In "Brave Detectives 4," the shameless crimes of brazen offenders were revealed.
On the 52nd episode of T-cast E Channel's "Brave Detectives 4" (directed by Lee Ji-seon), which aired on the 19th, Detective Park Jae-hyun of Yeongdeungpo Police Station's Violent Crimes Team 6, Sergeant An Hoon, former Commissioner Yoon Oe-chul of the Korea Crime Scene Investigation (KCSI), and Inspector Kim Jin-su grants to present case files.
The first case introduced that day began with a building manager's report that there was a deceased person on the roof. The victim was the building owner in his mid-80s and was found dead with fatal injuries so severe that the cervical bones were exposed. In the building's CCTV, after the victim was last captured, there was no sign of anyone else, raising doubts.
There was another door on the roof, and bloodstains presumed to belong to the perpetrator were left at the building's back gate. The trail of bloodstains ended at the entrance of a nearby motel, and the motel employee refused to submit CCTV footage, claiming the footage had been automatically formatted. However, when asked for contact information, the motel owner who said he was on a business trip immediately appeared, and CCTV captured a scene where the employee and the owner moved separately while pretending to be together, and then the employee fled by bus.
The arrested employee claimed the building manager had paid him 300,000 won to carry out the job. He said the victim insulted him about his disability, sexually harassed his girlfriend, and although he complained, he became angry at the repeated personal insults. He claimed the manager had been treated the same by the victim and that he committed the crime after being hired and buying a knife. However, people nearby said they had never seen the victim shout at or insult the manager.
The person who ordered the murder, Mr. Choi (a pseudonym), was actually the motel owner. He deceived and exploited the employee who had no family or support, did not even pay wages, and even extorted welfare payments. The employee, who had been told he could work without pay if he stayed with Choi, eventually heard Choi's true nature, became enraged and confessed.
A redevelopment project was underway that included the victim's building, and a land-for-compensation private development project was being prepared. Choi was part of this project, and the victim held the largest equity. Choi proposed a contract saying he would get an additional 5 billion won if the victim entrusted it to him, but because it was an unfair contract the victim refused and their relationship soured. Those who signed Choi's verification documents included foreigners who could not be contacted; none of them knew the victim and they had written the documents at Choi's request. The employee's girlfriend lived in the provinces and had never been to Seoul, so the victim's allegation of sexual harassment was also false.
CCTV restoration showed Choi watching while the employee prepared the crime in an alley on the day of the incident, and the two moving in coordinated fashion inside the motel immediately after the crime. Particularly shocking was video found on Choi's mobile device showing a simulated murder in front of the victim's management office. He absurdly claimed he had told the office location to scare the victim, who was startled by a mouse. Claiming coercive interrogation and illegal evidence collection, Choi displayed brazen behavior; he was sentenced to 27 years in prison and the employee received 15 years.
The case introduced by KCSI began with a husband's report that his wife, who had gone to work, had not returned home for three days and could not be reached. The missing person had met colleagues for drinks after work, then parted ways and got into a taxi, but there was no record of taxi fare payment. An hour after boarding the taxi, a call was made to the missing person near where the taxi had picked her up; this number was the motel's front desk. The male employee in his 20s at the motel said he did not know the number and that the CCTV was broken. Both the owner and another employee said they did not know the missing person or the number.
Reviewing nearby CCTV, the missing person got off in front of a building four minutes after boarding the taxi and was found collapsed, heavily intoxicated. An hour later, a man carrying a large garbage bag set it down, took the missing person's handbag and disappeared, then reappeared, supported the missing person and walked away with her. The man was a motel employee. He took 6 million won from the motel safe, then was absent without leave; he was 25 and a former martial arts instructor with a prior conviction for robbery and injury.
Four days after the report, the missing person was found dead, folded inside a trash bin in the motel's basement boiler room, wrapped in a bed sheet. Investigators tracked the real-time location of the cell tower for a female peer who was the motel employee's most frequent contact, and she was arrested after going on dates and shopping with the stolen money.
The perpetrator said he was aroused when he saw the collapsed victim and lured her by claiming he knew where her bag was. He denied having completed a sexual crime, saying he only tried, and made the outlandish claim that he killed her in a fit of rage after she demanded he hand over his phone and he caused a scene. He said the call to the victim's number was made from the counter phone, not because he wanted his phone back. Another employee who went missing was suspected as an accomplice, but he had an alibi: he had been too intoxicated to go to work and his alibi was confirmed. Originally intending to dispose of the body in a water tank alone, the perpetrator said the tank was broken, so he wrapped the body in a bed sheet, put it in a trash bin and, unable to do it alone, told a colleague it was heavy trash and asked for help.
The perpetrator also attempted to rape a woman in her 20s by entering through an open front door, beat the woman's boyfriend who woke up and broke four of his front teeth, scouted for intoxicated women and took one to the roof to rape her, revealing additional crimes that shocked everyone. Ultimately, the perpetrator was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Meanwhile, "Brave Detectives" launched official goods that drew attention on the 16th, including a tumbler cup engraved with the signature logo and seven crime-prevention key rings featuring the show's representative phrases such as "Why did you do that?" and "What about paying for your sins?" "Brave Detectives" merchandise can be found through E Channel's YouTube store.
"Brave Detectives 4" airs every Friday at 9:50 p.m. and is also available on major OTT platforms such as Netflix, TVING and Wavve. Live updates and videos about the program can be found on E Channel's official YouTube and Instagram.
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