Killer Disguised Himself as Victim: Suspect Revealed to Be Her University Lecturer

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A female Chinese international student in her 20s, who had visited South Korea to attend her graduation ceremony, was found dead at the home of a Chinese man in his 30s five days after she was reported missing. The Chinese man, arrested as the prime suspect, was found to be a part-time lecturer at the university the victim attended and even disguised himself as the dead woman, police investigations showed.

TBC reporter Park Dong-joo has the details.

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This is a studio apartment complex in Hayang-eup, Gyeongsan, Gyeongsangbuk-do, on the night of the 20th.

A person wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a long dress is holding a white carrier in one hand.

Looking somewhat awkward at a glance, this person is none other than Jungmo, a Chinese national arrested on charges of murdering the female Chinese student in her 20s.

Jungmo, dressed in women's clothing, headed to Dongdaegu Station carrying the victim's mobile phone.

After changing back into his own clothes in a restroom, he immediately turned off the mobile phone.

Police believe that Jungmo acted this way in an attempt to commit the perfect crime.

[Police Official: Wearing women's clothes like the victim, carrying the victim's carrier, and holding the victim's cell phone—when we asked the taxi driver, they said it was indeed a woman, so we thought that person was the victim.]

It has also newly been revealed that Jungmo was a part-time lecturer at the university the victim attended.

This is the classroom where the suspect taught classes as a part-time lecturer during the last semester.

It has been confirmed that the graduate student who was killed had also taken the suspect's class here.

[University Official: (Since there are many Chinese students) I understand he was hired with relevant major qualifications due to language issues, and he had a primary job elsewhere.]

Specific motives for the crime have not yet been revealed.

Police have confirmed circumstances indicating that Jungmo dismembered and abandoned part of the victim's body, and are conducting search operations centered around nearby garbage incinerators.

(Video by Park Jong-young, TBC)

Park Dong-joo, TBC
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