My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 334

“Is the purpose of mutilating the body for that reason?”

“That’s right. Mutilation is an expression of anger and resentment towards the other person.”

If there is no resentment, and there is another purpose, for example, killing someone to commit robbery, it means killing the person instantly and taking the money.

If you break into a house and kill someone? Whether the purpose is murder or theft, you quickly subdue the target and then leave to reduce the possibility of leaving traces.

“But this was mutilation, and it was done slowly over a considerable amount of time. The method of mutilation is grotesque, but it’s hard to see it as cannibalism.”

Because there are no traces of actually eating the body itself. It’s just that everyone was shocked that it was put in a pot and cooked in a gruesome way.

“Are we swept away by the shock?”

“That’s right. This should be seen as mutilation for revenge rather than cooking for cannibalism.”

“Even if there is no personal grudge?”

“Most revenge has substitutability. This is especially true for someone with a mental disorder.”

Park Do-joon said with a serious face. Considering that, there is only one possibility that hysteria is most likely.

“Perhaps the perpetrator was harmed by a woman. To be precise, there is a high possibility that he thinks he was harmed. He probably thought that the police did not protect him, and then he was either punished or agreed to a settlement with a large sum of money.”

“And?”

“And after that, as his mental illness worsened, the target of revenge was likely triggered in the form of the woman and the police who had deceived him.”

If there is someone around or a record of being diagnosed in the past, it may be possible to prevent it, but as Park Do-joon expected, if he is living an isolated life with no one around, it is impossible to prevent it.

“And in the act of cannibalism, the deceased is the best ingredient for the perpetrator. So, usually, they choose the best and most optimal cooking method they can think of.”

Because it’s not a common food. For example, if someone catches a *dol-dom* [rock bream, a type of fish] and makes fish cutlets, people would rather ask for it. The best dish people think of with *dol-dom* is *hoe* [sashimi, raw fish].

In fact, if you make it into a fish cutlet, you can’t taste the unique taste of *dol-dom*, so it’s natural.

“In such fantasies, perpetrators try to find a taste close to the essence of the target. So, if you look at existing cannibalistic killers, a common behavior is grilling.”

But in this case, the perpetrator did not act that way.

“In other words, the act itself is important.”

It means that they don’t really want to eat it, but they want to give the other person the finger through that image.

“So, the reason the perpetrator continues to commit crimes is that he wants us to be criticized, and he will continue to do this until the incident breaks out because no one is talking about it?”

“That’s very likely.”

Everyone’s faces turned pale at the words. The higher-ups are telling them to keep it strictly secret, but because of that, the perpetrator is committing crimes.

“Then what should we do?”

“Should we look for sex offenders?”

“It’s not just one or two people?”

As Park Do-joon said, in reality, sex crimes in Korea are operated under the principle of presumption of guilt, so the number is too large. If you include cases that were settled in the middle, the number exceeds hundreds of thousands.

“It seems difficult to track down mentally ill people too.”

Everyone couldn’t hide their embarrassment.

“The best thing to do is to disclose the incident to the outside.”

“Impossible!”

If the incident is made public, women will be careful, and from the perpetrator’s point of view, his revenge play will be established, so there is a high possibility that a cooling-off period will come.

However, from the police’s point of view, it’s like showing off their incompetence to the outside, so they can never show it to the outside.

“Then there’s only one other way. Arrest them quickly.”

“But…….”

Everyone’s faces turned gloomy at Park Do-joon’s words. They don’t even know how to do it in a situation where they can’t completely identify the perpetrator.

“First, we need to find someone who has a 1-ton truck.”

That was the only way to increase the possibility, so everyone could only let out a long sigh.

# Passing the Buck in a Power Group?

“Detective, what do you think? Will it be easy to find?”

“It won’t be possible.”

A 1-ton truck is a commonly used item in Korea. Furthermore, 1-ton trucks are also traded a lot as used items. Of course, they must have registered under their name, but tracking it down to identify the perpetrator is virtually impossible.

“The best way is…….”

When Park Do-joon was about to say the next word, a police officer approached.

“Excuse me.”

“Yes? What’s going on?”

“I had a question when you were talking about the cannibal earlier.”

“This case is not a cannibalism case, though?”

“I know. But I have something suspicious.”

“Suspicious?”

“How do cannibals choose their victims?”

Park Do-joon stared at the police officer at the words. Park Do-joon doesn’t think it’s bad for the police to study. In fact, it’s a good thing. If their skills are good, they can catch criminals more easily.

However, most of the cases where they ask directly like this are when there is something suspicious rather than studying.

“Do you have something suspicious?”

“The situation is urgent… To be honest, yes.”

The police officer said with a reluctant expression.

He lowered his voice.

“Let’s go somewhere else and talk.”

“Let’s do that.”

This case is also quite dangerous, so it will be difficult to hear good things if you stick to another case. Furthermore, the problem is not just that.

“Looking at it, it seems like the higher-ups are completely ignoring the detective’s opinion.”

“How did you know?”

“They wouldn’t send you here if they believed in such a case and entrusted you with the investigation.”

The detective sighed and said at Park Do-joon’s words.

“Yes, to be honest, it’s suspicious, but the higher-ups are telling me not to talk nonsense. Is this Africa?”

“Cannibalism doesn’t always happen in civilizations like Africa, though?”

Of course, there were tribes in the past who mourned the dead by eating them, but they don’t do that now. So, it is safe to say that cannibalism has completely moved into the realm of crime.

“Cannibalism is usually done for two purposes. One is to relieve one’s emotions, and the other is to obsess over cannibalism.”

The former often occurred on the battlefield. In particular, the Japanese army had no aversion to cannibalism to the point where they would kill prisoners and bring their livers as snacks.

In the case of Korea, in the past, *Maggapa* [a notorious gang] used cannibalism to express their anger towards the rich and to strengthen their solidarity.

“Such cannibalism is usually indiscriminate.”

It is not very specifically targeted, but targets members of a specific group. The Japanese army used the U.S. military as scapegoats, and *Maggapa* used the rich as scapegoats.

“The latter, that is, the obsession with the fantasy of cannibalism, is often the manifestation of a kind of mental illness, wanting to eat a specific person.”

There are also crazy people who eat the other person while thinking, ‘I become one with you by eating you,’ like in some cartoons.

For them, cannibalism is a fantasy, a purpose, and a process of becoming one.

“What about Chinese people eating people?”

“Chinese people aren’t crazy. There’s no reason to eat people in the first place.”

One of the cheapest foods in China is pork. So, it doesn’t make sense to say that they eat people because they don’t have enough to eat. Furthermore, killing a human and bringing the body to eat means incurring costs.

That means incurring enormous costs. It would be much more profitable to divide the human into organs and sell them.

“It’s difficult to find someone to eat even if you sell the body poorly.”

On the other hand, there are always plenty of people waiting to engage in organ trafficking.

“The image that people have of Chinese people eating humans? Well, you should see that it disappeared centuries ago.”

Of course, there may be people who eat it. But that is not a culture of humans eating humans, but a crime of criminals eating humans.

These two are completely different, and even if the relationship with China is not good, it must be distinguished.

“Um, do they target and eat the people they catch?”

“I guess so. As I said repeatedly, the crime of cannibalism is usually a distorted fantasy.”

“Are the rich eating people for gourmet purposes… not?”

“Gourmet is a kind of boasting.”

“Boasting?”

“Yes, isn’t it trendy these days to upload pictures every time you eat something on the internet?”

That’s how you boast about what you eat and how well you live.

“In the past, in the Middle Ages, there was something called the power of meat.”

“The power of meat?”

“Yes.”

In the Middle Ages, meat was a valuable food. There were no large-scale food farms now, and hunting was not easy. So, eating meat itself was proof of power.

When commoners ate chicken at best, nobles ate pigs or hunted animals.

“The fact that the rich do something different from others is, conversely, because they want to show that they are different from you by appealing to it.”

Gourmet is the same. The act of eating meat itself can be seen as an act of proving power. At that time, it was so difficult to make a living that the word ‘power of meat’ came out.

Looking at North Korea right now, cows are valuable labor, so you will be executed if you eat them.

“But can you boast about cannibalism?”

“Ah…….”

Of course, there are guys who hunt humans for fun. I can’t say there aren’t. There have actually been such incidents.

But that’s just a hobby for crazy people, not a hobby for the rich. The rich and the crazy are completely different, so you can’t profile that they would do that because they are rich.

“You seem to have something suspicious.”

“Actually, there was a suspicious incident on our side.”

“Suspicious?”

“Yes, a frozen body was found…….”

“A frozen body?”

“Yes.”

It was also in the form of pieces by part, as Park Do-joon said.

“But why didn’t I know about that? There should have been a fuss.”

“That’s… it’s a bit of an old case. It’s been about 4 years.”

“4 years…….”

It was the time before Park Do-joon became a police officer, to be exact, when he was crawling around in the military, thinking, ‘I won’t even pee in this direction when I get discharged.’

‘If it was then, definitely.’

When I was in the military, I had no choice but to be distant from social news. Furthermore, at that time, mobile phones were not yet autonomous, and who would turn on the news when the only TV was playing idols?