Elusive 'Flasher' at Daejeon's Dosolsan Stumps Police for 5 Months

Police are struggling to track down an elusive "flasher" who has been repeatedly reported around Mt. Dosolsan in Seo-gu, Daejeon, with his whereabouts remaining unknown for five months.

According to the Daejeon Metropolitan Police Agency on the 22nd, following an initial report on April 26 that a man was standing without pants near a girls' high school in Seo-gu, Daejeon, a series of similar 112 emergency calls have been filed up until recently around the high school and the nearby Mt. Dosolsan.

Eyewitness accounts claiming to have "seen a flasher in the Seo-gu area" have also been continuously posted on Daejeon regional online communities and social networking services (SNS).

According to these accounts, the man is known to appear as frequently as three to four times a week over the past several months.

Police report that the suspect, presumed to be the same person, mainly appears wearing a mask or completely concealing his face, taking off his pants to expose certain body parts or engaging in obscene acts.

Although police launched an investigation following the first report in April, the suspect has been evading police pursuit by targeting moments when women are present to commit crimes and flee in an instant, or changing clothes in the mountains without revealing his face.

In particular, police are having a hard time identifying the suspect because he exclusively uses hiking trails and walking paths near the girls' high school that lack closed-circuit (CC) TVs.

Police are securing and repeatedly analyzing all CCTV footage from access points near the hiking trails and walking paths where the suspect frequently appears to figure out his movement routes.

A police official stated, "The suspect seems to be very familiar with the geography and road conditions of the Daejeon area," adding, "We have stepped up patrols centered around the areas where reports were made and deployed a large number of personnel to track him down."

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