My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 686

“The police initially filed it as fraud, but…”

“The court rejected it.”

The court determined it was a gift given during the relationship and closed the case without charges.

“Hmm.”

“Look at the number of accusers.”

“Four.”

Exactly four.

“No wonder he’s broke.”

They are young men between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-four, working for minimum wage at small companies. Taking all their assets practically guaranteed he’d be broke.

“And two of those accusers already have criminal records.”

“For what?”

“Rape and aggravated assault.”

The rapist committed his crime as a minor, so the punishment was relatively light, and he didn’t have to wear an electronic ankle bracelet. However, the aggravated assault case didn’t even reach a settlement, resulting in a two-year prison sentence.

“A typical story of a criminal’s life falling apart.”

“Yes.”

Of course, the other two have no criminal records. But just because someone has no criminal record doesn’t mean they’re good. From a profiler’s perspective, it just means they haven’t committed a crime *yet*, or crime hasn’t touched them *yet*.

“Anything related after that?”

“No.”

“Worth checking out.”

Park Do-joon’s eyes gleamed.

Finding the factory wasn’t difficult. The owner shook his head as if he was disgusted by Park Do-joon.

“Don’t even mention it. The company was turned upside down because of that crazy bitch.”

“Really? Sounds like there were several victims?”

“About eight.”

“What? But only four filed charges?”

“The other four gave up because the lawyer said they couldn’t sue.”

“Tsk, tsk.”

Trying to seduce eight people in a small company like this is insane.

‘Looks like the woman wasn’t thinking straight.’

If she did that to eight people in a company of this size, there’s no way she wouldn’t get caught.

“So, what happened?”

“It was a mess.”

As soon as things blew up, the woman immediately resigned and disappeared, and the men were furious, threatening to sue.

“So, was the issue resolved well?”

“Resolved well, my ass.”

The woman resigned and disappeared, and four out of the eight men also resigned and quit. The remaining four stayed, but that doesn’t mean they’re happy about it.

“Really? Is there any news about that woman?”

“I don’t care about her.”

“Could I get her contact information, by any chance?”

Park Do-joon asked, feeling like he was about to figure something out.

Park Do-joon contacted her family through the number he received. And the reaction was exactly as he expected.

“Looks like she cut ties with her family too.”

“A woman like that wouldn’t be living properly. It’s only natural.”

Even her family didn’t care. In fact, it seemed she had even defrauded her family and run away.

“Cunning.”

It’s true that her family is struggling, but it’s funny that the reason for their hardship is her fraud. Of course, the family knew about this fraud and got angry, telling him not to ask them about it.

After all, the first thing people who have been swindled do is go to their families and demand money.

“What do you think?”

“She’s a typical con artist with a strong sense of vanity and no consideration for others.”

Park Do-joon clicked his tongue, looking at the employment documents he got from the company.

A pretty face. A face that men couldn’t help but be attracted to. Well, she needed that to be able to commit fraud.

“That judge either lacks flexibility or is just a blockhead.”

Jo Sang-gyu approached and clicked his tongue while looking at the photo. She received money because she was dating eight people at the same time. This isn’t a gift between lovers; it’s clearly fraud disguised as marriage for the purpose of money.

And yet, no charges.

“Are there only one or two such judges? They rule that buying someone *tteokbokki* [spicy rice cakes] is prostitution.”

Lee Ji-soo tilted her head at those words.

“What do you mean?”

“Ah, there was a case like that among the underage rape cases. It’s a bit of an old case, though.”

When a minor, a girl with intellectual disabilities, ran away from home, some bad guys lured her into having relations. She had intellectual disabilities to the point where she couldn’t understand what sexual relations meant, but the court didn’t punish the men in that case, saying that buying her *tteokbokki* after the act meant it was prostitution, not rape.

“Does that make sense?”

“The prosecutor and judge didn’t do their jobs, what else? You know?”

There’s nothing they can’t do if they try to indict. They say it’s legally difficult, but it’s legally *difficult*, not impossible.

For example, in the case of that victim, she had borderline personality disorder, and since there was no court ruling that this borderline personality disorder was a disability, the prosecutor had to prove it, but they didn’t make the effort, and the judge was too lazy, so they just treated the *tteokbokki* as payment.

“In that situation, this kind of thing isn’t impossible either.”

Even if there are only four accusers, it’s true that it takes the form of a gift between lovers, and from a legal standpoint, the concept of cheating is a personal matter, not something for the court to judge, so the court ruled that it was a gift.

“Hmm…”

“But did you find anything?”

Jo Sang-gyu asked with a curious look.

“I think that woman is dead.”

“Dead?”

And Lee Ji-soo, who was next to him, answered.

“Yes, there’s no movement after that incident.”

“None?”

“Yes, she must have run out of money.”

She wasn’t hiding the money she received or anything like that; she was immediately buying luxury goods or going on overseas trips. In other words, she didn’t give deep thought to the future or prepare for escape.

“But when I checked her resident registration number, there’s no employment record or other data after that.”

“Anything else?”

“The incident happened in March of the year before last, and her card was overdue and canceled after September.”

“Overdue? So, she disappeared in September?”

Park Do-joon shook his head at Jo Sang-gyu’s judgment.

“That’s probably not it. We’ll need a warrant to know for sure, but being overdue means there’s no money in the account, so even if she died, if there was money in the account, it would have continued to be paid.”

“Ah, I guess so.”

“But being overdue after September means that no money has been deposited since before then, although we don’t know how much money was in there.”

To be accurate, we need to check the deposit and withdrawal history or card usage history through the bank and credit card company, but we don’t have a warrant yet.

“This is enough to request a warrant, right?”

“Probably. And the criminals…”

“Yes, the criminals are obvious in this situation.”

The missing quartet.

There was a very high possibility that they were the criminals.

The warrant was easily issued by the court, so Park Do-joon was able to quickly find information about the missing woman. And he was able to determine the exact time of her disappearance—no, her death.

“No deposit records since June.”

“This looks like she’s dead, no matter how you look at it, right?”

“Yeah, her usage pattern has changed.”

From the beginning, she was extravagant and couldn’t be considered a woman with a proper sense of values. That’s why most of the things she used were related to her desires.

But at some point, she withdrew all the money at once. She even took out all the cash advances and then disappeared.

“Probably the criminals used it after she was murdered.”

Since they suffered damages, their resentment wouldn’t just disappear, and they would want to recover it, so the way to do that is to use the card. But they can’t carry it around and use it, so they would try to withdraw all the money at once.

“She probably didn’t die peacefully.”

“Probably not.”

You need a password to withdraw money from the card. But there’s no way she would give them the password willingly. No, even if she did give it to them willingly, there’s no way the guys who were full of resentment would let her go peacefully.

“Did it turn into murder after that?”

“That’s highly likely. Probably to rationalize their actions.”

They probably killed that woman. Then the usual reactions are two things. First, they hide the fact and live quietly. Second, they start rationalizing, claiming that they did something righteous.

But sometimes, while making this second choice, some guys even believe that they are doing social cleansing beyond mere revenge.

In fact, there are many such cases.

“There was the Feather Gang in England in the past.”

“Feather Gang?”

“Yeah. It’s a group formed by British women and some men during World War I.”

During World War I, they publicly insulted and socially attacked men who didn’t go to the battlefield.

By doing so, they thought they were fulfilling their social responsibilities and also believed they were wielding social power.

“But later, they went completely crazy.”

At first, they said they were targeting cowards who were avoiding the military, but later they did such things to people who returned alive from the military suffering from PTSD [Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder] or even minors, and people who were marked like that were not treated like people within the group, so their only choices were to commit suicide or go to the battlefield and die.

In fact, it was impossible to live in England if they were caught in their clutches.

If they returned alive after participating in the war? Then the Feather Gang proudly insulted them, saying that they should have died there for England and told them to return to the battlefield.

“It got so bad that the British cracked down on them at the beginning of World War II.”

The Feather Gang, which had built up such evil deeds, disappeared after World War I while being controlled by the British government, but tried to become active again during World War II.

However, during World War II, the British government cracked down on the Feather Gang as soon as they appeared, even though they were short of manpower. Because they only caused trouble and almost wiped out the men.

The biggest culprit that killed all the men during World War I was the Feather Gang, and the damage caused by them delayed Britain’s recovery from World War I.

“The criminals probably want to believe that they are doing well.”

They want to believe that they are doing self-purification.

“They’re doing self-purification?”

Lee Ji-soo tilted her head at those words. As far as she knew, such cases were rare.

“Well, I guess you don’t know much about it. They don’t teach that well in school, do they?”

“Yes, we learn the theory, but we don’t deal with it in depth because it’s such a rare case.”

“Yeah, it’s a pretty rare case.”

Self-purification violent crime is a common theme in movies and dramas, but at the same time, it’s a rare theme.”