70s Couple Missing in Mudflat Found Dead... Police Arrest Son for Investigation

Taean Maritime Police Station Investigating Suspected Assistance in Suicide
CCTV Captures Son Appearing Alone

The police are investigating the case of a couple in their 70s who went missing in the mudflats during the Chuseok holiday and were later found dead, keeping open the possibility that it may not be a simple missing person case.

According to Yonhap News on the 8th, the Taean Coast Guard recently arrested a man in his 40s, Mr. A, the son of the deceased couple in their 70s, on charges of assisting suicide.

Taean Coast Guard Station Signboard
Photo by Yonhap News

Mr. A reported his parents, who were clam digging together in the mudflats of Taean-gun, Chungnam Province, missing around 1:30 p.m. on the 30th of last month during the Chuseok holiday. Mrs. B, Mr. A’s mother, was found dead near the mudflats on the morning of the 1st, the day after she went missing, and Mr. C, his father, was found dead in the sea near Yeondo, Gunsan, Jeonbuk Province, on the morning of the 6th, the seventh day after his disappearance.

According to the police, no external signs of homicide were found on the bodies of the deceased couple. However, CCTV footage near the disappearance site reportedly showed Mr. A moving toward the mudflats with his parents on the day they went missing, but shortly afterward, only he was seen coming out alone.

The police are investigating Mr. A and others in detail, considering the possibility that Mr. A, the son, may be involved in the disappearance and death of the couple.

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