PDLP Chapter 73 Case Closed
Chapter 73 Case Closed
"That's it!" Liu Xiaodong finished drawing the floor plan of Qian Hao's house and the shape of a fruit knife, then weakly pushed the paper aside.
"Hmm!" Cao Dahua glanced at him, pushed him aside, and his eyes fell on Liu Xiaodong's face again. "Tell me, how do you and Li Hao communicate?"
"I'm afraid my wife will find out about the public phone, and she doesn't want her husband to find out for the time being either. Maybe she wants to keep things under control, I don't know."
In short, we communicate via public telephone, usually around 2:20 PM each day. If it's urgent, we can also call the other party's office landline from a public telephone, but that's rare.
"What about your contact with Qian Hao?"
"Pager, and then practiced through a public phone. But after I killed Li Hao, I burned my pager along with my clothes, just as Qian Hao had told me to. After that, he contacted me directly through a public phone."
Actually, we rarely contacted each other. After I helped him kill Li Hao, he knew that I was in danger, so he only called me once every two months to tell me to be prepared.
The next time he called, he gave me his home address, the time and plan of his operation, and even put a copy of his house key in the electricity box so I could use it when I killed Li Hao.
"Do you remember the number?"
"How could I forget? My number is XXXX523, and his number is XXXX124. He bought both of them and even spent tens of yuan a month to activate nationwide roaming," Liu Xiaodong said.
"Where's the key you used to open the door? Do you still have it?" Cao Dahua continued to ask.
"Hey..." Liu Xiaodong suddenly laughed, "He told me to throw it into the Yangtze River on my way back to Jinling, but he's really too scary, and I'm scared too, so I wanted to leave something to keep him in check."
So I put that key in a small metal box and buried it next to the unfinished building, thinking I might need it someday.
"Heh!" Liu Xiaodong suddenly chuckled, a self-deprecating laugh escaping his lips. "But to be honest, I didn't expect to need it so soon, hehehe..."
As he laughed, Liu Xiaodong burst into tears. "If I had known, I wouldn't have killed anyone with him. I was truly blinded by greed."
Even if Nana kicks me to the curb, with my face and body, finding a few more women to spend money on me won't be difficult at all.
If I hadn't killed someone, things wouldn't have come to this, it wouldn't have come to this, sigh..."
Liu Xiaodong's thousand words of unspoken thoughts ultimately turned into a sigh.
"Alright, let's continue answering our questions..."
The interrogation lasted another hour.
After getting almost everything they could from Liu Xiaodong and confirming his previous statements, the group left the Jinling Municipal Public Security Bureau with him.
Following his directions, they arrived at an unfinished building on the outskirts of the city.
This is a residential community built by a local wealthy businessman.
It was only half-built when it was hit by the escalating Southeast Asian financial crisis, which broke the funding chain, and the project was abandoned last year.
It's said that the outstanding loans are worth more than the house itself, and nobody knows when work can resume.
"What a pity!"
Seeing that the buildings had already been built and even the roofs were sealed, yet they could only stand there waiting to be exposed to the wind and rain, Wu Song felt a pang of emotion.
I don't know what to say.
However, since I came here to solve a case, the feeling of emotion came quickly and went quickly as well.
In just a few seconds, Wu Song regained his attention.
Arrive at the northwest corner of the first building on your left.
Liu Xiaodong pointed to the gap between the cement and the soil, "Right here, you can dig down and you'll find it, it's not buried very deep."
It wasn't deep at all; a member of the task force dug out the metal box after a few digs with a small hoe.
Put on gloves, open it, and inside is a plastic bag, inside which is a key.
Liu Xiaodong was not lying!
On the third floor, in a corner, you can still vaguely see traces of the fire and remnants of clothing.
Important evidence obtained!
……
Jinling Municipal Bureau.
No sooner had I left the unfinished building than Xu Bin came looking for me. "Thanks to Liu Xiaodong's information, Qian Hao has been eliminated!"
"Very good!"
Wu Song and Cao Dahua exchanged a glance and both breathed a sigh of relief.
I felt a faint sense of satisfaction, as if my efforts had finally been rewarded.
In just one month, the two of them visited the police stations of every prefecture-level city in Canglan Province for this case, and they met with countless suspects in total.
Now, we can finally put an end to this case.
"This case was solved by breaking my leg!" Wu Song chuckled self-deprecatingly.
"Hahaha!"
Cao Dahua and Xu Bin laughed along.
"By the way, Xiao Song, Lao Cao, Qian Hao wants to meet you two."
"Let's meet."
"Then let's meet."
Now that it's come to this, and Qian Hao has already said it, what else is there that can't be seen?
The master and apprentice followed Xu Bin to the room where they were interrogating Qian Hao.
"When I arrived in Jinling, I knew I was doomed. But I don't understand how you found Liu Xiaodong. There's absolutely no way you could have found the connection between us."
Qian Hao seemed to have aged ten years in a short period of time.
His face was etched with exhaustion and a deep sense of resentment.
"We didn't follow your network of contacts. We looked for cases involving suspected murder swaps within the same timeframe, then investigated Liu Xiaodong, and matched your two cases together," Wu Song replied.
"That shouldn't be this fast!" Qian Hao narrowed his eyes, pondered for a moment, and asked, "You've already identified Liu Xiaodong so quickly?"
"yes!"
"How did you do that?"
"He tricked us. We didn't say your wife's name, but he knew it."
"Idiot!" Qian Hao immediately closed his eyes, remained silent for a few seconds before speaking, "I already knew that after Li Hao was eliminated, Liu Xiaodong would be the biggest loophole in this case."
I was planning to wait until you couldn't get enough evidence to convict me and then release me, so I could shut this adulterer up forever. Haha, it's too late!
That idiot confessed so quickly, did he think he could get a suspended death sentence? Or life imprisonment?
Ha, that's utterly hopeless.
"A fool who deserves to be in a museum!"
"You're no better than him," Wu Song sneered. "You're a self-righteous fool who thinks he's so smart. I just don't understand how you could immediately think of murder after finding out your wife was cheating on you?"
"Why did she betray me? What do I lack compared to that live-in son-in-law and idiot? Is it because I climbed up from the countryside? Is it because I'm the country bumpkin they call a 'phoenix man'? Since we're married, if they want me to stay single, there's only one way: widowhood."
……
Next.
The entire task force spent more than ten days working on the follow-up work of this murder-for-exchange case.
June arrived amidst our busy schedule.
After submitting the relevant evidence and case files to the procuratorate, all members of the special task force breathed a sigh of relief.
This case is now closed here!