Man confessed to the murder of 14 women 30 years ago thanks to a DNA test
There is no perfect crime, any crime investigation show on television would say. A man in South Korea agreed to have murdered 14 women between 1986 and 1991, after police linked his DNA to three cases of homicide.
Of the 14 victims, 9 were in series. This caused a terror at that time in South Korea trying to find the murderer. The man named Lee Chun-jae, 56, also agreed to have sexually abused 30 women, without them being murdered.
The case was revived after a DNA test linked him in three cases, making him the prime suspect. Until today, it was considered a perfect crime, since at the time 2 million policemen searched for it, but never linked it to the murder.
The victims were women between the ages of 14 and 71. They generally attacked at night, when they were most vulnerable. He raped and tortured them, later they were killed. However, Lee Chun-jae was already in prison.
He is currently sentenced to life in prison after he raped and killed his sister-in-law in 1994 out of revenge after his wife left him. Finally, after several conversations and negotiations, I end up accepting the crime of the 3 investigations and affirm that another 11 women were murdered.
The man told investigators: "I knew this day would come and what I did would be disclosed," and gave details of how he carried out the murders. Currently, the police are comparing the data, to find if the murders really happened that way.
