Wrongful Death Criminal Investigation

"Boom boom boom——"

There was a knock on the door, and the woman in the living room got up and went out, lying on the cat's eye and looking, there were four or five men standing outside.

The woman opened the door a crack and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

The man outside was very polite: "Hello, is this Mino's home?"

The woman nodded: "Are you?"

The man showed a piece of ID: "Hello, we are from the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Municipal Bureau. This is my police officer ID. My name is Lu Changfeng."

The woman took Lu Changfeng's police officer to look at it, but she didn't see any problem. The police officer's certificate was not in this industry, and she couldn't find out whether it was true or not.

After thinking about it, the woman asked, "What do you want Mino to do?"

Lu Changfeng said, "We're not here to find Mino, we're here for a routine investigation."

The woman opened the door sideways and welcomed them into the room, "Do you drink water? Let me pour you a glass of water."

Lu Changfeng refused: "Auntie, no need, are you Mino's mother?"

The woman nodded: "Yes, my name is Li Yue."

Lu Changfeng took out a document and handed it to Li Yue, "Auntie, here is a search warrant. We are going to search your home. I hope you cooperate. We will not damage your belongings."

Li Yue nodded and stepped aside: "Can I ask you, what did my daughter do?"

Lu Changfeng felt that it was better not to tell Li Yue without conclusive evidence, so he said, "I can't disclose the case to the outside world, sorry, auntie."

"I understand, I understand."

When searching, Lu Changfeng noticed that there was no picture of Mino on the photo wall in the living room at home, and all of them were of another girl, who was even more like Mina.

Seeing him staring at the photo on the wall, Li Yue asked him, "Is it beautiful?"

Lu Changfeng said it was beautiful.

Li Yue sighed: "This is our eldest daughter, a top dancer at the international level, but unfortunately passed away in a car accident."

"My condolences." Lu Changfeng comforted.

Li Yue snorted, "Things have passed for so many years, and I have also come out."

Lu Changfeng asked: "Why is there no picture of Mino on the wall?"

Li Yue explained: "Mino doesn't like taking pictures, there are very few pictures of her."

Li Yue said to Lu Changfeng: "Most of the pictures on the wall of us and Mina were taken by Mino. Although she doesn't like taking pictures, her photography skills are still very good."

Lu Changfeng didn't know much about photography, so he just agreed.

Lu Changfeng walked to the shoe cabinet and asked Li Yue, "Auntie, which of the shoes here belong to Mino?"

Li Yue didn't understand what they were going to do, so she picked out all her shoes for them.

"It's all here." Li Yue pointed to the shoes on the ground.

Lu Changfeng nodded to the police who followed, and the police began to take out bags to put shoes in.

Li Yue couldn't understand: "What are you doing?"

Lu Changfeng explained: "Auntie, let's pretend to go back and take a sample, and we will send it back when the time comes."

"Oh." Seeing what Lu Changfeng said, Li Yue stopped asking.

Lu Changfeng asked: "Can we go to Mino's room?"

Li Yue nodded and led them to Mino's vacation.

Mino's house is a large flat, and the room area is quite large. Mino's room is at the end of the innermost stall.

Li Yue pushed the door open and said, "Look."

Lu Changfeng led people into Mino's room. Mino's room was different from ordinary girls' rooms, and it was very clean and tidy.

There are many books on the bookshelf, half of which are books related to photography.

Lu Changfeng asked Li Yue, "Does Mino like photography?"

"probably."

When Lu Changfeng heard this answer, he frowned slightly. Would parents know if his daughter liked photography or not?

On the contrary, I didn't see anything about ballet-related things.

In Mino's bookshelf, there is also a photo album. When Lu Changfeng opened the album, it was full of photos, some of which were landscape shots, and many of them were selfies of Mino himself. In this way, it is not like what Li Yue said. That way, Mino doesn't like taking pictures.

The room was at the very edge, and the mother didn't know her well enough.

On the other hand, Mina has passed away for many years, but traces of Mina can be seen everywhere in the house. Mina’s shoes are still kept in the shoe cabinets, pictures of Mina are hung on the wall, and awards for Mina’s awards are hung in the corridor. , all are framed with photo frames, and there is no dust on them, which means that someone takes care of these things every day.The other places above the TV cabinet are full of Mina's trophies, and they are also spotless.

Something is not normal.

Lu Changfeng couldn't tell what was wrong, so he had a strange feeling, as if Mina hadn't died yet.

The arrangement of Mino’s bookshelf is also very interesting. Photography-related things are placed in the most conspicuous and convenient position in the middle. Each book has a lot of circled notes and many CDs. You can see it from the cover. It's about photography.She put all the trophies that Mino had won in the corner of the bookshelf. They were covered with dust and could not be seen without looking carefully. As for her certificates, they were all folded in half and sandwiched in a pile of books.

It can be seen from this that Mino's love for photography is far higher than her love for ballet. It can even be said that she doesn't like ballet very much.

Ordinary people's reaction to winning an award should be framed, after all, it is a personal honor, but Mino didn't care about it, and didn't even want to see it, which shows that she is actually very repulsive to ballet.

Why is this so?

With doubts in his heart, Lu Changfeng continued to look at Mino's bookshelf.

A photo was added to a book, revealing a small corner. Lu Changfeng pinched it and pulled it out. He saw that it was a photo of Mina, but it should be a photo of Mina getting up early. He looked only seventeen or eighteen years old.

Mina's photo was marked with a big X with hate written on it.

Hate.

Mino doesn't like Mina.

Lu Changfeng probably had a guess in his mind.

He put the photo back and asked Li Yue, "Why did Mino learn ballet?"

Li Yue asked him back: "Why don't you dance ballet?"

Lu Changfeng was dumbfounded by Li Yue's straightforward attitude.

Could it be that in her eyes, there is nothing else to do except ballet?

Lu Changfeng was very speechless, "Isn't it my choice for Mino to study ballet?"

Li Yue said: "What choice does a child have? Naturally, adults enroll in dance classes. Her sister also studied ballet since she was a child."

Lu Changfeng didn't know what to say for a while, the eldest daughter learns ballet, so does the younger daughter have to learn ballet?What the hell is this?

But he didn't want to argue with Li Yue about this, no matter right or wrong, it's irreparable now.

He asked: "Did Namino tell you that she doesn't like ballet and wants to learn photography or something?"

Li Yue thought for a while and said: "Probably there are. What do children know? Adults do it for her own good. What's so good about learning photography? It's hard work. How good is ballet? It's like a swan. It's beautiful. .”

Lu Changfeng: "..." Not everyone in this world likes ballet.

Forcibly imposing one's own desires on children is a common problem among parents today.

Many children attend classes at school. After returning home, they not only go to cram schools, but also go to interest classes on Saturdays and Sundays. They are in classes every day from morning to night, without any time for rest.

Not to mention the money spent by the parents, the children are also dragged down.

In the eyes of their parents, children should be obedient. Parents hope that their children will be successful and their daughters will be successful, and they will not care whether their children really like the interest classes they enroll in. They have to learn anyway.

Now children, part of the pressure comes from the school, and the greater pressure comes from their parents.

Therefore, there are countless students who run away from home due to excessive pressure and commit suicide every year.

But even so, there are still no parents who wake up or reflect.

A mother like Li Yue is not even sure that her daughter likes photography. She only has ballet in her eyes, and only Mina who is good at dancing ballet, but ignores Mino who is not so good.

After the search was over, Lu Changfeng took people back to the City Bureau.

The reason why they wanted to take Mino's shoes back to the police station for sampling was because they wanted to prove that Mino had indeed been to the artificial lake after releasing them, provided that Mino's shoes had not been washed.

When Lu Changfeng brought a bunch of shoes to the forensic department, the colleagues in the forensic department were speechless.

Fortunately, Mino didn't have smelly feet, otherwise the colleagues in the forensic department would have gone berserk.

To this day, they still can't forget the case of marinating corpses in sauerkraut jars. It was a hard time for them forensics and forensic doctors.

After leaving the forensics department, Lu Changfeng returned to the Serious Case Brigade.

Mingtang asked: "Any new discoveries?"

Lu Changfeng told Mingtang what he saw and heard at Minuo's house and his own guesses.

After hearing this, Mingtang agreed with his idea very much. When Lu Changfeng went to Minuo's house, Mingtang took people to the artificial lake for sampling.

"Now we are waiting for the results of the comparative analysis. Once the results come out, we can arrest people."

Lu Changfeng breathed a sigh of relief, "After two days of hard work, it's finally almost done."

Mingtang reminded him: "Don't be too happy, there is Yu Wanwan, they have already investigated Yu Wanwan's case together, it is impossible to finish the investigation of Qin Zhao's case and leave Yu Wanwan's case alone .”

"Do you think Yu Wanwan's case has anything to do with Mino?" Lu Changfeng asked.

Mingtang shook his head: "I don't know, I don't dare to make any assumptions until more evidence comes out."

"Is Yu Wanwan's trajectory restored?"

"It's been restored. I don't have time to look at it yet. I'll leave it to Lan Ning to investigate." Mingtang said, "Lan Ning is growing very fast."

Lu Changfeng agreed with his idea: "Among this wave of newcomers, Yang Meng is very stable, Lan Ning is smart enough, and although Xiao Ding is not as fast as Lan Ning, his execution ability is still very good, and he is very careful. , are all good seedlings. In the future, succession will depend on a few of them."

Mingtang nodded.

In the afternoon, the data analysis of the forensics department was completed. On a pair of sports shoes, the soil that had not been cleaned was extracted, and the composition was exactly the same as that they had sampled in the artificial lake.

With this report, Mingtang and the others immediately went to Minuo's dance troupe to recruit people.

Considering the issue of influence, Mingtang and the others called Mino outside, and then told him that their purpose of coming was to bring her back to the city bureau for investigation.

In the city bureau interrogation room.

Mingtang and Lu Changfeng sat across from Mino.

Mino looked very flustered and asked them, "Why did you bring me here?"

Lu Changfeng said: "You are now a suspect in the Qin Zhao case, and the police have the right to ask you to cooperate with the investigation."

"But I didn't kill her." Mino immediately denied.

Mingtang spread out the photos in his hand and asked, "Then can you explain to me, what did you go to the artificial lake with Qin Zhao in the middle of the night?"

Mino glanced at the photo and explained: "Walking, we ate a lot that night, and we want to digest it together after dinner."

"Going for a walk in the artificial lake in the middle of the night?"

Mino nodded: "The artificial lake is the closest, of course we went to the artificial lake, otherwise where would we go?"

Lu Changfeng obviously wouldn't believe her reason: "Then explain why Qin Zhao drowned in the lake."

Mino seemed to recall some horrible memory, put his hands into his hair, and said to them in pain: "She fell down by herself."

Lu Changfeng slapped the table heavily, very angry: "In that case, why didn't you call the police and save her!"

Tears overflowed Mino's eyes, he began to tremble, and explained incoherently: "That night...it was too dark, I tried to save...but I couldn't save her."

"Since it's too dark, why do you go to such a remote place, and why do you have to climb over the fence?"

Mino trembled all over, "It's not that I want to go, it's Qin Zhao who wants to go. She dislikes too many people in the west, so she insists on going to the east."

"She accidentally dropped her key into the fence and went off work. I went over there with her to find the key. Then she fell into the water for some reason. I wanted to call the police, but she was about to sink. I was afraid that it would be too late, so I wanted to pull her first, but I couldn't pull her, the water in the pool was very deep, and she sank within a minute..."

"I was scared... I ran home without knowing why..."

"Then why didn't you call the police afterwards?" Ming Tang always had a serious expression on his face, not the slightest bit moved, unkind.

"No... dare not, I'm afraid you will suspect that I killed Qin Zhao."

"The monitoring that night showed that you came home from the alley, why did you take the alley?"

Mino trembled and said: "I was scared and anxious at the time, and my idea was to get out of there quickly. Subconsciously, I ran to the path."

"Then why did you mislead the police to investigate the case?"

"I am afraid······"

This was not much different from what Mingtang and the others had expected at the time. There was no surveillance at the scene, and there were no witnesses, so Mino's words would become the only testimony.

For such a case, unless there is solid evidence that she killed the person, it will be difficult to give a heavy sentence.

After the interrogation, Lu Changfeng asked Mingtang: "Do you believe what he said?"

"So what if you don't believe it. Unless we have new evidence to prove that she is the murderer, the current evidence is very unfavorable to us."

Lu Changfeng also had the same worry.

Mingtang went to the forensic room, and it happened that Jiang Han was still there.

"I'm asking you something."

Jiang Han was writing the closing report, motioned him to sit down and said.

"Will there be different reflections on the body if you were pushed into the water and drowned when you fell into the water by yourself?"

Jiang Han immediately understood what he was referring to, and shook his head: "There will be no difference between the two in the final appearance of the corpse, because they both drowned in the water."

In other words, they have no way of judging whether it was an accident or a homicide through the body of the deceased.

But besides this, Mingtang couldn't think of any other way to prove anything.

From a legal point of view, under the circumstances at the time, Mino chose not to save Qin Zhao but to protect himself, which did not constitute a crime.And their existing evidence can't prove that Mino must have killed Qin Zhao's death, so they can't convict him either.Not reporting what is known, misleading the direction of the police investigation, these add up to only three years.

In the end, because of insufficient evidence, they had to release Mino.

Mingtang and Lu Changfeng were very helpless, and after a few days of hard investigation, the suspect was released without charge.

Mingtang gave everyone a vacation, went back to rest, and continued to investigate Yu Wanwan's case the next day.

"Aren't you going back?" Lu Changfeng was about to leave, but seeing if Mingtang was still planning to leave, he asked him one more question.

Mingtang shook his head: "You go first, I'll look at the information on Yu Wanwan's case."

It was almost seven o'clock, and Mingtang finished reading all the materials they had on Yu Wanwan's case so far, and got off work.

Sitting in the car, Mingtang naturally drove the car downstairs to Qiu Shaoyang's house.

He bumped into Qiu Shaoyang who had just returned home.

Qiu Shaoyang was a little surprised when he saw him: "The case is over?"

Mingtang nodded, not very interested, "Have you eaten yet?"

Qiu Shaoyang shook his head: "I haven't eaten yet. Since you are here, let's go eat hot pot together. When I came back, I saw a hot pot restaurant and wanted to eat some hot pot, but it would be boring for me to eat by myself. Just like you Come, come with me!"

Seeing that he wanted to eat hot pot so much, Mingtang's mood improved a lot, and he nodded in agreement.

The two went to the hot pot restaurant that Qiu Shaoyang saw together.

Qiu Shaoyang chose a private room, ordered mandarin duck pot, and chose dishes with Mingtang, "What do you like to eat?"

Mingtang said: "I'm not picky about food, I'm easy to feed."

Qiu Shaoyang smiled, "Then I will be responsible."

Mingtang nodded.

After Qiu Shaoyang finished ordering, he waited for the waiter to leave before asking, "What's the matter? It depends on your lack of interest tonight."

Ming Tang gave Qiu Shaoyang an overview of Qin Zhao's case.

After listening to his description, Qiu Shaoyang could understand Mingtang, and he patted Mingtang's shoulder to express comfort: "In this world, there are not only black and white, but also gray, and each of us is equally powerless about it. You are not to be blamed for this case, there is indeed a lack of evidence, but you have to believe that the wicked will reap their rewards."

Mingtang nodded.

Seeing that he was not happy, Qiu Shaoyang said: "Drink a bar, if you are not happy, drink a little."

Ming Tang shook his head: "I'm going to drive later."

Qiu Shaoyang said, "There is a substitute driver."

It happened that the waiter brought them sauces and pot bottoms, so Qiu Shaoyang asked them to bring a few bottles of beer.

"One drunk can relieve a thousand worries."

The two ate and drank, unknowingly each drank three bottles, Mingtang's alcohol capacity was obviously better than Qiu Shaoyang's.

Mingtang took the bill and helped Qiu Shaoyang go downstairs to pay the bill.

"I asked you to come out to eat, how can I make you pay the bill." Qiu Shaoyang couldn't stand still, he reached out to grab Mingtang's wallet, and threw himself into Mingtang's arms.

Taking advantage of the situation, Mingtang clasped his waist with one hand, paid the bill quickly, and then called the driver over.

Qiu Shaoyang muttered: "How can you pay the bill? If you agree to eat with me."

Mingtang chuckled: "Then please come back next time."

"it is good!"

The temperature in Chuncheng also dropped, both of them were wearing thick woolen coats, Ming Tang was afraid that Qiu Shaoyang would be frozen, so he wrapped him tightly.

The two waited for 10 minutes before the driver came.

It was almost eleven o'clock when they returned to Qiu Shaoyang's house.

Mingtang helped Qiu Shaoyang back to the bedroom, but Qiu Shaoyang tripped over the carpet on the floor, and the two of them fell on the bed together.

Mingtang immediately went to see Qiu Shaoyang: "Is there any pain from the fall?"

Qiu Shaoyang's head was numb immediately. Although the bed was covered with a thick quilt, he couldn't hold back and fell too fast. In addition to being drunk, his head was numb.

"My head is so dizzy."

"Halo, drink less next time."

"Well, drink less."

Ming Tang stood up, "Stop taking a bath tonight."

Qiu Shaoyang said no: "If you have to wash it, your body and hair will smell of hot pot. No, it will put the smell on the quilt."

"Then I'll get you the bath water."

After the bath water was finished and Mingtang came out, Qiu Shaoyang had already sat up, but was still dozing off.

"Why don't you stop washing tonight, and wash the sheets together tomorrow?" Mingtang was afraid that Qiu Shaoyang would fall asleep while washing in it.

Qiu Shaoyang shook his head: "No, I have to wash, it's uncomfortable not to take a bath."

"Okay." Mingtang helplessly helped Qiu Shaoyang into the bathroom, and helped him take off his clothes, "Take off your pants yourself, I'll go out first."

Qiu Shaoyang nodded.

Lying in the hot water, Qiu Shaoyang felt very relaxed, and fell asleep as soon as he lay down.

Originally, he wanted to get into the water and then take off his pants, but he just lay down and fell asleep.

After 15 minutes, Ming Tang heard no movement inside, so he knocked on the door, but there was no sound, so he opened the door and went in.

Seeing that Qiu Shaoyang had fallen asleep and the water was almost cold, he couldn't laugh or cry, he fished him out, his pants were soaked in the water, Ming Tang had no choice but to help him take them off, and went out to find new pants for him to put on.

I also specially cooled his body temperature, worrying that he might catch a cold.I went to find a hair dryer again to help him dry his hair. If you don't blow it dry, you will get a headache.

Qiu Shaoyang lay on his lap enjoying his service.

Looking at Qiu Shaoyang's smooth facial contours and beautiful Adam's apple, Mingtang's heart beat wildly.

Although Qiu Shaoyang is not a handsome guy in the traditional sense, his aristocratic temperament is beyond the reach of others.

While helping Qiu Shaoyang to blow-dry his hair, Mingtang looked at him carefully, his heart fluttered no matter what he saw.

Qiu Shaoyang has magical powers, but Mingtang is willing to sink.

After all, he couldn't hold it back, and pressed a kiss on Qiu Shaoyang's forehead, followed by the tip of his nose.

Mingtang painted Qiu Shaoyang's lips, they were extremely beautiful, but he only dared to kiss them through his fingers.

He didn't want their first kiss to have happened without Qiu Shaoyang's knowledge.

Finally, there was a beautiful Adam's apple, Mingtang kissed, Qiu Shaoyang raised his hand and hugged Mingtang's head, Mingtang almost suffered a cardiac arrest.

Qiu Shaoyang muttered softly: "Don't make trouble, itchy."

But after waiting for a while, Qiu Shaoyang did not open his eyes, and Mingtang felt that Qiu Shaoyang must be talking nonsense.

After drying his hair, Mingtang put Qiu Shaoyang back on the pillow, pushed him out of Qiu Shaoyang's room and turned off the light for him.

After Mingtang left, his eyes were wide open on the bed, and he let out a sigh of relief.

He thought Mingtang was going to kiss, so he was so scared that he didn't dare to breathe.

He was already woken up when Ming Tang took the hair dryer and turned it off to silent mode, but he didn't dare to act rashly.

So I just kept on putting it on.