Chinese Lecturer Refuses Psychopathy Test in Student Murder Case

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It has been confirmed that a Chinese part-time university lecturer, who was arrested on charges of murdering a Chinese international student, has refused to undergo a psychopathy diagnostic test by the police. Police are continuing their search operations centered around locations where the suspect is suspected of having mutilated and abandoned the body.

Reporter Kim Gyu-ri has the details.

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The Chinese part-time lecturer, identified by his surname Zheng, who is accused of murdering a Chinese female graduate student who was formerly his pupil and abandoning her body, has abruptly refused to take a psychopathy diagnostic test that he had initially agreed to undergo, it has been confirmed.

Police planned to deploy two profilers with Zheng's consent yesterday (August 27) to conduct the diagnostic test, but Zheng reportedly changed his mind.

Because psychopathy diagnostic tests are conducted through interviews and other methods, it is difficult to proceed forcibly if the individual refuses. It is suggested that Zheng, who retained a lawyer yesterday, may have refused the test considering its potential impact on his future trial.

Zheng is accused of murdering the victim, a Chinese international student in her 20s who had taken his class, at his studio apartment in Hayang-eup, Gyeongsan, North Gyeongsang Province, on the 20th.

Based on Zheng's statement that he mutilated the body and abandoned the remains in multiple locations, along with his vehicle's travel route and dashcam footage, police are continuing their search operations at the suspected sites.

It was also revealed that immediately after the crime, Zheng attempted to disrupt the police investigation by heading to Dongdaegu Station dressed in a women's one-piece dress and a pulled-down hat, before changing into men's clothes inside the station and coming back out.

Police stated that, considering the brutality of the crime, they are also pushing to convene a disclosure deliberation committee to decide whether to release his identity and personal information.

(Video Editing: Jeon Min-gyu)
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