My Calling Is Profiler [EN]: Chapter 97

“The evidence is already conclusive. Seventeen bodies have been found. And the three bodies found in the past also point to you as the culprit.”

Seo-jang looked at Park Do-joon as if he was strange after hearing those words.

However, Park Do-joon did not stop talking.

“No, you son of a bitch! What do you want me to do? Admit that I killed them? Are you trying to kill me?”

“Hey, what are you doing? Don’t tell me…”

Seo-jang’s eyes widened, but Park Do-joon didn’t stop.

“Legally, Bang Young-soo is in a disadvantageous position in this situation. He can’t escape since they have evidence and testimony. The best he can do is reduce his sentence.”

Bang Young-soo became interested in the idea of reducing his sentence.

“Reduce my sentence? How?”

“Those bastards shifted the blame onto us in exchange for reducing their sentences. There’s no reason we can’t do the same. We can shift the blame to Heo Kang-soo.”

“Ugh, it’s not shifting the blame, that bastard is the main culprit. We didn’t want to kill people either.”

“Testify about that. And reduce your sentence.”

“Then I won’t go to jail?”

“That’s not possible. But say you were threatened. Say Heo Kang-soo is the main culprit. Then we can try to reduce your sentence as much as possible. Didn’t the detective say earlier that the two informants were aiming for that?”

“These sons of bitches.”

Seo-jang looked at Park Do-joon with a strange expression as he continued to speak. And the team leader, who had been quietly standing next to him, asked in disbelief.

“Is that lip reading?”

“Ah, Team Leader, you know about it?”

“No, how do you know that?”

“I learned it because I thought it might be necessary.”

“You needed that? Well, it’s not a bad thing… Are you really a rookie? Wow, you’re crazy, aren’t you?”

Lip reading is a method of understanding what someone is saying by reading their lip movements. Of course, it’s not easy. Originally, lip reading was developed for people who couldn’t hear to understand what others were saying.

Naturally, it is rare for ordinary people to learn lip reading.

‘I’ve really done all sorts of things.’

Park Do-joon also learned it in his past life to investigate the other party. Of course, it wasn’t easy to learn, but he still knew the method.

“It’s as expected. It seems they’re planning to shift the blame to Heo Kang-soo to reduce their sentences.”

In fact, there was no need to read lips.

Because that’s what he expected.

“Really? Then all we have to do is catch Heo Kang-soo?”

Seo-jang’s face brightened.

“Yes. But the problem is where he is.”

At the team leader’s words, Seo-jang frowned.

“Yeah, we’ve been looking for that bastard, but we can’t figure out where he’s hiding.”

Hearing those words, Park Do-joon confidently said.

“I think we can find him more easily than you think.”

“What? What are you talking about? Do you know where he is?”

The team leader was surprised and looked at Park Do-joon because he didn’t expect that.

And Park Do-joon said while fixing his gaze on the two people inside who were arguing.

“Maybe.”

#Old habits die hard

As expected, Bang Young-soo began to insist that Heo Kang-soo was the main culprit for all the crimes and that he had no choice but to do it because of his threats.

Thanks to that, a clear arrest warrant was issued for Heo Kang-soo.

For the police, who had been suspecting Heo Kang-soo of being the main culprit of the kidnappings but couldn’t do anything, it was an opportunity.

If only one problem could be solved.

That is, they don’t know where Heo Kang-soo is.

“Heo Kang-soo is probably at the house of one of the believers.”

“That’s the problem. There are more than one or two people who have left the Space God Church.”

As soon as the arrest warrant was issued, Seo-jang immediately called Park Do-joon. He had no choice but to become impatient because Park Do-joon said he knew roughly where he was.

“The Space God Church is bigger than you think.”

The Space God Church had as many as 3,000 believers at its peak. About 1,900 people remained after it was changed to the Galaxy Church, so more than 1,000 people left the church.

“Which of their houses would he be in?”

“Not all of them are loyal believers. He’s probably at the house of someone who came to the prison.”

“One of the people who came to the prison…”

The people who come to the prison for visits have confirmed identities. In the first place, visits are impossible if identity verification is not possible.

“The number is about 200 people.”

“So, can you know who they are? Besides, they’re all over the country.”

Of course, if necessary, they can all be searched. The problem is that Heo Kang-soo will run away if they do that.

They will definitely have a communication network with each other, and if the police come, they will naturally contact Heo Kang-soo through that communication network.

If the believers are included in the investigation, Heo Kang-soo will definitely run away.

“So, we need to arrest them all at once.”

The problem is that it is realistically impossible to raid the houses of 200 believers at once. Of course, it is not impossible if all the police forces in the country are mobilized, but it is not known whether other places will cooperate.

“So, I think it would be better to look at the property details first. If possible, the property details of their children as well.”

“Property? Out of the blue? What are you talking about?”

Seo-jang asked with a puzzled face. Suddenly property? What does their property have to do with Heo Kang-soo?

“No, what will come out of looking at that? Are you telling me to look for a villa where he can hide? Then it seems like there will be more places to search?”

Park Do-joon said calmly to Seo-jang, who was worried.

“No, that’s not it. Rather, it’s because they don’t have property that we need to look at the property details.”

“What are you talking about?”

“The Space God Church basically operated by donating all property to the church. It’s a communist doctrine.”

“So?”

“Of course, the defecting believers have no money.”

They can’t take money with them when they leave. Even if they ask for their property back, the church won’t give it back willingly. In fact, how could Heo Kang-soo have the money to buy that large land and prayer center?

Even if they sue, the possibility of getting it back is not high once they have unconditionally donated it, and in fact, some people who are in the process of suing are still in the process of suing in the 2nd and 3rd trials beyond the 1st trial, so they have not received their money back.

“Besides, the people who came out of there are in a career break.”

The Space God Church not only received money but also used them as labor. They used their labor for their own purposes for a few years to as long as 10 years, not in general society.

“So, it will be difficult to get a job after coming out. That means all the believers who defected from there will be poor.”

“Hmm, that’s true.”

In the first place, the purpose of a pseudo religion is not to establish a real sect, but for the leader to fill his own pockets.

So, there are a lot of cases where the church and the leader are rich, but the church members are poor. And that method also has the effect of preventing church members from defecting.

At least if they are there, the problem of making a living is solved.

As a result, church members can’t easily think about defecting. In order to survive, they become more and more immersed in the church.

“They probably live in a studio apartment or a villa. Most of them.”

“I guess so.”

“But would Heo Kang-soo want to live that kind of life?”

“Huh?”

“He’s a guy who committed this fraud because of money. And he even committed child abduction to live a luxurious life. It’s unlikely that such a guy would live in a small house with lower-level believers who are like bugs in his eyes.”

At Park Do-joon’s words, the team leader stroked his chin and said.

“That’s definitely true. If you look at that guy’s profiling, that’s definitely what he’ll do. Filling his own belly will be his priority.”

“But you said they’re all poor?”

“That’s why we’re investigating the property details. The number of suspected believers is about 200. There’s a saying that many a little makes a mickle [a lot of small amounts add up to something significant].”

200 people. Even if one person pays only 1 million won, it’s 200 million won.

“With that much, you can get a monthly rent for a luxury apartment in the provinces.”

It’s nonsense in big cities like Seoul, but it’s not impossible in the provinces.

“And Heo Kang-soo wouldn’t sign that in his own name.”

“So, you’re saying he’ll sign it in the name of one of the believers.”

“Yes. Considering Heo Kang-soo’s intelligence, he may have borrowed the name of the believer’s child rather than the believer himself. Anyway, considering that, it won’t be difficult to investigate.”

If the address is confirmed and it’s suspicious, you can just suspect it.

“That’s definitely something the other party wouldn’t notice.”

“But what if they didn’t report the move?”

“They will have. They’re trying to protect Heo Kang-soo.”

Most of them probably don’t have money. Even if they gather money to find a house, they can’t do that twice or three times.

“But you said it’s only 1 million won?”

“That’s the minimum. Do you think they only collected 1 million won?”

Even for ordinary people, 1 million won is definitely not a small amount of money. But do they have money after being robbed of all their property? That’s not likely.

“It’s probably more than 1 million won. If they’re trying to get a lease, they would have collected at least 3 million won per household.”

That way, they can serve Heo Kang-soo in a good house.

“Okay. I’ll check it out.”

Seo-jang nodded, and everyone got up from their seats and returned to their respective places. And the team leader grabbed Park Do-joon, who was about to return.

“Do-joon.”

“Yes?”

“Where did you learn that?”

“What?”

“I’m talking about pseudo-religious profiling. They don’t teach that in Korea, do they?”

There are not many pseudo-religious incidents in Korea. There aren’t none, but there weren’t any serious incidents that would require the police to mobilize profilers. Naturally, profiling techniques related to that are still at a low level.

“I studied a lot while watching cases in other countries.”

“You studied this much on your own?”

“Yes. Well, I studied a little hard.”

“Huh! This is a gem, really.”

Park Do-joon smiled bitterly inside as he looked at the team leader who was speaking in disbelief.

‘It’s not like I wanted to study it.’

The reason why Park Do-joon studied pseudo-religious profiling cases was because pseudo-religious crimes were increasing in Korea.

‘To be exact, I started to recognize it.’

Surprisingly, Korea has a lot of pseudo religions. However, most of them are not touched because of the clear separation of church and state policy.

In the United States, if a pseudo religion is created, it usually involves self-expansion through armed forces and concealment of crimes and murders in the process, so if a pseudo religion occurs, they are severely monitored from the beginning and spies are planted, but in Korea, pseudo religions rarely threaten the country and in fact, they only end up with fraud or murder, so the state neglects them.

However, such neglect has resulted in an increase in the number of pseudo religions, and later, the number of real pseudo religions has increased dramatically.”