flstandardbreds Chapter 939 Scene Identification Completed
Chapter 939 Scene Identification Completed
Why buy rubber gloves and cleaning agents?
“I was afraid of leaving fingerprints and bloodstains, so I went to a hardware store and bought these things.” Zhou Ming lowered his head. “I knew I couldn’t escape. From the moment I killed her, I knew…”
During subsequent interrogations, Zhao Yongqiang and Zhou Ming revealed more details. Zhao Yongqiang admitted that he had repeatedly falsified company accounts, involving as much as 800 million yuan, and that Wang Xiaoyu, after discovering this, became his biggest threat. Zhou Ming confessed that he not only participated in this murder case but had also been involved in drug trafficking activities in the southern suburbs and had close ties with some unemployed individuals.
As the two confessions unfolded, the entire case gradually became clear. Based on leads, police raided a hideout in the southern suburbs, seizing some drugs and arresting two more suspects. Meanwhile, the ledgers and USB drives that Zhao Yongqiang had hidden were found in his suburban villa.
When the interrogation ended and Zhao Yongqiang and Zhou Ming were taken away from the interrogation room, it was already broad daylight.
However, the case was not over yet. Qin Chuan decided to strike while the iron was hot. Since the interrogation was over and the DNA test had confirmed that Zhou Ming was the murderer, he took Zhou Ming to identify the crime scene early the next morning.
The Beizhou residential area in Dongchuan City was once again surrounded by police tape. Zhou Ming, handcuffed and shackled, was escorted by four heavily armed special police officers as he slowly walked towards the apartment building where Wang Xiaoyu was murdered. His head was lowered, and he dared not look at the angry gazes of the surrounding residents. Sweat dripped from his temples down his chin and onto his chest.
“Tell me where you started,” Li Ming nudged Zhou Ming in the back. The group entered room 302, which remained exactly as it had been at the time of the crime, except that the dried bloodstains had been treated with a special agent by the police and turned into grayish-white marks.
Zhou Ming stood in the entryway, his Adam's apple bobbing. "I knocked on the door, and when she saw it was a stranger, she immediately tried to close it." He stretched out his shackled hands and gestured as if to push the door open. "I held up the coffee and said, 'Brother Zhao asked me to bring this over.' She hesitated for a moment before letting me in." He moved slowly, pointing to the center of the living room. "She sat on the sofa and drank the coffee. A few minutes later, she started to feel confused and couldn't speak clearly."
Zhang Lin held up photos from the scene for comparison: "How can you be sure the sleeping pills worked?"
“She tried to stand up and take her phone to call the police, but her legs gave way and she fell back down.” Zhou Ming’s voice trembled. “I panicked and rushed over to grab the phone, but she held on tightly and wouldn’t let go. Her fingernails scratched several bloody marks on my hand.” He raised his left hand, and there were indeed recently healed marks on his wrist, which matched perfectly with the skin tissue that Zhang Kai had extracted from under the victim’s fingernails.
Li Ming gestured for him to continue. Zhou Ming walked to the sofa and suddenly knelt down: "I pressed her down and asked her where the USB drive was, but she wouldn't tell me. In my anger, I slapped her twice, and she cried and called me an animal..." His body began to tremble, "Later, she resisted so fiercely that her collar was torn open, and I... I was bewitched..." His voice stopped abruptly, and he slammed his forehead against the ground, making a dull thud.
"How did you kill her after the sexual assault?" Zhang Lin's voice was as cold as ice.
Zhou Ming looked up, his face covered in dust: "She collapsed on the floor, crying, saying she wouldn't let me go. I was afraid she'd call the police, so I grabbed a fruit knife from the coffee table..." He suddenly stood up and rushed towards the kitchen, but the SWAT officers immediately subdued him. "The knife was right there!" he twisted his body frantically, "I grabbed her from behind and strangled her, slashing at her carotid artery... Blood splattered all over my face!"
This action perfectly matches the forensic examination report of "a single-edged sharp instrument cutting diagonally from right to left." Zhang Lin held up a diagram of the wound: "How many cuts were made?"
“One stab!” Zhou Ming pulled open his collar, revealing the veins on his neck. “She didn’t move at that moment, so I stabbed her again to confirm.” He staggered to the spot where the body had been lying and drew a “V” shape with his foot. “That’s how the blood flowed, seeping into the living room through the tile grout.”
At this moment, the technician sprayed luminol reagent, and the ground instantly glowed with a blue-purple fluorescence, exactly matching the bloodstain pattern described by Zhou Ming. Li Ming flipped through the investigation record: "What did you use to clean up the scene?"
“I bought industrial cleaning agents at a hardware store.” Zhou Ming pointed to the bathroom. “I showered it for half an hour and then mopped it repeatedly.” He suddenly laughed, but his laughter was tinged with tears. “I thought it was clean enough. I didn’t expect you could still find out.”
When he reached the window, Zhou Ming confessed, "After killing the person, I observed from here for ten minutes. I only left through the front door after seeing that no one was downstairs." He gestured as if he was climbing out of the window, and the wear marks left by his heels on the window frame closely matched the footprints collected by the police.
The most crucial evidence comparison took place in the garage. Zhou Ming pointed to Wang Xiaoyu's white sedan: "The body was moved to the trunk from here." He lay down behind the car, simulating a dragging motion. The bloodstains and scratches on the edge of the trunk matched the shape of the wound on the victim's back. "I was wearing rubber gloves at the time, I didn't expect there would be fibers left in the gaps of the car seats." He looked at Zhang Lin with a wry smile, "You guys even found this."
The entire identification process lasted three hours. Zhou Ming meticulously reconstructed every detail of the murder, sexual assault, and destruction of evidence, even pinpointing the location of furniture he touched while moving the body. As he was being escorted away, the on-site investigators reviewed the records and physical evidence one by one, meticulously verifying everything from the angle of the wounds to the distribution of bloodstains, from the depth of shoe prints to the presence of fiber residue—all details formed a complete chain of evidence.
With the murder case solved, the police quickly shifted their investigation focus to Zhao Yongqiang's embezzlement case. That same day, after completing the crime scene identification at Zhou Ming's location, Li Ming led the special task force to Haitian Trading Company to begin a comprehensive audit of the company's finances. Inside the office, stacks of ledgers piled up like small mountains, and auditors wearing glasses meticulously checked each entry.
Police officers conducted a thorough search of Zhao Yongqiang's office. In a hidden compartment of the safe, besides the forged contracts and bank statements already discovered, several USB drives containing records of clandestine transactions were found. One of these drives detailed how, over the past five years, he had transferred company funds into multiple accounts under his control through fabricated projects and inflated expenses, with the total amount involved reaching 800 million yuan.
The task force traced Zhao Yongqiang's bank accounts and discovered that he used the embezzled public funds to purchase real estate and luxury goods, and also opened secret accounts overseas. The flow of these funds was meticulously analyzed, and each transfer became key evidence in the indictment. Simultaneously, police questioned individuals with financial dealings with Zhao Yongqiang, leading to the uncovering of numerous related parties.