My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 713

Hong Woo-jong, however, tilted his head, puzzled that the prosecution had denounced Park Do-joon but left him untouched.

“They tried to arrest him, but the Hyunsung Group intervened. They said it wouldn’t look good if they touched him.”

“Tsk!”

“We can’t start a war with the Hyunsung Group over some small-time prosecutor in the provinces.”

“That’s a pity.”

“We should have taken him down during the Shinan case. What a waste.”

In truth, Pyo Gi-il hadn’t cared much about what happened to Park Do-joon. But now that his own neck was on the line, his face turned grim.

“Can’t the police halt the investigation?”

“Is that even possible?”

“I suppose not.”

Park Do-joon has the Hyunsung Group and the Daeguk Group backing him.

And he’s a capable man who has gotten rid of his superiors before. Asking them to stop pursuing Hong Woo-jong in this situation?

That would be the same as the police openly admitting they’re controlled by Hong Woo-jong.

‘And Wang Woo-hwan must have talked.’

No matter how powerful Hong Woo-jong is, if Wang Woo-hwan has spoken, the police are unlikely to protect him.

The reason the police are staying put isn’t to protect Hong Woo-jong, but because there’s no way to prove Wang Woo-hwan’s claims.

You can’t arrest a sitting member of the National Assembly [South Korea’s unicameral legislature] for serial murder based solely on a criminal’s testimony.

“What are you thinking so hard about?”

“Nothing.”

Hong Woo-jong, lost in thought, snapped back to attention.

‘I have to hide this at all costs.’

If Pyo Gi-il finds out he committed serial murders, he’ll cut ties with him, even if he’s been on Hong Woo-jong’s side.

No, there’s a high probability he’ll imprison him to save himself, ensuring he never sees the light of day again. The Prosecutor General is capable of that.

The moment he becomes a death row inmate, no one will listen to him.

That’s why Hong Woo-jong desperately appealed to Pyo Gi-il about how dangerous Park Do-joon was.

Since he no longer had the means to kill Park Do-joon himself, he had to persuade someone who did.

“That guy will never stop. He might even be suspicious of you, General.”

“Of me?”

“Hong Geun-jong is digging into the case. The fact that he called Kim Song-rim means he’s gotten his hands on the slush fund his father used.”

“A slush fund?”

“Otherwise, there’s no way Hong Geun-jong could know about Kim Song-rim. You know how thoroughly that case was covered up.”

“That’s true.”

Everything was thoroughly concealed to cover up the incident.

People around him didn’t even know Hong Woo-jong had been indicted.

A summons wasn’t even issued, and everything was communicated via phone through a lawyer appointed by Hong Chang-sik.

And that phone wasn’t even the lawyer’s phone, but a burner phone [a cheap, prepaid mobile phone used temporarily and then discarded] that was discarded after the case was over.

In Hong Woo-jong’s view, the only way Hong Geun-jong could have found out about Kim Song-rim’s testimony was if someone had betrayed him.

And the truth is, there is such an atmosphere internally.

“You know what kind of guy Hong Geun-jong is, don’t you? After he gets rid of me, he’ll come after you, General.”

“He wouldn’t put it past him.”

The Prosecutor General, remembering Hong Geun-jong’s ruthlessness in his excessive attempts to gain his father’s approval in the past, thought he was capable of anything.

That’s why he started to feel increasingly afraid. He was being gaslighted by Hong Woo-jong, but he didn’t realize it, and he became convinced that the danger was growing.

“Then it would be good to kill those two……”

“Hong Geun-jong is impossible.”

“I suppose so.”

Hong Geun-jong is extremely concerned about his safety.

He’s always accompanied by six or more bodyguards, who constantly carry personal suppression weapons such as stun guns and batons.

Furthermore, perhaps because of his experience of being attacked by a pack of stray dogs, he separately imported bear repellent spray, which his bodyguards always carry.

No matter how many humans there are, they can’t subdue all the dogs, but there’s no way dogs sensitive to smell can overcome bear repellent spray.

Moreover, if Hong Geun-jong dies because of that damn fake wife and daughter, his assets will go to those bitches, so killing him isn’t a good option.

“What about Park Do-joon?”

“You can kill him, but isn’t he not the urgent one right now? And he will have secured enough means to protect himself.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes, and that bastard is a cop, but he doesn’t trust his fellow cops.”

In other words, use a killer from the police force.

Pyo Gi-il didn’t respond.

Instead, he changed the subject.

“So, Kim Song-rim is the priority.”

“That’s the best option at this point.”

If Kim Song-rim dies, all evidence that he committed murder will disappear.

‘I should have killed her a long time ago. I’ve kept her alive for too long.’

Killing her right away bothered him because of his father.

His father had covered up his first murder as a mistake, but killing Kim Song-rim was intentional, so it was uncertain whether his father, Hong Chang-sik, would cover for him, so he kept her alive. His father’s personality would have meant he was constantly monitoring Kim Song-rim.

In fact, Hong Chang-sik continuously monitored Kim Song-rim until his death. However, after he died, there was no one to report to, so everything fell apart.

“Let’s take care of that woman first.”

“It seems like there’s no other choice.”

Pyo Gi-il frowned. And Hong Woo-jong smacked his lips inwardly as he watched that.

‘I wanted to handle it myself if possible, but it’s a shame.’

However, that regret quickly sank below the surface.

“Is there a killer organization within the police?”

Lee Ji-soo was so surprised by Park Do-joon’s words that she lowered her voice and asked again.

He had taken her out, saying he had something to say quietly, and then suddenly dropped a bombshell in a quiet place.

“To be exact, some police officers are willing to commit murder depending on their vested interests.”

Park Do-joon didn’t pay attention to Lee Ji-soo’s startled reaction and took a coffee from the vending machine, sipping it as he spoke.

“How can they do that? They’re police officers!”

“In the first place, the police are an organization that has lost its sense of duty. So it wouldn’t be strange if one bad apple disappeared.”

“But……”

“There was something like that in the fire station in the past.”

“Yes?”

“Ambulance case. Ah, you don’t know about that.”

There was a case where the driver of an ambulance was transporting a patient, and the hospital he requested was different from the hospital that came from the dispatch room.

In such cases, it’s standard procedure to prioritize the hospital designated by the dispatch room.

This is because the dispatch room doesn’t just tell you to go to the nearest hospital, but checks the patient’s symptoms, the congestion of the emergency room, the availability of on-duty doctors, and so on before providing transport.

However, the driver insisted on going to the hospital he wanted to go to, and when the dispatch room forcibly assigned him to another hospital because there were no beds available at his preferred hospital, he deliberately drove slowly and went on strike, almost killing the patient.

“Even if he’s just a driver, he’s an emergency medical technician, right?”

“That’s right.”

“Private?”

“Where does a private company have a dispatch room? Of course, it was 119 [South Korea’s emergency telephone number].”

“And they do that kind of thing?”

“Yes.”

And the reason that was revealed later after he was eventually sued was absurd. He just felt like he was being ignored.

“119 is where people with a sense of duty go.”

But even those guys are doing that, so are there no guys in the police who are trying to do nonsense?

Of course, there’s a difference between guys who take bribes and guys who commit murder.

But as with all organizations, the inside can’t be completely clean.

“Wow, that’s shocking.”

“That’s reality.”

“Then how do you catch those guys?”

“First, analyze the method of murder, and you’ll know.”

“Method of murder?”

“Yes.”

There are more than a few suspicious police or witness murder cases within the police. And most of those cases used similar methods.

“Is it an old police officer?”

“That’s probably not it. It’s been happening for decades.”

Even if there is one killer, that person should have gotten old and retired.

“Perhaps there’s only a certain method they can use for various reasons.”

“Various reasons?”

“First of all, guns are out of the question.”

In the United States, guns are so common that it’s not difficult to get an unlicensed gun from somewhere or steal a confiscated gun and kill the target.

But that’s not possible in Korea. Because the people who have guns are limited.

“Then it’s assault, but that’s not easy.”

“Well, they’re police officers.”

Police officers must have sufficient force to protect themselves.

That’s why most police officers have some level of martial arts skills.

Therefore, in order to beat them to death, you have to fight them in the end.

“So, the most common methods are strangulation and drowning.”

“Both are methods that don’t leave traces. Relatively speaking.”

“Yes.”

Strangulation is choking the other person’s neck to death, and drowning is literally subduing the other person and preventing them from coming out of the water.

That’s the most difficult type of crime to identify a criminal.

Because in the case of strangulation, if you strangle someone’s neck with your hands, you can compare the size of your hands with the traces, but in the case of a rope, it’s not easy to identify them even if you compare them. Because ropes are common all over the world.

The same goes for drowning. All you have to do is hold their head down, and they just can’t breathe in the water.

If you push someone down when they’re in the water, most people can’t come up.

“And do you know what that means?”

“That…… uh? That…….”

“Don’t think of the other person as a police officer; think of them as a criminal. Then you’ll see the answer. And there’s no need to deny that.”

Lee Ji-soo said with a sullen face at Park Do-joon’s words.

If you take away the psychological resistance or burden, you’ll still have enough skill to come up with an answer.

“Then that means there are more than three criminals?”

“Yes, very likely.”

No one willingly submits when someone tries to kill them.

Even if you’re determined to commit suicide, you’ll reflexively resist if someone tries to kill you.

Moreover, police officers tend to counterattack reflexively when attacked because they have been trained in combat for a long time.

Of course, in order to subdue such a police officer, you need three or more people with the same or higher skills.

“At least three.”

It’s impossible to subdue them with one person, and even with two people, they’ll say they’d rather fight than die.

At least three people are needed to threaten one person with a gun from the front and grab their arms from both sides to subdue the other person without resistance.

“The characteristics of the police officers who have been killed so far are that there were no signs of proper resistance.”

“Really?”

“Yes, so that’s the strongest evidence that the police claim is suicide, even though it’s a suspicious death.”

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