Case of Murdered English Teacher in Seoul Featured on CBS’s 48 Hours
Via a reader tip comes this interesting CBS News report about an English teacher murdered in Seoul back in 1988 and how her alleged killer is free back in the US:
Imagine a loved one brutally murdered in a foreign country — allegedly by another American.
Correspondent Peter Van Sant and his team have investigated the disturbing 1988 murder of Carolyn Abel, an American teacher in South Korea, and the loophole in U.S. laws at the time that mean the suspected killer may never face trial.For writer and author Nancy Bercaw, flying to South Korea last winter reopened a painful chapter in her life: one of murder, loss and fear.
CBS News
You can read the whole thing at the link, but the suspected killer of Carolyn Abel was her boss at the English school she worked at named Kathy Patrick. Patrick was gay and supposedly was angered when Abel rejected her advances and decided to kill her. After killing her Patrick then flew home to Washington State. Since there was no extradition treaty between the US and Korea at the time, US authorities could not arrest her for murder.
Since the murder Patrick has lived as a free woman in Washington state and she actually currently works at Western Washington University advising students.
That is… messy.
I would love to meet these people. I can figure out who is fibbing in about 30 minutes… simply based on how they interact with the world.
While 48 Hours was really biased against the lesbian, there was really not enough information to form an opinion.
We have a clever sociopath and a stupid nutjob… or a confused innocent dyke and a dangerous nutjob… or an anonymous Korean criminal and a delusional nutjob.
Any way you slice it, the one woman is a nutjob.
I say pin that shit on her out of principle and call it a day.
Can I get a “Nutjob”? Sounds good.
I read somewhere that some FBI forensics team concluded repeated stabbings like that were nearly always sexually-related. It could have been anyone except me…
For example, where was President Moon at the time? Does he have an alibi?
Bet if it was a Korean murdered, they’d want the lesbian extradited and be calling bloody murder.
That story reminds me of one of those Martin Limon novels. Where are CID agents Bascomb and Sueno when you need them? Anyone ever hear of the legendary CIA chief of detectives John Boatright?
Where was Rockmarne in 1988?
I am sickened by this. I was a young girl in 1988. Now I am a teacher. In high school of of English, 19 years, English….I am very heavily involved in a Mock Trial, in which students learn how justice “works”. This case sickens me. No one won in this case. Politics and prejudice/bias should be removed entirely from our justice system!