In less than an hour, the Criminal Investigation Team of Haizhou City received a request for assistance from the Criminal Investigation Team of Yunfeng City.

The capture process went smoothly.

"Group Leader Ren, thank you for your trouble this time."

Chen Fan and Ren Qiang were long-time acquaintances, having worked together on cross-district cases many times before.

"No need to be polite. The interrogation room is ready. I'll take you there."

After the capture was completed, Chen Fan and Li Xiaotong conducted the interrogation.

For any ordinary person, going into a police interrogation room makes them want to confess even how many times they wet their pants as a child.

Those who think this is an exaggeration have simply never been inside.

"I... I didn't kill anyone..."

Chen Fan hadn't even started to ask questions when Cui Jun confessed on his own.

"Li Jiangtao?"

Huh?

Cui Jun was obviously taken aback: "How... how do you know?"

Heh heh.

How did they know?

Right after Chen Fan and Li Xiaotong left Cui Jun's home, he called someone named Li Jiangtao.

Moreover, this person was a colleague of Cui Jun's back then, and the two had once rented a place together.

"That's not something you need to ask. You should confess about your matters. Tell us why Li Jiangtao killed Zhao Yali back then, and why he framed Zhang Yuhui."

"It... it was like this..."

As it turns out, Li Jiangtao and Zhao Yali already knew each other.

When Zhang Yuhui was dating Zhao Yali back then, they lived together for a while.

"At that time, Li Jiangtao was living with me, and that's when he and Zhao Yali got involved."

"Later, for some unknown reason, Zhao Yali wanted to break off the relationship with him..."

At that time, Li Jiangtao hadn't thought of killing anyone; after all, he was already the third party.

"But Zhao Yali took photos of them together and asked him for money, otherwise she would send the photos to his wife..."

"Did you know about Li Jiangtao killing someone?"

"I didn't know. I was just guessing. That day when I came home, he had blood on him..."

Cui Jun confessed stammeringly.

"Later... later, I heard about the headless case."

"That... that I guessed was Zhao Yali being killed."

"Why didn't you report it back then?"

"I... I didn't dare... plus, the TV didn't say who the deceased was called..."

According to Cui Jun, he only suspected that Li Jiangtao committed the murder.

But he wasn't completely sure.

"Why did you call him just now?"

"I... I was scared..."

"Where is Li Jiangtao living now?"

"Tianzhou City, his home is in Tianzhou City..."

The results of Cui Jun's interrogation revealed important information.

Zhang Yuhui had a habit of hiding a key under the welcome mat, which Cui Jun knew, and Li Jiangtao, being involved with Zhao Yali, knew even better.

Cui Jun confessed thoroughly, but there were considerable setbacks in the process of capturing Li Jiangtao.

After Chen Fan and the others met with Cui Jun in the morning, he immediately called Li Jiangtao.

As a result, after receiving the call, Li Jiangtao immediately left home.

The detectives from the Criminal Investigation Team of Tianzhou City captured him at the high-speed rail station.

However, even though they caught him and had Cui Jun's information, it wasn't easy to convict Li Jiangtao for the murder from years ago.

Because too much time had passed, eight years had gone by, and there were no clues related to Li Jiangtao at the crime scene. Evidence was a significant issue.

Additionally, Cui Jun was only guessing that Li Jiangtao committed the murder, but he hadn't seen it with his own eyes.

Without witnessing it firsthand, he couldn't be a witness.

If Li Jiangtao resolutely refused to confess, convicting him would be very difficult.

Even if they got Li Jiangtao to talk, they would still need to find Zhao Yali's skull.

The location of the first crime scene remained unknown.

Although the case was difficult, it didn't have much to do with Lu Chuan and the others.

On the morning of the fourth day, Lu Chuan arrived at the conference room on time.

With only two days left, the fingerprint contest would soon be over. Lu Chuan set his own goal to match at least two more fingerprints.

As for the type of cases, Lu Chuan still focused on homicide cases.

"Teacher Lu, Director Li said yesterday you're definitely getting a first-class merit award this time!"

Zhao Zhigao was in a very good mood.

Not only because he learned many small fingerprint identification and analysis techniques from Lu Chuan, but he also matched three fingerprints himself.

And this contest, as Li Donglin said yesterday, three matched fingerprints meant a third-class merit award!

The Technical Identification Center's Tian Rong matched more cases, earning a second-class merit award.

As for Lu Chuan, a first-class merit award was a sure thing!

This was also the best chance for criminal police specializing in fingerprint identification to earn merit awards.

Participating in the contest, matching fingerprints, earning merits, and winning awards!

Last time in the fingerprint contest at the Haizhou City Public Security Bureau, Lu Chuan didn't match as many cases as this time, and he already earned a first-class merit award then, so this time it was bound to happen again.

"Just lucky," Lu Chuan remained modest. "But I feel I'm almost at the limit, trying to solve one more fingerprint!"

"Hey... with your skills, one is not enough..."

"Teacher Lu!"

As the two were chatting, Sun Bing came running over.

"Teacher Lu, Director Li requests your presence."

Seeing Sun Bing somewhat out of breath, did he run all the way?

After getting to know Sun Bing over the past few days, Lu Chuan understood him quite well.

During these days of serving this group of experts, he steadily did his work, kept everything organized, and faced the leaders with confidence.

Yet now, he rushed over to find him, and his expression seemed troubled.

"Officer Sun, has something happened?"

Sun Bing glanced around and whispered, "A major case has come up, and your current work might have to pause."

Pause?

Zhao Zhigao was slightly stunned.

Everyone knew what role Lu Chuan played in this fingerprint contest.

At this time, pulling him away indicated that the case was more important than the contest here.

Lu Chuan clearly understood what Sun Bing's words meant.

Moreover, if Li Donglin was personally involved in the case, it was definitely not an ordinary homicide.

What kind of major case could it be?

Lu Chuan picked up the police uniform jacket from the chair: "Let's go now."

Provincial Hall, Meeting Room 3.

As soon as Lu Chuan entered, he was slightly surprised.

Besides Li Donglin, there was someone else he was familiar with.

Zhang Yuanchao, the top forensic doctor in the Provincial Hall.

"Lu, come, sit here."

Zhang Yuanchao greeted Lu Chuan upon his arrival, patting the empty seat to his right.

Lu Chuan didn't hold back. In the conference room, Li Donglin sat at the head of the meeting table, with Zhang Yuanchao on his right.

There was only one empty seat at the table, evidently waiting for Lu Chuan.

"Alright, everyone's here. Captain Qin, please brief us on the case."

Li Donglin was referring to Captain Qin, who was not present, but providing an introduction via video.

"Yes, Director Li!"

"Yesterday afternoon, at the site of a decommissioned bridge demolition project in our city, fragments of human bones were discovered in a concrete pier."

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