Reborn in 97, I solved a cold case at the Municipal Bureau

Chapter 269 Interrogation of Huang Jianhui

She couldn't quite describe the smell herself, but it was definitely unpleasant.

She first checked the liquefied gas cylinder in the kitchen, fearing that Tang Xue might have forgotten to turn it off when heating up the food that night.

Donghai Community is an old-style community. When it was built, Hongcheng did not have gas pipelines, so the community used bottled liquefied petroleum gas. There was a dedicated gas station nearby, and it could be delivered to your door with just a phone call.

However, most people exchange them themselves because home delivery costs an extra dollar.

But the liquefied gas was turned off properly, and the food I left for myself yesterday morning hadn't been touched at all.

She immediately sensed something was wrong and headed towards Tang Xue's room.

As I passed the bathroom with the door open, the smell seemed even stronger.

Because the steel window in her bathroom was severely rusted due to moisture, it was basically impossible to open.

She went into the restroom and found a plastic bag in the corner containing a bloody, mangled mess.

She was startled and carefully opened it, only to be dumbfounded.

Then she rushed into Tang Xue's room and dragged her off the bed.

What happened next was exactly as Tang Xue had described.

She believed that Tang Xue had killed the child and disposed of the body through the toilet, and she decided to take the blame for her daughter.

Yao Fenfang said she had tried to force her daughter to tell her who the man was, but no matter how much she beat or scolded her, Tang Xue refused to say anything, and she couldn't do anything about it.

Shi Tao asked her what she did with the last bag of placenta.

She said she had originally planned to flush it down the toilet, but the drain was clogged and she couldn't flush it, which terrified her.

After buying the tools and going through a lot of trouble to unclog the pipes, she said she didn't even have the courage to go back into that toilet.

Since that day, she and Tang Xue have never used that restroom again, and they tacitly kept the door closed.

Every time I need to use the restroom, I run to a public restroom more than 200 meters outside the community, even in the middle of the night.

She said that compared to the pitch-black outside, her own bathroom was the most terrifying place for her.

As for the bag of placenta, she said she initially intended to throw it away at a nearby garbage station under the cover of darkness.

No sooner had she put the bag down than a cleaner came along and said that nobody wanted the meat anymore, which startled her so much that she quickly snatched the bag away.

After thinking it over, she chopped the placenta into several pieces, intending to feed it to the stray cats in the neighborhood.

But strangely, none of the many stray cats that used to be there could be found.

Finally, she discovered that the water tanks on the rooftops of the buildings in the community had just been cleaned in the past two days, and some of the fire escape doors leading to the rooftops were not locked.

She crept up to the roof in the dark and threw the chopped placenta into the water tank.

She was even afraid of being discovered soon, so she separated the items and threw them into water tanks in different buildings.

Having read this part of the statement, Zhou Yi finally understood what Director Chen of the neighborhood committee had meant when he said that someone in the community had dysentery.

Dysentery is generally caused by eating unclean food and water, and it is highly contagious.

Although Zhou Yi did not ask Director Chen about the specific handling of this matter, since Yao Fenfang said that the water tank had just been cleaned, it was highly likely that the water tank had not been checked again.

The placenta has no bones, and once it's cut open and thrown into a water tank, it will decompose very quickly, so it's unlikely that any trace of it will be found.

But at least through the interrogation, the general outline of the case has been pieced together.

For the remaining missing part, you'll have to ask Deputy Section Chief Huang from the Forestry Bureau.

……

Huang Jianhui sat in the interrogation room, his face ashen, his Adam's apple bobbing up and down as he kept swallowing.

Zhou Yi and Qiao Jiali sat down unhurriedly, staring at him with cold eyes.

Shi Tao and He Bin split into two groups, each carrying a search warrant. One group went to Huang Jianhui's home with his wife and children, while the other group went to Huang Jianhui's workplace.

According to Tang Xue's confession, Huang Jianhui's clothes were stained with blood when he killed and dismembered the body that day, especially the sweater he was wearing at the time.

Therefore, the purpose of the search is to find key evidence.

Because the murder weapon found at Yao Fenfang's home only had Yao Fenfang's fingerprints on it, it was clear that it had already been cleaned up.

"Huang Jianhui, Section Chief Huang," Zhou Yi called out with a forced smile.

Huang Jianhui, sitting in the detention chair, shuddered and chuckled awkwardly, "Deputy...Deputy."

"Even if it's a deputy position, it's still a state cadre, isn't it?"

"Yes, yes, yes..." Huang Jianhui nodded repeatedly.

Zhou Yi slammed his fist on the table and roared, "As a public official, you knowingly break the law. Do you know what the consequences will be?"

Huang Jianhui was startled. He leaned forward and asked tentatively in a low voice, "Comrade... can I ask to make a phone call?"

"Make a phone call? Who do you want to call?"

Seeing that Zhou Yi didn't directly refuse, Huang Jianhui thought he had a chance, so he quickly smiled and said, "I... have a friend who knows... a leader in your bureau... you see, we're all government employees, could you... make an exception for us?"

Zhou Yi pulled a mobile phone from his pocket and placed it on the table. Huang Jianhui's face lit up with joy, but he was handcuffed to the detention chair and couldn't move. He said, "Comrade... could you bring it to me?"

Zhou Yi sneered slightly, "There's no need to take it. You give me the number, I'll call, put it on speakerphone, and let us see which of our leaders your all-powerful friend knows."

Upon hearing this, Huang Jianhui's previously joyful expression instantly froze.

Because he already knew that Zhou Yi was playing him.

Zhou Yi picked up the mobile phone. "Come on, give me your number. We can also invite your friend over so he can have a cup of tea with our leader and have a good chat."

Huang Jianhui, who had been leaning forward, shrank back, waved his handcuffed hands, and said, "No...no need, don't trouble yourself...don't trouble yourself..."

“Huang Jianhui, don’t think you have any connections. Let me tell you, the reason we can arrest you is because we have all the facts of your crimes. Since you know you’re a government employee, you should know what it means to be able to issue that detention notice.”

Zhou Yi looked at the other party with icy eyes and said, "Huang Jianhui, we are giving you a chance to confess. If you don't cherish this opportunity, you'll regret it when you're in court."

Zhou Yi knew that the guy in front of him wasn't a desperate criminal like Long Zhiqiang.

According to the records, Huang Jianhui is 37 years old and serves as the deputy section chief of the Forest Reform Section of the Hongcheng Forestry Bureau. At this age, a deputy section chief is generally considered to be doing poorly. However, the Forestry Bureau is a municipal-level unit, and the Forest Reform Section is a powerful and lucrative department, so he lives a relatively comfortable life.

His wife, Gu Hong, is also a civil servant in a municipal government unit. For ordinary people, a family like theirs is already out of reach.

Moreover, Huang Chen's appearance is inherited from Huang Jianhui and his wife. Huang Jianhui is handsome and has the mature temperament of an adult man, which is indeed very attractive to a young girl like Tang Xue who lacks fatherly love.

For someone like him, who lives a comfortable life and has a respectable public image, and who may even use his position to gain many benefits in private, becoming a prisoner is like falling from heaven to hell.

His mental breakdown will happen much, much faster than that of other criminal suspects.

Originally, his so-called relationship was his only lifeline.

But even if he could make a phone call, who would dare to protect a murderer?

Everyone is equal before the law.

After Zhou Yi finished speaking, Huang Jianhui could no longer laugh.

He asked tremblingly, "Could you give me a cup of hot water? I have a sensitive stomach."

Zhou Yi got up, went out, poured a glass of warm water, and placed it in front of him.

"Thank you..." Huang Jianhui eagerly reached out and grasped the cup. The heat from the hot water passing through the paper cup became his only hope at this moment.

His hands were restrained, making it impossible for him to lift the cup. He could only lean forward and drink the water with great difficulty.

"Huang Jianhui, are you going to tell us what's next, or should we help you recall?" Zhou Yi asked.

“I said…I’ll say it myself…” Huang Jianhui said, choking back tears.

He then confessed that it all started when his wife, Gu Hong, found a long hair on the sofa at home.

Gu Hong thought he had done something to betray her, because her hair was dyed, while the black, medium-length hair found at home was clearly not hers.

There were no other women in the house besides her, so she suspected that he might be doing something dirty outside.

Huang Jianhui felt wronged and ended up having a big argument with Gu Hong about it, but he still couldn't figure out where the black hair came from.

But he did notice that something was wrong with his son; he seemed very listless for a while, and his grades were also declining.

He thought it was because his son was going through puberty and was being restless, doing things he shouldn't be doing at home.

He also plans to find an opportunity to have a good talk with his son, after all, they are both men and they were young once.

Then one day, he lent his car to a colleague at work, and the place where he got out of the car had to be walked through a secluded alley to get home.

Then, I accidentally bumped into a pair of students in school uniforms hiding in a corner of the alley. The boy's pants were pulled down to his knees, and the girl was squatting in front of him.

Just as Huang Jianhui was lamenting the decline of morality and wondering why kids these days were all like this, he realized that the boy looked somewhat familiar.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be his son, Huang Chen.

Enraged, he immediately dragged Huang Chen back home without even letting him pull up his pants, and hung him up and beat him all night.

As for the girl, he was so frightened that he ran away without even seeing what she looked like.

While the couple was disciplining their son at home, they learned that Huang Chen had brought Tang Xue home before, and that the hair that Gu Hong suspected belonged to Tang Xue.

Huang Chen didn't dare to say anything at the time, so he had to let his father take the blame.

Huang Jianhui was furious when his name was cleared and beat his son severely again.

Upon learning that their son had not crossed that line, Huang Jianhui and his wife finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although Gu Hong usually dotes on her son, she still knows the truth of the matter and feels that her son has wronged the girl. She told Huang Jianhui that the couple would visit Tang Xue's home to apologize at a certain time, so as to prevent Tang Xue's parents from calling the police or reporting to the school and making a big fuss.

On the night she was supposed to visit, Gu Hong had something come up at work and couldn't go, so she sent Huang Jianhui alone and told him to make sure to apologize to the person properly.

And so, the scene that Tang Xue had described earlier occurred: when Huang Jianhui arrived, only Tang Xue was home.

Huang Jianhui said with a face full of regret, "After I got home that night, I couldn't sleep at all, and a wicked thought popped into my head."

　Regarding the savings bank robbery and murder case in the case file title, let me clarify two points: First, we will continue to investigate it and will not abandon it; second, this case file title was originally just a cover story, otherwise, you would know from the case file title that the double dismemberment in Donghai Community was a cover story.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)