Chapter 149 – The Fan Murder Case
“I mean, no one can die sleeping with a fan on her face.”
In front of the bereaved family, I repeated the explanation for how many times.
Death of a fan.
It is an old ghost story in Korea and a long-standing bad business of reporters.
Ghost stories are usually forgotten after a while, but…
This guy’s fan ghost story is different.
At the time, the news showed misinformation, so there are not a few cases among people of a certain age who still believe it.
“No, why did my son die, if not because of the fan?”
“We’ll have to look into that now.”
“No matter how you look at it, it’s because of the fan…”
“…”
The parents of the deceased, who seemed to be in their early 50s, could not communicate with each other.
I turned my gaze for a moment and surveyed the scene.
The place of death is the person’s bedroom.
The estimated time of death was not long.
It’s still a bit early to fall asleep, but the deceased, a retired hunter, was suffering from a chronic illness.
Paramedics, who arrived after receiving a report from the parents, confirmed that he had already stopped breathing and notified the police.
In the meantime, the bereaved family even found a very old article and pushed it to me.
“Look at this! Once upon a time, trials were judged…”
“I know of that case. It is a case where the deceased had a chronic disease. It was not precisely because of the fan, but because of the chronic disease and hypothermia. Even if the air conditioner was used, it would have been the same.”
“How many times do you say? My son also had a chronic disease?”
“It’s not a respiratory disease.”
Yes. The deceased, a retired hunter, had a chronic disease.
However, it was unlikely that it could be linked to respiratory illness or hypothermia.
He suffered an amputation during his active career, which made his movement difficult.
Thanks to that, I heard that he couldn’t even go to work properly.
I let out a small sigh and notified the bereaved family.
“Anyway, this case could be Hunter’s crime. We will conduct an autopsy as we need to determine the detailed cause of death.”
“Boo, if it’s an autopsy… You’re going to stir up the body?”
“No! We won’t allow that!”
The bereaved family seems to have some wrong knowledge.
I let them know step by step with a feeling of trembling.
“For an autopsy in a case like this, the permission of the bereaved family is not required. I’m just asking out of courtesy.”
“What?”
“This is a notice, not a request. Proceed.”
I gave orders to the crew accompanying the scene and looked closely at the scene.
The deceased is known to have brought some money home during his active duty.
Didn’t even get married.
In his prime, he would have been known as a proud son.
However, after suffering an injury and retiring, it became just a nuisance.
This could be seen by examining the deceased’s bedroom.
There were few items of value in the old room.
Let alone leisure means, even the arrangement of the furniture seemed to only care about the convenience of the nursing parents.
An old TV, a smartphone with a broken screen, and an equally old fan.
Other than that, there are pills and medications.
“…A sleep inducer?”
“That… He’s having a really hard time at night…”
As if something had been stabbed, the bereaved family protested urgently.
In fact, from a nursing perspective, it is more comfortable for the other person to sleep quietly.
Because caring for the sick is really hard work.
One of the crew members who was inspecting the site with me saw it and asked quietly.
“Chief. Could it be that the deceased was killed with sleeping pills?”
“Hey, don’t even talk to yourself about exploding.”
“Yes, yes?”
“It was decades ago that people died from sleeping pills. These days, dangerous substances are not used, so even if you take dozens of pills, you will not die.”
In addition, it is a sleep inducer with weak efficacy and toxicity.
Unlike sleeping pills, the kind you can buy without a prescription.
It is less effective than sleeping pills, so it is easy to abuse it, but…
Killing people with this is next to impossible.
It’s hard no matter how sick you are.
I never thought our members would have this old knowledge.
Hearing my criticism, the crew bowed his head deeply as if he had done something big.
I forgot for a second that this guy was from a Servant.
“I’m sorry!”
“Hey… What are you talking about? I just did it.”
“I’m sorry for my lack of learning…”
“Please don’t talk like that. What joke are you kidding me about?”
As I was trying to soothe the member, the ears of the bereaved family from afar pricked up.
I think I overheard part of the conversation.
“Sleeping pills… Can’t kill you?”
A very confused reaction, as if he had in mind the possibility of misuse of sleeping pills.
I caught a glimpse of them when I saw them.
The crew members were also secretly suspicious of them.
In fact, if it was natural, it was natural.
The deceased died while sleeping at home.
If the possibility of murder is considered, those two are the first things to suspect.
However, I had a bit of a negative opinion.
“Chief, perhaps the bereaved family committed murder…”
“Do you think that looks like right after killing a person?”
“Not really.”
Murder is a very serious crime.
Unless you’re a genius at murder or a skilled criminal… If you killed your own relative, it’s bound to come out somehow.
But they just didn’t seem that way.
“If they had killed them, they would have made a more plausible excuse than the fan.”
“Okay.”
“Hey, by the way don’t you really get mad? I’m not blaming you for your lack of knowledge, okay?”
“Yes. We will conduct further study as soon as this case is over.”
“I didn’t get it at all… Just forget about it. Nothing happened a moment ago. This is an order.”
“Okay. Nothing happened.”
As a Servant-born member, he barely understands it until after he brings out the sound of an order.
In the meantime, Blanche found out the buyer of the sleep inducer in the bedroom.
[Master. The drug was recently purchased by the victim’s father at a nearby pharmacy.]
“Recent?”
I picked up the medicine cabinet and looked inside.
Thicker texture than expected.
I immediately checked the inside and it was brand new and hadn’t been used in a while.
“This sleep inducer, there are no signs of use?”
“Yes…”
“Did you buy it yourself and give it to the deceased?”
“Yes, yes.”
The bereaved family noticed my nuance and slightly lowered their eyes.
Do you get this from your parents?
As a son, he must have felt as miserable as Soon-wook who received an empty box.
It costs a lot of money to treat the human body.
Hunters are even more so.
Of course, hunters have good health insurance and welfare, but…
In the medical field, there are numerous items that are not properly covered by insurance.
Soon after, when I heard the results of the autopsy, I made a small sarcastic joke with a wry smile on my face.
It shouldn’t be like this, but…
Thinking of the dead Hunter, I wanted to say a few words.
“My mother put a fan on his face when it was almost fall, and my father gave me a sleep inducer … And my son must have been very moved.”
“What, what?!”
“It’s over. Let’s go.”
An autopsy by a forensic scientist revealed a drug reaction in the body.
However, it was not a sleep inducer.
The deceased took LSD, a type of drug, and caffeine tablets.
LSD itself is unlikely to die even if you overdose… More precisely, it must have been due to an overdose of caffeine.
In fact, it is said that his heart beat like crazy until right before he died.
Even if he had taken drugs, it would have been very painful.
“Caffeine pills are much easier to get than sleeping pills. Did you buy a bottle and finish it…”
“Chief, do we not have to arrest the bereaved family?”
“After all, it’s suicide. To die from caffeine pills, you have to eat at least dozens of pills, but there’s no way a former hunter would take it with his eyes open.”
I calmed down my teammates and went down the elevator.
Certainly, the bereaved family seemed to regard his son as some sort of burden.
But… Their intent to kill was of a very vague kind.
At most, it’s about putting a fan on your face or giving you a sleep inducer.
The deceased may have been pessimistic about his situation after seeing it, but …
He didn’t die because of it.
It cannot be regarded as a suicide teacher.
“I can’t punish people one by one like this. I feel guilty, but… “
“Master, if you wish, I will punish you.”
“I don’t want to. It’s just a little sad.”
The crew needlessly depressed by my answer.
I added in a heavy atmosphere.
“I ate so many pills that my stomach exploded… But they didn’t even touch the sleep inducers.”
Did the father really not want to be suspected, or did he not want to touch the ‘gift’?
Now, no one will ever know.
After a moment of silence for him, I left the old apartment.
“I wish there was some barbecue left.”
“I’ll put in contact and bake a new one.”
“It’s okay. What’s wrong with Jung-tae? Could Tia have eaten all of it?”
If so, you should try the Dragon Meat Barbecue.
Just as expected. As soon as I returned, Tia ran over with a plate.
“You worked hard, master! Eat more quickly!”
“Oh, who made it?”
“No. No one did.”
Tia glanced at the smiling Yeriel and said in an unconvincing voice.
In the meantime, the Servant-turned-members tipped their glasses and confessed their mistakes.
“Brothers, did you know that you can’t kill yourself with sleeping pills these days? Master says caffeine is better.”
“Caffeine was also dangerous. I’ve heard that in the past, the shooter applied a highly concentrated nicotine liquid to the bullet in a terrorist attack, but…”
As he watched the guys having a slightly overly practical conversation, his head pounded.
I pretended not to hear anything and went back to my fellow drinkers.
