Hu Yifan was quickly transferred to the Municipal Public Security Bureau. Facing the interrogation, he showed no signs of nervousness. He sat in the interrogation chair and jingled the chains on his handcuffs.
"Stop playing around, let's have a serious talk." Yan Yishuai knocked on the table.
Hu Yifan raised his eyelids: "It was Guo Xuesong who broke into my house with the intention of committing murder. Instead of interrogating him, you kept staring at me. What do you mean?"
"Even if I hit him, it was just self-defense. Even if I hit him hard, it was just excessive self-defense. Even if I took the initiative to find him and beat him up, his injuries would be level two at best.
For minor injuries, the maximum sentence is three years. What’s more, if there is a cause, even if the other party does not understand, the sentence will be criminal detention, public surveillance, or probation.”
"For an ongoing violent crime that seriously endangers personal safety, taking defensive actions and causing casualties in illegal divisions does not constitute excessive defense and does not bear criminal responsibility. Officer Yan..." Hu Yifan raised his eyebrows, "What I said
Right?"
Yan Yishuai looked at him with interest: "You know quite a lot, have you studied it?"
"I've just read a few books." Hu Yifan spread his hands, "The law is used to protect yourself, so of course you have to understand it."
"Then let me ask you, what should be the sentence for intentional homicide?" Yan Yishuai asked.
Hu Yifan smiled, and he shook his head helplessly: "Anyone with no knowledge of the law can answer this question. But... I have said many times that the deaths of Ji Xiaoqing and Liu Qingya have nothing to do with me. If you don't believe it,
Just check it out."
"Don't tell me, we actually have some clues now." Yan Yishuai opened a kraft paper file bag.
"Twelve years ago, a very sensational and vicious murder occurred in Shanlinbao District, Mingyang City."
As he spoke, he observed Hu Yifan's face.
"The murderer's method of committing the crime was extremely cruel. He put pesticides in his live-in girlfriend's food. After her death, the murderer disfigured her and caused multiple traumas on her body. The effect was comparable to whipping a corpse to vent his anger.
And nothing less.”
Yan Yishuai narrated the process of the case, adding some adjectives appropriately to enhance the effect.
But except for a strange look in Hu Yifan's eyes when he mentioned Shanlinbao District in Mingyang City, Hu Yifan didn't have any special expression throughout the whole process. He just stayed quietly, as if he was listening to a story.
After finishing the story, Yan Yishuai raised his chin slightly: "How was it? What do you think?"
Hu Yifan shrugged: "Police Officer Yan has a strong ability to express himself and tells wonderful stories."
Yan Yishuai did not correct him, but followed his words and asked: "The protagonist of the story should be familiar to you, right?"
"It's my father." Hu Yifan said frankly with a calm face, "Back then, he couldn't bear the humiliation that woman brought to him, so he killed her and then committed suicide. But so what? If he is not guilty of his family, is it just because of his father?
If you have killed someone, will your son definitely become a murderer? Officer Yan, let me reiterate that the deaths of Ji Xiaoqing and Liu Qingya have nothing to do with me. And the nurse that Officer Lu talked about last time, I have absolutely nothing to do with it.
If you don't even know her, how can you kill her?"
"The death conditions of the three of them were the same as that of the woman your father killed, which means that the murderer's modus operandi was consistent. How do you explain this?" Yan Yishuai looked at him, his tone gradually getting heavier, until the last moment.
That sentence was asked almost word for word, with a full sense of oppression.
Hu Yifan's calm face finally showed cracks. His lips moved a few times and he asked in disbelief: "What did you say? They... they..."
In the monitoring room next door, Lu Wuchuan stood with his arms folded and his brows furrowed almost invisible.
"Pretending to be pretty cool." Duanmo's voice sounded softly in his ears. No one had told Hu Yifan the cause and condition of death of the three deceased before, and his expression now looked as if he had just learned about it.
"See for yourself." In the interrogation room, Yan Yishuai threw several photos in front of him. The photos were taken from different scenes, but the same thing was that the pictures above were extremely bloody.
The naked female corpse, the unrecognizable head, the body covered with scars...every one of them is shocking.
"These photos come from three scenes. The three deceased people all died of organophosphorus poisoning. Their bodies were disfigured and thrown away after death, and they were even violated."
After Hu Yifan looked at the photos one by one, he raised his eyes and asked, "What do these have to do with me?"
His expression had returned to normal, and his tone was as calm as if nothing had happened.
"The modus operandi is the same. If it wasn't you, would it be your father who was reborn?" Yan Yishuai said with a sarcastic tone.
"Officer Yan, you said before that the vicious murder case that happened twelve years ago was extremely sensational. In fact, what happened that year was not only a sensation in Shanlinbao, but also in the entire Yangming City. Various media...TV,
There have been reports on the radio, newspapers, and the Internet. It’s not an exaggeration to say that it’s just common knowledge.”
Hu Yifan paused for a moment, raised his head slightly and continued: "I heard that a similar case occurred in a county under Mingyang in the following years. The murderer was a seventeen-year-old boy. He mixed pesticides in drinks and gave them to his neighbors.
The girl drank it and then destroyed her body with sulfuric acid. It was just because the little girl said he was ugly and couldn't find a girlfriend. He just used this method after reading the news reports from that year."
"I remember that when reporters interviewed this young man, he said, 'Don't you think I'm ugly, then I'll make you even uglier.' The imitators this time may have the same mentality."
Copycat crimes are not uncommon, especially today when the spread of public opinion is overly developed. Taking a certain criminal individual or group as an example, learning their criminal methods, means, etc., and recreating their criminal behavior. Therefore, when public security organs release case information to the outside world,
The specific process of committing a crime is often concealed to prevent it from becoming a reference for criminals.
But the case twelve years ago was made a big fuss by a certain media, and I don’t know what means they used to actually publish the entire suicide note of Hu Zaikui.
Perhaps their original intention was to alert the world, not to instigate crimes. But in fact, after that, some people did use similar crime methods to commit new crimes.
"It seems that you not only understand the legal provisions, but also have a lot of research on criminal psychology!" Yan Yishuai said, "I do not deny the existence of copycat crimes. Judging from the current three serial murder and corpse dumping cases, they are also imitations of those years ago.
Aren’t you very good at analyzing your father’s crime process? Then tell me why the murderer picked someone you knew to kill, especially the first victim, Ji Xiaoqing, whom you not only knew but also had a close relationship with. This...