"Brave Detective 4" showed the ugly crimes of the perpetrators and the detectives' determination who chased them to the end.
On the 24th, the 55th episode of T-cast E Channel "Brave Detective 4" (directed by Lee Ji-seon) featured Choi Hae-young, chief inspector and head of Mobile Investigation Team 1 at Busan Metropolitan Police Agency, former Commissioner General Yoon Oe-chul of the Korea Crime Scene Investigation (KCSI), and Inspector Kim Jin-su, who unfolded the investigation logs.
The first case introduced that day began with a frantic report right after the holiday: "The boss is bleeding and collapsed." The caller was a company management team employee who went into the boss's office to clean and found the boss collapsed. The victim was lying facing the ceiling and bloodstains had spread widely. The forehead was depressed from an attack with a blunt weapon, and there were multiple lacerations behind both ears.
The victim was in his 50s, a diligent boss who had run the company for more than 20 years and grown it to about 100 employees. He came to work on the last day of the holiday, but internal CCTV in the building did not capture anyone else entering. However, investigators confirmed a man entering the building in the predawn rain on external CCTV, covering his face with an umbrella. He entered through the factory side door, a blind spot, and after the crime fled to the mountain across from the company.
The perpetrator left behind all kinds of tools used in the crime, including rope, gloves, tape and a utility knife. In particular, when a corporate vehicle smart key was found in a backpack, the case accelerated. The vehicle owner was Choi (alias), the head of a subcontractor to the victim's company, and shockingly he was greeting mourners in tears at the victim's funeral. The two had known each other for more than 20 years, and the investigation found that the victim had taken notice of Choi while he worked at an affiliate's factory and invested 800 million won to help him start the company. Choi claimed the victim "ignored and treated him harshly," but he ultimately said the motive was that settlement issues and the victim's conversion to a corporation had left debts at the company, which led to his apartment being seized. Choi was sentenced to 25 years in prison. His transfer of company ownership to the bereaved family and partial compensation to the victims were reflected in the sentence.
Next, the case conveyed by KCSI began when a body was found in an urban park. Residents playing soccer near the park found the body under fallen leaves and a mound of dirt. The victim appeared to be a woman in her early 20s; stones and paving blocks had been placed on her face and abdomen, and severe decomposition meant the exact cause of death had to be confirmed by autopsy. Torn underwear was found at the scene, and the time of death was estimated to be about 10 to 15 days earlier.
When fingerprint checks failed to identify the victim, the possibility she was a minor was raised, and the next day a woman who had seen the news contacted the police. After DNA comparison, the victim was identified as a runaway second-year high school student, a 16-year-old girl. Raised in a blended family and unable to adapt to school life, the victim had been staying in an underground one-room near the park with a female classmate the same age, the classmate's 18-year-old boyfriend, and a 16-year-old boy. Immediately before the incident, the victim had been at a laundromat with the female classmate and the boy; while the female classmate stepped away briefly, the victim and the boy disappeared. According to the female classmate, the boy wandered and muttered alone in front of the park restroom where the body was found, with his chest pressed to the outer wall. It turned out he had five previous convictions and had been sent to a juvenile detention center twice.
The investigative team tracked the boy's location through cell tower data. He had taunted investigators, saying, "Bring evidence that I killed her if you have it," but after DNA from a cigarette butt found at the scene matched him, he confessed to the crime. He testified that the victim said something that belittled him, he grabbed her hair and pushed her, and he strangled the fallen victim. About the torn underwear, he made the absurd claim that "it happened because pants were pulled during a struggle." He suddenly pleaded not guilty during the trial, but records showed he had admitted the crime to his parents and his attorney, and a cellmate's testimony that "he talked about the crime" also served as evidence. Considering that he was a minor and had an unfavorable upbringing, the court sentenced him to a long-term 10 years, short-term 5 years.
[Photo] Provided by E Channel
[OSEN]