49: The son killed his father

The interrogation of Liu Jianping and Zheng Yiren commenced swiftly.

This interrogation was not difficult.

Liu Jianping, hoping for a reduced sentence, voluntarily confessed everything, including being instructed by Zheng Yiren and the process of going to Mu Yu Rou's parents' home to snatch the fake phone while masked.

Shen Gang and others had caught Liu Jianping red-handed, so he couldn't deny it.

As for Zheng Yiren,

he tried to argue, claiming he wasn't the perpetrator who harmed Mu Yu Rou.

However, faced with Liu Jianping's accusation and his motive for coveting Mu Yu Rou's phone, he couldn't explain it at all.

"Zheng Yiren, are you going to speak or not?"

Shen Gang slammed his palm heavily on the interrogation room table, his eyes wide with fury, sparks of anger flying:

"If you continue to deny and argue, the Police will record it as a severe refusal to confess, and your crime will be even graver."

"If you confess and surrender, you might even get a suspended sentence!"

"Moreover, your father, Zheng Jiasheng, has already cut ties with you. Do you still expect him to help?"

"I'm telling you, you can't rely on him. Not only can you not rely on him, but we are also going to submit your father, Zheng Jiasheng, for review to see if he has committed any criminal acts."

After Shen Gang finished speaking, another female officer beside him played the good cop, gently advising:

"Zheng Yiren, are you sure you still won't speak?"

"Liu Jianping's accusation, and your motive for Mu Yu Rou's phone, are right here. You can't explain it, and you will still be identified as the murderer."

"Only by speaking can youstrive for a reduced sentence and leniency!"

"......"

"I'll speak!"

A moment later, Zheng Yiren covered his face with his hands, sobbing and crying with his head bowed.

Faced with Shen Gang's good cop/bad cop interrogation method, his psychological defenses were easily breached, and he chose to confess.

"Two years ago, I killed Mu Yu Rou!"

"At that time, we were in the foreign language high school. Although we weren't in the same class, we had met a few times. Mu Yu Rou was pure and beautiful, and I liked her very much back then.

I even confessed to Mu Yu Rou at that time, but she rejected me.

I was unwilling and still wanted her, so I asked her to go to Nanhui Guanhai Park together after school on Friday afternoon to play."

"That place was far from our school, very remote, and there was no one around who knew us. I deliberately played with her for a long time, delaying her time to go home......."

Zheng Yiren recounted the details of the crime from two years ago, little by little.

Shen Gang, Gao Ze, and the other Police listened, feeling angry, but calmly listening or recording the case.

"At that time, there was no one in Nanhui Guanhai Park. I assaulted her in a patch of grass near a stone bridge. I even stabbed her a few times with a dagger to prevent her from screaming."

Zheng Yiren said, "After it was done, I killed Mu Yu Rou with the small knife!"

"You had already gotten her, so why did you still kill Mu Yu Rou?"

The female officer who had been playing good cop with Shen Gang asked angrily.

"If I didn't kill Mu Yu Rou, she would definitely have called the Police. Only her death would pose no threat to me!"

The female officer's scalp instantly tingled, and goosebumps erupted on her arms. She felt that the young Zheng Yiren before her was a demon.

Officer Gao Ze, however, asked coldly, "You killed Mu Yu Rou, and then you imitated the crime of the Serial Flower Season Girl Murderer?"

Zheng Yiren nodded and said, "Yes, I had seen crime reports about the Serial Flower Season Girl Murderer before, so after killing Mu Yu Rou, I framed him."

"But I made a mistake in imitating the Serial Flower Season Girl Murderer's modus operandi.

At the same time, I also found that after I killed Mu Yu Rou, her phone disappeared. I searched her entire body at the time, but couldn't find her pink phone anywhere."

"Officer Gao, I'm very curious, how did you find Mu Yu Rou's phone?"

Zheng Yiren also realized at this point that all the schemes against him were laid by Officer Gao Ze, including the Mu Yu Rou phone, which was also an bait set by Officer Gao Ze.

Shen Gang also looked at Officer Gao Ze, curious.

Mu Yu Rou's phone was key to luring Zheng Yiren into the trap. Without that Mu Yu Rou phone, it would have been difficult for Zheng Yiren to go crazy and try to snatch it.

"When I visited Mu Yu Rou's parents, based on their statements, I stumbled upon Mu Yu Rou's phone in the Nanhui Guanhai Park Artificial Lake."

Officer Gao Ze chose to gloss over it, as the system intelligence could not be explained at all.

Zheng Yiren's face fell upon hearing this, as if resigned, but then he raised his eyes and asked curiously:

"Was there really an audio recording of Mu Yu Rou from that time in that phone?"

"No, there were only fragmented audio files unrelated to Mu Yurous Case."

Officer Gao Ze shook his head, relieved that he hadn't placed all his hopes on Mu Yu Rou's phone, but had still followed his plan to set a trap for Zheng Yiren.

If he had hoped the audio in the phone could convict Zheng Yiren after finding it, he might have alerted Zheng Yiren, making an arrest very difficult.

The system intelligence was correct.

Mu Yu Rou had indeed recorded audio of Zheng Yiren assaulting her at the time.

However, the audio data was stored on the phone's motherboard, and after two years of immersion and corrosion in the lake water, most of the data had been damaged, and even the technical personnel at the Physical Evidence Identification Center could not recover it.

"So that's how it is!"

A bitter smile appeared on Zheng Yiren's face.

"That's right, your arrest is thanks to Officer Gao Ze."

Shen Gang pointed at Officer Gao Ze, grinned, and said, "He has made a great contribution. Without him, it would have been very difficult to restart the investigation of Mu Yurous Case, a cold case."

Zheng Yiren was expressionless. No one facing the person who set them up could easily smile, especially since his entire life had been ruined by Officer Gao Ze.

"Tell me!"

After clarifying Mu Yurous Case, Shen Gang did not stop, continuing to ask in a deep voice:

"In Mu Yurous Case, what role did your father, Zheng Jiasheng, play, what efforts did he make for you, and which personnel did he spend money to win over for you?"

Officer Gao Ze was slightly stunned, turning his head to look at Shen Gang with some disbelief.

So, it wasn't just him who wanted to eliminate the hidden danger of Zheng Jiasheng.

Shen Gang, this stern-faced Police, also didn't want to let Zheng Jiasheng off the hook.

That made sense. Officer Gao Ze was the main force in arresting Zheng Yiren, and Shen Gang was also, so he would also be targeted by Zheng Jiasheng.

"My father played no role in Mu Yurous Case. He did not participate in the case, did not help me, and did not commit any crime. From beginning to end, it was all my doing alone."

Zheng Yiren's resistance was surprisingly fierce, causing Shen Gang, Officer Gao Ze, and the other Police present to look at him with some surprise.

Zheng Yiren was still a filial son?

Unwilling to expose Zheng Jiasheng?

"Zheng Yiren, are you sure it was all you, and your father didn't protect you or win over the personnel at the time?"

Officer Gao Ze thought of Zheng Jiasheng and the forces currently opposing the reopening of Mu Yurous Case, and said slowly:

"This is a major opportunity for a reduced sentence!"

"If you can expose your father's illegal and criminal acts, and expose those personnel who were swayed by your father to obstruct the investigation for you, you might even live."

"Reduced from the death penalty!"

In an instant, Zheng Yiren raised his eyes, his gaze filled with hope for life.

Shen Gang watched this scene, sighing and shaking his head.

The work done, inducing father and son to turn on each other, Officer Gao Ze did it even more skillfully than him.