Chapter 33 third chapter

Detective Souda Sousuke speaks with the Nagasaki police at the police station. "Numai Heiyoshi confessed, and the wife murder case was finally solved." The Nagasaki policeman said while drinking tea. There was also a cup of tea on the table in front of Soeda.During the day, the police station was quiet, not even the phone rang.A large map of the area was pasted on the wall. At the entrance and exit, a young policeman stood facing the street with his hands folded behind his back and his legs spread.The back with the pistol bag slung from his shoulders was the same as Soeda half a year ago.

Soeda used to serve at the police station with the Nagasaki police, a middle-aged senior who was picky about his work and took care of young people. Soda just passed by the police station today and came in to sit for a while. The Nagasaki police naturally brought up the case of Numai Tomiko's murder. The Nagasaki police called the General Administration when the murder happened, and rushed to Numai's house to preserve the scene.Souda Sou also went to Numai's house with Mr. Sugiura and drew a sketch of the scene.After that, he also attended the interrogation as a "probationary". However, the new criminal police had to pour tea and run errands for the senior criminal police, which was similar to the apprenticeship system.

The "solved" that the Nagasaki police are talking about now means that Heiyoshi Numai has confessed and was prosecuted for it.Numai Heiji has also been sent to the detention center, which means that the relationship with the police has ended.For the search unit, this is indeed a "solved" case. "The suspect Numai Heiyoshi was interrogated by Deputy Police Department Yokokawa of the Prefectural Police Headquarters and Section Chief Sugiura of the Headquarters. I cannot enter the interrogation room, so I don't know what kind of interrogation procedures made Numai Heiyoshi confess." Soda said. .

"You mean, what's the point of the interrogation?" The Nagasaki policeman lowered his voice and asked.Because the tone of the new criminal police officer sounds like he has doubts about the investigation of the case. The young policeman at the door stood in a robot-like posture, so as not to hear the whispered words of the two behind him.Pedestrians and vehicles come and go on the streets outside, and most residents in this area own their own cars. "No, I didn't mean reluctantly. It's just that Heiyoshi Numai seems to be confessing too well according to the police's wishes."

"Hmm." Nagasaki was silent for a while dissatisfied.The "reluctantly" mentioned here means induced interrogation or torture. Of course, according to the new criminal procedure law, induced interrogation or torture is prohibited.Therefore, the suspect cannot be given physical pain to force a confession as in the past.However, there are "interrogation techniques" to make up for this. For example, if there is insufficient evidence, an arrest warrant cannot be issued, but in the case of Numai Heiyoshi, he was arrested on the grounds that he had not paid the restaurant's bill before May-"free food" (this must be accompanied by the restaurant's complaint) assist).In other words, it is compensated by the search technique of "arrest in another case".

The Nagasaki police were displeased with Sota's skeptical tone because he was convinced that Tomiko's murderer was her husband Heiyoshi Numai.Therefore, Pingji's self-confession is a natural result, and there is no need to "force" to extract a confession. Seeing Senior's almost unhappy expression, Soda lowered his eyes and took a sip of cold tea. A figure appeared at the door.The young policeman on guard looked at the map on the wall, answered the middle-aged woman who asked for directions, and pointed to the map with his white-gloved fingertips. During this, the conversation between Nagasaki and Soda was interrupted.

The woman nodded and left, and the policeman on guard resumed his original posture. Under the warm sunshine outside, pedestrians and vehicles were moving, a leisurely spring scene. "New investigators really need to consider all kinds of things, some of which are important and some of which are meaningless. Veteran police officers can naturally distinguish the difference due to their rich experience in the field. Experience comes first in everything. It may not be easy to tell the difference at the beginning, but under the guidance of the seniors and the more times I have been to the scene in person, I will gradually understand." The Nagasaki policeman said in a soothing tone.He hadn't served in the Criminal Department, but still had common sense in the area.

"I understand, Mr. Nagasaki." Tim Tian knew that he was a new criminal policeman, and he had a sense of intimacy with Nagasaki, his former boss. "But with the eyes of a new criminal police officer, you can still see various things. For example, Numai Heiji said in his confession that he hurt himself with a knife in his left hand. That is the issue of self-injury written in the probation." "Well." "In the self-confession, Pingji said: Because I am not left-handed, killing myself with my left hand will result in a shallower wound than my right hand."

"What's wrong?" "This is my layman's idea. I think that when you want to hurt yourself, unless you are left-handed, it is easier to control it with your right hand. If you hurt yourself with your left hand, which is not used to holding a knife, you may not be able to control yourself just right if you want to kill yourself. , maybe it will kill even deeper." "Hmm." Nagasaki stretched his hands in front of him, moved his left and right hands alternately, or made a fist, experimenting with Soda's words. "Your words are also reasonable, but anyway, this is his own confession." Nagasaki, who can't use his left hand, also admitted Soda's words, but still focused on Heingyoshi's own confession.

"About this self-confession," said Soda, dragging a chair and sitting closer to Nagasaki, "at the beginning, Heiyoshi didn't say that he hurt his body with his left hand." The voice was very low, and the Nagasaki police naturally lowered their heads and moved their ears. "what do you mean?" "I wasn't there when Pingji was interrogated, but I heard that the self-injury with his left hand was said at the end of the confession. I always feel that it was forced." "You mean, induced interrogation?" Nagasaki also lowered his voice, his voice was a little hoarse.

"It seems to me that the interrogation has a pre-arranged element." "..." "That is to say, the investigation unit has a kind of subjectivity, that is, it believes that Pingji's injury is self-made. I think this is affected by the reference opinions in the supervision letter. Pingji's injury is on the right arm, right chest, and right finger. , Right shoulder and back, all are on the right side. It is very difficult to assassinate the right side with the right hand, but it is much easier to assassinate the left side. But since Pingji’s self-injuries are all on the right side, it is only natural to think that he was injured with his left hand. However, in the following The idea of ​​self-injury with the left hand may be the same as the idea of ​​writing with the left hand to deceive the handwriting... So, I think this part may be confessed by Pingji in line with the tone of the investigation." "So, what's the truth?" Nagasaki couldn't help swallowing. "I don't know very well, but if it was hacked to death, the wound is of course on the right side. Pinji said that he was sleeping soundly when he was killed, and he didn't even know that Fuzi next to him was killed. Therefore, as The answer at the beginning of the interrogation was that he was sleeping under the quilt. If he was lying on his side with his left shoulder down, his right shoulder would be on top of his head, and perhaps his chest would be exposed outside the quilt. The outside right shoulder, right chest, right hand, etc.?" The policeman on guard remained motionless, and it was impossible for the conversation here to reach his ears. "Have you reported these opinions to the section chief or other seniors?" Nagasaki asked. "No. Because it was after Pingji made his confession, and after seeing the photocopies of the confession and the search report, it had already been submitted to the District Prosecutor's Office. I think it would be invalid to say anything else." This is not because the case has been submitted to the local prosecutor's office, and the police search has come to an end, but it is related to the "reluctance" element in the imagined interrogation.If there is an element of "reluctance", then the senior boss will never pay attention to what the new criminal police say, and even scold him. "One more thing." Tim Tian said to the amiable old boss. "Well, what is it?" Nagasaki asked helplessly.However, because he had directly participated in the investigation of this murder case, although he was not satisfied with the tone of "criticism" by Tian Tian, ​​he was interested in what he said. "When the site was first inspected, there were no bare footprints in either the tatami room or the floor room. There was no soil brought in from the outside in the earth room and the door." "Isn't this one of the evidences that proves that Pingji committed the crime? There is no trace of intrusion from the outside, which proves that Pingji's claim that the bandits killed people is a lie." Nagasaki replied. "Section Chief Sugiura ordered me to draw a sketch, so I observed carefully. Only the clog prints of Heiyoshi who went to the neighbor's house to report the news, the clog prints of Yano Shoichi and his wife, the shoe prints of you and Dr. Murase, Nagasaki-san, Tomiko Brother’s shoe prints, and the shoe prints of me and other officials.” "Well, yes." "If the murderer came in from the outside, there should be shoe prints or some mud brought in by the dropped shoes in the soil room through the back door." "That's right, Dr. Murase and I dropped some dirt on our shoes." "That's right, the dirt on Hieyoshi's and Yano's clogs is the same. On the floor of this land room, there are a few drops of blood that Pingyoshi dropped when he was going to notify the neighbors. These blood stains are covered with the mud brought in by the clogs and shoes. That is. Said that a few drops of the bloodstains were covered by mud, and these muds were brought back by Pinji when he came back from the neighbor's house. If it was the mud from the murderer's shoes, then Pinji's blood must have fallen on these muds. But, in this way There is not a single drop of dirt. Before Yano, Mr. Nagasaki, and Dr. Murase arrived, it was as clean as if it had just been swept." "Your observation is very careful, I admire it. Therefore, the murderer is someone from the inside, not someone who came in from the outside. The murderer is Pingji." Nagasaki said, which was confessed by Pingji himself. "You once wondered why the eyes of Fuzi's corpse were closed, and you asked me. I don't know who closed the eyes. But according to Pingji's confession, he closed Fuzi's eyelids. You should have read the files kept by the criminal department. It is the psychological state of a close relative who closes the eyes of the deceased. The same is true for acquaintances. The eyes of the dead body were all open. They had nothing to do with the victim during their lifetime, so they were ruthless. Pingji closed Fuzi’s eyes, which is also a characteristic of incest murderers.” "Probably yes." Tiantian nodded to the senior's words, and continued: "However, after reading the confession, I feel that the motive for killing his wife is very weak. It seems that Pingji and Fuzi have never been on good terms, and he is particularly angry at his wife's indifference. Appearance. He is a rough and irritable person. According to his self-confession, he considered killing Tomiko from 2 am to 5 am on the 2nd, and pretended to be a robber to kill someone. A rough and irritable person should be desperate when he gets angry It’s the right way to kill. I always feel that it’s a little bit reluctant for Pinkie to consider the confession of the camouflage method.” Soda's "uneasiness" expressed to the Nagasaki police was indeed correct. Heiyoshi Numai immediately retracted his confession after being sent to the district prosecutor's office, saying that Tomiko was not killed by him, and that the self-confession at the police station was because the interrogating officer said (the self-confession earlier would be Sentence can be commuted) (Honest confession may be released on bail, even if the sentence can be suspended), so he confessed to the murder process according to the induction of the interrogator. It was not voluntary. He told the police at the beginning. When he woke up after being killed, Fuzi had already died in a pool of blood.He said again (I don't remember closing Tomiko's eyes, I think her eyelids were already closed by then.) In addition, because the wallet with 72,500 yen was not under the quilt he put away last night, so he said it was a robber. Afterwards, he found out that Fuzi had taken it to the closet. He was definitely not lying. The news that Pingji retracted his confession in front of the prosecutor reached the department under his jurisdiction at around 2:00 pm two days later. Soda Sousuke visited Shoichi Yano, the manager of the Numai Toll Parking Lot.He was there with another young colleague.Yano lived near Numai Heiyoshi's house, and was entrusted by Numai to manage the parking lot he operated. He lived in the hut next to the vehicle entrance. "I heard that Mr. Numa retracted his confession?" Yano said to Soda who had already met. "How do you know?" Tim Tian smiled shyly. "The newspaper is out." Yano Soo, who had a high forehead and a high forehead, let Soeda and the two detectives into the hut, looked out the window, and saw the ranks of private cars in the parking lot. "This incident made it very difficult for us, because we always believed that Numa's confession was honest." "You mean, so we have to start the search from the beginning?" A complex expression appeared on Yano's sunburned face. "It's not necessary to start from the beginning, but Numai's self-confession and this retraction, I want to prove which side is correct. It would be good if the retraction is the result." Soeda said considering the position of Yano who has a close relationship with Numai. Yanozhuang nodded and said nothing.Judging by his expression, he thought Numai was the wife-killer. "How many cars are there in the parking lot?" Soeda asked as if trying to change Yano's mood.Looking out from this small window, you can see more than a dozen cars, and behind them are the forests and fields surrounding the residential area. "About 30 for a monthly subscription, and about 20 for an irregular one every day." Yano replied, lighting a cigarette. "It seems that there are not many now." "Because it's daytime. Most of the monthly subscriptions are people who work in the city center. When the car goes out and comes in, it's morning and evening. The mobile ones are all in the daytime. Now almost all the cars parked there are temporarily parked. Yes." Yano said with his chin pointing to the lineup of cars of various colors such as white, red, gray and blue. At this time, a white medium-sized car moved from the queue, came and parked in front of the hut, and a young woman's face poked out from the car window and asked: "How much?" Yano glanced at the car number, and checked the number with a college notebook at hand. "Two and a half hours, so three hours, three hundred yuan." After the car drove away, Yano threw three coins into the portable safe next to him. "Mr. Yano, I heard that Mrs. Numai often comes to this hut to replace you?" Soeda recalled what Heikachi said in the survey. "Yes, I come here often. But Mrs. Numai came here to replace me. She came here to read novels. She doesn't get along with her husband, so she hides here to read novels." "How many hours a day do you come?" "Mostly around two o'clock in the afternoon, and go back at four o'clock. Sometimes the time is not certain, so I will take advantage of this time to go home and rest." "Then Mrs. Numai will charge the parking fee?" "yes." "Judging from the car just now, this notebook records the parking time of each car for the purpose of calculating the cost. However, is the car number recorded?" "Of course, otherwise I don't know how much time the car will charge." "Is the whole book kept?" "No, the ones two months ago will be burned. Take this one as an example, the ones three years ago will be burned." "Oh, Mr. Yano, can you lend me the two books you have here?" Soda said to Yano as if remembering. Yano took out two thick notebooks and gave them to Tian. One was used up, and on the cover it read "From January 5th to January 31st".Another copy is in use, dated "Since February 1—".There are still four or five blank pages in the remaining pages of this month. Write the date, parking time, and vehicle number on the light blue horizontal grid with a ball pen.For example: Shinagawa.One four six seven.Eleven o'clock in the morning - one o'clock in the afternoon. Practice horses.Nine one twenty six.Eleven thirty in the morning - two in the afternoon. Saitama.Four one six seven.One o'clock in the afternoon - three twenty. Certainly there are classification numbers such as three, four, five etc. in front of each number. Sure enough, there are two kinds of handwriting, one is rough and clumsy, and the other is graceful and beautiful.The latter is much less. "Is this the handwriting of Tomiko Numai?" "yes." Fuzi's handwriting is recorded in the two hours from 2:00 p.m.During these two hours, the number of vehicles entering and exiting was three. Practice horses.Six nine seven four.Ten past two—forty past three. Saitama.Two six five one.Two forty - three thirty. Yamanashi.Seven one twenty four.Ten past three—thirty past four. The last 4:30 was recorded by Yano who returned to the hut. The number 3 of the classification number is a sedan with more than 2,000 CC, 4 is a truck, and 5 is a sedan with a CC of 2,000, but the make and year are unknown. Tiantian flipped through the book that had been recorded, and Tomiko's handwriting was there every day or the next day.Sometimes the time is from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, sometimes from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm, or from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm, but most of them stay for two hours.This seemed to be the time for Tomiko to hide and read. The figures in the book are all mobile vehicles, and monthly subscriptions are not included.The monthly subscriptions are office workers who live in nearby houses without garages. "What are these mobile parking people doing here?" Soeda asked because in addition to the cars in Tokyo, there are also cars in Saitama, Yamanashi, Chiba and other places. "Is there a variety of colors? Some come to visit people who live nearby, some come for a drive, and some come for a walk in the forest. This area still retains the scenery of Musashino, and there are tea shops and fishing for such people in front of it. The pool is a good picnic place." Tim Tian took a casual look and found that the same car number was parked three or four times, almost none.Parking only once may be just like what Yano said, just going out for a drive and taking a casual walk. "May I copy the car number recorded by Mrs. Numa?" "Yes, please." Yano handed over the notebook in use first, from February 1st to the present, Tomiko's handwriting has been written for a total of 19 days, some in consecutive days, and some at intervals of two or three days.A total of 64 hours and a total of 128 registered vehicles. Ninety-five of the books started on January 5 were registered by Tomiko. By the time Tiantian and his colleagues finished copying down the numbers and parking times of the 223 cars, it was nearly dusk. "Do you want to investigate these cars one by one?" Yano asked with a troubled expression. "No, it's just for reference." Tim Tian laughed. "The detectives work really hard." Yano looked at the two detectives and lit a cigarette. "Because Mr. Pingji retracted his confession, you have to re-investigate. However, didn't you send him to the prosecutor's office after you had all the evidence?" "Yes. However, it still needs to be verified again." "yes?" "Mr. Yano, when Mrs. Numai was here instead of you, was there a driver who often talked to her? Because Mrs. Numai likes to read novels, maybe that driver also has the same interest, and the conversation will be speculative." "I didn't notice that. However, if it had, the car would have been parked here quite often, but it doesn't appear to have the same parking number on the books." "Not bad." Tim Tian replied looking at the ranks of numbers he had copied. "Mrs. Numai probably isn't the kind of person who likes to talk to the driver while reading a book here. She doesn't like to talk to people, but she will complain about the guests instead." "Complain about what?" "It's actually nothing. When I came to exchange once, she lost her temper. I asked her what was the matter? She said that a woman swept the dirt out of the car with a broom and threw it in the corner of the concrete floor in the parking lot. Including fragments of the balloon." "Really? The young women these days are so fresh, even the balloons are hung in the car to play with before they break." Tim Tian said casually.In fact, some young drivers like to put children's toys in the car. "This woman has nothing to say when she is complained. When did this happen?" "It seems to be late January. No, it is said that the driver's seat is a man. There are many self-use cars with cleaning tools in the car, and young drivers are very clean." At this time, another car came to park. The murder case of Tomiko Numai has been investigated and handled by the department under its jurisdiction. The murderer Heiyoshi Numai has been handed over to the District Prosecutor's Office and prosecuted by the prosecutor.Pingji overturns his confession to the police in front of the prosecutor, and the department under his jurisdiction just needs to watch.When the investigator is summoned to testify in the public court, it can be explained that the suspect did not have such facts as "forced freedom", "mental pain caused by prolonged interrogation", "induced interrogation or temptation of interests" as mentioned by the defendant during the investigation stage. Under such circumstances, how could new detective Soda Soeda bring up the toll parking lot notebook to his boss?This means that the search was wrong and must be re-investigated.Section Chief Sugiura will definitely be very angry, as well as the Director and Deputy Police Department Yokokawa who searched the headquarters, right?As a matter of fact, I did not report to the section chief in advance about going to the parking lot to copy the account books. Soda speculates that Numai Tomiko must have known a certain driver who came to the parking lot to read in place of Yano in the toll cabin.Although Yano said that the car number recorded by Tomiko did not repeat the number three times.And Tomiko is not a woman who loves to talk to others, but Soda still believes that Heingichi is not the murderer of his wife.The chance for the real murderer to get in touch with Fuzi must be when Fuzi came to the hut to read. This must have been done by an acquaintance, that's why Fuzi's body had its eyes closed.Heiyoshi responded to the interrogation by the Deputy Police Department of Yokogawa and said, "I may have closed her eyes, but I don't remember." Then the Nagasaki police and Dr. Murase who rushed to the scene also said that Tomiko's eyes were closed. with.The murderer closes the eyelids to those he kills, almost exclusively to relatives or acquaintances.Because the victim's open eyes seem to be filled with revenge spells, the perpetrator will feel afraid and close the eyelids for the other party. From the position of Tomiko's body and face, the ten-watt light in the adjacent room illuminates her face.Although the lights were dim, the eyes of the deceased lying in the pool of blood were wide open, presumably shining like the jade eyes of a Buddha statue.Closing the eyelids is based on the murderer's fear. Section Chief Sugiura and Deputy Police Department Yokogawa thought Numai Heiyoshi's attitude at the scene was too calm, but Adda felt that this might be as he himself said, hoping that the police would arrest the vicious murderer as soon as possible, so he warned everyone that the switch on the wall might have the murderer's fingerprints.His injury was affected by the authoritative supervising physician's reference to "self-injury". ——However, Soeda dared not tell the seniors in the Criminal Division about these thoughts.As for the 223 car numbers recorded by Tomiko on the parking charge book, if you want to track down the owners one by one, unless you mobilize the organizational power of the Criminal Division, it will not be possible for Tima to do it alone.Besides, last year's account books have all been burned. Tian Tian neither dared to report to his superiors, nor could he investigate independently, so he was worried every day.One day, he and his wife went to the underground supermarket of the department store.While his wife was buying beef, he stood in front of a nearby pickle stand and waited.When the female shop assistant in a white blouse and hat handed things to his wife, she glanced at Soda who was standing not far away.Apparently it was known that the guests were a couple. Tim Tian and his wife went to the stall selling dried fish again. When his wife was shopping, he walked towards the ladder first. A female clerk in a white blouse came across the narrow passage and bowed respectfully to him. It turned out to be a female clerk selling beef.Tian Tian has forgotten, but she still remembers that she is "the husband of the wife who buys beef".Probably because of the meeting of eyes just now, he thought Soda remembered her, so he saluted so respectfully. Tian Tian was suddenly controlled by new thoughts, and he didn't know how to get on the ladder. Soeda recalled what Yano had told him. One of the cars parked in the Numai toll parking lot, a woman got out of the car and threw the garbage in the car in the corner of the parking lot, and Tomiko complained.The driver was a man, so he must have stared at Tomiko who was complaining to his wife or lover, right?Fuzi might also stare back at him, and the eyes of the two must have met for a few seconds. It is easy for the dirt brought in by shoes to fall in the car, especially after walking on unpaved roads. However, there are always brooms in the car, which is really a rare person who loves cleanliness.Soda remembered that during the on-site inspection, there was no mud that might have been brought by the murderer's shoes, either indoors or outdoors. But does Tomiko remember this man?He was just one of many stop-stoppers.Suddenly he opened his eyes, and there was a man standing under the dim light. His eyes were not fully awake and he couldn't see who he was, but he was staring at this face. The murderer remembered this pair of gazes, thought that Tomiko recognized him, and decided to kill him. However, as if that wasn't enough.Just throwing garbage, will Tomiko keep staring at the driver?After complaining about this kind of thing, it should be over. Fuzi must have stared at the man's car more enthusiastically. After being stared at stubbornly, the man thought Fuzi remembered his face.In other words, the man driving the car was the murderer.A few days later, when he went to Numai's house to steal, he was seen by Tomiko who woke up.He found out that this woman was a woman who paid in the parking lot, and thought, this woman knows me.Therefore, Fuzi's eyelids were closed after the murder.Because of the fear of her "stare".Closing the eyelids of the deceased made the investigators mistake him for Tomiko's husband.Because relatives often close the eyes for the deceased. So, what was Tomiko staring at in the parking lot? Soda thought it was a balloon. Since her three-year-old son died of illness last year, Tomiko has become somewhat hysterical, and even her husband Pingji can't bear it.This is because she cannot forget her son.She went to the parking lot to read novels, also to distract herself from this longing. At this time, a temporary parking car came, with balloons hanging in the car. Fuzi thought of his son, and stared at the balloon.My son also played with balloons when he was alive.The man in the driver's seat thought Tomiko was staring at him, right? One of the balloons burst, and the woman in the car was taken out together with the sand in the car and thrown in the corner of the parking lot.Perhaps Fuzi felt as if his son's balloon was discarded, and couldn't stand it?Therefore, blame each other fiercely. There may have been several balloons in that car—assuming several.Balloons are available everywhere, but unless you have kids, you don't buy them specifically.Suppose it was bought by young people to play with. So, where did you buy it from?Toy stand?There are often such stalls in festival shrines. Soeda returned home to check the large calendar hanging on the wall.Because the dates of celebrations in various places are recorded on it, I am reluctant to tear it off. He turned back to January, and his eyes stopped on January 18th. <S county T city.Shengming Temple Baohui City> It must be this, Tomada thought.The Shengming Temple is located in a remote place, and usually there are very few people who visit it, but this year there is a temple fair for blessings in Baohui City, so many people from nearby came here.Due to the remoteness, not many people came here from Tokyo.On this day, temporary shops are set up for worshipers, and of course there are shops selling balloons.There are many young people who come to see the excitement. Since there are balloons in the car, it must be on the way back from Baohui City.Because balloons are not things that can be decorated in the car for a long time, the more the number, the more likely it will be on the day. Re-investigate the number of the car parked on January 18 recorded in the account book, and find the owner of the car that went to Baohui City in Shengming Temple that day.Shengming Temple is less than eight kilometers away from the paid parking lot operated by Numai Heiyoshi. The suspect is very likely to live in the prefecture. He must be a young man with a girlfriend and a person who likes to travel by car. Sure enough, the real murderer was caught a month later.