Chapter 54: Lies Presided Over the Interrogation
She flipped back and saw the entire notebook was almost filled with anatomical diagrams of every angle and every part of the body.
Shen Qingye frowned slightly and called out, "Captain Yue, Captain Qin, there are clues here."
Hearing this, the two people not far away looked at each other and strode over.
After Qin Yilang saw the contents of the book, he raised his eyebrows and said in surprise: "Wow, such a standard human anatomy diagram."
He looked at Shen Qingye: "Is this drawn by the little girl just now?"
Shen Qingye nodded: "Her name is written on it."
Qin Yilang crossed his arms over his chest: "Hiss... that's interesting."
Yue Lingchuan said: "According to Yang Xilan, she grabbed the knife in a panic and stabbed Li Jinguo. It was just that one stab, but it happened to hit him directly in the heart. It was too much of a coincidence."
Qin Yilang analyzed: "But if the real murderer is not her, but that little girl. She can draw such a standard human anatomy diagram, so she must be very familiar with the human body structure, so it is not impossible to kill her with one knife."
Luo Kaiyang nodded: "This explains why her statement has loopholes."
Wei Zhengyi scratched his head: "The question now is, was Ren Fangyao's murder premeditated or accidental?"
Shen Qingye was silent for a while. A senior high school student, a human anatomy diagram, and a girl... She always felt that this configuration seemed familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen or heard it.
She took a deep breath, glanced at the trash can beside her, and her eyes suddenly paused.
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She half squatted down, stared at the things in the trash can, and her eyes slowly narrowed.
Yue Lingchuan noticed her movements, lowered his eyes and asked, "What's wrong?"
Shen Qingye stepped aside and said, "There are apple cores and peels in the trash can."
Yue Lingchuan was stunned, then he quickly looked over and saw a long fruit core and several long strings of fruit peels in the trash can.
He called to the side, "Xiao Liu."
Liu Wenkang stepped forward immediately, picked up the core and peel with his gloved hands, looked at them carefully, raised his eyes and said, "Based on the oxidation of the remaining pulp, it is estimated that the pulp has been thrown into the trash can for about an hour."
Yue Lingchuan asked again: "What about the knife for peeling the fruit? Can you tell what type of knife it is?"
Liu Wenkang carefully observed the edge of the peel for a moment and said, "If I'm not mistaken, the knife used to peel the fruit should be the same model as the murder weapon in the living room."
When Shen Qingye heard this, he felt that it was as expected.
She looked around the room but didn't find a knife anywhere.
Zhou Qiming said, "That is to say, someone must have used a fruit knife to peel an apple in this room an hour ago. But according to Yang Xilan, she was buying vegetables at the market at that time, so Ren Fangyao was the only one in this room."
"But we didn't find the knife used to peel the apple in this room." Wei Zhengyi said, "So it is very likely that the murder weapon used by the murderer is the same fruit knife she used in this room."
"Then Yang Xilan is lying. She didn't touch the knife on the coffee table in the living room. She got the fruit knife here."
"There is one more thing." Qin Yilang added: "The moment Yang Xilan called the police, the local police station handed the case over to the team. It took almost half an hour for us to arrive. But I found that some small muscle groups on the deceased's body had begun to stiffen slowly."
He looked at everyone and said, "This situation usually occurs about an hour after death."
Luo Kaiyang pondered and said, "That is to say, the deceased had been dead for about half an hour before Yang Xilan called the police?"
Jiang Cheng thought for a moment and said, "Ren Fangyao goes to No. 1 Middle School. The school usually ends at 5 p.m. every day. But on Friday afternoons, due to routine cleaning, the school usually ends one class earlier. This place is not far from No. 1 Middle School. It takes about five minutes to get there by bike. Even if she walks, it will take her ten minutes to get home."
"That is to say, unless something unexpected happens and he's delayed, Ren Fangyao will be home around 4:10 at the latest."
Qin Yilang murmured, "If we push the time forward one hour from now... that is, it will be around 4:40. After Ren Fangyao returns home, she will have plenty of time to commit the crime. The fruit knife is also in her room, so we have the murder weapon."
Yue Lingchuan pondered for a moment and said to Liu Wenkang, "Please stay here and continue to check. When Xiao Zheng comes, check if there are any bloodstains on the ground, and if there are any signs of dragging on the road from the bedroom to the ground."
Liu Wenkang nodded and said, "Captain Yue, don't worry."
Yue Lingchuan looked at the people in Zhou Qiming's room again, then stood up and walked outside: "Let's go, take the people back first and interrogate them carefully."
Shen Qingye hurriedly said to Liu Wenkang: "Little Brother Liu, please help me take this notebook back later. I want to take a closer look to see if there are any clues in it."
Liu Wenkang would naturally agree.
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When we returned to the living room, Yang Xilan still looked nervous. When Yue Lingchuan said he would go with us, she immediately said in panic: "Police comrade, I, I, I killed someone accidentally, I didn't mean to..."
Yue Lingchuan said: "I know, but no matter what, you need to go back to the team with us and cooperate with further investigation. This is the procedure."
Yang Xilan paused after hearing this, looked at them, then looked at her daughter, and said in a sad voice: "Then, then Yaoyao doesn't have to go, right? This case has nothing to do with her, she didn't do anything."
Zhou Qiming was surprised and asked, "How could she not have done anything? Wasn't the case caused by her? She just went back to cooperate with the investigation. If she is really innocent, we will naturally clear her name. Why are you so nervous?"
Yang Xilan shook her head and forced a smile, "No, no, I'm just worried that she will feel bad after what happened, and the college entrance examination is coming soon..."
Yue Lingchuan said: "Tomorrow is the weekend, it won't affect her studies, don't worry."
Shen Qingye stepped forward and took out the handcuffs: "You two, come with us."
Yang Xilan looked at her daughter, looking somewhat helpless. Ren Fangyao calmly comforted her: "It's okay, Mom. We are just cooperating with the investigation. The police will clear our name."
She stretched out her hand, looked at Shen Qingye, and said, "Excuse me, police comrade."
The handcuffs opened and closed, and locked with a click.
Seeing her daughter's attitude, Yang Xilan didn't know what to say and could only cooperate actively.
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When I returned to the team, the sky had gradually darkened. Shen Qingye called her mother again and said that she had a case today and was not sure when she could go back. Shen Linyue did not say anything after hearing this, but just asked her to be careful.
Shen Qingye felt a little complicated for a moment.
On their way back, Liu Wenkang also got the luminol reagent. Experiments have shown that there were indeed large bloodstains on the clean ground. All the way from the bedroom to the living room, the bloodstains showed an obvious dragging shape.
Yue Lingchuan put away his phone and looked at the backs of the mother and daughter who were taken to the interrogation room, his eyes heavy.
After everyone had sorted out the evidence, Yue Lingchuan opened the door of the interrogation room and began the first round of interrogation.
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The lights in the interrogation room were dim. Yang Xilan looked at the three people sitting in front of her and swallowed her saliva: "Police, police comrades..."
Shen Qingye said: "Don't be nervous, there are just a few more questions, just cooperate honestly."
Yang Xilan nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes, yes, go ahead, go ahead."
Before the interrogation began, Yue Lingchuan said that he intended to let her preside over it. Shen Qingye was very surprised at the time, and Yue Lingchuan just asked her: "Why, no?"
Shen Qingye nodded vigorously: "Okay!"
She had participated in several interrogations before and was familiar with the relevant procedures. She participated in this case throughout the whole process, so she was naturally full of confidence.
She was grateful to Yue Lingchuan for giving her the opportunity to train, and she also wanted to complete the interrogation as perfectly as possible.
Shen Qingye's mind was full of thoughts, but her face was exceptionally calm. She flipped through the transcript and said, "Regarding your previous confession, I have a few questions. Please answer them honestly."
She raised her eyes to look at Yang Xilan, her gaze as calm as the abyss: "You said that you were beaten by Li Jinguo and sat on the ground curled up, and in a panic you found a knife on the table behind you, and finally held the knife in your backhand and stabbed. Are you sure this is true?"
Yang Xilan said: "Sure, sure."
Shen Qingye asked: "Nothing to add?"
Yang Xilan thought hard and shook her head, "No more."
Shen Qingye put down the notes: "Well, then please tell me, you said you were holding the knife with your backhand when you killed someone, why did we find from the marks on the murder weapon and the wounds on the body that the murderer was holding the knife with his backhand?"
Yang Xilan was stunned: "W-what? What forehand, what backhand?"
"You said you held the knife like this," Shen Qingye held the pen, pointed his thumb at the tip of the pen, and demonstrated to her, "If the knife is stabbed into the body in this position, the wound will be from bottom to top. But we found that the wound on the body was from top to bottom, which is completely opposite to what you said."
She put down her pen and looked at her solemnly: "How do you want to explain this?"
Yang Xilan's eyes flickered, and she kept licking her dry lips: "This, this, I, I may have remembered it wrongly! Yes, yes, I remembered it wrongly, I didn't stab it with my backhand, yes, I remember it now, I was holding a knife in my hand at that time, and I stabbed it like this, like this!" Her hands moved in panic: "I was too nervous and scared at that time, so I remembered it wrongly, I remembered it wrongly."
Shen Qingye: "That is to say, after you took the knife from the table, you stabbed it into Li Jinguo's heart while holding it in your hand."
Yang Xilan kept nodding: "Yes, yes, yes!"
Shen Qingye nodded: "Okay, I have another question."
"When did you go out to buy groceries?"
Yang Xilan was stunned. She didn't expect that she would suddenly ask herself such an irrelevant question. She felt much more relaxed and said, "I went out at... around four o'clock, when Yaoyao just came back from school. Probably, it was around four fifteen."
Shen Qingye asked: "After Ren Fangyao came back, you left immediately? You didn't do anything else? You didn't let her eat some fruit or anything?"
"Yes, yes! I knew she got out of school early today, so I washed some apples and pears for her in advance and let her eat them herself when she came back."
Shen Qingye asked: "Apples and pears? Did you peel them for her?"
Yang Xilan shook her head: "No, I was in a hurry to go out to buy groceries, it should be her who did it--" Her voice stopped abruptly when she said this.
Shen Qingye slowly leaned back in the chair: "She peeled it herself, right?"
Yang Xilan blinked rapidly: "Should, should be."
"So where did she peel the fruit? In the living room or in her bedroom?"
Yang Xilan's voice was dry: "Maybe in... the living room?"
"Are you sure? Then how did we find the peeled fruit in the trash can in Ren Fangyao's room?"
Yang Xilan said something without thinking: "I, I, we have two fruit knives at home! Yaoyao used the other one!"
"Where's the knife? We didn't find the other knife in her room."
"Another knife, another knife..." Yang Xilan was flustered and tried hard to think of an excuse. Shen Qingye slammed the table and said sternly, "Yang Xilan, at this point, you still want to quibble?"
"We have already found out that there is a large bloodstain on the floor of Ren Fangyao's room that was wiped clean. And there are also obvious signs of dragging from her room to the living room!"
"You didn't kill him in the living room. He died in the bedroom!"
Yang Xilan shrank her neck, her heart beating like a drum, and her hands on the table were shaking. She racked her brains to come up with an excuse: "Yes, yes, he didn't die in the living room, he died, died in the distant room.
She forced herself to calm down: "When I came back, I saw him assaulting Yaoyao. I got excited and took the vase and threw it at him. But he just shook it and nothing happened. He punched and kicked me instead."
"He pushed me to Yaoyao's desk. In a panic, I touched the knife Yaoyao used to peel fruit, and I stabbed her subconsciously."
"After that, I was afraid that you would suspect Yaoyao, so I dragged him outside, cleaned up the blood on the ground, and pretended that I killed him in the living room, and then called the police and turned myself in..."
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