close
close

Apre-salomemanzo

Breaking: Beyond Headlines!

(Nationwide) “Bukhan River Damaged Body” Suspect Should Be Transferred to “Current Lieutenant Colonel”.
aecifo

(Nationwide) “Bukhan River Damaged Body” Suspect Should Be Transferred to “Current Lieutenant Colonel”.

(Anchor)
Last Saturday, the injured body of a woman in her 30s was found on the Bukhan River in Hwacheon, Gangwon Province.

The suspect was arrested during the day.

The suspect was a serving military officer who was due to be promoted to lieutenant colonel, and the victim was identified as a military officer working in the same unit.

I am in contact with the journalist. Reporter Ji Hwan!

Is the suspect an active duty officer?

(Journalist)
Yesterday, our reporting team visited the scene of the arrest.

Police arrested suspect A, aged in his 30s, in the basement of Ilwon Station in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, around 7 p.m. last night, a day after the body was found.

Following the investigation, it was confirmed that A was to be promoted to active army lieutenant colonel working in a unit under the Ministry of National Defense in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi-do.

At the time of his arrest, he was transferred to a unit in Songpa-gu, Seoul.

The police sent A to the Gangwon Police Agency last night to investigate.

According to the investigation, Mr. B, who died, was a 33-year-old woman, a military officer on a fixed-term contract, who worked in the same unit as Mr. A.

He is a civilian because his sentence recently ended, but Mr. B was a civilian at the time of the crime.

If you look at the details of the crime.

MM. A and B got into an argument in a military unit vehicle around 3 p.m. on Friday 25 last month, when their transfer was scheduled and their term of office was about to expire.

Meanwhile, A strangled B to death and hid the body covered with clothes.

Then, that same night, the body was brutally damaged with a weapon prepared in advance at a construction site that was to be demolished near the unit.

And a day later, on Saturday 26 last month, an investigation was carried out that he moved to Hwacheon, where he worked more than 10 years ago, and threw the damaged body into a river near the river Bukhangang.

(Anchor)
Do you have a motive?

(Journalist)
This is where the investigation focuses.

The two people who worked in the same office reportedly had a conflict recently.

The reason for the conflict has not been clarified by the police, taking into account the private life and situation of the bereaved family.

However, suspect A was due to be transferred at the time of the crime and B, who is deceased, is also checking whether there is a connection, because his employment contract is about to expire.

Earlier, when the body was found, the police quickly identified the victim by conducting DNA tests as well as fingerprint identification.

After identifying the suspect who had numerous contacts with the victim by telephone analysis and video surveillance, A, who was wandering near the residence, was quickly arrested.

(Shin Hyo-seop / Head of the Gangwon Police Investigation Department: The identity of the victim is not accurate, but the suspect was selected with some understanding. During the research process, I made an emergency arrest in front of a Seoul-based police station at around 7:12 p.m. yesterday and received a confession to the crime. However, there are areas where we must continue to investigate the motive for the crime.)

(Anchor)
This is a brutal military crime. Is the civil police in charge of the investigation?

(Journalist)
Correct.
The investigation, carried out by the Hwacheon police station at the start of the war,
This case was transferred to the Gangwon Police Military Crime Investigation Team.

In fact, the identity of B, who died even after being sent to the suspect, was very important.

Because Mr. B is now a civilian, but he was at the time of the incident.

If you are a civilian, the military police are in charge.

However, since he was a military officer, the civilian police will be responsible under the Revised Military Criminal Law.

The Ministry of National Defense also said this morning that it would cooperate with the police investigation.

After the first investigation last night, the police plan to apply for an arrest warrant for A after the second investigation this afternoon.

The charges are murder, bodily harm and concealing the body.

Additionally, an open review panel will be established to determine whether Mr. A’s personal information will be disclosed.

If the identity of the suspect is revealed, it will be the first time in Gangwon-do.

(Anchor)
Have you finished recovering the body?

(Journalist)
Police first recovered some of the bodies two days ago thanks to a resident’s report.

And yesterday I found more bodies near the dock of Hwacheon Crucian Island.

Divers, drones and search dogs were mobilized in the morning to recover the body and obtain additional evidence.

Not long ago, around 11:30 a.m., news broke that the entire body had been lifted.

There were many difficulties as it was confirmed that A had gathered stones from around the river in a plastic bag when he dumped the damaged body.

Disaster relief and security teams as well as police underwater scientific investigation teams have been deployed to lift all the bodies without them being lost in the dam downstream, and we plan to request for the National Forensic Medicine Service to evaluate them in the future.

I’m Jihwan from YTN at Gangwon Report headquarters.

Director: Hong Do-young, Yoon So-jung
Video editing: Jeon Ju-young

※ “Your report becomes news”
(Kakao Talk) Search YTN and add channel
(Phone) 02-398-8585
(Mail) [email protected]

(Copyright Holder (c) YTN Unauthorized reproduction, redistribution and use of AI data prohibited)