30s Male Arrested and Sentenced for Killing Father and Abandoning the Body

A man in his 30s accused of killing his father and hiding the body was handed over to the prosecution while in custody.

The Jungnang Police Station in Seoul announced on the 2nd at around 8 a.m. that Kim, suspected of parricide and corpse concealment, was sent to the prosecution under arrest.

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Kim is accused of killing his 70-year-old father with a weapon on the 5th floor of an apartment in Myeonmok-dong, Jungnang-gu, Seoul, on the 29th of last month, and hiding the body in a cistern on the basement 2nd floor.

The police concluded that Kim killed his father and concealed the body based on evidence such as bloodstains connecting the basement 2nd floor cistern to Kim’s apartment on the 5th floor, the fact that only Kim and his father entered and exited the house before and after the report was filed, and the discovery of a weapon presumed to have been used in the crime in Kim’s room.

CCTV footage installed on the 1st floor of the apartment and in the elevator captured Kim covering the camera with blue tape. A vehicle black box in the underground parking lot also recorded Kim dragging his father’s body.

During the police investigation, Kim reportedly stated, "I committed the crime because I was under a lot of stress from constantly being nagged by my father."

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