Serious Case Tracking

Chapter 12 Hu Zhendong

Wei Yannan's autopsy report did not provide any valuable clues for the investigation of the case. It is only known that she died between 11 and 12 o'clock in the middle of the night. The cause of death was the same as the conclusion of the preliminary autopsy. , causing the heart to rupture and the heart artery to lose too much blood to die, and the murder weapon used by the murderer is a very ordinary double-edged dagger.

The bloody shoe prints found at the scene, after identification, confirmed that they matched the shoe prints found at the scene of Wei Dongsheng's murder, and also had clear footprints and evenly spaced steps.

The investigation of Wei Yannan's mobile phone list shows that an unfamiliar number sent a text message to her mobile phone on the afternoon of the day of the crime, and then this strange number dialed her mobile phone at 11:24 on the night of the crime. However, the call time was only a short dozen seconds. Judging from this situation, although the unfamiliar number is different, the method used is basically the same as that of Wei Dongsheng's murder case. It is believed that the victim's mobile phone was called on the night of the crime , mainly to distract the victim's attention, it seems that the murderer's every step of the plan is very rigorous!

According to the detailed autopsy report of the forensic doctor, combined with the murder investigation, the murders of Wei Dongsheng and Wei Yannan can be investigated together, and the two murders are clearly premeditated serial murders, and the next target of the murderer It is very likely that it is Wei Xiluo and Wei Beigui, and the protection of the two of them is naturally the focus of the next work.

On the other hand, the investigation into Wei Qiuyuan's murder did not stop. The investigators finally found Li Xiuying, the director of the orphanage, by visiting and investigating some old residents around the orphanage.

Li Xiuying is an old man nearly seventy years old, but her body is still strong, and her voice is relatively clear, but because of aging and memory loss, she has to think for a long time before answering Meng Shaohui's question. .

"I still have some impression of Hu Zhendong you mentioned." Li Xiuying was silent for a long time before saying, "He is not an orphan, his father sent him to the orphanage. I can't remember the specific reason. It’s been almost 30 years. It seems that if there is something at home, let him stay in our yard for a while, and then come to pick him up after a while, but this stay is a year. I think it may be him The family has no money to support him, right?" Li Xiuying shook her head helplessly, "In those days, children from many families were abandoned because they couldn't afford to support them, and then they were sent to orphanages by well-meaning people. Most of them are girls, and there are fewer boys. Fathers like Hu Zhendong send their children here in person, and this is the first time I have met a boy.”

"Then do you remember anyone who went to see the children in the orphanage?"

It took another few minutes of thinking, but finally Li Xiuying shook her head: "He was 15 years old when he came here, he was sensible, and he seemed quite strong in the face of the abandonment of his relatives, and he often told me that he believed that his father would definitely Will come to pick him up, alas, but at last the orphanage closed, and his father never came to see him again."

"Well, where did he go then?" Meng Shaohui continued to ask.

"This..." Li Xiuying frowned, recalling carefully, "At that time, it was not like now. It was easy to raise a large sum of money for charity, and it was usually self-sufficient through some manual labor of children and teachers. At that time, because There are more and more orphans in the orphanage, but there is not much money to support so many children, because my son was in the army at the time, so I got in touch with the leaders of the army through him, except for some very young In addition to being adopted away, most of the older children were sent to the army. It seems that Hu Zhendong was among them. , and arrange a place to study, it's better than staying in an orphanage!"

The clues provided by Li Xiuying can be said to be very important. If Hu Zhendong was really taken in by the army back then, the investigation would have been much easier, so Meng Shaohui didn't dare to waste a minute, and quickly used the clues of the army to find Hu Zhendong's whereabouts.

Sure enough, through the army files, clues to Hu Zhendong were quickly found.

30 years ago, due to the funding problem of the orphanage, the leaders of the army went to the orphanage to bring older children into the army, but because most of the children were not old enough to serve as soldiers, the leaders of the army They were provided with board, lodging and education for the time being, and they were not formally recruited into the army until they reached the age, and Hu Zhendong was among them.But he had already retired from the army during the "million-dollar disarmament" in 85, and no one knew where he went.

Originally, Meng Shaohui thought that the clue was broken here, but he accidentally found a familiar name from the list of veterans that year, which surprised him a lot, because this person was Zhao Tietou, the security director of Sparrow Village.

When Meng Shaohui appeared at Zhao Tietou's house again and explained his purpose of coming, he really surprised the other party.

"You really can't hide anything from you!" Zhao Tietou admired.

"Hiding it? Unless it's something shady, why do you keep it from the police?"

"This..." Zhao Tietou hesitated for a moment, "Officer, do you suspect that Hu Zhendong is related to several murders in the Wei family?"

"Since I came to you to find out the situation, I must have doubts about him, but whether he has anything to do with the murder case, I have to find him himself to find out the situation, so I hope you can cooperate with our work." Although Meng Shaohui said Very polite, but the tone is very strong.

"I believe Hu Zhendong must not have done it." Zhao Tietou said.

"It's useless for you to believe it. What the police focus on in handling cases is evidence." Meng Shaohui said seriously, "You should know the current whereabouts of Hu Zhendong, right?"

"This..." Zhao Tietou hesitated again.

"If you want to prove his innocence, you must tell me his whereabouts, otherwise I will not believe it at all based on your one-sided words. What's more, you two have been in the army for several years, and you have retired together. If you say you don’t know his current whereabouts or that you haven’t been in touch after leaving the military, do you think I’ll believe it? Unless you want to be charged with not reporting.”

Meng Shaohui's attitude was very firm, and at the same time he denied Zhao Tietou's answer that might be used as an excuse, as if he would not give up until he reached his goal.

"It seems that it's hard for me not to say it." Zhao Tietou shook his head helplessly, "During those years in the army, Zhendong has always been interested in legal books. Apart from training, he is studying legal knowledge every day. After retiring from the army, he became a lawyer, and the place where he is now, I believe you should be familiar with the police officer, is called Tianzheng Law Firm."

"Tianzheng?"

This name is very familiar. Wei Qiuyuan's will is in charge of this law firm. If Hu Zhendong is also in this law firm, then it seems that the whole case can be linked together.

Wei Qiuyuan went to Tianzheng Law Firm to handle the will, and Hu Zhendong learned the content of the will, because Wei Qiuyuan's will was very unfavorable to his children. As a lawyer, Hu Zhendong must be very clear about this. As long as Wei Qiuyuan is killed, the will will be destroyed. The content of the paper has changed from an official document to reality, and then only need to kill Wei Qiuyuan's children, then all Wei Qiuyuan's inheritance will belong to Sparrow Village. In this way, the parents who were killed by Wei Qiuyuan can be avenged. At the same time, because Regardless of the life and death of the villagers, Wei Qiuyuan exposed the villagers to radioactive luminous stones for a long time for money, which caused the villagers to suffer from cancer. Therefore, the inheritance of the inheritance to the Majong Village can be regarded as compensation for the villagers. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Such speculation seems very reasonable, but there are still two doubts. First, how did Hu Zhendong know that the death of his parents was related to Wei Qiuyuan?Could it be that his father told him about the radioactivity of the luminous stone when he went to the city?But even so, he wasn't there when his parents died, and all the villagers at that time thought his parents' death was accidental, and he wanted to kill Wei Qiuyuan's family just based on guesswork without confirmation. Come on!Second, the bloody shoe prints found at the murder scene of Wei Dongsheng and Wei Yannan proved to be left by a woman. If the guess is true, who is the murderer of this woman?What is her relationship with Hu Zhendong?
All the speculations and doubts seemed to be confirmed only after finding Hu Zhendong, but the process of finding Hu Zhendong was much smoother than expected. It can be said that Hu Zhendong was taken to the interrogation room of the police station.

Before, Meng Shaohui was still imagining the arrest process. Maybe he would resist, maybe he had already absconded, but it was completely the opposite. When Meng Shaohui led a team to Tianzheng Law Firm to look for him, he was working in the office, and he was very worried about being taken to the police station. The police department was very confused.

"Do you know Wei Qiuyuan?" Meng Shaohui didn't want to waste time and went straight to the point.

"I know him! He is engaged in some kind of mahjong business in the village. He seems to be the village head now! He came to our office to handle matters related to wills, and I have also had contact with him." Hu Zhendong replied calmly.

"That's all?"

"Yes."

"But just ten days ago, he was killed at his home in Sparrow Village."

"What? He's dead?"

Hearing this, Hu Zhendong looked a little surprised, he seemed to be very surprised by Wei Qiuyuan's death, but this surprise only lasted for a few seconds, and soon he regained his composure.

"Don't you know he's dead?"

"Of course, it seems that this matter has not been reported in newspapers and TV news, so how would I know?"

"Then ten days ago, between 10:11 and [-]:[-] on the night Wei Qiuyuan was killed, where were you? What did you do?"

"Officer, what do you mean by that? You don't doubt that I killed Wei Qiuyuan, do you?" At this time, Hu Zhendong's tone and expression were very calm, which may have something to do with him being a lawyer for many years and being used to big scenes. Well, after all, there are far more arguing among lawyers in court than there are accidents in interrogation now.

"you can say it this way."

"Officer, you must take responsibility for what you said. Wei Qiuyuan and I have no grievances. What is my motive for killing him? You say I killed him, but what is the evidence? No motive, no evidence, why do you say I killed him? What's more, if you didn't say that he died, I wouldn't know about it at all. You should know that what you just said is a kind of slander to me, a kind of slander, and I reserve the right to pursue your legal responsibility unless you can Give me a reasonable explanation." Hu Zhendong asked displeasedly, pretending to be a lawyer.

"Put away your lawyer's tricks. Could it be that the police suspect that you still need to be held legally responsible? You are a lawyer, so the police can't suspect you? You won't kill people?" Meng Shaohui asked rhetorically. I was very disgusted by the airs of a lawyer in front of me, "I tell you, the police will not arrest you here for no reason, why do you think we are full and have nothing to do? You have to explain reasonably, okay, then I Let me ask you, how did your parents die?"

"They died in an accidental fire." Hu Zhendong said without thinking.

"It's easy for you to say that!"

"They have been dead for so many years, should I still cry and say it in front of you?"

"Have you never suspected the cause of their death?"

"Doubt? Why do you doubt? They had been dead for several years when I heard the news, and all the villagers said that they died in an accidental fire. Are they all lying?"

"Do you know Wang Youcai?"

"Hmm." Hu Zhendong frowned slightly, and looked at Meng Shaohui suspiciously.

"According to what Wang Youcai said, your father suspected that the cancer in the villagers was related to the luminous stone used to make mahjong, so he took a few samples of luminous stone and went to the city with you to find the truth. There is a small amount of radioactivity, although the radioactivity of a piece of luminous stone is tiny, but if a large number of luminous stones are concentrated together, it is enough to cause fatal harm to the human body, and the villagers who died of cancer all went to the mountains to mine Stone material, so your father intends to prevent the villagers from continuing to mine luminous stones to make mahjong, and your father is worried that you will have adverse effects on your health if you come into contact with luminous stones when you return to the village, so he put you in the orphanage. He planned to wait for the matter to be resolved But I didn’t expect that on the night when he returned to the village to have a showdown with Wei Qiuyuan, he and your mother met with misfortune and died in the fire.”

"You mean that the fire was not an accident, but Wei Qiuyuan deliberately set it on fire to cover up the truth of the matter?"

After hearing what Meng Shaohui said, Hu Zhendong was a little surprised, but not excited. Is it because his profession gave him a calm attitude, or did he already know all this?But if he is really the murderer, according to common sense, even if he knew everything earlier, he would definitely put on a very surprised expression at this time, but his behavior seemed a little abnormal, which made Meng Shaohui suddenly suspicious .

"According to Wang Youcai, this is indeed the truth, because your father told Wang Youcai everything back then, but out of self-interest, Wang Youcai did not mention this to anyone after the incident, but He buried the truth in his heart until a few days ago, when he was about to die from cancer, he told me the secret he had been keeping. Fortunately, his conscience found out, otherwise the truth of the matter would probably be buried forever. dusty."

"Officer, first of all, the so-called truth that Wang Youcai said is nothing more than his own guesswork. On the premise that there is no personal or material evidence to prove his statement, you can actually believe what he said is true, which makes me I have doubts about your ability to handle the case. Do you think that based on his one-sided words, you believe that I killed Wei Qiuyuan, and when it comes to court, will the judge believe it?" After listening to Meng Shaohui's words, Hu Zhendong put forward his own opinion very calmly, "Secondly, it's the first time I've heard Wang Youcai's words you conveyed just now. If it's true, then I will return justice to my parents through legal channels. As a lawyer, I am familiar with the law. How could I know the law and break the law?" What about killing people? Finally, I want to explain that between 10:11 and [-]:[-] p.m. ten days ago, I happened to be drinking at a bar with my colleagues because I won a lawsuit that day. So I invite my colleagues to relax and celebrate together, and I took a taxi home after leaving the bar that night and asked for a receipt from the taxi driver. You can investigate all of these. Based on the above points, I would like to ask, police officer, why do you suspect that I killed you? Where's Wei Qiuyuan?"

Hu Zhendong's words caught Meng Shaohui's attention. He had to admit that, as a lawyer, he had excellent on-the-spot response and eloquence. For a while, Meng Shaohui couldn't find any flaws in his words, especially what he said at the end. The alibi at the time of the incident should not be a random nonsense. If it is not true, as long as there is a little investigation, his suspicion will definitely be aggravated. He should be very clear about this. Of course, if it is not confirmed Before, his suspicion still existed.

(End of this chapter)