Retrial of serial killer A van carrying Lee Chun-jae, an inmate who murdered a dozen females aged 13 to 71 in rural areas of Hwaseong, south of Seoul, between 1986 and 1991, arrives at the Suwon District Court on Nov. 2, 2020, for a retrial. (Yonhap)
Via a reader tip comes news that the person suspected of the infamous Hwaseong murder and rapes over two decades ago has confessed:
Lee Chun-jae, the suspect of the serial killings in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, confessed to committing a total of 14 murders and 30 sexual assaults between 1986 and 1994. Yonhap
The prime suspect of the infamous serial killings in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, has confessed to five more murders besides the nine known cases, police said Wednesday. Lee Chun-jae, 56, also said he committed or attempted to commit about 30 sexual assaults that did not involve murder.
Lee was recently identified as the prime suspect of the nine serial killings that took place in and around Hwaseong from 1986 to 1991, after advanced DNA technology linked him with three of the cases. He is currently serving a jail sentence for a separate murder.
Since the identification, the police have questioned him over nine times. Lee first denied the allegations but confessed last week, according to the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency.
You can read more at the link, but incredibly for all the rapes and murders he has now confessed to he can not be charged with because the statute of limitations has passed. He will however remain in jail for the murder of his sister-in-law which unknowingly stopped the Hwaseong murders. He raped and murdered his sister in law because she convinced his wife to leave him.
