novelslam Chapter 44 Cold Case
Chapter 44 Cold Case
"I was lucky, I just happened to run into them."
"Haha, don't be modest!" Xu Bin patted Wu Song on the chest. "Since you came to our Third Squadron, the murder case clearance rate has improved significantly. Keep up the good work!"
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trial room.
Xu Bin and Cao Dahua, along with a veteran police officer who conducted the preliminary investigation, were still involved in the interrogation, while a young man was recording the interrogation process.
Wu Song, with his imposing physique, stood aside and studied.
"Name."
"Li Ailian, Han nationality, lives in Xia Rongshu Village, Chengbei District, and is 25 years old this year."
"You're cooperating, huh? Well then, tell me about your crime. Why did you kill Li Yanan?"
"Because she impersonated me to go to university, my life was completely changed. Otherwise, in Shanghai, I would be the one with a proper job, instead of marrying an alcoholic."
"When did you find out that she had impersonated you and gone to university?"
"Around July this year, I went back to Rongshu Village and went to the Xinhua Bookstore in our Chengbei District to buy books. While waiting for the bus on the roadside, a Santana stopped next to me. It was Zhang Weida, who was my classmate in the class next to mine in high school. He had written me a love letter, but no one else knew about it. He said he would take me home and told me on the way."
He said he ran into Li Yanan from our class in Shanghai, and discovered that Li Yanan's real name in Shanghai is Li Ailian.
"So, you believed it?" Cao Dahua asked.
"I've always felt it was strange that I didn't get into university. I did very well on the college entrance exam, so how could I not get in? It wasn't until he told me about this that I realized this was possible, but I still don't quite believe it."
Ten days later, after Liu Jianshe hit me again, I went to Shanghai with Zhang Weida. There, at the hospital where Li Yanan worked, I saw her photo with the words "Li Ailian" written below it. Only then did I realize that someone had indeed impersonated me. All the hardships and beatings I had endured over the years were unnecessary.
"And then?" Cao Dahua continued, "you then decided to kill me?"
"At first, I wanted to report her, but Zhang Weida's words woke me up. Even if I reported her, what difference would it make? Li Yanan had money from her father and could still live a good life. But I wouldn't have the chance to take the exam again. I didn't have the will anymore, and Liu Jianshe wouldn't let me take it either. Then Zhang Weida said it would be better to kill her!"
Then he showed me the gun he had hidden in his house and told me that if I wanted to kill Li Yanan, he could help me; if I didn't want to, I could choose to report him.
I chose the former.
Because I usually enjoy reading detective novels, I felt that simply killing her would be too easy.
Moreover, I not only hate her, I also hate Liu Jianshe.
Considering that she and I are about the same height and build, I came up with a good plan.
Doesn't she like to take my place? Then let her take my place and die.
On August 2nd, I had Zhang Weida bring her back from Shanghai. I prepared sleeping pills in Liu Jianshe's vinegar and water. After he fell asleep, I smashed Li Yanan's head on the coffee table to kill her. After that, I placed the body in Liu Jianshe's ancestral grave. Then I went home, collected the broken glass, and cleaned up all the bloodstains. That night, I left Gaotan.
I knew you wouldn't find the body, and I knew Liu Jianshe would be sentenced to life imprisonment, but I'm genuinely surprised you found me so quickly. How did you know the body wasn't mine? Is it because my parents couldn't possibly have Li Yanan's blood type?
"Don't ask those questions, just tell me yours," Xu Bin said. "What happened to Zhang Weida?"
"I've already told the officer who arrested me about this. Zhang Weida is a drug addict. I took a nap that day, and when I woke up, I found that he was completely cold. Then I went back to Gotham."
"Tell me what you know about Zhang Weida's problems, and the specific information you mentioned about his four accomplices. If they are indeed suspects in the armored truck robbery and murder case, we will report this situation to our superiors." Li Ailian's account of the crime lacked some details, and it was necessary to find out everything.
However, with the armored truck robbery and murder case from two years ago weighing on his mind, Xu Bin couldn't care less about anything else.
The right thing to do is to find out information about the four accomplices and bring them to justice.
As for the murder of Li Yanan, one murderer is dead and the other is sitting in the interrogation room. It's not too late to ask him more questions later.
"Because I killed someone in front of Zhang Weida, and because the plan I came up with seemed pretty good to him, Zhang Weida wanted to recruit me as his strategist. Especially after he found out I was pregnant with his child, he introduced me to his four accomplices in preparation for the next operation."
"If Zhang Weida dies, won't the other four be shocked?"
"They didn't have Zhang Weida's contact information. Zhang Weida was very cautious; he was the only one who could contact his four accomplices, while the other four couldn't contact him."
The names and specific residential addresses of the four individuals.
"I don't know their exact address! I only know what they're doing," Li Ailian said, shaking her head.
"Zhang Erzhu, around thirty years old, works as a chef at a restaurant in the North City District. He has a big face, is slightly overweight, and is 1.8 meters tall."
Qian Xiaoli, in his twenties, 1.6 meters tall, thin, works as a security guard in a high-end residential community in our city, but I don't know which district it is.
Xia Yusheng, 25, is the most successful one. He is about 1.7 meters tall and very clean. He was Zhang Weida's elementary school classmate. After robbing a sum of money, he opened an arcade. Now he doesn't actually need to rob anymore, but he can't stop. The gun that Zhang Weida used to rob an armored truck in Gotham two years ago was given to him.
There was also Lu Kaixuan, a little over 1.6 meters tall. He was the oldest, with a black mole on the right side of his nose, almost forty years old. He was a farmer in the village, and I think he was from the same village as Xia Yusheng. His name was something like Geta, but I really can't remember it.
"That Zhang Erzhu, wasn't he at the scene of the armored truck robbery two years ago?" Xu Bin was the one who took over that case back then.
All four suspects were wearing masks, so witnesses couldn't see their faces, but they were still able to roughly describe their height and build.
He was quite certain that none of the four men were over 1.8 meters tall and fat.
"He was slow, so he stood on high up with binoculars to keep watch for them."
"How many guns do they have?" Xu Bin asked again.
"There were only two guns at the time of the robbery, one on Qian Xiaoli and one on Zhang Weida. Later, Zhang Weida got another gun and gave the one he had used before to Xia Yusheng. Last year, he committed another crime in Shanghai, robbing an armored truck again."