Chapter 338 Li Youqiang Case Solved

If Jiang Wei had not lied or concealed details.

Then his act of killing Li Youqiang can actually be considered as self-defense under special circumstances to a certain extent.

Because the determination of self-defense involves a very critical factual point, which is whether the other party is still committing an aggression when you fight back.

To put it simply, it means whether the opponent is still trying to kill you when you kill him.

If the other party has given up on killing you, then if you kill him back, it is not self-defense, but intentional homicide for the purpose of revenge.

If everything is true, including the fact confirmed by Fu Daqing's later confession, the criminal nature of Jiang Wei's killing of Li Youqiang may change.

However, this does not mean that Jiang Wei can be acquitted.

Let’s not talk about the fraud that happened more than five years ago, let’s also ignore his fraudulent behavior or other behaviors that are not related to this case.

Just what he did after killing Li Youqiang and escaping constituted a crime.

He confessed that he hid Li Youqiang's body in the trunk and then slept in the car all night.

It was not until dawn the next day that he remembered to clean the bloodstains in the car. He ran to a nearby river to fetch water and wiped the bloodstains left by Li Youqiang in the car.

Pan Hongjie specifically asked him if there were any other traces besides blood.

Jiang Wei said that there was also brain matter. His grandfather was drunk and accidentally hit his head on a rock while walking and died. His brain matter was all over the floor, so he had seen what brain matter looked like when he was very young.

This is consistent with the small gray dot on the leaf found in the car. After extraction and testing, the technical department confirmed that this was the remaining trace of human brain tissue.

Similarly, after the technical department used luminol reagent on the entire vehicle, they found a large amount of blood residual fluorescent reaction. Based on the blood splatter marks and the autopsy results, they simulated the situation when Li Youqiang was shot in the head.

It is basically the same as what Jiang Wei said.

Afterwards, Jiang Wei confessed to the crime of how he disposed of the body.

After cleaning the car, he got back on the road and thought about what to do with the body in the trunk.

He immediately thought of the well located in the farmland in the far suburbs. The reason was simple: he, a local who was not doing his job, had been there before.

At that time, they were playing with some friends. On the way, they encountered a wild dog. The dog barked at them a few times, so they kicked and beat the dog until it was half to death.

Finally, someone suggested that they knew a fun place, and then a few people threw the dog into the abandoned well. They watched the dog screaming inside while they laughed outside.

His first reaction was that the abandoned well was the most suitable place to dump the body.

So I drove straight there.

It was the night of March 19th, the day after Li Youqiang was killed.

But when he got there and opened the trunk to move the body over, he found that the body was hard, like a fish that had been frozen in the refrigerator.

He then remembered that this was what a dead person looked like. Seeing that he couldn't stuff the body into the well, he had no choice but to leave.

But he didn't dare go back, for fear that Fu Daqing was still blocking him, nor did he dare go to crowded places, for fear that his body would be discovered.

So he hid in a nearby town for a few days, thinking about how to deal with the body in the trunk.

He obviously didn't realize that the body would become soft after a maximum of seventy-two hours.

He said he stayed in the small town in a daze for almost a week, until one day he noticed a strange smell coming from the trunk, and then he realized that the matter had reached a point where it could no longer be delayed.

Because the body in the trunk had begun to rot, but because of this, he was surprised to find that the body was not as hard.

So he took advantage of the night again, drove the car to the well, and disposed of the body.

The time is March 27th.

Although he did not know the guy he killed with a hammer, he knew that this person was related to Fu Daqing. He was afraid that after the body was discovered, the police would follow the clues to find Fu Daqing and then find himself.

So he stripped Li Youqiang of his clothes, smashed his face with the hammer, and finally threw the body in upside down.

He had made preparations in advance, bought a bottle of gasoline, and found a place to burn the stripped clothes.

As for the hammer, when he was leaving, he saw a river by the roadside and threw it into the river.

That is the hammer that Pan Hongjie and his team salvaged later. Traces of blood residue were detected on it, which matched Li Youqiang's blood type.

In addition, Tang Wenli also conducted a murder weapon wound matching identification and confirmed that the hammer matched the wound marks on the back of Li Youqiang's head.

On March 28, the day after the body was dumped in the well, Jiang Wei drove the car to a repair shop and had it washed.

He did this because he found that he couldn't clean the stench in the trunk, but at the same time he wanted to get rid of the car.

He initially wanted to just abandon the car on the side of the road, but he was afraid that it would be discovered too quickly.

I also thought about selling the car directly, but I was afraid that if something went wrong, the police would be able to find me.

So in the end he came up with this trick. After the other party cleaned up, he found an excuse to leave.

He didn't know where the car came from, but Fu Daqing hadn't called the police for such a long time, so he guessed there must be some other reason.

A series of relevant evidence formed a complete chain of evidence, indicating that the case of Li Youqiang's murder was basically officially solved.

Next, Wu Yongcheng and his team just need to finish interrogating Fu Daqing and see whether the parts in Fu Daqing's confession related to Jiang Wei are consistent.

If they are consistent, then at least the case can be concluded.

After the meeting, Zhou Yi privately contacted Pan Hongjie regarding the application that Zhang Xianglan had previously submitted.

He knew that in Hongcheng, there was a heartbroken woman and an old man who was unwilling to rest in peace and waiting for the result.

Although I can't tell her the truth yet, I can at least let her cremate her husband and take him home.

Although Li Youqiang may be the murderer who killed Bai Xiuxiu and caused the accidental death of Zheng Guangming, legally, death is the end of criminal responsibility.

As for Jiang Wei, whether the charge of intentional homicide is established is a question that has to be left to the procuratorate and the court.

But there are still two charges that he cannot escape.

First of all, his handling of Li Youqiang's body was definitely illegal.

If he had driven to the nearest police station and surrendered himself immediately after killing Li Youqiang, the nature of the incident would have been very different.

But he chose to conceal the truth and dispose of the body. His own explanation was that he was confused and did not expect it.

He also said that he was a gangster and his legs would go weak when he saw the police, so he didn't think of calling the police to surrender himself.

But Pan Hongjie pointed out the real reason.

Pan Hongjie asked him, "Where's the money?"

Jiang Wei was stunned for a moment, then tremblingly asked, "What...what money?"

"You confessed very readily, but you kept emphasizing that you were acting in self-defense. It seems that you have been busy recently and have checked a lot of information, right?" Pan Hongjie sneered.

“No…no…”

"What do you mean by confused? What do you mean by weak knees when seeing the police? Why are you pretending to be confused? You are weak knees when seeing the police, so why did you even think of pulling out a gun when I arrested you today? Aren't you weak knees?"

Pan Hongjie pointed at Jiang Wei's nose and said, "You didn't turn yourself in because you found the money in that Toyota, right?"

Pan Hongjie's judgment logic is very reasonable. Since Fu and Li were hired to kill, they must have carried the reward with them at the time.

It is likely that they intended to drive away with this red Toyota, which would not only prevent the police from tracking their whereabouts but also allow them to get rid of the car.

The fact that Jiang Wei was able to scam this car was entirely due to the unresolved grudge between him and Fu Daqing.

Then Fu Daqing went to Jiang Wei's residence alone to get the gold bars, and he definitely would not carry cash with him.

So the money was most likely in the car and was finally discovered by Jiang Wei.

This is also the main reason why he will never turn himself in, because only when the police don't know that this matter is related to him can he keep the money for himself.

This is what they mean when they say money can move people's hearts.

The only thing that can make him willing to take risks is money.

And according to his own account, he didn't want to run away at all, because he didn't know where to run to, and his friends were all in Anyuan.

After hiding for a while, he found that the police were not looking for him at all, so he gradually felt relieved.

I just didn't go back to my original place, but hid with a friend for a while.

As for why he hadn't been home for so many years, he suddenly returned home to burn paper and kowtow to his deceased father.

It was because he had a nightmare one night and dreamed that he was sitting in the back seat of the red car again.

The car was moving forward, and there was no one in the driver or passenger seat, only the steering wheel was moving by itself.

He was terrified and tried to open the car door and run, but found his hands were tied behind his back.

When I looked up again, there was suddenly another person in the passenger seat. There was a big hole on the back of his head, and blood and brain matter were constantly flowing out of the hole.

He was startled, and then he saw the man in the passenger seat turn around.

A bloody face stretched out its hands and pounced towards him.

He was so scared that he screamed repeatedly. At the critical moment, he said that the car door was suddenly opened and then someone pulled him out.

Then he woke up.

Although he didn't see it clearly, he guessed that it must be his father who had committed suicide by drinking pesticides who saved him.

He felt guilty and thought of going home to burn incense and kowtow to his father.

Pan Hongjie warned him not to try to change the subject and to explain the money issue clearly. Whether he hid the money or spent it, they would be able to find out.

By then, it’s hard to say how many years the sentence will be added!

Jiang Wei probably knew that he could no longer hide the truth at this point, so he admitted that he was indeed tempted by the money and took the money left in the car.

He said that he only spent a small amount of the more than 70,000 yuan and did not dare to touch the rest. He hid it under the stove in his abandoned old house.

When Zhou Yi heard this, he was stunned: "More than 70,000?"