Initially, after finding out the identity of the deceased Cheng Yao, the detachment used his identity information to search for relevant hotel check-in records on the Internet and retrieved the hotel's front desk surveillance footage. They discovered that he had checked into the room with a woman, and through comparison, they confirmed that it was the woman who had accompanied him up the mountain in the scenic area.
According to relevant policies, every guest who books a room in a hotel needs to present proof of identity for the staff to register and file and check for any illegal or criminal information. The deceased checked into the room with the woman. Logically, the hotel should have records of both of their identities, but in fact, there was only the deceased's. When the staff on duty that day were asked, they were told that she had forgotten to bring her ID card, and that she was travelling to Minnesota from another province, so it was impossible for her to go back and get it. Since there was no problem with the identity of the owner who placed the order, the hotel turned a blind eye to the matter.
This situation is not uncommon and happens almost every day. Usually the staff will only ask symbolically. As long as the landlord shows proof of identity, they will basically allow it. After all, hotels need to operate. If they really follow the policy strictly, more than half of the people will not be able to stay, and a large number of customers will be lost. Therefore, many hotels will relax the requirements and will not be so serious as to ask for proof of identity from every guest.
Without identity registration, the identity of the woman next to the deceased remained a mystery, and the detachment fell into a period of sluggish investigation. It was not until later that they started from the deceased's network of relationships in Jiangzhou and found Lin Fangfang, which brought the case into a new stage.
Judging from Lin Fangfang's action of taking a train to escape back to Ningzhou after killing Cheng Yao, she carried her ID card with her. So when she was arrested, this matter became the focus of questioning, because it involved the nature of whether she was premeditated murder or acted on impulse.
There is no essential difference between premeditated murder and impulsive killing in law, but in the investigation, these are the key points that need to be clarified and cannot be ignored, so Zhang Hongfei asked in detail: "When you followed the deceased to Mingzhou, did you carry your ID card with you?"
Lin Fangfang: “Yes.”
Zhang Hongfei: "Then you bought a ticket online, took the high-speed train from Mingzhou to Yizhou, and then took a train from Yizhou to Ningzhou. Whose identity information was used to register all of this?"
Lin Fangfang: "I use my own. The inspection is strict now. It is difficult to buy a ticket with someone else's ID card. Even if you buy it, you can't get on the bus, so I always use my own."
Zhang Hongfei: "Then why did you lie to the hotel staff and say that you forgot your ID card at home when you checked into the hotel with the deceased on August 5?"
Lin Fangfang revealed another incident in which Deng Zhikang threatened her with the nude video, which was to confiscate her ID card. And this was not just directed at her. The ID cards of most of the girls on his love list were confiscated. The purpose was to prevent them from escaping. Because many of them were deceived into doing this job like her, they had a low level of education and felt that they could not do anything if their ID cards were confiscated. They did not dare or were ashamed to call the police, so they let him do whatever he wanted.
In the eyes of outsiders, she and Deng Zhikang are not in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, nor are they in a matchmaker-introduced relationship, but in a "Hua Yuan"-"Hua" relationship. This is a nickname for these special staff members in Mingzhou, or a code word for contact. Those who buy them for one or several nights and conduct transactions with them are called "Hua Ke".
Deng Zhikang is a well-known "flower source" in the circle. Most people know that he has the habit of confiscating the ID cards of young ladies. Cheng Yao also knows that Lin Fangfang used his ID card to check into a hotel twice before she was kept, so when she lied to the hotel staff that she didn't bring her ID card, he didn't have any doubts.
In fact, Lin Fangfang had already killed Deng Zhikang at that time, and found her ID card that was confiscated by him from the house he rented, but out of habit, she subconsciously blurted out the five words "I didn't bring my ID card".
Zhang Hongfei: "Habit?"
Lin Fangfang: "Yes, usually when I receive customers, they have already booked a room and are waiting for me in the room. At this time, I just need to find the room according to the room number. But some customers will order other packages, such as going out with them to go shopping, playing a dating game, etc., and then the two of us will go to the hotel to book a room. At this time, the hotel waiter will ask for our ID cards. I will say that I didn’t bring it with me or I forgot it at home. I have been like this for several years and it has become a habit. So I just said it casually at that time, and the waiter didn’t do anything. He still asked us to register and gave us the room card, so I didn’t correct it and said that I brought my ID card."
Habit?
Xu Man frowned slightly, feeling that this reason was somewhat untenable. She was prepared for Zhang Hongfei to continue asking questions, but she didn't expect the other party to nod, say "I see", and ask Lin Fangfang the next question.
She was stunned at first, then surprised. She thought that if this was an interrogation conducted by Qin Shen, he would probably have thrown a question in his usual sharp questioning style, "Habit? Are you sure?" However, it is obvious that Zhang Hongfei did not take this path. He chose to believe Lin Fangfang and regarded this as a normal and reasonable answer. It is not known whether he really thought so in his heart or was prepared to integrate the subsequent inquiries and make a comprehensive overall judgment.
Zhang Hongfei continued to inquire about the specific process of Lin Fangfang's murder of Cheng Yao.
According to Lin Fangfang, she killed Deng Zhikang because five years of accumulated resentment erupted in one day. It can be said that it was a carefully planned revenge action, but her attack on Cheng Yao was completely impulsive.
When they were halfway up the mountain, Cheng Yao suddenly received a call from his wife Yu Wei, asking him when he would return. It was originally a very normal thing, but seeing the other party chatting with his wife in a fake tone, Lin Fangfang suddenly felt sick. She thought that all men in the world were the same, coaxing and deceiving. She didn't want to continue smiling at such disgusting guys. Anyway, she was free and rich now, so why did she need to look at the other party's face and act accordingly?
So she mocked Cheng Yao a few times and turned away. Cheng Yao chased after her, but instead of asking her what was wrong or apologizing to her like the male protagonist in a TV series, he slapped her in the face and scolded her, "What's with your attitude? You're just a prostitute, why are you throwing your face in front of me? If it weren't for your face, I wouldn't even bother to look at you!"
Just like she was unwilling to be threatened by Deng Zhikang for the past five years, this time, Lin Fangfang was not prepared to endure Cheng Yao's beatings and scoldings as she had done in the past six months. She immediately fought back, and the two sides started arguing. During the tug of war, no one knew who used the greater force, but Cheng Yao slipped and fell to the ground, hitting his head on a stone on the side of the road. He rolled down a few times and couldn't move.
"No movement?" Zhang Hongfei frowned. "You mean, the deceased died at that time?"
Lin Fangfang shook her head: "No. I thought so at first, so I went to check on his physical condition, and the result was..."
Cheng Yao, who was hit on the head by a rock, did not die or lose consciousness, but it seemed that some nerves were injured, or the severe pain caused him to fall to the ground and be unable to stand up. Seeing Lin Fangfang coming forward to check, he quickly called her for help.
But perhaps because he had been arrogant towards her for too long, when she called for help, Cheng Yao still maintained her usual arrogant attitude, scolding her if she was stupid, saying that he had just fallen to the ground and she didn't help him up quickly, saying that she was such a bitch and did such despicable things.
It was that last sentence that rekindled Lin Fangfang's murderous intent, which had not yet subsided.
Lin Fangfang: "I felt very strange at the time, as if I could hear the sound of blood flowing in my body. The feeling was very clear and cold, and it was gathering towards my brain. So I said to him, 'Don't treat me like this. Do you know that I just killed someone?'"
"He didn't believe it and laughed, saying I was just a bitch and couldn't kill anyone. 'You just want money, okay, I'll give you 200 yuan and you help me up.' He said to me, and I told him, 'I don't need it, I have money.'"
"He was still laughing over there, saying, 'Why don't you pay me back? I gave you all the money. What kind of money do you have?' So I told him that I killed Deng Zhikang and took the 60,000 yuan he had hidden away. It's in my bag now. Do you want to see it?"
"Maybe it was because my tone was very cold at that time, not like a normal joke, he gradually panicked, but still insisted, saying that I should stop teasing. I said I wasn't teasing, I'll prove it to you. So I picked up the stone that he had just hit his head with and hit him hard on the back of his head. Seeing the blood gushing out of his head, I remembered the scene of slaughtering pigs in my hometown during the Chinese New Year. The blood flowed in the same way when the pigs were killed by cutting their throats. I felt that I was not killing anyone, I was just killing a pig, just like Deng Zhikang, he was not a human being, just a chicken, I killed him, it didn't count as killing anyone..."
Lin Fangfang's mental state seemed to be affected by the two consecutive murders. She muttered vaguely in a trance for a long time, and only continued to talk about the murder of Cheng Yao after repeated questioning by Zhang Hongfei.
After hitting Cheng Yao on the back of the head with a stone, she squatted on the ground and watched for a while. Seeing that he had his eyes closed and was motionless, she reached out her hand under his nostrils to feel his breathing for a while. Only after confirming that he was dead did she completely relax.
By then the sky had begun to turn gloomy and it looked like it was going to rain. She was walking on a small path and luckily there were no tourists passing by. However, she could faintly hear sounds coming from not far away. However, she did not leave immediately. Instead, she took off everything on Cheng Yao and put it in her bag. She then used a mineral water bottle to rinse the blood off the stone and put it back to its original place before leaving the crime scene and going down the mountain along the path.
Zhang Hongfei: "Everything? What exactly do you mean?"
Lin Fangfang: "Wallet, cell phone, ID card...everything that could be taken was taken away."
Zhang Hongfei: "Why do you want to take away all the deceased's belongings?"
Lin Fangfang: "To prevent information leakage - I've read a few mystery novels, and they all say that if you destroy any information carried by the deceased, if you're lucky, the police won't be able to find you for more than ten years. Once the 20-year legal prosecution period has passed, you can rest easy."
Hearing this, Xu Man paused and stopped recording somewhat unexpectedly.
After listening to her previous story, I felt that she was a rather pitiful person, and it was understandable that she became the murderer of two murders. I didn't expect that she actually had such a plan in her heart?
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