My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 679

Even a well-raised daughter might not call her parents every day after becoming independent. So, would a woman from a troubled family or with a poor relationship, who keeps her distance, really keep in frequent contact with her family? Of course not.

“There might be more crimes we don’t know about than we think.”

Lee Ji-soo’s face hardened.

“The biggest problem is that we can’t get data from the police.”

A site based in the United States.

Naturally, they wouldn’t provide any data.

“It would be impossible for us to access it, too.”

“Impossible.”

To access and get contact information, you have to pay a membership fee of 5 million won [approximately $3,700 USD]. But even then, you’d only get one contact at best.

And what could you say to that woman?

Obviously, there’s only one thing you can say.

Tell her not to engage in prostitution.

Would the woman reflect on those words and give up prostitution?

Of course not.

She would naturally complain to the site, and the account the police signed up for would be blocked.

In other words, it would just be wasting 5 million won.

“How do we solve the case like this?”

Lee Ji-soo’s face looked gaunt. She was an experienced person, but this was a first for her.

A case where the very nature of the incident is untraceable…

“Well.”

Park Do-joon said with a shrug.

“This doesn’t seem to be just Hong Woo-jong’s problem.”

“Then?”

“Well, yeah, the police should approach this on an official level.”

And knowing that there would be strong opposition in this case, Park Do-joon could only let out a worried sigh.

# Creating Work

“Hey, hey! Why are you creating work for us?”

The first thing Park Do-joon and Jo Sang-gyu did was to tell their superiors about the situation and their concerns.

However, the reaction from above was so predictable that it wasn’t even surprising.

“But in cases like this with sponsors [individuals who provide financial support, often in exchange for favors], tracking is impossible, so there’s a high possibility of serial killings.”

“Do you have evidence? Do you have evidence?”

“We need to investigate because there’s no evidence.”

“You little punks, what kind of sponsors are you talking about when you don’t even have money!”

Park Do-joon couldn’t help but retort to his superior, who was scolding him.

“Not everyone who doesn’t have money is a serial killer, and not everyone who has money is virtuous. Looking at historical examples, do you know how many wealthy serial killers there are?”

“No, but in terms of proportion…”

“Some serial killings aren’t about money but about personality.”

If it’s just a murder out of anger, money might really be the issue. But things like sexual perversions or sadistic tendencies have nothing to do with money; they’re literally in the realm of personal preference.

“No, but those people have never been caught, have they?”

“It’s not that they haven’t been caught, but that they haven’t been found.”

If there are ninety-nine poor people, there’s only one rich person. So, looking at the numbers alone, it seems like rich people don’t commit crimes.

But if you look at the ratio, the crime rate among the rich is actually higher. However, they have more ability to cover up those crimes, so they go unseen.

“That’s…”

“And in those cases, the tendencies of the criminals tend to become extremely severe.”

“Become extreme?”

“Who wouldn’t commit crimes if they knew they wouldn’t be punished for anything they do?”

In reality, even while severely punishing drug use, there are situations where people bring dozens of kilograms of drugs in suitcases and aren’t punished.

The reason is simple.

They were the children of people with power.

Bringing enough drugs for hundreds or even thousands of people is obviously for sale, not personal use, but the police show leniency under the guise of personal use and don’t punish them.

“Why is the public so angry about juvenile crime right now? Isn’t it because those kids aren’t committing crimes by mistake?”

“Ahem!”

Because they aren’t punished as minors, because they get leniency even if they beat someone to death.

Minors rape, rob, and commit fraud.

Then, when they’re caught, they use their status as minors.

Then, even if they kill someone, they serve at most five years and come out to live well.

“No, still, is there a reason to dig into it when there’s no evidence?”

“Evidence comes out when you dig into it.”

“Then bring the evidence!”

“No, really, to find evidence, we need support from the police.”

“You little punk! Bring results, results!”

Seeing him pointing and raising his voice, Park Do-joon shook his head.

“Results? Understood.”

“Yeah, it’s so much easier that way. Get out!”

Park Do-joon didn’t say anything more and left the conference room with Jo Sang-gyu. Jo Sang-gyu let out a long sigh.

“Those bastards, they’re definitely not going to investigate, are they?”

“They won’t. You know how complicated this is, right?”

“That’s true.”

This isn’t just about investigating and then requesting a warrant.

You have to request cooperation from the U.S. government, and a warrant has to be issued from the U.S. government.

Of course, you have to persuade the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the process, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs hates such complicated matters.

If a criminal flees abroad and can’t be caught? From the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ perspective, it’s the police who are incompetent, not their fault.

“But we can’t just leave it like this.”

“Then let’s just blow it up.”

“How are we going to blow it up? Who’s going to pick it up and write about it?”

“Well, isn’t there someone suitable?”

Park Do-joon grinned, and Jo Sang-gyu looked at Park Do-joon with a dumbfounded expression.

“Are you really going to do it?”

“At least we have to prevent additional harm, right?”

Park Do-joon shrugged and said.

“Missing persons is just a play on words, after all, hehe.”

Park Do-joon, who contacted reporter Seo Joo-ran, told her about the current situation. But Seo Joo-ran’s face wasn’t particularly surprised.

The criminal who tried to kill her to hide his own crimes was also a police officer.

That’s why Seo Joo-ran had almost no faith in the police other than Park Do-joon.

“So, I can just publish an article with this?”

“It’ll be possible.”

“But there’s no evidence that there are missing people?”

“That’s why they can’t say anything.”

“Pardon?”

“They’re an American company. Would they protest a report in Korea? Besides, what they’re doing is clearly illegal.”

If they were to formally protest, they would have to reveal their position and identity.

“Would these criminals really be in the United States?”

“Ah, I see.”

The common trait of those who target Korea while having a company address in the United States is that they are never actually in the United States.

Logically, the U.S. market is bigger, more profitable, and they could earn more, so why would they target Korea?

“The criminals are probably Korean. And they probably aren’t fluent in English.”

“Really? How are you so sure? Is that profiling, too?”

At those words, Seo Joo-ran asked Park Do-joon as if she was amazed.

“That too, but technology has improved.”

“Technology?”

“Do you think these guys would really go to the United States, which has nothing [no connection or resources], open an office, register an address, and open a store? Even have a server?”

“Then?”

“Of course, they’ll register through an agency there, and then rent a server.”

Park Do-joon said that while holding out a photo on his phone.

“What’s this?”

“It’s a road view of the address. What do you see?”

“A four-story building.”

“Yes, the exact address is Detroit.”

“Right?”

“But why Detroit?”

“That’s…”

Seo Joo-ran looked like she didn’t know the reason. Park Do-joon said to her as if it was obvious.

“It’s cheap.”

“Cheap?”

“Yes, Detroit is famous for its automobile industry. Or, it used to be famous.”

Now, the automobile industry has declined a lot compared to the past, so the rent for buildings is incredibly cheap.

“And there’s something interesting, too.”

Park Do-joon searched for the address on the internet. But there were more than one or two addresses that came up there.

“What is it? Why are there so many buildings? No, the building is only four stories high?”

Even the first floor is a pizza place that’s currently operating.

Then, is it big even if it’s short?

That’s not it either. There’s only one pizza place on the first floor, and the store only seems to have about six tables.

“It seems like it’s about 40 *pyeong* [approximately 1,422 square feet] in Korean terms.”

But there are easily over 100 company names that come up as registered at that address.

“They just registered the address.”

“Ah!”

They just registered the address and don’t work there. There are often companies like that.

To do business in the United States, it’s advantageous to register an address in the United States, but realistically, they can’t actually get an office in the United States.

Criminal organizations also often register addresses in the United States in this way because the U.S. government filters their investigation records, ensuring their safety.

“Especially online crimes, it’s even more so. Do you know that it took 10 years to investigate and shut down an internet site in the past?”

“I know.”

It was a famous online site and was criticized as a hotbed of sex crimes, but it happened to have an address in the United States, so it took 10 years to catch it.

“I remember that case too. The Ministry of Women and women’s organizations that didn’t do anything took all the credit, right?”

“That’s right.”

They weren’t interested at all, but when the police shut down the site, the women’s organizations promoted that they had shut down the site and made a fuss.

Of course, they came to the police to report and urge an investigation, but just because they came to the field and prayed doesn’t mean that the crops that came out of that field belong to them, right?

“Even then, it wasn’t really a success in closing it down.”

“Yes? Why?”

“To be exact, even if they blocked access, they continued to operate using other addresses.”

What succeeded in preventing them from operating any further was catching the guys who were running it.

Even those guys were living in Korea.

“Really? Really?”

“Yes, they were meticulous.”

They bypassed the IP and had servers overseas, using their heads thoroughly.

And as a result, they had to request help from the United States and other countries to approach them.

Naturally, that wasn’t easy.

“The good thing is that the site was related to crime.”

There was evidence of gang rape, so they were able to use that to get help from the United States.

Rape is a crime that falls under the U.S.’s investigation cooperation.

Of course, not all the posts on there were 100% real.

It could have been a novel or a consensual relationship, but they might have claimed they committed gang rape to brag about themselves.

But the important thing is that they confessed to committing gang rape themselves, and thanks to that, the United States cooperated.

Rape is a crime that falls under the U.S.’s investigation cooperation.