Chapter 866: Six Vacuum Bags
Zhang Dongfeng’s old house is on Qianjin Street.
The direct distance to the small garden where Chen Meimei’s body was discovered is less than 500 meters.
When Lu Chuan arrived, the scene was already cordoned off.
Wang Zhaokai and others saw Lu Chuan coming from outside and immediately led him in.
"Captain Lu, the wardrobe in the bedroom..."
When Lu Chuan entered the bedroom, he found that the wardrobe had already been opened.
Crime Scene Investigation officers from the High-tech Zone Criminal Investigation Team were taking photographs.
"Captain Lu, six bags, a total of six!"
Inside the opened wardrobe, there were six vacuum bags stacked in varying heights, and inside each vacuum bag was a corpse.
The body in the lowest vacuum bag was already in a desiccated state, while those above were progressively fresher.
The corpse in the topmost vacuum bag was in the process of decomposition, but due to the quality of the vacuum bag, no odor emerged, and no fluid leaked out.
"Give me the items, the rest of the process, you just cooperate with me."
Lu Chuan put on gloves and concluded the on-site investigation.
During the search conducted by Wang Zhaokai and his team, they had protected the scene very well, causing no unnecessary damage beyond the presence of essential personnel.
Lu Chuan mainly intended to extract some traces of Zhang Dongfeng from the scene, such as fingerprints, footprints, or hair.
The scene was utterly shocking.
Even though everyone had guessed Chen Meimei’s death was possibly Zhang Dongfeng’s doing, and thus other missing persons related to him were likely victims as well.
However, truly finding these on the scene was still too overwhelming.
Six vacuum bags...
Each with a body inside.
And due to differing times of death, the bodies varied in appearance.
Although Lu Chuan was adept at Crime Scene Investigation and possessed forensic skills bestowed by the system, he had never imagined what changes might occur to a human body once vacuum-sealed.
Besides the six vacuum bags, a medium-sized vacuum sealing machine was also found in the wardrobe.
On the upper shelf, there were more than ten unused vacuum bags.
By the time all on-site work was completed, it was already past eight in the evening, and the sky had darkened.
The six vacuum bags had all been taken to the High-tech Zone Criminal Investigation Team, and the Forensic Doctor was conducting autopsies.
Meanwhile, Lu Chuan personally conducted an interrogation of Zhang Dongfeng.
"Zhang Dongfeng, my name is Lu Chuan, Captain of the High-tech Zone Criminal Investigation Team."
When Lu Chuan entered the interrogation room, he brought along a stack of photos.
"This was discovered in your old house on Qianjin Street."
Faced with the pile of photos Lu Chuan brought, Zhang Dongfeng didn’t even glance at them; his facial expression remained mostly unchanged.
"I thought no one would ever discover this, if not for the accidental discovery of Chen Meimei’s body in the small garden, you never would have caught me."
Zhang Dongfeng didn’t deny the fact of his murders, only calmly relayed this to Lu Chuan.
"What puzzles me more is how you even determined Chen Meimei’s identity. She’s been dead for so many years, her family never reported her missing, even if you found her body, it should be beyond recognition."
The transactions between Zhang Dongfeng and Zhang Manman were known only to the two of them, and ultimately, all the people transacted were murdered.
Furthermore, Zhang Manman didn’t know where those people ended up; Zhang Dongfeng always thought he had covered his tracks flawlessly, and that the police could not trace him.
However, with Chen Meimei discovered...
Zhang Dongfeng knew that he might be finished.
In fact, Zhang Dongfeng’s assumption was correct; identifying Chen Meimei took significant effort.
If Chen Meimei hadn’t fractured her right arm and had that steel plate inside, uncovering her identity would have been impossible.
Fortunately, during her surgery, although she didn’t use her real identity, she used Zhang Manman’s identity, which allowed for a slim possibility of advancement in the investigation.
It was upon finding Zhang Manman that the clues leading to Three Gaps Village in Liangzhou were uncovered.
Speaking of the investigation around Three Gaps Village, it was thanks to Wang Zhaokai’s meticulousness.
The actions Zhang Dongfeng took back then had effectively silenced Chen Meimei’s family.
They didn’t report Chen Meimei’s disappearance, so under ordinary circumstances, Three Gaps Village would have had no missing persons, and the case would have gone unsolved.
If it hadn’t been for Wang Zhaokai collecting blood samples from Chen Meimei’s parents, this case might never have been discovered.
But the net of heaven is vast, and no evil-doer can escape it forever.
The way Zhang Dongfeng handled the bodies after murder indeed made the investigation extremely difficult and seemingly flawless.
However, being untraceable doesn’t mean it hadn’t happened.
"If you hadn’t buried Chen Meimei’s body outside back then, kept it inside the house instead, these cases might never have been solved."
This time Lu Chuan wasn’t just interrogating to confirm Zhang Dongfeng’s crimes or tell him the evidence was found against him.
On the six vacuum bags, Lu Chuan had obtained numerous fingerprints.
There were also signs of frequent movement, indicating that Zhang Dongfeng often manipulated those bags.
This person is a pervert.
Besides this reason, Lu Chuan’s interrogation of Zhang Dongfeng also aimed to find out about someone Zhang Dongfeng killed before Chen Meimei, who isn’t inside the wardrobe.
This person was also Zhang Manman’s first introduction to Zhang Dongfeng and possibly his first murder victim.
To Lu Chuan’s response, Zhang Dongfeng nodded.
"Back then, when I first started killing, I wasn’t as experienced, I was young and scared, too terrified to keep the bodies at home."
Zhang Dongfeng, with a serious expression, seemed to agree wholeheartedly with Lu Chuan’s statement.
"As the kills increased over time, it gradually got easier, and I realized keeping them at home was safest."
Zhang Dongfeng raised his hand: "Could I have a cigarette?"
"Preferably a Zhonghua brand, other cigarettes make my throat itch."
Lu Chuan didn’t deny the request, he happened to have Zhonghua in his pocket.
He took one out and had the recording officer beside him pass it over.
"Thank you."
Zhang Dongfeng courteously accepted the cigarette, ceremoniously lighting it and taking a deep drag: "Captain Lu, do you think I’ll ever be able to smoke such good cigarettes again?"
Lu Chuan nodded: "Strictly speaking, after your interrogation, you likely won’t have the chance to smoke anything again."
For the crimes Zhang Dongfeng committed, the death penalty, immediate execution without reprieve, was certain.
"Thank you for not lying to me."
Up until now, Zhang Dongfeng’s demeanor remained collected, not resembling that of a captured murderer.
And Zhang Dongfeng, indeed displaying his intelligence as a master’s graduate from thirty years ago, said: "You came personally to interrogate me, surely to find that woman named Jiang Juan?"
Zhang Dongfeng had killed a total of eight individuals, six bodies were kept in his home’s wardrobe, two remain, with only Chen Meimei’s body found, but the first person he killed, Jiang Juan, her body was never found.