Chapter 161 Under the Sun 11 I didn’t lie.
Chapter 11
After careful screening by a group of police officers, the missing road surveillance footage of that day was restored using a dash cam.
There are two suspects, a brother and sister.
The man's name is Chen Xiang and the woman's name is Chen Qi.
The Chen family is in the aquaculture business, mainly raising grass carp and crabs.
Their farm is not large, and their annual income is around three to five hundred thousand.
The farm was rented from other people’s lotus ponds and rice fields.
The brother and sister travel back and forth between the farm and their home every day, and this road out of the city is their only way.
With the brother and sister sitting together in the interrogation room, Lu Changfeng discussed with Yue Fanglin and decided that he would take Jing Jue to interrogate one, while Yue Fanglin and Captain Liang would work together to interrogate the other. Zhou Yu would be responsible for monitoring and transmitting information from both sides in real time.
Lu Changfeng led Jing Jue into the interrogation room where Chen Qi was.
Yue Fanglin and Captain Liang entered the interrogation room next door.
Chen Qi looked at the two policemen who walked into the interrogation room with a slightly wary attitude.
In comparison, Chen Xiang next door was much calmer.
After Lu Changfeng and Jing Jue sat down, the interrogation officially began.
"Why did you and your brother let Wang Changshou get on the bus at Huayuan 3rd Road on the morning of May 11?"
Chen Qi said: "We wanted to donate some aquatic products to the children in the welfare home to make fish soup. We met him on the way and thought of asking him to go with us to the farm to select aquatic products, so we took him with us."
Chen Xiang's answer on the other side was similar.
Lu Changfeng: "He got in your car and left the city with you. What happened next?"
Chen Qi said: "He got carsick on the way, so we dropped him off on the side of the road. We persuaded him to go with us to the farm and rest there..."
"He refused our request and said he would walk to the bus stop and take the bus back without bothering us," said Chen Xiang.
Zhou Yu reminded them that their testimonies were exactly the same.
Lu Changfeng asked: "So you left him on the side of the road?"
Chen Qi and Chen Xiang both nodded.
Lu Changfeng: "He's so old, and you just left him on the roadside with cars coming and going. Have you ever thought about what would happen if he got into a car accident?"
"My brother also said at the time that we should turn around and send him back, but he insisted not to do so and didn't want to trouble us. It wasn't that we wanted to abandon him on the side of the road. It was really him who insisted, and we couldn't force him."
"Where did you put him? Which section of the road exactly?" Yue Fanglin asked.
The addresses given by the brother and sister were similar, which was on the bridge in front of the bus stop near the town entrance.
Lu Changfeng: "Then why don't you drop him off at the bus stop at the entrance of town?"
Chen Xiang replied: "I did say that. I said I would drop him off at the bus stop, but he said he didn't need to and wanted to walk there. I thought it was only a few steps away, so I didn't force him."
The brother and sister's answers were almost identical.
If this incident did not really happen, then the confession was prepared in advance.
Neither Lu Changfeng nor Yue Fanglin was in a hurry to display the evidence.
"What time did you arrive at the breeding base? Who can testify for you?"
"We left the city at about 11:00 that day and arrived at the breeding base at about 12:30. It was lunch time when we arrived at the breeding base."
"The workers can all testify to this. The meal we had with the workers was very delicious. I ate a lot of it myself."
The brother and sister's answers were simply perfect.
After gaining a preliminary understanding of the situation, Lu Changfeng stood up and left the interrogation room.
Yue Fanglin also came out.
The two sides met in the conference room. Yue Fanglin and Lu Changfeng said, "They had already discussed their words in advance and testified against each other."
"That's right." Lu Changfeng glanced at the folder in his hand, which was full of relevant evidence. "It's a pity that they underestimated the ability of our police."
Even without surveillance, a breakthrough can still be found.
Of course, the driving recorder can also be used for monitoring.
Zhou Yu said: "There is something wrong with their timeline. They said they arrived at the farm around 12:30, but at 12:30, their car appeared in the town, and more than one car's dashcam captured them."
Zhou Yu added: "We have checked all the vehicles on the entire route to the town. We have a very clear timeline. From the time they left the city to the time they arrived in the town, we did not see Wang Changshou along the way. This is enough to prove that Wang Changshou did not get out of the car during this period. They probably did not expect this. We have collected the dashcams of all the vehicles passing by on the entire route."
Lu Changfeng asked: "These two people are highly suspected. Did the staff who went to their homes and the farm to collect evidence pass back any useful information?"
Liang's subordinate said: "Not yet."
"Please inform us if you have any news. I also want to see how they respond when faced with our evidence."
Lu Changfeng and Yue Fanglin each brought their men back to the interrogation room.
Chen Qi seemed to be relatively weak, so Lu Changfeng planned to have a good fight with her and get the answer he wanted from her.
"From what we the police have, it seems that it is not what you said. Are you sure that everything you said is true and valid? Are you willing to bear the legal responsibility for what you said?"
Lu Changfeng's eyes were fixed on Chen Qi, making Chen Qi feel very oppressed and he dared not look up.
Chen Qi nodded slightly.
"I'm not lying."
Lu Changfeng: "You should know that perjury is illegal."
"I know, I really didn't lie."
Lu Changfeng played a video and asked, "Is this your car?"
Chen Qi read it carefully and nodded to confirm: "Yes."
"That's easy." Lu Changfeng pointed to the surveillance time in the lower left corner, 12:23, "You said you had arrived at the breeding base at this time, but why does the dashcam show that you are still in town?"
Chen Qi said: "My memory of the incident may not be accurate. Usually lunch is between 12:30 and 1:30. It only takes 20 minutes to drive from the town to our farm. We were still in the town at 12:23 and arrived at the farm at 12:43. This time was indeed within the lunch time. Maybe lunch was served late that day and I didn't check the time. There is nothing wrong with the inaccurate time given."
"People nowadays can't put down their phones. How could it be such a coincidence that neither of you two siblings paid attention to the time spent at the breeding farm?" Lu Changfeng questioned.
Chen Qi replied: "No one forces me to record everything I do and record the time. I don't check the time, and there is no problem."
Chen Xiang also has the same attitude.
Yue Fanglin presented new evidence, "According to what you said, you left Wang Changshou at the bridgehead opposite the bus stop at the town entrance. Is there anything wrong with that?"
Chen Xiang nodded: "That's right."
Yue Fanglin: "There is no strict speed limit on this road, but according to our country's requirements for urban roads, the maximum speed limit is 70 kilometers per hour. According to your speed and driving time that day, you should have dropped Wang Changshou off at the bridgehead around 12 o'clock. Am I right?"
Chen Xiang: "I can't remember the exact time."
Yue Fanglin: "It doesn't matter. No matter how fast you drive towards the town, we have calculated that unless your vehicle breaks down on the road, you will arrive before one o'clock at the latest. We found you in the town at 12:23, which means you must have dropped Wang Changshou off on the road earlier than this time."
On the other side, Lu Changfeng said to Chen Qi, "The traffic volume on this road is usually quite good. It's not just your car that passes through the town. We retrieved all the dashcams of vehicles that left the town and went to the town during that time period. Except for a few dashcams that were not turned on or had other problems, the others were very clear. By integrating these dashcams by time, we can restore the situation of the entire road in different time periods. From 11:40 to 1:00, we did not find any footage of Wang Changshou walking on the bridge or waiting for the bus at the bus stop from the dynamic database."
"The town's buses also run at fixed times, every ten minutes. There were people waiting for the bus at the town entrance that day. We also retrieved surveillance footage of the buses, and found that Wang Changshou did not return to the city by bus. We also used the dynamic timeline to restore the route you drove that day, proving that you did not leave Wang Changshou on the side of the road."
"Then may I ask why you lied?"
After their lies were exposed one by one, brother and sister Chen Qi and Chen Xiang could no longer remain calm.
But faced with the police's overwhelming evidence, they were helpless.
The farm also sent back news that the brother and sister did not arrive at the farm until after 1 o'clock that day, not 12:30 as they said.
They did eat at the farm, but there was a power outage that day and the power supply had to be given priority to the fish ponds. They used a clay stove to cook, so they had to eat about an hour later than usual.
Completely shattered the lies of the two people.
After a detailed investigation of the residents in the town, someone pointed out that the two of them passed by at around one o'clock.
Another grocery store owner said that Chen Qi also bought a bundle of hemp rope in his store that day.
Judging from the WeChat payment records, it was twelve twenty-one.
It was very close to the incident where the town's car photographed their vehicle.
The hemp rope they bought at the grocery store was exactly the same hemp rope they used to tie up Wang Changshou and hang him on the bridge.
An old lady next door heard that they were asking about the Chen brothers and sisters, and provided another clue to the visiting police.
Chen Qi bought a yellow eel from the old man of the Zhao family.
Following the clues provided by the old lady, they found Old Man Zhao again. The old man said that he caught the eels in his own fields. After soaking the fields, he planned to plant seedlings after a while. However, there were too many eels in the fields, so he took his children to catch all the eels. The price of eels in the market was not cheap, so he sold them for five yuan each.
At that time, the old man of the Zhao family felt it was strange. The Chen family had their own breeding farm and were not short of eels, so why did they buy from him?
What Chen Qi said at the time was that this species of eel was different from the ones they farmed, so he took it back to make soup to see which one tasted better.
All the evidence points to Chen Qi and his sister killing Wang Changshou.
Lu Changfeng wanted to see how these two people would defend themselves.
“What are you doing buying rope at the grocery store?”
Chen Qi said: "Of course I buy it back for use in the farm."
"Yeah?"
"Of course."
Lu Changfeng asked again: "I also heard that you bought a yellow eel in town, but our investigation showed that you did not bring any yellow eel back to the farm that day. Where did the yellow eel go?"
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