Diary of a Criminal Investigator-Chapter 366: The Killer

Wang Jian went out to work. Although he didn’t often return home, he always kept in touch with his family, so it wasn’t difficult to confirm the city he was in.

Yesterday afternoon, Huangzhou had confirmed that Wang Jian was in Qinzhou.

Once the person is found, the arrest becomes relatively easier.

The Criminal Investigation Teams of Huangzhou and Qinzhou had already coordinated in advance, with the arrest primarily handled by the special task force from Huangzhou.

A team leader from the Qinzhou Criminal Investigation Team came over to assist, along with the local police officers where Wang Jian was staying.

Wang Jian came here to work, and as a mobile population, he was registered at the local police station.

"The target’s dormitory is on the third floor, and the house has no other exits, but we must prevent the suspect from jumping out of the window in desperation."

"Two teams: one will lie in wait under the windows of the target building to handle any emergencies, and the other will go in with me for a direct arrest. Move fast and strike hard."

After this, the two arrest teams from the task force studied the layout and floor plans of the building. Once everyone was familiar, they entered the residential complex in plainclothes.

With the cooperation of the property management, entering the complex posed no issues. Furthermore, during this time, there were many people going to work, increasing the foot traffic in the complex, so even a dozen people entering didn’t attract much attention.

The dormitory building where Wang Jian lived was rented by Wanjie Company, with a total height of seven floors and no elevator.

The door was opened by someone from Wanjie Company who also lived in the dormitory. The local police did very meticulous work, having contacted them in advance.

As for any tip-offs, considering the case involved a murder suspect, no one would recklessly notify him.

"Action!"

At the door, as soon as the door opened, five people standing on the stairs quickly rushed into the room.

Wang Jian was caught in bed, and when he was handcuffed, he was still naked.

"What’s your name?" 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

"Hehe, you’ve come to find me and still don’t know my name?"

Wang Jian’s laughter was very casual, not at all like someone caught for murder.

In turn, Wang Jian looked up at the group of people who caught him: "Where are you from?"

"Yanzhou? Zhangzhou? Or Baozhou?"

Wang Jian’s words made everyone’s scalp tingle.

Why Cheng Zihao was here, the task force members all knew.

"Wang Jian, don’t you think we’re from Liangzhou?"

"Liangzhou? The woman in the sewer?"

Indeed!

Indeed, it was him!

"No, you’re... from Huangzhou... Zhang Yu?"

Wang Jian suddenly saw a familiar face in the crowd.

Now it was Zhang Yu’s turn to be surprised. It had been seven years: "It’s been seven years since you killed Wu Qizhou, and you still remember me?"

"Hehe, if you had also killed someone, you’d remember every police officer who came to your house."

"Take him away!"

He wasn’t taken back to Huangzhou; the task force decided to temporarily use the interrogation room of the Qinzhou Criminal Investigation Team for immediate interrogation.

The interrogation was led by Chen Houde, the deputy captain of the Huangzhou Criminal Investigation Team and the task force leader, accompanied by Chen Zihao.

"Wang Jian, seven years ago, in Huangzhou, do you still remember Wu Qizhou?"

Unexpectedly, Wang Jian cooperated, perhaps he had already known this day would come.

"Of course I remember, you found the evidence?"

In the case of Wu Qizhou’s murder, the evidence was conclusive, with nothing to hide.

"Years ago, you left a blood fingerprint on the murder weapon used on Wu Qizhou."

Chen Houde opened up the fingerprint identification analysis report: "Unfortunately, back then, due to technical reasons, no one successfully analyzed this blood fingerprint."

"Until yesterday, when an expert finally matched your fingerprint successfully."

"Seven years ago... I thought you had all forgotten."

"Forgot? Wang Jian, did you think you could escape?"

Wang Jian shook his head: "Can I have a cigarette?"

Cheng Zihao picked up the cigarette on the table, lit it, and then handed it to Wang Jian.

Taking a greedy puff, Wang Jian’s face was shrouded in smoke: "I never thought I could escape. Over the years, the people I’ve killed are not limited to just Wu Qizhou."

Wang Jian pointed at Cheng Zihao, who just gave him the cigarette: "You’re from Liangzhou, then you’re here for the case three years ago."

"Then there’s Zhangzhou, Baozhou, I’ve killed many, I’ve more than made up for it."

Without any resistance, without any concealment, Wang Jian confessed to all the people he had killed.

"The headless corpse case at Yanzhou Reservoir seven years ago, was it you?"

"It was me. Haven’t you found the head yet?"

"Hehe, I knew you wouldn’t find it. I was working at a construction site at the time and threw his head into a wall. The site was pouring concrete at that time, you’d probably have to tear down the building to find it."

"The case in Zhangzhou, the dismembered body in the trash can, was that you too?"

"On Democracy Road?"

"If that’s the one, then it was me."

"Where did you hide the head, hands, and feet of the body?"

"Burned them."

"Burned them?"

"Yes, that year I was working at a waste incineration plant, just happened to see an incinerator, so I burned those parts."

"If you could destroy the corpse, why did you still throw out parts of it?"

"If I didn’t throw out some parts, how would you know someone was dead?"

Chen Houde and Cheng Zihao exchanged a glance, realizing this guy was a total psychopath.

"Why did you kill them?"

"Why?"

Wang Jian snorted coldly: "If Wu Qizhou hadn’t delivered faulty gas canisters to my home back then, would my dad have burned to death?"

"If I hadn’t killed him back then, who knows how many people would have died from his gas canisters."

"What about Liangzhou, the woman three years ago, why did you kill her?"

"That woman deserved to die even more!"

It turned out Wang Jian killed the woman because after coming out of sewer construction, they passed each other and the woman instinctively avoided him, commenting about how stinky it was.

"Stinky? Didn’t she think I was smelly? I’ll let her stink forever in the sewer, let her carry the stink even to hell!"

"You killed her just because of that?"

"She ran into me, so she deserved her bad luck."

"What about Zhang Can, who worked with you three years ago, and then disappeared, was it you?"

"That bastard, after what we did together, he got scared and actually thought of reporting me, so he had to die!"

"Where’s the body, both his and the woman’s, the sewer only had the torso and part of the arm, where are the head and other body parts?"

"After I killed Zhang Can, I dismembered him while repairing the sewer and poured him into the cement slurry."

"As for the woman, the rest of her body I chopped up, cooked, and fed to stray dogs..."

In total, there were nine cases.

Over the years, including Wu Qizhou, Wang Jian killed nine people.

His motives for killing were also random, the most absurd being someone who squeezed onto the bus with him, and because the bus was too crowded, they glared at him, so he followed and killed them.

Since the headless corpse case in Yanzhou, his methods of killing became increasingly skilled, quickly progressing in dismemberment techniques, with fewer mistakes as he continued to kill.