Investigation into Incheon Body Part Discovery Takes Turn as Forensic Results Suggest Adult Victim

The National Forensic Service (NFS) has reported that the body part discovered at a public recycling facility in Incheon is estimated to belong to an adult.

Police are now focusing their investigation on identifying the victim, with a primary emphasis on missing persons cases.

The Incheon Yeonsu Police Station announced today (June 16) that it received the results from the NFS regarding the left leg found on June 10 at the Southern Metropolitan Resource Recovery Center in Songdo-dong, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon.

The NFS informed the police that the victim is "estimated to be an adult between 161 and 165 centimeters tall."

Initially, police had considered the possibility that the victim might be a young student, as the foot size of the discovered body part was small at 210 millimeters.

However, as the development status, including leg length, suggests an adult, the scope of the investigation has been narrowed.

Police are taking into account the physical characteristics of a height between 161 and 165 centimeters combined with a relatively small foot size.

They are also concentrating on securing and comparing DNA profiles, focusing on adult missing persons and those who have not returned home.

A police official stated, "At this point, we believe the database regarding absent students, for which we previously requested cooperation from elementary, middle, and high schools in Incheon, is of little significance."

The official added, "We cannot disclose the specific scale of the identification process."

The police, who have currently established an investigation headquarters consisting of 64 personnel, added 40 officers from the Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency's regional investigation unit yesterday.

Police are tracking the route through which the body part entered the facility one by one.

They are also verifying the movement paths of transport vehicles that delivered recyclables to the center a total of 34 times on the day the body part was discovered.

Analysis of closed-circuit (CCTV) footage from the surrounding area is also underway.

However, the collection routes of the eight transport companies that delivered recyclables to the center on the day of the discovery cover a very wide area.

It is expected that it will take a considerable amount of time to identify the exact location where the body was abandoned and the perpetrator.

The collection areas for these companies are reported to include Cheonghak-dong, Seonhak-dong, Ongnyeon 1 and 2-dong, and Yeonsu 1 and 3-dong in Yeonsu-gu, as well as Hang-dong and Dowon-dong in Jung-gu.
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