Chapter 160 Chapter 160 The pursuit finally found the first case discovery...

As soon as he went out, Qiu Jiang pointed directly to the destination, which was the residential complex where the deceased couple lived.

But this time they were not looking for Cao Qiwen, but the last witness who had seen the deceased as reported by An Yuan.

This witness is also an aunt who lives on the first floor of the building next to the deceased. Because they live close to each other, they often meet and talk to each other, so she is quite familiar with the deceased.

According to the aunt, it was a rainy day in August, but it was already dark as night at four or five o'clock. She hurried home from the store that day and quickly picked up the clothes and quilts hanging on the ropes in the yard.

I happened to see Mao Wenmei dragging her suitcase and hurriedly walking out of the community.

"Because I ran into her before that day, she had bought a lot of things and milk powder. She said she was going on a business trip in a couple of days and wanted to prepare it in advance so that Xiao Cao wouldn't be too busy. She was also dragging a suitcase that day, so I guessed she was going on a business trip."

"At that time, I thought it wasn't easy for those people who work in offices. They had to go out even in such a torrential downpour. Unlike us shop owners, even though it might not look very respectable, we can still go home and rest on such days."

"As for how I'm sure it's hers, it's even simpler. I've seen her wearing that dress many times, and the hat she's wearing was a gift from me. How could I possibly make a mistake?"

My aunt patted her chest repeatedly, feeling that she would definitely not recognize the wrong person.

At this point, Qiu Jiang realized that she indeed did not see the deceased's face that day.

Now, the possibility of that season's team's speculation has increased a lot.

Wang Li and his team were also experienced criminal police, and based on her questions, they guessed what she and Captain Ji suspected.

Thinking of that possibility, they looked solemn and felt that there were more clues.

The most crucial thing is to find more witnesses to prove that the person pulling the suitcase on the rainy night two years ago might not be the deceased.

Based on this, they split up and visited the high-rise buildings on both sides of the route that the aunt said the "deceased" had passed that day.

In the end, we actually found a witness who looked just like this aunt.

He is a man in his fifties or sixties.

The old man recalled and said confidently, "Yes, I did see her walking out of the community that day with a suitcase. It was raining heavily that day, with thunder and lightning for over an hour, and the rain was pouring down like a funnel. The rain had just lightened up a bit, so I was lying in the rocking chair to get some fresh air. That's when I saw her walking out below. Who knew she would disappear later?"

"Did you feel anything was wrong or strange about her that day?" Qiu Jiang continued to ask.

"A strange thing?" He pretended to think about it, and suddenly he remembered something.

"Oh, right, it seemed like she was in a hurry that day. She kept forgetting to bring things, going home and out of the community over and over again. It made me so worried for her. I wanted to go down and ask her what she had forgotten to bring and whether she was still in time."

After saying that, the old man complained.

"You young people, everything else is fine except for your lack of discipline. If you can catch up, it's fine. But if you can't, it will definitely delay the company's work and you might even get scolded by your boss. How inappropriate!"

Not only Qiu Jiang, but also Deng Xingwang and Tong Bei who followed her felt something was wrong.

"Wait, you walked back and forth several times?"

They both felt something was very wrong.

"Yes." The old man said seriously, and even warned them not to act like this. He also guessed that Mao Wenmei was too careless and forgot the way home while she was away, and she had not returned for more than two years.

Qiu Jiang and the others didn't have time to listen to what he was nagging about at this moment. They only had one thought in their mind: was it even more suspicious?

Later, Mao Wenmei's mother-in-law was also among the people who were visited.

She is also a resident of this community. She raised Cao Qiwen alone because her husband lost his wife early in life. Later, her son got a partner. She also knew that her current daughter-in-law did not want to live with her mother-in-law. She was also afraid of conflicts with her and making her son caught between his mother and wife, so she took the initiative to buy a wedding house for the young couple in the same community.

This is the apartment where Cao Qiwen lives now.

As soon as she heard them mention her daughter-in-law, the old lady holding her little granddaughter immediately burst into tears.

"My daughter-in-law is definitely not someone who loses things. She looks frail, but she keeps the house in perfect order. Once, when I was sick and hospitalized, she took care of all the paperwork and hospitalization. There's no way she would have forgotten something and had to go back and forth looking for it."

"Besides, she was only away on a business trip for two days, so she didn't take much. Besides, she packed everything the day before. I saw her pack it and confirmed it with my own eyes. How could she have left something behind and had to go back home to get it?"

She kept wiping away her tears, obviously she really understood and missed her daughter-in-law, and even wanted to die in her place.

That's right, the old lady had probably guessed that the body Cai Shicang salvaged yesterday was that of her daughter-in-law, otherwise the police wouldn't have come looking for her son, nor would they have asked so many people about her daughter-in-law.

She held onto Qiu Jiang tightly with one hand, pleading repeatedly with tears in her eyes, "Little girl, my daughter-in-law was truly wronged. She was so young, usually warm and generous to everyone, and never had any quarrels with anyone. Yet, she died in such a tragic way. I beg you to find the murderer and give her justice."

"I beg you."

After she finished speaking, she knelt down holding her little granddaughter.

Qiu Jiang immediately went to pull her back, "Aunt, I promise you that we will find the murderer and give your family an explanation. Please trust us."

Cao Qiwen's mother was pulled to her feet by them, and she could hardly stand steadily, but she still kept thanking them.

She didn't even mention when her son would come back. She just hoped that the murderer of her daughter-in-law could be found as soon as possible so that her daughter-in-law's spirit could rest in peace.

After coming out from her, the three of them looked extremely solemn.

"Jiang Jiang, Captain Ji and your guess are probably correct. The person who went out on the rainy night is most likely not the deceased, but the murderer."

Deng Xingwang's face was solemn, and he punched the frame of the carport again, furious.

"What kind of grudge do you have that would require you to chop her into pieces and throw her into the sewer? Don't let me catch that female demon, or I will definitely not let her go."

Who says it isn’t?

But the most important thing now is to find this person.

So their goal was set.

Ask Lu Jianian and others to come and help search Cao Qiwen's house to see if there is any blood stain, while everyone else will question everyone in Cao Qiwen's building.

Questions included whether any woman had been to the deceased's home and whether any unusual noises were heard on the rainy night of the incident, such as quarreling, pushing, or chopping meat or cutting things.

That's right.

Qiu Jiang suspected that the murderer dismembered the body in this building and then used suitcases to transport the body parts out.

If her guess was correct, the murderer had committed most of her crimes in this building, and they were premeditated crimes.

Qiu Jiang looked at the eight-story building with a melancholy gaze, knowing that the truth was not far away from them.

Soon, they began knocking on doors to ask questions.

Since a long time has passed and some houses have new residents, no one remembers what happened that day very clearly.

I only know that Mao Wenmei seemed to have a colleague who rented a house in this building, but the two of them didn't contact each other often. They only met occasionally and said hello. I have never seen her come to other people's houses.

In addition, many people who still remember the situation on that day said that the rain that day was the heaviest in Anxi in the past ten years. There was thunder all day, and many people's windows were shattered. What was even more terrifying was that several families felt the ground of their houses shaking. They were worried that their building had been struck by lightning, and they thought about finding someone to take a look after the rain stopped.

Fortunately, it was later discovered that there was nothing serious and the building was very stable, so the matter was left unresolved.

However, this seemingly ordinary piece of news allowed Qiu Jiang and the others to immediately connect it to certain scenarios where such movement might also occur.

For example... dismemberment.

They quickly went to the fifth floor of the building and knocked on the security door of the house next to them.

A young couple opened the door and was surprised that the police came to them.

But out of trust in the police, they let them in. As soon as they came in, Jason and the people from An Yuan conducted a luminol test on the entire ground.

Less than a minute later, Jason suddenly called everyone over. He pointed to the floor in the living room and said quickly, "There's blood here."

Qiu Jiang and the others saw with their own eyes that a continuous blue light appeared in the place where he had sprayed the spray.

The flashing blue light spread almost from Jason's position to most of the living room.

As criminal police, they know better than anyone what this means.

For a moment, everyone was filled with horror.

At this moment, Qiu Jiang witnessed with his own eyes the whole process of how the black shadow in the middle of the living room decomposed another black shadow.

Yes, this is the crime scene.

Her palms were filled with cold sweat.

"Xingwang, contact Captain Ji immediately and explain the situation. Brother Wang, you stay here while Tong Bei and I look up the names of the tenants here from two years ago. Brother Jia, Brother Chang, rush to the deceased's former workplace and control everyone so they don't leave."

"It must be quick—"

She was afraid that if she waited any longer it would be too late.

Qiu Jiang pursed her lips, and without caring about anything else, she ran downstairs. Tong Bei also hurriedly followed.

The others did not doubt her judgment at all and completely followed her arrangements. Each of them took responsibility and prepared to set up a dragnet to capture that insane nightmare and bring him to justice.

After contacting the property management and the landlord, a name soon appeared before them.

Tao Ziwen.

What’s even more terrifying is that this name is not unfamiliar to them.

It was only because in the confessions collected by Captain Guo and his team, it was stated that after knowing that Mao Wenmei was in trouble, Tao Ziwen had visited Cao Qiwen's home on behalf of the company many times to express his condolences, and he also bought a lot of toys and clothes for Mao Wenmei's children out of his own pocket.

Everyone said that Tao Ziwen was an orphan who lost her mother when she was young, which was why she felt so sorry for the little girl.

In short, she is a very enthusiastic and considerate girl.

But such a girl who was regarded as a good person by everyone might be the executioner who killed Mao Wenmei.

No, hurry up.

Otherwise it will be too late.

All the criminal police in Anyuan were dispatched at once, and the police station closest to Mao Wenmei's former company and her current residence also urgently sent people to look for her, determined to find Tao Ziwen in the shortest time possible.

However, after surrounding the relevant locations, we found out that Tao Ziwen had not come to the company since yesterday, and even the rental house he was living in was empty.

Now, the entire city of Anxi was on alert, searching for the fugitive suspect Tao Ziwen.

After searching for three consecutive days, they finally found the panicked woman who had been hiding for three or four days in a cave in a mountain.

At this point, this 72-hour unremitting pursuit of the murderer, without missing any possibility, successfully allowed criminal police leaders and colleagues from all over the province to witness Anxi's speed and determination in investigating cases.

It also means they can finally let the truth of the matter come to light.

Give justice to the deceased.