The identity of a woman in her 20s who killed a peer she met through an app and mutilated the body has been disclosed.
The Busan Metropolitan Police Agency announced on the 1st that the suspect facing charges of murder and corpse abandonment is 23-year-old Jeong Yujeong, born in 1999.
The police stated that the disclosure of the identity was deemed necessary for public interest due to the severity and brutality of the crime and the preventive effect on similar offenses.
This identity disclosure was decided for the first time in about eight years since the disclosure of the suspect involved in the armed robbery at the Busanjin live ammunition shooting range on October 5, 2015.
According to the police, Jeong approached a woman in her 20s, A, on the 26th around 6 p.m. through a part-time job app, pretending to be a parent looking for a tutor, then killed her with a weapon and mutilated the body.
After mutilating A's body, Jeong placed it in a travel bag and took a taxi around 3 a.m. on the 27th, getting off between Hopo Station and Mulgeum Station in Yangsan, Gyeongnam, then discarded the body and bag in the nearby Nakdong River riverside bushes.
The taxi driver noticed bloodstains on the bag and found it suspicious when Jeong asked to be dropped off at a secluded place during the early morning hours, so he reported it to the police.
The responding police confirmed parts of the body and A's ID card in the suitcase and urgently arrested Jeong around 6 a.m. that day. The rest of the body was found at A's residence.
The Busan District Court issued an arrest warrant for Jeong on the 29th due to concerns about flight risk, and Jeong is scheduled to be transferred to the prosecution around 9 a.m. on the 2nd.
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