Serious Crime Unit 1

Chapter 893 Life and Death Contract (4)
"How long have you been at your father's house?"

"Soon, not more than 10 minutes, my father said that I was very busy and asked me not to delay business, saying that he could take care of himself. So, he pushed me out of the house and told me to go home early to cook for my husband and children. .”

"Did you change into slippers when you entered the house?"

"Yes, I put on my slippers as soon as I enter the house to avoid staining the floor. My dad loves to be clean."

"Are you going to put on slippers, or is he telling you to put on slippers?"

"My dad asked me to change into slippers."

"Would a person who was about to commit suicide care if the floor was clean?"

Guo Xiaofang was stunned for a moment, thought for a while and said, "Yes, this doesn't make sense."

"Where did you sit after you came in?"

"Sit on the fabric sofa." Because the sofa is made of relatively rough cloth, it won't leave fingerprints.

"Has he ever expressed despair to you?"

"No, my dad was normal and calm at that time. I really can't imagine that he would commit suicide that night. Maybe he had been thinking about it for a long time, so he was very calm. It was all our fault for being unfilial..." She choked up.

"What kind of bag did you put the crucian carp in for your father?"

"Black plastic bag."

"But when we inspected the scene, we didn't find the black plastic bag. How to explain this?" Jiang Yiming looked at her coldly.

"I don't know about this, maybe my dad threw it into the trash can in the community."

"We didn't find any residual crucian carp in your father's stomach contents." Jiang Yiming felt that she was lying.

"What are stomach contents?" she asked confused.

"It's all the food your father ate in his stomach when he had dinner. Most of this food was digested into chyme before he died. There was no crucian carp in the chyme. This was confirmed by instrumentation. Therefore, the chyme can prove that you Liar, you didn’t send crucian carp to your father at all, so we suspect you of lying and murder.”

"I...I'm actually suspected of murder? Please provide evidence." She looked very aggrieved, with tears hanging from the corners of her eyes.

"We didn't say you committed murder, we just had a motive and suspicion of murder. Otherwise, why would you lie?"

"I'm not lying. Really, I did put a crucian carp weighing almost a pound in a black plastic bag and gave it to my dad. If you don't believe me, you can check it out. If my dad didn't eat the crucian carp, it means he probably put the crucian carp in the refrigerator. Go freeze.”

"Sorry, there's no crucian carp in the refrigerator either."

"Did my father give it to someone else? Or throw it away? You said I had a motive for murder. What is my motive?"

"Because you are heavily in debt, have to support your two sons in college, and sell your house to pay off the debt. If your father dies, you can move into his house and usurp his property."

"Nonsense! My father has already written a suicide note, saying that he will donate the house to the country after his death. The suicide note is placed in Jiangnan Law Firm. If you don't believe me, you can check it. Also, there are surveillance cameras at the two gates of Junyue Community. Device, you can go here and check the surveillance video to see if I sent fish to my dad that evening."

"We will investigate." Jiang Yiming felt that there was no point in continuing to pester her, so he and Zhou Ting walked out of the management office and returned to Junyue Community.They asked the security guards to check the surveillance video from the evening of May 5. The surveillance video showed that Guo Xiaofang walked into the community from the west gate at 25:17, holding a black plastic bag in her hand.

Although there is surveillance video to prove it, she still cannot be ruled out as a murder suspect. When they were preparing to go to Jiangnan Law Firm to investigate, the duty officer of the Criminal Police Team called Jiang Yiming and said that a murder had occurred in Yaoting Community on Tianhou Road, Jiangbei District. Please invite the No. 1 Crime Squad to investigate.

Jiang Yiming and Zhou Ting hurried back to the team to get the survey tools. At this time, other team members were already waiting there.They drove two police cars toward Yaoting Community.After arriving at Yaoting Community, they went straight to the location of the crime: Room 16, Building 102.

A police officer from the Jiangbei District Bureau stood by the door of Room 102. He briefly explained the situation: the deceased was a 79-year-old woman named Lu Juxiang. She died on the bed in her bedroom. It was the security report of the community. The police.

Lu Juxiang is a kind, amiable and optimistic person. She divorced her husband when she was young and has never remarried since. She raised her son alone. However, something unexpected happened. When she was 45 years old, her 23-year-old son died because of She was killed in a car accident while racing her motorcycle on the highway. From then on, she began to live a lonely life.

Lu Juxiang and the people in the community are very good, and Xie Shuqing, the security guard in the duty room, is the best among them.She used to be a worker in a state-owned knitting factory, but after the state-owned enterprise was privatized, she was laid off. After receiving a one-time compensation of 18 yuan, she went to work in a private enterprise.After retirement, she received a salary of less than 1000 yuan and had no social security or medical insurance. Fortunately, she used the compensation to buy a house, which is Room 16, Building 102, Yaoting Community where she currently lives.Lu Juxiang went to the duty room to chat with Xie Shuqing almost every day, as if she was addicted.Xie Shuqing is a security guard in his sixties. He understands the loneliness of losing an only child, so he treats her like his own mother. He takes care of her everywhere, accompanying her to the hospital, going to the park, and buying groceries.

Like all elderly people who lost their only child, Lu Juxiang was most worried that she would die in her room for several days without anyone knowing, so she repeatedly asked Xie Shuqing to call her if she didn't come to the security room in two days.He promised to do as she said.

On May 5 and 30, Lu Juxiang did not come to the security room to chat with Xie Shuqing. He remembered what she said and called her. The call was connected quickly, but no one answered. He redialed several times. Still no one picked up.He was worried, so he came to Lu Juxiang's house and called the door. No one answered him after calling for a long time. He redialed her cell phone again, but it rang in her bedroom.

He had a premonition that something might have happened to her, so he went back to the dormitory to get the key she had given him to keep, and used the key to open her door. There was no one in the living room. He opened the bedroom door and found her dead on the bed, her body already stiff. .He quickly took out his cell phone and called the police.

After listening to Xie Shuqing's words, Jiang Yiming felt very strange, because the case was almost exactly the same as Guo Liang's. He was also a 79-year-old man living alone, and he was also a person who was afraid of not knowing after his death. If Lu Juxiang also died of sleeping pills , then, nine times out of ten, this is a murder.

"After you opened the door to Lu Juxiang's house, did you take off your shoes and put on your slippers?" Jiang Yiming asked Xie Shuqing.

"I didn't take off my shoes. I was so anxious at the time that I forgot to take off my shoes." He regretted a little.

"It doesn't matter. After you found out that Lu Juxiang was dead, did anyone else enter the scene?"

"After I found out she was dead, I called 110. The police officer told me to guard the scene and not let anyone enter. I had no choice but to stay here and wait for the police to arrive. No one entered the scene except me."

"You did a good job. Is your community's monitoring system complete?"

"Oh, forget it. Although there are dozens of monitors installed in the community, few of them are useful. Yaoting Community is an old residential area developed in the early 80s. People from the lower class live in it. They can't make friends. I have to pay property fees, so the monitoring system is not perfect. I am almost 60 years old. If it were not an old community, the property company would definitely not hire someone of my age."

"Do I need to register to enter your community?"

"No, as long as the visitor names the owner, we will let them go."

"Has anyone come to see Lu Juxiang in the past two days?"

"No, but I'm on day shift. I don't know if anyone will come to see her at night."

"Thank you for your cooperation. You can go. We may come to see you again in the future. This is my business card. If you find anyone or anything suspicious, please call me." Jiang Yiming handed his business card to He said thank you and left.

Jiang Yiming walked into the bedroom, Zhou Ting was inspecting the floor, Luo Jin was inspecting the body, and Wu Jiang and Xiao Ke were inspecting the living room.

"Luo Jin, how did the deceased die?"

"The spots on the deceased's body were dark red and did not fade with acupressure. They have been fixed. It is initially judged that, like Guo Liang, he died of sleeping pill poisoning."

"Can you determine the approximate time of death?"

"It usually takes about 1-3 hours after a person dies. The muscles contract slightly, the joints cannot bend, and rigor mortis begins to appear. After 12-16 hours, rigor mortis spreads throughout the body. It can vary depending on the external temperature, the body's physical condition, and the cause of death. It appears sooner or later..."

"I know this. Just tell me the time of death based on the condition of corpse spots and rigor mortis."

"rigor mortis begins to relieve after 24 to 48 hours or longer. The deceased's rigor mortis has begun to relieve, but it has not been completely relieved. In most cases, the complete relief of rigor mortis occurs 3 to 7 days after death. Now It was 6 o'clock in the morning on June 1. Based on the analysis of the corpse spots and rigor mortis, I think the deceased died 11 to 34 hours ago, that is, between 40 o'clock and 5 o'clock in the evening on May 30. If passed An autopsy can narrow down the time of death to within three hours.”

"Are there any injuries on the deceased?"

"No, it's exactly the same as natural death."

"Which murderer is so powerful that he can make two murders look exactly like suicides?"

"Captain Jiang, do you think her and Guo Liang's deaths were caused by the same murderer?"

"Yes, there is no such accident in the world. The deceased was also a lonely old man. He also died of sleeping pills. He also died between 8 and 12 o'clock in the evening. What's more, he was also 79 years old and had no resistance. Which murderer is responsible for 79 How can a [-]-year-old man have such deep hatred?" Jiang Yiming was puzzled.

(End of this chapter)