Chapter 1001: Scumbag Wang Dezhi

Li Donglin received the news and punched hard.

Actually, today’s matter was a bit rushed. He should have made sure the case was completely clear before reporting to his superiors.

But because the upper management was pushing so hard, Li Donglin reported to them immediately after arresting Zhao Xue, saying the case was solved.

As a result, when he was informed on the way that some other clues were found suggesting Zhao Xue might not be the real culprit, Li Donglin was quite anxious.

In solving cases, it’s common for the suspect to hide, and it’s not unusual to catch the wrong person or suspect the wrong person. This is normal.

After all, some suspects are clever enough to set up multiple layers, using scapegoats. This kind of scheme is quite likely to occur.

Li Donglin had handled similar cases before.

The suspect left fingerprints of other people at the scene, these clues are so indicative that the police could easily find the owner of the fingerprints.

But during the inquiry and interrogation, the owner of the fingerprints knew nothing about the case and even had an alibi.

It was precisely because of the alibi that the case took a new direction and the frame-up failed.

But now things are going smoothly.

Wu Haitao has already been successfully captured and is now on the train to the provincial capital.

“Lu Chuan, you’re familiar with the colleagues over at Haizhou City’s Criminal Investigation Team. Head to the train station for the handover and thank Captain Qin Yong for me.”

“Yes!”

When Lu Chuan and his team arrived at the provincial capital train station, Zhang Hui’s team had not yet arrived. He looked at the time and there was about half an hour left.

Handover of suspects at the train station is different from in usual settings and requires more procedures, besides paperwork from both parties, the train station also needs to keep records.

The local police station also has to be involved as a witness for about half a year.

After busying themselves for half an hour, the necessary paperwork was completed, and Zhang Hui did not linger.

The timing was still early, so they bought the next express train tickets from the provincial capital back to Haizhou City and left directly.

Lu Chuan didn’t hold them back as he had another case to work on, so they escorted the suspect, Wu Haitao, directly to the provincial Criminal Investigation Team.

In the interrogation room.

Wu Haitao sat in the interrogation chair, looking completely defeated.

“Did she betray me?”

Wu Haitao thought that being captured meant Zhao Xue must have betrayed him.

The interrogation of Wu Haitao was conducted by Wang Song.

Of course, he wouldn’t tell him that Zhao Xue hadn’t said anything and hadn’t confessed to them committing murder together. She took all the responsibility on herself.

But this didn’t hinder the interrogation of Wu Haitao.

Interrogating one person is hard, but two people? That’s much easier.

“What do you think?”

Wang Song picked up his phone: “If she hadn’t cooperated, we wouldn’t have known about you, let alone caught you. You’ve also received the WhatsApp messages, right? Zhao Xue has already confessed everything, saying you were the mastermind, that you did everything, that you killed the person, and prepared the poison.”

“Zhao Xue said she was forced to help you transport the body.”

“If Zhao Xue’s words are true, then she barely counts as an accomplice since she was coerced. Plus, she mentioned that the reason she didn’t report to the police was that you threatened her, saying if she did, you would kill her as well. Is that true?”

“Nonsense!”

Wu Haitao’s emotions suddenly flared up!

“Does Zhao Xue have no conscience?”

“Why would I kill? Isn’t it all for her?”

Wu Haitao howled angrily.

“Calm down. Although Zhao Xue helped in capturing you, during the investigation and interrogation, we treat everyone fairly. Just because we arrested Zhao Xue first doesn’t mean we will only hear her side. We will take both of your statements and corroborate them to eventually uncover the truth.”

Wang Song spoke softly, unhurriedly: “Tell us, why did you kill Wang Dezhi, where did it happen, how did you do it, and how did you transport and dump the body in the logistics park.”

After a long silence, Wu Haitao hesitated and asked, “Will I… die?”

This is…

Wang Song shook his head: “We, the police, are responsible for solving the case. How the trial goes and what the sentence will be, that’s up to the judge, but according to Zhao Xue’s account, if everything was orchestrated by you, I personally think the likelihood of the death penalty is quite high.”

Of course, in reality, Zhao Xue hadn’t said anything.

But Wu Haitao didn’t know that.

Upon hearing Wang Song’s words, Wu Haitao’s emotions flared up again.

“She has no conscience! Didn’t I do this all for her?”

Then Wu Haitao confessed to everything.

It turns out that before Zhao Xue knew Wang Dezhi, she was already acquainted with Wu Haitao.

Back then, Zhao Xue liked ballet, and Wu Haitao worked part-time at the ballet club, so they got to know each other.

“I loved her deeply, but we were poor, had no money…”

They were genuinely in love, but without financial means.

It was during that time Zhao Xue met Wang Dezhi.

What followed was simple. Wang Dezhi took a liking to Zhao Xue, and one thing led to another, they became involved.

After that, to keep being with Zhao Xue, Wang Dezhi would occasionally send her money, later even gifting her a house and a car.

“Last month, we felt we’d saved enough, so we asked Zhao Xue to break up with Wang Dezhi. But that scumbag said they could break up only if she returned the house, car, and the money he gave her.”

Wu Haitao was agitated again: “That money was earned by Zhao Xue with her body, why should it be given back just because he said so?”

“But Wang Dezhi said if she insisted on breaking up, he would get his wife involved to reclaim the money.”

“He also claimed it was marital property and that Wang Dezhi had given it away without his wife’s consent, so legally she could reclaim it, and even if we sued, we would lose.”

Heh.

“Honestly, Wang had planned this all along, he just wanted to play for free! That scumbag!”

According to Wu Haitao, Wang Dezhi gave money to Zhao Xue with the premeditated intention to have his wife reclaim it when they separated.

By then, the confrontation was open, and since Zhao Xue wanted to leave Wang Dezhi and the relationship was soured, they naturally couldn’t remain together.

So, Wu Haitao decided it was all or nothing and resolved to eliminate him.

“What about the cyanide?”

Wang Song continued to ask: “Where did you get the poison that killed Wang Dezhi?”

Cyanide is not easy to acquire or handle, and it’s a controlled substance, normally unattainable by ordinary people. So where did Wu Haitao get cyanide to kill Wang Dezhi?