The agents waited for more than ten minutes, and Clara finally opened the door.
She opened her bedroom wide for the agents to see without any ulterior motives. Fang Zhenyue's indifferent eyes instantly caught a detail:
other things in Clara's room were scattered around, cosmetics were scattered on the small cabinet beside the bed, and there were many hair ropes, eye masks and other things on the bed, which looked very messy.
But all the clothes on the bed and the clothes in the patchwork closet were neatly stacked.
This inevitably reminded people of the pile of clothes stacked neatly next to the victim at the crime scene.
When Clara walked out the door and came to the front of the agents, everyone found that she was indeed a tall woman, but her arms and legs were slender and she didn't have much muscle.
The whole person's outline has become much thinner, even thinner than in their group photo.
Jiayi breathed a sigh of relief. Excluding Clara, it was basically 100% certain that Qin Hongliang was the murderer.
Fang Zhenyue asked Qin Hongliang to step aside. Qin Hongliang then stood up and smiled at everyone, exchanged a glance with Clara, and returned to his room.
The moment she opened the door, Jiayi saw the scene inside the door through the crack. Although it was just a quick glimpse, it was enough to extract some information:
Qin Hongliang's room was very tidy, so tidy that it was incompatible with the atmosphere of this ordinary rental house.
After Clara sat down, Jiayi also stood up and stood at the door with Fang Zhenyue, looking at Fu and asking Clara.
Clara was a woman with a very frivolous demeanor and a bit of aggression in her expression.
When she speaks, she habitually raises her chin slightly, which makes her look like someone who is not easy to mess with. People who are afraid of being bullied often have this defensive look on their faces: their only purpose is to prevent anyone from looking down on them, and to swear to the world: Don't mess with me.
It's like a praying mantis raising its fists at a car or a crab growing a hard shell.
"Sir, what's the matter? Why are you always urging me? You keep asking questions. Ah Hong and I need to go to work soon. Your pockets are full of money. Don't delay us from making money." Clara spoke first, "So what if you work at the Daliyuan Nightclub? Is it illegal to sell alcohol and chat with the boss?" "
Don't think too much. We just ask a few questions. Officer Tan asks, you just answer. We won't waste too much of your time." Fang Zhenyue stood at the door and even smiled slightly when he said this.
Clara looked up at Fang Zhenyue and saw that he didn't start with a barrage of sarcasm. He seemed a little uncomfortable.
She cleared her throat, looked back at Fu who was sitting next to her, and said, "You are Officer Tan?"
"Yes. First, let me ask where you were around five this morning?" Fu was much more vigilant when facing the 'real suspect' Clara than when facing Qin Hongliang. Not only did he appear calmer, he also hid his emotions more deeply.
"I'm sleeping at home. What else would you do if you don't sleep after work? It's not even dawn yet, and you don't have anything to do." Clara looked like she was asking a stupid question.
"Can anyone prove that you were always at home?" Fu asked.
Clara frowned and stared at Fu for a while before turning to look at Fang Zhenyue and Yi Jiayi. After a quick look, she asked suspiciously, "Sir, what do you mean? Let's not beat around the bush. Are you suspicious of what I did? I was sleeping at home, who can prove it? Ah Hong wasn't at home."
"Is this earring yours?" Fu took out a photo of an earring that fell at the crime scene and showed it to Clara for confirmation.
"Huh? It's mine. I lost it a long time ago. How do you have this photo?" Clara wanted to reach out to take the photo, but Fu dodged her.
"I heard that you had a fight with Zhao Meini early yesterday morning?"
"What does it have to do with Meini? Oh, yes we had a fight, so what? Do the police now even intervene in fights between women? Can't you save taxpayers' money and do something serious?"
Fu turned his head to look at Fang Zhenyue, and when he saw Brother Yue nodded at him, he spoke: "Zhao Meini was found dead in her bed at around seven o'clock this morning. Now many people's testimonies point to the fact that you and Zhao Meini had a conflict. The situation is very unfavorable to you. I hope you can cooperate with the police."
Clara was stunned for a moment, seemingly unconvinced. She sneered before opening her mouth to ask a few questions, but she looked at Fu for a while, and suddenly realized that the police would obviously not tell such a lie and come to her just to tease her. She closed her mouth and took two deep breaths.
She blinked without focus, stood up suddenly, and after realizing what she was doing, she sat back down:
"How could Minnie die? She didn't offend anyone. Other sisters would borrow money at high interest rates, but she didn't. The day before yesterday, she said she wanted to save money to open a store and would not be a bar girl anymore. She doesn't have a boyfriend..."
Clara spoke in a panic for a long time before she realized that what Lai Fu had just said was that the situation was not good for her. After staring in shock, she stood up instantly and said angrily:
"Why would it be me? Minnie and I have been quarreling for years. I was thinking that if she didn't have enough money to open the store, I would lend her some. How could I kill her? Sir, even though we quarrel often, we have the best relationship as sisters. No matter how fierce the quarrel is, we can't break up! If you don't believe me, go ask Sister Yun and the others. Everyone knows it."
"Please calm down. We will ask others." Fu looked up at her and nodded, "Sit down."
Clara clenched her fists nervously, her face flushed, and she sat down obediently. The arrogant attitude before completely disappeared, and the false hard shell was removed, revealing her fragile and helpless true self. Her face gradually turned pale, and she lowered her head to look at the notebook in Fu's hand, and suddenly tears flowed.
Fu tore off a piece of paper and handed it to Clara, frowning tightly.
Clara took the paper, wiping her tears and sobbing.
Fu asked a few more questions in this situation. According to the interrogation skills, he interspersed real questions with questions that tested the reaction of the interrogee.
Real questions are used to draw clues and assist in the deduction of the case.
Questions that test the reaction of the interrogee are completely a kind of deception in interrogation, specifically used to deceive the reaction of the interrogee. It is an important means for detectives to observe suspects and judge the degree of suspicion of suspects.
Of course, sometimes the skills are superimposed on special questions and the special psychological conditions of the interrogee, and it is possible to directly deceive the interrogee to confess.
But this time, Clara did not suddenly confess with her psychological defenses broken down. She even withstood the test of trap questions and fraudulent questions, and her performance was almost flawless.
If all this was a performance by the murderer, then Clara was too smart and terrifying.
After asking the questions, Fu even said something strange: "My condolences."
...
When Clara was on trial, Fang Zhenyue was observing Clara's expression, constantly making guesses and judgments in his mind.
Jiayi did not do this. Before coming here, she was still confused, but now it is clear as a mirror: Clara is a scapegoat, and this case has nothing to do with her at all.
Jiayi stood at the door with her arms folded, seemingly looking at Clara, but in fact she was completely lost in her own thoughts.
Jiayi tried hard to recall every detail in the flow image, starting from Qin Hongliang knocking on the door and walking into the door of the deceased Zhao Meini, without missing a single detail.
She followed the grid search method proposed by Newton, breaking the dynamic images of the central stream of memory into static photos one by one, marking each photo with grids, and observing from grid 1*1 to grid 13*13. After checking a picture in this way, to make sure that no information was missed, she would observe the next photo. It is a
very time-consuming and labor-intensive method, but it is often the most useful method.
When Jiayi searched for the picture of "the murderer Qin Hongliang sitting on the sofa, holding up the water cup handed to her by the deceased Zhao Meini", she suddenly stopped.
Jiayi scanned the blurred and dark silhouette picture grid by grid. There was nothing wrong with the other content, but when she saw the action of the murderer Qin Hongliang drinking water, the strange feeling became stronger.
A person clearly picked up a cup of water, why didn't he drink the water, but just touched his lips to the cup?
Why did he do this? Was he worried that the deceased Zhao Meini had put drugs in the water?
Could it be that in the eyes of the murderer Qin Hongliang, Zhao Meini also had the motive to kill her, so he was suspicious?
Or...
Jiayi suddenly had an idea, there was another possibility!
She immediately came back to her senses and cast her eyes on Clara's lips. She was wearing a pink lipstick, which was very bold, in line with Clara's personality, and also matched her fair skin.
On the contrary, Qin Hongliang's skin was darker, so she was more suitable for red.
Recall that today Qin Hongliang was wearing a red lipstick with a dark golden luster under the light. As a pole dancer, when under the light, people see more of her figure rather than her face.
But when she is in a frozen state, the guests will still glance at her face, and the lipstick with a dark gold sheen will be particularly obvious under the light.
The most noteworthy part of Qin Hongliang's face is probably her round and sexy lips.
In this way, Qin Hongliang chose a bright red lipstick with a dark gold sheen for multiple considerations.
Based on these speculations, it can be basically confirmed that Qin Hongliang would not apply a pink lipstick that does not match her skin tone at all and does not look good when dancing, whether for professional considerations or daily considerations. But
the lip print left on the cup on the table that was most likely used by a customer found by the Forensic Science Department is pink.
Brother Da Guangming has confirmed that the deceased Zhao Meini's makeup box and bag did not have this color of lipstick. It was initially determined that it was left by the murderer, but it was a pity that no DNA could be extracted from the lipstick.
No wonder Qin Hongliang only touched the cup. One reason was because he was worried about leaving DNA, and the other was to leave one more piece of evidence pointing to Clara - the lipstick color left on the cup was exactly the same as the one Clara put on today.
Before Qin Hongliang set out to the deceased Zhao Meini's house, he had already thought about killing Zhao Meini and framing Clara, so he put on Clara's lipstick in advance.
As a roommate, it was too easy to get Clara's hair, lipstick, an earring, etc.!
Trap! It was all a trap!
How meticulous was Qin Hongliang's mind? !
Clenching her fists, Jiayi handed Clara a tissue while she was crying.
After the other party wiped away her tears, Jiayi reached out to take the paper, and took the opportunity to gently pass the paper forward, which happened to rub a piece of lipstick on the corner of Clara's mouth. After
saying "sorry" and taking the paper back, Jiayi folded it and hid it calmly.
……
……
After the four detectives left Clara's house, they met up with Uncle Jiu and the other two in the parking lot.
Under the night, everyone suddenly became a little silent.
"How is it? Did you find a breakthrough from Clara?" Uncle Jiu yawned and asked lazily.
"……" Fu shook his head, looking a little frustrated.
The detective should avoid being emotional. He felt that he might not be fair and calm today. When he goes back home at night, he must reflect on himself and review it with Brother Yue tomorrow.
"Okay, let's leave it at that for today. Everyone go back and have a good sleep, and don't think about the case for now. Let's check the information tomorrow and get the latest reports from the Forensic Department and the Forensic Science Department, and then we'll talk again." Fang Zhenyue said, and then turned to Uncle Jiu and said,
"Uncle Jiu, go back first, I'll take the others home one by one."
Everyone got on Father Fang's big jeep, and Jiayi said,
"Brother Yue, I want to go back to the police station first."
"Why do you want to go back too?" Fang Zhenyue raised his eyebrows.
"Also?" Jiayi also raised her eyebrows like him.
"I found a reddish-brown hair with a hair follicle in Clara's house. It can be sent to the Forensic Department for DNA testing. I'm going to go back to the police station, put it in an evidence bag, and send it to the laboratory for preservation." Fang Zhenyue said, then thought for a moment and added: "Of course, this evidence collection is absolutely legal. I found it in the trash can, I didn't steal it."
"Ah..." Jiayi turned her head and looked at Liu Jiaming, who was at a loss, then smiled with some pride and said: "What a coincidence, I also got something that Clara didn't want, and it was also legal evidence collection."
Fang Zhenyue, who was sitting in the driver's seat, and Fu Qi, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned around, and Gary and Liu Jiaming also raised their eyebrows and looked over.
"What is it?"
"A tissue with Clara's lipstick on it. I don't know if saliva can be detected, but at least it can be chemically compared with the lipstick marks on the guest's cup found at the crime scene." Jiayi wanted to know if her inference was correct.
Did Clara's lipstick marks and the lipstick marks on the cup found at the crime scene come from the same tube of lipstick?
If the answer is 'yes', then her bold imagination of Qin Hongliang can be basically verified, and it is probably correct.
"Hahahaha, not bad, everyone returns with a full load." Fang Zhenyue laughed after hearing this, and his mood was uplifted.
"!" Fu.
"!" Gary.
"!" Liu Jiaming.
People were in tears, wishing they could turn back immediately and go back to Clara's house to steal something.
As a result, not only Fang Zhenyue and Jiayi went back to the police station, but Fu, Gary, and Liu Jiaming all followed them back.
You Zhaohua, who was also working overtime, saw the five people and couldn't help but sighed, "They are all destined to be single," and then left sleepily.
"..." Five people.
On the way to the Forensic Department to store evidence, everyone chatted about the case.
"I don't think Clara can escape. There are a lot of evidences left. No matter how she pretends, she can't escape the law." Liu Jiaming said.
"Do you think Clara is the murderer?" Fu turned around and asked.
"What's there to think or not, it's obvious." Liu Jiaming said very confidently.
"..." Fu seemed a little hesitant.
All the evidence clearly points to Clara as the murderer, but his own judgment is somewhat contradictory. He thought for a while, then sighed:
"Sure enough, the most successful hunters often appear as prey. This Clara seems to be ordinary, and it seems that she is also a hidden hunter."
"Humans are very good at lying. In front of her guests, no matter how much Clara hates them, she has to act like she likes and admires them. No matter how much she hates those men, she has to act climax and happiness. After staying in such an environment for a few years, even the most dull person will learn to act." Gary also expressed his opinion.
"Yes, investigating a case depends on evidence. Everything points to Clara. Even if it seems impossible, it can only be the only answer." Liu Jiaming nodded vigorously:
"We all say that one environmental evidence is more useful than ten witnesses. That's what I mean.
"Evidence doesn't lie, but people do."
Jiayi listened to this and said silently in her heart: Yes, people can lie. If the evidence is left behind intentionally, then this evidence is lying on behalf of humans.
"Yes." Fu nodded, finally broke free from his hesitation, and nodded with a smile: "In the face of evidence and evidence, all the truth will surface."
"However, it should still be difficult to send the case to the Department of Justice based on these evidences. "Liu Jiaming looked at Fang Zhenyue who was sorting the evidence in front, and whispered: "With Brother Yue's style, he will definitely get Clara's confession to make this case flawless and impossible to be refuted before he will propose a motion."
"Yes, otherwise, based on the legal spirit of giving the benefit of the doubt to the defendant, the trial result will indeed be very risky. "Fu nodded.
Liu Jiaming patted Brother Fu on the shoulder to show his agreement.
At the evidence bag collection point in front, Fang Zhenyue carefully packed the hair tucked in the newspaper like an evidence bag. Jiayi also took out tissue paper, folded it, packed it carefully, and then put it together in the constant temperature storage cabinet in the laboratory.
In this way, we can call the Forensic Department tomorrow morning and tell them which case's evidence is placed in cabinet number X, and ask them to test it urgently.
After everything was done, Fang Zhenyue strode to the main entrance of the police station. Fu was puzzled: "Brother Yue, don't you want to work overtime?"
"I said no overtime, I'm just coming back to deliver evidence. Why do the three of you have to follow? It's as if Detective Yi Jiayi and I would discuss the case behind your back. It's this late, I'm so tired, go home! ”
“…” Because they didn’t ‘steal’ any evidence, the guilty individuals breathed a sigh of relief.
Coming back empty-handed was embarrassing enough, but if the eldest brother and the eleventh child came back to work overtime and they went home to sleep, that would be too unmotivated.
Fortunately, Brother Yue and Jiayi were not really such workaholics, so everyone could go home and sleep peacefully.
...
But in fact, when Fu and others fell asleep, Fang Zhenyue was recording the information collected today at Clara's house on a larger whiteboard in his living room, repeatedly doing psychological analysis of Clara's expressions and reactions.
Why is she angry? Why is she crying?
What is the deep logic behind her every behavior?
Why is this person so impeccable? She obviously doesn't look like the kind of person who likes to think carefully, have strategies and quick wits.
After drawing the analysis icon of this character, he returned to all the evidence that initially inferred Clara as a suspect and began to question these clues:
hair, photos, perfume, lipstick marks and earrings.
…
A few kilometers away, Jiayi also did not sleep.
In order not to disturb her sister Jiaru's sleep, she went to the living room, spread out paper and pen on the dining table, and began to reorganize all the information and logic.
Spreading out the papers, she gradually spread out all the phrases she had collected on them, and then connected and analyzed them, trying to connect the deceased and Qin Hongliang.
It was difficult to find out that this woman did not leave any traces, and no motive for the crime has been found so far.
Today is Brother Fu's day to visit Daliyuan and the neighbors of the deceased and Qin Hongliang. Everyone does not know that Qin Hongliang is the murderer, and it is very likely that no information about Qin Hongliang will be captured. , let alone asking questions proactively.
It seems that I have to go to these places in person tomorrow, re-interview and inquire, and dig out the motives of Qin Hongliang's crime.
Putting a question mark on this point as one of the next work goals, Jiayi returned to the origin of the case and began to think about whether there is any way to exclude Clara's suspicion of crime. Only when Clara is not suspicious, Brother Yue and others will focus more on finding new clues and new suspects.
It is easier to work with more people, and it will definitely be much easier for everyone to find together than for her to find it by herself.
But Qin Hongliang was calculating and Clara was unintentional, and it was completely hard to guard against.
Clara, this silly woman who only knows how to show off, has no idea how thoroughly she has been used by others.
There is no witness to the time, and her logic to prove that she could not have killed the victim Zhao Meini is not coherent. When Jiayi listened to her confession today, she despaired for her.
If she hadn't seen in the telepathic resonance that Clara was indeed not the murderer, it would be really difficult not to be led by Qin Hongliang.
Is it possible that in the end the detectives can't find any other evidence, and there are too many "hard evidences" pointing to Clara, so she will just hand her over to the Department of Justice as the murderer?
Jiayi didn't know, but she knew that as long as she was there, she would not let such a thing happen.
After secretly making up her mind, she focused more on recalling everything in the telepathic resonance, constantly recording suspicious information on a blank piece of paper, and then crossing out some and circling some after thinking.
After a round of thinking, she quietly returned to the bedroom to get the books she needed to assist her work. Seeing her little Jiaru sleeping soundly, she couldn't help but curl her lips.
In the busy work, it can be regarded as a kind of healing to see the happy sleeping faces of family members.
After quietly leaving the room, Jiayi sat back at the dining table, spread out the books, and began to search.
Jiayi summarized the content she needed:
1. Witnesses;
2. Motives for committing the crime;
3. Evidence;
4. Recreate the crime scene through reasoning and other methods;
5. The confession of the murderer.
With her head buried in the desk, Jiayi wrote these five items on paper, and then continued to fill in the five target items with the information she had extracted before.
At the same time, she called up her memory and tried to extract new information.
Soon, she captured new things to explore in her memory.
That was the low-frequency rumbling sound that Jiayi vaguely heard in the flow image before the murderer Qin Hongliang was about to leave.
Puzzled, she wrote this down on a piece of paper and decided to find out when she went to the crime scene to visit the neighbors in person tomorrow.
After being busy for an unknown period of time, she felt too sleepy to think efficiently, so she sorted out her notes and mind map and dragged her heavy body back to sleep.
But as soon as her head touched the pillow, the alarm rang.
She sat up and found that it was already dawn. Jiayi sighed and climbed out of the quilt with difficulty.
After eating a warm and delicious breakfast, Jiayi took her notes and mind map and rode her bicycle into the wind.
The wind blew from the sea, with a hint of saltiness, which was particularly refreshing.
When Jiayi arrived at the police station, she was already completely alert.
The first thing everyone did after arriving in the morning was to share information again and fill in the gaps.
When all the detectives from Group B finished speaking, the new round of test results from the Forensic Department came out:
1. The lipstick marks on the cup at the crime scene and the lipstick marks of Clara on the tissue were tested on an expedited basis, and it was determined that the chemicals contained were exactly the same.
2. The long brown-red hair that Fang Zhenyue picked up from the trash can at Clara's home was exactly the same in length and color as the hair found at the scene. The DNA needs to be sent to a professional department for testing, which takes a long time and requires waiting.
3. The dishwashing liquid from the victim Zhao Meini's home was used to wipe the floor at the crime scene. The murderer used local materials.
4. All the evidence collected has been re-collected many times, and there are no fingerprints of anyone other than the victim Zhao Meini...
Team B detectives then began to discuss the case based on the existing clues and evidence.
Except for Fang Zhenyue who did not express his attitude and Jiayi who remained silent, everyone pointed the finger at Clara.
"Then Uncle Jiu and Jiayi will go to the home of the victim Zhao Meini's sister Zhao Meizhi this morning to see if Zhao Meizhi can be ruled out as a suspect.
"Fu called Clara and asked her to come to the police station to cooperate and give another statement.
"Jia Ming and Gary, take the address that Sister Yun gave you yesterday, and visit all the common friends of the deceased Zhao Mei Ni and Calra, and then dig deeper to see if there is a deeper motive for the murder, and look for new clues."
Fang Zhenyue began to give instructions one by one.
Usually at this time, Jia Yi is the most obedient and the first to respond, but today she was completely abnormal.
Not only did she not respond, but she stood up straight and said to Fang Zhenyue:
"Sir Fang, I have a new idea that I want to report. Can you please listen to me before you leave?"