Chapter 771
There are a lot of shoes neatly arranged in the cabinet, including high heels, leather shoes, and cloth shoes, all neatly sized.
When Xiao Xu took out the pair of Liberation shoes from the top layer, his fingertips suddenly touched something sharp.
He lowered his voice and said, "Master, there are glass shards."
Captain Peng leaned over to take a look and saw several pieces of broken glass the size of fingernails stuck in the gaps of the shoe cabinet partitions. The edges were sharp and there was some green substance on them.
He carefully picked up a piece with tweezers and held it up to the light. The glass was transparent and of uniform thickness, a bit like the fragments of a fish tank, and the dark green flocs looked like moss growing in a humid environment.
Captain Peng placed the glass fragments in the evidence bag and turned to ask, "Comrade Wang, you said you threw away the fish tank, so why is there still broken glass in the cabinet?"
Wang Dachui's face turned pale instantly, and his lips trembled: "I've been confused these past few days, and I accidentally broke it while cleaning it up. Maybe some debris fell in there at that time."
Captain Peng didn't respond, but just raised his chin towards his colleague.
Immediately, a police officer stepped forward and said to Wang Dachui and Wang Yue, who was silent beside him:
"Alright, we need to do a further survey of this place. Please stay in the room with your daughter for now."
Wang Yue suddenly looked up, a trace of panic flashed in his eyes, but he quickly lowered his head again, his nails digging deeply into his palms.
Wang Dachui and Wang Yue were confined to the room and watched by someone. The chirping of cicadas outside the window suddenly became harsh, as if sounding a wake-up call for the father and daughter, who had their own ulterior motives.
Captain Peng and other officers performed luminol operations on the entrance hall.
Luminol is a commonly used chemiluminescent reagent used to detect extremely small amounts of blood at crime scenes. Even if the blood has been wiped off, diluted or simply cleaned, it may still be detected.
The Wang family's curtains were very thick, and when they were drawn the living room was pitch black.
Xiao Xu put on gloves, a mask, and goggles, and used a plastic spray bottle to spray evenly at a distance of about 30 to 50 cm from the suspicious area, so that the reagent covered the entire surface to be inspected.
In just a moment, the entrance was suddenly lit up with patches of blue-green fluorescence, like a glowing carpet.
Extending from the front of the shoe cabinet to the door, the fluorescent light has an irregular shape, thick in some places and thin in others. The densest area is right opposite the light-colored mark on the top of the shoe cabinet, like a pool of blood that once flowed.
Luminol reagent will fluoresce when it comes into contact with blood, and the brightness and range of this fluorescence in front of us indicate that there was once a large amount of blood here.
Captain Peng signaled his colleague with the camera to collect evidence as quickly as possible, because the luminol's luminescence time is limited, about 30 seconds.
At this time, Wang Dachui and Wang Yue, who were feeling guilty, were sitting in the room feeling uneasy.
I don’t know how much time has passed. Wang Dachui is pacing anxiously, while Wang Yue is sitting on the edge of the bed with a worried look in his eyes. Finally, the door of the room opened.
"Comrade, can we go out now?" Wang Dachui spoke first, his voice filled with deliberately suppressed urgency.
Captain Peng walked in, his eyes as cold as ice:
"Wang Dachui, Wang Yue, you are suspected of murdering Liu Xu. Come back to the police station with me now for investigation."
Wang Dachui suddenly jumped up, his face flushed red. "No, no! I'm innocent!!! How could I possibly kill my wife? Comrade, you have to provide evidence when you speak."
"Evidence? Then let me ask you, where are Liu Xu's other jewelry? Why didn't we check with the residents nearby and find no one saw him the night he disappeared?
And... do you think that if you wipe off the blood, we won't be able to detect it?"
Wang Dachui slumped on the ground, his face ashen. The shouts that had just been arguing with reason turned into hoarse gasps, like a crow with its neck strangled.
Xiao Xu took out the handcuffs, and the sound of the metal chains colliding was particularly harsh in the quiet room.
The moment the cold metal cuffed his wrists, Wang Dachui suddenly turned around and glared at Wang Yue like a madman, roaring:
"Didn't I tell you to clean up the blood? How did you find it?"
A fierce look flashed in Wang Yue's eyes. Wang Dachui was trying to drag her into this. She then sharply retorted, "You killed the man. What does it have to do with me?"
Captain Peng sneered:
"Heh, if you had studied harder in school, you'd probably figure out how we found out. Now, all of you have to follow me! We'll have time to talk slowly when we get to the police station."
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Three days later, Su Miao received a call from Uncle Feng and learned the whole process of the case.
"The two half-brothers, father and daughter, started to fight each other as soon as they were caught. Later, the serious crime team combined physical evidence with their confessions and finally sorted out their criminal process.
After Wang Dachui failed in stock trading, your mother started saving money and hid the passbook under the mattress.
She was always on guard against Wang Dachui, but did not raise her guard against Wang Yue.
It was summer vacation during this period, and Wang Yue's classmates organized an activity to go to Bai City to visit the revolutionary site. She asked Wang Dachui for money, but Wang Dachui was extremely poor now, so naturally he was unwilling to pay for her to go.
In a fit of anger, Wang Yue told Wang Dachui about his mother's hidden money. Wang Dachui took the passbook to withdraw the money, and also took the two gold bracelets and sold them to the gold miner.
When he went home to take some more jewelry to sell to his friends to raise money to pay off his debts, he happened to find that he had saved the missing willow catkins.
The two started fighting. According to Wang Dachui, he accidentally pushed Liu Xu down, causing her to break the fish tank and die.
Because he was too scared, he and Wang Yue cleaned up the house and threw Liu Xu's body into the river.
Wang Dachui's car had already been sold, and he borrowed a friend's car the next night to transport the body. We have also recovered some physical evidence from that car."
There was a hint of coldness in Su Miao's tone: "Accident? I don't believe he did it by mistake."
Uncle Feng sighed: "This is Wang Dachui's statement. We haven't closed the case yet because Wang Yue gave a different statement.
She said that Wang Dachui had been beating and scolding Liu Xu frequently since his business went bad. That night, he had forced Liu Xu's head into the fish tank, which was a completely different matter.
Su Miao thought about it and realized that the father and daughter, who were not related by blood, were bound together by interests. Once something happened, they would be the first to break up.
"Wang Yue testified against Wang Dachui? But regardless, Wang Yue helped clean up the murder scene and dispose of the body. Doesn't that make him an accomplice who knowingly and assisted in the crime?"
"She not only testified, but also described the details of the cleanup at the scene. Based on her account, her temporary participation in the aftermath of the murder can indeed be considered a joint crime."
But Wang Yue said that he was forced to participate. If that were the real situation, the sentence would be different.
And... now there is a special situation, that is... she is pregnant."
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