My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 513

“Senior, do you think they’ll fall for this? I mean, really.”

Park Do-joon scoffed at Lee Ji-soo’s words.

“You still don’t know lawyers very well.”

“Pardon?”

“Why do you think we keep the criminals separated during detention?”

“To prevent them from coordinating their stories, of course.”

‘Coordinating’ doesn’t mean kissing.

It means conspiring to conceal their crimes together.

“But you know, during the investigation, even though they were arrested at different locations, their stories often align in strange ways, right?”

It’s not 100% consistent, but there are more than a few cases where things awkwardly don’t match up, yet strangely coincide.

“So, who do you think is helping them align their stories?”

“Ah!”

Lawyers are acting as a kind of messenger. A lawyer’s ultimate goal isn’t justice or truth, but to get their client acquitted or reduce their sentence.

“They can’t meet the criminals, but they can meet the lawyers.”

“And they coordinate their stories.”

“Exactly. Of course, not all lawyers do that, but in cases like this, they’re each using different lawyers.”

In such situations, the probability of lawyers meeting each other increases dramatically.

“Hyo Jin-ae and Ahn Si-boo. Their personal feelings are completely soured, but at the same time, they’re criminals suspected of the same crime.”

“A community of fate, you mean.”

“Right, so the lawyers will meet with the same goal of strategizing.”

And the organ trafficking story will definitely come up in that process.

“What? But isn’t that disadvantageous for us?”

Lee Ji-soo asked, surprised. If they defend together, it’s disadvantageous for them. But Park Do-joon shook his head.

“The problem is, that’s just information. The key is that they’re both protecting different targets.”

Park Do-joon grinned.

“They’ll try to hide information that’s disadvantageous to themselves in order to get the information they need from each other. So, they won’t share the really critical information. They’ll try to protect their own clients first. So, we don’t need to fight them directly. They’ll fight each other.”

And they just had to wait for it to happen.

# We Need to Use Lawyers Too

Hyo Jin-ae and Ahn Si-boo’s lawyers met secretly, just as Park Do-joon had predicted. There’s no way for the police to stop it. And Ahn Si-boo’s lawyer was struck by a bolt from the blue.

“What? Organ trafficking?”

“Yes, I heard they’re investigating organ trafficking. Are you aware of this?”

“No, I haven’t heard anything about that.”

“Hmm, Hyo Jin-ae said she was threatened into doing it…”

“We haven’t heard anything like that on our end.”

“Really? Hmm, this is serious.”

Ahn Si-boo’s lawyer asked, his face turning pale. But as Park Do-joon expected, Hyo Jin-ae’s lawyer didn’t say anything more.

‘There’s no reason to tell them anything that’s disadvantageous to us.’

According to what he heard from Hyo Jin-ae, Ahn Si-boo was framing Hyo Jin-ae as the boss. That means they can’t ignore the possibility that the other side is lying.

‘No, it’s highly likely they’re lying. They killed as many as thirty people, so someone has to take the blame.’

So, Hyo Jin-ae’s lawyer didn’t pass on any detailed information and just kept probing.

“So, you’re saying you haven’t heard anything about it at all?”

“No, not at all.”

‘Is he lying? No, he must be lying.’

If he had received the data from the police, he would have been suspicious. But Hyo Jin-ae’s lawyer received the data from the previous lawyer. That means the testimony came from Hyo Jin-ae, and from Hyo Jin-ae’s perspective, she had to do it to survive.

‘They’re trying to pin it on us.’

Watching Ahn Si-boo’s lawyer, who was maintaining ignorance, Hyo Jin-ae’s lawyer pretended not to know and said,

“For now, go and find out more. It seems the police are focusing on that issue.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes.”

Hyo Jin-ae’s lawyer said that and left the scene. Ahn Si-boo’s lawyer got up and went straight to Ahn Si-boo.

And he told him what he had heard.

Ahn Si-boo’s eyes wavered at the lawyer’s words.

“How did they know?”

“Is that true?”

“Well, that’s…”

“This is important. Mr. Ahn Si-boo, this changes the defense strategy.”

“No, it’s true, but…”

“…Oh my god.”

At those words, the lawyer grabbed his face. The pregnant woman murder case was already a big deal, and the media was stirring things up, and now organ trafficking?

“How many?”

“Well, that’s…”

“How many?”

“I don’t know. It’s not just one or two people.”

Silence flowed at those words. After a while, Ahn Si-boo’s lawyer said with a sullen face.

“Let’s talk about the defense for that first.”

“What? Why? The cops don’t know…”

“Hyo Jin-ae spoke first. So, Hyo Jin-ae’s lawyer must have been running his mouth to confirm the facts.”

“That bitch!”

There’s no trust among criminals in the first place. Of course, the two were in an affair. But they weren’t in love, just objects to satisfy each other’s sexual desires.

“I heard you tried to use Hyo Jin-ae as a hostage to get out first.”

“That was just because I was desperate at the moment…”

“Don’t you know women? When they’re betrayed, they’ll do anything to kill the other person. There’s a saying that frost falls in midsummer for a reason [meaning unexpected or unnatural events occur when someone is deeply wronged].”

“But…”

“That woman is done for anyway. You know that!”

“……”

That’s inevitable. The child was found at Hyo Jin-ae’s house, and the results of the child’s DNA test are just around the corner. Besides, there’s no evidence to overturn the murder of the pregnant woman.

“Didn’t you say we could just say we didn’t know?”

Ahn Si-boo said in a trembling voice. It’s true that he was arrested at the scene. But the lawyer had already found out that there was no evidence related to him regarding the murder or kidnapping.

Of course. The car he used for the kidnapping was stolen, and Hyo Jin-ae performed the surgery. He killed the pregnant woman, but he strangled her with a rope, and then burned the rope.

He covered his face with a hat, mask, and sunglasses when he kidnapped her, and he burned all the items he used at that time. That’s why Ahn Si-boo’s lawyer said that if he insisted he didn’t know, he could get away with it.

It’s true that he resisted at the scene, but that would only be obstruction of justice if the crime wasn’t proven.

“But if that bitch betrayed us, it’s meaningless.”

One who can escape and one who cannot. And Hyo Jin-ae holds a grudge against him. So, wouldn’t Hyo Jin-ae talk?

“Damn it.”

Ahn Si-boo gritted his teeth at those words.

“There’s only one way.”

“What is it?”

“Now that things have come to this, we have to claim that Hyo Jin-ae is the mastermind.”

If they say they didn’t know, but Hyo Jin-ae claims they’re the mastermind, then under criminal law, they’ll end up taking the blame.

“We have to pin the blame on her and claim we were forced to do it because we were threatened.”

“What?”

“Everything!”

“Ugh…”

Ahn Si-boo made a sullen expression at those words, but he nodded because there was no other way.

“This is a mess.”

As Park Do-joon predicted, the two, thinking they had betrayed each other, began to claim that the other was the mastermind in order to pin the blame on each other.

Of course, they still didn’t talk about the exact number of victims in the process.

“But just pinning the blame on each other is enough to have an effect.”

“But there are still two guys left, right?”

“But we’ve obtained enough information to identify them.”

The two groups made mistakes while arguing with each other. Of course, they didn’t give the real address. But they leaked information that could identify the location.

“They moved on weekends.”

Hyo Jin-ae mainly moved on weekends. And Ahn Si-boo got angry and blurted it out.

“And tracking Hyo Jin-ae’s car isn’t difficult.”

Nowadays, cars have a Hi-pass function [a system for automated toll collection] as standard. And Hyo Jin-ae’s car also has that as standard.

“We’ve confirmed that she went to Anseong every weekend. It’s just a matter of time. But we don’t know where in Anseong it is, or where the location is.”

With that, they were able to know that the place where they killed people was Anseong. The problem is that Anseong is incredibly large.

“And the DNA test results will be out soon.”

Regardless of the truth, the police want to create an issue by quickly resolving this case, so they’re calling the National Forensic Service [South Korea’s primary forensic science agency] every day and urging them to hurry.

Even if the National Forensic Service is delayed because they have a lot of other work, they’ll hurry, so the remaining time is at best two or three days.

“The remaining criminals will flee the moment it’s released.”

“They will. So, we have to track them down in Anseong.”

“Will three of us be enough to do that?”

“It’ll be enough. If it’s just two people.”

Park Do-joon said that, looking at the pistol in the box next to his driver’s seat.

“And if necessary, we can shoot them.”

“Still, it would be better to call in reinforcements…”

“That would be good, but.”

The problem is that they still don’t know the exact location at the scene.

“Let’s go into Anseong for now.”

The three slowly entered Anseong through the tollgate. Park Do-joon, who was driving, clicked his tongue as he looked at the people moving outside the window.

“There aren’t many CCTVs [closed-circuit televisions, or security cameras] here.”

“Even if there are, the time isn’t specified…”

Of course, if necessary, they could check all the cameras 24 hours a day, but there aren’t enough people to do that.

“Senior, why don’t we tell this to the higher-ups and have them start the investigation right away?”

“The higher-ups are already forming an investigation team. But does it take a day or two to create that investigation team?”

“Ugh.”

“I guess that’s the problem.”

“It takes too long. And if we move after that, we’ll miss the remaining criminals.”

It’s an organ trafficking case, and it’s a case that will inevitably become an issue if it breaks out. And they’re already bickering with each other within the police to plant their factions in order to catch it first.

“There are only two days left. It’ll be difficult to complete a proper investigation team in that time.”

Lee Il-seop, who was listening to Park Do-joon’s words, suggested another method.

“Then why don’t we tell the police to delay the announcement?”

“That’s meaningless anyway.”

“Why?”

“Because they’ll notice it’s strange if they don’t hear from them for so long.”

“Is that so?”

“Right now, they know that the two are in a relationship, so they’ll think they’re having a secret rendezvous somewhere.”

But even so, if they don’t hear from them for this long, they’ll definitely think something went wrong.

A Professional Profiler