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A man in his 20s who murdered his mother-in-law and kidnapped his wife claims it was a crime committed on the spur of the moment. However, the bereaved family met by our reporting team stated that the man had hired private investigator employees to stalk the family starting several weeks prior.
Reporter Dong Eunyeong has more.
[Reporter]
This is the man in his 20s, surnamed Kim, who is accused of visiting his wife—with whom he was in the process of filing a lawsuit to annul their marriage—murdering her mother, and then kidnapping his wife.
Kim, who was urgently arrested in Gangwon Province, reportedly stated during police questioning that he went to talk to his wife, got angry, and committed the crime impulsively.
However, the stance of the bereaved family, who met with the SBS reporting team at the funeral hall, was different.
They claim it was a crime planned from several weeks ago.
[Bereaved Family: (Heading toward Gangwon Province) while in the car, (Kim) said that he paid 20 million won to a private detective agency for two weeks, deployed those people all around her sister's house, and checked all their locations.]
Kim also reportedly told his wife inside the car heading to Gangwon Province that he went there with the intention of harming her family.
[Bereaved Family: (Kim) said, 'I made up my mind to kill everyone,' and that he brought a weapon to kill all the family members and take only (name omitted) out.]
As a result, the mother-in-law fell victim defenselessly,
[Bereaved Family: Without a second thought, he brought out the weapon and rushed right at her, the moment he saw her....]
[Bereaved Family: Collapsing on the street... unable to speak and just gasping for breath....]
Kim's father-in-law deeply regretted that he, rather than the mother, was unable to go out to greet his daughter on her way back from work.
The bereaved family also stated that the marriage registration itself was initially the result of Kim's threats.
[Bereaved Family: Through gaslighting, he kept threatening, 'If you don't (register the marriage) I will kill you,' and she was beaten a lot. He also confined her so she couldn't leave....]
The bereaved family expressed their outrage, saying that stronger preventive measures should have been taken in advance.
[Bereaved Family: These were things that could have been prevented in advance, all of them. But why do they always do something after an incident breaks out... We are truly sick and tired of it.]
Also, contrary to the police explanation that they re-applied for temporary protection measures ex officio on the 6th at the urging of the police, the bereaved family stated that Kim's wife herself directly requested an extension from the police.
[Bereaved Family: Because she needed to extend the restraining order, every time she kept applying for an extension, (the police) said, 'Wait, wait, wait,' so it was finally filed on October 6....]
Police have applied for an arrest warrant for Kim on charges of murder of a lineal ascendant and special confinement.
(Video reporting: Kim Se-kyung, Video editing: Kim Ho-jin)
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