Chapter 252: Sense of Disharmony
Yao Fenfang said that she killed the child.
These words made Zhou Yi and Shi Tao feel a chill in their hearts.
Shi Tao asked hurriedly: "When did you kill that child?"
"It was the night Xiaoxue gave birth. She passed out right after giving birth. I was holding the baby, and all I could think about was, 'I can't keep this child! I can't keep this child!'"
"So I... I strangled him to death." Yao Fenfang said, shedding two lines of tears.
"The body..." Zhou Yi felt his throat was a little dry. "How did you deal with the child's body?"
Yao Fenfang closed her eyes and said in agony, "I... cut the child into pieces with a knife and flushed it down the toilet."
Zhou Yi sighed softly, then took out the handcuffs and said, "Yao Fenfang, we are now formally arresting you for intentional homicide."
After Zhou Yi handcuffed her, he said, "Let's go to another place. We need to formally interrogate you next."
The entire time Yao Fenfang was being taken to the interrogation room by her, she was like a walking corpse.
Zhou Yi did not rush to interrogate Yao Fenfang immediately. Although the body of the newborn could no longer be found, Yao Fenfang had already admitted to killing the child, so he had to conduct an on-site investigation at Yao Fenfang's home immediately.
At the same time, Tang Xue's body will be examined and DNA samples will be taken and sent to the provincial capital to further confirm her relationship with the deceased.
In addition, we need to understand the situation and synchronize information with Qiao Jiali, who is responsible for questioning Tang Xue.
As for the social relationship between Yao Fenfang and Tang Xue, it is already dark now, so we can only check it tomorrow.
After Zhou Yi notified the technical department and the forensic doctor, he also asked Shi Tao to call back the brothers from the second team who were outside relocating residents to reduce the consumption of police force. They would have to work hard tomorrow to visit and investigate the social relationships of the mother and daughter.
"Captain Shi, you've worked so hard these past two days. Why don't you go back and rest early today? I'll have to trouble you to sort out the social relationships of Yao Fenfang and Tang Xue tomorrow." Zhou Yi said to Shi Tao.
He didn't want to burn his bridges, but he simply felt embarrassed to let Shi Tao serve as his deputy in the subsequent interrogation.
After all, he is the captain of the second team, and this case is not his responsibility. He is just here to help.
But Shi Tao didn't think so. He thought that this case was now being jointly investigated by Team Two and Team Three, so it was only natural for him to be in charge.
What's more, since Wu Yongcheng is not here, I am the host of this case based on my position.
Rest? Where can I lie down at this time?
"Tsk tsk, Zhou Yi, you are being very distant when you say that. How can we go back to rest and leave the hard work to you? If Old Wu finds out, he will grab me by the collar and scold me again. You don't know Captain Wu's temper yet. When the time comes, I will definitely scold me for retreating at the critical moment." Shi Tao said with a smile.
Zhou Yi suddenly understood what Shi Tao was thinking.
He immediately changed his tone and said, "Captain Shi's lesson is true. I need to reflect on it. How about this? You can arrange for someone with quick hands to assist me in interrogating Yao Fenfang. You can first investigate the social relationships of this mother and daughter."
Being quick with hands means taking notes efficiently.
Assisting me means that I will be responsible for the interrogation.
Shi Tao didn't mind this. He nodded and said it was no problem. Then he pointed to the interrogation room and said, "Aren't you going to interrogate her first? She just confessed to the murder. Why don't you strike while the iron is hot?"
Zhou Yi shook his head slightly and said, "No rush, let it air out for a while. I always feel like something is not right."
"Come on, let's go eat first. I'm starving."
"Captain Shi, you go first. I'll go check on Tang Xue first."
As soon as Zhou Yi finished speaking, Qiao Jiali came over.
"Zhou Yi, Captain Shi, are you done asking questions?" Qiao Jiali said in surprise.
"Yao Fenfang has admitted that she killed the child born by Tang Xue. We have now formally arrested her and are preparing to interrogate her later." Zhou Yi said.
"Was it Yao Fenfang who killed him?"
Zhou Yi was surprised to see Qiao Jiali's expression and asked hurriedly, "Sister Qiao, what did you find out?"
"It's like this..."
Just as Qiao Jiali was about to speak, Shi Tao dragged the two of them forward, muttering, "The atmosphere in your Third Brigade is not good. People are made of iron and rice is steel. You have to go to eat at a certain time. It would be great if you could talk while eating, but you have to stand and talk. It's all because of that desperate old Wu that you've been corrupted. Don't let him ruin your health later."
Zhou Yi couldn't help laughing. Captain Shi was indeed a very honest person.
I don’t know if it’s because it’s my birthday today, but Zhou Yi feels like his luck seems to have improved a little.
When they went to get their meals, the cafeteria aunt gave Zhou Yi a lot of dishes, even the duck legs were the biggest.
The three of them sat down. Shi Tao looked at the food on Zhou Yi's plate, then at the skinny duck leg on his own plate. He couldn't help but say, "This cafeteria is really shady right now. I guess my duck is still underage."
"Captain Shi, how about I switch with you? I haven't even started eating yet."
"No need, you are young, you should eat more." Although Shi Tao said this, he picked at his dish and felt a little depressed.
Zhou Yi quickly asked about the situation on Qiao Jiali's side.
Qiao Jiali said that she first calmed Tang Xue down, and then started asking her questions after her condition became more stable.
But Tang Xue's personality obviously had a big problem. She basically did not respond to Qiao Jiali's questions, nor did she speak. She just lowered her head and curled up like a hedgehog.
After trying a few times, Qiao Jiali soon discovered that Tang Xue would only respond when she asked true or false questions.
Nod or shake your head.
So Qiao Jiali changed her questioning strategy and finally learned some information.
Qiao Jiali's first question was: "Tang Xue, have you ever been pregnant before?"
Tang Xue was stiff for a long time before she nodded.
"Whose child is this?"
Tang Xue didn't respond.
Qiao Jiali then changed the question and asked, "Did anyone force you to have sex?"
Tang Xue's reaction to this question was a little strange. She nodded first, and then shook her head.
"Do you know if you can get pregnant by doing this?"
Tang Xue shook her head.
"Does your mother know you're pregnant?"
Tang Xue shook her head again.
"Does anyone else know about your pregnancy?"
Still shaking her head, Qiao Jiali was really surprised. How lonely and insignificant this girl must be that no one had discovered she was pregnant for such a long time.
"So, do you have a boyfriend?"
This was a yes or no question, but this time, Tang Xue did not respond.
Seeing that she had no response, Qiao Jiali could only change the question: "Is the child you gave birth to still alive?"
She actually wanted to ask, where is the child now?
But considering that Tang Xue might not respond, he changed the way he asked the question.
Unexpectedly, Tang Xue actually nodded.
This surprised Zhou Yi and Shi Tao very much. Yao Fenfang had already admitted that she strangled the newborn and disposed of the body by dismembering it, but why did Tang Xue say that the child was still alive?
"Could it be... that Yao Fenfang deliberately lied to Tang Xue and said the child was still alive and just given away in order to appease her?" Zhou Yi pondered.
Shi Tao said, "Well, I think it's possible! Think about it, this little girl is only eighteen years old, and she has already encountered such a thing. If she knew that her mother killed her child and flushed it down the drain, she would go crazy."
Just based on what she suddenly said at home before, "The baby is crying again", I'm afraid it is a sign that she has some mental problems.
"I'll let Yao Fenfang explain the answer to this question later. Sister Qiao, did you find out anything else?"
"I didn't get any other information out of her. After all, this girl didn't speak up, so it was very difficult to communicate with her. But while I was questioning her, I noticed that her right hand was constantly touching the bracelet on her left wrist."
"Bracelet?"
"Well, it's pretty ordinary in appearance, silver, evenly thick, with a small star-shaped pendant in the middle, just like the ones you see in jewelry stores. When I noticed it, I wanted to use it to get closer to her, so I complimented her on how beautiful the bracelet was. But then she suddenly nervously pulled her sleeve down."
"Bracelet? I know. I'll ask about it when I interrogate Yao Fenfang later." Zhou Yi finished chewing the duck leg and said, "Sister Qiao, please take Tang Xue to the infirmary for an examination, including a blood test for DNA. I just ran into Xu Nian and told her about it."
Qiao Jiali nodded.
"Captain Shi, I'm going to have to trouble you to check some information first." Zhou Yi told Shi Tao the idea he had just had.
Shi Tao agreed readily and said that he would go there in person later.
Zhou Yi picked up his almost finished plate and asked, as if remembering something, "By the way, Sister Qiao, where's Mr. Qin? I haven't seen him since I came back."
"Old Qin has left."
Zhou Yi was shocked: "Gone? When did they leave?"
"I left after the official autopsy report came out. Oh, Mr. Qin also left you a phone number. After you solve the case, give him a call and let him know. I left the number on your desk."
"Mr. Qin is so impulsive! I haven't even had time to thank him properly. Without him, we wouldn't have been able to find Yao Fenfang and Tang Xue."
During the actual investigation process, Yao Fenfang and her daughter had already conducted the investigation and found no suspicious points.
If Qin Beihai had not discovered and confirmed from the autopsy that it was a newborn baby, they would not have discovered it even if they had checked all the residents of the Donghai community twice.
Because their conventional thinking is to look for missing persons. After all, people have a fixed mindset that it is impossible for an unknown dead person to appear out of thin air. Someone must be missing and his whereabouts are unknown before he can become dead.
But who would have thought that the real deceased in this case actually appeared out of thin air.
Zhou Yi pushed open the door of the interrogation room and walked in.
Yao Fenfang in the room raised her head and met his eyes.
In just a moment, Yao Fenfang quickly lowered her head.
But Zhou Yi once again sensed a strange sense of incongruity. There was something wrong with Yao Fenfang's eyes at that moment!
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