Will Choi have anything to do with the disappearance of lawyer Lee Jong-un?



In SBS'I want to know that' broadcasted on the 26th, the case of lawyer Lee Jong-un, who disappeared in 2004, was tracked under the subtitle of'Suspicious Accompaniment-and the Disappearing Lawyer'.



Attorney Lee Jong-un disappeared after work on July 29, 2004. However, his deeds are still nowhere to be found.



The day after the disappearance, the family, feeling strange, asked his fiancée about the lawyer's whereabouts. As a result, the fiance Choi said, "There was a trial in Gwangju, so I was going to go down there and go on vacation." However, on the day of his disappearance, the lawyer delegated the trial authority to a colleague in Gwangju and canceled the Gwangju schedule.



And he didn't come back on the day the vacation ended, and the police repeatedly told him to wait because the disappearance of an adult was more likely to run away. And the lawyer's family heard through his fiancee that before he disappeared, there had been a conflict with his fiancee over a coma. Fiancee had a lawyer needs a home, car, and personal office to get married on the condition refused them feel the skepticism has disappeared, "he insists. In his acquaintance that" he called such stories are not heard at all. "



And he Two months after the disappearance, lawyer Lee Jong-un called his father that he was doing well and that he had someone to marry another woman other than the fiancee, and said that a few days later he told his fiancée by hand fax that he broke up. Judging that there was credibility, the lawyer decided that the lawyer ran away voluntarily and closed the case.



However, his acquaintances later discovered something strange through Mr. Lee's financial transactions.

After he disappeared, it was revealed that he paid a lot of money to the fiancee, including loaning the fiancee's credit card as well as the fiancee's company salary, and the newlyweds changed the name of the fiancee.

In particular, after the disappearance, the money sent to the fiancée amounted to 120 million won, which was a surprise.



The people who knew Mr. Lee said, "I don't know that it's a luxury. I didn't even think about opening a private office," and expressed doubts about the fiancee's claim and his financial transactions.

In addition, his family said, "I asked if my father didn't know his son's voice. He said he wasn't this lawyer. And what was written on the handwritten fax is strange."



And Lee's family captured Lee's image on a CCTV screen while tracking his journey ten months after he disappeared, while riding in a car driven by a female driver.

Also, about the driving woman, the family insisted that it is "Mr. Choi, the fiancee."



Lee and Choi met through matchmaking and promised to marry on their 10th date.

And Mr. Lee had an engagement ceremony at the request of Mr. Choi, and the wedding was scheduled on the spot.

However, after that, Mr. Choi requested a health checkup one week before the wedding, and it was discovered that there was a problem at that time, so he asked to postpone the marriage.

And one day, two months before the wedding, he disappeared.



However, Mr. Lee had already been registered with Choi.

In addition, when he discovered that his family had been reported to move in without even knowing it, it was revealed that Mr. Oh, who was in his mid-30s, pretended to be a lawyer and filed a move-in report.



A man who was said to have a hindrance in the process of reporting a move-in, why did he pretend to be him?

The production crew questioned Oh and asked him what had happened.

In response, Mr. Oh posted an article on the job site, and he was informed that he was acting as a role agent, and that Mr. Choi asked to take the role of her husband because her husband was in the hospital as a vegetable human and could not work.



As a result, it turned out that Mr. Oh received 50,000 won per day and did a number of things, such as reporting the move-in that Mr. Choi ordered, and opening a mobile phone.

Mr. Oh said, "She gave me all the comments. When I met someone, he told me what to say and what to do," he said. "Even if I don't have money, I shouldn't do that, but I'm embarrassed."



At the time, the police investigated Mr. Oh, but it turned out that there were no other suspicions.

And it turned out that Mr. Choi ordered Mr. Oh to change Mr. Lee's insurance to his own name, withdraw his deposits, and even attempt to obtain a loan.



And Choi made excessive spending a few days after Mr. Lee disappeared, and even disposed of Mr. Lee's property.

In particular, Mr. Lee signed up for life insurance just before his disappearance, and the beneficiary was Mr. Choi, and the total receipt was set to be about 1.5 billion.

In addition, it was revealed that it was set as the accident that caused a lot of insurance money.



Accordingly, Choi paid the insurance amount for several months even after Lee disappeared.

This insurance had a provision that the beneficiary could receive the insurance if it was not discovered for two years after reporting the disappearance.



Choi's behavior, which seemed to predict Lee's disappearance, and the police found unexpected evidence in his house.

In his notebook, he captured the traces of the combination of letters, which was evidence that Lee's handwritten fax was decorated with his own play.



Also, the call to Mr. Lee's father at the time was that Choi paid 300,000 won to a man to pretend to be Mr. Lee.

In response, Choi argued, "I was displeased that Mr. Lee disappeared, and I wanted to trouble my family. I thought marriage was difficult and I wanted to receive alimony."



And when I was in possession of Mr. Lee's ID card and stamp, he said, "I entrusted my father to report the marriage. Even if Mr. Lee asked to visit him, he didn't come, so his father had it, and he gave it to me after Mr. Lee disappeared. "I will."

He also claimed that it had been in such a state from the beginning about the damage to the face of the ID photo.

Then Lee's colleagues said that he had seen his ID card shortly before he went on vacation, and that he was able to recognize who the face was.



And Choi claimed that on the day of Lee's disappearance, he went home at 9 o'clock, saying that he walked around a shopping mall in Sunae Bundang for about two hours.

However, as a result of the interviews, it was revealed that the mall he visited was closed at around 7 o'clock at the time, and no evidence could be found because there was no CCTV.



Accordingly, the police could not find directly that Mr. Choi was directly involved in the disappearance of Mr. Lee.

In addition, the investigation was conducted with the involvement of a third party in mind, but it turned out that no suspicious points were found.



At this time, Lee's family revealed another suspicious evidence.

Mr. Lee's marriage report had a different contact information.

In addition, there is a possibility that the marriage registration form written by Mr. Lee himself was not due to the evidence that the father's name was corrected.



And the family confirmed that the owner of this contact was Choi's co-worker.

Therefore, Choi claimed that at the time, he could not think of the number at the moment, so he wrote down the number of his coworker as soon as possible.



Afterwards, the families who visited Lee's officetel to find anything, but they were surprised to see that Choi had already released the officetel as a charter.

Also, the tenant of the officetel said that he had seen Choi's husband a few days ago, and that his husband was not Lee.

And the protagonist of the impression he described was Kim, the owner of the phone number in the marriage registration form.



Later, Lee's family confirmed that he was living with Choi at Lee's honeymoon.

The two people who lived together a month before Lee and Choi met.

It turned out that they had traveled to Jeju Island before the disappearance of Lee, and prepared for marriage after the disappearance of Lee.

As a result, Mr. Kim was also under intense investigation regarding Mr. Lee's disappearance.



Mr. Kim claimed, "I found out by chance. When I asked to marry, there was someone to marry, and there was even a marriage report. When I asked for separation, I was going to divorce, so I asked for a wait, and after a while, I heard that Mr. Lee ran away."



The police were frustrated with the unanswered investigation, saying, "There were no doubts from the results of the investigation. There was no problem with Alibaba or anything like that."



In addition, the expert said that Choi wrote down Kim's contact information on the marriage report, saying, "I would have written down Mr. Kim's contact information because of the concern that Mr. Lee would be calling," and said that it was possible because he was on his safe side.



After that, the production team contacted Kim.

Mr. Kim refused to report, saying, "I don't remember. I tried to forget, I didn't care and lived. I don't know anything. I don't want to talk anymore."



There was another reason that Mr. Lee's family couldn't raise suspicion about his brother, Kim.

The vehicle in the CCTV where Lee's last image was photographed was a vehicle owned by Mr. Kim.

In response, Mr. Kim argued, "I just shared a car to work with me. I got to know it after receiving an investigation, and if I knew anything, I would have said it."



Choi was dismissed for fraud before CCTV was discovered.

The expert said, "No other evidence was found that the body was not found and that the person was murdered. Even if this person is suspicious, the principle of presumption of innocence is the grand principle." I can't write it in an indictment," he explained, explaining why it is difficult to punish him even if there are many suspicious parts about Choi.



In the past, Mr. Choi's first trial said, "The defendant seems to have committed the case deliberately knowing that Mr. Lee's disappearance and that he could not return," he said, and asked for a sentence with a judgment with the murder charge in mind.

However, in the second trial afterwards, Choi was sentenced to two years in prison for not being able to confirm that he was directly involved in Lee's disappearance.



Once again, the crew tracked Lee's last move.

“It is difficult to obtain good results even if the image quality is improved because the original was retaken. However, the shape and stripes of the tie look the same as well. Various circumstances. When comparing the shape of the jacket, shirt, and tie, it is a coincidence. "It is unlikely that they will wear the same clothes by coincidence, and it is highly likely that the two are the same person."



In addition, through an experiment, the production crew also obtained a result that the woman in the driver's seat in the photo was a person with a height similar to that of Choi.



An expert said, "If this is a murder case, it is highly likely that the day of July 29 was caught and planned very carefully from start to finish, and then the maneuvered kidnapping, murder, and the death of the corpse were carried out in a row." How to do it, it will be difficult to abandon the body without the help of an assistant."



And Choi, who spoke to many people on the day Lee disappeared.

However, at the time of the incident, it was difficult to specify that it was related to the incident, so it was revealed that it was not possible to determine who the person who made the call was, which caused regret.



Finally, the production team tried to talk directly with Choi.

Choi, who was contacted at the end of a questionnaire, said, "Because it was painful, I can't tell you any more."

Also, when asked if he had not met Lee for the last time on the day of his disappearance, he refused any further conversation, saying, "I said I would hang up.



Accordingly, the production crew tried to find Choi's house and meet again.

But Choi doesn't have any answers.

The next day, I asked for a conversation with Choi's husband, whom I met by chance.



Choi's husband said, "I don't want to talk to him," he said. "He said he knew he was missing after arrest."

Accordingly, the production crew handed over a CCTV picture and asked for an answer if the woman in the picture was not Choi.

After contemplating, his husband took a photo and went to Choi, and after a while, he appeared in front of the production crew.

He said, "It is said that I am not the person. I was very embarrassed because I was unfair."

So, when the production crew confirmed that they had never met on the day of the disappearance, they left, saying, "I have already said everything that relates to me."



Then, the production team asked Kim, the owner of the vehicle, if he had ever lent the vehicle to anyone other than Choi.

In response, Mr. Kim said that he had never lent a car to another person and said, "I also lived in fear. On the contrary, think that I was in the man's position. It's creepy."



An expert said that the reason why Mr. Choi has been sticking to the evening time on the day of Mr. Lee's disappearance until the end said, "The last one I could withstand was that he was in Bundang-gu at that time. If he admits that he drove a vehicle, all the Everything collapses," he analyzed.



In addition, a photographic image analysis expert said, "Recently, a technique that utilizes deep learning for such images has been developed. If there is enough data, even inferior images can be restored." He revealed that there is room for improvement in future investigations.



And a legal expert said, "There is no punishment for the same incident again. But the murder charges are absent at the time." He said, "If the body of Mr. Lee is found or evidence of death is found, the situation will change." I had it.



The family and friends who shed tears while longing for Mr. Lee were spending day by day hoping that Mr. Lee's body would be found somewhere.

In addition, when he met Choi, when asked what he would like to ask, he said, "I want to ask only where he is," he said, saying that the fact that even life and death cannot be known is the most difficult.



The expert advised, "It is a pity that the initial investigation was not conducted in depth due to the nature of the disappearance of an adult. The only way to do this is to start over from the beginning without letting go of the case. The murder case should be regarded as an unprecedented case and should not be released until the end."



In addition, the broadcast revealed a list of the contact details that Choi called on the day of Lee's disappearance, and requested a report on Lee's disappearance.



(SBS Entertainment News Editor Kim Hyo-jeong)