A decomposed body in a blanket on the beach in Busan, a murder aiming for a deposit of 120 million won?

■ Broadcasting: FM 94.5 (06:40~06:55, 12:40~12:55, 19:40~19:55)
■ Broadcast Date: November 21, 2024 (Thursday)
■ Host: Lawyer Lee Won-hwa
■ Dialogue: Han Jin-gu Attorney

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◆ Lawyer Lee Won-hwa (hereinafter referred to as Lee Won-hwa): Mr. A, who worked as an employee at a karaoke room in Busan, was more sincere than anyone else. But one day, without saying anything, Mr. A was absent without permission, and there was no phone call for several days. Mr. B, the karaoke owner who has worked with Mr. A for more than five years and knows Mr. A better than anyone else, said he was very puzzled about this. Mr. B found Mr. A's house because he couldn't wait. But no matter how much he knocked on the door, he didn't seem to be popular. Eventually, I left a note and turned around, and a text message from A arrived the next morning. Mr. B received a long-awaited text from Mr. A, but the text made him more worried. This is because it was 180 degrees different from A's usual way of speaking. One day, while Mr. B's worries continued, an angler found an object piled on a white cloth at a pier in Busan. That's right. The body that the angler found was A. What the hell happened? Let's take a closer look at this case in today's case X file. Hello, I'm Lee Won-hwa, the case X file of lawyer Lee Won-hwa. Today, we are also with lawyer Han Jin-gu of Law Firm Roel. Welcome, lawyer.

◇ Han Jin-gu Lawyer (hereinafter referred to as Han Jin-gu): Yes, hello. I'm Han Jin-gu lawyer of LOEL Law Firm.

◆ [Dualization] It happened back in 2017. At Busan Port, a large object surrounded by white cloth floated above the water, and it turned out to be a human body.

◇ Hanjin-gu: Yes, around 10 p.m. on September 26, 2017, a dead body surrounded by cloth came to mind at the pier of Busan Port. The first person to find it was a fisherman. Wrapped in a white bedcloth-like fabric, an object in a basket came to mind and became curious and witnessed it. As a result, the investigation was opened when the fisherman, a witness, reported it.

◆ Dong-Woo: Have you been identified?

◇ Han Jin-gu: Yes, the victim in the blanket was a woman, and as you said, identification was an urgent priority. The problem was that it was difficult to identify the victim because he did not have any belongings to identify him, such as his mobile phone or wallet. Meanwhile, the National Forensic Service conducted an autopsy on the dead body. Autopsy confirmed several bruises on the face and body, and the final cause of death was strangled and suffocated. As a result, the police continued to investigate the possibility of murder crimes. To tell you the identification part again, it was difficult to collect fingerprints due to the decay of the dead body, so it was successful to collect them in 10 hours. It turned out that the victim was a middle-aged woman, A, who lived alone after the divorce.

◆ I think it's a relief, but I wonder who the hell did this.

◇ Han Jin-gu: Yes, the police first searched the victim's house and started an investigation after chasing his recent whereabouts to find the criminal. The victim's house had no sign of anyone forced entry, but the bedcloth in the master bedroom had disappeared. We also conducted an investigation into the victim's whereabouts. It turned out that the victim went to work as usual on the 19th before being found as a body and suddenly went without permission from the day after work.

◆ I don't think there's much in the house.

◇ Han Jin-gu: When we investigated the victim's house, there were no visible signs, and the bedcloth was only gone. Accordingly, the police requested emergency support from the scientific investigation team. According to the investigation by the scientific investigation team, falling blood was found on the left side of the bed and contact blood was found throughout the room, all of which were found to be the victim.

◆ Lee Won-hwa: I think he was assaulted in the house and moved somewhere, but I think he might have already been moved dead.

◇ Han Jin-gu: Yes. Police confirmed that the victim's death was due to a crime and continued to investigate by checking the communication details. Meanwhile, the owner of the store, where the victim had been a family member, visited the victim's house on the 21st and knocked on the door, but there was no sign of popularity, so he left a note in front of the door and returned.

◆ I left a note. Did Mr. A contact you?

◇ Han Jin-gu: The day after the store owner left a note at the victim's house, I received a text message from victim A's mobile phone number.

◆ DUALIZATION : Did you get a text message?

◇ Han Jin-gu: But there was something wrong with this text from the victim.

◆ Binaryization: What was strange?

◇ Han Jin-gu: If you look at the text I received from the victim, I have a lot of things to do with my father because of the children, so I don't tell anyone for the time being, "I want to rest, so I go get some air." That's what it says. This is different from the usual way the victim speaks, and the store owner immediately called, but the phone was turned off. In addition, during the victim's disappearance, acquaintances of other victims also received text messages from the victim's cell phone number. The victim's friend also received a text message saying he was sick and was getting treated at the hospital and suffering from a cold.

◆ Lee Won-hwa: After listening to the situations you told me, I think that someone who kidnapped A sent a text message to A's cell phone so that he wouldn't be caught.

◇ Han Jin-gu: Yes, that's right. Accordingly, the police continued to investigate. The victim's mobile phone records revealed unusual transmission details in the early morning hours. Starting around 6 a.m. on September 21, I called the bank ARS as many as 14 times in two days. In addition, it was revealed that the victim had received about 120 million won in advance of the lease deposit for the house where he lived before moving, raising the possibility that the criminal committed the crime for the purpose of money. Accordingly, the police checked the details of attempts to withdraw accounts in the name of the victim at each nearby bank and even requested a record of incorrectly pressing the account password. As a result, the CCTV where the money was withdrawn showed the face of the man believed to be the criminal.

◆ Binaryization: So did you find the man?

◇ Han Jin-gu: Yes. The man was able to locate the location quickly. But this man stated that he only did what someone told him to do and that he didn't know anything.

◆ I mean, there's an accomplice. So there was the other one?

◇ Han Jin-gu: The CCTV footage mentioned earlier also showed a man, the withdrawal, withdrawing cash from the victim's bank account and immediately going to a truck near the bank to share the money with someone. As a result of further investigation by the police, C, a man in his 50s who was handed the money that was quickly withdrawn, could be identified as the culprit, and the police hid in front of C's house. I caught Mr. C entering the house. However, as soon as Mr. C arrived at the investigation room, he began to put his head on the wall, and he said he wanted to go to the bathroom again, so he took him to the bathroom, and he began to go on a rampage, such as putting his head on the toilet. In response, the police even soothed Mr. C. In response, Mr. C admitted his crime. The criminal claimed that he was in love with the victim and said that he was so angry that he strangled her.

◆ Lee Won-hwa: Are you saying that Mr. C was in a relationship with Mr. A who died?

◇ Han Jin-gu: Yes, that's what the criminal claimed. The police didn't believe what the criminal said in the first place. This is because it has been less than a month since the criminal contacted the victim, and after killing the victim, he also checked the payment details at the sushi restaurant and meat restaurant with the victim's card. In addition, the owner of the store where the victim worked also testified that he was a customer who had only met the criminal for a month. In particular, it was revealed that the criminal had about 50 million won in debt while working as a daily worker and was experiencing economic difficulties to the extent that he could not pay various utility bills properly.

◆ Lee Won-hwa: Then the police committed the crime with the aim of stealing money from A. Are you saying that you saw it like this?

◇ Han Jin-gu: Yes. Considering the various circumstances mentioned above, the police judged that the criminal planned the crime in this case for the purpose of taking away the money after learning that the victim would be returned with the deposit on the lease. In this regard, the victim was found to have told his close friends and colleagues that he would soon raise a large sum of money and move to a charter. In the end, the criminal found out before the crime that the victim would have a large amount of money, and it seems that he committed the crime against the victim due to his financial difficulties.

◆ [Dualization] Then I'm worried about the lease on a deposit basis. Has the money been withdrawn by any chance?

◇ Han Jin-gu: Fortunately, the deposit for lease on a deposit basis remained in the bank account. The victim seems to have endured without giving her password until the end to protect the deposit in her bank account. Meanwhile, the victim had a son in the military. It seems that the victim did not give this password until the end because he wanted to leave a large sum of money for his son.

◆ [Voiceover] You had a son. For this son, the existence of a mother would have been like everything in the world, but I am so upset and heartbroken.

◇ Han Jin-gu: Yes, what is more shocking is that the criminal even bought sashimi and meat with the victim's card after killing the victim. It is said that he even purchased a coupling with the money withdrawn from the victim's bank account.

◆ [Dualization] It's really the worst.

◇ Han Jin-gu: I think I can say it's really the worst. Meanwhile, the criminal was arrested shortly after he was arrested and charged with robbery, murder, and abandonment of the body. In response, the criminal continued to claim that it was an accidental murder by cajoling.

◆ Binaryization: Is it accepted?

◇ Hanjin-gu: The Busan District Court in charge of the case refused to accept the defendant's claim that he abandoned the body to destroy evidence after killing the victim under a meticulous plan for the purpose of taking property, and sentenced the defendant to life imprisonment. The court also revealed the reason for the sentencing, saying that it only recognized the death of a woman due to her assault and was not reflecting on it. Meanwhile, the criminal also drew attention by refusing to verify the crime scene.

◆ Won-hwa: No, why? Why do you refuse on-site verification?

◇ Han Jin-gu: Yes, it seems that the criminal refused to be verified because he did not like being exposed to the media. In principle, verification conducted by a warrant cannot be rejected as a forced investigation. On the other hand, the suspect also has the right to refuse to make a statement, and it seems that there are cases where he refuses because reenacting the crime is like stating his or her crime.

◆ Lee Won-hwa: But there was one accomplice I mentioned earlier. How did the person who helped dump the body get involved in this?

◇ Han Jin-gu: Yes. The accomplice who helped abandon the body is said to have often been given work by criminal C. Mr. B stated that criminal C told him to come 15 days before the incident that some of his acquaintance's dogs were about to die, so let's deal with it together and call him soon. In response, Mr. B said that when he went to where Mr. C called, there was something heavy in the yellow moving basket. I moved it to the home of the criminal C, but about four days later, C contacted me again and asked me to throw it away in the water.

◆ [Voiceover] Did he know it was a body? Or maybe I didn't know?

◇ Han Jin-gu: The two of them threw the moving basket under the river. It is said that it did not float away immediately, but kept hovering around the place. After getting it back and putting on a sandbag and repeating the throwing a couple of times, B told the criminal C to stop reporting it and pay a little fine, and C said he got angry like a fire. Mr. B saw this and thought it was not just a dog. If B knew that what he abandoned in the process was a corpse, he could be charged with abandoning the corpse. After the investigation process and trial, B was found guilty of abandoning the body and sentenced to 10 months in prison.

◆ Dualization: I guess that's what was acknowledged.

◇ Han Jin-gu: Yes, that's right.

◆ Lee Won-hwa: Incident X-Files Today, we looked at the case of the body under the blanket in Busan Port, which killed a woman and dumped her in the sea to solve her economic difficulties. In the words of those who know well about water stains. If it hadn't been in line with the ebb and flow of the tide, this body probably wouldn't have been found. This means that the disappearance could have just been left unsolved for a long time. Did heaven help this woman's very unfair death belatedly? That's all we've prepared for today. You all deserve to be defended. Thank you all for the case files.