?525: Chapter 483: Wardrobe 525: Chapter 483: Wardrobe Mu Zhiyang looked at the scraper in the trace examiner’s hand, his heart shattered.
Since ancient times, catching people and finding things for a third-ss merit had always been Mu Zhiyang’s special skill.
Today, this chair was also first brought out by Mu Zhiyang.
Although he hadn’t used violent means to open it, wasn’t that just because he didn’t have the right tool in hand?
With just a scraper, one could earn a third-ss merit that others would have to take a bullet for.
How was that any different from drug trafficking, or from criminals who use a scraper to smash people’s heads in and rob them?
“About 20 pieces per bag, adding up to around 360 pieces,” the trace examiner with the scraper jubntly reported to Jiang Yuan, hopping around like a weak serial killer who had just hammered eight people.
Jiang Yuan responded with a grunt, “Check the other tables and chairs as well, and search the room again to see if anything was missed.
The drug-sniffing dog is also on the way.”
Professional drug-sniffing dogs were rare, and of course, Shiting County didn’t have one.
They had to borrow from other units.
At the same time, Jiang Yuan had also called over Dazhuang from Ningtai County.
With few cases in Ningtai and therefore little work for Dazhuang the police dog, this was not necessarily a good thing for a trained adult police dog—police dogs don’t have to buy houses, take out loans, or mate and raise pups.
Their lives consisted only of training and work, and with a secure job, stable sry, and pension, the idea of “lying t” didn’t apply to them.
Their goal was naturally to work hard and make the most of their dog lives.
The trace examiner with the scraper held up his beloved little tool and dismantled all the tables and chairs with a ttering racket.
At this point, there was no need to talk about traces or signs anymore.
Why did a perfectly intact, seemingly wless chair have to stand next to one hiding drugs?
Had you received special finishing and maintenance?
No one dared to take 360 pills lightly.
This was Changyang City, after all.
In Shiting County, the whole station would’ve been mobilized over this.
Mu Zhiyang and another trace examiner joined in the wood-chopping work, hoping to discover more small pills.
Soon after, the backup officers arrived, and everyone worked with zeal, searching every inch of the room.
Thendlord watched with a pale face as he felt his cherished lifestyle being destroyed.
Tang Jia went over and said, “You shoulde to the Criminal Police Brigadeter, someone will arrangepensation for you.”
“Compensation…
alright then,” thendlord didn’t even ask how much he would get, he just wanted to quickly put an end to this rental ordeal.
Meanwhile, Jiang Yuan took off his gloves and said to the trace examiner beside him, “Send pictures of the tables and stuff to the group, check which factory they came from, where they were sold, and where they were modified.”
Thesemercially produced products with a neat appearance seemed simple, but on closer inspection, they required a sizable manufacturing business to produce.
How the hollow legs were made was also a useful clue.
After a busy day, when they returned to the meeting room provided by the Criminal Police Brigade, everyone’s expressions were notably invigorated.
“Got any findings?” Jiang Yuan sat down and looked at the group.
“Wang Xingzhai often provided people with drugs and usually for free.
We can preliminarily confirm that his job is drug sales and promotion,” Bai Jian said with newfound confidence.
Indeed, just investigating this far meant that Shiting County was not at a loss.
At this point, regardless of which agency they handed it over to, the other party had to give them credit, and many agencies were willing to take over.
Bai Jian didn’t rush to continue, instead adding, “Wang Xingzhai’s main distribution channels are nightclubs.
He seems to be working with some nightclub vendors.
The overall quantity isn’t huge, but there’s a growing trend…”
Everyone listened intently.
This crime analysis meeting was more of a sharing session, where everyone brought their experiences and knowledge to collectively solve problems.
Jiang Yuan also shared his process of obtaining clues, and finally added, “The report on the pills came out too, the main ingredient is methaqualone, zolpidem.”
“Zolpidem?
Shouldn’t that be ck or yellow?
I’ve seen brown, but never white,” a knowledgeable detective immediately pointed out the peculiarity.
Jiang Yuan nodded, “The folks in chemistry said they’d added starch to it, just like regr pills.”
“These drug dealers have some standards,” the detective frowned slightly but said no more.
Zolpidem is amon drug at nightclubs because it doesn’t dissolve in water, but does dissolve in alcohol, so it’s frequently used to spike drinks.
He had consumed quite a bit himself and gotten addicted quickly—it was a well-established new type of drug.
Liu Jinghui also knew something about new drugs and couldn’t help but frown, “Zolpidem is said to be rtively easy to produce, and our current control measures are through the control of its precursor chemicals.
If a group of drug dealers starts to get into this, the harm could be significant.”
“Wang Xingzhai must have made a fortune.
We can’t yet confirm his rtions with his suppliers; we need to focus on this one point for now.” Bai Jian still prioritized the homicide case.
While the drug case was certainly a major incident, so far only a few clues had been revealed, simr to finding a modern corpse in a copsed tomb that was supposed to be cleaned out.
Starting from these few hundred tablets, to putting an end to a drug cartel could possibly take years.
And solving a burial site murder case was, after all, his main job responsibility as the captain of the criminal police.
Even in terms of priorities, it was appropriate to resolve the murder case first and then concentrate on the drug case.
However, since the victim had so many pills hidden at home, his death was most likely drug-rted.
“It might be rted to money as well,” Liu Jinghui suggested.
“With so many pills, once they’re sold, it should amount to arge sum of money.
The fixed hiding ce for the pills suggests that sales and cash returns must have been frequent.
The absence of money at the scene is inappropriate.”
“Taken by someone?
Perhaps the murderer was one of his own kind.” An old detective from Shiting County hazarded a guess.
“A conflict among criminals?
They found the money but not the pills.”
“It’s possible,” Liu Jinghui didn’t deny, continuing, “Those contacts in his phone, in his WeChat, many are probably rted to drugs; we could trace them back to the source.”
“Right, we’ve already made quite a few arrests today, with more still being pursued,” Bai Jian nodded.
Following the case, the group began to review the list of those involved in drugs.
If it were an ordinary person, one could simply look within personal rtionships to find a Tomb Robber, and the case would be almost solved.
But with drug dealers, it was a different story.
Under the influence of drugs, the bottom line of drug users is often extremely fragile.
Drug dealers canpletely control one or several Tomb Robbers using drugs, without the need to establish any real connection.
A call at the right time could get them to do the job.
Especially for drug dealers with certain channels, not only can they control people with money and drugs but can also do so by cutting off the supply.
However, under this kind of rtionship, there might be fewer contacts on electronic devices such as phones, but it’s easy for those close to them to know the situation, as neither party tends to be cautious about keeping it a secret.
So Bai Jian proposed focusing the investigation on interrogation and questioning.
Liu Jinghui didn’t object; relying on confessions is amon tactic at the grassroots level and is usually effective.
After discussing for a while, they hadn’t heard Jiang Yuan’s voice and instinctively looked over.
“Jiang Yuan, what do you think?” Liu Jinghui had a lot of trust in Jiang Yuan.
“I was looking at the fingerprints on this side of the wardrobe,” Jiang Yuan took out two photos, ced them on the table, and said, “During the crime scene investigation, arge number of simr fingerprints were found; I re-examined them just now.
The most fingerprints collected, other than those of the deceased Wang Xingzhai, belonged to a woman with a criminal record…
Wang Dan.”
“Wang Xingzhai had rtionships with many women; it shouldn’t be strange for this Wang Dan to leave fingerprints on the wardrobe,” Captain Bai wondered.
“The wardrobe was where Wang Dan left the most fingerprints; no other spots had such concentrated fingerprints,” Jiang Yuan exined.
Bai Jian pondered deeply.
This time Liu Jinghui shook his head without waiting for Jiang Yuan to speak, “Just a quick fling, they wouldn’t do it in the wardrobe.
How inconvenient if they dirtied the clothes…
they didn’t do it in there, right?
It would be too much trouble if the clothes got dirty.”
“That’s unlikely,” Jiang Yuan could only answer.
Liu Jinghui understood and asked Jiang Yuan, “Do you think she was searching for something?”
“Yes, maybe she was looking for money.
Or for Wang Xingzhai’s phone—he probably didn’t anticipate his own death, so his phone should be somewhere at home, convenient and ready for use.
The wardrobe has multipleyers; the drawers all have locks.
He might have hidden the key inside the wardrobe,” Jiang Yuan said.
Liu Jinghui slowly nodded, took a few more photos to look over and said, “Very likely.
Carrying so many keys would indeed be inconvenient, and the clothes are neatly folded, not like something a man would do…
we can ask his housekeeper about it.”
“I’ll have someone bring Wang Dan over,” Bai Jian said, seeing that both of them considered her a suspect; he immediately made a decision.