"That wrench was thrown into the pond of Koishikawa Park near the company......
"Where's the money, where is that money now?"
"I haven't found it either, Nakamura didn't tell me until he died!"
"There is another question, I think the success rate of your theft is outrageous, how did you do it?" Lin Xiuyi had basically recognized the authenticity of Ishihara's confession in his heart, but he still felt a little mind that Ishihara never missed a serial crime. Anyway, now that Ishihara has admitted all the most difficult murder cases to confess, Lin Xiuyi simply raised his questions directly.
"We carefully step on each theft before we do it, usually choosing the safest one out of several candidates, and then we do it after observing for several days to make sure that the owner really doesn't live in it. And I agreed with Nakamura that we would only take away those things that we could take away and couldn't take away on the spot, and even if it was valuable, we wouldn't touch it......" Ishihara can now be said to know everything and say everything, and he opened his heart to Lin Xiuyi without reservation.
"Last question, I want to know who sent that package to you?" Lin Xiuyi continued to ask.
"I asked my high school classmates to send me this package, my mother died very young, and she took me to Tokyo when I was a child, where I had my first fish-shaped yaki and Daifuku mochi. I still remember the smell of those days......"
After the interrogation, Miki showed Ishihara a completed transcript of his confession, and Ishihara did not hesitate to press his fingerprints on it.