CHAPTER 347: CHAPTER 172: THE CASE FINALLY BECOMES CLEAR (REQUESTING SUBSCRIPTIONS AND MONTHLY TICKETS)

At the same time, in another interrogation room.

"Zhou Guohua, you said you smothered Zhou Kaieri to death, right?"

"That’s right."

"Can you describe the scene in detail?"

"I just held him with one arm, and used the other to tightly cover his mouth and nose... and then he stopped breathing."

Zhou Guohua explained while mimicking the actions with his hands.

Liao Xingyu, who was responsible for the interrogation, waited for him to finish before saying, "But why does our autopsy show that Zhou Kaieri was not suffocated but strangled?"

Zhou Guohua was stunned and immediately changed his story, "Maybe I remembered it wrong... That’s right, that’s right, now I recall, at that time I did strangle him, not cover."

"Then can you describe how you strangled him?"

"But I need to remind you, different methods and postures of strangling someone result in different effects, so think it through before answering this time."

Liao Xingyu said with a smirk, causing Zhou Guohua, who was about to speak, to immediately close his mouth.

Moments later, he spoke anxiously, "Officer, I’ve already confessed to killing him, so why are you asking these questions?"

"Either paying with my life or serving prison time, I’ll accept. Could you not ask more?"

"Zhou Guo’an, do you know where you are? You think saying not to ask means we won’t ask, what do you take us police for?"

"Be honest and tell us, was it you or your son who killed Zhou Kaieri?"

"It was me, it was me, it has nothing to do with my son."

"Then tell us how you killed him, where and when, and what posture, tell us everything accurately!"

"I... I just pinned him down and strangled him... Officer, am I saying it right?"

"If it was you who killed him, why are you asking if it’s right?"

"It’s been too long, and I’m a bit unclear."

"Zhou Guohua, do you believe your explanation is credible? I advise you to be honest and stop making futile struggles."

"Anyway, I’m not lying, it was me who killed him."

For the sake of his son, Zhou Guohua remained firm.

Liao Xingyu, Li Jun, and Zhou Fan interrogated him for more than half an hour, yet he insisted that he killed Zhou Kaieri.

Ultimately, the three had to temporarily halt the interrogation and planned to go out to discuss strategies with Zhao Donglai.

The situation on Zhao Donglai’s side wasn’t ideal either.

Though they could tell both Zhou Dahua and his son were lying, and it was Zhou Dahua who committed the murder.

But, both father and son refused to confess, and they lacked evidence to point out Zhou Dahua as the killer, causing the case to hit a stalemate again.

"It’s been such a long time since the case, it’s already difficult to find this many clues. It’s absolutely impossible to find evidence of Zhou Dahua’s murder now. If the father and son stubbornly refuse to confess, it’s possible Zhou Dahua might evade legal consequences."

In joint murder cases like this, the court divides responsibilities into primary and secondary.

Currently, Zhou Guohua has taken all the crimes of wanting to kill, extract the heart, and cook onto himself, even claiming he disposed of the body alone.

So, at most, Zhou Dahua would be considered an accomplice, and his crimes are relatively minor, under current law, he would be sentenced to four or five years at most.

If his behavior is good, he might be released in two or three years.

But this outcome is extremely unfair to the victim’s family.

As police officers, their dedication to justice does not allow for such an incident.

"Then intensify the interrogation, no matter what, we must pry open the mouths of these two, we cannot let the real culprit escape justice! Otherwise, we’d be ashamed of our uniforms!"

Zhao Donglai said solemnly.

"Captain Zhao, these two clearly planned long ago, sacrificing the older to protect the younger once exposed. So no matter how we question them, they won’t change their statements."

"True, since he’s decided to take the blame, he’s certainly made up his mind, it’s unlikely he will easily change his testimony."

"Indeed..."

"Then what do we do? Are we really out of options against them... Luo Fei, you are the most resourceful here, can you think of a way?"

Luo Fei, who was called upon, pondered for a while, "If we proceed normally, we have little chance of success... But this family is deeply superstitious, maybe we should address that angle."

Upon hearing this, Liao Xingyu was surprised, "Are you suggesting... we pretend to be ghosts to scare them? Is that really appropriate?"

They’re police officers, if word got out they’re acting superstitiously, they’d be a laughingstock.

...

Luo Fei was speechless, "Group Leader Liao, what are you thinking? I mean we can talk to them about topics in this area, deliberately creating some psychological pressure."

"Considering they gave the Zhou family twenty thousand to avoid the ghost of Zhou Guo’an’s wife avenging the twins, they certainly have some taboo perception of these things."

"Why not exploit these issues... Also, as a victim’s family member, Zhou Guo’an should be informed of our investigation results, we can take this opportunity to arrange a meeting to provoke these two."

"Indeed a good strategy, given the ignorance of this family, I think it’s worth a try!"

"Agreed!"

"I agree as well..."

Luo Fei’s proposal was swiftly and unanimously approved, and Zhao Donglai promptly ordered Zhou Guo’an to be notified.

In fact, though not officially notified, Zhou Guo’an already knew about this matter when Li Jun took him to identify evidence yesterday.