National Center for Missing Children
https://www.missingchild.or.kr/
- The Frog Boys
- Lee Hye-jin, 10, and her friend Woo Ye-seul, 8
- Dec 25, 2007, Anyang
- Near Anyang Arts Center (CCTV 4:10 p.m.)
- 77 days later
- Found Lee’s dismembered body on a mountain near Suwon
- Police investigation
- Rental car records in Anyang on the day of disappearance
- Found blood traces in the trunk of a car
- Suspect Confesses to Murder of Two Missing Girls
- Traced to 39-year-old man, Jeong Seong-hyeon
- Lived alone in the same neighborhood
- Went on the run
- Was arrested at his mother’s house in Boryeong, South Chungcheong
- Confession
- Tried to say they died in a car accident
- Drank 2 bottles of soju and “inhaled bond” around 4 p.m. Dec 25
- Left home to buy cigarettes
- Saw the two girls, kidnapped them, assaulted them for an hour
- After he sobered up, choked them to death and chopped up the corpses in his bathroom
- Loaded them into his trunk and dumped them near Homaesil, Suwon and in Gunja Stream, Siheung
- New Confession
- Murder of a 44-year-old woman in Gunpo in July 2004
- a “date mate” employed by an adult phone room and told her to come to a motel in Geumjeong-dong
- Had talked to her four times previously
- Murdered her and threw her body into the sea from a bridge in Wolgot
- Was picked as a strong suspect but released him for no evidence other than a fake reaction to a lie detector
- Led to re-opening of other cases of missing women (Dec 2006-Jan 2007)
- Accusations of a sloppy investigation from inside whistleblower
- Brought in Jeong for questioning three times but let him go in the early stages
- “At the time, Jeong was not home for five days, and the police also received information that he had attempted to sexually assault women in the neighborhood. Jeong was a possible suspect from the beginning,” the e-mail said. “However, the police just trusted Jeong’s claim that he worked as a substitute driver on the day the kids went missing. The police didn’t even cross-check with his employer to confirm he had actually worked that day.”
- Police didn’t find blood evidence in his apartment until after he confessed
- Only after a new commissioner took office did the investigation restart, and they looked into car rental records
- Arrested Jeong without considering other suspects who could have rented the car
- The Anyang investigators and other Gyeonggi offices didn’t work well together
- Created nationwide data-sharing system
- Received the death penalty (2009)
- Song Hye-hee: missing since 1999, 17 years old at the time
- Father has never stopped looking for her; continues to hang banners and posters around Korea asking for help in finding his daughter
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