My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 632

“It’s vicious.”

“It is vicious. But it has made one thing clear.”

“What is it?”

“The culprit is quite clever. Probably a researcher or someone working at a research institute.”

“Not a private business owner?”

“It’s almost impossible for a private business owner to obtain potassium cyanide.”

While places that handle chemical substances do handle potassium cyanide, they don’t just sell it to anyone who asks. They verify identification, check handling permits, and deliver it directly to companies. If they allowed someone to take it themselves and an accident occurred, they would be responsible.

“This guy even calculates where people will stand and look around.”

“If that’s the case, it’s highly likely to be a researcher with a graduate degree or an employee at a corporate research lab. You need a certain level of intelligence to predict people’s movements and set traps.”

“Could an ordinary employee have smuggled potassium cyanide from the company?”

“Difficult. The other police have already searched every nook and cranny.”

In reality, there are quite a few companies that use potassium cyanide. And most of them undergo strict security checks, and only qualified people have access. Otherwise, the possibility of a real mass murder cannot be ignored.

“Moreover, the scale is also an issue.”

“Yes?”

“The culprit has access to potassium cyanide. But why commit a crime in a way that results in relatively few victims? If they could obtain potassium cyanide on a factory scale, they could massacre hundreds in a city.”

It’s not difficult either. They could just spray it into the air. With a little processing, potassium cyanide can produce poisonous gas.

“Actually, the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo [a doomsday cult] caused damage in that way.”

Even sarin gas is less potent than hydrogen cyanide, a poison made by processing potassium cyanide, so there were fewer victims.

Hydrogen cyanide is also known as hydrocyanic acid, and a prime example is Zyklon B gas, which was used in the Holocaust.

If they sprayed that in a subway station, they could kill hundreds or thousands at once.

“A person handling chemical substances in a company would definitely have that level of knowledge, and structurally, they should only be able to smuggle out the minimum amount of potassium cyanide.”

“Is that so?”

“Besides, we said that the motive in this case isn’t indiscriminate murder, right?”

“That’s right.”

“Then what’s left is this: What is the commonality of the targets?”

“But that’s the problem, isn’t it? No, there’s no commonality in the first place?”

There can’t be a commonality. Because the targets are determined completely randomly.

“I should go to the last place first.”

Park Do-joon said with a bitter smile.

It was the next day when they arrived at the last place. And despite the sudden death incident, the construction site was still running. But the atmosphere was grim.

“Police.”

“Ugh…! We’ve said everything we know.”

The manager overseeing the apartment construction site said, sounding fed up.

“I know, but I want to know about the victims.”

“Well, I told you everything.”

‘There must be a commonality.’

Clearly, the victims have something in common. It’s just that they can’t pinpoint it.

“Honestly, this isn’t our fault, is it? It’s their fault for buying and eating something weird.”

“You shouldn’t say that. So many people died.”

“Do you know how much the construction has been delayed because of that? It’s their fault for eating something with poison in it.”

Park Do-joon frowned as he looked at the site manager saying that.

‘These kinds of guys are becoming more and more common.’

It’s a world where those who only think about their own interests and have no conscience live better. And they don’t even feel sad about it.

There was even a guy who told an employee whose father had died to come to work during the funeral period, saying, ‘If you don’t come to work, will your dead father come back to life?’

Then, when his own pet dog died, he took more than a week off because he was sad.

In other words, to him, someone else’s death was worth less than his own dog.

“It’s not like they wanted to buy snacks contaminated with poison.”

Since it wasn’t officially picked up, Lee Ji-soo couldn’t help but say something.

“I don’t care where those beggars bought it. Construction has been completely stopped for four days because they were eating together during work hours and died! Do you know how much money we lose when we stop for a day?”

“No, even so…!”

Of course, she understands. In a place like this, stopping for a day would mean losing at least hundreds to thousands. But Lee Ji-soo was dumbfounded by the fact that dozens of people had died, and he was talking about the money being wasted, so she was about to say something.

But at that moment, Park Do-joon intervened instead of her.

“Did you have a lot of resentment?”

“Those bastards, they don’t work and just waste time…”

“So you wanted to kill them, is that what you’re saying?”

“If those bastards die, well, I feel relieved…”

The man stopped talking when he noticed something was wrong. But Park Do-joon had already taken out his handcuffs.

“Could it be that you gave it to them? To kill them?”

“N-No! No!”

He glanced around nervously. Park Do-joon said coldly to him.

“Well? That’s uncertain. I’ll summon you, so you’ll have to come out and be investigated.”

“No, I didn’t do anything.”

“That’s what we’ll find out when we investigate.”

“Ah, I’m going crazy!”

“But listening to you, it seems like you wanted those people to die.”

“No, it’s not that I wanted them to die, but…!”

‘I know.’

To these kinds of people, the people working below them are not human beings but tools. Of course, they don’t care who dies or who is having a hard time. Because they are people who can be replaced at any time if they die.

“It’s no use pretending you don’t know now. I’ll summon you, so come on the scheduled date.”

“Ah, I… I suddenly remembered I have something urgent to do…”

He turned around quickly and ran away from Park Do-joon.

Watching that, Park Do-joon chuckled.

“Are you really going to call that guy?”

Lee Ji-soo had spoken in accordance with Park Do-joon’s words, but she could tell that he wasn’t the culprit.

“I have to report it. It’s not like there are no suspicious points.”

“But no matter how I look at it, I don’t think he’s the culprit?”

“He probably is.”

That type recognizes the other person as a tool, and if they become a hindrance, they can get rid of them, but they wouldn’t risk their own life to that extent. As a person in charge, they can say unpleasant things and get annoyed, but they wouldn’t risk their life to kill someone like that.

Moreover, even if they did kill, they wouldn’t kill the people here, they wouldn’t kill people in other places.

“If he were the real culprit, he would never commit murder here.”

That’s how he can get out of being a suspect.

“But the fact that he’s showing that kind of reaction is enough to create suspicion.”

And Park Do-joon knew that even if he didn’t investigate, there were plenty of people who would call and investigate instead if he just reported it.

“Are you going to get rid of him?”

“Huh? That’s not it. I’m just going to scold him a little and end it. Thanks to you, I was able to think of new information, no, a new possibility.”

“A new possibility?”

“Hate, I mean.”

Park Do-joon said, looking around.

“The victims are all likely to be targets of hatred.”

Lee Ji-soo couldn’t help but tilt her head at Park Do-joon’s words.

# Hate Crime Terrorism

“Hate?”

“Yes.”

Most of the people had puzzled expressions at Park Do-joon’s words. But the profilers seemed to understand Park Do-joon’s words to some extent.

“Well, looking at the way people treat the world these days, it’s beyond hatred; it’s at the level of animosity.”

“That’s right. It’s not like there are no such cases.”

“What are you talking about? Hate becomes animosity?”

Eventually, one of the investigators there asked. Park Do-joon had to give information not only to them but also to other people, so he explained calmly.

“Hate is an emotion that dislikes a specific group or a specific group of people.”

“I know that.”

“But that kind of hate sometimes becomes the driving force behind mass killings.”

“No way.”

“It’s not no way. In fact, politically speaking, there are a lot of actions that use that kind of hate. How many people died in the Killing Fields [a series of sites in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime]?”

The Killing Fields is a mass killing that took place in Cambodia. At that time, the targets of hatred were the intellectual class or the landlord class.

“Having money is a target of hatred for communists.”

“That’s a communist country, isn’t it? This is South Korea.”

“Really? Then what about the Gwangju Democratization Movement [a popular uprising in South Korea in 1980]?”

“What?”

“The first military units mobilized in the Gwangju Democratization Movement were the surrounding units.”

And the surrounding military units that were first mobilized tried not to actively suppress Gwangju or use firearms.

“So they brought them in from the outside. And they brainwashed the soldiers with hatred, saying that the people of Gwangju were communists and that the communists were trying to overthrow the country.”

That’s why the soldiers who were deployed in the Gwangju Democratization Movement at that time did not feel any guilt even while shooting, raping, and beating people to death for fun.

“And even now, many politicians claim that the Gwangju Democratization Movement was the work of spies, the work of North Korea.”

Even if it’s not a situation where that will work in the first place, and even if the country has conducted several investigations and revealed that it’s not the case, the important thing is not that.

To them, the Gwangju Democratization Movement must be the action of spies, and that’s how they benefit.

“That’s also a strategy of hatred. In fact, hatred is the most powerful political weapon in the world.”

They massacre because the tribes are different, they massacre because the languages are different, they massacre because the religions are different, and they massacre because the countries are different.

“Perhaps the belief that causes the most murders in the world is not political belief but hatred.”

“Hmm.”

Only then did some people nod their heads as if they understood. Certainly, ideology is huge but does not clash easily, but hatred is small, so it clashes easily, and when it clashes, it evolves into the so-called ethnic cleansing stage.

“But surprisingly, hatred plays a small role in crime. To be exact, in Korea.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes, hatred is closer to group crime.”

For example, let’s say there is a group on the internet that hates a specific area. If you give them a gun and tell them to go to that area and shoot and kill anyone they see, will they do it? They won’t.

“Because there’s nothing left for them.”

All that’s left for them is the title of murderer, and if they commit such a crime, they will be sentenced to death 100% and end up never getting out of prison forever.

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