'Triangle Family Murder' Kim Taehyun, No Connection to Cold Cases

Suspect Kim Taehyun, accused of breaking into an apartment in Nowon-gu, Seoul, and killing three women of the same family, is being transferred to the prosecution at Dobong Police Station in Seoul on the 9th. Photo by Kang Jinhyung aymsdream@

[Asia Economy Reporter Song Seung-yoon] The National Forensic Service has concluded that Kim Tae-hyun (25), who murdered three women in an apartment in Nowon-gu, Seoul, is not connected to other unsolved cases.

Nowon Police Station announced on the 22nd that a comparison between the DNA of suspects from unsolved cases stored at the National Forensic Service and Kim Tae-hyun's DNA showed no matches.

The Nowon Police Station, which investigated this case, sent Kim's DNA to the National Forensic Service twice, on the 28th of last month and the 5th of this month, to verify the possibility of his involvement in other unsolved cases.

Earlier, the police also conducted a psychopathy test on Kim and concluded that "although some traits such as antisocial tendencies appeared, it does not reach the level of a psychopathy diagnosis." Since the 8th, the police have deployed four profilers to interview Kim and analyze his psychopathic tendencies based on the collected materials, leading to this judgment. The police plan to share the analysis results with the prosecution as well.

Kim was sent to the prosecution on the 9th under arrest on charges of murdering three women in an apartment in Junggye-dong, Nowon-gu, on the 23rd of last month. He is currently detained at Dongbu Detention Center. The prosecution, considering further review of case records necessary, obtained court approval to extend his detention period by ten days. Originally, Kim's detention period was until the 18th.