[Review] Baby corpses found in refrigerator... The culprit was the mother

The story of 'that day' in history that we should not forget, 'Jang Trio' Jang Hyeon-seong, Jang Seong-gyu, and Jang Do-yeon tell the story of SBS 'The Story of Biting the Tail' (hereinafter 'Kkokomu').

For those who missed the main broadcast, or for those who watched the broadcast but want to think about it again, SBS Entertainment News will put it all together in one room.

, which aired on the 21st

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As story friends, group Seventeen member Seungkwan Boo, actor Jung Insun, and singer Byul appeared.

(The review is conducted in semi-verbal mode to suit the characteristics of 'Kokkomu'.) ▲

On July 23, 2006, when

There's a body in his house.

The strong team came right away.

We arrived at a luxury villa in Gangnam.

The spacious garden is covered with green grass.

And from the 1st floor to the 3rd floor, one household occupies it.

The detectives entered the house.

It's a house with a body, but it's very clean.

It was the freezer in the corner of the utility room next to the kitchen where the landlord pointed out the body.

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It's a five-compartment drawer-type freezer, and one baby's body was found in the fourth and fifth compartments.

A towel was wrapped around a child's body.

Let's hear the story of Detective Cheon Hyeon-gil, who was in charge of the case.

Hyeong-sa Cheon said he felt worse because his wife was pregnant at the time.

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"It was so embarrassing. There are many murder scenes and there have been many murders, but I had never seen or heard of a child dying like this and was in the freezer. When I went and opened the freezer, I found that when the ice cream ages, there are ice grains around the ice cream. There were two."

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The owner of this house is Jean-Louis Courgio, a Frenchman, who lives with his wife and two sons, aged 11 and 10.

The first to report was Mr. Kurzo.

At the time of the discovery of the body, Kurgio was alone.

The whole family went on a summer vacation to France, but there was an important meeting at the company, so only Courzo was the first to return.

You're on vacation, and there's a baby's body in the freezer at home?

It's a bizarre and mysterious case.

The freezer babies were sent to the National Orchard.

The babies weigh 4kg and 3.63kg, respectively, and it is estimated that they have been in their mother's womb for 10 months.

An autopsy is required to determine the cause of death, but it took a whole day to thaw because his body was frozen like a rock.

First, we need to determine whether she was born dead in her mother's womb, or whether she was murdered after she was born.

Experiments using the lungs revealed that both babies were born normally.

After I was born, someone killed me.

National Forensic Service found out.

It was difficult to estimate the cause of death and the time of death because newborn babies had very few databases and were so frozen.

When the time of death is confirmed, we can estimate who gave birth around that time, but we don't know when and how he was killed.

Fortunately, the detectives found that the baby was born at home, not in a hospital, based on the rough cuts of the umbilical cord attached to the baby's body.

If you give birth in a hospital, the cut surface of the umbilical cord is smooth.

Another thing caught Detective Chun's eyes.

It's the towel hanging in the bathroom at home.

One of the two babies was wrapped in a towel, and there is a towel in the house with the same brand and same color as that towel.

The plastic bag that contained the baby was originally in this house.

It was the moment when it became clear that the babies were born in this house.

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So, who can have a baby in this house?

Kurgio's wife Veronique.

She was 39 years old at the time.

When she asks Courtois if her wife has had a baby recently, she says nonsense.

Her wife had her hysterectomy 3 years ago, so her pregnancy is impossible.

She checked and her husband was right.

Veronique had acute sepsis three years ago from her and had her uterus removed.

That's how her wife Veronique was excluded from her dragon line.

The police came up with several hypotheses and investigated the suspects.

First, I checked to see if Courtois had another mistress, but she couldn't find the suspicious woman.

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The police called Kurzou for questioning.

He first asked how he found the body.

Kurzou opened the freezer of the utility room after a long time to put in the delivered mackerel, and then he found something wrapped in a plastic bag.

He lifted the bag slightly and saw a very tiny baby's hand.

Kurjoo's statement, speaking with trembling hands, seemed to be true.

Courjo said he's not his child and he'll give you the DNA so you can check it out.

Even with these words, the police had no choice but to believe what Kurzo said.

So who other than the Kurzos can have children in this house?

During the vacation, this house was empty for quite some time.

From June 29 to July 18, for a whopping 19 days.

The police found the person who entered the house during this period.

Courjo said he and his wife have house security cards, but also a housekeeper and friend Pierre.

So, who are the culprits?

First of all, the housekeeper in this house is a Filipino woman and she comes once a week to do her housework.

She was a housekeeper and she claimed that she had never given birth to anything other than her own child.

I took her DNA and compared it, and she was right.

So she was excluded as a housekeeper.

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Pierre, Kurzou's friend, is a French friend I met after coming to Korea.

As he went on vacation, he said he left his security card with me to look at the house from time to time.

I checked, and there is a record of this Pierre's entry.

July 3rd, 7th, 13th, 17th.

I've been to Courzo's house a total of 4 times.

The detectives went straight to Pierre's house.

but no

He said he left for France.

When is his departure date?

Two days before the body was found.

Is Pierre the culprit?

So who is the baby's mother?

Just then, a witness appeared.

A neighbour's eyewitness said he saw a mid-teenage white girl coming out of the house.

The day this white girl was spotted was the 13th, one of the days Pierre entered the Courtois house.

The police are investigating the hypothesis that the white girl may have had an inappropriate relationship with Pierre, a married man.

The police went looking for the white girl, but to no avail.

I can't even confirm that the white girl actually exists.

Meanwhile, Detective Chun stopped by the burial room of the National Forensic Service and met the babies.

Detective Chun said that when he encountered his body, whether it was suicide or murder, he touched his feet and prayed for his well-being.

This time, Detective Chun touched the babies' feet and prayed for them to go to a better place.

The autopsy was over, but the babies were still lying in the cold freezer.

Because there was nowhere to send these babies.

Because I don't know who my parents are.

On the fifth day of the incident, I finally found out the identity of the father of the babies.

As a result of the National Forensic Service, the DNA of the babies and Kurzo's DNA match.

My dad was Kurzo.

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Detective Chun is in shock.

Was the Kurgio, who was trembling at the police station, acting?

He was the culprit, so why did he report it?

Why are you giving away your DNA?

Her wife is barren, so who is her mother?

She doesn't have one or two questions.

You should call right away and investigate.

But it was after he had already left for France.

He said he was on a plane the day before the genetic analysis results came out.

He didn't run away secretly.

He had a pre-booked flight schedule before the incident, and there was no reason to hold him there as there were no suspicions.

Also, since Kurzo is a foreigner, he could be a diplomatic issue, so he had no choice but to let him go.

He said he had missed a prime suspect, that there was a loophole in the initial investigation, and the media was outraged.

Detective Chun immediately contacted France and told him to return home immediately to be investigated.

Then, Kurzou continued to deny it, saying, "I will take legal action for defamation", "He is by no means a father", and "I can't believe the results of the tests done in Korea."

What should I do now?

The investigation is in a labyrinth.

At this time, a woman provided a clue to solving the case with one decisive word.

She said that woman is Detective Chun's wife, Sang Sang Eun.

As her former nursing officer, she chats with her husband about her case, and throws her word at her, and that word settles the case.

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Choe Sang-eun said that Kurzo's wife Veronique did not have sepsis and lifted the uterus, but that sepsis may have occurred because of a problem with the uterus.

She said that she had a baby in a non-hospital setting and her uterus went wrong, and that's how sepsis came about.

Detective Chun said she "didn't make sense when Veronique had surgery on her uterus three years ago".

At this time, her wife said a word.

"We don't know when the babies will die," she said.

Hyeongsa Cheon suddenly felt like he was hit in the head with a single blow.

Why didn't she think she had a baby three years ago and would have kept it?

Goosebumps all over her body.

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Now we need to find evidence to support this hypothesis, and everything is right.

First, the towel wrapped around the baby was as good as new, but the same type of towel I found in the bathroom was frayed.

I bought towels in the past, and one of them wrapped the baby and put it in the freezer so it didn't get damaged, and the rest of the towels were used to prove it was damaged.

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Also, when we tracked down the store that was written on the plastic bag that was wrapped around the child, it said that the place had already closed three years ago.

All the circumstances point to three years ago.

Now I just need to check one more place.

The most convincing evidence is in the hospital where Veronique was operated on three years ago.

Detective Chun ran to the hospital and met the doctor who performed the operation.

The doctor said that Veronique's womb was the one she was pregnant with at the time, and he testified that it was possible that sepsis occurred while giving birth alone.

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Now, only final confirmation remains.

It's a DNA genetic test.

But Veronique is in France, so I decided to look for traces in the empty house of Courzo.

A toothbrush, comb, and earpick that someone used were found in the house.

The National Forensic Service confirmed that Veronique's DNA was detected in combs and earpicks through mitochondrial testing, and compared it with the DNA of babies.

As a result, it was found that the DNA of the baby's body and Veronique's DNA matched.

I finally found it.

The mother of the dead babies is Veronique.

got The culprit who killed the child was her mother?

And the culprit isn't in Korea?

Korea and France were also in an uproar.

However, Veronique said that he still couldn't believe the results, saying, "How do you analyze it when he doesn't know that he gave the genes to the Korean police?"

"He can't trust the level of forensic science in Korea," he said.

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Detective Chun was poisoned.

When she was wondering if there was any evidence she could never get out of, her wife gave her another hint.

It's common to leave tissue samples during surgery, so I'd suggest checking with the hospital where you had uterine surgery 3 years ago to see if there are any tissue samples.

When Detective Cheon went back to the hospital to check, luckily Veronique's tissue was still there.

He immediately ran a genetic test, and the results showed that Veronique's DNA matched the babies' DNA.

It was tested with DNA taken from his womb, can you deny this?

I've finally found solid evidence.

It showed the essence of Korean scientific investigation.

Would the French Courtois couple admit it this time?

A couple who had not appeared before held a press conference.

Kurzou said, "My wife did not have two children who died. We do not know the language or system and have no means to defend ourselves, so we are only targets of the Korean media. We do not know why this happened to us," he said. I did it.

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Our police and the National Forensic Service did not care about this reaction.

He said, 'Deny it as much as you want, we'll show it with our skills'.

He said he couldn't trust the Korean police, so he sent all the investigation materials and genetic samples of the dead babies to France to investigate.

The French police conducted a genetic test on the couple, and the results were the same as in Korea.

Only then did the French police make an emergency arrest of the couple.

Veronique later confessed to killing the babies by giving birth to them alone.

As the story of the case is revealed, shocking truths bite their tails.

Once in the freezer, the children are brothers born a year apart.

And the place of the crime was not the luxury villa in Gangnam where I live now, but the house I lived in before.

It means that they moved and brought the body with them as if they were moving.

In August 2002, four years before the incident, the Kurzos came to Korea with their two sons.

Veronique was pregnant at the time, and his husband didn't know about it.

About a month later, Veronique gave birth to a child at home alone and killed him on the spot.

And his body was put in a plastic bag and put in the freezer.

The following year, in December 2003, Veronique unknowingly became pregnant with his second baby, gave birth to him alone, killed him, and put it in the freezer.

It was with this second baby that I had acute sepsis and had a hysterectomy.

The eldest one who died has been in the freezer for two years and the younger one for one year.

In 2005, one year before the incident, the Kurzo family moved to Seorae Village, where they now live, and Veronique said that two bodies were placed in a backpack and carried.

The babies were found by Kurzou after being in the freezer for another year.

But that's not all.

During the investigation, Veronique revealed that there was another dead baby.

Before coming to Korea, he got pregnant and gave birth to one without anyone knowing, and after he killed him, he put it in the fireplace and burned it.

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French society has fallen into a rut.

Her press called her her 'monster'.

She and she published articles reflecting on their arrogance, saying, 'We looked down on Korea.'

The French embassy visited the Bangbae Police Station to say thank you, and the French media also visited our National Forensic Service and praised the greatness of the K-Scientific Investigation.

But the unresolved question is that her husband, Kurjou, did not know that his wife had three children.

I'm only 30 months pregnant.

Kurjou said that his wife usually wore loose-fitting clothes and thought, 'She's a little hungry'.

French police reported that his husband had conspired, and after more than a year in the investigation, they couldn't find anything suspicious in the end.

And three years after the incident, his husband was finally acquitted.

? Then why did Veronique kill the babies?

She was a very devoted mother to her two sons, and it's not that she didn't like her children in the first place.

She also had a wealthy family, so it wasn't that she couldn't afford to raise her children.

Then why the hell?

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During the trial, she said:

"It wasn't the babies I killed," she said. "At first I knew I was pregnant, but at some point I forgot."

Veronique often recounted that during her trial, she was completely unaware that she had murdered her baby.

She said she didn't kill the baby, she was just a part of her reality.

She said it wasn't a baby she gave birth to.

She had forgotten that she was pregnant, but one day she was so surprised and scared that the baby suddenly came out.

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French police commissioned Veronique's psychoanalysis.

After six months of psychological testing and counseling, Veronique was believed to have 'denial of pregnancy'.

Pregnancy refusal is a psychological symptom that denies the fact that you are pregnant.

A typical pregnant woman's belly comes out in front, but the uterus of a mother who suffers from refusal of pregnancy lengthens up and down, so her belly doesn't come out much.

Knowing that her mother doesn't want her, her fetus grows up quietly, without even being born.

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When Veronique was pregnant with her first two sons, she said she had a lot of belly.

He said that when he got pregnant with dead children, no one recognized him.

He swam in the seventh month of pregnancy and no one noticed.

The cause of pregnancy refusal is still unknown.

Fear of pregnancy and childbirth may be the cause, but even the medical community is wary of it, and there are many doctors who do not recognize it.

Otherwise, it could be used as an excuse to justify murder.

Veronique's trial caused controversy in France.

There were opinions that "for every murder that kills a child" and "should be punished with a severe sentence", others said that "they are contraceptive" and "should be extenuating."

The court sentenced Veronique to eight years in prison.

Originally, in France, killing a minor is punishable by life imprisonment, but eight years in prison is a judgment that takes into account refusal to conceive to some extent.

And in the fall of that year, Detective Chun's second child was born healthy and beautiful.

When Cheon Hyeong-sa looked at her second child, she suddenly remembered the babies in the freezer and felt sorry for her.

"I said 'I'll release your grudges', but seeing that my mother is the culprit, I felt like I was the one who released my grudges. I felt a lot of regret when I saw it from the children's point of view, not from a regretful heart."

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After the case was closed, the babies were sent to France.

The Kurzos put their two babies in the family register and buried them in the grave.

Acknowledging the existence of babies.

And I got a name.

His older brother is Alexandre and his younger brother is Toma.

Had I been alive, I would have been around 19 or 20 now.

If you look at the data for the last 10 years, it is said that there are 10 cases of abandoned infants per month and 1 case of infant murder per month.

Children who have been deprived of even a chance to see the real world at the hands of adults.

Whose responsibility is that life?

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