SBS "Unanswered Questions" will expose the shocking actions of an active-duty police officer who deliberately and falsely closed and concealed a missing persons case.
Airing at 11:10 PM on Saturday, the 19th, the upcoming episode of SBS "Unanswered Questions" titled "104 Days Under the Palm Tree Forest – The Jeju Police Officer Bu Burial Case" will focus on the suspicions surrounding Officer Bu, who fabricated the missing person investigation, and the truth behind a wrongful death.
On the night of May 12, 36-year-old Jang Mi-ran went missing after leaving home. Although her boyfriend and family reported her missing, no activity or traces of her whereabouts were detected. Miran was found as skeletal remains 104 days later in a palm tree forest in Hallim-eup, Jeju City, just 400 meters away from her accommodation.
Officer Bu of the Jeju Western Police Station missing persons investigation team, who was in charge at the time of the missing persons report, notified that the case would be closed two hours and thirty minutes after receiving it, claiming that he had made contact with her and that she asked not to disclose her location to the reporter. However, this turned out to be entirely false. There were no call records, and Officer Bu deleted the case by processing the deceased as deceased in the internal police missing persons system.
This was not the only instance of Officer Bu falsely closing a case. In a missing persons report involving a man in his 60s last June, he also falsely closed the case by claiming he had made contact with the missing person. It has been revealed that he routinely manipulated or falsely closed as many as 25 missing persons reports, infuriating the bereaved families.
On the day Miran's remains were found, the police announced that she appeared to have hanged herself in the early hours of the day after she left home. Questions are being raised as to why the cause of death was hastily announced before an autopsy was even conducted, given that the deceased was found as skeletal remains and there were practically no clues due to the lack of proper investigation.
The producers of "Unanswered Questions" will investigate the possibility of murder through scientific experiments regarding cell tower locations, CCTV sightings, and whether it is physically possible to hang oneself from a palm tree using a shoelace.
"Unanswered Questions," which will track the habitual fabrication committed by a police officer sworn to protect citizens' lives and the hidden reality behind it, will air at 11:10 PM on Saturday, the 19th.
(SBS Entertainment News | Kang Sun-ae)
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