"But, this is a police cemetery, how can it be?"
Not to mention Liu Yuning, I was a little confused at the time. If the stone statue was left by the organization for some purpose, it would be too brazen to do it directly in the police cemetery. I suddenly thought of something and immediately called Li Fan, asking him to bring some special police officers over, because I wanted to smash this stone statue.
Perhaps if the organization found out we did this, they would be angry, but there was nothing we could do. I always felt that there was some secret in the stone statue. When Li Fan and others arrived, several special police officers directly picked up hammers and smashed it. After a few bangs, the stone statue was smashed to pieces. But it was empty inside. The stone statue was just made of ordinary cement and didn't look special. We took out evidence bags to collect some. At this time, a special police officer found that the cement inside the cave seemed to have cracks and asked us to take a look.
The guy shone a flashlight inside, and my ears twitched. I heard the sound of wind coming from inside and thought there must be some secret passage. I didn't know how they got in, but didn't we have hammers now? I called several special police officers to smash it with all their might, but the cave wall was too thick, and they couldn't break it at all. There was no other way, so we had to take a detour. We went through a passage on the left side, which was narrow but we could still pass sideways. Several people moved like crabs. During the process, I don't know how many insects passed by us, disgusting us, but we all endured it.
After all, if you can't even bear these things in criminal investigation work, what else can you do? When we came over, we saw quite a few pottery jars placed here. Everyone looked inside. It was better not to look, but after looking, we found that in one of the largest pottery jars, there was the body of an old woman curled up!
If we hadn't found this place today, we would never have discovered such a clue.
Liu Yuning and I, along with others, moved the body out from inside. When I saw the old woman's appearance, I recognized her. It was Old Chen's mother!
I originally thought that after the old lady died, she would have been cremated, but I didn't expect to find her body here.
There were bruises on the old woman's neck, some abrasions on her temples, and impact injuries on her shoulders. I asked the forensic team and the trace evidence team to come over. When everyone arrived at the scene, Zhang Keying's first sentence was, "Who did this?"
"Alas, I'm actually really worried it's..."
"Let's examine the body first!"
However, this place was too dark, and we later took the body outside the valley to conduct the examination.
Based on the degree of decomposition, rigor mortis, livor mortis, and other conditions, the time of death was about half a month ago. The cause of death was mechanical asphyxiation, meaning she was strangled. That's interesting, considering Old Chen also died in a similar way.
Even if I hadn't said anything, Zhang Keying, Xie Chuchu, and Ling Xiaotao would have understood what it meant.
After a long on-site investigation, many footprints and fingerprints were found. When we returned to the provincial department, our previous conjecture was confirmed. The person who killed the old woman was indeed Old Chen.
However, this was also within expectations. Coming here, I wondered if the old man had also died this way.
Regarding this matter, I found Lan Bantao again.
She was still in the reception room at the time, as she was under our 24-hour protection.
"Ms. Lan, if you really want us to help you, please tell us the truth!"
"Officer He, what do you mean? Haven't I told you the truth before?"
"You know best in your heart whether you have or not. If I'm not mistaken, your abuse of the old man was far more than just maltreatment. Did you...?" I deliberately drew out the last few words.
"I didn't. The old man was actually..."
"Killed by your husband?" I tried to help her say it.
Lan Bantao's face turned very ugly, and she was flustered. She accidentally knocked over the water cup beside her.
But after a while, she waved her hand and stammered, "No! Nothing like that happened!"
"No? Your reaction makes it hard for me to believe. If you don't cooperate, you'll have to go to the interrogation room!"
"Ah, no! I'll say anything, okay?!"
"Speak!!"
"Actually, the old man's death really had something to do with Hai Ren. I saw him at home that day, in the old man's room, strangling his neck with a rope! Until he took his last breath!"
"Then why didn't you stop him when you saw that?"
"I couldn't stop him. Before, when the old man was abused, if I said anything, Huang Hai Ren would beat me. In the past, I didn't do anything to this old man, but later, I gradually became like him!"
"Do you know that doing this is accessory after the fact? Your actions have condoned a violent criminal."
I don't want to say anything else. It's very clear now. The murderer used the method by which the victim killed his own parents to kill them.
In the murderer's eyes, this should be called getting what they deserved.
But I really want to know, how did the murderer know that Huang Hai Ren strangled his own father? On this point, I asked Lan Bantao, "Has anyone else been to your house before?"
"Yes, because we were both busy with our jobs, we hired a cleaner!"
"A cleaner? Female?"
"No, it's a man!"
"Do you have his information?"
"Yes, and his phone number, what's wrong?"
Lan Bantao didn't understand my meaning yet, but it was enough for me to take the phone number. I then asked Lan Bantao to describe the cleaner's appearance.
He Xinn found out in less than 20 minutes. This man was named Xing Lean, an employee of Fudu Cleaning Company in Guangming City. He had been working there for 12 years, was 38 years old. I asked He Xin to check the relationship between the cleaner and Old Chen. I didn't know until I checked, and found out that this guy was actually Old Chen's cousin!
Based on their relationship, Xing Lean likely knew what his cousin had done. On that day, he must have secretly seen Old Chen personally strangle his mother to death.
Although we cannot find out the reason for the two murders, or we might never know the reason, because the murderer is already dead, but we can find the culprit who killed these two murderers. Needless to say, this person is the cleaner named Xing Lean.
This is no longer just a serious suspicion. Based on my experience, the murderer is him!
Of course, before we catch the person and hear him personally confess, things can still turn around. After all, there are people who retract their confessions in court. I don't remember which case it was, but I can't recall it now.