The Ultimate Inspector, Kang Ji-hyeok - Chapter 95



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The gallery was in an uproar.

The lawyer who deceived me came in and struck me.

“If a married couple rides in the same car, isn’t it possible for fingerprints to get on it?”

“Is that possible if my husband’s fingerprints aren’t there at all?”

“then······.”

While the lawyer hesitated for a moment, he presented another piece of evidence.

“At the time of the incident, the coffee the driver was drinking was placed next to him. And this is the result of an investigation conducted by the National Forensic Service at the time into the ingredients of the coffee.”

A few drugs were visible, highlighted with a highlighter.

“This is a report at the time that it appears that sleeping pills were ground up. Of course, this case was not prosecuted and no investigation was conducted, so it ended up in a drawer in the National Forensic Service.”

It was Dr. Roh Moo-chul who helped me find the report on the incident.

The National Forensic Service kept all reports of past cases that had not been investigated.

“All incident reports are kept until the statute of limitations for the case expires. We don’t know when a reinvestigation will be launched.”

It was a report on coffee-containing drugs that was so hard to obtain at the time.

“The case was closed without charges, so this important report was never used as evidence.”

The judge looked at the material quietly and nodded.

“Okay. So the victim of this case, Lee Jeon-cheol, is the father of the victim of this case, Lee Hyeon-su?”

“Yes, the two incidents are connected. That’s why I paid attention to this incident.”

Nod nod.

The judge nodded and marked his notebook.

“Okay. Then let’s move on to the main case. So, through this CCTV, you confirmed that Ms. Eom Ja-hyeon’s car’s movements were confirmed?”

“Yes. The destination is a villa less than 10 minutes’ walk from the large rock on the east coast where the victim is believed to have been murdered. That can be seen in the navigation that was seized and searched.”

The screen showing the destination point of the navigation was displayed in the evidence.

Beep.

Forensic results from the navigation system seized from the car also clearly revealed the same.

Judge Ha Soo-jin asked me with a puzzled look on her face.

“Why didn’t you submit this evidence first and instead showed the CCTV footage on the screen?”

“I thought that the 18-week medical certificate for the previous incident that the lawyer had not submitted to us would be presented as counter evidence, and I wanted to block the lie that I had taken the navigation but not gone.”

“okay.”

Of course, it was also to create meaning for the murder of her ex-husband, Jeon Cheol.

As expected, it was easy to turn it into a story because the lawyer presented counter evidence.

“Okay.”

The cheating lawyer sat down, making a shitting sound.

‘Thank you, Attorney Ki. Thanks to you, today’s trial will go smoothly from the first button to the last button.’

The trial began to proceed according to the big picture that had been drawn up so far.

Afterwards, he presented evidence about the hospital and Ringer.

And he calmly explained the method of Eom Ja-hyeon’s murder.

The audience reacted first.

“Why did a mother kill her son?”

“Isn’t that woman a psychopath or something?”

“How many people have you killed for money?”

Judge Ha Soo-jin reorganized the case.

“Are you saying that suspect Um Ja-hyeon knocked out her son, who came to her house, with an alcohol ringer, put him in her car, took him to her villa, and then drowned him in water?”

I continued to finish the judge’s reorganization.

“Yes, and the victim, who was already dead, was placed in the center of the rock, hoping that he would be discovered by chance the next morning.”

He was not a lawyer who would sit still.

“Okay. Let’s say there’s a ringer stain on the victim’s body and that something like that happened in the past. But isn’t that a case that’s already past the statute of limitations?”

“Through that incident, I only claimed that Ms. Eom Ja-hyeon could make people unconscious or in a reflex state with an alcohol ringer. In addition, I confirmed through CCTV and evidence in the car that she had taken her son Lee Hyeon-su to a villa on the east coast while he was still receiving an IV.”

I looked at the judge and said.

“What does this evidence say? Mr. Eom Ja-hyeon is a criminal who has committed murder in the past to collect insurance money. He was just lucky and was not prosecuted. So this case is not much different.”

Suspect Um Ja-hyeon refuted that statement.

“No. It’s true that he came all the way to our villa, but Hyunsu looked tired, so I gave him an IV at home and he wanted to go somewhere with good air, so I took him to the villa. He liked the villa on the east coast where he stayed with his father.”

I looked at her.

It was a sight that thoroughly wore a mask that was the face of a mother.

I wanted to see the face under the mask.

“Wow, you’re a good mother. You even gave your high school student an IV drip, dragged him out while he was still unconscious, and took him to the villa on the east coast that you bought with the insurance money after your father died······.”

“The prosecution should refrain from making sarcastic remarks about Ms. Eom Ja-hyeon.”

“Is this the villa you bought with your ex-husband’s insurance money?”

The judge said so and then went back to reviewing the evidence and materials presented.

Attorney Ki glanced at the judge and hurriedly continued his story.

“The prosecution has some evidence that fits well, but there is no evidence that Ms. Um Ja-hyeon personally committed the murder.”

The judge has decided that the case has not yet completely turned over to the prosecution.

The judge thought about those words for a moment and then said with a serious face.

“Okay. It seems like the suspect has a lot to say, so I will use my authority as the judge to call suspect Um Ja-hyeon as a witness and question her. Since she is a financial witness, the selection process and procedures can be omitted.”

It was the moment I had been waiting for throughout the trial.

I hoped that the judge would call Um Ja-hyeon as a witness, putting forward the evidence he had collected so far.

The sarcastic remarks toward the suspect were also calculated. Naturally, it was also the case that Attorney Ki would become angry.

If the two sides were to clash sharply, the only witness would be Eom Ja-hyeon herself, so it was an expected outcome.

‘If I had suggested calling Um Ja-hyeon as a witness, Attorney Ki would have said absolutely not.’

When the judge calls a witness himself, it is difficult for either the defense or the prosecution to present opposing opinions.

The fact that he is a financial witness who can be called to the witness stand right away also plays a part······.

The most important thing was that Judge Ha Soo-jin made me want to hear the testimony directly.

A slight crack has appeared in the ‘Judge Yang-hyung’s Spring Breeze’.

After taking the witness oath, Um Ja-hyeon sat down in the witness stand.

“Witness, let me ask you something.”

“Yes, your honor.”

“Is it true that the witness gave the victim, Lee Hyun-soo, a ringer?”

Um Ja-hyeon answered, lowering her head and not showing her gaze.

“Yes. As a mother, I wanted to at least give her a ringer. That was all I could do for her.”

The judge nodded, looked at me and said,

“Let’s start with the inspection side.”

I stepped forward, thanking the judge for allowing her to take the stand.

Now the long-awaited real trial has begun.

“Witness. So you brought your son to the villa and let him sleep in the room?”

“Yes. I made him sleep in his own room on the second floor······.”

“And after that?”

“I also dozed off for a bit and woke up around 5 AM to prepare breakfast.”

“You woke up early?”

“I was planning to leave for Seoul at 6 o’clock. That would be enough time to get back to school in two hours and thirty minutes.”

The judge nodded.

“But while the suspect was sleeping, his son went outside, drank alcohol, jumped into the sea and died?”

“A bottle of whiskey I was drinking disappeared. I had a glass before going to bed and left it there, and the bottle disappeared.”

Beep.

I found the missing bottle of liquor in the evidence and uploaded it.

The police had picked up the pieces of a completely broken bottle and put them together to make a shape.

“According to the police investigation, it was found broken in the sea in front of the villa. So it seems they couldn’t collect it all.”

The judge looked at the photo carefully.

Then he asked the witness.

“So it was originally full of alcohol there.”

“Yes. I opened a new bottle of wine. I also feel better after having a drink and falling asleep······.”

“Then the victim was drunk, broke the bottle, and went into the sea.”

The judge nodded as he looked at the police statement.

“It’s exactly as you stated to the police.”

“Yes, your honor.”

It was exactly as he had stated to the police, without a single word being off.

“But you know, it’s strange.”

Beep.

I brought another piece of evidence up on the screen.

There were traces of fingerprints and saliva on the liquor bottle, and most of the fingerprints were those of suspect Eom Ja-hyeon.

“This time, I gave the broken bottle to the National Forensic Service again, but there was no fingerprint or saliva of the victim Lee Hyun-soo on it. Instead, only Eom Ja-hyeon’s fingerprint was on it. And······.”

Judge Um Ja-hyeon also turned her head again and looked at the evidence.

“There were quite a few unidentified fingerprints.”

“Are you saying that the blue prints over there are unidentified prints?”

“Yes, your honor. The red fingerprints are Ms. Eom Ja-hyeon’s.”

Attorney Ki interrupted the conversation and stepped forward to speak.

“Your Honor, this is clearly a case of drowning. Isn’t that right, Prosecutor?”

“Yes, the cause of death is drowning. This is a clear fact.”

“It doesn’t matter how the alcohol was consumed, but rather that the drowned victim was found drunk in the middle of a large rock.”

“That’s definitely true. He was found lying on a large rock with his arms outstretched.”

Attorney Ki said, spreading his arms in disbelief.

“Then what do fingerprints on the bottle have to do with it? Couldn’t he have been drinking with his hands wrapped in his clothes? Something like that······.”

He said, pulling his clothes forward and rolling up the paper.

“That’s right. Unfortunately, the victim was found dead with his upper body removed, so I’m not sure about that.”

I turned my head and asked Um Ja-hyeon, who was sitting in the witness stand.

“Were you wearing long sleeves?”

Um Ja-hyeon nodded.

“Yes. The car has air conditioning, so I put on a long-sleeved shirt when I left home.”

“I see. But where are those clothes?”

“I don’t know. I······.”

Um Ja-hyeon hesitated for a moment and then said.

“Could it be that he drifted out to sea? He had a habit of swimming without his clothes on since he was little.”

She said so.

Just like that.

“The victim, who was drunk, took off his top and jumped into the sea… but his clothes disappeared somewhere in the sea….”

Beep.

I uploaded another photo as evidence.

The evidence photos were taken when the victim was found. One of them showed a large bruise on the back of her head.

I spoke carefully.

“The National Forensic Service said that the bruise was caused by hitting a rock in the water, as it was not bleeding or torn. They also said that it was not a direct cause of death.”

“Then, you’re saying that Ms. Eom Ja-hyeon didn’t kill him? How did Prosecutor Kang Ji-hyeok indict him for murder with such clear evidence?”

The lawyer, who had been deceiving, argued in a slightly more excited voice than usual.

I glanced at him and glared at him as I spoke.

“Are you saying that this should be viewed as a suicide case, where he took off his top while drunk, jumped into the water, hit the back of his head on a rock in the sea, lost consciousness, and drowned? After drifting in the sea all night, he was found hanging on a large rock with his arms outstretched and looking up at the sky?”

“That’s it! Isn’t that the truth of the case? At the time of death, all the evidence pointed to that. No, at least if it wasn’t suicide, it was an accidental fall? Isn’t that it?”

Attorney Ki explained it this way.

I looked at the judge and spoke calmly.

“Your Honor, what about this line of reasoning? The 17-year-old victim was injected with an alcohol ringer, and he was thrown into the water, his upper garments were removed, a bottle of alcohol was wrapped around it, and the back of his head was struck, completely unconscious, and he drowned.”

Judge Ha Soo-jin’s eyes wavered.

I continued the story.

“The inference is that the body was then moved by sea and laid down in the middle of a rock.”