(2) Lu Tian and Chen Xiong came to Ji Chuan's house to drink at around 7:30 p.m. on the 12th, and there were three neighbors who could prove it. Lu Tian and Ji Chuan drank together until before dawn the next day (3:30 a.m.), and then left Lu Tian and his three neighbors to stay in Ji Chuan. Sleep until 7:30 a.m.

(3) Chen Xiong. Left Ji Chuan's house at 11 p.m. I took a taxi to my lover's house at 11:30 and slept until dawn.

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Hao Dong pointed to the place with black dots on the paper and asked, "These twenty minutes have added black dots, which is doubtful time, right?" ”

Tian Chunda nodded: "Yes." These 20 minutes were the only blank time that Lu Tian had not been certified by a third party during the period when Meng Xiangyu was killed. ”

Hao Dong said: "However, the scene of the crime was in the coal storage yard on Huimin Road, which is an obvious thing. The coal dust that the victim seemed to have inhaled in his nostrils and lungs before he died was probably the same as the charcoal in the coal storage yard. The results of the trial will be known shortly. In this way, even if there is a blank time of twenty minutes, it is impossible for Lu Tian to rush from Ji Chuan's house to the Huimin Road coal storage yard. It took us 56 minutes to take a police car from the Huimin Road coal storage yard to the vicinity of Ji Chuan's house. Even if it were a little faster, it would have taken forty minutes! It takes 80 minutes to go back and forth, and besides, you have to add the time to commit the crime. I'm afraid that this 20-minute blank will not play a role in solving the case. ”

47

The results of the two investigations ordered by Tian Chunda came back.

The first is a report from a university. The results of the test proved that the coal dust collected by Tian Chunda from the scene and the coal dust sucked by the victim were of the same carbonic quality.

"The scene of Meng Xiangyu's murder is the Huimin Road Coal Storage Yard, now it should be certain!" Hao Dong said.

However, Team Leader Tian Chunda was sullen.

Hao Dong understands his feelings. If the scene of the crime is the Huimin Road Coal Storage Yard, then neither Lu Tian nor Chen Zhiming have the time to commit the crime.

The second is the reply from the Meteorological Observatory. Before the dawn on the 13th, the rain in the area of Huimin Road was between 3 and 4:50 a.m.

"That's right! Herein lies the problem, Hao Dong. ”

Tian Chunda said, handing the rainfall schedule to Hao Dong.

"That's the breakthrough."

"What? Breakthrough? ”

Hao Dong listened to the team leader's words and couldn't help but ask strangely.

Tian Chunda said: "Didn't the little girl who found the bag say that the bag was not wet, and the policeman who received the handbag from the girl also said that it was not wet." Isn't that weird? The little girl was found around eight o'clock, so there was no doubt that the handbag should and must have been soaked in the rain that had been falling for nearly two hours. However, the handbag is not wet at all, what is the reason for this? ”

"That's right, the handbag was lost when Meng Xiangyu was killed, and it stands to reason that it should be wet by the rain that fell at about three o'clock!"

"So, why didn't you get wet?"

"That is to say, it was after the rain stopped, that is, after five o'clock, that the handbag was thrown at the scene."

"Yes, exactly. Objective logic can only be so. ”

"However, team leader, the deceased was killed between ten and midnight in the first half of the night, and the handbag was dropped at the scene after five o'clock, which is also not logical."

"Yes, that's what I just said unreasonable. However, objective facts are difficult to overturn, and we can only say that our reasoning is wrong somewhere. ”

What's wrong?

All of these are facts, both disorganized and independent, without paying attention to each other. It's like a set of out-of-tune gears, unfit and inoperable.

However, although these clues are not related to each other, they do not seem to be fake. In particular, the handbag was thrown at the scene after five o'clock, which was a bit unexpected, but it was this point that made a breakthrough in this case.

48

In the evening of the same day, Hao Dong was called to the team leader's room again.

Team leader Tian Chunda seemed to be extremely happy, and as soon as he saw Hao Dong come in, he immediately said with a smile:

"Hao Dong, that handbag is indeed a breakthrough! I looked through the transcript of the previous interrogation again, and I made a new discovery. ”

"Oh? Tell me about it. ”

"Ah, come, look here."

The team leader pointed to a passage in Chen Xiong's interrogation transcript, which read:

At around 5 o'clock in the morning of the 13th, Meng Xiangtian said that he had a quarrel with Ai Yuting and left Ai's house. ”

"Ahh I see. ”

The handbag was dropped at the scene, just after the rain stopped at five o'clock.

"These two gears finally closed their teeth at 'five o'clock'." Tian Chunda said excitedly:

"From Ai Yuting's house to the Huimin Road coal storage yard, it is only 20 minutes by bus. Left Ai Yuting's house at five o'clock and went to the site of the coal storage yard on Huimin Road, which was about 5:30. ”

"Are you saying that Meng Xiangyu's handbag was put there by Chen Xiong?"

"Yes. Hurry up and send someone to ask Ai Yuting if Chen Xiong was holding something when he went to Ai's house. ”

The criminal police officer who was sent to Ai's house soon came back to report: "Ai Yuting said that when Chen Xiong came to have a tryst that night, he brought a newspaper bag like a big lunch box. Ai Yuting asked him what it was, but Chen Xiong ignored her. Ai Yuting didn't want to ask again. ”

After listening to the report of the criminal police, Tian Chunda was very happy, and his expression suddenly became clear. However, he was a little angry, and couldn't help but nag with remorse: "If only the criminal policeman who went to visit Ai Yuting in the first place had asked about this earlier." It seems that he forgot to ask Chen Xiong the important question of whether he brought anything with him at that time. ”

Immediately, Tian Chunda ordered Hao Dongdao again:

"You call Chen Xiong to me right away and ask me what is in the newspaper."

Chen Xiong was called by the criminal police. However, no matter how Tian Chunda questioned, he flatly denied it.

"I didn't bring anything like that, Ai Yuting remembered it wrong."

He seemed so dissatisfied that he puffed out his cheeks and shouted loudly just for such a trivial matter.

"If you don't know, I'll tell you! The bread there was the handbag of the victim Meng Xiangyu! ”

Although Tian Chunda's reprimand was very harsh, Chen Xiong just rolled his eyes indifferently and said to Tian Chunda: "Don't be kidding! How can I take his handbag? Are you saying I grabbed it somewhere? ”

Instead, he turned from defense to offense, and did not answer the question directly, Tian Chunda continued to ask: "Where did you go after you left Ai Yuting's house at five o'clock in the morning?" Did you go to the Huimin Road Coal Storage Yard? You left your handbag at the Huimin Road Coal Storage Yard and left as if nothing happened, didn't you? ”

"No matter what you say, I don't know."

Chen Xiong said, turning his face to the side. His face turned pale, and his dull eyes became even more dull. However, he couldn't hide the wavering expression in his heart. Tian Chunda kept staring at every change in his expression.

Chen Xiong didn't let go, and said that he didn't know about the handbag at all. Tian Chunda temporarily suspended the interrogation.

"Team leader, it must have been Chen Xiong who threw his handbag at the Huimin Road Coal Storage Yard! Don't look at him pretending not to know, yes, it must be him. Hao Dong said to Tian Chunda.

"Hmm." Tian Chunda nodded. He added: "To be on the safe side, I will first detain him as a suspect in theft."

"However, where did Chen Xiong get Meng Xiangyu's handbag? If you don't figure it out, you'll have to release him before you can catch the evidence! Also, why did Chen Xiong deliberately throw his handbag at the coal storage site? ”

"It may be that the criminal moved the body to place B after committing the crime in place A out of the psychology of concealing the crime scene!"

"So, why did you deliberately throw your handbag on the spot? Isn't this the place where there are three hundred taels of silver? ”

At this time, Tian Chunda suddenly remembered the scene of putting pulverized coal in an envelope and taking it for testing. couldn't help blurting out: "That's right! Isn't it possible to carry pulverized coal in an envelope? ”

"The team leader said that the criminals had adopted the practice of carrying pulverized coal in envelopes. That is to say, the criminal put the coal dust from the Huimin Road coal storage yard in an envelope, brought it to Ji Chuan's house, and then, before killing Meng Xiangyu, let him suck in a large amount of coal dust. The tied victims could only watch as they sucked the pulverized coal into their lungs along with the air. So, is the Huimin Road coal storage yard a fake scene in disguise? Hao Dong looked at the team leader and said.

Tian Chunda nodded: "Yes, the criminal is very thoughtful. They know that we must dissect the victim's body for examination, and when they find that there is coal dust stuck to the lungs, they will definitely think that the victim sucked it himself, and no one will think that others are cheating. Therefore, as long as there is a place that is found to be the same carbonaceous as the coal dust in the corpse, it will definitely be considered a crime scene. ”

"So why put your handbag in the coal yard?"

"That's for people to pick it up and give it to the police. In other words, the criminal wanted to tell the police through this handbag: 'This is the scene'. Otherwise, wouldn't it be in vain to fan pulverized coal dust into the victim's mouth for half a day without letting people know where there is such coal? ”

"Well, their purpose is to create evidence that they didn't have time to commit the crime."

"Yes. The criminals wanted to explain that it was impossible to travel back and forth between Ji Chuan's house and the Huimin Road coal storage yard in a short period of time. No matter how fast you drive, it will take you an hour and 20 minutes to make a round trip. Therefore, Lu Tian's twenty minutes of going out without circumstantial evidence cannot be included in the scope of suspicion. ”

"So they brought Meng Xiangyu to Ji Chuan's house?"

"Exactly. The houses near Ji Chuan's house are scattered, and even if they make a loud noise, they won't be heard by outsiders. As for Meng Xiangyu, after he and Lu Tian came to Ji Chuan's house at about seven o'clock in the evening, they must have been tied up, forced to suck in pulverized coal, and then strangled to death, and the body was placed in the warehouse outside the house. After that, Ji Chuan went to invite his neighbors to his house for dinner, so that the neighbors could give them an alibi. ”

"Well, that's how it should be." Hao Dong thought about it, then nodded and said.

Tian Chunda continued: "Chen Xiong wanted to put his handbag at the Huimin Road Coal Storage Yard, so he left Ji Chuan's house at eleven o'clock. In the middle of the night, Lu Tian excused himself to buy cigarettes and went out for twenty minutes. In fact, he used his own car to transport Meng Xiangyu's body to the miscellaneous forest. After that, he returned to Ji Chuan's house and drank with Ji Chuan and several of his neighbors until 3:30 before dawn. At about seven o'clock in the morning, when the neighbors' mothers-in-law came to look for her husband who was sleeping in Ji Chuan's house, Lu Tian walked out unhurriedly, rubbed his eyes, and pretended to have slept like them until now. ”

"This guy is cunning." Hao Dong couldn't help but exclaim.

"Let's go search Ji Chuan's house right now! I think they've cleaned it up and eliminated the traces. However, if there is one or two small ballast left in any corner, it is strong evidence. ”

Tian Chunda led the criminal police to search Ji Chuan's home. Tian Chunda thought that Meng Xiangyu was probably forced to suck in the pulverized coal in the kitchen, so he took a magnifying glass and searched carefully in the kitchen, and sure enough, he found a few fine grains of pulverized coal in the corner. Half of the fingerprints were also found on the walls that had not been cleaned.

After laboratory analysis, the coal dust found in Ji Chuan's house was completely consistent with the composition of the coal dust inhaled by Meng Xiangyu. And the half of the fingerprints found on the wall of Ji Chuan's warehouse proved to be Meng Xiangyu's after comparison.

The criminal police summoned Ji Chuan. Under Tian Chunda's questioning, he had to confess completely. His confession proved that Team Leader Tian Chunda's reasoning about the case was completely correct.

Regarding the motive for committing the crime, Ji Chuan said that he and Chen Xiong were instructed by Lu Tian. Lu Tian was their boss, and they gave 60,000 yuan each, and they obeyed their orders.

The criminal police arrested Lu Tian, and he had to confess the real motive for killing Meng Xiangyu under questioning. As a result, the truth of Qu Lili's disappearance was revealed.