When he came to the room's door, Mira was standing there looking bored. Fangzheng went forward to greet Mira before handing her a piece of paper.
"Go to Room A and ask these questions. Record them with a tape recorder. Don't worry about what he says. Just ask him to answer the questions. It's simple."
"Leave it to me!"
Mira was a little bored staying here. When she heard Fangzheng's task, she quickly cheered up, took the paper, glanced at it, and then ran away excitedly.
"Mr. Fangzheng, isn't that the question we asked before?"
When Mira left, Lan also glanced at her hand and found that the questions on it were basically the same questions they had asked the short fatty before.
"This is called repeated questioning."
Fangzheng withdrew his gaze and explained to Lan.
"If you only ask once, no one will know if the other party made it up, so you have to ask several times. Under such high-intensity repeated questioning, as long as the person has a guilty conscience, he will definitely give himself away. And more importantly, this can prevent the other party from retracting his confession in court. "
"Retracting his confession in court?"
"This situation is rare, but it's not impossible."
Fangzheng shrugged his shoulders. In fact, many cases in Detective Conan met the standard of retracting a confession in court. As a police officer, as a prosecutor, if you want to nail the case, you must ensure that every piece of evidence is accurate. Unlike detectives, where you can find the real murderer, the police still have to consider arresting the criminal, going to court, and what happens after the trial.
Even if a criminal cried in front of Detective Conan and suddenly turned against him in court, saying that he was forced to confess, and that he didn't do it at all, Detective Conan couldn't do anything about it.
Also, many of Detective Conan's cases would not be successful in court.
For example, the evidence was found by Mouri Kogoro and Detective Conan. They had no law enforcement power and were suspected of falsifying evidence, so the evidence would not be accepted.
Or in a secret room such as Blizzard Villa, the other party would cry in front of everyone. After being arrested by the police, he would say that he was forced to confess that he was a criminal. There was a tradition of collective bullying in Japan. At that time, if the prisoner did not record his testimony and sign it, then no matter what others said, it did not count.
"… That's why detectives and policemen are different."
Fangzheng briefly explained the difference between the two to Xiaolan.
"The detective only needs to find the real culprit. He won't worry about anything else. But the police still have to consider the future. It can be said that before the criminal is sentenced, everything is unknown. "
"So that's how it is …"
After hearing Fangzheng's explanation, Xiaolan was also enlightened. Indeed, when she followed Kogoro or Shinichi to solve cases in the past, she found that they rarely cared about whether the criminal was sentenced or not. After all, it was not within their authority, and it would not change anything even if they cared.
"Alright, let's continue."
Fangzheng gave a brief explanation, then pushed open the door and walked into another room. He looked at the tall man in front of him and smiled.
The following procedure was no different from the interrogation with the short and fat man. First, they were asked their name, occupation, and gender, then the reason and motive for ransacking other people's rooms.
Like the short and fat man, the tall man insisted that he was looking for evidence.
As for Fangzheng, he was grinning throughout the entire process. He looked very peaceful. Following that, he suddenly asked a question.
"What happened four years ago?"
“！！！”
Hearing this, the tall man's expression suddenly changed. He could no longer close his mouth.
"You just said that this is the second time you've been here. I've also confirmed with the hotel owner. You've only been to this villa twice, once now, and the other time was four years ago. Coincidentally, there was an accident four years ago when you were here. At that time, because of an avalanche, the husband of the hotel owner and a tourist were killed. The husband's body was found, but the tourist was nowhere to be found. "
Fangzheng picked up the room record and waved it in front of the tall man, then suddenly slammed it on the table.
"Tell me! Did you kill him?! "
Fangzheng's change was very sudden. There was no warning at all. Just a second ago, he was still calmly arguing with the tall man, but in the next moment, he suddenly roared. Not only did the tall man jump in fright, but even Xiao Lan, who was sitting next to him and writing down her statement, was shocked and almost jumped out of her chair.
The tall man really jumped up from the ground.
"No! We didn't kill anyone!! "
"No?"
Fangzheng patted the record in his hand.
"It's clearly written here. At that time, only you, the two ladies, and their boyfriends came to stay at the villa. During this time, there was an avalanche accident. The hotel owner tried to save a man, but he was buried by the avalanche along with a male tourist. Although the hotel owner's body was found, the male tourist's body was not found …. "
Fangzheng squinted his eyes and looked at the tall man coldly.
"If that's the case, it could have ended in an accident. But now, four years later, you've appeared here again, and this time, Mr. Niigaki was also killed. Not only that, but after knowing that the other party was dead, you went to the victim's room and rummaged through the drawers …. "
Fangzheng stretched out his hand and tapped on the table.
"These suspicious points indicate that you must have something to do with Mr. Niigaki's death. Maybe the death four years ago was not an accident, but was caused by you. As a cameraman, Mr. Ninyuan probably recorded some evidence of your crimes at the time, so in order to avoid being discovered, you killed him. You even wanted to find the evidence of the time to destroy the evidence …. Am I right? "
"No, no, we really didn't kill anyone! It was just an accident ….! "
Upon saying that, the tall man suddenly shut his mouth. But to Fangzheng, that was enough.
"Please."
"…."
Looking at Fangzheng in front of him, the tall man was silent for a moment. In the end, he sighed and told the truth.
"Okay, I'll tell you …. Here's what happened …."
According to the tall man, they did come here to hunt four years ago. The situation at that time was like this. Niigaki and his girlfriend's brother went out to take a photo together. On the way, Niigaki's girlfriend's brother was injured, and the husband of the hotel owner who was in charge of leading the way went to help.
At that time, the two of them were hunting. At first, they thought the injured tourist was a beast and fired at him. However, they didn't expect that they didn't hit the other party. Instead, the sound of gunfire triggered an avalanche, which caused the tragedy.
The photographer, Niigaki, who was present at the time, not only did not go to help save his girlfriend's brother, but he also recorded the whole process with a camera. Of course, the two gunshots were also recorded.
After that, Niigaki contacted the two to blackmail them, asking them to buy back the videotape. The location was set at the Bragging Heights, so the two came here.
In the end, they didn't expect that the cameraman would die before they could meet Eryuan. They were worried that the tape would be discovered by others, so they broke into Eryuan and his girlfriend's room in an attempt to find the tape.
At first, the two thought that it was not a big deal, but they did not expect that there was a police officer in the group ….
After the tall man confessed everything, Fangzheng asked Lan to make a statement, let the other party confirm it, and then sign it. After that, he took Lan to the room where the short fatty was and asked Mira to interrogate the tall man again. He wanted Mira to repeat what had happened at the time, while he and Lan began to interrogate the short fatty again.
After playing the interrogation record of the tall man, the short fatty broke down and decisively admitted their crimes. At the same time, he told the two again what happened four years ago. In short, the specific process was no different from what the tall man said. Next, Fangzheng asked him to confirm his testimony and sign it. Thus, the case came to an end.
"Was Mr. Niigaki really not killed by them?"
Walking out of the room, Xiao Lan still felt incredulous. After all, the motive of these two people to kill was too sufficient. Moreover, when she went out with Shinichi and Mouri Kogoro in the past, there was no lack of cases where people killed to destroy evidence. Moreover, Mr. Niigaki was obviously here to blackmail them. It was not difficult to understand that he wanted to kill the person who knew the inside story once and for all.
"They might have such an idea, but they didn't have the time to carry it out."
Fangzheng shrugged and looked at Lan.
"Then please call Miss Gan Liazi over."
"Miss Yazi?"
"Yes, she is the victim's girlfriend and the sister of the victim four years ago. We should tell her the truth, right?"
Of course, the truth was not that simple.
In another room, Fangzheng and Xiaolan met the short-haired woman, Gan Liazi. After playing the interrogation videos of the tall man and short fatty, Gan Liazi immediately burst into tears and sobbed incessantly. Little Lan was also rather sad when she saw this. However, just as she was about to go forward to comfort him, Fangzheng suddenly said something.
"Miss Gan Liazi, did you kill your boyfriend, Mr. Niigaki?"
“？？？”
Upon hearing that, Xiaolan was alarmed. She looked at Fangzheng, but before she could say a word, Gan Liazi nodded.
"Yes, I killed him …"
“？？？”
This time, Lan was completely dumbfounded.
After that, Gan Liazi also confessed her crime. It turned out that when she was looking for a change of clothes for her boyfriend the night before, she accidentally found the videotape from four years ago. At that time, Gan Liazi thought that it was a video of their trip here, so she took it out to check, only to see the scene of her brother and the hotel owner's husband being buried alive by an avalanche.
This made Gan Liazi extremely angry. Her boyfriend did not go to save her brother, but cold-bloodedly filmed the whole process. He even said, "Your sister is mine now." So, Gan Liazi decided to kill him. The next day, she pretended to be worried about Piao Xue. After she went out, she found Niigaki and killed him. Then, Gan Liazi deliberately used the camera to take photos to disguise herself.
But even so, Gan Liazi only thought that the avalanche was an accident. Only now did she know that it was not really an accident …
Fangzheng silently filmed the whole interrogation process, then took down the statement, confirmed it, signed it, and stamped it.
Done and done.
Just as Fangzheng and Lan walked out of the room, they saw Conan running over excitedly.
"Fangzheng, Lan, listen to me, I already know the culprit's modus operandi! I also know who the culprit is! "
"Oh."
Fangzheng nodded.
"There's no need to say anything else. Miss Gan Liazi has already confessed, and the statement has been made."
"… Huh?"
Hearing this.
Conan was stunned.
He had just figured out the key points. Why was it over already?
Then what should he do with his detective show?
"Then just tell us what's going on with that chocolate."
Looking at Conan's shocked face, Fangzheng could not help but comfort him.
"Although Miss Gan Liazi admitted that she killed the man, she didn't put the chocolate there. In fact, Miss Gan Liazi herself doesn't know why there was a piece of chocolate there.... So, can a famous detective like you please explain it to us?"
"…"
Conan said that he did not want to say anything. He just wanted some peace.
Don't ask him who peace is.
(End of this chapter)
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