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On the morning of May 7, detectives from the Donghae Police Station rushed to an apartment complex in Samcheok, Gangwon Province, to locate a suspect who was on the run from police. The suspect was wearing a hard hat, a type of worker's hat, to hide his identity. Detectives waited for him in various locations around the complex, from the entrance of the apartment building to a nearby shopping center. Hours later, the man finally emerged from the doorway of his first-floor apartment and was quickly apprehended by detectives. He was 48-year-old A, who was suspected of murdering a woman he had been living with in Donghae, Gangwon Province, a day earlier.
Surprisingly, it was his third murder. A laborer at a construction site in his hometown of Donghae, Gangwon Province, he had killed his wife in 2001 and the mother of a Vietnamese woman he was in a relationship with in 2012. He was released from prison in 2020 after serving two prison terms. In the early morning hours of May 6, he killed another woman, Ms. B, in her 60s.
The two had only started living together 11 days before the incident. The victim had been living alone in Donghae, working at a restaurant with no ties. Her cause of death was cardiac arrest due to multiple pre-existing injuries and excessive blood loss. The police found 55 traces of self-inflicted and mutilation wounds on her body. They even found a weapon with a broken blade. It was a relentless and brutal attack. A short relationship of only 11 days and a short cohabitation led to such a brutal murder.
The two had been drinking together shortly before the incident. A doesn't remember exactly what happened because of the alcohol, but he says that the victim favored another man at the bar, which angered him and led him to brandish a knife when he got home. The third reason that he was given the police for the murder was that the crime was accidental, as he was unable to control his anger in the heat of the moment.
But the evidence at the scene told a different story. A broken scalpel found attached to the victim's back, and a kitchen knife on a dresser that appeared to have been used after it was broken. After more than 20 attacks, the victim was no longer able to resist and even the blade was broken, but the killer didn't stop, instead he kept switching weapons and continuing to attack the victim.
Kang Ho-Soon, a psychopath...the 'rare killer' released from prison as a role model prisoner
Three murders... but a well behaved prisoner
Since 2001, Mr. A committed three murders in a period of about 10 years. The second and third murders occurred within two years of his release from prison. Although he committed three murders, he was a rumored model prisoner during his incarceration. He had no problems in prison when he was sentenced to eight years for murdering his wife in 2001, and when he was sentenced to 14 years for murdering his ex-girlfriend's mother in Vietnam in 2012, he was able to get out on parole four months early in Korea and eight years later in Vietnam.
A lied about having a child with a Vietnamese woman and raised money for his parole by writing “false letters” to Korean immigrants in Vietnam, claiming that the murder of the woman's mother was accidental and that he was not a murderer. The Korean-Americans believed him and petitioned for his parole with the money they raised.
The three-time convicted murderer but he was recognized as a sincere and good man by many of those around him.
But his family was afraid of him. They were afraid of Mr. A's return to South Korea after he was paroled from Vietnam. They told the family that Mr. A was not normal, that his first murder was a case of relentlessly chasing, stalking and killing his wife, who had fled from him, and that he had suffered from toxic gas inhalation addiction and huffing addiction since he was a child.
Mr. A, who showed overkill tendencies in the third murder, was found to have scored higher than Kang Ho-sun and Cho Doo-soon on a psychopathy scale assessment, or psychopathy test, conducted during the trial. Because of this, experts said they could not rule out the possibility that there were other major crimes he had commited that had not yet been revealed.
“Too heavy sentence” his appeal rejected... life in prison
Mr. A is said to have requested petitions from various sources to reduce his current sentence.
On November 11, the Criminal Division 1 of the Seoul High Court's Chuncheon Trial Division (Hwang Seung-tae, Chief Judge) dismissed the appeal of Mr. A, who was charged with murder, saying that the sentence was “heavy” and upheld the trial court's decision to sentence him to life imprisonment. The Appeals Chamber explained that “the trial court's selection of sentencing factors was justified, and the trial court's sentence did not exceed the reasonable scope of its discretion,” and that “there was no meaningful change in circumstances since the original judgment.”
Mr. A was sentenced to eight years in prison the following January for the murder of his ex-wife in 2001 after she told him that they were separating. He was paroled in February 2009 before his sentence expired and remarried to a Vietnamese woman. However, his affair with another Vietnamese woman developed into a marriage, and when the woman's mother objected to the marriage, he killed her in Vietnam.
He was sentenced to 14 years in prison by a Vietnamese court, and after serving about eight years and five months, he was released in 2020 and deported to South Korea. However, about two years after his deportation, he brutally murdered his live-in girlfriend again, and eventually stood trial for the 'third murder'.
At his last appeals hearing, he claimed that he was drunk and could not remember the crime well, and bowed his head, saying, “I committed a big sin, what can I say, I'm sorry to the victim, and this is all I can say,” he claimed that he regret and apologize, but this did not reduce his punishment and sentence.
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