mtlumby2d Chapter 280 The Murdered Mother and Son
Chapter 280 The Murdered Mother and Son
Jingzhong City No. 1 Detention Center.
Hu Weiqiang was taken to the meeting room.
When he saw that the people who came to see him were Qi Lei and Su Xiaoxiao, a look of surprise appeared on his face.
His case was sentenced to death in the first instance, but he appealed. The second instance verdict will be announced in the next two days, and there is a high possibility that the original verdict will be upheld.
He actually had given up hope, but everyone is afraid of death, so he wanted to live one more day.
The Hu Weiqiang in front of her was very different from the one in Su Xiaoxiao's memory. In just two or three months, he had fallen from an elite lawyer to a prisoner.
His originally plump figure had become visibly thinner, his hair was shaved short, and his chin was covered with stubble. However, he did not look as depressed as they had imagined. He even smiled at them after recognizing them.
"Do you know why we are looking for you today?" Qi Lei asked.
"I don't know." Hu Weiqiang shook his head.
He was telling the truth, he really didn't know why they came. A case like his, which was already a done deal, had nothing to do with the investigative agency. Now the court would not come to hear the case and were just waiting for the ultimatum.
"Hu Weiqiang, we recently arrested someone."
"Who?"
"Zhao Wei, you must be familiar with him. You often followed him around to clean up his messes."
"You actually arrested Zhao Wei?" Hu Weiqiang showed a surprised expression on his face.
"Yes, we arrested Zhao Wei. You should remember the serial murder case three years ago. We found out that Zhao Wei was the murderer."
"So why did you come to see me today?"
"We not only arrested Zhao Wei, but also several killers. These killers are fugitives with serious crimes on their shoulders. Someone specifically raised these people and used them for his own purposes. Do you find this situation familiar?"
Hu Weiqiang's face looked a little embarrassed, his situation was similar, he was caught with robbery, but that person did not report him. Instead, he funded his studies and trained him to become a lawyer. Of course, he could only be used by that person.
There is no free lunch in this world. Everything you get has a price tag, and sooner or later you will have to pay for it.
"You've taken such a big detour, but you still want me to identify the Zhao family. I've already said it, I admit my guilt, and I don't know anything else." Hu Weiqiang shook his head.
"Hu Weiqiang, we are here to tell you something. We have interrogated the five killers. One of them killed two people in July this year."
Qi Lei took a photo from Su Xiaoxiao. The photo showed a woman holding a boy of five or six years old in her arms.
He handed the photo to Hu Weiqiang. When he saw the people in the photo, Hu Weiqiang's hands and his whole body began to tremble. He looked at Qi Lei in disbelief, "They are dead. Both of them are dead?"
After Su Xiaoxiao discussed with Qi Lei and others yesterday, they began to investigate the relationships around Hu Weiqiang. They found that apart from social events, he didn't interact much with women, and it didn't seem like he had ever been particularly nice to any woman.
They even checked the foremen and managers of the entertainment venues who had a good relationship with him, but none of them matched the criteria. According to these girls, Lawyer Hu did have some casual flirtations with them, but he was definitely not sincere and was a cold and heartless guy.
When they investigated the law firm, they did not find anything unusual. Even the assistants he used were all male. It was said that he had used female assistants before, but because the female assistants did not do their job well, he fired her. From then on, he only used male assistants.
At that time, Su Xiaoxiao casually asked the name of the female assistant. The staff of the law firm checked and found out that the female assistant who was fired was named Bai Weiwei.
She felt that the name was familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen it.
Later, when reporting to Qi Lei, Qi Lei remembered that among the people killed by the five killers, there was a mother and son. The mother was called Bai Jie, but she had a former name, which seemed to be Bai Weiwei.
They were still wondering why they wanted to kill such a mother and son. The other people they killed were basically those who hindered the Zhao Group, or blocked their way, or discovered their secrets. There were only two people for whom they could not find a reason.
One is the mother and son, and the other is Su Xiaoxiao’s father.
But if that woman was Bai Weiwei and was related to Hu Weiqiang, they would understand.
Hu Weiqiang turned against Bai Weiwei on the surface and fired her, but in fact she was pregnant. They covered it up very well, pretending to fire her and let her go to another city, and she gave birth to his child. He rarely met them, but he arranged their lives and made sure they had enough food and clothing.
He thought he was being very secretive, and no one would have thought that an assistant he fired would be his lover.
But once you do it, it will leave traces, and no matter how secretive it is, it will still be discovered.
The deaths of the two were ruled accidents at the time, and if it weren't for the killer's own confession, no one would have thought they were murdered.
"They promised me that as long as I don't talk nonsense, I won't touch them." A trace of hatred appeared on Hu Weiqiang's face. That was his last hope. Even if he died, at least his life could continue. But now even this hope is gone.
"You've been following them for so long, how can you still be so naive?! Don't you know what kind of people they are? Do you want to avenge your child? If so, tell us everything you know. People like this shouldn't be able to get away with it."
"What do you want to know?" Hu Weiqiang gritted his teeth.
"You were the one who cleaned up the serial murder case for Zhao Wei three years ago, right?"
Hu Weiqiang nodded.
"Tell us what happened."
Hu Weiqiang has always known that Zhao Wei has a fetish. He cut a girl's hair when he was in school. He originally thought it was not a big deal, but he did not expect it to develop to the point where someone died.
That day, he was asleep when Zhao Zhixiang called him and said that Zhao Wei was in trouble and asked him to come over quickly.
Only when he arrived at the scene did he realize that someone was dead.
Zhao Wei asked him in panic what to do, and he said that he did not mean to do it, he just played too much, and he didn't know how he strangled the person to death.
Under pressure from Zhao Zhixiang, he could only help deal with the scene. Fortunately, he was a criminal defense lawyer, had seen countless cases, and knew how to deal with corpses and fake scenes to prove an alibi.
Of course, he couldn't do all this by himself. He was only responsible for finding solutions, and Zhao Zhixiang would find someone else to handle the rest. He knew that Zhao Zhixiang had connections at all levels.
Hu Weiqiang also said that Zhao Wei was a relatively good kid except for having some quirks. But he kept killing people, which surprised him and scared him every time. He suspected that Zhao Wei had taken drugs at the time, but he did not admit it.
When he was helping Zhao Wei with the aftermath for the third time, he almost went crazy and wanted to beat him to death. The matter was getting bigger and bigger, and sooner or later it would be traced back to Zhao Wei, and he might even be implicated. So he gave them an idea to divert the blame to another case so that Zhao Wei would have absolute proof of his alibi.
"Given your caution, if someone has something on you, you can't possibly not keep some evidence in your hands, right?"