'Father Killer in Myeonmok-dong' Arrested... Motive: "Stressed by Nagging"

by Yoo Byeongdon

Published 30 May.2023 18:02(KST)

A man in his 30s accused of killing his father and hiding the body has been arrested.

At around 10:30 a.m. on the 30th, Judge Lee Chang-yeol, who is in charge of warrants at the Seoul Northern District Court, held a pre-arrest suspect interrogation (warrant review) for Kim, who is charged with parricide and corpse concealment, and issued an arrest warrant, stating there is a risk of evidence tampering and flight.

Earlier, at 10:02 a.m. on the same day, Kim appeared at the Seoul Northern District Court wearing a hat pulled down low and a mask covering his face.

He did not respond to reporters' questions such as "Do you admit to the murder charge?", "Why did you kill him?", "Why did you abandon the body?", and "Do you feel sorry for your father?" and went inside without answering.

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Kim is accused of killing his father (70) with a weapon in his fifth-floor apartment in Myeonmok-dong, Jungnang-gu, Seoul, and hiding the body in a cistern in the basement level 2 of the building.

The police arrested Kim at his home at 2:24 a.m. the previous day and applied for an arrest warrant that afternoon.

The police believe Kim killed his father and concealed the body based on evidence including: bloodstains connecting the basement level 2 cistern to Kim’s fifth-floor apartment; only Kim and his father entering and leaving the house before and after the report was filed; and a weapon presumed to have been used in the crime found in Kim’s room.

CCTV footage from the apartment’s first floor and elevator shows Kim covering the camera with blue tape. A car black box in the underground parking lot recorded Kim dragging his father’s body.

Kim, who denied the crime throughout the police investigation, reportedly confessed to the crime during the investigation on the day the arrest warrant was issued.