Chapter 11 Their Greed (IX) Bed Sheets
As soon as it got dark, Han Jianye and others came to the little girl's home, which scared her family!
After Han Jianye explained the situation to them, their expressions eased a lot.
The girl's mother looked annoyed, "That's right, my surveillance camera captured a man, and I thought he was just passing by, but who knew he would take the bed sheet hanging at the door. I was so angry."
Han Jianye asked: "Did you save this surveillance video separately?"
"Of course there is. I even posted it in the group, thinking that it can be used as evidence if needed in the future."
Once these words were spoken, everyone was undoubtedly delighted.
"Do you know the man who took your bed sheets? Is he from your village?"
Han Jianye asked.
“She should be from our village. Someone in the group recognized her.” The girl’s mother said as she took out her cell phone and began to look for a surveillance video that had been saved in advance.
"Someone in the group said that the man who stole the bed sheet looked like a man named Zhong Menhuai in our village. They said he was a scoundrel who had nothing to do and had made friends with many people in society. They also advised me to just think that it was taken away by a dog and not to provoke him. Although I was very angry, considering that I had elderly parents and children at home, I didn't want to get into such trouble because of a bed sheet."
The girl's mother shook her head helplessly.
However, these words shocked Han Jianye and the others.
Zhong Menhuai?
Isn’t this the missing man they interviewed when they first entered the village to investigate?
The girl's mother handed the saved surveillance video to Su Wan.
Fortunately, the color surveillance video was very clear and recorded the man's every move.
In the video, the man walked to her door and looked around, as if to confirm whether there was anyone around.
But he didn't seem to notice that the place where the sheets were hung was within the surveillance camera's field of view, so he stole the sheets without hesitation, folded them up quickly, and left the scene in big strides.
The man in the video is very similar to Zhong Menhuai, who they suspected was the deceased in their previous investigation.
If we assume that he is the murderer, does this also reasonably explain why he lost contact?
Because he is very likely one of the murderers in this case.
After returning to the police station, Han Jianye quickly began to deploy the work.
"The eyewitness Niu Fangsheng said he saw two men by the river," he said with certainty, "There is no doubt that there are at least two murderers. Zhong Menhuai and his accomplices may have fled Zhunan City. As for the identity of the other murderer, we need to investigate further."
Su Wan expressed his own opinion: "Birds of a feather flock together. The other murderer is likely to be his poker friend."
Ye Bai continued to analyze: "So, can we start from this angle and ask their previous poker friends? I believe that there will always be someone who knows their whereabouts."
Han Jianye immediately issued an order: "Send two people to monitor Zhong Menhuai's family to prevent him from returning secretly out of desperation. At the same time, retrieve the call records of Zhong Menhuai's mobile phone, which has been turned off, and focus on the people he frequently contacted before he lost contact. As long as we find them, we can uncover the identity of the deceased."
Qi Xiaolei raised a question: "But don't you find it strange? The deceased has been missing for more than a month, and his family can't contact him. Aren't they worried at all?"
Ye Bai added: "This is not difficult to explain. The murderer may have controlled the deceased's mobile phone and continued to pretend that the deceased was still alive. In the cases we handled before, there were also murderers who used this cunning method to deceive the family members of the deceased and made them mistakenly believe that the deceased was still alive."
Time was running out, so they immediately split up and urgently retrieved Zhong Menhuai's call records and began to screen for suspicious persons.
The whole conference room was filled with the smell of instant noodles. Since they didn't have time to eat dinner, they just made some instant noodles to fill their stomachs.
Ye Bai carefully selected several mobile phone numbers with frequent calls from Zhong Menhuai's call records and prepared for further real-name investigation.
Han Jianye came over and saw that he was still busy, "Aren't you hungry?"
After all, the last meal was at 12 noon, and it was already midnight. Everyone knew that they had to find food to fill their stomachs, but he was the most special.
Ye Bai replied calmly: "Don't worry, Captain Han, I won't starve myself, and it won't affect the investigation."
In fact, he made a cup of oatmeal during dinner and drank it, which made him feel full and not hungry at all.
Now, in front of him, she took out an individually wrapped apple from the cupboard, unwrapped it and started eating it.
This action made Han Jianye raise his eyebrows, and he felt that this man's self-discipline was incredible.
Even feels a bit perverted.
Ye Bai actually ate such boring fruit for midnight snack?
If he remembered correctly, at home, apples were chosen only after all other fruits had been eaten.
At the same time, Ye Bai also screened out three people with whom Zhong Menhuai had frequent contact from his call records, two men and one woman.
One of the men, named Huang Ziyuan, was Zhong Menhuai’s last contact, and the two were of the same age.
Coincidentally, according to the household registration, Huang Ziyuan and Zhong Menhuai are from neighboring villages, and the two villages are very close.
This made them suspect that Huang Ziyuan might be another suspect they were looking for.
So, I tried to call his mobile number, and soon a mechanical voice came: "The number you dialed is not in service."
What difference does such a coincidence make to them?
So he tried to call the cell phones of two other people, one named Liu Lingling and the other named Zhong Dayu. Both of them answered the call and were then summoned to the police station for questioning.
Liu Lingling, 40, a housewife who loves playing cards, answered truthfully when asked: "I don't know where he went."
Han Jianye asked her: "We have checked. You were in frequent contact in April this year, and he lost contact during this period. How could you not know where he went?"
"He contacted me because I owed him money. He lost money playing cards, and he kept asking me for it, like he was demanding my life back. I paid him back 2,000 yuan in cash first, and then he stopped paying for a while."
"The last time you contacted each other, did he say anything to you? For example, where was he going to make money? Travel or something?"
This sentence made Liu Lingling fall into deep thought, "If I heard correctly, it seems that he is going on a long journey."
"Did you say where you were going?"
"No."
Ye Bai then asked: "Do you know Huang Ziyuan?"
"Him?" Liu Lingling snorted coldly, her eyes full of disdain. "He is just a wretched guy, very lecherous, and has a good relationship with Zhong Menhuai. Every time when we play cards, his eyes always stare at my chest."
Han Jianye asked her again: "Have you been in touch recently?"
Liu Lingling shook her head, "No."