{"id":26646,"date":"2023-11-24T09:37:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T14:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=26646"},"modified":"2023-11-24T09:37:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T14:37:35","slug":"korean-true-crime-fan-murdered-stranger-out-of-curiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2023\/11\/24\/korean-true-crime-fan-murdered-stranger-out-of-curiosity\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean true crime fan murdered stranger ‘out of curiosity’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A South Korean court has given a life sentence to a true crime fan who told police she murdered a stranger “out of curiosity”.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Jung Yoo-jung, 23, had been obsessed with crime shows and novels and scored highly on psychopath tests, police said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Fixated with the idea of “trying out a murder”, she used an app to meet an English-language teacher, stabbing her to death at her home in May.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The brutal killing shocked South Korea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Prosecutors had asked for the death penalty – a request typically reserved for the gravest of offences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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They told the court that Jung, an unemployed loner who lived with her grandfather, had looked for victims for months, using an online tutoring app to find a target.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She contacted more than 50 people and favoured women, asking them if they conducted their lessons at home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In May, posing as the mother of a high school student who needed English lessons, she contacted the 26-year-old victim, who lived in the south-eastern city of Busan. Her identity has not been disclosed by police.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Jung then showed up at the tutor’s house dressed in a school uniform she had bought online, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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After the teacher let her in, she attacked the woman, stabbing her more than 100 times – continuing the frenzied attack even after the victim had died.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She then dismembered the woman’s body and took a taxi ride to dump some of the remains in remote parkland near a river, north of Busan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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She was arrested after the taxi driver tipped off police about a customer who had dumped a blood-soaked suitcase in the woods.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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