Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - A man in South Korea has confessed to m*rdering his girlfriend and hiding her body in cement 16 years after she was reported as missing.
The man, who is in his 50s, told local police he hit the
woman with a blunt object during an argument at his apartment in the southern
city of Geoje. He then placed her de@d body into a suitcase, which he buried
under a layer of bricks and cement on his balcony.
It remained there unnoticed until last month, August 2024,
when a maintenance worker discovered it while drilling, local media reported.
The body, which had been partially preserved by the
suitcase, was identified as the missing woman's through fingerprint analysis.
An autopsy revealed that she had d!ed from blunt force
trauma to the head.
The man, who police are calling Mr A, was not living in the
apartment when the body was discovered but was quickly found and arrested.
He told police that he had been living with the woman for
about five years in the studio apartment in Geoje, before an argument in
October 2008 culminated in him hitting her with a blunt object. He then buried
the suitcase containing her body under a layer of bricks and cement on a small
third-floor balcony, which could only be accessed from one of the bedrooms.
Police say he carried on living in the apartment for another
eight years before he was arrested on drugs charges in 2016.
Since then, the landlord of the apartment has left it empty,
using it as storage space.
The woman - who was in her 30s at the time - was not
reported missing by her family until three years after her de@th, the
authorities said. They had reportedly lost touch with their daughter and, when
they came to look for her in Geoje, they were told she had broken up with Mr A
and left the city.
It was only this year when the owner of the building ordered
some waterproofing work that the 16-year mystery could be solved.
Police say they are continuing with their investigations and
are expected to charge the man with murd*r.
-overlay.jpg)
0 Comments