Chapter 92: Uncle kills nephew's kindergarten classmate? Could this happen...
Guan Xia felt relieved just waiting for the news. She even had the leisure to recall that the system interface had popped up on the nights of the 26th and 27th when she was sleeping soundly. She was half asleep at the time and didn't pay much attention to it. Now thinking back, it should have been the system settlement message when the two suspects were arrested.
The halo was continuously recharged within two days. While Guan Xia felt relieved, she couldn't help but wonder if this halo could be superimposed. Also, the system quietly upgraded itself, so was it possible for the associated halo to be upgraded? She really wanted to see the intuitive data.
It was not until after lunch that the identity of the five-year-old deceased was finally confirmed.
A few people had just emerged from the Daqu County Police Department cafeteria when Xu Nian received a call. A few minutes later, he put down his phone and looked at the group. "The deceased found in the sewer last night has been identified. His name is Yuan Ruixing, a 5-year-old boy. Daqu County police have contacted the deceased's family, and they've already arrived at the funeral home to identify the body."
Everyone thought of the small corpse and fell silent for a moment. Guan Xia then asked, "Did the suspect confess? What was his motive for the murder? What was his relationship with the deceased's relatives? Was there any grudge?"
Xu Nian shook his head. "The suspect hasn't said a word since he was handcuffed and brought back. Captain Tan even brought in an interrogation expert from Quming City, but he still hasn't spoken."
No one was surprised, perhaps because they were used to it, and their expressions didn't change much.
Wang Yu said: "At least the identity of the deceased has been confirmed. During the investigation and interview, we can also infer some motives through the relationship between the deceased and the suspect."
Confirming the identity of the deceased was like finally pulling out a thread from a tangled mess. Following this thread, more and more useful information emerged, and the case became clearer and clearer.
As soon as he walked back to the office, Xu Nian received another call. In just half an hour, the relationship between the deceased and the suspect was found out. No matter how roundabout it was, it could not be said that there was a relationship. To the deceased, the suspect was just the uncle of the deceased's kindergarten classmate, nothing more.
Regarding this news, several people were both surprised and not surprised, but they just couldn't understand it.
"An uncle killed his nephew's kindergarten classmate? What could be his motive?" Pang Le's face wrinkled together. After thinking hard, he said, "It's not possible that there was school bullying in kindergarten and the uncle avenged his nephew? But from what I heard from the Daqu County criminal police, the suspect's relationship with his sister and nephew was not very good."
Guan Xia had a different idea. After thinking for a few seconds, she said, "Perhaps the motive was due to the deceased's parents? Although the suspect is a bit withdrawn, he has lived with his sister and nephew for several years. It's impossible that he has never left the house. The suspect's sister runs a chain store, right? Store owners are generally busy. The suspect has a high probability of picking up and dropping off his nephew from kindergarten. Could it be that during this time, he met with the deceased's parents and had a conflict, so that he holds a grudge?"
The more Guan Xia spoke, the more he felt it made sense, and he couldn't help but look at Xu Nian with a questioning look.
Xu Nian said, "Captain Tan and his team have found out that Wu Zhiming did indeed pick up his nephew from kindergarten. It wasn't frequent, but there were a few times a month. He did run into the mother of the deceased, Yuan Ruixing. However, according to the kindergarten teachers, the two of them didn't interact much. Wu Zhiming always stood at the outermost edge of the group and never interacted with other parents. On the other hand, the deceased, Yuan Ruixing's mother, was very outgoing and talkative. She sometimes even bought snacks to share with the other parents waiting for their children."
"Could it be out of jealousy again?" Pang Le suddenly spoke, not knowing what he was thinking about.
Guan Xia thought for a moment and realized that Pang Le might have thought of the case they had encountered in Fu'an City before. The suspect attacked the deceased for money and out of jealousy, ultimately harming both himself and others.
With so many cases under their belt, all sorts of bizarre motives were possible. Guan Xia followed Pang Le's line of thought and asked, "So, the suspect has only met the deceased's mother and never his father. Does the deceased come from a single-parent family? What's his mother like?"
Xu Nian said, "Team Tan and his team found out that although the deceased's parents hadn't divorced, they had been separated for many years. The deceased's father worked away from home all year round, and the deceased's mother lived with the children in Daqu County. The family ran a stationery store in front of a junior high school. Business wasn't particularly good, but it wasn't bad either. The family had a house and a car, and they would take the children on trips from time to time. However, because the deceased's father was away from home all year round, the deceased's mother was harassed by many people and even reported the matter to the police."
Guan Xia and Pang Le exchanged a look of surprise, and a guess emerged in their minds. Before either of them could speak, Wang Yu spoke first, "Could it be that the criminal suspect had also harassed the deceased's mother, and when his pursuit failed, he killed her in anger?"
Xu Nian was about to answer when his phone rang again. After a brief conversation, he hung up and said, "We have a lead on another case. Captain Yu hasn't returned yet, and Captain Tan is taking someone to follow the lead and can't leave. Please help us get a statement from the deceased's mother. They just left the funeral home and are on their way. Do you want to join us?"
Xu Nian looked at Guan Xia and asked, and without much thought, Guan Xia nodded vigorously.
More than ten minutes later, several people met the deceased's mother in an inquiry room. She was a tall, slightly plump middle-aged woman. Although she had gained weight and had some fine wrinkles on her face, and she was crying miserably after suffering such a severe blow, it could be seen from her eyebrows and smooth facial contours that she was a middle-aged woman who would look very outstanding with a little dressing up.
What surprised Guan Xia and the others was that in addition to the middle-aged woman, there was also a middle-aged man accompanying her. He was tall and had a sad expression. Although he was standing next to the middle-aged woman, there was a little distance between them. There was no eye contact when the two sat down. They seemed familiar but not that familiar.
Guan Xia was just speculating about the relationship between the two, thinking they didn't look like a couple, perhaps brother and sister, when she heard the woman's hoarse voice say, "Comrade police, have you caught the murderer who killed my son?"
After saying this, the middle-aged woman, who seemed to have calmed down a lot, wanted to cry again. She wiped her tears vigorously and continued with a sob, "Can I meet that man? I want to ask why he killed my son. My son is only 5 years old. How cruel must he be to kill a child? Is he someone I know? Does he have a grudge against me? If so, why didn't he come after me? Why did he kill my son?"
At the end, the woman finally couldn't control her emotions and broke down crying again, with a hint of hatred in her red eyes.
Guan Xia and the others subconsciously looked at the middle-aged man next to the woman. They thought that no matter what the relationship between the two was, since they came to the police station together, he would at least comfort the middle-aged woman. Unexpectedly, the man just sat there silently, with empty eyes, and no one knew what he was thinking.
Seeing that the relatives were indifferent, Wang Yu stepped forward quickly, put a cup of warm water in the woman's hand, patted her back to calm her emotions, and whispered comforting words.
Finally, after a few minutes, the woman calmed down again. However, just as she put the cup of water on the table in front of her, she saw the middle-aged man from the corner of her eye, and anger surged on her face. She almost rushed over, grabbed the man's hair and started to fight, beating and cursing, "It's all your fault. Why did you come back at this time? Why didn't you answer my call? If I had known that you didn't take the child away, I would have called the police directly. Maybe, maybe my son wouldn't..."
The woman hit the man hard and cried even harder, tears streaming down her face. The man seemed to know he was in the wrong, and was swaying from side to side from the beating he received from the woman, but he kept his head down and said nothing the whole time, neither resisting nor speaking. In a short while, his face and neck were covered with bloody marks from scratches, and several strands of his hair were pulled out.
Wang Yu and Pang Le pulled the person away several times before they could do so.
Although the confession had not yet begun, Guan Xia still heard some of the events from these fragments.
The two were not brother and sister as Guan Xia thought, but were actually husband and wife. For some unknown reason, their relationship was not good but they had never divorced. The man was away from home all year round. Recently, he suddenly returned to Daqu County and took the child away without the woman's consent. Perhaps there had been previous cases, so when the woman couldn't find the child, she didn't think the child was missing, but thought the child was taken away by the father. She wanted to call to confirm, but she couldn't get through, so she delayed and didn't report to the police.
It was another coincidence. Guan Xia's expression remained unchanged, but he sighed secretly in his heart.
After waiting for another ten minutes, until the woman's emotions had stabilized again, Wang Yu asked, "Do you know Wu Zhiming?"
"Wu Zhiming?" The woman paused wiping her tears with a tissue, then shook her head. "I don't know him, but he sounds familiar."
This answer was somewhat unexpected. Wang Yu was about to continue asking when the woman suddenly understood something. Her eyes widened and she looked at Wang Yu and said, "What do you mean by asking this? Is he the murderer? Is he the one who killed my son?"
Wang Yu said: "He is now a major suspect in the crime, but there is no definite evidence to prove that he is the murderer. We are still investigating."
The woman was still a little agitated, and Wang Yu had to spend some time calming her down before he could continue recording her statement.
Wang Yu said: "Wu Zhiming has a nephew named Wu Bowen, who goes to the same kindergarten as your son."
Wang Yu handed over a photo and said, "That's him. Do you remember him now?"
The woman took it and looked at it carefully. After a few seconds, she said with a bit of realization, "Oh, it's him. I have indeed seen him before. He was at the entrance of my son's kindergarten. I even gave him some snacks, but he seemed to have some social anxiety and never spoke to me."
Guan Xia kept paying attention to the woman's expression while she was speaking. Seeing that her expression was natural and she didn't seem to be lying, she couldn't help but become even more confused. Since neither of them knew each other, why did Wu Zhiming kill her son?
Wang Yu asked again, "Do you know his sister Wu Yue?"
The woman said directly, "I know Wu Yue. She runs a cosmetics store, and I run a stationery store. I also have her WeChat account. We chat often, and I've even bought things from her store."
Wang Yu said, "Have you ever had any disputes with her?"
The woman shook her head without recalling anything and said, "No, we've known each other for a year. Maybe it's because we're both raising children alone and we both run businesses, so we have a lot of common topics, so we usually have a good chat. We've even taken the children out together. Wu Zhiming has social anxiety, but Wu Yue is very talkative and straightforward. Even when the two children quarrel, we never get angry."
That was even more strange. Guan Xia sat quietly beside him and listened, analyzing the situation silently, but he still couldn't figure out what was going on.
After Wang Yu asked the deceased's mother some questions, Xu Nian asked the deceased's father some questions.
Compared with the deceased's mother, his answer was simpler. He had been working outside since 2016 and only came back once a year during the Chinese New Year. Sometimes he didn't even come back during the Chinese New Year. Not to mention knowing Wu Zhiming, he didn't even know Wu Yue. He had never picked up or dropped off the deceased from kindergarten. The reason he came back this time was because he had a new lover outside and wanted to come back to divorce.
The woman did not disagree, but because he had cheated on her, she wanted to get more property. The two of them could not reach an agreement on this matter, so the man pretended to threaten the woman with the deceased. He had taken the child away twice before when the woman was not paying attention, and did not call back until the next day.
It was because of this precedent that the woman did not choose to call the police when the deceased disappeared, and by mistake gave the suspect ample time to commit the crime.
Compared with recording the confession of the middle-aged woman, Xu Nian spent longer time recording the confession of the middle-aged man. The reason was simple. Almost every word the middle-aged man said made the middle-aged woman furious. During the recording, Wang Yu and Pang Le had to repeatedly dissuade the middle-aged woman. Even so, after the confession was finished, the middle-aged man's hair was pulled out, exposing his scalp, and blood could be faintly seen.
Watching the two of them leave the police station, with some scuffling, Pang Le curled his lips and suddenly whispered in Guan Xia's ear, "Look, this is what happens when a man changes his mind. So, no matter what, you must learn to cut your losses in time. When you love, love sincerely, and when you don't love anymore, you must withdraw in time, lest your good days be dragged into the abyss."
Facing Pang Le's sudden emotion, Guan Xia listened carefully but said nothing. Wang Yu agreed very much and said, "You are right. People have to be able to take on and let go, so that their lives can get better and better."
Behind the three of them, Xu Nian and Jiang Yingyao looked at each other in confusion. Xu Nian opened his mouth to speak, but in the end he said nothing. He just looked at Guan Xia in silence.
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