Dying Message (Case of Han In-taek)

2005年6月9日午夜前，首尔归当街区，17岁的韩仁德正踏上回家的路。

Just before midnight in the Gui Dang neighborhood of Seoul, on 09/06/2005, 17 year old Han In-taek is starting his walk home.

仁德是个懂事的孩子。

In-taek is a good kid.

那天他为了学习，在补习班待到了很晚。

He had stayed late at his academy to study.

等他发现时间已经很晚，就给妈妈打了电话，告诉她自己错过了晚上11点42分的最后一班公交车。

And when he realized how late it was, he called his mom to let her know that he had missed the last bus at 11:42PM.

但她不用特意来接他。

But she doesn't need to come get him.

他可以自己走完剩下的路到江南站，然后自己回家。

He can walk the rest of the way to Gangnam Station and he will get home on his own.

仁德开始往家走，但回家的路要经过一条偏僻昏暗的山坡小道，就在那里，两个身影从阴影中走出来拦住了他。

In-depth started the walk home, but the route home took him up a secluded dark hillside road, where he is stopped by two figures who emerge from the shadows.

他们不是来和他说话的。

They are not there to talk to him.

他们连威胁都懒得说。

They don't even waste time threatening him.

袭击来得突然，结束得也快。

The attack is sudden and over quickly.

韩因德克毫无防备，根本没来得及反抗。

There is no struggle as In-depth is caught off guard by the sudden violence.

其中一名袭击者刺中了他的腹部，切断了主动脉。

One of the attackers has stabbed him in the abdomen, piercing his aorta.

事情发生得太快，他连喊都来不及。

It happened so quickly, he couldn't even scream.

从医学上讲，主动脉一旦断裂，血压会瞬间暴跌。

Medically speaking, when your aorta is severed, your blood pressure instantly tanks.

没过多久，人就会失去意识。

It's not long before you lose consciousness.

但韩因德克进入了求生模式。

But In-taek goes into survival mode.

医学专家会说，他的意志力简直非同寻常。

Medical experts would describe his level of willpower as extraordinary.

他居然还能站稳，伸手从口袋里掏出手机，拨了112——韩国的报警电话。

He managed to stay upright and reached into his pocket to pull out his cell phone and dial 112, which is the police line in Korea.

这通电话持续了二十秒。

The call lasted twenty seconds.

在这二十秒里，接线员听着尹泰克艰难地喘着最后一口气。

For those twenty seconds, an emergency dispatcher listened to In-taek gasp for his final breaths.

他已经无力吸进足够的空气来说话了。

He no longer was able to get enough air to speak.

但后来警方回放这段录音时，坚称他们听到的不只是求救声。

However, in that twenty second call, when the police later replayed the audio, they swore they didn't just hear a plea for help.

他们听到了一个名字。

They heard a name.

他们说，那是他临终前最后的话。

They said it was his dying message.

这段录音引发了一连串被迫认罪、证人证词被污染，以及一场让凶手逍遥法外的司法噩梦。

And that one recording would set off a chain reaction of coerced confessions, contaminated witnesses, and a legal nightmare that would leave the killers free to walk the streets.

欢迎收听《韩国真实犯罪》，我是主持人米米·米齐科。

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

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I really appreciate the support.

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请注意。

Warning.

本期节目涉及一名青少年的死亡，内容有轻微血腥描述。

Today's episode discusses the death of a teenager with minor graphic description.

建议听众酌情收听。

Listener discretion is advised.

尹德被袭击的山路不仅偏僻，人迹罕至。

The Hillside Road where In-taek was attacked wasn't just secluded and off the beaten path.

那里连路上的行人和监控摄像头都照不到。

It was a blind spot to anyone on the street and CCTV cameras as well.

尽管离一个派出所只有100米远，那其实只是个很小的警务点。

Despite being only 100 meters from a local police substation, which is just a small police office.

山坡的地形加上没有路灯，让那里黑得伸手不见五指。

The combination of the elevation of the hill and the lack of street lights made it pitch black.

尹德倒在漆黑的路上后，袭击者根本没多留。

After In-taek collapsed on the dark road, the attackers didn't stick around.

他们立刻原路逃走，在报警电话还没接通前就消失得无影无踪。

They ran back where they came from and disappeared before the emergency call had even connected.

这片地形对理解当时发生了什么至关重要。

The geography of this land is pretty essential to understanding what happened.

2005年的时候，附近江陵站的车流量非常大。

The neighborhood in 2005 had pretty heavy traffic from the nearby Gangneon Station.

所以这条路上行人和车辆都很多，因为它沿着高速公路往上爬坡。

So there is a lot of foot traffic and cars because this road goes up a hill alongside a freeway.

这座山坡的一侧是横跨汉江的奥林匹克大桥。

On one side of this hill is the Olympic Bridge across the Han River.

主路旁边是蜿蜒曲折的居民小巷。

Off the main roads was winding residential alleys.

那晚尹德走的那条路，是一条铺着砖块的上坡小道，紧挨着一座大坡，右边是四车道的高速公路，左边则隔着一条金属围栏和一个花坛，里面种着树， mostly 只有草地和灌木。

The specific route In-taek took that night was on a paved brick uphill path that was against a large hill, and on the right of it was a four lane highway, and on the left of it, between the brick path and the road, was a metal fence and a flower bed with trees and mostly just grass and leafy plants.

换句话说，这是一条铺着砖块的人行道，沿着山坡往上，下面就是高速公路。

So essentially, this is a brick paved sidewalk that goes up a hill and down below is the highway.

那晚尹德走在砖路上，并不是完全一个人。

In-taek wasn't entirely alone that night on the brick road.

除了那两名袭击者，当他开始转身往坡上走时，一名加油站员工、名叫允的人看到了他。

Besides the two attackers, as he started to turn to walk up the hill, a gas station employee identified as only Yoon saw In-taek walking.

允当时正在卸货，刚忙完，但他盯着尹德看，总觉得哪里不太对劲。

Yoon was finishing up unloading boxes from a delivery, but he watched In-taek because something just seemed off.

In-taek正慢慢走着，有两个看起来是男性的身影在追他，但他自己一点都没察觉。

In-taek was slowly walking and two figures that looked male were chasing him, but In-taek didn't notice.

Yoon之所以一直盯着，是因为那两个人看起来很可疑。

Yun only kept watching because the men looked suspicious.

根据Yoon最初的描述，那两个人快步跟在In-taek身后，沿着这条路往上走。

According to Yun's initial account, the two people were walking quickly behind In-taek up the road.

他们没有喊叫，也没有发出任何他能听见的声音。

They weren't shouting or making any noise that he could hear.

几分钟后，Yoon再次出来拿箱子，回头一看，发现那两个人正拼命往山下跑，朝他们来的方向逃去。

And a few minutes later, when Yun came back outside for more boxes, he looked back up the path and saw those two same people running back down the hill in the direction they came from.

他们跑得像在逃命，不是慢跑，也不是赶时间的那种跑。

They were running like they were fleeing, not jogging, not late for an appointment running.

他们是拼了命地狂奔。

They were sprinting for their lives.

当时，Yoon并没觉得他刚目睹了一起谋杀。

At the time, Yoon did not think he just witnessed a murder.

他没看见那两人追上尹泰时发生了什么。

He hadn't seen what happened when they caught up to In-taek.

所以他以为只是校园霸凌，或者当地小混混闹架。

So he just assumed that this was some kind of bullying or maybe local delinquents getting into a fight.

在他看来，确实像是这么回事。

That's kind of what it seemed like to him.

他不想掺和这事，之后也没再看到那个高中生。

He didn't wanna involve himself and he didn't see the high schooler anymore.

于是他回了店里，继续干完自己的班。

So he went back inside and finished his shift.

9月7日凌晨一点，那两个身影追上尹泰大约一小时后，两名大学生刚在附近的网吧打完通宵游戏，正往家走。

About an hour after the two figures had caught up to In-depth at 1AM on September 7, two university students were walking home after a late night gaming session at a nearby Pixi Bang or a PC cafe.

他们拐上山坡的弯道时，看见路边花丛里趴着一个人。

As they rounded the bend up the hill, they saw a person face down in the flowers on the side of the road.

一开始，他们以为只是哪个醉汉走累了，倒在路边睡着了。

At first, they thought this was simply someone who had too much to drink and passed out on their way home.

但当他们走近时，心里越来越不安。

But when they got closer, they grew more worried.

他们认出他穿着校服，背包上还带着广阳高中的标志。

They noticed his school uniform and his Guangyang High School logo on his backpack.

他紧紧攥着手机，脸色看起来非常糟糕。

He was clutching his cell phone and looked sick.

他们担心他突发疾病，便试着摇醒他。

They worried he'd had a medical emergency, so they tried to shake him awake.

就在这时，他们发现他衣服上有血迹。

That's when they noticed the blood on his clothes.

他们立刻报了警。

They called the police.

但等等，In-taek 已经打过报警电话了，不是吗？

But wait, In-taek had already called the police.

对吧？

Right?

那为什么警察就在一百米外，却没过来？

So why hadn't the police just a 100 meters away?

为什么他们没在一小时后赶到？

Why hadn't they arrived an hour later?

因为那是2005年，不是现在，他们没法确定他的具体位置。

Well, they didn't have his exact location because this is 2005, not modern day.

他的通话已经断了，接线员以为那是个误拨。

His call wasn't still active and the dispatcher thought the call had been an accident.

不过他们还是派了人去附近巡查一下，以防万一。

But they did still send out officers just in case to take a look at the area.

最先赶到的警察开车经过那片区域，但没发现异常，因为In-taek躺在人行道旁的灌木丛里，地势较高，路上的车根本看不到。

The first officers who responded were driving through the area but didn't see anything because In-depth is in the foliage on the side of the sidewalk up a hill, where a car from the highway below wouldn't be able to see.

于是警察觉得只是拨错号了，就回去了。

So the officers chalked it up to a missed dial and just went back.

整整一小时，In-taek在离救助点不到一百米的地方，内出血不止。

For an hour, In-taek bled out internally, less than a 100 meters away from help.

当警察接到大学生的报警赶到现场时，他们并不清楚尹德到底发生了什么。

When the police arrived from the college students call, they didn't know what had happened to In-taek.

通常被人刺中腹部会大量出血，但他的衣服上血迹极少，地上也只有几滴血。

Usually, when someone is stabbed in the abdomen, there is a large amount of blood, but he only had a very small amount of blood on his clothes and just a few droplets of blood on the ground.

对这些非医疗专业的警察来说，这看起来根本不像是凶杀现场。

To these officers who weren't medical professionals, it did not look like a murder scene.

这是因为尹德的伤导致了严重的内出血。

This is because In-taek's injury had caused massive internal hemorrhaging.

后来法医专家把这种伤称为‘精准打击’。

Forensic experts would later call this a surgical strike.

他们并不是说凶手有外科医生般的精准，而是说刀子穿过肌肉，只割断了他的主动脉。

Although they weren't trying to insinuate that the killer had surgical precision, but that the blade had gone through the muscle and sliced only his aorta.

起初，警察不相信这里就是他被刺的地方，因为地上和他身上都没有血迹。

Initially, the police didn't believe this was the location he was stabbed because there was no blood on the ground or on his body.

医学专家认为，他被刺后很快便死亡了，即使当时叫了救护车，也几乎不可能救得回来。

Medical experts believe that he died very quickly after being stabbed, meaning even if ambulances were called, it is unlikely he would have survived long enough to be saved.

警察继续在周围搜查时，在离他尸体仅90米的地方发现了一些东西。

As the police continued to search the area, they found something just 90 meters away from his body.

他们爬上山坡，找到了一把被扔在人行道边的刀，正是这把刀刺伤了他。

Up the hill, they found the knife that had been used to stab him tossed to the side of the sidewalk.

刀刃上没有血迹，他们提取指纹，也一无所获。

There was no blood on the blade, and when they dusted it for prints, they found nothing.

这把刀看起来像是全新的，干干净净的。

It appeared to be a brand new clean knife.

In-taek身上也没有任何抵抗伤，他的手机里也看不出他卷入过任何可疑的事情。

In-taek didn't appear to have any defensive wounds as well, and nothing on his phone suggested he was involved in anything nefarious.

更别说，他身上什么东西都没丢。

Not to mention, nothing was stolen from him.

就像便利店店员猜测的那样，警方也怀疑这件事跟校园霸凌有关。

Just as the gas station attendant had assumed, they also suspected that this had something to do with bullying.

天一亮，警察就急了。

As the sun came up, the police were panicking.

他们正努力想办法解释，为什么一个高中生会在距离警察局不到一百米的地方被刺身亡。

They're trying to figure out a way to explain how a high school student was stabbed to death within a 100 meters of a police station.

他们首先调取了他拨打112的通话录音记录。

They began by pulling the log of his 112 call recording.

我现在要放一段录音给你们听。

I'm going to play a segment of the audio for you now.

你们会听到自动语音说：‘112，这里是警察。’

You are going to hear the automated recording say 112, this is the police.

接着接线员会接起电话，那位女士会说：‘这里是警察。’

And then a dispatcher answers and the woman will say, this is the police.

然后受害者发出一些声音后，她问了一句：‘喂？’

Then after the victim makes some sound, she asks, hello?

这段录音听起来很令人不安，但只有几秒钟长。

The audio is distressing, but it is only a few seconds long.

如果你不想听，可以快进大约十五秒，直接跳过这段音频。

So if you wanna skip ahead about fifteen seconds, you'll get past the audio.

警察反复听了这段二十秒的录音，希望能听出点别的，不只是他喘气的声音。

The police listened to this twenty second recording over and over and over, hoping to hear something besides him gasping for air.

录音进行到一半时，一名侦探暂停了播放，截出了其中三秒的片段。

In the middle of the recording, one of the detectives stopped the tape and isolated a three second segment.

他反复循环播放这段声音，一遍又一遍。

He played it on a loop, just repeatedly.

他的同事都没听出什么异常，但他坚持说自己听到了一个名字。

His colleagues couldn't hear what he was pointing out, but he swore he heard a name.

他说他听到的名字是‘Gim’。

He claimed to hear the name Gim.

如果你长时间听白噪音，大脑会开始自行寻找模式。

Now, if you listen to white noise long enough, your brain will start to find patterns.

这种心理现象叫做听觉错觉。

This is a psychological phenomenon called auditory pareidolia.

人类在进化过程中，即使在嘈杂或风大的环境下，也会努力辨认出语音，大脑总会试图补全那些模糊的部分。

As we humans have evolved to find speech even in poor conditions, like when it's a loud concert or a windy day, our brains try to fill in those blanks.

听觉错觉受自上而下的认知影响，意思是，如果你期待听到什么，你的大脑会不自觉地扭曲你听到的声音，让它符合你的预期。

Auditory paradolia is influenced by top down processing, meaning that if you expect to hear something, your brain will subconsciously warp what you're hearing to match that expectation.

一旦那位侦探认定自己会在录音里听到一个名字，他真的就听到了。

Once the detective decided he would hear a name in that recording, he did.

之后，其他每个听过录音的警员也突然听出来了。

Then every other officer who listened suddenly noticed it.

你可能看过一些捉鬼节目，主持人播放一段空房间里的静电噪音，然后字幕上却写着‘出去’。

You've likely seen ghost hunting shows where the host will play a recording of static in an empty room, and then a closed caption will label the sound as get out.

一旦字幕出现在屏幕上，观众也立刻听到了那个词。

Once that subtitle is on the screen, the audience suddenly hears it too.

我并不是在说这位警员在撒谎。

I'm not just accusing this officer of lying.

他真的相信自己听到了‘Gim’这个名字，但我已经告诉过你，这个案子充斥着逼供的供词，原因就在这里。

He truly did believe he heard the name Gim, but I've told you that this case is riddled with coerced confessions, and this is why.

当这个案子在2020年由私人调查员重新审查时，他们做了一项研究，让20个人去听这段录音。

When the case would eventually be reinvestigated in 2020 by private investigators, those investigators conducted a study by asking 20 people to listen to the recording.

这些人之前从来没听过这段声音。

These people had never heard it before.

他们没人听出里面有什么名字。

None of them picked out a name in the sound.

然后他们停下来问参与者：你们听到了吗？

Then once they stopped and asked the participants, did you hear it?

受害者说的是‘Gim’这个名字。

The victim is saying the name Gim.

可一旦有人提醒，20个人里就有16个立刻听得清清楚楚。

Then suddenly 16 out of the 20 people could hear it clear as day.

这并不是为了让人出丑或者诱导人说谎。

This isn't trickery to make people look stupid or influence people to lie.

不是的。

No.

这只是我们的大脑在努力寻找熟悉感和模式。

It's our brains trying to find familiarity and patterns.

但因为这位侦探听成了‘Gimp’，他们现在正在找姓Gimp的人。

But because this detective heard Gimp, they're now looking for someone with the last name Gimp.

这本来很难缩小范围，但他们相信袭击者很可能认识In-taek，而且这是一起非常个人化的袭击。

This wasn't going to narrow much down, but they believed that the attackers likely knew In-taek and that the attack was very personal.

不过在韩国，‘金’是最常见的姓氏。

Kim is the most common surname in Korea though.

他们必须进一步缩小范围。

They needed to narrow it down.

于是他们先从In-taek的社交圈入手调查。

So they started by looking into In-taek's social circle.

他们先问了他的朋友和老师，他平时跟谁走得很近。

They started by asking his friends and his teachers who does he spend time with.

In-taek有两个同学，我们只用他们的姓氏称呼他们——金和郑，法院文件里也是这么写的。

In-taek had two classmates who we will refer to by only their surnames, Kim and Jeong, which they are referred to as in the court documents as well.

侦探们推测，金和郑对受害者怀有怨恨。

The detectives formed a theory that Kim and Jeong had a grudge against the victim.

这起事件原本是校园欺凌，后来演变成了谋杀。

And this was a case of bullying that escalated into murder.

谋杀发生五天后，金和郑被带到了警局，但他们不只是被简单问话。

Five days after the murder, Kim and Jeong were brought into the police station, but Kim and Jung weren't just questioned.

他们一到就被直接走流程了。

They were immediately processed.

在金后来的证词中，他说警察的态度非常强势。

During Kim's later testimony, he said that the police's behavior was intense.

他们踢桌子、冲他大喊大叫，还威胁要动粗，就是为了让他一直处在恐惧中。

They were kicking the desk, screaming and shouting in his face, and threatening physical violence to keep him in a state of constant fear.

侦探们没有像往常那样问开放性问题，本该那样做的。

The detectives did not ask their usual open ended questions as they should.

他们本该让嫌疑人自己说，可却直接扔给他一份事先写好的版本，问他：‘你为什么这么做？’

They should allow the suspect to speak for themselves, But instead they presented Kim and Jung with a pre written story of what they thought happened and then started asking the boys, why did you do this?

你为什么要这么做？

Why did you do that?

他们没问孩子们到底做了什么。

They didn't ask them what they did.

他们直接告诉孩子们他们做了什么。

They told them what they did.

踢桌子和椅子就是为了吓唬他们，让他们紧张不安。

The kicking desks and the chairs was to startle the boys and make them feel on edge.

几个小时后，他们开始强迫孩子们保持不舒服的姿势，一边站着或坐着，一边对他们大喊大叫。

After hours of this, it turned to them forcing the boys to stand or sit in uncomfortable positions while shouting at them.

最著名也最令人震惊的威胁是，他们对孩子们说：‘你们至少要坐牢四五年奥运会’，意思就是终身监禁——而这是在威胁两个十六岁的孩子。

The most famous and disturbing threat was that he told the boys, you're going to prison for at least four or five Olympics, meaning a life sentence, which he's threatening these 16 year old boys.

随后，侦探们给孩子们放了录音，还对他们撒了谎。

The detectives then played the recording for the boys and lied to them.

在录音里，尹德点名指控你了。

In-taek is naming you in this.

他临死前，叫了你的名字。

He said your name as he died.

这次真的无路可走了。

There's no way out of this.

警察简直无所不用其极。

There really was no tactic that the police were above.

他们用了经典的囚徒困境，告诉金某和郑某，对方已经招了，还指认是对方持刀刺伤了尹泰。

In a classic prisoner's dilemma, they told Kim and Jeong that the other had confessed and named the other as the one who had actually wielded the knife and stabbed In-taek.

这么做就是为了逼对方彻底交代。

They did this as a means to pressure the other to spill everything.

他们一边逼着他们说实话，一边不断灌输早就准备好的那套说辞。

They told them to tell the truth while pushing forward that pre made story.

他们不断暗示，只要照警察说的那样讲，就能得到从轻处理。

They kept insinuating if they just told the story like the police had predicted, they'd get a lighter sentence.

心理施压特别管用，尤其是对容易受影响的孩子。

Psychological pressure is an effective tool, especially against children who are susceptible to it.

一个16岁的少年，被一群凶狠的成年人关在房间里好几个小时，真相到底是什么，早就变成了只要能结束这一切就行。

To a 16 year old boy trapped in a room of aggressive adults for hours on end, the truth just becomes whatever makes it all stop.

而且整个过程中，根本没有律师介入，也没通知他们的父母。

And at no point were lawyers brought in or their parents contacted.

他们威胁这两个男孩，说如果不肯快点认罪，就把他们父母也抓起来，当成帮凶处理。

They threatened the boys that if they didn't confess quickly, they'd arrest their parents as well as accomplices for helping them hide the crime.

这样的审讯方式，换谁都会撑不住，更别说两个十六岁的孩子了。

This interrogation would break anyone, not to mention two 16 year old boys.

在极度疲惫之下，金某最先扛不住了。

Under exhaustion, Kim eventually broke first.

他开始不管警察说什么，全都点头答应。

He started to just blindly agree to whatever the police said.

结果就做出了一个根本不可能发生的供述。

This led to a confession that was impossible.

从法医角度来说，完全不可能成立。

Actually, like forensically impossible.

金某说，他当时带了把弹簧刀，只是为了吓唬尹德。

Gim described that he brought a switchblade with him just to intimidate In-taek.

然后他们打了起来，拳来拳往打了很久。

And then they got into a long fist fight.

他在激化前打了几拳，后来为了结束战斗，就用刀刺了In-taek。

He got a few good punches in on In-tech before it escalated, and he stabbed In-tech to end the fight.

但我们早就知道真相了。

But we already know.

In-taek身上没有任何防御性伤痕。

In-tech had no defensive wounds.

他腹部只有一处刀伤，全身没有淤青。

He had one stab wound in the abdomen and no bruising.

现场找到的刀不是折叠刀，但警察根本不在乎这些细节。

And the knife that was found at the scene, not a switchblade, but the police didn't care about the details.

一点都没在意。

Not at all.

他们立刻带两个男孩去山路重现案发过程。

They took the boys to the Hillside Path for the crime reenactment immediately.

在那里，侦探们紧紧围着这几个男孩，低声告诉他们该怎么做。

And there, the detectives closely held the boys and whispered in their ears what to do.

后来这被指出是侦探在引导他们，告诉他们犯罪现场到底发生了什么。

This would later be pointed out as the detectives guiding them and telling them what had happened at the crime scene.

男孩们好几次指错了方向。

The boys at multiple moments pointed the wrong direction.

他们模仿刺击的动作也完全不对。

They mimic stabbing incorrectly.

不是那里，他不是被刺在那里。

That's not where he was stabbed.

不对，你应该这样才对。

No, you need to do it this way.

然后警察不断纠正他们的动作，直到他们完全复述出那个预先编好的故事。

And then the police would correct the actions until the boys accurately matched that premade story.

他们把这归咎于行凶时天太黑，孩子看不清楚，年纪又小，记不清细节。

They chalked it up to it being dark when they committed the crime and that the boys couldn't see well, and they're so young, so they don't remember.

这个案子接下来转向了唯一的目击者——便利店店员尹某。

The case moved on to its only eyewitness, Yoon, the gas station attendant.

警察根本没有给尹某展示包含八名以上与张、金相貌相似的人的辨认名单。

The police didn't show Yun a lineup of eight or more similar looking people to Zhang and Kim.

没有。

No.

他们在模拟重现之后，把金和张直接带到了便利店。

They brought Kim and Zhang to the gas station after the reenactment.

就戴着 handcuffs 从山坡上带下来，问尹某：‘这就是你看到追尹德的人吗？’

Just brought them right down the hill in handcuffs and asked Yun, are these the boys you saw chasing In-taek?

他们已经认罪了。

They already confessed.

记忆本来就不靠谱，更何况他现在亲眼看见这两个男孩戴着镣铐，这完全盖过了他原本的记忆。

Not only is memory such an unreliable thing, but now that he's seen these boys in handcuffs, this completely overrides his original memory.

任何人现在都只会记得这两个男孩的脸。

Anyone would now only see those boys' faces.

你可能会想象他们跑上山坡，也会相信警察说他们已经招供了。

You'd imagine them running up the hill and you'd believe the police when they said they had a confession.

所以他答应了。

So he said yes.

到了2006年案件开庭时，广东警方已经认定这是个铁证如山的案子。

By the time the case reached the courtroom in 2006, the Guangdong Police Department believed they had an open and shut case.

他们有金某的供词、录音、张某的二次供述，还有一个目击者。

They had a confession from Kim, the recording, a secondary confession from Zhang, and an eyewitness.

但只要案子一推进，整个事情就开始崩塌了。

But the moment the case moved forward, it all began to fall apart.

金某和张某的辩护律师立刻反击，直指这些供词是逼出来的。

The defense for Kim and Zhang immediately went on the offensive and pointed at the coerced confessions.

一旦离开权镇警局、站在法官面前，两个男孩就作证说，他们之所以认罪，是因为怕警察杀了他们，或者杀了他们的父母。

The moment the boys were away from the Kwonjin detectives and in front of a judge, they testified that they only confessed because they thought the police would kill them or kill their parents if they didn't.

但让法庭更不安的，还不只是逼供这件事。

But it wasn't just the coercion that bothered the court.

说实话，光是这一点就该让审判当场结束了，但法官真正关注的，其实是供词里的诸多矛盾。

Honestly, that should have ended the trial then and there, but it was actually the inconsistencies in the confessions that the judge was focusing on.

我前面提过，金的供词里说发生了一场长时间的打斗，还用了一把弹簧刀。

As I mentioned earlier, Gim's confession described a long fight and the use of a switchblade.

检方试图辩称，那把在90米外找到的刀，距离弹簧刀没多远，一个16岁的孩子认错也正常。

The prosecution tried to argue that the knife found 90 meters away was close enough to a switchblade for a 16 year old to misidentify.

也许这孩子只在电影里听过‘弹簧刀’这个词，根本不知道那是什么——说实话，我很难相信这种说法。

Maybe the 16 year old had only heard the term switchblade in movies and didn't actually know what it was, which I find very hard to believe.

但法医的报告可没法这么随意解释。

But the medical examiner's report couldn't be misinterpreted like that.

尹德脸上没有淤青，指关节上也没有伤，衣服也没撕破。

There were no bruises on In-depth face, no bruises on his knuckles, no torn clothing.

那场打斗根本没发生过。

The fight just didn't happen.

接下来就是物证的问题——准确说，是根本没有任何物证。

Then came the issue of physical evidence or actually the lack of physical evidence.

在一起刺杀案中，你肯定会找到一些DNA，尤其是当行凶者是个16岁的孩子时。

In a case involving a stabbing, you would expect to find some DNA, especially if a 16 year old was the one who had done it.

攻击者握刀那么紧，刀上应该有他的DNA，衣服上说不定还沾着血迹。

DNA on the knife from the attacker gripping it so tightly, maybe even blood on the attacker's clothing.

但他们什么都没找到。

But they had nothing.

两个男孩的衣服上，连一滴因特血迹都没有，而他们被捕时距离案发才五天。

They hadn't found a single drop of Intex blood on either of the boys' clothing, even though they were arrested just five days later.

那把刀也干干净净，一点痕迹都没有。

The knife was also pristine.

刀柄上连一个模糊的指纹都没留下。

Not even a partial smudge of a fingerprint was found on the handle.

行凶者明显戴了手套，可这两个男孩根本没提过自己戴过手套。

The attacker clearly wore gloves, which neither of the boys had mentioned wearing.

随着审判拖沓、浪费时间，检方的王牌证人尹某，开始对自己的记忆产生怀疑。

As the trial dragged on and wasted time, the prosecution's star witness, Yoon, began to question his own memory.

在交叉质询中，关于单人指认的真相浮出水面，这根本不是标准程序。

Under cross examination, the truth about the one man lineup came out, and this is not standard procedure.

Yoon承认，案发当晚天太黑，他只能模糊看到两个年轻男子在追赶In-taek的轮廓。

Yoon admitted that on the night of the murder, it was so dark, he could really only see silhouettes of two young men chasing In-taek.

他坦白说，自己之所以确认是这两个男孩，是因为警察告诉他，他们已经招供了。

He confessed that he only said yes to these boys were the ones he saw because the police had said they'd already confessed.

随着庭审继续进行，法庭外正发生着另一场悲剧。

While the trial continued, a secondary tragedy was happening just outside of the courtroom.

In-taek的父亲在儿子遇害时，正与脑瘤抗争。

In-taek's father had been battling a brain tumor when his son was murdered.

失去儿子的打击，因为听说警方正在毁掉为儿子讨回公道的任何可能，而变得更加沉重。

The stress of losing his son was only worsened by hearing that the police were ruining any chance of finding justice for his son.

他在生命的最后几个月里，听着警方一次次辜负儿子，最终在判决公布前不久离世。

He spent his final months listening to the police fail his son and tragically, he died shortly before the verdict was reached.

他至死都不知道谁是真凶，也从未等到正义降临。

He died without knowing who killed his son and without ever seeing justice served.

到了2006年底，韩国最高法院作出了最终裁决。

It was late two thousand six when the Supreme Court of South Korea issued its final ruling.

他们裁定这些男孩无罪，因为证据不足。

They found the boys not guilty due to a lack of evidence.

这在当时非常罕见，但这次最高法院的法官们直接批评了警方的调查。

And this is highly unusual, but in this case, the Supreme Court justices actually criticized the investigation.

他们认定，那些供述极有可能是逼供所得，而那段‘一一二’录音也太过模糊，不能作为证据。

They ruled that the confessions were highly likely to have been coerced, and that the one one two recording was too ambiguous to be used as evidence.

金和张虽然被判无罪，但他们却在高中最关键的那一年里，被冤枉成杀害同学的凶手，四处奔波抗争。

Kim and Zhang were acquitted, but they'd just spent a year of their high school years fighting, being falsely accused of murder of their classmate.

我无法想象，他们的生活还能回到从前的样子。

I cannot imagine that their lives returned normal after this.

在法律上，无罪释放就意味着案件终结。

In the eyes of the law, acquittal means that the case is closed.

司法系统已经确认了金和张到底有没有作案。

The system had solved whether or not Kim and Zhang had actually done it.

但显然，没人打算回头去查真正杀害尹德的人。

But now, of course, they weren't going to go back and look for the two who actually had murdered In-taek.

他们根本没去追查云某当时实际看到的那两个人。

They didn't look for the two people that Yun had actually seen.

相反，警方批准销毁了所有物证。

Instead, the police authorized the destruction of all physical evidence.

包括那把刀、受害者的衣服，还有所有的法医取样。

The knife, the victim's clothing, the forensic swabs.

所有东西都被送进了警局的焚化炉。

It was all sent to the police's incinerator.

十五年来，尹德遇害案一直被视为结案了。

For fifteen years, the murder of In-taek was considered a closed case.

这案子虽然没定罪，但韩尹德的母亲从未放弃过。

It was a case that simply did not end in a conviction, but Han In-taek's mother never gave up.

她坚信被无罪释放的那两个学生才是真凶，而当初负责调查的警员也一直坚持认为，尹德在录音里指认了金某。

She was convinced that the acquitted students were actually the true killers, a belief supported by the original detectives who continued to insist that In-taek had named Gim on the tape.

2020年，调查节目《未解之谜》决定重新审理这起案件。

In 2020, the investigative program, Unanswered Questions, they decided to reopen the case.

他们不只是重新看了证词。

They didn't just look at the testimony.

他们想用现代技术，彻底解开这个噩梦的源头问题。

They wanted to use modern technology to finally find an answer to the question that started this entire nightmare.

那段二十秒的录音里，到底录了什么？

What was actually on that twenty second recording?

我现在就放给你们听。

I'm gonna replay it for you here.

制作团队和调查人员把原始录音送到语音分析研究所，交给了负责人李哲铉。

The production team and investigators took the original audio to the Voice Analysis Institute and handed it over to the director, Lee Chul Hyun.

他是韩国顶尖的法医音频专家之一。

He is one of South Korea's leading forensic audio experts.

李主任没有预设任何结论，对这段录音做了频率分析。

Director Lee approached the audio without an expectation and performed a frequency analysis.

分析结果推翻了警方原先的判断，即尹德并没有说出金的名字。

The results destroyed the original police deduction that In-taek had said Gim's name.

李主任确认，原来警探认为是“金”字的那个声音片段，根本不是人说话的声音。

Director E determined that the specific sound segment the original detective had identified as the name Gim wasn't human speech at all.

实际上，那个频率对应的是痛苦的呻吟，这很合理。

Instead, the frequency matched a groan of pain, which makes sense.

尹德当时正遭受主动脉破裂，这条负责向全身输送氧气的主血管被撕裂了。

In-depth was suffering from an aortic rupture, which severed the largest artery that carries oxygen throughout the body.

他因为一种叫“缺氧窒息”的状况而痛苦地呻吟。

He was groaning in pain due to a condition called air hunger.

当身体极度缺氧时，肺部根本无法维持发出清晰语音所需的气压。

Your body becomes so desperate for oxygen, but your lungs just cannot maintain the pressure necessary to make articulate sounds.

这时候人是说不出话的，尤其是像‘k’这样的音。

You become unable to speak when this happens, especially sounds like the letter k.

我得承认，我这英语老师的老毛病又犯了——这个音是爆破音，靠堵住口腔后部的气流，然后突然释放形成的。

And I'm gonna sound like the English teacher I am, but this is a plosive sound produced by stopping air in the back of the mouth with a voiceless stop and then sudden burst of air.

In-taek 根本不可能发出这样的声音。

In-taek would not have been able to make this sound.

根据2020年的法医重新分析，In-taek 在临终前并不是在报出同学的名字。

According to the 2020 forensic reanalysis, In-taek was not spending his final breath naming a classmate.

他其实是在拼命求救，但并不是我们通常理解的那种说话方式。

He was actually trying to plead for medical help, but he wasn't speaking in the way we understand it.

他拼命想让空气穿过正在闭合的喉咙，只能挤出一些以元音为主的断句。

He was desperately trying to push air through a throat that was closing, forcing out vowel heavy fragments of a sentence.

专家认为，他当时是想说‘我刚被刀刺中了’。

Experts believe that he was trying to say I've just been stabbed with a knife.

但那句话不可能是这个样子出来的。

But it wouldn't have come out this way.

更可能听起来像是几个元音反复重复，比如 e、i、i、i、i。

It might have sounded closer to just the vowels like e, I, I, I, I.

如果警方一开始就把录音交给语音分析师，早就该明白这一点了。

This would have been known if the police had taken the audio recording to an analyst in the first place.

就在十年前，这种声音很可能已经被语音分析专家，甚至只是语言学家破解了。

Even ten years prior, it likely would have been decipherable by a voice analysis expert or even just a linguist.

那样的话，金和张就不会浪费整整一年的人生，说不定早就抓到真凶了。

And then Kim and Zhang wouldn't have had a year of their lives ruined and they might have caught the culprit.

但如果不是学生干的，那还有没有其他线索指向真正的作案者？

But if it wasn't the students, then were there any other leads for who had done this?

当2020年的调查人员开始追查袁某看到的那些可疑男子时，他们发现了一条自2005年以来就一直被搁置的线索。

When the 2020 investigators started looking into the creepy men that Yuan had seen, they found a lead that had been just sitting since 2005.

案发时，曾有人举报说，有一群年纪较大的不良青年——不是学生，而是二十出头的年轻人——经常在那个区域出没。

At the time of the murder, a tip had come in about a group of older delinquents, not students, but young adults in their early twenties who are known to frequent that specific area.

这些人不是校园霸凌者。

These men were not bullies.

他们只是小偷小摸的惯犯。

They were petty thieves.

他们随身带刀，专门盯上夜里独自回家的人。

They were known to carry knives and target people who walked home alone at night.

警方也知道这一点。

And the police knew this.

这完全符合案件的特征。

This fits the crime exactly.

接着，他们又发现了一件事。

And then they discovered something else.

2005年，证人云某向警方提供初步证词后，自己就被这个本地团伙盯上了。

After witness Yun gave his initial statement to the police in 2005, he himself was targeted by this local gang.

嫌疑人刚被逮捕不久，云某就遭到了不明人士的暴力袭击。

Shortly after the suspects were arrested, Yun was physically assaulted by unknown assailants.

袭击过程中，行凶者 allegedly 对他说：‘这下你没法作证了。’

During the assault, his attackers allegedly said, now you won't be able to testify.

这强烈表明，真凶不仅仍住在附近，还在密切关注调查进展，并且已经威胁了证人。

This strongly suggested that the real killers were not only still in the neighborhood, but they were actively monitoring the investigation and had intimidated a witness.

这或许也是他误指那两名少年为凶手的原因。

This might have also been a reason he falsely identified the two teenage boys as the killers.

如果警方当时去查一下这个当地的不良团伙，很可能会从以前的案子认出他们。

If the police had looked into this local gang of delinquents, they likely would have known them from previous crimes.

但因为广东警方听到了录音里的名字，就再也没有跟进云先生遭袭击的事。

But because the Guangdong police had heard the name on the tape, they never followed up on the assault against Yun.

他们根本没去查那些职业犯罪团伙。

They never looked into the professional delinquent groups.

连当地的不良分子都没去调查。

They never even looked into the local delinquent groups.

他们一直死盯着错误的方向，线索却渐渐凉了。

They stayed tunnel visioned while the trail went cold.

如今，尹德的谋杀案依然悬而未决。

Today, the murder of In-taek remains unsolved.

幸运的是，自2015年起，谋杀案已取消追诉时效，但原始证据全没了，现在什么也查不了。

The statute of limitations for murder has thankfully been abolished since 2015, but without any of the original evidence, there is nothing left to test.

韩尹德在生命的最后二十秒拼命求救，而他打电话求助的警察，却没能保护他。

Han In-taek used his final twenty seconds to try and save himself, and the police he called failed to keep him safe.

同样是这些警察，逼迫两名无辜少年认罪，还对他们进行骚扰和施压。

The same police targeted, harassed, and coerced two innocent boys into confessing.

然后任由真正的凶手逍遥法外。

And then they let the real killers get away with it.

经历了这一切之后，我觉得最关键的问题不仅是谁真正杀了韩寅泽，更是为什么调查会如此坚定地走向错误的方向？

After everything, I think the most important question is not only who truly killed Han In-taek, but also how did an investigation move so confidently in the wrong direction?

因为在这个案子里，问题不只是糟糕的审讯，也不只是录音里听错的那个声音。

Because in this case, the mistake wasn't just that bad interrogation, just the misheard sound on the audio recording.

不是的。

No.

而是一连串糟糕的决定，像多米诺骨牌一样，一个接一个地推着往前，最终让整个调查都陷入了一个他们自己都深信不疑的虚构故事里。

It was just a huge chain, a domino effect of bad decisions that kept just reinforcing the one before it until the investigation was operating under a completely fictional story they sold themselves.

警察以为他们在那通电话里听到了‘金’这个名字。

The police believe they heard the name Gim in that call.

从那一刻起，整个案件就开始围绕这个错误的信念打转。

And from that moment forward, the case began narrowing around that belief.

他们在找一个姓金的人。

They looked for a Gim.

整个案子都是围绕‘金’这个名字展开的。

They built the entire case around the name Gim.

他们把孩子的恐惧误认为是 guilt，任何与之矛盾的线索，都直接忽略了。

They misinterpreted the boy's fear as guilt, and any contradictions in the case, they just ignored.

两位犯罪学家和法律学者基思·芬利和迈克尔·斯科特，把这种现象叫做‘调查盲区’。

Keith Findley and Michael Scott, who are two criminologists and legal scholars, they call this investigative tunnel vision.

参与办案的人只盯着一个嫌疑人。

Those involved in the case focus on one suspect.

他们只挑选支持自己结论的证据，对那些 contradict 的线索则视而不见，甚至压制。

They select and filter evidence that fits their case and ignore or suppress evidence that goes against what they want to be true.

这种盲区，我担心在生活的很多方面都很普遍。

This kind of tunnel vision, I fear, is very common in many aspects of life.

但重要的是，盲区并不总是意味着腐败或蓄意篡改。

Importantly, though, tunnel vision doesn't always mean corruption or intentional change.

这可能只是从普通的推理开始的。

It can just begin with ordinary reasoning.

确认偏误让我们更容易注意到支持自己已有观点的信息，而忽略那些与之相悖的证据。

Confirmation bias makes us just more likely to notice information that supports what we already believe and dismiss information that challenges it.

但在刑事案件中，确认偏误非常危险，因为警察的个人看法可能直接决定谁的自由被重视、谁的记忆更可信、哪些线索值得追查。

But in a criminal investigation, confirmation bias is very dangerous, because the police officer's private opinions might just decide whose freedom matters, whose memory is trustworthy, and which leads end up being followed.

在尹德的案子中，证据并不指向金和郑有罪。

In In-taek's case, the evidence didn't point to Kim and Jeong being guilty.

当高中生金在经历了数小时的身体胁迫后终于认罪时，他编出的故事与警方已掌握的证据完全矛盾。

When the high school student, Kim, was finally pressured into confessing, after hours of physical intimidation, he told a story that completely contradicted the evidence they already had.

他的供述提到一场打斗和一把弹簧刀，但这两点都与实际案情不符。

The confession described a fight, a switchblade, of which neither fit the actual crime.

但隧道视野让警方愿意说：也许我们当初误解了证据，然后硬把事实往里套。

But tunnel vision means the police were willing to say, maybe we just misinterpreted the original evidence and then try to make it fit.

这根本不是为了查明真相。

It wasn't a find out what happened.

到了这一步，就只是为了让证据凑合上罢了。

At this point, it was make it fit.

接着是尹某，那名加油站员工，他的证词已经被污染了。

And then there was Yoon, the gas station employee who was a contaminated witness.

我需要澄清一下，确实存在一些干扰证人和污染证词的情况，但干扰证人——也就是试图影响、恐吓或阻止证人作证——是当地帮派干的，他们很可能才是真凶。

I wanna clarify, there was a little bit of witness tampering and witness contamination, but the witness tampering, which is an effort to influence, intimidate, or prevent a witness from testifying, that was from the local gang who likely were the ones actually behind this crime.

而污染证词——即通过暗示性提问或听他人证词，无意或有意地改变证人的记忆，从而影响其证词可信度——则是警方做的。

The witness contamination, which is the unintentional or intentional altering of a witness's memory through suggestive questioning or hearing other people's testimonies, which affects their credibility as a witness, that was done by the police.

记忆这东西很不稳定，特别容易受到外界影响。

Memory is a fickle thing and it's incredibly open to suggestion.

那天晚上，尹某确实看到了一些重要的东西。

Yoon did see something important that night.

他看到尹泰悠闲地走着，后面有两个身影在昏暗的路上追他。

He saw In-taek walking casually and two figures chasing him up the dark road.

后来，他又看到那两个人从山坡上跑回来。

Later, he saw the same figures running back down the hill.