My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 308

“But we can’t figure out who the bastard is.”

No matter how much they searched the area where the phone calls were made, there were no CCTV cameras. Considering that he made the calls while moving, he’s a habitual and planned offender.

Of course, this guy will never stop.

“I’ll present the profiling results, so please gather.”

“Already?”

“I’ve already received the data. Is there any data I’m missing?”

“Well, there’s data that came in afterward, but the pattern itself is similar.”

“Then I’ll present that again later. So, please gather the 담당 [in charge] police officers.”

“Yes.”

Joong-tae immediately gathered people, but not many showed up.

“I’m sorry. It’s just a no-show incident, after all…”

Besides the two 담당 [in charge] police officers from the criminal affairs division, no one else was there. Well, it would be funny to 投入 [invest] a lot of police into such a case.

“No, I understand.”

“But who is that?”

Joong-tae looked at Jung I-yeon with a somewhat uneasy expression.

“She’s the lawyer who will be helping the victims in this case.”

“Yes? But participating in the investigation is a bit…”

“She won’t be participating in the investigation itself. However, realistically, this kind of guy will continue to commit the same kind of crime unless there’s constant pressure. So, I just suggested filing a civil lawsuit as a means of pressure.”

“He’ll keep doing it?”

At Park Do-joon’s words, one of the three police officers, including the team leader, sighed deeply and said.

“Yes, this man is likely in his 40s or older, unemployed, and working odd jobs. He doesn’t have a fixed workplace and is likely traveling around the country. He’s been here for about two years and is probably a 속칭 노가다 [so-called manual labor] worker, but not someone with specific skills, just someone engaged in simple tasks.”

“Then?”

“That’s why I hired a lawyer. If the damages he caused in this area are over 200 million won [approximately $150,000 USD], there’s a high possibility he’s been committing no-show incidents in other areas as well.”

And there’s no way the national police would share information about a mere no-show incident.

“The method of the crime is meticulous and quite cautious. However, there are also bold aspects, and he periodically changes his phone to avoid being tracked. That means the criminal has a prior record of the same kind of crime and has either been tracked in the process or has a history of being punished.”

At those words, Joong-tae asked with a puzzled expression.

“If you don’t mind, could you tell me why you think so?”

“Well, I don’t mind. Everyone asks anyway.”

When they present profiling results here, the police always ask why they think so. They’re curious, but it’s also ambiguous to accept the opinion of someone who just says ‘because’ without any reason and conduct an investigation.

“First of all, the time this guy calls is important. He generally calls between 2 PM and 4 PM, during the so-called break time.”

“And?”

“That time is generally working hours.”

If you’re not actually running a restaurant, if you’re someone working in a typical company, the busiest time of day is exactly this time. Of course, if you’re a typical office worker, you’ll mostly be working during this time.

“But couldn’t he be unemployed or someone from a restaurant taking a break?”

“Of course, that’s possible. But if he’s unemployed, it’s even harder to make calls like this.”

“Why?”

“The rate of unemployed people going out during the day isn’t very high.”

Of course, not all unemployed people are just stuck in their rooms staring at monitors. But most of the unemployed try to save money, and going out during the day means you have to spend money. You have to have at least a cup of coffee or a drink.

“And unemployed or jobless people have a pattern of staying near their homes. But if you look at this route, there’s no such pattern at all.”

He has a completely random route and walks around back alleys while making calls, making it difficult to track him through CCTV.

“Many unemployed people tend to fall into a pattern of playing at night and sleeping at night. But this person calls exactly at a set time during the day. That means it’s natural for him to be awake at that time.”

“It’s a bit much to say he’s doing 노가다 [manual labor] just based on that…”

“There are other suspicious points besides that. It’s a part that commonly appears in the victims’ testimonies here.”

“What is it?”

Everyone tilted their heads. They couldn’t figure it out no matter how much they thought about it.

Of course, there are similar parts. But the part that provides information 확실한 [certain] enough to specify an individual’s occupation wasn’t visible to them.

But Park Do-joon could know for sure. The words a person uses represent their life.

“The word that’s frequently used is ‘site manager.’”

“Why is that? The word ‘site manager’ is commonly used, isn’t it?”

“Where?”

Certainly, the criminal often says he’s a site manager and makes reservations for his department’s 회식 [company dinner]. If not, he says he’s picking up food for 야근 [working overtime] or something like that.

“So…”

The police officer who was about to speak tilted his head. Come to think of it, the word ‘site manager’ isn’t a very commonly used word.

“The word ‘manager’ means someone who manages an area. Like a research institute director or an apartment manager. But neither of those fits this case.”

If it’s a research institute director, that’s a really high position. Would such a person call and make a reservation directly? There’s no way. In the case of an apartment manager, there aren’t many people under them, so they don’t make large reservations like this.

“And he doesn’t mention his rank or department when making reservations. He just calls himself a site manager. When hiding one’s affiliation like this, they usually mention their rank along with the team name or department name.”

Like a manager or assistant manager from a certain company. But instead, he deceives the other party with the title of site manager every time.

“Does that have any meaning?”

“Continuously impersonating a specific job ultimately means it’s the direction of the most powerful authority he wants to have.”

Park Do-joon thought that he impersonates that position because he wants to act like that job since he can’t have it himself.

“For example, let’s say there’s a guy who commits fraud as a prosecutor. It actually happened.”

He pretended to be a prosecutor, claiming to have the trust of the prosecutor general, and even fabricated KakaoTalk messages. He touched dozens of women and defrauded them.

But there’s no such rank as 청장 [chief] in the prosecution. 검찰총장 [Prosecutor General] is correct.

On top of that, he acted suspiciously and was eventually arrested.

“Why did he choose the job of a prosecutor to deceive women? In fact, there are other good jobs to deceive women.”

Among the jobs that are popular with women, there are doctors, lawyers, judges, and airplane pilots. But he committed fraud as a ‘prosecutor’ for years.

“Is it a kind of manifestation of his unconscious desire to become a prosecutor himself?”

“That’s right.”

“But just a 현장소장 [site manager] is a manifestation of the unconscious?”

Of course, a construction site manager isn’t someone with a low rank to be ignored, but still, socially, they’re not people who can be seen as social leaders.

“Social perception isn’t important. It means that an individual has a strong desire for such a rank. But if you’re a regular person, you don’t have much desire for a 현장소장 [site manager]. To put it simply, it’s like this. In the military, a major is a very high-ranking person to a soldier. But in society? Just an 아저씨 [middle-aged man].”

That’s the kind of 아저씨 [middle-aged man] who couldn’t even do 장기 [Korean chess] properly and failed.

That’s who a major is.

“I see.”

Everyone nodded at those words. They were all from the military, so they experienced how much of a headache it was when a major appeared in the unit as a soldier.

“A 현장소장 [site manager] may not be a big deal from the outside, but on-site, they manage the entire construction site, select the labor force, and are responsible for paying wages. There are dozens to hundreds of people 배치 [assigned] under them.”

In the case of large-scale construction sites like new cities, thousands of workers are 배치 [assigned]. Of course, it seems like they have that much power.

“It looks high to him.”

“That’s right. That’s why I think he goes from construction site to construction site.”

“But then isn’t he a technician?”

Joong-tae tilted his head and asked at Park Do-joon’s words.

“If that were the case, there’s no way he wouldn’t be able to work. And in the first place, such a technician isn’t afraid of the 소장 [site manager].”

미장공 [plasterers], carpenters, and electrical wiring technicians are 고급 [skilled] personnel who receive more than 300,000 won [approximately $225 USD] per day. They’re ignored as 노가다 [manual labor] workers because they work at construction sites, but in terms of daily wages, they’re definitely not comparable to 일용직 [daily] workers.

Rather, the 소장 [site manager] sometimes has to be mindful of such people. It’s not easy to supplement such 고급 [skilled] personnel.

And you can’t treat them carelessly because it involves areas related to safety. People’s lives are at stake just with electrical wiring. Safety devices collapsing and people dying happens every day on-site.

“If such technicians are told not to come by the 소장 [site manager], they can just go to another site. And as I said earlier, 2 PM to 4 PM is the busiest time.”

노가다 [manual labor] has set working hours. Generally, construction starts around 8 AM, and they eat lunch around 12 PM and give a break until around 2 PM. Because it takes a lot of stamina.

And the routine of a typical construction site is to work again from around 2 PM and finish work around 5 PM.

In other words, 2 PM to 4 PM is the busiest time on a construction site.

“There are no experts who would go around committing fraud at that time.”

“Hmm…”

“And every crime has a triggering factor.”

“Triggering factor?”

“Yes, this isn’t just a prank. The damages are already close to 200 million won [approximately $150,000 USD], and there’s the possibility of other crimes, so it can’t be a prank.”

If it were a prank, he would have been caught already. Generally, pranks start with a light heart in a situation where there’s no serious awareness of the crime.

“Even school violence offenders make excuses that it was a prank when they get caught.”

Everyone frowned at those words. Because they all know that.

“The problem is that these guys don’t really recognize that it’s a crime. They really think it’s a prank.”

In most cases, they don’t recognize it as a crime but as an easy target to play with or rip off. They treat the other person just as a toy.

“Often, when victims of school violence commit suicide, the perpetrators express it as a prank and don’t show a very serious reaction.”

And in such cases, people are mostly outraged.

천직이 프로파일러 [A natural-born profiler]