In Brave Detective, the brutal crimes of perpetrators who murdered for absurd reasons were revealed.
On the 16th, episode 67 of Tcast E Channel's Brave Detective 4 (directed by Lee Ji-seon) featured Daejeon Yuseong Police Station Criminal Division 1 Chief Inspector Lee Song-gi, Daejeon Daedeok Police Station Criminal Division 1 Chief Inspector Kim Su-won, Busan Police Agency Forensic Science Division Inspector Kim Na-jin, former superintendent Yoon Woe-chul of the Forensic Investigation Unit (KCSI), and Chief Inspector Kim Jin Soo, who revealed the case files they solved personally. The singer Hanhae and chef Lee Jun joined them as guests.
The first case introduced in the episode began when a tipster came to the violent crimes team with a traffic division officer. The tipster said he had heard a confession from a friend at a drinking gathering that the friend had murdered a woman he was dating, and after much 고민 he went to a traffic division officer he knew to report it. The tipster's friend was a man in his mid-40s who, despite having a wife and a newborn, had been having an affair with a mistress. The two met by chance three months earlier and the relationship developed, and they began living together a month ago. Detectives visited the shop run by the friend's mistress to verify the tip's credibility, but found it had been closed for more than ten days and heard it was up for sale.
Detectives staked out both the friend's house and the one-room apartment where he was living with his mistress, and they caught him on camera leaving the one-room apartment carrying large plastic bags in both hands. When a detective called to him, his wrists trembled, and when asked to confirm whether his girlfriend was inside by naming her, he collapsed in hesitation. The suspect, Mr. Kim (alias), claimed he killed because he was stressed by his girlfriend preventing him from going home and demanding a divorce. The victim's body was found buried near her parents' burial site.
After Mr. Kim's arrest, detectives confirmed the victim's identity but could not contact any family members. The mistress was also married and her child was abroad at the time, and her husband could not be reached. Suspicion grew when it was revealed that the husband's communications had been cut off shortly after Mr. Kim and the mistress began seeing each other. Mr. Kim claimed he did not know whether the mistress's husband was alive, but broke down and confessed he had also killed the husband when detectives said they had secured circumstances and evidence. He gave the absurd reason that he hid the fact out of loyalty to a friend, and it was revealed that that friend was the tipster. Mr. Kim said the mistress lured her husband to the shop and kept watch, and that the friend helped with the killing. The friend, however, said he did not know the husband was dead and only helped carry heavy boxes at Mr. Kim's request, later burying them in a mountain.
Mr. Kim continued to claim he killed after accusing the mistress's husband of adultery and threatening to tell the family, and that he killed because the mistress would not let him send her home. Ahn Jung-hwan said, "He's talking nonsense," and Hanhae also said in anger, "Is that a reason?" It was confirmed Mr. Kim took 16 million won in cash from the mistress's bag and exchanged some 100,000-won checks for cash, giving some to the friend. The two who spoke of loyalty hurried to shift blame, and Mr. Kim was sentenced to life imprisonment while the friend received seven years in prison.
The second case introduced by KCSI involved a lie the perpetrator told immediately after the arrest that sparked a social controversy. A man parking his car in the apartment's outdoor parking lot said he heard a woman's scream and someone calling "father" from inside the building, ran up the stairs and found a victim covered in blood, then reported it. The victim was a 30-year-old woman who sadly died while being transported to the hospital.
The tipster testified he saw a man wearing a pink T-shirt, carrying a crossbody bag and wearing earphones calmly leaving the scene, and another neighbor who met a man with the same appearance said when they asked what was wrong the man gestured to go upstairs. Nearby CCTV showed the man visited the apartment multiple times in the same outfit not only on the day of the crime but previously as well.
It was confirmed the victim frequently used an online political community, where some people left malicious comments on posts and some had been sued for defamation. One malicious commenter contacted the detective in charge and reported that someone had left even more severe malicious comments about the victim. That person went to the police station in the victim's area, posted a photo showing a handwritten apology poster attached at the entrance, continued to post insulting comments and even mentioned the victim's real name, harassing the victim with false posts. Notably, circumstances showed posts were deleted one by one shortly after the incident.
The malicious commenter, who lived far from the victim's residence, was staying long-term at a nearby goshiwon and was arrested with a relatively calm demeanor. In his lodging were the pink T-shirt worn during the crime and a bloodstained knife kept in a sheath. The man, in his 30s, was revealed to be a part-time worker who spent more than eight hours a day on online communities. He had never met the victim in person but knew her from the community and had been in conflict with her for about a year. He borrowed 2 million won from a secondary financial institution to commit the crime, illegally obtained the victim's address through an errand service and even purchased a filleting knife. The perpetrator claimed he killed because the victim criticized the May 18 Democratic Uprising and praised the martial law troops, but that was found to be false. In fact, the perpetrator was the one who made the claim that he praised the martial law troops. When told that was all of his reasons for killing, Ahn Jung-hwan could not contain his anger and said, "Is that all?"
The perpetrator said he beat his younger brother when criticized in the community and even claimed he filed a complaint with the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office because he saw news about election interference ahead of the presidential election and thought the victim was involved, an absurd story. Records show he had received counseling several times, and an opinion from a psychiatric confinement facility said he had delusional schizophrenia with auditory hallucinations and persecutory delusions. It was especially shocking that he attempted to kill an elementary school classmate and another community administrator as well. He was ultimately sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Brave Detective 4 airs every Friday at 9:50 p.m., and is also available on major OTTs such as Netflix, TVing and Wavve.<
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