My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 561

“But long-term stays are pretty obvious.”

Most people who wander around construction sites look rough, so no one really pays attention if they’re around.

“It’s like hiding a tree in a forest.”

There are so many Chinese people around construction sites that it’s not strange to see them. Conversely, there are also Koreans, so it’s not unusual to see them either.

“I see.”

The police listened to the analysis and asked with a slightly worried expression.

“But, you see…”

“Yes.”

“There are several motels like that around here.”

The police scratched their head.

“I know this area well because it’s my district, and there are at least six or more.”

“Really?”

“Yes, as you know, the surrounding area is all industrial.”

There’s a lot of work, so many manual laborers come to the area.

“So there are quite a few motels in this area. It’s hard to check them all… and if we alert them, they might run away, right?”

“Of course. But there’s something they don’t know.”

“What is it?”

“There are things you can hide in the forest, and things you can’t.”

“Pardon?”

“You can hide men or Chinese people.”

But paradoxically, women are reluctant to live in such places, especially Korean women.

“It’s not that there are no women working at construction sites, but they are a tiny minority.”

“So?”

“How many people would be buying women’s products? Moreover, we know the face of one of them.”

“Ah!”

Song An-nyeo played the role of the grandmother, so they didn’t know her face until she was arrested. But they know the face of the other woman, the shill [someone who pretends to be a customer to entice others] and watcher, because there are CCTVs inside the store.

“Even here, they’ll need women’s products. We just don’t know what it is.”

Park Do-joon looked at Lee Ji-soo. Lee Ji-soo, as a woman, would know what women need.

“If it’s something like that…”

Lee Ji-soo hesitated and then smiled.

“It’ll be underwear.”

“Underwear?”

“Yes. There might be sanitary pads or cosmetics, but there are many places that sell those things, so it’s hard to track them that way.”

You can buy sanitary pads at marts or convenience stores, and there are all kinds of cosmetic brands, and people buy them online a lot. After all, cosmetics fall into the realm of manufactured goods.

But surprisingly, underwear is different.

“Everyone has different brand preferences, and they prefer to go to the store and buy it if possible.”

“Why?”

“First of all, you can’t really tell the design online. Also, sizes vary slightly from brand to brand.”

Even if you order the same size, what you order from Company A and what you order from Company B will be different.

“Also, the size standards are different for each country. American sizes are different, Japanese are different, and Korean are different.”

So the best way is to go to the store and buy it.

“It’s best to buy it in person unless you’re going to use it once and throw it away. And underwear isn’t something you dispose of quickly.”

“So there are far fewer places that sell it in this area?”

“Moreover, that woman looked like she was in her 30s, even though she looked older, right?”

“That’s right.”

And according to the other owners or employees at the scene, the woman who acted so friendly didn’t seem to be wearing heavy makeup.

Since it’s the testimony of a female employee of the same age, not an older man, it’s likely that she just had a bare face, or very light makeup.

“Then she’ll need a lot of underwear.”

“Wouldn’t she have brought it in her travel luggage?”

“She might, but then she’d have a lot of luggage. Traveling with a woman is really different from traveling with a man.”

A man’s luggage is simple and he only packs what he needs, but a woman’s luggage is enormous.

“If she didn’t bring enough, she’ll have to buy it locally.”

Park Do-joon nodded. In fact, if you go on a week-long trip, a man’s luggage can be more than three times smaller than a woman’s.

“She won’t use overseas brand products. She’ll use domestic brands.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes. Looking at that woman in the video, she didn’t seem to have very big breasts. It looked like around AA cup, not even A cup.”

In the case of overseas brands, there are many women with larger breasts, so it’s hard to find such a small size.

“I don’t think she’d buy an expensive Japanese bra.”

Then the only options are Korean underwear companies.

“I think the most suitable brand for that size is Baian.”

“Why?”

“They wouldn’t have specified the underwear, would they?”

She’s acting, disguised as an office worker doing reconnaissance, so it’s unlikely that they would have instructed her on what to wear. In fact, according to the testimony and the video, the design of her clothes changed every day.

If they had specified it, the design of her clothes wouldn’t have changed like that.

“Most of them are typical brands and clothes that office workers in their 20s and early 30s would like. A plain office look, I guess?”

“And?”

“But looking at the fit of those clothes, they’re definitely not cheap. There are cheap and expensive underwear brands.”

Places like BNC, an old brand, definitely sell underwear, but it’s too old and cheap, so women of that age don’t like it.

“Underwear is like a competitive edge for women. Pride? That kind of feeling?”

It’s not something you show, but it’s enough to boost your self-esteem. That’s what underwear is to women.

“It’s like a tie pin for men.”

No one really cares and it doesn’t matter what you use, but it’s still a way to express yourself.

“Excluding things that are too expensive, the most suitable brand for that age is Baian.”

Park Do-joon turned his head and asked the police.

“Is there a Baian brand store near here?”

“Oh, there’s one.”

The police nodded as if they remembered.

“It’s nearby.”

Soon, the three were able to get enough information from the underwear store.

“Ah, this lady? I know her. She’s been here a couple of times, right?”

“You remember that well.”

“There are only a few young ladies who buy this kind of thing in this neighborhood.”

Since it’s an old downtown area, the number of young women who buy this kind of thing is small, and most of the people in the neighborhood know each other’s faces.

“So I remember strangers pretty well. And she bought a lot that day.”

“She bought a lot?”

“Yes, she bought about five sets.”

That’s not a small number.

“Do you have any other information related to that?”

“It seems like she’s staying at a motel.”

“A motel, you say…?”

“Ah. The size didn’t fit quite right.”

One of the things that men don’t know well is that if women’s underwear doesn’t fit, the headquarters can adjust the size to some extent through alterations.

So the woman asked for a size adjustment and asked them to send it to where she was staying because she was too lazy to come and pick it up.

“That’s the Grand Master Motel.”

Park Do-joon looked at the police at those words. Then the police, realizing the gaze, nodded.

“The Grand Master Motel is a typical long-term stay type. It’s an old hotel. And there… I remember the owner was Chinese.”

“Then it’s likely to be there.”

Park Do-joon chuckled.

“Now all that’s left is to catch them.”

# Cunning Escape

The Grand Master Motel. The name is grand, but it was just an old long-term stay motel. It’s just a so-so motel, a little better than an inn. The police surrounded the area completely and began to monitor it.

“Do you think this is the right place?”

“It’s very likely.”

Park Do-joon said, tapping his wristwatch.

“It’s already past quitting time, but no one’s coming?”

“They’ve rented the whole place, huh?”

“It’s highly likely.”

Because that’s much safer, and the criminal is the type who prioritizes safety.

“Moreover, he’s a guy who spreads drugs at a cheap price. Of course, he receives 1 million won [approximately $750 USD], but that doesn’t even cover the labor costs. Even the amount he gives for that 1 million won is for three months.”

“Wouldn’t it be better to give it away for free?”

“Absolutely not. Humans barely use it if it’s free. But if they pay for it, even 1 million won, they’ll feel obligated and their parents will urge them to use it. He’s smart, this guy.”

In other words, it means that he’s not short on money, but he’s making long-term plans and moving carefully. Safety must be the top priority for such a guy.

“Then it’s likely that he rented the entire motel for that safety. Well, the motel isn’t that big anyway.”

Perhaps because it’s an old city, the size of the motel is only three floors. The first floor is taken up by the counter and parking lot, so you can only use about two floors above.

Considering that there are more than one or two guys with him, that might be better.

“Wait a minute. So these guys are a group?”

“Surely you don’t think guys who use their brains this much would work alone?”

That can’t be.

“There’s a good reason why I suspect Wang Woo-hwan.”

Realistically, everything that happens must be the work of a group.

“Then is that hypothesis correct after all?”

The hypothesis that Hong Woo-jong is a serious sadomasochist and kills people in the process.

It was Park Do-joon who came up with that hypothesis. At first, he didn’t think much of it, but Hong Geun-jong’s testimony and the series of missing persons cases around him…

‘Plus, considering the level of crime that guy committed.’

The audacity to get what he wants at all costs, and the extremity of mercilessly killing anyone who gets in his way.

‘However… the key is whether that sadomasochism developed by chance. Well, that’s still a mystery.’

People think that psychopaths are unconditionally guys who kidnap and kill people, but that’s actually a wrong judgment.

To be precise, psychopaths don’t feel any emotion there. Why would they kidnap, torture, and kill someone if they don’t feel anything?

So, unlike people’s imaginations, it is very rare for psychopaths to become sadistic murderers.

Instead, they kill for very small and trivial reasons. They kill a taxi driver for not paying the taxi fare, or they kill a friend for mocking them.

On the other hand, a sadomasochist literally kills for his sexual preferences.

‘It’s crazy.’

If a sadomasochist is an ordinary person, he simply becomes a sadist, but when combined with the traits of a psychopath, he becomes a serial killer without brakes.