ALL NOVEL Chapter 93
Arc 5 – Deadly Thief
Chapter 93
On March 22, 2021, in the Criminal Investigation Team meeting room, Jiang Chengyan was carefully looking at the information in his hand. Everyone entered the meeting room one after another, and after taking their seats, they took out their notebooks and waited for the meeting to start.
Jiang Chengyan glanced at the crowd and said, “Everyone is here, so let’s start the meeting. Today, we received a case. Let’s understand the basics first and start with the victim information.”
Jiang Chengyan pinned the photos on the table on the whiteboard and said, “Maxiaohan, seven years old, was born on May 8, 3012, and lives in 701, 7th floor, building 2, Ping’an community. His father, Ma Donghai, 35 years old, works in Yan’s hotel as the general manager. His mother, Qiao Hui, 32 years old, and his mother, Qiao Hui, is 32 years old and works as an account manager at Zhenxing Bank. On March 18, 3021, Ma Xiaohan was confirmed dead in the municipal hospital. The cause of death written on the hospital’s report was heart failure. His father, Ma Donghai, suspected the cause of his death and applied for forensic intervention. Yesterday afternoon, Su Ke issued an autopsy report. Su Ke, please tell us about it.”
Su Ke nodded and said, “During the autopsy on Ma Xiaohan, it was found that he indeed died of heart failure, but he was missing a kidney. I asked the deceased’s family members, and they did not have any organ transplants or sign an organ donation agreement, meaning that someone removed Ma Xiaohan’s body organs after his death.”
“How could this be allowed to happen in the hospital?” Liu Ran’s eyebrows wrinkled into a knot.
“Of course, the hospital will not allow such a thing to happen. I suspect that this is a surgeon involved in organ trading.” Su Ke paused, then said, “Because of this situation, I am very concerned about the cause of Ma Xiaohan’s death. So I did a drug and poison test and found that Ma Xiaohan had excessive foxglove in his body. Foxglove is a kind of medicine for the treatment of heart disease. Taking it in a normal dose can treat heart disease, but once consumed excessively, it will be the catalyst for the death of heart disease patients. And I also asked Ma Xiaohan’s family. Since Ma Xiaohan was hospitalized, his parents have been by his side. There is no excessive of the drug. Combined with illegally removing his organs, I suspect someone deliberately caused his death. This means the murderer injected the foxglove excessively, causing Ma Xiaohan to be poisoned and leading to heart failure.”
Yao Min said in shock, “Su Ke, do you mean someone tried to poison this child for his organs? This doctor is too inhuman!”
“En, this is the most reasonable inference from our clues. Organ removal requires a very professional knowledge base and surgical experience, so the direction of the murderer is obvious. At least he has professional surgical knowledge and experience and may even be a doctor in the municipal hospital.”
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“The basic situation is clearly understood. Now, everyone follows me.”
Everyone quickly left the conference room and drove to the municipal hospital, which caused unnecessary panic, and went directly to the president’s office.
Jiang Chengyan knocked on the door. When he heard the answer, he opened the door and walked in, followed by Yao Min, and the other team members stayed outside.
The president was a middle-aged man with glasses and a little bit fat. Seeing Jiang Chengyan coming in, he asked suspiciously, “Who are you?”
Jiang Chengyan took out his ID and said, “President Huang, we are from the Criminal Investigation Team investigating Ma Xiaohan’s death. I hope you can cooperate.”
“Ma Xiaohan?” Huang Weimin frowned slightly and said, “Captain Jiang brought people here today. Could the cause of Ma Xiaohan’s death be suspicious?”
Jiang Chengyan nodded and said, “Not only is the cause of death in doubt, but there is also a kidney missing from his body. Having access to his body and the ability to remove organs, I suspect it is someone from your hospital. To avoid adverse effects on your hospital, I hope Mr. Huang can cooperate with our investigation.”
Thinking of the negative impact of this incident, Huang Weimin nodded hurriedly and said, “Captain Jiang, rest assured, we will cooperate with the police’s work, but I hope you will not publicize this incident.”
“Don’t worry. Our police station has regulations and will not disclose any information about the case. Jiang Chengyan paused and asked, “Mr. Huang, who is Ma Xiaohan’s attending doctor? Are they in the hospital now?”
“Ma Xiaohan’s attending doctor is Xiao Lan. She should go to work today. Wait a minute. I’ll call her and ask her to come here.”
Huang Weimin connected to Xiao Lan’s office and told her to come over immediately.
Jiang Chengyan then asked, “Mr. Huang, are there any surveillance cameras in the operating room of your hospital?”
“Yes, for large surgeries like this, we leave surveillance videos as evidence for preservation. If Captain Jiang wants it, I’ll ask someone to send it here.”
“Don’t bother, Mr. Huang. Where is your monitoring room here? I’ll send someone over.”
“There is a row of three-story buildings at the northeast corner of the hospital gate. You can find it when you go in. ”
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Jiang Chengyan came to the office door, looked at Li Tong, and said, “Li Tong, you and Zhang Liang go to the hospital surveillance room. Retrieve the surveillance video of Ma Xiaohan’s last surgery. The surveillance room is in a three-story building at the northeast corner of the hospital gate.”
“Yes, Captain.”
“Liu Ran, Wang Bin, go and check the duty records of Ma Xiaohan’s ward, and find the nurse who replaced his injections to find out what happened.”
“Guo Hai and Chen Miao, go check the whereabouts of the medical waste and try to find the medical waste belonging to Ma Xiaohan, especially the IV bottle.”
“Yes, Captain.”
After everyone left, Jiang Chengyan returned to the president’s office again and said, “Mr. Huang, how much do you know about Xiao Lan?”
“Xiao Lan is our hospital’s technical backbone. She has already reached the director position at a young age, which is enough to prove her ability. I don’t believe that she is a criminal.”
“Do you know her family situation? Are there any patients in her family who urgently need a kidney transplant?”
Huang Weimin shook his head and said, “I haven’t heard of this. At least our hospital has no patients related to her who need kidney transplants.”
While the two were talking, there was a knock on the office door. Huang Weimin glanced at Jiang Chengyan subconsciously and responded, “Come in.”
The door was opened, and a woman in her thirties walked in. She had long hair pulled behind her head and wearing a white coat. She was neatly dressed, a typical professional woman.
Xiao Lan glanced at Jiang Chengyan and Yao Min and said, “President, you’re looking for me.”
Huang Weimin pointed at the two and introduced, “Director Xiao, these two are police officers from the Criminal Investigation Team. It’s Captain Jiang. They are here for Ma Xiaohan.”
“Ma Xiaohan?” Xiao Lan frowned and said, “Ma Xiaohan was a patient with congenital heart disease and died of heart failure. What happened?”
Jiang Chengyan said calmly, “Ma Xiaohan died of heart failure, but when the forensic doctor autopsied his body, he found a kidney missing. Also, his removal method was very professional. For this matter, does Director Xiao have anything to explain?”
Xiao Lan’s brows became tighter, and she said, “missing a kidney? His operation was only for the heart; we didn’t touch his other organs. This kind of large-scale surgery has surveillance video. If you don’t believe it, you can check the surveillance video. We brought him into the operating room on the resuscitation day. His heart already stopped. There was no surgery at all.”
“We’ll see about it. In addition to missing a kidney, Ma Xiaohan’s body also detected an excess of foxglove. Director Xiao is a doctor in cardiac surgery. You should know what an excess of foxglove can cause.”
Xiao Lan’s face became ugly, and there is no better understanding of the characteristics of foxglove than she, a cardiac surgeon. “I told the patient’s family to follow the dosage I said. However, if adults are not around, it is inevitable for children to eat the wrong amount, and it’s not the hospital’s fault.”
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“Director Xiao, if it’s only a case of overdose, maybe the child you said is not sensible and took the wrong medicine, but don’t forget that he also has a kidney missing. Combined with these two points, we suspect someone deliberately poisoned Ma Xiaohan for his organs.”
Xiao Lan had to admit that Jiang Chengyan had a point. Her face became even more ugly, and she said, “Captain Jiang, although I am Ma Xiaohan’s attending doctor, I prescribed his medication according to the normal dosage, and I didn’t know about the missing of his kidney. For every resuscitation, there were not only several nurses present but also Dr. Zhang of the cardiac surgery department. In full view of everyone, I couldn’t have done that.”
“After announcing Ma Xiaohan’s death, who handled the body?”
“After the failure of resuscitation, I left the operating room and explained the patient’s condition to the patient’s family. After that, the work was handed over to Dr. Zhang, who also handled the body.”
“Doctor Zhang? What’s his name? Did he come to work today?”
“His name is Zhang Wei, also a doctor in the cardiac surgery department. He seems to have taken a leave of absence and did not come today.”
“Zhang Wei?” Jiang Chengyan frowned slightly, suddenly remembering that the doctor he met that day when he went to the morgue also seemed to be named Zhang Wei. “An ordinary-looking, medium-built male doctor with a pair of black-framed glasses?”
“Doctor Zhang does wear a pair of black-rimmed glasses. Do you know him, Captain Jiang?”
“Does Director Xiao have his contact information?”
“Yes, I have his cell phone number.”
“Then I will trouble Director Xiao to call him and ask where he is now?”
Xiao Lan nodded, took out his mobile phone, and dialed Zhang Wei. Hearing the mobile phone beep, he said, “His mobile phone is off, can’t get through.”
“Where is his home address?”
“I don’t know, but it should be in the entry information.” Xiao Lan looked at Huang Weimin.
“Wait a moment, Captain Jiang. I’ll pull Zhang Wei’s information out.”
Huang Weimin logged into the hospital system and directly retrieved Zhang Wei’s information. After Jiang Chengyan took the photo, he looked at Xiao Lan and said, “Director Xiao, until your suspicion is ruled out, please don’t leave Huacheng for now.”
Xiao Lan nodded and said, “Don’t worry, Captain Jiang, I will actively cooperate with the investigation.”
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Jiang Chengyan didn’t say anymore. He drove directly with Yao Min to Changhong community where Zhang Wei lived. According to the information on the data, when they came to Zhang Wei’s door, Yao Min knocked on the door, and then she heard someone answer, “coming, coming, who is it?”
Yao Min glanced at Jiang Chengyan and said, “Police, please open the door.”
The room door was quickly opened, and an old man appeared at the door, looked at the two, and asked suspiciously, “Who are you looking for?”
“Auntie, may I ask if Zhang Wei lives here?”
The old woman nodded hesitantly and said, “Are you the police? What are you doing with our Ah-Wei?”
“Auntie, don’t be nervous. We’re just looking for him to get some information. Is Zhang Wei at home?”