Chapter 29 - Bloody Maple Leaf: Suspect’s Testimony (2/2)
He whispered, “Yu Hui’s chocolates were tampered with. On the surface, Qin Weiwei has plenty of opportunities to commit the crime and the suspicion sits directly on her… but the police ignored a key fact.”
Yu Hanjiang stared at Xiao Lou and asked a question. “If you wanted to kill a person, would you poison them and then push them down the building?”
Xiao Lou jerked.
Yes, poisoning and falling down were both means of killing people. There was no need to use it twice!
This was simply ‘ruining the effect by adding something superfluous.’
If the murderer wanted to poison Ying Xiaoya, first they shouldn’t use ‘chocolates’ which was a food with a very small dosage. It was also placed directly in Yu Hui’s chocolates. What if it was eaten by Yu Hui and poisoned him instead? A better means was to directly poison Ying Xiaoya’s food since that was guaranteed to poison her.
On the other hand, if the murderer wanted to push Ying Xiaoya down the building and prepare a suicide note to create the illusion that Ying Xiaoya committed suicide, there was no need to poison her. On the contrary, this allowed the police to become suspicious after they detected the poison in Ying Xiaoya’s body.
Xiao Lou touched his chin and thought about it. “Is it because two people committed crimes? However, the two contradicted each other so they left loopholes?”
Yu Hanjiang’s gaze was deep. “Yes.”
Yu Hanjiang carefully collected two days of clues and the suspect’s testimonies before finally coming to this conclusion.
Ying Xiaoya’s case could actually be broken down
The first part was the poisoning case.
The other party didn’t necessarily want to poison Ying Xiaoya because the means of poisoning was through Yu Hui’s chocolates. The poisoner knew that Yu Hui often gave chocolates to Ying Xiaoya so there was a 50% probability of Yu Hui being poisoned and a 50% probability of Ying Xiaoya being poisoned., The poisoner’s purpose still wasn’t confirmed.
The thing that could be confirmed was that the poisoner didn’t want to kill Ying Xiaoya directly.
No one would eat dozens of chocolates in one go and the half a bottle of organic phosphate was scattered among dozens of chocolates. The toxin content wasn’t fatal but it was enough to attract people’s attention. Perhaps the poisoner was trying to give a reminder through this method.
Excluding Yu Hui, who loved chocolate and had no motive to poison his sister, Yi Ru and Xie Xinghe were suspicious. The door lock of the laboratory was pried open and it was known that Yu Hui often gave chocolates to Ying Xiaoya.
The second part was the fall incident.
Yu Hanjiang had investigated the roof of the building yesterday and the footprints were disorderly. It was very likely that there was a second person on the scene and this person pushed Ying Xiaoya off the roof, directly leading to Ying Xiaoya’s death. Moreover, this person was very clever in copying the handwriting and giving Ying Xiaoya a fake ‘suicide note’, creating the illusion that Ying Xiaoya committed suicide.
This person was the one who really wanted Ying Xiaoya to die!
Unfortunately, he/she didn’t know that Ying Xiaoya was poisoned before the fall.
The police brought back the body and found that Ying Xiaoya was poisoned. In this way, the police quickly ruled out the possibility of Ying Xiaoya committing suicide The murderer forging Ying Xiaoya’s suicide note became the biggest failure.
The forensic doctor detected the source of the poison and the police found the chocolates, organic phosphate and the laboratory. Everything pointed to the chemistry teacher, Qin Weiwei.
Teacher Qin might’ve been taken away for investigation but the police would soon conclude that she wasn’t the murderer.
It was because it didn’t make sense. No one would be stupid enough to use a small amount of poison and then push a person off the roof, faking a suicide note.
The case would soon be split.
One person dosed the chocolates with poison while the other person pushed Ying Xiaoya off the roof. The two people didn’t know each other’s actions, causing a huge loophole.
Yu Hanjiang glanced at Xiao Lou. “It rained heavily last night and the school is so messy. Today, there will definitely be a large-scale cleaning of the school and the murderer might destroy the evidence. We must catch the murderer.”
Xiao Lou was also nervous. “Group Leader Yu, where do you want to search?”
“The biggest dumpster in the school.”
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Maple Forest High School’s teaching building and office. building had small trash cans. The garbage that the students cleaned every day was concentrated on these small trash cans. Then the cleaners would take the garbage from the dumpster behind the playground.
This garbage bin should be cleaned every two to three days and a professional garbage disposal truck would come to take away the contents.
The campus was messy due to the violent storm last night. In the morning, the cleaner cleared the playground before placing all the garbage, broken branches, broken flowerpots and other trash into the bin. The garbage bin was full and a garbage truck had to be called over to clean it up.
By the time Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou came to the garbage bin, the cleaners were just collecting the trash.
Xiao Lou quickly stepped forward and spoke towards a cleaner. “Auntie, I’m sorry. I am a first grade teacher and accidentally dropped a very important doc.u.ment into the trash can yesterday. Can I look for it here?”
“Oh, what doc.u.ment? It is too dirty here. Teacher, don’t touch it. We’ll help you find it.”
Xiao Lou spoke with a nervous expression, “It is my teacher’s qualification certificate. I was getting rid of waste paper yesterday and didn’t see clearly. I ended up throwing it away. Please help me find it. I would be extremely grateful.”
Yu Hanjiang, “…”
Professor Xiao’s acting was really good.
This reason meant they could stand next to the garbage bin and observe.
The cleaner auntie turned the garbage out and helped them look for the certificate. “I will check the garbage afterwards. This is such an important doc.u.ment. What will you do if you can’t find it?”
Xiao Lou nodded. “I was too negligent.”
Just then, Yu Hanjiang’s eyes narrowed. “Wait.”
The cleaner wondered, “What’s wrong?”
Yu Hanjiang walked over and picked up from a pile of waste paper and messy leaves… a pair of shoes.
It was a pair of ladies’ canvas shoes that were size 37, which was consistent with Ying Xiaoya’s shoes.
The cleaner saw this and couldn’t help wondering, “Who lost these shoes? They look quite new!”
Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang glanced at each other.
Important evidence was found.
The reason why Ying Xiaoya’s footprints on the roof were so messy was because the footprints belonged to two people. The other person was wearing the same shoes as her. Ying Xiaoya’s scarf fragment was left on the roof and it was certain there was a conflict before she was pushed down.
The murderer threw the inappropriate shoes into the trash because they knew the school bins would be cleaned up today.
As long as the garbage truck took away the garbage, it was fine.
Unfortunately for the murderer, Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou found these shoes.
It proved that their guess was correct.
For Ying Xiaoya’s case, there were two murderers acting at the same time!
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