The Confession Target (7)

"What about the other recording?"

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"...We made eye contact for a while, a few minutes..."

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"There's no sound after this. She must have been dragged away by then."

June 3, 2011. Contacted Hou Jianing's blind date, Wei Chenfeng. Audio file 07020110603.wav.

"Hello, Mr. Wei. Ms. Ma may have already contacted you regarding our interview."

"Ah, yes, Auntie Lin mentioned it... Ah, her husband's surname is Lin, he's my dad's colleague, so I call her that."

"We'd like to ask about what happened on May 20th. Could you please recount the events of that day in detail?"

"Okay. I had arranged to meet Jianing a few days prior. We met through a blind date, introduced by Auntie Lin. It was our first meeting, we talked for a while, and we both felt a good impression of each other, so we decided to see how things went. We went out for a few more meals after that, and often texted and called each other. We had plans to have dinner and watch a movie on May 20th, and after the movie, we even had a late-night snack. It was at Binjiang Road. We didn't part ways until close to the last train. I walked her to the subway station and watched her go in. She's a very good girl, she even told me to hurry back so I wouldn't miss the last train... If only I hadn't been so stingy with money and just taken a taxi to send her home, maybe this wouldn't have happened..."

"Did she contact you again that night?"

"She texted me when she got home that night, and I texted back saying goodnight. She didn't mention anything else."

"Before that? Did she mention anything during your date that day?"

"She mentioned that incident