Chapter 1241: Fan Family Village

The inquiry didn't last too long.

After Meng Chengbiao made the sister and brother cry, the two started talking to each other, and began to reveal their suspicions over the years.

"Although other women in the village have run away, most of them were women without children. At the very least, there were no women who ran away after being married for more than ten years."

"Women who left took as much money as possible. Others would borrow money and then run away. No one left gold jewelry behind."

"When others left, they would more or less say goodbye to their children. There were none who ran away without a word."

On this basis, Meng Chengbiao began to ask about the hammer, and more importantly, about the situation of the two people's mother in the days she left.

The days when their mother left were unforgettable days for the sister and brother who were only in their teens at the time. Under Meng Chengbiao's guidance, both of their memories became clear and concrete.

No one definitely said "father," but the inquiry and answers all revolved around him.

In the observation room, Huang Qiangmin and the others smoked cigarette after cigarette, all losing interest in chatting.

After being a criminal police officer for a long time, some cases don't actually need insiders to say it; one can guess seven or eight out of ten. This is like love, marriage, and divorce; although some weirdos can do some special operations and become popular all over the internet, most of the time, ordinary people's life experiences are just that ordinary, so ordinary that street aunties have chewed them to pieces.

However, even if everyone can guess the direction of these cases and things, it is still very sigh-inducing when it is really confirmed.

Of course, more importantly, it is the question of how to convict the suspect.

Police handling cases need evidence.

As far as the current situation is concerned, even if the suspect confesses, the evidence level seems too thin.

Jiang Yuan determined the victim's identity and immediately pointed the finger of suspicion at the victim's husband—the wife went missing but he didn't report it for several years. The wife who was clearly hit by a blunt object and thrown into the river became a woman who abandoned her husband and children in his mouth. These contradictions made him as obvious as a light bulb.

But all these pieces of evidence are indirect evidence.

The crime scene is uncertain—Jiang Yuan has already gone to Fan Family Village to search, but rural houses are not quite the same as urban residences. There are many cameras in cities, and activities are mostly indoors. Cases of killing wives or husbands are often concentrated in buildings. If there is no renovation, applying reagents like luminol can relatively easily find bloodstains and other evidence indoors.

Rural lifestyles are different; people often like to engage in outdoor activities, and there are many cases of killing in courtyards or the wild. If you spray luminol in the room and can't find bloodstains, there is basically no hope of finding bloodstains elsewhere.

Besides, after eight years, the murder weapon is also likely to be gone.

There can be many motives for murder, but it didn't reach the point of having to kill; instead, there were reasons not to kill.

Therefore, Meng Chengbiao's purpose in inquiring was to try to find an eyewitness or an accomplice. At the very least, it was to find an insider—there are many relatives of the same clan in Fan Family Village, and they all live together. According to Meng Chengbiao's experience, after the suspect killed someone, he might discuss it with someone, or even ask someone for help. Later, he might accidentally let it slip.

The most likely thing to happen here is letting it slip. There are too many similar situations. "Keeping one's mouth shut" is actually very difficult, especially under huge psychological pressure.

Meng Chengbiao was asking questions in the inquiry room, while Jiang Yuan was walking around Fan Family Village with people.

Fan Family Village is only 10 kilometers away from Ningtai County. Villagers travel conveniently, and there are still four or five hundred people living in the village. Jiang Yuan specifically walked along the river. It is a single-lane road built during the village-to-village road period. The road mainly leads to nearby towns, and there are several branch roads leading to neighboring villages.

According to the corpse disposal point judged by the database, the straight-line distance to the nearest road might be 30 or 40 meters, but the road is very difficult to walk. It is a slope with a drop of about 10 meters. In the middle are various miscellaneous trees, some as high as two floors, and some small thin trees that are more than a meter tall.

Jiang Yuan got out of the car and walked along the path stepped out by people. Naturally, the path was winding and rugged, almost like an S-bend, plus another corner, before reaching the river. The total route exceeded 100 meters, and there were two drops in the middle that exceeded one meter. The heavy-duty criminal police who came along, like Mu Zhiyang, needed to grab the tree trunks next to them to jump down, otherwise, it would be easy to roll down.

"There is no way to carry a corpse down alone." Mu Zhiyang was already sweating when he reached the river.

"It's hard to say..." Shen Yaowei often climbed high and walked low to carry equipment, and said with some experience: "In this terrain, if you put the corpse in a bag, the kind that is sturdy, and then drag it, sliding it all the way down, it's actually easier than carrying it on flat ground."

"Then a very long trace would be left."

"There is no way to prove it now."

"He wasn't even sure if the police were investigating at the time. Should he consider this problem? Besides, does he have a suitable bag?"

"A suitcase?" Mu Zhiyang proposed the classic corpse container.

"If you don't consider the traces, the effect is about the same." Jiang Yuan nodded slowly: "It's all quite difficult, barely feasible, but actually still very difficult."

Investigation theory believes that 100 meters is the limit for walking to dispose of a corpse. This number is not calculated by tapping the head; it is the summary of various practices.

Many people might think before committing a crime, I am hardworking, I struggle, I don't rest day and night, I can exceed the limits of ordinary people—don't you know in your heart whether you have broken the limits of ordinary people before? Even if you just traveled through time yesterday, you would know after trying today. You don't actually need to try after killing someone.

Just regarding the matter of transporting a corpse, buying a pig to test might be a bit expensive, or you could get a friend drunk to try—there is a difference in difficulty between transporting a living person and a dead person, because of the gravity distribution, carrying a dead person is more difficult than carrying an ordinary object of the same weight.

In addition, when transporting a corpse, time factors and tension will lead to deformation of movements and increased difficulty. Especially for someone doing this for the first time, just the accelerated heartbeat will consume a lot of energy in vain.

Finally, transporting a corpse and killing are often a continuous action. Generally speaking, before transporting a corpse, you must first make the corpse. Unless you use a method like poisoning, the process of making a corpse often tends to be intense, which is enough to consume the physical strength of a normal person.

During this period, there will always be intense psychological games, especially in the case of unprepared murder. Whether to dispose of the corpse, bury the corpse, or hide the corpse first, what method and what transportation method to use, etc., all consume physical strength and energy. For middle-aged friends, this step is already exhausting.

"The possibility of the suspect disposing of the corpse alone is relatively low. Priority should be given to the situation where someone helps." Jiang Yuan recalled and asked: "Who else are his immediate family members?"

"The suspect's parents are both alive, and he has an older brother and an older sister. The sister was already married and not in the village, and the brother is still in the village. In addition, the suspect has more than a dozen cousins."

"Ask them separately. Bring them back to ask." Jiang Yuan made a decision immediately.

"Do we have to ask the cousins too? They are all from the same village. Will there be a problem of too wide a strike?" Wei Shiyan followed along without saying a word, but at this time he became subconsciously sensitive.

Jiang Yuan shook his head: "When the victim fell into the water, she might have just been in a state of shock and not yet dead, so the person who accompanied the suspect to dispose of the corpse is also murder. Calculating this way, the strike is not wide. By the way, don't mention this problem during interrogation."

(End of chapter)