My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 375

“What is this?”

“That…”

It was as expected. Snuff films were circulating in the shadows.

Photos of people being brutally murdered.

“Holy crap, this is insane!”

“No, what is this…!”

The police officers who saw a snuff film for the first time turned pale. They had never imagined that such a thing could actually be happening.

‘It’s fake.’

But Park Do-joon quickly realized. These photos were fake. There were scenes of bleeding, torture, and cruelty, but the wounds that should have been on the body were missing.

In other words, it was a fake snuff film made for sale. No matter how bloody it was, it couldn’t hide the absence of real wounds.

However, the police officers who saw it for the first time couldn’t hide their shocked expressions.

“We’re going to need you to come with us.”

“No, this is…”

The man was flustered, not knowing what to do at those words. Now that he had been caught, there was no way out.

“Let’s go together.”

“No, this is fake!”

“I said, let’s go together!”

“No, I’m telling you it’s fake!”

Of course, the man struggled to avoid being dragged away, but that didn’t mean the other police officers would let him go. Even murderers claim they didn’t kill anyone.

“So, let’s go, you bastard. Can’t you walk?”

“I can’t go! I won’t go!”

At those words, one of the angry police officers finally took out handcuffs.

“You are under arrest for concealing a crime.”

“What?”

“Isn’t that true?”

To an outsider, these photos were clearly evidence of torture and murder. Concealing them constitutes concealment of a crime.

“You have the right to remain silent, and you have the right to an attorney. Anything you say can be used against you.”

The police officer read the Miranda rights, and the man looked at Baek Man-yeon in embarrassment. Kim Si-deok approached Baek Man-yeon.

“Good job, Detective Baek. Thanks for tracking him down all this time.”

“What?”

“Excuse me?”

Baek Man-yeon was flustered and couldn’t respond to the situation, but the man’s eyes rolled back at those words.

“You son of a bitch, you betrayed me?”

“No, wait! I…!”

“Drag him out!”

But before the two could finish their conversation, the man was dragged away by other detectives.

Only after he was gone did Kim Si-deok take out handcuffs from his back pocket.

“Well, Detective Baek, good work… Now, shall we go together too?”

At those words, Baek Man-yeon’s pupils began to shake violently.

“They’re both invoking their right to remain silent, right?”

“I guess so.”

Baek Man-yeon and the man went to the police station, but neither of them said anything. That was expected.

Both of them had called lawyers and were claiming to them that it was fake.

“It’s a problem. If what you say is true, isn’t this fake?”

“It probably is fake. The real ones wouldn’t distribute photos so publicly.”

Perhaps Baek Man-yeon was given a free video of his taste as a reward for informing him of the crackdown. So he was choosing it from within.

“If we investigate this a little, we’ll come to the conclusion that it’s fake, right?”

“Well… will we? The sloppy ones are obviously sloppy, but the precise ones are so precise that even experts have a hard time telling.”

“What do you mean?”

“Some snuff films don’t even care about the wounds when making them, but relatively expensive snuff films create fake wounds for the sake of realism, even if they are fake.”

Not actually inflicting injuries, but creating and attaching fake wounds.

Modern makeup technology is capable of that much.

“But no matter how advanced the makeup technology is, if the National Forensic Service investigates properly, they’ll know it’s fake.”

“That’s true.”

Then, realistically, the man and Baek Man-yeon will have to be released.

“Ugh!”

Baek Man-yeon, who has an abnormal sexual desire, may be ashamed and quit the police, but at the same time, the case ends there.

“They won’t cooperate with each other, though.”

Kim Si-deok said worriedly. The reason Park Do-joon told him to say good job to Baek Man-yeon was simple: to create the image of a traitor for Baek Man-yeon so that they wouldn’t try to cover up the case by cooperating with each other.

They are preventing them from colluding on the crime, but realistically, that situation is not perfectly achieved. There are more cases than you think where lawyers exchange stories and then organize the case and tell both sides, so you have to draw a clear line like this to prevent them from joining hands as much as possible.

“But that doesn’t mean those guys will admit their guilt.”

That’s the problem. They were arrested, but proving their guilt is a completely different matter.

“I think it’ll be easy?”

“Easy?”

“Yes.”

“Why?”

Park Do-joon scratched his head at those words.

Because it’s such an obvious answer.

“If we indict them, we have to try them for concealing murder, right?”

“That’s right.”

They are claiming it’s fake, and there’s a high possibility that it will come out as fake after investigation, but that doesn’t mean we can’t file a lawsuit.

“So, we can request a warrant and search.”

“Search?”

“Yes.”

“We already searched, didn’t we?”

At this point, the police also realized that something was wrong and had already searched the man’s adult goods store thoroughly. But nothing came out of it. It seemed that he was storing the videos elsewhere.

“The target isn’t the man, it’s Baek Man-yeon.”

“Not the man, but Baek Man-yeon?”

“Isn’t the man the one who actually commits the murders?”

Of course, he would be careful because he was afraid of getting caught, so he would have hidden the videos elsewhere for safety.

In fact, only photos came out of the file, and there were no videos. In other words, when you order, you copy the file from another location.

“In this day and age, it wouldn’t be a CD… it would be a small USB or something.”

But the video wasn’t at the scene. Perhaps it was a system where you ordered it that day and picked it up next time.

“Ah! So, you’re saying Baek Man-yeon is keeping it?”

“Yes, people tend to be careless in their own space.”

Furthermore, Baek Man-yeon lives alone. Of course, she would hardly think about the possibility of someone accidentally discovering it.

“So, it’ll probably be easy to search her house.”

Moreover, this is currently an investigation into a murder case on the surface. In other words, there would be no problem with the warrant being issued.

“If Baek Man-yeon has the video, then the certainty of the crime increases.”

If there is a video of an actual missing person and a video of them being murdered, it is not impossible to assume that the people in the other photos are also dead.

“And then, let her talk about her sense of justice once again.”

Park Do-joon said with a sneer.

The search itself didn’t take long. In the first place, Baek Man-yeon lives in a small studio apartment, and it’s not a complex structure, and there’s no safe or anything.

However, there was only a locked drawer among the drawers that she seemed to be using.

Breaking it open was nothing.

Inside, dozens of USBs came out, and the police who checked it were turned upside down. As Park Do-joon expected, there were snuff films inside.

“This is mostly evidence of innocence.”

“I guess so.”

Park Do-joon said while watching the video. And Kim Si-deok had no choice but to admit it. That’s because the person who appeared as the victim in that video also showed his face in other videos.

Well, in the first place, there is almost no demand for snuff films, so there would be almost no one who appears in them.

“But this…”

Kim Si-deok sighed deeply as he looked at the remaining USBs, excluding those videos and videos that anyone could see were fake. Twelve videos out of dozens of videos.

They were videos composed of people who had disappeared in Korea. To be exact, criminals. Murderers appeared with the same pattern, and there were videos of brutal torture.

No matter how advanced modern makeup technology is, it cannot create the appearance of bones popping out, flesh splitting, and internal organs overflowing in real time.

“Crazy.”

As many as twelve victims.

No one knew about it, and no one could track it.

“Ha, shit…”

Kim Si-deok felt like his head was about to explode when he thought about the team members who were still looking for snuff films, just in case. Of course, since twelve videos were found and it was certain that Baek Man-yeon was an accomplice in the current situation, it was the same as confirming that there were twelve victims.

“The problem is the other guys.”

The man who ran the adult goods store had a different physique from the men in the video and had never worked in the video industry in the past. In other words, at least two or more criminals are still left.

“I don’t think they’ll ever talk.”

No matter how you look at it, this is a crime that has no answer other than the death penalty.

If that’s the case, they’ll never talk.

“Should we find the people they traded with?”

“I don’t think it’ll be easy.”

The guys who buy these videos won’t buy them with credit cards or bank transfers. Furthermore, buying this cannot be seen as a crime.

It’s an act of buying for one’s own sexual desire while knowing that it’s fake and knowing that it has nothing to do with direct murder, so it’s just pornography for people with abnormal sexual desires.

“They won’t sell it offline in the first place. They’ll just share it among themselves. They’ll only sell it online. Isn’t that right?”

“That’s right. They only received money in beta coins [untraceable cryptocurrency] that cannot be tracked.”

That’s why it’s impossible to even figure out who’s selling it.

“So, we have to pressure them in other ways.”

“Other ways?”

“Yes.”

Park Do-joon knew this situation would happen. Any criminal clams up once they are arrested. Especially in a situation like now, where even if they are given leniency, life imprisonment is certain.

“We need to find a repair center.”

“Repair center?”

“Remember? This video wasn’t taken with a digital camera.”

VHS or 8mm tape. That’s what the police expected.

“But is there a place that uses that now?”

“I don’t think there will be.”

“That’s right. Almost none!”

‘Almost’ is important. Of course, those things are not eternal. They disappear when used, and they are consumed again when used.

“As I said before, those items have been discontinued. There’s no place to get them.”

“That’s right.”

“But what if there’s a surplus of those items?”

“What?”

“If someone sells that surplus, wouldn’t they be interested?”

Most people probably wouldn’t even be interested. In the first place, they wouldn’t have such items at home. No, in the first place, why would you buy it when you can take pictures with a cell phone with much higher quality in modern times?

“But what if it’s a criminal?”

“They’d want to buy it?”

“That’s right. And we have a local used sales system [online marketplace].”

A system that helps with transactions in the vicinity by showing only the items for sale around here.

“Let’s try fishing.”

Park Do-joon thought that a big catch would come up.