T-Cast E Channel ‘Brave Detectives 4’
In ‘Brave Detectives 4’, the case of professional basketball player Jeong Sang-heon, which caused the anger of many, was reexamined.
In the 11th episode of T-Cast E Channel’s ‘Brave Detectives 4’ (directed by Lee Ji-seon), which aired on the 22nd, Inspector Yoon In-soo of Pyeongtaek Police Station, Inspector Hong Soon-jae of Yeongdeungpo Police Station, and Inspector Kim Yo-han appeared and revealed the investigation log that they personally solved.
The incident introduced on the broadcast that day began with a report by the younger couple that the older sister, who had gone on a trip, had lost contact and had not returned. My sister left a message saying, “I’m going on a trip,” and then turned off her cell phone. About an hour before sending the message to my sister, her vehicle was captured on CCTV on a road near her home. However, questions were added as a man of considerably larger physique, who was not the older woman, was spotted in the driver’s seat.
While the investigation team was tracking the vehicle’s movements, the driver changed again within a day. This time, a man of average build was driving the car. He claimed that he did not know anything about the missing person and that the vehicle was received as collateral from the representative of the company that lent him the money. The company representative also did not know about the missing person and said that the vehicle was received as collateral in lieu of money lent. In the loan certificate presented by the representative, along with the borrowed money of 12 million won, the ‘execution’s car’ was mentioned as collateral, drawing attention to the missing person’s brother-in-law.
The brother-in-law was a tall and bulky person, similar to the man in the first CCTV. At first, he denied driving his brother-in-law’s car, but when presented with the IOU and CCTV evidence, he said that he needed money and borrowed money using his brother-in-law’s car as collateral. When the brother-in-law’s car was inspected, three traces of Buddha’s blood and two bottles of used deodorant were found in the trunk. In particular, the shock was heightened when he was revealed to be Jeong Sang-heon, a former professional basketball player who made a name for himself in the early 2000s.
Mr. Jeong claimed that the day before the incident occurred, he asked his wife to give him a little more of the royalties he received from closing the store run by his sisters, but his sister-in-law refused, so he decided to kill her. It was revealed that after killing his brother-in-law, he carried the body in the trunk of his car and abandoned it in a nearby park. Even after the crime, he continued to live his life as usual, but when his wife decided to report him missing, he was known to have accompanied her to the execution report, intensifying his anger.
Jeong Sang-heon was nicknamed ‘Basketball Genius’ for his height of 192cm and his ability to pass, court vision, and score. After entering Korea University, he frequently left the team and caused problems, so he dropped out. He later joined the Orions through the general draft in 2005, but was unable to adapt to group life and was released after leaving the team without permission before the season.
Afterwards, he joined Mobis and became a managing director in 2007, but after being discharged from the military in 2009, he failed to participate in training and retired when Mobis announced his voluntary withdrawal. Afterwards, it is known that he lived with his in-laws and made a living by working in the dealership and scrap car brokerage business.
Mr. Jeong was sentenced to 25 years in prison in the first trial, but the sentence was reduced on appeal to the Supreme Court in July 2014 and sentenced to 20 years in prison. He is currently serving his sentence in prison and is scheduled to be released in 2033.
