In "Brave Detectives 4," the brutal and ugly reality of criminals has been tracked down to the end.
In the 36th episode of "Brave Detectives 4," which aired on the 30th on T-Cast E Channel and directed by Lee Ji-sun, Incheon Nonhyeon Police Station Integrated Criminal Team Leader Song Young-beom, Incheon Namdong Police Station Violent Crimes Team 4 Chief Ahn Jae-hwan, former Commissioner Yoon Oe-chul of the Scientific Investigation Team (KCSI), and Chief Kim Jin-soo granted their investigative diaries on cases they solved directly.
The first case began with a report that a person's foot had been visible from the window of the building across for two days. When the door was opened, the body of a young man in his 20s lay face down on the floor, bleeding, surrounded by broken soju bottles, cigarette butts, and bloody footprints. An autopsy revealed over 40 stab and cut wounds on the body. With the victim's computer, cell phone, and credit card missing, the investigation team traced CCTV footage, starting with a canceled receipt from a karaoke room near the victim's home two days prior to the incident. They subsequently caught the presence of a man surnamed Yoo (pseudonym), known for his remarkably long jaw, who had entered the victim's home and left alone.
The victim, who had drunk with a friend the night before, headed to downtown alone and encountered Yoo with a tout. According to the tout, Yoo asked for help in finding the person who took him to a bar, after which he went to drink with the victim. Targeting the victim's money, Yoo displayed suspicious behavior by frequently transferring taxis after the crime, seemingly to confuse the route, and also visited an adult entertainment establishment. The investigation team conducted inquiries around the drop-off and pick-up points based on a scene of Yoo changing his clothes in the middle.
Ultimately, Yoo was arrested at a goshiwon (a type of budget lodgings). In his 40s and unemployed, he had sold the victim's laptop, in which the victim's DNA was found on a knife. While held in the detention center, he repeatedly made incomprehensible statements such as, "He has come" and "There is another existence inside me," displaying signs of abnormal symptoms. Yoo was sentenced to 20 years in prison for alcoholic psychotic disorder and symptoms of schizophrenia.
The second case introduced by KCSI began when police discovered a man wandering in a residential area. Upon seeing the police car, he suddenly changed direction, and during a stop-and-frisk, his identification photo looked nothing like his actual face. He possessed three cell phones, one of which had been reported stolen a year earlier. In the vehicle's trunk, police found three identification cards, an external hard drive, surgical gloves, knives, 14 pieces of women's underwear, and homemade adult toys.
The external hard drive contained downloaded videos of sexual violence, as well as photos secretly taken of women's body parts, and images of 23 identification cards were discovered. As the investigation team traced the owners of the identification cards, they confirmed that one belonged to a past murder victim. The victim was found half-naked in a room, and blood from the victim was detected in a cosmetics bottle, revealing that this bottle had been used as a tool for sexual assault.
After a persistent persuasion by a detective who observed and identified the suspect's characteristics, this man confessed not only to that case but also to a previous murder case he called "his own playground," which occurred at a mineral spring. The victim was found nude with a branch over 40 cm long inserted into her body. He claimed that the victim had disrespected him. Notably, in both cases, a clear pattern of the suspect consistently taking the victims' underwear emerged.
The suspect was Lee Dae-young, who was apprehended in 2009. He had been living with a woman in a de facto relationship while leading a double life, going out every night under the pretense of delivering packages or driving. Although he claimed that he began watching videos of sexual violence due to past similar assault experiences, this was not confirmed. He was sentenced to 22 years and 6 months in prison, revealing a distorted mindset that "if many do sadistic acts, it is normal."
"Brave Detectives 4" airs every Friday at 9:50 p.m. and is available on major OTT platforms such as Netflix, Tving, and Wavve. The official YouTube and Instagram channels of E Channel provide vivid news and videos about the program.
The first digital spin-off of "Brave Detectives," the Wavve X E Channel original web variety show "Hyung, Suda," is also currently being released through Wavve and YouTube, capturing the behind-the-scenes stories of detectives that were not covered in "Brave Detectives" along with candid conversations for added entertainment. The show is exclusively pre-released on OTT at 5 p.m. every Friday and can be watched for free on the E Channel YouTube channel at 7 p.m.
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