Scheduled for Public Disclosure on the 13th Following Prosecutor Transfer on the 12th
An active-duty military officer who killed a fellow service member he was dating, mutilated the body, and abandoned it has been referred to the prosecution. It was revealed that he committed the crime after a quarrel with the victim, with whom he was in a romantic relationship, deciding that continuing the relationship was no longer possible.
An active-duty military officer who murdered a female civilian employee he worked with, dismembered the body, and disposed of it in the Bukhan River in Hwacheon-gun, Gangwon Province, is heading to a transport vehicle after the pre-arrest detention hearing at Chuncheon District Court on the morning of the 5th. Photo by Yonhap News.
The Gangwon Provincial Police Agency's Criminal Mobile Unit handed over Mr. A (38) to the prosecution on the 12th on charges of murder, corpse mutilation, and corpse abandonment, according to Yonhap News.
According to the media, Mr. A is accused of strangling and killing Mr. B (33) in a fit of rage after an argument inside his vehicle in the unit's parking lot around 3 p.m. on the 25th of last month, mutilating the body, and then abandoning it in the Bukhan River in Hwacheon around 9:40 p.m. the following day. Police investigations revealed that on the morning of the crime, while carpooling with Mr. B, who was his romantic partner, Mr. A had an argument and decided that continuing the relationship was impossible, leading him to resolve to kill. To conceal the crime, Mr. A searched for ‘forged license plates’ on his phone. After killing Mr. B, Mr. A used tools he brought from the office to mutilate the body around 9 p.m. at a construction site near the unit and abandoned the body by the Bukhan River in Hwacheon, where he had worked over ten years ago.
After the crime, Mr. A kept the victim’s phone and sent messages to the victim’s family, acquaintances, and workplace to conceal the fact that the victim had been murdered. When moving to abandon the body, he forged the vehicle’s license plate to evade police pursuit. Just before his arrest on the 3rd, he threw Mr. B’s phone into a drainage grate at the entrance of Irwon Station underground passage in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. The police seized Mr. A’s phone and also secured the damaged phone of Mr. B for digital forensics. A profiler (criminal analyst) participated in the investigation to analyze the criminal behavior. On the 7th, a personal information disclosure review committee was held, deciding to disclose Mr. A’s name, age, and photo.
Mr. A opposed the decision to disclose his personal information and filed a provisional injunction for suspension of the disclosure, but the court dismissed it, stating that “there is no concern of irreparable harm to the applicant, nor is there an urgent need to prevent such harm.” With the court’s dismissal of the injunction, the police will disclose Mr. A’s personal information around the 13th, after the disclosure grace period (8th to 12th) ends.
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