■ Broadcasting: FM 94.5 (06:40~06:55, 12:40~12:55, 19:40~19:55)
■ Air date: November 25, 2024 (Mon)
■ Host: Lawyer Lee Won-hwa
■ Dialogue: Lawyer Lee Jung-min
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◇ Lawyer Lee Won-hwa (hereinafter referred to as Lee Won-hwa): Kim, a resident of a villa in Pocheon-si, thought that he could no longer endure the child's crying and screaming that rarely stopped. It was also because of the thought that something unusual was going on in the house. So Kim called the police station, and the police who received the report immediately went to the scene. The child was crying out loud, so I can't wait like this. The police who thought of it eventually entered the house through a second-floor window. The family situation in front of the police was truly chaotic. What on earth was in the rubber barrel that surprised them so much? Let's take a closer look at this case in today's case X file. Hello, I'm Lee Won-hwa, the case X file of lawyer Lee Won-hwa. Today, we are with lawyer Lee Jung-min of Law Firm Roel. Welcome, lawyer.
◆ Lawyer Lee Jung-min (hereinafter referred to as Lee Jung-min): Hello, I'm lawyer Lee Jung-min of LOEL Law Firm.
◇ Lee Won-hwa: It happened in 2014 at a villa in Pocheon. When the child's crying didn't stop, the neighbor reported to the police, saying he thought something had happened.
◆Lee Jung-min: Yes, a report will be received at around 9:40 p.m. on July 29, 2014. at 112. It was a report from neighbors that they continued to hear cries of evil, close to the screams of a child, on the second floor of a villa in Pocheon. The police received the report and were dispatched to the villa where they were reported with 119 rescue teams. But when I tried to enter the stairs, they didn't open the door from inside, so I had no choice but to put a ladder outside and enter through a window on the second floor. The police who entered the house through the window were bound to be surprised.
◇ Won-hwa Lee: Why? What's the matter?
◆ Lee Jung-min: The door was broken and the floorboards and wallpaper were torn off everywhere. Garbage bags were piled up on the floor as tall as an adult, and other furniture was full of dust and mold. The police were able to check on a boy who was watching TV alone in the main room of such a house.
◇ Lee Won-hwa: You didn't have a guardian at home?
◆ Lee Jung-min: There wasn't one. The police said that the white of the child's eyes, who was sitting there looking mesmerized at the time, was so dull that it looked blue. In fact, the child was left in the main room for nearly two months and was on the verge of starving to death. The police asked for cooperation from the child protection agency and handed over the child. But that wasn't the only problem. The police, who were dispatched, found out that the strange smell from the villa's stairs was coming from the house and began searching the house. Then, in a small room, you check a red rubber container about 80cm high and 84cm in diameter, and a 10kg salt bag placed on the lid of the rubber container so that the rubber container does not come off. The police removed the salt bag and opened the lid of the rubber container, and the strange smell spread strongly. The smell came from the rubber container.
◇ Lee Won-hwa: The red rubber container is very big again. The rubber barrel smelled rotten. It doesn't feel good.
◆ Lee Jung-min: Yes, but what actually happened was more than just bad. There was something covered in a blanket in the rubber container, and when the police lifted the blanket, there was a white flower, or a body whose bones began to show. The problem is that there was something more surprising.
◇Binary: What's more surprising than a white-flecked corpse?
◆ Lee Jung-min: The police took an entire rubber can into the morgue to preserve the condition of the body. When I poured the rubber barrel directly into it, the body came out, and then some sticky liquid poured out, and from that liquid came another head bone and hand.
◇ Lee Won-hwa: Was there not one body but two?
◆ Lee Jung-min: Yes, that's right. The bodies were all two. In fact, the body on the top was on a floorboard inside the rubber container, and this liquid and other head bones were underneath that floorboard. The sticky liquid was a long decaying, melting body underneath the floorboards. Police sent the bodies to the National Forensic Service to identify them. In fact, it is not difficult to extract fingerprints from the body as long as the range of the fingerprints remains intact, even if they are white-fringed. The question was whether it would be possible to identify the body underneath the floorboards that had already become rotten and liquid.
◇ Won-hwa Lee: That's right. It must have been difficult to identify that part, so you couldn't identify yourself at the end?
◆Lee Jung-min: Fortunately, I was able to find the fingers and some of the palms left on the fingerprints in the liquid and restore them. The police, who searched for liquid, were confident in their stomachs at the time and had a lot of body contact, but they remembered that it was really hard to hold on at this time.
◇ Won-hwa Lee: I'm so curious about who the two people found dead are and what kind of relationship they have.
◆ Lee Jung-min: Actually, there was no relationship between them. However, there was one thing in common: a woman named A. The body that was previously whitewashed on top of it was A's lover, and the liquefied body below was A's husband. And the first crying child who came out was A's son. However, it is said that this was a child of a completely different man who had nothing to do with these two men who have just come out.
◇ Won-hwa Lee: I can't confirm this, but the woman named A who told me seems to be a very strong suspect.
◆ Lee Jung-min: Yes, that's right. The police also thought so and started looking for A in earnest. I was able to check the number of the man I contacted frequently by looking up A's phone history after I wanted A. The police were dispatched to check where the man lived and were able to arrest Mr. A, who was actually hiding there. This man was the father of the first child.
◇ Won-hwa Lee: I wonder what happened, what did the woman say to the police?
◆ Lee Jung-min: Mr. A admitted to the murder of the white-fleshed body on top of it, that is, the lover. However, regarding the husband of the body below, he claimed that he was missing 10 years ago, but one day, he died of natural causes on the veranda, and he was afraid of being investigated, so he changed his words that he just hid it in a rubber container. In any case, he continued to deny the charges, saying he did not kill him.
◇ Won-hwa Lee: You mean you just put it in the rubber container because you were scared to be investigated when you came in and it was dead? How many years? Lawyer, do you understand this?
◆ Lee Jung-min: That's ridiculous. So, it's not convincing to say that you went missing at first and then reversed your words that you died of natural causes, and most of all, it's not common sense to say that you left your husband's body for 10 years. But what's interesting is that A had an older son who was 28 years old at the time, in addition to the reported children. The eldest son also said at first that his father left home more than 10 years ago, but at some point, he changed his words to move the body of his father, who died of natural causes, with his mother. So both the mother and son are missing at first. Then, a little later, he reversed his statement, "No, I actually died of natural causes."
◇ Won-hwa Lee: Let's say your ex-husband is. Then why on earth did the other man kill?
◆Lee Jung-min: Actually, A told me that he confessed to this part at first. The initial investigation also denied killing the lover. At first, I happened to meet a foreigner on the street, and he asked for money, so I claimed to have killed him. However, when it was revealed that the lover was Korean and had an internal relationship with A, he finally began to admit that he killed the lover. But as I said earlier, Mr. A had a husband. So this lover was A's boss who had an affair. Mr. A and his lover were colleagues at work, but they fell out when their relationship became known to the company, and there was also a problem with the money that Mr. A lent to his lover, but the boss at that workplace could not tolerate their relationship, so he fired Mr. A. So, A, who had intense feelings for his lover, confessed to killing his lover by strangling him after putting him on a sleeping pill. And at that time, the results of the autopsy of the lover and her husband came out, and suddenly things start to turn a little strange.
◇ Won-hwa Lee: What is it for?
◆ Lee Jung-min: I told you earlier that Mr. A confessed to his lover that he gave him sleeping pills because he was drunk. But to be exact, this was a sleep inducer called doxyramine, and it is actually detected in the body of a lover. The problem is that sleep-inducing agents such as doxyramine were also detected in her husband's body, which said he died of natural causes. It was also confirmed that A purchased a sleep inducer containing doxyramine at a nearby pharmacy 10 years ago around the time of her husband's death.
◇ Won-hwa Lee: That's crucial.
◆ Lee Jung-min: So the police and the prosecution killed all of her husband's lovers based on this. The means of murder put Mr. A on trial for killing these two people, thinking they were both doxiramine.
◇ Won-hwa Lee: Then, if the woman named A came out like this, did she reverse her statement? Did you admit it?
◆ Lee Jung-min: No. Mr. A maintains that he did not kill his husband until the end. That's why he says that the only one he killed was the previous lover.
◇ Won-hwa Lee: The sentence can be quite different depending on whether there is one victim or two.
◆Lee Jung-min: That's right. As you know well, this is the fifth type of Supreme Court sentencing standard for murder. If all other conditions are the same, the sentence of killing two or more people is now 1.5 times to up to three times higher than killing one person.
◇ Lee Won-hwa: I wonder whose argument the court would have accepted, how did the result come out?
◆Lee Jung-min: At the first trial on January 21, 2015, A admitted to killing two people and sentenced them to 24 years in prison. But now, in September's appeal trial in the same year, she accepted A's claim, saying the cause of her husband's death was unclear, and this 24 years in prison will be reduced to 18 years. The Supreme Court also confirmed that the judgment of the appeals court was correct, and since then, Mr. A has been saved. Mr. A is scheduled to be released from prison in 2032.
◇ Won-hwa Lee: What do you think of this as a lawyer? Do you fully agree with the court's decision? Or is there something you're disappointed about?
◆ Lee Jung-min: This would have been a little more suspicious of the first trial emotionally. It's probably the same for everyone, but we need to take a little look at why the appeals court decided so. Originally, the prosecution said that A fed her husband doxyramine and stopped her breathing, leading to her death. But as I told you earlier, the lover said he was going to strangle him after feeding him doxyramine, but this part came out. In fact, it is a little difficult to die just by eating doxiramine in the results of the National Forensic Service. There was a result that death from taking doxyramine alone was a little rare. In fact, the prosecution claimed that she strangled her lover, so her husband must have strangled her, but she couldn't prove that A, who didn't even confess at the time of the murder, which has already passed 10 years, strangled her. So there is a saying that when in doubt, which is the main principle of criminal proceedings, it is in the interests of the accused. So there was not enough evidence to hold criminal responsibility. Therefore, it is difficult to say that it is a mentally sympathetic conclusion, but the court is still a logical judgment. I think it can be understood a little that I made a judgment that followed the principles of criminal proceedings. In fact, if you look at the ruling. In the judgment, there is a strong suspicion that the appeals court killed him by giving him medicine and strangling him in the same way as the prosecution was written. So, the court also proposed the principle of criminal proceedings, which states that what I think can be criminalized, should be viewed a little differently from what I think. So you have no choice but to make them take responsibility for civil affairs or other things. That's how the criminal judgment proceeded. The oldest son I mentioned earlier, I mean, "My father was missing. No. I made a mistake. If I tell you about my eldest son who said, "I died of natural causes and hid my mother and father's body in a rubber container," in principle, it is a crime of concealing a body and abandonment of a body. But as I said earlier, it was 10 years ago whether the mother killed her father or actually died of natural causes. However, the statute of limitations for concealing a dead body is seven years, so doing something about the dead body of his father who died 10 years ago cannot be subject to criminal punishment. So the eldest son was not punished. Mr. A's act of transferring her husband to a rubber container is also an act 10 years ago, so Mr. A's ruling was not punished for concealing the body.
◇ Lee Won-hwa: Case X file This is all we have prepared. You all deserve to be defended. Incident X file, thank you everyone.
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