CHAPTER 40: CHAPTER 40: I HAVE A CLUE TO THE MURDER CASE AND WANT TO MAKE A CONTRIBUTION!

The man squatted on the ground, looked up, and said, "I admit, I went to the Magic Finger Paradise Club in the old town last Monday!"

Li Jian said sternly, "If this were before, I might have been very interested in that statement."

"But today!"

"I’m sorry, that’s not what I’m asking."

Chen He also said, "You better be honest and not pretend to be confused."

The man argued with a mournful face, "That’s the only bad thing I’ve done recently."

Li Jian said, "Then let me remind you, to help you recall, do you know Li Yan?"

Suddenly, the man’s gaze became evasive.

He said, "The female student with epilepsy?"

"Remember now?"

Li Jian raised an eyebrow, "Keep talking!"

"Say what?"

"Tell us how you committed murder!"

"Officer, I’m a doctor, my duty is to save lives, how could I do something so heinous?"

"Is that not possible?"

Li Jian turned to look at Jiang An.

Jiang An immediately picked up a pair of Lebang gloves and a 3ml syringe from the doctor’s workstation.

"Does this tool look familiar?"

After a brief pause, Jiang An said gravely, "The cliff is quite high, but there are plenty of clues at the bottom."

The man stared at the gloves in Jiang An’s hand, frozen in place.

Then, Vice Captain Chen He said, "Li Yan’s phone was smashed quite hard by you."

"However, thankfully it can still power on, and data recovery is underway."

"Can you guess what content we might recover?"

In an instant, the man looked as if life had left him.

He opened his eyes wide, staring at the three policemen in front of him.

Having been in criminal investigation for years, Li Jian knew this was the crucial moment to break down the suspect’s psychological defenses, and he had to hit with something shocking!

He said in a deep voice, "You really are heartless, even killing your own child."

"If you confess now, I might just consider you as coming clean."

Seeing the man on the ground still hesitant, Li Jian said, "But even if you say nothing, we can still send you to court through the fetus in Li Yan’s belly and the gloves you used."

As soon as the words fell, the man immediately said, "I’ll talk!"

"I admit to the murder."

minutes later, in the Jiangcheng Criminal Investigation Team’s interrogation room.

The man sat opposite, with Li Jian and Chen He responsible for the interrogation.

"What’s your name? Age?"

"Jiang Yu, 32 years old."

"Describe your crime?"

After a brief silence, he said, "Li Yan once had a severe epileptic attack, and I was responsible for saving her, then she often sought me for treatment and prescriptions."

"One thing led to another and we began to talk."

"We became friends and then fell for each other."

"She was a conservative girl, it was her first time booking a room last month without precautions, so I bought her emergency pills afterward."

"But she didn’t take them behind my back, and later became pregnant."

"The ridiculous thing is, she told me she wanted to keep the baby."

"I was furious when I heard."

"How could that be?"

"My own wife is about three months away from giving birth."

"Is it possible for me to get divorced? Absolutely not!"

As he spoke, Jiang Yu became extremely agitated.

He continued, "I have my own family, being with her was just dating, there could be no result."

"Later, I repeatedly encouraged her to abort the child, but she never listened."

"She said she had epilepsy, could die at any moment, and wanted to have a child early."

After a brief pause, Jiang Yu said, "I couldn’t be as brainless as her, I have my family and career."

"So, when persuasion failed, I resorted to such extreme measures."

Then, Li Jian asked, "Does anyone at the school know about your relationship?"

Jiang Yu shook his head.

"We never made it public because I have a family, and she’s a student, so we kept it secret, even her best friend didn’t know."

Suddenly, Chen He thought when they checked Li Yan’s call records, there wasn’t Jiang Yu’s number.

He asked, "How did you two usually communicate?"

Jiang Yu replied, "We used small WeChat accounts to contact each other."

Li Jian asked, "Why did you use paraquat?"

"Paraquat’s poisoning symptoms are very similar to her epilepsy seizures, making it convenient to disguise it as accidental death from the illness."

"Did you also buy the tent?"

"I bought it!"

"I used the tent partly to prevent being seen while committing the crime, and partly to choose the crime scene."

"Tell us about the murder that day."

"At the time, I invited her out under the pretense of camping and watching the moon, had prepared beer, but added strong liquor."

"I knew she couldn’t hold her liquor, and she quickly got drowsy. After she lay down, I injected the poison."

"After that, I threw her shoulder bag, phone, and all the tools down the cliff."

He sighed and said, "Yet, you still found out!"

Li Jian nodded, the confession closely matching their previous deductions.

Finally, he asked, "Did you also buy that pack of snacks?"

Jiang Yu nodded.

"She was a girl who loved snacks, I wanted her to have them on her last journey."

After a long silence, Li Jian said somberly, "There were many ways to solve the problem, yet you chose the most extreme one."

With all questions asked, the night turned into daylight.

Li Jian turned to Chen He, "Do you think there’s anything else to ask?"

Chen He said, "Looking back now, do you feel guilty for killing Li Yan?"

With a deep sigh, Jiang Yu answered, "How could I not! But I was pushed to it."

Li Jian stood up and said, "What awaits you is the severe punishment of the law."

Jiang Yu suddenly looked up and asked, "I heard this case was initially deemed death by epileptic seizure, why did it take a 180-degree turn?"

Li Jian said word by word, "That is not something you need to know!"

"In short, justice has long arms and catches all."

"Officer, if I provide clues to a homicide case, can it count as a merit to reduce my sentence?"

Upon hearing the words "homicide clues," both Li Jian and Chen He turned back.

"Of course!"

"The greater the case’s impact, the more important the clue, the greater the chance of merit for reduced sentencing."

Jiang Yu said, "I have clues about the family annihilation case that happened eight years ago in the old town."

In an instant, Li Jian became alert.

The influence of that case was immense back then.

An entire family of four was wiped out, the killer never found.

It’s now become a cold case!

Li Jian’s mentor also succumbed to overwork because of that case.

The family annihilation case is a hurdle in Jiangcheng’s criminal investigation history that remains unpassable.

Li Jian’s eyes sharpened as he urgently asked, "What clue?"