By Park Si-soo
Staff Reporter
A man was apprehended on suspicions of killing his wife and stepdaughter, and sexually assaulting his niece, police said Thursday.
According to Yeongam Police Station in South Jeolla Province, the 43-year-old man, identified as Lee, raped and strangled his 20-year-old stepdaughter at his home on Tuesday around 7 p.m. At about 11 p.m., he killed his wife in his vehicle, while parked in the vicinity of the restaurant where she was working.
Around midnight, Lee also raped his 18-year-old niece at his house and confined her along with his biological daughter, with their arms and legs bound.
But the daughter escpaed after Lee left the home and reported it to the police.
Police said Lee and his wife divorced in 1984. She then married another man and gave birth to Lee's stepdaughter. But she later divorced that man and had been living with Lee since 2007.
Lee had been behind bars from 1987 through 2005 for other crimes. ``She betrayed me. So I killed her at the time when she felt happiness in her life,'' he was quoted as saying by a police officer.