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Chapter 1150: The person can be arrested, but where is the evidence?

While Lu Chuan and his team were trying their best to hunt down Xiao Dongbei, also known as Zhang Chao, a huge wave of events also broke out in Nanzhou.

I really didn't expect that the wrong person was arrested in a robbery case three years ago.

In fact, this situation can be avoided in theory.

There are many strange things in the world. Cases like twin brothers and twin sisters are not uncommon in the process of solving crimes.

Although the number of encounters may be relatively small in a certain city, the possibility of encountering it within a few years is still relatively high across the country.

Even in the absence of twins, there are many cases where someone takes the blame.

In the past few years when supervision was not particularly strict, it was common for some people to take the blame for their superiors.

Therefore, when handling a case, we must not only pay attention to the evidence, but also the entire logical process and whether the criminal suspect's narrative is logical and consistent with the results of the police investigation.

If the crime was not committed by the person involved, then he would certainly not describe some details very clearly.

This is also the main reason why the police still have to conduct multiple interrogations when interrogating a suspect, even if the suspect has already admitted to the crime.

Another thing is to identify the crime scene, on the one hand to confirm the evidence, and on the other hand to verify again at the scene whether the person arrested by the police is the murderer.

After all, even if he took the blame, we probably only knew some of the process, but not the specific details.

The ministry reported a similar case two years ago.

This case was reported and studied nationwide. It was a murder case.

The real murderer was the son, but the one who took the blame was the father.

To be honest, this kind of situation is not uncommon and it happened frequently in the past.

If my son commits a crime, I will take the blame.

When the case was being investigated, everything went very smoothly and there were basically no major problems.

The entire confession, the entire logical process, and the entire chain of criminal evidence all prove that it was his father who killed the person.

However, when identifying the scene, there was a certain deviation in the location where the body was dumped.

Moreover, after two confirmations, the father still did not correctly point out the location where the body was dumped. The location he pointed to was about 5 meters away from where the body was dumped.

It was this 5-meter distance that exposed the fact that the other party was taking the blame.

So when something like this happened in Nanzhou, it can be said that whoever handled the case would be unable to escape responsibility.

After receiving this information, Lanzhou immediately interrogated Zhang Quan in prison, and the results proved that the other party was indeed the twin brother and not Zhang Chao who committed the crime at the time.

Compared with the new case solved by Lu Chuan and his team, the other case can be said to be a wrong verdict. The wrong person was arrested, and the whole case is definitely over.

Of course, the fact that Zhang Quan went to jail in place of his brother does not mean that he is not guilty, because he must have known that his brother had committed a crime since he went to jail in place of his brother.

If you know that the other party has committed a crime and still take the blame, you are suspected of harboring the crime of harboring a criminal.

In addition, it mainly depends on whether the nature of the crime is relatively serious. Zhang Chao committed robbery, so the nature of the crime is relatively serious.

In this case, the offender is likely to be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of more than three years but less than ten years.

However, there is one good thing. If Zhang Quan is really suspected of harboring a criminal and sentenced, the sentence he has already served can be offset against the sentence for harboring a criminal.

Lanzhou has started some other work to restart these cases, but the relevant matters still need to wait for news from Lu Chuan. After all, only after Zhang Chao is caught can the final result be confirmed. Lu Chuan's work progressed smoothly. Three hours after the full investigation of Zhang Chao began, it was discovered that the other party had opened a hotel with Zhang Quan's ID card.

Zhang Chao did not leave Haizhou City, but opened a hotel with Zhang Quan's ID card, and wanted to lurk here. It was ridiculous.

Of course, if Zhang Chao's identity is not confirmed and there is no connection with his hometown, then Zhang Quan and Zhang Chao are twin brothers, and no one knows their identities.

As for the people in Haizhou City, most people only know him as Xiao Dongbei. Those who really know his name also know him as Zhang Chao, and they don't know anything about Zhang Quan.

Therefore, Zhang Chao felt that if he acted under the identity of his younger brother Zhang Quan, it would be foolproof.

However, the other party did not expect that the fact that he and his brother had swapped identities had already been exposed.

"Director Lu, I've just confirmed with the hotel's front desk staff that Zhang Quan is inside. He went out this morning and came back and hasn't left since."

Wang Zhaokai looked excited. He had just sent someone to check and confirmed that Zhang Quan was currently in the hotel.

Inside the command vehicle, Wang Zhaokai reported the situation.

"Now, shall we catch him or not?"

Grasp?!

However, no arrest order has been issued immediately.

Before finding Zhang Chao, finding the other party was the most important task for the police. But now that the person has been found, it has become relatively easier to arrest him.

But the question is, after catching the other party, what can we do if he refuses to admit it?

The evidence collected from the crime scene does not indicate that Zhang Chao committed a crime.

There is no surveillance camera at the entrance of the residential complex where the crime occurred. The security guard is over 60 years old and cannot see people clearly.

Wang Hong only said that Xiao Dongbei might come to their house, but no one knew how likely this was.

Of course, Zhang Chao was definitely suspicious because he left the rental house where he lived, but who can say that this suspicion was related to the murder of Wang Lili?

There has to be evidence.

In other words, even if Zhang Chao admitted to the murder after being arrested, if there is still no direct evidence pointing to the other party, it is still impossible to prove conclusively that Zhang Chao is the murderer.

Otherwise, what's the difference between this and his brother taking the blame for Zhang Chao?

It is very likely that this will be another wrongful case many years later.

So now that it is easy to catch people, the key is to look at the evidence.

Without evidence, everything is in vain.

"We are not in a hurry to arrest him now. We will keep him under surveillance first. As long as he doesn't run away, we can arrest him at any time. But the key to the rest is for the Criminal Investigation Brigade to see if the trace evidence analysis done by the office at the scene can point to Zhang Chao as the perpetrator."

After Lu Chuan finished speaking, Wang Zhaokai also understood what he meant.

Having worked as a criminal policeman for so many years, Wang Zhaokai has actually experienced many similar cases.

Sometimes the case has been solved, and we know that this person is the murderer, but because there is no evidence, there is no way to accuse him, no way to convict him, and we can only watch him slip away.

(End of this chapter)