Young Jung Yoojung, 23, was arrested for murdering and dismembering a teacher and then stuffing the victim’s body into a suitcase. The case happened in Busan, South Korea.
Jung Yoojung is described as a woman who is “obsessed” with real crimes and plotted the teacher’s murder out of “curiosity.” The information comes from the South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo.
According to police, the young woman “willfully committed the crime out of a desire to kill someone after becoming obsessed with killing TV shows and books.” To find the victim, the woman used an app to connect parents and private tutors, saying she needed to hire an English teacher to give her daughter, a ninth grade student, extra lessons.
After virtual contact, the young woman agreed to send her alleged daughter to the teacher’s house, but she herself was disguised as a schoolgirl. Because she was “small” and wearing a school uniform, “police say the victim probably mistook her for a high school student.”
At the victim’s home, whose identity has not been released, the criminal revealed her true identity and stabbed the teacher to death. After the fact, she bought garbage bags and bleach, quartered the woman’s body and put it in a suitcase to try to get rid of the remains.
Since parts of the victim’s body were in the suitcase, she called a taxi toward the Nakdog River to dispose of the remains. The taxi driver suspected the behavior of the South Korean and called the police. Later, investigators found bloodstained clothes and the rest of the teacher’s body in some suitcases, which the criminal had not thrown into the river.
Also cited as evidence against Jung was the fact that she searched the Internet for ways to hide a body and borrowed books from a library with tips on how to commit the premeditated crime.
However, according to authorities, Jung kept the victim’s cellphone, ID card and other belongings to “create the impression that the victim has disappeared” and thereby complete his “perfect crime.”
In his testimony, Yoojung first claimed that the crime happened after an argument with the teacher. He then admitted that he did everything intentionally, recounted the actual incident and said, “I am very sorry for what he did,” a South Korean police spokesman said.
Police described the criminal as “a lonely and reclusive individual who has been unemployed since graduating high school five years ago.”