My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 136

“But you said definitively that you have no intention of marrying, right? When discussing that situation, you have to really look at the person’s psychology.”

“Is there something to that too?”

Jeong I-yeon asked, squinting.

“Of course. When someone says they don’t want to get married but they’re dating, it’s usually because they’re lonely and it’s nice to have someone by their side, but they don’t have the mental space to get married.”

“Is that important?”

“It’s important. When a relationship ends, usually one person clings on.”

But there are quite a few cases where both parties agree to end it.

“Usually, both people are tired of the current situation, or neither party is taking the relationship seriously and they don’t have the mental capacity for it.”

Stories of people breaking up with partners from less affluent families often appear online, and that’s no coincidence.

“Lee Mi-yeon probably isn’t the type to want luxury goods or be extravagant.”

“How do you know? There’s no proper data at all?”

“According to Kim Do-gun, Lee Mi-yeon didn’t like dating Park Geo-seok. Do you think Park Geo-seok has only dated one or two women?”

“Hmm… I guess that’s unlikely.”

He has considerable power and a lot of money. And there are many beautiful women around him.

“In most cases, these types keep changing women. They say they’re dating, but they’re really just playing around.”

“And the women accept that?”

“Yes. Because it’s much easier than taking on demanding clients.”

They don’t have to work all night, and they can just sit still while being bought luxury goods or taken on trips.

There are quite a few bar hostesses like that.

“But Lee Mi-yeon drew a line, saying it wasn’t right for her by nature, right? Yet she worked at a bar. That means she needed money, not luxury goods.”

“But Park Geo-seok could have given her money, couldn’t he?”

Park Do-joon shook his head at that.

“Those kinds of guys usually don’t give money directly. They give luxury goods or other things, but they try not to give cash itself.”

“Why?”

“Isn’t the other person a bar hostess? But if they give money, they feel more like they’re keeping a hostess than dating.”

So they help them indulge in luxury, but they don’t give them much money itself.

“And Lee Mi-yeon needed money, not luxury goods.”

“Right.”

So dating him would naturally be a financial loss.

“So it’s highly likely she refused. There might have been ideological differences too.”

“Then why did Park Geo-seok kill Lee Mi-yeon?”

“He probably couldn’t accept being rejected. He probably never thought anyone would reject him.”

‘There are actually quite a few murderers of that type.’

There are quite a few people who can’t stand being rejected and kill people in a fit of rage.

The media talks about it as if they kill because of relationship problems, but it’s not a relationship. From the moment they’re rejected, it can’t be seen as a relationship.

It’s simply murder out of one-sided anger. Murder due to a relationship and murder due to anger have very different interpretations, so we need to clarify that.

“He might have killed her in a fit of anger. You said the victim was strangled to death, right?”

“Yes.”

“Usually, strangling is a method of murder that occurs when a strong person subdues and kills someone in an angry situation.”

There are many methods of murder. And if you look at the method of murder, you can fully understand the situation at the time.

“Beating them up is also possible, isn’t it? If it’s a strong man, isn’t it possible to beat them to death?”

“The motive is different. Sometimes it leads to murder, but…”

“It’s different?”

“Yes. It’s different.”

If a man beats someone to death, it’s highly likely to be an accident. Men punch each other when they cross the line. But it’s not done with the intention of killing the other person.

In Korea, they threaten to kill, but in most cases, they don’t really intend to kill.

So even if someone actually dies in the process, the punishment is generally manslaughter, not murder.

“But you said the victim, Lee Mi-yeon, was only strangled to death without any other injuries? That means the other person had the intention to kill from the beginning. And the weapon is also a problem.”

“Why the weapon?”

“In an angry situation, people use their hands first.”

Park Do-joon raised his hand and pretended to strangle himself.

“Assault is the same. If there’s no weapon around, the hands go out first. But according to the records, the cause of death is a wide type of string.”

“That’s right.”

“What does that sound like?”

“Um… I don’t know?”

Park Do-joon tapped his waist at Jeong I-yeon, who had no idea. And Jeong I-yeon immediately realized.

“A belt!”

“Right. And that’s what made it easier to manipulate the case.”

“Why?”

“If you strangle someone to death, traces of the hand remain.”

The technique of estimating the size of the other person’s hand by estimating the traces on the deceased’s neck is not a difficult technique. Of course, it’s a technique that has been used for quite a long time.

“But you see, it became impossible because they used a string. And most men’s belts are almost the same size.”

Of course, fashion belts have different sizes and patterns, but that’s a special case, so it’s better to exclude that.

“So it becomes easier to claim that Kim Do-gun is the culprit.”

Because most men wear belts. Moreover, waiters have a set uniform, and the uniform naturally includes a belt.

“Even if the DNA didn’t come out there, they can just say they washed it.”

“Hmm… I think I understand.”

“And Shin Cheol-gwang probably intervened at this point.”

“Ah, right. You said that Shin Cheol-gwang person changed direction, right?”

“That’s right.”

“But how does he intervene?”

“It would have been easy to find out that the belt was the murder weapon. But there are too many people who could have committed the crime.”

Surprisingly, there are many suspects in these cases. There could be an obsessive customer, or another waiter working together, or someone like Gi-do.

“As you know, in this situation, the interpretation of the belt, the weapon used by the culprit, becomes important.”

“I don’t understand at all? I’m a lawyer, not a profiler.”

Park Do-joon scratched his head at Jeong I-yeon’s words. Well, most people probably don’t know that.

“To a man, a belt is like air.”

“Air?”

“It’s something they wear, but they hardly pay attention to.”

It exists out of necessity, but they don’t remember it or think about using it.

When they take off their pants in the bathroom, their hands mechanically undo the belt, but their brain doesn’t think that they have to undo the belt.

“It’s called a conditioned reflex, right? The way to use it is ingrained in the body, and that’s what a belt is.”

“So?”

“People often can’t use things they remember as a conditioned reflex for other purposes. There are many strangulations by men, but they didn’t all kill with the belt they were wearing around their waist. And if they have any sense, they wouldn’t think of killing with their own belt.”

The purpose of a belt is to securely hold up pants. If you pull out that belt and kill someone, you’ll need time to fix your pants and re-secure them with the belt, and the time needed to escape will be even longer.

“But you said he killed her in a fit of anger, right? You’re the one who said there wouldn’t be any planning.”

Park Do-joon nodded at those words.

“That’s right. There probably wasn’t any planning.”

‘At first, anyway.’

If his memory was correct, this was a serial murder. That’s why the police were later turned upside down.

‘He probably discovered the pleasure of killing with this murder.’

Sometimes that happens. A murderer accidentally discovers the pleasure of killing and then starts serial killings.

“Generally, they don’t take off the belt on their pants and use it as a murder weapon. But if it exists as an object, not as air, the story changes.”

“Exists as an object?”

“What do you think it would be like if they took off their pants?”

“Huh? Why the pants?”

“Think simply. The reason why men don’t recognize the belt as a tool is because it’s attached to our body.”

In order for a person to recognize something and use it, they have to see it or recognize it clearly.

“When people get angry, they start looking for something to use as a weapon. That’s instinctive.”

Especially if they have the intention to kill.

“But if there’s no tool in that situation, they use their hands.”

However, even if there is a tool called a belt, it doesn’t make sense to use it if they don’t recognize it.

“But what if the tool is visible?”

“You mean they have to take off their pants for the belt to be visible.”

“Right.”

In an angry situation, they look for tools around them, and what comes into view is the belt.

“And the act of taking off pants takes place in an extremely stable area.”

Unless they’re really crazy, they don’t take off their pants on the street.

“Usually, they’re comfortable at home or for some purpose. Um… in this case, they might have taken off their pants for a sexual relationship.”

“Sexual purpose?”

“Yes. I think that’s probably it.”

Five days before her death, Lee Mi-yeon told Kim Do-gun that she had told Park Geo-seok that she and Kim Do-gun had broken up. That action was probably to protect Kim Do-gun from being beaten by Park Geo-seok.

“Even if they don’t intend to marry, dating is still an emotional exchange.”

So she probably thought she would solve her own problems on her own.

“And you think Park Geo-seok misinterpreted that.”

“Probably.”

Park Geo-seok probably thought that Lee Mi-yeon’s choice to break up with Kim Do-gun meant that she had accepted him.

And a man like Park Geo-seok isn’t the type to enjoy a sweet romance and enjoy each other’s feelings.

“He probably demanded a physical relationship right away.”

In other words, he probably treated her almost like a sex slave. But Lee Mi-yeon broke up with Kim Do-gun not to meet Park Geo-seok, but to protect Kim Do-gun.

“She probably rejected Park Geo-seok on the spot.”

She probably said something like, ‘I have no intention of dating you. I’m going to quit this place and leave.’

“And Park Geo-seok, who misinterpreted that, probably went crazy.”

“Right. The intensity of anger increases even more when they suffer damage. At least, it gets stronger if they think they’ve been harmed.”

Park Geo-seok, who thought the woman who was going to date him was making fun of him, probably got angry and thought he would kill her.

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