Chapter 2964-2976 [Case Closed]
"It's already very hard to move a corpse, let alone a corpse hidden in a sofa." Under Jiang Xia's encouraging gaze, Hashimoto Maya estimated the weight of the corpse and the sofa, and then came to the conclusion like a serious detective assistant:
"The murderer probably didn't expect that the sofa he threw away would be taken away and resold. Normally, the sofa would be taken away by the garbage truck and disposed of. In this case, the murderer would not deliberately throw the sofa far away - I think he actually lives nearby, and may even be a resident of this building."
As he was talking, two middle-aged housewives walked out of the apartment building. They chatted as they walked: "Mr. Tokunaga is so scary. When I came home this afternoon, I saw him laughing as he opened the door. I almost thought it was the thief who broke into the house and picked the lock."
Jiang Xia's ears twitched and he looked at them - the "Mr. Deyong" mentioned by the two was the neighbor of the buyer.
Another housewife was surprised when she heard her friend's words: "He can actually laugh. I thought he was born with a wooden face."
Housewife No. 1 muttered, "It seems like something good happened to him. Maybe he won the lottery?"
Housewife No. 2 waved her hand and said, "He is such a cautious person that he would look down at his keys three times before leaving the house. He would never get involved in something as pure as the lottery."
Housewife No. 1: "Oh, let's not talk about him anymore, it's boring - compared to all this, has the thief been caught? He always steals in our area. If he doesn't get caught, I'm going to install a few more locks at home."
The two chatted about various trivial topics and strolled to a nearby pub to drink.
Officer Takagi didn't pay much attention to this little episode. He pondered over what Hashimoto Maya said and understood something: "Speaking of residents, the buyer is also a resident here... Could it be that she dragged the sofa downstairs after killing someone, and wanted to drive over to take it away, but the sofa was taken away by the furniture store clerk first, so she had to rush to the furniture store and buy the sofa back?"
Conan scratched his head and said, "The garbage station is some distance away from the apartment building. If what you said is true, the sofa should have been picked up at the door of the apartment, not at the garbage station more than ten meters away. In addition, why didn't she drive the car to the door in advance and wait?"
Officer Takagi was stunned: "That's right."
Conan looked at the man who didn't know anything, shook his head and sighed, then turned to Jiang Xia and muttered, "Corpse hiding cases are usually murders by acquaintances. In order to prevent the police from finding him through investigating the deceased's interpersonal relationships, the murderer tried every means to make the body disappear. But in this case, the murderer would usually hide the body in the mountains. Why was this body hidden in a sofa on the street?"
Jiang Xia: "We need to ask Mr. Deyong about this - the buyer's neighbor who provided us with the clue just now."
Conan: “……?”
Wait, everyone is still reading the questions, what are you doing?! Besides, shouldn’t you lay the groundwork for such a big thing as announcing the murderer? Why are you just...!
After a pause, Conan tried to think positively: "You mean, the neighbor knows something?"
Jiang Xia glanced at him doubtfully, as if he felt that he was not as smart as before: "I mean, the neighbor is the murderer."
“…”
The fake elementary school student's heart finally settled down.
Meanwhile, the policeman's heart dropped in another way - Officer Gao Mu didn't hear what they whispered before, but he heard Jiang Xia's last words. He came over with shining eyes: "Murderer? You found the murderer!"
Jiang Xia nodded: "It should be that Mr. Deyong had a conflict with the deceased and wanted to dispose of the body, but he was too late. So he had to temporarily hide the deceased in the sofa and moved it downstairs. He planned to dispose of the body the next morning after finishing the night shift.
"During this time, he went out to prepare some items for disposing of the body, but when he came back, he found that the sofa that was placed at the garbage point was gone.
"Before he could figure out what to do with the body, someone else took it away. The bewildered murderer suddenly felt like a burden had been lifted from his shoulders, so he was in high spirits when he returned home and was seen by the two ladies who had just come downstairs.
"But he didn't expect that the body that disappeared was actually sent back downstairs not long after he was happy. So when the police came to find him, he suddenly had an idea and made up a piece of information based on Officer Takagi's questions, trying to put the blame of the murder on the lady who bought the sofa."
"Wait, wait." Conan pressed his temples, feeling question marks popping up in his mind one after another. Nothing seemed to make sense. In the past, even if Jiang Xia had revealed the answer in advance, he would have been able to connect everything in a flash. But this time...
Conan frowned, feeling that everything was illogical: "Why did he have to dump the body outside instead of hiding it in his own house?"
Jiang Xia: "You heard the complaints of the two ladies just now - there have been a lot of thieves in this area recently. If the murderer went out to buy something and the house was broken into by thieves and the body was found, it would be troublesome. In comparison, if the body is left outside, even if it is discovered, there is still room for quibbling."
Conan tried to think from the murderer's perspective, and felt even more headache: "But no matter how you think about it, the chance of the body being discovered at home is lower than dumping it outside. To put it another way, killing is more important than going to work. He could have taken a day off and concentrated on dumping the body."
Jiang Xia shook his head: "When a murderer has just killed someone, his mentality often becomes fragile and sensitive, especially a novice who kills for the first time. I just asked the police officers from the police station who came to help, and they said that because there are always thieves in this area, they will drive a police car to patrol at 10 am and 3 pm every day, and play broadcasts to remind residents to pay attention to anti-theft.
"If the murderer has just killed someone and is in a daze, and suddenly a police car passes by the window, broadcasting news such as 'Recently, there have been many thefts in Shuguang Town, please be careful', then the murderer will naturally imagine a series of terrible scenes in his mind, such as when he left, the thief took advantage of the opportunity to break in and find the body.
"Governed by this fear, he certainly didn't want to keep the body in his home any longer. So he immediately hid the body in the sofa and threw the sofa downstairs to deal with it later."
(End of this chapter)
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