Evil and punishment [criminal investigation]

In the past two days, Nie Cheng frequently lost his mind when writing materials, and always felt that something was hanging in his heart.

On Sunday, December 12, when he had just arrived at the office and hadn't warmed up yet, Li Mu's phone call came, and one of the things he had in mind had a clue.

Li Mu said that Wei Yuan was arrested in Haidong District, and they thought he might be related to the December 12 case by the riverside.

Nie Cheng's face really changed after hearing the second half of the sentence.

Things developed beyond imagination. After lunch, Wu Ze brought Lin Minxin to the office, saying that Nie Cheng was needed to cooperate with his work, so he would go with them.

Nie Cheng and these two hadn't seen each other for more than two years. The three exchanged a few words, and Nie Cheng followed them into the police car.Lin Minxin sat in the back row with him.

Due to his position and status, he still hasn't figured out the ins and outs of the Hebian case and the Lu Xiao case.And Wei Yuan, he is just Lu Xiao's wife's psychiatrist, what does he have to do with the Hebian case?How was he himself involved?

The police car stopped at the entrance of the Haidong District Bureau. The uncle who guarded the gate did not change, and the aunt who swept the floor did not change.

After Nie Cheng's parents divorced, he followed his father.When he was in elementary school, he came directly to the bureau to do his homework after school, went to the cafeteria to have dinner, and waited for his father to go home after get off work.Sometimes when he fell asleep on the couch in the office, his dad would just take him home.Later, when he was working and had no relatives by his side, he took the bureau as his home, slept in the duty room when he was busy, and sometimes lived in the bureau for a week.Later, he was transferred to the Rongguangli Police Station, and he had to avoid this road when he went out.

"Brother Cheng, get out of the car." Wu Ze, who was driving, waited for a long time and said while looking in the rearview mirror.After finishing speaking, he tilted his head and smacked his teeth secretly. Brother Cheng is used to barking, and now is not the time to get close.

Nie Cheng didn't notice the title problem. He got out of the car and walked to the interrogation room familiarly. Wu Ze pulled him back and took him to the criminal investigation team leader's office on the third floor.

When I went upstairs, I met old colleagues from other departments. They greeted him warmly and welcomed him back.Nie Cheng always had an embarrassed smile on his face, and he was relieved when he reached the third floor.

The corridor was quiet, and one could hear discussions in the office, mixed with a few familiar voices.

"Then I'll go back to work first." Lin Minxin said obediently to Nie Cheng, just like when she first joined the job, she still didn't pay much attention to Wu Ze, the deputy team.

Wu Ze scolded "this girl" with a smile, he was tired of caring about Nie Cheng's popularity.He knocked on the door, and Jiang Zhun's voice came from inside: "Please come in."

"Team Jiang, we're here," Wu Ze said.

Jiang Zhun's current position is higher than that of Nie Cheng. According to regulations, Nie Cheng must salute him when he sees him.Nie Cheng followed the rules, leaned on his heel, saluted respectfully, and said, "Captain Jiang."

Wu Ze next to him was shocked and looked at him in surprise.

The corners of Jiang Zhun's eyes and mouth sank instantly, he stared at him dissatisfied, and asked straight to the point: "Where did you go on the night of December 12st?"

The first question left Nie Cheng speechless.

While the three were silent, the knock on the door rang again, and it was Li Mu from the He'an District Bureau who came in.

Li Mu and Jiang Zhun have similar positions but different ranks, and Li Mu was Jiang Zhun's old leader, so when he came in, Jiang Zhun immediately stood up and said, "Captain Li, why are you here?"

"Hey, it's not about the case yet. How's your trial going with that Wei Yuan?" Li Mu asked.

"Still under review."

"It's like this. We have a murder case. Wei Yuan is a major suspect. We have already obtained the key evidence, and the arrest warrant will be issued soon."

"But we're still on trial." Jiang Zhun frowned.

"Whether he will commit the two cases, and whether the two cases are involved is still unknown, but we can say that the evidence here is convincing. If you think that the trial is not over yet, we must arrest him after seven days at the latest. take away."

Jiang Zhun didn't reply for a while, and the general criminal detention is up to 14 days, but Li Mu cut them in half.

"Hey, why is Xiaocheng here?" Li Mu actually noticed Nie Cheng as soon as he entered the door, and asked now.

"Captain Li, Captain Jiang asked me to discuss the December 12st case," Nie Cheng replied.

The sharp eyes of the old detective glanced at Jiang Zhun, who was deep in thought, and rolled his eyes undisguisedly, which made Wu Ze almost laugh.

"Captain Li," Jiang Zhun said, "I would like to ask you to tell us about the Lu Xiao case and see what Wei Yuan's motives are. You send it over."

"Okay, there are no outsiders in our room. You sit, and you two can find a place to sit." Li Mu sat down opposite Jiang Zhun's desk, and let Nie Cheng and Wu Ze sit on the sofa behind.

Lu Xiao died on the 9th, the incident occurred on the 13th, and today the 22nd is nearly half a month away from the incident.Because Lu Xiao is the director of the public institution, they suspected that it was related to another case, so they focused on the investigation and invested a lot of manpower in the investigation this week.As a result, I searched around and found no clues.

So Li Mu thought of Wei Yuan, who seemed impossible and was excluded from the beginning. He always felt that Nie Cheng would not pay attention to this person for no reason. There must be some suspicious clues that they hadn't noticed yet.

Wei Yuan said that on the 9th, he had a consultation in the morning and afternoon, one from 10:11 to 3:4, and one from 12:30 to 13:33. He left the office around 14:[-] noon and had dinner at a nearby shopping mall. There are payment records, the time is [-]:[-], and then I returned to the clinic around [-]:[-].The restaurant he chose was overcrowded at noon every day, and the queuing time was more than half an hour. In addition to the meal time, his itinerary was very reasonable.

These sound all right, but they cannot withstand careful scrutiny.

He may not have considered that someone would draw him into the police's sight so quickly, nor did he expect that the police would include him as a key search target.

They went to the restaurant first and asked for the surveillance video of December 12.The video here is only saved for half a month, that is, until the 9th. If they are a few days later, they may not be able to get this evidence, and the waiter receives hundreds of customers a day. Maybe he has no impression of Wei Yuan, so the testimony will also be taken. Not anymore.

Surveillance video shows that Wei Yuan got the queue number at 12:45 and left the restaurant.There are blind spots in the video of the mall, and it is impossible to determine where he was during this time. Li Mu guessed that he probably changed his coat and left through the back door of the mall.Then at 13:20, he returned to the entrance of the restaurant. After the restaurant had passed the number, the queue could still be postponed, and he was quickly assigned a seat. At 13:30, the dishes had just arrived on the table, and he got up to pay the bill. At 13:33, the payment was successful.I didn't eat half of it, and left the restaurant at 13:46.

In other words, he paid the bill in the middle of the meal, not "after the meal" as he vaguely described in the transcript.What's more, his account of "walking around the mall while queuing up the number" has not been confirmed.

Two points show that he has time to commit crimes.

Afterwards, Li Mu asked someone to check his spending records and whereabouts for the day.

They found out through the SkyEye monitoring system that after Wei Yuan got the number and left the mall, he took a taxi at 12:50 and entered the Fengzhao Community openly.Because he was sitting in the back of the taxi, the community surveillance did not capture him.

Later, through the monitoring installed by the owner of the community, it was found that Wei Yuan passed by Building 13 at 10:12 and boarded an online car-hailing car at the gate of Building 10.Although there is no direct evidence to prove that he has been in and out of the 13 buildings where Lu Xiao lived, at least it proves that he has been to Fengzhao Community.

Li Mu couldn't get the key evidence for a long time, so he had to cast a wide net.He found the owner of the online car-hailing car and asked if he could search the interior of the car.The owner of the car knew that they were handling the case, so he was very understanding and actively cooperated.

Finally, let them catch Wei Yuan's tell.

"There is Lu Xiao's hair on that online hailing car." Li Mu said with a little pride.

Jiang Zhun had already grown impatient. He babbled for a long time, saying that it had nothing to do with their case, and it had nothing to do with Nie Cheng.Nie Cheng was still thinking about the case, Wei Yuan, and the two previous relationships with him. Only Wu Ze praised him and said, "Excellent, it's not easy for Team Li."

"What's Wei Yuan's motive?" Nie Cheng asked.

"I don't know yet, that's why I came to them to ask for someone." Li Mu stood up and reminded Jiang Zhun, "Up to seven days." He beckoned and asked Nie Cheng to follow him.

"Nie Cheng can't leave yet." Jiang Zhun stopped him.

He walked out of his desk and said to Li Mu: "On December 12, in our jurisdiction, a male corpse was found by the Jin River. From 2:12 to 1:08 on the evening of December 30, we investigated for more than half a month, and the clues were complicated and very few were useful. Yesterday we expanded the scope of the investigation again, and saw from the cameras of nearby businesses around the crime scene The figure of Nie Cheng."

Li Mu was stunned for two seconds, "You doubt him?"

Jiang Zhun said nothing.

He originally thought that Jiang Zhun had asked Nie Cheng to cooperate with him, but now he turned his back and walked up to Jiang Zhun, asking sharply, "Don't you know what he is?"

A vein popped out of Jiang Zhun's forehead, many words rolled in his throat, and finally he replied stiffly: "Business matters."

Li Mu was so angry that he turned around and left, not forgetting to leave a message for Nie Cheng: "You cooperate with him first, and I want to see what kind of demon he is."

Just as Nie Cheng opened his mouth to persuade, the two men drew their swords and crossed their swords, and then one of them walked away without giving him a chance to persuade him.

Jiang Zhun was not affected at all, looked at Nie Cheng and continued: "The camera recorded you running into the riverside walkway in your sportswear at 7:18, and the deceased chased a woman in a red coat and ran into the sidewalk 2 minutes later. Dao, at 7:35 you ran out from the other side, and those two people never came out again."

"Two people?" Nie Cheng's heart skipped a beat, and he became nervous involuntarily.

"Yes. Two days after the incident, that is, on December 12th, when the temperature rose and the surface of the river melted, a female corpse floated up. It was the one in the red coat."

There was a bang in Nie Cheng's mind. This was news he had never known before—there might be a female corpse at the scene.

"Nie Cheng, I got this evidence a long time ago, but I still can't convince myself to regard you as a suspect, and my colleagues also think it's impossible, but we have to face reality. You haven't seen each other for two days Zhang Jieming, I deliberately kicked him out of this case and sent him to another place."

After Jiang Zhun finished speaking without haste, he stared right into Nie Cheng's eyes.

"I know you have the habit of running by the river, and I don't think you planned it beforehand, but you must tell the truth about what happened that night. Although those two people were behind you, it's impossible for you not to pay attention. I'll reflect on that part of the way. I ran many times over and over again, now you come and tell me, how did you run for 17 minutes?"