My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 692

Why did I provoke him, knowing what he’s like? Simple. If they think we won’t fight back, they’ll project all their past traumas and abusers onto us. That’s when their anger explodes.

And that explosion is devastating for Jung Han-soo, whose rational judgment is already impaired. Anger shuts down rational thought.

Especially when anger suppressed by fear erupts, some people just start rambling, not even realizing what they’re saying.

“You think I’m just doing what those bastards told me? Don’t be ridiculous! I was in on it too! Killing those bitches cleaned up the world! You cops don’t care what whores do because you’re all bribe-taking bastards. Those bitches deserved to die! That’s how the world gets clean! Cops who can’t even do proper investigations, what right do you have to pretend to be clean!”

Jung Han-soo grabbed Park Do-joon by the collar and screamed. After yelling for about twenty minutes, he suddenly went silent.

He realized what he’d done. Seeing Jung Han-soo turn pale, Park Do-joon threw out the second piece of bait.

“So, everything was planned and orchestrated by Song Do-jong and Lee Man-tae, is that it?”

“What… did you say?”

Jung Han-soo stared blankly at Park Do-joon.

‘He probably doesn’t understand what he said.’

It was the perfect moment to say something fueled by anger. He probably doesn’t know what he said in that state. He knows he messed up, but he doesn’t remember the specifics.

‘So, all I have to do is subtly steer him in a direction. He won’t want to take responsibility anyway.’

He’s already made a mistake.

And all I have to do is offer him a way to shift the blame.

“You said it yourself, didn’t you? Song Do-jong and Lee Man-tae planned everything, and you had no choice but to do as they said?”

“That…”

“You don’t even remember saying that.”

“No. That’s right. Those guys ordered me to do it.”

He switched back to using formal language [honorifics], a sign of respect in Korean culture.

Realizing he was in trouble, he started looking for a way to survive. And that method is to shift the blame. Would a guy who doesn’t want to take responsibility actually take responsibility for what he said? No way.

So, if I offer him a plausible excuse, he’ll dump everything on them.

“Song Do-jong said that those gold-digging bitches weren’t worth living.”

That’s how the truth began to surface, piece by piece.

# Shopping List of Murders

In the end, Jung Han-soo confessed to all his crimes. And to save himself? No. He just wanted to shift the blame for the crimes he committed.

People who give up usually just spill everything they know without hesitation. And at this point, Jung Han-soo had given up. He said everything.

Of course, his statement turned the police station upside down.

“Eleven victims? That’s insane.”

The first victim was, as expected, the woman who had embezzled money from them. The murder was carried out as revenge, and they began looking for victims under the pretext that all gold diggers should be killed.

And the place they chose was the sponsor site [a website where wealthy individuals offer financial support to others in exchange for companionship or other favors].

“No, I don’t understand. You said they were gold diggers? But why a sponsor site?”

“Because they take money?”

“Don’t other places take money?”

Lee Ji-soo tilted her head, as if she didn’t understand. It didn’t make sense logically.

“Other places take money too. That’s what prostitution is. But there’s no place where you can pull them out individually. I told you? The basic structure of Korean prostitution has a protective force represented by pimps.”

“Ah…”

“And women who actually engage in prostitution don’t readily meet other people from the outside. Moreover, those women who engage in prostitution receive a fixed amount of money, not hundreds or thousands, right?”

“That’s true.”

“Moreover, the concept of this gold digger is ambiguous.”

Openly engaging in prostitution is consensual sex, so it’s ambiguous to see it as gold digging. Basically, the act of a gold digger must include the concept of deceiving the other person.

“For those guys, deception isn’t important. Money is important. They were deceived and had their money taken away.”

“Ah, the value of judgment is money.”

“That’s right.”

They made a simple judgment that they were gold diggers because they took a lot of money.

“I told you. These guys aren’t smart. They probably didn’t know much about that sponsor site either.”

“Well, that’s true.”

That’s why he fell into the trap when Park Do-joon told Jung Han-soo that the site had cooperated. If he were smart, he would know that American companies are not cooperative with the Korean police.

“Anyway, the indictment won’t be difficult.”

Thanks to Jung Han-soo blabbing everything, the bodies were also found. The owner of the car was stuck in Jeongseon, Gangwon-do, living as a gambling addict, receiving meal tickets, but the missing women were all buried in the mountains.

When that was revealed, the country was turned upside down, and of course, the government was excitedly talking about eradicating sponsors this time.

“Of course, that doesn’t mean it will be eradicated.”

The fact that prostitution is the oldest profession in history is not just a saying. No matter how much you try to eradicate it, and no matter how hard you try, one of the things you can’t stop is prostitution.

‘Anyway, eleven victims. I can’t even guess how many victims there were in the original history [referring to a previous timeline or alternate reality].’

“We’ve caught the site, but will the sponsor-related case be over?”

“No, it’s not.”

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

“There’s no evidence that the criminals are only them. Do you know why we got this case in the first place?”

“Well, that’s true.”

In the first place, Park Do-joon was looking for a place where Hong Woo-jong could supply and receive women.

And the most likely candidate was this place where they meet secretly through the structure of sponsorship. They wouldn’t look for a woman who disappeared from the site, and women who are trying to get sponsored try to hide that fact from those around them.

“In that situation, sponsorship is probably the most likely.”

Because it’s safer than anything else, discreet, and you can hunt victims.

“Then how do we stop that?”

“First, we need to pressure the United States with this.”

“The United States?”

“I told you. Even if the United States doesn’t help, there’s no forgiveness for mass murder.”

“Ah!”

“Even if the incident is revealed, even if the United States protects its domestic companies, it can’t not provide information.”

“Was that the purpose from the beginning?”

“That’s right.”

There must be data because it’s an American company—who opened the site, who operated it—but getting it is another story. But there were as many as eleven deaths.

Moreover, due to the nature of the site, there is a high possibility of additional victims.

“But it’s a bit much to go to the United States and ask for it…”

“There’s no reason to do that. There won’t be anything in the United States anyway.”

Of course, there may be someone who manages the server locally. But that person is 100% likely to know nothing. In the first place, they are not a full-time employee, and they will probably play a role in managing all the servers in the place where they only posted the address. Of course, they are likely not to know Korean.

“What we’re going to get is the phone number of the founder anyway.”

The United States wouldn’t ask for a Korean resident registration number.

“Then something will come out.”

Of course, getting them to open their mouths is a completely different matter.

As Park Do-joon expected, the US government did not ignore the site where the serial killer came from. Of course, they did not shut down the site. A criminal came out, but the site was not illegal under US law.

However, in terms of the occurrence of additional victims, fortunately, the US government provided information that could identify the founder of the site, and according to that data, the founder of the site was identified. But everything always had to be difficult.

“It’s so obvious that I have nothing to say.”

“What are you going to do with the money you earn? Hire a lawyer.”

“Wasn’t it, I’ll buy beef with that money?”

“If you earn that much money, you’ll eat Korean beef [Hanwoo] every day, not just regular beef.”

Lee Ji-soo clicked her tongue as she watched the woman confidently arriving with a lawyer.

“I thought it would be a man.”

“Why?”

“Well, men usually know a lot about prostitution. And there are a lot of men in IT too.”

“That’s true. But that’s not always the case.”

The person who came was a woman. A young woman in her late 20s.

“What do you think?”

Jo Sang-gyu, who was watching the woman waiting with a lawyer, asked Park Do-joon with a curious face.

“Why are you asking me that?”

“There’s no data on this kind of thing. I think you’ll know?”

Certainly, there is no data or record of this kind of case. Profiling is not guesswork, it’s science, and without data, it’s never easy to prove or hypothesize.

“But how would I know?”

“I think you’ll know because it’s you?”

“Ugh!”

Park Do-joon smacked his lips. Of course, it’s not certain, but there is a rough profiling. Because IT-related profiling has not been fully studied in Korea yet, but it is being studied little by little overseas, and it was one of the topics that will be studied quite a lot in the future. IT-related crimes are increasing dramatically, and some of them are really serious crimes.

“She’s not a woman from the nightlife industry. She probably thought it would be profitable to get sponsored.”

“Oh? Why?”

“If she were a woman from the nightlife industry, she wouldn’t bother using an IT company. The nightlife industry is profitable enough. In particular, she wouldn’t think of creating a site in the United States. In the first place, this site was created in the United States to avoid Korean investigation rights. Most women in the nightlife industry lack such information skills.”

“That’s certainly true.”

What’s important in the nightlife industry is a pretty face, not intellectual ability. Of course, intellectual ability is also important in the top class of the nightlife industry.

“But in the case of that woman, she doesn’t have that kind of appearance.”

Even in the top nightlife industry, appearance is a priority over intellectual ability, and intellectual ability is basic there. In fact, many people in the top tier of the nightlife industry are as good-looking as celebrities with appearance alone.

“She’s probably an IT employee.”

“But what do you mean she’s likely to have been sponsored? It’s past tense? Does that mean she’s not getting it now?”

“Show me that woman’s hand?”

At Lee Ji-soo’s words, Park Do-joon slyly pointed to the woman’s hand beyond the window.

“Yes, I see it.”

“How does it look?”

“It’s normal?”

“Yeah, if she didn’t work because she was sponsored, she would have decorated her nails a lot. But unlike her clothes, only her nails are neatly trimmed.”