Chapter 867: A Retired Detective
The interrogation continued.
However, it yielded almost no results.
Regarding his motive for murder, Zhang Dongfeng refused to say a word, and he remained silent about where Lu Chuan’s biggest concern, Jiang Juan’s body, was located.
Back in university, Zhang Dongfeng majored in philosophy.
He loved discussing philosophical issues with people.
According to him, life should be viewed from two aspects.
Life or death cannot be said to be the beginning or end of existence.
Philosophy, in the end, is metaphysics.
Zhang Dongfeng believed that encountering these people was a matter of fate.
He’s a madman.
Lu Chuan finally concluded.
The subsequent interrogation processes did not yield much success either.
On one hand, Lu Chuan was organizing some case files related to Zhang Dongfeng’s murders while, on the other, conducting rounds of interrogations.
But still, there was little effect.
Although from the perspective of the case itself, regardless of whether Zhang Dongfeng confessed to the details of his murders,
because a vacuum-sealed body was found in his home along with Zhang Manman’s company’s corroboration, convicting Zhang Dongfeng without a confession was not a problem.
The entire case’s chain of evidence was complete.
Especially the fingerprints extracted from the vacuum bag holding the body in Zhang Dongfeng’s home, which became the most crucial evidence.
The key to convicting without a confession is a complete chain of evidence.
If Zhang Dongfeng had been a bit more cautious, not leaving fingerprints on the vacuum bag, this case, to be honest, would be difficult to handle.
The location where Zhang Dongfeng hid the body was in an old house, which he didn’t live in often.
So if there were no fingerprints, he could completely deny knowledge of the situation.
Although logically, he couldn’t possibly be unaware of what was in his home, the possibility that he wasn’t the killer existed.
Even though Zhang Dongfeng didn’t confess anything during the interrogations, the whole case to the City Public Security Bureau was considered solved with the capture of the suspect.
This was a great relief to the Criminal Investigation Team in Tianshan District.
Although Wang Gang had pushed the case to the High-tech Zone, he continued to assist with related work.
Now that the suspect was captured, even with some blemishes, they do not obscure the overall good result. Capturing the suspect was a positive outcome.
The investigation of these cases didn’t take long, but the interrogation of Zhang Dongfeng did, with Lu Chuan’s team conducting interrogations over a week.
"Captain Lu, forget it, this guy is just a lunatic."
Chen Jiang was finally resigned.
During the interrogation, Zhang Dongfeng didn’t respond to any questions; he just mumbled to himself.
At times even talking to himself when no one was around.
Besides Chen Jiang, others had also interrogated him, and sometimes Zhang Dongfeng couldn’t control his desire to get physical.
But ultimately, he held back.
In this era, such coercive interrogation practices really don’t happen anymore.
A few years back, due to weaker legal awareness, some officers used certain methods, especially violent ones, to force confessions out of suspects to solve cases.
But now, such incidents are practically nonexistent.
Firstly, because the entire interrogation process must be monitored and recorded on video.
This continuous video monitoring must comply with strict requirements; you cannot stop it at will.
Secondly, there have been cases of officers suffering consequences.
About ten years ago, in the High-tech Zone Criminal Investigation Team.
At that time, the captain of the Third Middle Team forcibly extracted information from a suspect during a home robbery murder case, which resulted in the suspect’s death.
As a result, everyone involved, including the captain, was charged with intentional injury, resulting in varying prison sentences.
In fact, when they could not apprehend the suspect, a confrontation occurred between the suspect and the police during his resistance to capture, sowing seeds for the incident.
There were two suspects; the brother was captured while the younger brother was still at large.
To quickly apprehend the fleeing suspect, the emotionally charged Third Middle Team resorted to some methods.
Unexpectedly, the suspect died during the interrogation, and did not survive the hospital’s rescue.
Since that incident, the entire Haizhou City Public Security Bureau has not seen another coercive interrogation occur.
On a broader scale, this reflects increasing legal awareness and respect for human rights.
On a smaller scale, police officers are also human, and risking oneself to capture suspects doesn’t seem worth it.
Now at most, they might use a high-wattage lamp, nothing explosive beyond that.
Another week later, the case was transferred to the next level.
However, regarding the whereabouts of Jiang Juan’s body, Zhang Dongfeng never disclosed anything.
Lu Chuan had his own suspicions about where Jiang Juan’s body was, likely buried.
Zhang Dongfeng began hiding bodies in his old house’s wardrobe starting from the third victim.
Chen Meimei, the second victim, was buried in a small park on Qianjin Street.
From this, it’s inferred that when Jiang Juan was killed, her body should also have been buried somewhere.
Whether it’s also in the small park on Qianjin Street remains unknown.
The park is quite large, and digging it up completely doesn’t seem feasible at the moment.
Fortunately, construction there hasn’t stopped. Once the dust settles, construction might resume, possibly leading to new discoveries.
Lu Chuan had arranged for Wang Zhaokai to keep watch during the construction resumption at the small park.
Meanwhile, in the High-tech Zone Criminal Investigation Team, they caught a fugitive these past two days.
Interestingly, this fugitive was captured by a citizen while having a meal at a street stall.
"Captain Lu, it’s clear now. The citizen didn’t get into a conflict with the suspect; he was actually a retired detective who had been following a case for two or three years since his retirement. Recognizing the suspect, he detained him."
Chen handled this matter.
"A retired detective?"
Lu Chuan hadn’t expected this: "Retired, yet still following a case?"
Chen Jiang sighed: "He couldn’t let it go."
Couldn’t let it go?
"What’s the situation?"
Lu Chuan might have known that some cases aren’t just about being solved or unsolved, but about the detectives involved not being able to move past them personally.
They simply can’t let it go.