You're supposed to be a security officer, what case are you solving?

Chapter 23: Interrogation Overnight! (Please add to your favorites and read on.)
Nine o'clock that night.

Interrogation room, Chengbei Branch.

Li Hongbing sat in the interrogation chair, his wrists cuffed to the table, his head bowed, silent.

When He Jinbo and Zheng Kang pushed the door open and went in, Li Hongbing remained motionless.

He only slightly raised his head when a stack of documents was slammed onto the table with a "thud".

Two officers from the pre-trial investigation team sat behind a table, holding pens, ready to take notes.

He Jinbo and Zheng Kang each moved a chair and sat opposite Li Hongbing.

The interrogating officer spoke first: "Name."

"Li Hongbing".

"age."

"56 years old, born in the Year of the Ox."

"We didn't ask what your zodiac sign is, so just answer whatever we ask! Don't say anything unnecessary!"

Li Hongbing licked his lips: "Understood."

"Place of origin?"

Li Hongbing shook his head: "I don't know what this means..."

"Where are you from?"

"Group 2, Lijia Village, Longmen Town".

Do you know Huang Cuicui?

Li Hongbing did not answer, but narrowed his eyes slightly.

He Jinbo picked up a photo from the interrogator's table and handed it to him: "It's her, do you know her?"

Li Hongbing glanced at the photo, then looked away and replied, "I killed her."

Upon hearing this, Zheng Kang, who was sitting to the side, narrowed his eyes.

He Jinbo, oblivious to his expression, continued asking, "What time? Where was the murder?"

"Around 7 p.m. on May 30, I saw this woman walking through the cornfield and I thought about killing her."

I followed her all the way to the old town. I took a shortcut and hid inside the ancestral hall. When she wasn't looking, I dragged her inside.

The woman was screaming very loudly, and I was afraid others would hear, so I dragged her into a room. After dragging her inside, she resisted fiercely, so I just killed her.

"And then what did you do?"

“I took off her clothes, covered her body with straw, and took the body home after get off work.”

"..." He Jinbo was about to ask a question when he noticed Zheng Kang giving him a look, so he quickly stopped talking.

Zheng Kang nodded to him and looked at Li Hongbing in front of him.

From the moment Zheng Kang entered the interrogation room until now, even at such close proximity, knee to knee, Li Hongbing has never looked at him directly.

In Zheng Kang's opinion, this was very suspicious!

The same was true now. Li Hongbing glanced at the interrogators behind him and at He Jinbo, but he wouldn't look at Zheng Kang, not even once!
Time passed slowly, and the atmosphere became stagnant.

Li Hongbing seemed unable to hold back any longer, his eyes fixed on He Jinbo, breaking the silence.

"After bringing the body back, I chopped it up with an old axe from my rented room. The body was chopped into eleven pieces."

Because the plastic bag couldn't hold them all, I chopped my limbs into eight pieces. My abdomen and chest were too heavy, and blood kept seeping out, so I put a snakeskin bag over them.

Chopping the corpse into eleven pieces was exhausting, even more exhausting than composting. The easiest part to chop was the neck; it only took two or three chops with an axe..."

Li Hongbing described the details of the dismemberment in great detail. He said that in order to prevent blood from leaking out, the body was covered with plastic film from a vegetable greenhouse.

As for why he didn't throw away the plastic film, he said he was going to sell it for scrap. He described the case calmly, his eyes fixed on He Jinbo.

Even though He Jinbo had seen countless heinous suspects, hearing this made him feel nauseous.

At this moment, Zheng Kang spoke up: "You took the body back to dismember it, and then threw the victim's body parts into the reeds beside the Yanzi River, didn't you?"

Li Hongbing didn't look at him, he just nodded.

Zheng Kang reached out, turned his head around, and stared intently into his eyes.

Where did you get your motorcycle?

“I…” Li Hongbing’s eyes darted away: “I stole it.”

Where was it stolen?

"I stole it from the street while I was at it."

"Where's the motorcycle? Where did you put it?!"

"lost."

"Where did you put it?"

Li Hongbing stammered, "I... I left it in the south of the city. I'm not familiar with that area, and I was afraid someone would see it. Anyway, I didn't steal the motorcycle..."

Zheng Kang pressed down on his shoulders, glaring at him intently: "Li Hongbing, you wouldn't even throw away the plastic sheeting used to cushion the body, and you're telling me you stole the motorcycle? You're not being honest!"

"Officer, I'm telling the truth! I really stole the motorcycle, I really stole it!"

When asked this point, He Jinbo also sensed something was amiss. Li Hongbing glossed over the details of the murder but described the dismemberment in great detail.

Moreover, a motorcycle is such a large item, worth a lot of money. Even if he stole it, he could still make a lot of money by selling it after disposing of the body.

Besides being a vegetable farmer, Li Hongbing also often collects recyclables on the street to sell for money. He can't just throw away a motorcycle like that!
Zheng Kang gripped Li Hongbing's shoulders tightly and asked, word by word, "Li Hongbing, why did you kill him?"

"I...I wanted to have sex with that woman, but I couldn't...so I killed her!"

"Why did you separate the victim's internal organs when you dismembered the body? Where did you put them?"

Li Hongbing's face flushed red, and he blinked repeatedly before becoming agitated: "Stop asking me, I'll admit it! I killed that woman, I really did!"

Zheng Kang gave He Jinbo a look, and then the two of them stood up. He Jinbo said, "Li Hongbing, think back to the details of the crime again. Once you've thought it through, tell us tomorrow. Don't take any chances!"

Li Hongbing lowered his head and shrugged, but did not reply.

As the two men walked out of the interrogation room and the door closed, Zheng Kang immediately said, "Something's not right. It seems like he didn't kill the person."

He Jinbo replied, "He didn't kill him. He described the dismemberment in such detail."
Old Zheng, let me tell you, don't you dare try anything funny!
Ma Boming is currently collecting evidence at the dismemberment scene. He has collected a lot of physical evidence, including dismemberment tools and footprints left at the crime scene.

"As long as the bloodstains from the scene are taken to the evidence center and compared, and confirmed to be Huang Cuicui's D something A, then this case is solved!"

“DNA!” Zheng Kang corrected him, “There’s definitely something wrong with it, Lao He, can’t you see it?”

He Jinbo retorted, "I don't need to see it. Do you think it's like ten years ago, without technology, without equipment, without that D or A..."

DNA!

"Yes, without any D or A, we rely entirely on our intuition to solve cases. Moreover, what matters is not how we handle things, but what Director Lu and Zhang Da say."

This case isn't just yours or mine; it's a case from our Chengbei branch!

“Alright.” Zheng Kang nodded. “Let’s re-examine it tomorrow. By the way, on the afternoon of the incident, there was a witness who could confirm that Li Hongbing saw the victim, Huang Cuicui. I’ll go ask him first thing tomorrow morning.”

No sooner had he finished speaking than forensic doctor Wen Ling rushed down the stairs at the end of the corridor, panting, and shouted, "Uncle Zheng, Yang Jinwen and Captain Zhang are arguing!"

Zheng Kang frowned and quickly asked, "Why?"

Wen Ling patted her chest as she answered, "Yang Jinwen said that Li Hongbing is not the murderer!"

(End of this chapter)