Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 282 The Right Evidence

"Have you confirmed where the garbage comes from?" Bai Shi asked with a frown.

The deceased's wallet and cell phone are indeed important evidence, but...

It was so easy to obtain that it felt unreal - in this way, it didn't seem difficult to determine who threw the phone and wallet.

Kunikida nodded and said, "Well, the patrol officer went to the garbage dump on the spot and sealed the garbage found with the phone and wallet. Now it has been basically confirmed... that it was sorted out from the garbage bag of President Takigawa's house!"

It seems to be a natural thing, but it also shows that the patrolmen of the Mihua Police Station are now standing up.

Such performance is not so much a question of ability - maybe this could be thought of half a year ago, but patrol police do not have much authority, and it is very likely that they would "rather do less than more" or "be passive and ask for instructions on everything", resulting in missed opportunities.

But now the patrolmen of the Mihua Police Department have become stiff in their attitudes!
Thinking that the murderer might have thrown it away, he immediately rushed to the garbage dump to seal the evidence, with a decisiveness as that of a criminal police officer.

Bai Shi nodded when he heard this and said, "I'll give you a good commendation later... Have you applied for an [arrest warrant]?"

"Genre and Yamada are now checking the surveillance at the intersection, where they can see the garbage dump outside President Takigawa's house. If it is confirmed that he threw the garbage, I will apply for an arrest warrant later." Kunikida said very seriously.

Not only because Kunikida has always been a cautious person, but also because Kunikida also feels that this matter is a bit too coincidental!
A person who was already a suspect actually threw away the victim's wallet and mobile phone and was just discovered?
Just then, there was another knock on the door.

Shiraishi and Kunikida looked over and saw that it was Minamoto who came over.

"Director, Section Chief, I just checked the surveillance... It was indeed Takigawa himself who threw the garbage. From then on until the garbage truck came, no one touched the garbage." Genki reported.

Upon hearing this, Kunikida immediately said, "Director, I will apply for an arrest warrant and a search warrant."

Bai Shi just reminded him: "Well, first ask him to cooperate actively, and use the [arrest warrant] as a last resort. Keep close surveillance on his residence, and don't rush to search it immediately. When interrogating him, also pay attention to the scale."

"Don't worry, I'll watch over it." Kunikida said as a matter of course.

It is true that the timing of the emergence of this evidence is somewhat suspicious, but...

Tagi already had the motive, and now there is evidence too!

Then there is no problem in arresting him first.

You need to be flexible when investigating a case, but more important than "flexibility" is "logic". You can feel that there are doubts, but you cannot infer that "because it is suspicious, it is not suspicious", otherwise you will be too clever.

This is also the difference between the thinking of police officers and detectives...

Just like before in Osaka, when Rokuminobu told an "outrageous lie", Hattori immediately thought that Rokuminobu was not lying, while Otaki continued to question him.

Now that Takigawa’s “evidence” has appeared, we certainly cannot just ignore it because it “appeared too coincidentally”.

However, in order to prevent any mistakes, Shiraishi also kept a trick up his sleeve - not directly using the [arrest warrant] for the time being, nor executing the [search warrant] immediately.

……

Haitani and Zinarius came to [Takigawa Foods] and found President Takigawa who was already at work. Although the front desk tried to resist at first, Haitani still insisted on meeting him and acted very tough.

This is why Gray Valley came...

Compared to Yuan, Huigu is more experienced, and since the deceased's mobile phone and wallet have been found, the case will naturally be officially reopened for investigation, and it will no longer be "Yuan investigating on his own in his spare time."

"What are you doing here again? You must see me." Takigawa said impatiently.

Seeing that he was not cooperating, Huitani did not say anything else. He directly used his mobile phone to show the surveillance content and asked, "The person who threw the garbage is you, President Takigawa, right?"

"Why are you monitoring me?" Takigawa looked unhappy.

"This is not surveillance. This is the footage from the anti-theft camera at the intersection. Also... we found the cell phone and wallet of the deceased, Katsumi Hoshiya, in the garbage you threw away." Huitani said calmly.

Takigawa was stunned when he heard this, and then he immediately shouted: "Impossible! This is a frame-up! I just threw away ordinary garbage!"

Huigu didn't care whether he was saying that the police framed him or not, he just said calmly: "My colleagues have already checked the surveillance, no one has touched your garbage. If you have any objections, you have the right to hire a lawyer to challenge the evidence in court, but now I hope you can come to the police station and cooperate with our investigation."

"I..." Takigawa seemed to want to refute.

However, Huigu has already said: "The [Arrest Warrant] and [Search Warrant] are already being applied for, and they will be issued today. However, if the [Arrest Warrant] is used, you will have to be handcuffed... Before the investigation is thorough, we don't want to affect the normal operation of your company."

Huigu is not trying to scare him...

After discovering this kind of evidence, the court will definitely approve the arrest warrant or the search warrant.

Takigawa was finally stopped by the shouting. He suppressed his anger and said awkwardly, "I... need to explain some company matters."

"Please go ahead. You can consult anyone about any legal issues you want. We'll be waiting for you in the lobby. I hope it won't take too long." Huigu said, and he and Zinar turned and left.

Haidani also knew that Takigawa should have some connections in the Ministry of Justice, but...

In this case, his "good friends" in the Ministry of Justice will also give him the right advice!
Huigu and Narcissistic were waiting outside the company's front lobby, smoking.

Sure enough, not long after, Takigawa came out with a lowered arrogance and said to Huitani in a reserved manner: "I... can cooperate with you in your work, but I will drive my own car and follow you."

"Okay. After all, the director told us to try not to use the [arrest warrant]." Huigu nodded a little hesitantly.

"Well... I will thank Director Shiraishi later!" Takigawa said with a stiff face.

There was no way. He had indeed consulted the Ministry of Justice and the company's lawyers, and the conclusion was...

If the police really have this kind of evidence, they can easily arrest him!

Takigawa Foods has been embroiled in scandals recently. If President Takigawa is taken away at this time, it will be a heavy blow to the company no matter what the final outcome is.

What's more...

Not to mention what happened to the company, after hearing that he might really be convicted of murder, Takigawa's mentality collapsed!
His usual "good friend" was now telling him implicitly that if he really had killed someone, he should immediately turn himself in - since he was in the hands of the Mihua Police, there was nothing he could do to get him out!
Takigawa's heart finally settled down, and he followed Huitani dejectedly to the Beika Police Station.

……

"Do you understand how agriculture in this country has developed?"

"We represent the interests of all the farmers in the East Island Country. Do you really have to keep asking this?"

"What mobile wallet... I don't know... I really don't know!"

"How is this possible? Someone must have framed me!"

"I've never seen that bastard Fengya's thing..."

"I……"

"I admit that I did ask them to mix in the rice..."

"Because he said he would report me a year ago, so I threatened him with the surveillance footage of him taking the rice..."

"But I'm doing this all for the company!"

"Domestic rice and imported rice, aren't they the same? What's the difference?"

"I really didn't kill anyone! He left the company afterwards!"

……

In the soundproof interrogation room of the interrogation room, Yuan, Akasaka, and Zinars...the three of them took turns to interrogate.

After being frightened like this, Takigawa confessed a lot of things - basically, he admitted to everything except murder.

In the afternoon, Shiraishi came to the interrogation room and took the initiative to ask about the matter of [Takigawa Foods], and saw his confession...

There are really a lot of issues to be explained!

They used the "cooperative employer system" to coerce inmates into high-intensity isolated labor; they forced them to mix rice to reduce costs and make huge profits; they threatened inmates who were exposed that they would be sent back to prison; they systematically and systematically framed inmates who refused to cooperate for theft...

The only thing he refused to admit was murder.

"Have you admitted to everything except murder? Hmm..." Bai Shi curled his lips as he looked at the confession.

Akasaka also said disdainfully: "At first he was talking about how important [Takigawa Foods] was, and he wanted to accuse us of affecting agricultural development... But when he found out that he was about to become a murderer, he immediately confessed all the improper management."

No wonder Akasaka is disdainful...

According to the old-fashioned values ​​of the Dongdao people, if he refuses to admit these things and loudly proclaims "I am doing this for the company and for national agriculture", even if we know that he is lying, we will still respect him a little.

result……

Takigawa obviously doesn't have such courage.

"After all, it's all about money. Just listen to the polite words they say." Bai Shi was not surprised by his rudeness at first and then his flattery.

"But..." Bai Shi looked at the contents of the confession and felt a little strange.

This guy... definitely doesn't look like the murderer!

It seems that he has a motive, but if you understand the situation as a whole, you will find that his motive is not strong. It is true that Katsumi Hoshiya wants to report [Takigawa Foods], but President Takigawa has a lot of means. Although he cannot be considered a "backer", he has connections in the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Even if Hoshiya's report letter is sent to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Takigawa has plenty of ways to make it fall on deaf ears, and even Katsumi Hoshiya will be sent to prison...

With such a 360-degree advantage, there is no need to go to the extent of "killing to silence the witness", and Takigawa is definitely not someone who would dirty his hands for the sake of "company development".

However, if it was an accidental killing due to a dispute, then the act of taking off the deceased's coat would inevitably seem abrupt.

What’s even more suspicious is that a year has passed, why has the phone and wallet not been disposed of?
And after the case was noticed by the police, he hurriedly and simply threw it into his own garbage bag?
There are so many processing equipment in the factory. Is it difficult to destroy a mobile phone or a wallet?
"Where is Detective Gen?" Shiraishi looked around and found that Gen was not in the investigation room.

"I visited the scene...the place where the garbage was dumped," Kunikida replied.

"By the way, let me see the evidence." Shiraishi said to Akasaka.

Because he had confronted Takigawa before, the evidence was in the investigation room, and Akasaka brought it to Shiraishi.

Through the evidence bag, Bai Shi looked at the wallet and the cell phone...

"Hmm?" Bai Shi then discovered that there were some "light spots" on it. Looking carefully, he found that they were some black "ashes".

"Has anyone identified what this black dust on top is?" Bai Shi asked, staring at the fine dust on top.

"It was identified... The people in the identification team became more and more meticulous. They wrote in the report that there were iron filings attached to it." Akasaka said, praising the identification team.

"Iron filings?" Shiraishi frowned when he heard this - Takigawa is a food factory, how could there be iron filings?

"There are no other fingerprints, right?" Shiraishi confirmed again.

"No." Akasaka shook his head.

"Show me the surveillance video of throwing away the garbage... Bring me all the videos from the last two days." Bai Shi arranged.

"Yes!" Akasaka quickly took action, took out his notebook, and tuned it to the moment when Takigawa threw the garbage to show Shiraishi.

It was indeed Takigawa who threw the garbage away. He did it quickly, and no one approached his garbage until the garbage truck arrived half an hour later. However...

Just as the garbage truck crew came down, Shiraishi hit pause!

"This is..." Bai Shi looked at the figure wearing a baseball cap and his face darkened slightly.

Bai Shi roughly understood what happened, but still said, "There must be earlier surveillance, right?"

"Yes, everything within 48 hours has been copied here." Akasaka nodded.

"Play it backwards... 32 times." Bai Shi said directly.

32 times, two seconds is one minute, and you can hardly see any coherent things. If you watch the movie so fast, you can't even guess the general plot.

However, Shiraishi's eyes moved violently at this time, as if he had really seen it, and Akasaka didn't dare to say anything more...

Ten minutes later, Bai Shi suddenly pressed the pause button with his quick eyes and hands, and then adjusted the time.

I saw...

In the middle of the night, the surveillance camera captured a suspicious man who looked thin and small. He seemed to be about to drop something in the garbage dump, but was stopped by another much stronger man!
"Huh? This seems to be..." Akasaka also realized that this skinny little person seemed...

"Kamei Yukichi...this old thing!" Shiraishi's tone was somewhat helpless.

At the same time, there was another person that Akasaka didn’t recognize, but Shiraishi also recognized him—Yamakawa Akira!

Moreover, this was not the first time that Bai Shi had seen him on the surveillance camera. The garbage transporter wearing a baseball cap just now was most likely him.

Although Shiraishi's face was not shown in the morning photo, he was still 80% sure about it. Now combined with the photo in the evening, it is even clearer.

We can't blame the police officer who was watching the surveillance video for not being serious. After all, based on positive inference, the police officer must have only been thinking about "seeing if anyone had touched Duoqichuan's garbage" and would not have thought of watching the previous video at all.

Shiraishi is actually just a blind cat that kills the mouse by chance...

After all, after recognizing Yamakawa Akira, Shiraishi already had an expectation in his mind - it was most likely Yamakawa Akira who put the mobile phone and wallet inside, but Shiraishi was not sure how Yamakawa Akira got these two things.

……

Just then, Kunikida's cell phone rang.

"It's Minamoto." Kunikida asked Shiraishi for instructions before answering the phone: "Hello, this is Kunikida, have you found anything?"

"Section Chief, this is Yuan... I just found out that the victim's wallet and cell phone were most likely... hidden by Mr. Kamei in his own workshop over the past year. We can relax a little on the interrogation of Takigawa. I'm on my way to the restaurant where Mr. Kamei had the free meal..." Yuan called back specifically.

That’s right, Yuan followed another clue and discovered the “truth” - the iron filings on the wallet!

Unlike Shiraishi who didn't have time to take care of a particular case, Yuan conducted an in-depth follow-up investigation into this case.

For Yukichi Kamei, the source is not only an "investigation of the suspect", but also contains a humanitarian concern. After all, this is the style of the source.

Naturally, he also had some understanding of Kamei's family situation.

As Kamei said before, his family also suffered huge losses because of his imprisonment - both in terms of reputation and finances...

Therefore, his wife and children had a deep estrangement from him, and he was unable to return to his family after being released from prison.

Later, he began his "annual buffet" career. However, every time he was released from prison, he would actually go back home to visit, but his wife and children just ignored him.

Precisely because Yuan cared more about Kamei's personal problems, he visited Kamei's home and learned that Kamei's family workshop made small hardware such as screws.

Kamei's son is the only major laborer, and his mother can occasionally help out...

Because a direct relative of his had been in prison, banks repeatedly refused to lend him money, so he was unable to expand production and had no stable partners. Although his life was hard, he could only make ends meet.

Not long ago, when Yuan was visiting near Takigawa's house, he learned that two people had an argument in the alley where garbage was thrown last night, and one of them was a "skinny old man."

From this, Yuan thought of Kamei, the black stains on the wallet, and Kamei's small workshop!
There is one thing, Kamei also lied to Shiraishi yesterday - after he was released from prison this time, he did go home, but as usual, no one paid attention to him, so he left on his own as usual.

But this time he did one thing...

He took away the wallet and mobile phone that he had hidden in the workshop a year ago!
In order to cover up the matter, he instinctively did not tell the truth to Shiraishi.

Yuan then went to the garbage dump to check the shift roster, and found that the driver who collected garbage for the Takigawa family had just changed shifts - it was Yamakawa Akira, who was specially transferred here.

After discovering Yamakawa Akira's identity and learning that he had also worked at "Takigawa Foods", Yuan also roughly guessed what happened in the "garbage throwing incident"...

Kamei first wanted to place "Hachiya's cell phone and wallet" directly at the garbage point of Takigawa's house, but he was discovered by Yamakawa Akira who was passing by and stopped this sneaky behavior.

However, for some reason, Yamakawa took the initiative to replace Kamei and achieved his goal more successfully - the job that Yamakawa Akira found recently was a garbage dump transfer driver!

Normally at times like this, no one would suspect the uniformed staff. The police checked the surveillance footage and concluded that "no one except Takigawa touched his garbage."

……

As for why Kamei did this and why Yamakawa cooperated, that was what we had to solve next...

Although Yuan was on the phone and couldn't explain it clearly, Shiraishi had already ordered: "Akasaka, go to the garbage dump at 6-chome and bring back Yamakawa Akira."

"Eh? Chief, do we need to... apply for an arrest warrant?" Akasaka still didn't understand.

"No, he will cooperate." Bai Shi shook his head.

Kunikida also asked, "Director, the interrogation of President Natagigawa..."

"He is still the biggest suspect!" Shiraishi said confidently, but then added: "However... there are indeed many suspicious points in this case. We should consider the possibility that the suspect may have been wrongly accused... Well, let's ask him later whether he really has no motive to kill and whether he is really not afraid of the report letter."

Kunikida:……

Of course Kunikida could see that the case had taken a turn, especially... the Director understood this best and was just pretending to be confused!
Moreover, they said that they would give the "suspect a chance to explain himself", but they also said something like "Are you not afraid of the report letter?" This is obviously asking Duo Qichuan to explain his "backstage".

but……

Director Shiraishi's reasons are also very sufficient - this is to give him a chance to prove his innocence from the perspective of "motive"!
In essence, Shiraishi did not ask about other cases, but just let him defend his own "motive for murder."

"Based on the current case, I don't think it's necessary. If you insist, Director, I will record it truthfully." Kunikida said sullenly.

The 98-point principle is no joke!
Although Kunikida understood what Shiraishi meant, although Kunikida also disliked Tagi-gawa, and although Shiraishi had a legitimate reason, but... Kunikida still did not agree with doing this.

But... Kunikida didn't object strongly. If Shiraishi wanted to give the order, he could do it himself, and he would just "record it".

Shiraishi understood his mentality and did not take it as an offense. He simply knocked on the door and called out Zinarsi and Haitani, and explained the matter to Zinarsi - Shiraishi was not afraid of Kunikida's "recording", after all, he had nothing to hide about his own thoughts.

Takigawa was already frightened at this time, and in order to prove that he had not killed anyone, he ignored everything else and explained his relationships with the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries clearly - his main message was "I have people above me, I'm not afraid of being reported", so naturally there was "no reason to kill anyone"!
……

Soon after, Kamei and Yamakawa were also taken back to the police station...

Akasaka's police car and the police car driven by Gensho just arrived at the door at the same time. The two men brought their people down. When they saw each other, Yamakawa looked obviously abnormal and restrained, but Kamei was the experienced one who pretended nothing happened.

The two were sent to the No. 2 and No. 3 interrogation rooms respectively...

Kamei Yugen was in charge of the interrogation, while Yamakawa... Shiraishi stopped Akasaka at this time and prepared to interrogate him personally!
(End of this chapter)