Chapter 213 Is this the villain in the world of criminal investigation novels?
The word "fingerprint" was spoken lightly by the person who said it, but it was deafening to the ears of the person who heard it. Guan Xia seemed to hear the sound of her own heart beating very fast.
Guan Xia instinctively looked at Xu Nian and saw that the expressions of the people sitting opposite him were similar. Some were ecstatic, while others were so excited that their expressions were a little distorted. Especially the most lively Qi Bai and Zhong Xiaoyu, they couldn't help but clap their hands excitedly. It turned out that Qi Bai raised his injured arm, and as a result, he hissed in pain.
"That's great news," Wang Yu said with rare joy. "I remember Captain Xu saying the suspect had been brought to the Jianyang City Police Station. I suppose the fingerprints and biological samples have been collected without incident. If they match, then the case is almost half solved."
Guan Xia couldn't hide her excitement. She looked at Captain Chen and asked, "Captain Chen, has this fingerprint been entered into the database?"
Captain Chen was a little confused, but seeing their expressions, he understood something. He grinned and said, "It's in the database. As soon as the database was built a few years ago, the provincial department sent a team of experts to monitor us. It took almost two years to enter all the relevant evidence from the unsolved cases into the database."
Guan Xia's heart skipped a beat when she heard this, and she asked, "Captain Chen, have you reopened this case? Have you run any databases across the country since then?"
Captain Chen said, "We've done it before, more than once. Each time, we held high hopes, but we never found a match. Including this time you've reopened the case, it's been reopened seven times now. Thankfully, this time, there's actually good news."
Captain Chen hesitated for a moment before asking curiously, "I just heard you've already identified the suspect. This case happened over thirty years ago, with no surveillance footage and no witnesses. How did you confirm this? Is he from Quming City? Or is he a vagrant?"
Since it involved confidentiality, Guan Xia didn't know whether she should say it or not, so she avoided Captain Chen's gaze and looked at Xu Nian.
Xu Nian immediately spoke up and said, "It's not a roving crime. We can't reveal the specific person because we only suspect him and don't have any solid evidence. So, we can't reveal it until the fingerprints are matched."
Although the answer was only a few words, it satisfied Captain Chen's most pressing question. He smiled and nodded, saying, "I understand. That's all I need to know. So, shall we continue the meeting? Or should you go back and rest until the fingerprint results come back?"
This time, Captain Chen looked at Xu Nian, thinking that he was the one in charge, but Xu Nian looked at Guan Xia inquiringly.
Guan Xia thought for a few seconds and said, "Since everyone is here, let's get all the information related to the case before going to rest."
Guan Xia made the decision, and naturally no one else would object. Xu Nian looked at Captain Chen and said, "Then I'll trouble you, Captain Chen."
Captain Chen looked at Xu Nian and then at Guan Xia with some curiosity, as if he was a little confused about what was going on between the two people. However, he was only curious for a second, and then he distributed the information he had sorted out to everyone with great professionalism.
Captain Chen said, "The evidence we found during the investigation was quite substantial. You can see the photos. We not only found a very valuable blood fingerprint, but also the murder weapon and the raincoat the murderer was wearing. We discovered these two important pieces of evidence in an unplanned garbage dump two kilometers from the crime scene."
Guan Xia looked at the yellowed and blurry photo in her hand and asked in confusion, "Is it not a designated garbage dump?"
Captain Chen looked at Guan Xia and explained, "It's a place nearby residents chose for convenience. Because it's not part of the planned area, no one cleans it up. Over the years, it's been littered and has become stinking. Even if someone does throw garbage in, they do so far away, over the wall, without checking closely. Perhaps because of this, the murderer chose this as the place to dispose of the murder weapon."
Guan Xia nodded as he listened, "Judging from this, the murderer is extremely familiar with the environment near the crime scene."
Guan Xia recalled the life story of Wu Yang that Xu Nian and the others had found out. He was sent to the Quming City Children's Welfare Institute when he was six years old. Because he was smart and precocious, his days in the orphanage were not too difficult. He was bullied because of his background in elementary school, but as he grew up, his academic performance was very outstanding, and he soon became a favorite of teachers and school leaders.
He was a day student in junior high school and also in high school. Normally, day students would be strictly supervised by both the school and his family, but because Wu Yang's grades were so good and he was a very low-key person who seemed to be oblivious to the world outside and focused on reading the books of sages, both sides did not pay much attention to him and gave him a high degree of freedom. In other words, in six years, he had every opportunity to become familiar with any place that interested him.
Guan Xia came back to her senses at this point, and heard Captain Chen say, "We thought of this at the time, too. We subsequently organized a large number of personnel to conduct interviews and investigations, and we did identify several suspects with motives for murder. However, in the end, we could only find alibis for the day of the crime, and the case ultimately became a backlog."
Pang Le suddenly asked, "Captain Chen, did you try to start with the deceased's daughter?"
Captain Chen nodded and said, "We considered investigating, but the deceased's daughter was a stubborn, hardworking girl who only wanted to study and get away from home. We thoroughly investigated her circle of friends, but nothing suspicious was found. After all, she had very few friends, and no one she could confide in, let alone someone who would kill for her. We checked anyone who had even the slightest connection with her at the time, and the result was that everyone had an alibi for the day of the crime."
Guan Xia sighed inwardly after hearing this. In fact, the direction of the investigation that Captain Chen and his team had taken at the time was already very detailed and comprehensive. If it was an ordinary homicide, the murderer would definitely not be able to escape. However, the murderer was really extraordinary. No matter how they screened the net, Wu Yang would be outside the net according to the conditions. Unless fingerprints and DNA were collected from all the students in the school where the deceased's daughter was studying, he would definitely not be found.
Guan Xia was flipping through the documents, trying to find Wu Yang's motive for murder. When she saw the words on a certain page, she stopped abruptly. That page recorded a series of conflicts between the deceased and his daughter from childhood to adulthood.
The deceased was named Sun Yanghui, and his daughter was named Sun Xiuxiu. Because Sun Yanghui favored boys over girls, Sun Xiuxiu had never had a good day since she was born. When she was just born, Sun Yanghui almost drowned her because she was a girl. In the end, Sun Xiuxiu's mother, who had just given birth, held on with all her strength and snatched her daughter away. For this, she was severely beaten by Sun Yanghui.
Ever since Sun Xiuxiu could walk, she was ordered by Sun Yanghui to do all kinds of work. Her mother felt sorry for her, but because she had no formal job and would be beaten if she disobeyed Sun Yanghui, she only dared to take care of her daughter more in private. As long as Sun Xiuxiu was not beaten, she would not say much. This kind of life continued until Sun Xiuxiu's younger brother was born. With a son in the family, Sun Yanghui seemed to finally have hope and started to work harder.
Now that the family had money, Sun Xiuxiu was able to go to school. Of course, it was not because Sun Yanghui suddenly became kind-hearted, but because Sun Xiuxiu's mother was illiterate, and Sun Yanghui had to go out to make money. He was afraid that his son would also be illiterate in the future. In order to let Sun Xiuxiu teach her younger brother, he was merciful and let her go to school.
Sun Xiuxiu also seized this opportunity. She squeezed every bit of time, day after day. Although Sun Yanghui was not a good person, she never let her grades drop and always ranked among the best.
Sun Yanghui gained face because of his daughter's good grades, which made him a little more tolerant towards Sun Xiuxiu. However, the good times did not last long. When Sun Xiuxiu was in the second grade of junior high school, Sun Yanghui became addicted to gambling, and the family became penniless again. Originally, Sun Yanghui wanted to let Sun Xiuxiu drop out of school to work, but both the neighbors and the teachers and leaders of the school persuaded him that the child would be able to better repay him after she had a promising future. What's more, Sun Xiuxiu had good grades and received rewards from the school. This was real money she would bring home every semester, perhaps more than what Sun Xiuxiu could earn by working. Sun Yanghui was coaxed by people from all sides and finally gave up the idea.
But when Sun Xiuxiu was in high school, a bad friend that Sun Yanghui met from somewhere took a fancy to Sun Xiuxiu. The friend gave Sun Yanghui some advice, saying that Sun Xiuxiu had a bad temper and held a grudge. If she was given the chance to fly away, she would never be caught again. He advised him to control Sun Xiuxiu while he could still, and it would be best to pin her to death and tie her to his side forever, otherwise even if his daughter became successful, she would not get any benefits.
Sun Yanghui may have always had this worry in his heart, and he decided without much hesitation that he would prevent his daughter from taking the college entrance examination. His bad friend gave him another idea, saying that the college entrance examination results were related to the political achievements of the school leaders. Unless there was force majeure, even if he locked Sun Xiuxiu at home on the day of the college entrance examination, there would be teachers and police to rescue her. What was force majeure? It meant that even if Sun Xiuxiu sat in the examination room, she would not be able to get high scores.
Sun Yanghui was tempted. After much deliberation, he decided to break his daughter's right hand on the eve of the college entrance examination. In this way, even if she temporarily switched to using her left hand to take the exam, it would be difficult for her to complete the exam within the specified time because it was not her usual hand and she was under time pressure.
Of course, Sun Yanghui was unable to carry out all these plans, because just one week before the college entrance examination, Sun Yanghui died near an abandoned construction site not far from his home.
Guan Xia read this information over and over again, and recalled the cases of Zhang Weiyan, Wang Huiqin, Lu Manqing and Yao Qingyan that he had previously investigated. An idea gradually formed in his mind.
Guan Xia was reading it intently when Pang Le, who was sitting next to her, suddenly came over to take a look and said, "You've seen this page too? It seems like you've thought of what I've thought of. The suspect's motive for killing Sun Yanghui was this Sun Xiuxiu."
As soon as these words were spoken, Captain Chen looked over and asked in confusion, "What do you mean? Is the suspect a friend of Sun Xiuxiu? That's unlikely. We checked everything at the time. Could it be someone who hasn't spoken to Sun Xiuxiu but has always had a crush on her?"
Captain Chen frowned and said, "That's not right. We considered this at the time, but after searching, we did find a few people who had a crush on Sun Xiuxiu, but they all had alibis. Could it be that we missed someone? Someone from another school?"
Captain Chen's thoughts went further and further away. Guan Xia didn't say anything, but she guessed in her heart that the reason why Wu Yang killed Sun Yanghui might be because he had a mentality of saving him, or maybe he couldn't bear to see Sun Xiuxiu's good life being ruined, but it was definitely not because he had feelings for Sun Xiuxiu. After all, it was hard for Guan Xia to imagine who he would fall in love with, and once a person like him really fell in love with someone, there was no way he would not get her.
So Guan Xia thought about it and felt that the most likely possibility was that he had heard something from somewhere, just like Zhang Hongda's family was killed five years ago to avenge Zhang Weiyan, Lu Manqing's uncle was killed when he was a teenager to avenge his sister, and Sun Yanghui was killed in a disguised way to avenge Sun Xiuxiu.
Of course, revenge is only one aspect, and the other aspect is salvation. After all, if Sun Yanghui's plan was really successful, Sun Xiuxiu's life would be completely ruined. She had such good grades and should have had a very beautiful life, but if her right hand was broken on the eve of the college entrance examination, she would be trapped in the place where she grew up, trapped by Sun Yanghui's side, and would change from a shining person to a dim soul struggling in pain all the time.
Guan Xia's emotions suddenly became indescribably complicated when she thought of this. If her suspicions were true, then even if Wu Yang had killed someone, he wouldn't have been a completely bad guy in the beginning. But now, more than thirty years later, he'd truly become a villain. Was this the villain of the criminal investigation world? While she wished he were dead, she also felt a little sad and regretful.
Guan Xia only sighed inwardly, then quickly pulled herself together and asked Captain Chen, "By the way, Captain Chen, when this case was reopened, did you contact Sun Xiuxiu again? How is she now?"
Captain Chen glanced at Guan Xia with some surprise before saying, "I've been in touch. She's doing well. She worked for others a few years ago, but later started her own business. I heard she lives in a villa and has bodyguards. We even lamented when we talked about it later. Although Sun Yanghui's death was regrettable, Sun Xiuxiu's successful college entrance examination was also a blessing. She was a good child and deserved such a good life."
Guan Xia's recent heavy mood has finally improved a little, which is indeed good news.
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