The next day at noon, Chen Yang found that Shen Xue had indeed brought pig trotter soup, and he didn't know where she found a pot to stew it in.
His aunt's family also came to visit in the morning. Yesterday, Zhao Wukang had gone back and explained the whole incident. His aunt and uncle were terrified. If it hadn't been too late and unsafe, and they were afraid of disturbing Chen Yang's rest, they probably would have come to visit last night.
When Gao Feng took the police to the scene yesterday, the madman had already woken up. If his hands and feet hadn't been broken by Gao Feng and Zhao Wukang, and he hadn't been tied up, he would have escaped.
The police confiscated the madman's boning knife and sent it to the forensic doctor for comparison with the wounds on the victim's body, as well as for comparison with the madman's shoes and some footprints left at the crime scene.
It was a basic match!
However, the madman remained silent even after being taken to the police station.
When asked, he always had only one sentence.
"Everyone must die, all must die!"
He refused to confess, and convicting him solely on the footprints and boning knife found at the crime scene was still difficult.
But the madman was not living any easier than being dead. His hands and feet were completely broken, and he couldn't even move. The pain from his injuries constantly pricked his nerves, and the police did not help him find a doctor.
This was not like later times, where a murderer was treated like a treasure, cared for in the hospital with the best medical resources, and directly taken to the interrogation room for questioning and investigation.
This murder case had an extremely significant impact on the social order of Liuhe County, and they had to solve the case as quickly as possible to reassure the public.
This was a strict order from the county leaders to the bureau!
Having finally caught the suspect who might be the murderer, they naturally wouldn't let him go easily.
The police from the Household Registration Department took photos and compared them with the suspect's appearance, then asked the village cadres near the crime scene and the cadres from various street offices in the city to identify him.
First, they needed to ascertain the suspect's identity, which would facilitate the administrative department's colleagues in conducting a background investigation and analyzing the murderer's motives.
They also took the murderer's photos to the hospital where the victim worked and asked the victim's colleagues for confirmation, to see if anyone knew him, as the murderer's brutal methods made it hard not to suspect revenge.
Unfortunately, neither the victim's colleagues nor even the victim's husband recognized the suspect.
None of the cadres from the surrounding villages or nearby street offices recognized the suspect's identity either.
For a time, the background investigation also stalled.
Finally, the police department invited several retired veteran police officers with rich experience in criminal investigation to come out of retirement.
These old officers, using special methods and after several days of intensive interrogations, finally managed to break the suspect's silence.
"That woman, a stupid donkey, I followed her the whole way and she didn't notice."
"I originally just wanted to play around, but I didn't expect to knock her out with one blow, and I told her not to scream, but she insisted on yelling."
"So I cut her vocal cords with a knife first."
"Then I severed the tendons in her hands and feet, and she couldn't run away."
"After that, I had my way with her."
"I wasn't even finished before she lost all strength, unable to struggle anymore, like a lifeless doll, so I had no choice but to stab her again after a while."
"But when I stabbed her, she struggled more fiercely, which was more interesting."
"After I was done, I stabbed her heart with a knife."
"I'm very steady with my hands, and the last stab wasn't painful."
"I've been a surgeon for decades, and my hands have always been precise."
When the man finally confessed, he was unusually calm, so calm it was terrifying.
The young police officer accompanying the interrogation had nightmares for several days after listening to him calmly describe his incredibly brutal crimes.
He was a devil on earth, committing such a brutal murder as if he were casually killing a chicken.
Even the experienced veteran police officers trembled inwardly as they listened. This person was corrupt to the core, so much so that he completely accepted his own depravity.
He was a complete madman.
"Then why did you attack the three men and two children who were with her? How could you, one person, deal with three of them? What was your motive?"
The old police officer continued to inquire. The murder case that had shocked Liuhe County had been solved, but as a professional habit, he still had to thoroughly investigate why this madman had gone on such a violent killing spree.
While the previous victim could be attributed to lust, what about Chen Yang and the other two men? He couldn't possibly be interested in men, could he?
Moreover, the killer was only one person; how could he subdue three adult men!
"I've dealt with groups of two or three people in the past. After finishing with that woman, it was almost dawn, and I didn't have time to bury the body."
"In the past, when someone died, you police couldn't find out, and it would be forgotten in a few days."
"But I didn't expect this time to be so big."
"I was afraid of getting caught, so I wanted to run, but I had no money. Those three guys were riding two bicycles, they must have had money!"
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"If I killed them, I would have money to run."
"Originally, I could have finished off the kid in the back with one knife, but he discovered me."
The man paused at this point and gave the police a crazed smile.
"He will die."
"Suspect, please control your emotions. This is the police station, and we will not allow you to harm any more citizens."
"So, you have committed crimes before and killed people?"
The old police officer's eyebrows shot up. Killing one person was already a capital offense, so this murderer would definitely be executed after conviction.
Therefore, it was estimated that he himself knew this, which was why he casually mentioned his previous crimes.
This reminded the veteran police officers of the cold cases of disappearances that had occurred intermittently over the past ten to twenty years.
"Killed."
"About one every six months, sometimes one a year, sometimes several at once."
"Cover their mouths, slash their throats, and then move on to the next. From start to finish, they never even saw my face."
"Everyone must die, all must die!"
The murderer roared frantically. Afterwards, he became like a madman, constantly shouting "Everyone must die, all must die," and refused to say anything more.
The veteran police officers had originally intended to solve the old cold cases as well, but the murderer refused to speak any further.
Although he hinted that he might have been a surgeon, the veteran police officers searched all the hospitals in the county, but no one recognized him.
They didn't even know the murderer's name. In the end, he only repeated one sentence: "Everyone must die, all must die," and no one could communicate with him any further.
Fortunately, in this era, the laws were not as comprehensive as they are now. Executing a death sentence required reporting to the Supreme Court for review before it could be carried out, and there was no concept of not guilty by reason of insanity.
After all, the severe crackdowns in later years involved public trials and immediate executions by firing squad, with no delays of several years.
Three days later, after a public trial by the county government, this extremely vicious criminal was sentenced to death.
On the day of the execution, the husband of the female employee knelt outside the shooting range and wept towards the direction of his home.