Autopsy Results of Songpa Family Deaths... "Daughter and Mother-in-law Killed by Family Members"

Wife and Daughter, Husband and Mother Commit Suicide After Murder
Suspect Dead, Case Closed Due to Lack of Prosecution Rights

Regarding the incident in September where five members of a family died in Songpa-gu, Seoul, and Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, the final autopsy results revealed that the elementary school-aged daughter and the mother-in-law were each killed by family members.

On the 30th, the Songpa Police Station in Seoul announced that they had received the autopsy results from the National Forensic Service (NFS) for the family who died in September. According to the police, it was confirmed that a woman in her 40s, Ms. Oh, killed her own daughter, and Ms. Oh’s husband killed his own mother. The cause of death for Ms. Oh’s daughter was asphyxiation, and the cause of death for Ms. Oh’s mother-in-law was neck compression asphyxiation. The autopsy results showed that a small amount of sleeping pills was detected in the mother-in-law’s body, but no other toxic substances were found.

The police plan to close this case as 'no prosecution.' No prosecution is a disposition given when a criminal suspect cannot be prosecuted due to death or other reasons.

The autopsy results of a family death case that occurred in Songpa-gu, Seoul, and Gimpo, Gyeonggi Province revealed that Mr. Oh, who died from a fall, killed his own daughter, and Mr. Oh's husband killed his mother. The photo shows a police line set up at the residence in Songpa-gu where the husband, mother-in-law, and sister-in-law were found dead last September.
[Photo by Yonhap News]

Earlier, on September 23 at 7:29 a.m., Ms. Oh, a woman in her 40s, was found in cardiac arrest after falling from the rooftop of an apartment in Jamsil-dong, Songpa-gu. She was transported to the hospital but ultimately passed away. While confirming Ms. Oh’s movements and the whereabouts of her relatives, the police discovered three people?her husband Mr. Ham, his mother, and his younger sister?dead in a villa owned by Ms. Oh’s paternal family in Songpa-gu, and one elementary school-aged daughter of the couple dead in a hotel in Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do.

Investigations revealed that Ms. Oh killed her daughter at the hotel in Gimpo and then took her own life. Additionally, the police determined that Mr. Ham strangled his mother to death in the villa in Songpa-gu and then committed suicide together with his younger sister.

The family was reportedly under pressure due to Ms. Oh’s excessive debts and successive lawsuits from creditors. A will, presumed to have been written by Mr. Ham and his younger sister, was found in the villa. The will mentioned financial difficulties caused by creditor-debtor issues and conflicts within the family.

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