Chapter 76 This criminal suspect is a bit amazing
Even though it was late at night and there was still a strong wind outside, as Ye Xi made a few phone calls, the victims, former students of Teacher Jiang, soon arrived one after another. What surprised everyone was that these students were all girls without exception.
They were of different ages. The oldest one looked to be in his thirties, as if he had just rushed over from a formal event, and was still wearing a suit that he had not had time to change out of. The youngest one looked to be in his early twenties, as if he had just graduated from college. He still had a childish look on his face, and his eyes were exceptionally clear. He was also the first one to cry among all the people who arrived later.
The few of them gathered together and briefly discussed the current situation. Ye Xi wiped her face, trying to hold back her tears. She looked at Lin Zhuang with red eyes and said, "Comrade police officer, all of our classmates who are currently in Fu'an City are here. You can ask anything you want."
Lin Zhuang walked over quickly and asked without a word, "Look at this person. Have you seen him before?"
Everyone craned their heads to look at the photo carefully, but sadly, after a few minutes, several people shook their heads and said, "I've never seen it."
Lin Zhuang took his phone back and scrolled through the screen before asking, "What about these two people? Have you met them?"
Guan Xia and the others did not follow him. Although they could not see Lin Zhuang's mobile phone screen, they realized after a little thought that the two people Lin Zhuang was asking about should be the son and daughter of the criminal suspect Wei Jianming.
Guan Xia originally thought that since they were from the same high school, they would probably have some impression of them. However, a few minutes later, several people shook their heads again and said, "No impression at all."
Lin Zhuang's expression didn't change. He simply said, "They also graduated from No. 16 Middle School. Take a closer look."
"Also from No. 16 Middle School?" Several girls were a little surprised and looked more carefully, but the result was still the same.
"I really don't remember," the oldest girl said. "Which class are they from? Are they also students taught by Teacher Jiang?"
The girl paused, and without waiting for Lin Zhuang's reply, she continued, "She probably wasn't taught by Teacher Jiang. Forget about this man, but if this woman really is from Teacher Jiang's class, then there are several of us here, so at least one of us would have some impression of her."
"The boy is from the 12th class, and the girl is from the 10th class." Lin Zhuang said.
"The 10th class?" A girl with a slightly crooked bun and a pair of socks on her feet said, "That's not my class. Wait a minute."
The girl took out her phone and searched carefully for a while before suddenly saying, "Look at this photo. It's the graduation photo we took before the college entrance exam. She's definitely not in the class."
Seeing that the girls really had no recollection of the three people in the photo, Lin Zhuang immediately put away his phone and continued asking, "Who of you contacts Teacher Jiang most frequently? When was the last time you saw her? Has Teacher Jiang mentioned whether anyone has contacted her recently?"
The oldest girl said, "I contact Teacher Jiang quite often, calling her almost every three or four days. I went to see her last night because of the weather, and I was a little worried about her, so I went to her house to see if she needed anything. I also bought some fruit and food to bring up. It was getting late, so we didn't talk much, but Teacher Jiang seemed fine. Her phone was a little slow, and she asked me to help her clear the memory. I remember very clearly that when she handed me the phone, it was on the recent calls screen. I didn't look closely, but I took a quick glance, but there weren't any unfamiliar numbers on it. They were all classmates I know and her colleagues at school."
After the girl finished speaking, Lin Zhuang looked at the girl with the ball-shaped hair and asked, "Did anything unusual happen at school during your three years in high school? Or did Teacher Jiang have any conflicts with others at school?"
"Anything special?" The girl with the bun-shaped hair recalled carefully for a long time, then shook her head. "When the college entrance examination was approaching, a student from another class wanted to jump off the building, but they were eventually persuaded to stop. As for our class, everyone was busy studying and preparing for the exam. The biggest problem was that we had a bad cold and fever and had to take leave to get an IV drip. That was all. Teacher Jiang was famous for her dedication. She spent almost 24 hours a day with us, except for the time she spent eating and sleeping. Although she was strict with us, she had a good relationship with the other teachers in the school. I haven't heard of any conflicts with anyone."
The girl with the bun hair suddenly stopped talking, as if remembering something. She raised her head and said, "No, there was a conflict. I went to the teacher's office to hand in a test paper and saw Teacher Jiang arguing with another teacher. But it wasn't just Teacher Jiang. Other teachers had argued with that teacher as well. The main reason was that that teacher was so annoying. He spoke in a sarcastic tone all day long and loved to mock and humiliate the students in the class, especially the introverted and sensitive girls with poor grades. It wasn't just Teacher Jiang, at least 50% of the teachers in the school had argued with him."
Lin Zhuang asked, "What's the teacher's name, and which class does she teach?"
This time, the girl with the bun thought for a long time before she said hesitantly, "The teacher's name was Gao Yongde or Gao Yongcai. I can't remember. I think he taught Class 4 or Class 5."
"His name is Gao Yongde," the oldest girl said. "I remember it was Gao Yongde. The boys in his class even nicknamed him Gao Wude. I heard his temper has been weird since his divorce. He talks to students in a sarcastic way and especially likes to pick on introverted girls with poor grades. When I was in No. 16 Middle School, he once made a girl cry. Teacher Jiang saw us and had a few words with him."
After noting down the name, Lin Zhuang asked some more questions, then left two police officers to wait for Teacher Jiang to come out after the operation, while the others returned to the Dingyang District Police Station.
Almost as soon as he stepped into the office building, Lin Zhuang's phone rang. After answering, he exchanged a few words with the other end. Then, he hung up and looked at them and said, "Captain Xia called just now. She has already brought people to the scene. Judging from the bloodsplatter, the victim's home is the primary crime scene. Captain Xia and the technical team conducted a thorough investigation of the scene and discovered that some property was missing. The specific amount cannot be determined until the victim wakes up after surgery. The suspect also did a simple cleanup of the scene, but it was obviously not thorough enough. Captain Xia and his team found several fingerprints that may be the suspect's, and related physical evidence is on the way back to the precinct."
So they've found the motive and the irrefutable evidence? Guan Xia was stunned for a moment, then a surge of joy filled her heart. Although there were still some doubts that hadn't been solved, with irrefutable evidence like fingerprints, as long as they could find the suspect's whereabouts, their arrest would be a sure thing.
Xia Chenghui came back fifteen minutes later, looking exhausted. She only stayed in the office for a short time, had a quick conversation with Lin Zhuang, and left in a hurry with his men in less than ten minutes.
"Captain Xia has gone to set up surveillance," Lin Zhuang explained, then handed them some new mobile hard drives and disappeared.
They were the only ones left in the office. As soon as Lin Zhuang disappeared, Pang Le said in astonishment, "Captain Xia looks even more decisive than Sister Ji. He didn't even get a glass of water this time before leaving again. It's almost 1 a.m. now. If it's any later, it's going to rain. It's going to be a storm. How can they catch anyone like this?"
"It's because it's going to rain that we're in such a hurry," Ji An said, placing two filled cups of water next to Guan Xia and Pang Le. "I just checked the map. There are several roads from Fu'an City to Dongyi City. But whether it's the highway or the provincial road, once you leave Fu'an City, there's a long stretch of road with little shelter. Judging from the clues we've learned about the case, the suspect's mental state isn't very good. He's so frightened, it's hard to say what will happen."
Guan Xia and Pang Le both heard Ji An's subtext, and they couldn't help but look at each other in surprise.
It seems that they are the only ones who are worried about whether they can catch the suspect, while others are not only worried about the suspect escaping, but also worried about the personal safety of the illegal taxi driver and the suspect.
Subconsciously, he picked up the water cup beside him and took two sips. Then he heard Pang Le muttering quietly beside him, "What's there to worry about this kind of scumbag? As long as the black car driver is fine, if the criminal suspect really died in an accident, then so be it."
Guan Xia thought for a moment and said hesitantly, "Is there a possibility that they are afraid of not being able to obtain a confession from the suspect? After all, judging by the clues they have so far, they are still a little short of the true truth."
"What's missing? Motive?" Pang Le also picked up the cup and drank it intermittently. "Didn't Lin Zhuang say it before? Some property was lost. The motive is not obvious. The suspect is after the money. Maybe he thinks Teacher Jiang is divorced and childless, so he's easy to bully."
"Then why did he target Teacher Jiang?" Guan Xia asked, "Neither the suspect's son nor his daughter had ever been in Teacher Jiang's class. Ten years had passed, and even if it was just an ordinary friend, they'd have almost forgotten about him. How could he suddenly go to Teacher Jiang's house to rob her and kill her?"
"That's right. The suspect's youngest son graduated ten years ago," Pang Le frowned and said, "In fact, I always feel that this suspect's behavior is more like a murder in the heat of passion than a premeditated robbery. After all, who would rob someone in broad daylight? You see, when we met him tonight it was almost 8 o'clock. The weather was bad and there was a traffic jam. If you calculate the time backwards, the suspect got on the bus from No. 16 Middle School Station at just after 6 o'clock. It took him time to get in, injure people, and rummage through things. By that calculation, he must have been at Teacher Jiang's house at least after 5 o'clock."
Although it was not far from dark at five o'clock, it was still light. According to normal logic, if it was a premeditated robbery, the suspect should have chosen a time when the victim was not at home or when the victim was asleep late at night. The time chosen by the suspect is indeed a bit puzzling.
"And that teacher named Gao Wu... No, Gao Yongde," Pang Le continued, "I always feel that he might be related to this case. Didn't Xu Nian say before that the information found by the First Squadron is that the daughter of the criminal suspect was in the class taught by this teacher Gao Yongde. Wei Jianming didn't have much connection with Teacher Jiang, but Gao Yongde did. In addition, Gao Yongde was the head teacher of Wei Jianming's daughter. Isn't this a disguised connection? It's very likely that Gao Yongde said something to Wei Jianming, or simply that the two of them conspired to do it."
Guan Xia followed Pang Le's line of thought and analyzed it. Sometimes he felt it made sense, but sometimes he felt it didn't. Gao Yongde and Teacher Jiang were both teachers at No. 16 Middle School, so their salaries should be similar. In addition, Teacher Jiang has been supporting and helping students for so many years. Even if Gao Yongde, as a colleague, didn't know the details, he had heard about it to some extent. So he should know that most of Teacher Jiang's salary was spent, and even if he had any savings, they couldn't be much. If he was really involved, he would unlikely target Teacher Jiang, who he knew was relatively poor by just asking around.
After sorting out his thoughts, Guan Xia told Pang Le about this analysis.
Pang Le's mind worked quickly, and in just a few seconds he said, "Wei Jianming is after money, and Gao Yongde may not be after money either. Maybe he's just looking for revenge."
Guan Xia thought about it carefully again, but still felt that it was not very logical.
Guan Xia said, "Gao Yongde has had a strange temper for more than a year or two, and it's not just Teacher Jiang who has quarreled with him. It doesn't make sense for him to pick on Teacher Jiang for revenge."
"Perhaps he's picking on the weak," Pang Le said. "Based on what we know about Teacher Jiang, she's divorced, childless, and lives alone. Only former students visit her sporadically. Plus, she's old. If Gao Yongde really wants to seek revenge, Teacher Jiang is an easier target."
Guan Xia listened thoughtfully. Indeed, although it sounded a bit outrageous, after careful analysis, it was quite logical. However, whether it was true or not would have to wait for further investigation to find out.
In the next two hours, Guan Xia and the others made some discoveries in the surveillance video, and Lin Zhuang and the others also received continuous news.
Because they had the exact victim information and the first crime scene, Guan Xia and her team found the suspect Wei Jianming near the victim's home with almost no effort.
First, there was the surveillance video of Shengli South 2nd Road where the staff quarters of No. 16 Middle School are located, followed by the surveillance video of a fruit supermarket at the entrance of the staff quarters. Surprisingly, the suspect actually bought some fruit in the fruit supermarket. This behavior looked more like a visit rather than a robbery.
"This criminal suspect is quite amazing," Pang Le was amazed. "Did he buy the fruit so that he could knock on the door and pretend to be a guest, or was he originally a guest and killed someone in anger because some things went wrong?"
Guan Xia couldn't imagine what Wei Jianming, whom she had never met before, would come to talk to Teacher Jiang about. Could it be about his child's education, ten years after graduation? Or perhaps he was asking for help for something?
Guan Xia was thinking about it and suddenly remembered that Xia Chenghui's family had lost some valuables, as Lin Zhuang had mentioned before. She couldn't help but complain in her heart, thinking that it was impossible for him to travel thousands of miles to another city to find a teacher he had never met, just to borrow money.
Guan Xia was lost in thought, but for some reason, she was very concerned about this sudden idea. She was about to tell Pang Le and the others when Lin Zhuang walked into the office and said, "The technical team just checked the suspect's call records for the past month. There's nothing wrong with them. They're all normal calls between relatives. We've also checked the owners of some unfamiliar numbers, and they have nothing to do with the victim or Gao Yongde, who was mentioned by the victim's students. We also located the suspect's phone and the black car driver's phone, but the phone signal hasn't moved for two and a half hours. We speculate that the suspect must have thrown them out of the car as soon as he left Fu'an City. Captain Xia called just five minutes ago. The suspect's and the black car driver's phones have been found, but the car the suspect was riding in is still being tracked."
Guan Xia's expression did not change when she heard this, but Pang Le was a little disappointed. Since the suspects Wei Jianming and Gao Yongde had no contact before the incident, her previous speculation would be overturned.
Lin Zhuang continued, "We contacted the local police station for the suspect's residential complex. The police said he has no criminal record, a legitimate job, and no bad habits. The only thing he's special about is that he has many friends and is very loyal. Over the years, he's lent out at least half his salary, and while he's generally paid it back, he and his wife often argue because of this."
Guan Xia and Pang Le couldn't help but look at each other after hearing this. It sounded like this criminal suspect was a decent person. Then why did he go to Teacher Jiang? Was it really because of money?
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