After Jiang Pingce received the news, he immediately informed Lin Wei, the captain of the criminal police, about this matter.
Captain Lin called a few people to come to the Xinghai Building again, and Lan Yarong explained, “When I went to the toilet with Manluo just now, I found that one of the doors of the women’s restroom was opened, and the mobile phone was placed on the platform next to toilet paper. After asking, no one from the law firm lost their mobile phones, and we suspected that it was Lawyer Zhou’s, so we called the police.”
Lin Wei took the mobile phone and asked the people in the technical department to unlock it as soon as possible, and he personally went to the women’s restroom to find the compartment where the mobile phone was found and asked colleagues to collect evidence on the spot. There were several towel paper balls in the trash, and some strange liquid traces on the floor, and many fingerprints were collected on the walls, all of which should be brought back for identification.
Yue Xingwen did not show up from the beginning to the end, and the matter of handing over the mobile phone was handled by senior sister Lan and senior sister Lin. At this time, Yue Xingwen was in the Jinzui Garden Community, watching the monitoring with Zhuo Feng and Zhang Xianian.
Zhang Xiaonian was the owner of the community. On the grounds of ‘my dog is lost’, he found the property management to check last night’s monitoring.
Zhuo Feng’s identity was a property employee, responsible for the maintenance of water and electricity in the community. He happened to be on duty last night, so he could easily take Zhang Xiaonian and Yue Xingwen to the monitoring of the property.
The three of them sat in the monitoring room, and Yue Xingwen said, “Let’s watch it from six o’clock last night.”
At 6:30 last night, lawyer Zhou Ziyang and Yue Xingwen took the same elevator downstairs and went out of the Xinghai Building. His home was in the Jinzuo Community opposite the Xinghai Building, and if he returned home on time, he would soon appear in the community’s surveillance.
Zhuo Feng turned on the monitoring. At 18:35 in the evening, Zhou Ziyang’s figure was photographed at the entrance of the community. At around 18:40, Zhou Ziyang appeared at the entrance of Building A, Unit 1. The man carried a briefcase, wore a suit and leather shoes, with a smile on his face, and greeted the neighbors he met in the hall. Then, he took elevator no 1 straight to the top floor of the 33rd floor, and unlocked the door of room 33-03 with his fingerprint.
He left work at 18:30 and returned home at 18:40. It seemed that he went directly across the street after work and went home, and had never been to other places.
Yue Xingwen said, “Continue to see what time Liu Lan came back.”
The three stared at the monitoring together. At 7 o’clock in the evening, Liu Lan returned home with a 7-year-old boy. The little boy was bouncing and jumping excitedly, holding a box of toys that should have been bought by Liu Lan for him. The mother and son talked and laughed together and went into door 33-01. Although the family of three lived on the same floor, they were in different rooms.
As for what happened after they went home, everyone didn’t know. Around 9:30 pm at night, they saw a man come out of the 33-03 room. It was Zhou Ziyang who had changed into black sportswear, and at this time, he was carrying a black suitcase in his hand.
Zhuo Feng paused the video and enlarged it. Yue Xingwen looked at it carefully, and said, “Consistent with the attire at the time of death, his suitcase should be full of cash now.”
Zhang Xiaonian said, “In other words, he took cash from home?”
Yue Xingwen said, “En. If he goes to the bank, the bank will already be closed at this time. It shows that he left a large amount of cash at home in advance and suddenly brought it out last night.”
Zhuo Feng followed the monitoring all the way, and found that the time when Zhou Ziyang dragged his suitcase out of the gate of the community was 9:45 pm.
Yue Xingwen looked at the monitoring time thoughtfully and analyzed, “He left the community at 9:45 pm last night and appeared in the monitoring of the Xinghai Building at 9:50 m. Judging from the time, he should have crossed the road immediately after he walked out of the community and came to the Xinghai Building, without going elsewhere.”
Zhang Xiaonian was puzzled and said, “Didn’t senior brother Xin Yan say that the autopsy found that he drank a lot of alcohol and ate beef steak before he died, and he hadn’t digested it yet? I thought that he had a date and dinner with his lover before he went back to the building to have an affair.”
Yue Xingwen said, “Judging from the monitoring, he didn’t have time to go out to eat with Chen Yueqin, probably they ate at Xinghai Building.”
Zhuo Feng said, “Why did he suddenly bring so much cash to the Xinghai Building?”
Yue Xingwen frowned and thought for a while, and said, “There are three possibilities, one is that he secretly took cash and hid it, transferred the joint property of the husband and wife, and when he divorced he could give less to Liu Lan; Second, he was threatened and needed cash transactions to block the mouth of the people who threatened him; Third, the money was the illegal income of bribery for him, and he took the cash to the office to hide it in the storage room, probably intending to find an opportunity to turn the money into legitimate income.”
Zhuo Feng and Zhang Xioanian looked at each other and agreed with Xingwen’s analysis. Whether this money was taken out by himself or bribed by others would not be known until the result of the flow of his bank’s side.
The three continued to stare at the monitoring. At about 10 pm, Liu Lan went downstairs once, changing into loose house clothes, carrying a bag of garbage, including the toy packaging box bought for her son. After throwing away the garbage at the gate of the unit, she went back, and the monitoring tracked her until she opened the door of room 01 on the 33rd floor.
Until 00:00 am, she didn’t go out again.
Yue Xingwen said, “During the time when Zhou Ziyang died last night, she didn’t go downstairs and did not have time to commit the crime.”
Zhuo Feng analyzed and said, “Her relationship with her son looks very good. The mother and son talk and laugh. If she kills Zhou Ziyang with her own hands, her son’s future life will be ruined. It’s impossible for the child to bear that his mother kills his father. So, if she is still sane, I don’t think she will do something as crazy as murder.”
Yue Xingwen looked at the thin back of the woman in the monitoring and said, “Liu Lan is the one with the most motive for committing the crime. Zhou Ziyang cheated, both of them may divorce at any time, and Zhou Ziyang, as a lawyer, is proficient in marriage law. If they divorce, Liu Lan will not be able to share the property, nor can she get custody of the child, and will get nothing. On the contrary, if Zhou Ziyang dies, all the property and cash under the name are inherited by her and her son. She is the person who benefited the most after Zhou Ziyang’s death, but she did have an alibi… Could it be that she didn’t do it herself, but she guided it all?”
Zhuo Feng touched his chin and said, “The mastermind behind the scenes?”
Yue Xingwen said, “I have a feeling, this woman still has secrets.”
Zhang Xiaonian said positively, “The course arranged for us to live in the Jinzuo Community. Should we check all the residents of the Jinzuo to see if there are any strange people? I live in Building C. Maybe there is also a problem with BuildingC?”
Xiao Nian’s reminder was exactly what Yue Xingwen thought, “Check it.”
Zhuo Feng quickly retrieved the resident registration form from the property computer. Yue Xingwen unexpectedly discovered—— Qi Zhao, Liu Minghui, these two people also lived in Jinzuo Garden.
Qi Zhao had a business conflict with the deceased, his big client was robbed by the deceased, had a dispute with the deceased, and was currently one of the suspects. He lived on the 33rd floor of the Building C, just across the door of Zhang Xiaonian’s household!
Liu Minghui was the owner of Minghui Law Firm, and lived on the 33rd floor of Unit 2 of Building A. Building A was the king of the community, facing the fountain square downstairs, and had the best apartment type and view, but the price was of course the most expensive.
They all worked in the Xinghai Building office opposite, and it was reasonable to buy a house in the nearest residential area. This was the downtown area with extremely high housing prices, but for several well-paid lawyers, buying a home here did not pose a financial strain.
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Zhuo Feng began to check the monitoring of Unit 2 of Building A and Unit 1 of Building C last night, and found that Liu Minghui took the child home at about 7 o’clock last night and did not go out, but Qi Zhao did not go home at all last night—— He was not found in the monitoring of Building C!
Yue Xingwen remembered that Qi Zhao’s statement to the police was: ‘I went home to sleep after work last night.’
He was lying.
Yue Xingwen said, “I will go to the hospital now to see the results of the hospital side to check Liu Lan, you continue to stay in the Jinzuo. The police will certainly come to get the monitoring later.”
Zhuo Feng nodded and said, “Okay, be careful.”
Yue Xingwen took a taxi to the Municipal People’s Hospital. Liu Zhaoqing, Xu Yishen and Qin Lu should have been off the night shift today, but they all tacitly did not leave. They met at the flower bed of the hospital, Liu Zhaoqin lowered his voice and said, “The patient information of the Psychology Department is confidential, Qin Lu took advantage of the lunch break to sneak in and found Liu Lan’s medical record.”
Qin Lu took out her mobile phone and showed Yue Xingwen the case record that was secretly photographed, and said, “She has been depressed for a year and a half. A year and a half ago, she had surgery because of an ectopic pregnancy. The psychologist analyzed that it may be because the surgery traumatized her psychologically, which led to mild depression. She always wanted a second child, and gave birth to a daughter.”
Ectopic pregnancy? It seemed that she had a good relationship with Zhou Ziyang at that time, and she was pregnant with a second child, but unfortunately it was an ectopic pregnancy, and the child was not saved, which caused her to be depressed. Zhou Ziyang cheated a year ago, shortly after his wife’s surgery.
Yue Xingwen asked, “Are there any other discoveries?”
Qin Lu said, “We have checked, except for psychology and obstetrics and gynecology, other departments do not have her medical records. However, she took her child to see pediatrics several times, all of which were minor illnesses such as colds and fevers.”
Yue Xingwen sent a text message to Jiang Pingce about the results of the investigation, asking about the progress of the police force.
Jiang Pingce quickly replied: “Zhou Ziyang’s mobile phone has been unlocked, and three suspicious call records have been found.”
“The most recent time was to call his wife Liu Lan at 23:30, which is consistent with Liu Lan’s recording, and captain Lin also went to the community to check the monitoring, and Liu Lan’s suspicion can be ruled out for the time being.”
“The second call was at 9:00 pm, he received a call from his lover Chen Yueqin. We asked Chen Yueqin, she had a little mental breakdown after being detained for several hours, and confessed it all. It turned out that yesterday was her birthday, and she hoped that Zhou Ziyang would accompany her. So, she bought a cake, wine, steaks and other late-night snacks, and then called Zhou Ziyang. Both of them met to have a secret affair in the office building.”
“Our field team colleagues found a discarded cake box, wine bottles, and uneaten beef steak in the public trash can on the 39th floor. The necklace found on the rooftop was a gift from Zhou Ziyang on her birthday last year, and when both of the made out that night, Zhou Ziyang took off the necklace and stuffed it into his pocket, put a new one on her, and said that he would change a new necklace for her every birthday.”
“Both of them had an affair in the women’s restroom, which she said was Zhou Ziyang’s special fetish, finding it particularly fresh and exciting in the women’s restroom. The results of the evidence brought back by colleagues in the identification department also came out. A large number of fingerprints of Zhou Ziyang and Chen Yueqin were left in the women’s restroom, and the towel paper in the trash can and the liquid sample on the ground were all tested and had Zhou Ziyang’s genes.”
Zhou Ziyang’s fetish was also special enough. Not only did he cheat, but also ran to the women’s restroom to make out with his lover in the middle of the night. Yue Xingwen asked: “So, the skin and blood stains in Zhou Ziyang’s nails were left by the two when they did too intensely?”
Jiang Pingce replied: “In theory, there are scratches on Chen Yueqin’s back, which she said were left by last night’s intensity. BBut this is all Chen Yueqin’s words, and the credibility has to be discounted.”
Yue Xingwen thought for a while and said: “Chen Yueqin’s confession can match the current chain of evidence. She should not be the murderer, otherwise it would be too simple.”
Jiang Pingce agreed: “En.”
Chen Yueqin celebrated her birthday, bought a cake and invited Zhou Ziyang to have an affair. He ate beef steak, drank wine, which was consistent with the autopsy results. They also found the birthday cake, proving that she did not lie; She said that she and Zhou Ziyang sought stimulation in the women’s restroom, and the semen found in the women’s restroom belonged to Zhou Ziyang and the fingerprints of the two also matched.
Chen Yueqin and Zhou Ziyang made out at about 11:00 pm, and she said that she went back to the 39th floor to sleep after it was over. However, Zhou Ziyang did not go back to sleep, Liu Lan received his call at 11:30 pm, he might still be in the restroom at that time, called his wife Liu Lan, and then left the mobile phone there because he was drunk?
If so, the evidence could get a reasonable explanation.
Zhou Ziyang was not psychologically normal. He just finished making out with his lover, and called his wife and said, ‘I’m just playing with her, I still want to go back to you and the child’, typically stepping on two boats, and wanting both.
Yue Xingwen sent a message and asked: “Three suspicious call records, who is the third?”
Jiang Pingce said: “The call time was around 6:30 pm in the evening. It should be the phone call you heard from him in the stairwell, and the called ID was Chen Xueqin, Chen Yueqin’s sister.”
In other words, the client of the ‘husband and wife divorce case’ that Mr. Zhou once took over. He remembered, at that time, Lawyer Zhou impatiently said that ‘if you are not satisfied, you can appeal’, it seemed that Chen Xueqin was not satisfied with the verdict of this divorce case.