'Brave Detective' revealed the full story of a violent crime in which a man vented his anger on a stranger he had never met, along with the detectives' fierce and relentless investigative efforts.
On the 2nd, the 65th episode of T-cast E Channel 'Brave Detective 4' (directed by Lee Ji-sun) aired, featuring Gwangju Police Agency mobile patrol unit chief inspector Kim Chang-seok, Gangnam Police Station women and youth division chief inspector Go Do-won, former commissioner of the scientific investigation unit (KCSI) Yoon Oe-chul, and chief inspector Kim Jin Soo, who revealed investigation logs. Following last week's broadcast, actor Lee Jun joined as a guest.
The first case introduced was a murder in which detectives' sharp judgment led to the suspect's arrest three hours after the crime. It began with a frantic report saying, "It seems a man stabbed an older woman with a knife and ran away." The scene was a church, and the victim, a middle-aged woman, was found dead with a stab wound on her back and a horizontal cut across her neck. The caller said they heard someone shout "don't" and, when they turned back, witnessed the victim and the suspect holding a bloodied knife.
The suspect fled the scene in a white compact car, and the caller wrote down the license plate and gave it to the police. Detectives noticed that the confirmed vehicle did not match the model the caller described, secured additional witnesses, and identified the crime vehicle as an old Pride. After tracking, they found a man in his 30s, surnamed Jung (alias), at a rural house's yard by an outdoor faucet shaking out laundry. He had a bandage covering a hand wound, and his sneakers had red stains. Inside the car, they found more than 20 large kitchen knives with no signs of use. Jung at first admitted to the crime, then suddenly withdrew his statement and repeated incomprehensible remarks.
Jung and the victim were strangers. Above all, he showed an inconsistent mental state during questioning. The shock did not end there. It was also confirmed that the method was similar to a murder near a church about a month and a half earlier. Both victims were women in their 40s, and the perpetrator appeared to have slit the throat after the first attack. Jung confessed to both crimes. During this process, Jung displayed symptoms of schizophrenia and delusions and made the shocking remark, "Women who go to church should all die."
Investigators learned that Jung's Mongolian wife had left the house after failing to endure his violence and had received help from a church, which led to distorted anger toward churches and the church that culminated in the crimes. He went to Mongolia to find his wife but did not meet her, which deepened his delusions, and eight days after returning to Korea he committed the first crime. He prepared a weapon for the attacks and even bought a used car, targeting people who resembled his wife. Profiler Kwon Il-yong analyzed that "because he could not find someone to directly take his anger out on, a psychological mechanism led him to relieve his rage through others." After the investigation, the knife used in the crimes was recovered, and Jung was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The second case introduced by KCSI was a shocking murder recorded in full on CCTV. It began with a late-night, heavy rain report: "A female student is lying bleeding." The caller saw the victim sitting with her head bowed in front of the apartment building's main entrance and noticed blood flowing beneath her legs. The victim was a 21-year-old female college student who lived in the building and died while being transported to the hospital. An autopsy showed that the weapon pierced the epigastrium and stabbed deeply into the heart, causing fatal blood loss.
The forensic team determined from the bloodstain pattern that the crime did not occur at the main entrance. Although it appeared the victim suffered fatal injuries and walked back to her home, external bloodstains could not be found due to the rain. The next day, CCTV at the alley entrance about 50 meters from the apartment showed the crime: right after the victim entered the alley, a man approached, wrapped his left arm around her neck, turned his body and stabbed her with a weapon. Tracing the CCTV, investigators found the suspect parked a vehicle near the alley before the crime, paced around smoking, and drove away after the attack. They then succeeded in identifying the vehicle by analyzing the brake light state and the color of the partition.
The vehicle owner was a man in his 30s who had previously lived near the victim's residence. At first he denied the crime, but when told "the scene was recorded," he admitted it. The suspect gave an incomprehensible statement: "If I killed someone at random on the street, I think I would have the courage to end my own life." He claimed he had been fired just before marrying his girlfriend, who had been hiding the fact she was divorced. He showed the tendency of an indiscriminate criminal who wanted to destroy others' lives that seemed happier than his own. Former commissioner Yoon Oe-chul called it "an abnormal motive crime." CCTV analysis showed the suspect encountered several residents but targeted the victim because she was returning home alone. Ahn Jung-hwan expressed anger, asking, "No matter how cornered he was, could he really have such thoughts?" The suspect was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
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