a woman in Korea Authorities say obsessed with books and television shows about murder has hatched a real-life plot to kill and dismember a victim found online “out of curiosity” wanting to commit suicide. end his life.
Jung Yoo-jung, 23, was arrested on Wednesday and confessed to the murder, according to Busan police, Chosun Ilbo report. She was indicted for Friday’s fatal stabbing. A police spokesman shared macabre details of Jung’s alleged crimes, adding that although she “feels remorseful for what she did”, authorities The agency is “conducting tests to see if she is a psychopath”.
The spokesperson added: “Jung was found to have pre-planned the crime out of a desire to kill after she became obsessed with murder from TV shows and books.” Investigators believe that in the months leading up to the attack, Jung took crime books from the library and watched TV shows about real crimes. She is also alleged to have searched the internet for ways to hide the body.
Police said she found her victim through an app designed to connect parents with tutors at school, posing as the mother of a 9th grader who needed help learning English. Authorities said Jung then arranged to bring her daughter to the victim’s home—identified only as a female college student and freelance tutor in her 20s—for counseling.
Instead, the authorities claimed that Jung purchased a school uniform and personally went to the tutor’s house in Geumjeong District, Busan on May 26, according to JoongAng Daily Newspaper. Playing a student, Jung then entered the victim’s home and stabbed her to death, police allege. A police spokesman said: “Jung was short and wore a uniform so the victim could have mistaken her for a middle school student.
After killing the tutor, Jung allegedly went to a store to buy bleach and trash bags before returning to dismember the body. Authorities said she then called a taxi and carried some of the victim’s body parts in a suitcase to a remote forest by the Nakdong River. The taxi driver is said to have suspected Jung going into the bush with a suitcase after midnight, and then contacted the police.
Police said, “In order to make the victim look like he had disappeared, Jung kept the victim’s cell phone, ID card and wallet, trying to commit a perfect crime. When questioned by police, Jung initially told police that she had accidentally killed the victim during an argument. She later confessed after investigators discovered inconsistencies in her story and her family encouraged her to clean up, the reports said.
According to police, many remains of the victim’s body were found at Jung’s home.
