Although I only have the experience of my original body's training at the police academy, I have read so many mystery works after all, so I think it can be of some help in this field...
I don’t know how much help these two can provide, but at least they won’t let Tang Ze down.
There is no time to lose. Since Inspector Megure has handed the case over to himself and Sato Miwako, we must naturally do our best.
Not only for yourself, but also for the victim.
After making up his mind, Karasawa and Sato Miwako went to meet the first discoverer, Hasegawa Ryoka.
I forgot who said it, but at the crime scene, the first person to discover something is highly suspicious and may be the culprit, so Tang Ze conducted the interrogation very seriously.
Hasegawa Ryoka is a white-collar worker who lives in the same apartment building as the victim, Asamiya Kiriko, and is about the same age as her.
When Karasawa and Sato Miwako saw each other, the short-haired woman looked very unhappy. It was no wonder, after all, she saw the body of her friend.
According to her, she and Asamiya Kiriko were drinking buddies, but since last night, because she had sent messages to the deceased but received no reply, she went to the deceased's room this morning.
"When I went to look for her, I found her door was open. I found it incredible."
Hasegawa Ryoka seemed to recall the previous scene again, and explained with a pale face:
"Because Tongzi is usually more careful than the average person, it is absolutely impossible for her to forget to explain this."
So, thinking that the other person should be Hasegawa Ryoka at home, he entered the room to take a look. As a result, he found the other person's body on the bedroom floor, and then immediately called the police.
After the inquiry, Tang Ze nodded and said, "Thank you for your cooperation. It's OK now. Please accept my condolences."
"Please make sure to catch the criminal, please." Hasegawa Ryoka bowed to the two of them and then walked towards the room.
"We didn't get any important clues." After the other party left, Sato Miwako shook her head and looked at her partner, "Karazawa-kun, what do you think?"
"No, during the previous conversation, I didn't notice anything unnatural in the other party's words." Tang Ze shook his head slightly.
"Then let's move on to the next house." Sato Miwako said, and knocked on the door of the house next door.
This is a field investigation. If you want to collect testimony, you need to go door to door and ask questions to see if you can collect any useful clues.
However, he didn't get any results after working for several companies in a row. He basically didn't come back until midnight after working overtime, which made Tang Ze complain about Japan's corporate culture.
But there is no other way, field investigations are always a matter of luck.
“Da da!”
Tang Ze came to the next floor and knocked on the resident's door as usual. A man with a messy afro and a pair of glasses popped out from behind the door.
After stating the purpose of the visit, unexpectedly, this college student named Kangfu Gusen gave an important testimony.
"I was going to the convenience store, but just as I was about to leave, I heard a loud clattering sound coming down the stairs."
Kang Fugu Sen said with a gossipy look on his face, "I didn't think much of it at the time, but now that I think about it, I wonder if it was the footsteps of a criminal escaping or something."
This is useful information. If the criminal really escaped during that time period, there might be eyewitnesses.
By the way, this apartment is actually very old. The staircase is an old iron spiral staircase connecting each floor of the apartment.
This is a very common apartment type in Japanese dramas. There are no units in a building, and all doors open to open-air corridors. There are many households living on one floor.
After talking about this with Miwako Sato, the two went downstairs to ask the apartment manager. If you were to say who would pay the most attention to these things, it would be the apartment manager.
The park manager is the landlord's part-time job, a middle-aged man in his forties.
"Stranger? I didn't see him." Hearing the two people's questions, Kawahara Saburo thought for a moment and said, "Oh, yes, although I didn't see him, I saw Miss Asamiya."
"When? Can you tell me more specifically?" Tang Ze's expression brightened when he heard that.
Although no information about the criminal was obtained, it would be an important piece of information if the whereabouts of the deceased could be known.
"Yesterday, when I came to the mailbox to pick up the evening paper, I happened to pass by Miss Asamiya on her way home," Kawahara Saburo recalled. "She seemed to be coming back from the station alone and passed by me."
"When did it happen?" asked Miwako Sato.
"It was just when my favorite show ended, around 6 o'clock in the evening." Saburo Kawahara scratched his head and said.
Upon hearing this, the eyes of Tang Ze and Sato Miwako instantly became sharp.
The whereabouts of the deceased are consistent with the estimated time of death, which is a very important piece of eyewitness information.
Because if that is the case, then the deceased was most likely killed by the prisoners after encountering the administrator and the body was moved inside the room.
"So what was Miss Asamiya's expression at that time?" Tang Ze continued to ask.
"Well, this is really a bit strange." After being reminded by Tang Ze, Saburo Kawahara actually remembered something.
"I happened to be getting the newspaper when I saw Miss Asamiya running back. I greeted her by saying 'Welcome back' as usual."
Kawahara Saburo frowned and recalled, "At that time, Miss Asamiya stopped and was stunned for a moment, then she said "Hello" and hurried upstairs.
Normally, she would take the initiative to greet me, but now that I think about it, it’s a bit strange.”
"So, at that time, Ms. Asamiya might have already been involved in some case."
Sato Miwako frowned and said, "But this rules out the possibility that the deceased was killed outside and then moved to the bedroom."
"So, what did you do after you met Miss Asamiya?" Tang Ze continued to ask, in order to make his testimony foolproof.
Because the other party's testimony was related to whether the victim was killed in the house, Tang Ze had to treat it with caution.
"I went straight back to my room. Oh, by the way, the owner of the vegetable store opposite should have seen it too." Saburo Kawahara said, pointing across.
According to Saburo Kawahara, the two went to the vegetable store opposite the apartment to verify and obtained testimony that Saburo Kawahara had indeed returned to his room.
Because the store was facing the apartment, the owner of the vegetable store also witnessed Miss Asamiya hurried upstairs.
In other words, the deceased was indeed murdered in the room!!
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