Chapter 26 The mystery of the dismembered body: a substitute?

Fang Rui and Xiao Zhang went to the police station again to learn about the dispute between Liu Jiale and Ye Zeming.

"Liu Jiale beat Ye Zeming, and in the scuffle, Ye Zeming's left leg was fractured. Originally, we wanted to detain Liu Jiale, but Ye Zeming said that he fell down by himself and would not hold Liu Jiale responsible. The two finally reached a settlement."

Fang Rui asked, "Why did Liu Jiale beat Ye Zeming?"

"It seems to be because of money. Liu Jiale said that Ye Zeming promised to give him 5 million, but Ye Zeming never gave it to him. He was in a hurry to use the money, so he used force to force Ye Zeming to give him the money!"

Fang Rui asked the police for the transcript of the incident.

After leaving the police station, Xiao Zhang asked in confusion: "It is said that Ye Zeming's assets are over 100 million, and he also owns a large villa. Could it be that he can't even take out 5 million?"

Fang Rui was also puzzled: "And why did he give money to Liu Jiale? He seems to be very afraid of Liu Jiale. Xiao Zhang, go and check Ye Zeming's transfer records."

To their surprise, Ye Zeming was not as rich as rumored by the outside world, but was in debt.

He originally had two commercial houses and a villa in his name, but half a year ago, all these real estates were mortgaged. Even so, Ye Zeming still owed the bank a loan of more than 10 million.

Xiao Zhang suddenly realized: "No wonder Lin Lan said he was going abroad recently. He was not planning to escape debt, was he? Boss, do you think it is possible that it was not Ye Zeming who died, but someone else?"

Fang Rui was also a little shocked. Ye Zeming is an artist. Even if he spends money like water, he should not owe so much foreign debt, right?

The bank staff helped to check Ye Zeming's bank statements. Ye Zeming had several large transfers, and the receiving accounts were all overseas accounts, and now those accounts have been cancelled.

"All the money was transferred overseas. Could it be that Ye Zeming was defrauded by telecommunications fraud? Or did he gamble? Otherwise, such a large transfer would not be possible!"

Fang Rui asked Xiao Zhang to check the insurance purchase situation of Ye Zeming.

"Captain Fang, you guessed right. Ye Zeming did buy insurance. Half a year ago, he bought three personal accident insurance policies with high payout amounts. The beneficiary of one of the policies is Lin Lan, and the beneficiaries of the other two are Ye Zeling. He also bought insurance for his own villa, and the beneficiary is also Ye Zeling."

Xiao Zhang couldn't help but sigh: "Boss, if the results of the DNA test hadn't shown that the deceased was really Ye Zeming, I would have suspected that he had faked his death to defraud the insurance."

Fang Rui originally suspected that this was a murder case, but now he also began to doubt it. Was the deceased really Ye Zeming?

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Mu Mian has been working overtime for many days in a row. When Fang Rui arrived at the autopsy room, he found that Mu Mian had messed up the body parts and was putting them back together like a jigsaw puzzle.

Mu Mian was a little irritated. She didn't like this state where she couldn't solve the problem.

"Doctor Mu, do you have any other way to determine the identity of the deceased?"

Fang Rui's words brought Mu Mian back to reality from her fantasy.

"The confessions of the deceased's neighbors, the confession of the deceased's sister, and the telephone recording can all confirm that the deceased was alive around nine o'clock on the day of the crime. But I also believe in your autopsy conclusion. The two are contradictory, so I can only doubt whether the deceased is Ye Zeming."

Mu Mian was a little surprised: "Do you believe me?"

"Of course."

Mu Mian felt less irritated.

"But it's a bit difficult to prove whether the deceased is Ye Zeming. The fire has burned away his appearance, and the only record of tooth extraction that can prove his identity has been deleted."

"The deceased had an apprentice named Liu Jiale, and now he is missing. I even have some doubts, could the body at the fire scene be Liu Jiale?"

Fang Rui took out a photo and handed it to Mu Mian. It was a photo of Liu Jiale and Ye Zeming. From the photo, although Liu Jiale and Ye Zeming look different, their height and body shape are very similar.

Moreover, Liu Jiale grew up in a single-parent family. His hometown is also in Yuan'an County, the same place as Ye Zeming's brothers and sisters. He is very likely the illegitimate son of Ye Zeming's father as Lin Lan said before.

The face of the body at the fire scene had been burned beyond recognition. If it weren't for the DNA test proving that the deceased was related to Ye Zeling, he would have suspected that the body was the missing Liu Jiale.

"Mu Mian, do you have any other way to confirm whether the deceased is Ye Zeming? Ye Zeming owes a lot of debts, and he also bought several insurance policies. We can't rule out the possibility that he faked his death to defraud the insurance."

Although the DNA samples extracted from Ye Zeling and Lin Lan's homes matched the DNA of the deceased, if the murderer really had a plan to fake his death, he might have replaced the DNA sample long ago.

"I'll do my best."

Mu Mian was about to put the body together. She put the deceased's left calf in place. Just as she was about to put the broken soft tissue in, she found a scar of surgery on the deceased's knee. She cut open the deceased's knee and found a titanium bone nail on his joint.

"Fang Rui, I have a way to prove whether this person is Ye Zeming." Mu Mian stared at the bone nail and smiled excitedly.

Fang Rui looked in the direction of Mu Mian's sight and saw only a metal nail on the joint of the deceased, which should have been used to fix the broken joint.

"What is this?"

Mu Mian took out the bone nail and carefully put it into the evidence bag.

"Fang Rui, let's go to the hospital now."

"Which hospital?"

"I don't know, let's go one by one."

Mu Mian quickly tidied up the autopsy room and pushed the body into the freezer to refrozen it.

After leaving the city police station, the night was very dark, with few stars, and only a few lights were left in the originally bustling city.

When Fang Rui parked the car in their neighborhood, Mu Mian was a little surprised: "Aren't we going to the hospital?"

"Mu Mian, doctors have to sleep."

"But..."

"Good night!"

The answer was right in front of them, but they had to wait until tomorrow to find out. Mu Mian didn't know how Fang Rui could sleep, but Mu Mian couldn't sleep anyway, so she didn't close her eyes all night, and then waited at Fang Rui's door early the next morning.

As soon as Fang Rui opened the door, he saw Mu Mian with two dark circles under her eyes. Her short hair was messy and her appearance was very sloppy, but her eyes were bright and energetic.

"Fang Rui, let's go!"

Mu Mian's strategy was to ask each hospital one by one. But Fang Rui remembered that Liu Jiale and Ye Zeming went to the police station because Ye Zeming's leg was injured. So he went to the First Affiliated Hospital of the City first.

"This is a titanium alloy bone nail. Judging from the number on it, it should have come from our hospital. Go ask the orthopedics department."

Mu Mian found the person in charge of orthopedics again.

"This titanium alloy bone nail is used to fix bones after a fracture. This one came from our hospital, and it has a special code for our hospital."

"Based on this code, can you find the user of this titanium alloy bone nail?"

"Of course you can!"

The nurse on duty quickly helped to retrieve the user's medical file.