My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 366

“This means the perpetrator is confident they won’t get caught, no matter who they are.”

And Han Sung-gi isn’t that type.

“It seems like someone with the ability to use force is backing them, though?”

In reality, the police don’t even seem to be considering an arrest.

“So, is there nothing we can do right now?”

“Realistically, no.”

Park Do-joon said with a bitter smile.

“In the end, all we can do is wait for an opportunity.”

Ultimately, that was all Park Do-joon could do.

# Snuff

“Do-joon, a dispatch request!”

Team Leader Lee Chang-man, looking more troubled than usual, called Park Do-joon, who had just returned from the Gwangdo-bae case.

“Is something wrong?”

“No, I’m just not feeling well.”

‘Not feeling well, my ass.’

Park Do-joon smiled inwardly as he looked at Lee Chang-man. He was a profiler. He could easily distinguish between someone not feeling well and someone with a complicated mind.

‘The pressure must be closing in on him.’

Lee Yeon-i is already talking about it, and the pressure from the surroundings will start to mount. For Lee Chang-man, who has been involved in taking bribes from criminals, the pressure from the surroundings will feel much more burdensome than for others.

‘He won’t last long.’

Park Do-joon smiled inwardly as he saw his pale face, pretending not to notice and rubbing salt into the wound. A lot of salt.

“If you’re too tired, you should go and rest. There’s a spa with good facilities nearby.”

“No, I’m too busy to go to a spa.”

‘What a load of crap.’

Lee Chang-man usually didn’t work and spent his time at the spa. Because even though he led the profiling team, he wasn’t a profiler. So, after assigning cases in the morning, he had nothing to do.

So, his routine was to go to work, then go to the spa, then come back and leave work, or clock in overtime and go back to the spa. But recently, with the pressure coming in, he was trembling with fear.

“Anyway, go quickly.”

“Where to?”

“Right next door.”

“Right next door?”

“The Metropolitan IT Team.”

“Pardon?”

Park Do-joon tilted his head at those words. There are several metropolitan departments. The profiling team is one of them. But not all metropolitan departments are similar in nature.

The profiling team focuses on providing specialized support. Each provincial police agency also has a profiling team, but they are understaffed. So, the metropolitan profiling team provides support.

In contrast, the Metropolitan IT Team tracks incidents that occur on the internet. Because there are no provincial boundaries on the internet.

Of course, you can distinguish each region according to the IP address, but the fact that an IP address is being tracked means that the criminal is not very skilled. Real IT experts don’t reveal their location.

So, unlike the profiling team that goes out to support, the Metropolitan IT Investigation Team finds and investigates cases on its own.

“Why there?”

However, that area is somewhat unrelated to the profiling team. Because what they see is numbers and code, not humans.

Why would they call him from a place with the opposite position to the profiling team?

“I don’t know. They just asked for you to be sent.”

“Me?”

“Yes.”

Park Do-joon tilted his head at the sound that even specified him, not just anyone.

“Go quickly.”

“Understood. Ji-soo, let’s go up.”

“Yes, Senior.”

Lee Ji-soo went upstairs with Park Do-joon. Since it was just upstairs, it didn’t take long to get there.

Park Do-joon arrived and knocked on the door.

“This is Detective Park Do-joon. I heard you requested support?”

Even though they were fellow police officers, it was polite to knock on the door first, as it was a department that handled many sensitive cases.

After a while, the person who came out from inside checked Park Do-joon and gestured.

“Oh, Detective Park, long time no see.”

“Team Leader Kim, what’s going on? Why did you call me?”

Kim Si-deok. He is the team leader leading the current Metropolitan IT Team. They knew each other’s faces, but they didn’t have much to do with each other in terms of work.

“Ah, I need some help.”

“Help? From me? I don’t know anything about IT? Profiling is strictly liberal arts, though?”

“Don’t I know that? Come on in. Oh? Who is this young lady?”

“This is a new profiler who came this year. She’s my partner. Her name is Lee Ji-soo.”

“Nice to meet you.”

But Kim Si-deok’s face became awkward when he saw Lee Ji-soo.

“What’s wrong?”

“No, it’s just that the case is a bit….”

“Hmm, is it a snuff film?”

Kim Si-deok’s face hardened at Park Do-joon’s words.

Then he quietly lowered his voice.

“How did you know? Has the information already leaked?”

“Pardon? No, I can tell from the situation.”

“Situation?”

“If it has to be targeted at people, not numbers, and it’s a case that is difficult for women, and the IT Metropolitan Investigation Team recognized the crime but the investigation has to be done secretly, then you can see it as a snuff film. Crimes with those conditions are not common.”

“Crazy.”

Kim Si-deok shook his head. He had heard that he was good.

But as soon as he came in, he said it was a snuff film. Furthermore, they didn’t say a word.

“Don’t worry about it. Profiling is not a case that you get assigned as you want. Furthermore, I’m a police officer, not a woman, right?”

“Ugh! Yes, that’s right, come on in. Ah, and bring that envelope next to you when you come in.”

“Yes.”

Park Do-joon did not ask in detail because he knew what the envelope was for.

The small room they arrived at was a small room where the computer was not connected to the internet at all.

“We are thoroughly securing it. You know why, right?”

“I know. Because it’s a snuff film.”

A snuff film is a gore film that tortures, assaults, and kills people. In short, it is filming and selling the process of killing people as brutally as possible.

Extremely limited people are interested in these snuff films. Should I say it’s an extremely twisted sexual preference?

But the problem is that those guys pay a considerable amount of money to buy this. From at least tens of millions of won to hundreds of millions of won [tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of US dollars, adjusting for a Western audience].

“Don’t talk about it anywhere.”

“I won’t make that mistake.”

Park Do-joon said while looking at the monitor. Kim Si-deok gestured to the police officer who was analyzing in front of him.

The haggard-looking detective pressed the play button again… and a gruesome video began to play.

In the video, a girl who looked about fifteen years old was captured. Her clothes were stripped off, and in the camera screen, a man wearing a vinyl apron and raincoat that you would only wear at a butcher shop was standing there.

-Please save me. Huh? Please save me. I won’t do bad things again. Please save me. Please send me home.

The girl cried and screamed, but the man showed no reaction.

Instead, he showed a meat hook hanging to be hung in the screen. Then he turned and headed towards the girl.

A scream erupted from the screen.

-Aaaaaaack!

“……Ugh!”

Lee Ji-soo urgently blocked her mouth with the envelope while watching the video.

The subsequent torture was brutal and vicious, and Park Do-joon frowned as he watched it.

“Would you like to see more? It’s not something I would recommend.”

The police officer said with a pale face.

“Is there more? Let’s watch it. Ji-soo, can you handle it?”

“I’m… sorry. I’ll go cool off.”

“Okay. It must be too shocking.”

In the end, Ji-soo couldn’t stand it and went outside.

Well, there will be hardly anyone who is okay after seeing someone being tortured and dismantled alive.

As she left, the video changed, and now a man was tied up in the same place.

-Hey, I was wrong. Please save me. Huh? Please save me. I won’t say anything. I won’t say anything, so…….

The man cried and begged for his life, but the man in the raincoat still didn’t say anything.

He was just skillfully showing his equipment to the camera. This time it was an iron skewer. And with that, he approached and put the iron skewer on his knee and hammered it down.

-Kkeuaaaaaack!

The video started with a scream of terrible pain.

Park Do-joon clenched his fist as he watched it.

“How many are there?”

“Four. Two men. Two women.”

Kim Si-deok said as if he was devastated.

“We may find more. We’re searching like crazy.”

“Is it the dark web?”

“Yes.”

Dark web.

Another world that ordinary people cannot access. It is not a public world that you can access just by entering the address.

To access the dark web, you need a specific access program.

The price is never cheap, but the dark web is where all kinds of dirty crimes gather.

The problem is that the dark web is not only overseas. There is also a dark web in Korea. The size of Korea is not small either.

“What do you think?”

“Let’s watch everything first and then talk.”

Park Do-joon watched all the videos without blinking an eye. On top of that, he replayed it and checked it again and again.

After watching it for several hours and coming out, Lee Ji-soo, who was pale, shook her head.

“Senior, can you stand that?”

“I have no choice but to endure it. It doesn’t disappear just because I turn my eyes away.”

“Hoo~ I still have a long way to go.”

“Most people do. I probably did the same at first.”

“‘Probably did the same’? What is that?”

Park Do-joon smiled bitterly at those words.

‘Maybe it’s not the first time.’

If it was the first time, he might have been holding an envelope and throwing up like Lee Ji-soo. But for some reason, he was able to endure it

Then it means that he probably experienced such an incident somewhere.

‘Maybe it’s this case.’

In fact, it was a case where another person was originally put in, but eventually it was not resolved, so the profiling team, including Park Do-joon, was assigned to the case.

“Anyway, Senior, do you know anything?”

“So-so. What about you?”

“To be honest, my head is still complicated. Just thinking about it…….”

“Yeah, I know.”

To analyze the situation, you have to concentrate, but if you concentrate and remember that time, you will feel sick again, so it is natural in a way.

“The analysis is over in the general area for now. Do you want to come in?”

“Yes, I have to learn.”

“Okay.”

It’s not detailed, but at least everything that can be extracted from the video has been extracted. Park Do-joon gathered people to do profiling.

“Do you know anything?”

Kim Si-deok asked anxiously. No wonder, as many as four victims have occurred. To be exact, only four have been found, so it would not be strange if there were more victims.

“I know that the victim is Korean. And the scene is also in Korea.”

“Don’t we know that?”

Someone said irritably.

“We have ears too. I can’t not know because they’re screaming in Korean to save them!”

“Hey! Stop it!”

“Team leader, we’re in a hurry, so we didn’t gather to hear obvious things!”

“Then you go and catch them, you son of a bitch!”

The police were extremely sharp.

Of course, they have no choice but to be sharp when the case is difficult, but they are sharper than necessary.

A Professional Profiler