Diary of a Criminal Investigator-Chapter 294: Killed for Seeing What Shouldn’t Be Seen

Chapter 294: Chapter 294: Killed for Seeing What Shouldn’t Be Seen

Action Group Two Office.

Zhang Hui rubbed his head, a face full of worry.

"How come I didn’t think of that?"

The news that important evidence was found at the crime scene investigation had just spread through the entire team.

"I heard from Old Bai that the clue came to Lu Chuan while chatting with Forensic Doctor Shen last night."

"Solving a case while dating, is there any justice in this world???"

Ren Qiang shrugged, where could one argue over such a thing.

The people from Action Group Two basically hadn’t slept all night yesterday.

Over the years, Sun Hao, who had worked in engineering, had known at least eight to ten thousand people.

Just in his phone contact book, there are three thousand one hundred and twenty-nine contacts.

These over three thousand people spanned across industries like catering, finance, engineering, construction.

From cooks wielding ladles in restaurants to officials sitting in offices for approvals.

Even people selling alcohol in clubhouses, and foremen three thousand miles away.

Truly, it was a diverse mix of people from all walks of life.

Action Group Two roughly sorted through them, coming up with dozens of leads.

After a whole night’s effort, they finally unraveled the main network of relationships Sun Hao had in Haizhou City and also discovered some people who had conflicts with Sun Hao.

Thinking they’d follow these leads in the coming days, they didn’t expect the crime scene investigation to uncover deleted videos. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

"That Zhao Tianbiao, how’s the investigation on Sun Jun’s side going?"

Action Group One, initially handling surveillance with the tech team, was now pulled out by Qin Yong to find people.

"We’ve made some progress; checked the household system; there are seventy-six people named Zhao Tianbiao in the city. Although the video isn’t very clear, we can compare it; he’s the general manager of Xinfa Supervision Company. Old Sun and the others have gone to arrest him."

Meanwhile.

Xinfa Supervision Company Office Building in Haizhou City.

"We’re the police, which floor is your general manager Zhao Tianbiao on, and which office?"

With video evidence in hand, Sun Jun directly applied for an arrest warrant.

The receptionist had never seen such a large spectacle, a dozen burly men, looking as if they might eat someone.

Fortunately, she clearly saw Sun Jun’s badge.

"On the fourth floor, room 406."

"Group One, guard the main entrance; Group Two, cover the back door; Group Three, come with me to arrest him!"

"Yes!"

The group of a dozen people was neatly divided into three teams; no one among the staff in the building dared to make a sound.

As Sun Jun arrived on the fourth floor, the office door was open, and there were talking voices inside.

"The Century Garden project has been specially instructed by the higher-ups; it must pass inspection!"

"I’ve taken care of the other departments; just go and issue the inspection reports..."

Sun Jun burst in and, with one glance, knew this person was Zhao Tianbiao.

"Who are you?"

Seeing Sun Jun and others enter without knocking, Zhao Tianbiao shouted loudly.

"I mean, who are you? Get out now!"

"You’re Zhao Tianbiao, right? We’re the police, come with us."

Police?

Upon hearing Sun Jun announce their identity, Zhao Tianbiao’s head went blank, and his face turned extremely pale.

After a moment, he regained his composure and stutteringly asked, "Po...Police officers, wha...what is... what’s the matter?"

"What do you mean ’what’s the matter’? Have you forgotten about Sun Hao already, Zhao Tianbiao?"

Sun Hao?!

Zhao Tianbiao immediately slumped in his chair.

Seeing this, Sun Jun waved his hand, and the detectives behind him stepped forward to cuff him.

"Zhao Tianbiao, tell us, who was the other person who gave you money that day?"

In the car, Sun Jun directly started the interrogation.

It was precisely this question that made Zhao Tianbiao realize that the police had found the video.

But, how?

The video had clearly been deleted.

"How did you... find the video?"

"We did everything perfectly. When Sun Hao died, we watched from the side; it was a car accident!"

"Car accident!"

"You couldn’t have found it, couldn’t have found it..."

Zhao Tianbiao’s eyes were unfocused, and his body trembled uncontrollably.

He couldn’t understand, how such a thing could have been discovered.

Moreover, it wasn’t his first time doing this; it had worked fine before, so why was it discovered this time?

"Zhao Tianbiao, you don’t need to worry about how it was discovered. Come clean soon to strive for leniency; that’s in your best interest!"

"Yes... yes!"

After mumbling to himself, Zhao Tianbiao suddenly regained energy.

"I want to strive for leniency! Leniency!"

"I wasn’t the only one who killed; Zheng Yi was the mastermind; he’s killed before too, using drugs to make people wander onto roads to be hit!"

"I want to report!"

"Zhang Yuan in the Urban Construction Approval section took 800,000 from me."

"The branch manager of Construction Bank on Beizhou Road took a 900,000 rebate from me."

"And over in Tianzhou City, there’s a Celestial Jade and a supervisory company that had us launder money and gave me a million as a bridge fee."

"Also, on Friendship Road, the Wenfeng Clubhouse has people selling inside; I have video evidence!"

"I’ve been there with two people from the tax office; it was my treat, and I got videos, I have video evidence!"

"I also know a lot of things, many, many things; you must reduce my sentence, you must reduce my sentence!"

From Xinfa Supervision Company to the Criminal Investigation Team, the drive took half an hour.

Except for the first three minutes on the car where Zhao Tianbiao didn’t realize he’d been caught and didn’t talk much, for the rest of the time, he revealed almost all the bad things he’d done in his life.

Moreover, among the crimes he confessed to, there were two murder cases!

This time, they caught a big fish.

Interrogation Room.

Sun Jun struck while the iron was hot, confirming all the facts of how Zhao Tianbiao, in collusion with Zheng Yi, murdered Sun Hao according to the interrogation procedures.

In fact, Sun Hao was really unfortunate.

He wasn’t even well-acquainted with Zhao Tianbiao and Zheng Yi.

They knew each other because of frequent engineering work, just nodded greetings, sometimes meeting over drinks, singing, going to clubhouses, and such.

Five days ago, Sun Hao attended a drinking party, had a bit too much, and left midway.

He ended up witnessing a scene in the underground parking where Zheng Yi was giving money to Zhao Tianbiao.

He recorded the whole process.

Later, he clipped some images from the video, put mosaics over the faces, and posted them on his moments.

He even added text: "Investment in a new movie, short on money, message privately if interested."

Everyone thought Sun Hao was really investing in a movie, but Zhao Tianbiao and Zheng Yi knew it was about them.

"The day before yesterday, Zheng Yi and I approached Sun Hao, using the pretext of redeeming the video with money, drugged him, put him on the road, and ran him over."

"Who came up with the idea to kill Sun Hao?"

"Zheng Yi, he’s done this before; the drug used on Sun Hao was extracted from a poisonous mushroom native to his home village in the mountains."

"The traffic accident on Beishan Road last June 8th was his doing."

"And the traffic incident on Dongzhou Road the year before last, December 2nd, was planned the same way."

"Alright, tell us about the other cases, and strive for leniency."

"Alright, alright, I’ll tell you now."