My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 488

“We don’t hire illegal immigrants.”

“How do you know that?”

“I have a copy just in case…!”

“You know copies aren’t valid, right?”

Especially with photos, it’s often hard to recognize faces in copies, so passport copies aren’t valid.

“I’m sorry, but it’s not possible. Uh, put that back. Do you want to be arrested for bribery too?”

“No, this isn’t a bribe, it’s a visa and passport copy…”

“Ah, let’s take a look first.”

Park Do-joon handed it over at those words. Then, he started examining it.

‘Hmm, at least they’re not illegal immigrants.’

Most were Korean-Chinese with F4 visas [visas issued to overseas Koreans allowing them to work in specific sectors].

“I’m sorry, but it still won’t work. You’ll have to bring the originals, or come to the police station with me.”

“Do we really have to go that far…”

“We received a tip.”

“A tip?”

“Yes, we received a tip that the recent serial rapist is an illegal worker in this area.”

“A laborer?”

“Yes.”

The face of the person in charge turned pale at those words. That was because he couldn’t shield them in that situation.

“I, well, I’ll have them bring their passports and visas right away. Just don’t deport them…”

“We’ll see.”

Once they’re deported from here, things get complicated. Other laborers don’t want to come to workplaces where people have been caught by the police and deported. Naturally, the schedule gets disrupted, and in the worst case, construction can’t be completed and the project fails. That’s why the person in charge had to clear up this misunderstanding no matter what.

“Just a moment. I’ll go and have them bring it right away.”

“What if they run away?”

“They’re people I know. We’ve been working together for over two months.”

Well, that’s why he would have a copy. Park Do-joon nodded at those words, and he went to the employees, urgently handing them bills and telling them to take a taxi and bring the passports and visas.

As they left, Park Do-joon looked at his watch, wondering when they would come back. Jung Yi-yeon approached Park Do-joon.

“Sunbae [term for a senior colleague or mentor], is it okay to let them go like that?”

“Well, it’s okay if they send them, and it’s okay if they don’t.”

“What if the culprit is inside?”

“I don’t think so.”

“Why?”

“He said they’ve been working together for two months. But that time doesn’t match the rape times.”

“The rapes happened at night.”

“That’s right. But people need to rest too. If you work all day at a construction site, shouldn’t you go to bed early at night?”

“Ah, that’s true.”

Their stamina isn’t unlimited, and if he’s an illegal immigrant, he probably doesn’t have any skills, so he’ll be doing rough and hard work.

“He’s probably carrying loads.”

“Carrying loads?”

“Yeah, in construction terms, it means carrying things like bricks, sand, and cement.”

Large apartments or construction sites can use handcarts, but these villas can’t, so they have to carry them on their backs.

“Also, these sites usually pick people up every morning, but they usually move in teams.”

“That’s for large sites, right?”

“Whether it’s large or small, there’s always a basic team. Honestly, how can you supplement skilled workers like carpenters every morning?”

They are already expensive skilled laborers that everyone is calling for. Naturally, there’s a team that brings them, and a team is formed based on them.

“But he said they’ve been working together for two months.”

“He did.”

“Then they’re a team. And look. Two people are leaving, right?”

“Yeah.”

“They live together.”

“Ah, that’s right.”

They live together as a team, receive work together, and move together.

“The culprit is probably a load carrier. Those people usually get work at the labor market in the early morning.”

“So, after working, they’re tired, so they just rest?”

“That’s right. That means he’s not part of the construction team.”

In the case of working as a team, they don’t accept load carriers at all. They’re not skilled, and they’re easily replaceable.

“Well, some places do give load carriers to team members, but even then, they accept more numbers compared to other team members. More like a guest member than a fixed member?”

That way, they can take turns working, and since these teams usually move together, it’s rare to tie up easily available personnel as a team.

“If that were the case, the crimes would have occurred at regular intervals.”

But the rape cases were erratic. As long as once every two weeks. Sometimes once every five days, sometimes once a week. And sometimes once every two days.

“He’s probably a load carrier. That means he’s selected at the labor market in the morning and comes to work.”

“But why did he come here? You said the people here are a team that moves together?”

“Chinese people tend to form groups wherever they go. To be exact, that’s how it turns out.”

In the meantime, the Chinese man who urgently brought the passport and visa, Park Do-joon, received it and smirked.

‘As expected, an F4 visa.’

Of course, there’s no problem even if I arrest them here, but nothing changes even if I do that. Rather, I have to use what I can, so he handed it over and said.

“So, are all the people working here a team? No load carriers?”

“Ah, we’re almost done, so there are no load carriers.”

“Then where do they meet?”

“That? Well, we usually bring them from the labor market.”

“Which labor market has a lot of Chinese people?”

In fact, Park Do-joon’s goal from the beginning was that. Which labor market has a lot of Chinese people? Chinese people live together. Naturally, there are many places where they come from.

‘But I can’t go and ask for cooperation.’

First of all, the police station is unlikely to know such places. Even if they know, if they take that and go to the site to ask for help, most companies refuse. This is because many Chinese workers are illegal immigrants or have visas like F4 that prohibit construction work, so when the police show up, they all run away.

In other words, to go there without getting caught, you have to approach through another place.

“That’s where…”

As expected, the manager, in order to survive, blurted out the information he knew without thinking.

Listening to those words, Park Do-joon smiled.

# The Culprit’s Location

“Are you sure he’s in Amsang-dong?”

Lee Ji-soo tilted her head at the information Park Do-joon brought.

“I think so. Isn’t that right, Team Leader?”

Cha Dae-hoon also nodded at those words.

“It’s highly likely.”

“But there has never been a case in Amsang-dong?”

“That’s why it’s even more likely.”

“Yes? Why?”

“The characteristic of these criminals is that they try to protect themselves. They instinctively try to hide everything that can identify them. Location information is the same.”

Clearly, the place where the incident occurred is Bunghwa-dong. That cannot be denied. But the area where Chinese people live is Amsang-dong.

“Even these two places are under different local governments.”

Cha Dae-hoon said that and frowned. Due to the nature of Korea’s police system, which divides and manages areas, the police in charge of Bunghwa-dong have no right to investigate Amsang-dong. On the other hand, the police in charge of Amsang-dong consider the serial rape case in Bunghwa-dong to be someone else’s business.

“But why?”

“Originally, the criminal hates leaving traces. When a criminal commits serial crimes based on one area, surprisingly, the criminal’s living area is excluded from the crime area.”

This is because if they commit a crime in that area, they know that the police will search the scene thoroughly.

For this reason, criminals who operate in a fixed area often do not commit crimes around them so that the police do not suspect them.

“The radius is about 2 kilometers [1.2 miles].”

It varies from criminal to criminal, but generally, they try not to commit crimes within a radius of 1 kilometer [0.6 miles] from their residence. In other words, within a distance of 2 kilometers [1.2 miles] in a circle. That way, the police won’t identify them.

“Indeed, if the city is completely different like now, the police’s jurisdiction itself changes, so the investigation will be difficult.”

Of course, if a special investigation headquarters is established, there will be a commotion, but a special investigation headquarters has not yet been established.

In that situation, they might leave for another area.

“Sunbaenim, but Amsang-dong is next to Bunghwa-dong, but there have been no rape cases in other areas?”

Lee Ji-soo asked as if she didn’t understand Park Do-joon’s words. Of course, she is also a profiler, so she knows about the distance psychology of criminals. But why don’t they commit crimes in other urban areas within the radius except for Bunghwa-dong?

“It’s probably a geographical problem.”

“A geographical problem?”

“Both Bunghwa-dong and Amsang-dong have a kind of island shape when viewed as living spaces.”

There are industrial areas around, and it is an old downtown area created based on those industrial areas. And next to it is an office-type urban area where offices are concentrated, and next to it is an apartment complex, and at the same time, next to it is a large entertainment complex.

“It doesn’t make sense that there is no entertainment complex in this area where there are overwhelmingly more men. But look at the crime patterns so far.”

“Aha!”

The criminal clearly climbs up the gas pipe late at night, threatens with a knife, gags the other person, rapes them, and runs away.

“But other areas are not suitable for committing such crimes. Criminals have poor learning abilities, so unless it’s a special case, they don’t bother to change the crime method that has been successful so far.”

The reason why the police investigate similar offenders first when such an incident occurs is that. Once they have learned a crime, they try to continue using that method. Even if it is discovered and they are arrested by the police and go to prison, they continue to use that method.

“Other areas have a structure that makes it impossible to commit rape using that method.”

“That’s right.”

If you go to the factory, it’s almost full of men, and even if there are female workers, it’s impossible because dozens or hundreds of people work together.

There are no people working in the office area at night, so it is impossible there, and most of them do not install gas pipes on the exterior walls.

The same is true for apartments. Nowadays, gas pipes are not taken out to the exterior walls, and even if they are taken out, climbing up a building with dozens of floors is close to suicide.

“The only areas where you can safely climb up the gas pipe are old downtown areas like Bunghwa-dong and Amsang-dong.”

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