Chapter 253 It’s All My fault
Zhou Yi had seen many murderers of all kinds in his previous life.
There are those who are as vicious as Long Zhiqiang, as cunning as Xu Jiaguang, and there are also those who are full of regret and feel wronged.
But he had never seen any murderer show the expression Yao Fenfang had just now.
Although it was only a moment, Zhou Yi had a feeling that Yao Fenfang had been waiting for him to come in.
The look in his eyes at that moment was very complicated, containing many emotions, but the only thing missing was the fear that a murderer should have.
Zhou Yi's original intention of leaving her out in the cold was to make her more anxious and frightened while waiting.
This is a simple psychological tactic.
After being arrested, many criminal suspects will have a posture of being ready to fight back, whether they are lying or refusing to cooperate. If they are left alone at this time, during the retrial, most of their fighting spirit will be gone and their composure will be disrupted.
Zhou Yi and He Bin sat down, and Shi Tao asked He Bin to assist him in the interrogation.
After completing the normal procedures and asking basic information, Zhou Yi went straight to the point.
"Yao Fenfang, tell me the whole story of how you murdered Tang Xue's child from beginning to end, including the time, place, and events. Don't leave anything out."
Yao Fenfang sniffed and nodded: "Okay."
"February 28th was a Thursday, and I was working the day shift. Our factory operates a two-shift system: two days of daytime work, two days of nighttime work, and two days off. Each shift lasts twelve hours. So when I got home from get off work that day, it was already past 8:30."
"When I was on day shift, I'd prepare the food and leave it there. Xiaoxue could just heat it up and eat it when she got home from school. Later, when she got older and could cook for herself, she'd cook for herself while I was on day shift and then go back to her room to do her homework. That day, too, when I came back, she was doing her homework in her room. I pushed the door open and asked if she'd eaten. She said she had, so I closed the door, cleaned the room, and went to sleep."
"Around one in the morning, I heard painful cries coming from the hut. At first, I thought I had misheard or that it was a sound outside, but when I listened carefully, I realized it seemed to be coming from the hut. I quickly ran over to take a look and found that she was pregnant, her water had broken, and she was about to give birth."
"I was stunned at the time. I wanted to ask her what was going on, but she was in so much pain she just kept grabbing my hand and yelling 'Mom, save me, Mom, save me'."
"We don't have a phone at home because it's too expensive to install one, but our neighbors across the street do. I rushed out to borrow their phone to call an ambulance. But just as I was about to knock on the door, my mind suddenly cleared up. If I send her to the hospital, the whole world will know that Xiaoxue had given birth. How will she live her life in the future? She still has to go to college and get married."
"So I decided not to send the baby to the hospital. I would deliver the baby myself. I had a natural birth with Xiaoxue before, so I knew that as long as the baby's position was correct and there were no problems like the umbilical cord wrapped around the neck, a home birth would be possible."
"Fortunately, the process went smoothly."
Seventeen years old is considered a minor in modern society, but in ancient times, people could actually get married and have children.
What Yao Fenfang said is also true. Giving birth at home is not difficult, but the difficult part is the disinfection and treatment after giving birth.
When Yao Fenfang said this, she looked up and asked hesitantly, "Do you want to describe this process in detail?"
Zhou Yi thought for a moment and then asked, "Did anything special happen in the meantime?"
Yao Fenfang shook her head, "No...no."
"Then let's skip it."
"Okay. Xiaoxue fell asleep after giving birth. She was too tired. She had to suffer this at such a young age..." Yao Fenfang's expression was full of pain.
"Then, I looked at the child and wondered what to do with him. I couldn't keep him. If I kept him, there would be no explanation. As I was thinking, I don't know why, but I reached out and grabbed his neck."
"When I came to my senses, the child was already dead. I... I feel so sorry for this child. He shouldn't have been born into this world. I can only work like a slave in my next life and repay him..."
Yao Fenfang gestured helplessly, as if she wanted to cover her face and cry, but she couldn't do it because her hands were restrained. She was at a loss for what to do for a moment.
Zhou Yi had been frowning throughout her explanation, not interrupting her. When he heard this, he suddenly asked, "Have you ever thought of giving this child away?"
Yao Fenfang shook her head. "How am I going to explain to anyone where this child came from? Besides, I don't even know who to give him to."
"Then why don't you take him out and throw him away? Wrap him in a blanket and find an intersection to put him down. It shouldn't be difficult, right? No one will find you in the middle of the night. By daybreak, kind-hearted people will naturally call the police. Even if they investigate, they won't be able to trace it back to you." Zhou Yi said with cold eyes, "That's a life, and you just strangled it so easily?"
Yao Fenfang was stunned for a moment, her eyes clearly showing some shock.
After being stunned for a long time, she finally said, "I... I was confused at the time, I didn't... I didn't expect..."
Zhou Yi finally grasped some possibilities and asked, "After you strangled the child to death, what did you do with the body?"
Yao Fenfang began to describe how she dismembered the body with a kitchen knife at home and then flushed the body through the squat toilet in the bathroom.
When Zhou Yi brought Yao Fenfang and Tang Xue back to the Municipal Bureau, he took a special look at her bathroom. It was not a toilet, but a squat toilet.
Compared to a toilet, a squat toilet has the advantage of a wider opening and stronger flushing force, but its disadvantage is that it is not as hygienic as a toilet.
If it is a newborn baby, it does not require a lot of dismemberment like an adult corpse, and can be disposed of by squatting in the toilet.
Except for the head.
Zhou Yi asked her, "So you used a knife to dismember the body and then flushed it away through the sewage pipe?"
Yao Fenfang nodded, but then suddenly seemed to remember something and immediately shook her head and said, "There's also... there's also a hammer. Because some parts can't be punched through, I can only break them up and then punch through."
Zhou Yi suddenly asked: "Is he a boy or a girl?"
"What?" Yao Fenfang was stunned again, then replied with a slightly trembling voice, "Girl...girl."
"You did all this, and your daughter didn't notice it?"
"No, she was sleeping very soundly. She didn't know anything. I did it all by myself." Yao Fenfang said anxiously.
"Then she said the child was still alive, what's the matter?"
After hearing this, Zhou Yi observed that Yao Fenfang's shoulders, which had been tense, dropped slightly.
This reaction showed that she suddenly felt relieved.
She replied: "After she woke up, she cried and looked for her child. I lied to her and said I gave the child to someone else to raise. Then she kept crying and crying for a long time."
"I feel sorry for her, but I really can't do anything."
Zhou Yi already had the answer in his mind.
"Yao Fenfang, is your daughter wearing a silver bracelet on her wrist?" Zhou Yi asked.
Yao Fenfang was a little confused by this seemingly irrelevant question. "Well...it seems so."
"Do you know where this bracelet came from?"
Yao Fenfang shook her head. "I don't know. She must have bought it from a small shop outside. She bought something like this before, but I scolded her for wasting money, so I never saw her buy it again. I guess she bought it secretly without my knowledge. What's wrong with this bracelet?"
"Just asking." Zhou Yi then asked some trivial details, and Yao Fenfang answered them one by one with a very correct and cooperative attitude.
At the end of the interrogation, when she was asked to review the transcript and sign it, Zhou Yi said, "Yao Fenfang, I need to remind you that once you sign, everything you say becomes legally binding. You'd better think carefully. If you did it, admit it. If it wasn't you, don't try to shield others. Shielding others is also a crime."
Yao Fenfang lowered her head and signed impatiently without saying a word.
After coming out of the interrogation room and returning to the Third Brigade office, Zhou Yi's first words to Qiao Jiali were, "Yao Fenfang is lying. She didn't kill the child. It was most likely Tang Xue who did."
Qiao Jiali was shocked. That introverted little girl who couldn't even answer properly?
Zhou Yi gave reasons for his analysis.
First, whether during the initial questioning or at the beginning of the interrogation, Yao Fenfang showed an eagerness to confess her crimes.
This is very abnormal because she did not surrender herself. If she did, it would be understandable that she actively confessed for the purpose of reducing her sentence.
She was clearly suspected during the police investigation, and the police had come to her house once before, but she drove them away in a domineering manner.
Second, when she confessed the crime, she described the entire criminal process and details too clearly and comprehensively.
The vast majority of people without a criminal record would not be able to remain calm and collected when faced with a murder case.
Because from a scientific point of view, when people are highly nervous, the brain nerves will become abnormally excited and spasmodic, which will affect their normal functions. This is what people often call a blank mind. This is a physiological phenomenon.
Therefore, Yao Fenfang's various reactions show that the crime process she described was prepared in advance, and must have been rehearsed many times before to be so smooth.
Zhou Yi basically did not interrupt her when she was describing the crime, also to confirm this point.
There is a clear difference between ordinary people telling the truth and actors reciting their lines.
He also suspected that Yao Fenfang and Tang Xue had colluded with each other in advance. Not only did Tang Xue say that the child was still alive at Yao Fenfang's request, but even Tang Xue's attitude might have been deliberately taught by Yao Fenfang.
Because the third point is that Yao Fenfang was very calm when she mentioned the murdered child, but when she mentioned her daughter Tang Xue, she immediately became very emotional.
Because she didn't kill the child, and she might not have even seen the child at all, so she was stunned when Zhou Yi suddenly asked about the child's gender.
All signs indicate that Yao Fenfang is taking the blame for Tang Xue.
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