The Mad Prosecutor Picked Up AI - Chapter 42
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Episode 42: Why did you cancel the press conference?
“Sword. Can you take responsibility for what you just said?”
Chief Park Sung-min looked at me with sharp eyes. No matter how much he was supporting Na Kang-jin, he couldn’t stand by and watch the disaster of the wrong criminal being announced in front of reporters.
You must be anxious. It’s not like Na Kang-jin has no power.
“I’ll prove it to you right now, that Yoon Ki-seok is not the real culprit.”
“Hey, Yoon Ki-seok’s fingerprints and DNA were found on the weapon. And he even confessed. What more do you need to say?”
“Yoon Ki-seok confessed?”
I asked back with a fake surprised expression. Na Kang-jin snorted with a smug face, as if he thought I didn’t know that fact.
“Yes. With solid evidence and even your own confession. With this perfection, what are you trying to say?”
“There’s no way Yoon Ki-seok would have confessed. Did he really say that? ‘I killed the doctor of Oriental medicine’?”
I deliberately pressed and pronounced the part that said, “I killed the doctor of Oriental medicine.” Because there was no way that Yoon Ki-seok, who was not the real culprit and who was also mentally retarded and unable to use his wits, would have made such a confession. Unless he had been subjected to leading questions or torture.
When I asked, pretending not to know, Na Kang-jin’s face became embarrassed.
“Uh, that’s… … .”
“Of course I would. Why would you ask such a thing? I killed him, so you’re saying I confessed. Do you think I, a pro, would confess based on mere guesses? I’m not a beginner. Right, me, a pro?”
“Oh, yes.”
Chief Jang Gi-tae was criticizing me, but for some reason, Na Kang-jin was fidgeting.
“What exactly did Yoon Ki-seok say?”
Na Kang-jin glanced at Chief Jang Gi-tae and Chief Park Seong-min, then opened his mouth.
“At first, when I showed him the knife, he denied it and denied it. But when I showed him the bloody jacket and questioned him, only then… … .”
“Only then?”
“… … I’m sorry,” he said, and then started crying.
Chief Jang Gi-tae tilted his head and asked.
“Is that the end? Didn’t you ask any more questions after that? Like how he was killed, why he was killed, etc.”
“That’s it, she was crying so hard. No matter what I asked her, she kept saying, “I’m sorry, I don’t want to go to jail,” and she just kept repeating that. It was hard to keep pressing her. Later, when she calms down, we can fully investigate further… .”
“So, strictly speaking, you’re saying that you didn’t receive a confession, right now?”
“No, I told you that you clearly said you were sorry with your own mouth.”
He raised his voice so as not to give in to me, but sweat was beading on his forehead. It was evidence that he was flustered.
“It’s true. I’m definitely sorry.”
Although Na Kang-jin continued to protest, Chief Jang Gi-tae also kept his mouth shut, and Chief Park Seong-min also crossed his arms. Realizing that they were not friendly to him, Na Kang-jin seemed to be in a hurry, so he took out the photos from the case file next to him and spread them out on the table.
CCTV footage showing Yoon Ki-seok walking with his yellow jacket wrapped around his hand, with an anxious gesture as if he was wary of his surroundings. And a photo of the yellow jacket with blood on it.
“Chief, look at this. It’s a jacket with the victim’s blood on it. It came from Yoon Ki-seok’s house. He hid it at home after committing the murder.”
“Do you have any proof that those are Yoon Ki-seok’s clothes?”
Na Kang-jin’s head turned sharply at my question.
“I told you earlier. I found this jacket at Yoon Ki-seok’s house.”
“Take a good look at that picture. What do you think of the clothes Yoon Ki-seok is wearing?”
“clothes?”
“Worn-out jeans, a stretched-out T-shirt, and sneakers with the heels turned down. It’s a shabby, shabby outfit.”
Everyone’s eyes were focused on the photo on the table. Manager Jang Gi-tae picked up the photo and spoke.
“Do you see the neck stretch? No matter how much I look, I can’t tell?”
Chief Jang Gi-tae tried to look at the poor-quality CCTV images in detail by pulling and pushing his arms. Finally, he pushed his glasses up to his forehead and examined the images with his naked eyes, widening and narrowing his eyes.
“That’s because of old age.”
“Why are you blaming me for the bad video quality?”
[What Chief Jang Gi-tae said is correct. It’s not easy to detect a stretched neck with human eyesight. Didn’t Hyun-kwang notice it because I was there?]
Aliotta was right, but I couldn’t accept it, so I went in with the old eyes of Chief Jang Gi-tae.
“I can see fine. Should I get my glasses readjusted?”
“Is that so?”
“Anyway. A person who usually dresses so shabbily has such an expensive designer jacket? That doesn’t make sense. Yoon Ki-seok stole this jacket.”
“Steal?”
“To be exact, should I say he secretly took something that was abandoned? Look at the CCTV carefully. Doesn’t Yoon Ki-seok’s expression look anxious? He’s anxious because he stole someone else’s stuff.”
“That’s ridiculous. Who would steal clothes with blood on them? Anyone in their right mind.”
“Yoon Ki-seok, I think your IQ is a bit low.”
Na Kang-jin was speechless. During that gap, I continued speaking.
“You might have been tempted to find an expensive and nice-looking jacket. It had blood on it, but you might have thought someone had thrown it away. But you might have felt guilty about taking someone else’s stuff.”
“but…….”
I continued my reasoning without giving Na Kang-jin a chance to speak.
“The clothes and the knife were probably left there too. You said that Yoon Ki-seok’s fingerprints were found on the knife, right?”
“Yeah, yeah! That’s right. Fingerprints and DNA.”
“Since I touched the knife, I would have gotten fingerprints and DNA. There were three fingerprints on the knife handle: a thumb, index finger, and middle finger. But the direction of the fingerprints is a bit strange, isn’t it? They’re all facing down.”
“Below? What does that mean?”
I moved the remote control that was on one side of the table to the center of the table.
“The thumb print was found on the left side of the knife handle, and the index and middle finger prints were found on the right side. That means the knife was held like this.”
I picked up the remote control gently, using only my thumb, index, and middle fingers, as if I were picking up a stinky food waste bag.
“In his greed to take the clothes, he must have picked up the knife placed on top of them without thinking. Like this.”
He dropped the remote control he had lifted up next to him.
“Wow, my goodness. Sword, how on earth did you figure this out?”
Manager Jang Gi-tae picked up the remote control I had dropped with his three fingers and showed it to me.
“That’s true. If you want to leave fingerprints like that, you have to hold the sword like this. Wow, the swordsman caught something that even I, a pro, missed? That’s amazing.”
Manager Jang Gi-tae, who had been excitedly picking up and putting down the remote control with three fingers, realized that he was the only one talking, so he quietly put the remote control down and shut his mouth.
Chief Park Sung-min looked at the remote control with cold eyes. Watching Na Kang-jin’s expression as he shut his mouth so tightly that it was almost a straight line, his face gradually turned pale.
“As you can see, holding a knife like this would never allow you to stab or hurt anyone. The fingerprint was simply made when the knife was slightly raised.”
“… … .”
“He probably didn’t think much of the knife. But when I showed him the picture of the jacket, he got really scared. He thought he was being punished for stealing it. That’s why he cried and said sorry. If I had asked him what he was sorry about, he would have said something like, ‘I won’t steal again.’”
Na Kang-jin swallowed hard.
“Oh, no. That’s definitely Yoon Ki-seok’s jacket.”
“No. That’s Park Min-sik’s.”
“Park Min-sik? Who is that?”
Chief Jang Gi-tae asked.
“He is the real culprit of this incident.”
“The real culprit?”
“Another DNA found on the knife. It turned out to be Park Min-sik’s.”
“Who is Park Min-sik? Why isn’t his name in the files sent by the police?”
Chief Jang Gi-tae looked through the case files as if he was trying to check again.
“When the doctor was murdered, he was in a car accident nearby and was hospitalized. That’s probably why he was off the radar when the police first investigated.”
“But can’t we say he’s the culprit just based on DNA? What was his motive for killing the doctor?”
“It’s drugs.”
“Ma, drugs?”
Chief Jang Gi-tae’s mouth fell open.
“The doctor Ha Myeong-jun was actually a drug supplier. He would place orders in advance via telekilo and then go to the oriental medicine clinic to receive treatment and purchase the drugs.”
“Wait a minute. Drug dealer? Then this case will get a lot bigger.”
“It gets bigger. It gets really big.”
“Were you a popcorn seller in your past life? How come every case you take on is a bust?”
When Chief Jang Gi-tae started talking nonsense, the branch chief held out his hand as if telling me to be quiet and asked me a question.
“Sword. Do you have any evidence for what you just said?”
“Yes. The police are currently arresting Park Min-sik. They have obtained his confession.”
Everyone’s eyes widened at my words. Even Aliota.
“really?”
“A confession?”
“Really?”
[Did you really get a confession? No, when?]
‘Of course I didn’t receive it. But I will receive it in the future.’
[But what if I lie?]
‘There’s no way to convince these people now, unless I take you out and show you.’
It’s not like you can say that you hacked into the doctor’s cell phone records without a warrant. It’s the same whether you get a confession and then find evidence, or you find evidence and then get a confession.
Manager Jang Gi-tae glared at me.
“Hey, you little punk. If you wanted a confession, you should have told me as soon as you came in here. All you do is talk about the direction of the fingerprints and the fact that your neck is stretched out!”
“At that time, I didn’t think about getting a confession.”
I just came up with this strategy!
Ha, it’s really hard to live the way you want.
“What? What are you talking about? You said you got a confession?”
When Chief Jang Gi-tae, who did not understand what I was saying, tried to argue with me, Chief Park Seong-min held out his arm to stop me.
“Anyway, it’s certain that you’ve received a confession, right?”
“yes.”
“I’m sorry, I don’t want to go to jail, that’s not it. I killed him, it was because of drugs, that’s it? Are you sure?”
At those words, Na Kang-jin’s face turned bright red.
“Yes, I definitely said that.”
“Oh, right.”
Chief Park Sung-min sat back down on his chair, as if his strength had completely left his body. Pressing his temples with his fingers as if he was tired, he opened his mouth.
“Okay. Then let’s cancel the press conference for now.”
“Why are you canceling the press conference?”
Chief Park Seong-min answered my question with an annoyed expression.
“The culprit isn’t Yoon Ki-seok. He’s not a homeless person who repays kindness with enmity! What about the star prosecutor who solved the case? It’s fortunate that you found out before it was too late. Cancel it quickly.”
“Yes, Chief.”
“No. Why would you blow such a good opportunity?”
“What a blessing, sword?”
Oh my, this is so frustrating. I guess that’s why they call me a fool in my major.
Even people who study hard and become top-notch in a certain field become fools who know nothing if they deviate just a little from that.
What’s the point of studying hard and passing the exam? You seem like people who don’t even know the ‘ㅎ’ in public relations. Should I cancel the press conference? Seriously.
“It wasn’t Yoon Ki-seok, but we caught the real culprit of the murder of the doctor of oriental medicine. And this was a case involving drugs. The doctor of oriental medicine was a drug dealer. We solved such a big case, and you’re saying we’re just going to let it slide without doing any publicity?”
“But there’s nothing to announce yet, Sword. We haven’t even conducted any investigation yet.”
“We should start moving now. Get a search warrant and raid the Oriental medicine clinic and the doctor’s house. Then, wouldn’t we get something to hold up in front of the reporters and take pictures of?”
“uh.”
“It’s 10 o’clock now. The press conference is at 3 o’clock, right? I can do it if I run until my feet sweat.”
Chief Jang Gi-tae looked back and forth between his watch and me. The one who made the quick decision was Chief Park Seong-min.
“Chief Jang. Issue an arrest warrant right now. There must be an accomplice among the people who worked at the Oriental Medicine Clinic. As the sword says, obtain a search warrant and search the Oriental Medicine Clinic and the house.”
“All right.”
“And a cell phone, Chief.”
“Yeah. Check your phone history too.”
“I’ll go out to the scene with the investigator. It’s good to have more hands.”
“Move right now. I’ll call Judge Park at the military police station. Ask him to issue a warrant immediately.”
“yes!”
As soon as I answered, we jumped up from our seats like a dragon. Na Kang-jin, who had been quiet until then, timidly raised his hand.
“I… … . How can I help you, Chief?”
“What kind of enmity do you have with me? What would have happened if you had framed the wrong person as the culprit in front of the reporters?”
“sorry.”
As I opened the door and went out, Chief Park Seong-min’s voice echoed through the hallway.
“I’m going to punish you, so stay on guard for a while! What are you going to do with something that’s perfect? I’ll grind it down to the bone, you punk!”