South Korean woman obsessed with crime dramas stabs and dismembers victim ‘out of curiosity’
- The 23-year-old was consumed by books and TV shows about murder and plotted to kill and dismember a victim she found online
- She also scored high points in psychoanalysis tests, which were results similar to the country’s most infamous serial killers, investigators said
A woman in South Korea obsessed with books and TV shows about murder had hatched a plot to kill and dismember a victim found online “out of curiosity” of taking a life herself, authorities said.
In a “ghastly” murder, the 23-year-old woman also mutilated the victim’s dead body to remove fingers to avoid police tracking the trail and continued to stab the victim even after she died, Korean police said on Tuesday.
Jung Yoo-jeong then took a taxi from the crime scene and dumped parts of the body, in a suitcase, in a wooded area.
“It would have been highly likely for her to become a serial killer if let loose,” police administration professor and criminology expert Lee Sang-hoon at Kyungsang University in Busan told This Week in Asia.
“It’s quite rare for a woman to murder another woman who had nothing to do with her, in such a ghastly manner,” he said.
Jung had scored high points in psychoanalysis tests conducted by the police after her arrest, which were results similar to the country’s most infamous serial killers, investigators said.