Along with the God of Law - Chapter 374



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374.

The ex-wife of the deceased, Lee Sang-ok, appeared in court with a terrified expression and began to thoroughly destroy the tower that the defendant, Ahn Il-gyun, had worked so hard to build.

I just started blurting out everything.

“Yes, I did it because I loved him. But, I didn’t kill him. The car, the junk, the junk car…”

“What is that crazy woman talking about!”

“What? Your little brat is crazy! I loved that brat. Yes, I loved him. Sob, sob… .”

“Witness! Please stop crying and continue your statement. What happened to the scrap car?”

As the judges pressed him, a frightened Lee Sang-ok continued to speak.

“Yes, that crazy, empty-headed bastard over there told me to close up shop and run away to China, so I did what he said.”

“Did Ahn Il-gyun burn the cell phone?”

“Huh? I don’t know about the cell phone, but I waited in the car because they said they needed to pick up something.”

“Did you commit murder?”

“That, that, I don’t know. I don’t remember!”

Lee Sang-ok continued to spout out things that were favorable to the prosecution while talking nonsense.

Although she said she was trying, what she said was almost like a confession.

This is a mistake made by ordinary people who are ignorant of the law. They can just gloss over it and beat around the bush.

But there is substance to human words, and truth to claims.

Lee Sang-ok was clearly talking about the fact that Ahn Il-gyun killed a person, and her statement in court serves as ‘direct evidence.’

‘That’s fortunate. That’s what I said.’

Let’s say that Ahn Il-gyun is angry and runs wild.

Lee Sang-ok kept saying sorry and saying he had committed a mortal sin, while also calling Ahn Il-gyun a “crazy bastard” and “an empty-headed bastard.”

It seems that he was very angry at Ahn Il-gyun because of this incident. This also seemed to be an advantage for Baek Hoon-sik.

After about an hour of shocking witness questioning.

“The court has decided whether to accept the additional evidence requested and has completed the examination of witnesses. Based on this judgment, I believe that a sentence can be handed down on the charges in this case at the next hearing.”

oh!

There were exclamations of “Oh” from those around me.

As if a genius prosecutor had solved the case in one go.

Baek Hoon-sik made it possible for the court to have a firm opinion and make a judgment on the case.

In just one room.

With victory thus confirmed, the trial date has ended, leaving only the verdict.

Clap, clap, clap!

“Congratulations, Inspector Baek!”

“Could I do an interview with you?”

“I’m Lee Chan-woong, a reporter from JYG! I’d like to do an exclusive interview with you under the title ‘The Second Kang Hyun’!”

Reporters who had already smelled it rushed to Baek Hoon-sik.

“Uh, yes?”

“Interview!”

“Do you have any thoughts?”

“Tomorrow, can I do it tomorrow?”

“…?”

“yes?”

In a jiffy.

As he endured the pouring flashes and the microphone attacks coming closer to his bedside, the thoughts going through Baek Hoon-sik’s head were quite strange.

‘I feel uneasy.’

Why do I feel uneasy?

I took the veil off the bastard and destroyed him with solid ‘evidence’.

The sentence is final, and of course it’s murder, so it won’t end in about ten years, so it’s a relief.

Baek Hoon-sik, who was looking into his inner self, recalled something he had forgotten and let out an exclamation.

‘ah!’

The deceased victim has not yet been found.

This is the death that is always present in murder cases.

At the same time, Yeopyomun’s father also came to mind.

The father, who had given up everything and accepted the death of his son who had been tormenting him, could not give up hope when the murderer claimed that he ‘didn’t kill him’ and continued to visit the deceased’s house regularly to take care of him.

“I can’t just leave it like that.”

As soon as he thought about what was most important, Baek Hoon-sik immediately started taking action.

“Congratulations, inspector, huh?”

Baek Hoon-sik, who hurriedly entered after politely greeting the employees, seemed like someone whose case was not over yet.

Okay!

“Let’s focus more and finish it for sure. By the end of this month!”

Anyway, I didn’t even think about asking Ahn Il-gyun where the victim was buried. It was better to spend that time digging than harassing him, who didn’t confess even though all the evidence was out.

As soon as Baek Hoon-sik made up his mind, he started searching the map diligently and asking around for experts related to excavators.

To find the missing body, the remains of the dead Yeo Pyo-mun.

First of all, the location that was assumed to be the crime scene was strong. However.

‘The crime scene has been developed, so the procedures are complicated. It can be disappointing if you dig and find nothing.’

He immediately contacted the city hall and began making arrangements.

“Yes! Yes! Please!”

Although he had already lost interest in the trial, Baek Hoon-sik’s eyes began to burn with fire. He was not the type to act late, but it was because of the sudden surge of responsibility.

The deceased’s father had already held a funeral for his son.

Moreover, since there was no special request to find the body, there was no problem in just passing it on.

But Baek Hoon-sik couldn’t do that.

I had to do some final finishing touches.

Like someone.

‘If it were Manager Kang Hyeon, he would never have left it like that.’

After barely hiring an expert, a few days later.

“This way.”

“Here?”

“Yes. Why?”

Baek Hoon-sik, who visited the site after making an appointment with the city officials, opened his mouth slightly and made a dumbfounded expression at their words.

It was because what they said was so different from what I expected.

“Oh, no. That’s absolutely not possible. It can’t be here. It’s not that accessible now. Can you see the photos from back then?”

“yes.”

“Even a small excavator under 3 tons wouldn’t be able to get in here. Even if it were to dramatically make it in, there are limits to how much it can dig, and it’s small to begin with.”

“Yes.”

“When this place was developed, water and sewage pipes and everything would have been laid out. If this was the right place, everything would have come out during construction. At that time, at that time…”

“It’s a corpse.”

“Oh, yes. That’s it. Common sense tells me that it should have gone down at least 5 meters, but it’s a huge undertaking with a small excavator. It’s impossible. Ugh, dead body.”

The expert looked creepy as he said that. On the other hand, Baek Hoon-sik remained expressionless and focused on his thoughts.

No, I was pretending to concentrate.

What else are you thinking about here? I said there won’t be any.

It was truly an incredibly awkward situation.

“Anyway, thank you. I will proceed after reviewing this with the chief and other inspectors.”

“Yes, please do.”

Even after the viewers and others left, Baek Hoon-sik could not leave his seat and continued to think over and over again.

Physically, the remains should have already been found, but the body is missing.

There was only one conclusion.

“No, it wasn’t here?”

It’s fortunate that we were able to find evidence for the case through the confession of a conspirator in addition to various circumstantial evidence.

Baek Hoon-sik couldn’t help but click his tongue, thinking that there was a reason for the confident look on his face.

What is the conclusion?

“I guess I’ll have to look for it manually again.”

Once again, his all-nighter began.

Clink, clink.

Back at the office, he embarks on what he calls ‘infinite exploration.’

We began to thoroughly re-trace the movements of the defendant, Ahn Il-gyun, and reconstruct the case, examining all the places where the killer might have hidden his victims.

In fact, he was the youngest prosecutor, so he didn’t have a single common working-level official to help him.

So he went back and forth between the archives, searching maps, re-searching vehicle records, and requesting CCTV footage from the police again.

During that time, something unfamiliar happened.

Okay.

“You didn’t look within a 5km radius around the business office, did you? I’ll look there.”

“…?”

Baek Hoon-sik raised his head with bloodshot eyes. There was his senior rider right above him.

Park Lee-hyun was there.

“Senior? What did you just say?”

“I will track you in a 5km radius around the defendant’s business location. Is that okay?”

“…ah.”

He nodded with a slightly impressed expression.

In fact, Baek Hoon-sik was a very simple person.

At Park Yi-hyeon’s one word, it felt as if all the senior prosecutors in the 5th trial division were supporting, cheering, and helping him.

“I’m helping you without telling you. I’m sorry. You’re still very angry.”

“aha.”

In an instant, that feeling was shattered.

Anyway, now that his hands were free, Baek Hoon-sik was able to turn his head to the other side.

‘That’s how I found out that guy burned his cell phone.’

business trip.

Baek Hoon-sik decided to find something by moving his body.

It was something that trial prosecutors really didn’t do. But he had already done it several times, not once or twice, but many times while working on this case.

“I don’t know.”

“yes.”

“But, you’re handsome. Is that Prosecutor Kang Hyeon’s seal?”

“Yes? No. I am Prosecutor Baek Hoon-sik, Prosecutor Kang Hyeon’s junior. We just take charge of cases and work together.”

“If you look closely, he doesn’t seem that handsome… .”

“ah.”

Asan is far away. However, as I come down a few times a week, it starts to feel closer.

A few days of talking to the locals, asking around, exploring, and exploring the mountains.

“uh?”

A ‘Huh?’ on the scene was a good sign.

A quiet neighborhood in Asan.

“Oh my, there’s a mountain behind that lime factory over there. That mountain collapsed and it was a real mess, I guess.”

“Yeah, that’s, what is it? The sink? It’s called a timing hole.”

At the elders’ words, Baek Hoon-sik repeated ‘Huh?’ one more time and then asked them the exact location.

Sinkhole.

We have secured statements that there are several large sinkholes in the mountain. It was said that restoration work has already been carried out at the village level due to concerns among residents.

‘You didn’t dig it up and bury it in the first place, but put it in a hole that was already dug?’

I went and checked in person, and it turned out to be a reasonable guess.

A really large crater remained, surprisingly, right after the incident.

“A hole this big would be big enough for a person to fit through.”

Next to Baek Hoon-sik, who was muttering, “Useup.”

“A pit about 10 meters in diameter and 5 meters deep. The sinkhole was formed by a collapse of the ground a year before the incident. That’s enough time for Mr. Ahn Il-gyun to travel back and forth between Seoul and Asan to find a location.”

“Ssuk,” a man approached and spoke. Baek Hoon-sik was startled and started to back away, but then he calmly turned his head and looked at him.

Because now he was a proper ‘prosecutor who solved a big case’.

Naturally, the person who appeared next to me was Kang Hyun.

He really must have been overseas because he had gained some weight and there were still some marks on his sunglasses. Looking at that, Baek Hoon-sik thought seriously.

‘Is it a mountain spirit? Or a goblin?’

But he shook his head and tried to come to his senses. The person next to him was the top prosecutor whom he greatly respected.

“Hey, did you have a nice trip abroad?”

“Yes. I heard that Inspector Baek did a good job too?”

“thank you.”

Yes, it was clear that he had completed all the homework that Kang Hyun had given him.

Kang Hyun was looking at Baek Hoon Sik with a proud smile on his face, as if he was looking at a student who had solved all of his homework.