Lee Ki-young (32), who is accused of murdering his ex-partner and taxi driver, has been arrested and indicted.
Prosecutors confirmed that Lee Ki-young is at high risk of recidivism as a psychopath, and found additional charges of retaliatory murder and forgery of private documents in addition to the previously applied charges of robbery and murder and concealing a body.
The Uijeongbu District Prosecutor's Office's Goyang Branch Prosecutor's Office announced today (19th) that it has arrested and indicted Lee on charges of robbery and murder and retaliatory murder under the Act on Aggravated Punishment for Specific Crimes.
On the afternoon of August 3, last year, Mr. Lee was accused of killing Mr. A (50), who was her partner and landlord, by hitting and killing Mr. A (50) in the head with a blunt weapon for the purpose of stealing his cell phone and credit card, etc. is receiving
There is also a suspicion that the body of Mr. A was abandoned the next day in the Gongneungcheon area of Paju City.
Prosecutors confirmed that Lee searched the Internet for 'pesticides that kill you if you eat it, how to unlock your cell phone', etc. right before the crime, and searched for 'Paju's dead body, Gongneungcheon water flow' right after the crime, and that it was a plan for the purpose of money. It was judged to have been a homicide.
However, there was no fact that the actual poison was purchased.
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After killing Mr. A, the prosecution also confirmed that he tried to unlock Mr. A's cell phone by taking out the SIM card and inserting it into his cell phone, and withdrawing the entire balance of the victim's account using an ATM.
Accordingly, the charge of 'robbery and murder', which was applied only to the taxi driver case, was also applied to the cohabitant case.
However, Lee is still said to deny the robbery and murder charge, arguing to the effect that it was an accidental incident in which her partner died when she threw a blunt weapon.
Lee Ki-young lured taxi driver B (59) to his house on December 20 last year, four months later, to cover up a drunk driving accident, hit B's forehead twice with a blunt weapon, killed him, and dumped the body in a closet. Also accused.
In addition to financial purposes, the prosecution added charges of retaliatory murder, believing that there was also a purpose to prevent this, as Lee, a repeat offender of drunk driving, is expected to be sentenced to prison if he is reported to the police.
In addition to the murder and the abandonment and hiding of the body, Lee used the names of the victims to swindle a total of 130 million won and pretended to be victims to cover up the crime.
After the murder of Mr. A, from August 3 to October 26 of last year, he was accused of transferring or paying 39,306,682 won by accessing Internet banking with a credit card in the name of Mr. A on 36 occasions (using a computer, etc.). fraud) as well.
In addition, between August 12 and September 22 last year, the charge of paying 41,935,840 won with a check card in the name of Mr. A over 95 times (fraud and violation of the Specialized Credit Finance Act) was also confirmed.
After the murder, he is also charged with sending messages to acquaintances 92 times using Mr. A's cell phone and laptop until November 13 of last year (violation of the Information and Communications Network Act).
In November of last year, it was also confirmed that he used forged sales contracts to steal an apartment in the name of Mr. A (forgery of private documents).
Although they did not actually sell the apartment, it was investigated that they took out a loan of 10 million won using this.
Between December 21 and 24 of last year, after the murder of Mr. B, he was accused of accessing Internet banking in the name of Mr. B, entering information without authority, and transferring 47,881,732 won to himself six times. receive.
On the 22nd and 23rd of the same month, he paid 7,691,000 won while purchasing goods five times with a credit card in the name of Mr. B. It was also revealed that the message was sent 132 times.
Through this, not only did Mr. B's family stop reporting his disappearance, but in the case of Mr. A, in particular, he sent a message to 'do not contact' to people around him so that Mr. A naturally 'evaporated' from the social network, acting as a national criminal justice system. Prosecutors explained that they had attempted to neutralize it.
In addition to the two murders, Lee Ki-young created a false business to fraudulently obtain 10 million won in subsidies for small businesses related to COVID-19.
Regarding the existence of another victim, there is no history matching the DNA of the unsolved case under management by the National Institute of Scientific Investigation, and there are no related cases among the unsolved disappearance cases that occurred after June 10, 2021, after Lee Ki-young was released from prison. It was found that there were no additional suspicious circumstances.
According to the results of the 'Daegun Integrated Psychological Analysis', Lee Ki-young is characterized by self-centeredness and antisocial nature, often acts impulsively and selfishly according to his own gains or momentary desires, and has a tendency to be a 'psychopath' who lacks the ability to control emotions and impulses. That's it.
In addition, the risk of recidivism of a violent crime was assessed as 'high', and the prosecution requested an order to attach an electronic location tracking device to Lee Ki-young.
For the survivors of the victims, funeral expenses and emergency living expenses were paid, and support was requested from the 'Goyang/Paju Crime Victims Support Center' so that Lee Ki-young could receive civil legal support for the loans received in the names of the victims.
An official from the prosecution said, "We have secured objective evidence to prove the crime, but we will continue our efforts to find the victim's body." "he said.
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