I'm not a genius detective

Chapter 54: Suspect Basically Confirmed
The technical squadron began a second comprehensive survey of Yang Qi's vehicle.

This time, we'll dismantle almost everything that can be disassembled to search for key clues that might be hidden in the corners.

The tire tracks have been compared, but none match those found at the body disposal site.

The criminal detention process is still underway. Yang Qi is currently being held at the branch office and will be transferred to the detention center this afternoon.

The conditions in detention centers are very poor, worse than detention houses, and incomparable to prisons.

A significant number of suspects confessed after only a few days in detention centers, simply because they wanted to go to prison as soon as possible. In their view, detention centers were not places fit for human beings.

The task force reduced its manpower and focused its investigation on the residential compound where Yang Qi lived, conducting detailed inquiries with all the security guards in the compound.

If Yang Qi is the murderer, and if Yang Qi threw the summer quilt into the recycling station, would she have chosen to do it during the day? It's more likely to happen at night; the later it gets, the safer it is.

At night, only the security guards were on duty in the residential area.

Therefore, security guards are the key. As long as someone sees Yang Qi throwing things away late at night, it can be used as testimony to further break down Yang Qi's psychological defenses.

Han Ling and Tong Feng, along with the investigation team, arrived at the residential area.

Before that, Han Ling finally had the opportunity and time to read the detailed autopsy report.

The deceased, Hou Jiarou, had no other injuries on her body except for her mouth and nose, and even her fingernails were clean.

"Won't you resist?"

Han Ling had killed someone by suffocation in his previous life, but it wasn't as easy to actually do it.

When a person is near death, the energy released by their will to survive is enormous, even if the victim is a woman.

If there was resistance, there should be other marks; if there was no resistance, the contusions and fractures left on the deceased's mouth and nose would not be so severe.

"What are you thinking about?" Tong Feng nudged him.

Han Ling snapped out of her daze: "It's nothing."

At this moment, Fang Zhou left the property management office and called out to Han Ling and Tong Feng.

“Some security guards resigned after the New Year. Here are their personal information. Go and ask them one by one.”

The two accepted the order.

noon.

Branch office.

It was a cool day, but Sun Yujie and his colleagues were sweating profusely as they worked, removing all the detachable parts from the car, focusing on the back seats and trunk.

"Strange, this car wasn't washed properly, there's nothing there. How did he dump the body? Could the body have been in the passenger seat? No way."

Sun Yujie wiped the sweat from his brow with his clothes and said something.

There were traces of Hou Jiarou's biological presence in the passenger seat, but the passenger seat doesn't prove anything; the trunk would be the best place to find out.

Because people can't sit in the trunk.

A colleague from the trace evidence lab said, "Yang Qi is only a prime suspect; the murderer might not be him, and the vehicle used to dispose of the body might not be this one."

Go ahead and investigate. Even if you don't find anything, it's still a discovery for the investigators, and it's helpful.

"Your classmate is pretty capable; he found the murder weapon so quickly."

Sun Yujie laughed and said, "Of course, you should know whose classmate it is."

His colleague glanced at him and casually remarked, "The investigators find evidence, the forensic doctors examine and verify it, and Han Ling and Yang Rui work together seamlessly."

Once they got to know each other better, even a fool could see that Sun Yujie had feelings for Yang Rui.

Sun Yujie's face darkened, and his expression of eating a fly made his colleagues laugh uncontrollably, and they continued working with great satisfaction.

"Let's eat first before we get back to work, we're starving." Half an hour later, the forensic investigators prepared to take a break.

Just then, a car drove into the police station. The officers turned around and saw that it was an Iveco van from the police dog unit.

The police dog squad has been busy these past two days, practically living at the body disposal site during the day.

The Iveco van didn't go to the police dog squadron's parking lot; instead, it parked directly in front of the branch office.

Squadron Leader Lin Muyang got out of the vehicle, flicked his neat short hair, and put on a well-fitting training uniform.

Lin Muyang is a woman, but she is quite androgynous in both name and appearance, and even her speech and behavior are androgynous.

Of course, her sexual orientation is normal. She has had relationships that ended without success, and she is currently single.

At the station, her peers who knew her well called her "Shepherd Dog." Her name sounds the same as "Shepherd Dog," and one wonders if her parents ever imagined their daughter would join the police dog unit when they named her.

The police dog squadron of the branch has only one captain and no deputy captain; the rest are all handlers.

"Sister Lin," Sun Yujie greeted.

Lin Muyang shifted his gaze and slowed his pace: "Did you find anything?"

Sun Yujie shook her head: "No, did Sister Lin find anything? It looks like you're going to the Criminal Investigation Team."

Lin Muyang nodded: "We found something. The police dog found a dried wet wipe by a roadside ditch a few kilometers away. The smell on it should be related to the smell on the victim."

More than a month has passed, and even police dogs can't detect the volatile odors, but the unique human scent (sweat, sebum) can be tracked and identified.

In this situation, either Hou Jiarou wiped her body with a wet wipe, or Yang Qi wiped Hou Jiarou's hand with a wet wipe.

"Wet wipes?" Sun Yujie paused, then seemed to realize something, turned around and left, "Sister Lin, wait a minute!"

Lin Muyang stood still and watched as Sun Yujie ran to the car, took a bag from the trunk, and jogged back.

"Sister Lin, Yang Qi has a pack of wet wipes in his car. Why don't we go directly to the lab to compare them?" Sun Yujie suggested.

Lin Muyang's expression turned serious.

Wet wipes are used infrequently, so it's normal for them to remain in the car for a long time without being used up.

If the identification results confirm that the two are consistent, then it can prove that Yang Qi or Hou Jiarou had been near the site where the body was dumped.

"Let's go! Right now!" Lin Muyang said without delay.

Two results came out, confirming that the two types of wet wipes were exactly the same, and Lin Muyang immediately reported this to Ji Bowei.

"Where exactly was the wet wipe found?" Ji Bowei asked for details.

Lin Muyang said, "On the left side of the road, there is a very narrow road with no dividing lines."

Ji Bowei simulated the scenario in his mind: "The left side of the road...that's when the vehicle returns, it's thrown out of the left window, or when the vehicle goes to the dumping site, it's thrown out of the right window."

Lin Muyang nodded: "Yes."

Ji Bowei stood up and paced back and forth, saying, "If Hou Jiarou was already dead at that time, then Yang Qi wiped his hands with a wet tissue and threw it out the window."

Because Yang Qi had been intimate with Hou Jiarou, Hou Jiarou's scent lingered on the tissue for a long time, even after it dried.

Lin Muyang nodded: "The unique scent on a person is hard to dissipate, so the police dog's judgment is correct."

Ji Bowei had no doubt about the police dog's sense of smell; he was considering whether this matter could persuade Yang Qi to agree.

The more clues Yang Qi had, the weaker her psychological defenses became.

After much deliberation, Ji Bowei decided not to use this as a pretext to interrogate Yang Qi. He wasn't in a hurry and would wait for the results from the forensic doctor and the investigators.

By now, he is basically certain that Yang Qi was the one who killed the person.

As for the motive, we can only wait for Yang Qi to confess and explain it himself; it's just the usual stuff between husband and wife.

Han Ling and Tong Feng returned to the branch office at 8 p.m.

The results of the investigation have been reported, and there have been significant discoveries.

According to a former security guard, on the night of the third day after the Lunar New Year, close to midnight, he saw someone leave the community with something that looked like a blanket tucked under their arm, and return in less than two minutes.

When they returned, the object they had been carrying under their arm was gone.

"The third day of the Lunar New Year? That means Hou Jiarou might have died on the third day of the Lunar New Year??" Upon learning this, Ji Bowei cursed, "That bastard Yang Qi even said he had a fight with his wife on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year!"

Fang Zhou said, "On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Hou Jiarou had a fight with her mother. At that time, Hou Jiarou was still alive. On the night of the third day, Yang Qi allegedly threw away the murder weapon, and it is suspected that Hou Jiarou was already dead by then."

Therefore, the time of disposal of the body would be between the evening of the second day of the Lunar New Year and the third day. The biggest fear in disposing of a body is being seen, so it's highly likely that it would have happened in the early morning of the third day, as the early morning is the safest time.

Ji Bowei: "Continue checking the surveillance footage! From the residential area to the scene where the body was dumped, check every single surveillance video that can be stored for more than two months!"

Seeing Ji Bowei's anger, Tong Feng, who was in the corner, shrank back and whispered, "Han Ling, the case is about to be solved. We've done a great job."

They found the murder weapon, and they also found out about Yang Qi throwing things away in the middle of the night. Didn't they do a good job?

Han Ling responded: "You can't go wrong by hanging out with me."

Tong Feng, unusually, did not refute. In the past few days, he had realized that the other party's professional skills and mental fortitude were much stronger than his own.

That's good; he's not afraid of his brother driving a Land Rover.

(End of this chapter)