My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 37

“That’s insane.”

The thirty or so bundles of dried radish greens were all soaked in pesticide.

“How many people was Alma Segar trying to kill?”

“Indeed. In a way, we were lucky.”

The team leader shook his head as he received the report.

“Lucky, you say?”

“Those dried radish greens, you see. I wondered why there were so many, but it turns out he was selling them to dried radish green restaurants in town.”

“What? Crazy!”

Well, no matter how well dried radish greens keep, there’s no way you’d pile up 30 of those big bundles.

“But that dried radish green restaurant went out of business, I hear.”

“If that had gone to the dried radish green restaurant…….”

“Dozens of people would have died. If he had sold it online, the death toll would have been in the hundreds.”

“Alma Segar would have known that, right?”

“Yes. And even if he considered the village chief eating it, he wouldn’t know which one he’d eat.”

“I’m going crazy.”

The team leader shuddered as if he had goosebumps. If that had happened, the country would have been turned upside down.

“How did this happen? What grudge did he have?”

“It seems Alma Segar became a lone wolf because of the village chief’s gang.”

“Lone wolf?”

“It refers to a self-radicalized Islamic terrorist. It usually means a Muslim who becomes engrossed in religion due to discrimination or other issues and participates in a holy war.”

In Europe, where this term was coined, many young Muslims become lone wolves and voluntarily engage in terrorism.

“I heard the village chief often bought meat. Especially pork.”

This could be confirmed at the butcher shop the village chief frequented, and strangely, he often took the meat completely ground up.

“You can’t tell the shape of the meat once it’s ground like that. You can’t even tell what kind of meat it is.”

Perhaps the village chief tricked Alma Segar into eating pork, regardless of religion, and later taunted him, saying, ‘See, you eat it well when we give it to you.’

“Yeah, there are always guys like that. They never think about other people’s opinions or thoughts.”

“Yes, and that’s what turned Alma Segar into a self-radicalized terrorist.”

So, how would he take revenge? Simply killing the gang who fed him the meat wouldn’t be enough.

“As a holy warrior of Islam, killing as many infidels as possible was Alma Segar’s way to get to heaven.”

“So, he soaked it in pesticide?”

“Probably.”

The pesticide wouldn’t be noticeable at all, and once it dried, the village chief would sell it, which was a given.

It wouldn’t have been difficult to predict that hundreds of people would die.

“The only difference is that the restaurant he was trading with went out of business.”

According to the villagers, the village chief was looking into selling the remaining dried radish greens by mail or online.

“Then they boiled a little of it and ate it themselves first.”

And that little bit killed them all.

“Alma Segar worked in Korea for five years, I heard. And he worked in the countryside, so he must have had knowledge of pesticides and dried radish greens.”

“Hmm, what should I say? It’s like a case of everyone getting what they deserved.”

“Getting what they deserved… That’s the perfect way to put it.”

The village chief’s gang lost their lives as a result of disregarding other people’s religions, and Alma Segar joined a religious war and couldn’t even find his body.

He did it to go to Allah’s paradise, but.

‘Can he really go?’

Even the Islamic scriptures say not to kill the innocent. ISIS is a pseudo-religious group that distorts the scriptures, not true Islam.

In the end, it was all their own fault, and their evil deeds came back to them.

“Speaking of getting what they deserved, did it have to be like that?”

“What do you mean?”

“Han Seong-gi, I mean.”

“Detective Han Seong-gi also got what he deserved, didn’t he?”

“That’s true, but… Wow, I think he’s going to get seriously disciplined again this time.”

It’s drunk driving, of all things. Moreover, the investigation itself became a problem.

Because it was such a big case, the media started extensively reporting on it and criticizing the police’s unreasonable investigation, and the police had no choice but to conduct a large-scale audit.

Naturally, it was revealed that Han Seong-gi hadn’t done his job properly, was drunk on the scene, and even condoned drunk driving and rode along.

“It hasn’t even been a month since his suspension was lifted, really.”

“It’s not like I told him to go around drinking, is it?”

If Han Seong-gi had confronted the suspect, profiled him properly, and analyzed the scene, there would have been no problem.

It’s something that could be wrong, so they won’t make an issue of that part.

But Han Seong-gi never once confronted the suspect, Kim Woo-chang.

He roughly analyzed the case and concluded that Kim Woo-chang was the culprit.

“Everything’s fine, but, you know. There’s bad talk coming from inside the police.”

“No, I saved an innocent person, so what’s the bad talk about?”

If Park Do-joon hadn’t solved this properly, Kim Woo-chang would have definitely been sentenced to death.

“It’s not that, it’s whether you had to stab the same family.”

“It’s not like I stabbed him, is it?”

“No, you’re the one who brought the lawyer there, right?”

“How can I stop a lawyer from following around to save his client?”

“This bastard, always wriggling out of things. Haa…….”

The team leader could only shake his head.

Certainly, Park Do-joon didn’t do anything legally wrong.

“I’m going crazy, really.”

Looking at Park Do-joon, the team leader could only smile bitterly.

# Cold Case

“Detective!”

Jeong I-yeon, who suddenly appeared on the way to work, grabbed Park Do-joon.

“Don’t come here often. It’s really burdensome when a lawyer visits the police often.”

Park Do-joon seemed to be drawing a line, but as always, Jeong I-yeon went her own way.

“Detective, my dad wants to have dinner with you.”

“Your father? Why? No, why would he want to have dinner with me?”

Park Do-joon was dumbfounded by the sudden acceleration of the situation. Usually, when a father eats with someone his daughter knows, it’s mostly with a specific relationship in mind.

Of course, Park Do-joon is far from that specific relationship and is nothing but burdened by Jeong I-yeon.

“Oh, he’s thankful.”

“What are you thankful for?”

“Oh, did I mention? My dad’s a lawyer.”

“So what?”

From the beginning, Park Do-joon had no interest in Jeong I-yeon. To be exact, he was burdened. He was burdened and uncomfortable with everyone who approached him.

But Jeong I-yeon was either oblivious or didn’t care, and she was fearless.

“Oh, my dad’s the representative of the law firm, the law firm I’m at.”

“The law firm you’re at?”

“I’m affiliated with that law firm, Moonlight Law Firm.”

Moonlight is a fairly large law firm. Of course, it’s not nationally famous and doesn’t sweep up big cases, but it’s still one of the law firms that the police avoid the most. Because they’re good.

“Moonlight? I don’t know it.”

“Where’s the business card I gave you before?”

“In the trash can.”

“Oh, really. Anyway, my father told me to tell you to have a meal. Thanks to you, I’m making a name for myself within the company.”

“I understand. Please explain properly next time.”

Certainly, thanks to Park Do-joon, she ended two difficult murder cases with acquittals. In the original history, they would probably have been punished for murder.

And no matter what, it’s bound to be good that his rookie daughter is accumulating such achievements.

‘Especially if it’s his own company.’

If you’re a normal person, you can’t help but recognize the parachute controversy [nepotism] when you bring your child into your company.

And in order to solve that, she eventually has to show her skills on her own, but it’s not easy for a rookie lawyer to take on a case, and it’s not easy to show her skills.

So, he probably turned her into a public defender. But by doing so, she solved two difficult cases, and looking at the records, they were definitely cases that were almost impossible to overturn.

‘That’s enough to buy a meal.’

Park Do-joon breathed a sigh of relief inwardly. But he still refused.

“No.”

“Yes? Why?”

“I’m a police officer. Your father is a lawyer. We’re in a relationship where we can get involved at any time. If we eat together, it’ll be a headache later.”

“Wow, you’re so cold.”

“Do you think being a profiler is easy?”

“Okay. Then let’s have a meal together later.”

“I said I’m not eating.”

But Park Do-joon’s head ached as he watched Jeong I-yeon, who didn’t even pretend to listen, leave.

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen her before, so why does she keep getting involved?”

He said that as he went inside. Of course, as always, people were extremely cold. If the team used to treat Park Do-joon coldly, now there was no one in the police station who even pretended to know him.

‘Whatever.’

But for Park Do-joon, who is uncomfortable with people, it was the best environment. Thanks to that, he was able to head to his seat with a happy heart.

Today, Han Seong-gi’s seat was empty again.

“Where did Detective Han Seong-gi go?”

“He’s on standby because of you.”

He’s on standby until the disciplinary action is decided. Park Do-joon nodded at the words and took out the top one from the pile of documents.

“There are a lot of cases today, too.”

Profilers are busy. However, they can’t go to every crime scene. There aren’t enough people to do that. So, they generally only go to cases requested by the police.

But even that is too much, so they can’t go to all of them. In that case, they send the case documents and profile the case.

So, analyzing those cases also takes a long time.

“Are you analyzing without a team member?”

“My team member is on standby due to drunk driving.”

“You’re the one who stabbed him.”

“It’s not like I stabbed him; he just drank and condoned drunk driving.”

“You son of a bitch.”

The team members looked at Park Do-joon uncomfortably, who didn’t give in a single word. Then Park Do-joon ignored them and looked at the documents.

Han Seong-gi is gone, but the workload will pile up regardless, and frankly, it doesn’t matter much whether Han Seong-gi is there or not.

It may not be that Han Seong-gi is completely unskilled, but at least he was worse than Park Do-joon.

‘Hmm, it seems like the police’s direction of the case is correct for now.’

Park Do-joon flipped through the cases, judging whether there were any cases he needed to look into. Of course, most of the cases go to the local profiler team, so the cases that come here are mostly not urgent and of low importance.

“Let’s pass this on for now.”

Park Do-joon, who had been flipping through documents all morning, stopped his eyes for a moment.

“Unsolved?”

Unsolved cases are called cold cases in the United States.

Simply put, it refers to cases where the perpetrator has not been caught. Even when using a profiler, unsolved cases sometimes occur. Because humans can’t be perfect.