On November 21, 2002, a middle school principal was found dead in an abandoned warehouse in Hongseong, South Chungcheong Province. There were wounds to the head caused by a blunt object, and marks on the neck from being pressed by a thin wire. Cash and a wristwatch were missing. At first, it appeared to be a robbery-murder.

However, the last words her husband remembered pointed in a completely different direction.

“I have some school business. I’ll be right back.”

While the man who had borrowed the money was framed as the prime suspect, the real culprit remained quietly outside the net of the investigation. And when police suspicion turned toward him, he disappeared, leaving a suicide note and his belongings at a riverside motel. His body was never found. It seemed the case would remain unsolved.

In 2016, a man living as an honest businessman at a factory in Busan. Neither his wife nor his two children knew his past. However, old records and a single small fingerprint left on a cup began to connect two names.

The death in the abandoned warehouse, the stigma left on an innocent man, and the second life of the criminal who even fabricated his own death. We follow the process of that long-standing lie crumbling.

※ This video is a crime narrative adapted from the provided story. The characters and scene images are reproductions intended to aid understanding and do not represent actual photos of the case or investigation records.

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