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road. There were strangulation marks on her neck, and her socks and panties had been removed, indicating that she had been raped. Following her murder, authorities started reinvestigating all previous disappearance and suspicious deaths, believing them to be related. This suspicion was soon confirmed after 47-year-old Lee Juk-ja, who ran a food cart in Useong-myeon, disappeared on April 1. Her disappearance forced the police to undertake a search operation, leading to the locations of Kim and Lee Juk-ja's bodies over the next few days.
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valleys. And since the crimes happened during the times of the day where few people were around, the perpetrator was likely familiar with the area and was motivated by his sexual desires. Because of this, several ex-convicts who fit the profile were interrogated, but nothing came out of it. One interesting tip came when a local monk claimed that he often saw a suspicious man, around 1.65 cm and in his 30s, often riding on the buses usually used by
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had settled out of court with the attacker, who was revealed to be none other than Kang, who worked as a hairdresser in Gongju. Due to the fact that he strongly resembled the suspect described by the monk, the authorities considered him a credible suspect and raided his home to arrest him. Kang did not resist his arrest, and simply calmly said that " knew would come to catch ."
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whereupon he proceeded to rape her. In order to cover up his crime, he then pushed the unconscious woman into the pond, leaving her to drown. Hong's naked body was found a few days later; however, as it was not unusual for people to suffer heatstrokes out in the countryside at the time, her death was ruled an accident and quickly forgotten about.
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decedent's identity for some time due to the severe decomposition of her body. On
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anger by sexually violating and abusing women who had nothing to do with him. He eventually dropped out of school, and shifted jobs as a carpenter and hairdresser to earn his money. Before the murders, he served two years and six months in prison for offences such as theft, assault, rape and obstruction of justice.
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On July 31, 1983, Kang was mowing a field in a valley near the rural village of Useong-myeon when he came across a 50-year-old housewife Hong, who was washing her neck using a red scarf and water from a little pond. Kang approached the woman from behind and held her head underwater until she fainted,
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fits when he was a teenager, was often shunned and bullied by his peers due to his appearance. The fact that girls and later women avoided him with open disgust caused Kang to harbor feelings of resentment towards people of the opposite sex, eventually culminating in a perverse desire to release his
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Shortly thereafter, the investigators were tipped off about the 1985 sexual assault of a woman in Gongju, leading them to believe that the unsolved 1984 attack and the serial murders were likely committed by the same offender. When they delved further into the case, they discovered that the victim
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memorial service, but failed to return home later that day. Her body was found approximately two months later on a mountain road, but an autopsy failed to locate any external trauma that would indicate that she had been murdered. On August 19, 21-year-old Park Jeong-soon was walking by a mountain
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After the discovery of the two women's bodies, a task force of as many of 60 homicide detectives was formed to resolve the cases. From their investigation, it was deduced that all six victims were women travelling alone, raped before murder and their bodies dumped in sparsely populated hills or
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as the youngest of three brothers and one sister, but the family moved to Gongju when he was just two. He lost both of his parents at an early age and had to be looked after by his older brother, rendering his early life difficult. Kang, who had
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