China News Service, November 2 According to South Korean media reports, on November 2 local time, the eighth case of South Korea's "Li Chunjae serial homicide" (formerly Hwaseong serial homicide) that caused the "true murder controversy" went to public trial.
The suspect, Lee Chun-jae, attended as a witness and admitted again in court that he was the real culprit in 14 homicides including 10 serial homicides in Hwaseong and Cheongju in the 1980s.
Li Chunjae is the prototype of the movie "Memories of Murder", and that day was the first time it appeared in public for the first time in 34 years.
The Li Chunzai serial murder case occurred between 1986 and 1991 and involved 10 cases.
The eighth case was determined to be a crime of imitation because it was slightly different from the others.
The South Korean police arrested Yoon that year and identified him as the murderer.
The picture shows the wanted flyer of the suspect after the seventh serial homicide in Hwaseong, South Korea.
Image source: Visual China
On November 2, 2020 local time, the Criminal Division 12 of the Suwon District Court held the 9th public trial of the 8th case of Lee Chunjae.
As a witness for both the prosecution and the lawyer, Li Chunzai again admitted in the open court that all related cases, including this case, were his own.
According to reports, that day was the first serial homicide in Hwaseong, 34 years later, Lee Chun-jae appeared in public for the first time.
Lee Chun-jae said that after the police reopened the investigation into the Hwaseong serial homicide case in 2019, he had the idea that "it's coming after all."
Lee Chun-jae said that after the police came to the prison and conducted investigations based on DNA identification results, he confessed to 14 murders committed in Hwaseong and Cheongju.
He added that after confessing the crime, he lost contact with his family.
On the same day, Li Chunzai wore a turquoise prison uniform, white sports shoes and a mask to enter the courtroom.
On that day, the court did not allow any filming.
Therefore, the media etc. failed to take photos and videos of it.
Prior to this, Li Chunjae, who was locked as a suspect in the serial homicide case, admitted to 14 homicides including 10 serial homicides, and more than 30 sexual crimes, including the eighth case of the serial homicide.
Yin Mou, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the case at the time, stated that he made false statements under compulsory police investigation.
On November 13, 2019, the court accepted Yin's application for retrial. Yin claimed that he had spent 20 years of "unjustified prison life" because of the eighth case of the case and asked the prosecutor to comment on whether to start the retrial. Since then, the procuratorial agency has received the investigation records of the case from the police. In the process of research, the prosecution has grasped the situation of serious errors in the past investigation. On December 11 of the same year, the prosecution stated that it would start investigating the case.