The identity of the culprit who brutally murdered a 40-year-old female shaman in a commercial building in Nonhyeon-dong, Gangnam-gu has been revealed.

On the Tcast E Channel show ‘Brave Detective 4’ that aired on the 24th, former Superintendent Yoon Oe-chul and Superintendent Kim Jin-soo of the Scientific Investigation Unit (KCSI) appeared and went in search of the culprit.

The detectives who were dispatched after a report from a neighbor witnessed a gruesome scene where the victim was stabbed deeply with a knife and his organs were spilled out. The autopsy results showed that there were five stab wounds all over his body, but there were no signs of resistance, so at the beginning of the investigation, it was assumed to be the work of an acquaintance.

However, no one among the victim‘s acquaintances could be found as a suspect. Just when the investigation was about to go cold, the detectives heard crucial testimony from the neighbor. The neighbor claimed that a ‘scream’ was heard from the fortune teller on the second floor on the morning of the day of the incident.

A short while later, a man came down the stairs, and the witness who felt suspicious wrote down the man’s car number. The car in question was already on a wanted list for a stolen vehicle, and the police identified the man as a prime suspect.



The suspect, in his early 20s, had four previous convictions, including theft and special larceny, dating back to his teens. He stole a car and brutally murdered the victim just eight months after being released from prison.

A search was put out for the stolen car as the suspect‘s whereabouts were unknown, but the vehicle was never tracked down. The detectives, who were looking at the criminal’s cell phone records, selected the seven most recent and most frequently called numbers and discovered that all seven were women.

The women all claimed to be their girlfriends and that they met through internet chatting. One of them even had the audacity to go to the beach the day after committing the murder.

After tracking the suspect, the detectives found out that he had left the gosiwon immediately after the crime and moved to another place. Unable to pursue the criminal any longer, the investigation team figured out how to find him by identifying the suspect‘s personality traits.

The detectives approached the suspect pretending to be another woman and succeeded in their operation, locating the suspect through his IP address. The suspect, who had been denying the crime, confessed to all his crimes in front of the evidence secured by the forensic team. This was because the criminal’s fingerprints were found on a lighter that had fallen on the floor.

After being released from prison, the criminal, who had not made much money, began committing crimes in earnest when the woman he met through chatting demanded 2 million won. The perpetrator claimed that it was an accidental murder, saying, “I did not intend to kill the victim, but I was startled when she screamed and stabbed her.”

Choi Yun-na, Donga.com reporter yyynnn@donga.com

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