Chapter 5 The Bystander Perpetrator
Chapter 5 The Bystander Perpetrator
The next morning, when Qinghai Chuantang passed by that place, he saw a middle-aged man in front of the door, wiping the interior of the car.
There were obvious bloodstains on his rag.
Qinghai Chuantang pretended not to see it and walked past as if nothing had happened.
The other person looked very familiar. Qinghai Chuantang remembered that he was the man in the photo. The place he just wiped was the back seat of the car, which meant that he had placed the body in the back seat and wrapped it in a sheet.
This should be the best explanation.
"Officer Takagi?"
When turning the corner, Qinghai Chuantang met him.
Gao Mu immediately made a gesture to silence the crowd, and then whispered, "We have found the murderer, the husband of the deceased. But he provided an alibi, with both personal and physical evidence, so I am lying in ambush nearby to see if I can find any evidence."
"In this situation, why isn't the child here?"
"You mean Conan?"
Gao Mu scratched his head and smiled: "After all, he is a child, so of course he still has to go to school."
And today happens to be Monday.
But in fact, Conan made an excuse that he was sick and asked for a day off.
"Officer Takagi, you won't see anything if you stay here. By the way, when I passed by just now, I seemed to see that old man wiping the blood off the back seat. If you rush over now, you might be able to find him. Eh? Why are you running so fast?"
Although Hirano Takashi has already started to clean up the bloodstains.
But what he never expected was that the police were lying in wait here and he was caught red-handed.
The floor and the back seat were all covered in blood.
"I killed the person."
Hirano Takashi looked calm, perhaps he had already anticipated the arrival of this day.
But this creates a contradiction.
Of course, in the end Takagi still took Hirano Takashi back, and the other party confessed to his crimes.
"She's like my own daughter to me. And to my partner, too."
"Then why did you kill her?"
"I didn't mean to do that. I was just worried. She was addicted to sleeping pills containing zolpidem. Once she took them, she became violent and didn't remember what she had done afterwards."
After finishing speaking, Hirano Takashi sighed: "It's all my fault"
Upon hearing this news, Conan tried his best to say: "The murderer should be Hirano Daisuke!"
He has found the loopholes in Hirano Daisuke's alibi, and has sufficient evidence.
"If Jiashu accidentally killed his mother, would you call the police immediately or dispose of the body quickly?"
"What are you talking about? This is outrageous!"
Hirano Takashi looked at her in disbelief, with a hint of annoyance on his face.
"But if this was not an accident, but a premeditated murder disguised as a robber, and the grandfather who didn't know Jiashu's plan disposed of the body because he was worried about his future, what do you think of this conclusion?"
Hirano Takashi stood up suddenly.
"Enough! I've already said it, I was the one who killed him! Jiashu is still a child who needs his mother, how could he do such a thing!"
"Don't be nervous, please sit down first. I know he didn't do it. The murder disguised as a burglary case, the clearly visible footprints on the floor do not match Jiashu. The murderer should be an adult male between 170 cm tall and between 30 and 39 years old."
In addition to height and age, footprints also contain more information about the person who left them.
"The police have confirmed evidence. Once the autopsy results come out, they will make an arrest."
Hirano Takashi's forehead was covered with sweat.
He was skeptical: "Do the police really have solid evidence? If I surrender earlier, will the police handle it appropriately?"
At this time, a man came to the Metropolitan Police Department. He was Hirano Daisuke, the son of Hirano Takashi. The purpose of coming was naturally for his father, claiming that his father did not kill anyone.
"What were you doing between 11:32pm and 1am?"
Conan estimated the time of the crime based on the call records and text messages within the family.
Yoshiki Hirano returned home at 8 o'clock in the evening and witnessed his parents arguing outside the room.
So he sent a message to his friend and went to his friend's house to play games. Then he sent a message to his mother, saying that he had too much homework from the cram school, so he went to his classmate's house to do homework together.
At 11 o'clock in the evening, his mother didn't answer the phone, so Yoshiki Hirano sent a text message to his grandmother, and the old couple returned home.
At 11:25 p.m., Daisuke Hirano found a credit card receipt from a convenience store on his phone. According to his friends, he went to buy some alcohol.
At 11:32 p.m., there was a rejection record on Saki Hirano's phone. It was a call from her son.
At 12:53 p.m., the elderly couple returned to their home and called Hirano Saki several times, but no one answered.
At 1 a.m., my mother-in-law called 119, but hung up immediately, so the body was probably found at that time.
"Huh? Who is this brat?"
Hirano Daisuke's tone was very unfriendly.
Takagi coughed lightly, "Mr. Daisuke, please answer this question."
"Didn't I tell you before? After a fight with my wife, I was in a bad mood, so I went out for a drink with my friends."
"Whether that's the case or not, I think we'll soon know. The convenience store's surveillance video will be delivered soon."
Moreover, the witness will arrive soon.
Then, the location of their conversation changed from the door to the investigation room.
After a while, a man walked in here under the guidance of others.
It was none other than Hirano Daisuke's friend: Katsuhisa Hirota.
After taking the file handed over by Conan, Takagi opened it and understood.
"Did you know that three life insurance policies were purchased in Hirano Saki's name?"
When the insurance contract was placed in front of him, it was obvious that Katsuhisa Hirota became nervous in an instant, and even his voice trembled slightly.
"I, I didn't know she bought life insurance. It's just that an acquaintance of mine happened to be in this business, so he asked me to buy a few policies."
"That acquaintance is a woman, right?"
Sometimes murder is like this, either for women or for money.
Katsuhisa Hirota's expression was slightly surprised, as if he was saying: How did you know?
"Officer Takagi."
There was a knock on the door. It was someone who came to deliver a USB drive, which contained the surveillance video of that day.
After checking the video, Gao Mu coughed lightly and asked, "Were you drinking from 9 pm to 3:30 am?"
"I went out for a while to buy some wine."
As he spoke, Hirano Daisuke took out his wallet from his pocket and placed an invoice on the table.
Conan stood on tiptoe and picked up the invoice. He saw that the time matched.
He smiled and said, "Uncle, you are so thoughtful that you even kept the invoice, as if you knew something like this would happen."
Although it was an innocent smile, Hirano Daisuke felt a little creepy.
According to neighbors, the couple usually quarreled at 2 or 3 in the morning and it was not until Saki Hirano was taken to the emergency room that the quarrel ended. But that day, it ended earlier than usual.
Takagi sped up the video several times and then pressed the space bar.
He said in a somewhat strange tone, "When I came in, I came from the left, but when I left, I went to the right. Logically, if I came from the left, then the direction I should go back to should also be the left."
On the left is Katsuhisa Hirota's home; on the right is Daisuke Hirano's home.
"I was drunk, so I accidentally got confused. Is that not okay?"
At the end, he deliberately raised his voice, a typical example of someone who was not justified but still had the guts to speak.
"One hour and thirty minutes. It took me to get back to my friend's house after buying some wine at the convenience store. What route did I take that took me so long? Was I going to do something important?"
Takagi stared at the other person with a slight smile on his face, as if he had seen through everything.
This made Conan feel a little strange.
Because based on my understanding of Officer Takagi, in this situation, he should have a serious expression on his face.
"Daisuke, did you really kill Saki? W-why?"
Katsuhisa Hirota grabbed the other person's clothes, but Daisuke Hirano did not answer him. He just looked expressionless, as if the police could do nothing to him as long as he did this.
"Well, let's change the question."
Gao Mu put on a serious face, "Why did you want to kill her? Is it because you bought three life insurance policies but didn't die early, so you can't wait?"
I don't know if these words hit the other person's mind, but Hirano Daisuke suddenly stood up, picked up the bench and threw it at Takagi.
All this happened so suddenly that it was hard to react.
Fortunately, Takagi managed to avoid it, then stepped over the table and pounced on the other person, pressing him to the ground.
"She deserves to die! She is a psychopath who only knows how to take medicine! She is a good-for-nothing piece of trash!"
Hearing the noise, someone came quickly and took Hirano Daisuke away.
"Why on earth did it become like this?"
Katsuhisa Hirota lowered his head, as if he was questioning, but also as if he had guessed that such a situation would happen.
"I think you should know."
"what?"
Katsuhisa Hirota raised his head and looked at the other person.
"You knew he was being violent at home but you ignored it."
"I," Hirota Katsuhisa hesitated, "I didn't know he would kill her."
"As long as I don't get killed, it doesn't matter if I get beaten. That's what you think, right?"
Katsuhisa Hirota turned his head away and stopped looking at him.
"You are also the perpetrator. You will live with the guilt for the rest of your life."
Katsuhisa Hirota lowered his head and secretly wiped his eyes with his sleeve.
Maybe he had tried to stop her the moment he knew about it, and everything would have ended differently? Saki and I had been friends for so many years, and she treated me like a brother, but I failed her.
Finally, the autopsy report came out and the cause of death was: drowning.
Knowing that he was still alive, as long as he called the emergency number, there might be a glimmer of hope.
How desperate and helpless must she be in the icy river?
unfortunately
After leaving the Metropolitan Police Department, Qinghai Chuantang took out an orange-flavored lollipop from his pocket, tore open the package and put it in his mouth.
Now she has figured it out.
The longer the illusion is used, the longer you cannot speak.
Stop loss in time
(End of this chapter)