'Brave Detective' highlighted the brutal crimes of perpetrators who committed murder driven by greed for money.
On the 9th episode of T-cast E Channel 'Brave Detective 4' (directed by Lee Ji-seon) that aired on the 9th, Gwangju Dongbu Police Station detective Shin Jun-woo, former police superintendent Yoon Oechul of the Korea Crime Scene Investigation (KCSI) and detective Kim Jin Soo appeared and disclosed investigation logs. Rapper Hanhae and actor Seo Bum-june joined as guests.
The first case introduced in that episode began with a missing person report received at the end of the year and led to an arrest within two days. A man received a phone call from a resident center employee in the morning saying, "Someone came to reissue an ID card in the name of the younger sibling, but their behavior looked different from the person himself, so verification is needed," and reported his sibling missing. According to the resident center employee who met with detectives, the applicant's face differed greatly from the existing ID photo, and fingerprint collection was requested for identification but was not recognized. In particular, traces of something thin overlaid under the fingers were found, adding to suspicion. A middle-aged woman accompanying the man answered questions on his behalf, explaining that the man had injured his hand or was not feeling well, and the two left while the employee prepared a stamp for fingerprint collection. The suspicious employee then contacted the family.
The missing person was a man in his early 50s who said he would attend his nephew's wedding but did not show up or answer calls, raising questions. He was known to be seeing a woman of a similar age, and his last call was with a woman in her 50s identified as Ms. Choi (a pseudonym). Ms. Choi claimed to be the person who had promised to marry the missing man. Checking the phone records revealed charges for stays at motels other than the motel where he was currently staying. Ms. Choi explained that she had rented a separate room and paid monthly rent. At the motel were a man in his 50s and a young man. The man in his 50s initially said he was the missing person but reversed his statement when told a report had been filed. He later explained he panicked when the police came and lied.
Ms. Choi ran a welfare facility, said the man in his 50s was a resident of the facility, and said the young man was her 18-year-old adopted son. She insisted they only visited the resident center together so the missing person could reissue a lost ID card that required a seal, and that they had not met him afterward. Then the missing person was found dead in a car with a box covering his head. The discovery was especially shocking because the skin of the victim's right thumb was found thinly peeled. Ms. Choi did not flee and instead calmly came to the police station, and when told the body had been found she confessed to committing the crime.
Ms. Choi claimed she killed him after recently learning that her boyfriend had repeatedly molested and raped her adopted son, saying she gave him pumpkin juice with sleeping pills and left him in the car, where he apparently died of hypothermia. She later recanted and said she strangled him, but there was no physical evidence and her statements became increasingly exaggerated. The man in his 50s and the adopted son who had been with her were also arrested, and the adopted son claimed he had suffocated the victim by holding his nose, but Ms. Choi continued to insist she was the perpetrator.
It was revealed that Ms. Choi planned to take out insurance to raise a large sum to send the man in his 50s and the adopted son abroad. She attempted to buy insurance in the victim's name for up to 1 billion won and had pursued reissuing the resident registration card to that end. It was confirmed they even lifted the victim's thumbprint and glued it with adhesive to disguise the man in his 50s as the victim. From the day before visiting the resident center, she had given the victim pumpkin juice with sleeping pills, stole a seal and a driver's license from the victim's house, and had the man in his 50s handle the insurance consultation while the adopted son handled the subscription calls. After attempting to subscribe for insurance, they killed the victim.
The murders and the fingerprint mutilation were all carried out by the adopted sons. They were in debt about 53 million won for construction costs of a newly built building and were in need of money. Ms. Choi was sentenced to 30 years in prison, the man in his 50s to 10 years, and the minors who were the adopted sons received long-term 10 years and short-term 5 years sentences.
The second case introduced by KCSI began when the village head in a rural village reported that a man was lying in an irrigation ditch bleeding. A taxi with a dropped front bumper was at the scene and the interior of the vehicle was covered in blood. The body, already dead, was found below the irrigation ditch, and dozens of stab and cut wounds were confirmed. A blade with its handle missing was stuck in the back of the neck. Ahn Jung-hwan said, "It's too brutal," showing his anger.
The victim was a taxi driver in his 50s, and because the taxi meter was running when he was found it is presumed he was carrying a passenger. The cash box was empty and even the coins were gone. The perpetrator wiped fingerprints and fled, but the blade's handle came off and injured his hand, leaving bloodstains from the scene to the road toward the village. Bloodstain analysis identified the perpetrator as an A-type man, and the victim had a total of 57 stab and cut wounds, shocking everyone.
Taxi records and taximeter analysis showed the last passenger boarded near a university and traveled to the crime scene. Detectives collected DNA from about 2,800 households of A-type men, including those near the university and villages around the crime scene, and after three months of investigation only one household remained unverified. That household had a middle school-aged son, and when a detective said, "Your father injured his hand," the son admitted it. They then tracked the wife's call records and went to a chassis factory where the husband seemed to be. In particular, comparing the children's DNA with the blood at the scene confirmed a father-child relationship. The man had already fled but was caught at a terminal after his phone location was tracked.
The perpetrator claimed he committed the crime because he had no fare and said he bought a 1,400-won utility knife at a convenience store and used it in the attack. Kim Sunyoung said, "I can't believe it," expressing anger. In fact, the money taken from the taxi was only about 60,000 won. He fled the scene but returned because he had not taken the fingerprints and money, and testified that he killed the still-living victim after returning, shocking people. The perpetrator was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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