I'm going to hide it alive because I didn't lend you my name.The one who put money before friendship?

■ Broadcasting: FM 94.5 (06:40~06:55, 12:40~12:55, 19:40~19:55)
■ Broadcast date: January 6, 2025 (Mon)
■ Host: Lawyer Lee Won-hwa
■ Lawyer Kang Eun-ha

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◆ Wonhwa: It was the end of 2017. It was reported that a woman in her 50s buried her 10-year-old friend who was a sister's brother with her son alive in a garden and killed her. Public opinion was appalled. And why on earth did this terrible thing? And I was interested in how that happened. The woman who committed the crime out of anger and spite when the victim refused to listen to her. However, the police said there seemed to be something different about her. What was the truth of this case? Let's take a closer look at this case in the file of today's case. Hello, this is case X file dualization. Today, we are also with lawyer Kang Eun-ha of Law Firm Roel. Welcome, lawyer.

◇ Kang Eun-ha: Hello, I'm lawyer Kang Eun-ha of LOEL Law Firm.

◆ Won-hwa Lee: Sometimes when you look around, there are people who say this. How dare you do this to me? However, I don't think there are as many violent and self-centered words as persimmon. I think this case, which we will look at today, is also a case where "How dare you be to me" was the motive for the crime, but should we take a look at what happened?

◇ Kang Eun-ha: In 2017, a social worker who worked at a community center in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, started to worry when A, a recipient of basic living, could not be contacted and reported him missing to the police. Mr. A had a little awkwardness when communicating, but his daily life was not impossible, and he didn't text very often, but he still couldn't get in touch.

◆ Won-hwa Lee: Since she is a grown-up, it is not impossible to contact her for several days depending on her will, but looking at the situation, I think there is something wrong with this woman. I think I made this judgment.

◇ Kang Eun-ha: Mr. A doesn't usually text or use a card, but his reaction to life was so bad that the police opened up the possibility of a murder case and investigated it. The police found out that A usually had meetings with his acquaintances at the Moran Market in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, and conducted an investigation on his acquaintances. The acquaintances stated that Mr. A was assaulted by Mr. Dong or Lee and went to Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do to avoid it. Among them, B said he heard from A that he was going to Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do, on July 14, 2017, and that he had seen A since then. However, after hearing this, the police began to suspect B as a suspect.

◆ Won-hwa Lee: If you say you were too close to each other after 10 years of losing, it's not a very strange or suspicious situation, so why did the police doubt it?

◇ Kang Eun-ha: According to the communication record, A's cell phone was turned off in Cheorwon on July 14, 2017. This is because B was the only person who witnessed Mr. A that day and since then. What is also suspicious is that Mr. B's son, Mr. C, traveled with Mr. B from Gangbuk, his residence, to Seongnam Moran Market by rental car without a clear job. The police began tracking Mr. C's rental car route.

◆ Won-hwa Lee: What did you get?

◇ Kang Eun-ha: The police confirmed that Mr. C moved from Seoul to Seongnam and from Seongnam to Cheorwon on July 14, 2017, in a rental car. The police arrested B and C on charges of imprisonment.

◆ Won-hwa Lee: But why Cheorwon? What was there?

◇ Kang Eun-ha: Cheorwon is where Mr. B's husband and Mr. C's father, Mr. D, live, and Mr. B and Mr. D were separated.

◆ Won-hwa Lee: Then why did you go to my husband's house where we don't even live together?

◇ Kang Eun-ha: This is related to A's whereabouts and the reason this case happened. The police began the search after receiving a search warrant for D's house in Cheorwon. But Mr. D said he was going to the bathroom for a while, but he didn't come back. When the police looked for Mr. D, he hanged himself in a barn near his house.

◆ Won-hwa Lee: Oh, it seems that this husband was also related to the case.

◇ Kang Eun-ha: After arresting and questioning B and C, the police received a confession that B, C, and D conspired to kill A.

◆ Won-hwa Lee: In the end, it wasn't just a disappearance, it was a murder.

◇ Kang Eun-ha: B fed A sleeping pills and put A to sleep in C's rental car, moved him to D's house in Cheorwon, and buried him alive in a nearby field to kill him.

◆ Won-hwa Lee: He was asleep because he took sleeping pills, but he was alive. But you just buried it?

◇ Kang Eun-ha: There were oral opinions from the National Forensic Service that it was difficult to confirm the exact cause of death due to the severe decomposition of the body, but C heard A's breathing when he buried A on the ground.

◆ Won-hwa Lee: I think it's a really terrible situation, but why on earth did it do that? Didn't you say you followed your sister for 10 years, calling your son an aunt?

◇ Kang Eun-ha: B stated that A, who had been suffering for 10 years, killed A out of spite for not doing his favor. In early June 2016, Mr. B decided to buy a used foreign car that Mr. C would be driving in installments under Mr. A's name and asked Mr. A to fill out the documents related to the sale, but it was canceled when Mr. A did not sign the contract.

◆ Won-hwa Lee: Did you call that the reason you buried someone alive?

◇ Kang Eun-ha: And there's another one. Mr. B was living with Mr. A around June 25, 2016, at the house of Mr. E, who was living with Mr. A at the time,
Eo has been investigated for stealing pigs, piggy banks, and side dishes in the refrigerator with 1 million won in cash. During the investigation, Mr. B asked Mr. A to make a false statement that he had brought the goods from Mr. E's house at Mr. A's request, but Mr. A did not comply with Mr. B's request, and Mr. B claimed that he was summarily prosecuted and fined for theft and home invasion.

◆ Won-hwa: In the end, neither of them actually seemed to be in a situation that could be demanded. He asked for something, but he didn't listen, so he got angry and planned a murder out of spite. It's like this.

◇ Kang Eun-ha: At first glance, A and B were close sisters, but if you look closely, they were in a top-down relationship. Mr. B sometimes asked Mr. A to run errands and often asked too much, as I said earlier. Mr. B said that Mr. A was angry when Mr. A did not do his favor. Such incidents were one of the reasons for B's murder of A. The main reason was elsewhere.

◆ Won-hwa Lee: What was that?

◇ Kang Eun-ha: Mr. B has asked Mr. D for divorce several times since 2009, but Mr. D has repeatedly refused to do so. So Mr. B decided to get alimony from Mr. D by having Mr. A have sex with Mr. D and report it as prostitution or rape. Mr. B took Mr. A to Mr. D's residence around the fall of 2015, telling Mr. A that he could receive pocket money if he went to Cheorwon. Mr. B hid that Mr. D was Mr. B's husband and let Mr. A have sex with Mr. D.

◆ Won-hwa Lee: I think B thought that it was a tool that he could use rather than treating A as a close younger brother.

◇ Kang Eun-ha: Yes. Mr. B seems to have thought that Mr. A, who lacks intellectual ability, is a convenient being to use. But there was a backside. Mr. E, Mr. A's companion, found out about Mr. B's crime in 2015. Lee knows that B took A to Cheorwon, Gangwon-do, and prostitution around May 2017. I'll kill you after I get all your phone numbers. Everyone said they would sue together, and B became worried that if E sued, it would be found that he and D were married and would face criminal punishment for prostitution. In addition, B talked about the theft and prostitution of A while talking to an acquaintance who runs a bar at Moran Market on July 4, 2017, and heard that he was spreading rumors to people he knew in Moran Market. After that, B went to Moran Market on July 9, 2017, and he felt that his acquaintances' eyes were different from before.

◆ Lee Won-hwa: I should kill him because of his family's reputation. Did your son or husband agree to that?

◇ Kang Eun-ha: When B offered to kill A to C, C also thought it was a matter of family pride. Mr. B and Mr. C took Mr. A, who fell asleep after taking sleeping pills, to Mr. D, and are spreading rumors about Mr. A having sex with you. Now that he brought sleeping pills, when he suggested killing him, Mr. D agreed and participated in the crime.

◆ Won-hwa Lee: It's been put on trial.

◇ Kang Eun-ha: In the first trial, B was sentenced to 22 years in prison and C was sentenced to 15 years in prison. However, B and C appealed, saying that the sentence of the first trial was too heavy. In particular, Mr. B insisted that he was not the type of murder motivated by criticism. B claimed that he had never had A have sex with D in order to divorce D and get a lot of alimony, and that he happened to take A to D, and that A and D were only dating each other, such as having sex in eye contact.

◆ Won-Woo Lee: What was the result of the appeal trial?

◇ Kang Eun-ha: The appeals court said B could fully acknowledge that he tried to secure favorable data for future divorce and alimony claims by taking A, who he had long been close to, to his husband for sex. Furthermore, B tried to gain a profit by purchasing a used car in A's name, and thoroughly used A for his own benefit and purpose by urging him to make false statements in his criminal case. B felt betrayed and angry with A when A refused to purchase a used car and made false statements and informed people about his sexual relationship with Ji, and furthermore, he decided that he had killed A due to the fear of criminal punishment. If so, the lower court's judgment, which recognized B's motive as a murder crime with a reason to criticize him, was justified, and the lower court's sentence was too light, so B was sentenced to 30 years in prison and C was sentenced to 18 years in prison. In this case, it is said that B killed A because he felt betrayed and angry because B asked A to do an unreasonable request and A did not listen to it. This is because A, who usually thought of it as a tool, failed to meet his expectations. Of course, even if you ask too much of a favor between you and your friends, you will be granted. I'm also looking forward to this. I can't deal with the other person by any means.

◆ Lee Won-hwa: The X-file of the case, today I looked back on the terrible case of not doing my favor and burying my friend of 10 years alive for fear of eating away his reputation. When you meet people. When things are good, I often meet people who seem to be good to me, but change quickly when I refuse my request. Of course, there are few cases that lead to murder like today's incident, but I think human relationships were an event that reminded me of something and looked back on my surroundings. That's all we've prepared for today. You all deserve to be defended. Case X file. Thank you, everyone.