![]() Seven more murders followed over the next years. Her body was found four months later on April 23, 1987, at 14:00, in an embankment. ![]() Two months later on December 12, 1986, Gwon Jung-bon (25) disappeared from in front of her house. Her body was found on October 23, 1986, at 14:50 in a canal. A month later, on October 20, 1986, Park Hyun-sook (25) disappeared after getting off the bus while returning home from Songtan. Her body was found in a pasture on September 19, 1986, at 14:00, four days following the murder. The case began with the disappearance of Lee Wan-im (71) on September 15, 1986, while returning home after visiting her daughter. He confessed to 4 undisclosed murders not originally included in the original list of crimes and all 10 serial murders, including a case previously determined to be a copycat crime (for which a man named Yoon Seung-yeo was sentenced to life in prison). The cases remained unsolved for 30 years, until Lee was identified as a suspect in 2019. The murders sparked the largest criminal case in South Korea with over 2 million man-days spent on investigation and over 21,000 suspects investigated. The victims, all women, were found bound, gagged, raped, and in most cases strangled to death with their own clothes, such as pantyhose or socks. Hwaseong serial murders įor a period of four years and seven months, between September 15, 1986, and April 3, 1991, Lee Chun-jae, then in his twenties, committed the Hwaseong serial murders ( Korean: 화성 연쇄 살인 사건 Hanja: 華城連鎖殺人事件 RR: hwaseong yeonswae sarin sageon), which were a series of rapes and murders that occurred in the rural city of Hwaseong in Gyeonggi Province. In the second trial, following Lee's appeal, the court suspended his sentence to two years of probation, and he was released in mid-April, 1990. After the first trial, Lee filed an appeal, claiming that he was beaten by an unknown young man and entered the victim's house while being chased. He was sentenced by the Suwon District Court to one year and six months in prison in the first trial in February 1990 for the charges of robbery and violence. On September 26, 1989, around 00:55, Lee broke into a house in Gwangju, Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, with weapons and gloves, and was discovered by the landlord. According to Lee's wife, Lee was an alcoholic, as well as a violent husband and father who often physically abused her and their son. In April 1992, Lee married a bookkeeper and quit his job in March 1993. The following year, he was employed as a crane driver for a company in Cheongwon, Chungcheongbuk. In 1990, he began his job at a construction company in Cheongpa, Yongsan, where he became a crane driver without a license. He then worked for an electric parts company. Īfter graduating from high school in February 1983, Lee joined the Republic of Korea Army and served as a tank driver he was discharged on January 23, 1986. He had a younger brother who drowned in his childhood, an incident which purportedly traumatized him. ![]() Lee's mother was reportedly devastated and shocked to hear that her son was involved in the Hwaseong murders. Lee was sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after 20 years for killing his sister-in-law in 1994, but despite DNA evidence and his confession to the other murders in 2019, he could not be prosecuted for them because the statute of limitations had expired.īorn on 31 January 1963, Lee Chun-jae had a good education and worked well with others, according to his mother, who was interviewed in 2019 when she was 75 years old. ![]() They are the inspiration for the 2003 film Memories of Murder. The serial murders, which remained unsolved for 30 years, are considered to be the most infamous in South Korea's modern history. Between 19, Lee murdered 15 women and young girls in addition to committing numerous sexual assaults predominantly in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi and the surrounding areas. Lee Chun-jae ( Korean: 이춘재 born January 31, 1963) is a South Korean serial killer known for committing the Hwaseong serial murders.
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