They weren't there, but why did they confess?



SBS'I Want to Know That', broadcast on the 24th, featured a special feature on the 30th anniversary of SBS's founding,'Is the World Better?-1 The Prisoner's Memory;

'They weren't there' was released.



In the broadcast that day, six murderers stood in front of the camera.

They were arrested for murder at different times and in different places, and came out of the world after serving as short as 230 days to as long as 20 years.



And they had one thing in common.

These were judicial victims, those who were accused of crimes they did not commit.

Why did they confess in the past and why are they speaking innocent now?



The production crew was interviewed to find the answer to this question and met the person who revealed that he was the real culprit of the Samrye Nara super grandma robbery case.



Mr. Bae, who identified himself as a real criminal, confessed his sins in the past.

However, the investigators at the time did not proceed with the investigation and released them without charge.

It was also revealed that they were even investigated with those who were framed and confessed at the time.



Kang, who lived in the Samrye Nara Super case, was arrested at the age of 18 along with two elementary school alumni.

Unlike the victim's testimony that the killer used the Gyeongsang-do language, Kang was native to Jeolla Province, and the circumstances of the crime they revealed in the field inspection did not fit the situation at all.

In response, Mr. Kang insisted that "the detectives informed me in order at the field inspection."



And he explained the reason for making the confession: "I saw the criminal telling me to write it, and I copied the statement."

At the time, Mr. Kang, who had been issued a certificate of registration for the disabled with an intellectual disability level 5, was also clumsy in writing Korean.

It was the detective who informed Kang and his companions of all the instructions and helped them confess.



In the final investigation, Mr. Bae, who had been investigated with Kang's and his people, said, "The prosecutor called us out and told us that it is not only possible to live in a prison cell if we live in a prison cell. Maybe they did not want to overturn what they did wrong. .

Even though Bae and his party confessed, they were freed of charges and the statute of limitations on the case was over.



And whether they couldn't afford to write a statement on intellectual disability, Kang and his party revealed that they eventually confessed because they were unable to endure violence and torture.



In the case of the murder of a girl in Chuncheon, who was released after serving for 15 years, Jung Seop recalled the memories of the time, saying, "I was beaten ignorantly.

Jang Dong-ik of the murder case of Eomgung-dong also revealed that he was forced to write a statement by compulsion, saying, "I used it as requested, because I can reveal the truth only when I live," he said.



Gyeongjin, who lived in the murder of a homeless girl in Suwon, recalled the time when he had no choice but to confess without torture, saying, "I only thought I wanted to get away quickly. I did it because no one helped me."



In addition, the evidence was manipulated and even their memories were manipulated through investigation agencies.

So Jung-seop's son said, "My father lives in prison and I am the number one contributor."

Won-seop was accused of murder because of a pencil found at the crime scene.

That it was Won-seop's son.



However, this was different from the witness testimony at the time.

Witnesses said they saw a yellow pencil, but Won-seop's son's pencil was a light blue pencil.

Accordingly, the police instructed Won-seop's son to bite the light blue pencil with his teeth and did not return it, and Won-seop did not return.



In particular, Won-seop was a activist when he was a student, and after he declared the restoration in October, he went for an investigation and got caught up in the case because of this pencil.



Those who claimed innocence and claimed torture all asked themselves, "Why am I?"

In response, they said, "We treated people as beasts, not people. It was a world that was persecuted by people who had no money and no power.



And the investigators involved in these cases argued that they had never tortured, had never been involved in torture, and that the ones they arrested were certain to be the real offenders.



However, some confessed without torture.

Jaeseong and Kyungjin were the main characters in the Suwon homeless girl murder case.

When asked how the confession was possible even though there was no torture or cruelty, they said, "Of course I think that way. Even if I'm the same, I think that way."



At the time, they were subject to probation.

They were accused of being criminals, and they confessed to investigators saying, "Everyone except you confessed. If you say not here, you will be punished a lot."

In particular, they accepted the manipulation of the investigators' memory, saying, "When they are shocked, they erase their own memories. It was forgotten because they killed the first person."



Jaesung said, "I just made it all up. I made it all up according to the date of the case. I just wanted to get out of it quickly by talking to this person a little bit."

And they said, "I wondered why I was born. I was so lonely because I had no money, no one hundred, no family, and I could not get help."



Others who were framed for murder were in a similar position.

They said, "No one believed me. Because the environment was difficult and there was no money, there was no one who trusted us," and said, "If I had something, would I have treated me like this? It was a sin not to have genetic innocence, not guilty."



In fact, the people who claimed innocence met by the reporters were people with visual impairments, people with intellectual disabilities, and runaway teenagers, who were weak in our society.

And there were also those who were free in the law as if they laughed at these weak people.



Ha Ji-hye, who was killed by a contract in 2002.

It was a person who was called the so-called wife of the president of a large corporation who asked him to murder.

At that time, his wife suspected the affair between her son-in-law and Ha Ji-hye, and even murdered by contract.



A wife who was sentenced to life imprisonment along with her helpers for this incident.

However, it was revealed that Lee was living in a luxurious ward and did not properly live in prison.

And most of the people who helped it were not accused and were still escorting them.



Those who are framed talk.

"If you have a lot of money and a hundred, you don't even get a sentence, and you'll be framed. People know what happened, but there will be a lot more cases that people don't know."

And he said that if people with money or power commit the same sins, they will not be treated like them.



While 76% of people say that'genetic innocence, not guilty' is true, Korea's judicial credibility ranks 37th among 37 OECD countries, the lowest.



Experts said, "It is not only possible to manipulate the case through torture. It is reality to manipulate the evidence. The answer will come out just by looking at the investigation records of the Samrye case or the Eomgung-dong case. They are tolerating it because they can no longer exist.”



He also pointed out that it is true that if you have the power of jurisdiction, it can be influenced by external forces, but you have to keep your own beliefs and not lose your center.



Murderers who still remember the terrible moments of the past, they spoke alike.

They said, "To my children, I hope that there will be no more unfair things after us," and said they dream of a world where victims like themselves will not appear.



And finally, is broadcasting going in a better direction than in the past?

Still, he asked whether the law was on the side of the strong.



(SBS Entertainment News Editor Kim Hyo-jeong)