Yoon told reporters on Thursday.įor decades, the Hwaseong murders terrorized South Koreans. “I hope no more people will be wrongfully accused, as I was,” Mr. Prosecutors decided not to appeal the ruling. Yoon’s supporters exploded into applause and presented him with flowers. “I, as a member of the judiciary, apologize to the accused that the judiciary had failed to serve its role properly as the last bastion for human rights,” he added. Yoon’s case, “It was a wrong verdict based on faulty investigations.” Park Jeong-jae, a district court judge in Suwon, south of Seoul, said on Thursday in his ruling on Mr. The confessed serial killer, Lee Chun-jae, also admitted to having killed four others, including the 13-year-old girl. Last year, the police announced that a man serving a life sentence in prison for raping and murdering his sister-in-law in 1994 had confessed in that case, the so-called Hwaseong serial killings, in which 10 women were found brutally murdered around the county from 1986 to 1991. He would have lived the rest of his life as a former convict but for a sensational twist in what was South Korea’s longest unsolved serial murder case. Yoon spent two decades behind bars before he was released on parole in 2009. The acquitted man, Yoon Sung-yeo, 53, was sentenced to life in prison in 1989 on murder charges involving the death of the young girl in Hwaseong, a county south of Seoul, the previous year.
SEOUL, South Korea - A man in South Korea who spent 20 years in prison for the murder of a 13-year-old girl was acquitted in a retrial on Thursday after the country’s most infamous serial killer confessed to the crime last year.
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