Buried Secrets

2005年6月8号早上，在釜山的永岛区，有个男人越来越不安。

On the morning of 06/08/2005 in the Yeongdo district of Busan, a man was growing increasingly anxious.

他联系不上老婆，打过去也没人接。

He hadn't heard from his wife and she wasn't answering his calls.

他平时每天都跟老婆聊天的。

He always spoke to his wife.

他们有个习惯，至少隔天就要通一次电话，因为他在外市干建筑，大部分时候都是天天打。

They had a routine where they always called each other at least every other day, but mostly every day since he was working construction in a different city.

这算是他们保持联系、互相报平安的方式。

This was their way of staying connected and checking in on each other.

他开始慌了。

He was getting worried.

万一她出事了怎么办？

What if she's hurt?

或者……她是不是生我气了？

Or what if she's mad at me?

或者……她出什么事了？

Or what if something bad happened?

他给最要好的朋友打了电话，那人非常了解他和他妻子。

He called his closest friend, someone who knew him and his wife very well.

他请朋友去他们家看看她怎么样。

He asked the friend to visit their house and check-in on her.

过了一会儿朋友回电话说，前门锁着。

When the friend called him back a short while later, he said the front door is locked.

他敲了多次门，喊了她好几声，可就是没人应。

And despite knocking multiple times and calling out to her, there is no answer.

他们从来没把备用钥匙藏在门外任何地方。

They didn't have a key hidden outside anywhere.

所以他得想别的办法。

So he had to think of something else.

他又打了一个电话。

He made another call.

这次他打给了住在他们楼下一楼的中餐馆老板。

This time to the owner of the Chinese restaurant located on the 1st Floor of the building they lived in.

因为这栋楼年代久远，一楼的餐馆有个内部传菜口，直接通到他们二楼的家。

Because their building was older, the restaurant on the 1st Floor had an internal service hatch that connected to their home on the 2nd Floor.

老板一听他声音抖得厉害，立刻答应上楼去看看。

The restaurant owner could hear how terrified he was and agreed to go up into their home.

老板挤过那条狭窄的通道，虽然才早上十点，屋里却黑得伸手不见五指。

The owner squeezed through the narrow passage and despite it being 10AM in the morning, the home was pitch black.

他想开灯，结果发现整个房子都没电。

When he tried to turn on a light switch, he discovered that there was no power.

黑暗中，他唯一能闻到的，是主卧里一堆毯子和衣服散发出的浓重铁锈味。

The one thing he could discern in the darkness was that there was a very strong metallic scent coming from a large pile of blankets and clothes in the main bedroom.

那堆东西的形状让他心里发毛，掀开一看，发现徐英子已经死了，身上有多处刀伤。

The shape of the pile concerned him, so he pulled back the blankets and found Seo Youngja dead from multiple stab wounds.

警察赶到后，发现地上只有一串小小的血脚印，从尸体旁延伸出去，警方因此推断凶手是个女人。

When the police arrived, there was a single set of small shoe prints leading away from the body in blood, leaving investigators to believe her murderer was a woman.

欢迎收听《韩国真实犯罪》，我是你们的主持人米米·马齐科。

Welcome to Korean True Crime with me, your host, Mimi Maziko.

希望你们喜欢上期的节目。

I hope you liked last week's episode.

那期是仅限赞助人的独家内容。

It was a Patreon exclusive episode.

特别感谢所有赞助我的人，没有你们，这个节目根本办不起来。

Thank you so much to my patrons who've made this show possible.

如果你们没听到那期，它就在Patreon上，任何等级的订阅者都能听，也可以单独购买。

If you didn't get to listen to the episode, it is on Patreon, available for subscribers of any tier, and it's also available for one time purchase.

提醒一下。

Warning.

今天这期会谈到家庭暴力和赌博成瘾。

Today's episode discusses domestic violence and gambling addiction.

我会尽量避免描述过于血腥的细节，但这些话题可能让一些听众感到不适。

While I am mindful to not discuss graphic details, these topics might be distressing to some listeners.

请听众自行斟酌收听。

Listener discretion is advised.

被发现藏在被子下面的受害者是63岁的徐女士，我们给她化名为徐英子。

The victim discovered under the blankets was 63 year old missus Seo, who we will use the pseudonym Seo Youngja.

过去四年里，她一个人住在釜山一家中餐馆楼上的二层公寓里。

For the last four years, she'd been living alone in the 2nd Floor apartment above the Chinese restaurant in Busan.

她丈夫李满秀在几百公里外的首尔工作，那是全国最远的另一头。

Her husband, Lee Mansoo, worked hundreds of miles away in Seoul, the complete opposite end of the country.

但他们婚姻很好，英子的生活一直很平静。

But they had a good marriage and Youngja's life was quiet.

她想要的东西，样样都有。

She had everything she needed.

但独自一人在釜山，远离丈夫，让她感到孤单，而这份孤单，让另一个男人趁虚而入。

But being isolated in Busan away from your husband led to her feeling lonely, and loneliness opened the door for another man to come in.

那是个67岁的木匠，从小就跟李满秀认识。

Was a 67 year old carpenter who had known Lee Mansoo since they were children.

他们从小在一个村子里长大，四十多年来形影不离，是最好的朋友。

They grew up in the same village and remained inseparable best friends for forty years.

李满秀四十多岁的时候，为了工作搬走了。

In his forties, Lee Mansoo moved away for work.

满秀一直觉得宗烈就像自家人，知道他住在釜山，离英子那么近，他心里特别踏实。

Mansoo always felt like Jongyeol was a part of his family, and he felt safe knowing that Jongyeol lives so close to Youngja in Busan.

不过，宗烈自己也很孤单。

Na Jongyeol was, however, also lonely.

他是个虔诚的佛教徒，干活特别勤快，街坊邻居没有不认识他的。

He was a devout Buddhist who was known as a very hard worker and everyone in the neighborhood knew him very well.

三年前，也就是2002年，宗烈成了鳏夫——他的妻子徐英（化名）离家出走了。

Three years prior in 2,002, Jong Yeol was treated as a widower when his 58 year old wife, Seo Young, which is a pseudonym.

她跟一个年轻男人跑了，只为躲掉因为赌博欠下的巨额债务。

She ran away with a younger man to escape massive debts that she had racked up due to a gambling addiction.

她扔下三个已经成年的孩子，宗烈只能硬着头皮跟亲戚邻居们解释，说老婆抛下他跑了，这事儿太丢人了。

She left behind her three grown children, and Jong Yeon was left to tell all of his family and neighbors the shameful story that his wife left him.

他们三个成年孩子早就搬出去了。

All three of their adult children had already moved out.

他们在不同城市有了自己的家庭，但也知道父母有赌博的老毛病。

They had families of their own in different cities, but they'd also known about their parents' history of gambling.

之后就再也没她的消息了，她也从来没主动联系过。

They never heard from her again and she would never try to reach out.

现在金宗烈一个人住，偶尔还会去看看他从小一起长大的好友的妻子，他也跟这位邻居挺熟的。

Na Jong Yul was living alone now, checking in on his childhood best friend's wife from time to time who he'd grown close to as well.

两人的孤独渐渐演变成一段婚外情，这段关系既给了彼此情感慰藉，也成了英子经济上的依靠。

And their shared loneliness turned into an affair that was a source of love as much as it was a source of financial support for Youngja.

他们秘密来往了整整五年。

For five years, they carried on this secret affair.

私下里，他们过得就像一对真正的夫妻。

They were secretly living as if they themselves were a married couple.

头两年得注意一下，那时候他还跟妻子惠贞住在一起。

For the first two years, keep in mind, that's when he was still living with his wife, Heejang.

她还没离开他。

She hadn't left him yet.

与此同时，英子天天给他做饭，做配菜，还给他准备上班带的便当。

Meanwhile, Youngja was cooking him dinners, side dishes, lunches for work.

作为回报，宗玉会给她一些零花钱。

And in return, Jongul would give her money as an allowance.

在他们眼里，这根本不是交易关系。

To them, it wasn't really a transactional relationship.

这就像一对夫妻在过日子。

This was just them living domestically.

宗玉每次给她的钱并不多。

Jong Yul wasn't giving her like large sums of money each time.

就是他能力范围内能给她的，让她过得好一点。

It was just what he could afford to give her to treat her.

他是个手艺不错的木匠，但工资一直很微薄。

He was a successful carpenter, but he made a very modest amount in wages.

接下来的五年里，他给了她将近一亿韩元，差不多七万美元。

Over the next five years, he had given her nearly a 100,000,000 won, which is about 70,000 US dollars.

她主要用这笔钱支付孩子们的教育开销，剩下的才留给自己花。

She was mainly using this money to pay for her children's education and any leftover money she was using for herself.

到了2005年初，情况开始变了。

By early two thousand five, the situation started to change.

Na Jungho的弟弟生意垮了，急需帮忙。

Na Jungho's younger brother needed help because his business was failing.

于是他拿出五千万韩元，帮弟弟渡过难关。

So he helped bail his business out by giving his brother 50,000,000 won.

他跟Youngja说：我需要点钱。

He asked Youngja, I need some money.

能不能把这些年我给你的钱，还我一部分？

Please loan me back some of the money that I've given you over the years.

不用多，5%就行。

Just 5% maybe.

他知道她自己也存了不少钱，她丈夫尹马也有一笔积蓄。

He knew that she had a good amount of savings too and that her husband, Iman Seo, had savings as well.

他干嘛不去找他最好的朋友帮忙呢？

Why he didn't reach out to his best friend?

我也不清楚。

I don't know.

但她就是不肯给他一分钱。

But she refused to give him anything.

她说那钱本来就是她的。

She said that that was her money.

那些都是赠与，不是借款。

They were gifts, not loans.

他们的对话渐渐变成了争吵，关系也开始崩塌。

Their conversation started turning into arguments, and then the affair began to fall apart.

宗耀觉得在这段关系里自己总是付出，可现在她完全变了样。

Jong Yao felt like he was always giving in their relationship, but now she completely changed.

她 allegedly 开始嘲笑他的无助，还侮辱他的男子气概。

She allegedly started mocking his desperation and began insulting his masculinity.

她骂他小气，居然还想着把钱要回去。

She called him petty for asking for the money back.

他为了隐瞒这段婚外情，藏了这么多年，而他弟弟还指望着他帮忙。

He had spent years hiding their affair from his best friend and his younger brother is relying on him for help.

现在杨佳却冷冰冰地拒绝帮他。

Now Youngja's coldly refusing to help him.

他觉得这已经是压垮他的最后一根稻草。

He's feeling like this is the final straw.

说实话，他很快就翻脸了。

And honestly, he turned on her quickly.

他们从五月开始为了钱大吵大闹。

They start having big arguments over money at the May.

到了2005年5月，他已经开始盘算怎么报复她了。

And by the May 2005, he's starting to think of ways to hurt her.

他被愤怒冲昏了头。

He's blinded by anger.

5月28号，那宗烈溜进了他们偷情五年多的那栋房子。

And on May 28, Na Jong Yul sneaks into Youngja's house, which they'd been having an affair in for over five years.

他很可能有她家的钥匙。

He likely did have a key to her home.

这点你得记着。

So keep that in mind.

他带着五升从木工坊偷出来的稀释剂溜了进去。

He sneaks in carrying five liters of paint thinner that he took from his carpentry workshop.

一进门，他就把稀释剂往木地板上到处泼。

He starts pouring the thinner all over the entryway in the wooden floors of the apartment.

站在她家玄关，他一把火点燃了整间公寓。

Then standing in the entryway of her home, he sets the apartment on fire.

他以为火势会烧得特别快，她根本逃不出来。

He expected the fire to go up so quickly that she wouldn't be able to escape.

但她立刻醒了过来，逃出去后马上拨了119。

But she wakes up immediately and calls 119 after escaping.

她毫发无伤，但一脸茫然。

She's unhurt and confused.

第二天，金永子出现了，装得跟啥都不知道一样。

And John Youngja shows up the next day acting just as confused.

他跑来陪在她身边，说这纯属一场意外，表现得特别关心。

He's there for her and her time of need for this freak accident, he calls it.

他还免费帮她换掉了烧坏的地板和墙纸，像个热心的好朋友。

He replaces the burnt flooring panels and wallpaper in her home for free like a nice friend.

其实消防队来之前，火势根本没造成多大破坏。

The fire actually didn't end up doing very much damage before the fire department arrived.

他一边给她修地板、贴墙纸，做这一堆好事，一边心里清楚得很——他刚差点把她烧死。

And he's repairing her flooring, fixing the wallpaper, doing all these favors for her, knowing damn well that he had just tried to murder her.

而整个过程中，他还在盘算着下一次该怎么下手。

And the entire time, he's still planning how he's going to try again.

十天后，他终于定好了计划，决定再试一次。

Ten days later, he finalizes his plans and decides I'm going to try again.

6月8号，他把Youngja的作息和她家周边的交通情况都摸得一清二楚。

June 8, he's been following Youngja's schedule perfectly and the schedule of the traffic around her home as well.

他知道她每天凌晨一点到两点，从楼下餐馆帮工回来。

He knew she'd been returning home between 1AM and 2AM from helping the restaurant downstairs.

她在那儿打工，挣点零花钱。

She'd been working there for some extra spending money.

她上班的时候，张耀偷偷溜进她家楼上，躲在黑暗里等她。

During her shift, Zhang Yeo snuck into her upstairs apartment and waited for her in the dark.

她一进门，他就突然出现，威胁她要钱。

When she got home, he surprised her and started to intimidate her for money.

他跟她说：‘我现在就要五百万韩元。’

He's telling her, I need 5,000,000 won now.

也就几千美元的事儿。

Just a few thousand dollars.

这还不到他这些年给她的零头。

Just a fraction of what he'd given her over the years.

Youngja又拒绝了。

Youngja again refused.

她根本没觉得他会伤害自己。

She isn't suspecting that he's gonna hurt her.

那是她最好的朋友。

That's her best friend.

也是她丈夫最好的朋友。

Her husband's best friend as well.

她叫了他五年情人的男人。

A man who she's called a lover for five years.

她开始因为他太黏人而讨厌他。

To her, she's starting to dislike him because of the neediness.

她从来没想过要还他送的礼物。

And she never expected to have to repay gifts that he gave her.

他还在不断施压，直到她开始嘲讽他连自己家都养不活。

And he's also continuing to pressure her until she starts mocking him for failing to provide for his own family.

他们现在的争执根本不是正常的吵架。

It's not a healthy argument they're in.

到这会儿，两人已经彻底升级成人身攻击了。

They've just descended at this point into personal attacks.

但那朴南宗早就计划好了，如果她再拒绝会怎样。

But Najong Yul had planned what would happen if she refused again.

他跑去拉了电闸，整个公寓瞬间一片漆黑。

He goes and flips her circuit breaker, plunging the entire apartment into darkness.

她又惊又怒地冲他大喊，却没看见他手里已经掏出了一把随身带的厨房刀。

She's confused and yelling at him, but she can't see that he has pulled out a kitchen knife that he brought with him.

他一把抓住她，开始疯狂地连刺好几刀。

He grabs her and begins stabbing her repeatedly.

最终，宗柱一共刺了她二十五刀。

Jong Ju would end up stabbing her 25 times.

她脸上和头上被刺了十四刀。

14 of the stab wounds would be on her face and head.

剩下的刀伤都在手臂和上半身，那是她拼命自卫时被刺中的。

The remaining would be on her arms and upper body where it struck as she was trying to defend herself.

法医证据清楚地显示，英子当时拼死抵抗过。

Forensic evidence showed very clearly that Youngja fought hard.

她头部已经多次被刺，手臂上却还在不断添新伤。

She sustained the stab wounds to her arms all while having been stabbed in the head already multiple times.

即便如此，她还是抓伤了宗，连衣服都划破了，留下了清晰的痕迹。

And still, she was able to scratch Jong hard enough to leave marks through his clothing.

正是这些抓痕，让我们还原了那天发生的事。

And it is thanks to these scratch marks that we know what happened that day.

宗早就想好了事后该怎么处理。

Jong had prepared for what he would do afterwards.

他特意带了东西来掩盖罪行。

He came prepared to cover up his crimes.

他戴着手套，甚至还盘算过怎么布置现场，好让证据不会指向他。

He wore gloves and he had even thought about how he would stage the scene to make the evidence not point to him.

还记得开头我们提到的吗？调查人员一开始以为凶手是个女人。

Remember in the opening, we talked about the investigators believing that the killer was a woman.

结果，宗把脚塞进了一双240码的女款登山靴里。

Well, Jong had shoved his feet into a pair of size two hundred and forty women's hiking boots.

也就是美码7号，或者欧码37号。

That's US size seven or EU size thirty seven.

他平时穿的是美码8号，也就是欧码41号。

He wore a size US men's eight for comparison or an EU size forty one.

他就是想确保自己留下的那些清晰的血脚印，看起来不像自己的。

He wanted to make sure that the very clear bloody boot prints he left behind did not match him.

警察赶到时，看到地上有一串星形纹路的脚印，是从尸体旁延伸出去的女款登山靴印，立刻就认定凶手是个女人，或者至少是个脚很小的人。

When the police did arrive, they saw the boot prints with a star patterned sole belonging to a woman's hiking boot leading away from the body and immediately assumed that the attacker was a woman or at least a person with very small feet.

在离开现场前，宗临时起意，从她衣柜里扯了几条毯子，又从抽屉里抓了堆衣服，全盖在了她身上。

Before Jongle left the crime scene, he decided last minute to grab blankets from her closet and clothes from her dresser to just pile them on top of her.

这在犯罪学里叫‘抹除行为’。

This is what we call undoing in criminology.

他这么做，是想在心理上扭转或抵消自己的罪行。

He is symbolically doing something that reverses or undoes the crimes in his eyes.

好让自己看不见它。

It hides it from him.

根据美国法医科学学会2017年的一项研究，在那些有象征性抹除行为的凶杀案中，有55%的凶手会用毯子盖住受害者身体。

According to a study conducted in 2017 by the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, fifty five percent of homicides in their study that had acts of symbolic undoing, the killer used a blanket to cover the victim's body.

这55%的人，还把尸体摆成了别的姿势。

Fifty five percent of them also positioned the body differently.

那些试图用象征方式抹去罪行的凶手，多数都是受害者的家人或亲密关系人。

Of murderers who symbolically are trying to undo their crimes, A majority are family members or are in a relationship with the victim.

刚杀完人，他们就会被强烈的内疚感淹没，迫切需要一种方式，连自己都骗过去。

Immediately after killing the victim, they feel an overwhelming sense of guilt and need a way to hide their crimes even from themselves.

宗妍完全符合这些特征。

Jong Yeon fits into these categories.

他这是在心理上补偿自己对英子下杀手的愧疚。

He's trying to mentally compensate for the remorse he has of killing Youngja.

当他离开公寓时，心里觉得自己已经远离了犯罪，彻底切断了和那件事的联系。

And when he leaves the apartment, in his head, he's walking away from the crime, mentally severing his connection to what he'd done.

第二天早上，李满秀——英子的丈夫——一直住在首尔，远在千里之外工作。

The next morning, Lee Mansoo, who is Youngja's husband, he's been living and working in Seoul across the country.

他像往常一样给她打电话确认情况。

He calls her for their regular check-in.

虽然英子有外遇，但她还是坚持每隔一天，甚至每天都会给丈夫打电话。

Despite Youngja having an affair, she has still made sure that she calls her husband at least every other day, if not every day.

在真实犯罪领域，我们很少用负面眼光去评价受害者。

In the sphere of true crime, we don't often talk about victims in a negative way.

很少有人会讨论那些受害者身上有大量负面评价的案子。

We don't often talk about cases that have a lot of negativity around the victim.

但别忘了，人可不是非黑即白的。

But remember, people are not one dimensional.

人不是纯粹善良的。

People are not wholly good.

也不是全然邪恶的。

They're not entirely evil.

人都是有血有肉的。

People are human.

都有缺点和毛病。

They have faults.

但我们绝不会说，因为Youngja出轨，她就该死。

But what we're not going to do is we're not going to suggest that Youngja deserved to die because she was cheating on her husband.

绝对不。

Absolutely not.

当Mansoo一整天打给Youngja都没人接，他就开始担心了。

When Mansoo calls Youngja and doesn't get an answer all day, he starts to worry about her.

话说回来，Youngja都63岁了。

I mean, Youngja is 63 years old.

我老公还没接我电话，我都急得不行，他连跌倒的风险都没有呢。

I worry when my husband doesn't answer my calls and he's not even a fall risk yet.

满秀一连好几个小时不停地给Youngja打电话。

Mansoo called Youngja repeatedly for hours.

等他实在不得不承认可能出事了，就赶紧打了电话给最好的朋友宗衍。

And when he had to accept the fact that maybe something did happen, he called his best friend, Jong Yeon.

宗衍接电话时一副漫不经心的样子，可满秀都快急疯了。

Jong Yeon answered his call so casually and Mansoo is panicked.

他跟宗衍说：你赶紧去我家看看。

He asked Jung Yeon, please go visit my home.

去检查一下Youngja的情况。

Check on Youngja.

宗衍还一副在帮朋友大忙的口气。

And Jung Yeon acts like he's doing his friend a favor.

可他明明知道Youngja已经死了。

Knowing that Youngja is already dead.

郑妍甚至走到英子的公寓门口，试着开门，还使劲敲门，搞得整栋楼都能听见。

Jung Yeon even walks over to Youngja's apartment, tries to open the apartment door, knocks on it loudly so everyone hears him.

他回拨给满苏，说："她好像不在家，没人应门。"——这完全是撒谎，他自己心里清楚。

He calls Mansoo back and says, it doesn't seem like she's home because no one's answering the door, which is a lie and he knows it.

他只是在演一个关心朋友的角色，顺便给自己找个不在场证明。

He's just trying to play the part of the concerned friend, and he's giving himself kind of an alibi.

他压根没想到满苏会打电话给一楼的中餐馆，求他们帮忙进屋看看。

He doesn't expect Mansoo to call the Chinese restaurant on the 1st Floor and beg them to enter his apartment.

当餐馆老板终于进到屋里时，发现电闸被关了。

When the restaurant owner does get into the apartment, he finds the power is off.

屋里黑得伸手不见五指，还弥漫着一股令人作呕的金属味。

It's pitch black inside, and it smells nauseatingly like metal.

他顺着那股味道走进主卧，看见地上堆着一大团毯子和衣服，堆得异常夸张。

He followed the smell into the main bedroom where he found the giant pile of blankets and clothing heaped on the floor, which is suspiciously large.

他掀开一条被子，发现了英子的尸体。

When he pulled back one of the comforters, he found Youngja's body.

老板说他跑回后厨，回到餐厅，立刻报了警。

The owner said he ran back to the service hatch, back to the restaurant, and called the police.

警察赶到后马上封锁了现场，那些小小的靴印也被保留了下来。

The police arrived and immediately started preserving the crime scene, which included those small boot prints.

根据这240毫米的脚印，警方把调查范围缩小到女性，或者脚特别小的男性。

Based on those 240 millimeter prints, the Youngja police narrowed their search for women or a man with very small feet.

他们先查了最近失踪的一个本地债主，怀疑是不是Youngja欠了钱，被人灭口了。

They first looked at a local debtor who had disappeared recently, and they wondered if somehow Youngja had taken out debts and was killed for repayment.

但这条线最后啥也没查出来。

But this didn't end up leading anywhere.

接着，他们自然就怀疑上了她的丈夫李满秀。

Then, of course, they suspected Lee Mansoo, her husband.

配偶总是头号嫌疑人，可他有个铁证如山的不在场证明。

The spouse is always a suspect, but he had a very solid alibi.

案发时他人在几百公里外上班，监控还拍到他按时回家了。

He was at work hundreds of miles away, and was on CCTV going home during the time of the crime.

他最近没买过什么大件东西，也没转过账，看来不像是雇人下手杀他老婆。

He hadn't made any large purchases or money transfers, which meant it likely wasn't a hired hit on his wife.

警方也查了餐厅老板和所有员工，毕竟那扇通往公寓的后门，让人能神不知鬼不觉地进出。

The police also looked at the restaurant owner and all of their employees because they did have that service hatch that went into the apartment where someone could sneak in and out of unnoticed.

就在他们挨个访谈的时候，也问了朴钟一。

While they were conducting these interviews, they also questioned Na Jong il.

釜山龙堂警察局的徐慕成警官觉得有哪儿不太对劲。

Inspector Seo Moo sung of the Busan Yongdo police noticed something that just didn't sit right with him.

案子都过去好几天了，通常跟受害者关系近的人，多少都会掺和进来。

It had been days since the case, and typically people close to the victim are involved in the case.

可钟一比满秀和英子的家人还更操心这案子。

But Jong Un was even more concerned about the investigation than Mansoo or Youngja's family.

他是悲痛的朋友没错，但对这案子简直着了魔。

Yes, he's a grieving friend, but he was acting obsessed about the case.

他天天打电话催警方进展，问东问西，每次警察回现场调查，他都跑来看着，寸步不离。

He was constantly calling the police to check-in on the investigation, asking for updates, showing up whenever they revisited the house just to watch them.

他一直说想多帮忙，因为满秀工作脱不开身，他就替朋友盯着案子，随时通报进展。

He kept saying he wanted to be supportive, and that since Mansoo couldn't come down yet due to work, he would be there for his friend and keep him updated.

警察当然告诉他，这没必要。

Of course, the police told him this is not necessary.

他们自己就能联系李满秀。

They could contact Lee Mansoo themselves.

但宗烈坚持要插手。

But Jungyeol insisted.

最让人反感的细节，是他参加英子葬礼时的表现。

One of the most disgusting details is how he acted during Youngja's funeral.

葬礼居然由他来主导。

He led the funeral actually.

满秀当时还在为妻子哀悼，根本不知道她早就出轨了。

Mansoo was there mourning his wife, whom at this point he didn't know had been cheating on him.

而他最好的朋友宗烈，却跪在地上，紧紧抱着她的遗像，哭得撕心裂肺，周围人都说被他这副悲痛的样子打动了。

And his best friend, Jongyeol, is hunched over on the ground, clutching her portrait and wailing so loudly that people are saying they're being moved by his emotional vulnerability.

他后来陪满苏去了墓地，之后几天还一直安慰他，可他自己心里清楚，那个残忍刺死英子的人就是他。

He then went with Mansoo to the burial site and comforted Mansoo in the days after, all while knowing he was the one who brutally stabbed Youngja to death.

我觉得宗烈当时可能被内疚和怕被抓住的恐惧压得喘不过气。

I think Jongro was probably overwhelmed by both his own guilt and concern that he would be caught.

他早就做好了不留任何DNA证据的准备。

He had prepared to not leave any DNA behind.

他还特意设计了换鞋的把戏，好让警方找不到他的线索。

He planned the shoe trick to keep them off of his track.

行凶的时候他一直戴着手套。

He wore gloves during the attack.

可等法医一进场，那个‘女凶手’的猜测就彻底崩了。

But when the forensic team came in, the female killer theory went out the window.

英子指甲里留着抓伤宗烈时留下的皮肤细胞。

Youngja had skin cells under her fingernails from when she scratched Jong Yul.

要等DNA分析结果出来，还得花上一段时间。

It would take a while to analyze the DNA of any skin cells.

于是他们暂时转而检查餐厅员工和宗烈身上的抓痕。

So in the meantime, they started inspecting the restaurant workers and Jong Yul for scratch marks.

审讯室里关了他好几个小时，他一抬袖子，露出好几道结了痂的抓痕。

As they kept Jong Yul in an interrogation room for hours, he pushed up his sleeves, revealing multiple scratch marks that were scabbing over.

宗烈一发现自己露了馅，立马编了个借口。

When Jungja realized the mistake he'd made by revealing the scratch marks, he had an excuse ready.

他说前几天帮英子在超市搬重货时，她不小心抓伤了他。

He told the officers that he had been helping Youngja at the grocery store a few days prior, and that she had accidentally scratched him when she tried to grab some heavy bags out of his hands.

他们知道，要想击垮宗烈，就得先打掉他的底气，让他乱了阵脚。

They knew that if they wanted to break Jungyeon, they had to break his confidence and make him lose his cool.

于是他们去超市调监控，结果经理说：‘那天我们关门歇业。’

So they visited the grocery store and asked to check their CCTV only for the manager to tell them, we are closed that day.

我们那天从来都不开门。

We are always closed that day.

那是固定的休息日。

It's a regular scheduled day off.

这在韩国挺常见的。

This is a pretty typical thing in Korea.

有些日子，连锁超市必须关门，就是为了鼓励大家去本地小店买东西。

There are certain days of the week that franchise or like chain grocery stores have to be closed to influence people to shop locally.

他们已经戳穿了宗的谎言，现在得逼他招供，或者找到凶器。

They'd caught Jong in his lies, and now they needed to get a confession or find the murder weapon.

调查人员开始查宗一的生活，想找点可疑的线索。

The investigators started looking into Jong il's life to find red flags.

他真有理由杀英子吗？

Did he really have a motive to kill Youngja?

他跟警察说他穷得叮当响，结果发现他每个月都在他前妻惠贞名下买四份人寿保险，加起来超过二十万韩元，差不多一百美元。

Well, Jonger telling the police that he was living in poverty, they found out that he had been paying over 200,000 won or about a $100 for four separate life insurance policies monthly in his wife Heejang's name.

也就是说，他每个月往他前妻的保险里砸四百美元，人早走了，他还照交不误。

So about $400 a month were going to life insurance policies for his ex wife who left him.

俩人虽然分了，但压根没办离婚。

And they're still married because she left him, but they never got divorced.

她就这么消失了。

She was just gone.

警方发现，他跟所有人都说她欠了一屁股赌债，跟别人私奔了，可没人再见过她。

The police discovered that he had told everyone she ran off with another man after going into deep gambling debt, but no one had ever seen her since.

何静完全没了任何踪迹，连那些正常人留下的痕迹——银行流水、纳税记录、社交媒体动态——全都没有。

He Jiang had no activity on file at all, including the obvious ways to track someone who isn't in hiding, like bank activity, tax records, or social media presence even.

她也没跟任何家人联系过，包括她的四个孩子。

She didn't contact any family, including her four kids.

她失踪了，而钟俊居然偷偷报了失踪人口，却谁都没告诉。

She was missing and Joong Joon had actually secretly filed a missing person's report for her without telling anyone.

一个人要是失踪满五年，法律上就可以宣告死亡，那样钟俊就能把那四份人寿保险全领了。

If a person is missing for five years, they're legally declared dead, which would allow Jong Un to collect on all four of those life insurance policies.

到这时候，何静已经失踪三年了。

At this point, it had been three years since Hee Jung's disappearance.

保险公司的人跟警方说，钟俊曾问过，他到底什么时候能拿到赔偿金。

The insurance agent for the policies told the police that Jong Un had requested an exact timeline of when he might expect to receive the payout.

到这个时候，徐英子警官已经掌握了所有能施压宗恩的证据。

Inspector Seo Youngja had everything he needed at this point to put pressure on Jong Un.

但一开始，他觉得这招好像没用。

At first, he doesn't think it's working though.

宗恩装得实在太镇定了。

Jong Un is doing such a good job at keeping calm.

经过一整天漫长的审讯，他最后给宗恩端了一杯纸杯水。

After a very long day of interrogation, he ends up bringing Jongjo a paper cup of water.

宗恩伸手去接杯子时，虽然表面装得镇定，可双手抖得厉害，一抓杯子就捏扁了，水洒得满身都是。

When Jongjo reached out to take the cup, despite acting so calm, his hands are shaking so badly that when he grasped the cup, he crushed it and spilled water all over himself.

后来徐警官在接受KBS采访时说，他紧张得连纸杯都捏碎了，水全洒了出来。

Inspector Seo would later tell KBS in an interview that he was so tense that he crushed the cup to the point that it spilled.

他拼了命想压住发抖的手。

He was trying with all of his might to keep his hands from shaking.

就在那一刻，我确信了。

At that moment, I had a conviction.

调查结束时，徐 inspector 决定从郑烈的佛教信仰入手。

At the end of the investigation, inspector Seo decided to focus on Jongyeol's Buddhist faith.

他直接跟他说：‘你要是骗我们，业报迟早会找上你和你的孩子。’

He flat out told him that karma is coming for you and your children if you are lying to us.

他还说，想得安宁，唯一的办法就是说实话，不然你和你孩子都别想好过。

And that the only way to achieve peace was to tell the truth or him and his children would suffer.

这次，郑悦的反应比之前任何话都更触动他。

Now Jung Yor just seemed moved by this more than anything else he'd said.

他只说想抽根烟，抽完就全招了。

And he just asked for a cigarette, and he'd tell them everything.

等他终于拿到烟，冷冷地说：‘尸体在地板下。’

When he finally received the cigarette, he coldly said, the body is in the floor.

我老婆，她还躺在屋里。

My wife, she's still in the house.

郑俊当了三十年木匠。

Jong Joon had been a carpenter for thirty years.

警察进他家找惠静的尸体时，发现他把埋尸的地方藏得严严实实。

When the police entered his home to find Hee Jong's body, they found that he had perfectly concealed her burial spot.

从2002年10月28号起，他就一直把尸体藏在屋里，整整三年。

He had been living with her body in his house for three years, ever since 10/28/2002.

宗烈当时在房子后头的木工坊里和惠静吵架。

Jong Yul had been arguing with Hee Jong in his woodworking shop behind their house.

据宗烈说，惠静一直在骂他赌钱，说他没本事管钱。

According to Jong Yul, Hee Jong was yelling at him about his gambling habits and calling out him for being financially incompetent.

他说自己一时气上头，就掐住了她的脖子。

He says that in a fit of rage, he started to strangle her.

那时候根本停不下来。

He couldn't stop himself.

等他回过神来，人已经没了。

And before he knew it, she was dead.

他立刻后悔了，决定把这事瞒下来。

He was immediately overcome by regret and decided he would just cover up his crimes.

他先在卧室地板下挖了个坑，把惠贞的尸体埋了进去。

He started a construction project on the house by digging up the floor to his bedroom and then placed Hee Jung's body beneath.

他怕尸体腐烂弄坏地板或者发臭，就用厚厚的PVC塑料把她严严实实裹起来，还用了自己木工活儿里用的高级密封胶封死。

He didn't want her body to cause damage to the floors or to smell, so he wrapped her in a very thick vinyl plastic and sealed it using a professional grade sealant that he used in his woodworking.

然后把裹好的尸体放进了地坑里。

Then he placed her in the ground.

接着在上面浇了一层厚厚的混凝土。

He poured a heavy layer of concrete over her body.

等混凝土干了，他又铺上了新的地板。

And once it set, he placed new flooring on top.

到了2003年1月，也就是三个月后，他开始慌了。

Three months later in January 2003, he starts to get worried.

万一哪天我要搬走怎么办？

What if I ever move?

她的尸体迟早会被发现的。

Her body's gonna be found.

于是他用施工工具把尸体挖出来，移到了家门口。

So he uses his construction tools to dig up her body and move it to the entrance of the home.

但门口太窄，根本放不下她整具尸体。

But the entrance of the home is too narrow to fit her entire body.

他就把尸体肢解了，重新埋在客厅入口、靠近前门的地方。

So he started to dismember her body and rebury her under the living room entrance by the front door.

但他没把全部尸块都埋在那里。

But he didn't bury all of her there.

他把头留着，带回卧室，直接埋在了床底下。

He kept her head with him, returned it to the bedroom where he buried it directly under his bed.

她的尸体直到960天后，警方因他的供词开始挖地板时，才被发现。

And her body wouldn't be found until nine hundred and sixty days later when the police started digging up the floors due to his confession.

他睡觉的时候，就睡在她尸体上面。

He was sleeping over her body.

他还经常带人来家里做客。

He had people over to his house.

没人猜到他干了什么。

No one had any clue what he'd done.

大家都坚信她是跟别的男人私奔了。

They wholeheartedly believe that she had just run away with some other man.

他装成一个伤心欲绝的前夫，说妻子因为赌钱，抛下他跟了个更有钱的男人。

He was playing the sad Buddhist ex husband whose wife left him for a more successful man due to her gambling.

连他孩子他也这么骗。

And he even fed that story to their children.

他还时不时去查失踪人口报告，装出一副很关心她的样子。

He was even checking in on the missing person's report every once in a while to look like he cared about her.

结果呢，赌债其实是他欠的。

And it turns out, he was the one with the gambling debt.

跟别人搞暧昧的也是他。

He was the one having the affair.

这时候，检方对付那正妍的案子简直太轻松了。

The prosecution's case against Na Jeong Yeon at this point was incredibly easy.

他们掌握了所有物证，还有他的供词。

They had all the forensic evidence and his confession.

而且在Youngja的指甲底下还找到了他的DNA。

They also had his DNA under Youngja's nails.

至于Hee Jung的案子，他们有他的供词，还有她的遗体。

And for the murder of Hee Jung, they had a confession and her remains.

他们像我们刚才梳理的一样，还原了整个过程，尤其着重揭露了他把尸体藏在地板下的那些事。

They went through the events much like we have here, and they focused heavily on how he had lived with her body under his floors.

他的辩护不是说自己没干这些事，而是说，都67岁了，没必要在牢里过完余生。

His defense wasn't that he hadn't committed these crimes, but that at the age of 67, he shouldn't spend the rest of his natural life in prison.

检方认为，这两起谋杀都是激情犯罪——他一时怒火中烧，突然动手杀了她们，所以对社会有极大威胁。

The prosecution claimed that both killings were crimes of passion, where he suddenly killed these women in fits of rage, And therefore, he was a danger to society.

只要一被拒绝或挨批评，他就控制不住想杀人。

He couldn't handle rejection or criticism without homicidal rage.

正因如此，他被判了十五年监禁。

And because of this, he was given fifteen years in prison.

他这个年纪，跟终身监禁也没啥区别了，我想。

At this age, it's very similar to a life in prison sentence, I suppose.

你可能会觉得他不可能在牢里活到八十二岁，结果他真活到了。

You would think he was unlikely to live to be 82 in prison, but he did.

2020年，他八十二岁的时候被释放出狱了。

In 2020, at the age of 82, he was released from prison.

因为隐私保护这些规定，我们现在完全不知道他后来怎么样了。

With privacy laws and such, we don't have an update on him now.

连他是不是还活着都不知道。

We don't even know if he's still alive.

但2005年，他承认了这两起谋杀，还详细说了怎么肢解妻子、骗孩子，怎么跟好友老婆搞外遇、为钱杀了她——可他一句都没向家人道歉，没跟孩子说句对不起，也没向尹世淑道歉。

But in 2005, after admitting to the two murders, after explaining how he dismembered his wife and lied to his children, how he had an affair with his best friend's wife and murdered her over money, he didn't ask to make a statement to his family or apologize to his children or apologize to Iman Seo.

没有。

No.

他只向检方提了一个请求，就一个。

He asked the prosecution for one favor, only one favor.

他只求他们帮他照顾好花园里的花。

He asked them to take care of his flower garden.

他花了好多年亲手种花、打理这些植物。

He had spent years planting and tending to the flowers in his garden.

现在要进监狱了，这竟是他唯一放不下的事。

And now that he's going to prison, it's the only thing he cares about.

但让我最想不通的是，宗烈到底为什么要杀这两个女人？

But what interests me most in this case is why Jongyeol killed either of these women.

对惠庄，他说是因为钱的事吵架，后来她骂他赌钱、没本事管钱。

With Heejang, he said the argument was about finances, and it devolved into her criticizing him for gambling and calling him financially incompetent.

对英子，情况几乎一模一样。

With Youngja, almost exactly the same.

她不肯把钱还给他，还嘲笑他经济上靠不住。

She's refusing to give back the money he gifted her, and she's criticizing his financial instability.

据说，她还在贬低他的男人气概。

And allegedly, she was attacking his masculinity.

在这两起案件中，暴力的导火索都是被拒绝和羞辱。

In both cases, the trigger for violence was rejection and humiliation.

是女人瞧不起他，或者至少是他觉得女人在瞧不起他。

It was women looking down on him or at least him thinking the women were looking down on him.

我看到的是一个无法接受拒绝、也不允许女人批评他的男人。

What I see here is a man who is unable to accept rejection and that women were not allowed to criticize him.

我们永远无从得知他当时说了什么，对方怎么回应，他是不是同样刻薄，或者这两位女性到底有没有真的批评他，还是他曲解了她们的话。

What we can't know is what he was saying to them, what he was saying back to them, whether he was equally as harsh, or if either of these women actually were criticizing him at all, or if he was twisting their words against them.

对他来说，只要女人一批评他，或者他觉得她们在评判他，就会让他感到羞耻，而他根本受不了这种感觉。

To him, the second these women criticized him or he believed they were judging him, they were making him feel shame, which he did not want.

他接受不了这种事。

He couldn't accept that.

他的暴力行为总是报复性的，这或许能解释为什么Youngja被刺了25刀。

And his violence, which was always in retaliation, that might explain why Youngja was stabbed 25 times.

他心理上根本无法忍受被羞辱。

He couldn't psychologically tolerate humiliation.