The Ultimate Inspector, Kang Ji-hyeok - Chapter 98



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“I… I didn’t do it.”

“Aren’t you lying!”

At my words, the witness bowed his head and spoke quietly.

“Prosecutor Kang Ji-hyeok. I can’t lie in front of you anymore. You’re going to bring in more evidence. You won.”

He seemed to have given up on holding on.

‘The weak link was broken in an instant.’

But it wasn’t something that could just pass over like this.

“There was a fingerprint on the bottle of liquor that hit the back of the victim’s head, and CCTV footage showing that you were there. In addition, it was revealed that you were an accomplice with Um Ja-hyeon in a previous insurance fraud case.”

bang.

I said, hitting the witness table with my palm again.

“You defended yourself by saying that you didn’t kill Um Ja-hyeon. If that’s true, then you, one of the two people who were in the villa at the time, are the murderer.”

The witness on the witness stand lowered his head and muttered quietly.

“It was then. Um Ja-hyeon offered me 80 million won and asked me to handle the case well. I regret not being able to resist that temptation.”

“Hey, you’re lying! What the hell are you talking about!”

The suspect’s Um Ja-hyeon shouted.

“The petition police should now restrain the suspect’s mouth.”

“Yes, Your Honor.”

The petition police have restrained Eom Ja-hyeon’s mouth.

Who did that?

Judge Ha Soo-jin said it was a spring breeze.

“Witness. Please continue.”

“I took the money and quit being an investigator. And… with Ms. Eom Ja-hyeon….”

“That’s how we ended up in that kind of relationship. Physically and mentally.”

Beep.

As evidence, I showed three photos of the two of them having a happy time together when they were younger.

“I found it in Ms. Eom Ja-hyeon’s house during a search and seizure. It was still hidden in her diary. I think she was planning to use it as blackmail if you betrayed her and married another woman.”

Sigh.

He smiled deceptively with a crazy face.

“Maybe so. That’s the kind of woman she is.”

“So you became a lawyer? Just to help her?”

Beep.

Meanwhile, civil and criminal lawsuit materials related to Um Ja-hyeon were displayed on the screen.

The judge frowned and said,

“That damn trial is a lot.”

I looked at the witness and asked.

“So this is how you defended Ms. Eom Ja-hyeon.”

“It was.”

“But Ms. Eom Ja-hyeon ended up betraying you?”

“She said she had to get married.”

“For insurance fraud?”

“Yes.”

The judge grimaced.

Um Ja-hyeon was talking with her eyes, her mouth bound. She had a scary face that made it seem like her eyeballs were going to fall out.

“It seems there was a problem with your ex-husband who was murdered five years ago.”

The lawyer looked up as if asking how he knew that.

“How about that?”

“I guess that incident made her think that prosecutors are better partners than lawyers?”

The lawyer’s eyes darkened for a moment.

Is that expression clearly jealousy?

I definitely thought so.

“They said the prosecutor was stronger, so in the end, with Prosecutor Park Jin-soo, who was in charge of the case at the time… That’s why the indictment was not filed.”

“We’ll have to investigate that again after this incident. Prosecutor Park Jin-soo said it wasn’t true.”

“Haha. Of course not. He’s probably being threatened too. I told you back then that he was a guy who cost a lot of money. To me.”

Beep.

Pictures of the villa have been posted.

A dining table or table.

Bathroom.

And to the secret bed.

“These are the places where the witness’s fingerprints were found. Are you still in a physical or emotional relationship with Ms. Eom Ja-hyeon?”

“Because that villa is a place for the two of us.”

“So you killed your ex-husband’s son, Lee Hyun-soo, who came to the two of you? Jealousy? Or lust? Something like that?”

He shook his head.

“No. We were making love in bed and the kid stumbled in.”

“Didn’t you know that kid existed?”

“Yes. I didn’t know.”

“Um Ja-hyeon lied and said that I tried to rape her. The child fell to the floor again. She must have suffered from mental shock.”

“It would have been even worse if you had been receiving an alcohol ringer.”

“Eom Ja-hyeon took the child out, saying she would take him back in the car.”

“That’s when. Um Ja-hyeon killed the child.”

“I suddenly had that thought. I thought that this was Eom Ja-hyeon’s conspiracy to frame me for something.”

He handed me the cell phone he had.

“The phone call with her. And the events of that day are all recorded on my phone. I secretly followed her and filmed her murder.”

The courtroom was frozen.

The lawyer bowed his head and said,

“I’m sorry. I didn’t know that woman was such a devil······.”

“You didn’t know that you would become that devil’s minion, did you?”

I handed the cell phone to the judge.

“I submit this cell phone as evidence in this case, Your Honor.”

“Sir. Find the footage and upload it to the evidence screen.”

The video was released to everyone.

She took the child out and took off the child’s clothes.

He wrapped the bottle of liquor in the clothes and hit the back of the head, knocking him unconscious, then pushed him into the sea several times.

After a while, the child fell asleep.

“Gyaaaah.”

Shouts of surprise erupted here and there in the audience.

Eom Ja-hyeon looked around for a while, then found a rock and moved it while holding the child’s head that was submerged in water.

The victim’s head was still submerged in water.

He placed the child on a rock and turned him around to look up at the sky.

– That crazy bitch!

And then the video turned off.

I walked to the center of the frozen courtroom and asked the witness.

“Mr. Gimanhae got back into his car and went back to Seoul in that condition. That’s why he got caught for speeding.”

“I drank alcohol, but I wasn’t caught for drunk driving. I was caught for speeding. In fact, I don’t remember at all.”

The court was adjourned for ten minutes.

It was to calm everyone’s pounding hearts.

Some of the audience members who watched the footage directly went home.

That was the kind of incident that happened.

How cruel can humans be······.

It even showed that it is possible for a mother to murder her son.

In the face of such perfect video evidence, the trial was meaningless.

Ten minutes later, the trial resumed.

But there was no need to hide the truth any longer. The judge spoke to me with a pale face.

“Prosecutor, please send a request.”

“This test is a case of homicide, but the law does not apply in cases where a parent kills a child.”

“I also regret that part of this incident.”

The judge said so unusually.

I continued the old way.

“The accomplice in the case, Mr. Um Ja-hyeon, brutally murdered his son. He shows no signs of remorse, and considering that he has previously committed similar crimes, I hereby request the death penalty in accordance with Article 250, Paragraph 2 of the Criminal Act, to permanently isolate him from society.”

Some people in the audience even clapped.

But the judge didn’t give much of a fight.

I continued to pursue the case against my accomplice.

“In addition, taking into account the fact that the accomplice, Gi-mi Hae, reflected on his actions, asked for leniency, and presented decisive evidence, I hereby request life imprisonment in accordance with Article 250, Paragraph 1 of the Criminal Act.”

This case did not require much legal action.

And three days later.

The verdict of the case has come out.

Judge Ha Soo-jin delivered the sentence in an extremely cold voice.

“The suspect, Um Ja-hyeon, committed murder due to extreme disregard for human life accumulated over a long period of time, and there was no reform through punishment. Furthermore, the possibility of other victims cannot be ignored. No one needs to permanently isolate the defendant from society so that there is no possibility of parole.”

I could tell.

This trial will ultimately bring about a perfect result!

The judge began his final order.

“Order, accessory to the incident, Um Ja-hyeon, is sentenced to death. Accomplice, Man-gi Hae, is sentenced to 25 years in prison.”

So the trial ended.

This ruling will probably never change.

She had already become the ‘national X-year’ of the entire nation.

Video of his own son being killed.

The reporters who saw it expressed extreme anger in their articles.

The broadcasters showed mosaic-covered footage of how they obtained it.

This incident also caused a huge stir in the Western District Prosecutors’ Office.

Prosecutor Park Jin-soo submitted his resignation, but Chief Prosecutor Lee Cheol-jung did not accept it.

“Prosecutor Park. Are you trying to resolve this with a letter of resignation? Get thoroughly investigated and then get out.”

“But Chief Prosecutor. The prosecutor······.”

“Shut your mouth. It’s the director’s order. You will be a role model for this prosecutorial reform.”

Prosecutor Park Jin-soo has become a total piece of shit. His life has been completely swindled by every reporter in South Korea.

“The case of Prosecutor Park Jin-soo is a disgrace to our prosecution. I will stake my position as Prosecutor General on conducting a thorough investigation and personally brief the public on the results.”

Rather, this incident allowed Prosecutor General Choi Hye-sung to once again raise her name as a leader in prosecutorial reform.

No matter how the world seems, ‘sincerity’ is what gets through.

In this way, the prosecution once again became a major issue for the public at the end of the year, and Prosecutor Park Jin-soo was ousted with the highest level of ‘dismissal.’

Even the scene where he was sentenced to 15 years in prison and legally detained was broadcast live.

December 31, 2008.

All twenty-six people who had been sentenced to death but had not been executed were executed.

In that way, both Park Chan-jin and Eom Ja-hyeon disappeared like the morning dew on the execution ground.

The new year of 2009 has arrived.

A new era has begun in South Korea, where death sentences can be handed down but not carried out.

As unfortunate as it was for me, I couldn’t stop the world from changing.

“Kang Ji-hyeok. Your team is on vacation until January 10th next year.”

I, a prosecutor in my first year, received the Prosecutor General’s Award, one of nine awards given to me.

* * *

January 11th.

When I went to work after a long time, HyunA gave me an iced Americano.

“Did you rest well?”

“Yes. Thank you for your hard work on the last trial last year, Prosecutor.”

“Thank you for finding the insurance investigator who changed his name and pretended to be a lawyer.”

“What? If we’re on Team Kang Ji-hyeok, shouldn’t we do that much?”

After a while, two investigators also showed up for work.

After a long time, Hyejin told me some news during coffee time.

“Oh, right. I’m talking about Detective Kim Ha-jin who came last time.”

“Uh. Okay. Hajin?”

“I heard while I was resting that detective Kim Ha-jin has been very successful this time.”

“career?”

“Cyber ​​Investigation Unit? They’re there, right?”

“I know. Last time, Hajin caught the best hacker in the country.”

“As expected, you know everything, sir? I heard that you were promoted to head of the cyber crime investigation division because of that incident.”

I was so happy to hear that news.

What I need from now on is the Cyber ​​Investigation Bureau! No, in this day and age, it’s the Cyber ​​Investigation Unit.

The Cyber ​​Investigation Unit is the command center of the cyber security police, and is a place with such great power that it is equivalent to an auxiliary organization to the Commissioner General of the National Police Agency under the Administrative Organization Act.

Although it was actually founded in 1999, cyber investigation teams were organized in police stations nationwide in February 2007, the year before last.

It seemed like right now was the time when I was the strongest.

“Wow! Hajin is now the head of the cyber crime investigation unit!”

“Isn’t that a huge promotion?”

That was when.

The phone rang in the office.

Today is my first day at work in the new year and I’m getting my first phone call.

“I will take it!”

Ji-cheol quickly snatched the phone.

“Yes. This is Prosecutor Kang Ji-hyeok’s office. Huh? Are you talking about now?”

He said with a frozen face.

“All right!”

He looked at me and spoke quietly.

“The chief prosecutor asked me to come up?”

“What’s so surprising about that?”

“They say the president is also there.”

“So you’re surprised?”

“And the head of the special forces too.”

HyunA and HyeJin were both surprised.

I scratched my head as if it was nothing.

“They don’t even give me time to have a cup of coffee on my first day at work. Those guys.”

Hyuna said, squinting her eyes.

“What on earth is going on? But you seem so comfortable, as if everything has been discussed in advance?

I smiled at everyone and walked out the door.

“What’s so comfortable about it? From now on, it’s going to be real hell.”