Chapter 189: Digging up the body
It took from morning to afternoon before Team Qin finally got some results.
"After we cleaned the dirt off the hairband, we found a few dark, faint yellow marks on it. I asked the trace inspection team to come over and help us confirm that the marks were, if nothing unexpected happened, semen stains."
Shen Qingye was delighted when he heard this and asked hurriedly, "Can we extract DNA from it to confirm the identity of the murderer?"
Captain Qin shook his head: "Difficult."
"Generally, if similar traces are well preserved, useful information may be extracted from them after a few years. However, this thing has been buried in the soil for a long time, exposed to the sun and rain, and has suffered too much pollution, especially for a long time. So far, we have not found any information that can verify the identity of the murderer."
Shen Qingye was silent for a moment. Yue Lingchuan tapped the back of his hand with his fingers and said in a deep voice: "What we can be sure of now is that there are semen stains on it, right?"
Captain Qin nodded: "The hairband itself is white, which is quite obvious. The people from the trace inspection team and I can confirm this."
Yue Lingchuan nodded: "Okay, I understand."
Sometimes evidence is important, but the police's interrogation skills are equally important.
As for an old man, Yue Lingchuan didn’t believe that he couldn’t grind it out.
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As expected, the trial did not go smoothly at the beginning.
In response to everything they said, Li Youliang just shook his head and said he had no idea. But Shen Qingye could see his guilty conscience from his unconsciously contracted pupils, slightly trembling fingers and Adam's apple that kept rolling up and down, and became more certain about their guess.
No matter how Yue Lingchuan interrogated him, Li Youliang refused to speak, claiming that he knew Lin Manman but had never had any contact with her.
After all, he also knew that peeping at women taking a bath was not actually serious. Even in Deng Hailong's case, it can be said that he acted in excessive self-defense. In the end, even if he is investigated, the worst that can happen is a few years in prison.
But Lin Manman’s case is different.
If he admitted that he raped and then killed her, it would be hard to say whether he would survive.
Therefore, cold sweat broke out on his forehead and his teeth chattered, but he refused to accept the statement he didn't know.
Yue Lingchuan was not surprised at all. He just squinted his eyes and tapped the table with his fingers from time to time.
"Boom, boom, boom," a dull sound echoed in the interrogation room. Li Youliang's heart was beating fast and he felt it was difficult to breathe.
Shen Qingye spoke.
She smiled and said, "Don't be nervous."
"You're so nervous, it's hard not to make us suspicious."
Li Youliang forced a twitch of his lips: "I, I'm just a little scared."
He wiped his sweat and said, "I really don't dare to kill someone, police comrade. If Deng Hailong hadn't come here last time, I wouldn't have dared to do it either."
Shen Qingye smiled gently: "I understand."
"Don't worry, we're just chatting, don't worry."
Li Youliang looked at her smiling face and soft expression, and he couldn't help but feel relieved. He was not as tense towards this policewoman as he was towards Yue Lingchuan. "Comrade police, what do you want to talk about?"
Shen Qingye thought for a moment and said, "Let's just talk about...how you killed Lin Manman."
Li Youliang's face suddenly froze.
Shen Qingye said slowly: "Let me think about it... You have been blind since you were a child. Although you may be able to move around normally, in the eyes of others, you may be a useless person. So when you get older, no one will be willing to marry their daughter to you, right?"
Li Youliang clenched his teeth and breathed heavily: "What do you mean?"
Shen Qingye ignored him and continued, "Especially after your parents passed away, no one wanted to be with you. After such a long time, you must feel depressed, but there is nothing you can do. You can only repeat boring days day after day... until you find that you can see with your eyes."
She looked at Li Youliang and smiled even more: "You'll find that even if you watch them bathe in front of them, they won't mind."
“You become addicted to days like this.”
"But just watching is not enough? You are getting more and more dissatisfied, but you dare not take action because they are all from the village."
"And at this time, Manman appeared."
She looked at Li Youliang's twinkling eyes, listened to his heavier breathing, and continued: "A girl from another place, a girl who is not familiar with this village... What a great temptation this is."
She pointed at her chin and said with a smile, "Let me guess... You like to peek at the women in the village taking a bath, so have you ever peeked at Manman taking a bath?"
Li Youliang swallowed a mouthful of saliva, Shen Qingye said "oh" in a long voice, and nodded in understanding: "It seems that he has peeked."
Li Youliang's expression became more and more rigid. Shen Qingye continued, "What was her expression at that time? Disgusted? Fearful? Or indifferent?"
"I—" Li Youliang's dry and chapped lips moved for a moment, and Shen Qingye interrupted him directly: "No matter what her reaction was, you obviously noticed her."
"That afternoon, she went to the store to buy salt, and you happened to see her."
"Li Youliang, did you do this on impulse? Or did you have a plan in advance?"
Li Youliang gasped for breath: "I said, I didn't--"
"You dragged her into the nearby woods."
"At the time, no one was living in the two houses nearby, and the other villagers were not outside. She was a little girl, so she had no room to struggle. You easily dragged her into the nearby woods."
"She struggled desperately, but you covered her mouth and pinched her neck so that she couldn't make any sound."
"You watched her struggle and beg until she finally fell into despair."
Li Youliang's chest rose and fell faster and faster, his breathing became more and more rapid, his eyes were red, and his whole face looked a little hideous. But all the reactions suddenly calmed down after Shen Qingye said the following sentence:
"Then, you were afraid she would tell others about it, so you killed her."
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Youliang's shoulders suddenly relaxed.
He instantly relaxed from his previous tense state.
No, it's not.
No, he didn't think of killing her at first. She guessed wrong, she guessed wrong!
Li Youliang's mind and emotions had long been completely controlled by Shen Qingye. He listened to her narrating what happened that year bit by bit, with such accuracy and certainty, as if she had seen it with her own eyes, and his heart couldn't help but become more and more flustered.
But at this moment, she was wrong, she guessed wrong.
Li Youliang suddenly relaxed.
Haha, she didn't know at all, she was just lucky, she guessed wrong, she had no evidence -
Li Youliang didn't know that his facial expression had already exposed his emotions. Shen Qingye looked at his unconsciously relaxed brows and loose facial muscles, and slowly laughed out loud:
"Oh, no, I said it wrong."
"You didn't intend to kill her."
Li Youliang raised his eyes suddenly. Shen Qingye tapped the table with one hand and said slowly, "You didn't want to kill her. Why? Because of your remaining conscience? No, obviously not."
Shen Qingye held his chin up, as if thinking for a moment, and suddenly said in surprise: "Ah, I figured it out!"
Her eyes lit up, and as Li Youliang stared at her intently, she said, "You don't want to kill her because you are not satisfied with that one time."
"You threatened her, demanded that she be obedient, that she come here regularly in the future, and that she cooperate with your brutal assault!"
"You're betting that she won't dare to tell anyone about this, she won't dare to tell her family!"
"You want to continue like this, continue to bully that poor girl——"
"But you didn't expect that she has a hot temper."
Shen Qingye slowed down his tone: "She disagreed, and then, she hurt you, right?"
Li Youliang's wrinkled face trembled violently, and Shen Qingye smiled happily: "It seems that I was right."
"You covered her mouth, she couldn't move or speak, so how did she hurt you?"
"She bit you?"
"Oh, no."
"She kicked you? Not really."
"Did she hit you with her hand? No."
"I see, she hit you with her head."
Shen Qingye's cold eyes no longer smiled, and he looked at him coldly: "She bumped into you, so you got angry and grabbed her neck and strangled her to death!"
Li Youliang seemed to be stimulated by her expression, and it seemed that her words had exposed her last layer of disguise. He stood up suddenly and roared with a ferocious look: "No, I didn't!"
"I said I didn't!"
"I don't know her at all, I don't know anything, I don't know--"
"No, you know!"
Shen Qingye pressed the table, his tone cold and sharp, crushing his psychological defenses from a superior perspective: "You killed her, and you still have to deal with the body, where did you hide her?"
"In the woods? Behind the slope?"
"No, neither!"
"You hid her in a grave!"
"You were so skilled in handling Deng Hailong's body because you had experience. You knew that hiding a person in a grave would be the least likely to arouse suspicion!"
"Behind the woodland is your family's ancestral grave."
Shen Qingye looked at him, and suddenly calmed down again, and his tone gradually slowed down and became gentle: "Where did you hide Lin Manman?"
Li Youliang looked at her, veins popped out on his forehead and his lips trembled.
"In your grandparents' grave? No, that wouldn't happen. Your grandparents died early and you weren't close to them. You wouldn't dare."
"That's where your parents are buried."
"Is it your father or your mother?"
Shen Qingye sat down slowly, leaned back in his chair, raised his chin, lowered his eyes, and looked confident of victory:
"Your father was relatively strict with you. Whenever you made a mistake since you were a child, your father would punish you severely. But your mother was much gentler."
"So, even if they are dead, you still feel that your father will blame you, and your mother will protect you for no reason."
"Lin Manman, you hid her in your mother's grave, right?"
Li Youliang clenched his teeth and spoke each word in a hoarse and unpleasant voice: "I - don't - know -"
After hearing this, Yue Lingchuan laughed.
"Li Youliang, you don't think that we are interrogating you here because we really don't have any evidence against you, do you?"
Under Li Youliang's trembling gaze, he slowly raised a transparent evidence bag on the table and shook it at him: "Do you remember this?"
Li Youliang squinted his eyes and looked at it, his heart pounding.
Yue Lingchuan: "It doesn't matter if you don't remember. I'll tell you."
"This is Manman's hairband. We found it in the woods."
"Perhaps you have forgotten how you buried it in the soil when you first found it."
"But it doesn't matter, we found it now."
"Not only that, guess what we found up there?"
Yue Lingchuan smiled slightly: "We found a man's semen stain on it."
Li Youliang's breath was choked.
Yue Lingchuan said patiently: "You may think, it's just a semen stain, what can it do?"
"I'm telling you now, we can definitely use this semen stain to extract the DNA from it."
"Then match this DNA with your information to finally determine the murderer's identity."
"Of course, it just takes a little time."
Yue Lingchuan was at ease: "Li Youliang, when do you think the matching report will be available?"
"Or, guess how long it will take for our people to dig out the body from your mother's grave?"
Li Youliang stared at them for a long time. Finally, he couldn't bear it anymore. His legs went limp and he slumped down in the chair.
He seemed to have aged dozens of years in an instant. He trembled for a long time and finally spoke:
"I said..."
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