Diary of a Criminal Investigator-Chapter 395: When It Won’t Fit, Just Dump One
Ren Qiang left the stainless-steel railing, sat back at the interrogation table, and leisurely looked at Hu Zhigang in the interrogation chair.
At this point, the other party no longer had the swaggering look from before; there was progress in his expression.
Before the interrogation, the background information on Hu Zhigang had been mostly investigated.
Ren Qiang had done some research before the interrogation.
Hu Zhigang grew up in a relatively affluent family and started working at a hospital after completing his graduate studies.
Originally, he was the most promising candidate to become the youngest chief physician at the hospital, but he was forced to resign due to a medical malpractice incident years ago.
The incident was actually quite straightforward; Hu Zhigang was an associate chief physician at the time and brought a resident physician to assist in surgery.
However, the young resident physician made a serious mistake during the surgery, leading to its failure.
The failed surgery resulted in a medical incident, and someone had to take responsibility.
The resident physician at fault was the daughter of the hospital’s deputy director, so naturally, Hu Zhigang became the scapegoat.
Five years ago, Hu Zhigang had to resign and went to work at a cosmetic surgery hospital, which surprisingly earned him a lot of money.
It could be said that the hospital incident was the biggest setback in Hu Zhigang’s life.
Being the only son in his family, his life apart from that hospital incident could be described as smooth sailing and pampered.
A person like him would mentally collapse in just a few days if put in a detention center.
"Don’t try to fool me. Even detention centers are places with legal systems; the police wouldn’t ignore it."
"Of course, detention centers have legal systems, but the police also have moments of inattention; they rest when off duty. During night shifts, there might only be one or two people working, can they monitor dozens of cells?"
Ren Qiang wasn’t telling the entire truth; there is surveillance in every cell now, and most people inside wouldn’t actively cause trouble.
No matter who it is, the main thing they want after going in is to get out.
Only an idiot would cause trouble, but Hu Zhigang didn’t know that.
"By the way, didn’t you just ask how we found you?"
"Wang Lili from Huangzhou, that night in a club where she went, we found half of your photo in the surveillance footage."
"As for Su Xiaochen from Zhangzhou, someone witnessed her getting into your RV and took a photo of the license plate."
"You discarded the bodies of these two people at the landfill in Warehouse Valley, Haizhou City, right?"
"Including the body in your RV’s freezer, four people in total, Hu Zhigang, even if you don’t say anything, as you said, it’s enough for a death sentence."
"Since it’s already enough for a death penalty, wouldn’t it be better to make things easier for yourself?"
Hu Zhigang was someone who typically bullied the weak and feared the strong.
When he could control the situation, facing someone weaker than himself, he became a demon, a scumbag, like the few people he murdered.
But in the face of the small thugs Ren Qiang mentioned, usual suspects in the detention center, he was terrified just hearing about them.
"I...will...confess...I’ll tell everything..."
Ren Qiang signaled to the person beside him, and they began to take notes.
"The first person I killed...was that resident physician, the deputy director’s daughter..."
According to Hu Zhigang’s confession, his initial motive for murder was revenge.
But later, it slowly changed.
"After resigning from the hospital, I went into the cosmetic surgery industry, which is very lucrative, earning far more than I did as a doctor. After making a considerable amount, I bought an RV and often went traveling."
"Once in a club in Nanzhou, I happened to encounter that resident physician also traveling there."
"After tricking her into leaving with me, I killed her and hid the body in the freezer of the RV."
"At the time, I didn’t dare dispose of the body, fearing it would be discovered, so I kept it hidden in the freezer for more than a year."
"Later, without realizing why, I started frequenting the club bars often."
"Then... I killed a second person..."
"Soon after, I killed another. But the freezer in the RV was too small; it could only hold three bodies at most, so when full, I had to discard one."
"Is it because the RV’s freezer was full that you disposed of the body at Haizhou City’s Warehouse Valley landfill?"
Hu Zhigang nodded: "The freezer in the RV was full; there was no place left, so I had to discard one, but I didn’t go to Warehouse Valley landfill, I just threw the suitcase containing the body into the trash bin for collection."
"At the time, I was staying at the RV camp near North Mountain in Haizhou City. I noticed a neighborhood nearby had garbage trucks collecting trash daily, just taking the trash bins away, so I discarded it there."
No wonder, no wonder Sun Jun found nothing in the surveillance.
It turns out he didn’t personally dispose of the body with the garbage truck but used it for his own means.
"Where did you dispose of the other bodies?"
"All at landfills. When I first disposed of that resident physician’s body, I discovered that finding large trash bins, the kind collected directly by garbage trucks, no one inspects those. They would be thrown directly into the landfill; some would be incinerated, some buried; they wouldn’t be discovered."
Large trash bins...
Who would inspect a trash bin full of garbage?
Occasionally, a few scavengers inspect trash bins, but they just go for a few bottles and leave.
"Where are they?"
"One in Zhangzhou, one in Nanzhou, one in Hezhou."
Hu Zhigang then confessed the specific addresses.
Ren Qiang recorded everything, and the interrogation was nearing its end.
"Officer, wait!"
As Ren Qiang was about to leave, Hu Zhigang shouted excitedly: "I’ve been so cooperative; you won’t still put me in a detention center, right?"
Ren Qiang...
In the meeting room, Ren Qiang reported the interrogation situation.
"Hu Zhigang didn’t personally go to the landfill to dispose of bodies; he used large trash bins, and garbage trucks took them away."
"In Haizhou City, he stayed at the RV camp in North Mountain, and when disposing of the bodies, there was clay stuck inside the box."
"So, it had nothing to do with the North Mountain cold storage."
"Hu Zhigang ultimately confessed to killing seven people, and now the specific body disposal sites have been determined, but they’re all at landfills. It will be quite difficult to locate them."
Lu Chuan’s team was also analyzing bloodstains, and most of the identities matched.
"Difficult or not, we have to locate them. Without finding the bodies, the case can’t be closed."
Everyone nodded.
There are high standards for handling murder cases; you can’t simply claim someone confessed to killing without evidence.
At the very least, the bodies must be found.
"Let’s issue a notification for cooperation; let the relevant cities assist specifically."
