Chapter 177 In My Name 13 I fell in by accident.

Chapter 13

The crime squad set out for the resort early in the morning.

The house where Shi Minjie lived has been temporarily kept as it is and cannot be used for business as the case has not been settled yet.

The scene remains as it was.

Lu Changfeng called all the staff who had been to the scene that day over.

The manager asked, "Officer, what are you doing here?"

Lu Changfeng said: "There are still doubts in the case, and we need your cooperation to restore the situation on that day."

"What are we going to do?"

Lu Changfeng said: "On the day of the incident, you all entered this room. I ask you to repeat your actions on that day."

The first person to discover the body was the room manager. The resort implements zoning management, and each manager is responsible for the management of several villas. If there are any problems, the room manager will be the first to be held accountable.

The hotel housekeeper is named Shang Fan, he is 29 years old and has been in the industry for five years.

The serious crime team stayed in the house, and everyone else retreated to their respective posts.

Lu Changfeng said to them through the intercom: "We can start reenacting what happened that day."

Shang Fan then called the guest room according to his whereabouts that day and replayed what happened that day.

Zhou Yu and Yue Fanglin were comparing two days of surveillance content in the monitoring room.

Shi Minjie drowned in the swimming pool. Shang Fan saw him motionless in the room. Realizing that something might have happened, he quickly notified his superiors.

Then the boss and a group of people rushed over, entered the crime scene one after another, checked on Shi Minjie's condition, and after confirming that the person was dead, they quickly called the police.

Then, at the manager's call, the group retreated outside the house and waited for the police to arrive and take over the scene.

Several of them recorded the incident.

Lu Changfeng found these people and asked: "You recorded the video at that time, why didn't you tell the police?"

"We recorded the video because we were afraid that the family would cause trouble for us, and we wanted to keep it as evidence to prove that we did not make any mistakes in our operation. But when the police came, they said that the tenant died accidentally, so they did not use our video as evidence."

Lu Changfeng asked Shang Fan, "How long did it take from the time you entered the room and found out Shi Minjie was in trouble to the time you called the person in charge?"

Shang Fan said: "It took no more than a minute. Just as I reconstructed it at the time, after I found out that the tenant was in trouble, I immediately reported it to Manager Huang. Then I immediately left the room and stood in the yard waiting for the manager to come."

Yue Fanglin retrieved the surveillance footage from the time of the incident and told Lu Changfeng: "He was right. From the time he entered the villa and found Shi Minjie dead to the time he contacted Manager Huang and then waited in the villa yard, the whole process took about two minutes."

Lu Changfeng then asked Manager Huang: "After you received the call, you notified other people to rush to the scene. During this time, who approached the swimming pool?"

Manager Huang said: "We all came close. At first we tried to pull the tenant out of the swimming pool. The police reminded us not to disturb the scene and asked us to retreat outside the door and wait, so we all retreated."

“Was there anything in the pool at the time?”

Manager Huang said: "I really hadn't noticed this. I was very panicked at the time. After all, this happened during my tenure and I had to take responsibility. After receiving the police's response and request, I immediately followed their instructions. After leaving the villa, I contacted my superiors as soon as possible to report and ask how to deal with it. The company also had to prepare public relations urgently."

Lu Changfeng gathered these people together and asked them: "Whose necklace is this?"

Everyone said it wasn't theirs.

Manager Huang asked: "Could it be the tenant's?"

Lu Changfeng denied this idea: "There was no necklace in the swimming pool when Shi Minjie checked into the hotel. This necklace has a special meaning. We have asked Shi Minjie's students and wife, and they confirmed that the necklace is not theirs. So it must have been left in the swimming pool by you, the group of people who entered the room after Shi Minjie's death."

Manager Huang looked at the necklace and said, "This necklace doesn't look worth much. Is it important?"

"Of course it's important." Lu Changfeng told him: "It is precisely because of this necklace that we are here to investigate whether there is any other hidden cause of Shi Minjie's death."

Manager Huang asked everyone in a stern voice: "Whose necklace is this? Come out and claim it."

Still no one answered.

"This necklace is supposed to be worn for a long time. Who among you has the habit of wearing necklaces?"

One of the girls said: "Even if you have the habit of wearing a necklace, it doesn't prove that the necklace belongs to the other person."

Lu Changfeng looked over and said to the girl, "You are right, but the reason why this necklace appeared in the swimming pool is because you carry it with you. Would you wear the necklace around your neck or put it in your pocket?"

Manager Huang was a little confused at this time. "It's just a necklace. Is it really so important? Do we need to check it so carefully?"

"It is very necessary because this necklace is related to a criminal gang we are investigating. If it were not for this necklace, we would not be here."

Lu Changfeng could not directly state that the pattern on the necklace belonged to the Judge, so he could only use the criminal gang to indicate the seriousness of the matter.

Upon hearing this, Manager Huang almost jumped up, "Criminal gang!?"

The girl who had spoken to Lu Changfeng said, "This necklace can't be for a girl."

Lu Changfeng asked: "Why?"

The girl replied: "Because the chain used on this necklace is very thick, we girls rarely use such thick necklaces."

The girls present took out their necklaces and compared them one by one, and it was indeed true.

Another girl said: "The necklace you are holding is not something that girls like us would wear, because this style of necklace is not in line with girls' aesthetics. And it looks too evil."

It is not difficult to conclude from the accessories worn by these girls that most girls prefer small and exquisite accessories, and exquisite does not mean perfunctory.

The necklaces they wear around their necks are not out of place, they are all very design-conscious and match their own temperament.

There are four boys in total, including Manager Huang.

Manager Huang said: "I never wear necklaces. I only wear my wedding ring and watch. At most, I will add a brooch to my clothes. Necklaces are indeed not a common accessory for us men."

One of the boys said: "I don't have the habit of wearing any jewelry, not even rings or watches."

"I can vouch for him on that point." Another boy said, "We both lived in the staff dormitory for a while before."

"Yes, we can testify to each other that neither of us has the habit of wearing necklaces."

"Manager Shang, I remember you have the habit of wearing a necklace."

Manager Huang also looked at Shang Fan.

One of the girls said: "I think this necklace looks familiar. It seems that Manager Shang wore it when we had a party before."

As she spoke, the girl opened her photo album and began looking for clues.

At one of their employee gatherings half a year ago, Shang Fan was wearing this necklace around his neck.

At that time, Shang Fan was wearing a white shirt with two buttons undone at the collar and the sleeves rolled up to his elbows.

The photo was taken at a selfie angle. In order to be in the shot, everyone tilted their bodies slightly, with their shirt collars open, revealing the necklaces underneath.

"If I hadn't eliminated Manager Shang through the process of elimination, I wouldn't have remembered this either."

Lu Changfeng held up the photo and asked Shang Fan, "How do you explain this?"

"I fell in accidentally." Shang Fan said.

Lu Changfeng: "Then why didn't you say anything at the beginning? The police used it as evidence, but you didn't come forward to explain the situation."

"You had countless opportunities to call us and explain the origin of the necklace, but you never did."

Jing Jue gestured to the others, indicating that they could all go out.

Shang Fan was the only one left in the room.

Lu Changfeng said: "We checked your personal information when we came here."

Shang Fan was a little surprised.

"You already knew the necklace was mine?"

Lu Changfeng shook his head.

"Then why are you investigating our background?"

Lu Changfeng said, "Shi Minjie is a university professor. He attended an academic exchange meeting held here not long ago. You hotel employees must have had a certain influence on him. Combining the analysis of the situation at the scene, we finally concluded that Shi Minjie's death was an accident. The necklace in our hands represents the Judge. The way the Judge killed the victim is almost the same as the way they killed people."

"Shi Minjie died accidentally. We checked his details. Among the people he interacted with, including teachers, students, and relatives, none of them drowned while swimming, nor did they die accidentally in other ways. The only cause of death was suicide. In investigating these things, we really went around in circles and eliminated a lot of information before we finally determined that there was no other factor in Shi Minjie's death. It was purely an accident."

After confirming that Shi Minjie's death was indeed caused by an accident, my thoughts became extremely clear.

People who have a vested interest in Shi Minjie would not do such a thing because they are in the same boat and no one can escape if the boat capsizes.

When they are driven by common interests, they will not destroy their own future.

Shang Fan admired the police's investigative methods very much. "This necklace is indeed mine, but as I said, it did fall into the pool accidentally."

Lu Changfeng looked at Shang Fan as if to say, "You are still lying even now."

Shang Fan said, "I know you don't believe it, but it did fall in accidentally. I was anxious at the time and wanted to pick it up, but the necklace pendant came out from the gap on the chest of my shirt. When I used force, it got hooked and broke, so I pulled it out. You can take a closer look to see if the end of the necklace is broken."

The necklace was crumpled up in the evidence bag. When Lu Changfeng had handled the evidence before, he had indeed not paid attention to what the necklace's interface looked like.

I put on gloves, took out the necklace and took a closer look, only to find that it was really broken.

The buttonhole is completely on the other end and is intact, it's the ring that's broken where it connects.

"Then why don't you ask our police to take it back."

Shang Fan said, "I didn't want to go back, and I did have selfish motives. I have a deep impression of Shi Minjie and the young girl next to him. At that time, the girl's ring accidentally fell from the drain while washing her hands, and I helped her find it. She and Shi Minjie addressed each other as teacher and student at the exchange meeting, but stayed in the same room at night. Shi Minjie asked me to prepare condoms for him. Privately, everyone speculated that she was a mistress. What I hate most is a mistress. My father was also abducted by a mistress and abandoned me and my mother. I just want you to investigate whether he has done anything beastly. After all, there are too many problems that can be found out about university professors."