2023-11-19 06:09:27
Yoo Young-cheol, the rare killer
December 30, 1997. This day marks the execution of 23 violent criminals, including Lim Poong-sik, who raped and murdered a 9-year-old girl. After that, there were no more executions in the country. In 2007, Amnesty classified Korea as a ‘de facto abolitionist country’. The death penalty has surfaced again after 26 years.
In July of this year, when the shock of a series of ‘murders without question’ had not subsided in Korea, Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon was asked a question about the death penalty at the National Assembly. He said, “There are many things to consider,” but “there are clearly criminals who need to be permanently quarantined.” He also said, “In Korea, the death penalty is specified in the law.”
In August, Minister Han Dong-hoon issued an order to “inspect the execution facilities” at four correctional institutions equipped with death penalty facilities. Subsequently, death row inmates who had been scattered across the country were transferred to the Seoul Detention Center, a facility capable of carrying out executions.
The official position of the Ministry of Justice is that “a country cannot be considered backward or barbaric just by maintaining the death penalty” and “the death penalty is not barbaric revenge, but rather is consistent with justice.”
Currently, there are 59 death row inmates in Korea who have been sentenced to death. Let’s take a look at their faces again. /edit often
“Please let me participate when you hang that bastard. “Please, please!”
On the afternoon of October 25, 2004, such cries rang out from the audience in room 417 of the Seoul Central District Court building. He was one of the surviving relatives of many people killed by the defendant in this court.
This court defendant was accused of killing 20 people, including elderly people and women, dismembering their bodies, and eating some of them. He would say these words to the bereaved family in court with a sad expression.
“Do you know what your daughter did?”
“I killed him comfortably.”
He pleaded guilty to all charges and did not appeal the death sentence. In the end, as per the bereaved family’s wishes, the following year, the court confirmed the death penalty for the defendant in the final trial. The judgment reads as follows:
‘The defendant caused indelible harm to the bereaved family members by notifying them of the specific method of murder. ‘No effort has been made to recover from the damage’
And 19 years have passed. he is still alive There was no execution of the hanging that the court had sentenced and the bereaved family had expected.
The defendant’s name is Yoo Young-cheol, a serial killer.
On September 6, 2004, Yoo Young-cheol, who was indicted on murder charges, left the Seoul Detention Center under tight police security and arrived at the Seoul Central District Court for his first trial. / Yonhap News Yoo Young-cheol was sentenced to death in 2005 for murdering 20 people. On the right is a photo of Yoo Young-cheol released on SBS’ ‘I Want to Know That’ in 2019./Chosun DB/SBS
The victims murdered by Yoo Young-cheol were ‘unknown people’ who had never caused any harm to Yoo Young-cheol.
Before becoming a serial killer, he was a thief. After he was caught, he prayed to God for a suspended sentence, but was sentenced to prison and sent to prison. It is said that he harbored a grudge against the ‘church’ at this time. After being divorced by his wife and losing custody of his son, he decided to commit murder, he claims.
He made the murder weapon himself. We acquired a large dog and tested how to kill it most effectively. In this way, a 4kg iron hammer with a short handle was born.
The first murder was on September 24, 2003. He broke into a single-family home near Somang Church in Sinsa-dong, Seoul and killed an elderly couple who were in the master bedroom on the first floor. There was no reason.
Fifteen days later, three family members were murdered: an elderly mother in her 80s, a daughter-in-law in her 60s, and a grandson in his 30s. On November 18 of that year, he killed the homeowner in his 80s and his housekeeper in her 50s at a house in Hyehwa-dong. After committing the crime, while pretending it was a robbery, he injured his finger and his own blood got on the floor, so he set the house on fire to destroy the evidence.
At a time when closed-circuit CCTV was not common on the streets, Yoo Young-cheol’s back was accidentally captured by a building’s camera./Netflix
When footprints were found at the scene of the incident and his back was captured on CCTV, Yoo Young-cheol stopped committing the crime for about four months.
The killings resumed in March 2004. When Yoo Young-cheol was notified of a breakup with the woman he was dating at the time, she changed her target to women in phone rooms and massage parlors. She took aim at the fact that women working in illegal businesses are less likely to report their disappearance.
The method of murder became more cruel and bizarre. He invited women from the business to the officetel where he lived and murdered them.
Yoo Young-cheol called the bathroom where the crime was committed ‘the threshold of death.’ He obtained an anatomy book, read it, dismembered the body, and buried it secretly. The fingerprints of ten fingers were cut out to prevent identification of the victim. He reportedly listened to the theme song ‘Conquest Of Paradise’ from the movie ‘1492, Columbus’ to overcome his fears while mutilating the body.
Over the course of four months, 11 people ended their lives in Yoo Young-cheol’s bathroom. Yoo Young-cheol later told the investigative agency that he asked the woman’s blood type in advance while she was still alive, then killed a woman with the same blood type as himself and ate her organs.
Police are conducting an identification at an officetel in Mapo-gu, Seoul, where serial killer Yoo Young-cheol lived./Chosun DB
Caught on July 15, 2004. Even after his arrest, he showed no signs of remorse and instead showed anger.
Yoo Young-cheol confessed to the crime, boasting to the police, “I will give special treatment to all the detectives here.” He also said that when dealing with a low-ranking police officer, “You have to reach a certain level to talk to me.”
During the on-site inspection, several scenes of him getting irritated by the police by saying “Ah” were captured. To the prosecutor who was smoking throughout the newspaper, he said, “Quit smoking. “The prosecutor may die before me,” he said leisurely.
Even in court, he didn’t change anything.
He told the judge, “I won’t appear in the next trial.” When the judge said, “The defendant is supposed to appear, so go back and think about it carefully,” Yoo Young-cheol shouted, “Didn’t you say you won’t come forward instead of thinking about it?” He then jumped up from his seat and landed in the court clerk’s seat, where he slipped and fell while trying to run back to the judge’s seat.
He even broke two wooden courtroom chairs, shouting, “Hey, fuck you!” because his bereaved family members were criticizing him in the audience.
Even when he went to prison, he had nothing to fear.
In 2004, at the Seoul Detention Center, Yoo Young-cheol was lynched by gangsters who were imprisoned together for being insolent. Yoo Young-cheol, who was being beaten, is said to have shouted:
“It’s a shame that I came in without being able to kill even one of the thugs from outside. “Mr.
One of the gangsters at the time recalled Yoo Young-cheol in a media interview in September of this year, saying, “Even the prison guards didn’t touch him, he was very gentle, and he tried to be on top of others.”
In 2014, it was discovered that adult material was illegally imported in the name of a prison guard. When I had my belongings inspected for this matter, I said, “I am already finished. “Don’t touch it,” he said, causing an uproar.
On July 23, 2004, during the on-site inspection of a hill in Bongwon-dong, Yoo Young-cheol angrily responded to the police by saying “Ah” to the police who asked him to take a picture of the exact location of the crime. /YTN
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Yoo Young-cheol’s first murder.
So far, we have not heard that Yoo Young-cheol is regretting his mistakes.
Yoo Young-cheol wrote this in dozens of letters he shared with a reporter from Monthly Chosun during his detention. “Even if I was released from prison in 2003 and won the lottery, the killings probably wouldn’t have stopped. Rather, I would have achieved my goal by creating a perfect(?) hideout with that money.”
Youngcheol Yoo, July 2004. /KBS
On September 25, Yoo Young-cheol, who was in Daegu Prison, was transferred to Seoul Detention Center. The Seoul Detention Center is currently the only place with practically usable death penalty facilities.
It is said that Yoo Young-cheol was notified of the transfer on the same day. After he went to the Seoul Detention Center, he said to an inmate, “I am waiting for the death penalty. He is said to have said, “This government is so cruel that it will execute people.”
What Yoo Young-cheol said in front of reporters immediately after his arrest 19 years ago is still talked about.
“I hope this will serve as an opportunity for women to stop making fun of their bodies carelessly, and I hope the wealthy will also wake up.”
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