Two Men Suspected of Abandoning Body in Guro Residential Area Undergo Arrest Hearing... "Thought It Was a Doll"

Two men suspected of abandoning a body in a residential area in Guro-gu, Seoul, face the threshold of arrest.

Judge Kim Ji-hyun, the warrant judge in charge at the Seoul Southern District Court, held pre-arrest hearings this morning (October 29) at 10:30 AM for a man in his 60s, surnamed Kim, and a man in his 80s, also surnamed Kim, who are accused of abandoning a body and abetting the abandonment of a body, respectively.

The man in his 60s is accused of abandoning the body at a garbage disposal site in a residential area of Guro-dong, Guro-gu, on the afternoon of October 22, while the man in his 80s is suspected of instructing him to do so.

Arriving at the court for the hearing that day, the man in his 60s answered "I thought it was a doll" when asked by reporters whether he knew it was a body when he abandoned it.

When asked if he admitted to the charges, he answered "Yes," and when asked if he admitted to the charge of abandoning a body, he said, "I am sorry."

The man in his 80s did not answer questions from reporters.

He is the landlord of a multi-household house in Guro-gu.

It was found that the man in his 60s had previously lived in this house as a tenant and usually looked up to the man in his 80s like a father.

During police investigations, the two men admitted to the fact that the body was abandoned.

The man in his 80s told police that he did not know the object he told the other to throw away was a body, and that he instructed him to discard it because there was an object that looked like a doll.

The man in his 60s told police that he had some suspicion that what he was throwing away might be a body.

Police have identified the deceased and are investigating the victim's whereabouts prior to death, the circumstances of death, and their relationship with the suspects.

Due to the decomposition of the body, the exact cause and date of death have not yet been confirmed.

Previously, the body, which was wrapped in plastic and newspapers, had been left unattended for five days before a sanitation worker belonging to the Guro-gu Office discovered it and reported it to the police around 11:00 AM on October 27.

It is reported that the body was already in a "mummified" state due to ongoing decomposition and drying.

(Photo: Yonhap News)
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