Chapter 26 evidence and testimony

The body of Sachiko Edamura was found around 8:20 am on May 30. "The lights in Zhicun's room were turned on on the night of the 29th, and through the curtains, the light was on until the next morning." A housewife who lived on the same floor of the apartment testified, "Zhicun often goes to bed late and wakes up late, but never turns on all night. Lights. I think she has guests, but the lights haven’t been turned off until 8:00 am. I’m not sure if the lights are turned on all night. Anyway, I looked at the windows before going to bed at 11:00, and when I got up to relieve myself at 3:00 in the morning. They were all on. The light was on, so I thought it had been on all night. I couldn’t hear voices or noises. I felt strange, so I went to Zhicun’s door and rang the bell, but no one answered, so I reported it to the manager. I also The manager entered the room together."

"After receiving the report, I took the key and went to Zhicun's room." The manager testified, "Through the curtains, I could see the light in the house. It was around 8:00 in the morning, and the sun was already high. I didn’t use a key to open the door. The door was unlocked, and it opened with a push. I entered the room with Hengshan (the reporter), and the crown chandelier on the ceiling was still on. There was no Zhicun in the room. I looked around and found that Zhicun was lying in front of the couch in the guest room. When he came closer, he saw a blue scarf tied around his neck. He was shocked and called 110 immediately."

"I didn't know that the lights in Zhicun's house were on all night. I didn't patrol at night, because people who live in the apartment have their own affairs, and patrolling at night is not welcome. However, a club has been established in the apartment recently. There are a lot of people, and the people in the apartment think it is too noisy, and they asked me to think of a way, and I was worried that it would be difficult to handle it.” A bar proprietress surnamed Ono who lived on the same floor testified: "The lights in Zhimura's house were turned off around 7:10, and the windows couldn't see the light on. I don't know whether the lights were not turned on at first, or they were turned off after turning on. I went to the store at that time , I don’t know if it was turned on later. When I came back around 12 o’clock at night, I walked past the gate of Zhicun, and the light was on.”

The police department to which he belonged searched the room and found that the room was in perfect order and there was no sign of property being stolen.Sachiko Jimura lives alone, so it is difficult to know whether it was stolen, but judging from the situation at the scene, it is unlikely that the robbers committed the crime. According to the autopsy, the victim was strangled to death, and the time of death was inferred to be between 7:00 p.m. There was no toxic reaction in the stomach and blood, and no sleeping pills were taken.Depending on the degree of digestion of the contents of the stomach, dinner is not eaten.The blood type is O, and there is a small amount of nosebleeds and vomit, which flowed out when he suffocated.

Including the fingerprints of the victim Sachiko Edamura, there are three new ones.Two of them belonged to Mrs. Yokoyama, the manager and reporter, and they were left on the door and the handle.The other was found in many places, and it was later found to be consistent with Okano Masaichi's fingerprints. There are also Michio Sayama's fingerprints, which are a little longer and are found in many places. "It was around 8:20 p.m. on the 29th. I followed the stairs from the third floor to the fourth floor, and met a man coming down from above." "The man looked flustered when he went downstairs, so I have the impression. I remember that he was wearing a brown checkered sweater with a beige background and light brown pants. He was not tall, wore glasses, and had long hair. His back With a straight face, he hurried downstairs, about thirty-four or five years old, with dark skin. Because there is a club upstairs, I thought something happened there, and I kept muttering in my heart."

Sachiko Edamura was engaged to a beautician, Michio Sayama. It had been reported in some magazines, and the apartment manager knew about it.The manager told the police, who got in touch with Michio Sayama. Michio Sayama rushed to the scene from Aoyama immediately.Witnessing the tragic situation of his fiancée, his face turned ashen and wept bitterly. "The person who came down the stairs was probably my friend Masaichi Okano. He often wears a brown checkered shirt with a beige background and light brown trousers. ... Okano seems to often come to Sachiko's room, and he has been hiding it from me." I, Sachiko told me. In fact, I asked Okano to go to Sachiko for something, and since then he has been looking for Sachiko from time to time. Because Okano is my friend, Sachiko is also very embarrassed, and has never said anything. Later, as Okano's attitude became more and more outrageous, she finally couldn't bear it, so she told me.

"I also heard that Okano has bad intentions towards my fiancée, especially when the wedding is approaching, he is even more abnormal. I just want to remind him clearly recently. In order to make him professional and professional, I recently transferred the airline A's The business was given to him. He himself was very happy at first, but the work has not been completed, instead of going to Sachiko’s apartment, he called her to ask her out, which was time-consuming and troublesome.” It is inferred that Okano Masaichi committed the crime, and there is direct evidence.On the left cuff of the beige shirt he wore on the night of the 29th, there was an O-shaped blood stain the size of a 10-yuan coin.Okano himself is a type B.

In addition, there is a small amount of spots on the right cuff, and it turns out that the attached vomit has dried up.These were what Sachiko spit out in her dying struggle when she was strangled, so Okano seemed to be there.His fingerprints were left in several places in the room, all new. Okano does not deny being on the "live". "I saw Sachiko Edamura lying on the sofa. I didn't know that she had been killed. I thought she was unwell and fell down. I hurried up to help her up. Only then did I find that her nostrils were bleeding and white mucus was flowing from her mouth. Mind you, that's probably when the cuffs were stained with nosebleeds and vomit. I was so dazed that I didn't know anything. Someone must have killed Sachiko before I went."

The murder weapon, the blue scarf, belonged to Sachiko, and it might have been hanging beside her at that time.The murderer may have other murder weapons, saw this scarf, and turned to use this. However, it can be considered as an accidental crime to use an object placed by the victim as a murder weapon. This is more natural than the previous speculation. This kind of impulsive crime is not uncommon. —The police are inclined to this opinion. "My husband was really emotional and distracted at one point, and he couldn't draw well." Okano Shoichi's wife Kazuko testified, "Mr. Sayama wanted to attract business for him and draw tourist posters for Airline A. He was very encouraged. Recently, with the help of Mr. Sayama, the magazine reported on her husband, and his future is promising. However, on the other hand, he really felt a lot of pressure and a heavy mental burden, and his work was not like before. It was so relaxing, and I was so nervous that I couldn't breathe.

"The poster of Airline A is a high-class job. He is overwhelmed by the heavy responsibility and mentally weakened. If he succeeds, he can become a blockbuster; He is honest and timid, and when he is nervous, he can't draw well. The deadline is approaching day by day, and he is very irritable. Seeing him like that, I also feel very uneasy. I heard that I have drawn two pictures for Mr. Sayama; Mr. Shan said that the airline was not satisfied and wanted to draw another one. The deadline was extended for a few more days and he started to draw the last one. "My husband was very distressed, he didn't eat, and he didn't touch the bed for several nights. His face was purple and black, and he was bloodless. He kept staring, sighed, and was in an abnormal mood. I thought it would be good if my husband didn't push himself hard, but He didn't bring it in himself, it was Mr. Wei Shan who kindly helped.

"On the evening of the 29th, the apartment manager came to answer the phone. When my husband answered the phone, he said it was a call from a client and he wanted to go out for a while. I was very happy, and I hoped that going out for a walk would make him happy. I gave him A tan checkered sweatshirt with a beige base and light tan trousers. "My husband came back an hour and a half later, and he seemed to have been hit hard. I didn't think it was appropriate to ask more questions, so I didn't say a word. My husband was in pain all night, as if it wasn't for painting. The next morning, I found brown stains on the cuffs of my shirt. My husband didn’t seem to notice the blood. When I told him, his face was as white as a sheet of paper. He said that he ran into a child on the street and got the child’s nosebleed. I plan to wash it off in the afternoon. That's when the police came and took the husband and the shirt." Regarding the relationship between Okano Shoichi and Edamura Sachiko, Okano's wife Kazuko testified; "I don't know anything about Sachiko in Tongzhi Village, this is the first time I've heard from the police, and I haven't heard from Mr. Mukayama either. "Just, there is such a thing. A year before this happened, my husband often liked to go out late at night, and when he came back, his suit often smelled of perfume. I felt strange and asked once. The husband said, it was the same couple Young female pattern designers are chatting in a dim sum shop. I think my husband can relieve boredom and gain new feelings, so I applaud their interaction. Later, maybe their relationship broke down, and the husband seldom goes out, and the mood suddenly It’s abnormal. It’s a bit funny to say it now. At that time, I thought he was unrequited love. At that time, he didn’t want to work, and he was frowning all day long. After hearing what the police said, I remembered that at that time, it was Mr. Zhicun The time when Mr. Sayama announced the engagement. "It was after that that Mr. Suyama helped her husband a lot. He was reported in magazines. It was after that that he recruited him for high-quality jobs. ... I think Mr. Sayama sympathized with her husband's current situation and helped him out of friendship. He is very grateful in his heart. He still has such a clear heart. "Indeed, since then, my husband has become more cheerful and normal. As I said earlier, the abnormal mood this time is because he accepted a job that he was not competent for. I never thought that his troubles had anything to do with Sachiko Edamura." Masayoshi Okano's attitude towards Sachiko nuclear material is getting more and more outrageous. Specifically, what is—— Michio Sayama's testimony: "Sachiko told me that she sympathized with Okano because he was my friend; he was very unfortunate compared to me; he was honest and cowardly. She said she would help him and try her best to help him. Okano-kun thought she His kindness had a special meaning, so I sometimes visited Sachiko's room in the middle of the night, and sometimes asked her out. I have already said that. "I had planned to remind him, but I thought that once the engagement with Sachiko was announced, he would give up. Besides, it would be hard for me to remind him directly. But I didn't expect the effect to be counterproductive. After announcing the engagement, Okano thought it was because of being raped." Sachiko lied to me. As I said, I managed to get a job for him, but he was keen to blame Sachiko for quitting the job. He seemed to be out of his mind. I thought I was abandoned, and my head was dizzy. "Okano-kun forced Sachiko to break off the engagement with me immediately, and asked Sachiko to marry him. Sachiko said, don't you have a wife? He said, I will break up with my wife immediately and divorce her, so you must dissolve the relationship with Sayama engagement. "Our wedding date has been set on June 20th. The date is getting closer and closer. Sachiko is not willing to break the engagement at all. Okano said that since this is the case, it is meaningless to live by myself. I have only had this love in my life. I have to love for myself. He loves devotion. I was very worried, thinking that if I found a good job for him, maybe the situation would improve, so I went around to solicit business for him. But later he said to Sachiko with a sad face that he didn't want to die alone, and wanted to force Sachiko to die with love. "So I thought, this problem must be seriously resolved now. It is a pity that this happened to Sachiko at this moment. I heard that Okano-kun denied that he killed Sachiko. Is it true? He said he Sachiko was killed when I entered the house, but there was no sign of robbers entering the house. I think Okano-kun forced his love to death. I was timid and deliberately quibbling. Oh, I don’t want to say anything against my friend, but I just heard Sachiko say these things , and express my feelings truthfully.” —Okano said that he left Sachiko's room and immediately called you once around 8:25, did you receive a call? "I received it, and it was indeed around 8:25 p.m. on May 29." Michio Sayama testified, "I was in my own room at the Aoyama Beauty Salon when a female visitor came and I was talking to her. I left the table While I was going to refill my coffee, the phone rang. The female customer answered it for me when she saw that I was not free. The female customer told me: Mr. Sayama, the caller did not give their name. I think now Someone still called, so I looked at my watch. It was about a minute or two after 8:25. "I picked up the phone and said hello twice. For some reason, the other party didn't say anything. I thought the phone was broken, so I said hello twice. The other party hung up the phone without saying a word. So, I don't know Is it from Okano? The female customer said that when she answered the phone, she began to hear the sound of coins falling, indicating that she was calling from a public phone." —Shoichi Okano said that when he heard that person's voice on the public phone, he introduced himself as Okano, is that true? "The female guest said that she didn't hear the other party's name. When I picked up the receiver, I didn't know who it was." — Okano Masaichi said that the female guest said affectionately: "Dorfu, call!" He felt that the woman had a close relationship with you, so it was inconvenient to talk to you on the phone. "Nothing. That woman is an excellent magazine reporter. She was interviewing me for a report on my beauty salon. She came around 6:30 in the afternoon and was about to go back?" -what is her name? "Fujiko Fukuchi of Weekly M Magazine. Sachiko Edamura was a former editor at "Women's Corridor". The situation in the store. Sachiko also knows about this; moreover, Sachiko once introduced Okano to Fukuji Fujiko and asked her to report him in a magazine, so he is somewhat famous. "As mentioned above, Fujiko Fukuchi is a very knowledgeable woman, so most people will not use the impolite language of 'Dorfu, phone'. After answering the phone, Fukuchi stayed for about 30 minutes before talking to me. We went to eat together. —So, on the 29th from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., you have been talking with Fukuji Fujiko in the store in Aoyama, right? "Yes. My store closes at 7:00 p.m., and Fudi came here before closing. Most of the employees in the store get off work around 7:30." Fujiko Fukuji's testimony: "Which phone call was made when I was talking with Muyama in Sayama's shop. I went to visit Sayama at 6:30 p.m. and talked for two and a half hours. At that time, the middle of the conversation was around 8:25. I As soon as I picked up the receiver, I heard the sound of a coin, and then a man asked, is Mr. Sayama there? I asked, who are you? The other party said without giving his name, and called to stop Shan to answer the phone. I thought it was Sayama’s friend , I called Sayama, who was refilling coffee in the distance, to come and pick it up. Sayama picked up the receiver and yelled twice, but the other party didn’t seem to speak. Sayama said it was strange, and then he might be hung up. I asked, why? What happened? He said, probably a friend called me for a drink and then suddenly changed his mind. "When I answer the phone, I won't say 'Dorfu, call'. I haven't known Sayama for a long time, and it was introduced by Sachiko Edamura. Of course I know the relationship and engagement between Edamura and Sayama. I won't call him 'Dorfu'." Yes. I have a deep understanding of the etiquette that an editor should have at work. It is different from young people today. After all, I am a person who came here. That may be an illusion caused by Okano's excitement. "I knew Okano through nuclear material introduction. Actually, it was not an introduction, but Edamura asked me to promote this designer in a weekly magazine. Seeing Edamura's face, I agreed, because I was doing the same editorial work as Edamura. , and get along very well with her. She resigned from the "Women's Corridor", and after she resigned, she came to discuss many things with me. "Okano seems to be an upright person, timid and cowardly. I often come into contact with all kinds of people in my work, so I can tell it at a glance. I intuitively feel that Okano seems to have some kind of affection for Edamura. Such people are easily impulsive. "Edamura recommended Okano to me, saying that he was entrusted by Sayama. I thought it was not easy to refuse, so I went to interview Okano and wrote a small report. I don't know Okano's talent and strength. It can be said that he believed the introduction of Zhicun and Sayama, and played the trumpet and carried the sedan chair for him. Thus, Okano became a well-known figure in an instant. "Okano was overjoyed and grateful to me. He was so happy that he was going crazy. I think it is not difficult for a low-class person who has lived under others to be famous for a long time. With that fanaticism." -What's the meaning? "I told Zhicun about Okano's joy, so she said, isn't it? He is very excited, so crazy. He said with a sad face. I think she should be happy too, and I can't help but feel puzzled. Then one day, when I saw Zhicun, I said to her, the wedding date with Sayama is coming soon, you are busy and happy, right? Zhicun said, I should be happy, but there are many troubles. I asked, what's the matter? So she seemed to want to Shaking his head again and again as if dispelling his worries, he said, um, it’s nothing. Maybe it’s related to Okano. It would be nice if I asked further. "People like Okano may have misunderstood Edamura's kindness. Edamura was entrusted by Sayama to help Okano become famous, but Okano mistakenly thought that she had other feelings for him. Well, men who pretend to be passionate That's right. I think Okano is so fanatical, and his thoughts are getting into the corners of his head. He is Sayama's friend, and Zhicun wants to take care of Sayama's face, so he is in a dilemma and distressed. "I went to Sayama's shop on the evening of the 29th. It was Sayama who said he wanted to further develop his beauty salon and asked me to discuss how to promote it. I am not only a good friend of Tongzhi Village, but I also admire Sashan's talent very much. Therefore, I am happy to share with him. We discussed ways to expand publicity. Sayama cannot be compared with Okano, who I don't know well, and I recommend him with confidence. Sayama's feeling and skills are unparalleled and admirable. "Sashan seems to attract a lot of resentment in the beauty industry now. There are many opponents. Even our seniors are jealous of him and spread a lot of rumors. Due to work, I know the factional struggles in the beauty industry very well. About a few years ago Let's go, due to the rumors spread by the opposition, there was an uproar in the beauty industry. The beauty industry is a woman's world, and the palace ladies' infighting and conspiracy can be seen everywhere. "Edimura said that Sayama alone did not belong to any faction. He was not the leader, had no accomplices, and did not admire his successors. He sincerely hoped that I would help him. For this reason, I went to discuss with him in the shop of Weishan that day. The beauty salon closes at 7 o'clock, most of the employees have left around 7:30, there are probably two or three people left. "I can't believe that Zhicun was killed when Sayama was talking with me. If there is a god manifesting, I will feel irritable or have a bad feeling during the conversation. Unfortunately, there is no sign at all. It is conceivable , the fiancée was killed at that time, how sad it must be in Shan's heart." Yanagida, an employee of Qingshan "Beauty Treatment", testified: "Fujiko Fujiko came to the store at 6:30 pm on the 29th. Her appearance and clothes are a bit masculine, so I knew it was her at a glance. The teacher (Muyama) hasn't stepped out since that morning. Beauty room? One o'clock It is closed and no guests are accepted at 6 o’clock, so the employees can leave work around 7 o’clock. I went to the teacher’s room to say hello to the teacher at about 7:10, and the teacher was talking with Fudi at that time. The teacher said, everyone go back So, employees? Get off work at about half past. Then go to the teacher's room to say hello after work. However, due to the delay in tidying up the room before get off work, the female employees (hair combing apprentices) Yukiko Otomo and Mansu Sone Didn't leave until around 8 o'clock." The testimony of Otomo Yukiko, a female employee of Aoyama's "Beauty Salon": "At about 8 o'clock, the room was tidied up. I came to the teacher's room, but I heard the voice of a female guest in the room, and left without saying hello. The last person who left had to say good night to the teacher before leaving. Our The dormitory is next to the beauty room." The testimony of Sone Manhoko, a female employee of the store: "I got off work with Otomo. Otomo went to the teacher's place, and I waited for her downstairs." The testimony of Hisako Otani, the proprietress of the tobacco shop in X Ding X Chome (near Yotsuya): "About 8:30 p.m. on the 29th, a taxi from the west stopped in front of my shop, and a man in his thirties got out of the car. The man had long hair, wearing a Glasses, wearing a brown checkered sweatshirt with a beige background, he made a public phone call in the store. The man didn’t look at his notebook or look up the phone book. He dialed the phone and said, is XX there? He looked flustered and in a panic Excited, I kept silent for a while, put down the phone after a while, got into a taxi waiting by the road and drove eastward. I thought that person was strange, so I remembered it clearly. On the phone, I said that so-and-so is there, and my name is I don't remember. It seems that he said his name, because there was a car passing by the door, and he didn't catch it. "This time I saw a news in the newspaper that a woman was killed in the apartment. The time and the photos of the criminals caught by the police were very similar, so I came to report. My shop is in the direction of Yotsuya in that apartment. On the way. I remember it was around 8:30, because I looked at the watch specially, so the time may not be accurate. I saw the man's features and clothes carefully when he called, so I must be right." Interrogation of Masaichi Okano: — Do you know a woman named Fujiko Fukuchi? "I know. She is the editor of Weekly M Magazine. She once reported me, and we only met twice. Fukuchi is a friend of Sachiko Edamura, and it was Tofudi Edamura who reported me." —What do you think of Fujiko Fukuji? "She's a smart woman." ——You said that when you called Sayama at around 8:25 pm on the 29th, it was a woman’s voice at first. Who do you think that woman was? "I don't know who it is, but the voice is a young woman." — How old do you think Fujiko Fukuji is? "Well, she's always dressed like that, I can't tell, maybe she's in her 30s?" —Have you heard Fukuji's voice on the phone before? "No." - How do you feel about Fukuji's voice?In one sentence. "How do you say it? It sounds like a man's voice." —You said to the woman on the phone, is Sayama-kun there?I am Okano.Actually, you didn't say I'm Okano, did you? "I am Okano who said that." —The woman who answered the phone said that the other party did not sign up. "It's possible that she remembered wrongly." —The person who answered the phone was Fujiko Fukuji who visited Sayama House. Didn’t you just say that Fukuji is a smart woman? "Ah, is she a blessed land?" — Fujiko Fukuchi testified in this way. "I did say my name." ——You were shocked when you heard Fujiko Fukuji's voice on the phone, but you didn't say your name, and you didn't tell Sayama about killing Sachiko Edamura, right? "I didn't call to tell Sayama about killing Sachiko Edamura, but to tell him that I saw the body." —You said Fukuji Fujiko's voice is like a man's. Since her voice has this characteristic, you should recognize it even on the phone. "I didn't think it was Blessed Land's voice, it was a young woman's voice." ——If you recognize the voice of Blessed Land, you can't confess the crime on the phone.However, you mistakenly thought that you had already reported your name and said I was Okano, and knowing that when you were investigated afterwards, you could not deny the phone call, so you said that there was a young woman living in the mountains.Fudi denied personally saying the words 'Dorfu, phone'. "No, I did hear it. It was a young woman's voice, that's what it said." —You're lying, or you're out of your mind. "I'm not lying, but it's true that I'm upset." —Then let me ask you again, you said you made the call near Sachiko Edamura's apartment, but it wasn't, you made the call from a payphone in a cigarette shop in Xding X-chome on the way home by taxi, cigarettes The proprietress of the store has testified. "I remember calling from a phone booth. Maybe I remember wrongly. Maybe I remember wrongly. Due to the work of Airline A, I had a nervous breakdown three or four days ago. The corpse of the tree, the unexpected blow made me flustered and confused." —You just killed Sachiko Edamura, so your mood is agitated and your thoughts are disordered.You want to say that these are caused by neurasthenia.