Chapter 1124 - 576: What’s Handled Isn’t Just a Case, but a Life!

When Jiang An heard this sentence, his heart suddenly skipped a beat.

Originally, he only wanted to try his luck, to bluff Zhang Xiang in front of him, but unexpectedly, this strategy actually succeeded.

One must know, this case has been cold for such a long time.

Even though the dismemberment positions of the two corpses were very similar, it could only be judged by instinct that it was done by the same person, but it couldn’t be put on paper.

It’s like you can’t prove two people are the same person just based on their behavior.

However, now that he could make him voluntarily confess, this was undoubtedly the best outcome.

Not only Jiang An, but even Qin Feng looked utterly surprised.

Just now, he was merely assisting Jiang An to bluff Zhang Xiang, and the result was truly beyond expectations.

At this moment, inside the observation room of the interrogation, Chen Guan and Director Hou exchanged glances and smiled gently at the point where their eyes met.

This Mr. Jiang, is truly hiding his talents.

At a critical moment, he still had this ace up his sleeve?

Director Hou smiled and suddenly said, "However, I also carefully looked over the case files from back then for a long time."

"The quality of the case file photos was quite blurry 15 years ago, could you really distinguish between bones and cartilage?"

Upon hearing this, Deputy Director Chen Guan also chuckled and said, "Ah, this is it."

"Could it be because he is a forensic doctor and sees more things?"

"Perhaps, but I think with the photo quality at that time, let alone distinguishing cartilage from bone joints, even the connections between bone joints didn’t seem very clear."

"Haha, could it be that Mr. Jiang used his so-called deduction method again?"

At this point, Chen Guan chuckled and said, "This perhaps is the true interrogation, with truth within falsehood, and falsehood within truth. Either way, the result is always good."

Inside the interrogation room behind the one-way glass, Zhang Xiang, who confessed to being involved in the arson case back then, started trembling uncontrollably.

His eyes were vacant as he stared ahead, glancing back and forth between Jiang An and Qin Feng several times.

Then he spoke, "Do you have a cigarette? I want to smoke another one."

As he spoke, his mouth trembled continuously, as if he were shivering from cold.

Qin Feng took out the cigarette pack and shook it, "Earlier, that was the last one."

Wan also shrugged his shoulders and said, "Mine is also out."

As he spoke, he raised a hand and patted his pocket.

Then, Jiang An said, "Take your time to speak, I’ll call an officer to buy you a pack."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Xiang nodded.

At this point, he was already at the end of his rope; waiting for him would surely be the severe penalty of the law.

The crime of admitting to killing one person and admitting to killing two people plus insurance fraud is of an entirely different level of severity.

Serving a life sentence is minor, he might even face the death penalty.

After a silence, he spoke, "That’s right, back then, the arson case was indeed something I was involved in."

"Moreover, I also participated in the murder, dismemberment, and disposal of the corpse."

Jiang An asked, "Who was the girl?"

"Girl... the girl should have been a wanderer."

"At the time, she was lying by the roadside with a high fever, and I took her to the clinic for treatment."

"But after the treatment, I discovered she was mentally challenged, probably a runaway from home."

"I had been working at the clinic for four years and had never encountered this person, nor had I heard of this girl, I thought she must have been from out of town."

"What happened afterward? Did you then decide to kill her?"

After a moment of silence, Zhang Xiang continued, "Originally, that wasn’t the plan, but then something happened."

"Tell us."

"At the time, my wife’s mother fell seriously ill, with both kidneys failing, and was relying on dialysis to sustain her life."

"On one hand, the cost of dialysis was quite high, and on the other, the quality of life was not good."

"I studied medicine myself and thought about solving the problem with a kidney transplant."

"However, getting a kidney was difficult, even on the black market it required a high price, and the transplant expenses were also quite high."

"During that time, Li Ailing cried every day, it was her biological mother after all."

"So out of extreme desperation, we discussed a plan to defraud insurance money."

"Oh, when did you purchase the insurance?"

"It was bought just then."

"What about the girl?"

"For that girl, I specifically kept her in the old house for nearly a year."

"I never let her come into contact with anyone, in order to avoid suspicion."

Hearing this, Jiang An and Qin Feng exchanged glances, their mouths involuntarily twitching.

They never expected that the angel in white who treated others was so cold-blooded.

Qin Feng asked, "Isn’t what you did too cruel?"

"Tell us, why did you dismember her after defrauding the insurance?"

Zhang Xiang’s mouth twitched, he looked up at Jiang An and said, "I think this officer might have already guessed."

Jiang An asked, "Was it because of height?"

Zhang Xiang nodded, "That’s right."

"Although she bore some resemblance to Li Ailing in terms of head shape and face, there was a fundamental issue that the girl’s height differed greatly from my wife’s height."

"If the entire body was used, then the forensic doctor could completely infer her height based on the long bones, which would cause significant issues later."

"So, to avoid risk, I specifically only kept the skull and pelvis."