By Na Jeong-ju
Prosecutors indicted a 44-year-old obstetrician on charges of causing the death of his 30-year-old lover by injecting her with a cocktail of dangerous drugs and then abandoning her body.
The doctor’s wife was also indicted for helping her husband dispose of the body at a public parking lot along the Han River in Seoul.
According to the prosecution, the doctor, surnamed Kim, had had an extramarital affair with the woman, who worked at a room salon.
On July 30, Kim asked her to visit his hospital in southern Seoul for sedative shots. She arrived at around 11 p.m and Kim allegedly injected a mixture of 13 kinds of sedatives and anesthetics. They then had sex and slept for about an hour. Kim told investigators that when he woke up, she was dead. Previously she had often been injected with such shots from Kim before intercourse.
The prosecution said it found no evidence showing he murdered her.
“Her death appears to be accidental. There was no motive for homicide,” a prosecutor said.
Kim put the body in her sedan and drove it home, where he discussed with his wife what to do with the body. He then drove her car to the parking lot and abandoned it. His wife picked him up from there.
The doctor said he injected a mixture of sedatives, including Midazolam, and drugs with an anesthetic effect, such as Vecaron and Naropin. There is a high chance of death from respiratory failure if those drugs are taken at the same time.