Police station archivist Zhou Yi is reborn back to 1997, just when he joined the police force. Dismemberment cases, arson cases, shooting cases... the cold case files he meticulously studied in his...
Chapter 336 Jiang Wei's Confession
What Director Guo meant by "using some tricks" was not to force people to confess.
Zhou Yi couldn't guarantee that all the police in the world would strictly abide by the law when handling cases and would never use some rumored memory recovery techniques.
But at least in Zhou Yi's previous career, he had never encountered anyone who blatantly used any means to solve a case.
At most, it would be like what Shi Tao did, where some disguised corporal punishment was carried out.
The police are not fools. They know very well what the consequences will be after they do certain things.
And once you really come in, if the police want to put pressure on you, there are many legal and compliant ways to do so.
For example, what Guo Yuanchao meant by using some tricks actually meant that Pan Hongjie should conduct a high-intensity interrogation of Zheng Tianlan.
The so-called high-intensity interrogation is like taking a horse for a walk, where you are dragged out for continuous interrogation. You are not allowed to sleep or rest, and the same things and questions are asked over and over again.
The suspect's mental state is always tense, but the interrogating police can be replaced continuously.
Most ordinary criminal suspects collapse directly at this stage, because it won’t be long before their bodies and minds can no longer bear it.
The director had spoken, and Pan Hongjie naturally agreed.
Up to this point, this is probably the whole process of Huang Yanli hiring a killer to commit murder.
This also included Xia Yu going to Zheng Tianlan's wife to find out the situation, which indirectly confirmed some information.
For example, Zheng Guangming’s chaotic private life, the real existence of Bai Xiu Xiu, and Huang Yanli’s reaction.
When Xia Yu went to find Zheng Tianlan's wife, he actually didn't know that Zheng Tianlan and Huang Yanli had an improper relationship, and he didn't lead the question in this direction when he asked questions.
It was Zheng Tianlan's wife herself who said that something seemed amiss between her husband and his "stepmother." But she didn't dare to think about it that way because she had no concrete evidence.
At first, she didn't feel anything about her father-in-law's disappearance, because they didn't live together and it was common for them not to see each other for ten days or half a month.
What made her feel strange was that one time during dinner, she casually asked Zheng Tianlan why she hadn't heard from her father recently, and Nini said she missed her grandfather.
Unexpectedly, Zheng Tianlan's reaction at that time was very abnormal and incoherent. Sometimes he said that Zheng Guangming went to the provincial capital to do business, and sometimes he said that he went abroad.
She felt strange and asked again, but Zheng Tianlan simply found an excuse to go out.
This situation is consistent with the information obtained during the interrogation of Zheng Tianlan.
After listening to this, Director Guo thought that Huang Yanli could be immediately detained and interrogated, and the truth must be found out quickly, accurately and ruthlessly.
After hearing what the director said, Pan Hongjie immediately arranged to arrest the person. Previously, at Zhou Yi's reminder, he had sent people to keep an eye on Huang Yanli to prevent her from escaping.
However, there is still a more difficult problem, which is to confirm the identities of the two bodies in Xiaoqiushan Park.
All previous speculations were based on the premise that Zheng Guangming and Bai Xiuxiu were the dead, but from the perspective of the chain of evidence, it can only be said that it is highly suspected rather than confirmed.
Tang Wenli also explained the current autopsy situation at the meeting, and talked about Zhou Yi's idea of using fingerprints to confirm the body information, and that Hongcheng will send a forensic doctor to assist tomorrow.
Guo Yuanchao was stunned for a moment and asked who Zhou Yi was.
Pan Hongjie immediately pulled Zhou Yi over and said that he was a foreign aid from Hongcheng, and then praised Zhou Yi a lot.
Guo Yuanchao suddenly realized and said with a smile that no wonder the young man looked a little unfamiliar to him.
Then he expressed his gratitude to the Hongcheng police for their great help. Naturally, he said this to Zhou Yi. Zhou Yi also responded very sensibly and said that he would report to Director Xie when he got back.
Director Guo asked Tang Wenli, what is the probability of extracting valid fingerprints using the dermis reconstruction method you mentioned.
Tang Wenli replied that, considering the degree of decay of the corpse, the probability of extracting partial fingerprints was at most 30%, while the probability of extracting complete fingerprints was probably only 10%.
Director Guo picked up the thermos cup, frowned, and took a sip. After a moment of silence, he said, "It's better to have a two-pronged approach. Both the forensic doctor and the criminal investigation team can't let their guard down."
Pan Hongjie and Tang Wenli naturally responded.
Next comes the content of Jiang Wei’s interrogation, which is another case that was triggered by the murder case.
Because there seems to be no necessary connection between the two cases.
At least judging from the results of Jiang Wei's interrogation, it should be a coincidence.
More than five years ago, Jiang Wei cheated Fu Daqing out of money, which led to Fu Daqing's business failure and his life hitting rock bottom.
But Jiang Wei did not escape Anyuan, because his deception of Fu Daqing was not well-planned, but started with a casual remark.
Jiang Wei likes to gamble, and most of the money he gets from cheating and defrauding people is thrown onto the poker table.
Occasionally, he would win money and live a carefree life, but most of the time, he was so poor that he had to pick up cigarette butts on the ground to smoke.
He and Fu Daqing met at the poker table. They had only played cards twice at first and were considered familiar poker partners, but he couldn't even remember their names.
Five years ago, while playing cards, Fu Daqing looked at the rain outside and complained a few words in annoyance, saying that the rain was going to ruin his business and he couldn't even find any melons that were not soaked in water.
The speaker did not mean it, but the listener took it seriously. Jiang Wei immediately boasted that he had channels and could get greenhouse melons that had not been soaked by rain.
When Fu Daqing heard this, he was very excited and pulled him to discuss business.
Jiang Wei was originally a braggart. After all, he was in the underworld and rarely spoke the truth. It was normal for him to brag about his abilities.
He didn't expect Fu Daqing to take it seriously, and immediately he had evil thoughts.
Then he made up a story that he had a friend who was engaged in watermelon cultivation. He had 200 acres of watermelons planted in greenhouses and was worried about having no market for them.
In fact, his words are full of loopholes. How could an individual business owner who dared to contract 200 acres of land in 1997 and built greenhouses on all of them not even have a way to sell it?
With this level of investment, there will be no business unless there are sales channels.
After all, the core of doing business has never been how things come, but how things go.
Fu Daqing was a little skeptical at first, and immediately asked Jiang Wei to take him to have a look, and the price was negotiable.
Jiang Wei told him that he could take him to see the 200-acre greenhouse first. As for business matters, there was no need to rush and he had to wait until he talked to his friends.
Fu Daqing said yes repeatedly and asked Jiang Wei where he was going.
Jiang Wei asked him if he had a car?
Fu Daqing said yes.
Jiang Wei said he would drive.
Then he took Fu Daqing to the suburban counties and drove out of Anyuan.
Fu Daqing was a little surprised after watching it for so long, so he asked him if we had left Anyuan.
Jiang Wei told him calmly that he had not left Anyuan, it was just that he was not familiar with Anyuan.
Then we drove for a while and saw many plastic greenhouses appearing in the rain. They were everywhere along the way.
Jiang Wei proudly said that these greenhouses were built by his friends and were specifically used to grow watermelons. He was also a shareholder because he invested half of the money.
He dropped out of school when he was a teenager and started hanging out on the street. He could lie without blushing or beating his heart, and he fooled Fu Daqing in no time.
Fu Daqing was very excited and asked if he could get off the car to take a look.
Jiang Wei flatly refused, saying that the melons were all soaked in water this year and were in short supply. He also said that someone else was approaching them about purchasing. He only brought him in because he saw a connection with him playing cards, and that although he had invested money, his friend still had the final say in the business, so it wouldn't be appropriate to do so without first informing his friend.
Fu Daqing immediately gave him two thousand yuan, saying it was a deposit, and insisted that his friend sell the melons to him. If he couldn't harvest the melons this year, his business would be over, so he begged Jiang Wei for help.
When Jiang Wei saw so much money, his eyes widened and he agreed immediately. Then he turned the car around and returned to Anyuan. Fu Daqing also treated him to a meal.
But in fact, the place he drove Fu Daqing to was out of Anyuan and was a suburb of the next city.
The greenhouses were real, but Jiang Wei had no idea what was being grown inside. He'd only seen them in passing, and despite the claims that the owner was a friend and that he'd invested half the money, he said he hadn't expected Fu Daqing to be so easily fooled. Later, he bought a few melons as samples and gave them to Fu Daqing. After trying them, he was so impressed that he immediately decided to buy them and even offered to pay half the purchase price upfront.
According to Ding Wenyuan, Fu Daqing had received a large amount of order payments in advance from downstream customers, and if he failed to deliver the watermelons, he would have to pay compensation.
That's why I'm so desperate to try all kinds of treatments.
This is how people are. No matter how smart they are, they will lose their composure once they encounter a particularly urgent situation.
So many times, it’s not that the scammers are smart, but that the deceived people are too eager for success and have lost the ability to think.
In the end, Jiang Wei used his eloquence to defraud Fu Daqing of a down payment of 36,000 yuan.
The first batch of melons he sold to Fu Daqing were actually soaked melons purchased from melon farmers at low prices. Most of these melons began to rot within a few days of being transported back to Hongcheng.
Jiang Wei confessed all these things during the interrogation.
After he cheated Fu Daqing of his money, he did not leave Anyuan, but found a hotel to hide for a month because he was afraid that Fu Daqing would call the police. However, when he introduced himself to Fu Daqing, he used a fake name.
A month later, nothing happened. He became bolder and walked out of the hotel with a huge sum of money, ignoring his relatives, and began to eat, drink, gamble and have sex as if he were reckless.
Logically speaking, it was only 1992, and 36,000 was undoubtedly a huge sum of money for ordinary people.
But for a gambler, let alone 36,000, even 3.6 million is just water poured out of his mind.
So, the more than 30,000 yuan was lost in less than two months.
Fu Daqing's half-life efforts were only spent for two months in the hands of this liar.
After that, he returned to his life of living a life of idleness and waiting for death, and soon forgot about the incident with Fu Daqing, as if it had never happened.
It was not until March 18th of this year, which was the day after the police speculated that Fu Daqing and Li Youqiang received the final payment of the murder commission.
Jiang Wei was hit by a red Toyota on the road.