■ Broadcasting: FM 94.5 (06:40~06:55, 12:40~12:55, 19:40~19:55)
■ Broadcast Date: October 17, 2024 (Thursday)
■ Host: Lawyer Lee Won-hwa
■ Dialogue: Attorney Kim Kang-ho
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◆ Lawyer Lee Won-hwa (hereinafter referred to as Lee Won-hwa): Mr. A's neighbors were puzzled by the usual thumping that night. Mr. A's house made a thumping sound around 8 p.m. unlike usual. But before I knew it, it became quiet again as if nothing had happened. And about three hours later, A's house began to hear sound again. The man, who reported to 119 that his wife and two children died bleeding when he returned home after going out. This man was a father and husband who lost a family to a terrible tragedy. But there was a surprising twist hidden here. What the hell happened? Incident X file starts right now. Hello, I'm Lee Won-hwa, the case X file of lawyer Lee Won-hwa. Today, we are with lawyer Kim Kang-ho of Law Firm, Law Firm Roel. Welcome, lawyer.
◇ Lawyer Kim Kang-ho (hereinafter referred to as Kim Kang-ho): Hello, I'm lawyer Kim Kang-ho of LOEL Law Firm.
◆ I also remember this incident. I remember the whole country was buzzing about how this could happen, what happened?
◇ Kim Kang-ho: I received a 119 call from a middle-aged man at an apartment in Gwangmyeong-si, Gyeonggi-do, near midnight on October 25, 2022. The content is that when I came home after going out, my wife and two children were stabbed to death. Police and paramedics on the scene found the three hats, which had been turned into cold carcasses while bleeding. At that time, there were all the sneakers of my wife who died in the middle of the living room. It seems that the situation was so urgent that A's wife had to embrace her eldest son without taking off her shoes properly. However, the police, who were investigating CCTVs around them, feel that there is something strange.
◆ [Dualization] What was it?
◇ Kim Kang-ho: When I analyzed the CCTV, there was no sign of an invasion from the outside. Also, A's outfit changed when he entered the apartment that evening and when he left. Based on this situation, the police arrested A urgently on the 26th, the day after the incident. A, who denied the crime, eventually confessed when the police showed him the murder weapon and clothes they found. A hit his children and wife's heads with a rubber hammer for woodworking, stabbed them to death, and threw their tools and bloodstained clothes into the bushes in front of the house to hide the crime. He even initially planned to knock him out by hitting him in the head with a rubber hammer to avoid trauma and then disguising him as an extreme choice. However, it turned out that the victims stabbed them more than 10 times when they did not faint easily.
◆ [Dualization] Just by listening to what you said, this person seems to have prepared the crime very carefully.
◇ [Kim Kang-ho] Yes, that's right. In particular, A walked to a nearby PC room immediately after the crime for an alibi and stayed for two hours before returning home. Specifically, immediately after the crime, A threw away the weapon and the clothes he wore at the time of the crime in the nearby bushes, changed into other clothes, and left the apartment to avoid CCTV and headed to a PC room. Mr. A, who stayed there for about two to three hours and watched Japanese animation, passed the CCTV in front of the apartment at around 11:30 p.m. and went into the apartment, and when he returned home after going out, he reported to 119 himself that the child was dead. He cried at the time of the report, but this was also part of a planned murder. Gwangmyeong Police Station in Gyeonggi-do applied for an arrest warrant for A on charges of murder, and A made a mistake in the suspect's interrogation before his arrest. He admitted that he prepared it two or three days ago. However, it is highly likely that the statements that the blunt instrument used in the crime was prepared two to three days before the incident were found to have been purchased at a store near the house a month before the incident are false.
◆ Lee Won-hwa: I wonder how he could have gone to the PC room without any hesitation after committing such atrocities to his family. When I think about the other events we've told you about, I think this behavior to his family and going to the PC room are very often used as a means to make his own alibi. Why did you do that? This person is
◇ Kim Kang-ho: To hear from Mr. A, he had a feud with his family after leaving the company a year ago due to his chronic illness, and he was going to file a divorce document with his wife on the day of the crime. Before going to court, it was confirmed that A tried to reconcile with his wife. However, the police said that A's wife demanded the restoration of her relationship with her eldest son as a condition of reconciliation, but her eldest son showed reluctance, which is why A seems to have decided to commit the crime. However, when asked about the family feud, A lost his memory eight years ago and remembered it because of COVID-19 this time. I think it's because I just work like an ATM machine and get a little angry. I said I'm sorry and avoided responsibility.
◆ Dualization: I think it must have been a difficult situation, a financially difficult situation, and a conflict between a wife and a child. In fact, I wonder if there is a house without this conflict. Of course, there will be some degree of difference, but that doesn't mean that not everyone lives with violent crimes.
◇ Kim Kang-ho: Yes, not all people choose extreme ways just because they have family conflicts. On the other hand, Mr. A was meticulous again, so he went out of the apartment on the day of the incident for easy murder and called his wife, B, and told her to come down to the first floor because he would give her money. After that, he hung up and entered the apartment through a window on the stairs behind the first floor of the apartment, which is a CCTV blind spot, and walked up to the house on the 15th floor and wielded blunt weapons and weapons several times toward his eldest son in middle school. His wife B received a phone call from A and returned home in about five minutes to witness the scene and embrace his eldest son in a hurry, but A also brutally killed his wife in the same way. In the middle of the living room, a pair of sneakers that Mr. B couldn't take off, as if to imply the urgent situation at the time. In addition, A did not plan to kill his younger son, who is an elementary school student, in the first place, but it was found that he witnessed the crime and killed him.
◆ Lee Won-hwa: I wonder how this can happen even if I hear it again, but this person named A said a lot of strange things during the warrant review process, and the police were very embarrassed. There was a possibility of confusion in the investigation. I heard that. What were you talking about?
◇ Kim Kang-ho: Yes, Mr. A lost his memory eight years ago in the warrant review. I recently recovered my memory after contracting Corona. I claimed to have 3 personalities living in me. Because of this, the investigative agency had difficulty identifying specific motives for the crime. In the prosecution's investigation, A claimed that the three personalities of Myung, So-mi, and Tran change every day, but there was no explanation for each characteristic. And Mr. A did not claim that it was a personality other than me who committed the crime, but admitted that it was my personality name that committed the murder, which was clearly different from the ordinary murderer who claimed multiple personalities. Meanwhile, A said that it was another personality, timid, who went to the PC room immediately after the crime.
◆ Dualization: I think it's a ridiculous show, but if you really have a mental illness, it must have been difficult to clarify whether it was a motive or an accidental crime.
◇ Kim Kang-ho: Yes, from the perspective of the investigative agency, if it is true that A has multiple personalities, it could be a reason for reducing responsibility for the mentally and physically weak in the future court, so we had to decide whether A's statement would affect his ability to take responsibility. Then, conclusive evidence emerged.
◆ [Dualization] What was it?
◇ Kim Kang-ho: It was the cell phone of my eldest son who died. The prosecution analyzed about 30 recorded files left on his son's phone. Three weeks before the incident, the recording of his eldest son began, and one day, he is scared to stand in front of the front door and talk to himself. I said, "I'm not going to die. If you go in, ignore it or what are you?"
◆ Binaryization: He may have had an intuition that his son was going to have a problem with his personal life. That's what I think.
◇ Kim Kang-ho: Yes, I think so. Even on the day the three hats left, his son's phone recorded 15 hours of sound from about three hours before the incident until the police found the phone the next morning and pressed the stop button to stop. Mr. A called his eldest son to talk for a while at 5 p.m. on the day of the incident, and I'm sorry if he's hurt anything. I made up with your mother. Let's get along well," he said with a smile. My son said yes to my dad's suggestion. But the father suddenly killed his son three hours later. Mr. A asked himself and said, "I'm going to die, right?" to his eldest son, who lost consciousness at the time.
◆ [Dualization] That's what you said earlier. This son didn't think about dying, but one day, he may have to prove the atrocities of this father. I think that's what I thought. It's such a pity that this was found only after he was killed.
◇ Kim Kang-ho: Yes. From what my son recorded three weeks before the incident, I wonder how painful it must have been for his father, and if it had been known earlier, the tragedy would not have happened. Meanwhile, Mr. A left a creepy word at the end of the killing, "Goodbye, Adios." The investigation team asked the Supreme Prosecutors' Office to analyze the integrated psychology of A. Integrated psychological analysis is a technique to evaluate the authenticity of statements and clinical psychological conditions by applying various psychological principles, and integrated psychological tests, behavioral analysis, and clinical psychological evaluation.
◆ Dualization: I'm really curious, what was the result? Did you really have multiple personality disorders?
◇ Kang-ho Kim: No. The result was that there were no abnormal findings. As a result of the integrated psychological analysis, the eldest son said that he wanted to kill his father if he had the courage. All of Mr. A's statements that he lost his memory eight years ago turned out to be false. In addition to the results of the integrated psychological analysis, the investigation team looked at A's high school life record and hospital medical records, but the conclusion was as it was.
◆ [Dualization] So it was a show to get a commutation. It's really the worst.
◇ Kim Kang-ho: The prosecution handed over A to trial on charges of hitting his wife B, his eldest son, and his younger son dozens of times with a blunt instrument and stabbing him in the neck with a weapon, and sought the death penalty. As the defendant admitted himself, the prosecution made the crime advantageous by reassuring his children who had purchased the blunt instrument before the crime as if they would be a good family and leaving his wife. He also explained the reason for the request, saying that he showed precision by going up the stairs without CCTVs to decorate the scene as if he were not there. Then, the victims were forced to close their eyes painfully due to the defendant's brutal crime, and in particular, the two sons sadly ended their lives at a flowerlike age without even knowing why. He added that it is questionable whether he is truly reflecting on his crimes, given that he is confessing to the crime but makes incomprehensible claims that he is losing multiple personality disorders and memory loss. Finally, the prosecution emphasized that it is the responsibility of the state, saying, "If all sentencing factors, including the motive of the crime, the anti-humanity of the crime, and the seriousness of the damage, are combined, it is appropriate to sentence them to the highest court and isolate them forever." Mr. A also claimed multiple personality disorders and amnesia in court, while acknowledging everything, so he asked me to put him to death. The bereaved family responded angrily that the memory loss was groundless.
◆ If I were a bereaved family member, I would have been more angry to hear that. I'm sorry in front of reporters or the court. Since I acknowledge everything, I asked for the death penalty, but on the other hand, if I have a memory disorder and have a different personality, I think I have no choice but to doubt whether this person is really reflecting on himself.
◇ Kim Kang-ho: Mr. A shed tears just before he was transferred from Gwangmyeong Police Station to Siheung Police Station in the detention center, where he was arrested urgently, and he was wrong in front of the reporters, saying, "I'm sorry for the family who died." Even in the trial, the current situation is not real, but what I did does not disappear. He also cried that he knew that he would not be morally and legally forgiven. On the other hand, however, the bereaved family is angry because they claim multiple personality disorders and amnesia, and A is consistent with false excuses. I said I'd like to appear as a witness. The court requested A's mental evaluation ex officio, and in conclusion, A was sentenced to life imprisonment and ordered to attach a location tracking electronic device for 30 years. The court said, "This crime is an crimes against humanity, and the accused shows a level of brutality that is hard to see, such as killing his spouse and biological child dozens of times with a hammer and a knife. He revealed the reason for the sentencing, saying that there is no hesitation in the process of the crime. The accused then committed the crime meticulously and created an easy situation, and the bereaved families are in pain that cannot be cured for the rest of their lives and petition for severe punishment, and the risk of recidivism is also recognized. The court also explained that the defendant claimed memory loss and multifaceted personality, but it was concluded that multifaceted personality could not be confirmed at the time of psychiatric evaluation, and that no psychopathological characteristics were found. Mr. A appealed, but he was sentenced to life imprisonment in the same way at the appeal trial.
◆ Lee Won-hwa: Case X File Today, we looked at the murder of Gwangmyeong's three mother and child, who brutally killed his wife and two sons by wielding a weapon at his home. Mr. A's atrocities, which I don't even want to imagine, were revealed in more detail through the recording file on his eldest son's phone. I don't think I can even imagine what state the child's mind must have been in when he had to record his father's verbal abuse and violence. That's all we've prepared for today. You all deserve to be defended. Incident X file, thank you everyone.
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