"Police Fabricated False Reports"… Family of 'Hwaseong Elementary Student Disappearance Case' Files National Petition

"Father and Cousin with Handprints Never Formally Investigated by Police"
"They Must Speak Up Now to Relieve Their Burden... The Way to Comfort the Victims' Spirits"

[Asia Economy Reporter Yoo Byung-don] The bereaved family has raised allegations that the police fabricated false interrogation records during the elementary school student disappearance case, which Lee Chun-jae confessed to murdering. They claim that the police actively tried to cover up the case rather than simply concealing it.

On the 8th, a post was published on the Blue House National Petition website by someone claiming to be the older brother of a victim in the so-called ‘Hwaseong Elementary Student Disappearance Case.’

The Hwaseong Elementary Student Disappearance Case refers to an incident on July 7, 1989, around 12:30 PM in Taean-eup, Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, where an 8-year-old second-grade elementary school student named Kim (female) disappeared while returning home after school. Lee Chun-jae confessed to sexually assaulting and murdering Kim, revealing the brutal details of his crimes.

The writer stated, “The unjust victims of the Lee Chun-jae serial murder case, who lost precious decades, are not only Mr. Yoon,” adding, “During the case of my younger sibling, the only one whose body was never found among Lee Chun-jae’s crimes, the police actively fabricated false interrogation records to declare my sibling missing.”

He continued, “The police created interrogation records as if they had investigated my father and cousin immediately after the incident, stamping them with seals and fingerprints, but neither of them was ever formally questioned by the police nor do they remember stamping any interrogation records,” and added, “Moreover, although my sibling’s body and belongings were found in a nearby mountain in December 1989 while the family was desperately searching, the police neither informed the family nor left any investigation records.”

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The bereaved family claims that the police’s fabrication of false interrogation records was motivated by their decision to identify Mr. Yoon as the culprit of the Hwaseong 8th case and accept his false confession, thereby concluding the Hwaseong serial murder case.

He said, “After the 8th case was considered solved, when my sibling’s body was found months later under the same modus operandi, the police seemed to feel burdened to reopen the investigation and decided to cover up the case,” criticizing, “If the family had been informed when my sibling’s body was found, the past 30 years would not have been filled with such profound suffering.”

Finally, the writer expressed, “Lee Chun-jae, who committed these heinous crimes, should rightfully pay the appropriate price, but our family feels even more anger toward the police at that time,” lamenting, “Instead of protecting citizens, the police actively fabricated false evidence, ruining the lives of individuals and families, yet the officers in charge were promoted and celebrated.”

He continued, “Our family feels powerless and despairing because there is no way to punish the police who actively concealed the case back then,” and appealed to the police of that time, “If you want to stand with some dignity, please open your tightly sealed mouths now, tell the truth, and offer a sincere apology. That is the way to relieve the lifelong burden on our hearts and show some compassion to comfort my sibling’s soul.”

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