My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 549

But that alone was significant information for Park Do-joon.

‘And considering the nature of these headaches……’

The condition that it had to be a Korean person would also be correct. Clearly, the headache came the moment he thought that. However, judging from the low intensity and the quick disappearance, it seemed that the headache occurred when something he learned after the regression momentarily clashed with what he originally knew.

“Then should we also look for the female victims?”

“That can be done by others. After all, almost everyone will be投入 [invested] into that.”

Now that the direction of the profiling has been determined, it is only natural that the special investigation team’s personnel will focus on that.

“So we need to dig into other areas.”

“But there’s no information other than the victims, is there?”

The vehicle? They are searching for it, but from the start, it’s uncertain if they can even find it, and even if they do, tracking it will ultimately be impossible.

When they tracked the license plate of the vehicle, a passenger car unexpectedly came up. Considering that the vehicle in question was a van, it clearly means they are using a fake license plate.

“The criminals are moving that meticulously. So even if we find the victims, there won’t be any traces.”

They probably monitored from a distance.

“Then what?”

“But we know a very unique criminal.”

“Who?”

“That grandmother.”

“Yes?”

“How often is a grandmother involved in cases suspected of being murder cases like this?”

“Not often.”

Jo Sang-gyu, who had been listening quietly to Park Do-joon’s words, said worriedly.

“There’s some truth to what you’re saying, but wouldn’t other police officers or profilers have thought of that? Of course, they investigated older criminals. But there was no match.”

Kidnapping a child as a shield to kidnap and kill women. There are hardly any female criminals who would commit such heinous crimes. Naturally, there would be even fewer older criminals among them.

“We’ve already checked the list of not only those with similar past convictions but also extreme criminals involved in murder, human trafficking, and kidnapping.”

“But there’s no one, right?”

“That’s right. There wasn’t.”

“That’s probably right. Well, it’s not a wrong direction, but it’s not exactly right either.”

“What? Why?”

“That old woman, I mean.”

Park Do-joon smiled slyly.

“She was incredibly fast.”

And that was a huge difference among criminals.

“An old person can’t be that fast.”

That’s why the direction had to be wrong.

“She’s probably a younger woman than we think.”

And Park Do-joon had the ability to track that down.

# Queen of the Mask

An old person can commit a crime. But it’s hard for an old person to run that fast.

“Is that so?”

Jo Sang-gyu urgently checked the CCTV at Park Do-joon’s words and said in a dazed voice.

“She’s incredibly fast.”

“Right?”

The moment Park Do-joon showed his ID and identified himself as a police officer, the grandmother ran away at an incredible speed in the opposite direction. She let go of the child’s hand she was holding and ran away first.

“And after that, the men fled.”

“Is this possible?”

“Actually, it’s almost impossible.”

It’s virtually impossible. There’s a reason why Park Do-joon is saying that.

“In the case of these old people, a kind of stiffness comes the moment they are surprised.”

“Stiffness?”

“Yeah. It’s one of the causes of elderly traffic accidents.”

When people are surprised, they shrink and freeze. And that situation often occurs when the subject is very young or very old.

For example, if a car suddenly rushes towards them while crossing a crosswalk, people freeze, but young people often avoid it nimbly, but the older they get, the slower they become.

“In the case of old people, they often just sit down.”

But the old woman on the screen let go of the child’s hand and fled more nimbly and quickly than anyone else.

“What incredible judgment.”

The other two guys aren’t holding the child, so they can run away on their own. But that old woman wasn’t like that.

“If we judge by appearance alone, she’s definitely an old woman.”

Lee Ji-soo said awkwardly. Clearly, her appearance is that of an old woman. But her actions and speed don’t match an old woman.

“Yeah, that’s why it’s even stranger.”

“More strange?”

“Look at that old woman’s clothes.”

“Why is that?”

Lee Ji-soo tilted her head at Park Do-joon’s words.

“She’s dressed neatly in a hanbok [traditional Korean dress] with her hair in a traditional bun. However, judging from the speed at which she’s running, it seems like she’s wearing sneakers.”

“So?”

“She’s like a typical grandmother. A very old-fashioned grandmother.”

Park Do-joon tapped the screen with his finger and said.

“How many grandmothers are like that these days? Hanbok with a traditional bun? Isn’t the national rule for grandmothers these days permed hair?”

“Huh?”

Come to think of it, who wears a traditional bun these days? Most old people simply live with permed hair.

“Of course, it’s not like there are no grandmothers with traditional buns at all. But can those grandmothers really move that fast?”

Of course not. Those types who stick to that style are probably older people who think traditional style is a priority.

“Don’t tell me you think that’s a wig too?”

“Yes, and in that respect, aren’t the men quite handsome?”

“What are you talking about now?”

“Both men have big, bright eyes and high noses.”

They are definitely handsome men.

“At first glance, they look like a handsome and beautiful couple.”

You might think that the woman who was almost dragged away as a victim is also pretty, so where would that bloodline go.

“I don’t think that’s the case.”

Park Do-joon said as he picked up his phone and made a call somewhere.

“Everyone lives with a mask on. But those guys’ masks seem a bit thicker.”

And he was going to check that mask.

People have their own skills. And among those who have those skills, there are also people who have makeup or special effects makeup skills.

“This is definitely makeup.”

Jo Jin-ho, who works in the movie special effects makeup industry, said while looking at the screen. He looked at the video on the phone that the police officers who came to see him handed over a few times and said as if he was sure.

“The grandmother, and these two men too.”

“Makeup?”

Jo Sang-gyu’s face became somewhat shocked. It was understandable. He had never heard of a crime using makeup before.

‘That’s why it becomes a problem later.’

Makeup and special effects makeup are different. Makeup emphasizes the basic base and hides weaknesses, but special effects makeup, if done well, can completely change the mask itself.

“Team leader, haven’t you ever seen something like that on the internet? Before and after.”

“That……”

There are quite a few internet videos of ordinary women being completely reborn as incredibly beautiful women after putting on makeup. And if you look at those two screens, you would never think they are the same person unless you are an expert.

“So this is…… makeup?”

“Ah…… well, should I call it the realm of makeup, or the realm of special effects makeup.”

Jo Jin-ho scratched his head and said.

“Anyway, they emphasized the eyes, made double eyelids, raised the bridge of the nose…… anyway, they put a lot of effort into it.”

“Then what is the underlying face?”

“It will be a completely different face. You probably won’t recognize them.”

Lee Ji-soo opened her mouth wide at that. Because the police are currently walking around with these photos and conducting inquiries.

They even believed that the criminals would be easily identified because they had such handsome faces, so people would naturally remember them.

“So you’re saying that if you erase the makeup, it will be a different face.”

“That’s right.”

“Then is this difficult?”

“It’s not difficult. Changing the mask using makeup is the most basic thing for special effects makeup artists.”

“So almost all special effects makeup artists can do this.”

“If you can’t even do this much, you shouldn’t be called a special effects makeup artist.”

Jo Jin-ho took his eyes off the phone and said.

“Is it possible to know who did this with this?”

Jo Jin-ho shook his head, handing the phone back to Lee Ji-soo.

“That’s impossible. But someone definitely put a lot of effort into their face.”

“Is it difficult to get these props?”

“There’s no way it’s difficult. There are tons of used hanboks for sale, you can easily get them at the market, and there are tons of wigs on the internet.”

In other words, it was also impossible to track them easily.

“Thank you.”

But Park Do-joon wasn’t very surprised and took the phone, put it in his pocket, and said hello.

“Let’s go.”

As he urged the two to leave Jo Ji-ho’s office, Lee Ji-soo and Jo Sang-gyu seemed to be deep in thought.

“What’s wrong?”

“No, it’s…… it’s the first time I’ve seen something like this.”

“Ah, that’s true.”

‘Originally, it’s something that will happen more in the future.’

I don’t remember the case, but I remember the information. There was actually a criminal who committed a crime through this kind of makeup, and the police were shocked when they arrested the criminal.

Because they thought they could easily arrest them because they boldly revealed their faces, but it took a whopping three years to arrest them.

Even that was because they made a mistake and left other evidence, not because they actually found them with their faces.

‘It was a mess back then.’

The police were in chaos at the time. Of course, it wasn’t that they didn’t know about makeup. But the police, who thought that the basic base wouldn’t go anywhere and that someone would recognize them because it was their bare face, had never thought about facial transformation through makeup, or rather, special effects makeup.

‘Fortunately, I wasn’t in charge of that case.’

The reason why Park Do-joon remembers this is because he was not in charge of it and heard about it as information related to the case. That case was the first of its kind in police investigation records, so all police officers, especially profilers, were educated about it.

It was a case that broke the stereotype that the bare face was the usual face.

‘And at that time, the key to that case was that special effects makeup artist.’

And Park Do-joon knew who that special effects makeup artist was.

“There is someone suspicious in connection with that.”

“Suspicious person? Who are you talking about?”

“The person earlier said that there were too many people to know who it was, right?”

“That’s true. But criminals and special effects makeup artists live in different worlds. If you think about where they would meet, the answer actually comes out, doesn’t it?”

Of course, Park Do-joon is saying this because he already knows who the target is, but it was true that this became an issue in the original case as well.

“Yes?”

“There’s a movie that was released recently, ‘Peninsula Hero.’”

“I know. Didn’t that completely flop?”

“It completely flopped, that one.”

‘Peninsula Hero’.

A typical Korean-style gangster glorification movie. But it flopped. It is true that Korea once poured out movies that glorified and beautified gangsters, but those were already movies from 20 years ago.

There’s no way it would succeed now that they’ve made it now.

Profiling is My Calling