Chapter 18: The Accomplice Never Seen Before

Chapter 18: The Accomplice Never Seen Before

Chapter 18: The Accomplice Never Seen Before

Xu Yiqing said: "When all possibilities are eliminated, the last one is the truth no matter how outrageous it is."

Du Yu asked: "Do you have any idea?"

"We have all been to Zhao Xiaomeng's house. The two houses at the deepest part of the alley are indeed the only ones that Li Yueyue and the Zhao family's father and daughter would go to... and now we can be sure that it is not Li Yueyue."

"You suspect Zhao Qianyu? But didn't he go out to play cards that day? There's no need for Zhao Xiaomeng to lie."

"Just ask and you'll find out."

Now the serious crime team has basically confirmed the facts of Zhao Xiaomeng's crime. Although according to Xu Yiqing's autopsy, it is speculated that there is another murderer and the second murderer is the real murderer of Li Yueyue, Zhao Xiaomeng must bear criminal responsibility as an accomplice.

So Zhao Xiaomeng couldn't go home, and Du Yu called Zhao Qianyu to explain the situation.

On the phone, this stingy and selfish man was just as devastated as his daughter.

He would never understand why his daughter, who was so well-behaved and never talked back to him, was associated with a murderer.

"You must be mistaken. My daughter would never kill anyone... You must be mistaken!"

Listening to Zhao Qianyu's unwilling tone on the phone, Du Yu was silent for a moment, and could only enforce the law impartially: "Come to handle the formalities another day... Your daughter will be detained before the prosecution. You can bring her some daily necessities and quilts, but no sharp objects."

Before hanging up, Xu Yiqing took the phone and asked, "Mr. Zhao, I'm Xu Yiqing, I met you today. I want to ask you something, please answer truthfully."

"Ask as much as you want. My daughter couldn't possibly kill anyone... No matter what you ask, I'll tell you that it must be that Li Yueyue who offended someone and was killed. It couldn't be my daughter!"

"When we went to your house to investigate today, we detected a large amount of blood in the cracks between your house and Li Yueyue's rental apartment... What do you remember about this?"

"Impossible, how could there be human blood in my house? It must be that Li Yueyue..."

Zhao Qianyu subconsciously denied it on the phone, and then put the blame on the dead Li Yueyue.

Anyway, in his opinion, his daughter would never do something like murder.

Xu Yiqing said, "Calm down, this is not human blood, this is animal blood... Puppy, Mr. Zhao, do you have any impression of this?"

"Dog..." With Xu Yiqing's comfort, Zhao Qianyu calmed down a little, began to recall carefully, and then suddenly remembered something: "More than a month ago, I went out to play cards, and remembered that my daughter didn't eat much at noon, so I didn't want to play and went home to cook for her. As a result, she was not at home when I got home. I heard a dog barking in the cracks of the wall, and I knew that it must have wanted to steal the fish that fell in from the sun drying on my roof. These cats and dogs are so mean, always stealing food. I lost money and was in a bad mood, so I hit it with a stick twice to vent my anger, and I didn't care when there was no sound... Because my daughter was not at home, I went back to play cards, but it was strange. After I went back that day, my luck was surprisingly bad. No matter how I played, I lost, and I just didn't have good cards..."

The words that followed were no longer important. Xu Yiqing and Du Yu looked at each other and sighed.

Do not live by sin.

This murder case turned into a horrific tragedy from such a ridiculous beginning.

After a pause, Xu Yiqing interrupted Zhao Qianyu's chatter and asked on the phone: "Mr. Zhao, you are a fisherman, have you lost any fishing gear recently?"

Zhao Qianyu replied: "Really... Did you find it at that little bitch Li Yueyue's house? I lost a bundle of 0.4 fishing line."

Du Yu thought for a moment and whispered, "The diameter of the 0.4 fishing line is about 0.1 mm, which is suitable for catching small fish weighing less than half a pound."

Xu Yiqing was slightly surprised, but after thinking about it carefully, he suddenly realized that Du Yu liked to stroll around remote waters to see if he could find any suspicious objects, corpse dumping sites, or suitcases filled with RMB.

Over time, I simply bought a fishing rod and started fishing, casting a few casts after a stroll.

It is now certain that one of the murder weapons was a fishing line, and the scars on Li Yueyue's neck were caused by the fishing line used by Zhao Xiaomeng.

As for the other knife that stabbed Li Yueyue's heart, there is still no clue.

Du Yu ordered the police to search for the fishing line around Huimin Garden: "According to the interrogation, Zhao Xiaomeng's psychological quality is not good, and she is easily emotional and panicked. So after she mistakenly thought she had killed Li Yueyue, she might have thrown the fishing line away. Pay special attention to the corridors and unit doors."

On the other side, Zhao Qianyu carefully asked on the phone when he could go visit his daughter, and Xu Yiqing handed the phone back to Du Yu.

Du Yu just left a message "wait for notification" and hung up the phone with some sympathy.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the two groups of field police officers who had been working around the clock received news.

The fishing line was found.

Xu Yiqing conducted tests overnight. It was simply impossible to extract fingerprints from this fishing line. It was impossible to perform fingerprint identification on a line with a thickness of 0.1 mm.

But fortunately, forensic scientists have other options.

"Li Yueyue's blood sample was detected on the fishing line, which is consistent with the blood sample I extracted from her neck wound." Xu Yiqing took the test report to the serious case team: "In addition, Zhao Xiaomeng's DNA was also detected... She used her bare hands when she used the fishing line, leaving skin debris." Du Yu breathed a sigh of relief: "We have evidence and confessions, so we can bring a public prosecution."

Xu Yiqing asked: "How long will Zhao Xiaomeng be sentenced to?"

Du Yu thought for a moment and answered, "Although Zhao Xiaomeng was not the actual murderer, she subjectively wanted to kill Li Yueyue, which is intentional homicide. According to the severity of the circumstances, the minimum sentence is more than three years and less than ten years, and the maximum is death penalty."

"The severity of the case..." Xu Yiqing thought for a moment and said, "The second murderer must be sentenced to death."

Not only were the methods cruel enough to dismember Li Yueyue, but it also caused extremely bad consequences.

The murderer must be brought to justice as soon as possible.

After communicating with Zhao Qianyu and the delay in finding the murder weapon, Zhao Xiaomeng's emotions finally calmed down.

She knew very well that what she had to do now was to confess and strive for leniency and a reduced sentence.

Seeing that Zhao Xiaomeng had shown her willingness to cooperate, after a meeting of the serious crime squad, Du Yu decided to tell Zhao Xiaomeng about the case.

Zhao Xiaomeng, who had been tense all day, lay on the interrogation table to rest. Du Yu pushed open the door and came in, turning on the light.

The sudden bright light woke Zhao Xiaomeng up. She looked a little confused. She frowned and didn't dare to look directly at the light bulb on the ceiling. There were still traces of tears on her face.

Du Yu sat down and got straight to the point: "Zhao Xiaomeng, there is something I need to tell you about Li Yueyue's death. In fact, you are not the real murderer of Li Yueyue. The murderer is someone else."

Zhao Xiaomeng was stunned for a moment, then became a little excited: "What? How...how could it be...I didn't kill her?"

Du Yu nodded: "After you strangled Li Yueyue, she was not dead. The autopsy showed this. So after you left, someone who was willing to take the blame for you and clean up the mess killed Li Yueyue who was about to call the police."

Zhao Xiaomeng was confused. She racked her brains but couldn't think of anyone who could help her.

As for her roommate in college, it was just Zhao Xiaomeng's unrequited love, and the other party just saw Zhao Xiaomeng as an ordinary friend.

Du Yu saw Zhao Xiaomeng's confused expression and reminded her, "Who did you meet or talk to about this matter after you left Li Yueyue's house?"

Zhao Xiaomeng shook her head: "I didn't tell anyone, but I received a phone call after I thought I had killed Li Yueyue."

"what phone?"

"I don't know. The phone number didn't look like a serious one. I was stunned when I saw Li Yueyue lying on the ground without breathing. I don't even remember how I answered the call." Zhao Xiaomeng recalled the situation at that time and said, "After the call was connected, the person said something I couldn't understand. After I came to my senses, I hung up the phone and ran away."

"What did he say?"

"He told me not to worry, he would take care of it, I was innocent from now on, and asked me not to tell anyone and forget about what happened tonight."

Zhao Xiaomeng said timidly: "I was so scared at the time, I thought someone saw me killing someone and wanted to threaten me... I really don't know him, you have to believe me."

Du Yu frowned. According to the autopsy report, the other party was willing to take the blame for Zhao Xiaomeng and didn't want the police to find out that she was the murderer. How could he not know her?
Moreover, he always felt that he had heard Zhao Xiaomeng's words somewhere before.

Xu Yiqing, who was listening at the side, suddenly changed his expression.

He knew where he had heard this before.

He will never forget it for the rest of his life...It was this sentence that made him certain that there was someone else involved in the murder of his brother.

Xu Yiqing looked at Du Yu and said, "When I interrogated the murderer who killed my brother, I asked him how he dismembered the body. Do you remember what he said?"

Du Yu recalled the transcript of the October 10.25 major dismemberment case, "He seemed to say that he was not the one who dismembered the body, and someone told him to bury the body somewhere and forget about it. He didn't even know that person... He simply treated the serious crime squad like a child."

Because the final evidence was not sufficient to support the suspect's confession and they could not find anyone else involved, the serious crime squad determined that the murderer could not argue with the fact of murder in the face of the evidence, so he wanted to clear himself of the charge of dismemberment and strive for a reduced sentence.

The dismemberment case caused panic among the people, and under pressure from public opinion, the higher-ups decided to close the case.

But Xu Yiqing always believed that the murderer had the courage to kill, but he did not have the skills and strong mentality to cut the body into more than 2,000 pieces of meat, so he agreed with his sophistry.

The only problem is that the case has been closed and there is no evidence.

But now, in the Li Yueyue dismemberment case, evidence shows that there really is such a mysterious person who cleans up the mess for criminals who have killed or attempted to kill people without knowing them at all.

Xu Yiqing looked serious and asked Du Yu: "You have always said that there is no evidence, and you think that I have not yet come to terms with my brother's death... Does her confession count as evidence now?"

(End of this chapter)