Chapter 161 Old Case
The case suddenly became complicated.
——Is Zou Chengye a victim or a suspect?
——Are Cai Qinglian’s repeated reports of crimes related to Zou Chengye?
At this moment, everyone in the Serious Crime Unit 7 looked solemn.
What if all the abnormalities that Cai Qinglian encountered were caused by Zou Chengye? The trap from the person beside you is often silent, but deep and accurate.
Xia Mufan turned his gaze to Yue Yuan: "Master, what do you think about this matter?"
Just now when Yue Yuan came over with the case file, his expression looked a little strange. Xia Mufan felt that he must know something.
Yue Yuan said in a deep voice: "I do know about this case. Twelve years ago, I had just entered the industry for seven or eight years. It was the time when I had the most energy and the strongest sense of professionalism. I often discussed complex cases with my colleagues."
"At a gathering, I heard Brother Fang Yuan talk about this case. He was a criminal policeman in the Xing City Criminal Investigation Team at the time and participated in the Cai Qinglian case from beginning to end. He felt a little puzzled from the beginning to the end, and felt helpless about the final result."
"Brother Fang Yuan said that when he first saw Cai Qinglian report the case, she looked pale and was wearing a military green dress. Although her voice was trembling, she tried to calm herself down. She looked clear-headed and determined. But as the case progressed, she gradually changed her appearance. She hid in her husband's arms and trembled. She looked very pitiful."
"Senior brother also wanted to trust Cai Qinglian, but although she spoke with certainty, her words were found to be very weak after investigation. Cai Qinglian said that she received threatening calls in the office every day, but according to the call records of the telecommunications bureau, there were no calls at the time she said. This alone made the police suspicious and determined that Cai Qinglian was lying."
"If there is one, there will be two. Since Cai Qinglian would talk about the dinosaur and the phone call, then things like the threatening letter and seeing ghosts in the kitchen are more likely to be lies."
"At the time, the investigative technology was limited, and the investigators conducted a comprehensive screening of the people around Cai Qinglian, including family, friends, colleagues, and relatives, but found nothing. After eliminating all suspects, the police could only conclude that everything was imagined by Cai Qinglian, and all the abnormalities were directed and acted by her."
"After reaching this conclusion, the brothers and their colleagues became a little lax in their thinking and withdrew their protection of Cai Qinglian and her family, preparing to close the case. However, they never expected that harm would still occur."
"When the police from the street police station called and said that Cai Qinglian was almost strangled to death, my senior brothers and sisters were shocked and rushed to the scene. They saw Cai Qinglian lying in the bathroom of her home, looking very miserable, gasping for breath and with a belt around her neck."
"Cai Qinglian lived in the family building assigned by the bank. Their family lived on the first floor. Usually, only the three of them lived there, and no outsiders came in or out. Zou Chengye was on a business trip that day and did not have time to commit the crime."
"Brother Fang Yuan and his team reconstructed the case. Apart from Cai Qinglian's footprints, there were no other footprints in the bathroom. The angle at which Cai Qinglian was strangled was also very strange."
As Yue Yuan spoke, he raised his arms and gestured.
"It was just a soft belt hung upside down around the neck, with the other end tied to the window railing of the bathroom. The angle was also very strange, which was consistent with a person who first turned his back to the window, put the belt around his neck with both hands, tied the other end to your window railing, and then slid down to suffocate."
"Because there was no suspect, the brothers and sisters had a difficult discussion and finally, based on Cai Qinglian's mental state, classified this case as suicide."
suicide?
After hearing what Yue Yuan said, Gong Weiguo and others all shouted: "Cai Qinglian has a job, a future, a husband and a daughter, why would she commit suicide for no reason?"
Yue Yuan sighed: "But, Cai Qinglian said someone threatened to kill her, but there is no such suspect around her. Who would want to harm her for no reason?"
Gong Weiguo said, "Pah!", "What do you mean no one is trying to harm her? Her cheating husband is trying to harm her!"
Xia Mufan looked at Yue Yuan: "Why are there no suspects? There is Zou Chengye! Why didn't the police investigate Zou Chengye properly at the time? He must have cheated on her at the time, and he didn't want to bear the crime of taking the initiative to divorce, so he teamed up with Yu Yaxiu to harm her. Isn't this the motive for murder?"
Yue Yuan explained: "At that time, the Xing City police also listed Zou Chengye as the number one suspect, but after investigation, they found neither that he had cheated nor that he had the time or motive to commit the crime."
Xia Mufan's voice became a little angry: "How come there is no evidence? How did they investigate at that time? Zou Chengye didn't have the time to commit the crime, but Yu Yaxiu did. If Zou Chengye and Yu Yaxiu worked together to frame Cai Qinglian, then everything would make sense."
Yue Yuan's voice also became a little heavy: "Alas, yes, the police didn't find it at the time, but 12 years later, because of this case, the truth slowly surfaced. When I think of my brothers and others hurting an innocent person, I feel very uncomfortable."
The more he thought about it, the more annoyed Yue Yuan felt: "The direction of investigation is really important in the process of investigating a case. It is because we have ruled out the possibility that Zou Chengye committed the crime that my senior brothers and others have overlooked some details."
"Later, Cai Qinglian ran out of the house on a snowy day and stood in the yard of the unit where she froze to death. Zou Chengye said that he found her from the window and ran out to bring his wife back. But now thinking back, it is possible that Zou Chengye took Cai Qinglian out while she was sleeping and brought her back when she was almost frozen. This also explains why there were no footprints of a third person in the snow except those of Zou Chengye and Cai Qinglian."
"My senior brothers and sisters thought that Zou Chengye was a man of love and loyalty. If he hadn't discovered his wife's abnormality in time, Cai Qinglian would have frozen to death. Zou Chengye proposed a mental evaluation in order to protect his wife's safety. Cai Qinglian's family, including her brother, were really scared, worried that Cai Qinglian would do something to hurt herself without anyone knowing. In the end, they had to agree. After she was diagnosed with a mental illness, they reluctantly sent her to a psychiatric hospital for treatment."
Xia Mufan gritted his teeth and his fists stiffened.
Zou Chengye really had ulterior motives. He sent his wife to a mental hospital with his own hands, and still had a reputation as a good husband, so that his wife's family did not blame him at all.
Xia Mufan asked Yue Yuan: "Master, in your opinion, is there something fishy about this mental evaluation?"
Yue Yuan recalled the details of the incident: "I remember that my senior brother and his colleagues invited a psychiatrist from Xing City People's Hospital to provide psychological counseling for Cai Qinglian for a week. In the end, it was this doctor who concluded that Cai Qinglian suffered from a mental illness and recommended that she be sent to a corresponding hospital for treatment. It was also because of this doctor's advice that the case was finally closed and Cai Qinglian was sent to a mental hospital."
At this point, Yue Yuan sighed: "At that time, our level of cognition was limited, and we believed in authority. But now looking back, the identification of mental illness in China is not very standard and is relatively subjective. We should ask more doctors to judge Cai Qinglian's mental state."
Yue Yuan felt extremely heavy-hearted when he thought that this case might be a false conviction. "At that time, everyone listened to the experts. No one dared to refute the conclusions made by the experts. In fact, there were different voices in the criminal investigation team at that time, but no one took them seriously."
Gong Weiguo asked: "What is the different sound?"
Yue Yuan said: "A person who likes to read detective novels once mentioned that multiple personalities are indeed possible, but when one of the personalities wants to kill the main personality, the self-defense function of the person will be activated, the secondary personality will immediately disappear, and the main personality will appear. It is impossible for Cai Qinglian to almost kill herself twice. In other words, Cai Qinglian may have delusions that she was killed, but it is difficult for her to commit self-harm. However, this psychologist did not think so. He tested Cai Qinglian, gave her a set of questionnaires, and finally issued a report, concluding that she was mentally ill."
Xia Mufan said: "At that time, this case was actually controversial within the Xing City Criminal Investigation Team, but in the end they succumbed to the expert's appraisal report, right?"
Yue Yuan nodded.
Xia Mufan said: "Since it is controversial, why not handle it properly, but instead force Cai Qinglian to be sent to a mental hospital? Don't they know that this conclusion will ruin Cai Qinglian's life?"
Yue Yuan looked at her temper. There were little flames of anger in her eyes. She was obviously very dissatisfied with the investigation results of this case, so she explained: "Maybe they think that if all this is really caused by Cai Qinglian's illness, then letting her be hospitalized for treatment should be the best help for her. After all, if you are sick, you should treat the disease."
Xia Mufan gritted his teeth and said, "If Cai Qinglian has a mental illness, the best help should be the companionship, understanding and help of her family. The police came to this conclusion and sent her to a mental hospital, which is equivalent to branding her as a mental patient. The company will no longer employ her, and her family and friends will stay away from her. This is such a cruel thing for Cai Qinglian."
Having said that, Xia Mufan couldn't bear it any longer and slapped the table with a "bang!" sound.
"From the current situation, it seems that the Xing City police have completely become Zou Chengye's accomplice. This is simply stupid."
When Xia Mufan said this, his tone was sonorous and powerful, which made Yue Yuan's eyebrows twitch. Alas, his fellow apprentices were scolded, but Yue Yuan could not find a reason to defend them; his apprentice slammed the table in front of him, but Yue Yuan could not lose his temper and could only smile bitterly.
"Ahem, Xia Mufan, he is my senior brother after all, please give your uncle some face. I had forgotten about these cases, but when I saw the files, I suddenly remembered them. What happened to Cai Qinglian 12 years ago is highly similar to what happened to Zou Chengye 12 years later. This gave me a bad feeling. It is possible that my senior brothers and their colleagues had wrongly judged the case."
Gong Weiguo said quickly: "What's possible? I think it's 100% true! Zou Chengye just sent his wife to a mental hospital, and then divorced and transferred away, remarried and had a child. This set of operations was as smooth as flowing water. If it wasn't him, who else could it be? After 12 years, the Cai family wants Zou Chengye to pay for his blood debt with blood. They did nothing wrong!"
Although Yue Yuan said that he wanted to save some face for Brother Fang Yuan and the others, his attitude towards the case was very upright: "You guys investigate carefully. If it is really the police's fault, I will communicate with the Xing City police to redress Cai Qinglian's injustice. We will never tolerate those who harmed her, and we must make them accept the punishment of the law!"
The more Yue Yuan thought about it, the angrier he became. He hated Zou Chengye, who had cheated on his wife but pretended to love her dearly, and who had played the police of Xing City at their own game. He shouted, "Xia Mufan, call Zou Chengye to our Criminal Investigation Team immediately. You are responsible for the interrogation. Ask him clearly!"
Sun Xianbing asked weakly: "But, we don't have any evidence right now. If we ask Zou Chengye, he will definitely not admit it even if he dies."
Yue Yuan glanced at him and said, "If you don't have evidence, then use reason and emotion to persuade him. Do you still need me to teach you this?"
Xia Mufan understood what Yue Yuan meant and said loudly, "Okay, I'll go and invite Zou Chengye to the Criminal Investigation Brigade for tea. The tea in the interrogation room is more refreshing, and maybe it can help him remember the things he was about to forget twelve years ago."
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