The Legendary Detective Catches All the Criminals - Chapter 67



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◈Episode 67◈

Drunken talk

Shin Soo-ah continued her explanation.

“The first incident occurred 10 years ago. Ahn Se-young, 24, was found murdered in an alley near Gangnam Station. The time of death was between 3 and 4 in the morning, there were no witnesses, and it was raining, so any evidence pointing to the culprit was washed away.”

Manager Park Dong-hee said with regret.

“At the time, I never imagined it would become a serial killer. Even if it hadn’t rained, there would have been clues left behind… Isn’t the killer’s murder cycle getting shorter?”

“Yes. Three years and six months, three years, two years, one year… Now, we don’t know when the sixth victim will appear.”

Even though it was a brutal murder story, the atmosphere was good.

The special task force for unsolved cases shared their opinions while eating bread prepared by the bakery owner.

The longest-serving detective ate the most.

“Isn’t this a great place to eat? Honestly, there’s no one who doesn’t know about this case, right? The reporters covered the murder in such detail. It’s fortunate that no copycat crimes have occurred.”

Manager Park Dong-hee asked Shin Dae-seong.

“How will you approach this case, senior?”

“I think the answer has already been given.”

“Where is the answer?”

“I’m talking about the records of the cases the police have investigated so far. They’ve questioned numerous witnesses and suspects. I think the culprit is among them.”

“Are you saying you want to meet the witnesses and suspects in the case file again?”

“Okay, Detective Kim and I will meet with the Class A suspects.”

“Okay, let me check the investigation records again.”

Chief Park Dong-hee distributed the investigative work.

“Team Leader Choi, meet with the witnesses together with Detective Shin.”

“All right.”

“Detective Kang Tae-gyu and Detective Seo Min-ju will meet with the victims’ families again.”

“Oh, you’re the victim’s family?”

Inspector Kang Tae-gyu showed a rather rough reaction.

“Didn’t you say you wanted to learn about field work?”

“That’s true, but······.”

“Detective Seo will take care of it, so watch carefully and learn. Detective Hwang Yeo-ju, stay in the office and look for additional information on the Gangnam Station serial killer.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Ms. Han Eun-kyung hasn’t been officially assigned yet. You can investigate freely with Detective Bang Jin-woo. Detective Bang has learned boxing and is better than most bodyguards.”

“Thank you, Manager.”

“Okay, everyone, let’s go! We have to catch him before we have a sixth victim.”

* * *

Late at night.

Club alley near Gangnam Station.

Shin Dae-seong and Kim Han-gyeol talked in the car.

“They say the Gangnam Station serial killer is a typical psychopath. Do you agree, Detective Shin?”

“Typical means common. It’s similar to the behavioral patterns of psychopathic serial killers… and that’s why it’s easy to get into their heads.”

“They say that the first murder awakens the psychopathic instinct. Unable to forget the thrill of that moment, they continue to kill, and the cycle of killings becomes faster and faster.”

“What kind of personality was the first victim?”

“She had a lively and easygoing personality. She absolutely hated hurting others. I don’t think she pressed the killer’s trigger button.”

“So the trigger was pressed somewhere else, and the first victim was just unlucky······.”

Kim Han-gyeol took a sip of water and answered.

“The crime was too clean to be called impulsive. There were no witnesses, and no traces were left behind.”

“Maybe I was lucky. The police’s incompetence was the biggest factor. If they had caught him then, the number of victims wouldn’t have increased this much.”

“Don’t judge the police’s ability based on Detective Shin. I was assigned to the third case. I had a hard time and got cursed at a lot.”

“The results of a police investigation are important.”

“Who doesn’t know that? Those above are nagging, and the media is harassing the police, calling them incompetent. Even if you raise your voice a little, witnesses are making a fuss, saying it’s a forced investigation. I was so stressed out that I started having alopecia areata. Here.”

This is when Kim Han-gyeol shows the scar where his hair fell out.

-dripping.

Someone knocked on the driver’s window.

He was a so-called hawker who solicited customers in the club alley.

-Jiying.

Kim Han-gyeol rolled down the window and asked.

“what?”

“Thank you for your hard work, detectives. Here, I brought you some iced Americano.”

“Thank you······ But how did you know we were detectives?”

“The only people who stop cars here are the police. If it were any other car, they would have already towed it away. But is it true that it’s time for ‘that guy’ to be active?”

“Who is that guy?”

“He’s the Gangnam Station serial killer. I can’t tell you how much business he’s hurting me.”

“Police patrols will also be strengthened. You know to report anyone you see suspicious immediately, right?”

“Of course, detective.”

“I’ll drink coffee well.”

Kim Han-gyeol handed the coffee cup to Shin Dae-seong.

“Please eat.”

“Thank you······ But it’s not hot coffee, it’s cold. It’s below zero outside.”

“Don’t you know ‘Eoljuk-a’?”

“I don’t know. What is that an abbreviation for?”

“It means that even if I freeze to death, I’ll still drink iced Americano. It’s a phrase that contains the pride of a fighting people who love iced Americano.”

“Do the fighting people drink iced Americano?”

Shin Dae-seong is drinking cold coffee and shivering.

-Chiiik.

A radio transmission from Detective Shin Soo-ah came in.

-The target has entered the club alley. Please take over once confirmed.

Kim Han-gyeol looked out the window and replied.

“Okay. From now on, it will be me and Detective Shin.”

Kim Han-gyeol and Shin Dae-seong got out of the car at the same time.

Soon they followed the stylishly dressed man into the club alley.

“That man was the boyfriend of the first victim. He was the prime suspect at the time. His name is Son Jeong-taek, 39 years old, still single, and a freelance photographer.”

“It seems like you like going to clubs. You went to the club with the first victim back then. Son Jeong-taek said he got into a fight with the victim and came home first.”

“It is not certain when Son Jeong-taek came home. There is a good chance that he killed his girlfriend.”

“But for the second and third murders, I had a solid alibi. After that, I was completely off the suspect list.”

“There’s no way he’s the culprit. So why are you following him and monitoring him?”

“I have some questions to ask.”

Kim Han-gyeol asked while drinking iced Americano.

“Can’t we just summon them to the police station and ask them?”

“Son Jeong-taek is mentally unstable. In a coercive environment, he will be more cautious and will not tell the truth. We must wait for a moment when his guard will be lowered in a free atmosphere.”

“Do you really want to chase me into a club just to get me to go there? I like it so much. But why are you dressed like that?”

“what?”

Shin Dae-sung dusted off his expensive suit.

“If you want to go to a club, you have to dress in club fashion.”

“A suit is the most polite fashion anywhere.”

They followed Son Jeong-taek into the club.

Shin Dae-seong asked Kim Han-gyeol.

“Aren’t there any entrance fees or anything?”

“I told the MD in advance. Just enjoy it, no, you can investigate it.”

-Bang bang bang bang bang.

Inside the club, the music thunders.

Kim Han-gyeol screamed as if he was transforming into a werewolf.

“Ahhhh~ I’ll act on my instincts now. I thought I was going crazy trying to suppress my curiosity.”

“What curiosity?”

“There’s a woman with an incredibly pretty back. Don’t you want to run over and check her face?”

“I’m not that curious······.”

“I’m going to dash around freely now. Isn’t this the time the government has allowed me? But what will Detective Shin be doing?”

“thought.”

“What are you thinking?”

Shin Dae-seong answered while looking around the fancy club.

“Thinking with a killer’s head. The first victim was in this very club.”

“Yes.”

“If the killer was here too… what would he be thinking? He was before the footsteps button was pressed. He was just like any other normal person. He would have danced happily and dashed at the girl.”

“Poem, Detective Shin, your gaze has completely changed.”

“What time did the first victim leave the club?”

“The boyfriend left first after a fight. The first victim left around 3 a.m.”

“The time of death was between 3 and 4 in the morning. The killer could have chased her and killed her right away, or he could have followed her for an hour or so and killed her when he had the chance.”

Kim Han-gyeol has an expression on his face that shows he has lost the desire to enjoy himself.

“Why didn’t you just leave the club and deal with it? If the footsteps button had been pressed, you wouldn’t have been able to control your impulses.”

“It’s been raining since midnight.”

“The Korea Meteorological Administration also got a lot of flak. They said there was almost no chance of rain.”

“She walked without an umbrella because her boyfriend took the car.”

“Did the killer not control his impulses and chase after the victim to commit the crime?”

“No… The killer didn’t press the step button here. He came here already with the step button pressed.”

“To find a victim?”

“Rather, it was probably to suppress the symptoms of tremor. Loud music, a free-spirited atmosphere, shouting and dancing, he must have tried to suppress his urge to kill. Just like before······.”

“Why did sound methods fail?”

Shin Dae-seong muttered while crossing his arms.

“Well? Why would that be······ The first victim wouldn’t have done anything to provoke the killer······.”

“Isn’t it that you were trying to stop a fight with your boyfriend?”

“The victim wasn’t drinking. He probably didn’t do anything dangerous. But there was something.”

“What is it?”

“I have to find out. There must be something my boyfriend, Son Jeong-taek, didn’t say. As planned, Detective Kim will approach him and find out.”

“Thank you! No, I will do my best to investigate.”

After Kim Han-gyeol left, Shin Soo-ah approached.

“You look genuinely excited.”

“That’s the only way to approach Son Jeong-tae. Is this your first time at a club, Detective Shin?”

“How did you know?”

“Your expression is stiff.”

“A place like this was a luxury for me. If I had been adopted, I would have been forbidden to go. The judge’s family is conservative.”

“No, that’s not true. If my wife were alive, she would have said once a week was okay.”

“How can you be sure of that?”

“Because my wife said it herself. After we decided to adopt, my wife and I talked a lot. We talked about what to do from kindergarten to college and until we got married. One of them was about clubs.”

“Really?”

“Yeah, my wife grew up in a very conservative household. She said she had a boring school life, and she wanted to raise her daughter in a free atmosphere.”

Shin Soo-ah hesitated for a moment and then asked.

“Can you tell me something else?”

“What are you talking about?”

“Did I ever tell you anything about what to do when I fight with my friends in elementary school?”

“Of course I did. I divided it into three cases. The first is when our daughter hits unilaterally. My wife and I unconditionally go in and intervene······.”

* * *

The VIP room that Kim Han-gyeol caught.

A bottle of premium liquor is rolling around on the table, and Son Jeong-taek, the boyfriend of the first victim, is drunk.

“Brother, do you have a lot of money?”

Kim Han-gyeol said, showing the black card he received from his mother.

“My parents have a lot of money. They told me that I could spend as much money as I wanted, but that I should just not cause any trouble until I got to America.”

“What happened?”

Kim Han-gyeol acted as Shin Dae-seong had told him.

“It was an accident that happened in the US. My parents had a hard time covering it up. It was an incident that was not known in Korea.”

“Child, I’m more curious. What kind of incident was it······.”

Kim Han-gyeol looked around and said.

“My girlfriend died. And I was taken in by the police as a suspect.”

“why?”

“Actually, I was out of my mind because I was on drugs. But I swear to heaven, I never killed anyone. I thought I would die because I was so annoyed by the brutality with which the police investigated.”

“What a coincidence? I had a similar experience.”

“Really? What’s going on?”

“······.”

Kim Han-gyeol urged Son Jeong-taek, who had kept his mouth shut.

“Hey, really? I told you everything without hiding anything.”

Son Jeong-taek had no choice but to open his mouth.

“Do you know the Gangnam Station serial killer?”

“No. I’m not interested in Korean news.”

“My girlfriend was his first victim, and I was investigated as a prime suspect.”

“That’s just how it is. I said that I was investigated just because he was my boyfriend. Why are you making a big deal out of something so trivial?”

“Actually, there’s something I didn’t tell the police at that time.”

“What is it? Are you on drugs too?”

“That’s not it······ I think I saw who the culprit is.”

“Really?”

-Rumble.

Shin Dae-seong entered the VIP room.

“What I just said is true.”