Attending ex-girlfriend's wedding, arresting the groom's officer on the spot

Chapter 1106 The Bad Guys

The reason why Zhang Yan dismembered the body was simple: no one helped him deal with the body.

In Zhang Yan’s own words, no one helped me, and I couldn’t do it myself, so I had to chop it all up.

In fact, there is indeed a coincidence here.

If it wasn't for Zhang Yan's neighbor who needed to use his stove on the next day, which was the 2th, then within a few days, Zhang Yan might have really burned the entire body in the stove.

Of course, under normal circumstances, the temperature generated by household firewood is actually not enough to completely burn the corpse.

Lu Chuan has seen many cases of dismemberment and corpse dumping during his investigations over the years, but there are not many cases where the body was completely burned after the murder.

Over the years, Lu Chuan has only heard of two such cases.

One was a case he had handled personally.

The murderer doused himself in gasoline and burned himself completely, but there were still some broken bones and debris left.

The amount of gasoline poured at that time was actually quite large, and the murderer did not burn the body all at once.

According to the results of the interrogation at that time, the other party handed over gasoline many times and burned the body several times before completely burning it.

In addition, Lu Chuan had heard of a similar case in which the murderer was a kiln worker.

This man killed a total of 6 people, and when dealing with the bodies, he used a kiln used to burn ceramics.

Because the temperature inside the kiln was very high, the corpses would be completely burned after being placed in, leaving no trace, so the other party was caught after killing 6 people.

Of course, even though the case was solved later, the interrogation process was still very troublesome because the murderer had completely destroyed the body and no clues could be found.

There is a crucial link missing in the entire evidence.

The police conducted a very detailed inspection of the kiln used by the workers, but because it had been subjected to high temperature, they could not find anything.

The main reason why most people do not use this method to destroy corpses is that it is not something that most people can do.

Insufficient conditions.

"You guys think... is what Zhang Yan said true?"

The interrogation has ended and the relevant case has been completely closed. On the second day, Zhang Yan was taken to the scene for identification.

The next step is for the Criminal Police Brigade to organize the relevant written materials and then transfer the case.

Several people in Chen Jiang's office were discussing the case.

Chen Jiang was in charge of interrogating Zhang Yan. Was what he said really referring to Zhang Yan? He was not planning to kill anyone, but wanted to paralyze Li Xiaofeng.

In Zhang Yan's own words, she had accepted it in this life. Even if Li Xiaofeng became paralyzed, she would take care of him for the rest of his life as long as he didn't go out to gamble.

"From a forensic perspective, I think what the other party said is true."

Wang Zhaokai thought about it and put forward his own point of view.

Some of the other people agreed with Wang Zhaokai's views.

Because if Zhang Yan really wanted to kill someone, cutting Li Xiaofeng's throat with a knife would obviously be more appropriate than using a hammer.

"They have a kitchen knife at home. If he really wanted to kill someone right away, he could just chop his neck with the knife."

Wang Zhaokai continued, "And the key forensic result is that there was only one hammer mark on the back of the deceased's head. That is to say, Zhang Yan only hit him with the hammer, killing him in one blow, without hitting him more than once."

"But this is just a process. In the end, the other party died."

Sun Biao said.

"In any case, if Zhang Yan really had no intention of killing Li Xiaofeng, then he should have surrendered himself after killing him and told the whole process. However, he did not choose to surrender himself, but chose to dismember and burn the body." Although the crime process described by Zhang Yan can be supported to a certain extent based on the results of the forensic examination, Zhang Yan's subsequent actions were obviously intended to escape legal sanctions.

Not only did she subjectively want to destroy Li Xiaofeng's body, but she also sent a text message to Li Xiaofeng's father, hoping to prove that Li Xiaofeng disappeared on his own.

And after Li Xiaofeng was killed, he even made a false police report.

"I personally think that when sentencing, it will definitely be intentional homicide and the possibility of manslaughter is not high."

Chen Jiang said.

There is a big difference between the criminal law sentence for manslaughter and intentional homicide.

The former is more than three years but less than ten years, while the latter is at least a life sentence.

Of course, the specific verdict of the judge will depend on the result of the court defense.

However, based on the law enforcement experience and experience of Chen Jiang and others over the years, the possibility of sentencing the other party to intentional homicide is over 90%.

"Alas, this is like marrying the wrong person..."

A policewoman sighed.

During the entire process of investigating Li Xiaofeng's disappearance, the police actually had a very clear judgment of Li Xiaofeng's character.

This Li Xiaofeng is actually a compulsive gambler.

The family is in a mess, and my wife and parents have all been cheated.

His parents owed more than 60 yuan in foreign debt for him, and they even sold their house. People in their s still had to work outside and support him every month.

Although Zhang Yan broke the law, she actually couldn't bear it anymore.

The 2 yuan that Li Xiaofeng lost in the end to buy seeds and fertilizers became the last straw that broke the camel's back for Zhang Yan.

At the same time, the death of Li Xiaofeng also sounded the death knell.

In fact, the local police station has been cracking down on gambling very vigorously.

Li Xiaofeng has been dealt with many times for gambling. He has been detained seven or eight times and has also been fined.

As for the owners of some chess and card rooms in the town that organized gambling, they have all been dealt with, and some have even been imprisoned.

The local gambling culture has a long history and was particularly rampant in the past. It is said that at night the whole village is basically empty as everyone is playing cards.

Later, because the police station's crackdown was particularly strong, this trend gradually changed.

At least not everyone plays cards now, and fewer and fewer people gamble. Only some old gamblers often get together secretly.

But nothing is absolute in human affairs, just like criminal cases, murders are common, not to mention gambling. It is possible to reduce it, but it is unlikely to completely refuse it.

Many grassroots criminal police are also discussing Zhang Yan's case.

Should Li Xiaofeng be killed? How should Zhang Yan be sentenced? In fact, from the legal point of view and from the moral intuition point of view, the two are somewhat misaligned.

But the law is the law. If we judge everything based on moral intuition, wouldn’t this society be in chaos?

Lu Chuan has already made a detailed report to his superiors on the investigation of the relevant case, and the case is now closed.

For the next half month, there was nothing to do at the Criminal Police Brigade, and there were fewer meetings at the High-tech Zone Branch. When Lu Chuan had nothing to do, he could go home on time to go to get off work and spend time with his wife and children, and his life was quite carefree.

In the blink of an eye, my son is already a hundred days old.

(End of this chapter)