Kidnapping of a wife with 40 billion won in assets.. The mastermind behind the crime, which targeted 3 billion won earned after selling a building ('Brave Detectives 5') [Comprehensive]

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'Brave Detectives 5' exposed the ugly underside of evil people who committed brutal crimes solely for the sake of money.

In the episode of TV Cast E Channel's 'Brave Detectives 5' broadcast at 9:50 p.m. on the 15th, Gangwon Goseong Police Station Detective Team Chief Kang Seung-wan, KCSI (Korean Criminal Investigation Service) former Inspector General Yoon Wae-chul, and Officer Kim Jin-soo appeared, sharing vivid behind-the-scenes details of the investigation.

The first investigation log began with a husband's urgent report that his wife, with whom he lived as a weekend couple, had not returned home. When police arrived, the scene in the home's bathroom showed clear signs of an intruder, including traces of diesel fuel, cigarette ash, and muddy footprints.

Noting that the husband, an asset holder worth around 40 billion won, had recently sold a building and was holding 3 billion won in cash, police focused their investigation on a planned kidnapping for financial gain. Indeed, transactions including payments at nearby marts and cash withdrawals were repeatedly made using the victim's credit card.

By analyzing CCTV footage, police tracked a silver rental car and arrested a gang led by Kim (pseudonym), a repeat offender of robbery and assault, successfully rescuing the victim who was in a state of extreme terror. At the time of rescue, the victim's eyes and mouth were covered with clear tape, and her hands and feet were tightly bound. Most alarmingly, the perpetrators knew the husband's name and bank account password, creating a precarious situation where further harm could have easily occurred.

The shocking truth was that the mastermind who ordered the crime was the manager of the husband's jjimjilbang (Korean sauna). Having been cellmates in prison, Kim had leaked the boss's assets and daily routine to him. It was revealed that after the manager had asked the husband for a loan and was rejected following a heated argument, he harbored resentment and carried out this crime. In the court ruling, Kim was sentenced to nine years in prison, while three accomplices received sentences of six years, four years, and three years and six months, respectively. The mastermind, the manager, was sentenced to five years in prison.

The second case that followed was a persistent pursuit that took as long as two months from the initial missing person report to the final arrest, even though the suspect's identity was identified within a day of the report.

The victim was a 21-year-old female employee at a gold and silver shop who disappeared after a normal workday on Friday. Investigators secured financial transaction records showing that someone had withdrawn a total of 4.1 million won in cash 14 times shortly after she vanished. The perpetrator, who had thoroughly covered his face with a mask and cap, briefly lowered his mask at the moment of the final withdrawal, providing the critical clue when his lower face was exposed.

The man in the CCTV footage was none other than the victim's older brother (28), a fellow employee at the gold and silver shop where she worked. It was determined that on the day of the crime, the two had gone to a pub and then to a motel. The video clearly showed the victim being forcibly dragged away, followed by the perpetrator loading something into the trunk of a car and driving off.

Police discovered a suspicious mound of soil that had unusually bulged in the backyard cornfield of the perpetrator's hometown. After a long period of undercover surveillance, the investigation team arrested the suspect near the residence of his missing sister 57 days after she disappeared. They immediately excavated the cornfield and recovered the victim's body, which was curled up inside a burlap sack. She was wearing the same clothes she had been wearing when she went missing.

The perpetrator claimed, "We were in a romantic relationship, and the crime was committed impulsively after an argument," a baseless assertion that provoked strong anger from MCs Yoon Doo-jun and Kwak Sun-young. Ultimately, the perpetrator, who consistently offered brazen excuses, was handed a heavy sentence of 20 years in prison.

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