A man who served 20 years in prison for the murder and rape of a 13-year-old girl was found not guilty during a high-profile trial in South Korea. This was reported by the South Korean news agency Yonghap.
This murder was just one of 10 high-profile serial killings that took place in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the rural Hwaseong area near Seoul. The child’s body was found in her own bedroom. On suspicion of murder, Yun Sung , who was 22 at that time, was detained of the year. Law enforcement officers did not find evidence of his involvement in other crimes, so they considered him a copycat of a serial killer.
The man insisted on his innocence and claimed that the police tortured him to confess to a crime that he did not commit, but the Supreme Court sided with the investigators. He spent a total of 20 years behind bars and became the only person arrested in connection with a string of brutal murders.
Last fall, criminal Li Chun Jae, who was serving time for another murder, confessed a > in “hwaseong murders”. Yoon Sung Ye applied to the court to review the case, and was acquitted 31 years after his arrest. A re-trial confirmed the man’s words about police torture and an investigation error.