Chapter 607: People’s hearts are unpredictable!!!

In the past few days, the task force has also visited Lin Quan’s social relations.

According to a friend of Lin Quan, Lin Quan once went to a place in Dongbeiwang with Li Shugui to sell sweaters. After they brought the sweaters back, Liu Shugui set up a stall to sell them.

This caught the attention of Liu Yong, the head of the special investigation team: Dongbeiwang? Isn’t this the area where the bodies were most likely to be dumped?

The trace experts of the task force once inferred that the corpse was thrown into the Beijing-Miyun Canal from the Dongbeiwang area, and Lin Quan happened to have been to the Dongbeiwang area and should be very familiar with the place. Is this a coincidence?

During the investigation, investigators found that Lin Quan’s home in Xiluoyuan, FT District was empty.

According to the neighbors there, this was originally where Lin Quan’s mother and daughter lived.

But on October 10, the two men suddenly moved out without any warning.

“That day was Saturday. I was resting at home and slept in. When I woke up, I saw the old man and the child leaving. They never came back after they left.

Lin Quan’s old lady said she was sick and wanted to live in DX to recuperate.

I thought to myself that she was really sick. Living here is very convenient, including seeing a doctor. Why would she go to a remote place like Daxing to get sick? Eating watermelon is convenient, though!”

Based on this, the task force learned that Lin Quan also had another house in DX.

This house had been empty before Lin Quan’s mother and daughter moved in. Could it be that Lin Quan dismembered Li Shugui there?
On November 11, Wu Ganquan once again came to the Criminal Investigation Brigade to “inquire about the situation.”

Since he came every few days, the criminal police became familiar with him, and the following conversation took place.

Police officer Xiao Wu asked: “Where have you been living recently?”

Lin Quan replied: “DX.”

Police officer Xiao Wu asked again: “Hey? Don’t you live in XW?”

Lin Quan’s face tightened, then he smiled and said, “I won’t live here anymore. The rent at XE is too expensive. If I wasn’t afraid of Luo Junying coming to make trouble, why would I rent a house here? I don’t know what to do now.

If Shugui comes back (the task force did not tell Linquan that Li Shugui is dead), we will get married and live in Xiluoyuan, and she, Luo Junying, will not dare to make trouble. “

Hearing his answer, Police Officer Xiao Wu narrowed his eyes, but said calmly: “Hey, don’t your mother and daughter live in Xiluoyuan?”

Lin Quan didn’t expect the police to know this, and was a little flustered: “No, no, no, my mom and her family moved to DX more than three months ago, and Xiluo Garden has been vacated for renovation a long time ago. We haven’t had time yet, so it’s like this for now.”

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This conversation was recorded. After listening to it, the task force leader Liu Yong sneered, “This kid is still lying. There’s no need to expose him in a hurry. Let him relax for a while. When he lets down his guard, we can strike him down and settle all the old and new accounts with him!”

With the approval of the bureau, Liu Yong led people to secretly search Lin Quan’s residence in Daxing.

But what Liu Yong didn’t expect was that Lin Quan DX’s house was clean inside and out, without a trace of blood or other suspicious marks. Could it be that they made a mistake?
However, one detail caught Liu Yong’s attention, that is, the water consumption of this house in October was as high as more than 10 tons!

According to comrades from the DX Housing Management Office, unless the faucet is turned on all day long, it is impossible for an ordinary family of three to use this amount of water in a month.

So what did Lin Quan use so much water for? Was it to wash away the blood?

On November 11, the special task force investigator who was responsible for visiting the alley where Lin Quan and Li Shugui rented found out an important piece of information.

An old man who loves playing chess reported to the investigator: “I’ll tell you an exclusive story. At 10 o’clock in the evening on October 5, I was free and playing chess with some old guys at the entrance of the alley!

Well, around 10 o’clock, I saw Lin Quan riding a motorcycle with the woman who lived with him, calling out – oh yes, her name was Li Shugui. They rode out of the alley and walked away on the road.

The old guys and I continued playing chess until almost 10 a.m. on October 6, when we broke up. I didn’t see these two come back.

From then on, no one in this alley saw the woman named Li Shugui again! “

In addition, another team of investigators learned from tracking Lin Quan’s whereabouts that:

Starting from November 11, Lin Quan went to his ex-wife Luo Junying’s workplace after get off work every day to wait for Luo Junying to get off work.

In order to conceal their tracks, they waited two streets away. After Luo Junying arrived, they went to Daxing together. In fact, the two of them were living together again.

Liu Yong felt that the case would soon be solved!
Sure enough, on November 11, Luo Junying’s neighbor also provided an important clue.

According to the neighbor, after dinner on October 10, Lin Quan took a minivan to Luo Junying’s home to find her.

Then the two men took a taxi and left. Luo Junying did not come back until 10 a.m. on October 6 when he got up to wash up. When he came back, he was drunk and in a very bad state. He kept muttering something, saying, “It’s better to die. It’s clean to die…”

On November 11, Liu Yong presided over another case analysis meeting of the task force.

At the meeting, everyone exchanged the results of the investigation during this period and agreed that Lin Quan and Luo Junying were major suspects in the crime.

Team leader Liu Yong immediately made the decision: “Let’s control Lin Quan and Luo Junying first!”

After Lin Quan and Luo Junying were arrested, they denied everything at first and refused to admit their mistakes, relying on the fact that more than a month had passed since the case began and the physical evidence had been cleared up by them.

Lin Quan even yelled at the top of his lungs: “Why did you arrest me? I didn’t kill anyone! You are the ones who killed someone!”

However, the task force had already obtained hundreds of pages of transcripts through visits, proving that every word Lin Quan had said to the police was a lie.

Faced with so much evidence, Lin Quan’s arrogance was immediately crushed.

After 12 hours of fierce fighting, Lin Quan and Luo Junying were defeated one after another.

In order to remarry, the two confessed to the crime of conspiring to murder Liu Shugui and dismember and dispose of her body.

It turns out that Lin Quan and Luo Junying were still in contact after their divorce and they visited each other from time to time.

This caused Li Shugui great dissatisfaction, and she had constant fierce quarrels and even fights with Lin Quan.

Especially after Li Shugui became pregnant, she told Lin Quan: “Either we get married, or you pay me 2 yuan as ‘youth loss compensation’ and we break up…”

However, Lin Quan refused to choose either of the two options, and chose the third way – to kill Li Shugui and remarry Luo Junying.

On the morning of October 10, Lin Quan and Li Shugui had a big fight.

Lin Quan felt that he could no longer tolerate Li Shugui and decided to take action.

After dinner, he took a taxi to Luo Junying’s house, and the two then went to a park and conspired to lure Li Shugui to Daxing’s house and “get rid of her.”

After “getting rid of” Li Shugui, the two remarried.

After the couple finished their discussion, Lin Quan returned to his residence as if nothing had happened.

At around ten o’clock in the evening, Lin Quan deceived Li Shugui and said that he would take her to DX to see how the new house was decorated.

Seeing that Lin Quan was willing to marry her and let her see the new house, Li Shugui readily agreed.

Then, Lin Quan took Li Shugui on a motorcycle to his house in DX at around 11 o’clock.

When Li Shugui excitedly walked into the house, an unexpected person appeared in front of her.

Luo Junying, who had already drunk several bottles of beer, raised the kitchen knife and started slashing at Li Shugui’s face.

Li Shugui was chopped to the ground, and then Luo Junying rode on Liu Shugui and hacked her to death.

Afterwards, Lin Quan and Luo Junying divided Li Shugui’s body in this room…

Then, they put the bodies into garbage bags, stuffed them into two backpacks and a travel bag, and dumped them in DX, Dongbeiwang and T County by motorcycle.

In the following period of time, the two returned to the crime scene, DX’s house, as soon as they got off work and used large amounts of water to wash away the bloodstains in the room.

At this point, under the identification of Lin and Luo, the task force seized the remaining remains of Li Shugui in DC and T County.

At this point, this highly-watched vicious case has finally come to a successful conclusion!
Under the outstanding leadership of young criminal investigation backbone Liu Yong, the task force successfully solved this major case in just one and a half months. This brilliant achievement is inseparable from the hard work and tacit cooperation of all members of the task force. They interpreted responsibility and commitment with practical actions, and thus won the general commendation from their superiors.

After more than a month of intense work, the task force members were already exhausted both physically and mentally.

In order to allow everyone to get enough rest and adjust their state, Liu Yong decisively decided to give the comrades in the group a few days off, so that everyone can temporarily unload the burden on their shoulders and enjoy a moment of peace and relaxation.

With the arrival of the holiday, the task force was officially disbanded.

In the blink of an eye, New Year’s Day of 1995 had passed. During this period, the bureau was calm and no major cases occurred.

Liu Yong had a rare period of peaceful life, and he secretly hoped: “If I can continue to stay this peaceful before the end of the year, I can finally take a good annual vacation this year!”

However, things went against one’s wishes and another murder occurred!
Therefore, the task force that had been disbanded not long ago was established again under the leadership of team leader Liu Yong.

At 1:14 on January 21, the city public security bureau’s criminal police brigade received a report from the Xinjiekou police station on its duty phone.

A home homicide occurred in a room on the fourth floor of Building B, Zone A, under the jurisdiction of the police station, and a woman was killed in her bed.

After receiving the report, Criminal Investigation Team Leader Liu Yong immediately drove to the scene with six members of his team.

The crime scene was located in Room 40X on the fourth floor of Building B. When Liu Yong and others arrived, the scene had already been blocked by the Xinjiekou Police Station.

After Liu Yong got dressed, he walked into the scene to investigate. The female corpse was lying on the bed in the bedroom with her head facing west and her feet facing east. Her eyes were pierced by a sharp object, and there was a sharp hole in her chest that was deep into her heart. The blood that flowed out had dyed the upper half of her pajamas red.

There were clear marks of pinching on the victim’s neck, and circular bleeding spots were found on both wrists.

In addition, the deceased was neatly dressed and had no obvious signs of a struggle. No major signs of disturbance were found at the scene, and there were no pry marks on the door.

Although the door lock was damaged, it was because the deceased’s younger brother broke the door when he knocked on his sister’s door at around 20: and failed to open it.

The on-site police officer Xiao Liang introduced to Liu Yong: “The deceased is named Jiang Miaomiao, 38 years old, a small restaurant owner, married, with a daughter;
Her husband Zhang Daqiang went abroad to the Maple Leaf Country six years ago and obtained a green card there two years ago. Their daughter has been taken to the Maple Leaf Country by her husband Zhang Daqiang.

I heard that if nothing happened, Jiang Miaomiao would go to Maple Leaf Country tomorrow to reunite with Zhang Daqiang’s family.

During the six years that Zhang Daqiang was abroad, Jiang Miaomiao had always lived a very honest life, with a decent style and treated people sincerely. Although she had a wide range of relationships with the opposite sex, she had never been seen bringing strangers home. “

According to the results of the forensic autopsy, the direct cause of death of the deceased was mechanical asphyxiation. The sharp wounds on the chest and eyes were stabbed after death. The time of death should be between 9 and 10 hours, which was around 10 o’clock on the same day.

Judging from the circular bleeding spots on the victim’s wrist and the strangulation marks on his neck, the murderer should be two people.

Liu Yong analyzed the results of the on-site investigation: the crime scene had been carefully cleaned and tidied, and no fingerprints or footprints were extracted.

It is obvious that the criminal was wearing gloves when committing the crime and wiped off the footprints on the ground after the crime, so he should have considerable anti-detection capabilities.

Moreover, there were no signs of prying or theft on the doors and windows at the scene, indicating that the criminals entered the scene in a peaceful manner. The criminals should be acquaintances of the deceased.

Liu Yong also counted the items based on an inventory made by the deceased’s younger brother Jiang Wei, and found that a gold-plated “Roma” watch that his sister never took off during her lifetime and ten pieces of gold jewelry that she often wore were missing.

At 1 a.m. on January 15, after a case analysis meeting, Deputy Director Ge Shuping announced the establishment of a special task force for the 3 home invasion and homicide case, and the next focus of the investigation would be on acquaintances of the victim.

The task force leader Liu Yong and the investigators registered the names of the contacts in a phone book belonging to Jiang Miaomiao.

It took three days to screen out fifteen key suspects from the deceased’s 137 male contacts. These fifteen people were then interviewed one by one, and finally the suspicion was narrowed down to three people.

One of Liu Yong and his team’s suspects is “Ma San”, a waiter in Jiang Miaomiao’s restaurant.

At 1:14 am on January 10, when “Ma San” was working in the restaurant, Jiang Miaomiao’s younger brother Jiang Wei called the restaurant to look for his sister Jiang Miaomiao.

“Ma San” said at the time: “The boss hasn’t come yet”, so Jiang Wei asked “Ma San” to call Jiang Miaomiao’s home later to confirm whether Jiang Miaomiao was at home.

Ten minutes later, “Ma San” called Jiang Miaomiao’s home, but no one answered the phone.

After a while, Jiang Miaomiao’s cousin Yu Baoqing came to the restaurant to find Jiang Miaomiao.

“Ma San” repeated what he had said to Jiang Wei to Yu Baoqing, who said, “My cousin will leave tomorrow. I think she went shopping today.”

Around two o’clock in the afternoon, all the guests in the restaurant had left, so Yu Baoqing asked “Ma San” to take the keys and ride his bike to check on Li Sha’s house.

Less than an hour later, Ma San came back and told Baoqing: “I went into the room and saw that the boss’s bedroom was locked. I called twice but no one answered. I thought the boss was not at home, so I came back.”

At 8 o’clock in the evening, Jiang Miaomiao’s younger brother Jiang Wei came to the restaurant again and heard that Jiang Miaomiao had not been there all day.

So he took Yu Baoqing and “Ma San” to Jiang Miaomiao’s home.

After entering the house, the three of them saw that Jiang Miaomiao’s bedroom door was equipped with a triple-security lock and a large padlock.

Jiang Wei felt that something was wrong, so he called “Ma San” and Yu Baoqing to break down the door. After they broke the door open, they found Jiang Miaomiao dead on the bed in the bedroom.

The reason Liu Yong initially suspected “Ma San” was that he had the key to the deceased’s home and was the last person to enter the deceased’s home before the incident.

But after verification, Liu Yong found that the deceased had already been killed when “Ma San” entered the deceased’s home, so “Ma San” did not have the time to commit the crime, so he temporarily ruled out “Ma San” as a suspect.

Liu Yong’s second suspect was Robin, a farmer from Shu Province who used to be a chef in Jiang Miaomiao’s restaurant.

This man is 24 years old. He came to Yanjing from his hometown to work four years ago. Later, he was introduced to work as a chef in Jiang Miaomiao’s restaurant.

Because Robin is a good cook, Jiang Miaomiao is very satisfied with him, and he is also the person with the best relationship with Jiang Miaomiao among the restaurant employees.

But two years ago, Robin suddenly resigned, contracted the Huangcheng Restaurant in Dongba, CY District and started working on his own.

Although Robin resigned, he still often brought people to Jiang Miaomiao’s restaurant to eat and drink and took care of Jiang Miaomiao’s business.

“Interesting. He runs his own restaurant and often goes to take care of the business of the former female boss. Tsk tsk, this Robin is a little unusual!”

The task force immediately summoned Robin.

When Robin was summoned, he said: “Jiang Miaomiao treated me very well, and I started working in Jiang Miaomiao’s restaurant four years ago.

August 8 was my birthday, and Jiang Miaomiao bought me clothes, leather shoes, and a belt. She even closed the store early that day and prepared a birthday banquet for me… In my eyes, she is my elder sister.”

“When did you know that Jiang Miaomiao was going abroad?” Liu Yong asked.

“On October 10 last year, my fellow villager Daming and I went to Jiang Miaomiao’s restaurant for dinner. During the dinner, Jiang Miaomiao told me that she was going abroad, but I didn’t know the exact date.” After a pause, Robin asked, “What happened? Did something happen to my elder sister?”

Liu Yong asked back: “How do you know?”

“I was just asking casually. You guys always ask me about her, so I thought…”

Since Robin’s answers to the questions were flawless and his expression did not seem abnormal, Liu Yong released Robin in accordance with regulations after detaining him for 23 hours and 48 minutes.

The third suspect was Sun Xiaobao, a 22-year-old professional foreign exchange trader.

Sun Xiaobao also admitted: “I am indeed very familiar with Sister Jiang. She would call me every three months or six months and ask me to come to her, mainly to help her exchange US dollars.

Every transaction was done in her restaurant; I had never been to her home.

Last time when we exchanged US dollars, she told me that she was going to go abroad, but I really don’t know when she will leave.”

In addition, Sun Xiaobao also provided information about several other “speculators” who had traded foreign exchange with Jiang Miaomiao.

But these people said that all the transactions were conducted in Jiang Miaomiao’s restaurant. They also knew that Jiang Miaomiao was going abroad, but they didn’t know when she would leave.

After verification, Liu Yong and his colleagues found that Sun Xiaobao had indeed never entered Jiang Miaomiao’s home.

The other “smugglers” did not lie, so we could only rule them out as suspects.

Liu Yong led the task force to work continuously for more than ten days, but the clues they had found were denied one by one, and the investigation of the case was in trouble.

(End of this chapter)