My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 83

“The vehicle isn’t the important thing in this case anyway. Oh, just one thing to confirm. Is the car manual or automatic?”

“Pardon?”

“The car, I mean. The analysis differs depending on whether it’s manual or automatic.”

“It’s probably a stolen car anyway, right?”

“Still, it makes a difference.”

“Um, just a moment.”

He made a quick call and then said,

“They say it’s manual.”

“I see. Then the important thing is this.”

Park Do-joon looked at the director, who was deep in thought, and said,

#It’s Obvious What They’re Thinking

“What do you think?”

At Park Do-joon’s words, the team leader said, as if dumbfounded.

“Looks like they’re going to make the director deliver it?”

“You’re thinking the same as me.”

Delivery.

That means they’re going to make him bring the cash to the culprit.

“Usually, they make the child’s parents do it, or a third party, but…”

“Being the academy director, there are clear limitations.”

If it were the parents, they would be desperate and eager to do whatever the police told them to save their child.

Using a third party? Then you could bet 100% that the third party would be a cop.

In the end, they need someone they can control, whose face they know, and who will listen to them, and the director is the perfect person. Since it’s not his child, he’s not desperate, and his own safety is his top priority.

Moreover, he’s someone they already know.

“He certainly knows the police’s methods well. Who is this bastard? Has he done this before? No. If he had, we would have known about it already, right?”

With more CCTV cameras around and people carrying cell phones, child abduction cases have definitely decreased a lot.

So, if a guy was committing crimes this way, news would have spread around enough.

Even if it hadn’t been directly reported, there’s no way the team leader wouldn’t have looked into the case. But the fact that there’s nothing means this is the first time this has happened.

“I know. But at the same time, he’s clumsy.”

“Clumsy?”

“Yes. The method of the crime deviates from the direction we can predict.”

He knows well about the police’s countermeasures, but that doesn’t mean he’s really at the level of the police.

He’s definitely catching the police off guard, but it’s not like the police have no experience.

“He’ll probably make the director switch bags somewhere.”

“That’s likely. They won’t do it themselves.”

If the police were involved, they would put a tracking device in the bag or plant one inside the money, or even use something like paint money from the movies [money stained with dye that explodes upon opening].

“And they can’t use a third party for that.”

If they did it themselves, they’d get caught, and if they used a third party, there’s a high chance that someone greedy for money would steal it.

But the director wouldn’t, and there’s no reason for him to. If he embezzled it, the police would catch him, and the value of the kindergarten the director owns is well over 3 billion won, so he wouldn’t steal it unless he was crazy.

“By doing that, they can safely confirm the money.”

If that happens, they’ll confirm that they’re not in any danger.

“After that, they’ll receive the money… That’s definitely a high possibility.”

It’s a method to thoroughly prevent the police from following them.

“Okay, we’ll take care of this. Do-joon, you investigate in a different direction. Is there anything suspicious?”

“Yes, there is. First, the difference between the leader and his subordinates.”

“Difference?”

“Yes. You know that those guys are athletes, right, Team Leader?”

“I know.”

But he couldn’t specify it.

“And that leader is an intelligent character. He doesn’t seem like an athlete. I think he’s probably a con artist type.”

“Well, he knows too much about people to be just another criminal.”

If you’re looking for the smartest criminal, it’s definitely a con artist. Those guys have to deceive people with their silver tongues and steal their money. And they have to use their brains a lot in the process.

Their intelligence is surprisingly high. They even deceive professors and police executives to the point of scamming them.

“But there’s no process for athletes and con artists to meet, is there?”

“That’s true.”

“So, I was only thinking about the athletes.”

“Athletes?”

“Would decent guys really commit this kind of crime?”

“Hmm, it would be difficult.”

If you’re an athlete, you become very sensitive to crime. Especially in the case of sports where fighting is possible, such as Taekwondo or Judo, if you even touch someone, your career as an athlete is over that day.

In fact, in court, if an athlete with skills at the athlete level beats someone with their bare hands, it’s considered as fighting with a weapon, so the punishment itself is enormous.

“And judging from their movements, they seem to have done that kind of martial arts. Probably Judo or Wrestling.”

“How do you know?”

“I checked the video. Their ears were cauliflower ears.”

Cauliflower ear refers to the shape of the ear that is created when the ear is continuously pressed by external pressure.

Cauliflower ears are usually created naturally by learning boxing, which uses guards, or wrestling and judo, which constantly rub and press against the opponent with force.

The human body has a recovery ability. Nevertheless, the fact that cauliflower ears are created means that they have practiced and trained tremendously.

So much so that there’s even a saying that you shouldn’t pick a fight with someone who has cauliflower ears. All three sports are specialized for fighting.

“They were wearing masks and hats, but they couldn’t hide their ears.”

“Well, people usually don’t think about hiding their ears.”

In the video, the culprit has cauliflower ears. So, they did that kind of martial arts.

“Then the important thing left is their meeting.”

“Well, since they were all athletes, they must have been athletes together.”

The problem is the number.

Surprisingly, there are many people who do boxing, judo, and wrestling. In that situation, it’s not easy to identify suspicious people.

But Park Do-joon wasn’t thoughtless either.

“They probably all had experience related to crime.”

Child abduction, that is, kidnapping, is a very serious crime. No matter how much you’ve done sports and failed there, it’s not a crime you can easily start.

“Moreover, if they’ve done sports, they’re sure to have stamina. Then there are many ways to make money.”

Even manual labor pays a considerable amount of money right away. If you properly learn carpentry, you can earn more than 300,000 won a day.

Even if that’s not the case, these days, you can earn close to 5 million won a month just by doing deliveries.

“So, their tendency is probably to aim for a big score and not look back. It’s a typical criminal mindset.”

“It’s just that the intensity varies within that, is that it?”

“Yes.”

If you have a criminal record, it’s not easy to succeed in sports. In fact, succeeding in sports is not very meaningful in terms of hitting it big.

“Especially Judo and Wrestling.”

Even if you win a gold medal at the Olympics, you only get a pension of about 1 million won a month. You can’t call that a big hit.

“And the fact that they have extreme directionality gives a strong feeling of giving up on themselves.”

In the first place, sports is something that requires tremendous patience. It’s rare for guys who used to do that kind of thing to suddenly turn into criminals.

“Well, it’s been like that since the old days.”

It’s a little less so now, but in the old days, there was a joke that if you graduated from the Department of Physical Education, you were either an athlete or a gangster.

That’s because if you can’t become a national athlete or join a sports team, your career as an athlete is virtually over, so athletes often give up on themselves, and criminal organizations coax those athletes who have given up on themselves and take them into their organizations.

Moreover, Korea’s sports industry has developed abnormally in a way that only worships mental strength rather than scientific growth, so they are insensitive to athletes’ criminal behavior such as assault, battery, and verbal abuse.

“And I think it’s difficult for an intelligent type of leader to come out from within that.”

“Then what do you think?”

“I think their careers as athletes ended in connection with some incident. And it’s likely that some of them went to prison.”

“School, is that it?”

“Yes. It’s school [prison].”

School. A slang term among criminals that means prison. But the reason why such a slang term came into being is that there are more criminals who learn other crimes in there than criminals who reflect and come out.

“I think someone was recruited by a con artist in there.”

“Hmm……”

There would have been plenty of time. Because they live together and use the same living space in there. And the guy who was recruited in there would have come out and thought about hitting it big together, and naturally called in his gang.

“Some of the athletes would have responded to that.”

He would have recruited other gangs who couldn’t continue to do sports or get a decent job due to their criminal history.

“It’s certainly possible.”

Surprisingly, it’s common for criminal organizations to be formed inside prisons.

Especially if there are guys with leadership tendencies in there, it happens quite often in the case of guys who have no chance of rehabilitation.

There’s a reason why criminals call prisons schools.

“Then we can identify the culprit’s tendencies.”

The team leader’s eyes sparkled. Of course, you can get along with each other in prison. But apart from that, controlling one person, expanding an organization, and committing crimes requires that much ability.

If they don’t show a clear vision or ability as a leader, apart from their criminal tendencies, criminals won’t follow their orders.

“He’s probably a con artist. But he won’t be a typical con artist.”

“That’s likely.”

The tendencies of the two crimes are too different to see it that way. Even if you learn a crime in prison and come out and carry it out, the tendency of the crime doesn’t suddenly change.

A guy who went in for fraud doesn’t come out and say, ‘Now that my life is ruined, I’m going to commit kidnapping.’

“But it’s true that he’s an intelligent criminal. He’s not a typical kidnapper. Then there’s a high possibility that he committed an additional crime equivalent to that in the process of committing fraud.”

Not all fraud is the same. Sometimes, force is used in that fraud.

When people talk about fraud, they only think about deceiving the other person and taking their money. Of course, that’s not wrong. Legally, that’s fraud.

“But sometimes other crimes are involved in the fraud process.”

The team leader smiled bitterly. The reason he smiled so bitterly is simple. In the case of such criminals, they have to involve other crimes apart from that, but often that’s not the case.

For example, if the fraud victim is not simply deceived but intimidated, threatened, or even assaulted, that must be linked to a separate crime.