Chapter 64: The Corpse Dismemberment Case (Part 9) It Turns Out to Be Him
At the case advancement meeting, Qi Xiaolei spoke first: "Captain Han, I have checked at the business hall. Li Meixiang's last contact was Zhang Xiannan. The time was 10:30 pm on August 14, and the call lasted 20 minutes. The contact record between Fang Sheng and Li Meixiang stopped in July, and there was no contact after that."
Han Jianye flipped through the information and frowned slightly: "It's Zhang Xiannan again. Didn't he say that he hadn't contacted Li Meixiang since she moved out? It seems that he didn't tell the truth."
Then, he looked up at Su Wan and asked, "How's the surveillance going?"
Su Wan replied: "Captain Han, I need some time."
Liao Wei interrupted: "We have contacted Li Meixiang's family and they are on their way."
Ye Bai looked at Han Jianye: "Our people are still secretly following Zhang Xiannan. He is having dinner with his girlfriend now."
Han Jianye waved his hand: "Let them continue to follow, and wait until the DNA report comes out before deciding whether to arrest them."
He tapped his fingers on the table a few times, as if he was in deep thought. After a moment, he turned his gaze to Su Wan and issued a new instruction: "Let others handle the surveillance video at Wangnan Bridge, and you go to the village in the city to retrieve the street surveillance.
If the deceased was indeed Li Meixiang, then she was killed on August 15, and nine days have passed today. You should check the surveillance carefully to see if there is a man leaving the urban village with a red suitcase between August 14 and 15. ”
Then, he turned his gaze to Ye Bai and Liao Wei, and his tone became more serious: "You two are responsible for retrieving street surveillance near Zhang Xiannan's home. Check the video footage from August 14th to 15th to see if Zhang Xiannan brought back a red suitcase from outside, or if he left home with something that looked like a woven bag. Zhang Xiannan is likely to be involved in Li Meixiang's disappearance."
Qi Xiaolei raised a question, "If the deceased was really Li Meixiang, and the murderer was Zhang Xiannan, what was his motive for murder?"
"It's probably money." Ye Bai answered, and then looked at everyone present, "It can't be love, right?"
Even he himself doesn't believe this.
"It can only be money." Han Jianye undoubtedly agreed with this point, "One is a second-hand landlord and the other is a tenant. The problem can only be the house deposit."
After the meeting, Liao Wei put his hand on Ye Bai's shoulder and joked, "Why are you so tall? My hand can hardly reach your shoulder."
Ye Bai smiled gently, "Exercise more."
"But speaking of which, why haven't I seen you sleeping in the dormitory recently?"
Ye Bai was slightly stunned, his eyes dodging, "Well, my friend's house is also near the police station, and I go to see him occasionally."
Liao Wei said, "No wonder, sometimes when I passed by your dormitory, it was always locked."
The two of them talked as they walked, completely unaware that Han Jianye was walking behind them.
Han Jianye looked at Ye Bai's back and snorted, muttering in his heart: A friend's house? Which friend’s house? Is it so difficult to talk about going to his house? He even lies and makes excuses, appearing harmless, but in fact he is a dishonest person.
Thinking of this, he walked towards the director's office.
In the surveillance room in the residential area, the community where Zhang Xiannan lives has only one street in and out, and the surveillance video can be saved for up to 90 days, so they easily retrieved the surveillance video from August 14 to 15.
Liao Wei stretched himself tiredly: "I have only slept for a few hours in the past two days." While speaking, he also dropped a few drops of eye drops into his eyes and said lazily: "Now as long as I touch the bed, I can sleep forever."
At this time, Ye Bai gently touched Liao Wei's foot with his foot and reminded him: "Zhang Xiannan is out."
The surveillance video that Ye Bai was watching showed that at 12:30 noon on August 15, Zhang Xiannan went out with the car keys.
Liao Wei guessed: "At this time, he should be going out to eat."
Ye Bai sped up the playback of the surveillance video and found that Zhang Xiannan went out at noon on August 15 and did not return home all night.
Liao Wei said: "At this time, Zhang Xiannan and his girlfriend couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, so they drove to the car on the riverside of Wangnan Bridge... that that..."
Ye Bai: ...( . )
Liao Wei nudged Ye Bai with his arm. "Why are you standing there? Isn't that right? That's what Zhang Xiannan said himself."
Ye Bai just responded softly, his eyes always fixed on the computer screen.
Surveillance footage showed that Zhang Xiannan and his girlfriend did not drive home until 7:15 a.m. on August 16.
During the entire process, they did not see Zhang Xiannan holding the red suitcase.
Just when everyone was in a slump, Su Wan suddenly exclaimed, "There's a discovery."
Everyone immediately gathered around. The surveillance video showed that at 1:25 p.m. on August 15, Zhang Xiannan came to the urban village alone.
At the same location and time, at 4:35 p.m., Zhang Xiannan appeared pulling a red suitcase.
Liao Wei suddenly realized, "So he left home at noon and went directly to the village in the city to find Li Meixiang. This red suitcase belongs to Li Meixiang. He must be the murderer. Li Meixiang was in the suitcase. He did not go home, but took her to another place to dismember her body."
Ye Bai stared at the surveillance video intently. He said, "Look at the bag on the suitcase. Does it look like the brown coat that was stolen from Yuan Qiqi by Li Meixiang?"
When these words were spoken, everyone gasped. Could it be that this brown coat worth 680 yuan was finally taken away by Zhang Xiannan?
After Han Jianye came out of the meeting, he was stunned when he heard the news, but it was also within his expectations. After all, they had long suspected that Zhang Xiannan was the murderer. It was just strange that Yuan Qiqi's coat was taken away by Zhang Xiannan.
Su Wan asked Han Jianye anxiously: "Captain Han, should we bring Zhang Xiannan back for interrogation now?"
Han Jianye's eyes were deep and calm. He replied, "Please be patient. We need to wait for the DNA report of the deceased and Li Meixiang's father to come out. In addition, we have not yet determined where Zhang Xiannan took the suitcase."
Ye Bai raised a possibility: "Is it possible that Zhang Xiannan's girlfriend knew something? After all, they were together on the night of August 15th."
Han Jianye turned to Ye Bai, and their eyes met, and they seemed to have thought of the same idea: "We can't rule out the possibility that his girlfriend is an insider."
Su Wan immediately said, "Then let's continue investigating along this clue and find out where he transported the suitcase."
Han Jianye nodded in agreement, believing that this was the most effective investigation method at present.
Ye Bai turned to Han Jianye and proposed another hypothesis: "Zhang Xiannan did not take the suitcase home, and he was also a second-hand landlord. I think it is possible that he took the suitcase to the rental house under his control to dismember the body?"