The Mad Prosecutor Picked Up AI - Chapter 39
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Episode 39: If you do it, you’re a guy who does it
‘So what you’re saying is that the Yoon Ki-seok who was walking with his yellow jacket rolled up and the man with the yellow jacket and the man with his back talking to the doctor are different people?’
[Yes.]
It doesn’t seem like much of a difference to me.
[Yoon Ki-seok is 172cm tall and weighs 68.2kg. He has hunched shoulders. However, the man in the back view is 173.4cm tall and weighs 65.8kg.]
‘What? Why are you so precise? Before, you used to say something roughly like, ‘How much is this?’
[Do you think I play all the time? I digitize all the visual and auditory information that comes to me through Hyeon-gwang, and increase the accuracy through that.]
‘Okay. So they’re two different people?’
[Yes. It’s definitely a different person. To be exact, it matches the physical appearance of Park Min-sik that I met at the hospital.]
‘Park Min-sik?’
[The man in the yellow jacket and talking to the doctor of Oriental medicine from the back on that screen is clearly Park Min-sik.]
My suspicion that Park Min-sik is the culprit behind the murder of the Oriental medicine doctor is becoming more and more certain. But how can I prove this?
Aliotta spoke with confidence, but it was not easy to distinguish the person who was 2.4 kg thinner and 1.4 cm taller on screen. To the average person, there was not much difference between the two screens.
“Chief. These two people here. Do they look like the same person or different people?”
“Weren’t they the same person?”
Wi Jun-woo, who had been tilting his head, placed the two photos side by side and compared them diligently.
“I can’t tell because one is from the back, but they look similar, right? The height and the build.”
‘Look, that’s how most people react.’
[So you don’t believe me?]
‘I believe it. I believe it, but this can’t be used as evidence in court.’
If only Aliotta could prove that the people in the two screens are different people and that the man in the back is Park Min-sik, then that can’t be used as evidence in court. Because Aliotta can’t be brought forward as a witness.
‘So what you’re saying is, I have to prove it? That those two are different people, and that the person whose back you can see is Park Min-sik?’
[Yes.]
“They look the same, but they’re actually different. This one here is Yoon Ki-seok, but the person whose back you can only see is Park Min-sik.”
“Really? This is Park Min-sik?”
Wi Jun-woo took the photo and looked at it intently, turning it over here and there.
“I really don’t know. Actually, if you put people of similar height and size in front of each other, they all look the same.”
“I guess I should tell our manager about this too.”
I continued speaking, my voice growing hoarse.
“Do you remember what Park Min-sik’s skin condition was like?”
“You have a lot of pimples on your skin? It’s like you have a skin disease.”
“Right? That’s because of the side effects of the drugs. It makes me itch so much that I scratch until I bleed. That’s why I have sores all over my body. Okay. Now, look at this picture.”
“yes.”
Wi Jun-woo looked at the photos intently, as if he was afraid of missing even a single detail, as I said. But.
‘What a disaster.’
In the photo of Park Min-sik taken from behind, no skin was visible. His arms and legs were covered by his jacket and pants, and his neck and ears were not visible because he was wearing a hoodie over his head.
“Oh, well. If you look closely here… … .”
“Yes. Where should I look, Inspector?”
“that…….”
Aliotta shouted as her lost eyes were scanning the photo diligently.
[Hand! I can see my right hand a little!]
“Here. Right hand.”
“Your right hand?”
The man in the back view, Park Min-sik, had his right hand in his pocket. It is not clear whether it was the moment he put his hand in or took it out, but the edge of his wrist was slightly visible outside the pocket.
Literally just a little bit.
“If you look here, the skin is completely rotten.”
“Oh? Is that so?”
“He’s covered in bruises and all. At first glance, he’s Park Min-sik.”
“Hmm. Huh?”
Wi Jun-woo tried to find the part I mentioned by moving the CCTV photo closer and further away as if it were a magic eye.
“Well… … Now that I think about it, I think I can see it. It’s a little red here. I think this is a scratch mark. Wow. You found this, how amazing!”
Wi Jun-woo, whose eyes were about to squint slightly, let out an exclamation of admiration.
“Besides. This man in the back view is wearing a dark hoodie under a yellow jacket, right? Park Min-sik, who was caught on the black box during the traffic accident, was also wearing a dark hoodie.”
This time, I tried to persuade people with my clothes.
“But Yoon Ki-seok, who is holding a yellow jacket, is wearing a white t-shirt.”
“Couldn’t you have changed your clothes?”
“You went home with a bloody jacket, and then you changed into a hoodie that wasn’t even bloody? That doesn’t make sense.”
Wi Jun-woo, who had been lost in thought for a moment, said.
“If this person is Park Min-sik. So, if Park Min-sik is the real murderer, wouldn’t the time when the doctor died and the time when Park Min-sik got into a car accident be roughly the same? Because he ran away after killing him and got hit by a car.”
“I guess so.”
“Hmm. Where is the autopsy report?”
While Wi Jun-woo was looking for the autopsy report among the documents, Aliota displayed the autopsy report that she had saved earlier in front of me.
“Oh, here it is. It says that the doctor died at 8:34 p.m. What time was Mr. Park Min-sik’s car accident?”
Wi Jun-woo started asking questions openly as if he was going to collect the money he had entrusted to me. It’s a good thing I had Aliotta, otherwise what would have happened?
[The time recorded in the black box video is 6:26.]
I acted as if I was recalling what I remembered, reciting the exact time Aliotta had told me.
“The time of Mr. Park Min-sik’s accident was 6:26. This is the time recorded in the black box video submitted by the driver.”
“Hey. Then the timing doesn’t work out.”
Wi Jun-woo continued speaking with a disappointed expression.
“The doctor of oriental medicine died two hours after Mr. Park Min-sik’s accident. He probably didn’t see the murder scene. I guess the two incidents aren’t related. Was it really just a coincidence that the locations overlapped?”
No. Park Min-sik is at least an accomplice, or the real culprit. The locations did not coincide.
As I looked at the autopsy report that Aliotta had given me, I soon realized the truth and nodded.
“It can’t be a coincidence.”
“yes?
“What’s important here is not the time of death, but the time it was discovered at the scene.”
I pointed to the autopsy report that Wi Jun-woo was holding.
“Read carefully. Dr. Ha Myeong-jun was taken to the hospital by ambulance, but died in the hospital during emergency surgery. That’s why we know the exact time of death, not the estimated time of death.”
“ah.”
[According to the data I saw earlier, the first 119 report came in at around 6:50.]
I compiled and analyzed the information that Aliotta had provided.
“The 119 report was received at around 6:50 PM that day.”
“It’s 6:50?”
Wi Jun-woo racked his brain trying to interpret the words.
“Yes. At 6:50 p.m., someone found the doctor lying on the ground bleeding and called 119.”
“If what you said is true, then the doctor was stabbed before 6:50?”
“To be exact, it was between 6:02 and 6:50. The CCTV footage showing Ha Myeong-jun alive in front of the Oriental Medicine Clinic was taken at 6:02.”
“Because Mr. Park Min-sik was hit by the car at 6:26.”
In realization, Wei Junwoo’s eyes widened.
“Is it really possible that Mr. Park Min-sik murdered the doctor, Prosecutor?”
“Yes. It’s our job to prove it.”
Wi Jun-woo scratched his head.
“Wow. This is totally awesome. So what happens now? I thought Yoon Ki-seok was the murderer, but shouldn’t we also summon Park Min-sik and question him?”
“That’s right. There are many questionable parts in the evidence regarding Yoon Ki-seok, and many questionable parts regarding Park Min-seok.”
“But, Prosecutor, you don’t know anything about Park Min-sik.”
Wi Jun-woo asked me a question.
“What are you going to do? Are you going to pass on the information about Park Min-sik to the inspector?”
“hmm.”
No one likes to hand over the information they’ve worked so hard to find to someone else. But if you leave it like this, you might miss the real culprit.
“That’s even more horrible.”
“yes?”
“I’ll go to the manager’s office for a bit.”
“Isn’t this the inspector’s room?”
“I think I should ask the manager for some advice.”
* * *
dripping.
As I knocked and went in, Manager Jang Gi-tae looked at me with a slightly anxious expression.
“What? Again? Why?”
“Chief, if a lovely junior prosecutor comes to visit, I won’t be able to say, ‘Oh my, my kid.’ What’s wrong? What’s wrong? What’s wrong?”
“What? Hey, my baby?”
Chief Jang Gi-tae laughed as if he found it ridiculous.
“All the strange and bizarre things that happen in our Gunnae-myeon branch office are all caused by Dogeom. Every time Dogeom calls me, my heart starts pounding.”
Manager Jang Gi-tae, who had been drinking water to cool his thirst, asked me again.
“So. Why did you come here?”
“I need to ask for your advice regarding an incident.”
“Advice?”
“yes.”
Chief Jang Gi-tae tilted his head as if he found it strange.
“The cases that Dogeom has now shouldn’t be difficult, right? After coming over from Min Bong-sil, he only took the easy ones.”
“yes.”
“By the way, is there anything you would like advice on during the sword incident?”
“no.”
“… … .”
Chief Jang Gi-tae’s eyebrows arched upward.
“Hey, you idiot. Are you joking with me? You said you came here for advice, so what do you mean you have nothing to ask for advice on?”
“You have to listen to the end. Come to think of it, the manager is really impatient.”
“If you know it’s urgent, tell me quickly. It’s frustrating.”
“It’s not my case. I have a senior case that I need advice on.”
“I’m a professional? Why would you do that?”
How should I explain this? I scratched my head.
“So, this is my case. I think the victim in my case is the suspect in my senior’s case.”
“What are you talking about? Explain it so I can understand.”
I explained the case in as much detail and as easily as I could. I thought that Park Min-sik, the traffic accident victim I was in charge of, was the culprit in the murder of the doctor of Oriental medicine that Na Kang-jin was in charge of.
“Can you prove what you just said? Do you have any evidence?”
“There is no evidence that can be cited in court. So, we need to arrest and summon Park Min-sik for further investigation. Can you please hand this case over to me?”
“Will it work?”
I let out a long sigh at Chief Jang Gi-tae’s scolding. I’m not the kind of person who would hand over a case he was in charge of, let alone a murder case, to someone else.
Then what should I do? It’s annoying, but should I hand Park Min-sik over to Na Kang-jin?
“Then, would you please tell my senior that I should summon Park Min-sik for questioning?”
Chief Jang Gi-tae shook his head with a firm expression.
“It’s late.”
“You’re late? The indictment hasn’t even been filed yet?”
“that is…….”
Chief Jang Gi-tae smacked his lips as he trailed off, wondering what he was going to say. Then he said.
“I’m having a press conference tomorrow.”
“A press conference?”
It’s not like I’m banging on the door while I’m sleeping. Why the press conference?
“This is newsworthy. The employee who murdered the kind and gentle doctor turned out to be a homeless person who had been saved by the doctor. It was a case of repaying kindness with enmity! Reporters would love it.”
“I told you, the homeless person isn’t the culprit.”
“I understand what the sword is trying to say. Park Min-sik’s situation is also suspicious enough. But, that Yoon Ki-seok has already confessed.”
“A confession? There was no mention of a confession in the case file?”
‘Ah. The suspect’s statement was not yet completed. It seems he didn’t have time to write down the confession.’
As I nodded, Manager Jang Gi-tae opened his eyes wide and asked.
“The case file? Did you see it?”
“Uh. Yes.”
“How? I don’t think a pro would show it off so easily.”
“You can see everything.”
“Sigh. Anyway. There’s evidence, and Yoon Ki-seok confessed, and you even called in the reporters. How could I, a professional, investigate someone else now?”
Hmm. What should I do?
“Sir. Seriously, seriously. Park Min-sik is the culprit. If we hold a press conference like this, not only me, but the entire military branch will be embarrassed.”
Manager Jang Gi-tae thought deeply for a while, then looked at me and said.
“Are you really sure that Park Min-sik is the culprit?”
“Yes. 100%! Really! Real!”
Chief Jang Gi-tae let out a long sigh as if the ground was collapsing and continued speaking.
“Then bring the sword as evidence.”
“Evidence?”
“Whether it’s proof that Yoon Ki-seok is innocent or proof that Park Min-sik is the real culprit, bring it before the press conference. Then I’ll block the press conference. Not until I bring the evidence. My professional logic is also valid, so there’s no excuse to block it.”
“What time is the press conference?”
“3 o’clock in the afternoon.”
“Okay. Whatever, I’ll bring it.”
“Can that really be true?”
“I’m Do Hyeon-gwang. I’m a guy who does things if he has to. Don’t you trust me?”
Chief Jang Gi-tae said with a look of giving up.
“I don’t believe you. That’s why I’m scared. I feel like you’re going to cause trouble.”