▲ Lee Yoon-hee (then 29), a female college student from Jeonbuk National University who went missing
The disappearance of a person surnamed Lee (then 29) in Jeonju, Jeonbukan, in 2006 is being revisited 20 years later as it has been revealed that Jeju police internally closed the initial missing person report regarding a person surnamed Chang (37) three months ago.
This is because both missing persons share the common point that they are adult women, and it is pointed out that the "golden time" to trace their whereabouts was missed due to the police's poor initial response.
Lee, who was a fourth-year student in the Department of Veterinary Medicine at Jeonbuk National University, attended an end-of-semester gathering with her professor and about 40 department colleagues at a restaurant in Deokjin-gu, Jeonju, located about 1.5 kilometers from her studio apartment in Geumam-dong, on June 5, 2006, and returned home at 2:30 AM the next day, the 6th.
Lee completed a double major in statistics and fine arts at Ewha Womans University for six years before transferring to the third year of the veterinary college at Jeonbuk National University in 2003.
Only one semester remained until her graduation.
From 2:59 AM on the 6th, Lee used her computer in her studio apartment to search portal sites for the terms "112" and "indecent assault" for about three minutes.
The computer was turned off at 4:21 AM that day, and no one has seen Lee since.
Two days later, on the 8th, her department friends, wondering why Lee did not show up at school, visited her studio apartment, but the front door was firmly shut.
The friends called the police and 119, broke the door lock, and entered the studio apartment, but only the pet dog Lee raised was holding its ground there.
At this time, the police allowed "friends to clean up Lee's messy studio apartment," failing to secure initial evidence.
The friends not only neatly cleaned up the room but also threw away items in the studio apartment, so when the police went back later, they could not obtain clues to find Lee's whereabouts.
Since then, what remains are a total of 10,000 search personnel, a reward of 100 million won, and the desperate cries of a father searching for his daughter even after passing his nineties.
In this recent disappearance of Chang, it was revealed that Police Officer A, who was a night shift worker last May, closed the initial missing person report without entering it into the "Missing Children, etc. Profiling System."
There are even suspicions that Officer A internally closed the case without even talking to Chang or verifying the safety of the missing person.
According to the Jeju Provincial Police Agency, as a result of checking Chang's communication records, it was confirmed that there are no call records between Officer A and Chang.
The police, together with the Coast Guard and others, plan to conduct an intensive search around Hanrim Port in Jeju, which came up from Chang's mobile phone location tracking results, mobilizing an average of about 140 people a day from the 20th to the 26th. However, it is reported that as of three months after the report, there are no life reactions such as Chang's card usage, mobile phone records, or hospital treatment history.
Chang has long straight hair, an estimated height of 158 cm, a thin physique, and wears a gold bracelet.
She is characterized by an affectionate tone of voice.
The disappearance of an adult woman has occurred again after 20 years.
Neglecting initial measures under the pretext that it was the disappearance of an adult, the police repeated the poor response of the past.
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