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Suwon torso murder suspect re-enacts crime
‘He had a grudge about girlfriend since breakup’
By Lee Kyung-min
Park Chun-bong, the Korean-Chinese suspect in the “torso murder” in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, re-enacts the killing of his girlfriend, Wednesday. A sign that reads “suspect” is hung around his neck. / Yonhap
By Lee Kyung-min
Park Chun-bong, the Korean-Chinese suspect in the highly publicized “torso murder” in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, has re-enacted how he killed his girlfriend, dismembered her and discarded the parts in plastic bags.
Investigators and local residents watched him re-enacting the killing at his rented room in Maekyo-dong, Suwon. There, he re-enacted severing the body into two parts: the lower body and torso, and later cutting off her right arm and left leg.
Onlookers cursed Park as he arrived, but he showed no emotion.
Park, 56, initially would not say why he killed the Korean-Chinese woman, 48, surnamed Kim, since being, but he confessed this week that he murdered her because she refused to meet him.
After living together for eight months, Kim ended the relationship a month ago, and Park has been holding a grudge since then, according to police.
Park insists that he killed her accidentally, but police believe it was pre-meditated.
On Nov. 26, the day of the murder, Park took leave from work.
Surveillance camera footage shows that Park visited Kim that day at 1:30 p.m. at her workplace, a shopping mall, and forced her to leave with him. Police believe Park killed Kim after about 30 minutes.
Police confirmed that on Nov. 23, three days before the killing, Park rented the room, 200 meters away from his old home.
DNA tests revealed Kim’s body was dismembered on the bathroom floor. Police also found a box filled with detergent, black plastic bags and about 20 sets of industrial gloves, all of which were kept at his home.
The plastic bags were the same kind as those in which parts of Kim’s body were found, police said.
Police said Park was being questioned over his possible link to other unsolved killings in Suwon.
Park entered Korea in 2008 on a fake Chinese passport with a one-year work visa, police said.