National Forensic Doctor
Chapter 844 - 784: Cover_2

Chapter 844: Chapter 784: Cover_2

Given Beijing’s size, a distance of 8 kilometers was practically next door. Cui Qishan hurriedly arranged the tasks, and upon arrival, worried about someone tipping off the suspects, he led a group of people in a frantic sprint.

Fortunately, the local police station was very supportive, arriving first by car and even calling out the landlord who lived downstairs.

Out of everyone, only Xiao Si wore a bulletproof vest, exhausted as if he were the grandson. When they reached the target building, he was almost in tears.

"Check the equipment," Cui Qishan ordered quietly, and after a short wait, had the landlord open the door.

"Go!"

Cui Qishan, leading Xiao Si, rushed into the house.

Hoo...

Clear snoring sounds were coming from the corner of the large bed.

That’s right, what does a murderer need most after killing, dismembering, and cooking human flesh? Sleep!

It was a whole day of strenuous physical labor.

The two young men probably had never done such heavy household-style work before. After a busy day, both were in deep sleep, savoring a quality that would make anyone envious.

Until both were handcuffed, they were still not fully awake.

From the corner, Xiao Si pulled out a dirty bag containing a BV men’s wallet, a large gold chain, and a Rolex Green Submariner.

Xiao Si weighed the gold watch in his hand, then showed it to Cui Qishan.

Cui Qishan nodded and asked the policewoman with them to take the female suspect away first. He then cornered the male suspect against the wall and asked, "Chen Luoping, do you know why you were arrested?"

Chen Luoping remained silent.

"Take his fingerprints," Cui Qishan ordered, putting psychological pressure on the suspect.

Many people didn’t break until they saw a really serious consequence. After his fingerprints were taken, Chen Luoping visibly started to panic.

He might have been feeling a bit lucky just before, but now that was gone.

"Do you know why we’ve arrested you?" Cui Qishan asked while taking his prints, interrogating him on the spot.

The moments just after being caught are the most tumultuous, and many criminals might think to themselves, ’What have I got to lose?’

By the time they were at the interrogation center, those with strong mental resilience were calmer, and their resistance could grow again.

Chen Luoping continued to be silent.

Cui Qishan took the evidence bag containing the gold watch and waved it in front of Chen Luoping, "This watch wasn’t cheap, was it? Is it yours?"

"Can’t it be?" Chen Luoping suddenly retorted.

"This kind of watch has a serial number. We can find out if you bought it with a few phone calls."

"I bought it second-hand. Is that wrong?" Chen Luoping challenged.

Xiao Si came over and said indifferently, "Even second-hand, a Green Submariner starts at 500,000."

"That expensive?" Cui Qishan was the first to express surprise.

Xiao Si nodded, and Chen Luoping suddenly laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" asked Cui Qishan.

"You can’t afford it either." Chen Luoping sneered, sizing up Cui Qishan, "Work another dozen years and you might be retired. Could you save up 500,000?"

"For 500,000, sending two lives away, is it worth it?" Cui Qishan retorted.

Chen Luoping’s expression changed again and again.

It’s incredibly difficult to remain calm when facing life and death.

Look at the hospitals and you’ll see how many people get a report and immediately their face visibly falls.

"It doesn’t matter if you won’t admit it; of the two of you, someone has to be responsible." Cui Qishan lifted Chen Luoping up.

"I did it," Chen Luoping seemed to have made up his mind, suddenly declaring, "It has nothing to do with Xiao Lian."

Once he admitted it, Cui Qishan smiled inwardly and asked, "How is it not related?"

"I killed the person, Xiao Lian knew nothing about it," Chen Luoping said.

"But when you were boiling the body, the two of you did it together."

"That was after I had already chopped the person up."

"How did you chop him up?"

"With an axe."

"What kind of axe, where did you get it from, and how did you chop him? Tell me in more detail." Cui Qishan ordered someone to start taking notes.

These criminal details sounded troublesome, but having this detailed content in the confession made it very difficult to refute it later, and courts often do not accept it.

After all, if you were not the murderer, how could you describe the murder details exactly like the murderer?

Cui Qishan waited until Chen Luoping had finished describing the killing process before asking, "Why did you kill him?"

"He wanted to pursue Xiao Lian, and Xiao Lian had told him she already had a boyfriend, but he kept pursuing her, flaunting his dirty money..." Chen Luoping spoke with full hatred, "The next time I encountered him, I gave him an axe."

"Who? Who wanted to pursue Li Xiaolian?" Cui Qishan could now ask, even if Chen Luoping realized that he didn’t have enough information on his end, it was too late for him to back out.

Chen Luoping, however, did not realize this and blurted out, "Ma Jianxin, eats like a pig, and when boiled, all fat..."

Cui Qishan waited for him to finish the description and then asked, "You said you encountered him, where did you encounter him?"

"Just... in a decrepit house in an alley."

"Why did he go there?"

"He was following Li Xiaolian."

"Did the two of you plan this?"

"No, I... I followed Xiao Lian and then I saw it..." Chen Luoping stumbled a bit with his words, but gradually sorted it out.

He then confessed the details of how they dismembered the body, as well as the process of handling the body. Because they were interrupted twice by neighbors knocking at the door and the extremely slow speed of boiling the body, they eventually decided to give up and ran back to the rental.

They planned to get some sleep afterwards, then take the watch to the Pearl River Delta, and try to escape. Once they sold the watch, they would at least have the means to live.

Cui Qishan listened for now.

Chen Luoping probably felt that taking on the entire murder charge alone, letting his girlfriend only bear part of the dismemberment charge, seemed too simple a story to the police.

But, for now, Cui Qishan was not probing further. Having achieved such a result from the scene interrogation, he was quite satisfied.

Interrogation Center.

Li Xiaolian took a seat in the interrogation chair as calmly as possible, and as soon as the interrogation began, she collected her thoughts and declared, "I did the killing. And I also asked Luoping to help me move the body."

"Oh, how did you kill him?" the detective at the interrogation table asked meticulously, his expression unreadable, just following procedure.

Once she had started talking, she could only keep going.

Li Xiaolian, following the thought process she had devised in the car, started narrating with ninety percent truth mixed with ten percent lies.

The interrogating detective wasn’t in a rush to expose her, first questioning her about the details of the crime, repeatedly asking about it. Only after completing this part would they circle back and meticulously pick at her story.

"Two young lovers, quite affectionate, both trying to take the blame onto themselves," observed Tao Lu in the monitoring room listening to Li Xiaolian describe the murder details.

The murder details given by both were very accurate, showing that when the murder occurred, both were at the scene, even near each other. Only this way could they clearly see where the chops landed, the direction of the blood splatter, et cetera.

Regardless of who acted, neither could escape the blame.

Cui Qishan nodded in agreement, "It’s a pity, the two coordinated well with each other; they killed together, boiled over tens of kilograms of a person together, and even after giving up, there was no blaming each other; they could still cuddle and sleep together. Not many wives could do that, huh?"

"For sure, that’s asking too much," Tao Lu paused, then said, "No blame and still holding each other in sleep, where do you find such a deal?"