Chapter 30 The mystery of the dismembered body: surveillance evidence

"Comrade police, do you suspect that I killed Ye Zeming?"

Liu Jiale became instantly excited, "If I wanted to kill him, shouldn't I have killed him long ago? Why did I set fire to the house? Why do you suspect me? I am a good person with a clean record..."

Fang Rui interrupted him, "The good person was just here, and you still tried to kill Ye Zeling."

"I..." Liu Jiale suddenly lost his confidence, but he quickly said, "I was reading books in the city library that day looking for inspiration. I read from seven in the morning, one song at a time, and read from five in the afternoon, and even ate bread in there for lunch. You can check the surveillance, the murderer is definitely not me!"

Fang Rui asked someone to retrieve the library's surveillance. I don’t know if it was a coincidence, but the position where Liu Jiale was reading was facing the camera, and the surveillance captured his behavior clearly.

Liu Jiale entered the library at 7:05. He found a few art books and then sat down to read. He read very seriously, and except for going to the toilet in the middle, he did not leave his seat.

When Liu Jiale saw Fang Rui and Xiao Zhang come in again, he showed a smug smile, "Comrade police, have you proved my innocence? Then can I go back? My sculpture still needs some finishing work, and I need to go back and finish it as soon as possible."

Xiao Zhang was a little unhappy to see his smug smile, but they did not have evidence to prove that Liu Jiale was related to Ye Zeming's case.

Fang Rui glanced at him coldly and said, "Sorry, you can't go back yet."

"You are not trying to frame me, are you? This is a society ruled by law. You can't detain me at will."

"Yes, this is a society ruled by law, so attacking a police officer is illegal! We need to detain you first, and wait for the hospital to issue an injury report, and then we will see whether to sue you!"

Liu Jiale's originally smug smile collapsed in an instant.

As soon as they left the interrogation room, Xiao Zhang analyzed: "Captain Fang, I think this Liu Jiale is the murderer. Look at his smug smile, he is so arrogant that he almost revealed himself to be the murderer. And the library's surveillance was right at him, he did it on purpose, so that he could create an alibi for himself."

Fang Rui thought that Liu Jiale's sudden attack on Ye Zeling was very strange. Even if Liu Jiale was in a hurry to use the money, there was no need to use such an extreme method to ask for money.

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Fang Rui returned to the office and saw Mu Mian sitting in his seat waiting for him.

"Fang Rui, I declare that green is my lucky color from now on." Mu Mian's tone was very excited, and her face clearly said: Ask me why.

Fang Rui asked cooperatively, "Why?"

"I have come to a conclusion. This conclusion is not very rigorous, but I think it will help you solve the case," Mu Mian took out a report and handed it to Fang Rui, "The deceased may have died in a certain Zhou Xi."

Fang Rui remembered the green cake that Mu Mian was very interested in. The sign next to the cake seemed to say Zhou Xi Special.

"Because of the green cake?"

"Yes. We found undigested green cake in the stomach of the deceased. At that time, I thought the color was very special, not like matcha color or pigment. But I don't know what's special about it. I first saw the green velvet cake in my store in Lin Lan. I have compared them, and the ingredients of the two cakes are the same."

The fire occurred on June 12, a Monday.

"This cake is only sold by Zhou Xi, but the fire happened on Monday. Logically, the deceased could not eat that piece of cake on Monday."

Mu Mian continued to explain: "So I reasonably suspect that the real time of death of the deceased is very likely Zhou Xi, which is June 8th."

Fang Rui suddenly remembered that the day Liu Jiale disappeared seemed to be June 8th.

"Of course, the above reasoning is not rigorous. So I only tell you."

If the time of death of the deceased is pushed forward, then the alibis of many people will be overturned.

"Forensic Doctor Mu, you are so biased. You didn't tell us when you found the doubts, and only told the boss." Xiao Zhang said suddenly.

Mu Mian was stunned. When did Xiao Zhang appear?

"I was already here when you said the first word."

"..."

Xiao Zhang analyzed, "Doctor Mu, according to your reasoning, the deceased has been dead for several days, and the body should have been rotten. Then shouldn't you have discovered it immediately during the autopsy?"

"Yes, this involves another loose conclusion I came to."

Mu Mian sighed, "I suspect that the murderer froze the body immediately after killing the deceased. The ultra-low temperature prevented the body from changing shape. Then the fire destroyed the body's surface features, interfering with the forensic doctor's judgment."

"When the explosion occurred, the body should have been frozen. That's why I thought it was as fragile as a sculpture."

Mu Mian felt that her analysis was correct, but there was no actual evidence to prove her inference, because unfortunately, when she dissected the body, the body had already been frozen once in the freezer. Mu Mian

thought of Ye Zeling again. It was all Ye Zeling's fault for dragging the body and wasting her time.

Xiao Zhang was stunned, "This murderer is too smart!"

But Xiao Zhang soon found another suspicious point: "Then how do we explain that several people have received calls from Ye Zeming. The technical department has analyzed the phone recordings. It is not a synthetic recording, but a real human voice."

Fang Rui said to Xiao Zhang: "Xiao Zhang, go check Ye Zeming's electricity bill to see if there are any fluctuations in electricity consumption recently."

"Okay!"

The results of the investigation came out quickly. Ye Zeming's family's electricity consumption rose abnormally on June 8, and the electricity consumption in the following days remained stable at that value.

Fang Rui remembered that when they inspected the scene, they found a freezer at the explosion site. The cabinet was used to speed up the forming of plaster molds.

All of these indirectly proved Mu Mian's inference. Ye Zeming was probably murdered on June 8th, and the murderer set a fire and explosion on June 12th in an attempt to destroy the body.

Fang Rui went to the security room of the villa and retrieved the surveillance video around June 8th.

The video showed that on June 8th, Ye Zeling drove to Ye Zeming's house first, and then Liu Jiale also came to Ye Zeming's house in a taxi. Later, Ye Zeling drove away first, and then Liu Jiale left the villa area nervously and took a taxi at the gate.

Fang Rui first asked Ye Zeling.

"Ms. Ye, do you remember what you did on June 8th?"

"June 8th? I don't quite remember it. I'm very busy every day, how can I remember what happened every day."

"Your troupe said that you took a day off that day. You can't remember what you did on the day off?"

"Oh, you mean that day. I took a day off to go home to see my brother. My brother said he was sick, so I took a day off to go home to see him."

"Did you see Liu Jiale that day?"

"Yes. He ran to my brother's house angrily that day. My brother didn't want me to take care of their affairs, so he asked me to leave first."

"Did you see your brother after June 8th?"

"Yes. I talked to my brother every day. On the morning of my brother's death, I received a call from him..."

"I mean, did you see your brother in person, not just a call."

"No. Our troupe is about to perform, and I've been rehearsing every day, so I don't have time to see my brother. My brother wanted to have dinner with me, but I was left behind to rehearse, so we didn't meet. If I had known that my brother would die, I would have gone to see him even if I couldn't participate in the performance..."

Ye Zeling seemed to have a bit of an emotional breakdown.

"I'm sorry, I can't control my emotions, can you let me calm down for a while?"

Fang Rui questioned Liu Jiale again.

Fang Rui first played the surveillance video of Liu Jiale hurriedly leaving Ye Zeming's villa.

"Mr. Liu, do you remember when this happened?"

"I don't remember. The video is a bit blurry. Is that me?"

Fang Rui paused the video and let the screen freeze on Liu Jiale's panicked face.

"Do you remember anything now?"

"I did look for Ye Zeming today. I urged him to pay back the money, but he said that he knew a lot of gangsters. If I harassed him again, he would kill me and throw me into the sea to feed the fish.

I was so scared that I ran away. I didn't dare to ask him for money afterwards. Police comrade, do you think it was those gangsters Ye Zeming knew who killed him? He owed so much money, there must be a lot of people who want him dead!"

"Did you see Ye Zeming afterwards?"

"No, I didn't dare to look for him. But I called him, he answered and scolded me again. I didn't dare to call him afterwards."