Police to Decide Tomorrow Whether to Disclose Personal Information of Murderer Who Damaged Electronic Ankle Bracelet

Deliberation on Disclosure of Personal Information Such as Face and Name

Kang Mo, who is accused of killing two women in succession before and after damaging an electronic tracking device (electronic anklet), is leaving the courtroom after the warrant hearing held at the Seoul Eastern District Court on the 31st of last month.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Jung-yoon] The police will decide on the disclosure of personal information of Kang Mo (56), who damaged an electronic tracking device (electronic anklet) and killed two women, on the 2nd.

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced on the 1st that it will hold a Personal Information Disclosure Deliberation Committee on the afternoon of the 2nd to review whether to disclose Kang's face, name, and other personal information.

The committee will decide on the disclosure of personal information according to the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment of Specific Violent Crimes (Specific Violent Crimes Act), with three internal police members and four external members participating. The results of the deliberation are usually announced on the same day.

Kang damaged the electronic anklet and fled on the 27th of last month, but surrendered by driving the victim's car to Songpa Police Station around 8 a.m. on the 29th and confessed to killing two women in their 40s and 50s.

According to the police, on the day of the first murder, the 26th of last month, Kang purchased a cutter at a hardware store in Ogeum-dong, Songpa-gu around 4 p.m., and cooking utensils that could be used as weapons at a mart in Samjeon-dong around 5 p.m. On the same day, Kang is known to have killed the first victim, a woman in her 40s, at his home between 9:30 and 10 p.m.

However, a police official stated, "Although minor wounds were confirmed on the corpse, it has been confirmed through autopsy results that they are not significant enough to affect the cause of death, and the exact usage circumstances are being investigated." The autopsy results suggested that the victim died from strangulation.

Furthermore, the police believe that Kang killed the woman in her 50s around 3 a.m. on the 29th, the day he surrendered after fleeing. The victims were acquaintances of Kang, and the bodies were found at Kang's house and in the victim's vehicle, respectively.

It was also found that Kang discarded the deceased victim's mobile phone around noon on the 27th, the day after the first murder. The police confirmed this through CCTV tracking and secured the discarded phone from a flower bed at a villa in Bangi-dong, Songpa-gu on the 31st, and are currently analyzing it.

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