Chapter 397 Murder Case 3
Although Suopin Town is not far from the provincial capital, it only takes six hours to get there. However, this town is located in a long and narrow mountain stream, so the streets in the town are very small. There is only one short street in the town, which is estimated to be less than one thousand meters long.
It was just before dawn, and the small houses on both sides of the street were dark, with only three or two street lamps emitting faint light.
When she came out of the car, she was surrounded by wisps of wet mist and the air felt cold and heavy. Ziyi draped a gauze scarf over Yike's head, and only then did she feel that the tiny water droplets on her face were gone.
Chen Jiangong and a few others went straight to the police station. There was a room with the light on, probably because someone had not slept all night.
The person who had not slept all night was Fan Jian. He had been looking through the case files, hoping to find some clues in them.
According to the case file, the person who reported the case was the suspect's cousin, whose name was Han Yuan. His cousin saw that Han Yuan had not returned home all night, so he found two or three friends to look for him together, and later found him in this air-raid shelter.
This air-raid shelter is at the east end of the town. It was dug during the war and is usually empty. There are some rotten wood and some benches with missing legs that have not been moved away, and the door has never been locked.
My cousin was surprised to see that the door of the air-raid shelter was locked, so he shouted loudly until someone inside responded.
Sure enough, his cousin answered his shout loudly and came out to pull out the bolt from the inside.
When the cousin was happy to find his cousin, he and his friend broke the lock together. While breaking the lock, he asked his cousin how he locked the house from the inside and who locked it from the outside.
The suspect did not know that someone had died inside at the time, so he told his cousin that he and his friend were afraid that someone would harm them while they were asleep, so he and his friend bolted the door with wood.
It was this sentence that made him a criminal suspect. Even if he wanted to change his story later, he couldn't do so because there were two other people present at the time and they heard him say with their own ears that the door was fastened from the inside by two people.
When the cousin and his friend opened the door and went in, his friend used a flashlight to illuminate the air-raid shelter and discovered that the other person was already dead.
The deceased was Han Yuan's friend, named Wang Si. He was hit to death with a brick by someone, and that person was a relative of one of the people who was looking for them at the scene.
Han Yuan later wanted to change his story by saying that the door was not locked, but he couldn't. He wanted to say that someone came in from outside and killed the person, but he couldn't. He couldn't change his story by saying that the person died before he came in. All of these were blocked by the questions his cousin asked him when he locked the door.
If the criminal suspect Han Yuan hadn't had such strong connections, this case would have been closed long ago and would not have been dragged on until now.
The family of the suspect Han Yuan asked Kyoto's most famous criminal investigation expert to help solve the case. However, even the experienced criminal investigation expert sent by Kyoto was helpless. The expert conducted a full-scale search for clues at the crime scene and the surrounding area, but found no suspicious clues.
The public security personnel also conducted a thorough analysis. For example, there were two suspects. They believed that since there were only two people in the room, the murderer must be the living person and the person who locked the door from the outside.
At that time, the police did not find any trace of the third person at the scene. It was obvious that the bandit had strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities and did not leave any traces.
The police visited and investigated nearby residents but found no suspicious clues. No matter how you analyze it, the person alive in the air-raid shelter is the most likely person to have committed the crime.
According to the confession of the surviving suspect Han Yuan, he and the deceased were attracted to the air-raid shelter by a note. The note said that someone had a famous painting and wanted to exchange it for some money to buy food.
The surviving suspect, Han Yuan, was a rich man with tickets, so he had no doubts at all as to why someone would ask him to exchange them.
He used to come to this town often to visit his cousin, so he was very familiar with this place and had exchanged gold and silver items with others before, so he had no doubts at all.
He originally wanted to call his cousin, but his cousin went out for something and did not come back that night, so he had to find a friend to go with him, and this friend was the deceased Wang Si.
Although Han Yuan liked the paintings, he was afraid of exchanging them for fake ones, so he asked the deceased Wang Si to go together in the evening. Because the deceased Wang Si was better than him in identification, they were knocked unconscious before they even saw anyone when they arrived.
When they woke up, Han Yuan and Wang Si were already in the control cave, and their flashlights were gone. However, Wang Si was not dead at that time.
It was pitch black in the air-raid shelter. Han Yuan and the deceased Wang Si were both very frightened, especially the deceased Wang Si, whose voice changed tone with fear.
The deceased, Wang Si, rushed to the door to open it, but found it could not be opened. He screamed that the door had been locked from the outside and was locked.
The door of the air-raid shelter is very thick and heavy. It was bomb-proof before liberation, so you can imagine how sturdy it is. Once the door is closed, not only can you not get out, but no one can hear you even if you shout.
Han Yuan was still calm. While comforting Wang Si not to be afraid, he found a wooden stick. "Wang Si, put the stick into the door bolt. Someone must want to harm us. Don't be afraid. Bolt the door and people outside can't get in. That way they can't harm us. Don't be afraid. Stand aside. I've found the stick and I'll bolt the door."
"Give it to me, let me lock it." Wang Si reached out and grabbed the wooden stick, wanting to lock the door himself.
Han Yuan didn't argue with him and gave the stick to Wang Si.
Han Yuan remembered all these conversations clearly and explained them all clearly. Logically speaking, he really had no motive to commit a crime.
The wooden stick was handed to the deceased Wang Si by the criminal suspect Han Yuan. The criminal suspect also heard the deceased insert the bolt on the door, and he pulled out the wooden stick himself the next day. The suspect did not kill Wang Si, and no one outside could get in, and it was not suicide. Could it really be a ghost killing? This is even more impossible.
In order to clear the criminal suspect Han Yuan's name, his cousin said that someone opened the door from outside and killed someone, and then framed the criminal suspect Han Yuan.
In order to prove that someone outside could not open the door when it was bolted from the inside, criminal investigation experts used the same wooden stick and conducted many experiments, but they still could not open the door.
The wooden door was single-opening instead of double-opening, and there was a misalignment between the door edge and the door frame, so you couldn't just insert something like a thin wire into it.
This experiment further confirmed that the suspect Han Yuan was the murderer. The cousin wanted to help his cousin clear the suspicion, but instead he further confirmed the fact of the murder.
Even though the family of the suspect Han Yuan invited a famous criminal investigation expert to solve the case, the case still could not be solved.
Although the case could not be solved, the sentence could not be determined either, because the suspect Han Yuan refused to admit to the murder, and the deceased had a good relationship with the suspect Han Yuan and had no motive for murder. Therefore, the case could not be closed until evidence and motive for murder were found.
However, Han Yuan could not prove that he did not kill anyone, because the note that lured him there was missing, and some tools for identifying the authenticity of the painting (a microscope and a book about the painting) were also missing. Therefore, there was no way to prove the authenticity of the note, painting and other things he said, which made it even more difficult to clear him of suspicion of crime.
The murderer in this case is the living Han Yuan. People outside say that this is a foregone conclusion and the police have not closed the case yet, which shows that they are trying to shield the criminal.
When the police were having a headache, the wind direction outside suddenly changed again. There were rumors that some innocent dead ghosts were looking for substitutes and other ghosts to kill people.
As a result, people living nearby did not want to live there anymore. Some wanted to move away, while others wanted to ask higher authorities to come and pray for the souls of the dead. Feudal superstition began to emerge again.
These rumors caused panic among the people and seriously disrupted social order. The case also directly alarmed the Kyoto Public Security Bureau, which ordered them to solve the case within half a month.
Fan Jian suspected that there were spies or the real murderer who were secretly fanning the flames in order to disrupt the police's attention and force them to close the case as soon as possible and determine that Han Yuan was the murderer.
This actually made Fan Jian believe that Han Yuan was really wronged.
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