Wife Vomits, Husband Found Dead: Truth Revealed in Chinese Restaurant CCTV

Police have referred a woman in her 50s to the prosecution under arrest for poisoning her husband to death after becoming pessimistic about life due to issues including the prior passing of their daughter.

The Bundang Police Station in Gyeonggi Province announced yesterday (July 8) that they had referred the woman, identified as A, to the prosecution on June 22 on charges of murder.

A is accused of mixing a chemical substance into her 60-year-old husband B's food at a Chinese restaurant in Bundang-gu, Seongnam, on the afternoon of May 20, causing his death.

Investigators found that A arrived first at the Chinese restaurant located in the same building where the couple lived in a goshiwon (a small, low-cost residential facility), ordered food, and secretly added the chemical substance she had prepared in advance before her husband B arrived. They then ate the food together.

After finishing their meal, the couple returned to their goshiwon room together. The following morning at 8:40 a.m., a neighbor discovered A coming out of the room while vomiting and reported the situation to fire authorities and the police.

A was transported to a hospital for treatment, while her husband B was found dead inside the room.

A suicide note written by A was found in the goshiwon room, containing expressions of remorse over their daughter who had passed away earlier and feelings of despair about her own life.

Investigations revealed that A, who lost her daughter to cancer several years ago, had been in an unstable psychological state and frequently told her husband B that they should "die together."

Early in the investigation, police considered applying charges of aiding and abetting suicide based on A's statement that "I suggested we die together, and my husband agreed."

Additionally, considering her mental state, A was admitted to a psychiatric hospital.

However, the full extent of the crime was revealed during further investigation.

After police confirmed footage from the restaurant's CCTV showing A secretly adding the chemical to her husband's food and confronted her with it, A confessed to the murder, stating, "I committed the crime without my husband's consent."

A police official stated, "The court decided to issue an arrest warrant as there is a risk that A might attempt suicide again and her residence is unstable," adding, "It is difficult to disclose specific details such as the type of chemical mixed into the food or the respective amounts consumed by the couple."

(Photo: Provided by Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency, Yonhap News)
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