Chapter 1175 - 601: That Buried Past

Upon seeing Deputy Director Chen Guan’s series of operations, Director Hou and Jiang An showed a look of surprise.

Even Qin Feng felt that Chen Guan was somewhat different from usual today.

Could it be that he is under too much pressure facing these three cases?

Or did he catch a critical clue in the phone call just now?

Of course, no matter the reason, since everyone is a brother in the same trench, we must not undermine each other.

Even if the review finds no issues, releasing him after the interrogation won’t have much impact.

After all, in the process of investigating criminal cases, the police have the reason to suspect individuals.

Especially in this case, the location where the girl committed suicide years ago has a certain physical link with the burial site of the three bodies in this case.

Therefore, both emotionally and logically, there is no sense of discord.

However, listening to this, the elderly man said angrily: "Officer, I’m just sitting at home, and trouble comes from the sky."

"My daughter passed away long ago, how could this case involve me?"

Upon hearing this, Deputy Director Chen Guan sternly said: "We don’t need to explain our case handling to anyone."

"Now please rest assured, as long as you have no connection with this case, no one will wrong you."

"But if you are related to the case, we won’t let you off either."

Hearing this, the elderly man turned to look at the woman behind him.

At this moment, his wife was still mumbling, "My daughter was murdered, my daughter was murdered."

After a long time, the elderly man said: "Back then, when we reported the situation to you, your conclusion was always suicide."

"Now, 18 years have passed since the case, and you’re bringing it up again."

"Alright! I’ll go with you, anyway, I’m just bones now, might as well die early and meet my daughter."

"If I die, I hope your government will at least provide my wife with food."

"Otherwise, if I’m wrongfully dead, I won’t rest in peace even in the afterlife."

Upon hearing this, Director Chen quickly waved his hand and said: "You’re taking this too far."

"We have no intention to wrong anyone, much less wrongfully cause anyone’s death."

"If you’re innocent, no one will wrong you; but if you committed a crime, it’s not us who punish you, but the law and justice."

minutes later, the man was brought to the Criminal Investigation Team’s interrogation room.

At that moment, the interrogation was conducted by Chen Guan and Qin Feng.

For just the inquiry of a suspicious person, it’s rare for Deputy Director Chen Guan, who manages criminal investigations, to personally interrogate.

Keep in mind, the last time Chen Guan interrogated a suspect was five years ago.

For ordinary criminal cases, he wouldn’t personally execute interrogations.

At this moment, Director Hou and Jiang An gave each other a mutual look outside the one-way mirror in the interrogation room.

Jiang An started speaking: "Didn’t expect Deputy Director Chen Guan to personally handle the case today."

Director Hou shook his head, saying: "I think he is under significant pressure."

"In our province, the number of yearly criminal cases doesn’t exceed 100, and those with three or more deaths are even rarer."

"Being the deputy director managing criminal investigations at the municipal police bureau, the pressure is naturally significant, so today’s performance is understandable."

As soon as the words fell, Jiang An turned to ask: "Director Hou, do you think the elderly man is suspicious?"

Upon hearing this, Director Hou smiled and said: "So far, I haven’t seen much suspicious behavior from the elderly man."

"The case has long passed, and the family probably already let go. The only link could be the proximity of where his daughter hanged herself."

"But merely relying on physical distance to mechanically bind two cases together seems insufficient to me."

Upon hearing this, Jiang An nodded: "Exactly, mechanically connecting our current case with the suicide case 18 years ago merely through physical links seems very problematic."

"Furthermore, since the past case underwent repeated verification as a suicide, then the result should be unsurprising."

Director Hou nodded: "For such hanging cases, they aren’t complex, plus there’s a suicide note left at home."

"If it’s murder disguised as a suicide, besides the family members, it’s unlikely anyone else could have disguised it."

"In other words, if the family staged a murder, there’s no reason for him to repeatedly report it as a murder."

"Considering the continuity of the case, it’s clearly contradictory."

"So regarding this person before us, I personally believe he shouldn’t be the murderer."

Jiang An pondered upon hearing this.

Besides what Director Hou just said, he also felt that the perpetrator must have the necessary physical capacity to bury bodies in that place.

Moreover, besides physical preparation, transportation tools are required.

Why mention physical preparation?

On their return to the crime scene, they traversed very rugged terrain filled with stones and bumpy slopes.

Even without carrying anything, walking up there is quite laborious.

If one were carrying or lugging heavy loads of tens of pounds, it would be extremely inconvenient, let alone transporting a body up the mountain.