Is the man in the CCTV a suspect or a witness?



The SBS 'I Want to Know' broadcast on the 27th followed the unsolved case of the Buckingham motel murder case for 12 years under the subtitle '74 traces left by the murderer - The Buckingham Motel Murder Case in Busan'.



In October 2010, at Buckingham Motel located in Bujeon-dong, Busan, the motel president Mi-young Kim died at the age of 46.



Employees open the doors of Buckingham Motel at 9:50 a.m. on October 1st. However, I felt puzzled by the different atmosphere than usual. Then they either piled up fixtures right next to the information room, or called a key repairman to open the door of Room 101, the space where employees rested, because the door was locked. And there he encountered a terrible sight.



The motel's owner, Mi-young, was covered with a blanket and drenched in blood. A total of over 74 large and small scars were found on Miyoung's body, including 30 on the side, abdomen and chest, 6 on both arms and hands, 21 on the face, neck, and shoulders, and 17 on the back and waist. hugged



The expert said, "The most fatal injury was a puncture in the chest area, one of which pierced the heart and the other pierced the lungs, and it seems that there must have been significant bleeding as a result of this." It appears to have been inflicted on him.”



The police in charge of the case at the time said, "I don't want to remember just hearing the sound of Buckingham. Even now, the detectives who investigated the case say that they can only remember 74 rooms.He died so cruelly.”



At the scene of the gruesome murder, there was no evidence of a culprit to the bizarre degree. The case went on without much progress. Meanwhile, detectives discovered that CCTV installed outside the restaurant on the first floor of the motel was illuminating the motel's door.



Accordingly, the detectives identified and tracked the identities of 55 motel occupants caught on CCTV from the time Mi-young was last seen to the time she was found as a body for 9 hours. Except for one.



At the time, a man in a blue and white top was seen entering Buckingham at around 2:40. And about 30 minutes later, he was seen leaving the motel, but his identity could not be confirmed. Detectives even distributed flyers to find the man, but could not find him, and the case remains an unsolved case for 12 years.



Accordingly, the production team reproduced the incident at the time and analyzed the incident with experts. As a result of a careful analysis of the scene of the incident, experts analyzed that the crime was not accidental, but planned, and there is a high possibility that it was an acquaintance with the victim. In addition, it drew attention by speculating that he was a person who had emotional parts such as a strong resentment towards the victim.



One of Mi-young's close acquaintances said that before the incident, Mi-young had a quarrel with her brothers over her father's property. Mi-young's father died 20 days before the incident, and there was a problem with his brothers in distributing his father's property, who had a considerable fortune. In particular, it was confirmed that the second brother visited Mi-young the day before Mi-young's death due to property distribution problems, which raised the suspicion of detectives. However, the alibi was confirmed that the second brother as well as the eldest brother were staying in a region other than Busan at the time of the incident, and the suspects escaped.



In a later case, a valuable piece of evidence is found. A man's DNA was found on a bloody towel at the scene. It was a repairman involved in the construction of Buckingham Motel at the time. However, as a result of the investigation, no charges were found in him.



A repairman, who claimed to have showered in Room 101 after construction of the restaurant on the first floor of the motel and used a towel at the time, said he had witnessed Mi-young feeding her baby formula three years before the incident. In addition, a young man at the time raised suspicions that he was often seen next to Mi-young. Detectives also investigated Mi-young's ex-boyfriend, but no singularity was found.



At this time, however, Mi-young's acquaintances claimed that before the incident, Mi-young seemed to be meeting strange people. What they remember is that they are religious figures. It is said that they are people of a strange church, not the members of the church Miyoung attended.



In response, the production team drew specific memories through hypnosis on the person who was working as an employee at the time.

As a result, he claimed that what he remembers was that one man and three women, religious figures, asked Mi-young for money, which she refused.



Another friend of mine had a similar story.

Mi-young said that she felt like she was obsessed with religion and said, "I asked if I could hear God's answer if I went there."

In particular, after his father's death, he was obsessed with religion and distanced himself from his acquaintances who went to church.



Based on their stories, a religious expert analyzed that it is highly likely that they are not a normal religion.

He also said that Protestant cult propaganda activities were actively carried out in Seomyeon, Busan, and that Miyoung may have been a target for such people.



And finally, among the people in the CCTV, the man who is still unidentified is likely a suspect or at least an eyewitness of the incident, and promised not to stop pursuing the final clue to unravel Miyoung's case. 



(SBS Entertainment News Editor Kim Hyo-jeong)