Found Dead After Five Days... Suspect Turns Out to Be Man Who Filed Missing Person Report

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A Chinese exchange student in her 20s has been found dead five days after she was reported missing. A Chinese man in his 30s has been arrested as the prime suspect—and he was the person who initially filed the missing person report with the police.

[Reporter] Kim Minjun reports.

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The victim, a Chinese exchange student in her 20s identified as A, was found dead yesterday afternoon (August 25), five days after going missing.

Police have arrested a Chinese man in his 30s, identified as B, as the primary murder suspect.

The location where A was found dead was B's residence in Gyeongsan, Gyeongsangbuk-do.

Investigations showed that B was the one who first reported A missing to the police, stating at the time that he was her boyfriend.

A had entered South Korea to attend her graduate school commencement ceremony, but lost contact with her family and acquaintances in China late in the afternoon on the 20th, the day of the graduation.

The missing person report was filed at around 7:00 PM the following day, the 21st.

However, police noticed suspicious circumstances while questioning B as a reference witness after he filed the report, leading them to convert his status to that of a suspect.

Police plan to determine the time and cause of death through an autopsy on A, while looking into whether B intentionally filed the missing person report to throw off the investigation, and intend to apply for an arrest warrant for him shortly.

[Video Editing: Lee Sang-min]
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