I'm just a trainee police officer. I don't really want to solve the case.

The case is actually not complicated at all.

February 6th, twenty-five years ago, was a snowy day.

Lin Xuejiao carried her bag and prepared to go to the bank to deposit money. She set up a stall in the market to sell fruits, and all she had in her hands was cash. She went to the bank once a month to deposit money.

When we reached Willow Lane, a man wearing a military coat and a cotton mask came towards us.

The man put his hands in his sleeves and kept looking at her. She was very scared, so she hugged the bag tightly in her arms. The bag contained three thousand yuan.

Three thousand yuan twenty-five years ago was definitely a huge sum of money for an ordinary family.

Who knew that when they were about to pass each other, the man suddenly reached out to grab the bag, but she held on to it tightly and refused to let go.

The man pushed her to the ground. She was seven months pregnant at the time and could not resist him at all.

Seeing the man snatch the bag and try to leave, she lay on the ground, unable to get up, and held onto his legs tightly, refusing to let go.

The man kicked her in the stomach and she fainted from the pain.

When I woke up, I was in the hospital.

This is the confession of the victim Lin Xuejiao, who was the victim of this robbery and injury case. She not only lost her child, but also lost her ability to reproduce.

The man was caught red-handed.

Lin Xuejiao's husband Zhou Hui knew that he was worried about his wife going to deposit money alone, so he asked the stall owner next door to help look after her, and he rushed over later.

She heard someone shouting for help from afar, and it seemed to be her wife's voice, so she ran over quickly.

He saw a man squatting next to his wife, who was holding the corner of the man's clothes in her hand.

He went up and punched the man. The man tried to resist, but a policeman was patrolling nearby. He heard the noise and ran over and arrested the man directly.

The man who was arrested was Qiu Mingzhang, and he was holding Lin Xuejiao's bag in his hand at the time.

He insisted that it was not him who robbed and injured people, but someone else.

He was just passing by and saw someone robbing, so he stopped the robber and took the bag back.

The robber ran away and he was about to chase him, but when he saw a woman lying on the ground with blood under her body, he ran over to check on her condition first.

Zhou Hui ran over and beat him indiscriminately, and then he was caught.

But no one believed what he said. There was no surveillance in that era, and solving cases relied more on witnesses and physical evidence.

At that time, Qiu Mingzhang was holding Lin Xuejiao's bag and her clothes were still in her hand. After Lin Xuejiao woke up, she pointed out that it was him who snatched the bag.

With all the evidence, he cannot deny it.

Because he refused to plead guilty, the court imposed a heavier sentence and sentenced him to death in the first instance.

He appealed the verdict, and during the second trial, it was said that a leader looked at the case and said something.

"Although it has always been the case that a person must pay with his life, sentencing someone to death for an unborn child is indeed a bit too harsh."

Therefore, the second-instance court changed the sentence to life imprisonment at its discretion.

Su Xiaoxiao did not find any letter of forgiveness issued by the victim in the case. Not only did the victim not issue a letter of forgiveness, but he has been asking the court to severely punish the murderer.

After reading the case file, Su Xiaoxiao felt very uncomfortable.

In dozens of confessions, including court transcripts, from beginning to end, Qiu Mingzhang never admitted that he was guilty.

If what he said was true, it was really tragic.

He was acting bravely to help others, but was wrongly accused and had no way to appeal. He was imprisoned for more than 20 years. His wife and unborn child died, his mother-in-law died, his sister was missing and no one knew whether she was alive or dead. He was left with only a daughter who hated him to the core.

Her fingers slid across Qiu Mingzhang's fingerprints that had turned dark red, and a picture suddenly appeared in front of her eyes.

Snowflakes were floating in the sky. A man wearing a military coat and a cotton mask was running in front with a black bag in his hand, and a man wearing the same military coat was chasing him from behind.

The man behind knocked down the man in front in a few moves and snatched the bag back.

The man who snatched the bag back seemed to hear something and turned around to look. At this time, the man who fell to the ground took the opportunity to get up and run away.

The man holding the bag hesitated for a moment, and instead of chasing after him, he ran back.

Su Xiaoxiao knew that what she saw was what happened that year.

When Qiu Mingzhang saw someone robbing, he went to snatch the bag back. Then he heard Lin Xuejiao's cry for help, but he did not chase the robber, but went back to check on her condition.

He didn't lie, everything he said was true!

He and the man who robbed the girl were wearing the same military coat and cotton mask, so the victim Lin Xuejiao probably thought they were the same person.

Municipal Bureau Criminal Investigation Team.

Qi Lei passed by Su Xiaoxiao's workstation and saw her staring blankly at a pile of case files in front of her.

"Why, are you having problems?"

When Su Xiaoxiao saw Qi Lei, her eyes lit up. She couldn't investigate this case by herself, so she had to borrow the power of the organization.

"Captain Qi, I want to re-investigate this case."

"Which case? The one you investigated this morning? Any questions?"

Qi Lei reached out and took the verdict on the table, and Su Xiaoxiao copied the entire case file.

Su Xiaoxiao briefly told him about the case.

When Qi Lei heard that this was Qiu Yan's father's case, he frowned. It was not so easy to overturn a case that happened 25 years ago.

"Do you have evidence?"

She had no evidence. She just saw some scenes, but these were only known to her and could not be counted. Su Xiaoxiao was a little discouraged.

Qi Lei didn't know why she thought Qiu Yan's father's case was a wrongful conviction, but he still recognized her enthusiasm for investigating the case. If she was willing to investigate, she could go ahead, but it couldn't affect other work. He could provide her with convenience without violating the principles.

"If you have new evidence, I can find a way to reopen the investigation."

Su Xiaoxiao's eyes lit up.

"The prerequisite is that you must have evidence." Qi Lei patted her shoulder.

He didn't want to undermine her confidence, but without evidence they could do nothing. He was a policeman and didn't listen to stories, he only believed in evidence.

Okay, she just doesn't believe it. As long as it has been done, there will always be traces left, and she will definitely find evidence.

I logged into the internal network to check Qiu Mingzhang's current situation. He spent twenty-three years in prison and was released two years ago. He returned to his registered place of residence to report and was under the management of the local police station.

His registered residence is actually in the jurisdiction of Liuliqiao Police Station.

That's a coincidence, maybe Chief Chen knows his situation.

She called Chief Chen directly, and you wouldn’t believe it, but Chief Chen actually knew.

After Qiu Mingzhang was released from prison, he reported to the police station, and the station reissued his ID card. Considering that he was already over 50 years old and a serious criminal, he might not be able to find a job, so the street office arranged a temporary job for him as a street sweeper.

However, this person was weird and came to him many times, saying that he was wronged and wanted to appeal.

Later, he talked to a prison guard friend about his situation, and his friend said that he was quite famous in Hushan Prison.

Under normal circumstances, a person sentenced to life imprisonment would soon be commuted to a fixed-term imprisonment as long as he behaved well, and would be released in twenty years at most, but he spent twenty-three years in prison.

According to his friends, he always said that he was wronged in prison and looked for people to appeal to him everywhere. Whenever a leader came to inspect his work, he would rush up and cry out for justice, making them live in fear all day long.

People in the same cell with him disliked him and often took their anger out on him. He was often beaten, and of course he would fight back. Once he even tried to escape from prison and was put in solitary confinement for a long time.

At that time, people in Hushan Prison felt a headache whenever they mentioned him.

Four or five years passed like this. For some unknown reason, he suddenly calmed down, stopped appealing, started behaving well, and even subdued a few prison bullies. His sentence was later commuted from life imprisonment to a fixed-term sentence.

The prison guard friend was very surprised and said that he had not filed a complaint for many years, so why was he doing it again now?

Chief Chen also found it a bit strange, but now he no longer mentioned it and seemed that he had completely given up on the appeal.

"Chief Chen, do you think it is possible that he was wrongly accused?" Su Xiaoxiao asked.

"That's impossible. I know the police officers who investigated this case. They are experienced detectives. It's impossible for them to make a mistake."

It's impossible, but they are wrong!

Good people cannot be wrongly accused all their lives. For the first time, Su Xiaoxiao felt a sense of mission on her shoulders. It was not because of the system, but because she really wanted to find the robber and clear Qiu Mingzhang's name.

"By the way, Chief Chen, where can I find Qiu Mingzhang? I want to meet him."

"In fact, you should know him."