Exclusive My father's body, in the freezer...Son in his 40s "Property Matters"

[Anchor]
A son in his 40s turned himself in to the police for storing the body of his father in his 70s, who was reported missing, in a freezer.

The man said he committed the crime over his property.

I'm connecting you, reporter Kim Seung Hwan!

Please tell me the details.

[Reporter]
Icheon Police Station in Gyeonggi Province booked a man in his 40s on charges of concealing the body.

The man is accused of hiding the body of his father in his 70s in a freezer in his home.

The father, who is in his 70s, is believed to have died in September last year.

The man in his 70s was living alone in a house under his son's name and was reported missing.

But it turned out that there was a body in the freezer in this house.

Unexpectedly, the case was revealed because the son of a man in his 70s, a man in his 40s, revealed his crime on his own.

The man came to the police station with his lawyer yesterday afternoon and confessed that he had hidden his dead father in a freezer.

Afterwards, the police who were dispatched to the scene found the body of a man in his 70s stored in a freezer at the house under A's name.

A is said to have told the police that he has been hiding his father's body due to property-related issues.

It's not yet known how the man in his 70s died.

The police will ask the National Forensic Service to conduct an autopsy to determine the cause of the victim's death.

I'm Kim Seung Hwan of YTN in the social studies department.