Jung Yoo Jung, a 23-year-old Korean, was obsessed with crime stories, which led her to kill and dismember an unknown teacher out of ‘curiosity’.
Jung Yoo Jung, a 23-year-old Korean woman, was obsessed with crime novels and crime shows on television and movies. Motivated by the idea of “attempting a murder,” she used an app to meet an English teacher and stabbed her to death 100 times in her home and then dismembered her in May 2023.
Jung was found to have premeditated the crime driven by a desire to kill someone after becoming obsessed with the murder through television shows and books, according to reports from Busan City Police in South Korea.
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Additionally, the woman, described as a lonely unemployed person who lived with her grandfather, searched for victims for months through a teacher-finding app. She contacted more than 50 people and preferred women, asking them if they taught the lessons at home.
Posing as the mother of a high school student who needed English lessons, Jung contacted the 26-year-old victim, who lived in the southeastern city of Busan.
When Jung arrived at the tutor’s house, she posed as a student wearing a school uniform. After the victim let him into her home, Jung stabbed her more than 100 times, in a frenzied attack that continued even after the victim had died.
He then went to a nearby supermarket after the murder and bought garbage bags and bleach. He then dismembered the woman and put parts of her body in a suitcase, which he then discarded near a river north of Busan.
The murderer was arrested after the taxi driver who took her to the place where she dumped the guardian’s remains contacted the Police. The victim’s remains, which were not found in the suitcase, were found in Jung’s house.
Authorities also discovered that Jung’s browsing history revealed that he had researched how to kill and dispose of a body for months before the heinous crime.
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In addition to this, the Police indicated that the woman was careless because she made no effort to avoid the closed circuit television cameras at the victim’s residence, which captured her entering and leaving the teacher’s house several times.
According to local media, Jung argued that he committed the crime while he was in a state of “physical and mental disorder,” but the court rejected his claim, noting that the murder was “carefully planned and executed.”
“It sowed fear in society that one could become a victim for no reason” and “incited general distrust,” the court argued before handing down the sentence.
Although the Prosecutor’s Office requested the death penalty, Jung was sentenced to life imprisonment last November and to wear an electronic monitoring device for 30 years, for the brutal murder that shocked the entire society in South Korea.
