murder, and robbery.



Considering the serious consequences of harming a person's life, the two crimes do not seem to have much difference at first glance, but there is a huge difference in the sentences.



This is because the court can sentence a person guilty of murder to the death penalty, life imprisonment, or imprisonment for more than 5 years, while a person guilty of robbery and murder can be sentenced to death or life imprisonment.



For this reason, the investigation team at the Ilsan Eastern Police Station in Gyeonggi Province has focused their investigations on proving Lee Ki-young (31)'s suspicion of robbery and murder of a taxi driver from the beginning.



After the accidental car accident, there were many logically inconsistent parts to accept Lee's claim that everything was accidental at face value, and it was judged that if so, there would be no reasonable punishment for the victim's unfair death.



However, Mr. Lee lied even in the police investigation as if he laughed at this judgment.


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Throughout the investigation, Lee's argument was that "I brought him home to pay the settlement money, but the taxi driver demanded too much settlement money, so we had a quarrel and killed him in a fit of anger."



However, the investigation team proved that Lee had neither the ability nor the intention to pay the settlement in the first place.



At that time, Mr. Lee's bank account balance was only 100,000 won, and he was suffering from living difficulties.



He was also a man who had been dishonorably discharged from the army for drunken driving, and had no clear job and had sometimes solved card value and tax issues with the help of his parents.



However, as reported by several eyewitness accounts, Mr. made many ostentatious remarks regarding his usual wealth.



Mr. Lee went around saying things like "I have several buildings" and "I inherited a lot of money".



There was also a time when he briefly took care of his friend's son and introduced him as if he were his own son.



He even said that he had embezzled 400 million won from the company he once worked for, stored the money in the family warehouse, and gave it to his deceased partner every month as living expenses.



Today (4th), a police official said, "Lee Ki-young, who continued to deceive the investigator and spoke plausibly about her situation, collapsed at the end when all kinds of lies were exposed by evidence."


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This was not the only lie Mr. Lee had.



At first, the investigators seemed to believe his statement, but at some point, pressuring him with various evidence, Lee Ki-young is said to have reversed his testimony regarding the abandonment of his body.



Mr. Lee, who had previously said that he had just abandoned the body of his partner who had been murdered in August of last year, by the Gongneungcheon Stream in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, suddenly changed his words yesterday, the day before the prosecution's transfer.



He said that he did not just dump the body in the riverside, but dug it up and buried it, and he would also tell us the exact location.



Even at this time, Lee said, "Finally, I will now tell you the truth."



When the investigator doubted the credibility of the statement, Lee Ki-young said, "I thought I was really dying while digging at night," and "after that, I continued to visit the site to see if the body was lost and the crime was not discovered." .



Mr. Lee was arrested and sent to the prosecution today on charges of murdering his cohabitant and a taxi driver, abandoning the body, and defrauding 70 million won by using or borrowing the victims' credit cards.



The results of the ongoing psychopath (antisocial personality disorder) test for Lee are not yet available.



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