My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 179

# The Difference Between Love and Stalking

“Take a look here.”

Watching the black box footage wasn’t difficult. The perpetrator’s vehicle didn’t have one, but the victim’s vehicle did. Fortunately, the accident occurred during a traffic jam, and because the victim was a celebrity, nearby people provided footage from their own vehicles, making it easy to confirm the accident scene.

“Ugh…….”

Watching the accident scene, Jung Iyeon made a strange groan. A ready-mix concrete truck, following Woo Ju-hye’s vehicle which was stopped due to the traffic jam, didn’t stop and drove straight up onto the vehicle, and then the black box footage cut off.

“Heaven really helped us.”

“It wasn’t heaven, but our senior who helped us.”

“Pardon?”

Kim Chanbeom looked bewildered at those words.

“It was our senior who told me to change the vehicle.”

“Ah…….”

What if she hadn’t changed the vehicle? Perhaps that A-pillar wouldn’t have held up, and she would have been crushed to death by the truck.

“She was lucky.”

Kim Chanbeom said, sounding fed up. He didn’t know about that.

“The important thing is finding evidence that this is attempted murder…….”

“It’s ambiguous, though.”

You can’t claim this is attempted murder. Well, to claim that, you need evidence, but there is no evidence itself. What can you say to refute someone who says they fell asleep?

“But when you think about it, it’s funny.”

“Senior, what is?”

Park Dojun said while watching the video, and Jung Iyeon and Lee Jisu looked at him.

“We say she’s lucky, but actually, the lucky one isn’t Woo Ju-hye, but the driver. If she had died, it would have been a traffic accident.”

“That’s true.”

“And it’s also a funny thing.”

“Why?”

“Crime is a consequential punishment, right?”

“Right?”

“But the victim is the one who tried to survive, yet the perpetrator receives the benefit. Isn’t that right?”

At those words, Jung Iyeon gave a bitter smile.

“Ah, there are often people like that. Senior, do you also feel negatively about that part?”

“It’s a consequential problem. But the purpose is to punish the result, and it doesn’t make sense that someone benefits from a result they didn’t work for.”

It’s true that he attempted murder. And Woo Ju-hye is the one who tried to survive. But since the murder failed, the driver will probably get off with a very light punishment. Probably a suspended sentence.

There’s no choice because, in the current situation, it’s not murder but injury due to a traffic accident, and no one is seriously injured to the point of being incapacitated.

“It’s funny in the sense that he attempted murder.”

They survived because of the victim’s efforts, not the perpetrator’s efforts. But even if it’s determined to be attempted murder, the punishment will be weakened anyway.

“Well, it can’t be helped. That’s how the law is.”

Jung Iyeon said, clicking her tongue as if she felt bad.

“But Senior, do you already believe it was murder? There’s no evidence yet.”

Lee Jisu tilted her head and asked, seeing Park Dojun speak as if he was sure it was murder. She didn’t see anything special. Anyone would see it as a simple traffic accident.

Of course, it was an accident involving a huge vehicle like a ready-mix concrete truck, but that could really be a coincidence.

“No, this is definitely attempted murder.”

“How do you know?”

“You can tell by looking at the ready-mix concrete truck driving, even if it’s just for a moment.”

Park Dojun reversed the screen and showed the video. It was taken by a vehicle following behind the ready-mix concrete truck.

“There’s nothing special?”

The ready-mix concrete truck just goes straight, gets caught in traffic, and then climbs onto Woo Ju-hye’s vehicle at a terrifying speed.

“The speed of the vehicle or anything like that isn’t the point. It’s the cylinder part of that ready-mix concrete truck.”

“Yes.”

“It’s not turning.”

“Pardon? Oh, it’s not turning. But what does that have to do with the accident?”

“I said earlier that the ready-mix concrete truck was full, right?”

Park Dojun asked Kim Chanbeom as if confirming. Kim Chanbeom nodded at those words.

“That’s right. The driver admitted it too. The actual weight wouldn’t be that heavy if there wasn’t ready-mix concrete inside.”

“That’s why I’m suspicious.”

“Yes?”

“Ready-mix concrete hardens if you don’t move it.”

The official name of a ready-mix concrete truck is ‘mixer truck’ because the cylindrical object attached to the vehicle constantly rotates, mixing the ready-mix concrete and preventing it from hardening inside.

“Of course, if there’s ready-mix concrete inside, you have to turn it. But if you look at the scene where it’s driving for a moment, it’s not moving.”

“Oh? That’s right?”

Only then did Jung Iyeon see it and think it was strange. She had often seen ready-mix concrete trucks while driving, but most of the vehicles had it turning.

“It has contents but it’s not turning? That means the contents…… no, it’s in a state where it can’t be turned unless they’re going to abandon the car.”

“A state where it can’t be turned?”

“If the concrete in the ready-mix concrete truck is already hardened, you can’t turn it.”

If that happens, the center of gravity will be off, and the car will tip over.

“And the vehicle depot is also a problem.”

“The vehicle depot?”

Jung Iyeon and Lee Jisu tilted their heads at the words they were hearing for the first time.

“Well, unless you’re someone who drives a large vehicle, you probably wouldn’t hear about it…….”

In the case of large trucks, parking problems are so severe that it is legally mandatory to secure a depot, that is, a space to park the car.

This is to prevent parking on the streets. Of course, it was possible to cheat on that too.

In the past, it was possible to play tricks such as operating in Seoul but having a depot in Gyeongsang Province, but now that restriction is placed around the residential area.

“But?”

“According to the records here, the depot is located at least two hours away from here. But it’s rare for people to come to work from there.”

“Why?”

“The lifespan of concrete is incredibly short. People don’t know that well.”

Park Dojun shrugged and said.

“The lifespan of concrete in a ready-mix concrete truck is usually 60 minutes. 90 minutes at the longest.”

There is a saying that the ready-mix concrete business is a local specialized business. This is because the hardening speed is tremendous, even if you mix it with a mixer truck.

Therefore, ready-mix concrete can only be supplied from the factory to places within 90 minutes in the area.

“The reason why these mixer trucks drive dangerously is not simply because those people are rough. It’s because of that time limit.”

What if the mixer truck is late and the concrete hardens inside? First of all, the fact that they have to pay for that money is secondary, and the mixer truck itself will be almost impossible to recover because of the concrete inside.

If it’s less hardened, it may be possible to scoop it out somehow…… but if it’s completely hardened?

Almost 100% of that ready-mix concrete truck will have the ending of ‘disposal’.

Since there is no way to take out the hardened concrete inside the mixer truck, the entire container has to be replaced, but the lifespan of these ready-mix concrete trucks is shorter than you think, so it’s cheaper to buy a new one than to repair it.

In addition, concrete itself is a substance with a stronger alkalinity than you think, so the lifespan of a ready-mix concrete truck is less than half that of other vehicles.

“90 minutes at the longest. But an accident happens in a place two hours away from the depot?”

“But the depot is just that, you can get work from other places, right?”

Jung Iyeon still said, sounding suspicious. Perhaps it was because she was a lawyer, but she couldn’t come to a conclusion with flimsy evidence.

“The distance isn’t the problem. Um, you seem to have misunderstood because I said 90 minutes, but the problem isn’t that it’s far, but whether a ready-mix concrete truck would go on the highway if it was crazy. I said it before, ready-mix concrete trucks inevitably operate on a local basis.”

A maximum maintenance time of 90 minutes. Considering traffic jams, etc., you have to deliver within 60 minutes for safety.

“There’s no reason for a ready-mix concrete truck to enter the highway.”

The highway requires long distances as a basic.

“Unless the company is stupid, they wouldn’t build a concrete company in a place where business isn’t doing well.”

In other words, there are companies mainly in the city center, and they operate in a form that is responsible for supplying ready-mix concrete in that area.

“I’ve hardly ever seen a ready-mix concrete truck on the highway…….”

Even Kim Chanbeom, a highway patrol officer, hasn’t seen it.

“But there’s a time limit of 60 minutes, right? There’s no law that says you can’t use the highway within that time.”

It’s true that if you use the highway to supply, the supply range will be much wider and you’ll make a lot of money.

“That’s true. But that’s a chronic congestion area. You’re saying you can get out of that road within 60 minutes at that time? No way.”

At those words, Kim Chanbeom nodded.

“That’s right. I don’t know what the driver of that ready-mix concrete truck was thinking, but it takes at least 50 minutes to get to the nearest exit from there. That time will probably take more than 60 minutes.”

In other words, there is no way to deliver the concrete on time.

“It’s definitely strange in many ways.”

Kim Chanbeom, who initially thought it was just a traffic accident, began to intuitively feel that something didn’t make sense as Park Dojun talked about the suspicious parts one by one.

Based on his long experience, there is no reason for a ready-mix concrete truck to enter that area at that time. Rather, it is normal to try to avoid it unconditionally at that time.

“First, Jisu, you go into the office and contact the ready-mix concrete companies around to see if there is a record of supplying that vehicle. And also the recent accident history of that vehicle.”

“Recent accident history?”

“There was ready-mix concrete in the vehicle. The car is also old. But the fact that the ready-mix concrete couldn’t be taken out on time means something went wrong.”

The driver isn’t stupid, and if the time is over, he should try to take out the concrete inside somehow. That way, even if you put aside the price of the concrete, you can protect the car.

“In other words, there is a very high possibility that the concrete could not be taken out of the vehicle for some reason. And that would have been a burden to the perpetrator.”

“Ah, so they decided to commit murder in exchange for money.”

“Yes, it’s a matter of killing someone.”

It’s absurd to do that out of friendship. Of course, they will do it for a huge amount of money.

And if the vehicle is in a situation where it has to be scrapped, it can be a problem that the driver can go bankrupt. The price of a ready-mix concrete truck is never cheap.

“Yes, Senior.”

“Iyeon, you go to Woo Ju-hye with me.”

“Yes.”

Park Dojun got up from his seat.

“Now I have to work.”

“Fortunately, she only has a few bruises.”

Woo Ju-hye said with a pale face.

“If it had come down just a little more…….”

She reinforced the pillar and supplemented the airbags, but she couldn’t completely resolve the weight of the ready-mix concrete truck.

What Woo Ju-hye saw when she fainted for a moment due to the strong impact and woke up was the ceiling that had come down to her eyes. It felt like that ceiling would crush her if she moved even a little.

A Professional Profiler