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

Chapter 339 The Li Youqiang Case is Solved (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

If Jiang Wei did not lie or conceal any details.

Therefore, his act of killing Li Youqiang can, to some extent, be considered legitimate self-defense under special circumstances.

Because the determination of legitimate self-defense has a very crucial factual point, which is whether the other party is still engaging in harmful behavior when you retaliate.

Simply put, it's about whether your opponent is still trying to kill you when you counterattack.

If the other party has given up on killing you, then if you kill them in retaliation, it is not self-defense, but intentional homicide based on revenge.

If everything is true, including Fu Daqing's subsequent confession which confirmed this fact, the nature of Jiang Wei's crime of killing Li Youqiang may change.

However, this does not mean that Jiang Wei can be released without charge.

Leaving aside the fraud from more than five years ago, and ignoring his staged accident scam or other behaviors unrelated to this case.

His actions after killing Li Youqiang and fleeing alone constitute a crime.

He confessed that he hid Li Youqiang's body in the trunk and then slept in the car overnight.

It wasn't until dawn the next day that he remembered to clean the bloodstains in the car, so he ran to a nearby stream to fetch water and wiped the bloodstains left by Li Youqiang clean from the car.

Pan Hongjie specifically asked him if there were any other traces besides the bloodstains.

Jiang Wei said that there was also brain matter. His grandfather died from a fall when he was drunk and accidentally hit his head on a rock. His brain matter was all over the ground, so he had seen what brain matter looked like when he was very young.

This matches the small gray spots found on the leaf in the car. After extraction and testing, the technical department confirmed that these were traces of human brain tissue residue.

Similarly, after the technical department used luminol reagent on the entire vehicle, they discovered a large amount of residual fluorescent blood. Based on the blood splatter marks and the autopsy results, they simulated the situation when Li Youqiang was shot in the head.

What Jiang Wei told them was basically the same.

Jiang Wei then confessed to how he disposed of the body.

After cleaning the car, he got back on the road and began to think about what to do with the body in the trunk.

He immediately thought of the well located in the farmland on the outskirts of the city, for a simple reason: he, a local who didn't do any proper work, had been there before.

I was out with a few friends when we encountered a stray dog. It barked at us a few times, and the group kicked and beat it until it was half dead.

Finally, someone suggested that they knew a fun place, so the group threw the dog into the abandoned well, watching it bark and howl inside while they laughed out loud outside.

His first thought was that the abandoned well was the perfect place to dump the body.

So I drove straight there.

It was the evening of March 19th, the day after Li Youqiang was killed.

But when he got there and opened the trunk to move the body over, he discovered that the body was rock hard, like a fish frozen in a refrigerator.

He then remembered that this was what a dead person looked like. Seeing that he couldn't stuff the body into the well, he had no choice but to leave.

But he dared not go back, fearing that Fu Daqing was still waiting for him, nor did he dare go to crowded places, fearing that his body would be discovered.

So he hid in a nearby town for a few days, thinking about what to do with the body in the trunk.

He was clearly unaware that the body would become soft within seventy-two hours at most.

He said he spent almost a week in a daze in the small town until one day he noticed a strange smell coming from the trunk, and he realized that the matter had reached a point where it could no longer be delayed.

Because the body in the trunk had already begun to decompose, he was surprised to find that the body wasn't so stiff anymore.

So he took advantage of the darkness again, drove the car to the well, and disposed of the body there.

The date was March 27th.

Although he didn't know the guy he had killed with a hammer, he knew that the man was related to Fu Daqing. He was afraid that if the body was discovered, the police would follow the clues to find Fu Daqing and then him.

So he stripped Li Youqiang naked, smashed his face with the hammer, and finally threw the body in headfirst.

He had made preparations beforehand; he bought a bottle of gasoline and found a place to burn the clothes he had taken off.

As for the hammer, I saw a river by the roadside when I left, so I casually threw it into the river.

The hammer that Pan Hongjie and his team later retrieved had traces of blood on it, which matched Li Youqiang's blood type.

In addition, Tang Wenli also conducted a weapon wound matching test, which confirmed that the hammer matched the wound marks on the back of Li Youqiang's head.

The day after dumping the body in the well, on March 28th, Jiang Wei drove the car to a repair shop and had it washed.

He did this because he found he couldn't get rid of the stench in the trunk, and at the same time, he wanted to get rid of the car.

He initially wanted to just leave the car on the side of the road and call it a day, but he was afraid that it would be discovered too quickly.

He had considered selling the car, but he was afraid that if something went wrong, the police might trace it back to him.

So in the end, he came up with this trick: after the other person finished cleaning, he would make an excuse and leave.

He didn't know where the car came from, but since Fu Daqing hadn't called the police for so long, he guessed there must be some other reason.

A series of related pieces of evidence formed a complete chain of evidence, which means that the case of Li Youqiang's murder has been basically officially solved.

Next, all Wu Yongcheng and his team need to do is finish interrogating Fu Daqing and check if the parts of Fu Daqing's confession that are related to Jiang Wei are consistent.

If they reach an agreement, then at least this case can be considered closed. After the meeting, Zhou Yi privately contacted Pan Hongjie about the application Zhang Xianglan had submitted earlier.

He knew that in Hongcheng, there was a heartbroken woman and an old man who died with his eyes wide open, waiting for the outcome.

Although we can't tell her the truth yet, at least we can let her cremate her husband and bring him home.

Although Li Youqiang may be the murderer of Bai Xiuxiu and the one who caused Zheng Guangming's accidental death, legally, death is the end of criminal responsibility.

As for Jiang Wei, whether the charge of intentional homicide is valid is a question that needs to be addressed by the procuratorate and the court.

However, there are two more charges against him that he cannot escape.

First of all, his actions in disposing of Li Youqiang's body were definitely illegal.

If, after killing Li Youqiang, he had immediately driven to the nearest police station and turned himself in, the situation would have been very different.

But he chose to conceal the truth and dispose of the body, explaining that he was out of his mind and hadn't expected it.

He even said that he was a gangster and his legs would go weak at the sight of the police, which was why he didn't think of calling the police to turn himself in.

But Pan Hongjie hit the nail on the head regarding his real reason.

Pan Hongjie asked him, "Where's the money?"

Jiang Wei was stunned for a moment, then stammered, "Wh...what money?"

"You confessed quite readily, but you kept insisting that you acted in self-defense. Looks like you've been busy lately, doing a lot of research, haven't you?" Pan Hongjie sneered.

"No...no..."

"What do you mean you're out of your mind? What do you mean you get weak in the knees when you see the police? Why are you pretending to be out of your mind? If you get weak in the knees when you see the police, why were you thinking of pulling out a gun when they arrested you today? Weren't you weak in the knees?"

Pan Hongjie pointed at Jiang Wei's nose and said, "You don't turn yourself in because you found money in that Toyota, right!"

Pan Hongjie's logic is reasonable. Since Fu and Li were hired to kill, they must have been carrying the payment with them.

This red Toyota is most likely the car they planned to drive away directly, both to avoid being tracked down by the police and to dispose of the vehicle.

Jiang Weineng's ability to stage an accident with this car was entirely due to an unresolved grudge between him and Fu Daqing.

Then Fu Daqing went to Jiang Wei's place alone to retrieve the gold bars, and he certainly wouldn't have carried the cash with him.

So the money was probably in the car, and Jiang Wei eventually found it.

This is also the main reason why he would never turn himself in, because only if the police don't know that he is involved can he keep the money for himself.

The saying "wealth moves people's hearts" is exactly like this.

The only thing that could make him willingly take risks is money.

Moreover, according to his own confession, he never intended to run away because he didn't know where he could run to, and all his friends were in Anyuan.

After hiding for a while, he realized that the police weren't looking for him at all, and he gradually felt relieved.

Instead of returning to his original place, he stayed at a friend's place for a while.

As for why he hadn't been home for so many years, he suddenly returned to burn paper money and kowtow to his deceased father.

It was because he had a nightmare one night, dreaming that he was sitting in the back seat of that red car again.

The car was moving forward, but there was no one in the driver's or passenger's seats; only the steering wheel was moving by itself.

He was terrified and tried to open the car door to run away, only to find that his hands were tied behind his back.

Looking up again, there was suddenly another person in the passenger seat. The person had a large hole in the back of their head, from which blood and brain matter were constantly flowing.

He was startled, and then he saw the person in the passenger seat turn around.

A bloodied and mangled face reached out and lunged at him.

He was so frightened that he screamed repeatedly. At the critical moment, he said that the car door was suddenly pulled open and someone dragged him out.

Then he woke up.

Although he couldn't see clearly, he guessed that it must have been his father, who had attempted suicide by drinking pesticide, who saved him.

He felt guilty and thought of going home to burn incense and kowtow to his father.

Pan Hongjie warned him not to try to change the subject and to explain the money issue properly, saying that whether he hid the money or spent it, they could find out.

In that case, it's hard to say how many years the sentence might be added!

Jiang Wei probably knew that he couldn't hide it anymore, so he admitted that he had indeed taken the money from the car because he was tempted by the money.

He said that he only spent a small portion of the 70,000 yuan; he didn't dare touch the rest and hid it under the stove in his abandoned old house.

When Zhou Yi heard this, he was immediately stunned: "More than 70,000?"

　Thanks to Wang Dali12138 for the generous monthly votes from me and other big shots like cancan.

　　The coincidences involving Jiang Wei were actually handled this way to bring the case back to a more concise state and save space. Otherwise, if Fu Daqing had taken the initiative to contact him, it would have required an extra chapter to develop the plot.

　　
　
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