TopAppnovel Chapter 35 Her husband may be involved in another case, murder.
Chapter 35 Her husband may be involved in another case, murder.
8:12 PM, police station.
"I want to report a crime," Ruan Zhijuan said urgently to the police officer on duty. "My husband is trying to kill me."
Liang Youwei, who had just finished organizing the statements and was passing by, looked at the undisguised joy on the face of the person who reported the case, Ruan, and thought, "..." Is this something to be happy about?
A 23-year-old single person said they didn't understand.
Ruan Zhijuan blocked the way with her small hand and said mysteriously to the police officer on duty, "And he's the murderer in the serial cannibalism case you're looking for."
Upon hearing the words "cooking a corpse," Liang Youwei stopped and quickly led Ruan Zhijuan to the interrogation room for questioning.
"First, tell me your information and your husband's information."
Ruan Zhijuan sat down honestly in the chair and truthfully confessed, "My name is Ruan Zhijuan, and I am 19 years old."
"My husband's name is Zhou Gangxun. He's 27 years old and recently came from Hong Kong. He's very handsome, a bit fairer than you, and quite tall, even taller than you. He has eight-pack abs and looks to be in better shape than you..."
Liang Youwei paused slightly as she took the statement: "..." The description matched the information in the suspect's sketch, but was she sure this description wasn't meant to praise her husband?
He interrupted Ruan Zhijuan, shifting the focus of the conversation to the case of cooking the corpse, "You said your husband was the murderer in the case of cooking the corpse. Did something strange happen, or did you discover something?"
"I've found it." Ruan Zhijuan nodded seriously. "For the past few days, I've been having the same dream that I'm being dismembered, piece by piece, soaking in the sink where I wash vegetables..."
"There was also a pressure cooker, my head was inside, my hair was stuck between the lids, and blood was flowing out..."
Liang Youwei typed rapidly on the computer, noting down details such as dismemberment, pressure cooker, and cooking—all key information in the case of the cooked corpse.
Ruan Zhijuan pouted and complained, "Then when I woke up, he was very cold to me, ignoring me completely. He hit me and wouldn't even wash my underwear. I didn't even mind that he was poor, and it was all sweaty..."
"..." Liang Youwei silently added "marital and family conflicts?" after the title of the "Important Clues in the Case of Cooking Corpses" record.
He looked up at Ruan Zhijuan, "Anything else...?"
"Of course." Ruan Zhijuan continued, "Last night, around midnight, I was woken up by the sound of chopping meat. I saw him killing someone in the bathroom, holding a bloody knife. The bathroom was covered in blood, along with white chunks of meat and some hair? The hair looked dyed, that yellowish-brown color, like chicken hair..."
"I asked him what he was doing, and he arrogantly said, 'Can't you see? I'm dismembering a body. If you keep looking, I'll kill you too.'" Ruan Zhijuan embellished the description, portraying a version of Zhou Gangxun as an outlaw.
"I was so scared that I immediately ran back to bed. Not long after, I saw him throw the dismembered pieces of flesh into the pressure cooker and start cooking them."
Upon hearing the word "cooking," Liang Youwei immediately tensed up. "Very good. This boy's home might be the primary crime scene. He was murdered last night, so he's very likely the victim in the latest case."
He did well, not provoking the suspect further, but obediently returning to bed and pretending to sleep.
Liang Youwei leaned forward and asked, "Did you see who he killed? And where is that pressure cooker now?"
"No." Ruan Zhijuan shook her head and leaned forward as well. "But I suspect that he killed the people in our building, the one you found in the neighborhood today... the severed head."
"A human head..." Liang Youwei pressed down on his pen. He was referring to the mutilated body found at noon in the Sunshine Residential Complex. The victim wasn't a resident of the complex. He had asked the real estate agency, and they said that room 906 had always been vacant and hadn't been rented to any tenants. So, the deceased must have been drugged, taken to room 906, and dismembered...
But the time of death of that body was the night before last, which does not match the time he described last night.
"Are you sure you saw your husband kill someone last night?"
Ruan Zhijuan nodded.
Liang Youwei continued, "What about the pressure cooker?"
There might be the victim's skin tissue inside the pressure cooker.
"I sold it," Ruan Zhijuan replied cleverly. "I was afraid he might use it to cook me sometime, so I sold it to the junk collector first."
He felt he had thought very far ahead, and he even made ten yuan from it.
"..." Liang Youwei rubbed his temples, feeling that his blood pressure might be a little high. "When was it sold? Which junk collector did you sell it to?"
Ruan Zhijuan frankly admitted, "Around 11 a.m., I heard someone collecting scrap outside, so I sold it to the old man at the scrap recycling station a few hundred meters away from the community."
At 11 a.m., Liang Youwei took a deep breath. So much time had passed, the pressure cooker at the scrap yard was probably contaminated and could not be retrieved.
Moreover, he is now beginning to doubt Ruan Zhijuan's intelligence and the veracity of his descriptions.
"When are you going to catch him?" Ruan Zhijuan asked with great interest, blinking her eyes. "I can take you there."
The reward notice said that if Zhou Gangxun was arrested, he would receive tens of thousands of dollars.
Looking at Ruan Zhijuan's expectant eyes, Liang Youwei considered his words for a moment, "We'll verify it. You can go home and wait for a bit." In this situation, they still need to check the pressure cooker to confirm.
"Then you guys have to come, pinky promise." Ruan Zhijuan stretched out her hand to Liang Youwei. In his eyes now, there was no fear or worry about being murdered by her husband, only a desire for money.
Liang Youwei slowly and passively made a pinky promise: "..." Hmm, now I'm sure, it seems he's not very smart.
Ruan Zhijuan continued to add vividly, "Let me tell you, he also shows those dismemberment movies every day, saying they are educational. He must be referring to how to improve dismemberment techniques."
"They even said that eating meat would grant immortality..." The meaning of forever and ever is exactly the same as immortality.
"Yes, yes, yes..." Liang Youwei responded and escorted Ruan Zhijuan out of the police station.
Just then, Ye Yongzhao, the captain of the criminal investigation team, returned from inspecting the scene and caught a glimpse of him from afar.
Ye Yongzhao glanced in that direction and asked Liang Youwei, "What's going on?"
Liang Youwei sighed and shook his head. "He said his husband wanted to kill him, and that his husband was the murderer in the case of cooking corpses, but after asking some questions, the information didn't match up. However, he mentioned a pressure cooker, and I'm thinking of going to take a look."
"Have you checked her husband's identity information?" Ye Yongzhao asked, taking a sip of mineral water as he walked inside.
"I checked, Zhou Gangxun came to Fucheng from Hong Kong five or six days ago." Liang Youwei said, pulling up Zhou Gangxun's information file on the computer. "He was a wealthy man in Hong Kong, but he went bankrupt not long ago..."
Ye Yongzhao looked at Zhou Gangxun's photo on the computer, his expression gradually becoming serious. "Go and bring him over for questioning."
"Was there... another case of someone cooking a corpse?" Liang Youwei immediately became alert. "Should we bring a gun?"
"Take it with you," Ye Yongzhao said. "Her husband may be involved in another case, murder."