Baek Gwang-seok (48), the main culprit of the Jeju middle school student murder, decided to kill only the middle school son of a former cohabitation woman from the beginning, and it was confirmed that Kim Si-nam (46), an accomplice, took part in the crime because of a debt of 6 million won.



Jeju Eastern Police Station today (27th) in a meeting with the reporters before the transfer of Mr. Baek and Mr. Kim to the prosecution, "It was reported that Mr. Baek killed his son, Army B, with resentment when his relationship with Mr. A, who lived with him in the past broke down. There is,” he said.



According to the police, Baek and Kim broke into a house in Jocheon-eup, Jeju-si at around 3:16 pm on the 18th through a window.



At that time, there was only A's son B (16) in this house.



Police believe that these suspects killed group B between 3:16 and 41 minutes when they broke into the house.



Group B was found dead at 10:50 pm on the day of the incident with his hands and feet tied with blue cotton tape, which is mainly used for packaging, in the attic of his house.



At that time, B's mother, A, returned home from work and reported it to the police.



As a result of the first autopsy, group B was confirmed to have suffocated by strangulation.



Baek and others purchased blue and white cotton tape for packaging at a hardware store in advance and took it with them on the day of the crime, but it was found that they left it outside because they were embarrassed when they ran into the victim when they broke into the house.



In the end, these suspects committed the crime using the blue packaging tape in the house.




Kim left the crime scene at 3:41 pm, but Baek stayed in the house for about 3 hours and applied cooking oil to various places.



During the police investigation, Baek said, "I set the house on fire with cooking oil, but I also tried to die, but in the end I changed my mind and ran away."



Baek is known to have deep emotional turmoil as he often quarreled with B-gun during his life.



As a result of this, the police believe that Baek held a grudge when his relationship with A broke down and made his son, Army B, the target of the crime.



It was confirmed that Baek told the police, "The mother of group B, A, was not initially targeted."



The police added, "This is a one-sided statement of Mr. Baek."



During the police investigation, Baek admitted to the charges, but it is known that Kim, an accomplice, partially denies the charges, saying that he did not take part in the murder.



However, it is known that Baek confessed that he and Kim killed Army B.



In particular, Mr. Kim owed about 6 million won to Mr. Baek, and it was identified that he took part in the crime because of this debt relationship.



They visited Mr. A's residence in advance for two days on the 16th and 17th to find out if the door was open at that time and if there were people staying.



It has been confirmed that Baek has a criminal record of 10 criminals, including being punished as a retaliatory crime under the Act on Aggravated Punishment of Specific Crimes for committing several crimes against ex-lovers in the past.



It was found that Kim also had 10 criminal convictions, including rape and injury.



(Photo=Provided by Jeju National Police Agency, Yonhap News)